Computer Accessories User Manual

12 Change log

• Graphics: ﬁxed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power of two

(bug #2724)

• VBoxManage: ﬁxed bug which prevented setting up the serial port for direct

device access

• VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation

• VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)

• Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host in-

terface networking

• Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting

• API: redesigned storage model with better generalization

• API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time

• API: added methods to return network conﬁguration information of the host

system

• Shared Folders: performance and stability ﬁxes for Windows guests (Microsoft

Ofﬁce Applications)

12.8 Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)

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

• VMM: ﬁxed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots

• VMM: ﬁxed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start failures with

VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error

• VMM: ﬁxed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems when run-

ning Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)

• XPCOM/Main: ﬁxed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key colli-

sions

• ATA: ﬁxed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the virtual disk (e.g.

disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)

• iSCSI: ﬁxed possible crash when pausing the VM

• iSCSI: ﬁx PDU validity checking and detect ﬁnal PDU reliably

• VBoxHeadless: really don’t start X11 services (clipboard service, 3D acceleration;

Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)

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