VirtualBox 3.0 Released!

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This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 of the user manual)
Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental; see chapter 4.8 of the user manual)
Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)
Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under certain conditions
Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE
Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)
VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)
VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don’t support this feature (most do); bug #638)
VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)
VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels)
VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)
VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)
VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due to XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)
VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)
GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)
GUI: redesigned settings dialogs
GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters (non Windows hosts)
GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)
GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)
3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states
3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats
3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements
3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs
3D support: fixed glew library detection
3D support: fixed random textures corruption
VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client
Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18
NAT: fixed “open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514” (forum)
NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters
NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface
PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)
VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)
VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image
VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes
VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)
VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file
OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes
OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once
Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)
Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)
Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the correct file mode when creating files
Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain conditions (bug #1187)
Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on a Linux host (bug #3404)
X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)
X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes
Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and guest property lookup
Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users, basic network information)
Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)
USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242).
USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles
Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented web service.
Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface inheritance correctly, fixed
Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously unavailable
Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog?
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Great stuff! :D
 
/ Runs off to download VB 3.0
Keen to see if the 3d DX8/9 will work with the Citrix ICA protocol.
 
Looks like Vbox still has a windows guest shared folder bug... if I try and copy/ duplicate a file/folder I can't, paste does not work and if I browse the shared directory I get the inaccessible error after a while.

Now... on Virtualbox 2.X.X editions to get around this I would install the older windows guest additions like 2.0.4 and then shared folders would work perfectly.

Anyone want to test and confirm this bug with a linux host and XP guest? test shared folders/directories on 3.0?
 
Aqua_lung said:
Looks like Vbox still has a windows guest shared folder bug... if I try and copy/ duplicate a file/folder I can't, paste does not work and if I browse the shared directory I get the inaccessible error after a while.

Now... on Virtualbox 2.X.X editions to get around this I would install the older windows guest additions like 2.0.4 and then shared folders would work perfectly.
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I had problems like that with the late version1 Vbox. I'm running v2.2.4 with the v2.2.4 guest additions with no problems with shared folders (use them all the time for editing my photos). What I found worked when I used to get those errors was to dismount the shared drives in windows, then remount them through tools> "map network drive"> browse in the explorer. I could then work an entire session without hiccups.

Aqua_lung said:
Anyone want to test and confirm this bug with a linux host and XP guest? test shared folders/directories on 3.0?
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Will download later and test. I'm keen to see whether the tablet handling has improved.
 
BigAl-sa said:
I had problems like that with the late version1 Vbox. I'm running v2.2.4 with the v2.2.4 guest additions with no problems with shared folders (use them all the time for editing my photos). What I found worked when I used to get those errors was to dismount the shared drives in windows, then remount them through tools> "map network drive"> browse in the explorer. I could then work an entire session without hiccups.

Will download later and test. I'm keen to see whether the tablet handling has improved.
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Thanks
 
VirtualBox is fantastic. We use it in a development environment to run different development virtual machines. In stead of installing ALL the software you need for developing for our different systems, you have separate VMs for each target, and you just run the one you need. And it's easy to just give a new guy the images, all set up, than him taking 2 or 3 days just to install the dev environment.
 
Installed and running (Vbox and guest additions). Am busy letting Canon's DPP read a folder full of RAW files (about 250) on a Linux disk, and it seems to be running very similarly to 2.2.4, hogging one core to about 90% while generating the thumbnails.

I'll edit a few files in PSP 9 and PSP 12 and see how it feels.

The tablet still doesn't work properly :(
 
I would think that Aero support is a long way off, considering the hardware requirements....
 
Conradl said:
/ Runs off to download VB 3.0
Keen to see if the 3d DX8/9 will work with the Citrix ICA protocol.
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Would be interesting to see. How exactly are you planing to set it up? a Xenapp server on a VM inside VB3? Or is there an ica server component for desktops these days?
 
Park@82 said:
Would be interesting to see. How exactly are you planing to set it up? a Xenapp server on a VM inside VB3? Or is there an ica server component for desktops these days?
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There is XenDesktop, for VDI, but that runs on XenServer. Was thinking that it would be cool to host the VDesktop using VB3, and then use ICA as a display protocol to view the 3d desktop. Of course this is most likely impossible....
 
Conradl said:
Of course this is most likely impossible....
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Yep moving objects like video generally does not look/sound all that great in a ts environment.
Heard that wyse have developed multimedia streaming software that works by streaming the video and audio outside of the rdp protocol.
 
Most companies have some form of VDI display protocol.

Wyse has technology, called TCX, that is used to enhance the multimedia capabilities of their terminals in VDI solutions. MS bought out a startup called Calista, whose technology they want to use for host-side rendering, and to enhance their RDP protocol. Citrix has the ICA protocol and their new HDX technology; and a 10 year head start on the competition....

They work by offloading the processing from the server to the client. If, for example, you want to watch a movie, it will stream it to the client device and use a local codec to render; the actual data is still streamed within the relevant protocol - RDP/ICA.

Calista is untested, it has never seen an official, production release, and it remains to be seen if it will deliver on its promises. IMHO, ICA/HDX is tops and the only real solution capable of delivering multimedia content....
 
Inserting, would probably mean that thin clients would need better graphics cards and processors to stay in the game.
 
While thin clients will have to become more powerful, the reality is that 15 years or so after the creation of the first dedicated 3D display card; business has still not built a strong business case for 3D applications. There simply is no need for main stream 3D SAP/outlook for example.... So old, dumb, thin clients have their place.

For an interesting look at where the technology is heading, check out http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1685500
 
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