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2	<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3	"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd">
4	<para>
5	<sect1>
6	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-xx)</title>
7
8	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
9	were added:</para>
10
11	<itemizedlist>
12
13	<listitem>
14	<para>New settings/disk file layout; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" />.</para>
15	</listitem>
16
17	<listitem>
18	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support; see <xref linkend="ovf" />.</para>
19	</listitem>
20
21	<listitem>
22	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
23	</listitem>
24
25	<listitem>
26	<para>Windows Additions: support for automatically updating the Guest Additions
27	(requires installed Windows Guest Additions 4.0 or later)</para>
28	</listitem>
29
30	<listitem>
31	<para>Guest Additions: support for copying files into the guest file system</para>
32	</listitem>
33
34	<listitem>
35	<para>Language bindings: implemented uniform Java bindings for both local
36	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
37	</listitem>
38
39	<listitem>
40	<para>Audio: Intel HD Audio is now available as guest hardware, for better support
41	with modern guest operating systems (e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785).</para>
42	</listitem>
43
44	<listitem>
45	<para>GUI: new mode for scaling the VM window content with preserved
46	interactivity</para>
47	</listitem>
48
49	</itemizedlist>
50
51	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
52
53	<itemizedlist>
54
55	<listitem>
56	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
57	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
58	</listitem>
59
60	<listitem>
61	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
62	</listitem>
63
64	<listitem>
65	<para>GUI: new detail view with guest window preview</para>
66	</listitem>
67
68	<listitem>
69	<para>GUI: the guest VM list is now sortable</para>
70	</listitem>
71
72	<listitem>
73	<para>GUI: add the possibility to delete all harddisk attached to an
74	VM, when this VM is deleted (bug #5511)</para>
75	</listitem>
76
77	<listitem>
78	<para>GUI: built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on
79	double click (bug #2322)</para>
80	</listitem>
81
82	<listitem>
83	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
84	(bug #1657)</para>
85	</listitem>
86
87	<listitem>
88	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
89	</listitem>
90
91	<listitem>
92	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
93	</listitem>
94
95	<listitem>
96	<para>Settings: deleting a machine now automatically deletes all
97	snapshots and saved states as well, it is no longer necessary
98	to manually delete snapshots first; VBoxManage unregistervm --delete
99	can do the same now</para>
100	</listitem>
101
102	<listitem>
103	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
104	the VM is running</para>
105	</listitem>
106
107	<listitem>
108	<para>Snapshots: added screenshots</para>
109	</listitem>
110
111	<listitem>
112	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
113	again (bug #6864)</para>
114	</listitem>
115
116	<listitem>
117	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
118	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
119	</listitem>
120
121	<listitem>
122	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
123	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
128	</listitem>
129
130	<listitem>
131	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
132	</listitem>
133
134	<listitem>
135	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
136	</listitem>
137
138	<listitem>
139	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
140	</listitem>
141
142	<listitem>
143	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
144	(bug #7058)</para>
145	</listitem>
146
147	<listitem>
148	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
149	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
150	</listitem>
151
152	<listitem>
153	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
154	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
155	#5578)
156	</para>
157	</listitem>
158
159	<listitem>
160	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
161	</listitem>
162
163	<listitem>
164	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
165	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
166	</listitem>
167
168	<listitem>
169	<para>OVF/OVA: creation of the manifest file on export is optional
170	now</para>
171	</listitem>
172
173	<listitem>
174	<para>OVF/OVA: allow overwriting the target disk format on
175	import</para>
176	</listitem>
177
178	<listitem>
179	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
180	</listitem>
181
182	<listitem>
183	<para>OVF/OVA: export/import proprietary VirtualBox
184	settings</para>
185	</listitem>
186
187	<listitem>
188	<para>Storage: DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
189	#6760)</para>
190	</listitem>
191
192	<listitem>
193	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
194	Parallels images</para>
195	</listitem>
196
197	<listitem>
198	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images</para>
199	</listitem>
200
201	<listitem>
202	<para>Storage: allow limiting bandwidth for disk images</para>
203	</listitem>
204
205	<listitem>
206	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
207	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
208	</listitem>
209
210	<listitem>
211	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
212	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
213	</listitem>
214
215	<listitem>
216	<para>Linux Additions: support for symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	<listitem>
220	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
221	file</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
226	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	</itemizedlist>
230
231	</sect1>
232
233	<sect1>
234	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
235
236	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
237	added:</para>
238
239	<itemizedlist>
240
241	<listitem>
242	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
243	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
244	</listitem>
245
246	<listitem>
247	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
248	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
249	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
250	</listitem>
251
252	<listitem>
253	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
254	</listitem>
255
256	<listitem>
257	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
258	</listitem>
259
260	<listitem>
261	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
262	</listitem>
263
264	<listitem>
265	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
266	the VM is running</para>
267	</listitem>
268
269	<listitem>
270	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
271	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
272	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
273	starting from a saved state</para>
274	</listitem>
275
276	<listitem>
277	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
278	</listitem>
279
280	<listitem>
281	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
282	</listitem>
283
284	<listitem>
285	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
286	</listitem>
287
288	<listitem>
289	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
290	</listitem>
291
292	<listitem>
293	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
294	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
295	</listitem>
296
297	<listitem>
298	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
299	fixes for Koran keyboards</para>
300	</listitem>
301
302	<listitem>
303	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
304	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
305	</listitem>
306
307	<listitem>
308	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
309	</listitem>
310
311	<listitem>
312	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
313	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
314	</para>
315	</listitem>
316
317	<listitem>
318	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
319	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
320	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
321	</listitem>
322
323	<listitem>
324	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
325	only)</para>
326	</listitem>
327
328	<listitem>
329	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
330	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
331	</listitem>
332
333	<listitem>
334	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
335	</listitem>
336
337	<listitem>
338	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
339	</listitem>
340
341	<listitem>
342	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
343	</listitem>
344
345	<listitem>
346	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
347	state (bug #4124)</para>
348	</listitem>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
352	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
357	</listitem>
358
359	<listitem>
360	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
361	(bug #2996)</para>
362	</listitem>
363
364	<listitem>
365	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
366	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
367	</listitem>
368
369	<listitem>
370	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
371	</listitem>
372
373	<listitem>
374	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
375	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
376	</listitem>
377
378	<listitem>
379	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
380	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
381	</listitem>
382
383	<listitem>
384	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
385	user accounts for VM information</para>
386	</listitem>
387
388	</itemizedlist>
389
390	</sect1>
391
392	<sect1>
393	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
394
395	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
396	added:</para>
397
398	<itemizedlist>
399
400	<listitem>
401	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
402	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
403	</listitem>
404
405	<listitem>
406	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
407	</listitem>
408
409	<listitem>
410	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
411	</listitem>
412
413	<listitem>
414	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
415	</listitem>
416
417	<listitem>
418	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
419	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
424	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
425	</listitem>
426
427	<listitem>
428	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
429	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
430	</listitem>
431
432	<listitem>
433	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
434	(bug #4952)</para>
435	</listitem>
436
437	<listitem>
438	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
439	bug #6122)</para>
440	</listitem>
441
442	<listitem>
443	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
444	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
445	</listitem>
446
447	<listitem>
448	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
449	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
450	(Linux hosts only)</para>
451	</listitem>
452
453	<listitem>
454	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
455	</listitem>
456
457	<listitem>
458	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
459	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
460	</listitem>
461
462	<listitem>
463	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
464	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
465	</listitem>
466
467	<listitem>
468	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
469	canceled</para>
470	</listitem>
471
472	<listitem>
473	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
474	</listitem>
475
476	<listitem>
477	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
478	</listitem>
479
480	<listitem>
481	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
482	</listitem>
483
484	<listitem>
485	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
486	</listitem>
487
488	<listitem>
489	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
490	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	<listitem>
494	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
495	</listitem>
496
497	<listitem>
498	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
499	(Linux hosts only)</para>
500	</listitem>
501
502	<listitem>
503	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
504	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
505	</listitem>
506
507	<listitem>
508	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
509	</listitem>
510
511	<listitem>
512	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
513	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
514	</listitem>
515
516	<listitem>
517	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
518	</listitem>
519
520	<listitem>
521	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
522	circumstances</para>
523	</listitem>
524
525	<listitem>
526	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
527	printers</para>
528	</listitem>
529
530	<listitem>
531	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
532	</listitem>
533
534	<listitem>
535	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
536	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
537	</listitem>
538
539	<listitem>
540	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
541	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
542	</listitem>
543
544	<listitem>
545	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
546	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
547	circumstances</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	<listitem>
551	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
552	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
553	</listitem>
554
555	<listitem>
556	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
557	as supported extension</para>
558	</listitem>
559
560	<listitem>
561	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
562	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
563	</listitem>
564
565	<listitem>
566	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
567	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
568	</listitem>
569
570	<listitem>
571	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
572	</listitem>
573
574	<listitem>
575	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
576	(bug #7366)</para>
577	</listitem>
578
579	<listitem>
580	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
585	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
586	</listitem>
587
588	<listitem>
589	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
590	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
591	</listitem>
592
593	<listitem>
594	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
595	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
596	</listitem>
597
598	<listitem>
599	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
600	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
601	</listitem>
602
603	<listitem>
604	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
605	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
606	</listitem>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
610	</listitem>
611
612	<listitem>
613	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
614	</listitem>
615
616	<listitem>
617	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
618	more than one environment variable</para>
619	</listitem>
620
621	<listitem>
622	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
623	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
624	</listitem>
625
626	<listitem>
627	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
628	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
629	</listitem>
630
631	<listitem>
632	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
633	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
634	</listitem>
635
636	<listitem>
637	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
638	enumerating logged in users</para>
639	</listitem>
640
641	<listitem>
642	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
643	</listitem>
644
645	<listitem>
646	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
647	</listitem>
648
649	<listitem>
650	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
651	</listitem>
652
653	<listitem>
654	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
655	in the event of a VM crash</para>
656	</listitem>
657
658	<listitem>
659	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
660	</listitem>
661
662	<listitem>
663	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
664	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
665	</listitem>
666
667	<listitem>
668	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
669	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
670	</listitem>
671
672	<listitem>
673	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
674	(bug #7448)</para>
675	</listitem>
676
677	<listitem>
678	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
679	</listitem>
680
681	<listitem>
682	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
683	</listitem>
684
685	<listitem>
686	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
687	</listitem>
688
689	</itemizedlist>
690
691	</sect1>
692
693	<sect1>
694	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
695
696	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
697	added:</para>
698
699	<itemizedlist>
700
701	<listitem>
702	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
703	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
704	</listitem>
705
706	<listitem>
707	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
708	</listitem>
709
710	<listitem>
711	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
712	bug #6809)</para>
713	</listitem>
714
715	<listitem>
716	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
717	</listitem>
718
719	<listitem>
720	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
721	</listitem>
722
723	<listitem>
724	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
725	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
726	</listitem>
727
728	<listitem>
729	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
730	changes</para>
731	</listitem>
732
733	<listitem>
734	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
735	</listitem>
736
737	<listitem>
738	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
739	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
740	</listitem>
741
742	<listitem>
743	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
744	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
745	</listitem>
746
747	<listitem>
748	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
749	</listitem>
750
751	<listitem>
752	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
757	</listitem>
758
759	<listitem>
760	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
761	</listitem>
762
763	<listitem>
764	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
765	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
766	</listitem>
767
768	<listitem>
769	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
770	</listitem>
771
772	<listitem>
773	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
774	(bug #6832)</para>
775	</listitem>
776
777	<listitem>
778	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
779	guests</para>
780	</listitem>
781
782	<listitem>
783	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
784	</listitem>
785
786	<listitem>
787	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
788	without external tools and tricks</para>
789	</listitem>
790
791	<listitem>
792	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
793	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
794	</listitem>
795
796	<listitem>
797	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
798	</listitem>
799
800	<listitem>
801	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
802	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
803	</listitem>
804
805	<listitem>
806	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
807	shutdown</para>
808	</listitem>
809
810	<listitem>
811	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
812	fixes</para>
813	</listitem>
814
815	<listitem>
816	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
817	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
818	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
819	</para>
820	</listitem>
821
822	<listitem>
823	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
824	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
825	</listitem>
826
827	<listitem>
828	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
829	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
830	</listitem>
831
832	<listitem>
833	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
834	</para>
835	</listitem>
836
837	<listitem>
838	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
839	</listitem>
840
841	<listitem>
842	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
843	</listitem>
844
845	<listitem>
846	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	</itemizedlist>
850
851	</sect1>
852
853	<sect1>
854	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
855
856	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
857	added:</para>
858
859	<itemizedlist>
860
861	<listitem>
862	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
863	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
864	</listitem>
865
866	<listitem>
867	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
868	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
869	</listitem>
870
871	<listitem>
872	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
873	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
874	</listitem>
875
876	<listitem>
877	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
878	</listitem>
879
880	<listitem>
881	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
882	</listitem>
883
884	<listitem>
885	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
886	</listitem>
887
888	<listitem>
889	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
890	</listitem>
891
892	<listitem>
893	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
894	assigned</para>
895	</listitem>
896
897	<listitem>
898	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
899	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
900	</listitem>
901
902	<listitem>
903	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
904	multiple screens are enabled</para>
905	</listitem>
906
907	<listitem>
908	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
909	</listitem>
910
911	<listitem>
912	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
913	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
914	</listitem>
915
916	<listitem>
917	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
918	again (bug #7022).
