New Version Of The PC Emulator VirtualBox

A virtual machine for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and more, very handy if you want to try out another OS without the hassle of repartitioning your drives and such,let’s see what’s in the news:

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)

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