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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