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: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers
• VMM: fixed a VERR_INVALID_RPL Guru Meditation when booting certain guests
• VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see the manual for more information how to enable it
• VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization
• GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see the manual for more information
• GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and the user tries to activate the remote display feature
• GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in fullscreen/seamless mode) keeps the minimized state
• GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box replaced with corresponding button
• GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar indicator
• GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types
• GUI: better error message if appliance import fails
• GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings / Input page
• GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot merge
• 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
• AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances
• AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain circumstances
• AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a SATA CDROM is attached
• AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions
• AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions
• AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes
• NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used
• NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with ICMP packets having TTL=1
• NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly
• NAT Network: ping proxy implemented
• OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element
• OVF: several fixes
• 3D: several fixes, multiscreen fixes
• 3D: include 3D content in captured videos
• 3D: include 3D content in captured screenshot
• VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest Additions are active
• USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare circumstances
• BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives
• API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only
• VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events (see the manual for more information) and added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low event
• VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups
• VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in /bin
• Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders when starting a VM from a saved state
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network
• Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining the number of physical CPU cores
• Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation fails
• Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script
• Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar environment contents
• Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)
• Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray
• Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users
• Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on XPDM -> WDDM upgrade
• Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables
• Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels
• Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels
• Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already mounted
• X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15