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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).

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