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[B]VirtualBox 3.2.6[/B]

WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.2.6:
• VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166)
• VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only; does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it)
• VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)
• VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)
• Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964)
• Teleportation: several fixes and improvements
• Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix
• EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM assigned
• GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)
• GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if multiple screens are enabled
• GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)
• GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #693
• GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts again (bug #7022).
• 2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode (bug #676
• VBoxManage: fixed storageattach error handling (bug #6927)
• VBoxManage: fixed dhcpserver add (3.2.0 regression; bug #7031)
• Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which don't support async I/O (bug #6905)
• Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6987)
• LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests
• BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O
• SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle 30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)
• SATA: performance improvement
• SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows installation (bug #5101)
• iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)
• Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6872)
• NAT: fixed potential memory leaks
• NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames (performance tweak)
• NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM is currently paused
• E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC was not yet initialized by the guest
• OVF: export performance optimization
• OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7 and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export
• Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes not properly saved
• Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)
• USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port
• USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)
• POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)
• Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances (IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)
• Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)


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Version 3.2.8:
VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings
GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)
GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #6809)
3D support: fixed GL_EXT_texture_sRGB support
PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression
OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)
USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status changes
USB: respect the remote-only filter
USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of certain devices (Windows hosts only)
USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)
PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature
PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs
PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests
Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled
Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on bridged device (bug #7059)
Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)
Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup (bug #6832)
BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer guests
LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances
Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs without external tools and tricks
Shared folders: several fixes and performance enhancements for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)
Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations
Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)
Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on shutdown
RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability fixes
Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)
VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly in subcommand openmedium disk (bug #6751)
Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
Web service: added timestamps to logging output
Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII
X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)

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3.2.10

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

VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386 (3.2.8 regression)
VMM: stability fix (bug 7342)
VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug 7300)
VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts
VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with nested paging (bug 7544)
VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than 2 GB RAM (bug 692
GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt (Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug 675
GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar (bug 4952)
GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug 6122)
GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard
GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed (Linux hosts only)
OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default
Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI images (3.2.6 regression; bug 7294)
Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug 7289)
Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was canceled
IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs (bug 3494)
SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests
SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better
iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection
VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain circumstances (bug 7291)
VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes
Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown (Linux hosts only)
NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering a file via bootp (bug 7384)
NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug 713
NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load (non-Windows hosts only)
VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug 5966)
VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain circumstances
USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some printers
USB: Blackberry fix (bug 6465)
VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to hangs if the VM could not be started successfully
VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters are passed (bug 738
VBoxManage: clonehd: fixed a bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare circumstances
VBoxManage: metrics: made it work for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug 7482)
3D support: report GLX_ARB_get_proc_address as supported extension
3D support: guest application stack corruption when using glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug 7395)
3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to fullscreen/seamless modes (bug 7314)
3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug 7066)
OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks (bug 7366)
OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug 3719)
OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no longer verified on import nor written on export
Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug 5266)
Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an invalid encoding exist on the host (bug 7349)
Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug 7004)
Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the NULL audio backend (bug 6911)
Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy) (bug 6816)
Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads
Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing more than one environment variable
Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService after the VM was restored from a saved state
Additions: fixed a division by zero crash of VBoxService under certain circumstances
Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug 401
Additions/Windows: fixed LsaEnumerate error when enumerating logged in users
Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug 7306)
Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot
Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10
Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data in the event of a VM crash
Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection
Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using the wrong user or group IDs (bug 7295)
Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on 32-bit guests (bug 7324)
Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug 744
Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes
Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug 5817)
Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug 7392)

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Virtualbox 4.0
[CODE]Version 4.0.0:
Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see chapter 1.5, Installing VirtualBox and extension packs, see the manual for more information
New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see chapter 10.1, Where VirtualBox stores its files, see the manual for more information
Major rework of the GUI (now called “VirtualBox Manager”):
Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)
New “scale” display mode with scaled guest display; see chapter 1.8.5, Resizing the machine’s window, see the manual for more information
Support for creating and starting .vbox desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)
The VM list is now sortable
Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved states, and optionally including attached disk images (bug #5511; also, VBoxManage unregistervm --delete can do the same now)
Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)
VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts
New virtual hardware:
Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI); see chapter 3.4.1, “Motherboard” tab, see the manual for more information
Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems (e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)
Improvements to OVF support (see chapter 1.12, Importing and exporting virtual machines, see the manual for more information):
Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support
Significant performance improvements during export and import
Creation of the manifest file on export is optional now
Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK
Resource control: added support for limiting a VM’s CPU time and IO bandwidth; see chapter 5.8, Limiting bandwidth for disk images, see the manual for more information
Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and Parallels images
Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see chapter 8.21, VBoxManage modifyhd, see the manual for more information.
Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later
Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local (COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts (applies to nested paging only)
VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)
VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only, non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)
GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode (bug #1657)
GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore
GUI: certain GUI warnings don’t stop the VM output anymore
GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #5449)
BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain guests (e.g. Solaris)
Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network (Linux hosts only; bug #7792)
3D support: allow use of CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH again (bug #6864)
3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659, #5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)
3D support: guest application stack corruption when using glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)
3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9
3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty
2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support
VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration
VRDP: support for upstream audio
Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash
NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime
SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough (bug #705
Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)
Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare circumstances
Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug #557
EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs
BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function #4F01 (Quake fix)
OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks
Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug #6760)
Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)
Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX set
Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #81
Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one file
Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.[/CODE]

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[COLOR=#4A4A4A][FONT=Helvetica]Importante versione (4.2.1) per chi ha 10.8.2

The OS X 10.8.2 release includes some incompatible changes which require adaptions in VirtualBox. Therefore the original 4.2 build was replaced by a 4.2.1 build.[/FONT][/COLOR]

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads