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| | 3 | '''!VirtualBox 4.0.4''' (released 2011-02-17)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| | 4 | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| | 5 | * VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions (bugs #8255, #8319 and further) |
| | 6 | * VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938) |
| | 7 | * VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062) |
| | 8 | * VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots (bugs #7910, #8059, #8125) |
| | 9 | * GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum number of host network interfaces |
| | 10 | * GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing snapshot (bug #8145) |
| | 11 | * GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131) |
| | 12 | * GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in the users home directory (bug #8017) |
| | 13 | * !ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878) |
| | 14 | * VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID (4.0 regression; bug #8342) |
| | 15 | * VBoxManage: allow ''savestate'' even if the VM is already paused |
| | 16 | * VBoxManage: fixed ''modifyvm --synthcpu'' (bug #6577) |
| | 17 | * VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing ''guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit'' and displaying process status on exit (bug #8235) |
| | 18 | * VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during ''guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit/stdout'' while waiting for the guest process to terminate (bug #7872) |
| | 19 | * VBoxManage: fixed ''list hostdvds/hostfloppies'' |
| | 20 | * VBoxManage: fixed ''storageattach'' for host DVD drives and host floppy drives |
| | 21 | * Metrics: introduced RAM/VMM base metric. |
| | 22 | * Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot (bug #7966) |
| | 23 | * Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start |
| | 24 | * Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105) |
| | 25 | * Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443) |
| | 26 | * Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium attachments (bug #8129) |
| | 27 | * Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression) |
| | 28 | * Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123) |
| | 29 | * Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905) |
| | 30 | * Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341) |
| | 31 | * NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459) |
| | 32 | * 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) |
| | 33 | * Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode (bug #8122) |
| | 34 | * Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221) |
| | 35 | * ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume |
| | 36 | * !BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs |
| | 37 | * Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission (bug #1548) |
| | 38 | * Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes |
| | 39 | * Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955) |
| | 40 | * Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap |
| | 41 | * X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart (bug #8231) |
| | 42 | * X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha. |
| | 43 | * X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login. |
| | 44 | * X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older VirtualBox versions can’t handle. |
| | 45 | * Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if a host link is not readable (bug #8185) |
| | 46 | * Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS) with VBoxGINA |
