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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
Windows Vista: Longhorn [3] January 30, 2007 NT 6.0 Windows Vista Starter; Windows Vista Home Basic; Windows Vista Home Premium; Windows Vista Business; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Ultimate; 6002 [c] IA-32, x86-64: April 11, 2017 Windows 7: Windows 7 [4] October 22, 2009 NT 6.1 Windows 7 Starter; Windows 7 Home Basic; Windows 7 Home ...
Under agreement with Connectix, Innotek GmbH (makers of VirtualBox, now part of Oracle) ported version 5.0 to run on an OS/2 host. [6] This version also included guest extensions (VM additions) for OS/2 guests, which could run on Windows, OS/2 or Mac OS X hosts using Virtual PC versions 5, 6 or 7.
Windows Vista Enterprise was not available through retail or OEM channels, but was instead distributed through Microsoft Software Assurance (SA), with license terms that conferred the right to operate up to four virtual machines with various Windows Vista editions installed, access to Virtual PC Express, and activation via volume licensing.
In the RTM release of Windows Vista, files encrypted using the Encrypting File System (EFS) were not archived by the operating system's backup application; [106] this feature was reinstated in Service Pack 1. [107] Windows Vista Backup does not have all the features and command line parameters supported by NTBackup. [108]
GPU virtualization refers to technologies that allow the use of a GPU to accelerate graphics or GPGPU applications running on a virtual machine.GPU virtualization is used in various applications such as desktop virtualization, [1] cloud gaming [2] and computational science (e.g. hydrodynamics simulations).
The guest software executes as if it were running directly on the physical hardware, with several notable caveats. Access to physical system resources (such as the network access , display, keyboard, and disk storage ) is generally managed at a more restrictive level than the host processor and system-memory.