Oracle VM VirtualBox 歷史版本列表
更新時間：2013-03-15
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
- GUI: fixed keyboard with XQuartz X server
- Main/Properties: fixed a crash under certain conditions, for example after wakeup from
- host hibernate
- Settings: don’t lose the internal network settings if they are not currently active
- Storage: another incompatibility fix for VHD differencing images with Hyper-V
- VBoxManage: don’t read beyond the end of the file specified with export –eulafile
- Windows Additions: fixed upgrading MultiMedia Redirection (MMR) support
更新時間：2013-03-01
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
- VMM: fixed guest crash with huge amount of guest RAM on VT-x hosts
- GUI: not all the translation tags were taken into account during the language switch
- GUI: take-guest-screenshot dialog sometimes had no keyboard input available on Windows host
- Main/Machine: fix generation of spurious event for inaccessible VMs which triggered an endless event generation loop in cooperation with the GUI which became unresponsive
- Main/Display: fix for an access violation under certain conditions in multi-monitor configurations
- Main/Metrics: network metrics are now collected for active (up) interfaces only, the state of an interface being evaluated when the associated metric is enabled via setupMetrics
- Snapshots: reduce the time for merging snapshots under certain conditions
- Storage: fixed data corruption after resizing a VDI image under certain circumstances
- Storage: fixed non working online merging of snapshots
- Storage: fixed crash when connecting to certain QNAP iSCSI targets
- Storage: fixed incompatibility of VHD differencing images with Hyper-V
- Bridged Networking: fixed TCP pseudo header checksum computation for IPv6
- 3D support: fix Battlefield 1942 game crashes
- Settings: really sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file, the code was disabled before
- Settings: allow to change VRDE settings for saved VMs
- VBoxManage: don’t crash during screenshotpng if there is no display
- VM startup when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is enabled
- Guest Additions: don’t block signals for processes executed via guest control
- Guest Additions: fixed a small memory leak in VBoxService
- Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issue with large reads/writes on 64 bit Windows guests
更新時間：2012-12-20
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
- VMM: don't inject stale VT-x events to prevent crashes after VM reset
- VMM: workaround for buggy BIOSes which enable MONITOR only for certain CPUs
- GUI: fixed trimming of anti-aliased text in details-view element headers (4.2.0 regression)
- GUI: fixed create-settings-file-alias functionality on Mac hosts (4.2.0 regression)
- GUI: fixed take-guest-screenshot functionality on Windows hosts
- GUI: several minor fixes, including palette fixes
- GUI: fixed Windows 2012 OS type
- GUI: allow to terminate the VM even if VBoxSVC crashed
- API: fixed cancelling of snapshots, previously this could lead to inconsistent VM configs
- API: fixed identifying disk images by UUID
- 3D Support: several fixes
- VRDP: fixed occasional crash with external authentication
- VGA: fix for double scan text modes
- USB: fixed invalid pending request count at the time of service of DEVICE POWER requests (Windows hosts only)
- USB keyboard: Korean keyboard workaround
- Storage: fixed hang with QCOW images and asynchronous I/O enabled
- Storage: fixed hang with newer VHD images
- Storage: actually write the non-rotational flag to the VM settings (4.2.0 regression)
- Virtio-net: fixed the problem with network statistics counters in Session Information dialog (GUI)
- Metrics: introduced network rate and disk usage metrics
- Metrics: fixed a crash under certain conditions on Solaris hosts
- BIOS: fix for El Torito
- Shared Folders: if the host folder of a shared folder mapping does not exist, keep it active but mark it as invalid to prevent inconsitent saved states
- VBoxManage: fixed converting disks from raw images
- VBoxManage: show snapshot description in the VM or snapshot information
- VBoxManage: make implicit opening of media consistent in all places dealing with media
- VBoxManage: the iSCSI initiator name was not stored in the settings file when doing storageattach
- VBoxManage: metrics collect now properly handles 'CPU/MHz' and 'Net/*/LinkSpeed' metrics
- VBoxManage: changing the image UUID or parent UUID as part of storageattach works now in all safe cases
- VBoxManage: introduced storageattach --medium additions as a shortcut to mount the additions image
- OVF: fixed importing OVF files cerated by recent VMware products
- Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with leaking connections in conntrack
- Linux Additions: added support for ConsoleKit sessions in the vminfo service of VBoxService
- Linux Additions: don't crash during remount under certain conditions
- Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed guest memory metrics collection
- Solaris hosts: added a dependency to ensure that the user directories are reachable when starting VBox services
- Windows host installer: integrated user-contributed translations, thanks to all contributors!
