Sun Microsystems VERSION 3.1.0_BETA2 user manual

12Change log

•VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342)

•VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342)

•VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431)

•VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only)

•VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization

•VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT- x/AMD-V only)

•VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT- x/AMD-V only)

•VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only)

•VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x, but don’t set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL

•VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794)

•VMM: properly emulate RDMSR from the TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests

•VMM: emulate RDPMC; fixes Windows guests crashes when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778)

•NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)

•NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)

•NAT: allow to configure the next server and the boot file via VBoxManage (bug #2759)

•IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)

•Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size ESX server images)

•Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not writable

•USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and EHCI; the “VBoxInternal/Devices/usb- ohci/0/Config/FrameRate” CFG key is no longer necessary and no longer sup-

ported

•USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices (Windows hosts only; bug #1654)

•E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)

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