diff --git a/virtualbox.changes b/virtualbox.changes index 3c7c463..e6aeedd 100644 --- a/virtualbox.changes +++ b/virtualbox.changes @@ -1,8 +1,75 @@ +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Thu Dec 23 17:43:05 UTC 2010 - mseben@gmail.com + +- update to VirtualBox 4.0.0 + New Features: + * Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs + * New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see chapter 10.1, Where VirtualBox stores its files + * Major rework of the GUI (now called “VirtualBox Manager”): + * Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots) + * New “scale” display mode with scaled guest display + * Support for creating and starting .vbox desktop shortcuts (bug #1889) + * The VM list is now sortable + * Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved states, + and optionally including attached disk images (bug #5511; also, VBoxManage unregistervm --delete can do the same now) + * Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322) + * VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts + * New virtual hardware: + * Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) + * Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems (e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785) + * Improvements to OVF support + * Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support + * Significant performance improvements during export and import + * Creation of the manifest file on export is optional now + * Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK + * Resource control: added support for limiting a VM’s CPU time and IO bandwidth + * Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and Parallels images + * Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images. + * Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later + * Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local (COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs + * In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: + Bug Fixes: + * VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts (applies to nested paging only) + * VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557) + * VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only, non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819) + * GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode (bug #1657) + * GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore + * GUI: certain GUI warnings don’t stop the VM output anymore + * GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #5449) + * BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain guests (e.g. Solaris) + * Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network (Linux hosts only; bug #7792) + * 3D support: allow use of CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH again (bug #6864) + * 3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659, #5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570) + * 3D support: guest application stack corruption when using glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395) + * 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9 + * 3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty + * 2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support + * VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration + * VRDP: support for upstream audio + * Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash + * NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime + * SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough (bug #7058) + * Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651) + * Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare circumstances + * Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug #5578) + * EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs + * BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function #4F01 (Quake fix) + * OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks + * Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug #6760) + * Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759) + * Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX set + * Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests + * Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818) + * Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one file + * Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes + + ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Dec 20 12:03:12 UTC 2010 - mseben@gmail.com - rename to virtualbox - drop ose postfix, Oracle team dosn't build - puel version - we have now extension pack + puel version - we have now extension packs +- rename xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose subpackage to virtualbox-guest-x11 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Dec 17 19:37:43 UTC 2010 - mseben@gmail.com