This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: 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 USB: fixed invalid pending request count at the time of service of DEVICE POWER requests (Windows hosts only; bugs #10021, #11056) USB keyboard: Korean keyboard workaround (bug #11150) Storage: fixed hang with QCOW images and asynchronous I/O enabled Storage: fixed hang with newer VHD images (bug #11279) Storage: actually write the non-rotational flag to the VM settings (4.2.0 regression) Virtio-net: fixed the problem with network statistics counters in Session Information dialog (GUI) Metrics: introduced network rate and disk usage metrics Metrics: fixed a crash under certain conditions on Solaris hosts BIOS: fix for El Torito Shared Folders: if the host folder of a shared folder mapping does not exist, keep it active but mark it as invalid to prevent inconsitent saved states (bug #11147) VBoxManage: fixed converting disks from raw images VBoxManage: show snapshot description in the VM or snapshot information VBoxManage: make implicit opening of media consistent in all places dealing with media VBoxManage: the iSCSI initiator name was not stored in the settings file when doing storageattach (bug #11212) VBoxManage: metrics collect now properly handles 'CPU/MHz' and 'Net/*/LinkSpeed' metrics VBoxManage: changing the image UUID or parent UUID as part of storageattach works now in all safe cases VBoxManage: introduced storageattach --medium additions as a shortcut to mount the additions image (bug #11165) OVF: fixed importing OVF files cerated by recent VMware products (bug #10905) Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with leaking connections in conntrack (bug #11178) Linux Additions: added support for ConsoleKit sessions in the vminfo service of VBoxService Linux Additions: don't crash during remount under certain conditions (bug #11291) Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed guest memory metrics collection Solaris hosts: added a dependency to ensure that the user directories are reachable when starting VBox services Windows host installer: integrated user-contributed translations, thanks to all contributors! Windows Additions: fixed auto-logon installation for Windows 8 Windows Additions: don't fail if the shared folders host service is not available Windows Additions: fixed Guest Additions startup on Windows 2000 guests (bug #11253) Windows Additions: auto-resize fixes for Windows 8 guests Manual: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.6/UserManual.pdf
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: 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 Storage: fixed data corruption after resizing a VDI image under certain circumstances (bug #11344) Storage: fixed non working online merging of snapshots (4.2.6 regression, bug #11359) Storage: fixed crash when connecting to certain QNAP iSCSI targets Storage: fixed incompatibility of VHD differencing images with Hyper-V (bug #5990) Bridged Networking: fixed TCP pseudo header checksum computation for IPv6 (bug #9380) 3D support: fix Battlefield 1942 game crashes (bug #11369) Settings: really sanitize the name of VM folders and settings file, the code was disabled before (bug #10549) Settings: allow to change VRDE settings for saved VMs VBoxManage: don't crash during screenshotpng if there is no display (bug #11363) Linux hosts: work around gcc bug 55940 which might lead to wrong kernel module code if gcc 4.7 is used to compile the 32-bit Linux host kernel (bug #11035) Linux hosts: fixed inconsistent lock state and deadlock warnings on module load and VM startup when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is enabled (bug #11318) Linux hosts: made "]" key work again on Japanese keyboards Mac OS X hosts: don't crash the kernel during dtrace if the VBox kernel extensions are loaded (10.6 hosts only; bug #11273) Solaris / Mac OS X hosts: machine CPU load metrics now report 100% when all cores are fully utilized (used to be a single core) Solaris 11 host installer: wait for any services left over from a previous installation to be terminated to avoid confusing SMF. Guest Additions: don't block signals for processes executed via guest control Guest Additions: fixed a small memory leak in VBoxService (bug #10970) Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issue with large reads/writes on 64 bit Windows guests (bug #11115) Linux Additions: Linux 3.8 compile fixes (bug #11036) X11 Additions: fixed blocked SIGALRM in 3D desktop sessions (bug #10987) X11 Additions: fixed an unresolved reference in vboxvideo_drv for X.org 6.8 guests and before (e.g. RHEL4; 4.2.0 regression) X11 Additions: fixed screen automatic resizing for guests with X.org 1.3 or older (4.2.0 regression)
VirtualBox 4.2.10 (release 2013-03-15) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: 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
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added
