Hello all, First of all, thank you very much for this announcement. Below are my main concerns. I wonder if accessibility has been thought of at all in the upcoming release. I'm a VMware user, but also use VirtualBox as a side by side comparison. As of late I am very disappointed with the lack of accessibility with the product, and I am therefore wondering if 3.2 and later will turn this around. This is only a criticism, so hope you don't mind such. I feel that competition is healthy, and therefore we should not have to restrict ourselves with one product because it's accessible both for screen readers and users who rely on the keyboard, either because they are blind or they can't use a mouse. All comments are very welcome. I have forwarded this announcement to my blind virtual machines list, which you can join by sending a blank message to [email protected]. I and the other moderators will very much look forward to seeing you on the list. Take care. P.S. Sorry for any duplicates. I forgot that I am on the announcements only list, and I also forgot I couldn't post to the announce only list.
Chris Hallsworth E-mail and Facebook: [email protected] MSN: [email protected] Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://twitter.com/christopherh40 On 28/04/2010 09:46, Frank Mehnert wrote: > 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://213.239.192.22/download/3.2.0_BETA1/ > > (don't worry about the IP address, this is a temporary Oracle server) > > Please do NOT open bug reports at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker > but use our 'VirtualBox Beta Feedback' forum at > > http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=15 > > to report any problems with the Beta. > > > Version 3.2.0 will be a major update. The following major new features > were added: > > * Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, > the product is now called Oracle VM VirtualBox and all references > were changed without impacting compatibility. > > * Experimental support for Mac OS X guests > > * Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used > by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the manual for more information) > > * CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows > guests (hot-add only) (see the manual for more information) > > * New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using > large pages can improve performance (see the manual for more information); > also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested > paging is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging > code runs faster, which mainly speeds up guest OS booting) > > * Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running > > * Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI (see the manual for > more information) > > * USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no Guest > Additions are available > > * LsiLogic SAS controller emulation > > * RDP video acceleration > > * NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage > > * Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications from > the host system > > * OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings that > are not part of the base OVF standard > > > Please see the forum for a complete list of all changes since version 3.1.6. > > Thanks for your help! > > Frank > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