919	</para>
920	</listitem>
921
922	<listitem>
923	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
924	(bug #6768)</para>
925	</listitem>
926
927	<listitem>
928	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
929	(bug #6927)</para>
930	</listitem>
931
932	<listitem>
933	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
934	bug #7031)</para>
935	</listitem>
936
937	<listitem>
938	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
939	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
940	</listitem>
941
942	<listitem>
943	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
944	bug #6987)</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
949	</listitem>
950
951	<listitem>
952	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
953	</listitem>
954
955	<listitem>
956	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
957	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
958	</listitem>
959
960	<listitem>
961	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
962	</listitem>
963
964	<listitem>
965	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
966	installation (bug #5101)</para>
967	</listitem>
968
969	<listitem>
970	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
971	</listitem>
972
973	<listitem>
974	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
975	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
976	bug #6872)</para>
977	</listitem>
978
979	<listitem>
980	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
981	</listitem>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
985	(performance tweak)</para>
986	</listitem>
987
988	<listitem>
989	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
990	is currently paused</para>
991	</listitem>
992
993	<listitem>
994	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
995	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
996	</listitem>
997
998	<listitem>
999	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1000	</listitem>
1001
1002	<listitem>
1003	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1004	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1005	</listitem>
1006
1007	<listitem>
1008	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1009	not properly saved</para>
1010	</listitem>
1011
1012	<listitem>
1013	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1014	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1015	</listitem>
1016
1017	<listitem>
1018	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1023	</listitem>
1024
1025	<listitem>
1026	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1027	</listitem>
1028
1029	<listitem>
1030	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1031	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1032	</listitem>
1033
1034	<listitem>
1035	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1036	</listitem>
1037
1038	<listitem>
1039	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1040	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1041	</listitem>
1042
1043	<listitem>
1044	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1045	(bug #5251)</para>
1046	</listitem>
1047
1048	<listitem>
1049	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1050	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1051	</listitem>
1052
1053	<listitem>
1054	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1055	</listitem>
1056
1057	<listitem>
1058	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1059	</listitem>
1060
1061	<listitem>
1062	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1063	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1064	</listitem>
1065
1066	<listitem>
1067	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1068	</listitem>
1069
1070	<listitem>
1071	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1076	</listitem>
1077
1078	</itemizedlist>
1079	</sect1>
1080
1081	<sect1>
1082	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1083
1084	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1085	added:</para>
1086
1087	<itemizedlist>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1091	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1096	</listitem>
1097
1098	<listitem>
1099	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1100	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1101	</listitem>
1102
1103	<listitem>
1104	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1105	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1106	</listitem>
1107
1108	<listitem>
1109	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1110	</listitem>
1111
1112	<listitem>
1113	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1114	again (bug #6864)</para>
1115	</listitem>
1116
1117	<listitem>
1118	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1119	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1120	</listitem>
1121
1122	<listitem>
1123	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1124	</listitem>
1125
1126	<listitem>
1127	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1128	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1129	</listitem>
1130
1131	<listitem>
1132	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1133	</listitem>
1134
1135	</itemizedlist>
1136
1137	</sect1>
1138
1139	<sect1>
1140	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1141
1142	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1143	added:</para>
1144
1145	<itemizedlist>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1153	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1158	</listitem>
1159
1160	<listitem>
1161	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1162	state</para>
1163	</listitem>
1164
1165	<listitem>
1166	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1167	</listitem>
1168
1169	<listitem>
1170	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1171	</listitem>
1172
1173	<listitem>
1174	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1175	</listitem>
1176
1177	<listitem>
1178	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1183	</listitem>
1184
1185	<listitem>
1186	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1187	</listitem>
1188
1189	<listitem>
1190	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1191	</listitem>
1192
1193	<listitem>
1194	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1195	</listitem>
1196
1197	<listitem>
1198	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1199	</listitem>
1200
1201	<listitem>
1202	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1207	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1208	</listitem>
1209
1210	<listitem>
1211	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1212	(bug #6784)</para>
1213	</listitem>
1214
1215	<listitem>
1216	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1217	</listitem>
1218
1219	<listitem>
1220	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1221	</listitem>
1222
1223	<listitem>
1224	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1225	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1230	</listitem>
1231
1232	<listitem>
1233	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1238	host only</para>
1239	</listitem>
1240
1241	<listitem>
1242	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1243	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1244	</listitem>
1245
1246	<listitem>
1247	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1248	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1249	</listitem>
1250
1251	<listitem>
1252	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1253	</listitem>
1254
1255	<listitem>
1256	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1257	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1258	</listitem>
1259
1260	<listitem>
1261	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1262	</listitem>
1263
1264	<listitem>
1265	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1266	</listitem>
1267
1268	<listitem>
1269	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1270	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1271	</listitem>
1272
1273	<listitem>
1274	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1275	</listitem>
1276
1277	<listitem>
1278	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1287	(bug #6714)</para>
1288	</listitem>
1289
1290	<listitem>
1291	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1292	</listitem>
1293
1294	<listitem>
1295	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1300	</listitem>
1301
1302	<listitem>
1303	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1304	</listitem>
1305
1306	<listitem>
1307	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1308	</listitem>
1309
1310	</itemizedlist>
1311
1312	</sect1>
1313
1314	<sect1>
1315	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1316
1317	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1318	were added:</para>
1319
1320	<itemizedlist>
1321
1322	<listitem>
1323	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1324	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1325	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1326	</listitem>
1327
1328	<listitem>
1329	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1330	</listitem>
1331
1332	<listitem>
1333	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1334	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1335	</listitem>
1336
1337	<listitem>
1338	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1339	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1340	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1341	</listitem>
1342
1343	<listitem>
1344	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1345	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1346	</listitem>
1347
1348	<listitem>
1349	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1350	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1351	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1352	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1353	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1354	</listitem>
1355
1356	<listitem>
1357	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1358	</listitem>
1359
1360	<listitem>
1361	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1362	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1363	</listitem>
1364
1365	<listitem>
1366	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1367	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1368	</listitem>
1369
1370	<listitem>
1371	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1372	</listitem>
1373
1374	<listitem>
1375	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrdp-videochannel"/>)</para>
1376	</listitem>
1377
1378	<listitem>
1379	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1380	</listitem>
1381
1382	<listitem>
1383	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1384	</listitem>
1385
1386	<listitem>
1387	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1388	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1389	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1390	</listitem>
1391
1392	<listitem>
1393	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1394	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1395	</listitem>
1396
1397	</itemizedlist>
1398
1399	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1400
1401	<itemizedlist>
1402
1403	<listitem>
1404	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1405	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1406	</listitem>
1407
1408	<listitem>
1409	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1414	VM</para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417	<listitem>
1418	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1419	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1420	</listitem>
1421
1422	<listitem>
1423	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1424	#1669)</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1429	#6442)</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1434	combination (bug #684)</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	<listitem>
1438	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1439	the VM from the GUI</para>
1440	</listitem>
1441
1442	<listitem>
1443	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1444	medium is not accessible</para>
1445	</listitem>
1446
1447	<listitem>
1448	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1449	</listitem>
1450
1451	<listitem>
1452	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1453	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1454	</listitem>
1455
1456	<listitem>
1457	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1458	#3106)</para>
1459	</listitem>
1460
1461	<listitem>
1462	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1463	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1464	it</para>
1465	</listitem>
1466
1467	<listitem>
1468	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1469	</listitem>
1470
1471	<listitem>
1472	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1473	</listitem>
1474
1475	<listitem>
1476	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1477	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1478	</listitem>
1479
1480	<listitem>
1481	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1482	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1483	</listitem>
1484
1485	<listitem>
1486	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1487	</listitem>
1488
1489	<listitem>
1490	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1491	</listitem>
1492
1493	<listitem>
1494	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1495	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1496	</listitem>
1497
1498	<listitem>
1499	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1500	</listitem>
1501
1502	<listitem>
1503	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1504	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1505	</listitem>
1506
1507	<listitem>
1508	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1509	</listitem>
1510
1511	<listitem>
1512	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1513	in VirtualBox</para>
1514	</listitem>
1515
1516	<listitem>
1517	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1518	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1519	</listitem>
1520
1521	<listitem>
1522	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1523	VirtualBox</para>
1524	</listitem>
1525
1526	<listitem>
1527	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1528	</listitem>
1529
1530	<listitem>
1531	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1532	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1533	</listitem>
1534
1535	</itemizedlist>
1536	</sect1>
1537
1538	<sect1>
1539	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1540
1541	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1542	added:</para>
1543
1544	<itemizedlist>
1545
1546	<listitem>
1547	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1548	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1553	</listitem>
1554
1555	<listitem>
1556	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1557	</listitem>
1558
1559	<listitem>
1560	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1561	only) </para>
1562	</listitem>
1563
1564	<listitem>
1565	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1566	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1567	</listitem>
1568
1569	<listitem>
1570	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1571	interface version</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1576	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1577	slot empty</para>
1578	</listitem>
1579
1580	<listitem>
1581	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1582	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1583	(bug #4220)</para>
1584	</listitem>
1585
1586	<listitem>
1587	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1588	</listitem>
1589
1590	<listitem>
1591	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1592	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1593	</listitem>
1594
1595	<listitem>
1596	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1597	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1598	</listitem>
1599
1600	<listitem>
1601	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1602	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1603	</listitem>
1604
1605	<listitem>
1606	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1607	attached</para>
1608	</listitem>
1609
1610	<listitem>
1611	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1612	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1613	</listitem>
1614
1615	<listitem>
1616	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1617	</listitem>
1618
1619	<listitem>
1620	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1621	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1622	</listitem>
1623
1624	<listitem>
1625	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1626	is bug #6408)</para>
1627	</listitem>
1628
1629	<listitem>
1630	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1631	</listitem>
1632
1633	<listitem>
1634	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1635	fail to initialize</para>
1636	</listitem>
1637
