[vbox-dev] Implications of changing the XML version

[Frank Mehnert]

On Thursday, 21 July 2016 17:13:26 CEST Frank Mehnert wrote:
> Hi Socratis,
> 
> On Wednesday, 13 July 2016 10:11:19 CEST Kalogrianitis Socratis wrote:
> > I found a bug in VBox 5.1 where if the .vbox version is 1.13 or 1.14
> > (<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.virtualbox.org/" version="1.14-macosx">)
> > the
> > <Audio> section of the configuration gets "messed up". Most of the times
> > it
> > gets deleted (if the controller is set to AC97). It doesn't happen if the
> > version is 1.12 or 1.15.
> > 
> > One workaround is to manually change the XML version to 1.15. That seems
> > to
> > fix/prevent it. The question is: does that affect other aspects of the
> > configuration? In what ways?
> > 
> > I wanted to get a feeling about that before I posted this in the forums,
> > so
> > I won't be misleading other users into doing something that might turn out
> > to be problematic.
> 
> just for the record (Klaus mentioned this already in the forums), this
> bug should be fixed in the current repository.

grrr, sorry for the duplicated message. My email reader fooled me...

Frank
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