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Informatique (logiciels)Sun xVM Virtualbox 1.6.6

Par 1for-matik, le 03-09-2008 à 19:49

Mots-clés : sun, virtualbox, virtualisation, xvm

Voilà la 3ème version de maintenance de virtualisateur de Sun, qui sort en version 1.6.6.
Au sommaire, corrections de bugs et de rares petites nouvelles fonctionnalités...

changelog
 
VirtualBox 1.6.6 (released 2008-08-26)

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

    * VMM: ﬁxed excessive logging (bug #1901)

    * VMM: AMD-V stability ﬁxes (bug #1685)

    * GUI: added support for Ctrl+Caps reversed keyboards (bug #1891)

    * SATA: ﬁxed BSODs of Windows guests on a SATA disk (bug #1941)

    * SATA: ﬁxed hard disk detection on Solaris 10 U5 (bug #1789)

    * VBoxHeadless: don’t start the clipboard service (bug #1743)

    * VBoxHeadless: added -vrdp parameter which allows to start the VM session without VRDP (bug #1960)

    * VBoxManage: ﬁxes to creating raw disk/partition VMDK ﬁles, now accepts removable media on Windows (bug #1869)

    * VRDP: ﬁxed communication with MS Remote Resktop Connection on MacOS X (bug #1337)

    * VRDP: clipboard ﬁxes (bug #1410)

    * VRDP: ﬁxed crash during PAM authentication (bug #1953)

    * Shared Folders: ﬁxed a regression introduced in version 1.6.2: the shared folders service was sometimes not properly installed (Windows guests only, bug #1915)

    * Shared Folders: don’t deny to load a VM if a shared folder is not accessible (bug #822)

    * BIOS: allow to specify empty DMI strings (bug #1957)

    * OSE archive: added missing Makeﬁles (bug #1912)

    * Linux hosts: workaround for buggy gcc-4.3 compilers (e.g. openSUSE 11)

    * Linux hosts: one more ﬁx for compiling the kernel modules on Linux 2.6.27 (bug #1962)

    * MacOS X hosts: shared folders unicode ﬁx

    * Solaris hosts: ﬁxed link issue (bug #1840)

    * Windows additions: allow to downgrade the package

    * Windows additions: ﬁxed corrupted installer icon on Windows 2000 (bug #1486)

    * Windows additions: ﬁxed bug when creating intermediate directories (bug #1870)

    * Windows additions: implemented /xres=, /yres= and /depth= switches for the installer (bug #1990)

    * Linux additions: properly unregister the misc device when unloading the kernel module

    * Linux additions: ﬁxed startup order for recent Linux distributions again (e.g. openSUSE 11)

    * Linux additions: attempt to ﬁx the autostart issue of !VBoxClient with Mandriva guests (bug #1699)

    * Linux additions: ﬁxed detection of patched Linux 2.6.18 kernels of RHEL5 / FC6 / CentOS 5.2 (bugs #1899, #1973)

    * Linux additions: added new mount ﬂags dmode, fmode, umask, dmask and fmask allowing to override the ﬁle mode (bug #1776)

    * Documentation: added a note that jumbo frames don’t work (bug #1877)

    * Documentation: document special host interface names on openSUSE11 (bug #1892)

Et voilà, pour le téléchargement, le choix se fait de nouveau sur le site de Virtualbox, fini les passages par le site de Sun. A noter que les dépôts debian-based sont de nouveau disponibles.