Sun Virtualbox 3.0.2 released

VirtualBox 3.0.2 (released 2009-07-10)

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

• VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug Fixed in SVN (reopened)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#4343)
• VMM: guest SMP performance improvements
• VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security (VT-x/AMD-V only; bug fixed in SVN (reopened)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#1778)
• VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software virtualization only; bugs fixed in SVN/3.0.2 (closed)" style="text-decoration: line-through; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#2696 & VBox crash -> fixed in SVN/3.0.2 (closed)" style="text-decoration: line-through; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#3868)
• ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug fixed in ... (closed)" style="text-decoration: line-through; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#4348)
• APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)
• BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode
• iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)
• OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks
• OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)
• NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug fixed in SVN (closed)" style="text-decoration: line-through; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#4330)
• 3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug Fixed in SVN. (closed)" style="text-decoration: line-through; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#4399)
• 3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps
• Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)
• Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows guest (bug ... (closed)" style="text-decoration: line-through; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#4381)
• X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug fixed in SVN (closed)" style="text-decoration: line-through; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#4380 and ... (closed)" style="text-decoration: line-through; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#4344
• X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug fixed in SVN (closed)" style="text-decoration: line-through; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#3727)
• Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests (for time synchronization and guest properties)
• Windows Additions: fixed version lookup
• Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)
• Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)" style="text-decoration: line-through; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#4388)
• Installer: support Pardus Linux
• Solaris hosts: several installer fixes
• Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328).
• Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug fixed in SVN (closed)" style="text-decoration: line-through; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#4365)
• Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug fixed in SVN/3.0.2 (closed)" style="text-decoration: line-through; color: rgb(0, 0, 192); border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; ">#2978)
• OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452)
• Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware acceleration to be enabled for virtual machines that had no explicit configuration in the XML.

See change log for full details : http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

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