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Virtualbox 2.0 released

Thursday, September 4. 2008

We have released the 2.0 release of Virtualbox. You can download it from the Sun Download Center. The release notes describes a lot of changes in this version:

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)

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, General at 14:54 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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I have trouble running it on 10.4.11, but couldn't find a statement anywhere that this is a leopard only release and I'm too lazy to sign up for yet another forum.

Do you happen to know whether this is supposed to be?

VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBox.dylib",) failed: dlopen(/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBox.dylib, 10): Symbol not found: _close$UNIX2003
Referenced from: /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBox.dylib
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

#1 Matthias on 2008-09-04 16:21 (Reply)

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