Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.
VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while innotek ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.
| File Size: | 17.08M |
| License: | Open Source |
| Released: | Feb 20, 2008 |
| Downloads: | 320 (All versions: 1445) |
| OS Support: | Windows XP/2003 |
| Plugins: | None |
| Publisher: | innotek![]() |
| Homepage: | ![]() |
| MD5 Checksum: | 2c17b62f27861174957c35acc75cc7e3 |
* GUI: xed several error messages
* GUI: xed registration dialog crashes once and for all
* GUI: really ask before resetting the VM
* GUI: release mouse and keyboard before the host activates the screensaver
* GUI: xed issue with license display on big screens
* GUI: added setting for network name for internal networks
* GUI: added setting for network device type
* GUI: keyboard xes
* GUI: seamless mode and fullscreen mode xes
* GUI: xed soaked hostkey keyup event under certain conditions
* GUI: more informative message dialog buttons
* GUI: VM selector context menu
* VBoxSDL: added -termacpi switch
* VBoxSDL: xed automatic adaption of the guest screen resolution to the size of the VM window
* VMM: under heavy guest activity, for example when copying les to/from a shared folder, the VM could crash with an assertion
* VMM: added an option to select PIIX4 (improves compatibility with Windows guests created by VMware)
* VMM: xed a bug which could lead to memory corruption under rare circumstances
* VMM: improved performance of Solaris guests
* VRDP: xed a 1.5.4 regression: VRDP client and server were out-of-sync if the VM was started using the GUI
* VRDP: proper error handling if the VRDP library could not be loaded
* VBoxManage: xed crash during clonevdi
* VBoxManage: added list runningvms command
* VBoxManage: improved the compatibility when reading the partition table of a raw disk
* Shared Folders: added support for read-only shared folders
* Shared Clipboard: several xes
* Network: experimental support for E1000 device emulation
* iSCSI: better check for miscongured targets
* iSCSI: allow to directly attach to internal networks with integrated mini IP stack
* PulseAudio: dont hang during VM initialization if no sound server is available
* VDI: xed sized virtual disk images are now completely written during creation to workaround buggy sparse le handling on some OS (e.g. Vista)
* VDI/VMDK: prevent indexing of .vdi and .vmdk les on Windows hosts
* RDP: xed compilation of the Linux rdesktop client on newer Linux kernels
* RDP: install rdesktop-vrdp on Linux hosts
* ACPI: added sleep button event
* Serial: proper handling of inaccessible host devices
* Windows installer: allow smooth upgrade without deinstallation
* Linux installer: xed Slackware detection regression
* Linux installer: updated VBoxTunctl allowing to assign a tap device to a group on Linux kernels > 2.6.23
* Windows additions: several xes, in particular for Windows NT4
* Linux additions: xed installer for Kubuntu 8.04
* Linux additions: add default video mode for handling video mode hints from the host
* Linux host: compatibility xes with Linux > 2.6.24