VirtualBox 5.0.12 Mac OS X

VirtualBox – cross-platform, free application virtualization from the company Innotek, which allows to install on your Mac, virtually any operating system. VirtualBox is actively developed with frequent updates and has a growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms, with whom he works. VirtualBox is a community effort with the support of spin-off companies: everyone is invited to contribute in while Oracle ensures that the product professional quality criteria.

Features:

High-speed performance

Cross-platform

VirtualBox can run as a GUI-interface or via command line.

To expand the functions of the program, a special set of SDK.

Parameters of virtual machines are described in XML format and does not depend on the physical computer on which the system operates. So VMs format VirtalBox easily transferred from one PC to another.

When using the “guest” computer operating systems, Windows or Linux, you can use special tools which substantially facilitate switching between the physical and virtual computers.

For a quick exchange of files between the guest and the physical PC, you can create so-called “shared folders” (Shared folders), which are simultaneously accessible from both of these machines.

VirtualBox allows you to connect USB-devices to virtual machines, allowing virtual machines to work with them directly.

VirtualBox fully supports the remote access RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). The virtual machine can operate as a RDP-server, allowing you to manage it remotely.

New in version 5.0

Mode support paravirtualization for guest operating systems Windows and Linux: a significant improvement in the performance of guest operating systems by using the built-in support virtualization on Oracle Linux and Microsoft Windows 7 and 7 above;

Optimized CPU usage: the implementation of a wide range of instructions to the CPU in the guest OS, allowing applications to use the latest instructions to the hardware for maximum performance;

Device Support USB 3.0: guest operating systems can now directly recognize USB 3.0 devices and run at full speed. The guest can be customized specifications support USB 1.1, 2.0, 3.0;

Supports two-way mode drag and drop to share content between the guest OS and the host system.Drag and drop feature allows you to transparently and easily copy or open files, folders, etc .;

Encrypting disk images: the data can be encrypted in a virtual disk images directly while working via industry-standard algorithm AES, supports encryption key size of 256 bits. A new feature guarantees the safety of the encrypted data in periods of activity, and in a simple virtual machine.

What’s New

Version 5.0.12:

GUI: fixed wrong scrolling behaviour in the VM selector window when a VM item is dragged out of the chooser-pane area

GUI: fixed the validation of IPv6 port-forwarding rules

GUI: suppress the first-run wizard if a CD / DVD medium is inserted using the selector UI

GUI: fixed the Ctrl + Break key sequence scan codes (bug # 14927)

GUI: improved handling of text selection mouse pointer (bug # 750)

Host services: fixed a crash during VM shutdown under rare conditions (5.0.6 regression; bug # 14841)

Shared folders: fixed a sharing violation if a file is opened to check the attributes (Windows hosts only; bug # 14450)

Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Mac OS X hosts only)

XHCI: fixed broken emulation if software virtualization is used

XHCI: several fixes

3D: fixed state handling under certain conditions (bug # 13487)

Audio: several fixes

BIOS: added LBA64 support for being able to boot from huge hard disks (bug # 7415)

EFI: fix for Windows 10 guests

ExtPack: before installing an Extension Pack check if there are VMs running to prevent file system locking issues

rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes

Windows hosts: fixed hang when using VBoxAuthSimple library for VRDP external authentication (bug # 14931)

Windows hosts: fixed a regression which prevented it to attach to a physical network adapter having TCP / IP disabled (bug # 14578)

Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused multi-port adapters to be shown as a single adapter (bugs # 14558, # 14622)

Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused created host-only adapters to not appear in the list (bug # 14437)

Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues related to Windows 10 (bugs # 14040, # 14545)

Linux hosts: .desktop file compatibility issue (bug # 14808)

Linux hosts / guests: fixes for RHEL 7.2 (bug # 14866)

Linux hosts: The command for recompiling the host kernel modules was changed again, to / sbin / rcvboxdrv setup (bug # 14723)

Linux hosts: some fixes for PCI passthrough (still highly experimental)

Linux / Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM hang during startup under certain circumstances (bug # 14933)

Solaris hosts: added Python 2.7 bindings

Mac OS X hosts: fixed a possible crash when the default input or output audio device changes

Mac OS X hosts: fixed a panic under certain conditions

Linux Additions: prevent the compiler from doing dead-code elemination on vital code in guest / host communication (bug # 14497)

Linux Additions: when mounting a shared folder, explicitly pass the share name so that / proc / mounts contains this name instead of ‘none’

Linux Additions: workaround for a systemd problem in conjunction with SELinux which prevented to

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