Nouvelle version de maintenance pour le virtualisateur de systèmes d’exploitation d’Oracle. Une 4ème mouture permettant de corriger des quelques problèmes rencontrés dans les précédentes versions.

VirtualBox 4.1.8 (released 2011-12-19)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed VERR_MAP_FAILED during savestate under certain circumstances (bug #7929)
• GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)
• VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after startvm (bug #9642)
• BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
• USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers
• NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)
• Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest metrics collection upon VM destruction
• Main: don’t crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)
• VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)
• VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)
• OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare circumstances
• OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances
• VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)
• 3D Support: Fixed fullscreen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775), Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug #8341). Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM – based 3D support for Windows Guests and for 3D support in general
• Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)
• Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)
• Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)
• Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files

Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.1.8 pour tous systèmes

Nouvelle version de maintenance pour le virtualisateur de systèmes d’exploitation d’Oracle. En effet, Virtualbix nous arrive fraîchement dans une version 4.1.6 destiné à corriger quelques bugs… et pour une fois, il n’y a pas grand chose à corriger.

Voici le changelog :

VirtualBox 4.1.6 (released 2011-11-04)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VRDP: fixed screen corruption
• NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed ICMP requests (bug #9371)
• E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)
• ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with certain guests
• ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels
• Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving the fullscreen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled preview window in the GUI for example
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)
• Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)
• Linux hosts: don’t call del_timer_sync from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)
• Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes
• Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)
• Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10 guests
• Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared folders
• Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for shared folders
• Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest users and stale sessions
• X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a virtual terminal (bug #9490)

Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.1.6 pour tous les systèmes d’exploitation

Comme prévu à peu près tous les mois (sauf qu’ici un mois et demi s’est écoulé), Oracle nous propose une nouvelle version de maintenance de son virtualiseur de système d’exploitation, j’ai nommé Oracle VM Virtualbox et est donc numéroté 4.1.4

Parmi les nouveautés, des corrections de bugs de détection de l’option PAE sur les systèmes virtualisé ou encore un problème de gestion de système virtualisés 64 bits sur les processeurs AMD récents…

Pour le reste des nouveautés c’est par ici :

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression)
• VMM: fixed INVALID_PARAMETER guru meditation caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression)
• VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during stos/lods/ins/outs emulation under rare circumstances
• VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs
• GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow to download and upgrade in that case
• GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts (4.0.6 regression)
• VBoxManage: another fix for extpack install –replace
• VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in convertfromraw
• VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
• VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
• USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with usbhub class filter drivers installed; bugfixes for Windows host USB support
• VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries
• VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK images
• Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums (Windows hosts only)
• Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist
• Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and resetting of immutable disks
• Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot restore operation
• Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot
• Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using snapshots
• Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active
• Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
• 3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching to/from fullscreen with enabled 2D acceleration
• 3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10
• Guest control: Miscellaneous small bugfixes
• Linux / Solaris hosts: don’t use hard links in packages (4.1.2 regression)
• Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only interfaces
• Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based bridged networking
• Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
• Windows hosts installer: fixed ADDLOCAL usage on command line (4.1.0 regression)
• Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm help file
• Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which appeared under certain circumstances
• Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate console window
• Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution output (4.1.2 regression)
• Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11
• Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places
• Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
• Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)
• Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting (from console) and unmounting shared folders.
• Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates (4.1.0 regression)
• Windows Additions: fixed PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool
• Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)
• Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)
• Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)
• Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from fullscreen text mode apps

Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.1.4 pour tous les systèmes

MAJ 15/09/2011: Et maintenant un logiciel est sorti pour faire la manoeuvre :
Télécharger Windows 8 Start Menu Toggle

Article original:
Vous aussi vous avez été séduit par la sortie de la Developer Preview de Windows 8 (build 8102) cette nuit et vous vous êtes précipité pour l’installer en dur sur votre PC ou sur une machine virtuelle (Virtualbox 4.1.2 a d’ailleurs un peu de mal, VMWare Workstation 7.1 n’est pas compatible mais la nouvelle version 8.0 l’est) pour vous sentir un peu perdu par la nouvelle interface tactile Metro grandement inadaptée à tout ce qui est non tactile ? Gêné d’avoir eu du mal à trouver comment démarrer un autre logiciel que l’App Weather (pour lister tous les logiciels installés il faut aller sur le logo Windows puis Search) ?

