VirtualBox 4.3.6 released and ubuntu installation instructions included
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What is new in virtualbox 4.3.6
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451)
VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410)
VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481)
VMM: fixed a VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC error when trying to load a saved state made with VBox 4.3.4 when VT-x/AMD-V is disabled. Unfortunately, VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard these states (bug #12414)
VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests (bug #12245)
GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression, bug #12205)
GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors (bug #12480)
Main: don't automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if VT-x/AMD-V is not available (bug #12424)
Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests (bug #12017)
Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change (bug #7063)
Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp() (bug #12498)
API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes due to GUI unavailability
Storage: fix for BLKCACHE_IOERR runtime errors under rare circumstances (bug #11030)
Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426)
E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized the device, the link status was not properly set to ‘down' after the initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection
3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina hosts only; bug #11021)
Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones (4.3 regression, bug #12271)
Install VirtualBox 4.3.6 on ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10
Open the terminal and run the following commands
You need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
For ubuntu 13.10 users add the following line
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian saucy contrib
For ubuntu 13.04 users add the following line
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian raring contrib
For ubuntu 12.10 users add the following line
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian quantal contrib
If you are running ubuntu 12.04 add the following line
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise 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-4.3
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.
