VirtualBox full changelog

VirtualBox 4.2.12 r8498 released Apr 13, 2013 (New Release)

# VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation on putting Linux guest CPU online if nested paging is disabled
# VMM: invalidate TLB entries even for non-present pages
# GUI: Multi-screen support: fixed a crash on visual-mode change
# GUI: Multi-screen support: disabled guest-screens should now remain disabled on visual-mode change
# GUI: Multi-screen support: handle host/guest screen plugging/unplugging in different visual-modes
# GUI: Multi-screen support: seamless mode: fixed a bug when empty seamless screens were represented by fullscreen windows
# GUI: Multi-screen support: each machine window in multi-screen configuration should have correct menu-bar now (Mac OS X hosts)
# GUI: Multi-screen support: machine window View menu should have correct content in seamless/fullscreen mode now (Mac OS X hosts)
# GUI: VM manager: vertical scroll-bars should be now updated on content/window resize
# GUI: VM settings: fixed crash on machine state-change event

VirtualBox 4.2.10 r8410 released Apr 8, 2013 (New Release)

* GUI: fixed keyboard with XQuartz X server (bug #10664)
* Main/Display: fixed a crash with multi-monitors under certain conditions (Mac OS X hosts only)
* Main/Properties: fixed a crash under certain conditions, for example after wakeup from host hibernate (bug #11444)
* Settings: don't lose the internal network settings if they are not currently active
* Storage: another incompatibility fix for VHD differencing images with Hyper-V (bug #5990)
* VBoxManage: don't read beyond the end of the file specified with export --eulafile (bug #11528)
* Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.9-rc0 compile fixes (bug #11529)
* Linux Additions: fixed two warnings in the shared folders guest kernel module (bug #11390)
* Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService if libdbus is not available (bug #8638)
* Windows Additions: fixed upgrading MultiMedia Redirection (MMR) support

VirtualBox 4.2.10 r8410 released Mar 15, 2013 (New Release)

* GUI: fixed keyboard with XQuartz X server (bug #10664)
* Main/Display: fixed a crash with multi-monitors under certain conditions (Mac OS X hosts only)
* Main/Properties: fixed a crash under certain conditions, for example after wakeup from host hibernate (bug #11444)
* Settings: don't lose the internal network settings if they are not currently active
* Storage: another incompatibility fix for VHD differencing images with Hyper-V (bug #5990)
* VBoxManage: don't read beyond the end of the file specified with export --eulafile (bug #11528)
* Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.9-rc0 compile fixes (bug #11529)
* Linux Additions: fixed two warnings in the shared folders guest kernel module (bug #11390)
* Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService if libdbus is not available (bug #8638)
* Windows Additions: fixed upgrading MultiMedia Redirection (MMR) support

VirtualBox 4.2.8 r83876 released Feb 28, 2013 (New Release)

# VMM: fixed guest crash with huge amount of guest RAM on VT-x hosts (bug #11306)
# GUI: fixed a layout bug in the Mac OS X clone VM dialog (bug #10982)
# GUI: not all the translation tags were taken into account during the language switch (bug #11342)
# GUI: take guest screenshot dialog sometimes had no keyboard input available on Windows host
# Main/Machine: fix generation of spurious event for inaccessible VMs which triggered an endless event generation loop in cooperation with the GUI which became unresponsive (4.2.6 regression, bug #11323)
# Main/Display: fix for an access violation under certain conditions in multi-monitor configurations (bug #10539)
# Main/Metrics: network metrics are now collected for active (up) interfaces only, the state of an interface being evaluated when the associated metric is enabled via setupMetrics
# Snapshots: reduce the time for merging snapshots under certain conditions

VirtualBox 4.2.6 r82870 released Dec 19, 2012 (New Release)

