VirtualBox

Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Changelog-4.3


Ignore:
Timestamp:
Jul 9, 2015 12:26:07 PM (9 years ago)
Author:
Frank Mehnert
Comment:

--

Legend:

Unmodified
Added
Removed
Modified
  • Changelog-4.3

    v1 v1  
     1= Changelog for VirtualBox 4.3 =
     2
     3This page lists all changes of the !VirtualBox 4.3 '''[wiki:Downloads releases]'''.[[BR]]
     4All branches: [wiki:Changelog 4.3] · [wiki:Changelog-4.2 4.2] · [wiki:Changelog-4.1 4.1] · [wiki:Changelog-4.0 4.0] · [wiki:Changelog-3.2 3.2] · [wiki:Changelog-3.1 3.1] · [wiki:Changelog-3.0 3.0] · [wiki:Changelog-2.2 2.2] · [wiki:Changelog-2.1 2.1] · [wiki:Changelog-2.0 2.0] · [wiki:Changelog-1.6 1.6]
     5
     6'''!VirtualBox 4.3.28''' (released 2015-05-13)[[BR]][[BR]]
     7This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     8 * VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests (for example Solaris doing fast reboot) by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI
     9 * VMM: added some information for diagnosing rare ''VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR'' Guru Meditations (VT-x only)
     10 * GUI: HID LEDs sync: prevent synchronization if VM window has no focus (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)
     11 * GUI: fixed drag and drop moving the cursor between guest screens on certain hosts
     12 * 3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state on X11 hosts (bug #12737)
     13 * 3D: fixed a crash on Linux guest shutdown (bug #12772)
     14 * VRDP: fixed incompatibility with rdesktop 1.8.3
     15 * VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)
     16 * Storage: don't crash if creating an asynchronous I/O context fails (e.g. when starting many VMs) and show a proper error message
     17 * Floppy: several fixes
     18 * Audio: improved the behavior of the volume control for the HD audio device emulation
     19 * USB: increase the number of supported drivers from 3 to 5 (Windows hosts only)
     20 * PS/2 keyboard: synchronize the LED state on VM restore (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)
     21 * NAT Network: when running multiple NAT networks with multiple VMs, only stop the respective services when stopping VMs (bug #14090)
     22 * NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors (bug #13475)
     23 * NAT: bandwidth limit now works properly with NAT (bug #11485)
     24 * BIOS: fixed the returned size value of the VBE 2.0 PMI function 0Ah (4.2.0 regression; bug #14096)
     25 * Guest Control: fixed parameter quoting in Windows guests (bug #13157)
     26 * Webcam passthrough improvements for Linux (V4L2) hosts to support more webcam models
     27 * API: don't fail starting a VM with ''VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE'' under certain conditions (bug #13617)
     28 * API: be more verbose on ''VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE'' if a medium is attached to a running VM (bug #13560)
     29 * API: fixed a bug which could result in losing certain screen resize events with multi-monitor guests
     30 * rdesktop-vrdp: fixed path to the keymaps (bug #12066)
     31 * rdesktop-vrdp: switch to version 1.8.3
     32 * Windows hosts: more hardening fixes (e.g. bugs #14051, #14052)
     33 * Linux hosts: another fix for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19 and newer (Broadwell and later; bug #13961)
     34 * Linux hosts: Linux 4.1 compile fix (bug #14081)
     35 * Solaris hosts: fixed using of VNIC templates with Crossbow based bridged networking to be compatible with vanity interface names
     36 * Mac OS X hosts: fixed crash during VM termination under rare circumstances
     37 * Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)
     38 * X11 Additions: prevent flickering when updating mouse cursor
     39 * Solaris Additions: fixed incorrect usage of 'prtconf' while installing Guest Additions (Solaris 10 only)
     40
     41'''!VirtualBox 4.3.26''' (released 2015-03-16)[[BR]][[BR]]
     42This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     43 * GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against wrong host time (bug #13955)
     44 * NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network (4.3.24 regression; bugs #13915, #13918)
     45 * NAT Network: don't delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on Windows hosts
     46 * Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare conditions if no Guest Additions are installed (4.3.24 regression; bug #13935)
     47 * Storage: if the guest ejects a virtual CD/DVD medium, make the change permanent (bugs #9858, #12885)
     48 * VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests
     49 * SDK: fixed the !VirtualBox.tlb file (4.3.20 regression; bug #13943)
     50 * rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again (4.3.14 regression; bug #13901)
     51 * USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions
     52 * iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628)
     53 * Mac OS X hosts: don't panic on hosts with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later; bug #13951)
     54 * Linux hosts: don't crash Linux 4.0 hosts (bug #13835)
     55
     56'''!VirtualBox 4.3.24''' (released 2015-03-02)[[BR]][[BR]]
     57This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     58 * VMM: emulation fix for the ''ENTER'' instruction under certain conditions; fixes Solaris 10 guests (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution)
