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VirtualBox updated to 4.0.10

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VirtualBox, an open source x86 virtualization project available for free has just hit version 4.0.10. The new version, a 82.8 megabyte download, sports the following list of fixes and changes:

– GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809).

– Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images.

– Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983).

– Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant (for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227).

– Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot.

– USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580).

– USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests (partial fix for bug #8978).

– ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others).

– RDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977).

– rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0.

– OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK file was not written during export.

– Lion fixes (bug #8903).

– GNOME 3 fix.

VirtualBox 4.0.10 is available for free and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later and an Intel-based Mac to install and run.

If you’ve tried the new version and have any feedback, please let us know.