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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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