     59 * VMM: fix for handling NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled
     60 * NAT/NAT Network: fix connection drops when the host's DHCP lease was renewed (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13839)
     61 * NAT: don't crash on an empty domain list when switching the DNS host configuration (4.3.22 regression; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #13874)
     62 * PXE: re-enable it on Windows hosts (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13842)
     63 * Shared Folders: fixed a problem with Windows guests (4.3.22 regression; bug #13786)
     64 * Audio: improved record quality when using the DirectSound audio backend
     65 * VBoxManage: when executing the ''controlvm'' command take care that the corresponding VM runtime changes are saved permanently (bug #13892)
     66 * Windows Installer: properly install the 32-bit version of VBoxRes.dll on 32-bit hosts (bug #13876)
     67 * Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.0 fixes (bug #13835)
     68 * OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse integration (4.3.22 regression; bug #13825)
     69 * X11 Additions: fixed a sporadic failure to deactivate virtual screens (bug #13845)
     70
     71'''!VirtualBox 4.3.22''' (released 2015-02-12)[[BR]][[BR]]
     72This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     73 * VMM: refined measurement of TSC frequency on the host, improves timekeeping for guests
     74 * VMM: decreased CPU load resulting from guest MMIO writes to the virtual APIC
     75 * VMM: fixed interception of debug exceptions, observed while using the dbx debugger on Solaris guests (VT-x only)
     76 * GUI: 3D overlay window positioning code improved, fixed potential misplacement of 3D accelerated guest graphics content
     77 * GUI: fixed accident SSL authentication failures during update check on Windows hosts (bug #12969)
     78 * GUI: never send the "ACPI power" keyboard scancode to the guest, we have the ACPI power button for that
     79 * GUI: was unable to properly restore seamless mode VM from snapshot/saved-state under some circumstances
     80 * VBoxHeadless: don't crash if 3D is enabled in the VM settings (bug #10250)
     81 * ATA: fixed several passthrough issues (bugs #12310, #1360)
     82 * Audio: fixed DirectSound failure when the the host has no audio input device (Windows hosts only; bug #9205)
     83 * SB16: fixed compatibility issue (bug #13769)
     84 * Storage: fixed broken CD/DVD passthrough when using the IDE controller (bug #12310)
     85 * NAT: new ping proxy for Windows hosts (bug #11871)
     86 * NAT: Properly report outbound connect(2) failures to guest with TCP RST or ICMP (bug #10525)
     87 * NAT Network: no need for frequent wakeups in VBoxNetDHCP and VBoxNetNAT (bug #11681)
     88 * Host-only adapter: prevent Windows from creating an "Unidentified network" (bug #9688)
     89 * Bridged Networking: don't leak host-to-guest traffic to the wireless network when bridging to a wireless interface (bug #13714)
     90 * Main: fixed a possible race when changing the medium leading to a deadlock under rare conditions (bug #13722)
     91 * VBoxManage: fixed return code if starting a VM failed (bug #13773)
     92 * Settings: on Windows host, do not use environment variable HOME at all, the settings location is derived from the user profile directory (bug #7689)
     93 * API: fixed 2 deadlock opportunities related to medium handling (bugs #13789, #13801, thank you Alexander Urakov)
     94 * API: fixed bug in XPCOM which created too few worker threads, sporadically resulting in a deadlock (bug #13802, thank you Alexander Urakov)
     95 * SDK: fixed a garbage collection leak in the Python !VirtualBox webservice API binding (bug #13817)
     96 * Linux hosts: fixes for activated SMAP (Broadwell and later, bug #13820)
     97 * X11 guests: prevent unwanted hiding of guest screens on multi-monitor guests (bug #13287)
     98 * X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.17
     99 * X11 Additions: fixed a memory leak in VBoxService if libdbus is available but dbus-daemon isn't running (bug #13770)
     100 * Windows Additions: prevent VBox WDDM driver from loading if host reports weak OpenGL capabilities. 3D content now can be shown over Remote Desktop connection.
     101 * Windows Additions: some fixes for recent Windows 10 Previews
     102 * Linux Additions: fixed a compatibility issue with 64-bit Linux 2.4 kernels
     103 * Linux Additions: fixed a potential use-after-free when unloading the VBoxGuest module
     104 * Linux Additions: Linux 3.19 fixes (bug #13741)
     105
     106'''!VirtualBox 4.3.20''' (released 2014-11-21)[[BR]][[BR]]
     107This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     108 * VMM: fixed reboot hang of 32-bit Windows SMP guests (bug #13319, #13462)
     109 * VMM: proper Math Fault handling with certain legacy guests (bug #9042, AMD hosts)
     110 * VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation ''VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT'' on older CPUs that don't support MSR-bitmaps (VT-x only; bugs #13034, #13125, #13311, #13425, #13426, #13463, #13585)
     111 * GUI: fix 3D overlay window re-parenting issue when VM goes to full screen mode on X11 hosts.
