Setelah sebuah rilis versi beta dan empat (4) RC, akhirnya VirtualBox 4.2.0 stable dirilis hari ini. Beberapa highlight penting dari VirtualBox 4.2.0 kali ini adlah mendukung proses menjalankan VM saat booting Linux, kemampuan drag n drop dan kemampuan dukungan untuk Windows 8. VirtualBox pada akhirnya memperkenalkan pula fitur grouping VM, yang ketinggalan dari para kompetitornya (menurut saya).
Beberapa perubahan yang diusung pada VirtualBox 4.2.0:
- Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes
- GUI: VM groups
- GUI: expert mode for wizards
- GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime
- Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an ICH9 chipset configuration
- Added support for limiting network IO bandwidth
- Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux, OS X and Solaris
- Added experimental support for Drag’n’drop from the host to Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is also planned
- Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts
- Enhanced API for controlling the guest
- Support for recent VIA CPUs and FlushByASID features of AMD CPUs
- Allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content
- Allow automatically sorting of the VM list
- Allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI
- Implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode
- Added support for QED images, QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly support for v2 images) and readonly support for VHDX images
Download
Download disini via VirtualBox.org