| 3 | | '''!VirtualBox 3.2.12''' (released 2010-11-30)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 4 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 5 | | * VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #7577) |
| 6 | | * VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529) |
| 7 | | * VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586) |
| 8 | | * VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages |
| 9 | | * VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU |
| 10 | | * Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while the VM is running |
| 11 | | * GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when starting from a saved state |
| 12 | | * NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353) |
| 13 | | * Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000 |
| | 3 | '''!VirtualBox 4.0.0''' (released 2010-12-22)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| | 4 | This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: |
| | 5 | * 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 |
| | 6 | * New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see chapter 10.1, Where !VirtualBox stores its files, see the manual for more information |
| | 7 | * Major rework of the GUI (now called “!VirtualBox Manager”): |
| | 8 | * Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots) |
| | 9 | * New “scale” display mode with scaled guest display; see chapter 1.8.5, Resizing the machine’s window, see the manual for more information |
| | 10 | * Support for creating and starting .vbox desktop shortcuts (bug #1889) |
| | 11 | * The VM list is now sortable |
| | 12 | * 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) |
| | 13 | * Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322) |
| | 14 | * VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts |
| | 15 | * New virtual hardware: |
| | 16 | * 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 |
| | 17 | * Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems (e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785) |
| | 18 | * Improvements to OVF support (see chapter 1.12, Importing and exporting virtual machines, see the manual for more information): |
| | 19 | * Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support |
| | 20 | * Significant performance improvements during export and import |
| | 21 | * Creation of the manifest file on export is optional now |
| | 22 | * Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK |
| | 23 | * 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 |
| | 24 | * Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and Parallels images |
| | 25 | * Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see chapter 8.21, VBoxManage modifyhd, see the manual for more information. |
| | 26 | * Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later |
| | 27 | * Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local (COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs |
| | 28 | In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: |
| | 29 | * VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts (applies to nested paging only) |
| | 30 | * VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557) |
| | 31 | * VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only, non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819) |
| | 32 | * GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode (bug #1657) |
| | 33 | * GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore |
| | 34 | * GUI: certain GUI warnings don’t stop the VM output anymore |
| | 35 | * GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #5449) |
| | 36 | * BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain guests (e.g. Solaris) |
| | 37 | * Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network (Linux hosts only; bug #7792) |
| | 38 | * 3D support: allow use of CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH again (bug #6864) |
| | 39 | * 3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659, #5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570) |
| | 40 | * 3D support: guest application stack corruption when using glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395) |
| | 41 | * 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9 |
| | 42 | * 3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty |
| | 43 | * 2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support |
| 37 | | '''!VirtualBox 3.2.10''' (released 2010-10-08)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 38 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 39 | | * VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386 (3.2.8 regression) |
| 40 | | * VMM: stability fix (bug #7342) |
| 41 | | * VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300) |
| 42 | | * VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts |
| 43 | | * VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with nested paging (bug #7544 |
| 44 | | * VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than 2 GB RAM (bug #6928) |
| 45 | | * GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt (Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758) |
| 46 | | * GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar (bug #4952) |
| 47 | | * GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6122) |
| 48 | | * GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard |
| 49 | | * GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed (Linux hosts only) |
| 50 | | * !OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default |
| 51 | | * Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294) |
| 52 | | * Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289) |
| 53 | | * Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was canceled |
| 54 | | * IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs (bug #3494) |
| 55 | | * SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests |
| 56 | | * SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better |
| 57 | | * iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection |
| 58 | | * VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain circumstances (bug #7291) |
| 59 | | * VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes |
| 60 | | * Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown (Linux hosts only) |
| 61 | | * NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering a file via bootp (bug #7384) |
| 62 | | * NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138) |
| 63 | | * NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load (non-Windows hosts only) |
| 64 | | * VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966) |
| 65 | | * VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain circumstances |
| 66 | | * USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some printers |
| 67 | | * USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465) |
| 68 | | * VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to hangs if the VM could not be started successfully |
| 69 | | * VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters are passed (bug #7388) |
| 70 | | * VBoxManage: clonehd: fixed a bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare circumstances |
| 71 | | * VBoxManage: metrics: made it work for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482) |
| 72 | | * 3D support: report ''GLX_ARB_get_proc_address'' as supported extension |
| 73 | | * 3D support: guest application stack corruption when using glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395) |
| 74 | | * 3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314) |
| 75 | | * 3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066) |
| 76 | | * OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks (bug #7366) |
| 77 | | * OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719) |
| 78 | | * OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no longer verified on import nor written on export |
| 79 | | * Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266) |
| 80 | | * Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349) |
| 81 | | * Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004) |
| 82 | | * Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the NULL audio backend (bug #6911) |
| 83 | | * Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy) (bug #6816) |
