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12 Change log

• New-version notifier

• Guest property information interface

• Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts

• New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts

• Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)

• Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)

• Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing

raw disks/partitions (major performance gain)

• Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests

• Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface

on Linux and Solaris hosts

• Support for VHD disk images

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

• VMM: VT-x fixes

• AHCI: improved performance

• GUI: keyboard fixes

• Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if unregistering the DKMS

module fails

• Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly restored

• Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)

• Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11

• Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn’t simulate a right mouse click in the guest

anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)

12.20 Version 1.6.6 (2008-08-26)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed excessive logging (bug #1901)

• VMM: AMD-V stability fixes (bug #1685)

• GUI: added support for Ctrl+Caps reversed keyboards (bug #1891)

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