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| 3 | '''!VirtualBox 1.4.0''' (released 2007-06-06) |
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| 5 | * General: added support for OS X hosts |
| 6 | * General: added support for AMD64 hosts |
| 7 | * General: signed all executables and device drivers on Windows |
| 8 | * GUI: added user interface for Shared Folders |
| 9 | * GUI: added context menu for network adapters |
| 10 | * GUI: added VM description field for taking notes |
| 11 | * GUI: always restore guest mouse pointer when entering VM window (Windowss host) |
| 12 | * GUI: added configuration options for clipboard synchronization |
| 13 | * GUI: improved keyboard handling on Linux hosts |
| 14 | * GUI: added first run wizard |
| 15 | * GUI: improved boot device order dialog |
| 16 | * GUI: auto-resize did not work after save/restore |
| 17 | * GUI: restore original window size when returning from fullscreen mode |
| 18 | * GUI: fixed screen update when switching to fullscreen mode |
| 19 | * GUI: the size of the VM window was sometimes resetted to 640x480 |
| 20 | * GUI: added localizationss |
| 21 | * GUI: various minor improvements |
| 22 | * VBoxManage: added convertdd command |
| 23 | * API: automatically start and terminate VBoxSVC on Linux and OS X hosts |
| 24 | * VMM: increased startup performance due to lazy memory allocation |
| 25 | * VMM: significantly increased maximum guest memory size |
| 26 | * VMM: fixed issues with V86 mode |
| 27 | * VMM: support V86 extensions (VME) |
| 28 | * VMM: support guests with a full GDT |
| 29 | * VMM: fixed boot hangs for some Linux kernels |
| 30 | * VMM: improved FreeBSD and OpenBSD support |
| 31 | * VMM: improved performance of guests that aggressively patch kernel code (very recent Linux 2.6 kernels) |
| 32 | * VMM: added workaround for a design flaw in AMD AM2 CPUs where the timestamp counter shows large differences among CPU cores |
| 33 | * VMM: fixed Linux guests with grsecurity |
| 34 | * VMM: fixed issue on 2G/2G Linux kernels (even 1G/3G kernels should work) |
| 35 | * VMM: fixed Linux detection of Local APIC on non-Intel and non-AMD CPUs |
| 36 | * VMM: timing improvements with high host system loads (VM starvation) |
| 37 | * VMM: experimental AMD SVM hardware virtualization support now also handles real and protected mode without paging |
| 38 | * VMM: added system time offset parameter to allow for VMs to run in the past or future |
| 39 | * VMM: provide an MPS 1.4 table if the IOAPIC is enabled |
| 40 | * RDP: allow binding the RDP server to a specific interface |
| 41 | * RDP: added support for clipboard synchronization |
| 42 | * RDP: fixed problems with OS X RDP client |
| 43 | * RDP: added support for multiple simultaneous connections to one VM |
| 44 | * RDP: added support for MS RDP6 clients (Vista) |
| 45 | * Storage: experimental support for VMDK images (writethrough mode only, no snapshots yet) |
| 46 | * Storage: raw host disk support, including individual partitions |
| 47 | * IDE: improve CHS geometry detection |
| 48 | * IDE: fixed problem that only one VM could open an immutable image |
| 49 | * NAT: allow more than one card configured for NAT networking |
| 50 | * NAT: pass first entry in DNS search list (Linux host) or primary DNS suffix (Windows host) as domain name in DHCP |
| 51 | * NAT: support UDP broadcasts, which enables using Windows shares |
| 52 | * NAT: only warn if the name server could not be determined, no fatal error anymore |
| 53 | * NAT: fix a potential problem with incorrect memory allocation |
| 54 | * Internal Networking: fixed issue on Windows hosts |
| 55 | * Host Interface Networking: fixed sporadic crashes on interface creation/destruction (Windows host) |
| 56 | * Host Interface Networking: reworked TAP handling for Linux 2.6.18+ compatibility |
| 57 | * PXE: show error for unsupported V86 case |
| 58 | * PXE: small fix for parsing PXE menu entry without boot server IP |
| 59 | * Network: fixed network card hang after save/restore |
| 60 | * USB: Rewrote Windows USB handling without the need for a filter driver |
| 61 | * USB: Possible to steal arbitrary devices in Windows |
| 62 | * Serial: added serial ports with support for named pipes (local domain sockets) on the host |
| 63 | * Audio: fixed problem with ALSA on Linux before 2.6.18 blocking other ALSA clients on the system |
| 64 | * Audio: fixed problem with ALSA on AMD64 hosts |
| 65 | * Input: fixed PS/2 mouse detection in Win 3.x guests |
| 66 | * Shared Folders: fixed VM save/restore behaviour |
| 67 | * Shared Folders: functionality and stability fixes |
| 68 | * Shared Folders: allow non admin users to map folders |
| 69 | * Additions: added clipboard synchronization |
| 70 | * Windows Additions: fixed dynamic resolution changes after save/restore |
| 71 | * Windows Additions: added AMD PCNet driver for Windows Vista guests (with kind permission from AMD) |
| 72 | * Linux Additions: fixed a dependency problem which caused the vboxadd kernel module sometimes start after the X server |
| 73 | * Linux Additions: make VBox version visible in Linux modules with modinfo |
| 74 | * Linux Additions: make X11 guest video driver accept arbitrary X resolutions |
| 75 | * Linux Additions: make X11 setup work if /tmp uses a separate file system |
| 76 | * Linux Additions: better support unknown distributions |
| 77 | * Linux Installer: force a non-executable stack for all binaries and shared libraries |
| 78 | * Linux Installer: make it work on SELinux-enabled systems |
| 79 | * Linux Installer: ship VBoxTunctl |