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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.1.0 Beta 1 (2011-06-30)</title>
5
6	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7	were added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853)</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	<listitem>
16	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
17	</listitem>
18
19	<listitem>
20	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
21	</listitem>
22
23	<listitem>
24	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
25	</listitem>
26
27	<listitem>
28	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>Guest Additions: modules and features now are represented as facilities
33	to have a common interface for frontends.</para>
34	</listitem>
35
36	<listitem>
37	<para>New Networking Mode: <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>. Allows to
38	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
39	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
40	</listitem>
41
42	</itemizedlist>
43
44	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
45
46	<itemizedlist>
47
48	<listitem>
49	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	<listitem>
53	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
54	</listitem>
55
56	<listitem>
57	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
58	</listitem>
59
60	<listitem>
61	<para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
62	of the current state</para>
63	</listitem>
64
65	<listitem>
66	<para>GUI: added <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
67	</listitem>
68
69	<listitem>
70	<para>GUI: added setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
71	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
72	</listitem>
73
74	<listitem>
75	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
76	a VM</para>
77	</listitem>
78
79	<listitem>
80	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
81	</listitem>
82
83	<listitem>
84	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
85	command group, fixed various bugs</para>
86	</listitem>
87
88	<listitem>
89	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
90	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
91	</listitem>
92
93	<listitem>
94	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
95	be a valid UUID</para>
96	</listitem>
97
98	<listitem>
99	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
100	ejects the medium</para>
101	</listitem>
102
103	<listitem>
104	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
105	</listitem>
106
107	<listitem>
108	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly</para>
109	</listitem>
110
111	<listitem>
112	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
113	</listitem>
114
115	<listitem>
116	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
117	</listitem>
118
119	<listitem>
120	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
121	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
122	</listitem>
123
124	<listitem>
125	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections</para>
126	</listitem>
127
128	<listitem>
129	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
130	RDP client</para>
131	</listitem>
132
133	<listitem>
134	<para>3D support: fixed GL_VERSION string for different locales (bug #8916)</para>
135	</listitem>
136
137	<listitem>
138	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
139	window (bug #4491)</para>
140	</listitem>
141
142	<listitem>
143	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
144	</listitem>
145
146	<listitem>
147	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
148	from the host</para>
149	</listitem>
150
151	</itemizedlist>
152
153	</sect1>
154
155	<sect1>
156	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
157
158	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
159	added:</para>
160
161	<itemizedlist>
162
163	<listitem>
164	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
165	</listitem>
166
167	<listitem>
168	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
173	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
174	</listitem>
175
176	<listitem>
177	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
178	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
179	</listitem>
180
181	<listitem>
182	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
187	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
188	</listitem>
189
190	<listitem>
191	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
196	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
201	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
202	</listitem>
203
204	<listitem>
205	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
206	</listitem>
207
208	<listitem>
209	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
210	</listitem>
211
212	<listitem>
213	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
214	file was not written during export</para>
215	</listitem>
216
217	<listitem>
218	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
219	</listitem>
220
221	<listitem>
222	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
223	</listitem>
224
225	<listitem>
226	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
231	binaries</para>
232	</listitem>
233
234	<listitem>
235	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
236	</listitem>
237
238	<listitem>
239	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
240	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
241	</listitem>
242
243	<listitem>
244	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
245	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
246	</listitem>
247
248	<listitem>
249	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
250	</listitem>
251
252	<listitem>
253	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
254	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
255	</listitem>
256
257	</itemizedlist>
258	</sect1>
259
260	<sect1>
261	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
262
263	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
264	added:</para>
265
266	<itemizedlist>
267
268	<listitem>
269	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
270	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
271	</listitem>
272
273	<listitem>
274	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
275	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
276	</listitem>
277
278	<listitem>
279	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
280	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
281	</listitem>
282
283	<listitem>
284	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
285	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
286	</listitem>
287
288	<listitem>
289	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
290	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
291	</listitem>
292
293	<listitem>
294	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
295	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
296	</listitem>
297
298	<listitem>
299	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
300	(Windows hosts only)</para>
301	</listitem>
302
303	<listitem>
304	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
305	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
306	</listitem>
307
308	<listitem>
309	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
310	</listitem>
311
312	<listitem>
313	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
314	</listitem>
315
316	<listitem>
317	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
318	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
319	</listitem>
320
321	<listitem>
322	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
323	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
324	</listitem>
325
326	<listitem>
327	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
328	</listitem>
329
330	<listitem>
331	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
332	</listitem>
333
334	<listitem>
335	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
336	(Linux hosts only)</para>
337	</listitem>
338
339	<listitem>
340	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
341	(Windows hosts only)</para>
342	</listitem>
343
344	<listitem>
345	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
346	window</para>
347	</listitem>
348
349	<listitem>
350	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
351	Fedora 15</para>
352	</listitem>
353
354	<listitem>
355	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
356	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
357	</listitem>
358
359	<listitem>
360	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
361	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
362	</listitem>
363
364	<listitem>
365	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
366	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
367	</listitem>
368
369	<listitem>
370	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
371	</listitem>
372
373	<listitem>
374	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
375	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
376	</listitem>
377
378	</itemizedlist>
379	</sect1>
380
381	<sect1>
382	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
383
384	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
385	added:</para>
386
387	<itemizedlist>
388
389	<listitem>
390	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
391	a VMM from a saved state</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
396	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
397	</listitem>
398
399	<listitem>
400	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
401	(bug #8006)</para>
402	</listitem>
403
404	<listitem>
405	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
406	(bug #8726)</para>
407	</listitem>
408
409	<listitem>
410	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
411	</listitem>
412
413	<listitem>
414	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
415	</listitem>
416
417	<listitem>
418	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
419	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
424	(bug #8469)</para>
425	</listitem>
426
427	<listitem>
428	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
429	selectors</para>
430	</listitem>
431
432	<listitem>
433	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
434	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
435	</listitem>
436
437	<listitem>
438	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
439	folder (bug #8673)</para>
440	</listitem>
441
442	<listitem>
443	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
444	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
445	</listitem>
446
447	<listitem>
448	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
449	</listitem>
450
451	<listitem>
452	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
453	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
454	</listitem>
455
456	<listitem>
457	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
458	</listitem>
459
460	<listitem>
461	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
462	</listitem>
463
464	<listitem>
465	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
466	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
467	</listitem>
468
469	<listitem>
470	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
471	I/O error occurred</para>
472	</listitem>
473
474	<listitem>
475	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
476	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
477	</listitem>
478
479	<listitem>
480	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
481	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
482	</listitem>
483
484	<listitem>
485	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
486	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
487	if no medium is present</para>
488	</listitem>
489
490	<listitem>
491	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
492	</listitem>
493
494	<listitem>
495	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
496	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
497	</listitem>
498
499	<listitem>
500	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
501	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
502	</listitem>
503
504	<listitem>
505	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
506	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
507	</listitem>
508
509	<listitem>
510	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
511	</listitem>
512
513	<listitem>
514	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
515	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
516	</listitem>
517
518	<listitem>
519	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
520	library (bug #8063)</para>
521	</listitem>
522
523	<listitem>
524	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
525	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
526	</listitem>
527
528	<listitem>
529	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
530	</listitem>
531
532	<listitem>
533	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
534	</listitem>
535
536	<listitem>
537	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
538	</listitem>
539
540	<listitem>
541	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
542	changed on import</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
547	</listitem>
548
549	<listitem>
550	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
551	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
552	</listitem>
553
554	<listitem>
555	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
556	(bug #8593)</para>
557	</listitem>
558
559	<listitem>
560	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
561	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
562	</listitem>
563
564	<listitem>
565	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
566	captured</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
