Virtual Box 4 is the latest edition of the freeware virtualization software offered by oracle.
New Features in this version.
- Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs.
- Major changes to the GUI.
- VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts
- New virtual hardware.
- Improvements to OVF support.
- Resource control: added support for limiting a VM’s CPU time and IO bandwidth.
- Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and Parallels images
- Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see chapter 8.21, VBoxManage modifyhd.
- Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later
- Lot of other improvements.
see
http://www.virtualbox.org for details and changelog.
Seamless View - One of the great features of VirtualBox is the ability to switch to seamless view. Once the virtual machine is running select - "Machine" - "Switch to Seamless mode".
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| Virtual Box 4.0 running WindowsXP in seamless mode |
see more screenshots below.
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| Virtual Box Manager Screen |
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| Settings - General |
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| Settings - Display |
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| Settings - Storage |
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| Settings - Audio |
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| Settings - Network |
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Settings - Serial Ports
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Settings - Shared Folders
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