VirtualBox 2.1.4发布

09-02

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本人最青睐的虚拟软件VirtualBox又有更新，自从vbox归入SUN旗下之后，更新频繁，以往缺乏的3D等功能一一开发加入，SUN果然实力雄厚。

VirtualBox 2.1.4 (released 2009-02-16)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* Windows hosts: ﬁxed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)
* Windows hosts: Fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)
* Windows hosts: Fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)
* Linux hosts: ﬁxed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)
* Linux hosts: ﬁxed module dependency for shipped modules (bug #3115)
* Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they don’t override existing system rules (bug #3143)
* Linux hosts: ﬁxed the issue with guest not being able to communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces (bug #3215)
* Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if dbus or hal are not available (bug #3136)
* Linux hosts: ﬁxed warnings in installer when SELinux was disabled (bug #3098)
* Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)
* Solaris hosts: ﬁxed high CPU load while running many guests in parallel
* Solaris hosts: ﬁxed inability to start more than 128 VMs
* VMM: ﬁxed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172)
* VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot
* REM: ﬁxed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with software virtualization (bug #3245)
* GUI: ﬁxed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)
* GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action send the shutdown signal if the guest is currently not using ACPI
* GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)
* API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)
* VBoxHeadless: really don’t start X11 services (clipboard service, 3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)
* NAT: ﬁxed occasional crashes when the guest is doing traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)
* NAT: ﬁxed crashes under high load (bug #3110)
* NAT: ﬁxed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)
* NAT: don’t intercept TFTP packages with a destination address different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)
* USB: several ﬁxes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts
* USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active
* VRDP: ﬁxed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)
* VRDP: modiﬁed rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state synchronization (bug #3253)
* LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)
* ATA: ﬁxed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)
* iSCSI: ﬁxed possible crash when pausing the VM
* 3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)
* Windows Additions: ﬁxed ERROR (e0000101) error during installation (bug #1923)
* Windows Additions: ﬁxed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)
* Windows Additions: ﬁxed guest screen distortions during a video mode change
* Windows Additions: ﬁxed the Network drive not connected message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)
* Linux Additions: ﬁxed occasional ﬁle corruption when writing ﬁles in O_APPEND mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)
* Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)
* Linux Additions: ﬁxed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1 (bug #3213)
* Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is conﬁgured for ﬁxed resolutions
* Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)

更新：

[marco.chan@fedora ~]$ sudo rpm -Uvh Desktop/VirtualBox-2.1.4_42893_fedora9-1.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
1:VirtualBox             ########################################### [100%]

Creating group &amp;amp;#39;vboxusers&amp;amp;#39;. VM users must be member of that group!

No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.

Success!

Stopping VirtualBox kernel module [  OK  ]
[marco.chan@fedora ~]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel module                          [  OK  ]
Removing old VirtualBox netflt kernel module               [  OK  ]
Removing old VirtualBox kernel module                      [  OK  ]
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module                       [  OK  ]
Starting VirtualBox kernel module                          [  OK  ]
[marco.chan@fedora ~]$

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