1638	<listitem>
1639	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1640	</listitem>
1641
1642	<listitem>
1643	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1644	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1645	</listitem>
1646
1647	<listitem>
1648	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1649	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1650	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1651	</listitem>
1652
1653	<listitem>
1654	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1655	</listitem>
1656
1657	<listitem>
1658	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1659	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1660	</listitem>
1661
1662	<listitem>
1663	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1664	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1665	</listitem>
1666
1667	<listitem>
1668	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1669	(bug #6435)</para>
1670	</listitem>
1671
1672	<listitem>
1673	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1674	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
1675	</listitem>
1676
1677	<listitem>
1678	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
1679	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
1680	(bug #6488)</para>
1681	</listitem>
1682
1683	<listitem>
1684	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
1685	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
1686	</listitem>
1687
1688	<listitem>
1689	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1690	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1691	</listitem>
1692
1693	<listitem>
1694	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
1695	#5227)</para>
1696	</listitem>
1697
1698	<listitem>
1699	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
1700	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
1701	</listitem>
1702
1703	<listitem>
1704	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
1705	</listitem>
1706
1707	<listitem>
1708	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
1709	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711
1712	</itemizedlist>
1713	</sect1>
1714
1715	<sect1>
1716	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
1717
1718	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1719	added:</para>
1720
1721	<itemizedlist>
1722
1723	<listitem>
1724	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
1725	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
1726	</listitem>
1727
1728	<listitem>
1729	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
1730	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
1731	</listitem>
1732
1733	<listitem>
1734	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
1735	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
1736	</listitem>
1737
1738	<listitem>
1739	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
1740	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
1741	</listitem>
1742
1743	<listitem>
1744	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
1745	</listitem>
1746
1747	<listitem>
1748	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
1749	</listitem>
1750
1751	<listitem>
1752	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
1753	</listitem>
1754
1755	<listitem>
1756	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
1757	</listitem>
1758
1759	<listitem>
1760	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
1761	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
1762	</listitem>
1763
1764	<listitem>
1765	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
1766	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
1767	</listitem>
1768
1769	<listitem>
1770	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
1771	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
1772	</listitem>
1773
1774	<listitem>
1775	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
1776	</listitem>
1777
1778	<listitem>
1779	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
1780	</listitem>
1781
1782	<listitem>
1783	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
1784	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1785	</listitem>
1786
1787	<listitem>
1788	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
1789	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
1790	calls (bug #6165)</para>
1791	</listitem>
1792
1793	<listitem>
1794	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
1795	(bug #5297)</para>
1796	</listitem>
1797
1798	<listitem>
1799	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
1800	(bug #4962)</para>
1801	</listitem>
1802
1803	<listitem>
1804	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
1805	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
1806	</listitem>
1807
1808	<listitem>
1809	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
1810	(bug #6176)</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
1815	certain circumstances</para>
1816	</listitem>
1817
1818	<listitem>
1819	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
1820	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
1825	</listitem>
1826
1827	<listitem>
1828	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
1829	</listitem>
1830
1831	<listitem>
1832	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
1833	(bug #3571)</para>
1834	</listitem>
1835
1836	<listitem>
1837	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
1838	devices</para>
1839	</listitem>
1840
1841	<listitem>
1842	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
1843	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
1844	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
1849	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
1854	</listitem>
1855
1856	<listitem>
1857	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
1858	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
1859	</listitem>
1860
1861	<listitem>
1862	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
1863	response</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
1868	</listitem>
1869
1870	<listitem>
1871	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
1872	</listitem>
1873
1874	<listitem>
1875	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
1876	</listitem>
1877
1878	<listitem>
1879	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
1880	</listitem>
1881
1882	<listitem>
1883	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
1884	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
1885	</listitem>
1886
1887	<listitem>
1888	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
1889	</listitem>
1890
1891	<listitem>
1892	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	<listitem>
1896	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
1897	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
1898	</listitem>
1899
1900	<listitem>
1901	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
1902	</listitem>
1903
1904	<listitem>
1905	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
1906	</listitem>
1907
1908	<listitem>
1909	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
1910	</listitem>
1911
1912	<listitem>
1913	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
1914	</listitem>
1915
1916	</itemizedlist>
1917	</sect1>
1918
1919	<sect1>
1920	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
1921
1922	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1923	added:</para>
1924
1925	<itemizedlist>
1926
1927	<listitem>
1928	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	<listitem>
1932	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
1933	</listitem>
1934
1935	<listitem>
1936	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
1937	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
1938	</listitem>
1939
1940	<listitem>
1941	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
1942	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
1943	</listitem>
1944
1945	<listitem>
1946	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
1947	(bug #3945)</para>
1948	</listitem>
1949
1950	<listitem>
1951	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
1952	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
1953	</listitem>
1954
1955	<listitem>
1956	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
1957	and AMD-V only) </para>
1958	</listitem>
1959
1960	<listitem>
1961	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
1962	</listitem>
1963
1964	<listitem>
1965	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
1966	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
1967	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
1968	</listitem>
1969
1970	<listitem>
1971	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
1972	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
1973	</listitem>
1974
1975	<listitem>
1976	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
1977	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
1978	</listitem>
1979
1980	<listitem>
1981	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
1982	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
1983	</listitem>
1984
1985	<listitem>
1986	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
1987	snapshots command</para>
1988	</listitem>
1989
1990	<listitem>
1991	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
1992	</listitem>
1993
1994	<listitem>
1995	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
1996	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	<listitem>
2000	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2005	</listitem>
2006
2007	<listitem>
2008	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2009	</listitem>
2010
2011	<listitem>
2012	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2013	(KWin bug)</para>
2014	</listitem>
2015
2016	<listitem>
2017	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2018	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2019	</listitem>
2020
2021	<listitem>
2022	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2023	</listitem>
2024
2025	<listitem>
2026	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2027	</listitem>
2028
2029	<listitem>
2030	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2031	</listitem>
2032
2033	<listitem>
2034	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2035	</listitem>
2036
2037	<listitem>
2038	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2039	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2040	</listitem>
2041
2042	<listitem>
2043	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2044	bug #5787)</para>
2045	</listitem>
2046
2047	<listitem>
2048	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2049	DHCP requests</para>
2050	</listitem>
2051
2052	<listitem>
2053	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2054	(bug #3217)</para>
2055	</listitem>
2056
2057	<listitem>
2058	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2059	range (bug #5923)</para>
2060	</listitem>
2061
2062	<listitem>
2063	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2068	</listitem>
2069
2070	<listitem>
2071	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2076	</listitem>
2077
2078	<listitem>
2079	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2080	file (bug #5681)</para>
2081	</listitem>
2082
2083	<listitem>
2084	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2085	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2086	</listitem>
2087
2088	<listitem>
2089	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2090	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2091	</listitem>
2092
2093	<listitem>
2094	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2095	regression)</para>
2096	</listitem>
2097
2098	<listitem>
2099	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2100	</listitem>
2101
2102	<listitem>
2103	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2104	</listitem>
2105
2106	<listitem>
2107	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2116	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2125	</listitem>
2126
2127	<listitem>
2128	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2129	</listitem>
2130
2131	<listitem>
2132	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2133	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2134	</listitem>
2135
2136	<listitem>
2137	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2138	</listitem>
2139
2140	<listitem>
2141	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2142	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2143	</listitem>
2144
2145	<listitem>
2146	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2147	</listitem>
2148
2149	<listitem>
2150	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2151	</listitem>
2152
2153	<listitem>
2154	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2155	</listitem>
2156
2157	<listitem>
2158	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2159	(bug #5731)</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2164	again</para>
2165	</listitem>
2166
2167	</itemizedlist>
2168
2169	</sect1>
2170
2171	<sect1>
2172	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2173
2174	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2175	added:</para>
2176
2177	<itemizedlist>
2178
2179	<listitem>
2180	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2181	</listitem>
2182
2183	<listitem>
2184	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2185	</listitem>
2186
2187	<listitem>
2188	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2189	</listitem>
2190
2191	<listitem>
2192	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2193	</listitem>
2194
2195	<listitem>
2196	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2201	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2206	</listitem>
2207
2208	<listitem>
2209	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2210	</listitem>
2211
2212	<listitem>
2213	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2214	</listitem>
2215
2216	<listitem>
2217	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2218	</listitem>
2219
2220	<listitem>
2221	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2222	</listitem>
2223
2224	<listitem>
2225	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2226	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2231	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2232	</listitem>
2233
2234	<listitem>
2235	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2236	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2237	#1762)</para>
2238	</listitem>
2239
2240	<listitem>
2241	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2242	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2243	</listitem>
2244
2245	<listitem>
2246	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2247	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2248	</listitem>
2249
2250	<listitem>
2251	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2252	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2253	</listitem>
2254
2255	<listitem>
2256	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2257	</listitem>
2258
2259	<listitem>
2260	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2261	</listitem>
2262
2263	<listitem>
2264	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2265	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2266	</listitem>
2267
2268	<listitem>
2269	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2270	</listitem>
2271
2272	<listitem>
2273	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2274	</listitem>
2275
2276	<listitem>
2277	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2278	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2279	</listitem>
2280
2281	<listitem>
2282	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2283	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2284	</listitem>
2285
2286	<listitem>
2287	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2288	</listitem>
2289
2290	<listitem>
2291	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2292	guests</para>
2293	</listitem>
2294
2295	<listitem>
2296	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2297	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2298	</listitem>
2299
2300	<listitem>
2301	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2302	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2303	</listitem>
2304
2305	<listitem>
2306	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2307	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2308	</listitem>
2309
2310	<listitem>
2311	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2312	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2317	</listitem>
2318
2319	<listitem>
2320	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2321	</listitem>
2322
2323	<listitem>
2324	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2325	</listitem>
2326
2327	<listitem>
2328	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2329	</listitem>
2330
2331	<listitem>
2332	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2333	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2334	</listitem>
2335
2336	<listitem>
2337	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2338	</listitem>
2339
2340	</itemizedlist>
2341
2342	</sect1>
2343
2344	<sect1>
2345	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2346
