![]() Changelog- 5. 0 – Oracle VM Virtual. Box. This page lists all changes of the Virtual. Box 5. 0 releases. All branches: 5. 1 . The following items were fixed and/or added. VMM: fixed software virtualization on Solaris hosts (5. Storage: fixed a potential hang under rare circumstances (bug #1. ![]() ![]() Network Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) for Your EC2 Instance The maximum transmission unit (MTU) of a network connection is. Spectrum Lab Configuration Dialog From the Options menu you can activate a special Setup window, where you may modify the following parameters. In this article, you learn about Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Integration Services and how they enhance virtual machine performance. UpdateStar is compatible with Windows platforms. UpdateStar has been tested to meet all of the technical requirements to be compatible with Windows 10, 8.1, Windows 8. Storage: fixed a potential crash under rare circumstances (asynchronous I/O disabled or during maintenance file operations like merging snapshots). Storage: fixed a potential crash under rare circumstances (no asynchronous I/O or during maintenance file operations like merging snapshots). Linux hosts: make the ALSA backend work again as well as Loading the GL libraries on certain hosts (5. Virtual. Box 5. 0. This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added. ![]() ESXi and vCenter Server 6.0 Documentation VMware vSphere ESXi and vCenter Server 6.0 Documentation vSphere Installation and Setup Updated Information. Intel® Ethernet Controllers support advanced features for I/O virtualization and unified networking. Find and contact HP Customer Support, download drivers, manuals and troubleshooting information for HP products, including pcs, laptops, desktops, printers, tablets. Windows Vista Jumbo Frames MtuGUI: don't crash on restoring defaults in the appliance import dialog. Virtual. Box 5. 0. This is a maintenance release. ![]() ![]() The following items were fixed and/or added. Shared Folders: fixed case insensitive filename access (5. ![]() Windows guests only; bug #1. Shared Folders: fixed access to long pathes (5. Windows guests only; bug #1. VBox. Bug. Report: fixed VM log collection issue. Linux hosts: fixed autostart service script (bug #1. Virtual. Box 5. 0. This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added. VMM: don't access the MSR. The following items were fixed and/or added. GUI: fixed a problem where the new version detected dialog was covered by the appliance import dialog (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #1. Storage: fixed a problem with the Lsi. Logic SCSI controller where requests could be lost with SMP guests. OVF: when importing appliances, make sure that the version of the embedded Virtual. Box specific settings is processed, to get the default settings handling right. Linux hosts: automatically disable asynchronous I/O on Linux 2. I/O load may trigger kernel oopses on these kernels if this feature is enabled. API: don't crash when sanitizing certain VM names (bug #1. Linux hosts / guests: Linux 2. Linux hosts: Linux 4. Linux hosts: Linux 4. Linux Additions: fixed protocol error during certain operations on shared folders (bug #8. Virtual. Box 5. 0. This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added. Storage: fixed resizing VDI images resulting in an unbootable image under certain circumstances (bug #1. NAT: fixed several 5. Mac OS X and Windows hosts (bug #1. Audio: fixed recording glitches (Mac OS X hosts). Audio: fixed stream re- initialization on audio device change (Mac OS X hosts). Windows hosts: hardening fix for Windows 1. Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4. Virtual. Box 5. 0. This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added. NAT: Don't exceed the maximum number of . Patch from bug #1. The following items were fixed and/or added. VMM: fixed a bug in the task switching code (ticket #1. GUI: allow to overwrite an existing file when saving a log file (bug #8. GUI: fixed screenshot if the VM is started in separate mode. Audio: improved recording from USB headsets and other sources which might need conversion of captured data. Audio: fixed regression of not having any audio available on Solaris hosts. VGA: fixed an occasional hang when running Windows guests with 3. D enabled. Storage: fixed a possible endless reconnect loop for the i. SCSI backend if connecting to the target succeeds but further I/O requests cause a disconnect. Storage: fixed a bug when resizing certain VDI images which resulted in using the whole disk on the host (bug #1. EFI: fixed access to devices attached to SATA port 2 and higher (bug #1. API: fixed video recording with VBox. Headless (bug #1. API: don't crash if there is no graphics controller configured (bug #1. VBox. SVC: fixed several memory leaks when handling . Solaris hosts: fixed a crash on hosts with certain CPU configurations. Windows hosts: properly fall back to NDIS5 on pre- Vista hosts on silent installations. Virtual. Box 5. 0. This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added. VMM: reverted to the old I/O- APIC code for now to fix certain regressions with 5. This means that the networking performance with certain guests will drop to the 5. One workaround is to disable GRO for Linux guests. The following items were fixed and/or added. VMM: fixes for certain Intel Atom hosts (bug #1. VMM: properly restore the complete FPU state for 3. Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs. VMM: new I/O- APIC implementation fixing several bugs and improving the performance under certain conditions (bug #1. VMM: fixed a potential Linux guest panic on AMD hosts. VMM: fixed a potential hang with 3. EFI guests on Intel CPUs (VT- x without unrestricted guest execution). GUI: don't allow to start subsequent separate VM instances. GUI: raised upper limit for video capture screen resolution (bug #1. GUI: warn if the VM has less than 1. MB VRAM configured and 3. D enabled. Main: when monitoring DNS configuration changes on Windows hosts avoid false positives from competing DHCP renewals. This should fix NAT link flaps when host has multiple DHCP configured interfaces, in particular when the host uses Opn. VPN. The following items were fixed and/or added. Storage: fixed a regression causing write requests from the BIOS to cause a Guru Meditation with the Lsi. Logic SCSI controller (5. Storage: several emulation fixes in the Bus. Logic SCSI controller emulation. NAT Network: support TCP in DNS proxy (same problem as in bug #1. NAT). NAT: rework handling of port- forwarding rules (bug #1. NAT: rewrite host resolver to handle more query types and make it asynchronous so that a stalled lookup doesn't block all NAT traffic. Snapshots: don't crash when restoring a snapshot which has more network adapters than the current state (ie when the snapshot uses ICH9 and the current state uses PIIX3). Guest Control: various bugfixes for the copyfrom and copyto commands / API (bug #1. VBox. Manage: list processor features on list hostinfo (bug #1. Linux hosts: fix for Linux 4. CONFIG. The following items were fixed and/or added. GUI: position off- screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch in consistence with default- behavior (bug #1. GUI: fixed the View menu / Full- screen Mode behavior on Mac OS X El Capitan. GUI: fixed a test which allowed to encrypt a hard disk with an empty password. GUI: fixed a crash under certain conditions during VM shutdown. GUI: fixed the size of the VM list scrollbar in the VM selector when entering a group. PC speaker passthrough: fixes (Linux hosts only; bug #6. Drag and drop: several fixes. SATA: fixed hotplug flag handling when EFI is used. Storage: fixed handling of encrypted disk images with SCSI controllers (bug #1. Storage: fixed possible crash with Solaris 7 if the Bus. Logic SCSI controller is used. USB: properly purge non- ASCII characters from USB strings (bugs #8. NAT Network: fixed 1. CPU load in VBox. Net. NAT on Mac OS X under certain circumstances (bug #1. ACPI: fixed ACPI tables to make the display color management settings available again for older Windows versions (4. Guest Control: fixed VBox. Manage copyfrom command (bug #1. Snapshots: fixed several problems when removing older snapshots (bug #1. VBox. Manage: fixed - -verbose output of the guestcontrol command. Windows hosts: hardening fixes required for recent Windows 1. Windows hosts: fixed support of jumbo frames in with bridged networking (5. Windows hosts: don't prevent receiving multicast traffic if host- only adapters are installed (bug #8. Linux hosts: added support for the new naming scheme of NVME disks when creating raw disks. Solaris hosts / guests: properly sign the kernel modules (bug #1. Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4. Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4. Linux Additions: added a kernel graphics driver to support graphics when X. Org does not have root rights (bug #1. Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed several issues causing Linux/Solatis guests using software rendering when 3. D acceleration is available. Windows Additions: fixed a hang with Power. Point 2. 01. 0 and the WDDM drivers if Aero is disabled. Virtual. Box 5. 0. This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added. VMM: fixed a problem which could lead to a wrong guest behavior on AMD CPUs (tickets #1. GUI: don't try to synchronize the HID LEDs if the VM window is not active or if it's minimized (Windows / Mac OS X hosts only; bug #1. GUI: prevent a crash during startup under rare conditions. GUI: sub- menu option to disable the guest- OS type overlay in the application dock icon on Mac OS X. GUI: position off- screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch. GUI: hide the VT- x/AMD- V checkbox if raw- mode is not supported (usually Mac OS X hosts; bug #1. PC speaker passthrough: new experimental feature, available on Linux host only. Audio: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts + guests. Audio: properly handle default audio device changes (Windows hosts). USB: serveral fixes for the x. HCI controller (e. The following items were fixed and/or added. GUI: properly limit the number of VCPUs to the number of physical cores on Mac OS X (bug #1. Audio: fixed a bug which prevented loading a saved state of a saved guests with HDA emulation (5. Audio: don't crash if the backend is unable to initialize (bug #1. Audio: fixed audio capture on Mac OS X (bug #1. Storage: fixed a possible crash when attaching the same ISO image multiple times to the same VM (bug #1. BIOS: properly report if two floppy drives are attached. USB: fixed a problem with filters which would not capture the device under certain circumstances (5. Ext. Pack: black- list Extension Packs older than 4. Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused robocopy to fail (bug #1. Linux hosts: properly create the /sbin/rcvboxdrv symbolic link (5. Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for USB on El Capitan (bug #1. Linux Additions: fixes for Linux 4. Virtual. Box 5. 0. This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added. GUI: fixed wrong scrolling behaviour in the VM selector window when a VM item is dragged out of the chooser- pane area. Linux vs Windows 7 . This isn't because we want to raise the profile of Windows, or ignite further flamewars on which is better or worse. It's about understanding the market and understanding the competition. Microsoft Windows is by far the most dominant operating system on the planet, and as Linux users, we need to keep on top of new developments, new technologies and new ideas. This gives Linux the best possible chance to grow and remain relevant. So, if you read our benchmarks comparing Windows 7, Vista and Ubuntu and are looking to find out more on what separates Windows 7 and Linux on the features front, read on.. Both operating systems now occupy a distinctly different part of the market. Microsoft has taken Windows down a purely proprietary route, forging relationships with content providers and hardware vendors that keep full control from the user. Linux is completely open. Out of the box, Linux even boasts better media format support than Windows, and it can be the only way to run older hardware at its fullest potential, especially if there isn't a new driver for Windows 7. Forewarned is forarmed. Over the life span of Windows 7, public concern for privacy, digital rights management and locked- in upgrades should help Linux to grow as an alternative when users want to keep complete control over their own hardware and software. Microsoft is now operating in a considerably different, and more technologically aware, environment than nine years ago when Windows XP was released. The European Commission has spent a lot of time, effort and money hounding Microsoft for its alleged anti- competitive behaviour and this is going to have an impact on Windows 7 in Europe, as well as the user's awareness of the issues surrounding choice and bundling. Many average Windows users, for instance, were unaware that Internet Explorer was only one option for browsing the world wide web. Thanks to the European Commission, When Windows 7 is released in Europe it won't feature any browser at all, and for the first time, Windows users will have to make a choice about what they want to install. And making choices can get addictive. Round 1: Performance. Much has been said about the various performance improvements in Microsoft's next operating system. After the apparent gluttony of Vista hardware requirements, Microsoft has tried to make sure that as many people as possible could attend the upgrade party. Many benchmarks have put Windows 7 performance ahead of both XP and Vista, and we saw some improvements over Vista when we initially benchmarked the open beta earlier in the year. But when we compared the 6. Windows 7 against its equivalent Ubuntu release, Linux was faster on most of the tests we ran, including boot time, shutdown time and most of the filesystem tests. The only test where Windows 7 was significantly faster than everything else was the Richards benchmark of overall system performance. Amount of time taken to execute the Python Richards benchmark. Measured in milliseconds; less is better. Four months later we performed some of the same tests again, this time pitting the most recent 6. Linux distribution (Fedora 1. Windows 7 release candidate (build 7. The most dramatic results for Linux were seen on boot speed, which for the final release of Ubuntu Jaunty measured around 3. Fedora 1. 1 close on its heels taking 3. Windows 7, by comparison, took almost twice as long, leaving us waiting 6. We also found that a default installation of Fedora 1. Gnome desktop uses significantly less memory than Windows 7, at only 2. MB. Windows uses 4. MB, which is nearly twice as much memory. Compatibility. But benchmarks and system monitoring is only a small part of the story. Every fresh Windows install feels fast and responsive, and it's only after several months' constant use that any weaknesses will begin to show. In the several weeks we've been using Windows 7 alongside our Linux boxes, we found it to be much more stable than XP, and snappier than Vista. We did have one problem with a corrupted filesystem while crash testing the machine with a reset, but as this is pre- release software it wouldn't be fair to criticise Windows 7 until the final version is available. There's little doubt that Windows 7 is a solid improvement over its predecessor, and we would guess that most Windows users who were previously reluctant to upgrade XP will be happy with Windows 7 running on a new machine. Windows' greatest asset is the variety of software available, and Microsoft is going to offer an XP compatibility mode as an add- on to Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate. This solution bundles Microsoft's Virtual PC virtualisation software along with a copy and a licence to run XP. It's not native, so