[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#497840: Please package new major upstream release 2.0.0

[Jason Spiro]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.6.2-dfsg-4
Severity: wishlist

Thank you for maintaining the Debian virtualbox-ose package: it's
wonderful to be able to get premade Free Software VirtualBox OSE
packages by typing a single command.  The following report is not a
bug report, but a news report.  :)

A new upstream release, VirtualBox 2.0.0, came out today.  The
ChangeLog mentions many changes, including "The GUI was converted from
Qt3 to Qt4", "New-version notifier", and "Created separate SDK
component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and
Solaris hosts".  It would be great if you could package it when you
have the time.

Cheers,
Jason

Here's the full story from http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog though
I removed the lines relating to non-Linux hosts.

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)
...
    * The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements
    * New-version notifier
    * Guest property information interface
...
    * 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
...

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