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15 Change log
• NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime
• SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough (bug #7058)
• Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the criteria for making the medium
readonly (bug #5651)
• Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare circumstances
• Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when another DirectSound
application is active, including another VM (bug #5578)
• EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs
• BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function #4F01 (Quake fix)
• OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks
• Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug #6760)
• Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of accessing raw USB devices (bugs
#1093, #5345, #7759)
• Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX set
• Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted on Windows,
Linux and Solaris guests
• Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)
• Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one file
• Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able to handle
renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes
15.37 Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #7577)
• VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)
• VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)
• VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages
• VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU
• Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while the VM is running
• GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file system and for broken
asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs file systems not only when starting
the VM from scratch but also when starting from a saved state
• NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)
• NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)
• Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000
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