VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

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 Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

Features:

  • Effective and easy to use.
  • Virtual systems will have no issues. You can run various programs on them and try different things.
  • Best quality software from Oracle.
  • Supports all the leading systems and software programs.
  • Supports hardware virtualization. You can use it to emulate various devices.
  • Has excellent support of storage devices

What's new in version 5.0.2:

  • VMM: added support for guest crash report MSRs with Hyper-V paravirtualization.
  • VMM: fixed an issue causing artifically high load averages on Linux hosts.
  • VMM: fixed a kernel panic with thread-context hooks caused by incompatible changes made to Linux 4.2 kernel.
  • VMM: fixed a saved state issue with VT-x/AMD-V disabled.
  • VMM: fixed VERR_SUPDRV_TSC_DELTA_MEASUREMENT_FAILED Guru Meditations on certain AMD CPUs.
  • VMM: fixed a crash while creating a guest core dumps via the VM debug facility.
  • VMM: This release has AVX2 passthrough disabled on every host and AVX passthrough disabled for 64-bit VMs on 32-bit hosts. This will be properly fixed in a future 5.0.x maintenance release.
  • GUI: fixed rare hang and crash on VM shutdown/powerof.
  • GUI: X11: fixed few crashes caused by the Qt alien widgets feature.
  • GUI: X11: fixed various mini-toolbar geometry quirks like positioning, z-order, transiency issues on certain window managers.
  • GUI: X11: fixed mini-toolbar minimize button issue under certain window managers.
  • GUI: VM menu actions availability should now be properly updated on full-screen/seamless/scaled mode switches.
  • GUI: disk encryption password validation should be performed when user confirmed the password, not after each entered symbol.
  • GUI: do not change the VM/group selection in the VM Manager to the newly created VM if it was created by another client (e.g. VBoxManage).
  • GUI: Mac OS X: do not treat 'almost maximized' VM windows as 'maximized', watch for the strict window geometry instead.
  • GUI: improve the quality in scaled mode under some circumstances.
  • VBoxManage: do not deny changing the network adapter type at VM runtime.
  • VRDP: allow Windows 10 RDP clients.
  • Audio: fix a possible crash on VM process termination.
  • Storage: improved raw disk access on OS X by unmounting any accessed volume before first use and prevent any mount attempt by the host.
  • 3D: basic support for saving/restoring display lists.
  • Drag and drop: fixed guest to host transfers on OS X hosts.
  • Drag and drop: fixed memory leak on Windows guests.
  • Shared Folders: fixed a problem with accessing CIFS shares.
  • Shared Folders: improved path conversion between hosts and guests with different path separators.
  • API: skip resetting of immutable media when the VM in saved state is started.


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