VritualBox 3.2 beta3가 나왔습니다.

VritualBox 3.2 beta3가 지난 12일 나왔네요. beta2가 7일 나왔는데, 불과 5일만에 새로운 버전이 나왔군요.

여기에서 beta3를 다운로드 받아서 테스트 해보실 수 있습니다.

3.2에서 가장 두드러지는 점은 Mac의 OSX를 게스트 OS로 설치할 수 있다는 점입니다.

그 동안은 VB를 패치하고, 이것저것 손봐야하는 부분이 많았는데... 정식으로 지원을 한다니, OSX(Snow Leopard)를 설치해 봐야겠습니다.

벌써 해외에는 VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta2로 Snow Leopard 설치기가 나왔네요.

VirtualBox 3.2 주요 수정사항은 아래와 같습니다.

VirtualBox Version 3.2.0 is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, the product is now called Oracle VM VirtualBoxand all references were changed without impacting compatibility.
• Experimental support for Mac OS X guests
• Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the manual for more information)
• CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see the manual for more information)
• New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance (see the manual for more information); also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster, which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)
• Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running
• Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI (see the manual for more information)
• USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no Guest Additions are available
• LsiLogic SAS controller emulation
• RDP video acceleration
• NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage
• Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications from the host system
• OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings that are not part of the base OVF standard

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during early boot (software virtualization only)
• VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled
• VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large amount of RAM
• VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging only)
• Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added
• GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new VM
• GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of passing the local host time to the guest
• GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors
• GUI: added --seamless and --fullscreen command line switches
• Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files
• Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for audio input
• Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support
• Mac OS X: Moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure it.
• Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu
• VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment
• 3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering
• 3D support: fixed VM crashes when using ARB_IMAGING
• 3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several windows with single OpenGL context
• 3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support
• 3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support
• 3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (Mac OS X only)
• Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)
• LsiLogic: Fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when using the drivers from LSI
• NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only)
• Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances
• Shared folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files (Linux guests only)
• OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller in VirtualBox