VirtualBox 3.0.8

(2009.10.06)

Changes in 3.0.8
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
* VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
* VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation
* VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore
* VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests
* VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression; software virtualization only)
* VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the Sound Blaster 16 emulation
* Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands with root privileges
* Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation which was triggered under certain conditions
* Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain distributions
* Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by opening the VM network settings
* Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM selector
* Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not available
* Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as interrupts were not re-enabled everytime
* Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only networking
* Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when changing them
* X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
* Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless VMs without a graphical session
* Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)
* Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions
* Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier
* Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure
* Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression
* Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders are installed
* Linux Additions: implemented ftrunctate
* VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use
* Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under rare conditions
* VBoxManage: implemented controlvm vrdpport command
* iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets
* SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB
* USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
* NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests

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