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12 Change log
• BIOS: added SMBIOS header to make Solaris and Vista recognize the DMI data
• ACPI: properly hide a disabled floppy controller
• VMM: small fixes to protected mode without paging
• VMDK: fixed handling of .vmdk images without UUIDs
• Windows hosts: fixed driver parameter validation issue in VBoxDrv.sys that could
allow an attacker on the host to crash the system
• Windows hosts: installer now contains web service examples mentioned in the
manual
• Linux hosts: properly deregister the Linux kernel module before uninstalling a
Linux deb/rpm package
• Linux hosts: kernel module works now with Linux 2.6.27
• Linux hosts: fixed a typo in the vboxnet setup script for host network interfaces
(bug #1714)
• Linux hosts: fixed usage of tar in installer (bug #1767)
• Linux hosts: fixed long guest shutdown time when serial port is enabled
• Solaris hosts: refuse to install in Sun xVM hypervisor dom0
• Solaris hosts: accept Solaris raw disks when for raw disk access
• Windows Additions: made installation of shared folders more robust
• Windows Additions: improved installation
• Linux Additions: accept every user-defined guest video mode in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
• Linux Additions: fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions (e.g. open-
SUSE 11)
12.22 Version 1.6.2 (2008-05-28)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• GUI: fixed a bug which prevented to add more than one SATA drive from the GUI
• GUI: fixed a regression introduced in 1.6.0: the fullscreen mode was left on every
guest video mode switch
• GUI: fixed several minor issues
• Networking: fixed a host interface networking regression introduced in 1.6.0
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