Download VirtualBox 4.2.18

Oracle has released the ninth update to version 4.2 of VirtualBox, while work on its successor version 4.3 is already underway. VirtualBox can be used to install other operating systems in a virtual environment on a computer. In this way it is possible to use different operating systems on the same hardware side by side and at the same time. VirtualBox is available for Windows XP and above, OS X, Linux, and Solaris, and is capable of many guest operating systems to turn.

Version 4.2 of VirtualBox brings, among other things, improved support for Windows 8. In addition, Linux, Solaris and OS X now allow virtual machines to be started at boot time and files can be copied to Linux hosts using drag&drop. In version 4.2.18, the following changes and improvements have also been made:

The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: properly handle NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled
• VMM: fixed potential crashes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #11979)
• GUI / seamless: properly handle mouse wheel scroll events
• GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)
• GUI: prevent crashes under certain conditions on X11 hosts
• 3D: multiscreen fixes (incorrect mouse position, flickers)
• 3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver (multiscreen, seamless)
• Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)
• Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)
• VBoxManage: on snapshot take, –pause is default and –live is for doing live snapshots
• VBoxSVC: don’t crash on systems with many VLAN interfaces (Solaris hosts only)
• Network: after the host resumes from suspend, disconnect and reconnect the virtual network cables to force renewing the DHCP leases for the guests. So far only Mac OS X hosts and Windows hosts (bug #10063).
• NAT: on name server changes force a reconnect of the virtual network cable to notify the guest (Mac OS X hosts only)
• Mac OS X installer: keep previously installed Extension Packs on VirtualBox upgrade
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.11 fixes (bug #12001)
• Solaris hosts: fixed a potential kernel panic caused due to unexpected preemption due to logging.
• Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible when plugged into USB3 ports.
• Linux Additions: added PCI device identifier to vboxvideo.ko fixing DRI initialization under certain conditions (bug #11957)
• Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script with Linux 3.x kernels