571	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
572	</listitem>
573
574	<listitem>
575	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
576	</para>
577	</listitem>
578
579	<listitem>
580	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
581	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
582	</listitem>
583
584	<listitem>
585	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
586	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
587	</listitem>
588
589	<listitem>
590	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
591	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
592	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
593	</listitem>
594
595	<listitem>
596	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
597	to unkillable VM processes</para>
598	</listitem>
599
600	<listitem>
601	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
602	</listitem>
603
604	<listitem>
605	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
606	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
607	</listitem>
608
609	<listitem>
610	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
611	on legacy Windows versions</para>
612	</listitem>
613
614	<listitem>
615	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
616	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
617	</listitem>
618
619	<listitem>
620	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
625	</listitem>
626
627	<listitem>
628	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
629	</listitem>
630
631	<listitem>
632	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
633	</listitem>
634
635	<listitem>
636	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
637	(bug #7946)</para>
638	</listitem>
639
640	<listitem>
641	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
642	</listitem>
643
644	<listitem>
645	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
646	</listitem>
647
648	<listitem>
649	<para>Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
650	</listitem>
651
652	</itemizedlist>
653
654	</sect1>
655
656	<sect1>
657	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
658
659	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
660	added:</para>
661
662	<itemizedlist>
663
664	<listitem>
665	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
666	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
667	</listitem>
668
669	<listitem>
670	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
671	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
672	</listitem>
673
674	<listitem>
675	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
676	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
677	</listitem>
678
679	<listitem>
680	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
681	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
682	</listitem>
683
684	<listitem>
685	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
686	number of host network interfaces</para>
687	</listitem>
688
689	<listitem>
690	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
691	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
692	</listitem>
693
694	<listitem>
695	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
700	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
701	</listitem>
702
703	<listitem>
704	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
705	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
706	</listitem>
707
708	<listitem>
709	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
710	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
711	</listitem>
712
713	<listitem>
714	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
715	</listitem>
716
717	<listitem>
718	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
719	(bug #6577)</para>
720	</listitem>
721
722	<listitem>
723	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
724	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
725	(bug #8235)</para>
726	</listitem>
727
728	<listitem>
729	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
730	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
731	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
732	</listitem>
733
734	<listitem>
735	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
736	</listitem>
737
738	<listitem>
739	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
740	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
741	</listitem>
742
743	<listitem>
744	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric.</para>
745	</listitem>
746
747	<listitem>
748	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
749	(bug #7966)</para>
750	</listitem>
751
752	<listitem>
753	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
754	</listitem>
755
756	<listitem>
757	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
758	</listitem>
759
760	<listitem>
761	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
766	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
767	</listitem>
768
769	<listitem>
770	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
771	</listitem>
772
773	<listitem>
774	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
775	</listitem>
776
777	<listitem>
778	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
779	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
780	</listitem>
781
782	<listitem>
783	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
784	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
785	</listitem>
786
787	<listitem>
788	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
789	</listitem>
790
791	<listitem>
792	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
793	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
794	</listitem>
795
796	<listitem>
797	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
798	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
799	(bug #8122)</para>
800	</listitem>
801
802	<listitem>
803	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
804	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
805	</listitem>
806
807	<listitem>
808	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
809	</listitem>
810
811	<listitem>
812	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
813	</listitem>
814
815	<listitem>
816	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
817	(bug #1548)</para>
818	</listitem>
819
820	<listitem>
821	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
822	</listitem>
823
824	<listitem>
825	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
826	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
827	</listitem>
828
829	<listitem>
830	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
831	</listitem>
832
833	<listitem>
834	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
835	(bug #8231)</para>
836	</listitem>
837
838	<listitem>
839	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
840	11.04 Alpha.</para>
841	</listitem>
842
843	<listitem>
844	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
845	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login.</para>
846	</listitem>
847
848	<listitem>
849	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
850	VirtualBox versions can't handle.</para>
851	</listitem>
852
853	<listitem>
854	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
855	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
856	</listitem>
857
858	<listitem>
859	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
860	with VBoxGINA</para>
861	</listitem>
862
863	</itemizedlist>
864
865	</sect1>
866
867	<sect1>
868	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
869
870	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
871	added:</para>
872
873	<itemizedlist>
874
875	<listitem>
876	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
877	settings vanished</para>
878	</listitem>
879
880	<listitem>
881	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
882	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
887	created (bug #8031)</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
892	</listitem>
893
894	<listitem>
895	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
896	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
897	</listitem>
898
899	<listitem>
900	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
901	an extension pack</para>
902	</listitem>
903
904	<listitem>
905	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
906	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
907	</listitem>
908
909	<listitem>
910	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
911	</listitem>
912
913	<listitem>
914	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
915	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
916	</listitem>
917
918	<listitem>
919	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
920	host-only interface</para>
921	</listitem>
922
923	<listitem>
924	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
925	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
926	</listitem>
927
928	<listitem>
929	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
930	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
935	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
936	</listitem>
937
938	<listitem>
939	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
940	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
941	</listitem>
942
943	<listitem>
944	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
945	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
946	</listitem>
947
948	<listitem>
949	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
950	</listitem>
951
952	<listitem>
953	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
954	</listitem>
955
956	<listitem>
957	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
958	guests</para>
959	</listitem>
960
961	<listitem>
962	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
963	</listitem>
964
965	<listitem>
966	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
967	</listitem>
968
969	<listitem>
970	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
971	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
972	</listitem>
973
974	<listitem>
975	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
976	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
977	</listitem>
978
979	<listitem>
980	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
981	a VM start</para>
982	</listitem>
983
984	<listitem>
985	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
986	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
987	</listitem>
988
989	<listitem>
990	<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented
991	(bug #6067)</para>
992	</listitem>
993
994	<listitem>
995	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
996	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
997	</listitem>
998
999	<listitem>
1000	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
1001	not saved to machine XML</para>
1002	</listitem>
1003
1004	<listitem>
1005	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
1006	#7983)</para>
1007	</listitem>
1008
1009	<listitem>
1010	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
1011	#7981)</para>
1012	</listitem>
1013
1014	<listitem>
1015	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.</para>
1016	</listitem>
1017
1018	<listitem>
1019	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
1020	regression)</para>
1021	</listitem>
1022
1023	<listitem>
1024	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
1025	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
1026	</listitem>
1027
1028	<listitem>
1029	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
1030	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
1031	</listitem>
1032
1033	</itemizedlist>
1034
1035	</sect1>
1036
1037	<sect1>
1038	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
1039
1040	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1041	were added:</para>
1042
1043	<itemizedlist>
1044
1045	<listitem>
1046	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
1047	</listitem>
1048
1049	<listitem>
1050	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
1051	</listitem>
1052
1053	<listitem>
1054	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
1055	<itemizedlist>
1056	<listitem>
1057	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
1058	</listitem>
1059
1060	<listitem>
1061	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
1062	</listitem>
1063
1064	<listitem>
1065	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
1066	</listitem>
1067
1068	<listitem>
1069	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
1070	</listitem>
1071
1072	<listitem>
1073	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
1074	states, and optionally including attached
1075	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
1076	can do the same now)</para>
1077	</listitem>
1078
1079	<listitem>
1080	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
1081	</listitem>
1082
1083	</itemizedlist>
1084	</para>
1085	</listitem>
1086
1087	<listitem>
1088	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
1089	</listitem>
1090
1091	<listitem>
1092	<para>New virtual hardware:
1093	<itemizedlist>
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
1096	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
1101	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103	</itemizedlist>
1104	</para>
1105	</listitem>
1106
1107	<listitem>
1108	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
1109	<itemizedlist>
1110	<listitem>
1111	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
1112	</listitem>
1113
1114	<listitem>
1115	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
1116	</para>
1117	</listitem>
1118
1119	<listitem>
1120	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
1121	now</para>
1122	</listitem>
1123
1124	<listitem>
1125	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
1126	</listitem>
1127
1128	</itemizedlist>
1129	</para>
1130	</listitem>
1131
