[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 4.3.20

Zum Download einmal hier entlang oder direkt vom FTP-Server.

Changelog:

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

• VMM: fixed reboot hang of 32-bit Windows SMP guests
  
• VMM: proper Math Fault handling with certain legacy guests
  
• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT on older CPUs that don't support MSR-bitmaps
  
• GUI: fix 3D overlay window re-parenting issue when VM goes to full screen mode on X11 hosts.
  
• GUI: fix occasional loss of focus in full-screen mode on X11 host systems
  
• GUI: Mac OS X: wizards should have Cancel button
  
• GUI: added a global option to prevent automatic raising of the new window by mouse move with multi-screen guests
  
• API: accept remote display port 0 as the default RDP port
  
• VBoxManage: fixed crash when executing showvminfo command under certain circumstances
  
• ACPI: fixed occasional Guru Meditations in ACPI timer code
  
• EFI: improved performance of IDE disk access
  
• EFI: fixed a bug in the EFI video driver which prevented Windows to boot in UEFI mode
  
• EFI: properly announce the amount of RAM for big VMs
  
• Storage: fixed a crash under certain circumstances when a medium was ejected from a drive attached to the SATA controller without inserting a new medium before pausing or closing the VM
  
• Storage: fixed an interrupt acknowledge issue causing hanging guests or slower I/O
  
• Storage: fixed broken resume after the VM was suspended due to a full disk if host I/O caching is used
  
• Storage: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions when using the DevLsiLogic controller with VMs running in raw mode
  
• Guest Control: fixed a bug which might lead to a crash during recursive copy
  
• SDK: Java COM bindings fixes
  
• iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol
  
• Runtime: do not use a fixed stack size creating temporary threads during initialization
  
• Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software
  
• Windows hosts: fixed DirectSound host audio failure under certain conditions
  
• Windows hosts: fixed additional cases of 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people
  
• Windows Additions: preserve guest monitor layout when resizing Windows 7 or newer guests
  
• Linux Additions: Linux 3.18 compile fixes

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 4.3.22

Download ist wie üblich über Projektseite und direkt vom FTP-Server (SHA256) möglich.

Changelog:

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

• VMM: refined measurement of TSC frequency on the host, improves timekeeping for guests
  
• VMM: decreased CPU load resulting from guest MMIO writes to the virtual APIC
  
• VMM: fixed interception of debug exceptions, observed while using the dbx debugger on Solaris guests (VT-x only)
  
• GUI: 3D overlay window positioning code improved, fixed potential misplacement of 3D accelerated guest graphics content
  
• GUI: fixed accident SSL authentication failures during update check on Windows hosts
  
• GUI: never send the "ACPI power" keyboard scancode to the guest, we have the ACPI power button for that
  
• GUI: was unable to properly restore seamless mode VM from snapshot/saved-state under some circumstances
  
• VBoxHeadless: don't crash if 3D is enabled in the VM settings
  
• ATA: fixed several passthrough issues
  
• Audio: fixed DirectSound failure when the the host has no audio input device
  
• SB16: fixed compatibility issue
  
• Storage: fixed broken CD/DVD passthrough when using the IDE controller
  
• NAT: new ping proxy for Windows hosts
  
• NAT: Properly report outbound connect(2) failures to guest with TCP RST or ICMP
  
• NAT Network: no need for frequent wakeups in VBoxNetDHCP and VBoxNetNAT
  
• Host-only adapter: prevent Windows from creating an "Unidentified network"
  
• Bridged Networking: don't leak host-to-guest traffic to the wireless network when bridging to a wireless interface
  
• Main: fixed a possible race when changing the medium leading to a deadlock under rare conditions
  
• VBoxManage: fixed return code if starting a VM failed
  
• API: fixed 2 deadlock opportunities related to medium handling
  
• API: fixed bug in XPCOM which created too few worker threads, sporadically resulting in a deadlock
  
• SDK: fixed a garbage collection leak in the Python VirtualBox webservice API binding
  
• Linux hosts: fixes for activated SMAP
  
• X11 guests: prevent unwanted hiding of guest screens on multi-monitor guests
  
• X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.17
  
• X11 Additions: fixed a memory leak in VBoxService if libdbus is available but dbus-daemon isn't running
  
• Windows Additions: prevent VBox WDDM driver from loading if host reports weak OpenGL capabilities. 3D content now can be shown over Remote Desktop connection.
  