2347	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2348	were added:</para>
2349
2350	<itemizedlist>
2351
2352	<listitem>
2353	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2354	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2355	</listitem>
2356
2357	<listitem>
2358	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2359	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2360	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2361	</listitem>
2362
2363	<listitem>
2364	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2365	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2366	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2367	</listitem>
2368
2369	<listitem>
2370	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2371	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2372	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2373	</listitem>
2374
2375	<listitem>
2376	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2377	running</para>
2378	</listitem>
2379
2380	<listitem>
2381	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2382	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2383	</listitem>
2384
2385	<listitem>
2386	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2387	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2388	</listitem>
2389
2390	<listitem>
2391	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2392	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2393	</listitem>
2394
2395	<listitem>
2396	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2397	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2398	</listitem>
2399
2400	</itemizedlist>
2401
2402	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2403
2404	<itemizedlist>
2405
2406	<listitem>
2407	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2408	</listitem>
2409
2410	<listitem>
2411	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2416	</listitem>
2417
2418	<listitem>
2419	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2420	(bug #5291)</para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2425	</listitem>
2426
2427	<listitem>
2428	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2429	</listitem>
2430
2431	<listitem>
2432	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2433	</listitem>
2434
2435	<listitem>
2436	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2437	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2438	</listitem>
2439
2440	<listitem>
2441	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2442	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2443	</listitem>
2444
2445	<listitem>
2446	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2447	</listitem>
2448
2449	<listitem>
2450	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2451	</listitem>
2452
2453	<listitem>
2454	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2455	</listitem>
2456
2457	<listitem>
2458	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2459	</listitem>
2460
2461	<listitem>
2462	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2463	</listitem>
2464
2465	<listitem>
2466	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2467	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2468	</listitem>
2469
2470	<listitem>
2471	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2472	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2473	</listitem>
2474
2475	<listitem>
2476	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2477	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2478	</listitem>
2479
2480	<listitem>
2481	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2482	(bug #2723)</para>
2483	</listitem>
2484
2485	<listitem>
2486	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2487	</listitem>
2488
2489	<listitem>
2490	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2491	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2492	</listitem>
2493
2494	<listitem>
2495	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2496	optional manifest file on import</para>
2497	</listitem>
2498
2499	<listitem>
2500	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2501	</listitem>
2502
2503	<listitem>
2504	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2505	(bug #3773)</para>
2506	</listitem>
2507
2508	<listitem>
2509	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2510	</listitem>
2511
2512	<listitem>
2513	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2514	</listitem>
2515
2516	<listitem>
2517	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2518	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2519	</listitem>
2520
2521	<listitem>
2522	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2523	(bug #4866)</para>
2524	</listitem>
2525
2526	<listitem>
2527	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2528	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2529	</listitem>
2530
2531	<listitem>
2532	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2533	certain conditions</para>
2534	</listitem>
2535
2536	<listitem>
2537	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2538	</listitem>
2539
2540	<listitem>
2541	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2542	</listitem>
2543
2544	<listitem>
2545	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2546	</listitem>
2547
2548	<listitem>
2549	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2550	</listitem>
2551
2552	<listitem>
2553	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2554	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2555	</listitem>
2556
2557	<listitem>
2558	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2559	</listitem>
2560
2561	<listitem>
2562	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2563	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2564	</listitem>
2565
2566	<listitem>
2567	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2568	</listitem>
2569
2570	<listitem>
2571	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2572	</listitem>
2573
2574	<listitem>
2575	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2576	</listitem>
2577
2578	<listitem>
2579	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2580	</listitem>
2581
2582	<listitem>
2583	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2584	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2585	</listitem>
2586
2587	<listitem>
2588	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2589	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2590	(bug #928)</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	<listitem>
2594	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2595	</listitem>
2596
2597	</itemizedlist>
2598
2599	</sect1>
2600
2601	<sect1>
2602	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2603
2604	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2605	added:</para>
2606
2607	<itemizedlist>
2608
2609	<listitem>
2610	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2611	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2616	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2621	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2626	enabled</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2631	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2632	</listitem>
2633
2634	<listitem>
2635	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2636	(bug #2676)</para>
2637	</listitem>
2638
2639	<listitem>
2640	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2641	is connected to a raw file</para>
2642	</listitem>
2643
2644	<listitem>
2645	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2646	(bug #5355)</para>
2647	</listitem>
2648
2649	<listitem>
2650	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2655	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2656	</listitem>
2657
2658	<listitem>
2659	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2660	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2661	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2662	</listitem>
2663
2664	<listitem>
2665	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2666	</listitem>
2667
2668	<listitem>
2669	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2670	</listitem>
2671
2672	<listitem>
2673	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2674	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
2675	</listitem>
2676
2677	<listitem>
2678	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
2679	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
2680	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
2681	</listitem>
2682
2683	</itemizedlist>
2684
2685	</sect1>
2686
2687	<sect1>
2688	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
2689
2690	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2691	added:</para>
2692
2693	<itemizedlist>
2694
2695	<listitem>
2696	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
2697	</listitem>
2698
2699	<listitem>
2700	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
2701	</listitem>
2702
2703	<listitem>
2704	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
2705	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
2706	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
2707	</listitem>
2708
2709	<listitem>
2710	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
2711	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
2712	</listitem>
2713
2714	<listitem>
2715	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
2716	</listitem>
2717
2718	<listitem>
2719	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
2720	</listitem>
2721
2722	<listitem>
2723	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
2724	</listitem>
2725
2726	<listitem>
2727	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
2728	</listitem>
2729
2730	<listitem>
2731	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
2732	</listitem>
2733
2734	<listitem>
2735	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
2736	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
2737	</listitem>
2738
2739	<listitem>
2740	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
2741	</listitem>
2742
2743	<listitem>
2744	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
2745	</listitem>
2746
2747	<listitem>
2748	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
2749	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
2750	</listitem>
2751
2752	<listitem>
2753	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
2754	</listitem>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
2758	exhaustion</para>
2759	</listitem>
2760
2761	<listitem>
2762	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
2763	</listitem>
2764
2765	<listitem>
2766	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
2767	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
2768	</listitem>
2769
2770	<listitem>
2771	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
2772	folders (bug #4106)</para>
2773	</listitem>
2774
2775	<listitem>
2776	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
2777	folders (bug #4299)</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
2782	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
2783	(bug #2921)</para>
2784	</listitem>
2785
2786	<listitem>
2787	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
2788	hosts only)</para>
2789	</listitem>
2790
2791	<listitem>
2792	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
2793	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
2794	</listitem>
2795
2796	<listitem>
2797	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
2798	</listitem>
2799
2800	<listitem>
2801	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
2802	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2803	</listitem>
2804
2805	<listitem>
2806	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
2807	</listitem>
2808
2809	<listitem>
2810	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
2811	image inconsistency </para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
2816	</listitem>
2817
2818	<listitem>
2819	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
2820	</listitem>
2821
2822	<listitem>
2823	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
2824	(bug #2025)</para>
2825	</listitem>
2826
2827	<listitem>
2828	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
2829	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
2830	</listitem>
2831
2832	</itemizedlist>
2833
2834	</sect1>
2835
2836	<sect1>
2837	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
2838
2839	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2840	added:</para>
2841
2842	<itemizedlist>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
2846	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
2851	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
2856	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
2857	</listitem>
2858
2859	<listitem>
2860	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
2861	</listitem>
2862
2863	<listitem>
2864	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
2865	software virtualization only) </para>
2866	</listitem>
2867
2868	<listitem>
2869	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
2870	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
2871	</listitem>
2872
2873	<listitem>
2874	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
2875	with root privileges</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
2880	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
2881	</listitem>
2882
2883	<listitem>
2884	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
2885	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
2886	</listitem>
2887
2888	<listitem>
2889	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
2890	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
2891	</listitem>
2892
2893	<listitem>
2894	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
2895	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
2896	selector (bug #5063)</para>
2897	</listitem>
2898
2899	<listitem>
2900	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
2901	available</para>
2902	</listitem>
2903
2904	<listitem>
2905	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
2906	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
2907	</listitem>
2908
2909	<listitem>
2910	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
2911	networking (bug #4775)</para>
2912	</listitem>
2913
2914	<listitem>
2915	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
2916	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
2917	</listitem>
2918
2919	<listitem>
2920	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
2921	(bug #4907)</para>
2922	</listitem>
2923
2924	<listitem>
2925	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
2926	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
2927	</listitem>
2928
2929	<listitem>
2930	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
2931	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
2932	</listitem>
2933
2934	<listitem>
2935	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
2936	</listitem>
2937
2938	<listitem>
2939	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
2940	</listitem>
2941
2942	<listitem>
2943	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
2944	</listitem>
2945
2946	<listitem>
2947	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
2948	</listitem>
2949
2950	<listitem>
2951	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
2952	are installed</para>
2953	</listitem>
2954
2955	<listitem>
2956	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
2957	(bug #4771)</para>
2958	</listitem>
2959
2960	<listitem>
2961	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
2962	</listitem>
2963
2964	<listitem>
2965	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
2966	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
2967	</listitem>
2968
2969	<listitem>
2970	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
2971	command</para>
2972	</listitem>
2973
2974	<listitem>
2975	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
2976	</listitem>
2977
2978	<listitem>
2979	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
2980	</listitem>
2981
2982	<listitem>
2983	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
2984	(bug #5089)</para>
2985	</listitem>
2986
2987	<listitem>
2988	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
2989	</listitem>
2990
2991	</itemizedlist>
2992
2993	</sect1>
2994
2995	<sect1>
2996	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
2997
2998	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2999	added:</para>
3000
3001	<itemizedlist>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3005	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	<listitem>
3009	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3010	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3011	</listitem>
3012
3013	<listitem>
3014	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3015	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3020	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3025	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3030	</listitem>
3031
3032	<listitem>
3033	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3034	</listitem>
3035
3036	<listitem>
3037	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3038	</listitem>
