VirtualBox 4.2.14.86644

Oracle - (Open Source)

VirtualBox is an easy and elegant solution for those who want to control a computer from another computer.

VirtualBox offers virtualize your operating system (OS) guests on a host machine. Called hypervisor, the application supports Windows OS X, Linux, Mac, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.. as host, Mac OS X missing the call as a guest.

It also includes a remote access via HTTP protocol, convenient for demonstrations on a clean system.Â The ability to manage multiple states of the system is particularly interesting and its interface is very simple.

Virtualization solutions allow installing an operating system on a virtual machine using the resources of the host PC , thus enjoying very good performance. In the genre, several solutions are known for their ease of use, such as VMware Workstation , Parallels Desktop or Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1.

A virtual machine is a useful way to use two operating systems simultaneously and harmless to the host computer. There is the possibility to install Linux on a virtual machine on Windows and vice versa .

Title:: VirtualBox 4.2.14.86644
File Size:: 94.6 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 23 Jun 2013
Publisher:: Oracle
Homepage:: http://www.oracle.com
MD5 Checksum:: 870B96DCE4DC5DE9E88A86486520F23D

# The following items were fixed and/or added:
* VMM: another TLB invalidation fix for non-present pages
* VMM: fixed a performance regression (4.2.8 regression)
* GUI: fixed a crash on shutdown
* GUI: prevent stuck keys under certain conditions on Windows hosts
* VRDP: fixed a rare crash on the guest screen resize
* VRDP: allow to change VRDP parameters (including enabling/disabling the server) if the VM is paused
* USB: fixed passing through devices on Mac OS X host to a VM with 2 or more virtual CPUs
* USB: fixed hang during isochronous transfer with certain devices (4.1 regression; Windows hosts only)
* USB: properly handle orphaned URBs
* BIOS: fixed function for returning the PCI interrupt routing table (fixes NetWare 6.x guests)
* BIOS: don't use the ENTER / LEAVE instructions in the BIOS as these don't work in the real mode as set up by certain guests (e.g. Plan 9 and QNX 4)
* DMI: allow to configure DmiChassisType
* Storage: fixed lost writes if iSCSI is used with snapshots and asynchronous I/O
* Storage: fixed accessing certain VHDX images created by Windows 8
* Storage: fixed hang when creating a snapshot using Parallels disk images
* 3D: seamless + 3D fixes (bug #11723)
* 3D: version 4.2.12 was not able to read saved states of older versions under certain conditions
* Main/Properties: don't create a guest property for non-running VMs if the property does not exist and is about to be removed
* Main/Properties: don't forget to make new guest properties persistent after the VM was terminated
* Main/Display: don't lose seamless regions during screen resize
* Main/OVF: don't crash during import if the client forgot to call Appliance::interpret()
* Main/OVF: don't create invalid appliances by stripping the file name if the VM name is very long
* Main/OVF: don't fail if the appliance contains multiple file references
* Main/Metrics: fixed Solaris file descriptor leak
* Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes
* VBoxManage: fixed setting the parent UUID on diff images using sethdparentuuid
* Linux hosts: work around for not crashing as a result of automatic NUMA balancing which was introduced in Linux 3.8
* Windows installer: force the installation of the public certificate in background (i.e. completely prevent user interaction) if the --silent command line option is specified
* Windows Additions: fixed problems with partial install in the unattended case
* Windows Additions: fixed display glitch with the Start button in seamless mode for some themes
* Windows Additions: Seamless mode and auto-resize fixes
* Windows Additions: fixed trying to to retrieve new auto-logon credentials if current ones were not processed yet
* Windows Additions installer: added the /with_wddm switch to select the experimental WDDM driver by default
* Linux Additions: fixed setting own timed out and aborted texts in information label of the lightdm greeter
* Linux Additions: fixed compilation against Linux 3.2.0 Ubuntu kernels (4.2.12 regression as a side effect of the Debian kernel build fix)
* X11 Additions: reduced the CPU load of VBoxClient in drag'and'drop mode
* OS/2 Additions: made the mouse wheel work
* Guest Additions: fixed problems copying and pasting between two guests on an X11 host