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VirtualBox 4.0.8 is released!

Written by anuradha.shukla on May 17, 2011. Posted in Software

Oracle released VirtualBox 4.0.8, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.0. It improves stability and fixes regressions. Important bugs were fixed in this release, for 3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15, Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X versions in 64-bit mode, for more information check the changelog.

Installation:

For Ubuntu and LinuxMint, open terminal and enter the following commands

sudo -v
echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0

If you don`t want to install virtualbox from repository download the following .deb packages from this Link.

- For Other Linux distribution, download the packages from this Link.

For installation of extension pack, please check our previous post.

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Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* fedora: http://ftp.sun.ac.za
* rpmfusion-free: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com
* rpmfusion-free-updates: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com
* rpmfusion-nonfree: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com
* rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com
* updates: http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package VirtualBox-4.0.i686 0:4.0.8_71778_fedora14-1 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================================================================
Updating:
VirtualBox-4.0 i686 4.0.8_71778_fedora14-1 virtualbox 53 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================
Upgrade 1 Package(s)

Total download size: 53 M
Downloading Packages:
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
Processing delta metadata
Package(s) data still to download: 53 M
VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.8_71778_fedora14-1.i686.rpm | 53 MB 13:39
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Updating : VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.8_71778_fedora14-1.i686 1/2

Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!

No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.

Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ]
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS [FAILED]
(Failed, trying without DKMS)
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Cleanup : VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.6_71344_fedora14-1.i686 2/2

Updated:
VirtualBox-4.0.i686 0:4.0.8_71778_fedora14-1

Complete!

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KingDan

I get this message when I try the above. When I use the instructions from the virtualbox website it is quite similar. Regardless, I have it installed and running.

W: Failed to fetch http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/katya/contrib/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
- pirat9
  
  Download it manually from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.8/
  - HardDrive
    
    I’m having the same problem as KingDan. And, unfortunately, you can’t get automatic updates if you download and install the deb. On Mint 11 I’ve tried tried with the Natty and Maverick packages and neither work.
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