3039
3040	<listitem>
3041	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3042	</listitem>
3043
3044	<listitem>
3045	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3046	</listitem>
3047
3048	<listitem>
3049	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3050	onlined or offlined</para>
3051	</listitem>
3052
3053	<listitem>
3054	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3055	</listitem>
3056
3057	<listitem>
3058	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3059	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3060	</listitem>
3061
3062	<listitem>
3063	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3064	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3065	</listitem>
3066
3067	<listitem>
3068	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3069	</listitem>
3070
3071	<listitem>
3072	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3073	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3074	</listitem>
3075
3076	<listitem>
3077	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3078	</listitem>
3079
3080	<listitem>
3081	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3082	</listitem>
3083
3084	<listitem>
3085	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3086	</listitem>
3087
3088	<listitem>
3089	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3090	</listitem>
3091
3092	<listitem>
3093	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3094	</listitem>
3095
3096	<listitem>
3097	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3098	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3099	</listitem>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3103	</listitem>
3104
3105	<listitem>
3106	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3107	</listitem>
3108
3109	<listitem>
3110	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3111	</listitem>
3112
3113	<listitem>
3114	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3115	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3116	</listitem>
3117
3118	<listitem>
3119	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3120	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3121	</listitem>
3122
3123	<listitem>
3124	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3125	</listitem>
3126
3127	<listitem>
3128	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3129	</listitem>
3130
3131	<listitem>
3132	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3133	</listitem>
3134
3135	<listitem>
3136	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3137	</listitem>
3138
3139	<listitem>
3140	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3145	</listitem>
3146
3147	<listitem>
3148	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3149	</listitem>
3150
3151	<listitem>
3152	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3153	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3154	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3155	phase collapse</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3160	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3161	</listitem>
3162
3163	<listitem>
3164	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3165	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3170	</listitem>
3171
3172	<listitem>
3173	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3174	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3175	</listitem>
3176
3177	<listitem>
3178	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3179	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3180	</listitem>
3181
3182	<listitem>
3183	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3184	</listitem>
3185
3186	<listitem>
3187	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3188	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3189	#4698, #4790)</para>
3190	</listitem>
3191
3192	<listitem>
3193	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3194	less than the configured range</para>
3195	</listitem>
3196
3197	<listitem>
3198	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3199	</listitem>
3200
3201	<listitem>
3202	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3203	</listitem>
3204
3205	<listitem>
3206	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3207	</listitem>
3208
3209	<listitem>
3210	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3211	</listitem>
3212
3213	<listitem>
3214	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3215	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3216	</listitem>
3217
3218	<listitem>
3219	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3220	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3221	</listitem>
3222
3223	<listitem>
3224	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3225	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3226	</listitem>
3227
3228	<listitem>
3229	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3230	</listitem>
3231
3232	<listitem>
3233	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3234	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3235	</listitem>
3236
3237	<listitem>
3238	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3239	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3240	</listitem>
3241
3242	<listitem>
3243	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3244	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3245	</listitem>
3246
3247	<listitem>
3248	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3249	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3250	</listitem>
3251
3252	<listitem>
3253	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3254	</listitem>
3255
3256	<listitem>
3257	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3258	</listitem>
3259
3260	</itemizedlist>
3261
3262	</sect1>
3263
3264	<sect1>
3265	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3266
3267	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3268	added:</para>
3269
3270	<itemizedlist>
3271
3272	<listitem>
3273	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3278	</listitem>
3279
3280	<listitem>
3281	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3282	</listitem>
3283
3284	<listitem>
3285	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3286	</listitem>
3287
3288	<listitem>
3289	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3290	</listitem>
3291
3292	<listitem>
3293	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3294	</listitem>
3295
3296	<listitem>
3297	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3302	</listitem>
3303
3304	<listitem>
3305	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3306	</listitem>
3307
3308	<listitem>
3309	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3310	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3311	</listitem>
3312
3313	<listitem>
3314	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3315	</listitem>
3316
3317	<listitem>
3318	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3319	</listitem>
3320
3321	<listitem>
3322	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3323	</listitem>
3324
3325	<listitem>
3326	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	<listitem>
3330	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3339	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3344	(bug #4654)</para>
3345	</listitem>
3346
3347	<listitem>
3348	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3349	</listitem>
3350
3351	<listitem>
3352	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3353	interfaces</para>
3354	</listitem>
3355
3356	<listitem>
3357	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3358	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3359	</listitem>
3360
3361	<listitem>
3362	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3363	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3368	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3369	</listitem>
3370
3371	<listitem>
3372	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3373	(bug #1461)</para>
3374	</listitem>
3375
3376	<listitem>
3377	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3378	</listitem>
3379
3380	<listitem>
3381	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3382	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3383	</listitem>
3384
3385	<listitem>
3386	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3387	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3388	</listitem>
3389
3390	<listitem>
3391	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3392	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3393	</listitem>
3394
3395	<listitem>
3396	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3397	</listitem>
3398
3399	<listitem>
3400	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3401	</listitem>
3402
3403	<listitem>
3404	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3405	</listitem>
3406
3407	<listitem>
3408	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3409	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3410	</listitem>
3411
3412	<listitem>
3413	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3414	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3415	</listitem>
3416
3417	<listitem>
3418	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3419	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3420	</listitem>
3421
3422	<listitem>
3423	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3424	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3425	</listitem>
3426
3427	</itemizedlist>
3428
3429	</sect1>
3430	<sect1>
3431	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3432
3433	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3434	added:</para>
3435
3436	<itemizedlist>
3437
3438	<listitem>
3439	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3440	</listitem>
3441
3442	<listitem>
3443	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3444	</listitem>
3445
3446	<listitem>
3447	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3448	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3449	</listitem>
3450
3451	<listitem>
3452	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3453	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3462	</listitem>
3463
3464	<listitem>
3465	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3466	</listitem>
3467
3468	<listitem>
3469	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3470	</listitem>
3471
3472	<listitem>
3473	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3474	</listitem>
3475
3476	<listitem>
3477	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3478	</listitem>
3479
3480	<listitem>
3481	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3486	</listitem>
3487
3488	<listitem>
3489	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3490	</listitem>
3491
3492	<listitem>
3493	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3494	</listitem>
3495
3496	<listitem>
3497	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3498	</listitem>
3499
3500	<listitem>
3501	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3502	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3503	</listitem>
3504
3505	<listitem>
3506	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3507	</listitem>
3508
3509	<listitem>
3510	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3511	</listitem>
3512
3513	<listitem>
3514	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3515	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3516	</listitem>
3517
3518	<listitem>
3519	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3520	</listitem>
3521
3522	<listitem>
3523	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3524	</listitem>
3525
3526	<listitem>
3527	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3528	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3529	</listitem>
3530
3531	<listitem>
3532	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3533	</listitem>
3534
3535	<listitem>
3536	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3537	</listitem>
3538
3539	<listitem>
3540	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3541	</listitem>
3542
3543	<listitem>
3544	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3545	</listitem>
3546
3547	<listitem>
3548	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3549	</listitem>
3550
3551	<listitem>
3552	<para>Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware acceleration to be enabled for virtual machines that had no explicit configuration in the XML</para>
3553	</listitem>
3554
3555	</itemizedlist>
3556
3557	</sect1>
3558
3559	<sect1>
3560	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3561
3562	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3563	were added:</para>
3564
3565	<itemizedlist>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3573	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3574	</listitem>
3575
3576	<listitem>
3577	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	</itemizedlist>
3581
3582	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3583
3584	<itemizedlist>
3585
3586	<listitem>
3587	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3588	</listitem>
3589
3590	<listitem>
3591	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3592	certain conditions</para>
3593	</listitem>
3594
3595	<listitem>
3596	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3597	</listitem>
3598
3599	<listitem>
3600	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3601	</listitem>
3602
3603	<listitem>
3604	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3605	</listitem>
3606
3607	<listitem>
3608	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3609	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3610	</listitem>
3611
3612	<listitem>
3613	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3614	</listitem>
3615
3616	<listitem>
3617	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3618	</listitem>
3619
3620	<listitem>
3621	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3622	</listitem>
3623
3624	<listitem>
3625	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3626	</listitem>
3627
3628	<listitem>
3629	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3630	</listitem>
3631
3632	<listitem>
3633	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3634	</listitem>
3635
3636	<listitem>
3637	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3638	</listitem>
3639
3640	<listitem>
3641	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3646	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3651	</listitem>
3652
3653	<listitem>
3654	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3655	</listitem>
3656
3657	<listitem>
3658	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3659	</listitem>
3660
3661	<listitem>
3662	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3663	</listitem>
3664
3665	<listitem>
3666	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3667	</listitem>
3668
3669	<listitem>
3670	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3671	</listitem>
3672
3673	<listitem>
3674	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
3675	</listitem>
3676
3677	<listitem>
3678	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
3679	</listitem>
3680
3681	<listitem>
3682	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
3683	</listitem>
3684
3685	<listitem>
3686	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
3687	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
3688	</listitem>
3689
3690	<listitem>
3691	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
3692	</listitem>
3693
3694	<listitem>
3695	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
3696	</listitem>
3697
3698	<listitem>
3699	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
3700	</listitem>
3701
3702	<listitem>
3703	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3704	</listitem>
3705
3706	<listitem>
3707	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
3716	</listitem>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
3720	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
3721	</listitem>
3722
3723	<listitem>
3724	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
3725	</listitem>
3726
3727	<listitem>
3728	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
3729	</listitem>
3730
3731	<listitem>
3732	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
3733	</listitem>
3734
3735	<listitem>
3736	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
3737	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
3738	</listitem>
3739
3740	<listitem>
3741	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
3742	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
3743	</listitem>
3744
3745	<listitem>
3746	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
3747	correct file mode when creating files</para>
3748	</listitem>
3749
3750	<listitem>
3751	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
3752	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
3753	</listitem>
3754
3755	<listitem>
3756	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
3757	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
3758	</listitem>
3759
3760	<listitem>
3761	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
3762	</listitem>
3763
3764	<listitem>
3765	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
3766	</listitem>
