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12 Change log

• Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests

• OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter

, page

• Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342)

• VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug

#2342)

• VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431)

• VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only)

• VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization

• VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-

x/AMD-V only)

• VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-

x/AMD-V only)

• VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only)

• VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x, but don’t set

the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL

• VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794)

• VMM: properly emulate RDMSR from the TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD

guests

• VMM: emulate RDPMC; fixes Windows guests crashes when using the Kaspersky

virus scanner (bug #1778)

• NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)

• NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)

• NAT: allow to configure the next server and the boot file via VBoxManage (bug

#2759)

• IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)

• Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size ESX server

images)

• Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not writable

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