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Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX VERSION 3.1.0_BETA2 User Manual

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12 Change log

• VMM: fixed random user mode crashes with OpenBSD guests

• VMM: increased timing accuracy (PIT, RTC), reduced PIT query overhead

• VMM: tamed execution thread to make GUI more responsive (esp. when execut-

ing real mode guest code such as bootloaders)

• VMM: significant performance enhancements for OpenBSD guests

• VMM: several performance enhancements

• VMM: improved memory layout on Windows hosts to allow for large amounts of

guest RAM

• VMM: significantly improved VM execution state saving and restoring (at the

expense of state file sizes)

• ACPI: fixed Windows bluescreen when assigning more than 512MB RAM to a

guest

• ACPI: correctly report battery state when multiple batteries are present on the

host (Linux hosts)

• ACPI: enabled by default for newly created VMs

• APIC: added optional I/O APIC

• Graphics: fixed distortion when changing guest color depth without changing

the resolution

• VRDP: added support for remote USB (requires special rdesktop client)

• VRDP: added support for the Microsoft RDP client

• VRDP: improved audio support

• Floppy: controller can be disabled

• Floppy: fixed “no disk in drive” reporting

• Floppy: fixed writing to floppy images

• VBoxManage: restructured USB device filter syntax to make it more intuitive

• VBoxManage: added command for setting guest logon credentials

• Additions: added installer for Windows 2000/XP/2003 guests

• Additions: added custom GINA module which hooks MSGINA and can perform

automatic logons using credentials retrieved from the VMM

• Documentation: added draft of VirtualBox user manual

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