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Nueva versión de Oracle VirtualBox 4.1.12
Apr 4th
Nueva versión de Oracle VirtualBox 4.1.12 la cual podéis descargar aquí.
Estos son los cambios realizados en esta versión:
- VMM: fixed VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED and VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP guru meditation due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)
- VMM: fixed PDMCritSectLeave guru meditation under rare circumstances with SMP guests
- VMM: proper Math Fault handling with certain legacy guests (bug #9042)
- NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions
- Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file
- Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374; 4.1.10 regression)
- HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances
- VBoxSVC: several locking fixes
- VBoxManage: return the correct error code if controlvm savestate failed (bug #10134)
- Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326; 4.1.10 regression)
- Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is closed (bug #6473)
- Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not properly installed
- Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes
¿Que hay de nuevo en VirtualBox 4.0.4?
Feb 23rd
Mejoras que trae y como instalar VirtualBox 4.0.4 en Ubuntu.
Las mejoras que trae, ademas de parches y arreglo de bugs, son estas:
- VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions (bugs #8255, #8319 and further).
- VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)
- VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)
- VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots (bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)
- GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum number of host network interfaces
- GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing snapshot (bug #8145)
- GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)
- GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in the users home directory (bug #8017)
- ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878) - VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID (4.0 regression; bug #8342)
- VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused
- VBoxManage: fixed modifyvm –synthcpu (bug #6577)
- VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit and displaying process status on exit (bug #8235)
- VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during guestcontrol execute
–wait-for exit/stdout while waiting for the guest process to terminate
(bug #7872) - VBoxManage: fixed list hostdvds/host?oppies
- VBoxManage: fixed storageattach for host DVD drives and host ?oppy drives
- Metrics: introduced RAM/VMM base metric.
- Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot (bug #7966)
- Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start
- Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)
- Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)
- Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium attachments (bug #8129)
- Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)
- Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)
- Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)
- Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341) - NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)
- ACPI: don’t allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don’t announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)
- Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly to
prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode (bug #8122) - Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)
- ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume
- BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs
- Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission (bug #1548)
- Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes
- Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)
- Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap
- X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart (bug #8231)
- X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha.
- X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login.
- X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older VirtualBox versions can’t handle.
- Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if a host link is not readable (bug #8185)
- Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS) with VBoxGINA.
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Para instalar VirtuaBox 4.0.4 en Ubuntu 10.10, 10.04 y 9.10
Editamos el fichero /etc/apt/sources.list
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Añadimos la siguiente línea:
Para usuarios de Ubuntu 10.10:
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian maverick contrib
Para usuarios de Ubuntu 10.04:
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lucid contrib
Para usuarios de Ubuntu 9.10:
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic contrib
Guardar y salir del fichero.
Añadimos la clave GPG:
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Actualizamos el repositorio:
sudo apt-get update
Instalamos VirtualBox 4.0.4:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0
Nueva beta 4 de Virtualbox 4.0.0
Dec 17th
Esta nueva beta 4 no es apta para ponerlo en ordenadores en producción, solo utilizarlo como betatesting.
La nueva versión de VirtualBox 4.0.0 beta 4 incorpora:
- Audio: fixed memory corruption under certain circumstances
- 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for Windows 2000 guests
- Settings: modifying VM session could lose disk attachments (4.0 Beta 3 regression)
- OVA: fixed crash during import
- GUI: better OS type string matching
- GUI: fixed redraw problem on X11 guests with multiple monitors attached (Mac OS X hosts only)
- GUI: remember last directory in file dialogs
- Settings: fixed .vbox file format portability issue with snapshots (backslashes)
- ExtPacks: fixed installation on certain Linux hosts (e.g. openSUSE)
- ExtPacks: require sudo for installation on Linux and Solaris hosts
- Storage: fixed possible crash during suspend
- Storage: fixed raw disk access on OS X
- Storage: lower the CPU usage for low disk I/O bandwidth limits
- Storage: added multi-attachment image mode for shared disk clusters
- Storage: fixed SATA activity LED handling
- 2D: fixed seamless mode when 2D is on for Mac hosts
- Additions: fixed incompatibility with SLED 11
Para descargar esta versión aquí.