- Windows Additions: fixed auto-logon installation for Windows 8
- Windows Additions: don't fail if the shared folders host service is not available
- Windows Additions: fixed Guest Additions startup on Windows 2000 guests
- Windows Additions: auto-resize fixes for Windows 8 guests
更新時間：2012-12-20
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: adapted to changes in Mac OS X 10.8.2
- VMM: page fusion fixes
- GUI: disable proxy authentication for security reasons
- VRDP: fixed occasional crash during a video playback in the guest
- NAT: fixed a memory leak when disabling the NAT engine
- NAT: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (Windows hosts only)
- Virtio-net: fixed the problem with network statistics counters in Session Information dialog (GUI)
- Storage: fixed a hang during VM reset under certain circumstances
- Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances
- Storage: fixed hang in case of unaligned requests and async I/O enabled
- Storage: fixed hang with newer VHD images
- VGA: fix for double scan text modes
- VBoxManage: fixed a memory leak when executing and waiting for a guest process
- VBoxManage: fixed converting disks from raw images
- BIOS: certain legacy guests (e.g. Windows 95) didn’t find the boot device after a warm reboot
- BIOS: don’t trash the palette in text modes when setting the border color
- USB: fixed invalid pending request count at the time of service of DEVICE POWER requests (Windows hosts only)
- OVF: fixed importing OVF files cerated by recent VMware products
- Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.7-rc1 fixes
- Linux Additions: support X.Org Server 1.13
- Linux Additions: fixed a hang when the X server was restarted with old guest kernels
- Linux Additions: fixed a VBoxService crash during CPU hot remove
- Windows Additions: fixed Guest screen automatic resize issue for NT4
- Windows Additions: fixed auto-logon installation for Windows 8
- Windows Additions: fixed Guest Additions startup on Windows 2000 guests
- Windows Additions: don’t fail if the shared folders host service is not available
更新時間：2012-10-29
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
- GUI: fixed validation warning on global settings / proxy page (4.2.2 regression)
- GUI: fixed crash with multiple guest screens on certain conditions (OS X hosts only)
- VBoxBalloonCtrl: fixed command line argument handling of ballooning module
- VRDP: fixed occasional crash during a video playback in the guest
- BIOS: fixed broken DMI information (4.2 regression)
- BIOS: workaround for booting from Windows 2000 floppy disks
- EFI: fixed video mode selection loss on VM reboot
- Parallel: fixed parallel port printing failure/ paper queue empty error (Windows hosts only)
- NAT: fixed crash on alias-less DNS responses when host-resolver is used
- Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances
更新時間：2012-10-19
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: adapted to changes in Mac OS X 10.8.2
- GUI: restored VM item tool-tip functionality (4.2 regression)
- GUI: added group item tool-tip functionality
- GUI: fixed handling of the .ova/.ovf file name association (4.2 regression)
- GUI: it was not possible to change any setting before the first VM was created
- GUI: disable grouping action if all the selected items are full children list of the same group already
- GUI: added menu for runtime drag-and-drop option change
- GUI: cleanup shared-clipboard menu on visual-mode change
- GUI: make sure VM receives keyboard focus on entering fullscreen-mode on Win host
- GUI: disable proxy authentication for security reasons
- 3D Support: DrawIndexedPrimitiveUP implementation fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver
- Storage: fixed a release assertion in the AHCI emulation when requests where canceled with asynchronous I/O disabled
- Storage: fixed a hang during VM reset under certain circumstances
- NAT: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (Windows hosts only)
- NAT: automatically use the host resolver if the host name server is set to some unusual loopback value
- E1000: fixed a VirtualBox crash during intensive network transfers (4.2 regression)
- ICH9: fixed PCI bridge initialization
- USB mouse: ensure that the last mouse event doesn't get lost if no URBs are available
- BIOS: certain legacy guests (e.g. Windows 95) didn't find the boot device after a warm reboot
- BIOS: don't trash the palette in text modes when setting the border color
- EFI: fixed OS X guest autoboot (4.2 regression)
- VBoxManage: fixed output of showvminfo --machinereadable
- VBoxManage: fixed parsing of storageattach --discard
- VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of the HPET setting in showvminfo
- VBoxManage: fixed closing the guest session after executing a guest process via guest control
- VBoxShell: adaptions to interface name changes
- Guest Additions device: fixed a Guest Additions hang when a machine was reset after a crash
- Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.7-rc1 fixes
- Linux Additions: support X.Org Server 1.13
- Linux Additions: fixed a hang when the X server was restarted with old guest kernels
- Linux Additions: fixed a VBoxService crash during CPU hot remove
- Windows Additions: fixed automatic screen resize issue for NT4 guests
- OS/2 Additions: fixed shutdown hang
- OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse driver panic
- Solaris hosts: fixed autostart service going into maintenance mode after all VMs started
- Solaris hosts: fixed linking the host driver with the dtrace module
更新時間：2012-09-13
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
The following major new features were added:
- Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes
- GUI: VM groups
- GUI: expert mode for wizards
- GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime
- Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an ICH9 chipset configuration
