Oracle VirtualBox 3.2.6 Build 63112, is a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.2 which improves stability and fixes regressions.
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
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VirtualBox features
Some of the features of VirtualBox are:
Modularity.
VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don't have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.
Virtual machine descriptions in XML.
The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.
Guest Additions for Windows, Linux and Solaris.
VirtualBox has special software that can be installed inside Windows, Linux and Solaris virtual machines to improve performance and make integration much more seamless. Among the features provided by these Guest Additions are mouse pointer integration and arbitrary screen solutions (e.g. by resizing the guest window). There are also guest additions for OS/2 with somewhat reduced functionality.
Shared folders.
Like many other virtualization solutions, for easy data exchange between hosts and guests, VirtualBox allows for declaring certain host directories as "shared folders", which can then be accessed from within virtual machines.
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Extra features
Extra features of VirtualBox are:
Virtual USB Controllers.
VirtualBox implements a virtual USB controller and allows you to connect arbitrary USB devices to your virtual machines without having to install device specific drivers on the host.
Remote Desktop Protocol.
Unlike any other virtualization software, VirtualBox fully supports the standard Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). A virtual machine can act as an RDP server, allowing you to "run" the virtual machine remotely on some thin client that merely displays the RDP data.
USB over RDP.
With this unique feature, a virtual machine that acts as an RDP server can still access arbitrary USB devices that are connected on the RDP client. This way, a powerful server machine can virtualize a lot of thin clients that merely need to display RDP data and have USB devices plugged in.
Note: Extra features are available with the full VirtualBox release only
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Changelog
VirtualBox 3.2.6 (released 2010-03-25) is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels 2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)
• Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network interfaces under certain circumstances
• Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain circumstances (bug #6023)
• Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE
• VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)
• VMM: improved guest SMP stability
• VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)
• VMM: fixed PGMDynMapHCPage guru meditation (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)
• VMM: fixed pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt guru meditations (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)
• VMM: Fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771).
• GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)
• GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)
• 3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)
• 3D support: fixed host crashes when using GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array and array element calls (bug #6165)
• 3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs (bug #5297)
• 3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup (bug #4962)
• NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful connection termination was broken (bug #6237)
• NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent (bug #6176)
• NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under certain circumstances
• Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal network while a VM is running (bug #5781)
• VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB
• USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)
• USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances (bug #3571)
• VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB devices
• ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter (Linux hosts only; bug #2836)
• PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions (3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)
• BIOS: increased space for DMI strings
• BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations (I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)
• iSCSI: be more robust when handling the INQUIRY response
• iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data
• BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests
• webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded
• Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for Host-only interface (bug #4590)
• Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)
• Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)
• Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12 guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)
• Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)
• Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)
• Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)
• Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections
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