VirtualBox最早是德国一家软件公司InnoTek所开发的虚拟系统软件,后来被Sun收购,改名为Sun
VirtualBox,在Sun被Oracle收购后现改名为Oracle VirtualBox.因为他是开源的,不同于VM,而且功能强大,可以在
Linux/Mac 和 Windows 主机中运行, 并 支持在其中安装 Windows (NT
4.0、2000、XP、Server 2003、Vista)、DOS/Windows 3.x、Linux (2.4 和
2.6)、OpenBSD 等系列的客户操作系统.假如你曾经有用过虚拟机软件的经历的话，相信使用 VirtualBox
不在话下。即便你是一个新手，也没有关系。VirtualBox 提供了详细的文档，可以助你在短期内入门。
下载:VirtualBox 4.0.2
VirtualBox 4.0.2 (released 2011-01-18)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM settings vanished
- GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)
- GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be created (bug #8031)
- GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests
- ExtPack: don’t make the installer helper application suid root (Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)
- ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing an extension pack
- ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name during installing an extension pack (bug #7917)
- ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts
- VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)
- VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent host-only interface
- Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots and async I/O (4.0 regression)
- Storage: don’t eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is detached from a VM (bug #5825)
- Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an ATAPI device (bug #6597)
- Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or power off (4.0 regression)
- Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)
- NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)
- E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)
- Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux guests
- ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)
- VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)
- Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)
- Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid logging string (4.0 regression)
- Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing a VM start
- Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in machine paths (bug #8024)
- Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented (bug #6067)
- Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable
drive attachment (host drive or image) cannot be found; with 4.0 this is
much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another
- Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was not saved to machine XML
- OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug #7983)
- rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug #7981)
- Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.
- Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0 regression)
- Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)
- Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports unlocking previously locked workstations
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