it's unlikely to run your favourite games, but it will enable you to run essential XP- only software in a window on your desktop. This stands in stark contrast to the cavalier attitude to backward compatibility that Microsoft took with Vista, and it's a step that's likely to make Windows 7 an essential upgrade for many XP users. The same isn't quite so true of hardware, which still suffers from Vista's over- zealous attitude towards hardware signing and backwards compatibility. Even if your hardware is capable of running Windows 7 it's unlikely you'll be able to exploit its capabilities unless the officially signed drivers are available for your device. With no Direct. X 1. Aero Glass effects on the desktop, which is one of Windows 7's best features. Worst of all, you're locked into the resolution data provided by your screen. Our test system uses two 1. D cheap screens from Hanns- G. They're perfectly capable devices that work well with Linux, but we wasted days trying every trick we could think of to get them working with Windows 7, and in the end we gave up. If you found Vista's hardware installation frustrating, you're likely to have the same problems with Windows 7. Performance. Windows 7. Better at synthetic benchmarks. Faster transfer of large files. Final version likely to improve. Suspend/resume works! Linux. Faster booting. Less memory usage. Smaller install size. Broader hardware compatibility. Round 2: Desktop warfare. Despite the hyperbole surrounding performance tuning and increased efficiency, the battleground for success is going to be the desktop. This is where we spend the most time, and it's where small changes can make a massive difference in productivity. Windows 7 promises big improvements, but at first glance you could be forgiven for thinking that very little has changed since the release of Windows XP, which never seems too far beneath the surface. The old device manager, for instance, is identical to the now discontinued version and there are many aspects of the desktop that feel the same. But to give the new desktop a fair crack of the whip, we'll take Microsoft's own list of what's good, and compare that with what Linux has to offer. New features, according to Microsoft. Top of the list of usability improvements is the new task bar and full- screen previews. It's now easier to add your own applications to the task bar, using a process called 'pinning', and while this has always been possible through the use of the Quick Launch tool, Microsoft is making a big deal out its new easiness, as well as another major addition - larger icons. Another much- touted usability improvement is the window thumbnail that appears when you hover your mouse cursor over a minimised application. Each one of these features has been part of the modern Linux desktop for some time. And while features such as the thumbnail preview of an application were initially a cutting- edge part of Compiz, we now take their inclusion on a modern desktop for granted. In KDE 4. 2, for example, you get exactly the same task bar functionality, and if you use a cutting- edge distribution such as Fedora 1. With the panel in edit mode, right- click on any menu option and you can choose to either add an icon to the desktop or to the desktop panel, and once there you can drag it into a location that most suits you. Adding full- screen preview to your Linux box is also is easy. Either use Compiz on Gnome or enable the desktop effects in KDE to get exactly the same feature, and either panel is far more configurable than the Windows equivalent. The KDE one in particular can be resized, repositioned, re- aligned, set vertical or horizontal and augmented with any number of plasmoid additions. Both KDE and Gnome users have been able to 'pin' applications and media to the task bar for years. Jump Lists. Let's see if Windows 7 can catch up in its next new feature - Jump Lists. These are a way to expose certain parts of an application to a menu revealed when you right- click on its launch icon. The most common example is right- clicking on an application to bring up a list of recent files, any of which can be loaded by simply selecting them. There's even an extension for Firefox. This trick requires some communication between the applications themselves and the window manager, and the non- standard nature of the Linux desktop makes it a difficult feature to emulate. We can't honestly say Jump Lists are a paradigm shift in desktop use, but they're a nice addition, and it can't be long until either the Gnome or KDE developers come up with something similar. Sticking with desktop usability, Microsoft is keen to show off the new window comparison feature, something it calls 'Snaps'. This is a semi- intelligent window snapping routine that can divide the screen into two and maximises two application windows into each half. Drag a window into one of these snap points, either the top border to maximise the window, or the left and right borders for a 5. While the average Linux desktop doesn't have this exact feature, both Gnome and KDE offer more comprehensive snapping options. From KDE's Window Behaviour panel, for instance, you can set separate snap borders for the edge of the screen, the edge of a window or even the centre of the display.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
November 2017
Categories |