• Winodws Additions: some fixes for recent Windows 10 Previews
  
• Linux Additions: fixed a compatibility issue with 64-bit Linux 2.4 kernels
  
• Linux Additions: fixed a potential use-after-free when unloading the VBoxGuest module
  
• Linux Additions: Linux 3.19 fixes

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 4.3.24

Download steht wie immer auf der Projektseite und FTP-Server (SHA256) bereit.

Changelog:

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

• VMM: emulation fix for the ENTER instruction under certain conditions; fixes Solaris 10 guests
  
• VMM: fix for handling NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled
  
• NAT/NAT Network: fix connection drops when the host's DHCP lease was renewed
  
• NAT: don't crash on an empty domain list when switching the DNS host configuration
  
• PXE: re-enable it on Windows hosts
  
• Shared Folders: fixed a problem with Windows guests
  
• Audio: improved record quality when using the DirectSound audio backend
  
• VBoxManage: when executing the controlvm command take care that the corresponding VM runtime changes are saved permanently
  
• Windows Installer: properly install the 32-bit version of VBoxRes.dll on 32-bit hosts
  
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.0 fixes
  
• OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse integration
  
• X11 Additions: fixed a sporadic failure to deactivate virtual screens

Dieser Beitrag wurde von XiLeeN2004 bearbeitet: 02. März 2015 - 21:07

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 4.3.26

Der Download ist wie üblich auf der Projektseite und dem FTP-Server (SHA256) verfügbar.

Changelog:

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

• GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against wrong host time
  
• NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network
  
• NAT Network: don't delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on Windows hosts
  
• Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare conditions if no Guest Additions are installed
  
• Storage: if the guest ejects a virtual CD/DVD medium, make the change permanent
  
• VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests
  
• SDK: fixed the VirtualBox.tlb file
  
• rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again
  
• USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions
  
• iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts
  
• Mac OS X hosts: don't panic on hosts with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later)
  
• Linux hosts: don't crash Linux 4.0 hosts

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0.0 Beta 1

Changelog (unvollständig):

VirtualBox 5.0 will be a new major release. Here is an incomplete list of chances:

• Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve time-keeping accuracy and performance
  
• Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AES-NI, POPCNT, RDRAND and RDSEED
  
• xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices
  
• Drag'n drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
  
• Disk image encryption
  
• GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration)
  
• GUI: New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar, menu-bar and guest-content scaling
  
• GUI: New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for disk images
  
• GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration)
  
• GUI: Hotplugging support for SATA disks
  
• New, modular audio architecture for providing a better abstraction of the host audio backends

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: improved timing on Solaris hosts with older VT-x hosts without preemption timers
  
• VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times
  
• USB: added USB traffic capturing
  
• API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks, their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM config corruption
  
• API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense
  
• API: fix information for some automatically generated events (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
  
• API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only
  
• API: a number of settings (e.g. network settings) can now also be changed when the VM is in saved state

Diese Version sollte nicht produktiv eingesetzt werden, es ist lediglich eine frühe Vorschau zu Testzwecken. Interessierte können sich die Binaries hier runterladen. Feedback ist im Forum generell willkommen, aber bitte keine Bugs im öffentlichen Bugtracker melden!

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0.0 Beta 2

Changelog (unvollständige Liste der Änderungen seit der Beta 1):

VirtualBox 5.0 will be a new major release.

