12Change log
•VMM: fixed random user mode crashes with OpenBSD guests
•VMM: increased timing accuracy (PIT, RTC), reduced PIT query overhead
•VMM: tamed execution thread to make GUI more responsive (esp. when execut- ing real mode guest code such as bootloaders)
•VMM: significant performance enhancements for OpenBSD guests
•VMM: several performance enhancements
•VMM: improved memory layout on Windows hosts to allow for large amounts of guest RAM
•VMM: significantly improved VM execution state saving and restoring (at the expense of state file sizes)
•ACPI: fixed Windows bluescreen when assigning more than 512MB RAM to a guest
•ACPI: correctly report battery state when multiple batteries are present on the host (Linux hosts)
•ACPI: enabled by default for newly created VMs
•APIC: added optional I/O APIC
•Graphics: fixed distortion when changing guest color depth without changing the resolution
•VRDP: added support for remote USB (requires special rdesktop client)
•VRDP: added support for the Microsoft RDP client
•VRDP: improved audio support
•Floppy: controller can be disabled
•Floppy: fixed “no disk in drive” reporting
•Floppy: fixed writing to floppy images
•VBoxManage: restructured USB device filter syntax to make it more intuitive
•VBoxManage: added command for setting guest logon credentials
•Additions: added installer for Windows 2000/XP/2003 guests
•Additions: added custom GINA module which hooks MSGINA and can perform automatic logons using credentials retrieved from the VMM
•Documentation: added draft of VirtualBox user manual
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