The virtual USB 2.0 (EHCI) device; see the section called “USB settings”.
VirtualBox Remote Desktop Protocol (VRDP) support; see the section called “Remote display (VRDP support)”.
Intel PXE boot ROM with support for the E1000 network card.
Experimental support for PCI passthrough on Linux hosts; see the section called “PCI passthrough”.

Установка:

Запустить VirtualBox, зайти в меню Файл » Свойства » Плагины и добавить скачанный файл, имеющий расширение .vbox-extpack

Существуют версии VirtualBox, предназначенные для установки на практически всех операционных системах, включая Windows, Linux, Macintosh и OpenSolaris. В качестве "гостевой" операционной системы так же могут использоваться любые операционные системы, включая Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, W7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux, и OpenBSD.

• VirtualBox может управляться как через GUI-интерфейс, так и через коммандную строку.
  
• Для расширения функций программы разработан специальный комплект SDK.
  
• Параметры виртуальных машин описываются в формате XML и никак не зависят от того физического компьютера, на котором система работает. Поэтому виртуальные компьютеры формата VirtalBox легко переносить с одного ПК на другой.
  
• При использовании на "гостевых" компьютерах операционных систем Windows или Linux можно воспользоваться специальными утилитами, значительно облегчающими переключение между физическим и виртуальными компьютерами.
  
• Для быстрого обмена файлами между гостевым и физическим ПК можно создавать так называемые "разделяемые каталоги" (Shared folders), которые одновременно доступны из обоих этих машин.
  
• VirtualBox позволяет подключать USB-устройства к виртуальным компьютерам, позволяя виртуальным машинам работать с ними напрямую.
  
• VirtualBox полностью поддерживает протокол удалённого доступа RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). Виртуальная машина может работать как RDP-сервер, позволяя управлять ею удалённо.

VirtualBox 4.2 will be a new major release. The following major new features were added:
Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes
GUI: VM groups (bug #288)
GUI: expert mode for wizards
GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime
Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)
Resource control: added support for limiting network IO bandwidth; see the manual for more information
Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux, OS X and Solaris; see the manual for more information (bug #950)
Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is planned. (bug #81)
Added support for Host parallel port passthrough on Windows platform
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings on Mountain Lion
VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using nested paging
VMM: added support for FlushByASID features of AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)
VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x (gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)
VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)
VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)
GUI: network operations manager
GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content
GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list
GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI
GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window
GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for guests
GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently used ISO images
GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a separator character in its name (bug #6541)
GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open (bug #9973)
Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old snapshot when powering off a VM (bug #10491)
Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)
Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted
E1000: 802.1q VLAN support
Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode
Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images
Storage: added support for QED images
Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly support for v2 images)
Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images
Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12
Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a VirtualBox update
Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options
This list is not complete. This is a first Release Candidate and the code still needs some polishing and not all new features are documented yet. Although we already did a lot of testing and don't expect critical regressions, please backup your data before trying this Release Candidate.