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Changelog for VirtualBox 4.0 VirtualBox 4.0.0 (released 2010-12-22) This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see chapter 1.5, Installing VirtualBox and extension packs, see the manual for more information New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see chapter 10.1, Where VirtualBox stores its files, see the manual for more information Major rework of the GUI (now called “VirtualBox Manager”): Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots) New “scale” display mode with scaled guest display; see chapter 1.8.5, Resizing the machine’s window, see the manual for more information Support for creating and starting .vbox desktop shortcuts (bug #1889) The VM list is now sortable Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved states, and optionally including attached disk images (bug #5511; also, VBoxManage unregistervm --delete can do the same now) Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322) VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts New virtual hardware: Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI); see chapter 3.4.1, “Motherboard” tab, see the manual for more information Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems (e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785) Improvements to OVF support (see chapter 1.12, Importing and exporting virtual machines, see the manual for more information): Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support Significant performance improvements during export and import Creation of the manifest file on export is optional now Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK Resource control: added support for limiting a VM’s CPU time and IO bandwidth; see chapter 5.8, Limiting bandwidth for disk images, see the manual for more information Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and Parallels images Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see chapter 8.21, VBoxManage modifyhd, see the manual for more information. Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local (COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts (applies to nested paging only) VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557) VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only, non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819) GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode (bug #1657) GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore GUI: certain GUI warnings don’t stop the VM output anymore GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #5449) BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain guests (e.g. Solaris) Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network (Linux hosts only; bug #7792) 3D support: allow use of CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH again (bug #6864) 3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659, #5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570) 3D support: guest application stack corruption when using glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395) 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9 3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty 2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration VRDP: support for upstream audio Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough (bug #7058) Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651) Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare circumstances Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug #5578) EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function #4F01 (Quake fix) OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug #6760) Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759) Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX set Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818) Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one file Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes For the changelog of previous VirtualBox series, have a look at |
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VirtualBox 4.0.2 (released 2011-01-18) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM settings vanished GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875) GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be created (bug #8031) GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests ExtPack: don’t make the installer helper application suid root (Linux .deb/.rpm packages only) ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing an extension pack ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name during installing an extension pack (bug #7917) ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741) VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent host-only interface Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots and async I/O (4.0 regression) Storage: don’t eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is detached from a VM (bug #5825) Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an ATAPI device (bug #6597) Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or power off (4.0 regression) Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908) NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094) E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330) Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux guests ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885) VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986) Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818) Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid logging string (4.0 regression) Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing a VM start Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in machine paths (bug #8024) Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented (bug #6067) Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image) cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was not saved to machine XML OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug #7983) rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug #7981) Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration. Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0 regression) Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010) Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports unlocking previously locked workstations |
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VirtualBox 4.0.4 (released 2011-02-17) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions (bugs #8255, #8319 and further) VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938) VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062) VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots (bugs #7910, #8059, #8125) GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum number of host network interfaces GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing snapshot (bug #8145) GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131) GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in the users home directory (bug #8017) ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878) VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID (4.0 regression; bug #8342) VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused VBoxManage: fixed modifyvm --synthcpu (bug #6577) VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit and displaying process status on exit (bug #8235) VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit/stdout while waiting for the guest process to terminate (bug #7872) VBoxManage: fixed list hostdvds/hostfloppies VBoxManage: fixed storageattach for host DVD drives and host floppy drives Metrics: introduced RAM/VMM base metric. Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot (bug #7966) Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105) Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443) Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium attachments (bug #8129) Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression) Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123) Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905) Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341) NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459) ACPI: don’t allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don’t announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008) Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode (bug #8122) Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221) ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission (bug #1548) Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955) Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart (bug #8231) X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha. X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login. X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older VirtualBox versions can’t handle. Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if a host link is not readable (bug #8185) Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS) with VBoxGINA |
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Changelog for VirtualBox 4.0 VirtualBox 4.0.8 (released 2011-05-16) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474) Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more than 16 cores (bug #8389) Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in 64-bit mode (bug #7606) GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793) VBoxManage: added controlvm screenshotpng subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only) NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in Ethernet header and in ARP requests Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755) SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826) Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498) Floppy: several improvement HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707) USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated (Windows hosts only) 3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest window 3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15 Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363) Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression) Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before building kernel modules (bug #8795) Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844) VirtualBox 4.0.6 (released 2011-04-21) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring a VMM from a saved state VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads; implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489) VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE (bug #8006) VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels (bug #8726) GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979) GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814) GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799) GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM (bug #8469) GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy selectors GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182) GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing folder (bug #8673) Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363) Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory 3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate (Windows hosts only; bug #7133) Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966) Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408) Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an I/O error occurred Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset (bug #8276, #8294) Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none' if no medium is present Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE) Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362) Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the host from sleep (bug #3625) Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731) NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static assigned IPs (bug #8609) VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication library (bug #8063) Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute, for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941) Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527) USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699) HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707) OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is changed on import OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with multiple disks (bug #8253) rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions (bug #8593) Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while captured Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode (shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822) X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438) X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1 Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686) Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned problem with memchr on 64-bit machines) Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead to unkillable VM processes Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429) Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations on legacy Windows versions Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367) Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509) Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests (bug #7946) Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9 Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size |
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VirtualBox 4.0.12 (released 2011-07-15) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds 166 and above) VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188) Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances whith VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150) Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA controller (bug #8592) Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651) Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading when several VMs were transmitting at once 3D support: fixed GL_VERSION string for different locales (bug #8916) Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official builds Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014) VirtualBox 4.0.10 (released 2011-06-27) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809) Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983) Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant (for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227) Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580) USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests (partial fix for bug #8978) ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others) RDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977) rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0 OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK file was not written during export Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes (bug #8903) Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071) Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux binaries Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948) Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests (4.0.8 regression) Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during VBoxManage guestcontrol execute (bug #9068) |
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Changelog for VirtualBox 4.1 VirtualBox 4.1.2 (released 2011-08-15) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824) VMM: fixed handling of the sysenter/sysexit machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts GUI: added linked clone support GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings (4.1.0 regression; bug #9246) GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license, vendor, ...) on OVF export GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do a live snapshot GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments due to a library version conflict Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet) Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes at a time by default Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368) VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are registered (bug #9303) VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of VMs Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot creation (bug #9379) VBoxManage: implemented copyfrom and stat guest control tools to copy files from guest to host and to check for existence of files on the guest VBoxManage: fixed extpack install --replace (bug #9308) VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with startvm VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321) VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly (bug #9242) NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919) USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299) USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local USB devices OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033) Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393) Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs with Crossbow based bridged networking Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown (4.1.0 regression; bug #9305) Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations and warn about it Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264) Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with some applications (bugs #9276, #9315) Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318) Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements, fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267) Linux Additions: fixed llseek() for Linux kernels 2.6.37 and above VirtualBox 4.1.0 (released 2011-07-19) This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see the manual for more information): full clones can be created through the GUI and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only; bug #7822) VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see the manual for more information Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode anymore) Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be queried separately by the frontends Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately distributable virtual network implementations Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29 New Networking Mode UDP Tunnel: allows to interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently, see the manual for more information Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available with VBoxManage Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for Solaris 11 build 159 and above In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: more SMP timer fixes VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests VMM: many small fixes GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot of the current state GUI: added a View menu GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest, see the manual for more information. GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of a VM (bug #1551) GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870) GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration dialog VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter when a storage controller has only one port or device per port VBoxManage: changed syntax of the guestcontrol command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment of the balloon size for running VMs Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to be a valid UUID Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used twice in a VM configuration Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error cases Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e. the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can improve performance Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only on a temporary basis Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are exact duplicates including the UUID Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150) Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential images in VDI format Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and VMDK format Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA controller (bug #8592) Floppy: several bugs have been fixed Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651) BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739) USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver NAT: reduced memory footprint Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading when several VMs are transmitting in parallel Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411) VRDP: support for TLS connections (see the manual for more information) VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS RDP clients VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption 3D support: fixed GL_VERSION string for different locales (bug #8916) Webservice: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and be more robust when connections fail VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart simultaneously Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing location values in many places JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official builds Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM window (bug #4491) Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when removing a VM Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520) Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds 166 and above) Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11 hosts Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs from the host Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014) |
