4 version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08) – Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX 3.0.0 User Manual

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12 Change log

• VBoxManage modifyhd --compact: implemented again for VDI files, and

now supports relative paths (bug #2180, #2833)

• VBoxManage snapshot discard: made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug

#3714)

• NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn’t receive a DHCP lease (bug #3655)

• NAT: fixed release assertion during poll() (bug #3667)

• Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device emulation

(2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)

• Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)

• Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests

• Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests

• CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISes-

sion Objects

• Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent

(bug #3754)

• Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659,

#3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)

• Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard

12.4 Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)

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

• OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter

3.8

,

Importing and exporting virtual machines

, page

56

)

• Host-only networking mode (see chapter

6.7

,

Host-only networking

, page

89

)

• Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context

switching rates

• Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB

• VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines

• USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines

(Qt GUI only)

• Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts

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