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| 3 | '''!VirtualBox 4.0.6''' (released 2011-04-21)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 4 | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 5 | * VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring a VMM from a saved state |
| 6 | * VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads; implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489) |
| 7 | * VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE (bug #8006) |
| 8 | * VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels (bug #8726) |
| 9 | * GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979) |
| 10 | * GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814) |
| 11 | * GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799) |
| 12 | * GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM (bug #8469) |
| 13 | * GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy selectors |
| 14 | * GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182) |
| 15 | * GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing folder (bug #8673) |
| 16 | * Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363) |
| 17 | * Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory |
| 18 | * 3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate (Windows hosts only; bug #7133) |
| 19 | * Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966) |
| 20 | * Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network |
| 21 | * Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408) |
| 22 | * Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an I/O error occurred |
| 23 | * Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset (bug #8276, #8294) |
| 24 | * Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM |
| 25 | * ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none' if no medium is present |
| 26 | * Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE) |
| 27 | * Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362) |
| 28 | * Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour |
| 29 | * Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the host from sleep (bug #3625) |
| 30 | * Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731) |
| 31 | * NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static assigned IPs (bug #8609) |
| 32 | * VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication library (bug #8063) |
| 33 | * Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute, for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941) |
| 34 | * Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527) |
| 35 | * USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699) |
| 36 | * HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707) |
| 37 | * OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is changed on import |
| 38 | * OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias |
| 39 | * OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with multiple disks (bug #8253) |
| 40 | * rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions (bug #8593) |
| 41 | * Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized |
| 42 | * Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while captured |
| 43 | * Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode (shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822) |
| 44 | * X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438) |
| 45 | * X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1 |
| 46 | * Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing !VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686) |
| 47 | * Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned problem with memchr on 64-bit machines) |
| 48 | * Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead to unkillable VM processes |
| 49 | * Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling |
| 50 | * Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429) |
| 51 | * Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations on legacy Windows versions |
| 52 | * Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367) |
| 53 | * Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo |
| 54 | * X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final |
| 55 | * Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes |
| 56 | * Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509) |
| 57 | * Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests (bug #7946) |
| 58 | * Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9 |
| 59 | * Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution |
| 60 | * Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size |