Virtualbox 3.0 released

Sun has released Virtualbox 3.0 yesterday. Virtualbox 3.0 brings one of the fixes I have been waiting for. It fixed the USB webcam problem. I haven’t tried it to see if it’s working. I would give that a try tonight. Here are some of the major fixes in Virtualbox 3.0, mostly related to Linux.

• Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
• Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31
• fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot
• GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode
• GUI: redesigned settings dialogs
• GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
• 3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states
• support Windows 7 RDP client
• Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18
• VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK files giving raw partition access
• VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file
• Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
• 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
• Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on a Linux host
• X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines
• 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)
• 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.
• USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles

For more information on fixes, refer to changelog.

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