Thursday, February 19, 2009

Announcing VirtualBox 2.1.4 for Linux - Download Now

This maintenance release fixes many bugs

The open source virtualization software VirtualBox recently reached version 2.1.4. Being a maintenance release, there weren't any new major features added to it. The following list includes bugfixes and added items that apply to the Linux client:

· Fixed kernel oopses;
· Fixed shipped modules' dependency;
· The USB udev rules were moved forward to prevent overriding system rules;
· Fixed a communication issue between guests while connected through TAP interfaces;
· Fixed several warnings in the installer if SELinux was not active;
· Fixed an issue that prevented VirtualBox to start after a previous sudo start-up of it;
· Fixed a file corruption that sometimes occurred when writing files to a shared folder in O_APPEND mode in Linux Additions;
· Fixed the mouse driver that hadn't been properly set up in X.Org release candidates for Linux Additions;
· Fixed a performance regression for Windows guests;
· Fixed NAT crashes under high load;
· NAT: TFTP packages that have destination addresses other than those from the built-in TFTP server are not intercepted;
· The case insensitive OS type name lookup was restored;
· Occasional NAT crashes when the guest is doing traceroute were fixed;
· If dbus or hal are not present, USB probing is cancelled;
· The Linux Additions installer was fixed to work under openSUSE 11.1;
· The dynamic resizing was disabled in Linux Additions if the X server was configured for fixed resolutions;
· The virtual resolutions that are bigger than the guest resolution are now properly handled;
· Several USB passthrough fixes;
· USB: CPU utilization is now reduced if EHCI is active;
· Additional key release events are now inhibited if the keys are auto-repeated;
· On ATA drives, a deadlock that occurred when pausing the Virtual Machine while experiencing virtual disk problems was fixed;
· A possible iSCSI VM crash that occurred while pausing was fixed;
· The missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB was added.

About Sun xVM VirtualBox

Sun xVM VirtualBox allows users to create "virtual machines" in their host operating system so that they can install any guest OS, facilitating the development, cross-platform running and testing of multi-tier applications on a single computer. Being very space-efficient, Sun xVM VirtualBox has only 30 megabytes, and is ready for use after just a five-minute install.

Download Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1.4 right now from here.