New Version Of The PC Emulator VirtualBox

This virtual machine software gets an update now and looking at the list of systems it runs on most of you will be able to use should you so desire as it’s on Windows, Mac OSX, Solaris and many flavours of Linux, but the important bit of course is the news so let’s see what’s in it:

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 Resktop Connection on MacOS 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)

MacOS 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)

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VirtualBox Installer For Windows (22.4 MiB, 24 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox Installer For Windows 64bit (26 MiB, 15 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Mac OSX (27.5 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Solaris (24 MiB, 8 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Solaris 64bit (24.8 MiB, 8 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Fedora 7 (21.6 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Fedora 7 64bit (21.9 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Fedora 8 (21.6 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Fedora 8 64bit (22 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Fedora 9 (21.5 MiB, 13 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Fedora 9 64bit (21.8 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Mandriva 2007.1 (20.9 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Mandriva 2008.0 (21.1 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For openSUSE 11 (17.6 MiB, 18 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For openSUSE 11 64bit (17.9 MiB, 13 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For openSUSE 10.3 (19.6 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For openSUSE 10.3 64bit (20.1 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For PCLinuxOS 2007 (20.8 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (21.6 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (21.2 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64bit (21.7 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (20.1 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Debian 4.0 (21 MiB, 14 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Debian 4.0 64bit (21.2 MiB, 11 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Debian 5.0 (20.8 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Debian 5.0 64bit (21.2 MiB, 28 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Debian 3.1 (21.5 MiB, 30 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox ForUbuntu 6.06 (21.6 MiB, 31 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox ForUbuntu 6.06 64bit (22.1 MiB, 33 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Ubuntu 7.10 (22.7 MiB, 31 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Ubuntu 7.10 64bit (22.3 MiB, 33 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Ubuntu 8.04 (22.3 MiB, 32 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Ubuntu 8.04 64bit (22.3 MiB, 34 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

VirtualBox For Xandros Desktop 4.1 (21.5 MiB, 32 Downloads) - Version 1.6.6

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