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14 Change log
• 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)
• 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 nonglobal 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
14.27 Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)
This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
• 64 bits guest support (64 bits host only)
• New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts
• The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements
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