Update: SUN xVM VirtualBox 2.2.4
xVM VirtualBox has been updated to 2.2.4, a new maintenance release.
It’s a good thing they fixed the Windows Installer issues, I had a really hard time installing 2.2.2.
exe installer, 62.9MB, MD5 sum: CD1408F66A93BCFDF7B38DD801198B73
Other stuff: VirtualBox for Linux, Mac, Solaris + SDKs and older versions
Windows Installer: fixed several problems
Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or later
Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during loopback
Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in VBoxManage list runningvms
Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged networking
Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough disabled
Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse clicks
Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in Windows 7 guests
GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests that require this setting
VMM: fixed occassional crash due to insuffient memory
VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests
VMM: restore from a saved state occassionally failed (bugs #3984 and #2742)
Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared clipboard on X11 hosts
OVF: fixed potential hang during import
OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts
VBoxManage modifyhd –compact: fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
VBoxManage metrics collect: now flushes the output stream.
VHD: made VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid work for .vhd files (bug #3443)
VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)
VMDK: fixed creating snapshots
NAT: improvement of TCP connection establisment (bug #2987)
NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)
NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)
NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity (bug #3964)
Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows hosts (bug #4090)
Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows hosts
Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized e1000 adapter.
Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes when using bridged mode with host’s interface having RX checksum offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX offloading as well (bug #3870)
PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter.
Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict
SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64
Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw file (bug #1023)
VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update
June 11th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Can 2.2.4 recognize an ‘existing’ VHD installed Win7rc, or is it nec. to re-install from the ISO?
June 11th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Not sure since I haven’t tried it, but it should, since it supports VHDs… let me know if you try it