Disponibile VirtualBox 4.0.4 (Oracle VM VirtualBox)
E’ disponibile per il download la nuova release 4.0.4 di Oracle VM Virtual Box: presentata come maintenance release, la nuova versione risolve i seguenti bug:
- VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
- VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs
- VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the programmable interval timer
- VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
- GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum number of host network interfaces
- GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing snapshot
- GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts
- GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in the users home directory
- ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted by umask when creating directories
- VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
- VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused
- VBoxManage: fixed modifyvm –synthcpu
- VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit and displaying process status on exit
- VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit/stdout while waiting for the guest process to terminate
- VBoxManage: fixed list hostdvds/hostfloppies
- VBoxManage: fixed storageattach for host DVD drives and host floppy drives
- Metrics: introduced RAM/VMM base metric.
- Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
- Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start
- Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images
- Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown
- Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium attachments
- Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)
- Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type
- Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue for Windows hosts
- Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin
- NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances
- ACPI: don’t allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don’t announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled
- Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
- Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is disabled
- ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume
- BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs
- Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
- Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes
- Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces without default gateway
- Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap
- X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
- X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha.
- X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login.
- X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older VirtualBox versions can’t handle.
- Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if a host link is not readable
- Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS) with VBoxGINA
Devo dire che, rispetto al progetto di OpenOffice sempre di Oracle, la community di Virtual Box è molto attiva ed il prodotto è ben supportato.
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