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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