This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: fixed a bug which prevented to add more than one SATA drive from the GUI GUI: fixed a regression introduced in 1.6.0: the fullscreen mode was left on every guest video mode switch GUI: fixed several minor issues Networking: fixed a host interface networking regression introduced in 1.6.0 VMM: fixed starting of VMs with AMD-V enabled VMM: massive performance enhancements for AMD-V VMM: stability improvements for AMD-V on Windows hosts VMM: correctly detect AMD CPUs with erratum 170 (AMD-V) VMM: detect inconsistent timestamp counters on certain AMD Phenom CPUs (Windows host only) VMM: fixed KVM check (Linux hosts only) XPCOM: fixed several races VMM: fixed a regression introduced in 1.6.0: Windows stuck during installation SATA: improved performance with Vista guests SATA: fixed statistics counter Shared Folders: several fixes (iTunes download, speed up browsing) ATA/IDE: fixed boot from CDROM if a medium was added while the boot menu was active Networking: provide an Intel PRO/1000 T Server (82543GC) network device emulation which is recognized by Windows XP guests Networking: fixes for the E1000 emulation (don't crash if not attached, fixed a bug in the statistics counter implementation) NAT: don't crash if the guest sent a DHCPRELEASE message with an invalid IP address NAT: fixed ARP reply for the NAT gateway and for the NAT name server if the guest IP range was changed Internal Networking: fixed shutdown if more than two VMs are connected to the same network BIOS: allow to change the DMI informatiton (see chapter 9.13, Con'guring the BIOS DMI information, page 125) RTC: fixed UIP emulation to prevent jumping of time in Solaris guests Windows host: VirtualBox installation directory corrected for 64 bits Windows Windows host: fixed VBoxVRDP.exe symlink Windows host: solved locking problems in raw partition VMDK support Windows host: fixed stability during high system load (page fault in KeQueryActiveProcessors) MacOS X host: fixed crashes under certain conditions Shared Folders: limited users without admin rights now also can use Shared Folders on Windows guests Linux hosts: fixed default runlevel for the kernel module helper script Solaris hosts: enabled support for VT-x and AMD-V Solaris hosts: dynamic loading of libdlpi fixes a problem where Solaris 10 was not able to start a VM Linux additions: fixed runlevels for kernel module helper scripts Linux additions: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.26 Linux additions: fixed occasional guest kernel crash during unload of the vboxadd guest kernel module
