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下载:VirtualBox 3.2.6 Final (支持32位windows运行环境:VirtualBox-3.2.6-63112-Win.exe )
VirtualBox 3.2.6 (released 2010-06-25)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug fixed in SVN ... (new)" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6166" target=_blank>#6166)
- VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only; does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it)
- VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug Ubuntu
9.10 x86 guest with more than 2GB RAM on Ubuntu 9.10 ... (closed)" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5740" target=_blank>#5740)
- VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)
- Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug
#6964)
- Teleportation: several fixes and improvements
- Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix
- EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM assigned
- GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)
- GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if multiple screens are enabled
- GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)
- GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug Fixed in SVN (closed)" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6938" target=_blank>#6938)
- GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts again (bug #7022).
- 2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6768" target=_blank>#6768)
- VBoxManage: fixed storageattach error handling (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6927" target=_blank>#6927
)
- VBoxManage: fixed dhcpserver add (3.2.0 regression; bug Fixed in
SVN (closed)" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7031" target=_blank>#7031)
- Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which don't support async I/O (bug #6905)
- Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug fixed in SVN (closed)" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6987" target=_blank>#6987)
- LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests
- BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O
- SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle 30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug Fixed in ... (closed)" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6984" target=_blank>#6984)
- SATA: performance improvement
- SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows installation (bug ...
(closed)" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5101" target=_blank>#5101)
- iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug fixed in SVN (closed)" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4031" target=_blank>#4031)
- Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug Fixed in SVN (closed)" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6872" target=_blank>#6872)
- NAT: fixed potential memory leaks
- NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames (performance tweak)
- NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM is currently paused
- E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC was not yet initialized by the guest
- OVF: export performance optimization
- OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7 and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export
- Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes not properly saved
- Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)
- USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port
- USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)
- POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)
- Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances (IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)
- Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)
- Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host kernel allows for more virtual address space
- Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed (bug Fixed in ...
(closed)" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5251" target=_blank>#5251)
- Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)
- X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)
- Solaris Additions: fixed guest control execution
- Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes
- Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer
- Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug windows7(64bit) guest. (closed)" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6453" target=_blank>#6453)
- 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit apps under 64bit Windows guests