| 84 | | * Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads |
| 85 | | * Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing more than one environment variable |
| 86 | | * Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService after the VM was restored from a saved state |
| 87 | | * Additions: fixed a division by zero crash of VBoxService under certain circumstances |
| 88 | | * Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018) |
| 89 | | * Additions/Windows: fixed ''!LsaEnumerate'' error when enumerating logged in users |
| 90 | | * Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306) |
| 91 | | * Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot |
| 92 | | * Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10 |
| 93 | | * Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data in the event of a VM crash |
| 94 | | * Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection |
| 95 | | * Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295) |
| 96 | | * Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on 32-bit guests (bug #7324) |
| 97 | | * Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7448) |
| 98 | | * Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes |
| 99 | | * Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817) |
| 100 | | * Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392) |
| 101 | | |
| 102 | | '''!VirtualBox 3.2.8''' (released 2010-08-06)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 103 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 104 | | * 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 |
| 105 | | * GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459) |
| 106 | | * GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #6809) |
| 107 | | * 3D support: fixed ''GL_EXT_texture_sRGB'' support |
| 108 | | * PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression |
| 109 | | * OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073) |
| 110 | | * USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status changes |
| 111 | | * USB: respect the remote-only filter |
| 112 | | * USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of certain devices (Windows hosts only) |
| 113 | | * USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983) |
| 114 | | * !PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature |
| 115 | | * !PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs |
| 116 | | * !PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests |
| 117 | | * Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled |
| 118 | | * Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on bridged device (bug #7059) |
| 119 | | * Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081) |
| 120 | | * Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup (bug #6832) |
| 121 | | * !BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO !OpenServer guests |
| 122 | | * !LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances |
| 123 | | * Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs without external tools and tricks (see [/manual/ch05.html#hdimagewrites here] for a short explanation) |
| 124 | | * Shared folders: several fixes and performance enhancements for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512) |
| 125 | | * Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations |
| 126 | | * Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171) |
| 127 | | * Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on shutdown |
| 128 | | * RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability fixes |
| 129 | | * 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) |
| 130 | | * Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176) |
| 131 | | * VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly in subcommand openmedium disk (bug #6751) |
| 132 | | * Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance |
| 133 | | * Web service: added timestamps to logging output |
| 134 | | * Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII |
| 135 | | * X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4) |
| 136 | | |
| 137 | | '''!VirtualBox 3.2.6''' (released 2010-06-25)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 138 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 139 | | * VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) |
| 140 | | * 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) |
| 141 | | * VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740) |
| 142 | | * VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052) |
| 143 | | * Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) |
| 144 | | * Teleportation: several fixes and improvements |
| 145 | | * Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix |
| 146 | | * EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM assigned |
| 147 | | * GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only) |
| 148 | | * GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if multiple screens are enabled |
| 149 | | * GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727) |
| 150 | | * GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938) |
| 151 | | * GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts again (bug #7022). |
| 152 | | * 2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode (bug #6768) |
| 153 | | * VBoxManage: fixed ''storageattach'' error handling (bug #6927) |
| 154 | | * VBoxManage: fixed ''dhcpserver add'' (3.2.0 regression; bug #7031) |
| 155 | | * Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which don't support async I/O (bug #6905) |
| 156 | | * Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6987) |
| 157 | | * !LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests |
| 158 | | * !BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O |
| 159 | | * SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle 30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984) |
| 160 | | * SATA: performance improvement |
| 161 | | * SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows installation (bug #5101) |
| 162 | | * iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031) |
| 163 | | * Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6872) |
| 164 | | * NAT: fixed potential memory leaks |
| 165 | | * NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames (performance tweak) |
| 166 | | * NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM is currently paused |
| 167 | | * E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC was not yet initialized by the guest |
| 168 | | * OVF: export performance optimization |
| 169 | | * OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7 and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export |
| 170 | | * Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes not properly saved |
| 171 | | * Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656) |
| 172 | | * USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port |
| 173 | | * USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034) |
| 174 | | * POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression) |
| 175 | | * Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances (IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression) |
| 176 | | * Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899) |
| 177 | | * Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host kernel allows for more virtual address space |
| 178 | | * Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed (bug #5251) |
| 179 | | * Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on !ArchLinux guests (bug #6937) |
| 180 | | * X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260) |
| 181 | | * Solaris Additions: fixed guest control execution |
| 182 | | * Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes |
| 183 | | * Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer |
| 184 | | * Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453) |
| 185 | | * 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit apps under 64bit Windows guests |
| 186 | | |
| 187 | | '''!VirtualBox 3.2.4''' (released 2010-06-07)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 188 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 189 | | * GUI: fixed a superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11 (improvement for the 3.2.2 fix) |
