VirtualBox v1.6.2 Released!

[Alpha]

InnoTek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware.

 

VirtualBox 1.6.2 (released 2008-06-06)

 

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

 

* GUI: fixed a bug which prevented to add more than one SATA drive from the GUI

* GUI: fixed a regression introduced in 1.6.0: the fullscreen mode was left on every guest video mode switch

* GUI: fixed several minor issues

* Networking: fixed a host interface networking regression introduced in 1.6.0

* VMM: fixed starting of VMs with AMD-V enabled

* VMM: massive performance enhancements for AMD-V

* VMM: stability improvements for AMD-V on Windows hosts

* VMM: correctly detect AMD CPUs with erratum 170 (AMD-V)

* VMM: detect inconsistent timestamp counters on certain AMD Phenom CPUs (Windows host only)

* VMM: fixed KVM check (Linux hosts only) XPCOM: fixed several races

* VMM: fixed a regression introduced in 1.6.0: Windows stuck during installation

* SATA: improved performance with Vista guests

* SATA: fixed statistics counter

* Shared Folders: several fixes (iTunes download, speed up browsing)

* ATA/IDE: fixed boot from CDROM if a medium was added while the boot menu was active

* Networking: provide an Intel PRO/1000 T Server (82543GC) network device emulation which is recognized by Windows XP guests

* Networking: fixes for the E1000 emulation (don´t crash if not attached, fixed a bug in the statistics counter implementation)

* NAT: don´t crash if the guest sent a DHCPRELEASE message with an invalid IP address

* NAT: fixed ARP reply for the NAT gateway and for the NAT name server if the guest IP range was changed

* Internal Networking: fixed shutdown if more than two VMs are connected to the same network

* BIOS: allow to change the DMI informatiton (see chapter 9.13, Con´guring the BIOS DMI information, page 125)

* RTC: fixed UIP emulation to prevent jumping of time in Solaris guests

* Windows host: VirtualBox installation directory corrected for 64 bits Windows

* Windows host: fixed VBoxVRDP.exe symlink

* Windows host: solved locking problems in raw partition VMDK support

* Windows host: fixed stability during high system load (page fault in KeQueryActiveProcessors)

* MacOS X host: fixed crashes under certain conditions

* Shared Folders: limited users without admin rights now also can use Shared Folders on Windows guests

* Linux hosts: fixed default runlevel for the kernel module helper script

* Solaris hosts: enabled support for VT-x and AMD-V

* Solaris hosts: dynamic loading of libdlpi fixes a problem where Solaris 10 was not able to start a VM

* Linux additions: fixed runlevels for kernel module helper scripts

* Linux additions: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.26

* Linux additions: fixed occasional guest kernel crash during unload of the vboxadd guest kernel module

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