对于VMWare、Virtual PC这些虚拟机软件，可能大家都比较熟悉。VirtualBox是德国一家软件公司InnoTek所开发的虚拟系统软件，它不仅具有丰富的特色，而且性能 也很优异。更是开源的，成为了一个发布在GPL许可之下的自由软件。VirtualBox 可以在 Linux 和 Windows 主机中运行，并支持在其中安装 Windows (NT 4.0、2000、XP、Server 2003、Vista)、DOS/Windows 3.x、Linux (2.4 和 2.6)、OpenBSD 等系列的客户操作系统。假如你曾经有用过虚拟机软件的经历的话，相信使用 VirtualBox 不在话下。即便你是一个新手，也没有关系。VirtualBox 提供了详细的文档，可以助你在短期内入门。更新日志：
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: fixed excessive logging (bug #1901)
- VMM: AMD-V stability fixes (bug #1685)
- GUI: added support for Ctrl+Caps reversed keyboards (bug #1891)
- SATA: fixed BSODs of Windows guests on a SATA disk (bug #1941)
- SATA: fixed hard disk detection on Solaris 10 U5 (bug #1789)
- VBoxHeadless: don’t start the clipboard service (bug #1743)
- VBoxHeadless: added -vrdp parameter which allows to start the VM session without VRDP (bug #1960)
- VBoxManage: fixes to creating raw disk/partition VMDK files, now accepts removable media on Windows (bug #1869)
- VRDP: fixed communication with MS Remote Resktop Connection on MacOS X (bug #1337)
- VRDP: clipboard fixes (bug #1410)
- VRDP: fixed crash during PAM authentication (bug #1953)
- Shared Folders: fixed a regression introduced in version 1.6.2: the shared folders service was sometimes not properly installed (Windows guests only, bug #1915)
- Shared Folders: don’t deny to load a VM if a shared folder is not accessible (bug #822)
- BIOS: allow to specify empty DMI strings (bug #1957)
- OSE archive: added missing Makefiles (bug #1912)
- Linux hosts: workaround for buggy gcc-4.3 compilers (e.g. openSUSE 11)
- Linux hosts: one more fix for compiling the kernel modules on Linux 2.6.27 (bug #1962)
- MacOS X hosts: shared folders unicode fix
- Solaris hosts: fixed link issue (bug #1840)
- Windows additions: allow to downgrade the package
- Windows additions: fixed corrupted installer icon on Windows 2000 (bug #1486)
- Windows additions: fixed bug when creating intermediate directories (bug #1870)
- Windows additions: implemented /xres=, /yres= and /depth= switches for the installer (bug #1990)
- Linux additions: properly unregister the misc device when unloading the kernel module
- Linux additions: fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions again (e.g. openSUSE 11)
- Linux additions: attempt to fix the autostart issue of !VBoxClient with Mandriva guests (bug #1699)
- Linux additions: fixed detection of patched Linux 2.6.18 kernels of RHEL5 / FC6 / CentOS 5.2 (bugs #1899, #1973)
- Linux additions: added new mount flags dmode, fmode, umask, dmask and fmask allowing to override the file mode (bug #1776)
- Documentation: added a note that jumbo frames don’t work (bug #1877)
- Documentation: document special host interface names on openSUSE11 (bug #1892)
下载：
X86 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/1.6.6/VirtualBox-1.6.6-Win_x86.msi
X64 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/1.6.6/VirtualBox-1.6.6-Win_amd64.msi