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Download VirtualBox 4.2.12 Build 84980

VirtualBox 4.2.12 Build 84980

  -  105.32 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 4.2.12 Build 84980.


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What's new in this version:

- 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)

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