VirtualBox 5.0.12 Build 104815 Final + Extension Pack
 

VirtualBox is an application installed on an existing host operating system; within this application, additional operating systems can be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment. For example, several Linux distributions can be hosted on a single machine running Windows XP; likewise, XP and Vista can run on a machine running Linux, and so on. There is a free for personal or evaluation use proprietary version and a GNU General Public License (GPL) version.
Features:
Modularity
Virtual machine descriptions in XML
Guest Additions for Windows and Linux
Shared folders
Virtual USB Controllers
Remote Desktop Protocol
USB over RDP

Whats New:
VirtualBox 5.0.12 (released 2015-12-18)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
*GUI: fixed wrong scrolling behaviour in the VM selector window when a VM item is dragged out of the chooser-pane area
*GUI: fixed the validation of IPv6 port-forwarding rules
*GUI: suppress the first-run wizard if a CD/DVD medium is inserted using the selector UI
*GUI: fixed the Ctrl+Break key sequence scan codes (bug #14927)
*GUI: improved handling of text selection mouse pointer (bug #750)
*Host services: fixed a crash during VM shutdown under rare conditions (5.0.6 regression; bug #14841)
*Shared folders: fixed a sharing violation if a file is opened to check the attributes (Windows hosts only; bug #14450)
*Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Mac OS X hosts only)
*XHCI: fixed broken emulation if software virtualization is used
*XHCI: several fixes
*3D: fixed state handling under certain conditions (bug #13487)
*Audio: several fixes
*BIOS: added LBA64 support for being able to boot from huge hard disks (bug #7415)
*EFI: fix for Windows 10 guests
*ExtPack: before installing an Extension Pack check if there are VMs running to prevent file system locking issues
*rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes
*Windows hosts: fixed hang when using VBoxAuthSimple library for VRDP external authentication (bug #14931)
*Windows hosts: fixed a regression which prevented it to attach to a physical network adapter having TCP/IP disabled (bug #14578)
*Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused multi-port adapters to be shown as a single adapter (bugs #14558, #14622)
*Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused created host-only adapters to not appear in the list (bug #14437)
*Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues related to Windows 10 (bugs #14040, #14545)
*Linux hosts: .desktop file compatibility issue (bug #14808)
*Linux hosts / guests: fixes for RHEL 7.2 (bug #14866)
*The command for recompiling the host kernel modules was changed again, to /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup (bug #14723)
*Linux hosts: some fixes for PCI passthrough (still highly experimental)
*Linux/Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM hang during startup under certain circumstances (bug #14933)
*Solaris hosts: added Python 2.7 bindings
*Mac OS X hosts: fixed a possible crash when the default input or output audio device changes
*Mac OS X hosts: fixed a panic under certain conditions
*Linux Additions: prevent the compiler from doing dead-code elemination on vital code in guest / host communication (bug #14497)
*Linux Additions: when mounting a shared folder, explicitly pass the share name so that /proc/mounts contains this name instead of 'none'
*Linux Additions: workaround for a systemd problem in conjunction with SELinux which prevented to properly enable the 'vboxadd' service during while upgrading the Additions