12Change log

•GUI: allow creation and assignment of disk images in the New VM wizard.

•USB: fixed high CPU load on certain Linux distributions

•VBoxSDL: fixed several secure labeling issues (crash at exit, protection against guest video modes greater than what SDL provides on the host)

•VBoxManage: convert command line parameters from the current codepage to Unicode

12.36 Version 1.0.46 (2005-11-04)

Note: Guest Additions have to be updated

•Linux: VirtualBox binaries can now be started from directories other than the installation directory

•VMM: added support for PAE guest mode

•VMM: added support for hosts running in NX (No Execute) / DEP (Data Execu- tion Prevention) mode

•Graphics: fixes for dynamic resolution handling

•Linux module: yet another kernel panic fix due to weird patches in RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 2

•VBoxSVC: if VBOX_USER_HOME is set, look for configuration in this directory

(default: $HOME/.VirtualBox)

12.37 Version 1.0.44 (2005-10-25)

Note: Guest Additions have to be updated.

•Installer: greatly improved Windows installer, fixed uninstall and perform driver and COM registration through MSI

•VBoxManage: added commands to create and delete Win32 Host Interface Net- working adapters

•VDI: updated virtual disk image format (for newly created images; old images continue to work) with enhanced write performance and support for the upcom- ing snapshot feature

•Network: performance improvements

•Graphics: added hardware acceleration to virtual graphics adapter and corre- sponding Guest Additions driver

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