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12 Change log

12.25 Version 1.5.4 (2007-12-29)

This version is a maintenance release. It adds USB 2.0 support and a PulseAudio
backend.

• GUI: fixed registration dialog crashes

• GUI: allow to enter unicode characters to the name of the registration dialog

• GUI: pre-select attached media in the disk manager when opened from the VM

settings dialog

• GUI: remember the last active VM

• GUI: ask before reset the VM

• GUI: don’t accept empty paths for serial/parallel ports in XML

• GUI: fixed NumLock / CapsLock synchronization on Windows hosts

• GUI: don’t start the kernel timer if no VM is active (Linux host)

• GUI: fixed accelerators in German translation

• VMM: improved compatibility with Solaris guests

• VMM: properly restore CR4 after leaving VT-x mode

• VMM: fix interrupt storm with Windows guests under certain circumstances (e.g.

disable + re-enable the network adapter)

• VMM: with VT-x a pending interrupt could be cleared behind our back

• VMM: workaround for missed cpuid patch (some Linux guests refuse to boot on

multi-core CPUs)

• VMM: fixed code for overriding CPUID values

• VMM: improved error handling on out-of-memory conditions

• API: don’t crash when trying to create a VM with a duplicate name

• API: don’t crash when trying to access the settings of a VM when some other VMs

are not accessible

• API: fixed several memory leaks

• ATA/IDE: fixed SuSE 9.1 CD read installer regression

• Serial: several fixes

• Floppy: fixed inverted write protect flag

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