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Download VirtualBox 4.2.8 Build 83876

VirtualBox 4.2.8 Build 83876

  -  103.98 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 4.2.8 Build 83876.


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What's new in this version:

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 config- urations (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 sanitise 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)
- 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)
- 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: added auto-logon support for Linux guests using LightDM as the display manager
- 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)

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