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VirtualBox 2.0.2 查看版本資訊

更新時間:2008-09-13
更新細節:

What's new in this version:

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* 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

VirtualBox 2.0.0 查看版本資訊

更新時間:2008-09-04
更新細節:

What's new in this version:

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

* 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 click emulation. (bug #1766)

VirtualBox 1.6.6 查看版本資訊

更新時間:2008-09-02
更新細節:

What's new in this version:

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* VMM: fixed excessive logging (bug #1901)
* VMM: AMD-V stability fixes (bug #1685)
* GUI: added support for Ctrl+Caps reversed keyboards (bug #1891)
* SATA: fixed BSODs of Windows guests on a SATA disk (bug #1941)
* SATA: fixed hard disk detection on Solaris 10 U5 (bug #1789)
* VBoxHeadless: don’t start the clipboard service (bug #1743)
* VBoxHeadless: added -vrdp parameter which allows to start the VM session without VRDP (bug #1960)
* VBoxManage: fixes to creating raw disk/partition VMDK files, now accepts removable media on Windows (bug #1869)
* VRDP: fixed communication with MS Remote Resktop Connection on MacOS X (bug #1337)
* VRDP: clipboard fixes (bug #1410)
* VRDP: fixed crash during PAM authentication (bug #1953)
* Shared Folders: fixed a regression introduced in version 1.6.2: the shared folders service was sometimes not properly installed (Windows guests only, bug #1915)
* Shared Folders: don’t deny to load a VM if a shared folder is not accessible (bug #822)
* BIOS: allow to specify empty DMI strings (bug #1957)
* OSE archive: added missing Make files (bug #1912)
* Linux hosts: workaround for buggy gcc-4.3 compilers (e.g. openSUSE 11)
* Linux hosts: one more fix for compiling the kernel modules on Linux 2.6.27 (bug #1962)
* MacOS X hosts: shared folders unicode fix
* Solaris hosts: fixed link issue (bug #1840)
* Windows additions: allow to downgrade the package
* Windows additions: fixed corrupted installer icon on Windows 2000 (bug #1486)
* Windows additions: fixed bug when creating intermediate directories (bug #1870)
* Windows additions: implemented /xres=, /yres= and /depth= switches for the installer (bug #1990)
* Linux additions: properly unregister the misc device when unloading the kernel module
* Linux additions: fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions again (e.g. openSUSE 11)
* Linux additions: attempt to fix the autostart issue of !VBoxClient with Mandriva guests (bug #1699)
* Linux additions: fixed detection of patched Linux 2.6.18 kernels of RHEL5 / FC6 / CentOS 5.2 (bugs #1899, #1973)
* Linux additions: added new mount tags dmode, fmode, umask, dmask and fmask allowing to override the file mode (bug #1776)
* Documentation: added a note that jumbo frames don’t work (bug #1877)
* Documentation: document special host interface names on openSUSE11 (bug #1892)

VirtualBox 1.6.4 查看版本資訊

更新時間:2008-08-01
更新細節:

What's new in this version:

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* AMD-V, VT-x: stability fixes
* Shared Folders: fixed host crash (Solaris host only, bugs #1336, #1646)
* Shared Folders: fixed BSOD when debugging with Visual Studio (bug #1627)
* Shared Folders: fixed BSOD when compiling on a shared folder (bug #1683)
* Shared Folders: several fixes/stability improvements
* SATA: fixed a race that could cause an occasional Windows guest system hang
* SATA: fixed spurious BIOS log messages
* Networking: fixed NIC tracing with NAT interfaces (bug #1790)
* USB: fixed crash under certain conditions when unplugging a USB device (bug #1295)
* Settings: fixed bug when converting 1.5.x settings
* RDP: fixed enabling the RDP server during runtime
* RDP: properly detect the rdesktop 1.6.0 RDP client
* RDP: fixed RDP crash (bug #1521)
* RDP: updated modified rdesktop client to version 1.6.0
* GUI: NLS improvements
* BIOS: added SMBIOS header to make Solaris and Vista recognize the DMI data
* ACPI: properly hide a disabled floppy controller
* VMM: small fixes to protected mode without paging
* VMDK: fixed handling of .vmdk images without UUIDs
* Windows hosts: fixed driver parameter validation issue in VBoxDrv.sys that could allow an attacker on the host to crash the system
* Windows hosts: installer now contains web service examples mentioned in the manual
* Linux hosts: properly deregister the Linux kernel module before uninstalling a Linux deb/rpm package
* Linux hosts: kernel module works now with Linux 2.6.27
* Linux hosts: fixed a typo in the vboxnet setup script for host network interfaces (bug #1714)
* Linux hosts: fixed usage of tar in installer (bug #1767)
* Linux hosts: fixed long guest shutdown time when serial port is enabled
* Solaris hosts: refuse to install in Sun xVM hypervisor dom0
* Solaris hosts: accept Solaris raw disks when for raw disk access
* Windows additions: made installation of shared folders more robust
* Windows additions: improved installation
* Linux additions: accept every user-defined guest video mode in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
* Linux additions: fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions (e.g. openSUSE 11)

