Download Oracle VM VirtualBox User Manual

15 Change log
• VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging
• Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error affecting Windows guests (bugs
#7566, #9321)
• VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly (bug #9242)
• NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)
• USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and fixed several device capturing issues
(Windows hosts; bug #9299)
• USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local USB devices
• Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations and warn about it
• OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)
• Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)
• Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs with Crossbow
based bridged networking
• Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown (4.1.0 regression;
bug #9305)
• Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs module (4.0.12
/ 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)
• Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with some applications (bugs
#9276, #9315)
• Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software and 64 bit Windows
guests (bug #9318)
• Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements, fixed
WinSAT crashes (bug #9267)
• Linux Additions: fixed llseek for Linux kernels 2.6.37 and above
15.28 Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)
This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
• Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see chapter 1.13, Cloning virtual machines, page
29): full clones can be created through the GUI and VBoxManage, linked clones only
through VBoxManage
• GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks
• GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks
• GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only; bug #7822)
• VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB
• Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see chapter 9.6, PCI passthrough,
page 159
247