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.
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