Oracle VM Virtualbox 3.2.8

Retour à la normale chez Oracle, ainsi après presque 1 mois et demi de recherche de bugs, voici que les développeurs du virtualisateur de systèmes d'exploitation maison arrive en version 3.2.8.

Au programme (et comme d'habitude sur une version mineure), des corrections de bugs, voici d'ailleurs le changelog :

VirtualBox 3.2.8 (released 2010-08-06)

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

VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings

GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)

GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #6809)

3D support: fixed GL_EXT_texture_sRGB support

PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression

OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)

USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status changes

USB: respect the remote-only filter

USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of certain devices (Windows hosts only)

USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)

PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature

PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs

PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests

Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled

Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on bridged device (bug #7059)

Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)

Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup (bug #6832)

BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer guests

LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances

Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs without external tools and tricks

Shared folders: several fixes and performance enhancements for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)

Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations

Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)

Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on shutdown

RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability fixes

Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)

Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)

VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly in subcommand openmedium disk (bug #6751)

Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance

Web service: added timestamps to logging output

Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII

X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)