As major new features, Version 1.5 adds:
Seamless windows (see Sectionа4.7, “Seamless windows” )
Virtual serial ports (see Sectionа3.7.6, “Serial ports” )
Support for 64-bit Windows hosts (see Sectionа1.4, “Supported host operating systems” )
Intel PXE 2.1 network boot
Guest Additions for IBM OS/2 Warp
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: sometimes two mouse cursors were visible when Windows guest Additions became active
GUI: added VT-x/AMD-V settings
GUI: disable 'Show log...' menu entry to prevent crash if VM list is empty
GUI: the log window grabbed the keyboard
GUI: fixed error handling if Linux host clipboard initialization fails
GUI: pass the Pause key and the PrtScrn key to the guest (Linux hosts)
GUI: increased maximum guest RAM to 2 GB (Windows host)
GUI: improved rendering performance (Windows host)
GUI: status lights for USB and shared folders
GUI: properly respect the DISPLAY environment variable
GUI: download Guest Additions from virtualbox.org in case they are not present locally
VRDP: support for multimonitor configurations in Windows guests
VRDP: support for MS RDP6 and MS RDP Mac clients
VRDP: added support for WinConnect RDP client
VRDP: performance improvements
VRDP: fixed sporadic client disconnects
VBoxManage: never delete existing target during clonevdi
VBoxManage: properly print the size of currently used hard disks
VMM: fixed Xandros Desktop 4.1 hang
VMM: fixed VT-x/AMD-V hang with newer versions of gcc (Linux hosts)
VMM: improved stability of VT-x
VMM: check for disabled AMD-V when detecting support
VMM: fixed AMD-V issue when running OS/2 guests
VMM: fixed application startup regressions (e.g. VideoReDo)
VMM: fixed regression that broke disk access in OS/2 and OpenBSD guests (possibly much more)
VMM: fixed crashes if memory allocation failed (Linux)
VMM: fixed enabling of Local APIC on AMD hosts (fixed Ubuntu Feisty installation kernel hang during boot)
VMM: fixed XFree86 4.3 (Debian/Sarge) segfaults when switching to text mode
VMM: refuse to start when KVM is active (Linux Host)
VMM: fixed bootup hangs with ReactOS
VMM: fixed out-of-memory errors under certain environments with enough appropriate memory available
API: fixed occasional crashes of the VBoxSVC server during VM shutdown (Linux host)
API: some components were not notified when mounting a CD/DVD
VMDK: improve geometry compatibility with existing VDMK images
IDE/Floppy: optionally make non-available host device non-fatal
IDE: improve emulation accuracy of the IRQ line between master and slave drive
IDE: guest could freeze when unmounting the CD/DVD drive
VGA: several text mode fixes in particular with Windows DOS boxes
USB: fixed some issues with Windows hosts
USB: fixed race condition between udev and USB filters (Linux host)
Shared Folders: reversed network provider order to increase mapping performance (Windows guest)
Shared Folders: browsable from Windows Explorer (Windows guests)
Shared Folders: stability fixes (Windows guest)
Shared Folders: case sensitivity fixes (Windows guest and Linux host)
Audio: fall back to the NULL audio driver if no voice could be opened
NAT: fixed crash
Guest Additions: reworked the shared clipboard for Linux hosts and guests based on user feedback about problems with individual applications
Guest Additions: don't allow to disable mouse pointer integration for Linux guests as an Xorg hardware mouse cursor cannot be turned into a software mouse cursor
Guest Additions: Linux guests shipping Xorg 1.3 (e.g. Fedora 7, Ubuntu Gutsy) are now supported
Guest Additions: added DirectDraw support to the Windows display driver