Changelog from 1.6.2 to 2.0.2: VirtualBox 2.0.2 (released 2008-09-12) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: * VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167) * VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others) * VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha, Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) * VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) * VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) * VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) * GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in the virtual disk manager * GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064) * GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060) * GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081) * GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066) * GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #2067) * GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only) * GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) * VBoxManage: fixed crash during internalcommands createrawvmdk (bug #2184) * VBoxManage: fixed output of snapshot showvminfo (bug #698) * Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces (Windows guests only) * Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes (bug #2055) * API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only) * VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection (configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) * VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem * Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078) * Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27 * Mac OS X hosts: added Python support * Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after a VM reboot * Windows additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117) * Linux additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with buggy X servers * Linux additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests (dynamic resizing disabled for the latter) (bug #1854) * Linux additions: added installer check for the system architecture * Linux additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions (bug #2128) * VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062) * VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading the wrong data (bug #2085) * Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183) * Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the host when host interface networking was enabled * Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when installing under the wrong architecture * Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948) * Solaris additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit additions installer into a single package * Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial port to the guest VirtualBox 2.0.0 (released 2008-09-04) This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: * 64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) * New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts * The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements * New-version notifier * Guest property information interface * Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts * New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts * Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain) * Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics) * Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw disks/partitions (major performance gain) * Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests * Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts * Support for VHD disk images In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: * VMM: VT-x fixes * AHCI/SATA: improved performance * GUI: keyboard fixes * Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if unregistering the DKMS module fails * Linux additions: the guest screen resolution is properly restored * Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes) * Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11 * Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn’t simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766) VirtualBox 1.6.6 (released 2008-08-26) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: * VMM: fixed excessive logging (bug #1901) * VMM: AMD-V stability fixes (bug #1685) * GUI: added support for Ctrl+Caps reversed keyboards (bug #1891) * SATA: fixed BSODs of Windows guests on a SATA disk (bug #1941) * SATA: fixed hard disk detection on Solaris 10 U5 (bug #1789) * VBoxHeadless: don’t start the clipboard service (bug #1743) * VBoxHeadless: added -vrdp parameter which allows to start the VM session without VRDP (bug #1960) * VBoxManage: fixes to creating raw disk/partition VMDK files, now accepts removable media on Windows (bug #1869) * VRDP: fixed communication with MS Remote Desktop Connection on Mac OS X (bug #1337) * VRDP: clipboard fixes (bug #1410) * VRDP: fixed crash during PAM authentication (bug #1953) * Shared Folders: fixed a regression introduced in version 1.6.2: the shared folders service was sometimes not properly installed (Windows guests only, bug #1915) * Shared Folders: don’t deny to load a VM if a shared folder is not accessible (bug #822) * BIOS: allow to specify empty DMI strings (bug #1957) * OSE archive: added missing Makefiles (bug #1912) * Linux hosts: workaround for buggy gcc-4.3 compilers (e.g. openSUSE 11) * Linux hosts: one more fix for compiling the kernel modules on Linux 2.6.27 (bug #1962) * Mac OS X hosts: shared folders unicode fix * Solaris hosts: fixed link issue (bug #1840) * Windows additions: allow to downgrade the package * Windows additions: fixed corrupted installer icon on Windows 2000 (bug #1486) * Windows additions: fixed bug when creating intermediate directories (bug #1870) * Windows additions: implemented /xres=, /yres= and /depth= switches for the installer (bug #1990) * Linux additions: properly unregister the misc device when unloading the kernel module * Linux additions: fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions again (e.g. openSUSE 11) * Linux additions: attempt to fix the autostart issue of !VBoxClient with Mandriva guests (bug #1699) * Linux additions: fixed detection of patched Linux 2.6.18 kernels of RHEL5 / FC6 / CentOS 5.2 (bugs #1899, #1973) * Linux additions: added new mount flags dmode, fmode, umask, dmask and fmask allowing to override the file mode (bug #1776) * Documentation: added a note that jumbo frames don’t work (bug #1877) * Documentation: document special host interface names on openSUSE11 (bug #1892) VirtualBox 1.6.4 (released 2008-07-30) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: * AMD-V, VT-x: stability fixes * Shared Folders: fixed host crash (Solaris host only, bugs #1336, #1646) * Shared Folders: fixed BSOD when debugging with Visual Studio (bug #1627) * Shared Folders: fixed BSOD when compiling on a shared folder (bug #1683) * Shared Folders: several fixes/stability improvements * SATA: fixed a race that could cause an occasional Windows guest system hang * SATA: fixed spurious BIOS log messages * Networking: fixed NIC tracing with NAT interfaces (bug #1790) * USB: fixed crash under certain conditions when unplugging a USB device (bug #1295) * Settings: fixed bug when converting 1.5.x settings * RDP: fixed enabling the RDP server during runtime * RDP: properly detect the rdesktop 1.6.0 RDP client * RDP: fixed RDP crash (bug #1521) * RDP: updated modified rdesktop client to version 1.6.0 * GUI: NLS improvements * BIOS: added SMBIOS header to make Solaris and Vista recognize the DMI data * ACPI: properly hide a disabled floppy controller * VMM: small fixes to protected mode without paging * VMDK: fixed handling of .vmdk images without UUIDs * Windows hosts: fixed driver parameter validation issue in VBoxDrv.sys that could allow an attacker on the host to crash the system * Windows hosts: installer now contains web service examples mentioned in the manual * Linux hosts: properly deregister the Linux kernel module before uninstalling a Linux deb/rpm package * Linux hosts: kernel module works now with Linux 2.6.27 * Linux hosts: fixed a typo in the vboxnet setup script for host network interfaces (bug #1714) * Linux hosts: fixed usage of tar in installer (bug #1767) * Linux hosts: fixed long guest shutdown time when serial port is enabled * Solaris hosts: refuse to install in Sun xVM hypervisor dom0 * Solaris hosts: accept Solaris raw disks when for raw disk access * Windows additions: made installation of shared folders more robust * Windows additions: improved installation * Linux additions: accept every user-defined guest video mode in /etc/X11/xorg.conf * Linux additions: fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions (e.g. openSUSE 11)