대표적인 가상화 솔루션의 하나이면서 오픈 소스 소프트웨어인 VirtualBox(버추얼박스)가 2009월 1월 21일 자로 2.1.2 버전으로 업데이트되었다.
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이번 버전에서 개선된 점은 아래와 같다.
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
VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only)
VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only)
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)
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
VMM: speed improvements for real mode and protected mode without paging (software virtualization only)
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
Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only)
3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)
VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize events were not properly handled
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
IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only)
Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only)
Networking: fixed intermittend BSODs when using the new host interface (Windows hosts only)
Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs in the GUI (Windows hosts only)
Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only)
Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only).
NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only)
NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server
NAT: fixed occasional crashes
SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable
SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized (2.1.0 regression, Windows host only)
SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files (Linux host only)
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
VBoxManage convertfromraw: added parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files; fixed and documented format parameter
VBoxManage clonehd: fixed garbled output image when creating VDI files
VBoxManage guestproperty: fixed property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)
VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports
Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards
Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a single, unified package
Linux hosts: don’t depend on libcap1 anymore
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
Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing files on shared folders
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 and recent Gentoo versions
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
Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
Linux Additions: ignore noauto option when mounting a shared folder
Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from compiling keymaps
X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server crash when the driver is loaded manually
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2009/01/25 00:11
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