This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: fixed SMP stability regression
• USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (#5237)
• Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)
• Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)
• VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)
• VBoxManage: added missing –cpus and –memory options to OVF –import
• GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages
• GUI: NLS updates
• OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)
• Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)
• Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support
• Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the Host-Key isn’t CMD (bug #5684)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is used inside the guest (bug #5672)
• Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don’t disappear in fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug #1762)
• Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling “Auto show Dock & Menubar in fullscreen” (bug #5636)
• Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges right after installation (bug #4162)
• Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading while a VM is still active (Windows host only)
• Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)
• Virtio-net: don’t crash without an attached network
• Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with several virtual CPU cores.
• NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)
• NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)
• NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)
• ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)
• SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)
• Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora guests
• Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests and on some 64bit guests
• Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)
• X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests (openSUSE 11.0)
• X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg releases (openSUSE 11.1)
• Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues
• Windows guests: fixed VBosorry spinlock issues on NT4
• Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4
• Shared folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)
• 2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid GUI crashes on misconfigured systems
• 2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: SMP stability fixes
• VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)
• VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits hosts only; bug #3578)
• VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)
• VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
• VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x and AMD-V only)
• VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only)
• VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when teleporting; to get the old behavior set “VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks” to 0
• VBoxManage: add restorecurrent operation to snapshots command
• VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070
• GUI: fixed the broken “Reload” button that reloads the machine XML when a machine is inaccessible
• 3D Support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text relocation (bug #5690)
• 3D Support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)
• 3D Support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)
• Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen resolution (bug #5655)
• NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only; bug #5787)
• NAT: fixed handling of the broadcast flag in DHCP requests
• Virtio-net: don’t crash when ports accessed beyond the valid range (bug #5923)
• LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests
• ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)
• VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)
• VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)
• Host DVD: really fixed loading “passthrough” setting from config file (bug #5681)
• Shared folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux (3.1.2 regression)
• VRDP: fixed VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)
• PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)
• USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)
• BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)
• OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors
• OVF: do not require write access the the .ovf file during import (3.1 regression; bug #5762)
• iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (#5849)
• Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)
• Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 “id” binary incompatibility
• Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)
• Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)
• Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)
• Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)
• Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests
• Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues
• X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid (bug #5731)
• XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode again
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels 2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)
- Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)
- Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network interfaces under certain circumstances
- Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain circumstances (bug #6023)
- Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE
- VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)
- VMM: improved guest SMP stability
- VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)
- VMM: fixed PGMDynMapHCPage guru meditation (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)
- VMM: fixed pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt guru meditations (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)
- VMM: Fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771).
- GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)
- GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)
- 3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)
- 3D support: fixed host crashes when using GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array and array element calls (bug #6165)
- 3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs (bug #5297)
- 3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup (bug #4962)
- NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful connection termination was broken (bug #6237)
- NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent (bug #6176)
- NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under certain circumstances
- Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal network while a VM is running (bug #5781)
- VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB
- USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)
- USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances (bug #3571)
- VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB devices
- ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter (Linux hosts only; bug #2836)
- PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions (3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)
- BIOS: increased space for DMI strings
- BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations (I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)
- iSCSI: be more robust when handling the INQUIRY response
- iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data
- BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests
- webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded
- Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for Host-only interface (bug #4590)
- Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)
- Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)
- Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12 guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)
- Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)
- Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)
- Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)
- Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections
Version 4.1.4
- files which can be compressed updates
Version 4.1.3
- Snapshot errors eliminates
Version 4.1.2
- AutoIt-Script adapted to new AutoIt-Version
- small BugFixes in AutoIt-Script
Verion 4.1.1
- Errors of the absolute paths with the Snapshots eliminates
Verion 4.1.0
- smaller changes with the files which can be compressed
- removes old components (everything before VirtualBox v3.0.0)
- small BugFix in AutoIt-Script
Version 4.0.0
- SplashScreen, which is not it an official version of SUN
- opening the license conditions of VirtualBox, over license button
- selection, which version unpacked to become is
- selection whether the files are to be compressed
- selection whether the installation file is to be downloaded by portable VirtualBox
- independent creation of the folders "app32" and/or " app64", depending upon selection
- GUI of the Entpackers into German and English
- smaller errors in the AutoIt Script eliminates
This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
• Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, the product is now called “Oracle VM VirtualBox” and all references were changed without impacting compatibility.
