{"id":3310,"date":"2014-05-18T05:02:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T05:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2014-05-18T05:02:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T05:02:56","slug":"virtualbox-4-3-12-released-with-various-fixes-how-to-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/virtualbox-4-3-12-released-with-various-fixes-how-to-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox 4.3.12 Released with Various Fixes, [How to Upgrade]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/virtualbox-LOGO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1928\" alt=\"virtualbox repository\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/virtualbox-LOGO.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest Virtualbox 4.3.12 has been released just days ago on May 16, 2014. The new release brings various fixes on NAT, GUI, VMM, and hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Virtualbox 4.3.12 is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and\/or added:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VMM: fixed an occasional Guru Meditation (Mac OS X hosts only)<\/li>\n<li>VMM: fixed a rare condition that would fail to invalidate guest TLB entries or would invalidate them when not required (Windows hosts only)<\/li>\n<li>VMM: fixed a\u00a0<em>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED<\/em>\u00a0Guru Meditation seen with certain guests, e.g. OpenServer 5.0.7<\/li>\n<li>VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware<\/li>\n<li>GUI: fixed mouse positioning with mouse integration disabled and multiple guest screens (Windows hosts only)<\/li>\n<li>GUI: fixed crash in VM manager<\/li>\n<li>GUI: fixed crash under rare conditions on entering\/exiting fullscreen\/seamless mode<\/li>\n<li>Shared Clipboard: don&#8217;t stop working after taking a snapshot<\/li>\n<li>AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances<\/li>\n<li>API: fixed a hang during VM shutdown under rare conditions<\/li>\n<li>NAT: fixed generation of malformed ICMP error datagrams (4.3.10 regression)<\/li>\n<li>NAT: fixed potential crash in DNS proxy<\/li>\n<li>NAT Network: don&#8217;t drop port forwarding rules after some time<\/li>\n<li>NAT: fixed ARP cache corruption and network loss in Windows guest caused by iSCSI service activity<\/li>\n<li>USB: improved check if a storage device is currently mounted to the host when the device is about to be attached to the VM (Mac OS X hosts only)<\/li>\n<li>3D support: several fixes, including better support for Ubuntu 14.04<\/li>\n<li>VRDP: fixed a potential crash on client disconnect<\/li>\n<li>VBoxSVC: fixed a race when a new client is started a few seconds after the last client terminated (Windows hosts only)<\/li>\n<li>VBoxSVC: fixed VirtualBox.xml registry corruption after VM renaming<\/li>\n<li>VBoxSVC: fixed a potential crash caused by incorrect USB device filter (Mac OS X hosts only)<\/li>\n<li>Windows hosts: partly support 32-bit COM on 64-bit systems<\/li>\n<li>Windows host installer: implemented merge module (msm) support<\/li>\n<li>Linux hosts: fixed dependency of boot script on older Debian systems<\/li>\n<li>Linux guests: fix symbolic link to shared folder helper<\/li>\n<li>Linux Additions: don&#8217;t crash VBoxService during guest execute for users without a password<\/li>\n<li>Linux Additions: fixed a bug in guest execution where the guest process terminated with\u00a0<em>VERR_INTERRUPTED<\/em>\u00a0to the host<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How to install or upgrade:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You can either get the .deb installer from the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Linux_Downloads\" title=\"Vritualbox for Linux Download page\" target=\"_blank\">Download Virtualbox for Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or get it from the official Linux repository by running the commands below one by one in a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo sh -c 'echo \"deb http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib\" >> \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/virtualbox.list'\n\nwget -q http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/debian\/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3<\/pre>\n<p>If you already have Virtualbox repository added in your system, just run the last two commands will do the job. That&#8217;s it enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Virtualbox 4.3.12 has been released just days ago on May 16, 2014. The new release brings various fixes on NAT, GUI, VMM, and hosts. Virtualbox 4.3.12 is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and\/or added: VMM: fixed an occasional Guru Meditation (Mac OS X hosts only) VMM: fixed a rare condition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[855,705],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-ubuntu-14-04","tag-virtualbox-4-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}