Quote: •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 •GUI: don't show warnings about enabled or disabled mouse integration if the VM was restored from a saved state •Virtio-net: properly announce that the guest has to handle partial TCP checksums (bug #9380) •Storage: Fixed incorrect alignment of VDI images causing disk size changes when using snapshots (bug #11597) •Audio: fixed broken ALSA & PulseAudio on some Linux hosts due to invalid symbol resolution (bug #11615) •PS/2 keyboard: re-apply keyboard repeat delay and rate after a VM was restored from a saved state (bug #10933) •BIOS: updated DMI processor information table (type 4): corrected L1 & L2 cache table handles •Timekeeping: fix several issues which can lead to incorrect time, Solaris guests sporadically showed time going briefly back to Jan 1 1970 •Main/Metrics: disk metrics are collected properly when software RAID, symbolic links or rootfs are used on Linux hosts •VBoxManage: don't stay paused after a snapshot was created and the VM was running before •VBoxManage: introduced controlvm nicpromisc (bug #11423) •VBoxManage: don't crash on controlvm guestmemoryballoon if the VM isn't running (bug #11639) •VBoxHeadless: don't filter guest property events as this would affect all clients (bug #11644) •Guest control: prevent double CR in the output generated by guest commands and do NLS conversion •Linux hosts / guests: fixed build errors on Linux 3.5 and newer kernels if the CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS config option is enabled (bug #11664) •Linux Additions: handle fall-back to VESA driver on RedHat-based guests if vboxvideo cannot be loaded •Linux Additions: RHEL/OEL/CentOS 6.4 compile fix (bug #11586) •Linux Additions: Debian Linux kernel 3.2.0-4 (3.2.39) compile fix (bug #11634) •Linux Additions: added auto-logon support for Linux guests using LightDM as the display manager •Windows Additions: Support for multimonitor. Dynamic enable/disable of secondary virtual monitors. Support for XPDM/WDDM based guests •X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.14 (bug #11609) For windows
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: another TLB invalidation fix for non-present pages VMM: fixed a performance regression (4.2.8 regression; bug #11674) GUI: fixed a crash on shutdown GUI: prevent stuck keys under certain conditions on Windows hosts (bugs #2613, #6171) VRDP: fixed a rare crash on the guest screen resize VRDP: allow to change VRDP parameters (including enabling/disabling the server) if the VM is paused USB: fixed passing through devices on Mac OS X host to a VM with 2 or more virtual CPUs (bug #7462) USB: fixed hang during isochronous transfer with certain devices (4.1 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #11839) USB: properly handle orphaned URBs (bug #11207) BIOS: fixed function for returning the PCI interrupt routing table (fixes NetWare 6.x guests) BIOS: don't use the ENTER / LEAVE instructions in the BIOS as these don't work in the real mode as set up by certain guests (e.g. Plan 9 and QNX 4) DMI: allow to configure DmiChassisType (bug #11832) Storage: fixed lost writes if iSCSI is used with snapshots and asynchronous I/O (bug #11479) Storage: fixed accessing certain VHDX images created by Windows 8 (bug #11502) Storage: fixed hang when creating a snapshot using Parallels disk images (bug #9617) 3D: seamless + 3D fixes (bug #11723) 3D: version 4.2.12 was not able to read saved states of older versions under certain conditions (bug #11718) Main/Properties: don't create a guest property for non-running VMs if the property does not exist and is about to be removed (bug #11765) Main/Properties: don't forget to make new guest properties persistent after the VM was terminated (bug #11719) Main/Display: don't lose seamless regions during screen resize Main/OVF: don't crash during import if the client forgot to call Appliance::interpret() (bug #10845) Main/OVF: don't create invalid appliances by stripping the file name if the VM name is very long (bug #11814) Main/OVF: don't fail if the appliance contains multiple file references (bug #10689) Main/Metrics: fixed Solaris file descriptor leak Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes VBoxManage: fixed setting the parent UUID on diff images using sethdparentuuid Linux hosts: work around for not crashing as a result of automatic NUMA balancing which was introduced in Linux 3.8 (bug #11610) Windows installer: force the installation of the public certificate in background (i.e. completely prevent user interaction) if the --silent command line option is specified Windows Additions: fixed problems with partial install in the unattended case Windows Additions: fixed display glitch with the Start button in seamless mode for some themes Windows Additions: Seamless mode and auto-resize fixes Windows Additions: fixed trying to to retrieve new auto-logon credentials if current ones were not processed yet Windows Additions installer: added the /with_wddm switch to select the experimental WDDM driver by default Linux Additions: fixed setting own timed out and aborted texts in information label of the lightdm greeter Linux Additions: fixed compilation against Linux 3.2.0 Ubuntu kernels (4.2.12 regression as a side effect of the Debian kernel build fix; bug #11709) X11 Additions: reduced the CPU load of VBoxClient in drag'and'drop mode OS/2 Additions: made the mouse wheel work (bug #6793) Guest Additions: fixed problems copying and pasting between two guests on an X11 host (bug #11792)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: OVF/OVA: don't crash on import if no manifest is used (4.2.14 regression; bug #11895) GUI: do not restore the current snapshot if we power-off after a Guru Mediation Storage: fixed a crash when hotplugging an empty DVD drive to the VM Storage: fixed a crash when a guest read from a DVD drive attached to the SATA controller under certain circumstances EFI: don't fail with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #11456) Autostart: fixed VM startup on OS X Windows hosts: native Windows 8 controls Windows hosts: restore native style on Vista 32 Windows hosts / guests: Windows 8.1 adaptions (bug #11899) Mac OS X hosts: after removing VirtualBox with VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool, remove it from the pkgutil --pkgs list as well
