12 Change log
12.6 Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
•USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)
•VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAEguests 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 (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761)
•VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x
only; bug #3039)
•VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-xonly; bug
#2898)
•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 (bug #3058)
•VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows7 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-xonly)
•VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-xonly)
•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
•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 fixedmodeparameter (bug #3067)
•Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,bug #2675 and #3003)
•3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications (bugs #2781,
#2797, #2972, #3089)
•LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)
•VGA:fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize events were not properly
handled (bug #2783)
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