| 190 | | * Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855) |
| 191 | | * Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with growing images (3.2.0 regression) |
| 192 | | * Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests |
| 193 | | * 3D support: allow use of ''CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH'' again (bug #6864) |
| 194 | | * 3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest applications (bug #5236) |
| 195 | | * 3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup |
| 196 | | * OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation) (3.2.2 regression; bug #6914) |
| 197 | | * VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759) |
| 198 | | |
| 199 | | '''!VirtualBox 3.2.2''' (released 2010-06-02)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 200 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 201 | | * VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only) |
| 202 | | * VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716) |
| 203 | | * VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728) |
| 204 | | * GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual state |
| 205 | | * GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration |
| 206 | | * GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727) |
| 207 | | * GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open |
| 208 | | * GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings |
| 209 | | * GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11 |
| 210 | | * GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu |
| 211 | | * GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs |
| 212 | | * VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764) |
| 213 | | * SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances |
| 214 | | * SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken |
| 215 | | * Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O |
| 216 | | * Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM (bug #6784) |
| 217 | | * Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests |
| 218 | | * Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing |
| 219 | | * HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were accessing a non-existing HGCM service |
| 220 | | * Teleportation: several fixes |
| 221 | | * Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default |
| 222 | | * USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows host only |
| 223 | | * Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the probability for loosing bytes during transmission (bug #1548) |
| 224 | | * NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847) |
| 225 | | * NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797) |
| 226 | | * NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four (non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098) |
| 227 | | * NAT: fixed DNS transaction id mismatch (bug #6833) |
| 228 | | * VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime |
| 229 | | * Bridged Networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824) |
| 230 | | * Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748) |
| 231 | | * Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature |
| 232 | | * Linux guests: enable PAE for !RedHat guests by default |
| 233 | | * Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration (bug #6714) |
| 234 | | * Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice. |
| 235 | | * OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802) |
| 236 | | * OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files |
| 237 | | * 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit apps on windows guests |
| 238 | | * 3D support: fixed various host crashes (#2954, #5713, #6443) |
| 239 | | |
| 240 | | '''!VirtualBox 3.2.0''' (released 2010-05-18)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 241 | | This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: |
| 242 | | * 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 |
| 243 | | * Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see the [/manual/ch03.html#intro-macosxguests manual] for more information) |
| 244 | | * Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the [/manual/ch04.html#guestadd-balloon manual] for more information) |
| 245 | | * Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts (see the [/manual/ch04.html#guestadd-pagefusion manual] for more information) |
| 246 | | * CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see the [/manual/ch09.html#cpuhotplug manual] for more information) |
| 247 | | * New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance (see the [/manual/ch10.html#nestedpaging manual] for more information); 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) |
| 248 | | * Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running |
| 249 | | * Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows guests (see the [/manual/ch03.html#settings-display manual] for more information) |
| 250 | | * USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no Guest Additions are available (see the [/manual/ch03.html#settings-motherboard manual] for more information). |
| 251 | | * !LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see the [/manual/ch05.html#harddiskcontrollers manual] for more information) |
| 252 | | * RDP video acceleration (see the [/manual/ch07.html#vrdp-videochannel manual] for more information) |
| 253 | | * NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage |
| 254 | | * Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see the [/manual/ch05.html#iocaching manual] for more information) |
| 255 | | * Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see the [/manual/ch04.html#guestadd-guestcontrol manual] for more information) |
| 256 | | * OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings that are not part of the base OVF standard |
| 257 | | |
| 258 | | In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 259 | | * VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large amount of RAM (bug #5800) |
| 260 | | * Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added |
| 261 | | * GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new VM |
| 262 | | * GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310) |
| 263 | | * GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and #1669) |
| 264 | | * GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug #6442) |
| 265 | | * GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key combination (bug #684) |
| 266 | | * GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down the VM from the GUI |
| 267 | | * Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy medium is not accessible |
| 268 | | * Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files |
| 269 | | * Mac OS X: rewrite of the !CoreAudio driver and added support for audio input (bug #5869) |
| 270 | | * Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug #3106) |
| 271 | | * Mac OS X: Moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure it. |
| 272 | | * Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu |
| 273 | | * 3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695) |
| 274 | | * 3D support: fixed VM crashes when using ''ARB_IMAGING'' (bug #6014) |
| 275 | | * 3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598) |
| 276 | | * 3D support: added ''GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object'' support |
| 277 | | * 3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support |
| 278 | | * 3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653) |
| 279 | | * 3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz |
| 280 | | * Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET) |
| 281 | | * Added support for ''Virtual Distributed Ethernet'' (VDE) (Linux hosts only; see the [/manual/ch06.html#networkingmodes manual]) |
| 282 | | * OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller in !VirtualBox |
| 283 | | * OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace alphabetically as prescribed by standard |
| 284 | | * VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for !VirtualBox |
| 285 | | * Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370) |
| 286 | | * VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition VMDK (bugs #688, #4438) |