- Resource control: added support for limiting network IO bandwidth; see Section 6.9, “Limiting bandwidth for network I/O”
- Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux, OS X and Solaris; see Section 9.24, “Starting virtual machines during system boot”
- Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is planned.
- Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts
- Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API documentation for more information
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
- Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings on Mountain Lion
- VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts, 4.1 regression)
- VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure (seen with Windows 8 guests)
- VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using nested paging
- VMM: added support for FlushByASID features of AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)
- VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x (gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9)
- VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)
- VMM: support recent VIA CPUs
- VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled
- VMM: page fusion fixes
- GUI: network operations manager
- GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content
- GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list
- GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI
- GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window
- GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for guests
- GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently used ISO images
- GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a separator character in its name
- GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
- GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
- GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting immediately
- Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old snapshot when powering off a VM
- Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs (see Section 13.3.2.3, “Clipboard”). It can be enabled at any time using the VM menu.
- Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file
- Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted
- NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server
- NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine
- E1000: 802.1q VLAN support
- Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode
- Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players
- Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images
- Storage: added support for QED images
- Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly support for v2 images)
- Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images
- USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)
- Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12
- Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver
- Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a VirtualBox update
- Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options
- Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray
更新時間：2012-09-10
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts, 4.1 regression)
- VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure (seen with Windows 8 guests)
- VMM: respect RAM preallocation while restoring saved state.
- VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled
- Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players
- USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)
- RTC: fixed a potential corruption of CMOS bank 1
- Mac OS X hosts: installer fixes for Leopard (4.1.20 regression)
- Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray
更新時間：2012-08-21
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
- VMM: fixed a crash under rare circumstances for VMs running without hardware virtualization
- VMM: fixed a code analysis bug for certain displacement instructions for VMs running without hardware virtualization
- VMM: fixed an interpretion bug for TPR read instructions under rare conditions
- Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old snapshot when powering off a VM
- VBoxSVC: be more tolerant against environment variables with strange encodings
- VGA: fixed wrong access check which might cause a crash under certain conditions
- NAT: final fix for crashes under rare conditions
- Virtio-net: fixed the problem with receiving of GSO packets in Windows XP guests causing packet loss in host-to-VM transfers
- HPET: several fixes
- Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
- BIOS: the PCI BIOS was not properly detected with the chipset type set to ICH9
- Mac OS X hosts: adaptions to Mountain Lion
- Linux Installer: fixes for Gentoo Linux
- Linux guests: fixed mouse integration on Fedora 17 guests
- Linux Additions: compile fixes for RHEL/CentOS 6.3
- Linux Additions: compile fixes for Linux 3.5-rc1 and Linux 3.6-rc1
- Solaris host: fixed a guru meditation while allocating large pages
- Solaris host: fixed possible kernel panics while freeing memory
- Solaris Installer: fixed missing icon for menu and desktop shortcuts
更新時間：2012-06-21
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
- VMM: fixed VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR under rare conditions after the guest has been reset
- VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux hosts
- VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly updating the screen size when minimized
- AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption after the guest storage controler has been reset
- NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
- Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
- Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
- Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes
- Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly updated
- Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12