     112 * GUI: fix occasional loss of focus in full-screen mode on X11 host systems (4.3.16 regression)
     113 * GUI: Mac OS X: wizards should have Cancel button (bug #12541)
     114 * GUI: added a global option to prevent automatic raising of the new window by mouse move with multi-screen guests (bug #8878)
     115 * API: accept remote display port 0 as the default RDP port (bug #8534)
     116 * VBoxManage: fixed crash when executing ''showvminfo'' command under certain circumstances (bug #13190)
     117 * ACPI: fixed occasional Guru Meditations in ACPI timer code (4.3.18 regression; bug #13521)
     118 * EFI: improved performance of IDE disk access
     119 * EFI: fixed a bug in the EFI video driver which prevented Windows to boot in UEFI mode (bug #12022)
     120 * EFI: properly announce the amount of RAM for big VMs (bugs #11103 and #13211)
     121 * Storage: fixed a crash under certain circumstances when a medium was ejected from a drive attached to the SATA controller without inserting a new medium before pausing or closing the VM (4.3.16 regression)
     122 * Storage: fixed an interrupt acknowledge issue causing hanging guests or slower I/O (4.3.18 regression)
     123 * Storage: fixed broken resume after the VM was suspended due to a full disk if host I/O caching is used
     124 * Storage: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions when using the DevLsiLogic controller with VMs running in raw mode (4.3 regression; bugs #12254, #12655, #12709, #12774, #12886)
     125 * Guest Control: fixed a bug which might lead to a crash during recursive copy
     126 * SDK: Java COM bindings fixes
     127 * iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol (bug #13628)
     128 * Runtime: do not use a fixed stack size creating temporary threads during initialization (bug #13038)
     129 * Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)
     130 * Windows hosts: fixed DirectSound host audio failure under certain conditions (bug #13418)
     131 * Windows hosts: fixed additional cases of 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)
     132 * Windows Additions: preserve guest monitor layout when resizing Windows 7 or newer guests
     133 * Linux Additions: Linux 3.18 compile fixes (bug #13515)
     134
     135'''!VirtualBox 4.3.18''' (released 2014-10-10)[[BR]][[BR]]
     136This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     137 * VMM: fixed a potential misbehavior after restoring the A20 state from a saved state
     138 * GUI: fixed full-screen mode mini-toolbar related regressions for different platforms and window managers (bug #13369)
     139 * GUI: X11: fixed full-screen mode Unity panels quirk caused by mini-toolbar code changes in last release (bug #13365)
     140 * GUI: X11: added possibility to use legacy full-screen mode as the new one can cause multi-screen issues under Unity, see the manual for more information (bug #13365)
     141 * GUI: Mac OS X: fixed full-screen mode artifact causing black screen when 3D acceleration was enabled on 10.10 Yosemite hosts (bug #13448)
     142 * GUI: Mac OS X: fixed regression in user-space swiping from/to VBox in full-screen mode
     143 * GUI: Mac OS X: fixed issue with switching to VBox in full-screen mode through Alt+Tab and Mission Control
     144 * Storage: fixed data corruption when resizing huge VHD images under certain circumstances (bug #11960)
     145 * Storage: fixed a rare hang during startup when the BIOS enumerates the storage devices attached to the SATA controller
     146 * Storage: follow the spec with AHCI interrupt acknowledge (bug #13474)
     147 * Storage: fixed broken iSCSI authentication (4.3.14 regression, bugs #13386, #13435)
     148 * NAT Network: properly parse port forwarding rules to allow UDP rules
     149 * USB: fixed a crash on Linux hosts with older Linux kernels (bug #13400) and several other fixes
     150 * ACPI: fixed ACPI timer anomalies (bug #12076)
     151 * Guest Control: fixed a memory leak (bug #13434)
     152 * Main: when removing a VM, do also remove the VBoxStartup.log file which might exist on Windows hosts (bug #13478)
     153 * Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)
     154 * Windows hosts: propagate the process startup information to the child process (4.3.14 regression; bug #13243)
     155 * Mac OS X hosts: don't force using the discrete GPU (bug #11111)
     156 * Windows Additions: some Windows 10 tweaks
     157 * X11 guests: fix a bug handling video driver display properties which prevented GNOME Shell on Fedora 21 from starting
     158 * Linux hosts / guests: fixed a few remaining warnings in the kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)
     159
     160'''!VirtualBox 4.3.16''' (released 2014-09-09)[[BR]][[BR]]
     161This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     162 * VMM: fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs (bug #12646; 4.3 regression)
     163 * GUI: properly restore normal/scale mode guest-screen size after exiting full-screen/seamless mode
     164 * GUI: mini-toolbar should provoke less artifacts/conflicts with 3D guest rendering
     165 * GUI: Mac OS X: Native full-screen multi-screen transition was able to blackout host-screens for nearly minute
     166 * GUI: X11: Modern window managers should now use native full-screen multi-screen mapping API
     167 * GUI: added extradata item for configuring the mouse capture behavior, see the manual for more information (bug #3506)
     168 * Storage: fixed a VBoxSVC crash when querying an iSCSI target with authentication configured (4.3.14 regression)
     169 * Storage: fixed a rare data corruption during reads if another allocating write is running concurrently and accesses the same range
     170 * Storage: fixed a rare crash for certain VHD images from other products
     171 * Storage: fixed a rare release assertion when using the AHCI controller
     172 * Floppy: fixed read errors and guest memory corruption when running under control of QEMM
     173 * 3D: added experimental support for rendering on offline GPUs for Mac OS X host
     174 * 3D: fixed white window appearing on entering the full screen mode on OSX host
     175 * 3D: fixed video recording support for 3D data regression (bug #13073)
