The VirtualBox development team has just released version 4.2.12, and it is now available for download. This is a maintenance release for version 4.2 and contains the following fixes.VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation on putting Linux guest CPU online if nested paging is disabled VMM: invalidate TLB entries even for non-present pages GUI: Multi-screen support: fixed a crash on visual-mode change GUI: Multi-screen support: disabled guest-screens should now remain disabled on visual-mode change GUI: Multi-screen support: handle host/guest screen plugging/unplugging in different visual-modes GUI: Multi-screen support: seamless mode: fixed a bug when empty seamless screens were represented by fullscreen windows GUI: Multi-screen support: each machine window in multi-screen configuration should have correct menu-bar now (Mac OS X hosts) GUI: Multi-screen support: machine window View menu should have correct content in seamless/fullscreen mode now (Mac OS X hosts) GUI: VM manager: vertical scroll-bars should be now updated on content/window resize GUI: VM settings: fixed crash on machine state-change event GUI: don't show warnings about enabled or disabled mouse integration if the VM was restored from a saved state Virtio-net: properly announce that the guest has to handle partial TCP checksums Storage: Fixed incorrect alignment of VDI images causing disk size changes when using snapshots Audio: fixed broken ALSA & PulseAudio on some Linux hosts due to invalid symbol resolution PS/2 keyboard: re-apply keyboard repeat delay and rate after a VM was restored from a saved state BIOS: updated DMI processor information table (type 4): corrected L1 & L2 cache table handles Timekeeping: fix several issues which can lead to incorrect time, Solaris guests sporadically showed time going briefly back to Jan 1 1970 Main/Metrics: disk metrics are collected properly when software RAID, symbolic links or rootfs are used on Linux hosts VBoxManage: don't stay paused after a snapshot was created and the VM was running before VBoxManage: introduced controlvm nicpromisc VBoxManage: don't crash on controlvm guestmemoryballoon if the VM isn't running VBoxHeadless: don't filter guest property events as this would affect all clients Guest control: prevent double CR in the output generated by guest commands and do NLS conversion Linux hosts / guests: fixed build errors on Linux 3.5 and newer kernels if the CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS config option is enabled Linux Additions: handle fall-back to VESA driver on RedHat-based guests if vboxvideo cannot be loaded Linux Additions: RHEL/OEL/CentOS 6.4 compile fix Linux Additions: Debian Linux kernel 3.2.0-4 (3.2.39) compile fix Linux Additions: added auto-logon support for Linux guests using LightDM as the display manager Windows Additions: Support for multimonitor. Dynamic enable/disable of secondary virtual monitors. Support for XPDM/WDDM based guests X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.14
The full changelog can be found here.
You can download binaries for Solaris, Linux, Windows and MacOS hosts at
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
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