VirtualBox 3.0.8

VirtualBox 3.0.8 per Mandriva 2008.1, 2009.0 e 2009.1.

Virtualizzatore per realizzare ed usare le VM (Virtual Machines) con svariati sistemi operativi.

Manuale utente 3.0.8 build-in.

Versione preparata in formato Mandriva del famoso virtualizzatore.

In questa versione tra l'altro molti fix e molte altre migliorie che troverete descritte nel sito di riferimento:

Home Page: http://www.virtualbox.org/

VirtualBox 3.0.8 (released 2009-10-06)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6 (VT-x only; bug #4947)
• VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x & AMD-V only; bug #5058)
• VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059)
• VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests
• VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression; software virtualization only)
• VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042)
• Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands with root privileges
• Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)
• Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)
• Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)
• Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM selector (bug #5063)
• Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not available
• Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as interrupts were not re-enabled everytime
• Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only networking (bug #4775)
• Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when changing them (bug #5077)
• X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards (bug #4907)
• Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)
• Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)
• Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier
• Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)
• Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)
• Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders are installed
• Linux Additions: implemented ftrunctate (bug #4771)
• VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use
• Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under rare conditions (bug #4870)
• VBoxManage: implemented controlvm vrdpport command
• iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (#5072)
• SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB
• USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices (bug #5089)
• NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)

Screenshot:

Pacchetti :

• Progs
  • virtualbox-3.0.8-69.1mib
  • dkms-virtualbox-3.0.8-69.1mib
  • virtualbox-guest-additions-3.0.8-69.1mib
  • dkms-vboxadd-3.0.8-69.1mib
  • x11-driver-input-vboxmouse-3.0.8-69.1
  • x11-driver-video-vboxvideo-3.0.8-69.1mib 

Porting: grissino.
Build: grissino, Pulfer, Nicco ed othoth-tux.