- 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)
- 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
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=6
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)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=5