1132	<listitem>
1133	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
1134	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
1135	</listitem>
1136
1137	<listitem>
1138	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
1139	Parallels images</para>
1140	</listitem>
1141
1142	<listitem>
1143	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
1144	</listitem>
1145
1146	<listitem>
1147	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
1148	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
1153	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	</itemizedlist>
1157
1158	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1159
1160	<itemizedlist>
1161
1162	<listitem>
1163	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
1164	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
1165	</listitem>
1166
1167	<listitem>
1168	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
1173	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
1178	(bug #1657)</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
1183	</listitem>
1184
1185	<listitem>
1186	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
1187	</listitem>
1188
1189	<listitem>
1190	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
1191	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
1192	</listitem>
1193
1194	<listitem>
1195	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
1196	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
1197	</listitem>
1198
1199	<listitem>
1200	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
1201	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
1202	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1207	again (bug #6864)</para>
1208	</listitem>
1209
1210	<listitem>
1211	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
1212	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
1213	</listitem>
1214
1215	<listitem>
1216	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
1217	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
1218	</listitem>
1219
1220	<listitem>
1221	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
1222	</listitem>
1223
1224	<listitem>
1225	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
1230	</listitem>
1231
1232	<listitem>
1233	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
1238	</listitem>
1239
1240	<listitem>
1241	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
1242	</listitem>
1243
1244	<listitem>
1245	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
1246	</listitem>
1247
1248	<listitem>
1249	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
1250	(bug #7058)</para>
1251	</listitem>
1252
1253	<listitem>
1254	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
1255	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
1256	</listitem>
1257
1258	<listitem>
1259	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
1260	circumstances</para>
1261	</listitem>
1262
1263	<listitem>
1264	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
1265	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
1266	#5578)
1267	</para>
1268	</listitem>
1269
1270	<listitem>
1271	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
1272	</listitem>
1273
1274	<listitem>
1275	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
1276	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
1277	</listitem>
1278
1279	<listitem>
1280	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
1281	</listitem>
1282
1283	<listitem>
1284	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
1285	#6760)</para>
1286	</listitem>
1287
1288	<listitem>
1289	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
1290	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
1291	</listitem>
1292
1293	<listitem>
1294	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
1295	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
1300	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
1301	</listitem>
1302
1303	<listitem>
1304	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
1305	</listitem>
1306
1307	<listitem>
1308	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
1309	file</para>
1310	</listitem>
1311
1312	<listitem>
1313	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1314	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1315	</listitem>
1316
1317	</itemizedlist>
1318
1319	</sect1>
1320
1321	<sect1>
1322	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
1323
1324	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1325	added:</para>
1326
1327	<itemizedlist>
1328
1329	<listitem>
1330	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
1331	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
1332	</listitem>
1333
1334	<listitem>
1335	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
1336	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
1337	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
1338	</listitem>
1339
1340	<listitem>
1341	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
1342	</listitem>
1343
1344	<listitem>
1345	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
1346	</listitem>
1347
1348	<listitem>
1349	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
1350	</listitem>
1351
1352	<listitem>
1353	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
1354	the VM is running</para>
1355	</listitem>
1356
1357	<listitem>
1358	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
1359	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
1360	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
1361	starting from a saved state</para>
1362	</listitem>
1363
1364	<listitem>
1365	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
1366	</listitem>
1367
1368	<listitem>
1369	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
1370	</listitem>
1371
1372	<listitem>
1373	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
1374	</listitem>
1375
1376	<listitem>
1377	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
1378	</listitem>
1379
1380	<listitem>
1381	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
1382	</listitem>
1383
1384	<listitem>
1385	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
1386	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
1387	</listitem>
1388
1389	<listitem>
1390	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
1391	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
1392	</listitem>
1393
1394	<listitem>
1395	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
1396	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
1397	</listitem>
1398
1399	<listitem>
1400	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
1401	</listitem>
1402
1403	<listitem>
1404	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
1405	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
1406	</para>
1407	</listitem>
1408
1409	<listitem>
1410	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
1411	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
1412	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
1413	</listitem>
1414
1415	<listitem>
1416	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
1417	only)</para>
1418	</listitem>
1419
1420	<listitem>
1421	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
1422	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
1423	</listitem>
1424
1425	<listitem>
1426	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
1427	</listitem>
1428
1429	<listitem>
1430	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
1431	</listitem>
1432
1433	<listitem>
1434	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	<listitem>
1438	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
1439	state (bug #4124)</para>
1440	</listitem>
1441
1442	<listitem>
1443	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
1444	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
1445	</listitem>
1446
1447	<listitem>
1448	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
1449	</listitem>
1450
1451	<listitem>
1452	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
1453	(bug #2996)</para>
1454	</listitem>
1455
1456	<listitem>
1457	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
1458	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
1459	</listitem>
1460
1461	<listitem>
1462	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
1463	</listitem>
1464
1465	<listitem>
1466	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
1467	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
1468	</listitem>
1469
1470	<listitem>
1471	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
1472	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
1473	</listitem>
1474
1475	<listitem>
1476	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
1477	user accounts for VM information</para>
1478	</listitem>
1479
1480	</itemizedlist>
1481
1482	</sect1>
1483
1484	<sect1>
1485	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
1486
1487	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1488	added:</para>
1489
1490	<itemizedlist>
1491
1492	<listitem>
1493	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
1494	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
1495	</listitem>
1496
1497	<listitem>
1498	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
1499	</listitem>
1500
1501	<listitem>
1502	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
1507	</listitem>
1508
1509	<listitem>
1510	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
1511	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
1512	</listitem>
1513
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
1516	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
1517	</listitem>
1518
1519	<listitem>
1520	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
1521	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
1522	</listitem>
1523
1524	<listitem>
1525	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
1526	(bug #4952)</para>
1527	</listitem>
1528
1529	<listitem>
1530	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1531	bug #6122)</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
1536	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
1537	</listitem>
1538
1539	<listitem>
1540	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
1541	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
1542	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1543	</listitem>
1544
1545	<listitem>
1546	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
1547	</listitem>
1548
1549	<listitem>
1550	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
1551	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
1552	</listitem>
1553
1554	<listitem>
1555	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
1556	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
1557	</listitem>
1558
1559	<listitem>
1560	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
1561	canceled</para>
1562	</listitem>
1563
1564	<listitem>
1565	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
1566	</listitem>
1567
1568	<listitem>
1569	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
1570	</listitem>
1571
1572	<listitem>
1573	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
1574	</listitem>
1575
1576	<listitem>
1577	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
1578	</listitem>
1579
1580	<listitem>
1581	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
1582	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
1583	</listitem>
1584
1585	<listitem>
1586	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
1591	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1592	</listitem>
1593
1594	<listitem>
1595	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
1596	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
1597	</listitem>
1598
1599	<listitem>
1600	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
1601	</listitem>
1602
1603	<listitem>
1604	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
1605	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
1606	</listitem>
1607
1608	<listitem>
1609	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
1610	</listitem>
1611
1612	<listitem>
1613	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
1614	circumstances</para>
1615	</listitem>
1616
1617	<listitem>
1618	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
1619	printers</para>
1620	</listitem>
1621
1622	<listitem>
1623	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
1624	</listitem>
1625
1626	<listitem>
1627	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
1628	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
1629	</listitem>
1630
1631	<listitem>
1632	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
1633	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
1638	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
1639	circumstances</para>
1640	</listitem>
1641
1642	<listitem>
1643	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
1644	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
1645	</listitem>
1646
1647	<listitem>
1648	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
1649	as supported extension</para>
1650	</listitem>
1651
1652	<listitem>
1653	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
1654	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
1655	</listitem>
1656
1657	<listitem>
1658	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
1659	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
1660	</listitem>
1661
1662	<listitem>
1663	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
1664	</listitem>
1665
1666	<listitem>
1667	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
1668	(bug #7366)</para>
1669	</listitem>
1670
1671	<listitem>
1672	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
1677	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
1678	</listitem>
1679
1680	<listitem>
1681	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
1682	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
1683	</listitem>
1684
1685	<listitem>
1686	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
