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Changelog for VirtualBox 1.6

This page lists all changes of the VirtualBox 1.6 releases.

VirtualBox 1.6.6 (released 2008-08-26)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

VMM: ﬁxed excessive logging (bug #1901)
VMM: AMD-V stability ﬁxes (bug #1685)
GUI: added support for Ctrl+Caps reversed keyboards (bug #1891)
SATA: ﬁxed BSODs of Windows guests on a SATA disk (bug #1941)
SATA: ﬁxed hard disk detection on Solaris 10 U5 (bug #1789)
VBoxHeadless: don’t start the clipboard service (bug #1743)
VBoxHeadless: added -vrdp parameter which allows to start the VM session without VRDP (bug #1960)
VBoxManage: ﬁxes to creating raw disk/partition VMDK ﬁles, now accepts removable media on Windows (bug #1869)
VRDP: ﬁxed communication with MS Remote Desktop Connection on Mac OS X (bug #1337)
VRDP: clipboard ﬁxes (bug #1410)
VRDP: ﬁxed crash during PAM authentication (bug #1953)
Shared Folders: ﬁxed a regression introduced in version 1.6.2: the shared folders service was sometimes not properly installed (Windows guests only, bug #1915)
Shared Folders: don’t deny to load a VM if a shared folder is not accessible (bug #822)
BIOS: allow to specify empty DMI strings (bug #1957)
OSE archive: added missing Makeﬁles (bug #1912)
Linux hosts: workaround for buggy gcc-4.3 compilers (e.g. openSUSE 11)
Linux hosts: one more ﬁx for compiling the kernel modules on Linux 2.6.27 (bug #1962)
Mac OS X hosts: shared folders unicode ﬁx
Solaris hosts: ﬁxed link issue (bug #1840)
Windows additions: allow to downgrade the package
Windows additions: ﬁxed corrupted installer icon on Windows 2000 (bug #1486)
Windows additions: ﬁxed bug when creating intermediate directories (bug #1870)
Windows additions: implemented /xres=, /yres= and /depth= switches for the installer (bug #1990)
Linux additions: properly unregister the misc device when unloading the kernel module
Linux additions: ﬁxed startup order for recent Linux distributions again (e.g. openSUSE 11)
Linux additions: attempt to ﬁx the autostart issue of !VBoxClient with Mandriva guests (bug #1699)
Linux additions: ﬁxed detection of patched Linux 2.6.18 kernels of RHEL5 / FC6 / CentOS 5.2 (bugs #1899, #1973)
Linux additions: added new mount ﬂags dmode, fmode, umask, dmask and fmask allowing to override the ﬁle mode (bug #1776)
Documentation: added a note that jumbo frames don’t work (bug #1877)
Documentation: document special host interface names on openSUSE11 (bug #1892)

VirtualBox 1.6.4 (released 2008-07-30)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

AMD-V, VT-x: stability fixes
Shared Folders: fixed host crash (Solaris host only, bugs #1336, #1646)
Shared Folders: fixed BSOD when debugging with Visual Studio (bug #1627)
Shared Folders: fixed BSOD when compiling on a shared folder (bug #1683)
Shared Folders: several fixes/stability improvements
SATA: fixed a race that could cause an occasional Windows guest system hang
SATA: fixed spurious BIOS log messages
Networking: fixed NIC tracing with NAT interfaces (bug #1790)
USB: fixed crash under certain conditions when unplugging a USB device (bug #1295)
Settings: fixed bug when converting 1.5.x settings
RDP: fixed enabling the RDP server during runtime
RDP: properly detect the rdesktop 1.6.0 RDP client
RDP: fixed RDP crash (bug #1521)
RDP: updated modified rdesktop client to version 1.6.0
GUI: NLS improvements
BIOS: added SMBIOS header to make Solaris and Vista recognize the DMI data
ACPI: properly hide a disabled floppy controller
VMM: small fixes to protected mode without paging
VMDK: fixed handling of .vmdk images without UUIDs
Windows hosts: fixed driver parameter validation issue in VBoxDrv.sys that could allow an attacker on the host to crash the system
Windows hosts: installer now contains web service examples mentioned in the manual
Linux hosts: properly deregister the Linux kernel module before uninstalling a Linux deb/rpm package
Linux hosts: kernel module works now with Linux 2.6.27
Linux hosts: fixed a typo in the vboxnet setup script for host network interfaces (bug #1714)
Linux hosts: fixed usage of tar in installer (bug #1767)
Linux hosts: fixed long guest shutdown time when serial port is enabled
Solaris hosts: refuse to install in Sun xVM hypervisor dom0
Solaris hosts: accept Solaris raw disks when for raw disk access
Windows additions: made installation of shared folders more robust
Windows additions: improved installation
Linux additions: accept every user-defined guest video mode in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Linux additions: fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions (e.g. openSUSE 11)

VirtualBox 1.6.2 (released 2008-06-06)

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 information (see chapter 9.13, Con'guring the BIOS DMI information, User Manual 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)
Mac OS 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

VirtualBox 1.6.0 (released 2008-04-30)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

Solaris and Mac OS X host support
Seamless windowing for Linux and Solaris guests
Guest Additions for Solaris
A webservice API
SATA hard disk (AHCI) controller
Experimental Physical Address Extension (PAE) support

In addition, the following items were ﬁxed and/or added:

GUI: added accessibility support (508)
GUI: VM session information dialog
VBoxHeadless: renamed from VBoxVRDP
VMM: reduced host CPU load of idle guests
VMM: many ﬁxes for VT-x/SVM hardware-supported virtualization
ATA/IDE: better disk geometry compatibility with VMware images
ATA/IDE: virtualize an AHCI controller
Storage: better write optimization, prevent images from growing unnecessarily.
Network: support PXE booting with NAT
Network: ﬁxed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for Nexenta guests
NAT: improved builtin DHCP server (implemented DHCPNAK response)
NAT: port forwarding stopped when restoring the VM from a saved state
NAT: make subnet conﬁgurable
XPCOM: moved to libxml2
XPCOM: ﬁxed VBoxSVC autostart race
Audio: SoundBlaster 16 emulation
USB: ﬁxed problems with USB 2.0 devices
Mac OS X: ﬁxed seamless mode
Mac OS X: better desktop integration, several look’n’feel ﬁxes
Mac OS X: switched to Quartz2D framebuffer
Mac OS X: added support for shared folders
Mac OS X: added support for clipboard integration
Solaris: added host audio playback support (experimental)
Solaris: made it possible to run VirtualBox from non-global zones
Shared Folders: made them work for NT4 guests
Shared Folders: many bugﬁxes to improve stability
Seamless windows: added support for Linux guests
Linux installer: support DKMS for compiling the kernel module
Linux host: compatibility ﬁxes with Linux 2.6.25
Windows host: support for USB devices has been signiﬁcantly improved; many additional USB devices now work
Windows Additions: automatically install AMD PCNet drivers on Vista guests
Linux additions: several ﬁxes, experimental support for RandR 1.2
Linux additions: compatibility ﬁxes with Linux 2.6.25

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