Download VirtualBox 4.3.26

Oracle has released version 4.3.26 of VirtualBox. VirtualBox can be used to install other operating systems in a virtual environment on a computer. In this way it is possible to use different operating systems on the same hardware side by side and at the same time. VirtualBox is available for Windows XP and above, OS X, Linux, and Solaris, and is capable of many guest operating systems to turn.

In version 4.3 of VirtualBox, the complete virtualization code has been rewritten, among other things, which has fixed several problems and also shows several performance improvements. There is also video capture and support for ipv6, various virtual machines running on the same computer can now communicate with each other via the internal network and there is support for multi-touch screens. This fourteenth update also includes the following improvements:

The following items were fixed and/or added:

• GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against wrong host time (bug #13955†
• NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network (4.3.24 regression; bugs #13915† #13918†
• NAT Network: don’t delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on Windows hosts
• Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare conditions if no Guest Additions are installed (4.3.24 regression; bug #13935†
• Storage: if the guest ejects a virtual CD/DVD medium, make the change permanent (bugs #9858† #12885†
• VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests
• SDK: fixed the VirtualBox.tlb file (4.3.20 regression; bug #13943†
• rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again (4.3.14 regression; bug #13901†
• USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions
• iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628†
• Mac OS X hosts: don’t panic on hosts with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later; bug #13951†
• Linux hosts: don’t crash Linux 4.0 hosts (bug #13835†