VirtualBox 3
VirtualBox 3 (or better VirtualBox 3.0.0) arrived today. The main features are:
- Support processors up to 32 guests on symmetric virtual processors (only with Intel VT-x and AMD-V enabled).
- Support for OpenGL 2.0 in guest operating system with Windows, Linux and Solaris
- Ability to use games and applications Direct3D 8 / 9 on Windows operating systems hosted on virtual machines (experimental)
Other changes or corrections:
* Solaris hosts: allow suspend / resume on the host when a VM is running (bug # 3826)
* Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under certain conditions
* Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE
* Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug # 4264)
* VMM: fixed occasional meditation guru when loading a saved state (VT-x only)
* VMM: IO-APIC eliminated overhead with 32-bit guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs do not support this feature (most do), bug # 638)
* VMM: fixed 64-bit CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug # 3927)
* VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (eg Linux kernel 2.6.29 +)
* VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug # 2227)
* VMM: fixed VM hanging and unkillable processes (bug # 4040)
* VMM: fixed random crashes due to infrequent guest XMM been Korruption (Win64 hosts only)
* VMM: performance improvements for network I / O (VT-x/AMD-V only)
* GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)
* GUI: Redesigned settings dialogs
* GUI: allow to create / remove more than one host-only network adapters (non-Windows hosts)
* GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (eg OVF import / export)
* GUI: Fixed rare hangs open when the OVF import / export wizards (bug # 4157)
* 3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using OpenGL incorrect states
* 3D support: Fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats
* 3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements
* 3D support: Fixed memory leak when using VBOs
* 3D support: fixed detection library Glew
* 3D support: fixed random textures corruption
* VRDP: RDP client supports Windows 7
* Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offioading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18
* NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual routers 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514 (forum)
* NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters
* NAT: allow sockets to bind to specific interface
* PXE boot: Significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)
* VHD: write properly when empty sectors cloning of VHD images (bug # 4080)
* VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image
* VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap Which could lead to arbitrary crashes
* VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating raw partition VMDK files giving access (bug # 3510)
* VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file
* OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes
* OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once
* Virtual Mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the virtual mouse Which were confusing some applications (bug # 3782)
* Shared Folders: Sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions (2.2.0 regression, bug # 3785)
* Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the correct file mode when creating files
* Shared Folders: Some content was written incorrectly under certain conditions (Bug # 1187)
* Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on Linux host (bug # 3404)
* X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug # 4270)
* X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes
* Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
* Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and guest property lookup
* Linux guests: guest Implemented Properties (OS info, logged in users, basic network information)
Host * Windows installer: Python VirtualBox API can now be installed automatically (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)
* USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional devices to work, notably webcams (bug # 242).
* USB: fixed some error handling for USB dongles
* Web service: fixed INABILITY to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, Which are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented web service.
* Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface inheritance correctly, fixed
* Web service: Added support for IDisplay iGuest and interfaces, Which were previously unavailable
* Registration dialog now uses Sun Online Accounts
