| | 2 | '''!VirtualBox 1.6.2''' (released 2008-06-05)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| | 3 | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| | 4 | * GUI: fixed a bug which prevented to add more than one SATA drive from the GUI |
| | 5 | * GUI: fixed a regression introduced in 1.6.0: the fullscreen mode was left on every guest video mode switch |
| | 6 | * GUI: fixed several minor issues |
| | 7 | * Networking: fixed a host interface networking regression introduced in 1.6.0 |
| | 8 | * VMM: fixed starting of VMs with AMD-V enabled |
| | 9 | * VMM: massive performance enhancements for AMD-V |
| | 10 | * VMM: stability improvements for AMD-V on Windows hosts |
| | 11 | * VMM: correctly detect AMD CPUs with erratum 170 (AMD-V) |
| | 12 | * VMM: detect inconsistent timestamp counters on certain AMD Phenom CPUs (Windows host only) |
| | 13 | * VMM: fixed KVM check (Linux hosts only) XPCOM: fixed several races |
| | 14 | * SATA: improved performance with Vista guests |
| | 15 | * SATA: fixed statistics counter |
| | 16 | * Shared Folders: several fixes (iTunes download, speed up browsing) |
| | 17 | * ATA/IDE: fixed boot from CDROM if a medium was added while the boot menu was active |
| | 18 | * Networking: provide an Intel PRO/1000 T Server (82543GC) network device emulation which is recognized by Windows XP guests |
| | 19 | * Networking: fixes for the E1000 emulation (don't crash if not attached, fixed a bug in the statistics counter implementation) |
| | 20 | * NAT: don't crash if the guest sent a DHCPRELEASE message with an invalid IP address |
| | 21 | * NAT: fixed ARP reply for the NAT gateway and for the NAT name server if the guest IP range was changed |
| | 22 | * Internal Networking: fixed shutdown if more than two VMs are connected to the same network |
| | 23 | * BIOS: allow to change the DMI informatiton (see chapter 9.13, Con'guring the BIOS DMI information, page 125) |
| | 24 | * RTC: fixed UIP emulation to prevent jumping of time in Solaris guests |
| | 25 | * Windows host: !VirtualBox installation directory corrected for 64 bits Windows |
| | 26 | * Windows host: fixed VBoxVRDP.exe symlink |
| | 27 | * Windows host: solved locking problems in raw partition VMDK support |
| | 28 | * Windows host: fixed stability during high system load (page fault in !KeQueryActiveProcessors) |
| | 29 | * MacOS X host: fixed crashes under certain conditions |
| | 30 | * Shared Folders: limited users without admin rights now also can use Shared Folders on Windows guests |
| | 31 | * Linux hosts: fixed default runlevel for the kernel module helper script |
| | 32 | * Solaris hosts: enabled support for VT-x and AMD-V |
| | 33 | * Solaris hosts: dynamic loading of libdlpi fixes a problem where Solaris 10 was not able to start a VM |
| | 34 | * Linux additions: fixed runlevels for kernel module helper scripts |
| | 35 | * Linux additions: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.26 |
| | 36 | * Linux additions: fixed occasional guest kernel crash during unload of the vboxadd guest kernel module |