• VMM: added support for using paravirtualization providers with raw-mode VMs
  
• GUI: encryption passwords no more centered
  
• GUI: canceling encryption password prompt at VM startup proposing to close VM
  
• GUI: Enter/Return key press for the last (or single) entry of the encryption password prompt accepts the dialog
  
• GUI: VM menu-bar contents reordering - moving some of unusual for the Help menu stuff into separate File menu
  
• GUI: scaling support will use the old smooth mechanism for the software renderer case
  
• GUI: optimized medium enumeration for the large differencing trees
  
• GUI: USB controller types for the given VM are now reflected in VM details pane
  
• GUI: avoid error message during shutdown of a separate VM
  
• GUI: fixed a rare crash when starting VM in separate mode
  
• Drag and drop: fixed a crash when copying over host elements to the guest
  
• Audio: don't crash when attaching via RDP to a VM with disabled audio
  
• Input: fixed vertical scrolling and buttons 4/5 in PS/2 !ImEx protocol
  
• 3D: fix crash on restoring state on X11 hosts
  
• Bridged Networking: avoid host networking stack pause/restart on VM start/stop/pause (Windows hosts only)
  
• API: fixed long-standing issue (Windows host only) which caused loss of error information for the VM start operation
  
• API: fixed too strict condition for changing extradata settings of newly created VMs
  
• API: fixed too strict condition for creating persistent shared folders
  
• rdesktop-vrdp: upgraded to version 1.8.3
  
• BIOS: fix for booting from SCSI CD/DVD media
  
• BIOS: fix for reads partially beyond end of disk
  
• Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)
  
• Linux Additions: fix for Linux guest kernels < 2.6.13

Diese Version sollte nicht produktiv eingesetzt werden, es ist lediglich eine frühe Vorschau zu Testzwecken. Interessierte können sich die Binaries hier runterladen. Feedback ist im Forum generell willkommen, aber bitte keine Bugs im öffentlichen Bugtracker melden!

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0.0 Beta 3

Changelog (unvollständige Liste der Änderungen seit der Beta 2):

VirtualBox 5.0 will be a new major release.

• VMM: XSAVE, AVX and AVX-2 are now exposed to the guest
  
• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests (for example Solaris doing fast reboot) by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI)
  
• GUI: Encryption progress reflection
  
• GUI: Encryption errors handling
  
• GUI: Properly disable unavailable menu actions
  
• GUI: properly report errors when trying to save the VM settings instead instead of dead-locking
  
• API: allow to hotplug SATA optical devices
  
• VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems
  
• USB: fixed attaching of high speed USB devices if xHCI is not present
  
• Audio: improved volume control
  
• Audio: fixed SB16 playback
  
• Drag and drop: Transfers can be canceled properly, bug fixes
  
• Guest Control: Major overhaul, for example fixing wrong parameter quoting
  
• Shared Folders: fixed a crash when removing (in some cases also when creating) a shared folder when the VM is running
  
• OVA: fixed importing of appliances without attached hard disks
  
• Snapshots: fixed a bug in handling a saved state when taking an offline snapshot
  
• Snapshots: fixed a sporadic bug when restoring a snapshot which left unused diff images behind
  
• VirtualKD: re-added device which was omitted by accident
  
• Windows hosts: more hardening fixes
  
• Additions/X.Org: fixed guest-to-host mouse mapping for Solaris and Linux Mint/Ubuntu 12.04.0 guests.
  
• Additions/X.Org: fixed resizing problem in openSUSE 10.3 and guests of a similar generation
  
• documented the Guest Additions heartbeat service

Diese Version sollte nicht produktiv eingesetzt werden, es ist lediglich eine frühe Vorschau zu Testzwecken. Interessierte können sich die Binaries hier runterladen. Feedback ist im Forum generell willkommen, aber bitte keine Bugs im öffentlichen Bugtracker melden!

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 4.3.28

Wie gewohnt steht der Download auf der Projektseite und dem FTP-Server (SHA256) bereit.

