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| | 3 | '''!VirtualBox 2.1.2''' (released 2009-01-19)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| | 4 | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| | 5 | * USB: improved support for recent Linux hosts |
| | 6 | * VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V) |
| | 7 | * VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x |
| | 8 | * VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127) |
| | 9 | * VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) |
| | 10 | * VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039) |
| | 11 | * VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) |
| | 12 | * VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM |
| | 13 | * VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) |
| | 14 | * VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) |
| | 15 | * VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) |
| | 16 | * VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) |
| | 17 | * VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts |
| | 18 | * VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests |
| | 19 | * GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory |
| | 20 | * GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type |
| | 21 | * VBoxSDL: fixed -fixed fixedmode parameter (bug #3067) |
| | 22 | * Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only, bug #2675 and #3003) |
| | 23 | * 3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications (bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089) |
| | 24 | * !LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental) |
| | 25 | * VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize events were not properly handled (bug #2783) |
| | 26 | * VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V on Mac OS X hosts |
| | 27 | * VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues) |
| | 28 | * VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up to correct ones (bug #2895) |
| | 29 | * IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795) |
| | 30 | * Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827) |
| | 31 | * Networking: fixed intermittend BSODs when using the new host interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929) |
| | 32 | * Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842) |
| | 33 | * Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780) |
| | 34 | * Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056). |
| | 35 | * NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808) |
| | 36 | * NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959) |
| | 37 | * NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709) |
| | 38 | * SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable |
| | 39 | * SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized (2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778) |
| | 40 | * SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files (Linux host only, bug #2796) |
| | 41 | * SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like formatting a drive |
| | 42 | * SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown |
| | 43 | * VRDP: fixed loading of libpam.so.1 from the host (Solaris hosts only) |
| | 44 | * VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects |
| | 45 | * VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection |
| | 46 | * VBoxManage showvminfo: fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773) |
| | 47 | * VBoxManage convertfromraw: added parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files; fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776) |
| | 48 | * VBoxManage clonehd: fixed garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813) |
| | 49 | * VBoxManage guestproperty: fixed property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception) |
| | 50 | * VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files (bug #2768) |
| | 51 | * Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849) |
| | 52 | * Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847) |
| | 53 | * Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a single, unified package |
| | 54 | * Linux hosts: don’t depend on libcap1 anymore (bug #2859) |
| | 55 | * Linux hosts: compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1 |
| | 56 | * Linux hosts: don’t drop any capability if the VM was started by root (2.1.0 regression) |
| | 57 | * Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine’s battery reaches critical level |
| | 58 | * Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window |
| | 59 | * Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is doing 3D |
| | 60 | * Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon |
| | 61 | * Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta |
| | 62 | * Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015) |
| | 63 | * Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing files on shared folders (bug #2764) |
| | 64 | * Windows Additions: fixed Ctrl-Alt-Del handling when using VBoxGINA |
| | 65 | * Windows Additions Installer: Added /extract switch to only extract (not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with ''/D=path'') |
| | 66 | * Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions (bug #2938) |
| | 67 | * Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on Linux guests |
| | 68 | * Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set fmode on mapped shared folders (bug #1776) |
| | 69 | * Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders (bug #1612) |
| | 70 | * Linux Additions: ignore noauto option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498) |
| | 71 | * Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905) |
| | 72 | * X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397) |
