Computer Accessories User Manual

12 Change log

• VMM: under heavy guest activity, for example when copying ﬁles to/from a

shared folder, the VM could crash with an assertion

• VMM: added an option to select PIIX4 (improves compatibility with Windows

guests created by VMware)

• VMM: ﬁxed a bug which could lead to memory corruption under rare circum-

stances

• VMM: improved performance of Solaris guests

• VRDP: ﬁxed a 1.5.4 regression: VRDP client and server were out-of-sync if the

VM was started using the GUI

• VRDP: proper error handling if the VRDP library could not be loaded

• VRDP: ﬁxed compilation of the Linux rdesktop client on newer Linux kernels

• VRDP: install rdesktop-vrdp on Linux hosts

• VBoxManage: ﬁxed crash during clonevdi

• VBoxManage: added ’list runningvms’ command

• VBoxManage: improved the compatibility when reading the partition table of a

raw disk

• Shared Folders: added support for read-only shared folders

• Shared Clipboard: several ﬁxes

• Network: don’t crash if the device is activated but not attached

• Network: experimental support for Intel Gigabit Ethernet (E1000) device emu-

lation

• iSCSI: better check for misconﬁgured targets

• iSCSI: allow to directly attach to internal networks with integrated mini IP stack

• PulseAudio: don’t hang during VM initialization if no sound server is available

• VDI: ﬁxed sized virtual disk images are now completely written during creation

to workaround buggy sparse ﬁle handling on some OS (e.g. Vista)

• VDI/VMDK: prevent indexing of .vdi and .vmdk ﬁles on Windows hosts

• ACPI: added sleep button event

• Serial: proper handling of inaccessible host devices

• Windows installer: allow smooth upgrade without deinstallation

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