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VirtualBox 1.4.0

VirtualBox nous revient aujourd'hui dans une grosse (très grosse) mise à jour. En effet, le logiciel vient de passer à la version 1.4.0 et apporte de biens grosses améliorations au niveau du support des OS non NT (Windows 9x et antérieurs, Linux et autres BSD).

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VirtualBox 1.4.0 apporte aussi une grande nouveauté : la localisation de l'interface. Oui, maintenant VirtualBox est multilingue, cela simplifiera les tests des anglophobes
Une amélioration du support de Windows Vista a été également effectuée, en signant numériquement les drivers, gage de la stabilité de ceux-ci.

Pour le reste des nouveautés, voici le changelog :
Changelog VirtualBox 1.4.0
 
* General: added support for OS X hosts
* General: added support for AMD64 hosts
* General: signed all executables and device drivers on Windows
* GUI: added user interface for Shared Folders
* GUI: added context menu for network adapters
* GUI: added VM description field for taking notes
* GUI: always restore guest mouse pointer when entering VM window (Windowss host)
* GUI: added configuration options for clipboard synchronization
* GUI: added first run wizard
* GUI: improved boot device order dialog
* GUI: auto-resize did not work after save/restore
* GUI: restore original window size when returning from fullscreen mode
* GUI: fixed screen update when switching to fullscreen mode
* GUI: the size of the VM window was sometimes resetted to 640x480
* GUI: added localizations
* GUI: various minor improvements
* VBoxManage: added convertdd command
* VMM: increased startup performance due to lazy memory allocation
* VMM: significantly increased maximum guest memory size
* VMM: fixed issues with V86 mode
* VMM: support V86 extensions (VME)
* VMM: support guests with a full GDT
* VMM: fixed boot hangs for some Linux kernels
* VMM: improved FreeBSD and OpenBSD support
* VMM: improved performance of guests that aggressively patch kernel code (very recent Linux 2.6 kernels)
* VMM: added workaround for a design flaw in AMD AM2 CPUs where the timestamp counter shows large differences among CPU cores
* VMM: fixed Linux guests with grsecurity
* VMM: fixed issue on 2G/2G Linux kernels (even 1G/3G kernels should work)
* VMM: fixed Linux detection of Local APIC on non-Intel and non-AMD CPUs
* VMM: timing improvements with high host system loads (VM starvation)
* VMM: experimental AMD SVM hardware virtualization support now also handles real and protected mode without paging
* VMM: added system time offset parameter to allow for VMs to run in the past or future
* VMM: provide an MPS 1.4 table if the IOAPIC is enabled
* RDP: allow binding the RDP server to a specific interface
* RDP: added support for clipboard synchronization
* RDP: added support for multiple simultaneous connections to one VM
* RDP: added support for MS RDP6 clients (Vista)
* Storage: experimental support for VMDK images (writethrough mode only, no snapshots yet)
* Storage: raw host disk support, including individual partitions
* IDE: improve CHS geometry detection
* IDE: fixed problem that only one VM could open an immutable image
* NAT: allow more than one card configured for NAT networking
* NAT: pass first entry in DNS search list (Linux host) or primary DNS suffix (Windows host) as domain name in DHCP
* NAT: support UDP broadcasts, which enables using Windows shares
* NAT: only warn if the name server could not be determined, no fatal error anymore
* NAT: fix a potential problem with incorrect memory allocation
* Internal Networking: fixed issue on Windows hosts
* Host Interface Networking: fixed sporadic crashes on interface creation/destruction (Windows host)
* Host Interface Networking: reworked TAP handling for Linux 2.6.18+ compatibility
* PXE: show error for unsupported V86 case
* PXE: small fix for parsing PXE menu entry without boot server IP
* Network: fixed network card hang after save/restore
* USB: Rewrote Windows USB handling without the need for a filter driver
* USB: Possible to steal arbitrary devices in Windows
* Serial: added serial ports with support for named pipes (local domain sockets) on the host
* Audio: fixed problem with ALSA on Linux before 2.6.18 blocking other ALSA clients on the system
* Audio: fixed problem with ALSA on AMD64 hosts
* Input: fixed PS/2 mouse detection in Win 3.x guests
* Shared Folders: fixed VM save/restore behaviour
* Shared Folders: functionality and stability fixes
* Shared Folders: allow non admin users to map folders
* Additions: added clipboard synchronization
* Windows Additions: fixed dynamic resolution changes after save/restore
* Windows Additions: added AMD PCNet driver for Windows Vista guests (with kind permission from AMD)
VirtualBox est également devenu totalement multi-plateforme, des binaires pouvant êtres téléchargés pour les distributions Linux non citées.
Pour les distributions basées sur Debian, des dépôts ont étés créés, vous serez ainsi notifié d'une éventuelle mise à jour du logiciel

Télécharger VirtualBox 1.4.0
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