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Changelog:
VirtualBox 1.5.6 (released 2008-02-19)
- GUI: fixed several error messages
- GUI: fixed registration dialog crashes once and for all
- GUI: really ask before resetting the VM
- GUI: release mouse and keyboard before the host activates the screensaver
- GUI: fixed issue with license display on big screens
- GUI: added setting for network name for internal networks
- GUI: added setting for network device type
- GUI: keyboard fixes
- GUI: seamless mode and fullscreen mode fixes
- GUI: fixed soaked hostkey keyup event under certain conditions
- GUI: more informative message dialog buttons
- GUI: VM selector context menu
- VBoxSDL: added -termacpi switch
- VBoxSDL: fixed automatic adaption of the guest screen resolution to the size of the VM window
- VMM: under heavy guest activity, for example when copying files to/from a shared folder, the VM could crash with an assertion
- VMM: added an option to select PIIX4 (improves compatibility with Windows guests created by VMware)
- VMM: fixed a bug which could lead to memory corruption under rare circumstances
- VMM: improved performance of Solaris guests
- VRDP: fixed a 1.5.4 regression: VRDP client and server were out-of-sync if the VM was started using the GUI
- VRDP: proper error handling if the VRDP library could not be loaded
- VBoxManage: fixed crash during clonevdi
- VBoxManage: added ’list runningvms’ command
- VBoxManage: improved the compatibility when reading the partition table of a raw disk
- Shared Folders: added support for read-only shared folders
- Shared Clipboard: several fixes
- Network: experimental support for E1000 device emulation
- iSCSI: better check for misconfigured targets
- iSCSI: allow to directly attach to internal networks with integrated mini IP stack
- PulseAudio: don’t hang during VM initialization if no sound server is available
- VDI: fixed sized virtual disk images are now completely written during creation to workaround buggy sparse file handling on some OS (e.g. Vista)
- VDI/VMDK: prevent indexing of .vdi and .vmdk files on Windows hosts
- RDP: fixed compilation of the Linux rdesktop client on newer Linux kernels
- RDP: install rdesktop-vrdp on Linux hosts
- ACPI: added sleep button event
- Serial: proper handling of inaccessible host devices
- Windows installer: allow smooth upgrade without deinstallation
- Linux installer: fixed Slackware detection regression
- Linux installer: updated VBoxTunctl allowing to assign a tap device to a group on Linux kernels > 2.6.23
- Windows additions: several fixes, in particular for Windows NT4
- Linux additions: fixed installer for Kubuntu 8.04
- Linux additions: add default video mode for handling video mode hints from the host
- Linux host: compatibility fixes with Linux > 2.6.24