General:

• added support for OS X hosts
• added support for AMD64 hosts
• signed all executables and device drivers on Windows

GUI:

• added user interface for Shared Folders
• added context menu for network adapters
• added VM description field for taking notes
• always restore guest mouse pointer when entering VM window (Windowss host)
• added configuration options for clipboard synchronization
• improved keyboard handling on Linux hosts
• added first run wizard
• improved boot device order dialog
• auto-resize did not work after save/restore
• restore original window size when returning from fullscreen mode
• fixed screen update when switching to fullscreen mode
• the size of the VM window was sometimes resetted to 640x480
• added localizationss
• various minor improvements

VBoxManage:

• added convertdd command

API:

• automatically start and terminate VBoxSVC on Linux and OS X hosts

VMM:

• increased startup performance due to lazy memory allocation
• significantly increased maximum guest memory size
• fixed issues with V86 mode
• support V86 extensions (VME)
• support guests with a full GDT
• fixed boot hangs for some Linux kernels
• improved FreeBSD and OpenBSD support
• improved performance of guests that aggressively patch kernel code (very recent Linux 2.6 kernels)
• added workaround for a design flaw in AMD AM2 CPUs where the timestamp counter shows large differences among CPU cores
• fixed Linux guests with grsecurity
• fixed issue on 2G/2G Linux kernels (even 1G/3G kernels should work)
• fixed Linux detection of Local APIC on non-Intel and non-AMD CPUs
• timing improvements with high host system loads (VM starvation)
• experimental AMD SVM hardware virtualization support now also handles real and protected mode without paging
• added system time offset parameter to allow for VMs to run in the past or future
• provide an MPS 1.4 table if the IOAPIC is enabled

RDP:

• allow binding the RDP server to a specific interface
• added support for clipboard synchronization
• fixed problems with OS X RDP client
• added support for multiple simultaneous connections to one VM
• added support for MS RDP6 clients (Vista)

Storage:

• experimental support for VMDK images (writethrough mode only, no snapshots yet)
• raw host disk support, including individual partitions

IDE:

• improve CHS geometry detection
• fixed problem that only one VM could open an immutable image

NAT:

• allow more than one card configured for NAT networking
• pass first entry in DNS search list (Linux host) or primary DNS suffix (Windows host) as domain name in DHCP
• support UDP broadcasts, which enables using Windows shares
• only warn if the name server could not be determined, no fatal error anymore
• fix a potential problem with incorrect memory allocation

Internal Networking:

• fixed issue on Windows hosts

Host Interface Networking:

• fixed sporadic crashes on interface creation/destruction (Windows host)
• reworked TAP handling for Linux 2.6.18+ compatibility

PXE:

• show error for unsupported V86 case
• small fix for parsing PXE menu entry without boot server IP

Network:

• fixed network card hang after save/restore

USB:

• Rewrote Windows USB handling without the need for a filter driver
• Possible to steal arbitrary devices in Windows

Serial:

• added serial ports with support for named pipes (local domain sockets) on the host

Audio:

• fixed problem with ALSA on Linux before 2.6.18 blocking other ALSA clients on the system
• fixed problem with ALSA on AMD64 hosts

Input:

• fixed PS/2 mouse detection in Win 3.x guests

Shared Folders:

• fixed VM save/restore behaviour
• functionality and stability fixes
• allow non admin users to map folders

Additions:

• added clipboard synchronization

Windows Additions:

• fixed dynamic resolution changes after save/restore
• added AMD PCNet driver for Windows Vista guests (with kind permission from AMD)

Linux Additions:

• fixed a dependency problem which caused the vboxadd kernel module sometimes start after the X server
• make VBox version visible in Linux modules with modinfo
• make X11 guest video driver accept arbitrary X resolutions
• make X11 setup work if /tmp uses a separate file system
• better support unknown distributions

Linux Installer:

• force a non-executable stack for all binaries and shared libraries
• make it work on SELinux-enabled systems
• ship VBoxTunctl

Program Information Category: Tools and Utilities Type: Free Version: 1.4.0 Size: 14.8MB Works on: Windows Product page: here