Download VirtualBox 2.0.2

Sun Microsystems released version 2.0.0 of VirtualBox last week and, as is often the case after a major release, some bugs were found. That is why there is now a so-called maintenace release ready for you in the form of version 2.0.2. VirtualBox can be used to install another operating system on a computer in a virtual environment. VirtualBox runs on Windows 2000 and above, Mac OS X, Linux and Opensolaris and can handle a wide range of guest operating systems.

The software is available in two different versions. The full version has more functionality, such as support for USB ports and remote display protocol, but is only free for private use and evaluation purposes. This extra functionality is closed source and is missing in the other version: the open source version. The main improvement in version 2.0.0 is support for 64-bit operating systems. Below you can find all the changes that have been made in version 2.0.2:

Changelog for VirtualBox version 2.0.2:

• VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)
• VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)
• VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha, Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875)
• VMM: fixed 64 bit Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian)
• VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only)
• VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132)
• GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in the virtual disk manager
• GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even if that path wasn’t changed (bug #2064)
• GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)
• GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)
• GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn’t working with the new QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)
• GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #2067)
• GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)
• GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it’s not supported by the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts)
• VBoxManage: fixed crash during internalcommands createrawvmdk (bug #2184)
• VBoxManage: fixed output or snapshot showvminfo (bug #698)
• Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces (Windows guests only)
• Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes (bug #2055)
• API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)
• VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection (configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled)
• VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem
• Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
• Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27
• Mac OS X hosts: added Python support
• 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 disabled for the latter) (bug #1854)
• 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 networking was enabled
• Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when installing under the wrong architecture
• 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

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