E’ stata rilasciata la versione 1.5.6 di VirtualBox per le diverse piattaforme, che corregge diversi errori.
Il download per Linux è disponibile su:

  • Ubuntu 7.10 (”Gutsy Gibbon”) i386 | AMD64
  • Ubuntu 7.04 (”Feisty Fawn”) i386 | AMD64
  • Ubuntu 6.10 (”Edgy Eft”) i386
  • Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (”Dapper Drake”) i386 |AMD64
  • Debian 4.0 (”Etch”) i386 | AMD64
  • Debian 3.1 (”Sarge”) i386
  • Univention Corporate Server 1.3-2 instructions
  • openSUSE 10.3 i386 | AMD64
  • openSUSE 10.2 i386 | AMD64
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) i386 | AMD64
  • Fedora 8 (”Werewolf”) i386 | AMD64
  • Fedora 7 (”Moonshine”) i386 | AMD64
  • Fedora 6 (”Zod”) i386
  • Fedora 5 (”Bordeaux”) i386
  • Mandriva 2008.0 i386
  • Mandriva 2007.1 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (”RHEL5″) i386 | AMD64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (”RHEL4″) i386
  • PCLinuxOS 2007 i386
  • Xandros Desktop 4.1 i386
  • All distributions i386 | AMD64

La lista dei cambiamenti è nel Changelog:

  • GUI: ?xed several error messages
  • GUI: ?xed registration dialog crashes once and for all
  • GUI: really ask before resetting the VM
  • GUI: release mouse and keyboard before the host activates the screensaver
  • GUI: ?xed issue with license display on big screens
  • GUI: added setting for network name for internal networks
  • GUI: added setting for network device type
  • GUI: keyboard ?xes
  • GUI: seamless mode and fullscreen mode ?xes
  • GUI: ?xed soaked hostkey keyup event under certain conditions
  • GUI: more informative message dialog buttons
  • GUI: VM selector context menu
  • VBoxSDL: added -termacpi switch
  • VBoxSDL: ?xed automatic adaption of the guest screen resolution to the size of the VM window
  • VMM: under heavy guest activity, for example when copying ?les to/from a shared folder, the VM could crash with an assertion
  • VMM: added an option to select PIIX4 (improves compatibility with Windows guests created by VMware)
  • VMM: ?xed a bug which could lead to memory corruption under rare circumstances
  • VMM: improved performance of Solaris guests
  • VRDP: ?xed a 1.5.4 regression: VRDP client and server were out-of-sync if the VM was started using the GUI
  • VRDP: proper error handling if the VRDP library could not be loaded
  • VBoxManage: ?xed crash during clonevdi
  • VBoxManage: added ’list runningvms’ command
  • VBoxManage: improved the compatibility when reading the partition table of a raw disk
  • Shared Folders: added support for read-only shared folders
  • Shared Clipboard: several ?xes
  • Network: experimental support for E1000 device emulation
  • iSCSI: better check for miscon?gured targets
  • iSCSI: allow to directly attach to internal networks with integrated mini IP stack
  • PulseAudio: don’t hang during VM initialization if no sound server is available
  • VDI: ?xed sized virtual disk images are now completely written during creation to workaround buggy sparse ?le handling on some OS (e.g. Vista)
  • VDI/VMDK: prevent indexing of .vdi and .vmdk ?les on Windows hosts
  • RDP: ?xed compilation of the Linux rdesktop client on newer Linux kernels
  • RDP: install rdesktop-vrdp on Linux hosts
  • ACPI: added sleep button event
  • Serial: proper handling of inaccessible host devices
  • Windows installer: allow smooth upgrade without deinstallation
  • Linux installer: ?xed Slackware detection regression
  • Linux installer: updated VBoxTunctl allowing to assign a tap device to a group on Linux kernels > 2.6.23
  • Windows additions: several ?xes, in particular for Windows NT4
  • Linux additions: ?xed installer for Kubuntu 8.04
  • Linux additions: add default video mode for handling video mode hints from the host
  • Linux host: compatibility ?xes with Linux > 2.6.24

Enjoy :)