3767
3768	<listitem>
3769	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
3770	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
3771	</listitem>
3772
3773	<listitem>
3774	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
3775	guest property lookup</para>
3776	</listitem>
3777
3778	<listitem>
3779	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
3780	basic network information)</para>
3781	</listitem>
3782
3783	<listitem>
3784	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
3785	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
3786	</listitem>
3787
3788	<listitem>
3789	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
3790	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
3791	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
3792	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
3797	</listitem>
3798
3799	<listitem>
3800	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
3801	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
3802	web service</para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
3807	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
3808	</listitem>
3809
3810	<listitem>
3811	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
3812	unavailable</para>
3813	</listitem>
3814
3815	<listitem>
3816	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
3817	</listitem>
3818
3819	</itemizedlist>
3820	</sect1>
3821
3822	<sect1>
3823	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
3824
3825	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3826	added:</para>
3827
3828	<itemizedlist>
3829
3830	<listitem>
3831	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
3832	installation</para>
3833	</listitem>
3834
3835	<listitem>
3836	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
3837	</listitem>
3838
3839	<listitem>
3840	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
3841	later (bug #3981)</para>
3842	</listitem>
3843
3844	<listitem>
3845	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
3846	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
3847	</listitem>
3848
3849	<listitem>
3850	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
3851	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
3852	(bug #4034)
3853	</para>
3854	</listitem>
3855
3856	<listitem>
3857	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
3858	networking</para>
3859	</listitem>
3860
3861	<listitem>
3862	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
3863	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
3864	</listitem>
3865
3866	<listitem>
3867	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
3868	clicks</para>
3869	</listitem>
3870
3871	<listitem>
3872	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
3873	Windows 7 guests</para>
3874	</listitem>
3875
3876	<listitem>
3877	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
3878	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
3879	</listitem>
3880
3881	<listitem>
3882	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
3883	</listitem>
3884
3885	<listitem>
3886	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
3887	</listitem>
3888
3889	<listitem>
3890	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
3891	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
3892	</listitem>
3893
3894	<listitem>
3895	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
3896	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
3897	</listitem>
3898
3899	<listitem>
3900	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
3901	</listitem>
3902
3903	<listitem>
3904	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
3905	</listitem>
3906
3907	<listitem>
3908	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
3909	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
3910	(bug #3864)</para>
3911	</listitem>
3912
3913	<listitem>
3914	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
3915	now flushes the output stream</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	<listitem>
3919	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
3920	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
3921	</listitem>
3922
3923	<listitem>
3924	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
3925	</listitem>
3926
3927	<listitem>
3928	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
3929	</listitem>
3930
3931	<listitem>
3932	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
3933	</listitem>
3934
3935	<listitem>
3936	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
3937	</listitem>
3938
3939	<listitem>
3940	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
3941	(bug #3964)</para>
3942	</listitem>
3943
3944	<listitem>
3945	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
3946	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
3947	</listitem>
3948
3949	<listitem>
3950	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
3951	hosts</para>
3952	</listitem>
3953
3954	<listitem>
3955	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
3956	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
3957	e1000 adapter</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
3962	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
3963	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
3964	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
3965	</listitem>
3966
3967	<listitem>
3968	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
3969	</listitem>
3970
3971	<listitem>
3972	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
3973	</listitem>
3974
3975	<listitem>
3976	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
3977	</listitem>
3978
3979	<listitem>
3980	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
3981	file (bug #1023)</para>
3982	</listitem>
3983
3984	<listitem>
3985	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
3986	</listitem>
3987
3988	<listitem>
3989	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	</itemizedlist>
3993	</sect1>
3994
3995	<sect1>
3996	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
3997
3998	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3999	added:</para>
4000
4001	<itemizedlist>
4002
4003	<listitem>
4004	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4005	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4006	</listitem>
4007
4008	<listitem>
4009	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4010	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4011	and later</para>
4012	</listitem>
4013
4014	<listitem>
4015	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4016	running services</para>
4017	</listitem>
4018
4019	<listitem>
4020	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4021	terminates</para>
4022	</listitem>
4023
4024	<listitem>
4025	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4026	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4031	installed on the guest</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4036	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4041	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4046	(bug #2628)</para>
4047	</listitem>
4048
4049	<listitem>
4050	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4051	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4052	</listitem>
4053
4054	<listitem>
4055	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4056	(bug #3657)</para>
4057	</listitem>
4058
4059	<listitem>
4060	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4061	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4062	</listitem>
4063
4064	<listitem>
4065	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4066	virtualization only)
4067	</para>
4068	</listitem>
4069
4070	<listitem>
4071	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4072	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4077	</listitem>
4078
4079	<listitem>
4080	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4081	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4082	</listitem>
4083
4084	<listitem>
4085	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4086	bug #3689)</para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	<listitem>
4090	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4091	bug #3679)</para>
4092	</listitem>
4093
4094	<listitem>
4095	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4096	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4097	</listitem>
4098
4099	<listitem>
4100	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4101	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4102	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4103	</listitem>
4104
4105	<listitem>
4106	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4107	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4108	</listitem>
4109
4110	<listitem>
4111	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4112	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4113	</listitem>
4114
4115	<listitem>
4116	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4117	(bug #3667)</para>
4118	</listitem>
4119
4120	<listitem>
4121	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4122	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4123	</listitem>
4124
4125	<listitem>
4126	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4127	</listitem>
4128
4129	<listitem>
4130	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4131	</listitem>
4132
4133	<listitem>
4134	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4135	</listitem>
4136
4137	<listitem>
4138	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4139	</listitem>
4140
4141	<listitem>
4142	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4143	</listitem>
4144
4145	<listitem>
4146	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4147	</listitem>
4148
4149	<listitem>
4150	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4151	</listitem>
4152
4153	</itemizedlist>
4154	</sect1>
4155
4156	<sect1>
4157	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4158
4159	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4160	were added:</para>
4161
4162	<itemizedlist>
4163
4164	<listitem>
4165	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4170	</listitem>
4171
4172	<listitem>
4173	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4174	</listitem>
4175
4176	<listitem>
4177	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4178	</listitem>
4179
4180	<listitem>
4181	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4182	</listitem>
4183
4184	<listitem>
4185	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4186	</listitem>
4187
4188	<listitem>
4189	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4190	</listitem>
4191
4192	<listitem>
4193	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4194	</listitem>
4195
4196	<listitem>
4197	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4198	</listitem>
4199
4200	<listitem>
4201	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	</itemizedlist>
4205
4206	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4207
4208	<itemizedlist>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4212	</listitem>
4213
4214	<listitem>
4215	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4216	</listitem>
4217
4218	<listitem>
4219	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4220	</listitem>
4221
4222	<listitem>
4223	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4224	</listitem>
4225
4226	<listitem>
4227	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4228	</listitem>
4229
4230	<listitem>
4231	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4232	</listitem>
4233
4234	<listitem>
4235	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4236	</listitem>
4237
4238	<listitem>
4239	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4240	</listitem>
4241
4242	<listitem>
4243	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4244	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4245	</listitem>
4246
4247	<listitem>
4248	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4249	</listitem>
4250
4251	<listitem>
4252	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4253	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4254	</listitem>
4255
4256	<listitem>
4257	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4258	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4259	</listitem>
4260
4261	<listitem>
4262	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4263	</listitem>
4264
4265	<listitem>
4266	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4271	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4272	</listitem>
4273
4274	<listitem>
4275	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	<listitem>
4279	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4280	ESX server images)</para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4285	writable</para>
4286	</listitem>
4287
4288	<listitem>
4289	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4290	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4291	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4292	</listitem>
4293
4294	<listitem>
4295	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4296	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4297	</listitem>
4298
4299	<listitem>
4300	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4301	</listitem>
4302
4303	<listitem>
4304	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4305	</listitem>
4306
4307	<listitem>
4308	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4309	hosts when creating files</para>
4310	</listitem>
4311
4312	<listitem>
4313	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4314	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4315	</listitem>
4316
4317	<listitem>
4318	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4319	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4320	#2306)</para>
4321	</listitem>
4322
4323	<listitem>
4324	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4325	(bug #3555)</para>
4326	</listitem>
4327
4328	<listitem>
4329	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4330	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4335	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4336	</listitem>
4337
4338	<listitem>
4339	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4340	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4341	</listitem>
4342
4343	<listitem>
4344	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4345	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4350	(bug #3586)</para>
4351	</listitem>
4352
4353	<listitem>
4354	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4355	from Scratch systems</para>
4356	</listitem>
4357
4358	<listitem>
4359	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4360	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4361	</listitem>
4362
4363	<listitem>
4364	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4365	</listitem>
4366
4367	<listitem>
4368	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4369	default to compact format</para>
4370	</listitem>
4371
4372	<listitem>
4373	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4374	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4375	</listitem>
4376
4377	<listitem>
4378	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4379	</listitem>
4380
4381	<listitem>
4382	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4383	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4384	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4385	</listitem>
4386
4387	<listitem>
4388	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4389	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4390	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4391	</listitem>
4392
4393	<listitem>
4394	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4395	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4396	</listitem>
4397
4398	<listitem>
4399	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4400	</listitem>
4401
4402	<listitem>
4403	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4404	</listitem>
4405
4406	<listitem>
4407	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4408	</listitem>
4409
4410	<listitem>
4411	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4412	</listitem>
4413
4414	<listitem>
4415	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4416	</listitem>
4417
4418	<listitem>
4419	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4424	</listitem>
4425
4426	<listitem>
4427	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4428	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4429	</listitem>
4430
4431	<listitem>
4432	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4433	</listitem>
4434
4435	<listitem>
4436	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4437	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4438	</listitem>
4439
4440	<listitem>
4441	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4442	</listitem>
4443
4444	<listitem>
4445	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4446	</listitem>
4447
4448	<listitem>
4449	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4450	</listitem>
4451
4452	<listitem>
4453	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4454	#2536)</para>
4455	</listitem>
4456
4457	<listitem>
4458	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4459	</listitem>
