| 3 | | '''!VirtualBox 4.0.12''' (released 2011-07-15)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 4 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 5 | | * Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes |
| | 3 | '''!VirtualBox 4.1.0''' (released 2011-07-19)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| | 4 | This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: |
| | 5 | * Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see the manual for more information): full clones can be created through the GUI and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage |
| | 6 | * GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks |
| | 7 | * GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks |
| | 8 | * GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only; bug #7822) |
| | 9 | * VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB |
| | 10 | * Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see the manual for more information |
| | 11 | * Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode anymore) |
| | 12 | * Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be queried separately by the frontends |
| | 13 | * Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately distributable virtual network implementations |
| | 14 | * Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29 |
| | 15 | * New Networking Mode UDP Tunnel: allows to interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently, see the manual for more information |
| | 16 | * Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available with VBoxManage |
| | 17 | * Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for Solaris 11 build 159 and above |
| | 18 | In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: |
| | 19 | * VMM: more SMP timer fixes |
| | 20 | * VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests |
| | 21 | * VMM: many small fixes |
| | 22 | * GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot of the current state |
| | 23 | * GUI: added a View menu |
| | 24 | * GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks |
| | 25 | * GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest, see the manual for more information. |
| | 26 | * GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of a VM (bug #1551) |
| | 27 | * GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870) |
| | 28 | * GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable |
| | 29 | * GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration dialog |
| | 30 | * VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter when a storage controller has only one port or device per port |
| | 31 | * VBoxManage: changed syntax of the guestcontrol command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options |
| | 32 | * VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment of the balloon size for running VMs |
| | 33 | * Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to be a valid UUID |
| | 34 | * Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used twice in a VM configuration |
| | 35 | * Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error cases |
| | 36 | * Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e. the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can improve performance |
| | 37 | * Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only on a temporary basis |
| | 38 | * Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are exact duplicates including the UUID |
| | 39 | * Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150) |
| | 40 | * Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential images in VDI format |
| | 41 | * Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and VMDK format |
| | 42 | * Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA controller (bug #8592) |
| | 43 | * Floppy: several bugs have been fixed |
| | 44 | * Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651) |
| | 45 | * BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739) |
| | 46 | * USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver |
| | 47 | * NAT: reduced memory footprint |
| | 48 | * Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading when several VMs are transmitting in parallel |
| | 49 | * Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox |
| | 50 | * Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411) |
| | 51 | * VRDP: support for TLS connections (see the manual for more information) |
| | 52 | * VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS RDP clients |
| | 53 | * VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption |
| | 54 | * 3D support: fixed ''GL_VERSION'' string for different locales (bug #8916) |
| | 55 | * Webservice: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and be more robust when connections fail |
| | 56 | * VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart simultaneously |
| | 57 | * Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing location values in many places |
| | 58 | * JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak |
| | 59 | * Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official builds |
| | 60 | * Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts |
| | 61 | * Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM window (bug #4491) |
| | 62 | * Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when removing a VM |
| | 63 | * Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion |
| | 64 | * Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520) |
| 16 | | '''!VirtualBox 4.0.10''' (released 2011-06-27)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 17 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 18 | | * GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809) |
| 19 | | * Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images |
| 20 | | * Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983) |
| 21 | | * Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant (for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227) |
| 22 | | * Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot |
| 23 | | * USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580) |
| 24 | | * USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests (partial fix for bug #8978) |
| 25 | | * ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others) |
| 26 | | * RDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977) |
| 27 | | * rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0 |
| 28 | | * OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK file was not written during export |
| 29 | | * Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes (bug #8903) |
| 30 | | * Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix |
| 31 | | * Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071) |
| 32 | | * Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux binaries |
| 33 | | * Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles |
| 34 | | * Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948) |
| 35 | | * Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests (4.0.8 regression) |
| 36 | | * Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix |
| 37 | | * Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during VBoxManage guestcontrol execute (bug #9068) |
| 38 | | |
| 39 | | '''!VirtualBox 4.0.8''' (released 2011-05-16)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 40 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 41 | | * Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474) |
| 42 | | * Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more than 16 cores (bug #8389) |
| 43 | | * Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in 64-bit mode (bug #7606) |
| 44 | | * GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793) |
| 45 | | * VBoxManage: added ''controlvm screenshotpng'' subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format |
| 46 | | * VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only) |
| 47 | | * NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in Ethernet header and in ARP requests |
| 48 | | * Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting |
| 49 | | * E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755) |
| 50 | | * SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826) |
| 51 | | * Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498) |
| 52 | | * Floppy: several improvement |
| 53 | | * HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707) |
| 54 | | * USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated (Windows hosts only) |
| 55 | | * 3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest window |
| 56 | | * 3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15 |
