Table of Contents
This section summarizes the changes between VirtualBox versions. Note that this change log is not exhaustive; not all changes are listed.
VirtualBox version numbers consist of three numbers separated by dots where the first number represents the major version, the 2nd number the minor version and the 3rd one the build number. Build numbers of official releases are always even. An odd build number represents an internal development or test build.
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests (bug #2220)
VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2220)
VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2220)
GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows hosts only, bug #1996)
GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)
VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information (bug #2624)
SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned (bug #2024)
SATA: improved performance
SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)
E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances
USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host: bugs #470 & #491)
Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox applications when updating the installation
Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on 64-bit on new installations
Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox applications when updating the installation
Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
in /tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc
Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts, fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)
Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports connected to a host device
Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking
Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking
Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)
Windows additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties when using native RDP connections
Windows additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)
Windows additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office (bug #2591)
Linux additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit guests (bug #2550)
SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections