12Change log

•Improved network performance for Linux guests by providing a virtio network device

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

•VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases

•GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)

•3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing

•3D support: added GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array support

•3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty, Unreal Tourna- ment, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)

•3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (#2816)

•3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (#4653)

•iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity

•VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)

•Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)

•VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V

•OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an optional mani- fest file on import

•X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code layout (bug #2302)

•Mac OS X hosts: don’t auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen (#bug 4866)

•Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package

•Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend).

•Shared folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (bug #4842)

•Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version was updated and Additions are out of date

•Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)

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