VirtualBox v4.0.0 Beta 2 Released

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VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=36893

Changes :

This is the second beta of the upcoming 4.0 release. The following items were added/fixed since VirtualBox 4.0.0 Beta 1:

* ExtPacks: show a confirmation dialog before installing an extpack
* ICH9 chipset: fix Windows detection of the 82801IB host bridge
* Linux hosts: fixed a wrong dependency to libstdc++5 in the Oracle ExtPack for 32-bit Linux which prevented to install that package on recent Linux distributions
* Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which prevented to install ExtPacks at all
* Linux/Solaris hosts: fixed the changelog in VirtualBox.chm (4.0 Beta 1 regression)
* Audio/HDA: fixed issue with Ubuntu 10.10 guests and OpenSolaris guests
* Audio/HDA: fixed choppy sound of Windows guests
* GUI: fixed display of the file shortcuts on some older Window Manager on X11
* 3D support: fixed XPDM Windows Explorer crashes on Windows Vista/Win7 guests
* 3D support: fixed Direct3D 8/9 support on Windows XP guests
* Mouse: fixed mouse reporting which was not working for X11 guests with pre-4.0 Additions (4.0 Beta 1 regression)
* Settings: use forward slashes in paths to make settings files more portable between Windows & other platforms
* VBoxManage: show exact image format variant with VBoxManage showhdinfo
* VBoxHeadless: detect VBoxSVC crash and terminate the VM cleanly
* SATA: fixed DVD detection with Solaris guests
* Linux Additions: fixed compilation of the kernel modules with DKMS (4.0 Beta 1 regression)
* VMDK: fixed image corruption with async I/O (4.0 Beta 1 regression)
* VBoxManage: fixed image resizing and the associated help text
* OVA: fix wrong size writing for individual files greater 4GB (max. 8GB now)
* X11 guests: multi-monitor support for X.Org Server 1.3+