1687	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
1688	</listitem>
1689
1690	<listitem>
1691	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
1692	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
1693	</listitem>
1694
1695	<listitem>
1696	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
1697	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
1698	</listitem>
1699
1700	<listitem>
1701	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
1702	</listitem>
1703
1704	<listitem>
1705	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
1706	</listitem>
1707
1708	<listitem>
1709	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
1710	more than one environment variable</para>
1711	</listitem>
1712
1713	<listitem>
1714	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
1715	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
1716	</listitem>
1717
1718	<listitem>
1719	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
1720	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
1721	</listitem>
1722
1723	<listitem>
1724	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
1725	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
1726	</listitem>
1727
1728	<listitem>
1729	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
1730	enumerating logged in users</para>
1731	</listitem>
1732
1733	<listitem>
1734	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
1735	</listitem>
1736
1737	<listitem>
1738	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
1739	</listitem>
1740
1741	<listitem>
1742	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
1743	</listitem>
1744
1745	<listitem>
1746	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
1747	in the event of a VM crash</para>
1748	</listitem>
1749
1750	<listitem>
1751	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
1752	</listitem>
1753
1754	<listitem>
1755	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
1756	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
1757	</listitem>
1758
1759	<listitem>
1760	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
1761	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
1762	</listitem>
1763
1764	<listitem>
1765	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
1766	(bug #7448)</para>
1767	</listitem>
1768
1769	<listitem>
1770	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
1771	</listitem>
1772
1773	<listitem>
1774	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
1775	</listitem>
1776
1777	<listitem>
1778	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
1779	</listitem>
1780
1781	</itemizedlist>
1782
1783	</sect1>
1784
1785	<sect1>
1786	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
1787
1788	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1789	added:</para>
1790
1791	<itemizedlist>
1792
1793	<listitem>
1794	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
1795	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
1796	</listitem>
1797
1798	<listitem>
1799	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
1800	</listitem>
1801
1802	<listitem>
1803	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
1804	bug #6809)</para>
1805	</listitem>
1806
1807	<listitem>
1808	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
1809	</listitem>
1810
1811	<listitem>
1812	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
1813	</listitem>
1814
1815	<listitem>
1816	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
1817	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
1818	</listitem>
1819
1820	<listitem>
1821	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
1822	changes</para>
1823	</listitem>
1824
1825	<listitem>
1826	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
1827	</listitem>
1828
1829	<listitem>
1830	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
1831	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
1832	</listitem>
1833
1834	<listitem>
1835	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
1836	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
1837	</listitem>
1838
1839	<listitem>
1840	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
1841	</listitem>
1842
1843	<listitem>
1844	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
1849	</listitem>
1850
1851	<listitem>
1852	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
1853	</listitem>
1854
1855	<listitem>
1856	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
1857	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
1858	</listitem>
1859
1860	<listitem>
1861	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
1862	</listitem>
1863
1864	<listitem>
1865	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
1866	(bug #6832)</para>
1867	</listitem>
1868
1869	<listitem>
1870	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
1871	guests</para>
1872	</listitem>
1873
1874	<listitem>
1875	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
1876	</listitem>
1877
1878	<listitem>
1879	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
1880	without external tools and tricks</para>
1881	</listitem>
1882
1883	<listitem>
1884	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
1885	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
1886	</listitem>
1887
1888	<listitem>
1889	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
1890	</listitem>
1891
1892	<listitem>
1893	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
1894	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
1895	</listitem>
1896
1897	<listitem>
1898	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
1899	shutdown</para>
1900	</listitem>
1901
1902	<listitem>
1903	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
1904	fixes</para>
1905	</listitem>
1906
1907	<listitem>
1908	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
1909	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
1910	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
1911	</para>
1912	</listitem>
1913
1914	<listitem>
1915	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
1916	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
1917	</listitem>
1918
1919	<listitem>
1920	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
1921	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
1922	</listitem>
1923
1924	<listitem>
1925	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
1926	</para>
1927	</listitem>
1928
1929	<listitem>
1930	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
1931	</listitem>
1932
1933	<listitem>
1934	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
1935	</listitem>
1936
1937	<listitem>
1938	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
1939	</listitem>
1940
1941	</itemizedlist>
1942
1943	</sect1>
1944
1945	<sect1>
1946	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
1947
1948	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1949	added:</para>
1950
1951	<itemizedlist>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
1955	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
1956	</listitem>
1957
1958	<listitem>
1959	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
1960	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
1965	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
1966	</listitem>
1967
1968	<listitem>
1969	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
1974	</listitem>
1975
1976	<listitem>
1977	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
1978	</listitem>
1979
1980	<listitem>
1981	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
1982	</listitem>
1983
1984	<listitem>
1985	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
1986	assigned</para>
1987	</listitem>
1988
1989	<listitem>
1990	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
1991	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
1992	</listitem>
1993
1994	<listitem>
1995	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
1996	multiple screens are enabled</para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	<listitem>
2000	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
2005	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
2006	</listitem>
2007
2008	<listitem>
2009	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
2010	again (bug #7022).
2011	</para>
2012	</listitem>
2013
2014	<listitem>
2015	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
2016	(bug #6768)</para>
2017	</listitem>
2018
2019	<listitem>
2020	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
2021	(bug #6927)</para>
2022	</listitem>
2023
2024	<listitem>
2025	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
2026	bug #7031)</para>
2027	</listitem>
2028
2029	<listitem>
2030	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
2031	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
2032	</listitem>
2033
2034	<listitem>
2035	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
2036	bug #6987)</para>
2037	</listitem>
2038
2039	<listitem>
2040	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
2041	</listitem>
2042
2043	<listitem>
2044	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
2045	</listitem>
2046
2047	<listitem>
2048	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
2049	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
2050	</listitem>
2051
2052	<listitem>
2053	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
2058	installation (bug #5101)</para>
2059	</listitem>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
2063	</listitem>
2064
2065	<listitem>
2066	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
2067	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
2068	bug #6872)</para>
2069	</listitem>
2070
2071	<listitem>
2072	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
2073	</listitem>
2074
2075	<listitem>
2076	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
2077	(performance tweak)</para>
2078	</listitem>
2079
2080	<listitem>
2081	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
2082	is currently paused</para>
2083	</listitem>
2084
2085	<listitem>
2086	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
2087	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
2088	</listitem>
2089
2090	<listitem>
2091	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
2092	</listitem>
2093
2094	<listitem>
2095	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
2096	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
2097	</listitem>
2098
2099	<listitem>
2100	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
2101	not properly saved</para>
2102	</listitem>
2103
2104	<listitem>
2105	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
2106	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
2107	</listitem>
2108
2109	<listitem>
2110	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
2111	</listitem>
2112
2113	<listitem>
2114	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
2115	</listitem>
2116
2117	<listitem>
2118	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
2119	</listitem>
2120
2121	<listitem>
2122	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
2123	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
2124	</listitem>
2125
2126	<listitem>
2127	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
2128	</listitem>
2129
2130	<listitem>
2131	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
2132	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
2133	</listitem>
2134
2135	<listitem>
2136	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
2137	(bug #5251)</para>
2138	</listitem>
2139
2140	<listitem>
2141	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
2142	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
2143	</listitem>
2144
2145	<listitem>
2146	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
2147	</listitem>
2148
2149	<listitem>
2150	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
2151	</listitem>
2152
2153	<listitem>
2154	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2155	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2156	</listitem>
2157
2158	<listitem>
2159	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
2164	</listitem>
2165
2166	<listitem>
2167	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
2168	</listitem>
2169
2170	</itemizedlist>
2171	</sect1>
2172
2173	<sect1>
2174	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
2175
2176	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2177	added:</para>
2178
2179	<itemizedlist>
2180
2181	<listitem>
2182	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
2183	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
2184	</listitem>
2185
2186	<listitem>
2187	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2188	</listitem>
2189
2190	<listitem>
2191	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
2192	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
2193	</listitem>
2194
2195	<listitem>
2196	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
2197	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
2198	</listitem>
2199
2200	<listitem>
2201	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2206	again (bug #6864)</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
2211	applications (bug #5236)</para>
2212	</listitem>
2213
2214	<listitem>
2215	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
2216	</listitem>
2217
2218	<listitem>
2219	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
2220	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
2221	</listitem>
2222
2223	<listitem>
2224	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
2225	</listitem>
2226
2227	</itemizedlist>
2228
2229	</sect1>
2230
2231	<sect1>
2232	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
2233
2234	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2235	added:</para>
2236
2237	<itemizedlist>
2238
2239	<listitem>
2240	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
2245	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
2246	</listitem>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
2250	</listitem>
2251
2252	<listitem>