     176 * 3D: fixes for MS Office 2013 support
     177 * 3D: several fixes
     178 * Bridged Networking: improved IPv6 support when bridging to a wireless interface
     179 * NAT: prevent internal DNS service from stuck in host-resolver mode when host was switched from one network to another one while host was sleeping (Mac OS X hosts)
     180 * NAT: preserve DF (if possible) and TOS when proxying outbound UDP datagrams (bugs #9440, #12309)
     181 * NAT: don't let multicast datagrams out (bug #7338)
     182 * NAT: fixed handling of large incoming UDP datagrams on Windows hosts (bug #12136)
     183 * NAT: fixed handling of the RFC 1533 DHCP PAD option
     184 * NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Windows hosts
     185 * NAT Network: preserve IPv4 DF (if possible), TTL, TOS and IPv6 Hop Limit when proxying outbound UDP datagrams
     186 * VRDP: fixed a rare crash when using remote audio input
     187 * USB: fixed several regressions from 4.3.14 (bug #13320)
     188 * Audio: made the HDA sound emulation work with certain OSX guests (e.g. Mountain Lion)
     189 * '''Windows hosts: fixed startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software (4.3.14 regression, bug #13187)'''
     190 * Windows hosts: fixed 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)
     191 * X11 hosts: made the extra key on Brazilian Thinkpads work (bug #8745)
     192 * X11 hosts: fixed a problem of input focus cycles and immediately released key presses in full screen mode (bug #13238)
     193 * Linux hosts: fixed flooding the kernel log with USB related messages when passing through certain USB devices to a VM (bug #13085)
     194 * Linux guests: stop applications crashing when ''drm_wait_vblank'' is called (bug #13265)
     195 * Linux guests: fix a crash in gnome-session (bug #13335)
     196 * X11 guests: do not start VBoxClient over an SSH connection (bug #13107)
     197 * X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.16 (bug #13207)
     198 * X11 guests: fixed a wrong parameter in the video driver which caused problems with full-screen X11 clients (bug #2748)
     199 * VirtualKD: introduced stub/loader device for speeding up Windows kernel debugging, details see http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/
     200
     201'''!VirtualBox 4.3.14''' (released 2014-07-15)[[BR]][[BR]]
     202This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     203 * VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs #12784, #12949, #13034)
     204 * VMM: improve MSI handling under rare circumstances (only relevant for the ICH9 chipset)
     205 * VMM: fixed #UD exception for 64-bit guests with the ''EFER.SCE'' bit and the ''SYSCALL'' instruction (VT-x only; 4.3 regression; bug #13008)
     206 * VMM: fixed timekeeping after resuming SMP guests
     207 * VMM: properly wake up a halted VCPU on NMI/SMI
     208 * GUI: fixed a potential crash
     209 * GUI: fixed stuck AltGr key on Windows hosts (bug #2537)
     210 * GUI: fixed a potential error during the version check
     211 * GUI: shortcut change should not require Enter/Return (or other trigger) to confirm (bugs #12828, #12847, #12937, #13087)
     212 * GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates (bug #13096)
     213 * VBoxManage: fixed typo in ''showvminfo --machinereadable'' (bug #13176)
     214 * NAT: fixed inbound half-close (bug #13116)
     215 * NAT: fixed slow upload speed under certain conditions (bug #10034)
     216 * NAT Network: fixed potential loss of inbound TCP data
     217 * NAT Network: fixed potential infinite stalls of TCP connections over IPv6
     218 * NAT Network: fixed resets of TCP connections on Windows hosts
     219 * NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Mac OS X hosts
     220 * NAT Network: fixed socket leak on Solaris hosts
     221 * NAT Network: fixed ping of mapped host loopback on Mac OS X and Solaris hosts, fixed proxying of IMCP errors on Mac OS X
     222 * Host-Only Network: fixed SNMP ''ifConnectorPresent'' value on Windows (bug #13143)
     223 * Storage: fixed a possible crash with CD/DVD passthrough under certain circumstances
     224 * Storage: fixed a crash when trying to open an inaccessible QED or QCOW image (bug #12613)
     225 * Storage: fixed data corruption or read errors under rare circumstances
     226 * AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances
     227 * USB: performance fixes
     228 * ICH9: properly reset MSI capability on reset
     229 * Keyboard: active modifier keys during suspend were stuck after resuming the host
     230 * 3D: fixed misbehavior with huge guests (i.e. guest more than 4GB guest memory
     231 * 3D: several fixes
     232 * API: properly detect the Windows 8.1 guest OS type (bug #13090)
     233 * ExtPack: cleanup of dangling uninstallation directories
     234 * Linux hosts / guests: compile fix for EL7 (bug #12638)
     235 * Linux Additions: made 3D pass-through work with recent versions of Mesa in the guest (bug #12941)
     236 * Linux Additions: Linux 3.16 fixes (bug #13123)
     237 * Mac OS X hosts: when scanning for host CD/DVD devices also consider BlueRay devices
     238 * OS/2 Additions: fixed gengradd.dll library name (bug #12785)
     239 * Solaris Additions: fixed permissions of files and directories located on shared folders
     240 * Windows host installer: fixed the need for rebooting Windows after installation or upgrade, extended logging for NetFlt/NetAdp (un)installation
     241
     242'''!VirtualBox 4.3.12''' (released 2014-05-16)[[BR]][[BR]]
     243This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     244 * VMM: fixed an occasional Guru Meditation (Mac OS X hosts only; bugs #12727, #12954)
     245 * VMM: fixed a rare condition that would fail to invalidate guest TLB entries or would invalidate them when not required (Windows hosts only)
     246 * VMM: fixed a ''VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED'' Guru Meditation seen with certain guests, e.g. OpenServer 5.0.7
     247 * VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (tickets #12240, #12875)
     248 * GUI: fixed mouse positioning with mouse integration disabled and multiple guest screens (Windows hosts only; bug #9059)