# VMM: don't inject stale VT-x events to prevent crashes after VM reset (bug #11256)
# VMM: workaround for buggy BIOSes which enable MONITOR only for certain CPUs (bugs #9460, #10686)
# GUI: fixed trimming of anti-aliased text in details-view element headers (4.2.0 regression)
# GUI: fixed create-settings-file-alias functionality on Mac hosts (4.2.0 regression)
# GUI: fixed take-guest-screenshot functionality on Windows hosts (bug #11095)
# GUI: several minor fixes, including palette fixes (bug #11191)
# GUI: fixed Windows 2012 OS type (bug #11206)
# GUI: allow to terminate the VM even if VBoxSVC crashed
# API: fixed cancelling of snapshots, previously this could lead to inconsistent VM configs (bug #6877)
# API: fixed identifying disk images by UUID (bug #11209)
# 3D Support: several fixes
# VRDP: fixed occasional crash with external authentication (bug #11156)
# VGA: fix for double scan text modes

VirtualBox 4.2.4 r81684 released Oct 27, 2012 (New Release)

* GUI: fixed validation warning on global settings / proxy page (4.2.2 regression, bug #11089)
* GUI: fixed crash with multiple guest screens on certain conditions (OS X hosts only)
* VBoxBalloonCtrl: fixed command line argument handling of ballooning module
* VRDP: fixed occasional crash during a video playback in the guest (bug #11082)
* BIOS: fixed broken DMI information (4.2 regression)
* BIOS: workaround for booting from Windows 2000 floppy disks
* EFI: fixed video mode selection loss on VM reboot (#10983)
* Parallel: fixed parallel port printing failure/ paper queue empty error (Windows hosts only; bug #2226)
* NAT: fixed crash on alias-less DNS responses when host-resolver is used
* Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances

VirtualBox 4.2.2 r81494 released Oct 18, 2012 (New Release)

# VMM: adapted to changes in Mac OS X 10.8.2 (bug #10965)
# GUI: restored VM item tool-tip functionality (4.2 regression)
# GUI: added group item tool-tip functionality
# GUI: fixed handling of the .ova/.ovf file name association (4.2 regression)
# GUI: it was not possible to change any setting before the first VM was created (bug #10928)
# GUI: disable grouping action if all the selected items are full children list of the same group already
# GUI: added menu for runtime drag-and-drop option change
# GUI: cleanup shared-clipboard menu on visual-mode change
# GUI: make sure VM receives keyboard focus on entering fullscreen-mode on Win host (bug #11051)
# GUI: disable proxy authentication for security reasons
# 3D Support: DrawIndexedPrimitiveUP implementation fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver (bug #10929)
# Storage: fixed a release assertion in the AHCI emulation when requests where canceled with asynchronous I/O disabled

VirtualBox 4.2.0 r80737 released Sep 15, 2012 (New Release)

* 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 (bug #3653)
* 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 parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts
* Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API documentation for more information

VirtualBox 4.1.22 r8065 released Sep 7, 2012 (New Release)

* VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts, 4.1 regression, bug #9897)
* VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure (seen with Windows 8 guests)
* VMM: respect RAM preallocation while restoring saved state.
* VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled
* Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players
* USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)
* RTC: fixed a potential corruption of CMOS bank 1
* Mac OS X hosts: installer fixes for Leopard (4.1.20 regression)
* Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)

VirtualBox 4.1.20 r8017 released Aug 22, 2012 (New Release)

# VMM: fixed a crash under rare circumstances for VMs running without hardware virtualization
# VMM: fixed a code analysis bug for certain displacement instructions for VMs running without hardware virtualization
# VMM: fixed an interpretion bug for TPR read instructions under rare conditions (AMD-V only)
# Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9604, #10491)
# VBoxSVC: be more tolerant against environment variables with strange encodings (bug #8780)
# VGA: fixed wrong access check which might cause a crash under certain conditions
# NAT: final fix for crashes under rare conditions (bug #10513)
# Virtio-net: fixed the problem with receiving of GSO packets in Windows XP guests causing packet loss in host-to-VM transfers
# HPET: several fixes (bugs #10170, #10306)
# Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
# BIOS: the PCI BIOS was not properly detected with the chipset type set to ICH9 (bugs #9301,

VirtualBox full changelog

VirtualBox Full Change Log

VirtualBox Free Download Notice

My Software

Popular Search

Software Picks

Top Popular Software