VirtualKD 2.5.4 - Changelog

What's new in VirtualKD 2.5.2:

May 17th, 2011

· Added support for VirtualBox 4.x

What's new in VirtualKD 2.5.1:

July 12th, 2010

· Added support for VirtualBox 3.2.x

What's new in VirtualKD 2.5:

July 12th, 2010

· Added "instant break" feature, reducing debugger break-in time to zero when using VisualDDK
· Added support for restoring VM (VirtualBox/VMWare) to last snapshot from VMMON/VisualDDK

What's new in VirtualKD 2.4:

July 12th, 2010

· Fixed compatibility with UAC (.vmpatch files are now saved to Application Data)

What's new in VirtualKD 2.3:

February 9th, 2010

· Fixed memory leak in VMMON
· Added support for patching VMs from non-administrator accounts via IPC with VMMON
· Fixed bug when only first running VM was reported
· Added support for VirtualBox 3.1.x

What's new in VirtualKD 2.2:

February 9th, 2010

· Improved integration with VisualDDK
· Added support for VMWARE-VMX-DEBUG.EXE etc.

What's new in VirtualKD 2.1:

February 9th, 2010

· Added support for Windows 7 host and guest machines
· Added test signature to KDVM.DLL allowing it to run on Vista x64 in TESTSIGNING mode
· Added automatic guest machine installer

What's new in VirtualKD 2.0:

July 2nd, 2009

· Added support for VirtualBox
· Fixed bug with incorrect x64 VMWare patching

What's new in VirtualKD 1.2:

July 2nd, 2009

· Fixed rare bug, when disconnecting debugger in the middle of a KdSendPacket() call caused hanging
· Reduced CPU usage from 100% to 0% when a VM is active and no debugger is connected
· Added workaround for truncated Driver Verifier messages
· Added on-demand packet logging feature for easy packet-level KD protocol analyzis
· Added API for detecting & patching VMs to KDCLIENT.DLL to support VisualDDK integration
· Pipe name is now generated based on VMWARE-VMX.EXE command line, instead of current directory (fix for rare "kd_" pipes)
· Added support for sending generated 'Target OS Shutdown' packet when VM is stopping to force debugger to disconnect
· Added ",reconnect" option to WinDbg command line, instructing it to reconnect a pipe, when it is closed
· Due to 2 previous features, debugger does not need to be restarted when a VM is restored from a snapshot, while OS is running)

What's new in VirtualKD 1.1:

July 2nd, 2009

· Fixed handler loss after Virtual Machine reset
· Fixed bug with VMWare hanging when no debugger is connected
· Added patcher/packet level log displaying in VMMON
· Added support for KDCLIENT.DLL unloading from VMMON
· Added advanced statistics reporting to VMMON
· Added permissive SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES to statistics-related objects to support non-admin VMWare instances
· Added debugger command line customization
· Added proxy mode support for debug VMMON builds
· Added TraceAssist feature
· Implemented buffered VMWare GuestRPC resulting in ~1.7x communication speedup