VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Mac 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.

• VMM: fixed an issue with Windows 10 guest kernel debugging over the network for Hyper-V paravirtualized VMs
• VMM: fixed a bug which prevented reading the saved state of the 'PATM' unit from VirtualBox 4.3.x (bug #14512)
• GUI: changed default OS type for Windows from Windows XP to Windows 7
• GUI: added another pre-defined guest screen resolution (bug #14384)
• GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates (bug #13096)
• GUI: fixed issues with synchronization of Caps lock / Num lock / Scroll lock on Windows hosts (bug #14302)
• GUI: don't crash during VM shutdown if 2D video acceleration and 3D support are enabled (Mac OS X hosts only)
• GUI: several seamless fixes for certain X11 window managers, also when used in multi-screen setups
• GUI: Log window size, position and cursor-position fixes
• Audio: fixed playing leftover/deprecated audio samples
• Audio: fixed playing audio after suspending the host (5.0 regression; Linux hosts using the ALSA backend)
• Audio: fixed playing short audio samples which were chopped off formerly
• Audio: fixed distortions on OS X when the sample rate of the guest stream and host device don't match
• Storage: fixed raw disk access and flat VMDK image access which would be always opened readonly (5.0.2 regression; bugs #14425, #14461)
• Storage: fixed initial encryption of VDI images after they were compacted (bug #14496)
• VGA: fix for certain graphics modes (bug #14516)
• NAT: don't freeze while the VM is paused if the network attachment mode is changed from/to NAT with activated port forwarding
• OVF: fixed duplicate USB controller entries in exported OVA/OVF (bug #14462)
• Shared Folders: fixed a path separator issue (bug #14434)
• Drag and drop: fixed crashes on OS X hosts when doing host-to-guest transfers
• VBoxManage: another attempt to not deny changing the network adapter type at VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308)
• VBoxManage: fixed broken guestcontrol list command (5.0 regression)
• VBoxManage: fixed broken Guest Control stdout/stderr output (5.0 regression)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed remaining problems with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later; bug #14412)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed broken 3D support (5.0.2 regression; bug #14476)
• Linux hosts: Linux 4.2 fix
• Linux hosts: don't crash on older Linux distributions if the DBus service isn't running (bug #14543)
• Windows hosts: fixed the VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE error message (bug #14420)
• Windows hosts: fix for Windows 10 build 10525 and later (bug #14502)
• Windows hosts: fixed network adapter enumeration on Windows 10 (bug #14437)
• Windows hosts: prevent intermittent host network disconnects during VM start/shutdown with bridged networking (bug #14500)
• Windows Additions: fixed the call to the memory allocation function (bug #14415)
• Linux Additions: be more forgiving if the compilation of the vboxvideo module fails (bug #14547)
• X11 Additions: fixed a number of small issues with dynamic resizing and full-screen and seamless modes.