• Experimental support for Mac OS X guests
• Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see chapter 4.9, Memory ballooning, page 79)
• CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see chapter 9.5, CPU hot-plugging, page 155)
• New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance (see chapter 10.5, Nested paging and VPIDs, page 179); also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster, which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)
• Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running
• Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI (see chapter 3.5, Display settings, page 53)
• USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no Guest Additions are available
• LsiLogic SAS controller emulation
• RDP video acceleration
• NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage
• Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications from the host system
• OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings that are not part of the base OVF standard
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during early boot (software virtualization only)
• VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled
• VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large amount of RAM (bug #5800)
• VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging only)
• Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added
• GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new VM
• GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)
• GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and #1669)
• GUI: added --seamless and --fullscreen command line switches (bug #4220)
• Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files
• Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for audio input (bug #5869)
• Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug #3106)
• Mac OS X: Moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure it.
• Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu
• VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)
• 3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)
• 3D support: fixed VM crashes when using ARB_IMAGING (bug #6014)
• 3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)
• 3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support
• 3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support
• 3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)
• Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)
• LsiLogic: Fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when using the drivers from LSI
• NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)
• Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)
• Shared folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files (Linux guests only; bug #4890)
• OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller in VirtualBox
Changes in VirtualBox 3.2.2 (released 2010-06-02):
* VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)
* VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)
* VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)
* GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual state
* GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration
* GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)
* GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open
* GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings
* GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
* GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu
* GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs
* VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)
* SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances
* SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken
* Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O
* Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM (bug #6784)
* Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests
* Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing
* HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were accessing a non-existing HGCM service
* Teleportation: several fixes
* Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default
* USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows host only
* Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the probability for loosing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)
* NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)
* NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)
* NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four (non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)
* NAT: fixed DNS transaction id mismatch (bug #6833)
* VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime
* Bridged Networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)
* Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)
* Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature
* Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default
* Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration (bug #6714)
* Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice.
* OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)
* OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files
* 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit apps on windows guests
* 3D support: fixed various host crashes (#2954, #5713, #6443)
Oracle VM VirtualBox v3.2.6.62864 Beta 1
2010-06-18
Changelog
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166)
• VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only; does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it)
• Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964)
• Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix
• EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM assigned
• GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if multiple screens are enabled
• GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)
• VBoxManage: fixed storageattach error handling (bug #6927)
• Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which don’t support async I/O (bug #6905)
• Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6987)
• LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests
• BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O
• SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can’t handle 30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)
• SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows installation (bug #5101)
• iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)
• Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6872)
• OVF: export performance optimization
• OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7 and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export
• Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes not properly saved
• USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port
• Posix hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)
• Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances (IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)
• Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)
• Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed (bug #5251)
• Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes
• Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer
Oracle VM VirtualBox v3.2.6.62980 Beta 2
2010-06-22
Changelog
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166)
• VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only; does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it)
• Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964)
• Teleportation: several fixes and improvements
• Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix
• EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM assigned
• GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if multiple screens are enabled
• GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)
• GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)
• VBoxManage: fixed storageattach error handling (bug #6927)
• VBoxManage: fixed dhcpserver add (3.2.0 regression; bug #7031)
• Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which don’t support async I/O (bug #6905)
• Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6987)
• LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests
• BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O
• SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can’t handle 30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)
• SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows installation (bug #5101)
• iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)
• Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6872)
• NAT: fixed potential memory leaks
• NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames (performance tweak)
• E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC was not yet initialized by the guest
• OVF: export performance optimization
• OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7 and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export
• Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes not properly saved
• USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port
• POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)
• Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances (IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)
• Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)
• Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed (bug #5251)
• Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes
• Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer
• 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit apps under 64bit Windows guests
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166)
VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only; does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it)
VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)
VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)
Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964)
Teleportation: several fixes and improvements
Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix
EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM assigned
GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)
GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if multiple screens are enabled
GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)
GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)
GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts again (bug #7022).
