Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6.2

Tarun · June 6, 2008

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

Changes:

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: ?xed 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