Mois : décembre 2012

Nouvelle version de maintenance et la dernière de l'année 2012. Corrections de bugs au menu avec une liste de changements bien bien plus longue que la 4.2.4 (que je n'ai pas newsé).

Voici le changelog par rapport à la version 4.2.2 :

VirtualBox 4.2.6 (released 2012-12-19)

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

• VMM: don't inject stale VT-x events to prevent crashes after VM reset (bug #11256)
• VMM: workaround for buggy BIOSes which enable MONITOR only for certain CPUs (bugs #9460, #10686)
• GUI: fixed trimming of anti-aliased text in details-view element headers (4.2.0 regression)
• GUI: fixed create-settings-file-alias functionality on Mac hosts (4.2.0 regression)
• GUI: fixed take-guest-screenshot functionality on Windows hosts (bug #11095)
• GUI: several minor fixes, including palette fixes (bug #11191)
• GUI: fixed Windows 2012 OS type (bug #11206)
• GUI: allow to terminate the VM even if VBoxSVC crashed
• API: fixed cancelling of snapshots, previously this could lead to inconsistent VM configs (bug #6877)
• API: fixed identifying disk images by UUID (bug #11209)
• 3D Support: several fixes
• VRDP: fixed occasional crash with external authentication (bug #11156)
• VGA: fix for double scan text modes
• USB: fixed invalid pending request count at the time of service of DEVICE POWER requests (Windows hosts only; bugs #10021, #11056)
• USB keyboard: Korean keyboard workaround (bug #11150)
• Storage: fixed hang with QCOW images and asynchronous I/O enabled
• Storage: fixed hang with newer VHD images (bug #11279)
• Storage: actually write the non-rotational flag to the VM settings (4.2.0 regression)
• Virtio-net: fixed the problem with network statistics counters in Session Information dialog (GUI)
• Metrics: introduced network rate and disk usage metrics
• Metrics: fixed a crash under certain conditions on Solaris hosts
• BIOS: fix for El Torito
• Shared Folders: if the host folder of a shared folder mapping does not exist, keep it active but mark it as invalid to prevent inconsitent saved states (bug #11147)
• VBoxManage: fixed converting disks from raw images
• VBoxManage: show snapshot description in the VM or snapshot information
• VBoxManage: make implicit opening of media consistent in all places dealing with media
• VBoxManage: the iSCSI initiator name was not stored in the settings file when doing storageattach (bug #11212)
• VBoxManage: metrics collect now properly handles 'CPU/MHz' and 'Net/*/LinkSpeed' metrics
• VBoxManage: changing the image UUID or parent UUID as part of storageattach works now in all safe cases
• VBoxManage: introduced storageattach --medium additions as a shortcut to mount the additions image (bug #11165)
• OVF: fixed importing OVF files cerated by recent VMware products (bug #10905)
• Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with leaking connections in conntrack (bug #11178)
• Linux Additions: added support for ConsoleKit sessions in the vminfo service of VBoxService
• Linux Additions: don't crash during remount under certain conditions (bug #11291)
• Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed guest memory metrics collection
• Solaris hosts: added a dependency to ensure that the user directories are reachable when starting VBox services
• Windows host installer: integrated user-contributed translations, thanks to all contributors!
• Windows Additions: fixed auto-logon installation for Windows 8
• Windows Additions: don't fail if the shared folders host service is not available
• Windows Additions: fixed Guest Additions startup on Windows 2000 guests (bug #11253)
• Windows Additions: auto-resize fixes for Windows 8 guests

VirtualBox 4.2.4 (released 2012-10-26)

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

• GUI: fixed validation warning on global settings / proxy page (4.2.2 regression, bug #11089)
• GUI: fixed crash with multiple guest screens on certain conditions (OS X hosts only)
• VBoxBalloonCtrl: fixed command line argument handling of ballooning module
• VRDP: fixed occasional crash during a video playback in the guest (bug #11082)
• BIOS: fixed broken DMI information (4.2 regression)
• BIOS: workaround for booting from Windows 2000 floppy disks
• EFI: fixed video mode selection loss on VM reboot (#10983)
• Parallel: fixed parallel port printing failure/ paper queue empty error (Windows hosts only)
• NAT: fixed crash on alias-less DNS responses when host-resolver is used
• Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances