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Oracle Updates VirtualBox to 3.2.8

Oracle announced a 3.2.8 maintenance release of VirtualBox.  And it fixes quite a few things, including:

  • VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings
  • GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only)
  • GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only)
  • 3D support: fixed GL_EXT_texture_sRGB support
  • PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression
  • OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain circumstances (3.2.6 regression)
  • USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status changes
  • USB: respect the remote-only filter
  • USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of certain devices (Windows hosts only)
  • USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only)
  • PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature
  • PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs
  • PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests
  • Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled
  • Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on bridged device
  • Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression)
  • Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
  • BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer guests
  • LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances
  • Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs without external tools and tricks (see here for a short explanation)
  • Shared folders: several fixes and performance enhancements for Solaris guests
  • Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations
  • Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field
  • Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on shutdown
  • RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability fixes
  • Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio
  • Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML settings file version 1.10 and later
  • VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly in subcommand openmedium disk
  • Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
  • Web service: added timestamps to logging output
  • Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII
  • X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)

You can download VirtualBox 3.2.8, here.

Published Monday, August 09, 2010 3:19 PM by David Marshall
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