Virtualbox - система виртуализации (аналог VMware Workstation)

[alexnivin]

VirtualBox

скриншоты:

VirtualBox (Oracle VM VirtualBox) — система виртуализации, предназначенная для создания виртуальных машин с параметрами железа реального компьютера, на которых можно запускать любую операционную систему. Каждый виртуальный компьютер может содержать произвольный набор виртуальных устройств и любую операционную систему. Область применения виртуальных машин очень широка - от выполнения функций по тестированию ПО до создания целых сетей, которые легко масштабировать, распределять нагрузку и защищать. Создав в VirtualBox виртуальную машину можно вдоволь наиграться с твикерами, антивирусами, операционными системами и другим ПО, которое так хочется попробовать любому пользователю, а затем нажатием одной кнопки удалить замученную ОС навсегда. Читать далее:

VirtualBox поддерживает динамическую трансляцию — выполнение большей части инструкций гостевой ОС производится на реальном оборудовании. В роли гостевой системы могут выступать Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris/OpenSolaris, ReactOS, DOS и другие операционные системы. Отличительные возможности VirtualBox — компактность, бесплатность, поддержка образов VMware, высокая производительность и стабильность, дружественный пользовательский интерфейс. Как и в других подобных приложениях, в VirtualBox присутствует возможность запуска и остановки гостевых ОС, настройки использования ресурсов компьютера, обмена данными между основной и гостевой операционной системой, снятия скриншотов виртуальной системы и многое другое. Безусловным плюсом системы является ее кроссплатформенность и поддержка со стороны сообщества Open Source.

Ключевые возможности:

• Кроссплатформенность
• Модульность
• Поддержка 64-битных гостевых систем, даже на 32-битных хост-системах (для этого обязательна поддержка технологии виртуализации процессором)
• Поддержка SMP на стороне гостевой системы (для этого обязательна поддержка технологии виртуализации процессором)
• Экспериментальная поддержка аппаратного 3D-ускорения (OpenGL, DirectX 8/9 (с использованием кода wine) (только в 32-битных Windows XP и Vista))
• Поддержка образов жёстких дисков VMDK (VMware) и VHD (Microsoft Virtual PC), включая snapshots
• Поддержка виртуализации аудиоустройств (эмуляция AC97 или SoundBlaster 16 или Intel HD Audio на выбор)
• Поддержка различных видов сетевого взаимодействия (NAT, Host Networking via Bridged, Internal)
• Поддержка цепочки сохраненных состояний виртуальной машины (snapshots), к которым может быть произведён откат из любого состояния гостевой системы
• Поддержка Shared Folders для простого обмена файлами между хостовой и гостевой системами (для гостевых систем Windows 2000 и новее, Linux и Solaris)
• Поддержка интеграции рабочих столов (seamless mode) хостовой и гостевой ОС
• Многоязычный интерфейс (в т.ч. русский)

Разработчик: Oracle Corporation
Лицензия: Free (Open Source)
ОС: Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003, 7, 8, 10 | Linux, Gentoo | Mac OS X
Интерфейс: многоязычный, в т.ч. русский

Страница загрузки | Скриншоты | Документация | История

[KOMEPC]

VirtualBox v1.5.6

Изменения

- GUI: ?xed several error messages
- GUI: ?xed registration dialog crashes once and for all
- GUI: really ask before resetting the VM
- GUI: release mouse and keyboard before the host activates the screensaver
- GUI: ?xed issue with license display on big screens
- GUI: added setting for network name for internal networks
- GUI: added setting for network device type
- GUI: keyboard ?xes
- GUI: seamless mode and fullscreen mode ?xes
- GUI: ?xed soaked hostkey keyup event under certain conditions
- GUI: more informative message dialog buttons
- GUI: VM selector context menu
- VBoxSDL: added -termacpi switch
- VBoxSDL: ?xed automatic adaption of the guest screen resolution to the size of the VM window
- VMM: under heavy guest activity, for example when copying ?les to/from a shared folder, the VM could crash with an assertion
- VMM: added an option to select PIIX4 (improves compatibility with Windows guests created by VMware)
- VMM: ?xed a bug which could lead to memory corruption under rare circumstances
- VMM: improved performance of Solaris guests
- VRDP: ?xed a 1.5.4 regression: VRDP client and server were out-of-sync if the VM was started using the GUI
- VRDP: proper error handling if the VRDP library could not be loaded
- VBoxManage: ?xed crash during clonevdi
- VBoxManage: added ’list runningvms’ command
- VBoxManage: improved the compatibility when reading the partition table of a raw disk
- Shared Folders: added support for read-only shared folders
- Shared Clipboard: several ?xes
- Network: experimental support for E1000 device emulation
- iSCSI: better check for miscon?gured targets
- iSCSI: allow to directly attach to internal networks with integrated mini IP stack
- PulseAudio: don’t hang during VM initialization if no sound server is available
- VDI: ?xed sized virtual disk images are now completely written during creation to workaround buggy sparse ?le handling on some OS (e.g. Vista)
- VDI/VMDK: prevent indexing of .vdi and .vmdk ?les on Windows hosts
- RDP: ?xed compilation of the Linux rdesktop client on newer Linux kernels
- RDP: install rdesktop-vrdp on Linux hosts
- ACPI: added sleep button event
- Serial: proper handling of inaccessible host devices
- Windows installer: allow smooth upgrade without deinstallation
- Linux installer: ?xed Slackware detection regression
- Linux installer: updated VBoxTunctl allowing to assign a tap device to a group on Linux kernels > 2.6.23
- Windows additions: several ?xes, in particular for Windows NT4
- Linux additions: ?xed installer for Kubuntu 8.04
- Linux additions: add default video mode for handling video mode hints from the host
- Linux host: compatibility ?xes with Linux > 2.6.24

