6 version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21) – Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX 3.0.0 User Manual

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12 Change log

12.6 Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)

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

• USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)

• VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)

• VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x

• VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)

• VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761)

• VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x

only; bug #3039)

• VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug

#2898)

• VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when

starting a VM

• VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058)

• VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest

RAM (VT-x, nested paging only)

• VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only)

• VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only)

• VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits

hosts

• VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests

• GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory

• GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type

• VBoxSDL: fixed -fixed fixedmode parameter (bug #3067)

• Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only, bug #2675 and #3003)

• 3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications (bugs #2781,

#2797, #2972, #3089)

• LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)

• VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize events were not properly

handled (bug #2783)

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