Windows 7 - Latest Version of VirtualBox

Orbital Shark · 03-16-2011

I thought I'd keep everyone up to date on the latest releases of the ever popular virtualization software VirtualBox.

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April 2, 2012

Virtualbox 4.1.12 is available. Changleog below.

Information

VirtualBox 4.1.12 (released 2012-04-02)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

VMM: fixed VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED and VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP guru meditation due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)
VMM: fixed PDMCritSectLeave guru meditation under rare circumstances with SMP guests
VMM: proper Math Fault handling with certain legacy guests (bug #9042)
NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions
Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file
Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374; 4.1.10 regression)
HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances
VBoxSVC: several locking fixes
VBoxManage: return the correct error code if controlvm savestate failed (bug #10134)
Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326; 4.1.10 regression)
Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is closed (bug #6473)
Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not properly installed
Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes

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Airbot · 04-21-2011

Oracles VM Virtualbox 4.0.6 Released

Information

VirtualBox 4.0.6 (released 2011-04-21)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring a VMM from a saved state
VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads; implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)
VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE (bug #8006)
VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels (bug #8726)
GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)
GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)
GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)
GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM (bug #8469)
GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy selectors
GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)
GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing folder (bug #8673)
Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)
Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory
3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate (Windows hosts only; bug #7133)
Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)
Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network
Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)
Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an I/O error occurred
Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset (bug #8276, #8294)
Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM
ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none' if no medium is present
Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)
Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)
Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour
Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the host from sleep (bug #3625)
Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)
NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static assigned IPs (bug #8609)
VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication library (bug #8063)
Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute, for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)
Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)
USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)
HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)
OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is changed on import
OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias
OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with multiple disks (bug #8253)
rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions (bug #8593)
Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized
Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while captured
Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode (shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)
X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1
Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)
Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)
Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead to unkillable VM processes
Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling
Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)
Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations on legacy Windows versions
Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)
Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo
X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final
Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes
Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)
Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests (bug #7946)
Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9
Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution
Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size

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Orbital Shark · 04-21-2011

Nicely caught, I was just visiting the site to check

Orbital Shark · 04-26-2011

Original Post updated

dogbert2 · 04-26-2011

As of April 21, the latest version of VirtualBox is 4.0.6 and can be downloaded from VirtualBox

I would also recommend getting the 4.0.6 extension pack for VirtualBox (adds USB 2.x support, etc).

dogbert2 · 04-26-2011

If you upgrade from 4.0.x to 4.0.6 you must also upgrade any installed extension packs (remove old ones, and install latest one).

Also, you will probably have to disable your a/v or firewall-a/v package to get the extensions pack to install (which is what I did), installed successfully, then re-enabled firewall-a/v.

Airbot · 05-16-2011

May 16, 2011

VirtualBox 4.0.8 Released.

Information

VirtualBox 4.0.8 (released 2011-05-16)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)
Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more than 16 cores (bug #8389)
Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in 64-bit mode (bug #7606)
GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)
VBoxManage: added controlvm screenshotpng subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format
VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)
NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in Ethernet header and in ARP requests
Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting
E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)
SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)
Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)
Floppy: several improvement
HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)
USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated (Windows hosts only)
3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest window
3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15
Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)
Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)
Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before building kernel modules (bug #8795)
Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10
Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)

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Airbot · 06-27-2011

June 27, 2011

Virtualbox 4.0.10 released.

Information

VirtualBox 4.0.10 (released 2011-06-27)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)
Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images
Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)
Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant (for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)
Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot
USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)
USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests (partial fix for bug #8978)
ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)
RDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)
rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0
OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK file was not written during export
Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes
Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix
Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)
Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux binaries
Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles
Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)
Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests (4.0.8 regression)
Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix
Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during VBoxManage guestcontrol execute (bug #9068)

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Airbot · 07-04-2011

Vitrualbox 4.1 Beta 1 Released.

Information

VirtualBox 4.1 will be a new major release. The following major new features were added:

Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853)
GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks
GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks
VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB
Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver
Guest Additions: modules and features now are represented as facilities to have a common interface for frontends.
New Networking Mode: UDP Tunnel. Allows to interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently, see the manual for more information.

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

VMM: more SMP timer fixes
VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests
VMM: many small fixes
GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot of the current state
GUI: added View menu
GUI: added setting for the promiscuous mode policy for internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks
GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of a VM
GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)
VBoxManage: changed syntax of the guestcontrol command group, fixed various bugs
VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment of the balloon size for running VMs
Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to be a valid UUID
Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest ejects the medium
Floppy: several bugs have been fixed
BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly
USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver
NAT: reduced memory footprint
Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)
VRDP: support for TLS connections
VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS RDP client
3D support: fixed GL_VERSION string for different locales (bug #8916)
Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM window (bug #4491)
Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests
Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs from the host

VirtualBox 4.1 Beta 1

Airbot · 07-09-2011

4.1 Beta 2 -

Information

The following items were fixed / added since the VirtualBox 4.1 Beta 1:

VMM: fixed a Beta 1 regression which prevented certain guests from booting
VMM: better out-of-memory error reporting under certain circumstances
GUI: display CPU cap in the VM details page
WDDM: serveral fixes
Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances with VHD and Parallels images
Storage: introduced non-rotational flag for hard disks for optimizing the performance with modern guests (e.g. Windows 7 will not automatically defrag the disk)
Floppy: make unmounting a host floppy disk work
Guest control execution: fixed documentation + syntax diagram.
Solaris hosts: Host-only/Bridged networking fixes
Solaris guests: fixed automounting of shared folders
Linux installer: fixed compilation of the vboxpci module if DKMS is not installed
Windows Installer: fixed automated VBox Python API installation.
Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD in the new USB code under certain circumstances
Windows hosts: use Qt 4.7.3 including Oracle certificate
Experimental support for PCI passthrough (Linux hosts only)
Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support for non-official builds
Documentation fixes