32-bit

http://195.34.175.98/download/1.5.6/VirtualBox_1.5.6_Win_x86.msi

64-bit

http://195.34.175.98/download/1.5.6/VirtualBox_1.5.6_Win_amd64.msi

[YSF]

VirtualBox 1.5.6-1



Платформа VirtualBox от компания InnoTek представляет собой настольную систему виртуализации для Windows, Linux и Mac OS хостов, поддерживающую операционные системы Windows, Linux, OS/2 Warp, OpenBSD и FreeBSD в качестве гостевых.

Помимо стандартных функций, присущих большинству настольных систем виртуализации, платформа VirtualBox обладает также набором уникальных возможностей, присущих только ей.

Уникальные функции VirtualBox:

Ярко выраженная модульность системы
Платформа VirtualBox имеет модульную архитектуру с хорошо описанными компонентами и предоставляет удобные интерфейсы доступа к виртуальным машинам, которые позволяют контролировать гостевые системы как через GUI, так и через командную строку и удаленно. К тому же, компания InnoTek предоставляет отличный Software Development Kit, и поскольку код платформы открыт, не требуется дополнительных усилий, чтобы написать расширение к системе. В данный момент ведется большая работа по портированию продукта на различные хостовые платформы и разработчикам предоставляются все необходимые инструменты и интерфейсы для доработки VirtualBox.

Виртуальная машина может действовать как RDP-сервер
В отличие от других платформ виртуализации, VirtualBox может действовать как RDP-сервер и управляться любым клиентом, поддерживающим протокол RDP. Также поддерживается функция USB over RDP. Стоит отметить, что компания VMware в вышедшей недавно платформе VMware Workstation 6 также предоставляет функцию Act as RDP Server, поэтому эту функцию VirtualBox на данный момент нельзя назвать такой уникальной.

iSCSI initiator
Компонент iSCSI initiator является одной из закрытых частей платформы VirtualBox. Он позволяет использовать внешние устройства по протоколу iSCSI в качестве виртуальных дисков в гостевой системе без дополнительной поддержки со стороны гостевой ОС.

Плюсы: компактность, бесплатность, поддержка образов VMware, высокая производительность.
Минус: нет возможности посредством drag'n'drop - т.е. схватил и перетащил - переносить файлы на виртуальную машину (придется использовать NAT соединение).

Домашняя страница: http://virtualbox.org/

Страница загрузки: http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

VirtualBox 1.5.6-1 for Windows hosts x86 (17.38 MB)http://195.34.175.98/download/1.5.6/...-1_Win_x86.msi

[S_A_S_H_A]

VirtualBox 1.6.4
(от 30 июля 2008)

