{"id":497,"date":"2011-02-19T01:14:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T23:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sfsoft.it\/?p=497"},"modified":"2011-02-19T01:14:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T23:14:40","slug":"virtualbox-4-0-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfsoft.it\/blog\/2011\/02\/19\/virtualbox-4-0-4\/","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox 4.0.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VirtualBox 4.0.4 (released 2011-02-17)<\/p>\n<p>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and\/or added:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions (bugs #8255, #8319 and further)<\/li>\n<li>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)<\/li>\n<li>VMM: fixed timing issues \/ hangs for certain guests using the programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)<\/li>\n<li>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots (bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)<\/li>\n<li>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum number of host network interfaces<\/li>\n<li>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing snapshot (bug #8145)<\/li>\n<li>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)<\/li>\n<li>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in the users home directory (bug #8017)<\/li>\n<li>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be  restricted by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only;  bug #7878)<\/li>\n<li>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID (4.0 regression; bug #8342)<\/li>\n<li>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused<\/li>\n<li>VBoxManage: fixed modifyvm &#8211;synthcpu (bug #6577)<\/li>\n<li>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing guestcontrol execute \u2013wait-for exit and displaying process status on exit (bug #8235)<\/li>\n<li>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during guestcontrol execute \u2013wait-for exit\/stdout while waiting for the guest process to terminate (bug #7872)<\/li>\n<li>VBoxManage: fixed list hostdvds\/host\ufb02oppies<\/li>\n<li>VBoxManage: fixed storageattach for host DVD drives and host \ufb02oppy drives<\/li>\n<li>Metrics: introduced RAM\/VMM base metric.<\/li>\n<li>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot (bug #7966)<\/li>\n<li>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start<\/li>\n<li>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)<\/li>\n<li>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)<\/li>\n<li>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium attachments (bug #8129)<\/li>\n<li>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)<\/li>\n<li>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)<\/li>\n<li>Host-Only &amp; Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)<\/li>\n<li>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)<\/li>\n<li>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)<\/li>\n<li>ACPI: don\u2019t allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don\u2019t announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)<\/li>\n<li>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly  to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode (bug #8122)<\/li>\n<li>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)<\/li>\n<li>ATA\/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend\/resume<\/li>\n<li>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs<\/li>\n<li>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission (bug #1548)<\/li>\n<li>Linux hosts\/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes<\/li>\n<li>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)<\/li>\n<li>Solaris\/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap<\/li>\n<li>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart (bug #8231)<\/li>\n<li>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha.<\/li>\n<li>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login.<\/li>\n<li>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older VirtualBox versions can\u2019t handle.<\/li>\n<li>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if a host link is not readable (bug #8185)<\/li>\n<li>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS) with VBoxGINA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Links per il download<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Downloads\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Downloads<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VirtualBox 4.0.4 (released 2011-02-17) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and\/or added: VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions (bugs #8255, #8319 and further) VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938) VMM: fixed timing issues \/ hangs for certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103,47],"tags":[104,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfsoft.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfsoft.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfsoft.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfsoft.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfsoft.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfsoft.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfsoft.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfsoft.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfsoft.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfsoft.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}