Download Virtualbox 2.0.6

Sun Microsystems released version 2.0.6 of Virtualbox on Friday. This program can be used to install another operating system on a computer in a virtual environment. Virtualbox runs under Windows 2000 and higher, Mac OS X, Linux and Opensolaris and can handle a large number 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, namely the open source version. Virtualbox 2.0.6 is a so-called maintenance release and contains no new functionality. However, several improvements have been made and a number of bugs have been fixed. Below is the changelog for this release:

The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bit Windows guests
• VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V)
• VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only)
• GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows hosts only)
• GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring the VM window via the Windows taskbar
• VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
• SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
• SATA: improved performance
• SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1
• E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances
• USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Windows additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
• Linux additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit guests
• SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections

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