Von der kostenlosen Virtualisierungssoftware VirtualBox wurde erneut ein Update veröffentlicht. Mit der Version 3.0.8 wird eine Reihe von Fehlern behoben.
VirtualBox ist für Windows, Mac OS X, Linux und Solaris verfügbar. Zu den unterstützten Gastsystemen zählen neben Windows, Linux und Solaris auch OS/2, DOS und einige BSD-Derivate.
Changelog 3.0.6 zu 3.0.8
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6 (VT-x only; bug #4947)
VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x & AMD-V only; bug #5058)
VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059)
VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests
VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression; software virtualization only)
VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042)
Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands with root privileges
Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)
Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)
Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)
Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM selector (bug #5063)
Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not available
Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as interrupts were not re-enabled everytime
Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only networking (bug #4775)
Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when changing them (bug #5077)
X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards (bug #4907)
Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)
Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)
Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)
Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier
Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)
Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)
Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders are installed
Linux Additions: implemented ftrunctate (bug #4771)
VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use
Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under rare conditions (bug #4870)
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