Version history VirtualBox for Linux

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Changes from v2.0.2 -> v2.0.4

• VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures
• VMM: don’t overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)
• VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)
• GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)
• GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)
• SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)
• SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)
• Network: don’t crash when changing the adapter link state if no host driver is attached (bug #2333)
• VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)
• VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not equal to the client resolution
• Clipboard: don’t crash when host service initialization takes longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)
• Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)
• Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)
• Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup
• Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300 seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)
• Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface networking (bug #2474)
• Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking
• Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking
• Windows additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder
• Windows additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)
• Windows additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)
• Windows additions: fixed error code for MoveFile() if the target exists (bug #2350)
• Linux additions: fixed seek() for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)
• Linux additions: support Ubuntu 8.10
• Linux additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)
• Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)

Changes from v2.0.0 -> v2.0.2

• 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

Changes from v1.6.6 -> v2.0.0

• 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

Changes from v1.6.0 -> v1.6.2

• GUI: fixed a bug which prevented to add more than one SATA drive from the GUI
• GUI: fixed a regression introduced in 1.6.0: the fullscreen mode was left on every guest video mode switch
• GUI: fixed several minor issues
• Networking: fixed a host interface networking regression introduced in 1.6.0
• VMM: fixed starting of VMs with AMD-V enabled
• VMM: massive performance enhancements for AMD-V
• VMM: stability improvements for AMD-V on Windows hosts
• VMM: correctly detect AMD CPUs with erratum 170 (AMD-V)
• VMM: detect inconsistent timestamp counters on certain AMD Phenom CPUs (Windows host only)
• VMM: fixed KVM check (Linux hosts only) XPCOM: fixed several races
• VMM: fixed a regression introduced in 1.6.0: Windows stuck during installation
• SATA: improved performance with Vista guests
• SATA: fixed statistics counter
• Shared Folders: several fixes (iTunes download, speed up browsing)
• ATA/IDE: fixed boot from CDROM if a medium was added while the boot menu was active
• Networking: provide an Intel PRO/1000 T Server (82543GC) network device emulation which is recognized by Windows XP guests
• Networking: fixes for the E1000 emulation (don't crash if not attached, fixed a bug in the statistics counter implementation)
• NAT: don't crash if the guest sent a DHCPRELEASE message with an invalid IP address
• NAT: fixed ARP reply for the NAT gateway and for the NAT name server if the guest IP range was changed
• Internal Networking: fixed shutdown if more than two VMs are connected to the same network
• BIOS: allow to change the DMI informatiton (see chapter 9.13, Con'guring the BIOS DMI information, page 125)
• RTC: fixed UIP emulation to prevent jumping of time in Solaris guests
• Windows host: VirtualBox installation directory corrected for 64 bits Windows
• Windows host: fixed VBoxVRDP.exe symlink
• Windows host: solved locking problems in raw partition VMDK support
• Windows host: fixed stability during high system load (page fault in KeQueryActiveProcessors)
• MacOS X host: fixed crashes under certain conditions
• Shared Folders: limited users without admin rights now also can use Shared Folders on Windows guests
• Linux hosts: fixed default runlevel for the kernel module helper script
• Solaris hosts: enabled support for VT-x and AMD-V
• Solaris hosts: dynamic loading of libdlpi fixes a problem where Solaris 10 was not able to start a VM
• Linux additions: fixed runlevels for kernel module helper scripts
• Linux additions: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.26
• Linux additions: fixed occasional guest kernel crash during unload of the vboxadd guest kernel module

