12Change log
•Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power of two (bug #2724)
•VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port for direct device access
•VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation
•VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)
•Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host in- terface networking
•Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting
•API: redesigned storage model with better generalization
•API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time
•API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system
•Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)
12.8 Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
•VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring
•VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error
•VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems when run- ning Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)
•XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key colli- sions
•ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)
•iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM
•iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU reliably
•VBoxHeadless: really don’t start X11 services (clipboard service, 3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)
172
