09-28-2010, 06:46 AM
VirtualBox 3.2.8 (released 2010-08-06)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
* VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings
* GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)
* GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #6809)
* 3D support: fixed GL_EXT_texture_sRGB support
* PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression
* OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)
* USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status changes
* USB: respect the remote-only filter
* USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of certain devices (Windows hosts only)
* USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)
* PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature
* PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs
* PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests
* Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled
* Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on bridged device (bug #7059)
* Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)
* Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup (bug #6832)
* BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer guests
* LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances
* Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs without external tools and tricks (see here for a short explanation)
* Shared folders: several fixes and performance enhancements for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)
* Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations
* Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)
* Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on shutdown
* RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability fixes
* Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
* Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)
* VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly in subcommand openmedium disk (bug #6751)
* Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
* Web service: added timestamps to logging output
* Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII
* X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)
VirtualBox 3.2.6 (released 2010-06-25)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
* 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
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
* VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings
* GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)
* GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #6809)
* 3D support: fixed GL_EXT_texture_sRGB support
* PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression
* OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)
* USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status changes
* USB: respect the remote-only filter
* USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of certain devices (Windows hosts only)
* USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)
* PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature
* PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs
* PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests
* Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled
* Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on bridged device (bug #7059)
* Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)
* Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup (bug #6832)
* BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer guests
* LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances
* Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs without external tools and tricks (see here for a short explanation)
* Shared folders: several fixes and performance enhancements for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)
* Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations
* Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)
* Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on shutdown
* RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability fixes
* Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
* Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)
* VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly in subcommand openmedium disk (bug #6751)
* Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
* Web service: added timestamps to logging output
* Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII
* X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)
VirtualBox 3.2.6 (released 2010-06-25)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
* 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