     249 * GUI: fixed crash in VM manager (bug #12878)
     250 * GUI: fixed crash under rare conditions on entering/exiting full screen / seamless mode
     251 * Shared Clipboard: don't stop working after taking a snapshot (bug #12700)
     252 * AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances
     253 * API: fixed a hang during VM shutdown under rare conditions
     254 * NAT: fixed generation of malformed ICMP error datagrams (4.3.10 regression)
     255 * NAT: fixed potential crash in DNS proxy
     256 * NAT Network: don't drop port forwarding rules after some time
     257 * NAT: fixed ARP cache corruption and network loss in Windows guest caused by iSCSI service activity
     258 * USB: improved check if a storage device is currently mounted to the host when the device is about to be attached to the VM (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)
     259 * 3D support: several fixes, including better support for Ubuntu 14.04
     260 * VRDP: fixed a potential crash on client disconnect (bug #12858)
     261 * VBoxSVC: fixed a race when a new client is started a few seconds after the last client terminated (Windows hosts only; bugs #11309, #12509)
     262 * VBoxSVC: fixed !VirtualBox.xml registry corruption after VM renaming
     263 * VBoxSVC: fixed a potential crash caused by incorrect USB device filter (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)
     264 * Windows hosts: partly support 32-bit COM on 64-bit systems
     265 * Windows host installer: implemented merge module (msm) support
     266 * Linux hosts: fixed dependency of boot script on older Debian systems (bug #12262)
     267 * Linux guests: fix symbolic link to shared folder helper (bug #12879)
     268 * Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService during guest execute for users without a password (bug #12994)
     269 * Linux Additions: fixed a bug in guest execution where the guest process terminated with ''VERR_INTERRUPTED'' to the host
     270
     271'''!VirtualBox 4.3.10''' (released 2014-03-25)[[BR]][[BR]]
     272This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     273 * VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers on certain host CPUs (e.g. bugs #12734, #12736, #12744, #12748, #12686, #12770)
     274 * VMM: fixed single-stepping for real-mode guests (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution) and some I/O instructions (bug #12636)
     275 * VMM: fixed a potential problem with COW pages if nested paging is not available
     276 * GUI: Mac OS X: experimental native full screen support for Mountain Lion and Mavericks (bug #12292)
     277 * GUI: Mac OS X: removed the mini-toolbar minimize button which doesn't work under Mac OS X full screen mode anyway
     278 * GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows and Mac OS X hosts: fixed keyboard re-synchronization if the feature is disabled (as done by default; bug #12758)
     279 * GUI: fixed a potential crash when opening the preferences menu (bug #12862)
     280 * OVF: fixed a crash of the !VirtualBox Manager when re-starting guest export (bug #12586)
     281 * 3D support: several fixes
     282 * HGCM: fixed a problem with saved states which could cause several guest misbehavior after a VM was started from a saved state
     283 * Storage: fixed a bug preventing to compact differential snapshots under certain conditions
     284 * VBoxSVC: fixed a segmentation fault on Linux hosts if a very long path exists under /dev (bug #12760)
     285 * API: fixed guest misbehavior under certain conditions if a storage medium was attached or removed at VM runtime
     286 * Windows installer: make the ''--silent'' parameter work again (bug #12764)
     287 * Mac OS X Networking: prevent local traffic (VM-to/from-host) from leaking to wire (bug #12750)
     288 * Windows Additions: fixed the environment for guest processes (4.3.8 regression; bug #12782)
     289 * Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed divide by zero exception with multiple guest screens under certain conditions
     290 * Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed crashes with 2D video acceleration enabled (4.3.8 regression; bug #12745)
     291 * Linux Additions: install correctly on Ubuntu guest systems with a /usr/lib64 directory (bug #12513)
     292 * X11 Additions: fix for the VBoxClient process not exiting correctly (bug #12348) and consuming too much processor time
     293
     294'''!VirtualBox 4.3.8''' (released 2014-02-25)[[BR]][[BR]]
     295This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     296 * VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers (e.g. bugs #12224, #12544)
     297 * VMM: fixed a ''VERR_INVALID_RPL'' Guru Meditation when booting certain guests (bug #11350)
     298 * VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see the manual for more information how to enable it (bug #8651)
     299 * VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization
     300 * GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see the manual for more information
     301 * GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104)
     302 * GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in full screen / seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199)
     303 * GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box replaced with corresponding button
     304 * GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar indicator
     305 * GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types (bug #12533)
     306 * GUI: better error message if appliance import fails (bug #12657)
     307 * GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings / Input page (bug #12730)
     308 * GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot merge (4.3 regression)
     309 * VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times
     310 * AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances
     311 * AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain circumstances
     312 * AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)
     313 * AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions
