A new version of Oracle's virtualization software, VirtualBox has been released and this release features some exciting changes along with drag and drop support from host to Linux guest. This is a stable release after previous four testing releases. Some of the other important changes are:

• Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes
• GUI: expert mode for wizards
• GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime
• 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
• Enhanced API for controlling the guest
• Allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content
• Allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI
• Implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode

To install the latest version in Ubuntu, run the following commands in Terminal:

echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.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.