Also includes compile support for Linux kernel 3.4 RC1

Apr 3, 2012 07:32 GMT  ·  By

Oracle announced yesterday, April 2nd, the immediate availability for download of the popular VirtualBox 4.1.12 virtualization software.

Even if it is not mentioned in the official changelog, VirtualBox 4.1.12 is now distributed as 32-bit and 64-bit .deb packages for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system from Canonical.

Another important fix for Linux users is that VirtualBox 4.1.12 brings better compilation support for the recently released Linux kernel 3.4 RC1.

Among other important fixes and improvements included in this release of VirtualBox we can mention various locking fixes on VBoxSVC, crash fixes for VBoxService on Guest Additions, a socket leak was fixed for NAT, NUL audio backend crash fixed, better Math Fault handling for VMM, as well as a couple of other VMM fixes, one of them related to SMP guests. Download VirtualBox 4.1.12 for Linux right now from Softpedia.

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