Download VirtualBox 1.6.4

InnoTek, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems earlier this year, has updated Virtualbox to version 1.6.4. This program can be used to install another operating system on a computer in a virtual environment. Virtualbox runs under Windows 2000 and higher, Mac OS X, Linux and Opensolaris and can handle a large number of guest operating systems.

The software is available in two different versions. The full version has more functionality, such as support for USB ports and remote display protocol, but is free for private use and evaluation purposes only. This functionality is closed source and is missing in the other version: the open source edition. More information about both versions is available this page to find. In Virtualbox 1.6.4 the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in VirtualBox 1.6.4:

• AMD-V, VT-x: stability fixes
• Shared Folders: fixed host crash (Solaris host only, bugs #1336, #1646)
• Shared Folders: fixed BSOD when debugging with Visual Studio (bug #1627)
• Shared Folders: fixed BSOD when compiling on a shared folder (bug #1683)
• Shared Folders: several fixes/stability improvements
• SATA: fixed a race that could cause an occasional Windows guest system hang
• SATA: fixed spurious BIOS log messages
• Networking: fixed NIC tracing with NAT interfaces (bug #1790)
• USB: fixed crash under certain conditions when unplugging a USB device (bug #1295)
• Settings: fixed bug when converting 1.5.x settings
• RDP: fixed enabling the RDP server during runtime
• RDP: properly detect the rdesktop 1.6.0 RDP client
• RDP: fixed RDP crash (bug #1521)
• RDP: updated modified rdesktop client to version 1.6.0
• GUI: NLS improvements
• BIOS: added SMBIOS header to make Solaris and Vista recognize the DMI data
• ACPI: properly hide a disabled floppy controller
• VMM: small fixes to protected mode without paging
• VMDK: fixed handling of .vmdk images without UUIDs
• Windows hosts: fixed driver parameter validation issue in VBoxDrv.sys that could allow an attacker on the host to crash the system
• Windows hosts: installer now contains web service examples mentioned in the manual
• Linux hosts: properly deregister the Linux kernel module before uninstalling a Linux deb/rpm package
• Linux hosts: kernel module now works with Linux 2.6.27
• Linux hosts: fixed a typo in the vboxnet setup script for host network interfaces (bug #1714)
• Linux hosts: fixed usage of tar in installer (bug #1767)
• Linux hosts: fixed long guest shutdown time when serial port is enabled
• Solaris hosts: refuse to install in Sun xVM hypervisor dom0
• Solaris hosts: accept Solaris raw disks when for raw disk access
• Windows additions: made installation of shared folders more robust
• Windows additions: improved installation
• Linux additions: accept every user-defined guest video mode in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
• Linux additions: fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions (eg openSUSE 11)

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