4460
4461	<listitem>
4462	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4463	(bug #3548)</para>
4464	</listitem>
4465
4466	</itemizedlist>
4467	</sect1>
4468
4469	<sect1>
4470	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4471
4472	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4473	added:</para>
4474
4475	<itemizedlist>
4476
4477	<listitem>
4478	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4479	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4480	</listitem>
4481
4482	<listitem>
4483	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4484	</listitem>
4485
4486	<listitem>
4487	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4488	</listitem>
4489
4490	<listitem>
4491	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4492	</listitem>
4493
4494	<listitem>
4495	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4496	(bug #3115)</para>
4497	</listitem>
4498
4499	<listitem>
4500	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4501	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4502	</listitem>
4503
4504	<listitem>
4505	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4506	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4507	(bug #3215)</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4512	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4517	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4518	</listitem>
4519
4520	<listitem>
4521	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4522	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4523	</listitem>
4524
4525	<listitem>
4526	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4527	in parallel</para>
4528	</listitem>
4529
4530	<listitem>
4531	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4532	</listitem>
4533
4534	<listitem>
4535	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4536	</listitem>
4537
4538	<listitem>
4539	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4540	</listitem>
4541
4542	<listitem>
4543	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4544	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4545	</listitem>
4546
4547	<listitem>
4548	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4549	</listitem>
4550
4551	<listitem>
4552	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4553	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4554	</listitem>
4555
4556	<listitem>
4557	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4558	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4559	</listitem>
4560
4561	<listitem>
4562	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4563	</listitem>
4564
4565	<listitem>
4566	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4567	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4568	</listitem>
4569
4570	<listitem>
4571	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4572	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4573	</listitem>
4574
4575	<listitem>
4576	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4577	</listitem>
4578
4579	<listitem>
4580	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4581	</listitem>
4582
4583	<listitem>
4584	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4585	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4586	</listitem>
4587
4588	<listitem>
4589	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4590	</listitem>
4591
4592	<listitem>
4593	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4594	</listitem>
4595
4596	<listitem>
4597	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4598	</listitem>
4599
4600	<listitem>
4601	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4602	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4611	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4612	</listitem>
4613
4614	<listitem>
4615	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4616	</listitem>
4617
4618	<listitem>
4619	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4620	</listitem>
4621
4622	<listitem>
4623	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4624	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4625	</listitem>
4626
4627	<listitem>
4628	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4629	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4630	</listitem>
4631
4632	<listitem>
4633	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4634	</listitem>
4635
4636	<listitem>
4637	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4638	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4639	</listitem>
4640
4641	<listitem>
4642	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4643	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4644	</listitem>
4645
4646	<listitem>
4647	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4648	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4649	</listitem>
4650
4651	<listitem>
4652	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4653	(bug #3213)</para>
4654	</listitem>
4655
4656	<listitem>
4657	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4658	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4659	</listitem>
4660
4661	<listitem>
4662	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4663	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4664	</listitem>
4665
4666	</itemizedlist>
4667	</sect1>
4668
4669	<sect1>
4670	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4671
4672	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4673	added:</para>
4674
4675	<itemizedlist>
4676
4677	<listitem>
4678	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
4683	</listitem>
4684
4685	<listitem>
4686	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
4687	</listitem>
4688
4689	<listitem>
4690	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
4691	</listitem>
4692
4693	<listitem>
4694	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
4695	</listitem>
4696
4697	<listitem>
4698	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
4699	</listitem>
4700
4701	<listitem>
4702	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
4703	</listitem>
4704
4705	<listitem>
4706	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
4707	</listitem>
4708
4709	<listitem>
4710	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
4711	</listitem>
4712
4713	<listitem>
4714	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
4715	</listitem>
4716
4717	<listitem>
4718	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
4719	</listitem>
4720
4721	<listitem>
4722	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
4723	</listitem>
4724
4725	<listitem>
4726	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
4727	</listitem>
4728
4729	<listitem>
4730	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
4731	</listitem>
4732
4733	<listitem>
4734	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
4735	</listitem>
4736
4737	<listitem>
4738	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
4739	</listitem>
4740
4741	<listitem>
4742	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
4743	(bug #3067)</para>
4744	</listitem>
4745
4746	<listitem>
4747	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
4748	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
4749	</listitem>
4750
4751	<listitem>
4752	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
4753	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
4754	</listitem>
4755
4756	<listitem>
4757	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
4758	</listitem>
4759
4760	<listitem>
4761	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
4762	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
4763	</listitem>
4764
4765	<listitem>
4766	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
4767	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4768	</listitem>
4769
4770	<listitem>
4771	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
4772	</listitem>
4773
4774	<listitem>
4775	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
4776	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
4777	</listitem>
4778
4779	<listitem>
4780	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
4781	</listitem>
4782
4783	<listitem>
4784	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
4785	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
4786	</listitem>
4787
4788	<listitem>
4789	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
4790	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
4791	</listitem>
4792
4793	<listitem>
4794	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
4795	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
4796	</para>
4797	</listitem>
4798
4799	<listitem>
4800	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
4801	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
4802	</para>
4803	</listitem>
4804
4805	<listitem>
4806	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
4807	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
4808	</para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	<listitem>
4812	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
4813	</listitem>
4814
4815	<listitem>
4816	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
4817	</listitem>
4818
4819	<listitem>
4820	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
4821	</listitem>
4822
4823	<listitem>
4824	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
4825	</listitem>
4826
4827	<listitem>
4828	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
4829	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
4834	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
4839	formatting a drive</para>
4840	</listitem>
4841
4842	<listitem>
4843	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
4844	</listitem>
4845
4846	<listitem>
4847	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
4848	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
4849	</listitem>
4850
4851	<listitem>
4852	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
4853	</listitem>
4854
4855	<listitem>
4856	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
4857	</listitem>
4858
4859	<listitem>
4860	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4861	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	<listitem>
4865	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
4866	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
4867	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
4868	</listitem>
4869
4870	<listitem>
4871	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
4872	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
4873	</listitem>
4874
4875	<listitem>
4876	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
4877	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
4878	</listitem>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
4882	(bug #2768)</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	<listitem>
4886	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
4887	</listitem>
4888
4889	<listitem>
4890	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
4891	</listitem>
4892
4893	<listitem>
4894	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
4895	single, unified package</para>
4896	</listitem>
4897
4898	<listitem>
4899	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
4900	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
4901	</listitem>
4902
4903	<listitem>
4904	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
4905	</listitem>
4906
4907	<listitem>
4908	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
4909	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
4910	</listitem>
4911
4912	<listitem>
4913	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
4914	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
4915	</listitem>
4916
4917	<listitem>
4918	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
4919	</listitem>
4920
4921	<listitem>
4922	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
4923	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
4924	doing 3D</para>
4925	</listitem>
4926
4927	<listitem>
4928	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
4929	</listitem>
4930
4931	<listitem>
4932	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
4933	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
4934	</listitem>
4935
4936	<listitem>
4937	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
4938	</listitem>
4939
4940	<listitem>
4941	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
4942	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
4943	</listitem>
4944
4945	<listitem>
4946	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
4947	</listitem>
4948
4949	<listitem>
4950	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
4951	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
4952	</listitem>
4953
4954	<listitem>
4955	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
4956	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
4957	(bug #2938)</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
4962	Linux guests</para>
4963	</listitem>
4964
4965	<listitem>
4966	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
4967	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
4968	(bug #1776)</para>
4969	</listitem>
4970
4971	<listitem>
4972	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
4973	(bug #1612)</para>
4974	</listitem>
4975
4976	<listitem>
4977	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
4978	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
4979	</listitem>
4980
4981	<listitem>
4982	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
4983	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
4984	</listitem>
4985
4986	<listitem>
4987	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
4988	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
4989	</listitem>
4990
4991	</itemizedlist>
4992	</sect1>
4993
4994	<sect1>
4995	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
4996
4997	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4998	were added:</para>
4999
5000	<itemizedlist>
5001	<listitem>
5002	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5003	</listitem>
5004
5005	<listitem>
5006	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5007	</listitem>
5008
5009	<listitem>
5010	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5011	</listitem>
5012
5013	<listitem>
5014	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5015	</listitem>
5016
5017	<listitem>
5018	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5019	</listitem>
5020
5021	<listitem>
5022	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5023	</listitem>
5024
5025	<listitem>
5026	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5027	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5028	</listitem>
5029
5030	<listitem>
5031	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5032	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5033	</listitem>
5034
5035	</itemizedlist>
5036
5037	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5038
5039	<itemizedlist>
5040	<listitem>
5041	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5042	</listitem>
5043
5044	<listitem>
5045	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5046	</listitem>
5047
5048	<listitem>
5049	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5050	</listitem>
5051
5052	<listitem>
5053	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5054	</listitem>
5055
5056	<listitem>
5057	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5058	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5059	</listitem>
5060
5061	<listitem>
5062	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5063	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5064	</listitem>
5065
5066	<listitem>
5067	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5068	</listitem>
5069
5070	<listitem>
5071	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5072	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5073	</listitem>
5074
5075	<listitem>
5076	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5077	</listitem>
5078
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5081	</listitem>
5082
5083	<listitem>
5084	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5085	</listitem>
5086
5087	<listitem>
5088	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5089	</listitem>
5090
5091	<listitem>
5092	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5093	</listitem>
5094
5095	<listitem>
5096	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5097	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5098	</listitem>
5099
5100	<listitem>
5101	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5102	the compiz window manager</para>
5103	</listitem>
5104
5105	<listitem>
5106	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5107	</listitem>
5108
5109	<listitem>
5110	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5111	</listitem>
5112
5113	<listitem>
5114	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5115	</listitem>
5116
5117	<listitem>
5118	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5119	</listitem>
5120
5121	<listitem>
5122	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5123	</listitem>
5124
5125	<listitem>
5126	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5127	</listitem>
5128
5129	<listitem>
5130	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5131	</listitem>
