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VirtualBox 4.2.8 Build 83876

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    VirtualBox 7.1.4 Build 165100

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    Windows XP / XP64 / Vista / Vista64 / Windows 7 / Windows 7 64 / Windows 8 / Windows 8 64

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  • Filename

    VirtualBox-4.2.8-83876-Win.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    023cb28986449add05f4c37bf0d3ea1d

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What's new in this version:

- VMM: fixed guest crash with huge amount of guest RAM on VT-x hosts
- GUI: not all the translation tags were taken into account during the language switch
- GUI: take-guest-screenshot dialog sometimes had no keyboard input available on Windows host
- Main/Machine: fix generation of spurious event for inaccessible VMs which triggered an endless event generation loop in cooperation with the GUI which became unresponsive
- Main/Display: fix for an access violation under certain conditions in multi-monitor configurations
- Main/Metrics: network metrics are now collected for active (up) interfaces only, the state of an interface being evaluated when the associated metric is enabled via setupMetrics
- Snapshots: reduce the time for merging snapshots under certain conditions
- Storage: fixed data corruption after resizing a VDI image under certain circumstances
- Storage: fixed non working online merging of snapshots
- Storage: fixed crash when connecting to certain QNAP iSCSI targets
- Storage: fixed incompatibility of VHD differencing images with Hyper-V
- Bridged Networking: fixed TCP pseudo header checksum computation for IPv6
- 3D support: fix Battlefield 1942 game crashes
- Settings: really sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file, the code was disabled before
- Settings: allow to change VRDE settings for saved VMs
- VBoxManage: don’t crash during screenshotpng if there is no display
- VM startup when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is enabled
- Guest Additions: don’t block signals for processes executed via guest control
- Guest Additions: fixed a small memory leak in VBoxService
- Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issue with large reads/writes on 64 bit Windows guests