How to download oracle virtualbox on windows 10

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT , , XP, Server , Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (, , 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.

Modularity.

VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don't have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.

Virtual machine descriptions in XML.

The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.

Guest Additions for Windows, Linux and Solaris.

VirtualBox has special software that can be installed inside Windows, Linux and Solaris virtual machines to improve performance and make integration much more seamless. Among the features provided by these Guest Additions are mouse pointer integration and arbitrary screen solutions (e.g. by resizing the guest window). There are also guest additions for OS/2 with somewhat reduced functionality.

Shared folders.

Like many other virtualization solutions, for easy data exchange between hosts and guests, VirtualBox allows for declaring certain host directories as "shared folders", which can then be accessed from within virtual machines.

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

What's New:

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: Fixed random memory corruption and XMM register state corruption inside the VM when Hyper-V is used (bug #)
• VMM: Fixed VMSVGA 3D support with Linux guests when Hyper-V is used (bug #)
• GUI: Fixed some Qt related crashes on macOS Big Sur
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration: Fixed network integration not working behind some proxies
• USB: Mask out remote wake capability to avoid unresponsive devices
• Audio: Fixed issues with audio playback after host goes to sleep (bug #)
• Serial: Keep transferring data if the status line monitoring fails
• Serial: Fixed blocking a re-connect when TCP mode is used (bug #)
• HPET: Fixed inability of guests to use the last timer
• VBoxManage: Fixed detection of system locale when running 'VBoxManage unattended install' without --locale (bug #)
• macOS host: Installer on Big Sur is now reminding user that system has to be rebooted to load the installed KEXTs
• Linux host and guest: Support kernel version (bug #)
• Linux guest: Workaround to improve resizing of bit VMs with VMSVGA graphics controller, and do not try to use RandR version due to bugs causing the X server to hang
• Linux guest: Fixed VBoxService crashing in the CPU hot-plug service under certain circumstances during a CPU hot-unplug event (bugs # and #)
• Linux guest: Fixed Guest additions build for RHEL beta (bug #)