Текущие изменения

* AMD-V, VT-x: stability fixes
* Shared Folders: fixed host crash (Solaris host only, bugs #1336, #1646)
* Shared Folders: fixed BSOD when debugging with Visual Studio (bug #1627)
* Shared Folders: fixed BSOD when compiling on a shared folder (bug #1683)
* Shared Folders: several fixes/stability improvements
* SATA: fixed a race that could cause an occasional Windows guest system hang
* SATA: fixed spurious BIOS log messages
* Networking: fixed NIC tracing with NAT interfaces (bug #1790)
* USB: fixed crash under certain conditions when unplugging a USB device (bug #1295)
* Settings: fixed bug when converting 1.5.x settings
* RDP: fixed enabling the RDP server during runtime
* RDP: properly detect the rdesktop 1.6.0 RDP client
* RDP: fixed RDP crash (bug #1521)
* RDP: updated modified rdesktop client to version 1.6.0
* GUI: NLS improvements
* BIOS: added SMBIOS header to make Solaris and Vista recognize the DMI data
* ACPI: properly hide a disabled floppy controller
* VMM: small fixes to protected mode without paging
* VMDK: fixed handling of .vmdk images without UUIDs
* Windows hosts: fixed driver parameter validation issue in VBoxDrv.sys that could allow an attacker on the host to crash the system
* Windows hosts: installer now contains web service examples mentioned in the manual
* Linux hosts: properly deregister the Linux kernel module before uninstalling a Linux deb/rpm package
* Linux hosts: kernel module works now with Linux 2.6.27
* Linux hosts: fixed a typo in the vboxnet setup script for host network interfaces (bug #1714)
* Linux hosts: fixed usage of tar in installer (bug #1767)
* Linux hosts: fixed long guest shutdown time when serial port is enabled
* Solaris hosts: refuse to install in Sun xVM hypervisor dom0
* Solaris hosts: accept Solaris raw disks when for raw disk access
* Windows additions: made installation of shared folders more robust
* Windows additions: improved installation
* Linux additions: accept every user-defined guest video mode in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
* Linux additions: fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions (e.g. openSUSE 11)
* Новости и история изменений

http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

Страница загрузки

(для разных ОС - на выбор)

https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=innotek-1.6-G-F@CDS-CDS_SMI

[Stas1989]

VirtualBox 1.6.6

Список изменений

VMM: fixed excessive logging (bug #1901)
VMM: AMD-V stability fixes (bug #1685)
GUI: added support for Ctrl+Caps reversed keyboards (bug #1891)
SATA: fixed BSODs of Windows guests on a SATA disk (bug #1941)
SATA: fixed hard disk detection on Solaris 10 U5 (bug #1789)
VBoxHeadless: don’t start the clipboard service (bug #1743)
VBoxHeadless: added -vrdp parameter which allows to start the VM session without VRDP (bug #1960)
VBoxManage: fixes to creating raw disk/partition VMDK files, now accepts removable media on Windows (bug #1869)
VRDP: fixed communication with MS Remote Resktop Connection on MacOS X (bug #1337)
VRDP: clipboard fixes (bug #1410)
VRDP: fixed crash during PAM authentication (bug #1953)
Shared Folders: fixed a regression introduced in version 1.6.2: the shared folders service was sometimes not properly installed (Windows guests only, bug #1915)
Shared Folders: don’t deny to load a VM if a shared folder is not accessible (bug #822)
BIOS: allow to specify empty DMI strings (bug #1957)
OSE archive: added missing Makefiles (bug #1912)
Linux hosts: workaround for buggy gcc-4.3 compilers (e.g. openSUSE 11)
Linux hosts: one more fix for compiling the kernel modules on Linux 2.6.27 (bug #1962)
MacOS X hosts: shared folders unicode fix
Solaris hosts: fixed link issue (bug #1840)
Windows additions: allow to downgrade the package
Windows additions: fixed corrupted installer icon on Windows 2000 (bug #1486)
Windows additions: fixed bug when creating intermediate directories (bug #1870)
Windows additions: implemented /xres=, /yres= and /depth= switches for the installer (bug #1990)
Linux additions: properly unregister the misc device when unloading the kernel module
Linux additions: fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions again (e.g. openSUSE 11)
Linux additions: attempt to fix the autostart issue of !VBoxClient with Mandriva guests (bug #1699)
Linux additions: fixed detection of patched Linux 2.6.18 kernels of RHEL5 / FC6 / CentOS 5.2 (bugs #1899, #1973)
Linux additions: added new mount flags dmode, fmode, umask, dmask and fmask allowing to override the file mode (bug #1776)
Documentation: added a note that jumbo frames don’t work (bug #1877)
Documentation: document special host interface names on openSUSE11 (bug #1892)

32-битная версия
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtu....6-Win_x86.msi

64-битная версия
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtu...-Win_amd64.msi

[Chakra]

VirtualBox 2.0.0 (released 2008-09-04)
Размер: 32.5 Мб

Изменения

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
64 bits guest support (64 bits host only)
New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts
The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements
New-version notifier
Guest property information interface
Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts
New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts
Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)
Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)
Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw disks/partitions (major performance gain)
Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests
Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts
Support for VHD disk images

