15 Change log 15.2 Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: • GUI: don’t crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM settings vanished • GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked on the settings button (4.0 regression bug #7875) • GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be created (bug #8031) • GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests • ExtPack: don’t make the installer helper application suid root (Linux .deb/.rpm packages only) • ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing an extension pack • ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name during installing an exten- sion pack (bug #9717) • ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts • VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741) • VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent host-only interface • Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots and async I/O (4.0 regression) • Storage: don’t eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is detached from a VM (bug #5825) • Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an ATAPI device (bug #6597) • Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or power off (4.0 regression) • Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression Linux hosts only bug #7908) • NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094) • E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330) • Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux guests • ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only bug #7885) • VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression bug #7986) • Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818) • Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid logging string (4.0 regression) • Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing a VM start • Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in machine paths (bug #8024) 185