Showing posts with label VirtualBox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VirtualBox. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
VirtualBox 4.3.14 for Linux receives VMM, GUI, NAT Network, Storage Fixes
Oracle VirtualBox team officially announces the release of VirtualBox 4.3.14 which is the 14th stable release under 4.3 series. This is just a maintenance release which primarily includes fixes of earlier releases. As you know that VirtualBox 4.3 series quite popular series with most advanced features.
According to official announcement, VirtualBox 4.3.14 comes with major fixes for VMM, GUI, NAT, NAT Network and Storage. For Linux users, this release brings 3D pass-through work with recent versions of Mesa in the guest and fixes issues found in Linux 3.16 along with compile fix for EL7.
It includes more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware and also improves MSI handling under rare circumstances. Other fixes for VMM includes fixed timekeeping after resuming SMP guests and properly wake up a halted VCPU on NMI/SMI. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.
To enhanced graphical user interface, VirtualBox 4.3.14 includes fixed potential crash, fixed stuck AltGr key on Windows hosts and fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates. Apart from this, some of the fixed made in NAT Network which includes fixed potential loss of inbound TCP data and fixed resets of TCP connections on Windows hosts.
Other improvements in VirtualBox 4.3.14 includes USB performance fixes, properly reset MSI capability on reset, fixed misbehavior with huge guests in 3D and fixed permissions of files and directories located on shared folders in Solaris.
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According to official announcement, VirtualBox 4.3.14 comes with major fixes for VMM, GUI, NAT, NAT Network and Storage. For Linux users, this release brings 3D pass-through work with recent versions of Mesa in the guest and fixes issues found in Linux 3.16 along with compile fix for EL7.
It includes more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware and also improves MSI handling under rare circumstances. Other fixes for VMM includes fixed timekeeping after resuming SMP guests and properly wake up a halted VCPU on NMI/SMI. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.
To enhanced graphical user interface, VirtualBox 4.3.14 includes fixed potential crash, fixed stuck AltGr key on Windows hosts and fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates. Apart from this, some of the fixed made in NAT Network which includes fixed potential loss of inbound TCP data and fixed resets of TCP connections on Windows hosts.
Other improvements in VirtualBox 4.3.14 includes USB performance fixes, properly reset MSI capability on reset, fixed misbehavior with huge guests in 3D and fixed permissions of files and directories located on shared folders in Solaris.
Keep reading and stay tuned with us to get latest software news. Don't forget to subscribe us and share your reviews about this post among other readers via comments.
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Oracle VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 comes with Linux Guest Kernel fixes & Other fixes
Oracle officially announces the release of VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 with several bugfixes and new changes. Well as you can see that this is the beta version which is another maintenance release and primarily available for testing purposes. For Linux users, VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 comes with fix for Linux guest kernels < 2.6.13.
According to official announcement, VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 comes with support for using paravirtualization providers with raw-mode VMs along with some fixes in GUI and VirtualBox APIs. The GUI part of VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 includes encryption passwords no more centered, scaling support will use the old smooth mechanism for the software renderer case and optimized medium enumeration for the large differencing trees.
Among API fixes, VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 includes fixed long-standing issue which caused loss of error information for the VM start operation, fixed too strict condition for changing extradata settings of newly created VMs and fixed too strict condition for creating persistent shared folders. Some of the minor fixes are also made in BIOS such as fix for booting from SCSI CD/DVD media and fix for reads partially beyond end of disk. You can also download the latest VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 to test it on your machine.
Other fixes of VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 includes USB controller types for given VM are now reflected in VM details page, avoid error message during shutdown of a separate VM, fixed a rare crash when copying over host elements to the guest and fix crash on restoring state on X11 hosts. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in them ?
According to official announcement, VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 comes with support for using paravirtualization providers with raw-mode VMs along with some fixes in GUI and VirtualBox APIs. The GUI part of VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 includes encryption passwords no more centered, scaling support will use the old smooth mechanism for the software renderer case and optimized medium enumeration for the large differencing trees.
Among API fixes, VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 includes fixed long-standing issue which caused loss of error information for the VM start operation, fixed too strict condition for changing extradata settings of newly created VMs and fixed too strict condition for creating persistent shared folders. Some of the minor fixes are also made in BIOS such as fix for booting from SCSI CD/DVD media and fix for reads partially beyond end of disk. You can also download the latest VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 to test it on your machine.
Other fixes of VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 includes USB controller types for given VM are now reflected in VM details page, avoid error message during shutdown of a separate VM, fixed a rare crash when copying over host elements to the guest and fix crash on restoring state on X11 hosts. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in them ?
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