Sun Microsystems 3.0.0 user manual

12Change log

•Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests

•OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and DirectX 8/9), page 71)

•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

162