2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode (bug #6768)
VBoxManage: fixed storageattach error handling (bug #6927)
VBoxManage: fixed dhcpserver add (3.2.0 regression; bug #7031)
Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which don't support async I/O (bug #6905)
Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6987)
LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests
BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O
SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle 30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)
SATA: performance improvement
SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows installation (bug #5101)
iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)
Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6872)
NAT: fixed potential memory leaks
NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames (performance tweak)
NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM is currently paused
E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC was not yet initialized by the guest
OVF: export performance optimization
OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7 and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export
Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes not properly saved
Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)
USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port
USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)
POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)
Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances (IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)
Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)
Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host kernel allows for more virtual address space
Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed (bug #5251)
Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)
X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)
Solaris Additions: fixed guest control execution
Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes
Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer
Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)
3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit apps under 64bit Windows guests
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings
GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)
GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #6809)
3D support: fixed GL_EXT_texture_sRGB support
PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression
OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)
USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status changes
USB: respect the remote-only filter
USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of certain devices (Windows hosts only)
USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)
PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature
PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs
PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests
Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled
Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on bridged device (bug #7059)
Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)
Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup (bug #6832)
BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer guests
LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances
Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs without external tools and tricks
Shared folders: several fixes and performance enhancements for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)
Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations
Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)
Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on shutdown
RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability fixes
Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)
VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly in subcommand openmedium disk (bug #6751)
Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
Web service: added timestamps to logging output
Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII
X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings
- GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)
- GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #6809)
- 3D support: fixed GL_EXT_texture_sRGB support
- PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression
- OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)
- USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status changes
- USB: respect the remote-only filter
- USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of certain devices (Windows hosts only)
- USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)
- PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature
- PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs
- PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests
- Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled
- Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on bridged device (bug #7059)
- Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)
- Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup (bug #6832)
- BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer guests
- LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances
- Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs without external tools and tricks
- Shared folders: several fixes and performance enhancements for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)
- Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations
- Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)
- Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on shutdown
- RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability fixes
- Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
- Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)
- VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly in subcommand openmedium disk (bug #6751)
- Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
- Web service: added timestamps to logging output
- Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII
- X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)
All other binaries:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.0_BETA2/
Changelog:
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
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+
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Changes in VirtualBox 4.0.6 (released 2011-04-21):
* VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring a VMM from a saved state
* VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads; implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)
* VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE (bug #8006)
* VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels (bug #8726)
* GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)
* GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)
* GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)
* GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM (bug #8469)
* GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy selectors
* GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)
* GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing folder (bug #8673)
* Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)
* Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory
* 3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate (Windows hosts only; bug #7133)
* Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)
* Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network
* Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)
* Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an I/O error occurred
* Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset (bug #8276, #8294)
* Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM
* ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none' if no medium is present
* Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)
* Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)
* Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour
* Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the host from sleep (bug #3625)
* Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)
* NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static assigned IPs (bug #8609)
* VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication library (bug #8063)
* Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute, for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)
* Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)
* USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)
* HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)
* OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is changed on import
* OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias
* OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with multiple disks (bug #8253)
* rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions (bug #8593)
* Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized
* Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while captured
* Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode (shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)
* X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
* X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1
* Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)
* Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)
* Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead to unkillable VM processes
* Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling
* Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)
* Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations on legacy Windows versions
* Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)
* Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo
* X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final
* Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes
* Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)
* Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests (bug #7946)
* Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9
* Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution
* Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474) Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more than 16 cores (bug #8389) Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in 64-bit mode (bug #7606) GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793) VBoxManage: added controlvm screenshotpng subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only) NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in Ethernet header and in ARP requests Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755) SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826) Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498) Floppy: several improvement HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707) USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated (Windows hosts only) 3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest window 3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15 Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363) Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression) Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before building kernel modules (bug #8795) Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)