Changelog:

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

• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI
  
• VMM: added some information for diagnosing rare VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR Guru Meditations (VT-x only)
  
• GUI: HID LEDs sync: prevent synchronization if VM window has no focus (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)
  
• GUI: fixed drag and drop moving the cursor between guest screens on certain hosts
  
• 3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state on X11 hosts
  
• 3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state
  
• 3D: fixed a crash on Linux guest shutdown
  
• VRDP: fixed incompatibility with rdesktop 1.8.3
  
• VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems
  
• Storage: don't crash if creating an asynchronous I/O context fails (e.g. when starting many VMs) and show a proper error message
  
• Floppy: several fixes
  
• Audio: improved the behavior of the volume control for the HD audio device emulation
  
• USB: increase the number of supported drivers from 3 to 5 (Windows hosts only)
  
• PS/2 keyboard: synchronize the LED state on VM restore (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)
  
• NAT Network: when running multiple NAT networks with multiple VMs, only stop the respective services when stopping VMs
  
• NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors
  
• NAT: bandwidth limit now works properly with NAT
  
• BIOS: fixed the returned size value of the VBE 2.0 PMI function 0Ah
  
• Guest Control: fixed parameter quoting in Windows guests
  
• Webcam passthrough improvements for Linux (V4L2) hosts to support more webcam models
  
• API: don't fail starting a VM with VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE under certain conditions
  
• API: be more verbose on VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE if a medium is attached to a running VM
  
• API: fixed a bug which could result in losing certain screen resize events with multi-monitor guests
  
• rdesktop-vrdp: fixed path to the keymaps
  
• rdesktop-vrdp: switch to version 1.8.3
  
• Windows hosts: more hardening fixes
  
• Linux hosts: another fix for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19 and newer
  
• Linux hosts: Linux 4.1 compile fix
  
• Solaris hosts: fixed using of VNIC templates with Crossbow based bridged networking to be compatible with vanity interface names
  
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed crash during VM termination under rare circumstances
  
• Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions
  
• X11 Additions: prevent flickering when updating mouse cursor
  
• Solaris Additions: fixed incorrect usage of 'prtconf' while installing Guest Additions

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0.0 Beta 4

Changelog (unvollständige Liste der Änderungen seit der Beta 3):

VirtualBox 5.0 will be a new major release.

• VMM: some XSAVE fixes
  
• GUI: hot-plugging support for USB storage controller.
  
• GUI: fixed icons for savestate/restorestate and some of icons for HiDPI aware Win/X11 hosts.
  
• NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors (bug #13475)
  
• Drag and drop: various bugfixes for Linux hosts and guests
  
• Encryption: fixed cloning VMs
  
• Audio: Fixed volume control for mono streams
  
• Audio/SB16: Fixed loss of output after loading saved state.
  
• USB3: fixed attaching multiple emulated disks to the xHCI controller
  
• 3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state
  
• Snapshots: fixed Beta 3 regression
  
• VBoxManage: fixed reading the partition table on Windows
  
• iSCSI: fixed a hang during power off if the initiator connects to the target over the internal network

Diese Version sollte nicht produktiv eingesetzt werden, es ist lediglich eine frühe Vorschau zu Testzwecken. Interessierte können sich die Binaries hier runterladen. Feedback ist im Forum generell willkommen, aber bitte keine Bugs im öffentlichen Bugtracker melden!

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0.0 Release Candidate 1

Changelog (unvollständige Liste der Änderungen seit der Beta 4):

VirtualBox 5.0 will be a new major release.

• GUI: NLS fixes. NLS strings are now frozen.
  
• GUI: Improved HiDPI support for Windows host, icons/size-hint adjustments.
  
• GUI: Use fast scaling mechanism for integer scale-factors.
  
• Separate UI/VM: fixed completely broken re-attaching to a headless VM.
  
• Drag and drop: fixed hang when reporting host errors such as inaccessible (locked) files.
  
