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VirtualBox 4.0.8 Build 71778

  -  82.87 MB  -  Open Source

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 4.0.8 Build 71778.


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What's new in this version:

- Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)
- Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more than 16 cores (bug #8389)
- Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in 64-bit mode (bug #7606)
- GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)
- VBoxManage: added controlvm screenshotpng subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format
- VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)
- NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in Ethernet header and in ARP requests
- Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting
- E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)
- SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)
- Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)
- Floppy: several improvement
- HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)
- USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated (Windows hosts only)
- 3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest window
- 3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15
- Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)
- Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)
- Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before building kernel modules (bug #8795)
- Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10
- Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)