12Change log

•VMM: improved FreeBSD and OpenBSD support

•VMM: improved performance of guests that aggressively patch kernel code (very recent Linux 2.6 kernels)

•VMM: added workaround for a design flaw in AMD AM2 CPUs where the times- tamp counter shows large differences among CPU cores

•VMM: fixed Linux guests with grsecurity

•VMM: fixed issue on 2G/2G Linux kernels (even 1G/3G kernels should work)

•VMM: fixed Linux detection of Local APIC on non-Intel and non-AMD CPUs

•VMM: timing improvements with high host system loads (VM starvation)

•VMM: experimental AMD SVM hardware virtualization support now also handles real and protected mode without paging

•VMM: added system time offset parameter to allow for VMs to run in the past or future

•VMM: provide an MPS 1.4 table if the IOAPIC is enabled

•VRDP: allow binding the VRDP server to a specific interface

•VRDP: added support for clipboard synchronization

•VRDP: fixed problems with OS X RDP client

•VRDP: added support for multiple simultaneous connections to one VM

•VRDP: added support for MS RDP6 clients (Vista)

•Storage: experimental support for VMDK images (writethrough mode only, no snapshots yet)

•Storage: raw host disk support, including individual partitions

•IDE: improve CHS geometry detection

•IDE: fixed problem that only one VM could open an immutable image

•NAT: allow more than one card configured for NAT networking

•NAT: pass first entry in DNS search list (Linux host) or primary DNS suffix (Win- dows host) as domain name in DHCP

•NAT: support UDP broadcasts, which enables using Windows shares

•NAT: only warn if the name server could not be determined, no fatal error any- more

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