Install Virtualbox 4.3.16 in Linux Ubuntu, Debian, Opensuse, Ubuntu, Fedora And Derivatives
Install Virtualbox 4.3.16 in Linux Ubuntu, Debian, Opensuse, Ubuntu, Fedora And Derivatives
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs (bug #12646; 4.3 regression)
- GUI: properly restore normal/scale mode guest-screen size after exiting full-screen/seamless mode
- GUI: mini-toolbar should provoke less artifacts/conflicts with 3D guest rendering
- GUI: Mac OS X: Native full-screen multi-screen transition was able to blackout host-screens for nearly minute
- GUI: X11: Modern window managers should now use native full-screen multi-screen mapping API
- GUI: added extradata item for configuring the mouse capture behavior, see the manual for more information (bug #3506)
- Storage: fixed a VBoxSVC crash when querying an iSCSI target with authentication configured (4.3.14 regression)
- Storage: fixed a rare data corruption during reads if another allocating write is running concurrently and accesses the same range
- Storage: fixed a rare crash for certain VHD images from other products
- Storage: fixed a rare release assertion when using the AHCI controller
- Floppy: fixed read errors and guest memory corruption when running under control of QEMM
- 3D: added experimental support for rendering on offline GPUs for Mac OS X host
- 3D: fixed white window appearing on entering FullScreen mode on OSX host
- 3D: fixed video recording support for 3D data regression (bug #13073)
- 3D: fixes for MS Office 2013 support
- 3D: several fixes
- Bridged Networking: improved IPv6 support when bridging to a wireless interface
- NAT: prevent internal DNS service from stuck in host-resolver mode when host was switched from one network to another one while host was sleeping (Mac OS X hosts)
- NAT: preserve DF (if possible) and TOS when proxying outbound UDP datagrams (bugs #9440, #12309)
- NAT: don't let multicast datagrams out (bug #7338)
- NAT: fixed handling of large incoming UDP datagrams on Windows hosts (bug #12136)
- NAT: fixed handling of the RFC 1533 DHCP PAD option
- NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Windows hosts
- NAT Network: preserve IPv4 DF (if possible), TTL, TOS and IPv6 Hop Limit when proxying outbound UDP datagrams
- VRDP: fixed a rare crash when using remote audio input
- USB: fixed several regressions from 4.3.14 (bug #13320)
- Audio: made the HDA sound emulation work with certain OSX guests (e.g. Mountain Lion)
- Windows hosts: fixed startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software (4.3.14 regression, bug #13187)
- Windows hosts: fixed 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)
- X11 hosts: made the extra key on Brazilian Thinkpads work (bug #8745)
- X11 hosts: fixed a problem of input focus cycles and immediately released key presses in full screen mode (bug #13238)
- Linux hosts: fixed flooding the kernel log with USB related messages when passing through certain USB devices to a VM (bug #13085)
- Linux guests: stop applications crashing when drm_wait_vblank is called (bug #13265)
- Linux guests: fix a crash in gnome-session (bug #13335)
- X11 guests: do not start VBoxClient over an SSH connection (bug #13107)
- X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.16 (bug #13207)
- X11 guests: fixed a wrong parameter in the video driver which caused problems with full-screen X11 clients (bug #2748)
- VirtualKD: introduced stub/loader device for speeding up Windows kernel debugging, details see http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/
How to install Virtualbox 4.3.16 on Ubuntu 14.04, Pinguy OS 14.04, LXLE 14.04, Linux Mint 17, Linux Lite 2.0, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five and Elementary OS 0.3:
- sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian trusty contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
- wget 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
How to install Virtualbox 4.3.16 on Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13, Pinguy OS 12.04 and Elementary OS 0.2 :
- sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
- wget 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
How to install Virtualbox 4.3.16 on Debian Wheezy:
- sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wheezy contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
- wget 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
Optional, to remove Virtualbox 4.3.16, from either Ubuntu, Debian or a derivative system, do:
- sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-4.3
How to install Virtualbox 4.3.16 on OpenSUSE 13.1 and OpenSUSE 12.3:
- cd /etc/zypp/repos.d/
- sudo wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/12.3/virtualbox.repo
- sudo zypper refresh
- sudo zypper virtualbox-4.3
Optional, to remove Virtualbox 4.3.16 from OpenSUSE systems, do:
- sudo zypper remove virtualb0x-4.3
How to install Virtualbox 4.3.16 on Fedora 20 and Fedora 19:
- cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
- sudo wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
- sudo yum update
- sudo yum install virtualbox-4.3
Optional, to remove Virtualbox 4.3.16 from Fedora systems, do:
- sudo yum remove virtualb0x-4.3
