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15 Change log
• Added support for Virtual Distributed Ethernet (VDE) (Linux hosts only; see chapter 6.2,
Introduction to networking modes, page 84)
• Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)
• OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller in
VirtualBox
• OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
alphabetically as prescribed by standard
• VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for VirtualBox
• Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)
• VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition VMDK (bugs #688,
#4438)
15.13 Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during early boot (software
virtualization only)
• VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation
• VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled
• VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging only)
• GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates to the guest (3.1.6
regression)
• GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the interface version
• GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage settings dialog, don’t attach
a random medium but just leave the slot empty
• GUI: added --seamless and --fullscreen command line switches (bug #4220)
• GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances
• 2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with non 32-bit modes (bugs
#6094 & #6208)
• LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when using the drivers from LSI
• ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard disk and DVD drive on the
same channel (bug #6079)
• Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are attached
• Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized adapters (bug #6519)
• NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)
• SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when booting from SCSI devices
• VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them is bug #6408)
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