Upgraded VirtualBox, Extension Pack & Linux Guest Additions to 4.2.18

 

Today (9/10/2013) VirtualBox popped saying new version (4.2.18) of VirtualBox is available for download.

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.18/VirtualBox-4.2.18-88781-Win.exe

After install of new version, VirtualBox suggested to upgrade extension pack as well to 4.2.18.

http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.2.18/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.18.vbox-extpack

Once above two upgrades were done, I started my guest VM, it prompted “new version (4.2.18) of guest additions is available to install”. Installed using the sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

 

 

Change log: VirtualBox 4.2.18 (released 2013-09-06)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: properly handle NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled
• VMM: fixed potential crashes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #11979)
• GUI / seamless: properly handle mouse wheel scroll events
• GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)
• GUI: prevent crashes under certain conditions on X11 hosts
• 3D: multiscreen fixes (incorrect mouse position, flickers)
• 3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver (multiscreen, seamless)
• Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)
• Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)
• VBoxManage: on snapshot take, --pause is default and --live is for doing live snapshots
• VBoxSVC: don't crash on systems with many VLAN interfaces (Solaris hosts only)
• Network: after the host resumes from suspend, disconnect and reconnect the virtual network cables to force renewing the DHCP leases for the guests. So far only Mac OS X hosts and Windows hosts (bug #10063).
• NAT: on name server changes force a reconnect of the virtual network cable to notify the guest (Mac OS X hosts only)
• Mac OS X installer: keep previously installed Extension Packs on VirtualBox upgrade
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.11 fixes (bug #12001)
• Solaris hosts: fixed a potential kernel panic caused due to unexpected preemption due to logging.
• Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible when plugged into USB3 ports.
• Linux Additions: added PCI device identifier to vboxvideo.ko fixing DRI initialization under certain conditions (bug #11957)
• Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script with Linux 3.x kernels