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Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX VERSION 3.1.0_BETA2 User Manual

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12 Change log

• VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK

files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)

• VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file

• OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes

• OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported

at once

• Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the virtual mouse which

were confusing some applications (bug #3782)

• Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions (2.2.0

regression; bug #3785)

• Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the

correct file mode when creating files

• Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain conditions

(bug #11187)

• Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on a

Linux host (bug #3404)

• X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)

• X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes

• Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11

• Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and

guest property lookup

• Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users, basic

network information)

• Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automati-

cally (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)

• USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been added. In addition,

read-ahead buffering is performed for input endpoints (currently Linux hosts
only). This should allow additional devices to work, notably webcams (bug
#242).

• USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles

• Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which

are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented web
service.

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