Virtual Box Updated (v.4.1.4)

Virtual box has been updated to version 4.1.4. It has seen a couple updates since I last blogged about it, but things have been crazy around here and I haven’t gotten around to blogging about it. For those of you who don’t know, Virtual Box is a great way to run Windows on a Mac. You can also run other operating systems if you choose to do so, and all within a “virtual box” running on your Mac. Download the latest version from the Box File Widget (I had to break it up into parts) or from their homepage. The following is a list of the changes from the changelog.

• VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression; bug #9458)
• VMM: fixed INVALID_PARAMETER guru meditation caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)
• VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during stos/lods/ins/outs emulation under rare circumstances
• VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs
• GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow to download and upgrade in that case (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8025″>#8025)
• GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts (4.0.6 regression; bug fixed in 1.4.2, comment 34 … (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/373″>#373)
• VBoxManage: another fix for extpack install –replace (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9308″>#9308)
• VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in convertfromraw
• VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9503″>#9503)
• VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9242″>#9242)
• USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9298″>#9298); bugfixes for Windows host USB support
• VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8532″>#8532)
• VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK images
• Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums (Windows hosts only)
• Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7941″>#7941)
• Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and resetting of immutable disks (bug Fixed … (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9549″>#9549)
• Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot restore operation (bug #8296)
• Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug #9387)
• Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using snapshots (bug #8932)
• Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active
• Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU (bug 1KB (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9370″>#9370)
• 3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching to/from fullscreen with enabled 2D acceleration
• 3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10
• Guest control: Miscellaneous small bugfixes
• Linux / Solaris hosts: don’t use hard links in packages (4.1.2 regression; bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9441″>#9441)
• Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root (bug #1578)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only interfaces (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8076″>#8076)
• Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based bridged networking (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9532″>#9532)
• Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9535″>#9535)
• Windows hosts installer: fixed ADDLOCAL usage on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)
• Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm help file (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9646″>#9646)
• Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)
• Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate console window (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3549″>#3549)
• Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)
• Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug fixed as … (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9519″>#9519)
• Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug fixed as of 29 Sep. 2011 (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9627″>#9627)
• Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1 (bug … (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6229″>#6229)
• Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)
• Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting (from console) and unmounting shared folders.
• Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates (4.1.0 regression; bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9447″>#9447)
• Windows Additions: fixed PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9508″>#9508)
• Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)
• Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)
• Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)
• Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from fullscreen text mode apps (bug Fixed in SVN. (closed)” href=”https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9636″>#9636)