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12 Change log

• Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10

(bug #4328).

• Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365)

• Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)

• Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware accelera-

tion to be enabled for virtual machines that had no explicit configuration in the
XML.

12.8 Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter

3.4.2

,

“Processor” tab

, page

48

)

• Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental;

see chapter

4.9

,

Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9)

, page

72

)

• Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests

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

• Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug

#3826)

• Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under cer-

tain conditions

• Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE

• Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)

• VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)

• VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel

CPUs don’t support this feature (most do); bug #638)

• VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug

#3927)

• VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+

kernels)

• VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug

#2227)

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