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: VT-x fixes
AHCI/SATA: improved performance
GUI: keyboard fixes
Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if unregistering the DKMS module fails
Linux additions: the guest screen resolution is properly restored
Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)
Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11
Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn’t simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)

32-х
64-х

[Chakra]

VirtualBox 2.0.2
Размер: 32.5 Мб

Изменения

VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)
VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)
VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha, Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875)
VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian)
VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only)
VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132)
GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in the virtual disk manager
GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)
GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)
GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)
GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)
GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #2067)
GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)
GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts)
VBoxManage: fixed crash during internalcommands createrawvmdk (bug #2184)
VBoxManage: fixed output of snapshot showvminfo (bug #698)
Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces (Windows guests only)
Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes (bug #2055)
API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)
VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection (configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled)
VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem
Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27
Mac OS X hosts: added Python support
Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after a VM reboot
Windows additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)
Linux additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with buggy X servers
Linux additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests (dynamic resizing disabled for the latter) (bug #1854)
Linux additions: added installer check for the system architecture
Linux additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions (bug #2128)
VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)
VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading the wrong data (bug #2085)
Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)
Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the host when host interface networking was enabled
Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when installing under the wrong architecture
Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)
Solaris additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit additions installer into a single package
Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial port to the guest

32-х

64-х

[Chakra]

VirtualBox 2.0.4
Размер: 32.5 Мб

Изменения

VirtualBox 2.0.4 (released 2008-10-24)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures
VMM: don’t overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)
VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)
GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)
GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)
SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)
SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)
Network: don’t crash when changing the adapter link state if no host driver is attached (bug #2333)
VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)
VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not equal to the client resolution
Clipboard: don’t crash when host service initialization takes longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)
Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)
Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)
Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup
Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300 seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)
Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface networking (bug #2474)
Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking
Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking
Windows additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder
Windows additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)
Windows additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)
Windows additions: fixed error code for MoveFile() if the target exists (bug #2350)
Linux additions: fixed seek() for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)
Linux additions: support Ubuntu 8.10
Linux additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)
Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)

32-х

64-х

[Chakra]

VirtualBox 2.0.6

32-х

64-х

[Chakra]

VirtualBox 2.1.0

32-х

64-х

[Chakra]

VirtualBox 2.1.2

Изменения

VirtualBox 2.1.2 (released 2009-01-21)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
USB: improved support for recent Linux hosts
VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)
VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x
VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)
VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761)
VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)
VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898)
VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM
VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058)
VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only)
VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only)
VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only)
VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts
VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests
GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory
GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type
VBoxSDL: fixed -fixed fixedmode parameter (bug #3067)
Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only, bug #2675 and #3003)
3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications (bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)
LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)
VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize events were not properly handled (bug #2783)
VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V on Mac OS X hosts
VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)
VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up to correct ones (bug #2895)
IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)
Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)
Networking: fixed intermittend BSODs when using the new host interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)
Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)
NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)
NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)
SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable
SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized (2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)
SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files (Linux host only, bug #2796)
SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like formatting a drive
SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown
VRDP: fixed loading of libpam.so.1 from the host (Solaris hosts only)
VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects
VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection
VBoxManage showvminfo: fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)
VBoxManage convertfromraw: added parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files; fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)
VBoxManage clonehd: fixed garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)
VBoxManage guestproperty: fixed property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)
VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files (bug #2768)
Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)
Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)
Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a single, unified package
Linux hosts: don’t depend on libcap1 anymore (bug #2859)
Linux hosts: compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1
Linux hosts: don’t drop any capability if the VM was started by root (2.1.0 regression)
Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine’s battery reaches critical level
Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window
Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is doing 3D
Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon
Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta
Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)
Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing files on shared folders (bug #2764)
Windows Additions: fixed Ctrl-Alt-Del handling when using VBoxGINA
Windows Additions Installer: Added /extract switch to only extract (not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)
Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions (bug #2938)
Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on Linux guests
Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set fmode on mapped shared folders (bug #1776)
Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders (bug #1612)
Linux Additions: ignore noauto option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)
Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)
X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)

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VirtualBox 2.1.2

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VirtualBox 2.1.2 (released 2009-01-21)

