VirtualBox 3.0.0 Beta 1
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 (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</li>
- 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.