VirtualBox 2.0.6

VirtualBox 2.0.6 (released 2008-11-21)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests (bug ... (closed)">#2220)
• VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug fixed in SVN (closed)">#2565)
• VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug fixed in SVN (closed)">#2565)
• GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows hosts only, bug in status bar/settings (closed)">#1996)
• GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs ... (closed)">#784)
• VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information (bug #2624)
• SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned (bug #2024)
• SATA: improved performance
• SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug 1 (closed)">#2510)
• E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances
• USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host: bugs fixed in 2.1 (reopened)">#470 & fixed in 2.0.6 (reopened)">#491)
• Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox applications when updating the installation
• Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on 64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)
• Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions in /tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc
• Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts, fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)
• Linux hosts: don’t crash during shutdown with serial ports connected to a host device
• Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking
• Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking
• Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug ... (closed)">#2475)
• Windows additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties when using native RDP connections
• Windows additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)
• Windows additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office (bug ... (closed)">#2591)
• Linux additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit guests (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)">#2550)
• SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections