Sun xVM Virtualbox 2.0

**1for-matik** · #1 05-09-2008, 13:47

Une semaine après la disponibilité de la mise à jour mineure 1.6.6 de VirtualBox, Sun nous propose aujourd'hui une version majeure de son virtualisateur, qui sort donc en version 2.0.
Qui dit version majeure dit beaucoup de nouveautés. Et bien c'est le cas car Virtualbox virtualise enfin les systèmes 64 bits sur les OS Hôtes 64 bits.
Mais ce n'est pas tout, Sun rafraîchit l'interface du logiciel, en passant du toolkit QT3 à QT4 pour les versions Windows et Linux, quant à la version Mac OS X, Sun nous prévient qu'elle adopte un look Leopard.

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L'interface légèrement rafraichie de VirtualBox 2

Sun introduit également un notificateur de nouvelles versions au logiciel et ajoute le support des disques virtuels VHD de Microsoft.

Mais ce n'est pas tout, d'autres nouveautés ont été introduites et des bugs ont également été corrigés, voici une liste complète des changements :

Changelog
 
VirtualBox 2.0.0 (released 2008-09-04)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

    * 64 bits guest support (64 bits host only)

    * New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts

    * The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements

    * New-version notifier

    * Guest property information interface

    * Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts

    * New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts

    * Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)

    * Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)

    * Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw disks/partitions (major performance gain)

    * Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests

    * Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts

    * Support for VHD disk images 

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

    * VMM: VT-x fixes

    * AHCI/SATA: improved performance

    * GUI: keyboard fixes

    * Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if unregistering the DKMS module fails

    * Linux additions: the guest screen resolution is properly restored

    * Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)

    * Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11

    * Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn’t simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)

Virtualbox est donc disponible pour tous les systèmes existants qu'ils soient 32 bits ou 64 bits.

Télécharger Virtualbox 2.0.0

**1for-matik** · #2 12-09-2008, 23:56

Et re ! Décidément, Sun n'arrive plus à s'arrêter et nous offre (encore) une nouvelle version de virtualbox qui arrive en version 2.0.2.
Au sommaire, des corrections de bugs en tous genres dont un bug qui affectait Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 et les kernels 2.6.26 et supérieurs.

La meilleure chose pour savoir ce qu'il y a de nouveau est de lire ce si formidable changelog :

Changelog
 
VirtualBox 2.0.2 (released 2008-09-12)

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

    * VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)

    * VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)

    * VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha, Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875)

    * VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian)

    * VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only)

    * VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132)

    * GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in the virtual disk manager

    * GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)

    * GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)

    * GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)

    * GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)

    * GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #2067)

    * GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)

    * GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts)

    * VBoxManage: fixed crash during internalcommands createrawvmdk (bug #2184)

    * VBoxManage: fixed output of snapshot showvminfo (bug #69

    * Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces (Windows guests only)

    * Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes (bug #2055)

    * API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)

    * VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection (configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled)

    * VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem

    * Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel memory and panic the kernel (bug #207

    * Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27

    * Mac OS X hosts: added Python support

    * Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after a VM reboot

    * Windows additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)

    * Linux additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with buggy X servers

    * Linux additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests (dynamic resizing disabled for the latter) (bug #1854)

    * Linux additions: added installer check for the system architecture

    * Linux additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions (bug #212

    * VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)

    * VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading the wrong data (bug #2085)

    * Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)

    * Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the host when host interface networking was enabled

    * Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when installing under the wrong architecture

    * Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #194

    * Solaris additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit additions installer into a single package

    * Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial port to the guest

Télécharger Sun xVM Virtualbox 2.0.2

**1for-matik** · #3 24-10-2008, 13:11

En cette fin octobre, Sun nous offre une nouvelle version de son outil de virtualisation appelé Virtualbox. La version du logiciel est désormais numéroté 2.0.4 et corrige quelques bugs et crash en tous genres dont une fuite de mémoire qui n'affectait que Windows Vista.

Pour les autres corrections, voici le changelog :

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

    * VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures

    * VMM: don’t overﬂow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)

    * VMM: ﬁxed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)

    * GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)

    * GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)

    * SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)

    * SATA: ﬁxed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)

    * Network: don’t crash when changing the adapter link state if no host driver is attached (bug #2333)

    * VHD: ﬁxed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)

    * VRDP: ﬁxed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not equal to the client resolution

    * Clipboard: don’t crash when host service initialization takes longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)

    * Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)

    * Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)

    * Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup

    * Linux hosts: handle jifﬁes counter overﬂow (VM stuck after 300 seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)

    * Solaris hosts: ﬁxed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface networking (bug #2474)

    * Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking

    * Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking

    * Windows additions: ﬁxed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder

    * Windows additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #172

    * Windows additions: ﬁxed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)

    * Windows additions: ﬁxed error code for MoveFile() if the target exists (bug #2350)

    * Linux additions: ﬁxed seek() for ﬁles bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)

    * Linux additions: support Ubuntu 8.10

    * Linux additions: clipboard ﬁxes (bug #2015)

    * Web services: improved documentation and ﬁxed example (bug #1642)

Télécharger Sun xVM Virtualbox 2.0.4 pour toutes les plateformes

**1for-matik** · #4 24-11-2008, 22:07

Et rebelote, fin novembre, une nouvelle mise à jour de Virtualbox est disponible. Sun nous offre donc une version de maintenance contenant des corrections de bugs et des améliorations de performances (notamment dans la gestion des disques durs SATA virtuels).

Changelog
 
VirtualBox 2.0.6 (released 2008-11-21)

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

    * VMM: ﬁxed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests (bug #2220)

    * VMM: ﬁxed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)

    * VMM: ﬁxed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)

    * GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows hosts only, bug #1996)

    * GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)

    * VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information (bug #2624)

    * SATA: ﬁxed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned (bug #2024)

    * SATA: improved performance

    * SATA: ﬁxed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)

    * E1000: ﬁxed crash under rare circumstances

    * USB: ﬁxed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host: bugs #470 & #491)

    * Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox applications when updating the installation

    * Windows host installer: ﬁxed default installation directory on 64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)

    * Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions in /tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc

    * Linux hosts: ﬁxed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts, ﬁx for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)

    * Linux hosts: don’t crash during shutdown with serial ports connected to a host device

    * Solaris hosts: ﬁxed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking

    * Solaris hosts: ﬁxed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking

    * Solaris hosts: ﬁxed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)

    * Windows additions: ﬁxed logged in users reporting via guest properties when using native RDP connections

    * Windows additions: ﬁxed Vista crashes when accessing shared folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)

    * Windows additions: ﬁxed shared folders access with MS-Ofﬁce (bug #2591)

    * Linux additions: ﬁxed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit guests (bug #2550)

    * SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections

Télécharger Sun xVM Virtualbox 2.0.6 pour toutes les plateformes

**1for-matik** · #5 17-12-2008, 19:45

Noël approchant à grand pas, les éditeurs de logiciels nous offrent de beaux cadeaux. Et c'est le cas de Sun qui nous offre une nouvelle version de son outil de virtualisation appelé Virtualbox et numéroté 2.1.0, ce qui signifie de façon claire et nette que ce n'est pas une version de maintenance mais une version majeure avec de vraies nouveautés à l'intérieur !

Et quelles nouveautés ! Support de la paravirtualisation sous MacOS X, support des OS 64 Bits virtualisé sous des OS 32bits hôtes, support de la 3D dans la machine virtualisée grâce à OpenGL, support des Core i7 et support des images disques VMDK/VHD ! Mais arrêtez c'est trop beau ! Ajoutez à ça des corrections de bugs et des améliorations de performances... ça nous donne vraiment l'impression d'une très belle mise à jour spéciale Noël

Bon, le blablabla est passé, voici le changelog complet (ce beau changelog, roi des changelog.. que j'aime sa... longueur) :

Changelog
 
VirtualBox 2.1.0 (released 2008-12-17)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

    * Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts

    * Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see user manual, chapter 1.6, 64-bit guests, page 16)

    * Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see user manual, chapter 1.2, Software vs. hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V), page 10))

    * Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see user manual, chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), page 66)

    * Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see user manual, chapter 5.1, Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI, page 70)

    * Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see user manual, chapter 5.2, Disk image ﬁles (VDI, VMDK, VHD), page 72)

    * New NAT engine with signiﬁcantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo (ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)

    * New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows) 

In addition, the following items were ﬁxed and/or added:

    * VMM: signiﬁcant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution)

    * VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)

    * VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V

    * VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only)

    * VMM: ﬁxed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner (software virtualization only; bug #1439)

    * VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)

    * VMM: ﬁxed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots

    * VMM: ﬁxed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)

    * VMM: ﬁxed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x)

    * VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)

    * VMM: ﬁxed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only)

    * GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)

    * GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)

    * GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine’s battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)

    * GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on the compiz window manager

    * GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)

    * GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings

    * GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability

    * GUI: predeﬁned settings for QNX guests

    * IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support

    * Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM

    * Networking: ﬁxed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot

    * iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI ﬁle

    * iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets

    * Graphics: ﬁxed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power of two (bug #2724)

    * VBoxManage: ﬁxed bug which prevented setting up the serial port for direct device access.

    * VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation

    * VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)

    * Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking

    * Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting

    * API: redesigned storage model with better generalization

    * API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time

    * API: added methods to return network conﬁguration information of the host system

    * Shared Folders: performance and stability ﬁxes for Windows guests (Microsoft Ofﬁce Applications)

Toujours multiplateforme, le logiciel est disponible et tout prêt à être testé !

Télécharger Virtualbox 2.1.0 pour les systèmes d'exploitation existants (ou presque...)

***Benjy*** · #6 18-12-2008, 22:25

Quelle verve !

AntarV · #7 17-04-2009, 11:35

Bonjour
Je n'arrive pas à connecter ma machine virtuelle la cause n'est elle pas ce fameux driver ? Y a -t-il un moyen de le faire ? Merci de me répondre

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