Sachez qu’il reste un moyen de faire réapparaître le menu démarrer de notre bon vieux Windows 7 simplement en suivant les étapes qui suivent :

1. Ouvrez Regedit
2. Allez sur la clé HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
3. Changez la clé RPEnabled de l’état  » 1  » à  » 0 « .
4. Fermez Regedit
5. Constatez en cliquant sur le logo Windows.

Seul inconvénient, cela désactive totalement l’interface « Metro » mais cela reste une solution temporaire en attendant une nouvelle build un peu plus évoluée qui nous dira si l’ancien menu démarrer aura encore sa place sur Windows 8.
Ainsi, Pour retrouver l’interface « Metro », il vous faudra faire le contraire et changer de l’état de la clé de  » 0  » à  » 1 « .

Captures d’écran :

Comme prévu chaque mois, une nouvelle version de maintenance vient de sortir pour le virtualisateur d’Oracle. Cette version (4.1.2) de Virtualbox corrige plusieurs problèmes rencontrés sur la précédente version et corrige ainsi les problèmes de jeunesse de cette nouvelle branche.

Voici le changelog :

VirtualBox 4.1.2 (released 2011-08-15)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)
• VMM: fixed handling of the sysenter/sysexit machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts
• GUI: added linked clone support
• GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings (4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)
• GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license, vendor, …) on OVF export
• GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don’t do a live snapshot
• GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments due to a library version conflict
• Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)
• Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes at a time by default
• Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)
• VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are registered (bug #9303)
• VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of VMs
• Snapshots: fixed « Solid-State drive » flag survival on snapshot creation (bug #9379)
• VBoxManage: implemented copyfrom and stat guest control tools to copy files from guest to host and to check for existence of files on the guest
• VBoxManage: fixed extpack install –replace (bug #9308)
• VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with startvm
• VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging
• Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)
• VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly (bug #9242)
• NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #9299) and fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)
• USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local USB devices
• OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)
• Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)
• Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs with Crossbow based bridged networking
• Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown (4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)
• Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations and warn about it
• Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9276, #9315)
• Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)
• Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements, fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)
• Linux Additions: fixed llseek() for Linux kernels 2.6.37 and above

Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.1.2

On aura finalement pas eu à attendre longtemps avant qu’une nouvelle version majeure de Virtualbox arrive, car à peine 3 jours après la 4.0.12, Oracle publie Virtualbox 4.1.0 avec des nouveautés bien sympathique comme :

• La possibilité de cloner ses disques virtuels (avec un nouvel assistant)
• Un autre nouvel assistant bien plus évolué pour créer ses disques
• La possibilité de retirer un disque virtuel SATA à chaud (expérimental)
• La limite de mémoire élevée jusqu’à 1To pour les machines hôtes 64 bits
• La possibilité d’activer Aero et Direct3D dans les machines virtuelles ayant Windows Vista ou supérieur grâce à un pilote WDDM expérimental
• La correction d’un crash sur les plateformes hôtes Linux ayant un kernel antérieur au 2.6.29

Nouvelle version de maintenance pour le virtualiseur de système d’exploitation d’Oracle. En effet, en attendant la version 4.1, la version actuelle se dote de quelques corrections principalement pour être prête à être exécutée sous MacOS X Lion (10.7).

Il y a quand même quelques corrections pour les autres systèmes…

Changelog :

VirtualBox 4.0.12 (released 2011-07-15)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes
• Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds 166 and above)
• VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188 )
• Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances whith VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150 )
• Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA controller (bug #8592 )
• Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)
• Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading when several VMs were transmitting at once
• 3D support: fixed GL_VERSION string for different locales (bug #8916 )
• Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official builds
• Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014 )

Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0.12 pour tous systèmes

5ème mise à jour de maintenance pour le virtualisateur de systèmes d’exploitation d’Oracle. Au programme, diverses corrections de bugs au niveau de la gestion des disques durs, de MacOS X Lion (10.7) et du support de Gnome 3.0. Les utilisateurs du logiciel étant sous un Kernel Linux en 3.0 se voit corrigés d’un bugs frappant la détection des instructions matérielles Intel VT-x.

Pour le reste voici le changelog :

Changes in VirtualBox 4.0.10 (2011-06-27):
* GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)
* Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images
* Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)
* Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant (for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)
* Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot
* USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)
* USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests (partial fix for bug #8978)
* ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)
* RDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)
* rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0
* OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK file was not written during export
* Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes
* Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix
* Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)
* Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux binaries
* Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles
* Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)
* Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests (4.0.8 regression)
* Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix
* Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during VBoxManage guestcontrol execute (bug #9068)

Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0.10 pour tous systèmes.

