VirtualBox 4.3.18 released and ubuntu installation instructions included
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What is new in virtualbox 4.3.18
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed a potential misbehavior after restoring the A20 state from a saved state
GUI: fixed full-screen mode mini-toolbar related regressions for different platforms and window managers (bug #13369)
GUI: X11: fixed full-screen mode Unity panels quirk caused by mini-toolbar code changes in last release (bug #13365)
GUI: X11: added possibility to use legacy full-screen mode as the new one can cause multi-screen issues under Unity, see the manual for more information (bug #13365)
GUI: Mac OS X: fixed full-screen mode artifact causing black screen when 3D acceleration was enabled on 10.10 Yosemite hosts (bug #13448)
GUI: Mac OS X: fixed regression in user-space swiping from/to VBox in full-screen mode
GUI: Mac OS X: fixed issue with switching to VBox in full-screen mode through Alt+Tab and Mission Control
Storage: fixed data corruption when resizing huge VHD images under certain circumstances (bug #11960)
Storage: fixed a rare hang during startup when the BIOS enumerates the storage devices attached to the SATA controller
Storage: follow the spec with AHCI interrupt acknowledge (bug #13474)
Storage: fixed broken iSCSI authentication (4.3.14 regression, bugs #13386, #13435)
NAT Network: properly parse port forwarding rules to allow UDP rules
USB: fixed a crash on Linux hosts with older Linux kernels (bug #13400) and several other fixes
ACPI: fixed ACPI timer anomalies (bug #12076)
Guest Control: fixed a memory leak (bug #13434)
Main: when removing a VM, do also remove the VBoxStartup.log file which might exist on Windows hosts (bug #13478)
Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)
Windows hosts: propagate the process startup information to the child process (4.3.14 regression; bug #13243)
Mac OS X hosts: don't force using the discrete GPU (bug #11111)
Windows Additions: some Windows 10 tweaks
X11 guests: fix a bug handling video driver display properties which prevented GNOME Shell on Fedora 21 from starting
Linux hosts / guests: fixed a few remaining warnings in the kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)
Install VirtualBox 4.3.18 on ubuntu 14.04/13.10/13.04/12.10
Open the terminal and run the following commands
You need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
For ubuntu 14.04 users add the following line
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian trusty contrib
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.