5132
5133	<listitem>
5134	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5135	</listitem>
5136
5137	<listitem>
5138	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5139	</listitem>
5140
5141	<listitem>
5142	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5143	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5144	</listitem>
5145
5146	<listitem>
5147	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5148	for direct device access</para>
5149	</listitem>
5150
5151	<listitem>
5152	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5153	</listitem>
5154
5155	<listitem>
5156	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5157	</listitem>
5158
5159	<listitem>
5160	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5161	</listitem>
5162
5163	<listitem>
5164	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5165	</listitem>
5166
5167	<listitem>
5168	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5169	</listitem>
5170
5171	<listitem>
5172	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5173	</listitem>
5174
5175	<listitem>
5176	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5177	</listitem>
5178
5179	<listitem>
5180	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5181	</listitem>
5182
5183	</itemizedlist>
5184	</sect1>
5185
5186	<sect1>
5187	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5188
5189	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5190	added:</para>
5191
5192	<itemizedlist>
5193
5194	<listitem>
5195	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5196	states/snapshots</para>
5197	</listitem>
5198
5199	<listitem>
5200	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5201	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5202	</listitem>
5203
5204	<listitem>
5205	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5206	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5207	</listitem>
5208
5209	<listitem>
5210	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5211	collisions</para>
5212	</listitem>
5213
5214	<listitem>
5215	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5216	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5217	</listitem>
5218
5219	<listitem>
5220	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5221	</listitem>
5222
5223	<listitem>
5224	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5225	reliably</para>
5226	</listitem>
5227
5228	<listitem>
5229	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5230	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5231	</listitem>
5232
5233	<listitem>
5234	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5235	a reboot</para>
5236	</listitem>
5237
5238	<listitem>
5239	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5240	</listitem>
5241
5242	<listitem>
5243	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5244	in parallel</para>
5245	</listitem>
5246
5247	<listitem>
5248	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5249	</listitem>
5250
5251	<listitem>
5252	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5253	correctly</para>
5254	</listitem>
5255
5256	<listitem>
5257	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5258	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5259	</listitem>
5260
5261	</itemizedlist>
5262	</sect1>
5263
5264	<sect1>
5265	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5266
5267	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5268	added:</para>
5269
5270	<itemizedlist>
5271
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5274	(bug #2220)</para>
5275	</listitem>
5276
5277	<listitem>
5278	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5279	</listitem>
5280
5281	<listitem>
5282	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5283	</listitem>
5284
5285	<listitem>
5286	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5287	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5288	</listitem>
5289
5290	<listitem>
5291	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5292	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5293	</listitem>
5294
5295	<listitem>
5296	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5297	(bug #2624)</para>
5298	</listitem>
5299
5300	<listitem>
5301	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5302	(bug #2024)</para>
5303	</listitem>
5304
5305	<listitem>
5306	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5307	</listitem>
5308
5309	<listitem>
5310	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5311	</listitem>
5312
5313	<listitem>
5314	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5315	</listitem>
5316
5317	<listitem>
5318	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5319	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5320	</listitem>
5321
5322	<listitem>
5323	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5324	applications when updating the installation</para>
5325	</listitem>
5326
5327	<listitem>
5328	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5329	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5330	</listitem>
5331
5332	<listitem>
5333	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5334	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5335	</listitem>
5336
5337	<listitem>
5338	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5339	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5340	</listitem>
5341
5342	<listitem>
5343	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5344	connected to a host device</para>
5345	</listitem>
5346
5347	<listitem>
5348	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5349	</listitem>
5350
5351	<listitem>
5352	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5353	</listitem>
5354
5355	<listitem>
5356	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5357	</listitem>
5358
5359	<listitem>
5360	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5361	when using native RDP connections</para>
5362	</listitem>
5363
5364	<listitem>
5365	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5366	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5367	</listitem>
5368
5369	<listitem>
5370	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5371	(bug #2591)</para>
5372	</listitem>
5373
5374	<listitem>
5375	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5376	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5377	</listitem>
5378
5379	<listitem>
5380	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5381	</listitem>
5382
5383	</itemizedlist>
5384	</sect1>
5385
5386	<sect1>
5387	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5388
5389	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5390	added:</para>
5391
5392	<itemizedlist>
5393	<listitem>
5394	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5395	</listitem>
5396
5397	<listitem>
5398	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5399	</listitem>
5400
5401	<listitem>
5402	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5403	</listitem>
5404
5405	<listitem>
5406	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5407	</listitem>
5408
5409	<listitem>
5410	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5411	</listitem>
5412
5413	<listitem>
5414	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5415	</listitem>
5416
5417	<listitem>
5418	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5419	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5420	</listitem>
5421
5422	<listitem>
5423	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5424	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5429	</listitem>
5430
5431	<listitem>
5432	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5433	equal to the client resolution</para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5438	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5439	</listitem>
5440
5441	<listitem>
5442	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5443	</listitem>
5444
5445	<listitem>
5446	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5447	</listitem>
5448
5449	<listitem>
5450	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5451	</listitem>
5452
5453	<listitem>
5454	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5455	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5456	</listitem>
5457
5458	<listitem>
5459	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5460	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5461	</listitem>
5462
5463	<listitem>
5464	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5465	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5466	</listitem>
5467
5468	<listitem>
5469	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5470	</listitem>
5471
5472	<listitem>
5473	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5474	</listitem>
5475
5476	<listitem>
5477	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5482	</listitem>
5483
5484	<listitem>
5485	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5486	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5487	</listitem>
5488
5489	<listitem>
5490	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5491	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5492	</listitem>
5493
5494	<listitem>
5495	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5496	</listitem>
5497
5498	<listitem>
5499	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5500	</listitem>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	</itemizedlist>
5507
5508	</sect1>
5509
5510	<sect1>
5511	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5512
5513	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5514	added:</para>
5515
5516	<itemizedlist>
5517
5518	<listitem>
5519	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5520	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5521	</listitem>
5522
5523	<listitem>
5524	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5525	</listitem>
5526
5527	<listitem>
5528	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5529	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5530	</listitem>
5531
5532	<listitem>
5533	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5534	</listitem>
5535
5536	<listitem>
5537	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5538	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5539	</listitem>
5540
5541	<listitem>
5542	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5543	</listitem>
5544
5545	<listitem>
5546	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5547	the virtual disk manager</para>
5548	</listitem>
5549
5550	<listitem>
5551	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5552	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5553	</listitem>
5554
5555	<listitem>
5556	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5557	</listitem>
5558
5559	<listitem>
5560	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5561	</listitem>
5562
5563	<listitem>
5564	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5565	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5566	</listitem>
5567
5568	<listitem>
5569	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5570	bug #2067)</para>
5571	</listitem>
5572
5573	<listitem>
5574	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5575	</listitem>
5576
5577	<listitem>
5578	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5579	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5580	</listitem>
5581
5582	<listitem>
5583	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5584	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5585	(bug #2184)</para>
5586	</listitem>
5587
5588	<listitem>
5589	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5590	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5591	</listitem>
5592
5593	<listitem>
5594	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5595	(Windows guests only)</para>
5596	</listitem>
5597
5598	<listitem>
5599	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	<listitem>
5603	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5604	</listitem>
5605
5606	<listitem>
5607	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5608	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5609	</listitem>
5610
5611	<listitem>
5612	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5613	</listitem>
5614
5615	<listitem>
5616	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5617	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5618	</para>
5619	</listitem>
5620
5621	<listitem>
5622	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5623	</listitem>
5624
5625	<listitem>
5626	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5627	</listitem>
5628
5629	<listitem>
5630	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5631	a VM reboot</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5636	</listitem>
5637
5638	<listitem>
5639	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5640	buggy X servers</para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5645	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5646	</listitem>
5647
5648	<listitem>
5649	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5650	</listitem>
5651
5652	<listitem>
5653	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5654	(bug #2128)</para>
5655	</listitem>
5656
5657	<listitem>
5658	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5659	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5660	</listitem>
5661
5662	<listitem>
5663	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5664	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5665	</listitem>
5666
5667	<listitem>
5668	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5669	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5670	</listitem>
5671
5672	<listitem>
5673	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5674	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
5675	</listitem>
5676
5677	<listitem>
5678	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
5679	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
5680	</listitem>
5681
5682	<listitem>
5683	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
5684	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	<listitem>
5688	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
5689	installer into a single package</para>
5690	</listitem>
5691
5692	<listitem>
5693	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
5694	port to the guest
5695	</para>
5696	</listitem>
5697
5698	</itemizedlist>
5699
5700	</sect1>
5701
5702	<sect1>
5703	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
5704
5705	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5706	were added:<itemizedlist>
5707
5708	<listitem>
5709	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
5710	</listitem>
5711
5712	<listitem>
5713	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5714	</listitem>
5715
5716	<listitem>
5717	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
5718	</listitem>
5719
5720	<listitem>
5721	<para>New-version notifier</para>
5722	</listitem>
5723
5724	<listitem>
5725	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
5726	</listitem>
5727
5728	<listitem>
5729	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5730	</listitem>
5731
5732	<listitem>
5733	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
5734	</listitem>
5735
5736	<listitem>
5737	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
5738	</listitem>
5739
5740	<listitem>
5741	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
5742	</listitem>
5743
5744	<listitem>
5745	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
5746	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
5747	</listitem>
5748
5749	<listitem>
5750	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
5751	</listitem>
5752
5753	<listitem>
5754	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
5755	</listitem>
5756
5757	<listitem>
5758	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
5759	</listitem>
5760
5761	</itemizedlist></para>
5762
5763	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5764
5765	<itemizedlist>
5766
5767	<listitem>
5768	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
5769	</listitem>
5770
5771	<listitem>
5772	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
5773	</listitem>
5774
5775	<listitem>
5776	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
5777	</listitem>
5778
5779	<listitem>
5780	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
5781	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
5782	</listitem>
5783
5784	<listitem>
5785	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
5786	restored</para>
5787	</listitem>
5788
5789	<listitem>
5790	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
5791	</listitem>
5792
5793	<listitem>
5794	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
5795	</listitem>
5796
5797	<listitem>
5798	<para>Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn't simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)</para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	</itemizedlist>
5802
5803	</sect1>
5804
5805	<para>In VirtualBox 3.2, changelog information for versions before 2.0 were removed in order to save space.
5806	To access this information, please consult the user manual of VirtualBox 3.1 or earlier.</para>
5807
5808	</para>

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