     314 * AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions
     315 * AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes
     316 * NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used (bug #12441)
     317 * NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with ICMP packets having TTL=1
     318 * NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly
     319 * NAT Network: ping proxy implemented
     320 * OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element (4.3 regression; bug #12345)
     321 * OVF: several fixes
     322 * 3D support: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124)
     323 * 3D support: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666)
     324 * 3D support: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758)
     325 * VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest Additions are active (bug #6649)
     326 * USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare circumstances
     327 * BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives
     328 * API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)
     329 * VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events (see the manual for more information) and added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low event (bug #9925)
     330 * VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups (bug #12569)
     331 * VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in /bin (bug #12713)
     332 * Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578)
     333 * Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network (bug #12241)
     334 * Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining the number of physical CPU cores
     335 * Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)
     336 * Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720)
     337 * Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar environment contents (bug #12596)
     338 * Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)
     339 * Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563)
     340 * Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users
     341 * Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on XPDM -> WDDM upgrade
     342 * Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables
     343 * Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels (bug #12505)
     344 * Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels
     345 * Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already mounted
     346 * X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623)
     347
     348'''!VirtualBox 4.3.6''' (released 2013-12-18)[[BR]][[BR]]
     349This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     350 * VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation ''VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT'' caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451)
     351 * VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation ''VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE'' while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410)
     352 * VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation ''VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT'' while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481)
     353 * VMM: fixed a ''VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC'' error when trying to load a saved state made with VBox 4.3.4 when VT-x/AMD-V is disabled. Unfortunately, VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard these states (bug #12414)
     354 * VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests (bug #12245)
     355 * GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression, bug #12205)
     356 * GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors (bug #12480)
     357 * Main: don't automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if VT-x/AMD-V is not available (bug #12424)
     358 * Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests (bug #12017)
     359 * Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change (bug #7063)
     360 * Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling ''IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp()'' (bug #12498)
     361 * API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes due to GUI unavailability
     362 * Storage: fix for ''BLKCACHE_IOERR'' runtime errors under rare circumstances (bug #11030)
     363 * Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426)
     364 * E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection
     365 * 3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina hosts only; bug #11021)
     366 * Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones (4.3 regression, bug #12271)
     367
     368'''!VirtualBox 4.3.4''' (released 2013-11-29)[[BR]][[BR]]
     369This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     370 * VMM: fix for a bug in the Local APIC emulation causing a BSOD when booting certain guests (4.3.0 regression; bug #12240)
     371 * VMM: fixed loading of saved states if VT-x/AMD-V was disabled (4.3.2 regression; bug #12291)
     372 * VMM: fixed single-stepping inside the guest for certain instructions (VT-x only; bug #10947)
     373 * VMM: fixed a performance issue involving APIC accesses after rebooting a VM (4.3.0 regression; VT-x only; bug #12296)
     374 * VMM: fixed TPR patching to be enabled for 32-bit guests even when the chosen guest type is 64-bit (4.3.0 regression; AMD-V only)
     375 * VMM: fixed occasional ''VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT'' errors on hosts without the unrestricted guest execution feature (bug #12198)
     376 * GUI: don't bother the user with the BPP warning if no Guest Additions are installed
     377 * GUI: fixed machine-window paint artifacts on VM reboot / guest-screen resize
     378 * GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to the exported appliance
     379 * GUI: fixed bugs in close VM action restrictions handling (bug #12333)
     380 * GUI: fixed incorrect wizards text colors for some unusual look and feel styles (bug #11743)
     381 * GUI: should restore seamless mode as soon as possible after VM reboot or shutdown
