Please do not use this VirtualBox Beta release on production machines. A VirtualBox Beta release should be considered a bleeding-edge release meant for early evaluation and testing purposes.
You can download the binaries here: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.0_BETA1/ Please do NOT open bug reports at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads but use our 'VirtualBox Beta Feedback' forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=15 to report any problems with the Beta. Version 3.0 will be a major update. The following major new features were added: * Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only) * Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental) * Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: * Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782) * Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826) * Solaris hosts: tighten the restriction for contiguous physical memory under certain conditions * VMM: fixed occassional 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) * VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927) * VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) * GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo) * GUI: redesigned settings dialogs * GUI: allow to create/remove one host-only network adapters * 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) * VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client * Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18 * VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080) * VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image * VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510) * OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes * Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785) * Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the correct file mode when creating files * Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on a Linux host (bug #3404) * Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time syncronization 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 * NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters * Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring
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