Now you can create virtual machines for Windows running on MAC operating system X, MAC operating system X, and Linux with a simple application known as VirtualBox.

What is VirtualBox?

VirtualBox is an all-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware targeted at server, desktop, and embedded use. The program is perhaps the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is equally an open source. Over the years, the developers or publishers of this highly effective application have been able to maintain its standard; and the newly added updates are just confirmation of this fact.

This latest release features a number of changes including; maintenance of VirtualBox 4.2 that comes with improved stability and fixing of regressions. Other major fixes or updates include the following; fixing of a Guru Meditation on putting Linux guest CPU online if nested paging is disabled, GUI multi-screen support, fixing of a crash on visual-mode change, fixing of VMM invalidate TLB entries for non-present pages, GUI multi-screen support handle host/guest screen plugging/unplugging in different visual-modes, fixing of bug when empty seamless screens were represented by full screen windows, and a host of others.

VirtualBox is an open source applications; but this has stopped it from providing some of the most advanced features. The program currently runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts. It also supports a large number of guests’ operating systems such as Windows, DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux, Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2 and OpenBSD.

Any downsides?

As much as this program is rated among the best online; one still needs to go through the manual to easily install it.

Want to check it out? You can easily find it at Virtualbox.org.

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