2253	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
2254	state</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
2259	</listitem>
2260
2261	<listitem>
2262	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
2267	</listitem>
2268
2269	<listitem>
2270	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
2271	</listitem>
2272
2273	<listitem>
2274	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
2275	</listitem>
2276
2277	<listitem>
2278	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
2279	</listitem>
2280
2281	<listitem>
2282	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
2283	</listitem>
2284
2285	<listitem>
2286	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
2291	</listitem>
2292
2293	<listitem>
2294	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
2295	</listitem>
2296
2297	<listitem>
2298	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
2299	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
2300	</listitem>
2301
2302	<listitem>
2303	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
2304	(bug #6784)</para>
2305	</listitem>
2306
2307	<listitem>
2308	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
2309	</listitem>
2310
2311	<listitem>
2312	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
2317	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
2318	</listitem>
2319
2320	<listitem>
2321	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
2322	</listitem>
2323
2324	<listitem>
2325	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
2326	</listitem>
2327
2328	<listitem>
2329	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
2330	host only</para>
2331	</listitem>
2332
2333	<listitem>
2334	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
2335	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
2336	</listitem>
2337
2338	<listitem>
2339	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
2340	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
2341	</listitem>
2342
2343	<listitem>
2344	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
2345	</listitem>
2346
2347	<listitem>
2348	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
2349	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
2350	</listitem>
2351
2352	<listitem>
2353	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
2354	</listitem>
2355
2356	<listitem>
2357	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
2358	</listitem>
2359
2360	<listitem>
2361	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
2362	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
2363	</listitem>
2364
2365	<listitem>
2366	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
2367	</listitem>
2368
2369	<listitem>
2370	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
2371	</listitem>
2372
2373	<listitem>
2374	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
2375	</listitem>
2376
2377	<listitem>
2378	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
2379	(bug #6714)</para>
2380	</listitem>
2381
2382	<listitem>
2383	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
2384	</listitem>
2385
2386	<listitem>
2387	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
2388	</listitem>
2389
2390	<listitem>
2391	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
2392	</listitem>
2393
2394	<listitem>
2395	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
2396	</listitem>
2397
2398	<listitem>
2399	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
2400	</listitem>
2401
2402	</itemizedlist>
2403
2404	</sect1>
2405
2406	<sect1>
2407	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
2408
2409	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2410	were added:</para>
2411
2412	<itemizedlist>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
2416	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
2417	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
2418	</listitem>
2419
2420	<listitem>
2421	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
2422	</listitem>
2423
2424	<listitem>
2425	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
2426	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
2427	</listitem>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
2431	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
2432	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
2433	</listitem>
2434
2435	<listitem>
2436	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
2437	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
2438	</listitem>
2439
2440	<listitem>
2441	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
2442	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
2443	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
2444	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
2445	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
2446	</listitem>
2447
2448	<listitem>
2449	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
2454	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
2455	</listitem>
2456
2457	<listitem>
2458	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
2459	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
2460	</listitem>
2461
2462	<listitem>
2463	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
2464	</listitem>
2465
2466	<listitem>
2467	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
2468	</listitem>
2469
2470	<listitem>
2471	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
2472	</listitem>
2473
2474	<listitem>
2475	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
2480	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
2481	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
2482	</listitem>
2483
2484	<listitem>
2485	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
2486	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
2487	</listitem>
2488
2489	</itemizedlist>
2490
2491	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2492
2493	<itemizedlist>
2494
2495	<listitem>
2496	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
2497	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
2498	</listitem>
2499
2500	<listitem>
2501	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
2502	</listitem>
2503
2504	<listitem>
2505	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
2506	VM</para>
2507	</listitem>
2508
2509	<listitem>
2510	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
2511	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
2516	#1669)</para>
2517	</listitem>
2518
2519	<listitem>
2520	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
2521	#6442)</para>
2522	</listitem>
2523
2524	<listitem>
2525	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
2526	combination (bug #684)</para>
2527	</listitem>
2528
2529	<listitem>
2530	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
2531	the VM from the GUI</para>
2532	</listitem>
2533
2534	<listitem>
2535	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
2536	medium is not accessible</para>
2537	</listitem>
2538
2539	<listitem>
2540	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
2541	</listitem>
2542
2543	<listitem>
2544	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
2545	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
2546	</listitem>
2547
2548	<listitem>
2549	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
2550	#3106)</para>
2551	</listitem>
2552
2553	<listitem>
2554	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
2555	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
2556	it</para>
2557	</listitem>
2558
2559	<listitem>
2560	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
2561	</listitem>
2562
2563	<listitem>
2564	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2565	</listitem>
2566
2567	<listitem>
2568	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
2569	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
2570	</listitem>
2571
2572	<listitem>
2573	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
2574	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
2575	</listitem>
2576
2577	<listitem>
2578	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
2579	</listitem>
2580
2581	<listitem>
2582	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
2583	</listitem>
2584
2585	<listitem>
2586	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
2587	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
2588	</listitem>
2589
2590	<listitem>
2591	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
2592	</listitem>
2593
2594	<listitem>
2595	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
2596	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
2597	</listitem>
2598
2599	<listitem>
2600	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
2601	</listitem>
2602
2603	<listitem>
2604	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
2605	in VirtualBox</para>
2606	</listitem>
2607
2608	<listitem>
2609	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
2610	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
2611	</listitem>
2612
2613	<listitem>
2614	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
2615	VirtualBox</para>
2616	</listitem>
2617
2618	<listitem>
2619	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
2620	</listitem>
2621
2622	<listitem>
2623	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
2624	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
2625	</listitem>
2626
2627	</itemizedlist>
2628	</sect1>
2629
2630	<sect1>
2631	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
2632
2633	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2634	added:</para>
2635
2636	<itemizedlist>
2637
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
2640	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
2641	</listitem>
2642
2643	<listitem>
2644	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
2645	</listitem>
2646
2647	<listitem>
2648	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
2649	</listitem>
2650
2651	<listitem>
2652	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
2653	only) </para>
2654	</listitem>
2655
2656	<listitem>
2657	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
2658	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
2659	</listitem>
2660
2661	<listitem>
2662	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
2663	interface version</para>
2664	</listitem>
2665
2666	<listitem>
2667	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
2668	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
2669	slot empty</para>
2670	</listitem>
2671
2672	<listitem>
2673	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
2674	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
2675	(bug #4220)</para>
2676	</listitem>
2677
2678	<listitem>
2679	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
2680	</listitem>
2681
2682	<listitem>
2683	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
2684	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
2685	</listitem>
2686
2687	<listitem>
2688	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
2689	using the drivers from LSI</para>
2690	</listitem>
2691
2692	<listitem>
2693	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
2694	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
2695	</listitem>
2696
2697	<listitem>
2698	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
2699	attached</para>
2700	</listitem>
2701
2702	<listitem>
2703	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
2704	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
2705	</listitem>
2706
2707	<listitem>
2708	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
2709	</listitem>
2710
2711	<listitem>
2712	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
2713	booting from SCSI devices</para>
2714	</listitem>
2715
2716	<listitem>
2717	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
2718	is bug #6408)</para>
2719	</listitem>
2720
2721	<listitem>
2722	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
2723	</listitem>
2724
2725	<listitem>
2726	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
2727	fail to initialize</para>
2728	</listitem>
2729
2730	<listitem>
2731	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
2732	</listitem>
2733
2734	<listitem>
2735	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
2736	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
2737	</listitem>
2738
2739	<listitem>
2740	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
2741	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
2742	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
2743	</listitem>
2744
2745	<listitem>
2746	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
2747	</listitem>
2748
2749	<listitem>
2750	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
2751	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
2752	</listitem>
2753
2754	<listitem>
2755	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
2756	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
2757	</listitem>
2758
2759	<listitem>
2760	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
2761	(bug #6435)</para>
2762	</listitem>
2763
2764	<listitem>
2765	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
2766	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
2767	</listitem>
2768
2769	<listitem>
2770	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
2771	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
2772	(bug #6488)</para>
2773	</listitem>
2774
2775	<listitem>
2776	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
2777	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
2782	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
2783	</listitem>
2784
2785	<listitem>
2786	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
2787	#5227)</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
2792	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
2793	</listitem>
2794
2795	<listitem>
2796	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
2797	</listitem>
2798
2799	<listitem>
2800	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
