VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1 vydán
Kromě stabilní verze Sun xVM VirtualBox
2.2.4 vyšla také první beta verze Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0 Beta
1 obsahující celkem zásadní nové vlastnosti:
- Podpora až 32 virtuálních procesorů ve virtuálních strojích (pouze
s technologií Intel VT-x/AMD-V) - Virtuální stroje s Windows: možnost spouštět aplikace používající
Direct3D 8/9 nebo hry (experimental) - Podpora OpenGL 2.0 pro virtuální stroje s OS Windows, Linux nebo
Solaris
Následující položky byly v tomto vydání přidány nebo opraveny:
- Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the virtual mouse which
were confusing some applications (bug #3782) - Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running
(bug #3826) - Solaris hosts: tighten the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
certain conditions - VMM: fixed occassional guru meditation when loading a saved state
(VT-x only) - VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel
CPUs don’t support this feature (most do); bug #638) - VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only;
bug #3927) - VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+
kernels) - GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to
Huihong Luo) - GUI: redesigned settings dialogs
- GUI: allow to create/remove one host-only network adapters
- GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF
import/export) - GUI: Fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards
(bug #4157) - VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client
- Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading with Linux
kernels up to version 2.6.18 - VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images
(bug #4080) - VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image
- VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK
files giving raw partition access (bug #3510) - OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes
- Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785) - Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use
the correct file mode when creating files - Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
on a Linux host (bug #3404) - Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time syncronization and
guest property lookup - Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users, basic
network information) - Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed
automatically (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed) - USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been added. In
addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input endpoints (currently Linux
hosts only). This should allow additional devices to work, notably webcams - NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters
- Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now