[Bug 268795] Re: Intrepid: please update virtualbox to 2.0

Mario Limonciello superm1 at ubuntu.com
Mon Sep 15 23:42:59 BST 2008 

Changelog from 1.6.2 to 2.0.2:

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 #698)
    * 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 #2078)
    * 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 #2128)
    * 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 #1948)
    * 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 

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 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 Desktop Connection on Mac OS 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)
    * Mac OS 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) 

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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