VirtualBox 1.6.2 查看版本資訊

更新時間:2008-06-07
更新細節:

What's new in this version:

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* 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

VirtualBox 1.6.0 查看版本資訊

更新時間:2008-05-03
更新細節:

What's new in this version:

This version is the first major update since being acquired by Sun.com. 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 fixed 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 fixes 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: fixed 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 configurable
* XPCOM: moved to libxml2
* XPCOM: fixed VBoxSVC autostart race
* Audio: SoundBlaster 16 emulation
* USB: fixed problems with USB 2.0 devices
* MacOS X: fixed seamless mode
* MacOS X: better desktop integration, several look'n'feel fixes
* 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 fixes to improve stability
* Seamless windows: added support for Linux guests
* Linux installer: support DKMS for compiling the kernel module
* Linux host: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.25
* Windows host: support for USB devices has been significantly improved; many additional USB devices now work
* Windows Additions: automatically install AMD PCNet drivers on Vista guests
* Linux additions: several fixes, experimental support for RandR 1.2
* Linux additions: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.25

VirtualBox 1.5.6 查看版本資訊

更新時間:2008-02-20
更新細節:

What's new in this version:

* 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: fixed 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 figured 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 file 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: fixed 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

VirtualBox 1.5.4 查看版本資訊

更新時間:2007-12-29
更新細節:

What's new in this version:

This version is a maintenance release. It adds USB 2.0 support and a PulseAudio backend.

" GUI: fixed registration dialog crashes
" GUI: allow to enter unicode characters to the name of the registration dialog
" GUI: pre-select attached media in the disk manager when opened from the VM
settings dialog
" GUI: remember the last active VM
" GUI: ask before reset the VM
" GUI: dont accept empty paths for serial/parallel ports in XML
" GUI: fixed NumLock / CapsLock synchronizazion on Windows hosts
" GUI: dont start the kernel timer if no VM is active (Linux host)
" GUI: fixed accelerators in German translation
" VMM: improved compatibility with Solaris guests
" VMM: properly restore CR4 after leaving VT-x mode
" VMM: fix interrupt storm with Windows guests under certain circumstances (e.g.
disable + re-enable the network adapter)
" VMM: with VT-x a pending interrupt could be cleared behind our back
" VMM: workaround for missed cpuid patch (some Linux guests refuse to boot on
multi-core CPUs)
" VMM: fixed code for overriding CPUID values
" VMM: improved error handling on out-of-memory conditions
" API: dont crash when trying to create a VM with a duplicate name
" API: dont crash when trying to access the settings of a VM when some other VMs
are not accessible
" API: fixed several memory leaks
" ATA/IDE: fixed SuSE 9.1 CD read installer regression
" Serial: several fixes
" Floppy: fixed inverted write protect flag
" Floppy: fixed handling of read-only images
" USB: virtualize an EHCI controller
" USB: several minor fixes
" Network: fixed MAC address check
" Network: host interface fixes for Solaris guests
" Network: guest networking stopped completely after taking a snapshot
" Network: dont crash if a network card is enabled but not attached
" PXE: fix for PXE-EC8 error on soft reboot
" NAT: update the DNS server IP address on every DNS packet sent by the guest
" VGA: reset VRAM access handers after a fullscreen update
" VGA: dont overwrite guests VRAM when displaying a blank screen
" ACPI: implemented the sleep button event
" VRDP: fixed crash when querying VRDP properties
" VRDP: netAddress fixes
" VRDP: fixed the Pause/Break keys over VRDP
" VRDP: workaround for scrambled icons with a guest video mode of 16bpp
" VRDP: reset modifer keys on RDP_INPUT_SYNCHRONIZE
" VRDP: reset RDP updates after resize to prevent obsolete updates
" Clipboard: Windows host/guest fixes
" Clipboard: fixed a SEGFAULT on VM exit (Linux host)
" Clipboard: fixed a buffer overflow (Linux host)
" Shared Folders: fixed memory leaks
" Linux installer: remove the old kernel module before compiling a new one
" Linux host: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.24
" Linux host: script fixes for ArchLinux
" Linux host: load correct HAL library to determine DVD/floppy (libhal.so.1 not
libhal.so)
" Linux host: make sure the tun kernel module is loaded before initializing static
TAP interfaces
" Windows additions: fixed hang during HGCM communication
" Windows additions: fixed delay when shutting down the guest
" Linux additions: added sendfile support to allow HTTP servers to send files on
shared folders
" Linux additions: make additions work with Fedora 8 (SELinux policy added)
" Linux additions: sometimes ARGB pointers were displayed incorrectly
" Linux additions: several small script fixes