2801	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
2802	</listitem>
2803
2804	</itemizedlist>
2805	</sect1>
2806
2807	<sect1>
2808	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
2809
2810	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2811	added:</para>
2812
2813	<itemizedlist>
2814
2815	<listitem>
2816	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
2817	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
2818	</listitem>
2819
2820	<listitem>
2821	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
2822	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
2827	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
2828	</listitem>
2829
2830	<listitem>
2831	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
2832	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
2833	</listitem>
2834
2835	<listitem>
2836	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
2841	</listitem>
2842
2843	<listitem>
2844	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
2845	</listitem>
2846
2847	<listitem>
2848	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
2849	</listitem>
2850
2851	<listitem>
2852	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
2853	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
2854	</listitem>
2855
2856	<listitem>
2857	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
2858	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
2859	</listitem>
2860
2861	<listitem>
2862	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
2863	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
2864	</listitem>
2865
2866	<listitem>
2867	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
2868	</listitem>
2869
2870	<listitem>
2871	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
2872	</listitem>
2873
2874	<listitem>
2875	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
2876	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
2877	</listitem>
2878
2879	<listitem>
2880	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
2881	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
2882	calls (bug #6165)</para>
2883	</listitem>
2884
2885	<listitem>
2886	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
2887	(bug #5297)</para>
2888	</listitem>
2889
2890	<listitem>
2891	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
2892	(bug #4962)</para>
2893	</listitem>
2894
2895	<listitem>
2896	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
2897	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
2898	</listitem>
2899
2900	<listitem>
2901	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
2902	(bug #6176)</para>
2903	</listitem>
2904
2905	<listitem>
2906	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
2907	certain circumstances</para>
2908	</listitem>
2909
2910	<listitem>
2911	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
2912	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
2913	</listitem>
2914
2915	<listitem>
2916	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
2917	</listitem>
2918
2919	<listitem>
2920	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
2921	</listitem>
2922
2923	<listitem>
2924	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
2925	(bug #3571)</para>
2926	</listitem>
2927
2928	<listitem>
2929	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
2930	devices</para>
2931	</listitem>
2932
2933	<listitem>
2934	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
2935	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
2936	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
2937	</listitem>
2938
2939	<listitem>
2940	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
2941	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
2942	</listitem>
2943
2944	<listitem>
2945	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
2946	</listitem>
2947
2948	<listitem>
2949	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
2950	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
2951	</listitem>
2952
2953	<listitem>
2954	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
2955	response</para>
2956	</listitem>
2957
2958	<listitem>
2959	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
2960	</listitem>
2961
2962	<listitem>
2963	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
2964	</listitem>
2965
2966	<listitem>
2967	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
2968	</listitem>
2969
2970	<listitem>
2971	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
2972	</listitem>
2973
2974	<listitem>
2975	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
2976	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
2977	</listitem>
2978
2979	<listitem>
2980	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
2981	</listitem>
2982
2983	<listitem>
2984	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
2985	</listitem>
2986
2987	<listitem>
2988	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
2989	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
2990	</listitem>
2991
2992	<listitem>
2993	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
2994	</listitem>
2995
2996	<listitem>
2997	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
2998	</listitem>
2999
3000	<listitem>
3001	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
3002	</listitem>
3003
3004	<listitem>
3005	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	</itemizedlist>
3009	</sect1>
3010
3011	<sect1>
3012	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
3013
3014	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3015	added:</para>
3016
3017	<itemizedlist>
3018
3019	<listitem>
3020	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
3025	</listitem>
3026
3027	<listitem>
3028	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
3029	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
3030	</listitem>
3031
3032	<listitem>
3033	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
3034	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
3035	</listitem>
3036
3037	<listitem>
3038	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
3039	(bug #3945)</para>
3040	</listitem>
3041
3042	<listitem>
3043	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
3044	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	<listitem>
3048	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
3049	and AMD-V only) </para>
3050	</listitem>
3051
3052	<listitem>
3053	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
3054	</listitem>
3055
3056	<listitem>
3057	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
3058	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
3059	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
3060	</listitem>
3061
3062	<listitem>
3063	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
3064	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
3065	</listitem>
3066
3067	<listitem>
3068	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
3069	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
3070	</listitem>
3071
3072	<listitem>
3073	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
3074	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
3079	snapshots command</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
3084	</listitem>
3085
3086	<listitem>
3087	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
3088	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
3089	</listitem>
3090
3091	<listitem>
3092	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
3093	</listitem>
3094
3095	<listitem>
3096	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
3097	</listitem>
3098
3099	<listitem>
3100	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
3101	</listitem>
3102
3103	<listitem>
3104	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
3105	(KWin bug)</para>
3106	</listitem>
3107
3108	<listitem>
3109	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
3110	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
3111	</listitem>
3112
3113	<listitem>
3114	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
3115	</listitem>
3116
3117	<listitem>
3118	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
3119	</listitem>
3120
3121	<listitem>
3122	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
3123	</listitem>
3124
3125	<listitem>
3126	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
3131	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	<listitem>
3135	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
3136	bug #5787)</para>
3137	</listitem>
3138
3139	<listitem>
3140	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
3141	DHCP requests</para>
3142	</listitem>
3143
3144	<listitem>
3145	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
3146	(bug #3217)</para>
3147	</listitem>
3148
3149	<listitem>
3150	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
3151	range (bug #5923)</para>
3152	</listitem>
3153
3154	<listitem>
3155	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
3164	</listitem>
3165
3166	<listitem>
3167	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
3168	</listitem>
3169
3170	<listitem>
3171	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
3172	file (bug #5681)</para>
3173	</listitem>
3174
3175	<listitem>
3176	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
3177	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
3178	</listitem>
3179
3180	<listitem>
3181	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
3182	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
3183	</listitem>
3184
3185	<listitem>
3186	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
3187	regression)</para>
3188	</listitem>
3189
3190	<listitem>
3191	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
3192	</listitem>
3193
3194	<listitem>
3195	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
3196	</listitem>
3197
3198	<listitem>
3199	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
3200	</listitem>
3201
3202	<listitem>
3203	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
3204	</listitem>
3205
3206	<listitem>
3207	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
3208	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
3209	</listitem>
3210
3211	<listitem>
3212	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
3213	</listitem>
3214
3215	<listitem>
3216	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
3217	</listitem>
3218
3219	<listitem>
3220	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
3221	</listitem>
3222
3223	<listitem>
3224	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
3225	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
3226	</listitem>
3227
3228	<listitem>
3229	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
3230	</listitem>
3231
3232	<listitem>
3233	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
3234	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
3235	</listitem>
3236
3237	<listitem>
3238	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
3239	</listitem>
3240
3241	<listitem>
3242	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
3243	</listitem>
3244
3245	<listitem>
3246	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
3247	</listitem>
3248
3249	<listitem>
3250	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
3251	(bug #5731)</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
3256	again</para>
3257	</listitem>
3258
3259	</itemizedlist>
3260
3261	</sect1>
3262
3263	<sect1>
3264	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
3265
3266	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3267	added:</para>
3268
3269	<itemizedlist>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
3273	</listitem>
3274
3275	<listitem>
3276	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
3277	</listitem>
3278
3279	<listitem>
3280	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
3281	</listitem>
3282
3283	<listitem>
3284	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
3285	</listitem>
3286
3287	<listitem>
3288	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
3289	</listitem>
3290
3291	<listitem>
3292	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
3293	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
3294	</listitem>
3295
3296	<listitem>
3297	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
3302	</listitem>
3303
3304	<listitem>
3305	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
3306	</listitem>
3307
3308	<listitem>
3309	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
3310	</listitem>
3311
3312	<listitem>
3313	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
3314	</listitem>
3315
3316	<listitem>
3317	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
3318	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
3319	</listitem>
3320
3321	<listitem>
3322	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
3323	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
3324	</listitem>
3325
3326	<listitem>
3327	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
3328	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
3329	#1762)</para>
3330	</listitem>
3331
3332	<listitem>
3333	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
3334	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
3339	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
3344	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
3345	</listitem>
3346
3347	<listitem>
3348	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
3349	</listitem>
3350
3351	<listitem>
3352	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
3353	</listitem>
3354
3355	<listitem>
3356	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
3357	several virtual CPU cores</para>
3358	</listitem>
3359
3360	<listitem>
3361	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
3362	</listitem>
3363
3364	<listitem>
3365	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
3366	</listitem>
3367
3368	<listitem>
3369	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
3370	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
3371	</listitem>
3372
3373	<listitem>
