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Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX VERSION 3.1.0_BETA2 User Manual

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12 Change log

• VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the Sound Blaster

16 emulation (bug #5042)

• Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands with root privi-

leges

• Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation which was

triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)

• Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain distributions (bugs

#3394 and #4291)

• Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by opening the

VM network settings (bug #3732)

• Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the DISPLAY

variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM selector (bug
#5063)

• Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not available

• Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as interrupts

were not re-enabled every time

• Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only networking (bug

#4775)

• Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when changing them

(bug #5077)

• X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards (bug

#4907)

• Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless VMs without a

graphical session (bug #5002)

• Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names with trailing

garbage (attached VMs won’t start)

• Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)

• Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier

• Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)

• Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)

• Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders are

installed

• Linux Additions: implemented ftrunctate (bug #4771)

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