VirtualBox 1.5.2 查看版本資訊

更新時間:2007-10-19
更新細節:

What's new in this version:

* Windows Installer: fixed installation on Windows 2000 hosts
* Windows Installer: proper warning when installing a 32-bit VirtualBox version on 64-bit Windows and vice versa
* Linux Installer: no longer require license acceptance during install, instead at first GUI startup (addresses issues with hanging installer on Debian based distributions)
* GUI: added user registration dialog
* GUI: fixed crashes on 64-bit Linux hosts
* GUI: several fixes and improvements to seamless mode
* GUI: fixed DirectDraw mode with certain video cards (e.g. Intel i915)
* GUI: fixed incorrect guest resolution after leaving fullscreen mode
* GUI: improved keyboard handling on Linux host
* GUI: show fatal VM aborts (aka "Guru Meditation")
* GUI: fixed crashes due to a display update race condition on some systems
* GUI: added ACPI shutdown option to the VM close dialog
* GUI: NLS improvements
* BIOS: fixed floppy boot menu
* BIOS: expose the VM UUID in the DMI/SMBIOS area
* VGA: fixed CGA video modes
* VGA: fixed 8-bit DAC handling (Solaris setup)
* VMM: fixed issue with VT-x on Windows 64-bit hosts
* VMM: improved compatibility with Linux KVM
* VMM: fixed issues with Fedora 8 guests
* VMM: fixed fatal errors while installing Windows guests when using AMD-V
* VMM: fixed sporadic hangs when minimizing VM window and using VT-x/AMD-V
* VMM: fixed high load of ksoftirq on tickless Linux hosts
* VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guests hangs related to IRQ sharing
* VMM: fixed sporadic errors during openSUSE 10.3 installation
* VMM: fixed issue with Linux 2.6.23 guests
* VMM: fixed issues with Solaris guests
* VMM: fixed stability issue related to incorrect relocations
* Serial: significantly reduced CPU utilization
* Network: fixed issues with FreeBSD guests
* Network: added MII support (100MBit detection fix)
* Network: improved MAC address handling
* Network: added PXE release logging
* IDE: large reads from CD could exceed the I/O buffer size
* Audio: load ALSA dynamically on Linux (i.e. do not fail when ALSA is not present)
* VRDP: support additional RDP clients (SunRay, WinConnect, Mac OS X)
* VRDP: fixed issues when client color depth is higher than server color depth
* VRDP: make PAM authentication service name configurable
* VRDP: increased stack size to deal with stack consuming PAM library calls
* Additions: various fixes and enhancements to clipboard handling
* Windows Additions: fixed issues with Additions on NT 4 guests
* Windows Additions: added support for 8-bit video modes
* Windows Additions: allow specifying custom resolutions for secondary screens
* Windows Additions: several fixes and improvements for DirectDraw
* Windows Additions: improved the mouse filter driver compatibility with other mouse drivers
* Linux Additions: several fixes and enhancements to Shared Folders
* Linux Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.4
* Shared folders: fixed MS Powerpoint access issues (Linux host)
* API: fixed RPC_E_CHANGED_MODE startup error on Windows hosts
* API: fixed SMP race condition on Linux hosts
* API: fixed stability issues on Windows hosts in low memory conditions

VirtualBox 1.5.0 查看版本資訊

更新時間:2007-09-04
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