Dans cette version 1.6.2, Sun se permet de faire quelques corrections sur les nouveautés apportées par la branche 1.6 : Les performances du SATA sous Vista, la compatibilité avec le kernel 2.6.26 ou encore quelques problèmes de crash du module virtualbox sous Linux.
Pour le reste du changelog c'est par ici :
Changelog
VirtualBox 1.6.2 (released 2008-06-06)
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
Sun xVM Virtualbox 1.6.2 est multiplateforme, disponible sous Windows, MacOS X (Processeurs Intel uniquement) et toutes les distributions dérivées d'Unix.VirtualBox 1.6.2 (released 2008-06-06)
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
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1 commentaire pour “Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6.2”
Au sommaire de cette nouvelle version : des corrections de bugs, encore des corrections de bugs, une petite amélioration et enfin... d'autres corrections de bugs.
C'est vague je sais
Voilà qui est plus explicatif :
VirtualBox 1.6.4 (released 2008-07-30)
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)
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