12Change log

•Mac OS X hosts: added Python support

•Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after a VM reboot

•Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)

•Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with buggy X servers

•Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests (dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)

•Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture

•Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions (bug #2128)

•VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)

•VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading the wrong data (bug #2085)

•Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)

•Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the host when host interface networking was enabled

•Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when installing under the wrong architecture

•Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented starting VMs from non- global zones even as root (bug #1948)

•Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions installer into a single package

•Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial port to the guest

12.19 Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

•64 bits guest support (64 bits host only)

•New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts

•The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements

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