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

* USB: improved support for recent Linux hosts
* VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)
* VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x
* VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)
* VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761)
* VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)
* VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898)
* VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM
* VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058)
* VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only)
* VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only)
* VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only)
* VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts
* VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests
* GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory
* GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type
* VBoxSDL: fixed -fixed fixedmode parameter (bug #3067)
* Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only, bug #2675 and #3003)
* 3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications (bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)
* LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)
* VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize events were not properly handled (bug #2783)
* VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V on Mac OS X hosts
* VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)
* VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up to correct ones (bug #2895)
* IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)
* Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)
* Networking: fixed intermittend BSODs when using the new host interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)
* Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
* Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
* Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
* NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)
* NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)
* NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)
* SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable
* SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized (2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)
* SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files (Linux host only, bug #2796)
* SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like formatting a drive
* SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown
* VRDP: fixed loading of libpam.so.1 from the host (Solaris hosts only)
* VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects
* VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection
* VBoxManage showvminfo: fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)
* VBoxManage convertfromraw: added parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files; fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)
* VBoxManage clonehd: fixed garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)
* VBoxManage guestproperty: fixed property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)
* VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files (bug #2768)
* Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)
* Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)
* Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a single, unified package
* Linux hosts: don't depend on libcap1 anymore (bug #2859)
* Linux hosts: compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1
* Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started by root (2.1.0 regression)
* Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's battery reaches critical level
* Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window
* Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is doing 3D
* Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon
* Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta
* Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)
* Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing files on shared folders (bug #2764)
* Windows Additions: fixed Ctrl-Alt-Del handling when using VBoxGINA
* Windows Additions Installer: Added /extract switch to only extract (not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)
* Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions (bug #2938)
* Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on Linux guests
* Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set fmode on mapped shared folders (bug #1776)
* Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders (bug #1612)
* Linux Additions: ignore noauto option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)
* Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)
* X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)

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VirtualBox 2.1.4

Изменения

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)

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VirtualBox 2.2.0

Изменения

VirtualBox 2.2.0 (released 2009-04-08)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

* OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55)
* Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.7, Host-only networking, User Manual page 88)
* Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates
* Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB
* VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines
* USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)
* Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
* Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests
* OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), User Manual page 70)
* Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

* VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342)
* VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342)
* VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431)
* VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only)
* VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization
* VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only)
* VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only)
* VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only)
* VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x, but don’t set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL
* VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794)
* VMM: properly emulate RDMSR from the TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests
* VMM: emulate RDPMC; fixes Windows guests crashes when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778)
* NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)
* NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)
* NAT: allow to configure the next server and the boot file via VBoxManage (bug #2759)
* IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)
* Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size ESX server images)
* Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not writable
* USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and EHCI; the “VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate” CFG key is no longer necessary and no longer supported
* USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices (Windows hosts only; bug #1654)
* E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)
* VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime
* Shared folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris hosts when creating files
* X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)
* X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug #2306)
* Linux additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6 (bug #3555)
* Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the guest additions installer (bug #3524)
* Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)
* Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host interface (bug #3414)
* Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)
* Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh (bug #3586)
* Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux from Scratch systems
* Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains both (32- and 64-bit) architectures.
* VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages
* VBoxManage list vms commands now default to compact format
* VBoxManage controlvm dvdattach did not work if the image was attached before
* VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants
* VBoxManage showvminfo: don’t spam the release log if the additions don’t support statistics information (bug #3457)
* VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the next major release, so switch to the new options now
* Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at VM startup (related to bug #2772)
* GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs
* GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest
* GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V
* GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar
* GUI: show build revision in about dialog
* GUI: fixed sticky status bar text
* GUI: improved error dialogs
* GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot a read-only disk image (bug #1745)
* GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button
* GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0 regression; bug #2065)
* 3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)
* 3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)
* 3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)
* PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug #2536)
* LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests
* Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine (bug #3548)

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VirtualBox 2.2.2

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VirtualBox 2.2.2 (released 2009-04-27)

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

* Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting hosts and guests running the X window system.
* Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5 and later.
* Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of running services
* Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server terminates
* Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)
* Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not installed on the guest
* Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when unmounting a busy shared folder
* Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)
* Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core (bug #2628)
* Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux hosts only, bug #3732)
* VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts (bug #3657)
* VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)
* VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software virtualization only)
* Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff images, incorrect detection of redundant writes
* GUI: reworked network settings dialog
* GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT networks (bug #3702)
* GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression, bug #3689)
* GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only; bug #3679)
* GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only; bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)
* VBoxManage modifyhd --compact: implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths (bug #2180, #2833)
* VBoxManage snapshot discard: made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)
* NAT: on some Windows host, the guest didn’t receive a DHCP lease (bug #3655)
* NAT: fixed release assertion during poll() (bug #3667)
* Clipboard: fixed random crahes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)
* Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests
* Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests
* CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects
* Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)
* Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)
* Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard

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