• PCNet: OpenStep fix
  
• Host-only networking: an attempt to fix some VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND problems
  
• NAT: Don't forcibly reset/drop all connections when link goes down
  
• AHCI: fixed a possible hand during VM shutdown
  
• Audio: fix audio output if the default output device changes, before this fix it would always stream to the output device being the default when the VM was started
  
• VBoxSVC: don't keep the support driver permanently open
  
• VBoxManage addencpassword: read the command line from the console or from a file
  
• vbox-img: added resize command
  
• X11 Additions: fix for X.org servers with RandR 1.1

So langsam geht es Richtung Final, dennoch gilt: Diese Version sollte nicht produktiv eingesetzt werden, es ist lediglich eine Vorschau zu Testzwecken. Interessierte können sich die Binaries hier runterladen. Feedback ist im Forum generell willkommen, aber bitte keine Bugs im öffentlichen Bugtracker melden!

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0.0 Release Candidate 2

Changelog (unvollständige Liste der Änderungen seit Release Candidate 1):

VirtualBox 5.0 will be a new major release.

• VMM: fixed a GP in SUPR0QueryVTCaps
  
• VMM: fixed a raw mode bug (5.0.0 RC1 regression)
  
• xHCI: fixed resuming from a saved state
  
• USB: improve playback with USB sound devices attached to the emulated OHCI controller
  
• Audio: provide Linux guests a different AC97 audio codec type so Linux ALSA doesn't mis-detect the link speed
  
• Drag and drop: enabled guest to host support for OS X hosts
  
• Drag and drop: fixed freezes and crashes in some error cases
  
• API: OS type description consistency fix
  
• API: fixed a check which prevented changing the network promiscuous mode at runtime
  
• API: don't keep OVA files open after import
  
• API: don't resume a VM on host-resume unless it was previously paused due to a host-suspend
  
• API: don't lose the saved state and "current state changed" flag during cloning of a VM
  
• ExtPack: don't fail if the TMP directory contains non-latin1 characters
  
• Mac OS X hosts: don't crash when upgrading from VBox 4.3.28 which has a bug in handling the CR4.VMXE bit
  
• Solaris hosts: Solaris 12 installer fix
  
• X11 Additions: fixed wrong DPI value

Auch für diese Version gilt: Bitte nicht produktiv einsetzen. Es ist lediglich eine Vorschau zu Testzwecken. Interessierte können sich die Binaries hier runterladen. Feedback ist im Forum generell willkommen, aber bitte keine Bugs im öffentlichen Bugtracker melden!

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0.0 Release Candidate 3

Changelog (unvollständige Liste der Änderungen seit Release Candidate 2):

VirtualBox 5.0 will be a new major release.

• VMM: fixed a problem with large pages in Hyper-V
  
• VMM: when using the KVM PV provider, use the same frequency for all VCPUs. This will fix slow boots on certain hosts.
  
• VMM: fixed a hang under certain conditions for SMP guests (32-bit hosts only)
  
• VMM: several fixes
  
• AHCI: fixed a crash during shutdown under rare conditions
  
• AHCI: fixed crash as a result of I/O errors in certain conditions
  
• Audio: fixed a VM hang with the ALSA backend with certain ALSA configurations
  
• VGA: fixed loading of saved state if 2D Video Acceleration is enabled
  
• GUI: apply user interface settings from corresponding page only after pressing OK, not instantly on-the-fly
  
• GUI: remember size-hints and enabled/disabled states for secondary guest-screens in multi-screen setups on VM restart
  
• Drag and drop: various fixes for KDE-based guests
  
• Drag and drop: added transferring plain text to Windows guests
  
• Drag and drop: fixed transferring large files from host to Linux/Unix guests
  
• Guest Control: several fixes
  
• Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan fixes
  
• Additions/Linux: added -s parameter to mount.vboxsf to be sloppy with invalid parameters

Nach wie vor gilt: Bitte nicht produktiv einsetzen, auch der dritte RC dient lediglich Testzwecken. Interessierte können sich die Binaries hier runterladen. Feedback ist im Forum generell willkommen, aber bitte keine Bugs im öffentlichen Bugtracker melden!

