Please do
NOT use this VirtualBox Beta release on production machines. A VirtualBox Beta release should be considered a bleeding-edge release meant for early evaluation and testing purposes.
You can download the binaries
here.
Please do NOT open bug reports at
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker but use our
VirtualBox Beta Feedback forum to report any problems with the Beta. Please concentrate on reporting
regressions since VirtualBox 3.2.12 / VirtualBox 4.0.0 Beta 3.
Note: As of version 4.0, VirtualBox introduces the
Extension Pack mechanism which allows Oracle and 3rd parties to deliver additional functionality on top of the standard Open Source product. The
Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack, adds support for USB 2.0, RDP server and the PXE bootloader with E1000 support.
You can download this Pack from the same location and install it via the VirtualBox
Global Settings using the
Extensions pane.
This is the third beta of the upcoming 4.0 release. The following items were added/fixed since
VirtualBox 4.0.0 Beta 3:
- Audio: fixed memory corruption under certain circumstances
- 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for Windows 2000 guests
- Settings: modifying VM session could lose disk attachments (4.0 Beta 3 regression)
- OVA: fixed crash during import
- GUI: better OS type string matching
- GUI: fixed redraw problem on X11 guests with multiple monitors attached (Mac OS X hosts only)
- GUI: remember last directory in file dialogs
- Settings: fixed .vbox file format portability issue with snapshots (backslashes)
- ExtPacks: fixed installation on certain Linux hosts (e.g. openSUSE)
- ExtPacks: require sudo for installation on Linux and Solaris hosts
- Storage: fixed possible crash during suspend
- Storage: fixed raw disk access on OS X
- Storage: lower the CPU usage for low disk I/O bandwidth limits
- Storage: added multi-attachment image mode for shared disk clusters
- Storage: fixed SATA activity LED handling
- 2D: fixed seamless mode when 2D is on for Mac hosts
- Additions: fixed incompatibility with SLED 11
