Install Virtualbox 4.3.8 in Ubuntu 13.10/12.04/12.10/13.04

Virtualbox 4.3.8 has been released a few hours ago on February 25, 2014. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to install or upgrade to Virtualbox 4.3.8 in Ubuntu.

This is a maintenance release that brings various fixes, UI improvements as well as other changes. For details, see:

VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers

VMM: fixed a VERR_INVALID_RPL Guru Meditation when booting certain guests

VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see the manual for more information how to enable it

VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization

GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see the manual for more information

GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and the user tries to activate the remote display feature

GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in fullscreen/seamless mode) keeps the minimized state

GUI: popup banner’s “do not show this message again” check-box replaced with corresponding button

GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar indicator

GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types

GUI: better error message if appliance import fails

GUI: allow to set host-combination to ‘None’ using the Global settings / Input page

GUI: don’t switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot merge (4.3 regression)

VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times

AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances

AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain circumstances

AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a SATA CDROM is attached

AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions

AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions

AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes

NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used

NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with ICMP packets having TTL=1

NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly

NAT Network: ping proxy implemented

OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element

OVF: several fixes

3D: several fixes, multiscreen fixes

3D: include 3D content in captured videos

3D: include 3D content in captured screenshot

VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest Additions are active

USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare circumstances

BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives

API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only

VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events (see the manual for more information) and added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low event

VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups

VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in /bin

Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders when starting a VM from a saved state

Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network

Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining the number of physical CPU cores

Linux hosts / guests: don’t warn in kernel log if memory allocation fails

Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script

Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar environment contents

Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user’s process environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)

Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray

Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users

Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on XPDM -> WDDM upgrade

Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user’s process environment variables

Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels

Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels

Linux / Solaris Additions: don’t automount a shared folder which is already mounted

X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15

Install / Upgrade:

Method 1: The official download page provides the DEB packages. Double-click on the DEB and then you can click the install button in pop-up Ubuntu Software Center.

Method 2: You can also install virtualbox from its repository and receive updates by running the commands below one by one:

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open a terminal window. When it opens, run:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'

wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3

The first command will add the virtualbox repository to your system, and the second will download and import the key. After that, you’re able to install or upgrade virtualbox-4.3 via your package manager or via the last 2 commands.

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