4ème mise à jour mineure pour le virtualisateur de systèmes d’exploitation d’Oracle alias Virtualbox. Dans cette mouture, c’est un nombre limité de corrections qui ont été intégré, en effet, les principales fonctions corrigées sont la gestion multicoeurs et 64 bits sous MacOS X, la correction du rendu de GNOME 3 sous Ubuntu Natty et Fedora 15 sans oublier les quelques bugs sur les additions invités…

Voici le changelog en détails :

VirtualBox 4.0.8 (released 2011-05-16)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more than 16 cores (bug #8389)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in 64-bit mode (bug #7606)
• GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)
• VBoxManage: added controlvm screenshotpng subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format
• VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)
• NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in Ethernet header and in ARP requests
• Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting
• E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)
• SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)
• Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)
• Floppy: several improvement
• HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)
• USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated (Windows hosts only)
• 3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest window
• 3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15
• Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)
• Shared Folders: don’t stop mounting the other valid folders if one host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)
• Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before building kernel modules (bug #8795)
• Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10
• Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)

Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0.8 (attention si le site n’est pas encore à jour, c’est par ici qu’il faut aller)

Nouvelle version de maintenance pour le virtualisateur de systèmes d’exploitation Virtualbox. Au menu, corrections de bugs…

VirtualBox 4.0.6 (released 2011-04-21)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring a VMM from a saved state
• VMM: don’t crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads; implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE (bug #8006)
• VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels (bug #8726)
• GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)
• GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)
• GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)
• GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM (bug #8469)
• GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy selectors
• GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)
• GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing folder (bug #8673)
• Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)
• Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory
• 3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate (Windows hosts only; bug #7133)
• Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)
• Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network
• Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)
• Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an I/O error occurred
• Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset (bug #8276, #8294)
• Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM
• ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as ‘none’ if no medium is present
• Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)
• Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)
• Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour
• Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the host from sleep (bug #3625)
• Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)
• NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static assigned IPs (bug #8609)
• VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication library (bug #8063)
• Shared Folders: don’t fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute, for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)
• Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)
• USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)
• HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)
• OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is changed on import
• OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias
• OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with multiple disks (bug #8253)
• rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions (bug #8593)
• Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized
• Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while captured
• Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode (shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)
• X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
• X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1
• Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)
• Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)
• Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead to unkillable VM processes
• Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling
• Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)
• Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations on legacy Windows versions
• Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)
• Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo
• X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final
• Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes
• Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)
• Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests (bug #7946)
• Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9
• Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution
• Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size

Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0.6

Un mois la précédente version, voici la 2ème mise à jour mineure du virtualisateur de système d’exploitation d’Oracle. Au menu, de simples corrections de bugs et quelques améliorations de performances…

VirtualBox 4.0.4 (released 2011-02-17)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions (bugs #8255, #8319 and further)
• VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)
• VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)
• VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots (bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)
• GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum number of host network interfaces
• GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing snapshot (bug #8145)
• GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)
• GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in the users home directory (bug #8017)
• ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)
• VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID (4.0 regression; bug #8342)
• VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused
• VBoxManage: fixed modifyvm –synthcpu (bug #6577)
• VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit and displaying process status on exit (bug #8235)
• VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit/stdout while waiting for the guest process to terminate (bug #7872)
• VBoxManage: fixed list hostdvds/hostfloppies
• VBoxManage: fixed storageattach for host DVD drives and host floppy drives
• Metrics: introduced RAM/VMM base metric.
• Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot (bug #7966)
• Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start
• Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)
• Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)
• Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium attachments (bug #8129)
• Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)
• Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)
• Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)
• Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)
• NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)
• ACPI: don’t allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don’t announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)
• Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode (bug #8122)
• Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)
• ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume
• BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs
• Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission (bug #1548)
• Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)
• Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap
• X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart (bug #8231)
• X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha.
• X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login.
• X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older VirtualBox versions can’t handle.
• Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if a host link is not readable (bug #8185)
• Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS) with VBoxGINA

Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0.4

Un peu moins d’un mois après la sortie de la version 4.0, le virtualisateur de systèmes d’exploitation VirtualBox d’Oracle se voit gratifié d’un petite mise à jour afin de corriger les petites erreurs de jeunesse dû à l’apparition des nouvelles fonctions. Et bien il n’en est rien d’après ce que l’on peut voir sur le changelog de cette version 4.0.2. En effet, c’est n’est que de simple bugs de longue date qui ont été corrigés sauf deux-trois concernant l’interface graphique et l’export OVF.

