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12 Change log

• Windows host: fixed stability during high system load (page fault in KeQueryAc-

tiveProcessors)

• Mac OS X host: fixed crashes under certain conditions

• Shared Folders: limited users without admin rights now also can use Shared

Folders on Windows guests

• Linux hosts: fixed default runlevel for the kernel module helper script

• Solaris hosts: enabled support for VT-x and AMD-V

• Solaris hosts: dynamic loading of libdlpi fixes a problem where Solaris 10 was

not able to start a VM

• Linux Additions: fixed runlevels for kernel module helper scripts

• Linux Additions: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.26

• Linux Additions: fixed occasional guest kernel crash during unload of the vbox-

add guest kernel module

• X11 Guest Additions: fixed a problem preventing clipboard transfers over 1K

from host to guest

12.23 Version 1.6.0 (2008-04-30)

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

• Solaris and Mac OS X host support

• Seamless windowing for Linux and Solaris guests

• Guest Additions for Solaris

• A webservice API (see chapter

10

,

VirtualBox programming interfaces

, page

154

)

• SATA hard disk (AHCI) controller (see chapter

5.1

,

Hard disk controllers: IDE,

SATA (AHCI), SCSI

, page

76

)

• Experimental Physical Address Extension (PAE) support

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

• GUI: added accessibility support (508)

• GUI: VM session information dialog

• VBoxHeadless: renamed from VBoxVRDP

• VMM: reduced host CPU load of idle guests

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