Changelog for VirtualBox 4.3 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451) VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410) VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481) VMM: fixed a VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC error when trying to load a saved state made with VBox 4.3.4 when VT-x/AMD-V is disabled. Unfortunately, VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard these states (bug #12414) VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests (bug #12245) GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression, bug #12205) GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors (bug #12480) Main: don't automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if VT-x/AMD-V is not available (bug #12424) Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests (bug #12017) Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change (bug #7063) Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp() (bug #12498) API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes due to GUI unavailability Storage: fix for BLKCACHE_IOERR runtime errors under rare circumstances (bug #11030) Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426) E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection 3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina hosts only; bug #11021) Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones (4.3 regression, bug #12271)
Oracle VM VirtualBox v4.3.8_92456
2014-02-25
Changelog
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers (e.g. bugs #12224, #12544) VMM: fixed a VERR_INVALID_RPL Guru Meditation when booting certain guests (bug #11350) VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see the manual for more information how to enable it (bug #8651) VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see the manual for more information GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104) GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in fullscreen/seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199) GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box replaced with corresponding button GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar indicator GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types (bug #12533) GUI: better error message if appliance import fails (bug #12657) GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings / Input page (bug #12730) GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot merge (4.3 regression) VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain circumstances AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417) AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used (bug #12441) NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with ICMP packets having TTL=1 NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly NAT Network: ping proxy implemented OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element (4.3 regression; bug #12345) OVF: several fixes 3D: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124) 3D: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666) 3D: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758) VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest Additions are active (bug #6649) USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare circumstances BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232) VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events (see the manual for more information) and added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low event (bug #9925) VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups (bug #12569) VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in /bin (bug #12713) Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578) Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network (bug #12241) Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining the number of physical CPU cores Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171) Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720) Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar environment contents (bug #12596) Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables (relevant for Guest Control) Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563) Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on XPDM -> WDDM upgrade Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels (bug #12505) Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already mounted X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623)
