VirtualBox 4.1.12

Met VirtualBox kun je in een gastbesturingssysteem een ander besturingssysteem (os) virtueel draaien. Handig om Linux vanuit Windows uit te proberen bijvoorbeeld. Of om de gratis proefversie van Windows 8 in te testen.

VirtualBox 4.1.12 is een onderhoudsupdate waarin diverse kleine verbeteringen en reparaties worden doorgevoerd.

Lees hieronder alle technische details over de wijzigingen in VirtualBox. VirtualBox is beschikbaar voor Windows, Mac OS X en Linux.

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

• VMM: fixed VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED and VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP guru meditation due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)
• VMM: fixed PDMCritSectLeave guru meditation under rare circumstances with SMP guests
• VMM: proper Math Fault handling with certain legacy guests (bug #9042)
• NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions
• Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file
• Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374; 4.1.10 regression)
• HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances
• VBoxSVC: several locking fixes
• VBoxManage: return the correct error code if controlvm savestate failed (bug #10134)
• Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326; 4.1.10 regression)
• Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is closed (bug #6473)
• Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not properly installed
• Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes