VirtualBox stelt je in staat om een virtuele machine op te zetten onder Linux, Mac OS X en Windows. Op deze manier is het mogelijk om bijvoorbeeld meerdere Linux-omgevingen te draaien onder Windows of Mac OS X. VirtualBox is sinds begin van dit jaar beschikbaar onder twee licenties, een gpl-versie en een closed-source-versie die een aantal handige functies extra heeft meegekregen. Denk daarbij aan bijvoorbeeld een iSCSI-initiator of een
General:GUI:
- added support for OS X hosts
- added support for AMD64 hosts
- signed all executables and device drivers on Windows
VBoxManage:
- added user interface for Shared Folders
- added context menu for network adapters
- added VM description field for taking notes
- always restore guest mouse pointer when entering VM window (Windowss host)
- added configuration options for clipboard synchronization
- improved keyboard handling on Linux hosts
- added first run wizard
- improved boot device order dialog
- auto-resize did not work after save/restore
- restore original window size when returning from fullscreen mode
- fixed screen update when switching to fullscreen mode
- the size of the VM window was sometimes resetted to 640x480
- added localizationss
- various minor improvements
API:
- added convertdd command
VMM:
- automatically start and terminate VBoxSVC on Linux and OS X hosts
RDP:
- increased startup performance due to lazy memory allocation
- significantly increased maximum guest memory size
- fixed issues with V86 mode
- support V86 extensions (VME)
- support guests with a full GDT
- fixed boot hangs for some Linux kernels
- improved FreeBSD and OpenBSD support
- improved performance of guests that aggressively patch kernel code (very recent Linux 2.6 kernels)
- added workaround for a design flaw in AMD AM2 CPUs where the timestamp counter shows large differences among CPU cores
- fixed Linux guests with grsecurity
- fixed issue on 2G/2G Linux kernels (even 1G/3G kernels should work)
- fixed Linux detection of Local APIC on non-Intel and non-AMD CPUs
- timing improvements with high host system loads (VM starvation)
- experimental AMD SVM hardware virtualization support now also handles real and protected mode without paging
- added system time offset parameter to allow for VMs to run in the past or future
- provide an MPS 1.4 table if the IOAPIC is enabled
Storage:
- allow binding the RDP server to a specific interface
- added support for clipboard synchronization
- fixed problems with OS X RDP client
- added support for multiple simultaneous connections to one VM
- added support for MS RDP6 clients (Vista)
IDE:
- experimental support for VMDK images (writethrough mode only, no snapshots yet)
- raw host disk support, including individual partitions
NAT:
- improve CHS geometry detection
- fixed problem that only one VM could open an immutable image
Internal Networking:
- allow more than one card configured for NAT networking
- pass first entry in DNS search list (Linux host) or primary DNS suffix (Windows host) as domain name in DHCP
- support UDP broadcasts, which enables using Windows shares
- only warn if the name server could not be determined, no fatal error anymore
- fix a potential problem with incorrect memory allocation
Host Interface Networking:
- fixed issue on Windows hosts
PXE:
- fixed sporadic crashes on interface creation/destruction (Windows host)
- reworked TAP handling for Linux 2.6.18+ compatibility
Network:
- show error for unsupported V86 case
- small fix for parsing PXE menu entry without boot server IP
USB:
- fixed network card hang after save/restore
Serial:
- Rewrote Windows USB handling without the need for a filter driver
- Possible to steal arbitrary devices in Windows
Audio:
- added serial ports with support for named pipes (local domain sockets) on the host
Input:
- fixed problem with ALSA on Linux before 2.6.18 blocking other ALSA clients on the system
- fixed problem with ALSA on AMD64 hosts
Shared Folders:
- fixed PS/2 mouse detection in Win 3.x guests
Additions:
- fixed VM save/restore behaviour
- functionality and stability fixes
- allow non admin users to map folders
Windows Additions:
- added clipboard synchronization
Linux Additions:
- fixed dynamic resolution changes after save/restore
- added AMD PCNet driver for Windows Vista guests (with kind permission from AMD)
Linux Installer:
- fixed a dependency problem which caused the vboxadd kernel module sometimes start after the X server
- make VBox version visible in Linux modules with modinfo
- make X11 guest video driver accept arbitrary X resolutions
- make X11 setup work if /tmp uses a separate file system
- better support unknown distributions
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- force a non-executable stack for all binaries and shared libraries
- make it work on SELinux-enabled systems
- ship VBoxTunctl
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