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[Airbot]

VirtualBox 4.1.8 released

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VirtualBox 4.1.8 (released 2011-12-19)

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

• VMM: fixed VERR_MAP_FAILED during savestate under certain circumstances (bug #7929)
• GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)
• VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after startvm (bug #9642)
• BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
• USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers
• NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)
• Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest metrics collection upon VM destruction
• Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)
• VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)
• VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)
• OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare circumstances
• OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances
• VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)
• 3D Support: Fixed fullscreen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775), Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug #8341). Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests and for 3D support in general
• Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)
• Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)
• Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)
• Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

 

[Dave76]

Thanks again, appreciated.

 

[meows]

What version of Direct X will VirtualBox run?
9c? 10?
Will it use our Gforce GTX560 Ti video card?

 

[Victek]

What version of Direct X will VirtualBox run?
9c? 10?
Will it use our Gforce GTX560 Ti video card?

This from virtualbox.org:

"The VirtualBox Guest Additions contain experimental hardware 3D support for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests.[19]
With this feature, if an application inside your virtual machine uses 3D features through the OpenGL or Direct3D 8/9 programming interfaces, instead of emulating them in software (which would be slow), VirtualBox will attempt to use your host's 3D hardware"

More here:

Chapter 4. Guest Additions

 

[Airbot]

March 13, 2012

Virtualbox 4.1.10 is available. Changleog below.

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VirtualBox 4.1.10 (released 2012-03-13)

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

• GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason, do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox
• VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during SYSEXIT right after STI
• VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page fusion
• VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages
• Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address and network mask attributes
• Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations (bug #10030)
• 3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression; bugs #10071 and #10088)
• 3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics
• 3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)
• 3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167), make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes
• VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients
• Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)
• iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)
• Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions (non-Windows hosts only)
• SDK: actually ship current C bindings
• SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)
• SDK: added Python example
• Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs
• Web service: added SSL/TLS support
• VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup
• Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox in a zone
• Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes
• Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data (bug #9651)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion
• Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug #10010)
• Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)
• Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a memory mapped file on a shared folder
• Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12
• Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)
• Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so (bug #10151)
• Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11 guests.
• Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions
• Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)
• Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

 

[Airbot]

VirtualBox 4.1.12 (released 2012-04-02)

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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

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

 

[kado897]

Thanks. it's not made it to the servers for the UK yet. I wonder if this will fix the Windows 8 problems? One can but hope.

It has fixed my WDDM (3D driver) problem in W8.

 

[Dave76]

Thanks Aaron.

 

[TE7]

With 4.1.12 I still had problems with the guest additions. It rendered my Win 8 unusable. I had to restore a snapshot I took before trying the new Guest Additions for Win 8.

 

[TVeblen]

I just downloaded 4.1.18.