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Changelog for VirtualBox 4.1 VirtualBox 4.1.2 (released 2011-08-15) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824) VMM: fixed handling of the sysenter/sysexit machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts GUI: added linked clone support GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings (4.1.0 regression; bug #9246) GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license, vendor, ...) on OVF export GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do a live snapshot GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments due to a library version conflict Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet) Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes at a time by default Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368) VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are registered (bug #9303) VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of VMs Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot creation (bug #9379) VBoxManage: implemented copyfrom and stat guest control tools to copy files from guest to host and to check for existence of files on the guest VBoxManage: fixed extpack install --replace (bug #9308) VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with startvm VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321) VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly (bug #9242) NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919) USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299) USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local USB devices OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033) Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393) Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs with Crossbow based bridged networking Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown (4.1.0 regression; bug #9305) Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations and warn about it Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264) Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with some applications (bugs #9276, #9315) Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318) Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements, fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267) Linux Additions: fixed llseek() for Linux kernels 2.6.37 and above |
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VirtualBox 4.1.4 (released 2011-10-03) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression; bug #9458) VMM: fixed INVALID_PARAMETER guru meditation caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240) VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during stos/lods/ins/outs emulation under rare circumstances VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025) GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts (4.0.6 regression; bug #373) VBoxManage: another fix for extpack install --replace (bug #9308) VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in convertfromraw VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server (bug #9503) VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly (bug #9242) USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298); bugfixes for Windows host USB support VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532) VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK images Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums (Windows hosts only) Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941) Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549) Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot restore operation (bug #8296) Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug #9387) Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using snapshots (bug #8932) Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU (bug #9370) 3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching to/from fullscreen with enabled 2D acceleration 3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10 Guest control: Miscellaneous small bugfixes Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages (4.1.2 regression; bug #9441) Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root (bug #1578) Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only interfaces (bug #8076) Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based bridged networking (bug #9532) Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files (bug #9535) Windows hosts installer: fixed ADDLOCAL usage on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488) Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm help file (bug #9646) Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664) Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate console window (bug #3549) Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446) Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519) Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627) Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1 (bug #6229) Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal) Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting (from console) and unmounting shared folders. Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates (4.1.0 regression; bug #9447) Windows Additions: fixed PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508) Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7) Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7) Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7) Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from fullscreen text mode apps (bug #9636) |
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VirtualBox 4.1.8 (released 2011-12-19) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed VERR_MAP_FAILED during savestate under certain circumstances (bug #7929) GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368) VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after startvm (bug #9642) BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required) USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471) Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest metrics collection upon VM destruction Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922) VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash) VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620) OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare circumstances OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749) 3D Support: Fixed fullscreen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775), Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug #8341). Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests and for 3D support in general Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948) Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743) Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917) Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files VirtualBox 4.1.6 (released 2011-11-04) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VRDP: fixed screen corruption NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed ICMP requests (bug #9371) E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223) ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with certain guests ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving the fullscreen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled preview window in the GUI for example Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648) Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799) Linux hosts: don't call del_timer_sync from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331) Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709) Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10 guests Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared folders Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for shared folders Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest users and stale sessions X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a virtual terminal (bug #9490) |
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VirtualBox 4.1.12 (released 2012-04-02) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED and VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP guru meditation due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370) VMM: fixed PDMCritSectLeave guru meditation under rare circumstances with SMP guests VMM: proper Math Fault handling with certain legacy guests (bug #9042) NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374; 4.1.10 regression) HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances VBoxSVC: several locking fixes VBoxManage: return the correct error code if controlvm savestate failed (bug #10134) Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326; 4.1.10 regression) Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is closed (bug #6473) Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not properly installed Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes VirtualBox 4.1.10 (released 2012-03-13) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason, do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during SYSEXIT right after STI VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page fusion VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address and network mask attributes Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations (bug #10030) 3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression; bugs #10071 and #10088) 3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics 3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126) 3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167), make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only) iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173) Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions (non-Windows hosts only) SDK: actually ship current C bindings SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848) SDK: added Python example Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs Web service: added SSL/TLS support VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox in a zone Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data (bug #9651) Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug #10010) Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878) Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a memory mapped file on a shared folder Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12 Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113) Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so (bug #10151) Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11 guests. Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753) Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes |
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