Sun Microsystems 3.0.0 user manual Version 2.2.0

12Change log

•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 hosts, the guest didn’t receive a DHCP lease (bug #3655)

•NAT: fixed release assertion during poll() (bug #3667)

•Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)

•Clipboard: fixed random crashes (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 ISes- sion 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

12.4 Version 2.2.0 (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, page 56)

•Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.7, Host-only networking, page 89)

•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

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