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Download VirtualBox 4.2.0 Build 80737

VirtualBox 4.2.0 Build 80737

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Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system. Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of VirtualBox 4.2.0 Build 80737.


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What's new in this version:

- 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 chapter 6.9, Lim- iting bandwidth for network I/O, page 96 (bug #3653)
- Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux, OS X and Solaris; see chapter 9.24, Starting virtual machines during system boot, page 175 (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 documenta-
- tion for more information

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
- Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings on Mountain Lion
- 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:fixedapotentialhostcrashunderahighguestmemorypressure(seenwithWindows 8 guests)
- VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using nested paging
- VMM: added support for FlushByASID features of AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)
- VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x (gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)
- VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)
- VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)
- VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled
- VMM: page fusion fixes
- GUI: network operations manager
- GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)
- GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list
- GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI
- GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window
- GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for guests
- GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently used ISO images
- GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a separator character in its name (bug #6541)
- GUI: don’t crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open (bug #9973)
- GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts (bug #9864)
- GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don’t refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting immediately (bug )
- Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)
- Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs (see chapter 13.3.2.3, Clipboard, page 206). It can be enabled at any time using the VM menu.
- Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)
- Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted
- NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)
- NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)
- E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)
- Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode
- Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players
- Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images
- Storage: added support for QED images
- Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly support for v2 images)
- Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images
- USB: don’t crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)
- Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12
- Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver
- Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a VirtualBox update
- Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options
- Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)

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