Changes from v1.5.6 -> v1.6.0

• This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
• Solaris and Mac OS X host support
• Seamless windowing for Linux and Solaris guests
• Guest Additions for Solaris
• A webservice API
• SATA hard disk (AHCI) controller
• Experimental Physical Address Extension (PAE) support
• In addition, the following items were ?xed and/or added:
• GUI: added accessibility support (508)
• GUI: VM session information dialog
• VBoxHeadless: renamed from VBoxVRDP
• VMM: reduced host CPU load of idle guests
• VMM: many ?xes for VT-x/SVM hardware-supported virtualization
• ATA/IDE: better disk geometry compatibility with VMware images
• ATA/IDE: virtualize an AHCI controller
• Storage: better write optimization, prevent images from growing unnecessarily.
• Network: support PXE booting with NAT
• Network: ?xed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for Nexenta guests
• NAT: improved builtin DHCP server (implemented DHCPNAK response)
• NAT: port forwarding stopped when restoring the VM from a saved state
• NAT: make subnet con?gurable
• XPCOM: moved to libxml2
• XPCOM: ?xed VBoxSVC autostart race
• Audio: SoundBlaster 16 emulation
• USB: ?xed problems with USB 2.0 devices
• MacOS X: ?xed seamless mode
• MacOS X: better desktop integration, several look’n’feel ?xes
• MacOS X: switched to Quartz2D framebuffer
• MacOS X: added support for shared folders
• MacOS X: added support for clipboard integration
• Solaris: added host audio playback support (experimental)
• Solaris: made it possible to run VirtualBox from non-global zones
• Shared Folders: made them work for NT4 guests
• Shared Folders: many bug?xes to improve stability
• Seamless windows: added support for Linux guests
• Linux installer: support DKMS for compiling the kernel module
• Linux host: compatibility ?xes with Linux 2.6.25
• Windows host: support for USB devices has been signi?cantly improved; many additional USB devices now work
• Windows Additions: automatically install AMD PCNet drivers on Vista guests
• Linux additions: several ?xes, experimental support for RandR 1.2
• Linux additions: compatibility ?xes with Linux 2.6.25

Changes from v1.5.4 -> v1.5.6

• GUI: fixed several error messages
• GUI: fixed registration dialog crashes once and for all
• GUI: really ask before resetting the VM
• GUI: release mouse and keyboard before the host activates the screensaver
• GUI: fixed issue with license display on big screens
• GUI: added setting for network name for internal networks
• GUI: added setting for network device type
• GUI: keyboard fixes
• GUI: seamless mode and fullscreen mode fixes
• GUI: fixed soaked hostkey keyup event under certain conditions
• GUI: more informative message dialog buttons
• GUI: VM selector context menu
• VBoxSDL: added -termacpi switch
• VBoxSDL: ?xed automatic adaption of the guest screen resolution to the size of the VM window
• VMM: under heavy guest activity, for example when copying files to/from a shared folder, the VM could crash with an assertion
• VMM: added an option to select PIIX4 (improves compatibility with Windows guests created by VMware)
• VMM: fixed a bug which could lead to memory corruption under rare circumstances
• VMM: improved performance of Solaris guests
• VRDP: fixed a 1.5.4 regression: VRDP client and server were out-of-sync if the VM was started using the GUI
• VRDP: proper error handling if the VRDP library could not be loaded
• VBoxManage: fixed crash during clonevdi
• VBoxManage: added ’list runningvms’ command
• VBoxManage: improved the compatibility when reading the partition table of a raw disk
• Shared Folders: added support for read-only shared folders
• Shared Clipboard: several fixes
• Network: experimental support for E1000 device emulation
• iSCSI: better check for miscon?gured targets
• iSCSI: allow to directly attach to internal networks with integrated mini IP stack
• PulseAudio: don’t hang during VM initialization if no sound server is available
• VDI: fixed sized virtual disk images are now completely written during creation to workaround buggy sparse ?le handling on some OS (e.g. Vista)
• VDI/VMDK: prevent indexing of .vdi and .vmdk files on Windows hosts
• RDP: fixed compilation of the Linux rdesktop client on newer Linux kernels
• RDP: install rdesktop-vrdp on Linux hosts
• ACPI: added sleep button event
• Serial: proper handling of inaccessible host devices
• Windows installer: allow smooth upgrade without deinstallation
• Linux installer: fixed Slackware detection regression
• Linux installer: updated VBoxTunctl allowing to assign a tap device to a group on Linux kernels > 2.6.23
• Windows additions: several fixes, in particular for Windows NT4
• Linux additions: ?xed installer for Kubuntu 8.04
• Linux additions: add default video mode for handling video mode hints from the host
• Linux host: compatibility fixes with Linux > 2.6.24

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