Sun Microsystems user manual Change log, Version 3.0.0

12 Change log

This section summarizes the changes between VirtualBox versions. Note that this change log is not exhaustive; not all changes are listed.

VirtualBox version numbers consist of three numbers separated by dots where the first number represents the major version, the 2nd number the minor version and the 3rd one the build number. Build numbers of official releases are always even. An odd build number represents an internal development or test build.

12.1 Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)

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

•Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2, “Processor” tab, page 48)

•Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental; see chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and DirectX 8/9), page 71)

•Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests

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

•Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)

•Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under cer- tain conditions

•Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE

•Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)

•VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)

•VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don’t support this feature (most do); bug #638)

•VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)

•VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels)

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