VirtualBox 3.0.0 released!

[maymoons]

-{ Quote: "This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 (http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#settings-processor) of the user manual (http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.0/UserManual.pdf))
Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental; see chapter 4.8 (http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#guestadd-3d) of the user manual (http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.0/UserManual.pdf))
Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3826))
Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under certain conditions
Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE
Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4264))
VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)
VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don’t support this feature (most do); bug #638 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/638))
VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3927))
VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels)
VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2227))
VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4040))
VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due to XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)
VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)
GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)
GUI: redesigned settings dialogs
GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters (non Windows hosts)
GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)
GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4157))
3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states
3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats
3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements
3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs
3D support: fixed glew library detection
3D support: fixed random textures corruption
VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client
Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18
NAT: fixed “open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514” (forum)
NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters
NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface
PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)
VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4080))
VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image
VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes
VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3510))
VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file
OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes
OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once
Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3782))
Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3785))
Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the correct file mode when creating files
Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain conditions (bug #1187 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1187))
Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on a Linux host (bug #3404 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3404))
X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4270))
X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes
Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and guest property lookup
Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users, basic network information)
Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)
USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/242)).
USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles
Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented web service.
Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface inheritance correctly, fixed
Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously unavailable
Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now" }-

http://www.virtualbox.org/

[Mrkvonic]

Nice! Any proxy support in there yet?
Mrk

[Az7]

Thanks !

[lodore]

working well here.
gets better every version!!

[Pedro]

Thank you for the news. :)

[bman412]

Cool! directx support ;D Now waiting for the snapshot feature that's as easy to use as vmware's *crosses fingers*

[prius04]

Many thanks! I grabbed the portable version here --> http://vbox.me/?dir=./VirtualBox%20v3.0.0

[aigle]

I wonder why it still can,t support booting into snapshots9 back n fourth) like VMware?

[Eice]

Does anyone know if this latest version supports drag-n-drop filesharing between the host and guest?

Also, when I last tried it ago, Vbox lacked the ability to simply read existing virtual HDs and snapshots and pick them up just like that. Instead, the corresponding data for the VM needs to exist in an XML file somewhere, otherwise your snapshot becomes useless.

These two are the reasons why I preferred Microsoft Virtual PC over Vbox, but now that the former is discontinued, I guess I'll have to look for alternatives...

[marse.robert]

Hi all,

I have always longed to "mess" around with Windows 98, again!

I have been reading the Virtual Box manual and it would appear that guest addons for Win 98 are not available.

As my current machine will not take Win98 is there another VM that will accomodate Win 98?


Marserobert

[Mrkvonic]

VirtualBox is da bomb! Wow! I'm really impressed!
The networking has been tremendously improved, it's great now.

Damn good job, Sun!

Cheers,
Mrk

[Pedro]

VirtualBox 3.0.2 (released 2009-07-10)

Changelog:
-{ Quote: "This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)
* VMM: guest SMP performance improvements
* VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security (VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778 )
* VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868 )
* ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348 )
* APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)
* BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode
* iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)
* OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks
* OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)
* NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)
* 3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)
* 3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps
* Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)
* Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows guest (bug #4381)
* X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344
* X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)
* Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests (for time synchronization and guest properties)
* Windows Additions: fixed version lookup
* Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)
* Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388 )
* Installer: support Pardus Linux
* Solaris hosts: several installer fixes
* Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328 ).
* Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365)
* Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978 )
* OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452)
* Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware acceleration to be enabled for virtual machines that had no explicit configuration in the XML. " }-
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

Downloads (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)

[tlu]

V. 3.0.2 seems to solve the problems I had with SMP - great.

One important hint that had not been mentioned in this thread so far: In order to make Direct 3D acceleration work you have to install the Windows Guest Additions in Safe Mode - see manual chapters 4.2.1 and 13.

[cqpreson]

Good news.New edition has many things fixed.