VirtualBox 2.0.2

Oracle - (Open Source)

VirtualBox is an easy and elegant solution for those who want to control a computer from another computer.

VirtualBox offers virtualize your operating system (OS) guests on a host machine. Called hypervisor, the application supports Windows OS X, Linux, Mac, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.. as host, Mac OS X missing the call as a guest.

It also includes a remote access via HTTP protocol, convenient for demonstrations on a clean system.Â The ability to manage multiple states of the system is particularly interesting and its interface is very simple.

Virtualization solutions allow installing an operating system on a virtual machine using the resources of the host PC , thus enjoying very good performance. In the genre, several solutions are known for their ease of use, such as VMware Workstation , Parallels Desktop or Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1.

A virtual machine is a useful way to use two operating systems simultaneously and harmless to the host computer. There is the possibility to install Linux on a virtual machine on Windows and vice versa .

Title:: VirtualBox 2.0.2
File Size:: 32.8 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 12 Sep 2008
Publisher:: Oracle
Homepage:: http://www.oracle.com
MD5 Checksum:: FBA42C617E73F04A107534F3690710D2

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)
* VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)
* VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha, Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875)
* VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian)
* VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only)
* VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132)
* GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in the virtual disk manager
* GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)
* GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)
* GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)
* GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)
* GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #2067)
* GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)
* GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts)
* VBoxManage: fixed crash during internalcommands createrawvmdk (bug #2184)
* VBoxManage: fixed output of snapshot showvminfo (bug #698)
* Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces (Windows guests only)
* Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes (bug #2055)
* API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)
* VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection (configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled)
* VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem
* Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
* Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27
* Mac OS X hosts: added Python support
* Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after a VM reboot
* Windows additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)
* Linux additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with buggy X servers
* Linux additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests (dynamic resizing disabled for the latter) (bug #1854)
* Linux additions: added installer check for the system architecture
* Linux additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions (bug #2128)
* VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)
* VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading the wrong data (bug #2085)
* Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)
* Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the host when host interface networking was enabled
* Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when installing under the wrong architecture
* Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)
* Solaris additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit additions installer into a single package
* Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial port to the guest