Sun Microsystems heeft verleden week versie 2.0.0 van VirtualBox uitgebracht en, zoals dat wel vaker het geval is na een grote release, zijn hierin enkele foutjes gevonden. Vandaar dat er nu in de vorm van versie 2.0.2 een zogenaamde maintenace release voor je klaar staat. VirtualBox kan worden gebruikt om een ander besturingssysteem op een computer te installeren in een virtuele omgeving. VirtualBox draait onder Windows 2000 en hoger, Mac OS X, Linux en Opensolaris en kan overweg met een groot aantal gast-besturingssystemen.
De software is in twee verschillende versies verkrijgbaar. De volledige versie heeft meer functionaliteit, zoals ondersteuning voor usb-poorten en remote display-protocol, maar is alleen gratis voor privégebruik en evaluatiedoeleinden. Deze extra functionaliteit is namelijk closed source en ontbreekt in de andere versie: de opensource-uitvoering. De belangrijkste verbetering in versie 2.0.0 is de ondersteuning voor 64bits-besturingssystemen. Hieronder is te vinden welke veranderingen er allemaal in versie 2.0.2 doorgevoerd zijn:
Changelog for VirtualBox version 2.0.2:[break]
- VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)
- VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)
- VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha, Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875)
- VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian)
- VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only)
- VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132)
- GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in the virtual disk manager
- GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)
- GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)
- GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)
- GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)
- GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #2067)
- GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)
- GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts)
- VBoxManage: fixed crash during internalcommands createrawvmdk (bug #2184)
- VBoxManage: fixed output of snapshot showvminfo (bug #698)
- Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces (Windows guests only)
- Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes (bug #2055)
- API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)
- VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection (configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled)
- VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem
- Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
- Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27
- Mac OS X hosts: added Python support
- Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after a VM reboot
- Windows additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)
- Linux additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with buggy X servers
- Linux additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests (dynamic resizing disabled for the latter) (bug #1854)
- Linux additions: added installer check for the system architecture
- Linux additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions (bug #2128)
- VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)
- VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading the wrong data (bug #2085)
- Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)
- Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the host when host interface networking was enabled
- Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when installing under the wrong architecture
- Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)
- Solaris additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit additions installer into a single package
- Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial port to the guest
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