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0

Die neue Major-Version steht ab sofort auf der Projektseite und dem FTP-Server (SHA256) bereit.

Changelog:

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

• Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve time-keeping accuracy and performance
  
• Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX-2, AES-NI, POPCNT, RDRAND and RDSEED
  
• xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices (see the manual for more information)
  
• Drag and drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
  
• Disk image encryption (see the manual for more information)
  
• VMs can now be started in separate mode. The VM process is started headless while the frontend runs as a separate process which can be terminated without stopping the VM.
  
• GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration)
  
• GUI: New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar, menu-bar and guest-content scaling
  
• GUI: New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for disk images
  
• GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration)
  
• GUI: Hotplugging support for SATA disks
  
• New, modular audio architecture for providing a better abstraction of the host audio backends
  
• Support for the NDIS6 networking framework on Windows (default on Vista and later)

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: improved timing on Solaris hosts with older VT-x hosts without preemption timers
  
• VMM: further improvements for TSC frequency measurements and guest timekeeping
  
• VMM: debug facility now includes the guest CPU's FPU/SSE/extended state in the core dump
  
• VMM: fixed a hang under rare conditions on 32-bit hosts
  
• VMM: several fixes
  
• GUI: improved HID LEDs synchronization for Mac and Windows hosts. The physical LEDs state now restored together with the VM state.
  
• GUI: take the guest screen aspect ratio into account for the preview window
  
• GUI: provide direct access to storage media in the VM selector
  
• GUI: allow to save the VM state from the selector even if the VM is already paused
  
• VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times
  
• VBoxManage: now supports renaming storage controllers and USB controllers
  
• Guest Control: major overhaul, for example fixing wrong parameter quoting
  
• USB: added USB traffic capturing (see the manual for more information)
  
• Made resizing X11 guests work more reliably
  
• API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks, their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM config corruption
  
• API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense
  
• API: fix information for some automatically generated events (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
  
• API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only
  
• API: a number of settings (e.g. network settings) can now also be changed when the VM is in saved state
  
• API: fixed incorrect resuming of VMs on host-resume unless they were previously paused due to a host-suspend
  
• API: don't lose the saved state and "current state changed" flag during cloning of a VM
  
• API: OS type description consistency fix
  
• VBoxSVC: don't keep the support driver permanently open
  
• Main/Properties: properly drop transient guest properties when the VM is powered off
  
• VRDP: fixed a couple of races which may cause a crash during VM poweroff
  
• ExtPack: don't fail if the TMP directory contains non-latin1 characters
  
• 3D: fix potential race in which might cause a crash on VM termination
  
• 3D: fixed a possible memory leak in the host service
  
• Serial: new TCP/IP backend (see the manual for more information)
  
• Storage: added USB mass storage device class (see the manual for more information)
  
• Storage: added vbox-img standalone tool for direct manipulation of virtual hard disk images without VBoxManage
  
• Storage: fixed crash as a result of I/O errors in certain conditions
  
• NAT: fixed several potential crashes
  
• NAT: don't forcibly reset/drop all connections when the link goes down
  
• Netsniffer: properly handle changing of the trace file name at VM runtime
  
• Audio: fixed audio output and input when changing the default audio device more than once on OS X
  
• Audio: fixed audio input on OS X under certain circumstances
  
• ICH9: fixed the interrupt disable logic for MSI interrupts; should fix old Linux guests with AHCI
  
• USB: improve playback with USB sound devices attached to the emulated OHCI controller
  
• Audio: provide Linux guests a different AC97 audio codec type so Linux ALSA does not mis-detect the link speed (default for new VMs)
  
• BIOS: fix for booting from SCSI CD/DVD media
  
• BIOS: fix for reads partially beyond end of disk
  
• VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems
  
• rdesktop-vrdp: upgraded to version 1.8.3
  
• Linux hosts: fixed a bug which made the netfilter driver ignore certain events
  
• Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan fixes
  
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug which might trigger a host kernel panic if a VM is started and another hypervisor is active
  
