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15 Change log
• Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests (VT-x and AMD-V only;
normal (non-nested) paging)
• Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface; see chapter 3.12, Alternative
firmware (EFI), page 52)
• Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net; see chapter 6.1, Virtual networking hardware, page 83)
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases
• GUI: snapshots include a screenshot
• GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force
• GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows (bug #5291)
• GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)
• GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings
• 3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing
• 3D support: added GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array support
• 3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament, Eve
Online (bugs #2801, #2791)
• 3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)
• 3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)
• 3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz
• iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity
• VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)
• Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)
• NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy (see chapter 9.11.6, Using the host’s resolver as a DNS
proxy in NAT mode, page 150)
• VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces (bug #5523, #2787)
• VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files (bug #2723)
• VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V
• Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files; see chapter 5.2, Disk image files
(VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD), page 73
• OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an optional manifest file on
import
• OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)
• Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest (bug #3773)
• VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start
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