Software Update: VirtualBox 4.3 Beta 3

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Oracle has released the third beta release of version 4.3 of VirtualBox. 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.

In version 4.3 of VirtualBox, among other things, the complete virtualization code has been rewritten, which has solved several problems and also shows several performance improvements. In addition, there is video capture and support for ipv6, and several virtual machines running on the same computer can now communicate with each other via the internal network. The main changes made further in beta 3 can be found below.

Here is an incomplete list of chances since VirtualBox 4.3 Beta 2:

  • VMM: implemented thread-context hooks for Linux and Solaris hosts
  • VMM: several fixes
  • GUI: added NAT networks to the global settings page
  • GUI: made NAT network a separate network attachment type
  • 3D Support: fixed Google Chrome and IE rendering under Window 8.1
  • 3D Support: fixed DXDiag crashes mentioned here
  • NAT service: several fixes
  • Main: eliminate the use of SysV semaphores on all host OSes other than Windows, namely Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, with the consequence that no system reconfiguration is needed to run more than approximately 100 VMs
  • Windows hosts: fixed crashes on Windows 8.1
  • Linux hosts: fix hanging GUI on EL4 and EL5 distributions with old libX11 versions
  • Linux Additions: Linux 3.11 shared folders fix
  • Linux Additions: Linux 3.12 fixes

Version number 4.3 beta 3
Release status beta
Operating systems Windows 7, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Solaris, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8
Website Oracle
Download http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.0_BETA3/
File sizes

64.00MB – 111.00MB

License type GPL
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