3374	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
3375	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
3384	guests</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
3389	and on some 64bit guests</para>
3390	</listitem>
3391
3392	<listitem>
3393	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
3394	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
3395	</listitem>
3396
3397	<listitem>
3398	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
3399	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
3400	</listitem>
3401
3402	<listitem>
3403	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
3404	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
3405	</listitem>
3406
3407	<listitem>
3408	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
3409	</listitem>
3410
3411	<listitem>
3412	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
3417	</listitem>
3418
3419	<listitem>
3420	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
3421	</listitem>
3422
3423	<listitem>
3424	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
3425	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
3426	</listitem>
3427
3428	<listitem>
3429	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
3430	</listitem>
3431
3432	</itemizedlist>
3433
3434	</sect1>
3435
3436	<sect1>
3437	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
3438
3439	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3440	were added:</para>
3441
3442	<itemizedlist>
3443
3444	<listitem>
3445	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
3446	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
3447	</listitem>
3448
3449	<listitem>
3450	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
3451	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
3452	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
3453	</listitem>
3454
3455	<listitem>
3456	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
3457	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
3458	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
3459	</listitem>
3460
3461	<listitem>
3462	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
3463	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
3464	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
3465	</listitem>
3466
3467	<listitem>
3468	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
3469	running</para>
3470	</listitem>
3471
3472	<listitem>
3473	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
3474	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
3475	</listitem>
3476
3477	<listitem>
3478	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
3479	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
3480	</listitem>
3481
3482	<listitem>
3483	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
3484	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
3485	</listitem>
3486
3487	<listitem>
3488	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
3489	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
3490	</listitem>
3491
3492	</itemizedlist>
3493
3494	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3495
3496	<itemizedlist>
3497
3498	<listitem>
3499	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
3500	</listitem>
3501
3502	<listitem>
3503	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
3504	</listitem>
3505
3506	<listitem>
3507	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
3508	</listitem>
3509
3510	<listitem>
3511	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
3512	(bug #5291)</para>
3513	</listitem>
3514
3515	<listitem>
3516	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
3517	</listitem>
3518
3519	<listitem>
3520	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
3521	</listitem>
3522
3523	<listitem>
3524	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
3525	</listitem>
3526
3527	<listitem>
3528	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
3529	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
3530	</listitem>
3531
3532	<listitem>
3533	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
3534	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
3535	</listitem>
3536
3537	<listitem>
3538	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
3539	</listitem>
3540
3541	<listitem>
3542	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
3543	</listitem>
3544
3545	<listitem>
3546	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
3547	</listitem>
3548
3549	<listitem>
3550	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
3551	</listitem>
3552
3553	<listitem>
3554	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
3555	</listitem>
3556
3557	<listitem>
3558	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
3559	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
3564	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
3569	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
3570	</listitem>
3571
3572	<listitem>
3573	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
3574	(bug #2723)</para>
3575	</listitem>
3576
3577	<listitem>
3578	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
3579	</listitem>
3580
3581	<listitem>
3582	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
3583	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
3584	</listitem>
3585
3586	<listitem>
3587	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
3588	optional manifest file on import</para>
3589	</listitem>
3590
3591	<listitem>
3592	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
3593	</listitem>
3594
3595	<listitem>
3596	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
3597	(bug #3773)</para>
3598	</listitem>
3599
3600	<listitem>
3601	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	<listitem>
3605	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
3610	layout (bug #2302)</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	<listitem>
3614	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
3615	(bug #4866)</para>
3616	</listitem>
3617
3618	<listitem>
3619	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
3620	left click (bug #5049)</para>
3621	</listitem>
3622
3623	<listitem>
3624	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
3625	certain conditions</para>
3626	</listitem>
3627
3628	<listitem>
3629	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
3630	</listitem>
3631
3632	<listitem>
3633	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
3634	</listitem>
3635
3636	<listitem>
3637	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
3638	</listitem>
3639
3640	<listitem>
3641	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
3646	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
3651	</listitem>
3652
3653	<listitem>
3654	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
3655	properties (bug #5337)</para>
3656	</listitem>
3657
3658	<listitem>
3659	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
3660	</listitem>
3661
3662	<listitem>
3663	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
3664	</listitem>
3665
3666	<listitem>
3667	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
3668	</listitem>
3669
3670	<listitem>
3671	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
3672	</listitem>
3673
3674	<listitem>
3675	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
3676	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
3681	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
3682	(bug #928)</para>
3683	</listitem>
3684
3685	<listitem>
3686	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
3687	</listitem>
3688
3689	</itemizedlist>
3690
3691	</sect1>
3692
3693	<sect1>
3694	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
3695
3696	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3697	added:</para>
3698
3699	<itemizedlist>
3700
3701	<listitem>
3702	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
3703	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
3704	</listitem>
3705
3706	<listitem>
3707	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
3708	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
3709	</listitem>
3710
3711	<listitem>
3712	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
3713	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
3714	</listitem>
3715
3716	<listitem>
3717	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
3718	enabled</para>
3719	</listitem>
3720
3721	<listitem>
3722	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
3723	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
3724	</listitem>
3725
3726	<listitem>
3727	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
3728	(bug #2676)</para>
3729	</listitem>
3730
3731	<listitem>
3732	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
3733	is connected to a raw file</para>
3734	</listitem>
3735
3736	<listitem>
3737	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
3738	(bug #5355)</para>
3739	</listitem>
3740
3741	<listitem>
3742	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
3743	</listitem>
3744
3745	<listitem>
3746	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
3747	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
3748	</listitem>
3749
3750	<listitem>
3751	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
3752	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
3753	guest (bug #4496)</para>
3754	</listitem>
3755
3756	<listitem>
3757	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
3758	</listitem>
3759
3760	<listitem>
3761	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
3762	</listitem>
3763
3764	<listitem>
3765	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
3766	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
3767	</listitem>
3768
3769	<listitem>
3770	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
3771	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
3772	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
3773	</listitem>
3774
3775	</itemizedlist>
3776
3777	</sect1>
3778
3779	<sect1>
3780	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
3781
3782	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3783	added:</para>
3784
3785	<itemizedlist>
3786
3787	<listitem>
3788	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
3789	</listitem>
3790
3791	<listitem>
3792	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
3797	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
3798	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
3799	</listitem>
3800
3801	<listitem>
3802	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
3803	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
3804	</listitem>
3805
3806	<listitem>
3807	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
3808	</listitem>
3809
3810	<listitem>
3811	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
3812	</listitem>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
3816	</listitem>
3817
3818	<listitem>
3819	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
3820	</listitem>
3821
3822	<listitem>
3823	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
3824	</listitem>
3825
3826	<listitem>
3827	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
3828	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
3829	</listitem>
3830
3831	<listitem>
3832	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
3833	</listitem>
3834
3835	<listitem>
3836	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
3837	</listitem>
3838
3839	<listitem>
3840	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
3841	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
3842	</listitem>
3843
3844	<listitem>
3845	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
3846	</listitem>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
3850	exhaustion</para>
3851	</listitem>
3852
3853	<listitem>
3854	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
3855	</listitem>
3856
3857	<listitem>
3858	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
3859	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
3860	</listitem>
3861
3862	<listitem>
3863	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
3864	folders (bug #4106)</para>
3865	</listitem>
3866
3867	<listitem>
3868	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
3869	folders (bug #4299)</para>
3870	</listitem>
3871
3872	<listitem>
3873	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
3874	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
3875	(bug #2921)</para>
3876	</listitem>
3877
3878	<listitem>
3879	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
3880	hosts only)</para>
3881	</listitem>
3882
3883	<listitem>
3884	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
3885	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
3886	</listitem>
3887
3888	<listitem>
3889	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
3890	</listitem>
3891
3892	<listitem>
3893	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
3894	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
3895	</listitem>
3896
3897	<listitem>
3898	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
3899	</listitem>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
3903	image inconsistency </para>
3904	</listitem>
3905
3906	<listitem>
3907	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
3912	</listitem>
3913
3914	<listitem>
3915	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
3916	(bug #2025)</para>
3917	</listitem>
3918
3919	<listitem>
3920	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
3921	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
3922	</listitem>
3923
3924	</itemizedlist>
3925
3926	</sect1>
3927
3928	<sect1>
3929	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
3930
3931	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3932	added:</para>
3933
3934	<itemizedlist>
3935
3936	<listitem>
3937	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
3938	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
3939	</listitem>
3940
3941	<listitem>
3942	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