| 57 | | * Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363) |
| 58 | | * Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression) |
| 59 | | * Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before building kernel modules (bug #8795) |
| 60 | | * Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 |
| 61 | | * Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844) |
| 62 | | |
| 63 | | '''!VirtualBox 4.0.6''' (released 2011-04-21)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 64 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 65 | | * VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring a VMM from a saved state |
| 66 | | * 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) |
| 67 | | * VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE (bug #8006) |
| 68 | | * VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels (bug #8726) |
| 69 | | * GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979) |
| 70 | | * GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814) |
| 71 | | * GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799) |
| 72 | | * GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM (bug #8469) |
| 73 | | * GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy selectors |
| 74 | | * GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182) |
| 75 | | * GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing folder (bug #8673) |
| 76 | | * Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363) |
| 77 | | * Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory |
| 78 | | * 3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate (Windows hosts only; bug #7133) |
| 79 | | * Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966) |
| 80 | | * Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network |
| 81 | | * Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408) |
| 82 | | * Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an I/O error occurred |
| 83 | | * Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset (bug #8276, #8294) |
| 84 | | * Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM |
| 85 | | * 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 |
| 86 | | * Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE) |
| 87 | | * Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362) |
| 88 | | * Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour |
| 89 | | * Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the host from sleep (bug #3625) |
| 90 | | * Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731) |
| 91 | | * NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static assigned IPs (bug #8609) |
| 92 | | * VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication library (bug #8063) |
| 93 | | * 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) |
| 94 | | * Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527) |
| 95 | | * USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699) |
| 96 | | * HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707) |
| 97 | | * OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is changed on import |
| 98 | | * OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias |
| 99 | | * OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with multiple disks (bug #8253) |
| 100 | | * rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions (bug #8593) |
| 101 | | * Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized |
| 102 | | * Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while captured |
| 103 | | * Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode (shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822) |
| 104 | | * X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438) |
| 105 | | * X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1 |
| 106 | | * Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing !VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686) |
| 107 | | * 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) |
| 108 | | * Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead to unkillable VM processes |
| 109 | | * Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling |
| 110 | | * Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429) |
| 111 | | * Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations on legacy Windows versions |
| 112 | | * Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367) |
| 113 | | * Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo |
| 114 | | * X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final |
| 115 | | * Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes |
| 116 | | * Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509) |
| 117 | | * Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests (bug #7946) |
| 118 | | * Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9 |
| 119 | | * Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution |
| 120 | | * Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size |
| 121 | | |
| 122 | | '''!VirtualBox 4.0.4''' (released 2011-02-17)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 123 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 124 | | * VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions (bugs #8255, #8319 and further) |
| 125 | | * VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938) |
| 126 | | * VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062) |
| 127 | | * VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots (bugs #7910, #8059, #8125) |
| 128 | | * GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum number of host network interfaces |
| 129 | | * GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing snapshot (bug #8145) |
| 130 | | * GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131) |
| 131 | | * GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in the users home directory (bug #8017) |
| 132 | | * !ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878) |
| 133 | | * VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID (4.0 regression; bug #8342) |
| 134 | | * VBoxManage: allow ''savestate'' even if the VM is already paused |
| 135 | | * VBoxManage: fixed ''modifyvm --synthcpu'' (bug #6577) |
| 136 | | * VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing ''guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit'' and displaying process status on exit (bug #8235) |
| 137 | | * VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during ''guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit/stdout'' while waiting for the guest process to terminate (bug #7872) |
| 138 | | * VBoxManage: fixed ''list hostdvds/hostfloppies'' |
| 139 | | * VBoxManage: fixed ''storageattach'' for host DVD drives and host floppy drives |
| 140 | | * Metrics: introduced RAM/VMM base metric. |
| 141 | | * Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot (bug #7966) |
| 142 | | * Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start |
| 143 | | * Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105) |
| 144 | | * Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443) |
| 145 | | * Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium attachments (bug #8129) |
| 146 | | * Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression) |
| 147 | | * Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123) |
| 148 | | * Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905) |
| 149 | | * Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341) |
| 150 | | * NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459) |
| 151 | | * ACPI: don’t allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don’t announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008) |
| 152 | | * Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode (bug #8122) |
| 153 | | * Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221) |
| 154 | | * ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume |
| 155 | | * !BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs |
| 156 | | * Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission (bug #1548) |
| 157 | | * Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes |
| 158 | | * Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955) |
| 159 | | * Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap |
| 160 | | * X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart (bug #8231) |
| 161 | | * X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha. |
| 162 | | * X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login. |
| 163 | | * X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older !VirtualBox versions can’t handle. |
| 164 | | * Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if a host link is not readable (bug #8185) |
