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The Guest Additions for Windows, Linux, Solaris, OpenSolaris, and OS/2 guests include a special video-driver that increases video performance and includes additional features, such as automatically adjusting the guest resolution when resizing the VM window [38] and desktop composition via virtualized WDDM drivers.
Oracle VirtualBox (formerly OSE, GPLv2), with Guest Additions (GPLv2) [28] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes branched [29] Yes Yes with Guest Additions [30] with Guest Additions [30] No Oracle VirtualBox with Extension Pack (PUEL) and Guest Additions (GPLv2) [28] Yes Yes Yes Yes OpenGL 2.0 and Direct3D 8/9 [31] Yes branched [29] Yes Yes Yes Yes
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It ships with VirtualBox Guest Additions, and driver improvements to improve performance as a guest operating system. [ 72 ] The difficulties in efficiently running OS/2 have, at least once, created an opportunity for a new virtualization company.
A virtual machine monitor runs as a process on the host, such as VirtualBox. Type-2 hypervisors abstract guest operating systems from the host operating system, effectively creating an isolated system that can be interacted with by the host. Examples of Type-2 hypervisor include VirtualBox and VMware Workstation.
The physical, "real-world" hardware running the VM is generally referred to as the 'host', and the virtual machine emulated on that machine is generally referred to as the 'guest'. A host can emulate several guests, each of which can emulate different operating systems and hardware platforms.
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The virtual machine additions in older VPC versions and the virtual machine integration features in Windows Virtual PC contain precompact ISO images for the first step in supported guest systems. [13] Third-party products also use VHD file format. Oracle VirtualBox, part of Sun xVM line of Sun Microsystems supports VHD in