Virtual Box 4.1.4.74291

[solin]

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

VirtualBox 4.1.4 (released 2011-10-03)

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

- VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression; bug #9458)
- VMM: fixed INVALID_PARAMETER guru meditation caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)
- VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during stos/lods/ins/outs emulation under rare circumstances
- VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs
- GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)
- GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts (4.0.6 regression; bug #373)
- VBoxManage: another fix for extpack install --replace (bug #9308)
- VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in convertfromraw
- VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server (bug #9503)
- VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly (bug #9242)
- USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298); bugfixes for Windows host USB support
- VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)
- VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK images
- Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums (Windows hosts only)
- Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)
- Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)
- Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot restore operation (bug #8296)
- Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug #9387)
- Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using snapshots (bug #8932)
- Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active
- Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU (bug #9370)
- 3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching to/from fullscreen with enabled 2D acceleration
- 3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10
- Guest control: Miscellaneous small bugfixes
- Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages (4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)
- Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root (bug #1578)
- Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only interfaces (bug #8076)
- Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based bridged networking (bug #9532)
- Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files (bug #9535)
- Windows hosts installer: fixed ADDLOCAL usage on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)
- Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm help file (bug #9646)
- Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)
- Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate console window (bug #3549)
- Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)
- Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
- Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
- Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1 (bug #6229)
- Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)
- Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting (from console) and unmounting shared folders.
- Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates (4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)
- Windows Additions: fixed PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)
- Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)
- Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)
- Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)
- Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from fullscreen text mode apps (bug #9636)

Free download Virtual Box 4.1.4.74291

[leofelix]

Thank you solin
@ people interested in: do not forget do download the VirtualBox 4.1.4 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack, also

Support for USB 2.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel card

[jj1two3]

Thanks solin, I like Virtual Box better than VMware.

[hellnoire]

School now uses this instead of VMware, so I had to update. Thanks for the news though.

[jcgo16]

btw do they initially support windows 8?

[hellnoire]

btw do they initially support windows 8?

I do believe the words 'Try it and see' apply here. My teacher was able to get it working, so I don't see why the answer would be no, though.

[Logik]

thanks a lot........i love VB
nice tool to play around if u have enuf powerful machine