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  1. Posts : 6,305
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    Latest Version of VirtualBox


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

    Visit VirtualBox main site for downloads.

    June 20th, 2012

    Virtualbox 4.1.18 is available. Changleog below.



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    VirtualBox 4.1.18 (released 2012-06-20)

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

    • VMM: fixed VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164 and others)
    • VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux hosts (bug #10528)
    • VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly updating the screen size when minimized
    • AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption after the guest storage controler has been reset
    • NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions (Windows hosts only; bug #10513)
    • Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard (bug #10631)
    • Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter (bug #10624)
    • Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes
    • Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly updated (bug #9887)
    • Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12
    https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads


    Please visit Changelog - VirtualBox for more information on previous changelogs
    Last edited by Brink; 03 Jul 2012 at 02:21. Reason: updated with new 4.1.18 version
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    Oracles VM Virtualbox 4.0.6 Released



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    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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  3. Posts : 6,305
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    Nicely caught, I was just visiting the site to check
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  4. Posts : 6,305
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    Original Post updated :)
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  5. Posts : 97
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    VirtualBox 4.0.6 available


    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).
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  6. Posts : 97
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    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.
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    May 16, 2011

    VirtualBox 4.0.8 Released.


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    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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  8. Posts : 18,404
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    June 27, 2011

    Virtualbox 4.0.10 released.

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    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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  9. Posts : 18,404
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    Vitrualbox 4.1 Beta 1 Released.



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    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


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  10. Posts : 18,404
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    4.1 Beta 2 -

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    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

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