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12 Change log
• VMM: fixed random user mode crashes with OpenBSD guests
• VMM: increased timing accuracy (PIT, RTC), reduced PIT query overhead
• VMM: tamed execution thread to make GUI more responsive (esp. when executing real mode guest code such as bootloaders)
• VMM: significant performance enhancements for OpenBSD guests
• VMM: several performance enhancements
• VMM: improved memory layout on Windows hosts to allow for large amounts of
guest RAM
• VMM: significantly improved VM execution state saving and restoring (at the
expense of state file sizes)
• ACPI: fixed Windows bluescreen when assigning more than 512MB RAM to a
guest
• ACPI: correctly report battery state when multiple batteries are present on the
host (Linux hosts)
• ACPI: enabled by default for newly created VMs
• APIC: added optional I/O APIC
• Graphics: fixed distortion when changing guest color depth without changing
the resolution
• VRDP: added support for remote USB (requires special rdesktop client)
• VRDP: added support for the Microsoft RDP client
• VRDP: improved audio support
• Floppy: controller can be disabled
• Floppy: fixed “no disk in drive” reporting
• Floppy: fixed writing to floppy images
• VBoxManage: restructured USB device filter syntax to make it more intuitive
• VBoxManage: added command for setting guest logon credentials
• Additions: added installer for Windows 2000/XP/2003 guests
• Additions: added custom GINA module which hooks MSGINA and can perform
automatic logons using credentials retrieved from the VMM
• Documentation: added draft of VirtualBox user manual
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