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VirtualBox 3.0.0 Beta 1

Wednesday, June 17. 2009

There is a beta-version of the next version of Virtualbox available for download: 3.0.0 beta 1. The manual contains a

Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only)
Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental)
Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

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
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.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun at 07:57 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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