Version 1.5.4 | Sun Microsystems 3.0.0 specification

12Change log

•Linux installer: ﬁxed Slackware detection regression

•Linux installer: updated VBoxTunctl allowing to assign a tap device to a group on Linux kernels > 2.6.23

•Windows Additions: several ﬁxes, in particular for Windows NT4

•Windows Additions: made them uninstallable

•Linux Additions: ﬁxed installer for Kubuntu 8.04

•Linux Additions: add default video mode for handling video mode hints from the host

•Linux host: compatibility ﬁxes with Linux > 2.6.24

12.18 Version 1.5.4 (2007-12-29)

This version is a maintenance release. It adds USB 2.0 support and a PulseAudio backend.

•GUI: ﬁxed registration dialog crashes

•GUI: allow to enter unicode characters to the name of the registration dialog

•GUI: pre-select attached media in the disk manager when opened from the VM settings dialog

•GUI: remember the last active VM

•GUI: ask before reset the VM

•GUI: don’t accept empty paths for serial/parallel ports in XML

•GUI: ﬁxed NumLock / CapsLock synchronization on Windows hosts

•GUI: don’t start the kernel timer if no VM is active (Linux host)

•GUI: ﬁxed accelerators in German translation

•VMM: improved compatibility with Solaris guests

•VMM: properly restore CR4 after leaving VT-x mode

•VMM: ﬁx interrupt storm with Windows guests under certain circumstances (e.g. disable + re-enable the network adapter)

•VMM: with VT-x a pending interrupt could be cleared behind our back

•VMM: workaround for missed cpuid patch (some Linux guests refuse to boot on multi-core CPUs)

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