Persönlich nutze ich schon immer Virtualbox um neue Betriebssysteme auf meinem heimischen PC zu testen und dort allesmögliche “kaputt zu spielen”.
Nun wurde die erste BETA-Version von Virtualbox 4.3.0 veröffentlicht, welches als Major Update installiert werden kann.
Einige Fehler auch unter Windows 8.1 wurden im Bereich der Gasterweiterungen behoben.
Hier einmal der Changelog:
This is a major update. The following major new features were added:
- VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code including many bug fixes and performance improvements
- (for example bug #9659)
- GUI: keyboard shortcuts management (input page of global preferences extended with
- possibility to edit general keyboard shortcuts for VirtualBox Manager and Virtual Machine)
- GUI: extended messaging mechanism (new non-modal popup overlays used to show noncritical
- warnings and provide user with additional information)
- GUI: video capturing support (bug #4766)
- GUI: host touch devices support (GUI passes host touch-events to guest)
- Emulated USB touch devices
- VRDP: support for IPv6
- NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are attached to the same internal
- network and share one NAT service (see chapter 6.4, Network Address Translation Service
- (experimental), page 95)
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: properly handle NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled
- GUI: update check uses https
- GUI: lot of internal stuff rewritten (cleanup and bug-fixes)
- Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration, useful to select the use of
- alternative VM frontends
- Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more will lead to decreased performance
- and may trigger crashes
- Main: new event queue implementation which does not use the host’s native event queue
- for processing VirtualBox events anymore
- Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of .VirtualBox on systems where
- it is appropriate (bug #5099)
- VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy media, and support the
- –long option to show really all available details
- VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for the automatic
- Guest Additions update
- VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest sessions, guest processes and/or guest
- files via guestcontrol list <all|sessions|processes|files>
- VBoxManage: added support for closing active guest sessions via guestcontrol session
- close –session-id <ID>| –session-name <name or pattern>|–all
- VBoxManage: added support for terminating active guest processes via guestcontrol
- process kill|close|terminate –session-id <ID>| –session-name <name or
- pattern> <PID> … <PID n> or guestcontrol [p[s]]kill –session-id <ID>|
- –session-name <name or pattern> <PID> … <PID n>
- VBoxManage: added support for watching guest sessions via guestcontrol watch
- 3D support: several fixes
- 3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts
- OVF: several fixes
- Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del for the USB keyboard emulation
- Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed by François Revol
- Windows hosts: don’t cause massive DPC latency (bug #6242)
- Windows hosts: consider symlinks when retrieving volume information (bug #11962)
- Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display power management (WDDM
- driver only; bug #11170)
- Windows guests: ability to track guest user idle times through the newly introduced event IGuestUserStateChangedEvent
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