VirtualBox 1.5.6 has been released. This release features include seamless mode and fullscreen mode ï¬xes, improved performance of Solaris guests, added support for read-only shared folders, experimental support for E1000 device emulation, compatibility ï¬xes with Linux Kernel 2.6.24 and so on.
Changelog
- GUI: ï¬xed several error messages
- GUI: ï¬xed registration dialog crashes once and for all
- GUI: really ask before resetting the VM
- GUI: release mouse and keyboard before the host activates the screensaver
- GUI: ï¬xed issue with license display on big screens
- GUI: added setting for network name for internal networks
- GUI: added setting for network device type
- GUI: keyboard ï¬xes
- GUI: seamless mode and fullscreen mode ï¬xes
- GUI: ï¬xed soaked hostkey keyup event under certain conditions
- GUI: more informative message dialog buttons
- GUI: VM selector context menu
- VBoxSDL: added -termacpi switch
- VBoxSDL: ï¬xed automatic adaption of the guest screen resolution to the size of the VM window
- VMM: under heavy guest activity, for example when copying ï¬les to/from a shared folder, the VM could crash with an assertion
- VMM: added an option to select PIIX4 (improves compatibility with Windows guests created by VMware)
- VMM: ï¬xed a bug which could lead to memory corruption under rare circumstances
- VMM: improved performance of Solaris guests
- VRDP: ï¬xed a 1.5.4 regression: VRDP client and server were out-of-sync if the VM was started using the GUI
- VRDP: proper error handling if the VRDP library could not be loaded
- VBoxManage: ï¬xed crash during clonevdi
- VBoxManage: added ’list runningvms’ command
- VBoxManage: improved the compatibility when reading the partition table of a raw disk
- Shared Folders: added support for read-only shared folders
- Shared Clipboard: several ï¬xes
- Network: experimental support for E1000 device emulation
- iSCSI: better check for misconï¬gured targets
- iSCSI: allow to directly attach to internal networks with integrated mini IP stack
- PulseAudio: don’t hang during VM initialization if no sound server is available
- VDI: ï¬xed sized virtual disk images are now completely written during creation to workaround buggy sparse ï¬le handling on some OS (e.g. Vista)
- VDI/VMDK: prevent indexing of .vdi and .vmdk ï¬les on Windows hosts
- RDP: ï¬xed compilation of the Linux rdesktop client on newer Linux kernels
- RDP: install rdesktop-vrdp on Linux hosts
- ACPI: added sleep button event
- Serial: proper handling of inaccessible host devices
- Windows installer: allow smooth upgrade without deinstallation
- Linux installer: ï¬xed Slackware detection regression
- Linux installer: updated VBoxTunctl allowing to assign a tap device to a group on Linux kernels > 2.6.23
- Windows additions: several ï¬xes, in particular for Windows NT4
- Linux additions: ï¬xed installer for Kubuntu 8.04
- Linux additions: add default video mode for handling video mode hints from the host
- Linux host: compatibility ï¬xes with Linux > 2.6.24
The VirtualBox binaries are available free of charge for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Mandriva, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, PCLinuxOS, Xandros Desktop, and all other distributions. You can download VirtualBox 1.5.6 from here.
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