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Changes between Version 87 and Version 88 of Changelog-5.1


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May 18, 2010 7:39:16 PM (14 years ago)
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Frank Mehnert
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  • Changelog-5.1

    v87 v88  
    44This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
    55 * Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, the product is now called ''Oracle VM !VirtualBox'' and all references were changed without impacting compatibility
    6  * Experimental support for Mac OS X guests (see the manual for more information)
    7  * Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the manual for more information)
    8  * Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on  64-bit hosts (see the manual for more information)
    9  * CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see the manual for more information)
    10  * New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance (see the manual for more information); also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster, which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)
     6 * Experimental support for Mac OS X guests (see the [/manual/ch03.html#intro-macosxguests manual] for more information)
     7 * Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the [/manual/ch04.html#guestadd-balloon manual] for more information)
     8 * Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on  64-bit hosts (see the [/manual/ch04.html#guestadd-pagefusion manual] for more information)
     9 * CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see the [/manual/ch09.html#cpuhotplug manual] for more information)
     10 * New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance (see the [/manual/ch10.html#nestedpaging manual] for more information); also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster, which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)
    1111 * Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running
    12  * Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows guests (see the manual for more information)
    13  * USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no Guest Additions are available (see the manual for more information).
    14  * !LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see the manual for more information)
    15  * RDP video acceleration (see the manual for more information)
     12 * Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows guests (see the [/manual/ch03.html#settings-display manual] for more information)
     13 * USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no Guest Additions are available (see the [/manual/ch03.html#settings-motherboard manual] for more information).
     14 * !LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see the [/manual/ch05.html#harddiskcontrollers manual] for more information)
     15 * RDP video acceleration (see the [/manual/ch07.html#vrdp-videochannel manual] for more information)
    1616 * NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage
    17  * Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see the manual for more information)
    18  * Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications from the host system (replaces the automatic system presimparation feature; see the manual for more information)
     17 * Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see the [/manual/ch05.html#iocaching manual] for more information)
     18 * Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications from the host system (replaces the automatic system presimparation feature; see the [/manual/ch04.html#guestadd-guestcontrol manual] for more information)
    1919 * OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings that are not part of the base OVF standard
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    3333 * Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu
    3434 * 3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)
    35  * 3D support: fixed VM crashes when using ARB_IMAGING (bug #6014)
     35 * 3D support: fixed VM crashes when using ''ARB_IMAGING'' (bug #6014)
    3636 * 3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)
    37  * 3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support
     37 * 3D support: added ''GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object'' support
    3838 * 3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support
    3939 * 3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)

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