VirtualBox是一款免費且開源的虛擬化軟體，允許用戶在電腦上創建和運行虛擬機器。使用VirtualBox，用戶可以在不需要創建單獨的分區或購買額外硬體的情況下，在電腦上同時安裝和運行多個操作系統。

VirtualBox 的主要優勢之一是其易於使用。即使是對虛擬化技術幾乎沒有經驗的人，也可以輕鬆安裝和設置。VirtualBox 還提供廣泛的自定義選項，包括調整分配給每個虛擬機的 RAM、CPU 核心和硬碟空間的能力。

VirtualBox的另一個優點是其與多種作業系統的兼容性。使用者可以在其虛擬機器上安裝和運行Windows、Linux、macOS以及其他許多作業系統。這使得它成為開發人員、軟體測試人員以及需要在單一電腦上運行多個作業系統的人的絕佳工具。

VirtualBox 也提供了一系列的進階功能，如對 USB 設備、共享資料夾和網路配接器的支持。這些功能使得運行需要硬體或網路資源的軟體成為可能，如虛擬路由器、防火牆和伺服器。

VirtualBox 是需要在單一電腦上運行多個作業系統的人的極佳選擇。其易用性、多樣化的自訂選項以及與許多不同作業系統的相容性，使其成為開發人員、IT 專業人士和家庭用戶皆適用的多功能且強大的工具。

關鍵特性：

• 跨平台相容性。
• 直觀的圖形用戶介面。
• 支援各種作業系統。
• 與主機作業系統無縫整合。
• 快照和克隆。
• 網路功能。
• 虛擬設備支援。
• 擴充套件以增加功能。

• VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code and the AMD-V code including many bug fixes and performance improvements (for example bug #9659)
• VMM: introduced a lightweight instruction interpreter for situations not handled by hardware virtualization
• GUI: extended messaging mechanism (new non-modal popup overlays used to show non-critical warnings and provide user with additional information)
• GUI: keyboard shortcuts management (input page of global preferences extended with possibility to edit general keyboard shortcuts for VirtualBox Manager and Virtual Machine)
• GUI: video capturing support (bug #4766)
• Added USB touch device emulation
• Added experimental support for webcam passthrough complementing USB passthrough (see the manual for more information)
• Added SCSI CD-ROM emulation, including boot support
• VRDP: support for IPv6
• Guest Control: guest sessions now are running in dedicated, impersonated session processes (needs at least Guest Additions 4.3 installed)
• Guest Control: implemented IGuestFile support
• NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are attached to the same internal network and share one NAT service (see the manual for more information)

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: significantly improved performance of NetWare 5.x/6.x guests on host systems without nested paging support
• VMM: fixed losing host NMIs while in VT-x guest-context
• VMM: changed order of actions in emulated task switch (bug #10532)
• VMM: allow to activate VT-x while in SMX mode and provide more information if that is not possible
• GUI: update check uses https
• GUI: numerous minor internal cleanups and bug fixes
• GUI: HID LEDs synchronization when switching between guest window(s) and host (Mac OS X hosts only)
• GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)
• GUI: use the number of physical presented processor cores instead of the number of logical processor cores to check if the users assigned too many virtual CPUs to the guest
• Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)
• Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)
• Storage: implemented AHA-154x compatibility mode in the emulated BusLogic SCSI HBA
• Storage: significantly improved performance of large ATAPI PIO transfers (BeOS, Minix 3 guests affected)
• Storage: added floppy formatting emulation (NB: cannot be used to change existing media geometry)
• Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration, useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends
• Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes
• Settings: the per-VM hwvirtextexcl setting has been replaced by a global hwvirtexclusive property
• Main: new event queue implementation which does not use the host's native event queue for processing VirtualBox events anymore
• Main: eliminate the use of SysV semaphores on all host OSes other than Windows, namely Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, with the consequence that no system reconfiguration is needed to run more than approximately 100 VMs
• Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of .VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)
• Main: extension pack framework can now support loading HGCM modules, contributed by Jeff Westphal
• VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy media, and support the --long option to show really all available details
• VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for the automatic Guest Additions update
• VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest sessions, guest processes and/or guest files via guestcontrol list
• VBoxManage: added support for closing active guest sessions via guestcontrol session close --session-id | --session-name | --all
• VBoxManage: added support for terminating active guest processes via guestcontrol process kill|close|terminate --session-id | --session-name ... or guestcontrol [p[s]]kill --session-id | --session-name ...
• VBoxManage: added support for watching guest sessions via guestcontrol watch
• VBoxManage: added modifyvm --triplefaultreset to make the VM reset on triple fault instead of triggering a Guru Meditation (see the manual for more information)
• 3D support: several fixes
• 3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts
• OVF: several fixes
• Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with special characters
• Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del for the USB keyboard emulation
• Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed by François Revol
• Mac OS X hosts: limited support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
• Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940)
• Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (only on certain hosts; still needs improving; bug #6242)
• Windows hosts: consider symlinks when retrieving volume information (bug #11962)
• Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible when plugged into USB 3.0 ports
• Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)
• Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by WTSQuerySessionInformation() on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072)
• Windows Additions: ability to track guest user idle times through the newly introduced event IGuestUserStateChangedEvent
• Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script with Linux 3.x kernels