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2019-12-18 : RemoteBox 2.7 released RemoteBox now requires VirtualBox 6.1.x

VirtualBox now requires hardware virtualization and no longer supports software virtualization. Removed associated options from RemoteBox.

Removed option of setting the video side-channel quality for an RDP connection. This option is largely unsupported by RDP clients and not particularly useful.

Added support for the Virtio-SCSI controller

Added support for the AMD PCNet-ISA/NE2100 network card

Added support for nested hardware virtualization (VT-x/AMD-V) for supported processors

Added toolbar buttons in the VMM to create new hard disk images, new floppy disk images (from 360K to 2.88MB) and move media to new locations

Newly created floppy disk images can be optionally pre-formatted with FAT12

Added a menu option when attached storage for creating a new floppy disk image and automatically attaching it

Added option to specify MAC address policy when importing an appliance

Added options to specify MAC address policy and include ISO files when exporting an appliance

Added options to Keep disk UUIDs, specify MAC policy and keep disk names when cloning a guest

Added OS icon for Windows 2019 64bit

Rewrote the copy and disk conversion code, should be cleaner and faster

Creating a new guest, now uses the ApplyDefaults API call which was broken in previous versions of VirtualBox. This allows a lot of code cleanups and faster guest creation

Fixed incorrect URL on About window

Various code cleanups 2019-09-21 : Added Windows 10 WSL Installation Videos Videos have been added showing RemoteBox being installed under Windows 10 using the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

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WSL Ubuntu 2019-01-06 : RemoteBox 2.6 released RemoteBox now requires VirtualBox 6.0.x

Added additional screen modes for video capture and video hinting

Added option to select between Video and Audio, Video Only or Audio Only when screen capturing

Added support for VirtualBox VGA card with VMware SVGA II extensions

Added support for having no graphics card in the guest. Note however, you cannot connect to the guest with RDP/VNC without a virtual graphics card.

Added support for setting the emulated serial UART type

The Audio Input and Audio Output options can now also be set while the guest is running

Added support to the VMM (Virtual Media Manager) for compaction of hard disk images to reduce their physical size

Added support to the VMM (Virtual Media Manager) for resizing hard disk images

Added ability to save a guest log to a local text file

Added refresh button to reload the guest logs in the log viewer

Added cancel button to the VirtualBox Preferences dialog

Removed Host-Only-Network and NAT Network configuration from the VirtualBox preferences dialog and created the Host Network Manager dialog accessible from the file menu

Significantly updated the RemoteBox icon set and added additional decals

To work around a VirtualBox bug, when changing a shared folder the guest settings are now explicitly saved. This includes adding, editing and deleting

Optimised a lot of the settings retrieval code which should improve latency especially for those on slower systems and networks.

Fixed the Edit Shared Folder dialog not correctly showing a share's Permanent Status, when editing the shared folder.

Various code cleanups 2018-04-29 : RemoteBox 2.5 released RemoteBox now only pops up a VirtualBox Extensions warning dialog on login, for server operating systems that have them available but the extension pack is not installed. Currently this is Linux, Solaris, Windows and MacOS X. Others such as FreeBSD will just get a warning in the message log as there are no VirtualBox extensions.

Added support for setting the Audio driver of a guest when using a FreeBSD server

Improved the code which automatically adds the guest addition ISO to the VMM on login which should prevent an error if the server does not provide a guest additions ISO

Added support for VNC. If your server has the VNC extension pack installed, you can use VNC to connect to the guest displays instead of RDP. You must install a VNC client on your RemoteBox machine and configured it as appropriate in your preferences. TigerVNC is the default client

The guest display icon now shows whether the server expects a VNC or RDP connection when opening the display of guests.

Added option to change the floppy drive type to 360k, 720k, 1.44MB, 2.88MB 15.6MB and 63.5MB.

Added a button to assist with the automatic generation of serial port paths

Fixed a bug causing the port path setting to be reset with the defaults

Fixed audio support for Solaris servers. The SolAudio driver is non functional in VirtualBox and has been replaced with OSS. 2017-11-04 : RemoteBox 2.4 released RemoteBox now requires VirtualBox 5.2.x

Updated guest icons

Added option to enable/disable audio output from a guest

Added option to enable/disable audio input to a guest

Added option to record audio from the guest when capturing a video

Added support for exporting appliances to Oracle Public Cloud Format 1.0

Added ability to select a connection profile to use for automatically logging in when starting up RemoteBox.

Added option 'Release Keys' to clear any held keys in the case where a host and guest's keyboard status may become out of sync.

New guests now automatically have their audio output enabled

Fixed: You now can't set video RAM to zero, even though VirtualBox reports this as a valid minimum, the guest won't start. 2017-10-19 : VirtualBox 5.2 compatibility There are no incompatible API changes with the release of VirtualBox 5.2, so you can continue to use RemoteBox 2.3 (ignore the version warning). Work is in progress to update RemoteBox. 2017-05-05 : RemoteBox 2.3 released Implemented a connection profile manager and changed the connection dialog. Passwords can optionally be saved, however if you're highly concerned about security, the password can still be manually entered at connection time.

Improved remote file choosers by remembering their last location throughout a RemoteBox session.

Added preference option to sort the guest list alphabetically or leave it in natural order.

Default RDP option now uses the FreeRDP new syntax unless previously configured

Added OS icon for Windows 2016

Fixed regression when setting setting the auto start delay time for a guest, it would get reset to 0

When renaming the current snapshot, the new name would not be shown in the guest list until refreshed. This has now been fixed.

Various minor GUI tweaks 2016-08-15 : RemoteBox 2.2 released RemoteBox now requires VirtualBox 5.1.x

Added support for adding an NVMe Controller to the guest

Added the ability to set the number of SAS ports

Added support for setting the hot-pluggable flag on harddisk and optical devices attached to SATA or USB storage controllers

Added support for specifying whether a disk controller should be bootable or not

Updated the number of possible SAS ports from 8 to 255 for an attached medium

Updated FreeBSD guest OS Icons

Fixed a bug when assigning a different SAS port to a medium. RemoteBox was not creating the SAS port first causing a port out of range error.

Fixed a bug when selecting storage attached to the USB controller. RemoteBox incorrectly showed the IDE controller attributes.

Set default guest OS types for new guests to Windows 10 64bit, Fedora 64bit, FreeBSD 64bit and DOS for their respective OS families

Minor changes to appdata.xml

Various GUI tweaks 2016-06-01 : RemoteBox 2.1 released Added support for TCP mode on virtual serial ports

Added support for encryption of the guest

Added additional fields in the VMM, Encrypted & UUID

Added support for 4 serial ports

Added support for setting the audio controller codec

Paused guests can now be powered off

Set default guest OS types for new guests to Windows 7 64bit, Ubuntu 64bit, Solaris 11 64bit for their respective OS families

Improved logon failure error reporting. It should help determine whether the failed logon is incorrect credentials or the service not running

Fixed an issue exporting appliances of guests with USB attached storage. USB attached storage is not supported by appliances.

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