     382 * GUI: fixes for medium enumeration
     383 * GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a !VirtualBox VM is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139)
     384 * GUI: fixed an old bug which bared the host from cleanly shutdown / reboot if the VM selector window is open (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #8254)
     385 * Host-only Networking: fixed creating of host-only network interfaces (4.3.0 regression; bug #12182)
     386 * NAT: don't run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300)
     387 * NAT: don't re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225)
     388 * NAT: fixed several issues with automatically starting / terminating of NAT networks on VM start / stop and configuration changes
     389 * VBoxNetDHCP: don't block prevent VBoxSVC from terminating (bug #12264)
     390 * 2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches (bug #9194)
     391 * BusLogic: allow to run VMs with more than one BusLogic SCSI controller enabled
     392 * Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289)
     393 * VBoxSVC: fixed a heap corruption under certain conditions (4.3.0 regression)
     394 * VBoxSVC: fixed a race leading to a hang during initialization (bug #12349)
     395 * OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple VMs
     396 * OVF: improved logic for finding an appropriate image format during OVF import
     397 * API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks, their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM configuration corruption
     398 * API: mark VM configurations with snapshots but without current snapshot as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense
     399 * API: fixed information for some automatically generated events (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice (bug #12379)
     400 * SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings
     401 * Guest Control: various bug fixes and improved VBoxManage help (bugs #8072, #11044, #12336, #12338, #12346, #12371)
     402 * Windows hosts: another attempt to fix the massive DPC latency (bug #6242)
     403 * Windows host installer: make registering file extensions optional, contributed by Tal Aloni (bug #8009)
     404 * Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for Mavericks hosts (bug #12256)
     405 * Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the !VirtualBox dock icon was not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing Mavericks hosts from shutting down (bug #12241)
     406 * Mac OS X hosts: fixed minor installer issue (bug #12275)
     407 * Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.13 compile fixes (bug #12358)
     408 * Linux guests: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on OL/RHEL 6.1 guests (bug #11996)
     409 * Linux guests: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1 (bug #12320 comments 3 and 4)
     410 * Guest Additions/3D: fixed an occasional dead-lock (bug #12319)
     411 * Windows Additions/3D: fixed possible memory leaking (bug #12228)
     412 * Windows Additions/XPDM: use separate tables containing valid video modes for each virtual monitor
     413 * Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Vista and newer Windows guests (bug #12332)
     414
     415'''!VirtualBox 4.3.2''' (released 2013-11-01)[[BR]][[BR]]
     416This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
     417 * VMM: fixed restoring of the auxiliary TSC MSR in VT-x that caused host BSODs on Windows 8.1 hosts and unpredictable behavior on other hosts (bug #12237)
     418 * VMM: provide fake values for a couple of MSRs to make more guests happy on certain hosts
     419 * VMM: fixed detection of VT-x on certain machines where the BIOS would not set the VMX LOCK feature bit, which affected the VM settings in the GUI
     420 * VMM: fixed TPR threshold which caused BSODs on Windows XP guests that use the I/O APIC (VT-x only; bug #12227)
     421 * VMM: fixed PATM saved state incompatibility for software virtualized VMs (bug #12222)
     422 * VMM: don't fail if AMD-V isn't available if the VM is configured to use software virtualization
     423 * GUI: fixed guest resize breakage on visual representation mode change (when switching from normal to full screen etc)
     424 * GUI: make sure the guest screen is resized after restoring a VM from a saved state if the host screen size changed
     425 * GUI: disabled SCROLL LED sync from HID LEDs synchronization (Mac OS X hosts only)
     426 * Webcam passthrough improvements including GUI support (see the manual for more information)
     427 * Guest Control: implemented more ''IGuestSession'' methods
     428 * Guest Control: added support for deleting and renaming guest files + directories in VBoxManage
     429 * Guest Control: various bugfixes
     430 * API: incorrect handling of hardware UUID default value, resulting in an all zero DMI/SMBIOS UUID, which leads to Windows requesting re-activation (4.3 regression; bug #12244)
     431 * 3D support: fixed crash on shutdown if 2D video acceleration is enabled (Mac OS X hosts only)
     432 * 3D support: miscellaneous fixes
     433 * Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty to a host drive with passthrough enabled
     434 * Storage: fixed hang of the VM process when the disk is full under certain circumstances
     435 * NAT: listen for changes of NAT Network setting at runtime
     436 * NAT: NAT Network DHCP server now saves leases to a persistent storage
     437 * Main: monitor changes in host DNS configuration
     438 * Mac OS X host: reworked a mechanism of adding a VM desktop alias from the VM selector
     439 * Mac OS X installer: remove old kernel extensions during upgrade (bug #12258)
     440 * Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing (bug #12166)
     441 * X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503, thank you Sam Spilsbury)
     442 * X11 Additions/3D: fix depth buffer support (bug #11905)
     443 * X11 Additions/3D: fix Age Of Empires 3 rendering (bug #11331)
     444 * Windows Additions/3D: fix Google Earth plugin rendering
     445 * Windows Additions/WDDM: autoresize fixes
     446