| 165 | | * Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS) with VBoxGINA |
| 166 | | |
| 167 | | '''!VirtualBox 4.0.2''' (released 2011-01-18)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 168 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 169 | | * GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM settings vanished |
| 170 | | * GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875) |
| 171 | | * GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be created (bug #8031) |
| 172 | | * GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests |
| 173 | | * !ExtPack: don’t make the installer helper application suid root (Linux .deb/.rpm packages only) |
| 174 | | * !ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing an extension pack |
| 175 | | * !ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name during installing an extension pack (bug #7917) |
| 176 | | * !ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts |
| 177 | | * VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741) |
| 178 | | * VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent host-only interface |
| 179 | | * Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots and async I/O (4.0 regression) |
| 180 | | * Storage: don’t eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is detached from a VM (bug #5825) |
| 181 | | * Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an ATAPI device (bug #6597) |
| 182 | | * Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or power off (4.0 regression) |
| 183 | | * Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908) |
| 184 | | * NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094) |
| 185 | | * E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330) |
| 186 | | * Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux guests |
| 187 | | * ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885) |
| 188 | | * VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986) |
| 189 | | * Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818) |
| 190 | | * Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid logging string (4.0 regression) |
| 191 | | * Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing a VM start |
| 192 | | * Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in machine paths (bug #8024) |
| 193 | | * Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented (bug #6067) |
| 194 | | * Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image) cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another |
| 195 | | * Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was not saved to machine XML |
| 196 | | * OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug #7983) |
| 197 | | * rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug #7981) |
| 198 | | * Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration. |
| 199 | | * Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0 regression) |
| 200 | | * Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010) |
| 201 | | * Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports unlocking previously locked workstations |
| 202 | | |
| 203 | | '''!VirtualBox 4.0.0''' (released 2010-12-22)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 204 | | This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: |
| 205 | | * Reorganization of !VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see chapter 1.5, Installing !VirtualBox and extension packs, see the manual for more information |
| 206 | | * New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see chapter 10.1, Where !VirtualBox stores its files, see the manual for more information |
| 207 | | * Major rework of the GUI (now called “!VirtualBox Manager”): |
| 208 | | * Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots) |
| 209 | | * New “scale” display mode with scaled guest display; see chapter 1.8.5, Resizing the machine’s window, see the manual for more information |
| 210 | | * Support for creating and starting .vbox desktop shortcuts (bug #1889) |
| 211 | | * The VM list is now sortable |
| 212 | | * Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved states, and optionally including attached disk images (bug #5511; also, ''VBoxManage unregistervm --delete'' can do the same now) |
| 213 | | * Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322) |
| 214 | | * VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts |
| 215 | | * New virtual hardware: |
| 216 | | * Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI); see chapter 3.4.1, “Motherboard” tab, see the manual for more information |
| 217 | | * Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems (e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785) |
| 218 | | * Improvements to OVF support (see chapter 1.12, Importing and exporting virtual machines, see the manual for more information): |
| 219 | | * Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support |
| 220 | | * Significant performance improvements during export and import |
| 221 | | * Creation of the manifest file on export is optional now |
| 222 | | * Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK |
| 223 | | * Resource control: added support for limiting a VM’s CPU time and IO bandwidth; see chapter 5.8, Limiting bandwidth for disk images, see the manual for more information |
| 224 | | * Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and Parallels images |
| 225 | | * Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see chapter 8.21, VBoxManage modifyhd, see the manual for more information. |
| 226 | | * Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later |
| 227 | | * Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local (COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs |
| 228 | | In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 229 | | * VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts (applies to nested paging only) |
| 230 | | * VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557) |
| 231 | | * VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only, non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819) |
| 232 | | * GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode (bug #1657) |
| 233 | | * GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore |
| 234 | | * GUI: certain GUI warnings don’t stop the VM output anymore |
| 235 | | * GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #5449) |
| 236 | | * BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain guests (e.g. Solaris) |
| 237 | | * Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network (Linux hosts only; bug #7792) |
| 238 | | * 3D support: allow use of ''CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH'' again (bug #6864) |
| 239 | | * 3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659, #5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570) |
| 240 | | * 3D support: guest application stack corruption when using ''glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v'' (bug #7395) |
| 241 | | * 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9 |
| 242 | | * 3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty |
| 243 | | * 2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support |
| 244 | | * VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration |
| 245 | | * VRDP: support for upstream audio |
| 246 | | * Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash |
| 247 | | * NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime |
| 248 | | * SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough (bug #7058) |
| 249 | | * Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651) |
| 250 | | * Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare circumstances |
| 251 | | * Audio: the !DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when another !DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug #5578) |
| 252 | | * EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs |
| 253 | | * BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function !#4F01 (Quake fix) |
| 254 | | * OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks |
| 255 | | * Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug #6760) |
| 256 | | * Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759) |
| 257 | | * Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with ''CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX'' set |
| 258 | | * Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests |
| 259 | | * Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818) |
| 260 | | * Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one file |
| 261 | | * Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes |
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