Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.2.4 has been released

Sun xVM VirtualBox version 2.2.4 has been released and, as usually, can be downloaded here. The changelog for this version, as reported by the official website, is:

• Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during installation
• Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)">#3892)
• Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or later (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)">#3981)
• Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during loopback (bug fixed in SVN (closed)">#3120)
• Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in VBoxManage list runningvms (bug #4034)
• Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged networking
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough disabled (bug #4077)
• Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse clicks
• Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in Windows 7 guests
• GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests that require this setting (bug ... (closed)">#4055)
• VMM: fixed occassional crash due to insuffient memory
• VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests
• VMM: restore from a saved state occassionally failed (bugs #3984 and #2742)
• Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared clipboard on X11 hosts (bug fixed in SVN (closed)">#4020)
• OVF: fixed potential hang during import
• OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts
• VBoxManage modifyhd --compact: fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption (bug --compact broken in 2.2.2 (closed)">#3864)
• VBoxManage metrics collect: now flushes the output stream.
• VHD: made VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid work for .vhd files (bug does not work for VHDs => ... (closed)">#3443)
• VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)
• VMDK: fixed creating snapshots
• NAT: improvement of TCP connection establisment (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)">#2987)
• NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug fixed in svn (closed)">#4091)
• NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug Fixed in svn (closed)">#3692)
• NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity (bug #3964)
• Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows hosts (bug #4090)
• Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows hosts
• Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized e1000 adapter.
• Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes when using bridged mode with host’s interface having RX checksum offloading on (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)">#3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX offloading as well (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)">#3870)
• PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter.
• Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict
• SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64
• Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw file (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)">#1023)
• VRDP: fixed a rare incorre
• ct screen updat

You'll have noticed bug 3864 in the list of fixes above. I unfortunately hit this before upgrading and, hadn't I done a ZFS send of the file system I was working on, I would have probably lost my VDI image. I strongly suggest you to upgrade to version 2.2.4 or not to run VBoxManage --compact at all.