12Change log

VMM: under heavy guest activity, for example when copying files to/from a shared folder, the VM could crash with an assertion

VMM: added an option to select PIIX4 (improves compatibility with Windows guests created by VMware)

VMM: fixed a bug which could lead to memory corruption under rare circum- stances

VMM: improved performance of Solaris guests

VRDP: fixed a 1.5.4 regression: VRDP client and server were out-of-sync if the VM was started using the GUI

VRDP: proper error handling if the VRDP library could not be loaded

VRDP: fixed compilation of the Linux rdesktop client on newer Linux kernels

VRDP: install rdesktop-vrdp on Linux hosts

VBoxManage: fixed crash during clonevdi

VBoxManage: added ’list runningvms’ command

VBoxManage: improved the compatibility when reading the partition table of a raw disk

Shared Folders: added support for read-only shared folders

Shared Clipboard: several fixes

Network: don’t crash if the device is activated but not attached

Network: experimental support for Intel Gigabit Ethernet (E1000) device emu- lation

iSCSI: better check for misconfigured targets

iSCSI: allow to directly attach to internal networks with integrated mini IP stack

PulseAudio: don’t hang during VM initialization if no sound server is available

VDI: fixed sized virtual disk images are now completely written during creation to workaround buggy sparse file handling on some OS (e.g. Vista)

VDI/VMDK: prevent indexing of .vdi and .vmdk files on Windows hosts

ACPI: added sleep button event

Serial: proper handling of inaccessible host devices

Windows installer: allow smooth upgrade without deinstallation

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