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Virtualbox 2.2 Beta 2 is now available for testing. In addition to the feature list from the Beta 1 announcement, Beta 2 contains the following fixes.

Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB

Many fixes for OVF import/export

VMM: properly emulate RDMSR from the TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests

IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)

Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not writable

USB: Fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices (Windows hosts only; bug #1654)

E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)

X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)

Linux additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6 (bug #3555)

Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)

Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host interface (bug #3414)

Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh (bug #3586)

VBoxManage: controlvm dvdattach did not work if the image was attached before

VBoxManage showvminfo: don't spam the release log if the additions don't support statistics information (bug #3457)

GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot a read-only disk image (bug #1745)

LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests

See the announcement in the VirtualBox Forum for more information. The beta can be downloaded from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.2.0_BETA2.

As with Beta 1, this release is for testing and evaluation purposes, so please do not run this on a production system. I really don't need to remind you of this - you will get a nice graphical reminder every time you start the control program.

Point your browser at the VirtualBox Beta Feedback Forum for more information about the beta program.

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