VirtualBox 1.6.6 rilasciato, repository per Debian e Ubuntu

Mi è arrivato da poco l’avviso del rilascio della versione 1.6.6 di VirtualBox e cosa non da poco, è possibile attivare di nuovo i repositories per Debian e Ubuntu, ecco l’annuncio ufficiale:

Hi,
today Sun released VirtualBox 1.6.6, a maintenance release. See
the ChangeLog
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
for a list of changes since VirtualBox 1.6.4.
The binaries and the manual can be downloaded here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Users of Debian/Ubuntu can use the .deb repository again (see
instructions on the download page).

Have fun,

Frank

Questi i links diretti per Ubuntu e Debian

• Ubuntu 8.04 (“Hardy Heron”) i386 | AMD64
• Ubuntu 7.10 (“Gutsy Gibbon”) i386 | AMD64

• Debian 5.0 (“Lenny”) i386 | AMD64
• Debian 4.0 (“Etch”) i386 | AMD64

Per attivare i repositories è sufficiente invece aggiungere al file

/etc/apt/sources.list

la riga opportuna per la propria distro, scelta tra queste:

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian gutsy non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian dapper non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian etch non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian sarge non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xandros4.0-xn non-free

aggiungere la chiave dei repo:

$ wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

e aggiornare con:

$ sudo apt-get update

Questo il Changelog della versione:

VirtualBox 1.6.6 (released 2008-08-26)

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

• VMM: fixed excessive logging (bug #1901)
• VMM: AMD-V stability fixes (bug #1685)
• GUI: added support for Ctrl+Caps reversed keyboards (bug #1891)
• SATA: fixed BSODs of Windows guests on a SATA disk (bug #1941)
• SATA: fixed hard disk detection on Solaris 10 U5 (bug #1789)
• VBoxHeadless: don’t start the clipboard service (bug #1743)
• VBoxHeadless: added -vrdp parameter which allows to start the VM session without VRDP (bug #1960)
• VBoxManage: fixes to creating raw disk/partition VMDK files, now accepts removable media on Windows (bug #1869)
• VRDP: fixed communication with MS Remote Resktop Connection on MacOS X (bug #1337)
• VRDP: clipboard fixes (bug #1410)
• VRDP: fixed crash during PAM authentication (bug #1953)
• Shared Folders: fixed a regression introduced in version 1.6.2: the shared folders service was sometimes not properly installed (Windows guests only, bug #1915)
• Shared Folders: don’t deny to load a VM if a shared folder is not accessible (bug #822)
• BIOS: allow to specify empty DMI strings (bug #1957)
• OSE archive: added missing Makefiles (bug #1912)
• Linux hosts: workaround for buggy gcc-4.3 compilers (e.g. openSUSE 11)
• Linux hosts: one more fix for compiling the kernel modules on Linux 2.6.27 (bug #1962)
• MacOS X hosts: shared folders unicode fix
• Solaris hosts: fixed link issue (bug #1840)
• Windows additions: allow to downgrade the package
• Windows additions: fixed corrupted installer icon on Windows 2000 (bug #1486)
• Windows additions: fixed bug when creating intermediate directories (bug #1870)
• Windows additions: implemented /xres=, /yres= and /depth= switches for the installer (bug #1990)
• Linux additions: properly unregister the misc device when unloading the kernel module
• Linux additions: fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions again (e.g. openSUSE 11)
• Linux additions: attempt to fix the autostart issue of !VBoxClient with Mandriva guests (bug #1699)
• Linux additions: fixed detection of patched Linux 2.6.18 kernels of RHEL5 / FC6 / CentOS 5.2 (bugs #1899, #1973)
• Linux additions: added new mount flags dmode, fmode, umask, dmask and fmask allowing to override the file mode (bug #1776)
• Documentation: added a note that jumbo frames don’t work (bug #1877)
• Documentation: document special host interface names on openSUSE11 (bug #1892)

Enjoy 🙂

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