VirtualBox - специальное приложение позволяющее создавать виртуальные компьютеры в памяти ПК, каждый из которых способен содержать отдельную операционную систему и произвольный набор виртуальных устройств. В области применения виртуальные компьютеры имеют очень большие возможности - от выполнения примитивных функций по тестированию программного обеспечения до создания целых сетей, которые легко масштабировать, распределять нагрузку и защищать.
Среди основных особенностей программы можно выделить следующие:
• VirtualBox может управляться как через GUI-интерфейс, так и через командную строку. • Для расширения функций программы разработан специальный комплект SDK. • Параметры виртуальных машин описываются в формате XML и никак не зависят от того физического компьютера, на котором система работает. Поэтому виртуальные компьютеры формата VirtalBox легко переносить с одного ПК на другой. • При использовании на "гостевых" компьютерах операционных систем Windows или Linux можно воспользоваться специальными утилитами, значительно облегчающими переключение между физическим и виртуальными компьютерами. • Для быстрого обмена файлами между гостевым и физическим ПК можно создавать так называемые "разделяемые каталоги" (Shared folders), которые одновременно доступны из обоих этих машин. • VirtualBox позволяет подключать USB-устройства к виртуальным компьютерам, позволяя виртуальным машинам работать с ними напрямую. • VirtualBox полностью поддерживает протокол удалённого доступа RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). Виртуальная машина может работать как RDP-сервер, позволяя управлять ею удалённо.
Изменения в версии 5.0:
This is a major update. The following major new features were added: Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve time-keeping accuracy and performance (see the manual for more information) Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX-2, AES-NI, POPCNT, RDRAND and RDSEED xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices (see the manual for more information) Drag and drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests Disk image encryption (see the manual for more information) VMs can now be started in separate mode. The VM process is started headless while the frontend runs as a separate process which can be terminated without stopping the VM. GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration) GUI: New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar, menu-bar and guest-content scaling GUI: New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for disk images GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration) GUI: Hotplugging support for SATA disks New, modular audio architecture for providing a better abstraction of the host audio backends Support for the NDIS6 networking framework on Windows (default on Vista and later) In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: improved timing on Solaris hosts with older VT-x hosts without preemption timers VMM: further improvements for TSC frequency measurements and guest timekeeping VMM: debug facility now includes the guest CPU's FPU/SSE/extended state in the core dump VMM: fixed a hang under rare conditions on 32-bit hosts VMM: several fixes GUI: improved HID LEDs synchronization for Mac and Windows hosts. The physical LEDs state now restored together with the VM state. GUI: take the guest screen aspect ratio into account for the preview window GUI: provide direct access to storage media in the VM selector GUI: allow to save the VM state from the selector even if the VM is already paused VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times VBoxManage: now supports renaming storage controllers and USB controllers Guest Control: major overhaul, for example fixing wrong parameter quoting (bug #13157) USB: added USB traffic capturing (see the manual for more information) Made resizing X11 guests work more reliably API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks, their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM config corruption API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense API: fix information for some automatically generated events (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice (bug #12379) API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232) API: a number of settings (e.g. network settings) can now also be changed when the VM is in saved state API: fixed incorrect resuming of VMs on host-resume unless they were previously paused due to a host-suspend API: don't lose the saved state and "current state changed" flag during cloning of a VM API: OS type description consistency fix (bug #14162) VBoxSVC: don't keep the support driver permanently open Main/Properties: properly drop transient guest properties when the VM is powered off VRDP: fixed a couple of races which may cause a crash during VM poweroff ExtPack: don't fail if the TMP directory contains non-latin1 characters (bug #14159) 3D: fix potential race in which might cause a crash on VM termination 3D: fixed a possible memory leak in the host service Serial: new TCP/IP backend (see the manual for more information) Storage: added USB mass storage device class (see the manual for more information) Storage: added vbox-img standalone tool for direct manipulation of virtual hard disk images without VBoxManage Storage: fixed crash as a result of I/O errors in certain conditions (bug #13105) NAT: fixed several potential crashes NAT: don't forcibly reset/drop all connections when the link goes down Netsniffer: properly handle changing of the trace file name at VM runtime Audio: fixed audio output and input when changing the default audio device more than once on OS X Audio: fixed audio input on OS X under certain circumstances ICH9: fixed the interrupt disable logic for MSI interrupts; should fix old Linux guests with AHCI USB: improve playback with USB sound devices attached to the emulated OHCI controller Audio: provide Linux guests a different AC97 audio codec type so Linux ALSA does not mis-detect the link speed (default for new VMs) BIOS: fix for booting from SCSI CD/DVD media BIOS: fix for reads partially beyond end of disk (bug #14021) VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038) rdesktop-vrdp: upgraded to version 1.8.3 Linux hosts: fixed a bug which made the netfilter driver ignore certain events (bug #12264) Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan fixes Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug which might trigger a host kernel panic if a VM is started and another hypervisor is active Solaris hosts: Solaris 12 installer fix Guest Additions: added a heartbeat service (see the manual for more information) Linux hosts / guests: support for Linux distributions using systemd without sysv emulation (e.g. ArchLinux) Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI) Linux Additions: added -s parameter to mount.vboxsf to be sloppy with invalid parameters X11 Additions: fixed wrong DPI value (bug #14151) Mac OS X guests: limit the CPU family for legacy guests Solaris Additions: added quiesce support to co-operate with Solaris' fast-reboot feature
Операционная система: • Windows XP, все пакеты обновлений (32-бит) • Windows Server 2003 (32-бит) • Windows Vista (32-бит и 64-бит) • Windows Server 2008 (32-бит и 64-бит) • Windows 7 (32-бит и 64-бит) • Windows 8 (32-бит и 64-бит) • Windows Server 2012 (64-бит
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