VirtualBox 3.1.0 Final

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  1. Posts : 18,404
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
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    VirtualBox 3.1.0 Final


       Information
    Version 3.1 will be a major update. The following major new features were added:

    • Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session from one machine to another
    • VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well (aka branched snapshots)
    • 2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video hardware for overlay stretching and colour conversion
    • The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is running
    • Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher.
    • Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging)
    • Experimental support for EFI (Extended Firmware Interface)
    • VirtIO network device support

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

    • VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392)
    • VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)
    • VMM: reinit VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)
    • GUI: prevent starting a VM with a single mouse click (bug #2676)
    • 3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing
    • 3D support: added GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array support
    • 3D support: fix crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)
    • 3D support: fix graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (#2816)
    • iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity
    • VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)
    • Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)
    • Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)
    • Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the guest (bug #4496)
    • VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants
    • VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V
    • OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an optional manifest file on import
    • X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code layout (bug #2302)
    • Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen (#bug 4866)
    • Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package
    • Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend).
    • Shared folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)
    • Shared folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (bug #4842)
    • Windows and Linux Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version was updated and Additions are out of date
    • Solaris Additions: fixed as_pagelock() failed errors affecting guest properties (bug #5337)
    • Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7
    • Windows Additions: fix crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)
    • Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest Additions (bug #4039)
    • SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5
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    3.1.0 final
    Last edited by Airbot; 30 Nov 2009 at 18:25.
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  2. Posts : 8,476
    Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)
       #2

    Thanks for the info. BTW, Virtualbox updates very frequently. That's nice:)
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  3. Posts : 5,807
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64 - Mac OS X 10.6.4 x64
       #3

    Does VirtualBox have 3-D acceleration for Linux Guests?
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  4. Posts : 8,476
    Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)
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    Yes but that's in experimental mode.
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  5. Posts : 18,404
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
    Thread Starter
       #5

    3.1.0 Beta 2 available

    Changelog from Beta 1 -

    Notable changes since VirtualBox 3.1.0 Beta 1:

    • Fixed snapshots of VMs with empty DVD attachments (3.1.0 Beta 1 regression)
    • Fixed snapshots of VMs with multiple attached disk drives (3.1.0 Beta 1 regression)
    • GUI: fixed a crash in the snapshots widget
    • VMM: guest SMP fixes in rare cases
    • VMM: fixed kernel panic with older Linux kernels, e.g. CentOS 5.3 (APIC; 3.0.12 + 3.1.0 Beta 1 regression)
    • 3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (public ticket #4653, partly fixed, needs more work)
    • 2D/3D support, Windows: fix gl support test failure when VBox installation path contains spaces
    • 2D support: fix saved state restore failure when 2D is active and used by the guest (Playing a Video)
    • Creating a new VM sometimes failed (3.1.0 Beta 1 regression)
    • VBoxManage clonehd was broken if the same image was cloned concurrently
    • added VBoxManage usage information for Floppy/DVD images
    • Linux Additions: properly disable the seamless mode if the guest doesn't support it
    • Windows Additions: fixed high usage of VBoxService on Windows guests (3.1.0 Beta 1 regression)
    • Windows Additions: VBox Credential Provider fixes
    • Windows guests: fixed invisible mouse pointer when VM was restored from a saved state.
    • VirtIO: performance improvements
    • EFI: 32-bpp VGA driver was added.
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    Last edited by Airbot; 20 Nov 2009 at 13:56.
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  6. Posts : 1,487
    Windows 7 x64 / Same
       #6

    Sounds good. Can't wait to download it.
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  7. Posts : 18,404
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Virtualbox 3.1.0 Beta 3


    Notable changes since VirtualBox 3.1.0 Beta 2:
    VMM: fixes slow OpenSolaris booting (3.1.0 Beta 1 regression)
    GUI: prevent hints being send for guest-initiated resizes
    GUI: fix for saved mouse shape data which was incorrectly updated
    Xml compatibility fixes with 3.0.x (CpuIdTree element)
    Storage/VMDK: fix buffers for really huge VMDK files split into 2G pieces
    EFI: added 64-bit firmware
    2D support: Saved state save/restore fixes
    2D support: fixed VM reset issues
    Snapshots: suppresses the automatic resetting of immutable disk images on VM power-up if the machine has snapshots AND the current snapshot is an online snapshot, to avoid data corruption (the machine would otherwise be reset to a state which is equivalent of a poweroff of a running machine without a proper shutdown)
    Guest Additions: fixed a rare guest crash with 2 or more guest CPUs
    Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information
    Windows Additions: disabled some debug output
    Linux Additions: fixed guests with Linux 2.4 kernels
    Linux Additions: removed debugging symbols to save space (3.1.0 Beta 2 regression)
    X11 Additions: fixed a bug which re-enabled the graphics (and dynamic resizing) capability when disabling seamless
    X11 Additions: added more default resolutions for old guests
    X11 Additions: workaround a bug in X.Org 1.3 which caused dynamic resizing to fail
    Virtualbox 3.1.0 Final -


    Notable changes since VirtualBox 3.1.0 Beta 3:
    • GUI: the a log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
    • GUI: show a warning when the last CD/DVD-ROM device should be removed
    • GUI: fixed black screen when color depth was not 32bpp in Windows guests (3.1.0 Beta 1 regression)
    • SATA: fixed using of VMDK images with the SATA controller
    • VBoxSDL: fixed a crash on termination (Windows hosts only)
    • Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as left click (bug #5049)
    • Linux Additions: work around mounts failing if a file of the same name as the share exists in the current directory
    • Linux Additions: some message fixes in the installer
    • Linux Additions: some Fedora 7 and 8 guest SELinux fixes in the installer
    • Linux Additions: a 64-bit guest fix in the installer
    • Linux Additions: fix installation on guests with non-sys-V-style init
    • Linux Additions: use the newer (X.Org server 1.5) mouse driver with X.Org server 1.3 and 1.4 on Linux, as Fedora 8 didn't want to load the old one.
    • Windows Additions: VBoxTray writes build version and revision to the release log
    • Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information
    • VBoxManage modifyvm: allow negative offsets for --biossystemtimeoffset (3.1.0 Beta 1 regression)
    • VBoxManage: fix a few bugs in the output of VBoxManage showinfo (mostly in the machinereadable output)
    • Main/NetworkAdapter: fix return value if NATNetwork attribute is not set
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  8. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #8

    Going to have to try this out. I'm particularly interested in the live migration feature and the multiple snapshots..
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  9. Posts : 1,487
    Windows 7 x64 / Same
       #9

    Why doesn't it find the update when I go to Help and check for updates? I have 3.0.12.
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  10. Posts : 1,487
    Windows 7 x64 / Same
       #10

    When I run the install, I keep getting an error about a corrupt cabinet file. Anyone else able to install it with no issues?
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