Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.2.10 Build 84104

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a cross-platform virtualization application that will extends the capabilities computer so that it may run multiple operating systems (inside multiple virtual machines) at the same time.

For example, while using Oracle VM VirtualBox, one can run Windows and Linux on a Mac, run Windows Server 2008 on a Linux server, run Linux on a Windows PC, and so on, all alongside your existing apps.

Oracle VM VirtualBox will allow you to install and run as many virtual machines as you like, the only practical limitsbeing the limited disk space and memory.

Oracle VM VirtualBox is illusively simple yet also very powerful because it can run everywhere from small embedded systems or desktop class machines all the way up to huge datacenter deployments and even Cloud-based environments.

Oracle VM VirtualBox runs on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Solaris hosts and features support for a large number of guest operating systems including, but not limited to, Mac OS X (10.5 or later), Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.

Here are some key features of "Oracle VM VirtualBox":

Portability:
· VirtualBox runs on a large number of 32-bit and 64-bit host operating systems

No hardware virtualization required:
· VirtualBox does not require the processor features built into newer hardware like Intel VT-x or AMD-V.

Guest Additions:
· Shared folders, seamless windows, 3D virtualization.

Great hardware support:
· Among others, VirtualBox supports: guest multiprocessing (SMP), USB device support, hardware compatibility, full ACPI support, multiscreen resolutions, built-in iSCSI support, PXE Network boot.

Multigeneration branched snapshots:
· VirtualBox can save arbitrary snapshots of the state of the virtual machine.

Clean architecture, unprecedented modularity:
· VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a clean separation of client and server code.

Remote machine display:
· The VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension (VRDE) allows for high-performance remote access to any running virtual machine.

Extensible RDP authentication:
· VirtualBox already supports Winlogon on Windows and PAM on Linux for RDP authentication.

USB over RDP:
· Via RDP virtual channel support, VirtualBox also allows you to connect arbitrary USB devices locally to a virtual machine which is running remotely on a VirtualBox RDP server.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
· GUI: fixed keyboard with XQuartz X server (bug #10664)
· Main/Display: fixed a crash with multi-monitors under certain conditions (Mac OS X hosts only)
· Main/Properties: fixed a crash under certain conditions, for example after wakeup from host hibernate (bug #11444)
· Settings: don’t lose the internal network settings if they are not currently active
· Storage: another incompatibility fix for VHD differencing images with Hyper-V (bug
· #5990)
· VBoxManage: don’t read beyond the end of the file specified with export –eulafile (bug
· #11528)