15 Change log • VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port for direct device access • VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation • VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW) • Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface net- working • Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting • API: redesigned storage model with better generalization • API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time • API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system • Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Ap- plications) 15.29 Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: • VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots • VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error • VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763) • XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key collisions • ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable) • iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM • iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU reliably • VBoxHeadless: really don’t start X11 services (clipboard service, 3D acceleration Solaris & Darwin hosts only bug #3199) • Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot • Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556) • Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests in parallel • Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs • Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory correctly • Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files in O_APPEND mode to a shared folder (bug #2844) 228