VirtualBox 4.1.22 released and ubuntu installation instructions included
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What is new in virtualbox 4.1.22
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts, 4.1 regression, bug #9897)
VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure (seen with Windows 8 guests)
VMM: respect RAM preallocation while restoring saved state.
VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled
Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players
USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)
RTC: fixed a potential corruption of CMOS bank 1
Mac OS X hosts: installer fixes for Leopard (4.1.20 regression)
Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)
Install VirtualBox 4.1.22 in ubuntu 12.04
Open the terminal and run the following commands
You need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following line
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise contrib
If you are running ubuntu 11.10 add the following line
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib
Save and exit the file
Now install PGP key using the following command
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add --
Update source list
sudo apt-get update
Install virtualbox
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.1
If you have problem with the above PPA you can download .deb package from here.Once you have deb package you can double click on it to install this package.
