Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX 3.0.0 User Manual

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12 Change log

• VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V on Mac

OS X hosts

• VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM

display issues)

• VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up to correct

ones (bug #2895)

• IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)

• Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference in Linux ker-

nels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)

• Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host interface (Win-

dows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)

• Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs in the GUI (Win-

dows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)

• Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs without assigned IP ad-

dresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)

• Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to internal network

when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).

• NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)

• NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)

• NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)

• SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable

• SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized (2.1.0 regression, Windows host

only, bug #2778)

• SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files (Linux host only,

bug #2796)

• SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like formatting a drive

• SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown

• VRDP: fixed loading of libpam.so.1 from the host (Solaris hosts only)

• VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects

• VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection

• VBoxManage showvminfo: fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)

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