     447'''!VirtualBox 4.3.0''' (released 2013-10-15)[[BR]][[BR]]
     448This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
     449 * VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code and the AMD-V code including many bug fixes and performance improvements (for example bug #9659)
     450 * VMM: introduced a lightweight instruction interpreter for situations not handled by hardware virtualization
     451 * GUI: extended messaging mechanism (new non-modal popup overlays used to show non-critical warnings and provide user with additional information)
     452 * GUI: keyboard shortcuts management (input page of global preferences extended with possibility to edit general keyboard shortcuts for !VirtualBox Manager and Virtual Machine)
     453 * GUI: video capturing support (bug #4766)
     454 * Added USB touch device emulation
     455 * Added experimental support for webcam passthrough complementing USB passthrough (see the manual for more information)
     456 * Added SCSI CD-ROM emulation, including boot support
     457 * VRDP: support for IPv6
     458 * Guest Control: guest sessions now are running in dedicated, impersonated session processes (needs at least Guest Additions 4.3 installed)
     459 * Guest Control: implemented IGuestFile support
     460 * NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are attached to the same internal network and share one NAT service (see the manual for more information)
     461In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
     462 * VMM: significantly improved performance of NetWare 5.x/6.x guests on host systems without nested paging support
     463 * VMM: fixed losing host NMIs while in VT-x guest-context
     464 * VMM: changed order of actions in emulated task switch (bug #10532)
     465 * VMM: allow to activate VT-x while in SMX mode and provide more information if that is not possible
     466 * GUI: update check uses https
     467 * GUI: numerous minor internal cleanups and bug fixes
     468 * GUI: HID LEDs synchronization when switching between guest window(s) and host (Mac OS X hosts only)
     469 * GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)
     470 * GUI: use the number of physical presented processor cores instead of the number of logical processor cores to check if the users assigned too many virtual CPUs to the guest
     471 * Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)
     472 * Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)
     473 * Storage: implemented AHA-154x compatibility mode in the emulated BusLogic SCSI HBA
     474 * Storage: significantly improved performance of large ATAPI PIO transfers (BeOS, Minix 3 guests affected)
     475 * Storage: added floppy formatting emulation (NB: cannot be used to change existing media geometry)
     476 * Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration, useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends
     477 * Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes
     478 * Settings: the per-VM hwvirtextexcl setting has been replaced by a global hwvirtexclusive property
     479 * Main: new event queue implementation which does not use the host's native event queue for processing !VirtualBox events anymore
     480 * Main: eliminate the use of SysV semaphores on all host OSes other than Windows, namely Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, with the consequence that no system reconfiguration is needed to run more than approximately 100 VMs
     481 * Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of .!VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)
     482 * Main: extension pack framework can now support loading HGCM modules, contributed by Jeff Westphal
     483 * VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy media, and support the ''--long'' option to show really all available details
     484 * VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for the automatic Guest Additions update
     485 * VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest sessions, guest processes and/or guest files via ''guestcontrol list <all|sessions|processes|files>''
     486 * VBoxManage: added support for closing active guest sessions via ''guestcontrol session close --session-id <ID> | --session-name <name or pattern> | --all''
     487 * VBoxManage: added support for terminating active guest processes via ''guestcontrol process kill|close|terminate --session-id <ID>| --session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n>'' or ''guestcontrol [p[s]]kill --session-id <ID>| --session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n>''
     488 * VBoxManage: added support for watching guest sessions via ''guestcontrol watch''
     489 * VBoxManage: added ''modifyvm --triplefaultreset'' to make the VM reset on triple fault instead of triggering a Guru Meditation (see the manual for more information)
     490 * 3D support: several fixes
     491 * 3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts
     492 * OVF: several fixes
     493 * Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with special characters
     494 * Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del for the USB keyboard emulation
     495 * Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed by François Revol
     496 * Mac OS X hosts: limited support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
     497 * Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940)
     498 * Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (only on certain hosts; still needs improving; bug #6242)
     499 * Windows hosts: consider symlinks when retrieving volume information (bug #11962)
     500 * Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible when plugged into USB 3.0 ports
     501 * Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)
     502 * Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by ''WTSQuerySessionInformation()'' on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072)
     503 * Windows Additions: ability to track guest user idle times through the newly introduced event IGuestUserStateChangedEvent
     504 * Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script with Linux 3.x kernels

© 2023 Oracle
ContactPrivacy policyTerms of Use