Please update to latest version (1.6.4)

[Wouter Stomp]

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VirtualBox 1.6.4 (released 2008-07-30)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    * AMD-V, VT-x: stability fixes
    * Shared Folders: fixed host crash (Solaris host only, bugs #1336, #1646)
    * Shared Folders: fixed BSOD when debugging with Visual Studio (bug #1627)
    * Shared Folders: fixed BSOD when compiling on a shared folder (bug #1683)
    * Shared Folders: several fixes/stability improvements
    * SATA: fixed a race that could cause an occasional Windows guest system hang
    * SATA: fixed spurious BIOS log messages
    * Networking: fixed NIC tracing with NAT interfaces (bug #1790)
    * USB: fixed crash under certain conditions when unplugging a USB device (bug #1295)
    * Settings: fixed bug when converting 1.5.x settings
    * RDP: fixed enabling the RDP server during runtime
    * RDP: properly detect the rdesktop 1.6.0 RDP client
    * RDP: fixed RDP crash (bug #1521)
    * RDP: updated modified rdesktop client to version 1.6.0
    * GUI: NLS improvements
    * BIOS: added SMBIOS header to make Solaris and Vista recognize the DMI data
    * ACPI: properly hide a disabled floppy controller
    * VMM: small fixes to protected mode without paging
    * VMDK: fixed handling of .vmdk images without UUIDs
    * Windows hosts: fixed driver parameter validation issue in VBoxDrv.sys that could allow an attacker on the host to crash the system
    * Windows hosts: installer now contains web service examples mentioned in the manual
    * Linux hosts: properly deregister the Linux kernel module before uninstalling a Linux deb/rpm package
    * Linux hosts: kernel module works now with Linux 2.6.27
    * Linux hosts: fixed a typo in the vboxnet setup script for host network interfaces (bug #1714)
    * Linux hosts: fixed usage of tar in installer (bug #1767)
    * Linux hosts: fixed long guest shutdown time when serial port is enabled
    * Solaris hosts: refuse to install in Sun xVM hypervisor dom0
    * Solaris hosts: accept Solaris raw disks when for raw disk access
    * Windows additions: made installation of shared folders more robust
    * Windows additions: improved installation
    * Linux additions: accept every user-defined guest video mode in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
    * Linux additions: fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions (e.g. openSUSE 11)

[clickwir (clickwir)]

I don't know if this is coming for Intrepid, but I'd like to second that this get upgraded. It would be really nice to have some of those features.

[Jisakiel (jisakiel)]

1.6.6 and 2.0.0 released, and still at 1.6.2 in ubuntu / debian... Perhaps this bug should be related to the debian archive as well?

From http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog :

VirtualBox 2.0.0 (released 2008-09-04)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

    * 64 bits guest support (64 bits host only)
    * New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts
    * The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements
    * New-version notifier
    * Guest property information interface
    * Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts
    * New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts
    * Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)
    * Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)
    * Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw disks/partitions (major performance gain)
    * Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests
    * Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts
    * Support for VHD disk images

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

    * VMM: VT-x fixes
    * AHCI/SATA: improved performance
    * GUI: keyboard fixes
    * Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if unregistering the DKMS module fails
    * Linux additions: the guest screen resolution is properly restored
    * Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)
    * Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11
    * Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn’t simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)

VirtualBox 1.6.6 (released 2008-08-26)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    * VMM: fixed excessive logging (bug #1901)
    * VMM: AMD-V stability fixes (bug #1685)
    * GUI: added support for Ctrl+Caps reversed keyboards (bug #1891)
    * SATA: fixed BSODs of Windows guests on a SATA disk (bug #1941)
    * SATA: fixed hard disk detection on Solaris 10 U5 (bug #1789)
    * VBoxHeadless: don’t start the clipboard service (bug #1743)
    * VBoxHeadless: added -vrdp parameter which allows to start the VM session without VRDP (bug #1960)
    * VBoxManage: fixes to creating raw disk/partition VMDK files, now accepts removable media on Windows (bug #1869)
    * VRDP: fixed communication with MS Remote Desktop Connection on Mac OS X (bug #1337)
    * VRDP: clipboard fixes (bug #1410)
    * VRDP: fixed crash during PAM authentication (bug #1953)
    * Shared Folders: fixed a regression introduced in version 1.6.2: the shared folders service was sometimes not properly installed (Windows guests only, bug #1915)
    * Shared Folders: don’t deny to load a VM if a shared folder is not accessible (bug #822)
    * BIOS: allow to specify empty DMI strings (bug #1957)
    * OSE archive: added missing Makefiles (bug #1912)
    * Linux hosts: workaround for buggy gcc-4.3 compilers (e.g. openSUSE 11)
    * Linux hosts: one more fix for compiling the kernel modules on Linux 2.6.27 (bug #1962)
    * Mac OS X hosts: shared folders unicode fix...

[clickwir (clickwir)]

I would love to see 2.0 part of Intrepid. I did a quick run of it from the virtualbox website and it was quite nice and worked well.