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New Version Of The PC Emulator VirtualBox

June 26, 2010 by Hawq 

Another update has hit for this virtual machine so let’s waste no time in getting down to the changes:

  • VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166)
  • VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only; does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it)
  • VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)
  • VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)
  • Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964)
  • Teleportation: several fixes and improvements
  • Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix
  • EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM assigned
  • GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)
  • GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if multiple screens are enabled
  • GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)
  • GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)
  • GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts again (bug #7022).
  • 2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode (bug #6768)
  • VBoxManage: fixed storageattach error handling (bug #6927)
  • VBoxManage: fixed dhcpserver add (3.2.0 regression; bug #7031)
  • Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which don’t support async I/O (bug #6905)
  • Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6987)
  • LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests
  • BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O
  • SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can’t handle 30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)
  • SATA: performance improvement
  • SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows installation (bug #5101)
  • iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)
  • Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6872)
  • NAT: fixed potential memory leaks
  • NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames (performance tweak)
  • NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM is currently paused
  • E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC was not yet initialized by the guest
  • OVF: export performance optimization
  • OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7 and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export
  • Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes not properly saved
  • Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)
  • USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port
  • USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)
  • POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)
  • Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances (IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)
  • Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)
  • Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host kernel allows for more virtual address space
  • Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed (bug #5251)
  • Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)
  • X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)
  • Solaris Additions: fixed guest control execution
  • Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes
  • Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer
  • Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)
  • 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit apps under 64bit Windows guests
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