VirtualBox 4.0.0

(2010.12.22)

Changelog
VirtualBox 4.0.0

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VirtualBox 4.0.0

Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 23

(2010.12.12)

Release Notes
Changes in 1.6.0_23-b05 (6u23)

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VirtualBox 3.2.12

(2010.11.30)

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

* VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
* VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only)
* VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests
* VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages
* VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU
* Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while the VM is running
* GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when starting from a saved state
* NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression)
* Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000
* VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration
* Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash
* Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute mouse events (3.2.10 regression)
* Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation; fixes for Koran keyboards
* Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during open
* Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only)
* Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a multiple of 8 pixels (requires Guest Additions update).
* USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; version 3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)
* USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (Windows hosts only)
* iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid being disconnected if the guest is idle
* 3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances
* 3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps
* 3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality
* 2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM state
* Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
* Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection
* Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
* Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above
* Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes
* Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS is not installed
* Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing files on a Shared Folders
* Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating user accounts for VM information

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VirtualBox 3.2.12

Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 22

(2010.10.12)

Release Notes
Changes in 1.6.0_22 (6u22)

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VirtualBox 3.2.10

(2010.10.11)

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

* VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386 (3.2.8 regression)
* VMM: stability fix
* VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages
* VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts
* VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with nested paging
* VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than 2 GB RAM
* GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt (Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression)
* GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
* GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression)
* GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard
* GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed (Linux hosts only)
* OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default
* Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI images (3.2.6 regression)
* Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero parent UUID which made them inaccessible
* Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was canceled
* IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs
* SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests
* SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better
* iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection
* VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain circumstances
* VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes
* Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown (Linux hosts only)
* NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering a file via bootp
* NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver
* NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load (non-Windows hosts only)
* VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances
* VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain circumstances
* USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some printers
* USB: Blackberry fix
* VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to hangs if the VM could not be started successfully
* VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters are passed
* VBoxManage: clonehd: fixed a bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare circumstances
* VBoxManage: metrics: made it work for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression)
* 3D support: report GLX_ARB_get_proc_address as supported extension
* 3D support: guest application stack corruption when using glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v
* 3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to fullscreen/seamless modes
* 3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista
* OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
* OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems
* OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no longer verified on import nor written on export
* Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared clipboard on Windows hosts and guest
* Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an invalid encoding exist on the host
* Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying to list files for a non-existing wildcard
* Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the NULL audio backend
* Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)
* Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads
* Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing more than one environment variable
* Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService after the VM was restored from a saved state
* Additions: fixed a division by zero crash of VBoxService under certain circumstances
* Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host time after the VM was restored from a saved state
* Additions/Windows: fixed LsaEnumerate error when enumerating logged in users
* Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9
* Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot
* Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10
* Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data in the event of a VM crash
* Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection
* Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using the wrong user or group IDs
* Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on 32-bit guests
* Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
* Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes
* Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes
* Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries

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VirtualBox 3.2.10

VirtualBox 3.2.8

(2010.08.06)

Changes in 3.2.8
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)
* GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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
* Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression)
* Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
* 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
* Shared folders: several fixes and performance enhancements for Solaris guests
* Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations
* Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field
* 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
* Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML settings file version 1.10 and later
* VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly in subcommand openmedium disk
* 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)

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VirtualBox 3.2.8

Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 21

(2010.07.08)

Release Notes
Changes in 1.6.0_21

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VirtualBox 3.2.6

(2010.06.25)

Changes in 3.2.6
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)
* 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
* VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only)
* Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests
* 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
* GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode (Mac OS X hosts only)
* GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts again
* 2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
* VBoxManage: fixed storageattach error handling
* VBoxManage: fixed dhcpserver add (3.2.0 regression)
* Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which don't support async I/O
* Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression)
* 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)
* SATA: performance improvement
* SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows installation
* iSCSI: fixed authentication
* Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression)
* 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
* USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port
* USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings
* 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)
* 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
* Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on ArchLinux guests
* X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events
* 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
* 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit apps under 64bit Windows guests

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VirtualBox 3.2.6

VirtualBox 3.2.4

(2010.06.07)

Changes in 3.2.4

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

* GUI: fixed a superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11 (improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)
* Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication over wireless (3.2.0 regression)
* Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with growing images (3.2.0 regression)
* Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests
* 3D support: allow use of CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH again
* 3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest applications
* 3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup
* OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation) (3.2.2 regression)
* VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors

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VirtualBox 3.2.4

VirtualBox 3.2.2

(2010.06.02)

Changes in 3.2.2

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

* VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)
* VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted guest execution (VT-x only)
* VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup
* GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual state
* GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration
* GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity
* GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open
* GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings
* GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
* GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu
* GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs
* VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection
* SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances
* SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken
* Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O
* Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
* Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests
* Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing
* HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were accessing a non-existing HGCM service
* Teleportation: several fixes
* Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default
* USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows host only
* Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the probability for loosing bytes during transmission
* NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP requests to handle host network switches more gracefully
* NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation
* NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four (non-Windows hosts only)
* NAT: fixed DNS transaction id mismatch
* VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime
* Bridged Networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking driver for Windows hosts
* Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests
* Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature
* Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default
* Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
* Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice.
* OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export
* OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files
* 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit apps on windows guests
* 3D support: fixed various host crashes

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VirtualBox 3.2.2

Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 20

(2010.04.14)

Release Notes
Changes in 1.6.0_20

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Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 19

(2010.03.30)

Release Notes
Changes in 1.6.0_19

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Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 19 / Mirror (Windows)