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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