VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 2-3 Released

May 10, 2010

Oracle's VM VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 2 is available. Changelog below -



Maybe now it will work on Windows 7 x64 this time.

   Information

This is the second Beta of the upcoming new major release of VirtualBox. The following items were fixed and/or added since 3.2.0 Beta 1:

• Provide Java bindings
• Windows hosts: fixed failure to load VBoxDDR0.R0 on Windows 7 x64 hosts (Beta 1 regression)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxREM load error on 64-bit Snow Leopard hosts (Beta 1 regression)
• GUI: Storage Settings UI: choose empty medium for CD/FD devices by default (improvement)
• GUI: First Run Wizard is now synchronized with New VM Wizard (fix)
• GUI: added a checkbox for absolute pointing device (USB tablet) (improvement)
• GUI: misnamed boot disk setting in New VM Wizard fixed
• GUI: Storage Settings UI will now sort listed attachments by storage slot (3.1.0 regression)
• GUI: HD, CD, FD, Network device LEDs are now synchronized with device presence
• GUI: Mini-ToolBar for Full-screen and Seamless modes should now have correct positioning, mouse-hovering and correctly update own seamless-mask in case of multi-monitor setup
• GUI: New Hard Disk wizard size-editor now will NOT reset own value in case it is invalid allowing user to edit it (value still stricted by reg-exp). New Hard Disk wizard location-editor now will NOT allow to enter empty location.
• Seamless: fixed regression with Linux guests (Beta 1 regression)
• OVF: several fixes (compatibility/bug fix)
• OVF: supports import/export of LsiLogicSAS controller (compatibility fix)
• VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only (Mac OS X hosts; bug #5227)
• Storage: fixed several issues with async I/O
• Main: sometimes a new VM was created with invalid settings (Beta 1 regression)
• Main: enabling a USB keyboard no longer disables the PS/2 keyboard (EFI access in OS X guests) (improvement)
• Guest control: faster execution / retrieval of output, extended documentation, fixed some shutdown issues (improvement)
• Linux Additions: The shared folders kernel module is now loaded on demand. Fixes loading of shared folders from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04 guests.
• Guest Additions: new icons according to new branding
• Guest Additions: VM information properties now are only updated if necessary (performance optimization)
• 3D: Restoring Ubuntu Lucid VM with 3D effects hangs
• Bridged networking: dropped delayed packet processing (Windows hosts only) (performance optimization)
• Bridged networking: fixed regression when attaching to a wireless NIC (Beta 1 regression)
• HostOnly networking: fixed DHCP server launch mechanism (Windows hosts only) (Beta 1 regression)
• NAT: crash in built-in TFTP server (Beta 1 regression)

VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 2

3.2.0 Beta 3 is available. Changelog below -

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This is the second Beta of the upcoming new major release of VirtualBox. The following items were fixed and/or added since 3.2.0 Beta 2:

• The Java bindings were removed as there are some conceptual changes necessary. Java bindings will be finally added in a future maintenance release.
• VMM: fixed guru during Windows 7 boot
• GUI: fixed window-size flicker under windows during restoring VM saved state
• GUI: VM Log Viewer should now save VM logs with correct line-endings under Windows
• GUI: some X11 host keyboard detection cleanup to fix bug #6660
• GUI: fixes for mouse-clipping on windows host
• Snapshots: sometimes the settings were not properly saved after removing a snapshot
• LsiLogic: It is possible to have a SCSI and SAS controller in one VM now.
• SAS: Fixed LED handling
• VHD: Fixed creation of VHD images
• IO: enforce disk flush commands by default in unbuffered mode
• Async I/O: fixed data corruption under certain circumstances (growing image)
• Linux hosts: Fixed kernel oops when using a wireless network interface.
• 3D: r61542: blank screen on macos host after guest 3d window size changes
• USB: Ubuntu Lucid fix
• OVF: Fixed exporting of appliances with SAS disks
• OVF: fixed exporting VMs with ISO/RAW images attached
• OVF: fixed duplicate assignments for CD-ROM drive

VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 3 released

May 19, 2010

The stable 3.2.0 version has been released.

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