15.48. Version 4.3.2 (2013-11-01)

Oracle VM VirtualBox

15.48. Version 4.3.2 (2013-11-01)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

  • VMM: fixed restoring of the auxiliary TSC MSR in VT-x that caused host BSODs on Windows 8.1 hosts and unpredictable behavior on other hosts (bug #12237)

  • VMM: provide fake values for a couple of MSRs to make more guests happy on certain hosts

  • VMM: fixed detection of VT-x on certain machines where the BIOS would not set the VMX LOCK feature bit, which affected the VM settings in the GUI

  • VMM: fixed TPR threshold which caused BSODs on Windows XP guests that use the I/O APIC (VT-x only; bug #12227)

  • VMM: fixed PATM saved state incompatibility for software virtualized VMs (bug #12222)

  • VMM: don't fail if AMD-V isn't available if the VM is configured to use software virtualization

  • GUI: fixed guest resize breakage on visual representation mode change (when switching from normal to full screen etc)

  • GUI: make sure the guest screen is resized after restoring a VM from a saved state if the host screen size changed

  • GUI: disabled SCROLL LED sync from HID LEDs synchronization (Mac OS X hosts only)

  • Webcam passthrough improvements including GUI support (see Section 9.7.1, “Using a host webcam in the guest”)

  • Guest Control: implemented more IGuestSession methods

  • Guest Control: added support for deleting and renaming guest files + directories in VBoxManage

  • Guest Control: various bugfixes

  • API: incorrect handling of hardware UUID default value, resulting in an all zero DMI/SMBIOS UUID, which leads to Windows requesting re-activation (4.3 regression; bug #12244)

  • 3D support: fixed crash on shutdown if 2D video acceleration is enabled (Mac OS X hosts only)

  • 3D support: miscellaneous fixes

  • Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty to a host drive with passthrough enabled

  • Storage: fixed hang of the VM process when the disk is full under certain circumstances

  • NAT: listen for changes of NAT Network setting at runtime

  • NAT: NAT Network DHCP server now saves leases to a persistent storage

  • Main: monitor changes in host DNS configuration

  • Mac OS X host: reworked a mechanism of adding a VM desktop alias from the VM selector

  • Mac OS X installer: remove old kernel extensions during upgrade (bug #12258)

  • Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing (bug #12166)

  • X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503, thank you Sam Spilsbury)

  • X11 Additions/3D: fix depth buffer support (bug #11905)

  • X11 Additions/3D: fix Age Of Empires 3 rendering (bug #11331)

  • Windows Additions/3D: fix Google Earth plugin rendering

  • Windows Additions/WDDM: autoresize fixes