VirtualBox 2.0.4 rilasciato, maintenance release

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Leggo adesso sulla ml di vbox-dev che è stato rilasciata la versione 2.0.4 di VirtualBox, di seguito il Changelog:

VirtualBox 2.0.4 (released 2008-10-24)

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

* VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures
* VMM: don’t overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)
* VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)
* GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)
* GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)
* SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)
* SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)
* Network: don’t crash when changing the adapter link state if no host driver is attached (bug #2333)
* VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)
* VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not equal to the client resolution
* Clipboard: don’t crash when host service initialization takes longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)
* Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)
* Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)
* Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup
* Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300 seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)
* Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface networking (bug #2474)
* Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking
* Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking
* Windows additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder
* Windows additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)
* Windows additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)
* Windows additions: fixed error code for MoveFile() if the target exists (bug #2350)
* Linux additions: fixed seek() for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)
* Linux additions: support Ubuntu 8.10
* Linux additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)
* Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)

il download per Linux si può effettuare da:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

in particolare per Debian e Ubuntu:

• Ubuntu 8.04 (“Hardy Heron”) i386 | AMD64
• Ubuntu 7.10 (“Gutsy Gibbon”) i386 | AMD64
• Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (“Dapper Drake”) i386 |AMD64
• Debian 5.0 (“Lenny”) i386 | AMD64
• Debian 4.0 (“Etch”) i386 | AMD64
• Debian 3.1 (“Sarge”) i386

Proprio adesso che parlerò della 2.0.2 al linuxday, mi toccherà installare, compilare….

Appena possibile preparerò i pacchetti OSE per il repo.

UPDATE:

Non ho resistito, ecco  qui i pacchetti OSE 2.0.4:

virtualbox-ose_2.0.4_i386.deb
virtualbox-ose-dbg_2.0.4_i386.deb

e qui i pacchetti svn:

virtualbox-ose_2.0.51+svn-1-adoldo-13538_i386.deb
virtualbox-ose-dbg_2.0.51+svn-1-adoldo-13538_i386.deb

UPDATE:

ultime versioni su: repo virtualbox-ose

Enjoy 🙂

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