15 Change log • Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after a VM reboot • Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117) • Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with buggy X servers • Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests (dynamic resizing dis- abled for the latter) • Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture • Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions (bug #2128) • VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062) • VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading the wrong data (bug #2085) • Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183) • Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the host when host interface network- ing was enabled • Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when installing under the wrong architec- ture • Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948) • Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions installer into a single package • Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial port to the guest 15.33 Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04) This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: • 64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) • New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts • The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements • New-version notifier • Guest property information interface • Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts • New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts • Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain) • Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics) • Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw disks/partitions (major performance gain) • Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests 232