VirtualBox 2.1 upgrad in Ubuntu 8.10

Yesterday my upgrade notifications in the menu bar lit up telling me there were upgrades. Well I was super busy but clicked to start the upgrade just before leaving the house. Out of the corner of my eye I read that there was an update to VirtualBox... Well this excited me because I use VirtualBox all the time to design web pages and to run my invoicing software. Major downside of virtualization has always been that I can not pay Subspace Continuum.. Just wouldn't run because of the lack of proper 3D graphics support... Well that may all change soon enough.

VirtualBox 2.1.4 (released 2009-02-16)

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

• Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems when running Linux guests (bugs fixed in SVN/2.1.4 (closed)">#1606, fixed in SVN/2.1.4 (closed)">#2269, Linux guest -> BSOD / fixed in ... (closed)">#2763)
• Windows hosts: Fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs fixed in SVN (closed)">#3168, Fixed in SVN/2.1.4 (closed)">#2916)
• Windows hosts: Fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, fixed in SVN (closed)">#3130)
• Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)
• Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules (bug #3115)
• Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they don’t override existing system rules (bug fixed in ... (closed)">#3143)
• Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)">#3215)
• Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if dbus or hal are not available (bug fixed in SVN (closed)">#3136)
• Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was disabled (bug fixed in SVN (closed)">#3098)
• Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had been started using sudo previously (bug fixed in SVN (closed)">#3270)
• Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests in parallel
• Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs
• VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug fixed in SVN/2.1.4 (closed)">#3172)
• VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot
• REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with software virtualization (bug fixed in SVN/2.1.4 (closed)">#3245)
• GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug fixed in SVN (closed)">#3256)
• GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action send the shutdown signal if the guest is currently not using ACPI
• GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts when keys are auto-repeated (bug fixed in SVN (reopened)">#1296)
• API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug fixed in SVN (closed)">#3087)
• VBoxHeadless: really don’t start X11 services (clipboard service, 3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug Fixed in SVN (closed)">#3199)
• NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug Fixed in SVN (closed)">#3200)
• NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)">#3110)
• NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug fixed in SVN (reopened)">#3257)
• NAT: don’t intercept TFTP packages with a destination address different from the builtin TFTP server (bug Fixed ... (closed)">#3112)
• USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts
• USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active
• VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug Fixed in SVN (closed)">#1989)
• VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state synchronization (bug use rdesktop -N command line ... (closed)">#3253)
• LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug fixed in 2.1.4 (closed)">#3174)
• 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
• 3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug Fixed in SVN. (closed)">#3246)
• Windows Additions: fixed ERROR (e0000101) error during installation (bug ... (closed)">#1923)
• Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders with 64 bit guests (bug fixed in ... (closed)">#2225)
• Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change
• Windows Additions: fixed the Network drive not connected message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)
• Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files in O_APPEND mode to a shared folder (bug ... (closed)">#2844)
• Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up on X.Org release candidates (bug mouse support fixed ... (closed)">#3212)
• Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1 (bug fixed in SVN (closed)">#3213)
• Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is configured for fixed resolutions
• Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are larger than the actual guest resolution (bug fixed in ... (closed)">#3096)

All in all this is an excellent fix...