Dopo aver compilato ieri sera la versione OSE che trovate qui, leggo oggi in mailing list l’annuncio del rilascio ella versione 1.6.2 (maintenance release) che risolve alcuni fastidiosi bugs e introduce nuove funzionalità per tutti e quattro i sistemi (Linux/MacOS/Windows/Solaris), di seguito il Changelog “ufficiale”.

Per Ubuntu x86 Il download è disponibile sul sito di Sun, cosi anche per tutte le altre piattaforme.

L’installazione/aggiornamento su Ubuntu è possibile con:

$ sudo dpkg -i virtualbox_1.6.2-31466_Ubuntu_hardy_i386.deb

(Lettura del database … 225725 file e directory attualmente installati.)
Mi preparo a sostituire virtualbox 1.6.0-30421_Ubuntu_hardy
(con …/virtualbox_1.6.2-31466_Ubuntu_hardy_i386.deb) …
* Stopping VirtualBox kernel module *  done.
* Shutting down VirtualBox host networking *  done.
Spacchetto il sostituto di virtualbox …
Configuro virtualbox (1.6.2-31466_Ubuntu_hardy) …
Installo la nuova versione del file di configurazione /etc/init.d/vboxnet …
Installo la nuova versione del file di configurazione /etc/init.d/vboxdrv …
addgroup: Il gruppo «vboxusers» già è non è un gruppo di sistema. Uscita.
* Starting VirtualBox kernel module *  done.
* Starting VirtualBox host networking *  done.

Sun today released VirtualBox 1.6.2, a maintenance release. >
See the ChangeLog for a list of changes since VirtualBox 1.6.0.

VirtualBox 1.6.2 (released 2008-06-06)

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

  • GUI: fixed a bug which prevented to add more than one SATA drive from the GUI
  • GUI: fixed a regression introduced in 1.6.0: the fullscreen mode was left on every guest video mode switch
  • GUI: fixed several minor issues
  • Networking: fixed a host interface networking regression introduced in 1.6.0
  • VMM: fixed starting of VMs with AMD-V enabled
  • VMM: massive performance enhancements for AMD-V
  • VMM: stability improvements for AMD-V on Windows hosts
  • VMM: correctly detect AMD CPUs with erratum 170 (AMD-V)
  • VMM: detect inconsistent timestamp counters on certain AMD Phenom CPUs (Windows host only)
  • VMM: fixed KVM check (Linux hosts only) XPCOM: fixed several races
  • VMM: ?xed a regression introduced in 1.6.0: Windows stuck during installation
  • SATA: improved performance with Vista guests
  • SATA: fixed statistics counter
  • Shared Folders: several fixes (iTunes download, speed up browsing)
  • ATA/IDE: fixed boot from CDROM if a medium was added while the boot menu was active
  • Networking: provide an Intel PRO/1000 T Server (82543GC) network device emulation which is recognized by Windows XP guests
  • Networking: fixes for the E1000 emulation (don’t crash if not attached, fixed a bug in the statistics counter implementation)
  • NAT: don’t crash if the guest sent a DHCPRELEASE message with an invalid IP address
  • NAT: fixed ARP reply for the NAT gateway and for the NAT name server if the guest IP range was changed
  • Internal Networking: fixed shutdown if more than two VMs are connected to the same network
  • BIOS: allow to change the DMI informatiton (see chapter 9.13, Con’guring the BIOS DMI information, page 125)
  • RTC: fixed UIP emulation to prevent jumping of time in Solaris guests
  • Windows host: VirtualBox installation directory corrected for 64 bits Windows
  • Windows host: fixed VBoxVRDP.exe symlink
  • Windows host: solved locking problems in raw partition VMDK support
  • Windows host: fixed stability during high system load (page fault in KeQueryActiveProcessors)
  • MacOS X host: fixed crashes under certain conditions
  • Shared Folders: limited users without admin rights now also can use Shared Folders on Windows guests
  • Linux hosts: fixed default runlevel for the kernel module helper script
  • Solaris hosts: enabled support for VT-x and AMD-V
  • Solaris hosts: dynamic loading of libdlpi fixes a problem where Solaris 10 was not able to start a VM
  • Linux additions: fixed runlevels for kernel module helper scripts
  • Linux additions: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.26
  • Linux additions: fixed occasional guest kernel crash during unload of the vboxadd guest kernel module