VirtualBox 2.0.4

Size: 32.85MB
Publisher: Visit Website
Release Date: 2008-10-24
Submit Date: 2008-10-24
OS: Win NT/2K/XP/2K3/Vista


Description
InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

Some of the features of VirtualBox are:

* Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don´t have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.
* Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.
* Guest Additions for Windows and Linux. VirtualBox has special software that can be installed inside Windows and Linux virtual machines to improve performance and make integration much more seamless. Among the features provided by these Guest Additions are mouse pointer integration and arbitrary screen solutions (e.g. by resizing the guest window).

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows and Linux 32-bit 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.

What's New in version 2.0.4:

* VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures
* VMM: don’t over?ow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)
* VMM: ?xed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)
* GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)
* GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)
* SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)
* SATA: ?xed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)
* Network: don’t crash when changing the adapter link state if no host driver is attached (bug #2333)
* VHD: ?xed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)
* VRDP: ?xed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not equal to the client resolution
* Clipboard: don’t crash when host service initialization takes longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)
* Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)
* Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)
* Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup
* Linux hosts: handle jif?es counter over?ow (VM stuck after 300 seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)
* Solaris hosts: ?xed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface networking (bug #2474)
* Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking
* Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking
* Windows additions: ?xed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder
* Windows additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)
* Windows additions: ?xed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)
* Windows additions: ?xed error code for MoveFile() if the target exists (bug #2350)
* Linux additions: ?xed seek() for ?les bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)
* Linux additions: support Ubuntu 8.10
* Linux additions: clipboard ?xes (bug #2015)
* Web services: improved documentation and ?xed example (bug #1642)

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