Opět vyšla nová verze VirtualBoxu ve verzi 2.2.4. Tentokrát se jedná
o další sadu oprav chyb nalezených v předchozích verzích.

VirtualBox 2.2.4 (released 2009–05–29)

Toto vydání je minoritní a slouží zejména opravuje nalezené
chyby: 

• Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during installation
• Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)
• Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or later
  (bug #3981)
• Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
  loopback (bug #3120)
• Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in VBoxManage list
  runningvms (bug #4034)
• Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged networking
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough disabled
  (bug #4077)
• Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing
  mouse clicks
• Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in Windows
  7 guests
• GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests that require this
  setting (bug #4055)
• VMM: fixed occassional crash due to insuffient memory
• VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests
• VMM: restore from a saved state occassionally failed (bugs #3984
  and #2742)
• Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared clipboard on X11
  hosts (bug #4020)
• OVF: fixed potential hang during import
• OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts
• VBoxManage modifyhd –compact: fixed bug which could lead to crashes and
  image corruption (bug #3864)
• VBoxManage metrics collect: now flushes the output stream.
• VHD: made VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid work for .vhd files
  (bug #3443)
• VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)
• VMDK: fixed creating snapshots
• NAT: improvement of TCP connection establisment (bug #2987)
• NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)
• NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)
• NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
  (bug #3964)
• Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows hosts
  (bug #4090)
• Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on
  Windows hosts
• Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when a
  broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized e1000
  adapter.
• Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes when using
  bridged mode with host’s interface having RX checksum offloading on (bug
  #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX offloading as well (bug #3870)
• PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter.
• Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict
• SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64
• Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw file (bug #1023)
• VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update

VirtualBox 2.2.2 (released 2009–04–27)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed
and/or added:

• Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting hosts and
  guests running the X window system.
• Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works on first
  reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5 and later.
• Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of running
  services
• Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server terminates
• Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries in some
  64-bit guests (bug #3693)
• Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not installed
  on the guest
• Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when unmounting a
  busy shared folder
• Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some Windows guests
  (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)
• Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
  (bug #2628)
• Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux hosts only,
  bug #3732)
• VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts (bug #3657)
• VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB devices during VM startup
  (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
  virtualization on­ly)
• Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff images,
  incorrect detection of redundant writes
• GUI: reworked network settings dialog
• GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT networks
  (bug #3702)
• GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression, bug #3689)
• GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only; bug #3679)
• GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
  bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)
• VBoxManage modifyhd –compact: implemented again for VDI files, and now
  supports relative paths (bug #2180, #2833)
• VBoxManage snapshot discard: made it work again (2.1.0 regression;
  bug #3714)
• NAT: on some Windows host, the guest didn’t receive a DHCP lease
  (bug #3655)
• NAT: fixed release assertion during poll() (bug #3667)
• Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device emulation
  (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)
• Clipboard: fixed random crahes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)
• Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests
• Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests
• CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and
  ISession Objects
• Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with
  nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)
• Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659,
  #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)
• Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard

VirtualBox 2.2.0 (released 2009–04–08)

This version is a major update. The following major new features
were added:

• OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter
  3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55)
• Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.7, Host-only networking, User
  Manual page 88)
• Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high
  context switching rates
• Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB
• VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines
• USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual
  machines (Qt GUI only)
• Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
• Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests
• OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.8,
  Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), User Manual page 70)
• Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM
  (bug #2342)
• VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431)
• VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only)
• VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization
• VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008
  (VT-x/AMD-V only)
• VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris)
  (VT-x/AMD-V only)
• VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only)
• VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x, but don’t
  set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATU­RE_CONTROL
• VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only;
  bug #1794)
• VMM: properly emulate RDMSR from the TSC MSR, should fix some
  NetBSD guests
• VMM: emulate RDPMC; fixes Windows guests crashes when using the Kaspersky
  virus scanner (bug #1778)
• NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)
• NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)
• NAT: allow to configure the next server and the boot file via VBoxManage
  (bug #2759)
• IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)
• Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size ESX
  server images)
• Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not writable
• USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and EHCI; the
  “VBoxInternal/De­vices/usb-ohci/0/Config/F­rameRate” CFG key is no longer
  necessary and no longer supported
• USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices (Windows hosts only;
  bug #1654)
• E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)
• VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime
• Shared folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris hosts when
  creating files
• X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as this caused
  problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)
• X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position if the
  virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug #2306)
• Linux additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6 (bug #3555)
• Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the guest additions installer
  (bug #3524)
• Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the correct guest
  pointing device (bug #1324)
• Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host interface
  (bug #3414)
• Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading the
  vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)
• Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh (bug #3586)
• Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux from Scratch
  systems
• Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains both (32–
  and 64-bit) architectures.
• VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages
• VBoxManage list vms commands now default to compact format
• VBoxManage controlvm dvdattach did not work if the image was
  attached before
• VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants
• VBoxManage showvminfo: don’t spam the release log if the additions don’t
  support statistics information (bug #3457)
• VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy single-dash
  options are deprecated and will be removed in the next major release, so switch
  to the new options now
• Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at VM
  startup (related to bug #2772)
• GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs
• GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a
  64-bit guest
• GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support
  VT-x/AMD-V
• GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar
• GUI: show build revision in about dialog
• GUI: fixed sticky status bar text
• GUI: improved error dialogs
• GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot a read-only
  disk image (bug #1745)
• GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button
• GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts
  2.0 regression; bug #2065)
• 3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)
• 3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications
  (bug #3243)
• 3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration
  enabled (bug #3437)
• PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used
  (bug #2536)
• LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests
• Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
  (bug #3548)

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