12Change log

SATA hard disk (AHCI) controller (see chapter 5.1, Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI, page 75)

Experimental Physical Address Extension (PAE) support

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

GUI: added accessibility support (508)

GUI: VM session information dialog

VBoxHeadless: renamed from VBoxVRDP

VMM: reduced host CPU load of idle guests

VMM: many fixes for VT-x/SVM hardware-supported virtualization

ATA/IDE: better disk geometry compatibility with VMware images

ATA/IDE: virtualize an AHCI controller

Storage: better write optimization, prevent images from growing unnecessarily

Network: support PXE booting with NAT

Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for Nexenta guests

NAT: improved builtin DHCP server (implemented DHCPNAK response)

NAT: port forwarding stopped when restoring the VM from a saved state

NAT: make subnet configurable

XPCOM: moved to libxml2

XPCOM: fixed VBoxSVC autostart race

Audio: SoundBlaster 16 emulation

USB: fixed problems with USB 2.0 devices

Mac OS X: fixed seamless mode

Mac OS X: better desktop integration, several look’n’feel fixes

Mac OS X: switched to Quartz2D framebuffer

Mac OS X: added support for shared folders

Mac OS X: added support for clipboard integration

Solaris: added host audio playback support (experimental)

Solaris: made it possible to run VirtualBox from non-global zones

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