You may be familiar with virtual machine software such as VMware and Virtual PC. Virtualbox is a virtual system software developed by innotek, a German software company. It not only has rich features, but also has excellent performance. It is even more open-source and has become a free software released under the GPL license.Virtualbox can run on Linux and Windows hosts, and supports installing windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6) and OpenBSD. If you have used virtual machine software before, I believe you can use virtualbox. It doesn't matter if you are a newbie. Virtualbox provides detailed documents to help you get started in a short time.
Download:Virtualbox 2.1.4
Virtualbox 2.1.4(Released 2009-02-16)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- Windows hosts: protected xed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)
- Windows hosts: fixed network component bsod issue (bugs #3168, #2916)
- Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)
- Linux Hosts: Running xed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)
- Linux Hosts: customized xed module dependency for shipped modules (bug #3115)
- Linux Hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)
- Linux Hosts: released xed the issue with guest not being able to communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces (bug #3215)
- Linux Hosts: Give Up probing for USB gracefully if available or Hal are not available (bug #3136)
- Linux Hosts: Running xed warnings in installer when SELinux was disabled (bug #3098)
- Linux Hosts: virtualbox sometimes failed to start if it had been started usingSudoPreviusly (bug #3270)
- Solaris Hosts: Running xed high CPU load while running guests in parallel
- Solaris Hosts: Replicated xed inability to start more than 128 VMS
- Vmm: customized xed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172)
- Vmm: Ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved State/Snapshot
- Rem: Lost xed inability to use GDB to debug programs in Linux guests with software virtualization alization (bug #3245)
- Gui: Using xed dead key handling on Solaris Hosts (bug #3256)
- Gui: In the shutdown dialog, disable the action send the Shutdown signal if the guest is currently not using ACPI
- Gui: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)
- API: Restore case insensitive OS type Name Lookup (bug #3087)
- Vboxheadless: Really don't start X11 services (Clipboard service, 3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)
- NAT: protected xed occasional crashes when the guest is doing traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)
- NAT: protected xed crashes under high load (bug #3110)
- NAT: Synchronized xed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)
- NAT: Don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address different from the builtin TFTP Server (bug #3112)
- USB: Several sans xes for USB passthrough on Linux Hosts
- USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active
- VRDP: Invalid xed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)
- VRDP: Modi hosted ed rdesktop client (rdesktop-VRDP) now uses numlock state synchronization (bug #3253)
- Lsilogic: Make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)
- ATA: Drawing xed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the virtual disk (e.g. Disk Full, iSCSI target unavailable)
- Iscsi: provisioned xed possible crash when pausing the VM
- 3D support: added missing gl_max_texture_coords_arb (bug #3246)
- Windows additions: Installed xedError (e0000101)Error during installation (bug #1923)
- Windows additions: customized xed Windows Explorer hang when Browsing shared folders with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)
- Windows additions: customized xed guest screen distortions during a video mode change
- Windows additions: Unsupported xed the network drive not connected message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)
- Linux additions: writable xed occasional into Le into uption when writing into les inO_appendMode to a shared folder (bug #2844)
- Linux additions: The mouse driver was not properly set up on X. org Release Candidates (bug #3212)
- Linux additions: Installed xed installer to work with opensuse 11.1 (bug #3213)
- Linux additions: Disable dynamic resizing if the X server is con attached gured for specified xed resolutions
- Linux/Solaris additions: handle Virtual resolutions properly which are larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)
