VirtualBox 4.0.14.74382

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 4.0.14.74382
File Size:: 79.6 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 18 Oct 2011
Publisher:: Oracle
Homepage:: http://www.oracle.com
MD5 Checksum:: 8407ED5C8CEF492498F1D11B6BAF4675

# The following items were fixed and/or added:
* VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs
* VMM: fixed handling of the sysenter/sysexit machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts
* GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license, vendor, ...) on OVF export
* GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do a live snapshot
* GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts (4.0.6 regression)
* VBoxManage: fixed extpack install --replace
* VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption
* E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups
* Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error affecting Windows guests
* NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API requirements (Windows hosts only)
* VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries
* VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK images
* Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums (Windows hosts only)
* VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are registered
* Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime
* Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist
* Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active
* Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and the resetting of immutable disks
* OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files
* Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
* Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
* Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
* Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with some applications
* Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places
* Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11
* Linux Additions: fixed llseek for Linux kernels 2.6.37 and above
* Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
* Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)