Voici le changelog:

VirtualBox 4.0.2 (released 2011-01-18)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• GUI: don’t crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM settings vanished
• GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)
• GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be created (bug #8031)
• GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests
• ExtPack: don’t make the installer helper application suid root (Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)
• ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing an extension pack
• ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name during installing an extension pack (bug #7917)
• ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts
• VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)
• VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent host-only interface
• Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots and async I/O (4.0 regression)
• Storage: don’t eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is detached from a VM (bug #5825)
• Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an ATAPI device (bug #6597)
• Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or power off (4.0 regression)
• Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)
• NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)
• E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)
• Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux guests
• ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)
• VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)
• Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)
• Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid logging string (4.0 regression)
• Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing a VM start
• Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in machine paths (bug #8024)
• Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented (bug #6067)
• Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image) cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another
• Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was not saved to machine XML
• OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug #7983)
• rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug #7981)
• Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.
• Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0 regression)
• Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)
• Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports unlocking previously locked workstations

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Et voilà une toute nouvelle version pour le virtualisateur de systèmes d’exploitation d’Oracle alias Virtualbox qui arrive dans une version majeure… la 4.0.

Au sommaire des nouveautés de cette version on pourra noter la réorganisation complète du logiciel. Tout d’abord, le logiciel principal s’appelle Virtualbox Manager et n’offre plus par défaut le support des ports USB 2.0, pour cela il faut télécharger (gratuitement) l’Extension Pack qui ajoute donc le support des ports USB 2.0, du RDP et du boot PXE pour les cartes Intel.

Changement également au niveau l’interface du logiciel qui affiche désormais une miniature du système d’exploitation en cours de fonctionnement, la possibilité de créer un raccourci .vbox pour pouvoir démarrer directement une machine virtuelle en double-cliquant sur son icône, la liste des systèmes d’exploitation peut être triée et la suppression de celles-ci ne laisse plus aucune trace sur le disque dur (suppression des disques et images)

Virtualbox peut maintenant gérer 1,5 à 2 Go de RAM sur les machines 32bits, inclus de nouvelles référence de matériel virtuels, améliore l’exportation vers les fichiers OVF et permet de contrôler l’utilisation des ressources utilisées par la machine virtuelle (processeurs, lecture/écriture disque dur) sans oublier naturellement toutes les corrections de bugs qui sont naturellement listés dans le changelog complet ci-dessous :

VirtualBox 4.0.0 (released 2010-12-22)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see chapter 1.5, Installing VirtualBox and extension packs, see the manual for more information
• New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see chapter 10.1, Where VirtualBox stores its files, see the manual for more information
• Major rework of the GUI (now called “VirtualBox Manager”):
  • Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)
  • New “scale” display mode with scaled guest display; see chapter 1.8.5, Resizing the machine’s window, see the manual for more information
  • Support for creating and starting .vbox desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)
  • The VM list is now sortable
  • Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved states, and optionally including attached disk images (bug #5511; also, VBoxManage unregistervm –delete can do the same now)
  • Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)
• VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts
• New virtual hardware:
  • Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI); see chapter 3.4.1, “Motherboard” tab, see the manual for more information
  • Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems (e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)
• Improvements to OVF support (see chapter 1.12, Importing and exporting virtual machines, see the manual for more information):
  • Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support
  • Significant performance improvements during export and import
  • Creation of the manifest file on export is optional now
  • Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK
• Resource control: added support for limiting a VM’s CPU time and IO bandwidth; see chapter 5.8, Limiting bandwidth for disk images, see the manual for more information
• Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and Parallels images
• Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see chapter 8.21, VBoxManage modifyhd, see the manual for more information.
• Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later
• Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local (COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts (applies to nested paging only)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)
• VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only, non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)
• GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode (bug #1657)
• GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore
• GUI: certain GUI warnings don’t stop the VM output anymore
• GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #5449)
• BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain guests (e.g. Solaris)
• Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network (Linux hosts only; bug #7792)
• 3D support: allow use of CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH again (bug #6864)
• 3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659, #5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)
• 3D support: guest application stack corruption when using glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)
• 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9
• 3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty
• 2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support
• VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration
• VRDP: support for upstream audio
• Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash
• NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime
• SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough (bug #7058)
• Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)
• Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare circumstances
• Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug #5578)
• EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs
• BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function #4F01 (Quake fix)
• OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks
• Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug #6760)
• Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)
• Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX set
• Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
• Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)
• Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one file
• Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes

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Après presque deux mois d’intense recherche, voici qu’une nouvelle version du virtualisateur de systèmes d’exploitation d’Oracle fait son arrivée. Avec cette version 3.2.12 qui se focalise sur l’amélioration de performances notamment afin de prévenir les risques de ralentissements pour les processeurs possédants les instructions de virtualisation matérielles en mettant en oeuvre la gestion d’une nouvelle instruction évitant ce désagrément.

Sur Linux, c’est la compilation en dure qui se fera pour le driver graphique vboxvideo si DKMS n’est pas installé. Le reste des changements est disponible ci-dessous :

VirtualBox 3.2.12 (released 2010-11-30)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #7577)
• VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)
• VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)
• VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages
• VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU
• Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while the VM is running
• GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when starting from a saved state
• NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)
• Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000
• VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration
• Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash
• Mouse: don’t send relative mouse events together with absolute mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)
• Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation; fixes for Koran keyboards
• Serial: don’t hang if the host device would block during open (bugs #5756, #5380)
• Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)
• Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
• USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version 3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)
• USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts only)
• iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid being disconnected if the guest is idle
• 3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)
• 3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848 )
• 3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)
• 2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM state (bug #4124)
• Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)
• Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types (bug #2996)
• Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)
• Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes
• Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS is not installed (bug #7572)
• Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)
• Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating user accounts for VM information

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2 mois après son prédécesseur, voici qu’Oracle nous offre gracieusement une nouvelle version du virtualisateur de système d’exploitation Virtualbox dans sa version 3.2.10 (pas encore de branche 3.3 à venir pour le moment).

Cette nouvelle version arrive avec une flopée de corrections de bugs dont celui du mode V8086 pour les DOS/Win9x qui a été introduit sur la version 3.2.8. Les performances pour les machines virtuelles de plus de 2Go de RAM ont été améliorées, le support du kernel 2.6.36 a été ajouté, la gestion de la 3D a été corrigé lorsqu’on passait au mode Seamless et les performances des applications OpenGL 32bits a été corrigé sous les systèmes Windows 64bits invités.

Pour le reste des corrections, voici le changelog :

VirtualBox 3.2.10 (released 2010-10-08)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386 (3.2.8 regression)
• VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)
• VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)
• VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts
• VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with nested paging (bug #7544
• VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than 2 GB RAM (bug #6928)
• GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt (Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)
• GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar (bug #4952)
• GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6122)
• GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard
• GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed (Linux hosts only)
• OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default
• Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)
• Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)
• Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was canceled
• IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs (bug #3494)
• SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests
• SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better
• iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection
• VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain circumstances (bug #7291)
• VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes
• Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown (Linux hosts only)
• NAT: don’t check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering a file via bootp (bug #7384)
• NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)
• NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load (non-Windows hosts only)
• VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)
• VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain circumstances
• USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some printers
• USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)
• VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to hangs if the VM could not be started successfully
• VBoxManage: don’t crash if parameters with invalid characters are passed (bug #7388)
• VBoxManage: clonehd: fixed a bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare circumstances
• VBoxManage: metrics: made it work for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)
• 3D support: report GLX_ARB_get_proc_address as supported extension
• 3D support: guest application stack corruption when using glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)
• 3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)
• 3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)
• OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks (bug #7366)
• OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)
• OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no longer verified on import nor written on export
• Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)
• Shared Folders: don’t show an empty directory if filenames with an invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)
• Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)
• Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the NULL audio backend (bug #6911)
• Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy) (bug #6816)
• Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads
• Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing more than one environment variable
• Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService after the VM was restored from a saved state
• Additions: fixed a division by zero crash of VBoxService under certain circumstances
• Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)
• Additions/Windows: fixed LsaEnumerate error when enumerating logged in users
• Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)
• Additions/X.Org: don’t crash VBoxClient during reboot
• Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10
• Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data in the event of a VM crash
• Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection
• Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)
• Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on 32-bit guests (bug #7324)
• Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7448)
• Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes
• Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)

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