• Solaris hosts: Solaris 12 installer fix
  
• Guest Additions: added a heartbeat service (see the manual for more information)
  
• Linux hosts / guests: support for Linux distributions using systemd without sysv emulation (e.g. ArchLinux)
  
• Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)
  
• Linux Additions: added -s parameter to mount.vboxsf to be sloppy with invalid parameters
  
• X11 Additions: fixed wrong DPI value
  
• Mac OS X guests: limit the CPU family for legacy guests
  
• Solaris Additions: added quiesce support to co-operate with Solaris' fast-reboot feature

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0.2

Download kann wie immer über Projektseite oder FTP-Server (SHA256) erfolgen.

Changelog:

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

• VMM: added support for guest crash report MSRs with Hyper-V paravirtualization
  
• VMM: fixed an issue causing artifically high load averages on Linux hosts
  
• VMM: fixed a kernel panic with thread-context hooks caused by incompatible changes made to Linux 4.2 kernels
  
• VMM: fixed a saved state issue with VT-x/AMD-V disabled
  
• VMM: fixed VERR_SUPDRV_TSC_DELTA_MEASUREMENT_FAILED Guru Meditations on certain AMD CPUs
  
• VMM: fixed a crash while creating a guest core dumps via the VM debug facility
  
• VMM: This release has AVX2 passthrough disabled on every host and AVX passthrough disabled for 64-bit VMs on 32-bit hosts. This will be properly fixed in a future 5.0.x maintenance release
  
• GUI: fixed rare hang and crash on VM shutdown/poweroff
  
• GUI: X11: fixed few crashes caused by the Qt alien widgets feature
  
• GUI: X11: fixed various mini-toolbar geometry quirks like positioning, z-order, transiency issues on certain window managers
  
• GUI: X11: fixed mini-toolbar minimize button issue under certain window managers
  
• GUI: VM menu actions availability should now be properly updated on full-screen/seamless/scaled mode switches
  
• GUI: disk encryption password validation should be performed when user confirmed the password, not after each entered symbol
  
• GUI: do not change the VM/group selection in the VM Manager to the newly created VM if it was created by another client (e.g. VBoxManage)
  
• GUI: Mac OS X: do not treat 'almost maximized' VM windows as 'maximized', watch for the strict window geometry instead
  
• GUI: improve the quality in scaled mode under some circumstances
  
• VBoxManage: do not deny changing the network adapter type at VM runtime
  
• VRDP: allow Windows 10 RDP clients
  
• Audio: fix a possible crash on VM process termination
  
• Storage: improved raw disk access on OS X by unmounting any accessed volume before first use and prevent any mount attempt by the host
  
• 3D: basic support for saving/restoring display lists
  
• Drag and drop: fixed guest to host transfers on OS X hosts
  
• Drag and drop: fixed memory leak on Windows guests
  
• Shared Folders: fixed a problem with accessing CIFS shares
  
• Shared Folders: improved path conversion between hosts and guests with different path separators
  
• API: skip resetting of immutable media when the VM in saved state is started
  
• API: fixed method for setting medium IDs which used zero (invalid) UUIDs instead random (valid) UUIDs if no UUIDs were passed
  
• API: for Windows host fix detection of API client crashes which have a session open
  
• OVF: properly export all VBox features including the setting for paravirtualization
  
• Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan USB fixes
  
• Windows hosts: fixed crash when opening Windows dialogs from the VM process on Windows 10
  
• Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues on Windows 10
  
• Windows hosts: fixed audio on Windows 10
  
• Linux hosts: more fixes for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19 and newer
  
• Linux hosts: check then name space before attaching to a host network interface
  
• Linux Additions: Linux 4.2 fixes
  
• Linux Additions: improved the performance of stat() to speed up certain file operations on shared folders
  
• Windows Additions: fixed a potential crash in the WDDM driver with Windows 10
  
• Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.17
  
• X11 Additions: various seamless mode fixes, including invisible windows under LXDE.