3943	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
3944	</listitem>
3945
3946	<listitem>
3947	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
3948	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
3949	</listitem>
3950
3951	<listitem>
3952	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
3957	software virtualization only) </para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
3962	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
3963	</listitem>
3964
3965	<listitem>
3966	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
3967	with root privileges</para>
3968	</listitem>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
3972	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
3973	</listitem>
3974
3975	<listitem>
3976	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
3977	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
3978	</listitem>
3979
3980	<listitem>
3981	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
3982	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
3983	</listitem>
3984
3985	<listitem>
3986	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
3987	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
3988	selector (bug #5063)</para>
3989	</listitem>
3990
3991	<listitem>
3992	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
3993	available</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
3998	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
3999	</listitem>
4000
4001	<listitem>
4002	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
4003	networking (bug #4775)</para>
4004	</listitem>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
4008	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
4009	</listitem>
4010
4011	<listitem>
4012	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
4013	(bug #4907)</para>
4014	</listitem>
4015
4016	<listitem>
4017	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
4018	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
4019	</listitem>
4020
4021	<listitem>
4022	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
4023	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
4024	</listitem>
4025
4026	<listitem>
4027	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
4028	</listitem>
4029
4030	<listitem>
4031	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
4036	</listitem>
4037
4038	<listitem>
4039	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
4040	</listitem>
4041
4042	<listitem>
4043	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
4044	are installed</para>
4045	</listitem>
4046
4047	<listitem>
4048	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
4049	(bug #4771)</para>
4050	</listitem>
4051
4052	<listitem>
4053	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
4054	</listitem>
4055
4056	<listitem>
4057	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
4058	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
4059	</listitem>
4060
4061	<listitem>
4062	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
4063	command</para>
4064	</listitem>
4065
4066	<listitem>
4067	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
4068	</listitem>
4069
4070	<listitem>
4071	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
4072	</listitem>
4073
4074	<listitem>
4075	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
4076	(bug #5089)</para>
4077	</listitem>
4078
4079	<listitem>
4080	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
4081	</listitem>
4082
4083	</itemizedlist>
4084
4085	</sect1>
4086
4087	<sect1>
4088	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
4089
4090	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4091	added:</para>
4092
4093	<itemizedlist>
4094
4095	<listitem>
4096	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
4097	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
4098	</listitem>
4099
4100	<listitem>
4101	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
4102	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
4103	</listitem>
4104
4105	<listitem>
4106	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
4107	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
4108	</listitem>
4109
4110	<listitem>
4111	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
4112	guests (bug #2258)</para>
4113	</listitem>
4114
4115	<listitem>
4116	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
4117	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
4118	</listitem>
4119
4120	<listitem>
4121	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
4122	</listitem>
4123
4124	<listitem>
4125	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
4126	</listitem>
4127
4128	<listitem>
4129	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
4130	</listitem>
4131
4132	<listitem>
4133	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
4134	</listitem>
4135
4136	<listitem>
4137	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
4138	</listitem>
4139
4140	<listitem>
4141	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
4142	onlined or offlined</para>
4143	</listitem>
4144
4145	<listitem>
4146	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
4147	</listitem>
4148
4149	<listitem>
4150	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
4151	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
4156	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
4165	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
4170	</listitem>
4171
4172	<listitem>
4173	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
4174	</listitem>
4175
4176	<listitem>
4177	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
4178	</listitem>
4179
4180	<listitem>
4181	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
4182	</listitem>
4183
4184	<listitem>
4185	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
4186	</listitem>
4187
4188	<listitem>
4189	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
4190	filters in machine settings XML</para>
4191	</listitem>
4192
4193	<listitem>
4194	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
4195	</listitem>
4196
4197	<listitem>
4198	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
4199	</listitem>
4200
4201	<listitem>
4202	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
4203	</listitem>
4204
4205	<listitem>
4206	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
4207	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
4208	</listitem>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
4212	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
4213	</listitem>
4214
4215	<listitem>
4216	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
4221	</listitem>
4222
4223	<listitem>
4224	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
4225	</listitem>
4226
4227	<listitem>
4228	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
4229	</listitem>
4230
4231	<listitem>
4232	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
4233	</listitem>
4234
4235	<listitem>
4236	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
4241	</listitem>
4242
4243	<listitem>
4244	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
4245	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
4246	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
4247	phase collapse</para>
4248	</listitem>
4249
4250	<listitem>
4251	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
4252	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
4253	</listitem>
4254
4255	<listitem>
4256	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
4257	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
4258	</listitem>
4259
4260	<listitem>
4261	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	<listitem>
4265	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
4266	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
4271	interface bringup on Linux</para>
4272	</listitem>
4273
4274	<listitem>
4275	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	<listitem>
4279	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
4280	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
4281	#4698, #4790)</para>
4282	</listitem>
4283
4284	<listitem>
4285	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
4286	less than the configured range</para>
4287	</listitem>
4288
4289	<listitem>
4290	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
4291	</listitem>
4292
4293	<listitem>
4294	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
4295	</listitem>
4296
4297	<listitem>
4298	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
4299	</listitem>
4300
4301	<listitem>
4302	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
4307	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
4308	</listitem>
4309
4310	<listitem>
4311	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
4312	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
4313	</listitem>
4314
4315	<listitem>
4316	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
4317	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
4318	</listitem>
4319
4320	<listitem>
4321	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
4322	</listitem>
4323
4324	<listitem>
4325	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
4326	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
4327	</listitem>
4328
4329	<listitem>
4330	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
4331	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
4332	</listitem>
4333
4334	<listitem>
4335	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
4336	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
4337	</listitem>
4338
4339	<listitem>
4340	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
4341	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	<listitem>
4345	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	</itemizedlist>
4353
4354	</sect1>
4355
4356	<sect1>
4357	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
4358
4359	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4360	added:</para>
4361
4362	<itemizedlist>
4363
4364	<listitem>
4365	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
4366	</listitem>
4367
4368	<listitem>
4369	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
4370	</listitem>
4371
4372	<listitem>
4373	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
4374	</listitem>
4375
4376	<listitem>
4377	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
4378	</listitem>
4379
4380	<listitem>
4381	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
4382	</listitem>
4383
4384	<listitem>
4385	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
4386	</listitem>
4387
4388	<listitem>
4389	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
4390	</listitem>
4391
4392	<listitem>
4393	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
4394	</listitem>
4395
4396	<listitem>
4397	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
4398	</listitem>
4399
4400	<listitem>
4401	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
4402	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
4403	</listitem>
4404
4405	<listitem>
4406	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
4407	</listitem>
4408
4409	<listitem>
4410	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
4411	</listitem>
4412
4413	<listitem>
4414	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
4415	</listitem>
4416
4417	<listitem>
4418	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
4419	</listitem>
4420
4421	<listitem>
4422	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
4423	</listitem>
4424
4425	<listitem>
4426	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
4427	</listitem>
4428
4429	<listitem>
4430	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
4431	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
4432	</listitem>
4433
4434	<listitem>
4435	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
4436	(bug #4654)</para>
4437	</listitem>
4438
4439	<listitem>
4440	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
4441	</listitem>
4442
4443	<listitem>
4444	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
4445	interfaces</para>
4446	</listitem>
4447
4448	<listitem>
4449	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
4450	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
4451	</listitem>
4452
4453	<listitem>
4454	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
4455	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
4456	</listitem>
4457
4458	<listitem>
4459	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
4460	properties (bug #3415)</para>
4461	</listitem>
4462
4463	<listitem>
4464	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
4465	(bug #1461)</para>
4466	</listitem>
4467
4468	<listitem>
4469	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
4470	</listitem>
4471
4472	<listitem>
4473	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
4474	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
4475	</listitem>
4476
4477	<listitem>
4478	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
4479	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
4480	</listitem>
4481
4482	<listitem>
4483	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
4484	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
4485	</listitem>
4486
4487	<listitem>
4488	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
4489	</listitem>
4490
4491	<listitem>
4492	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4493	</listitem>
4494
4495	<listitem>
4496	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
4497	</listitem>
4498
4499	<listitem>
4500	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
4501	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
4502	</listitem>
4503
4504	<listitem>
4505	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
4506	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
4507	</listitem>
4508
4509	<listitem>
4510	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
4511	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
4512	</listitem>
4513
4514	<listitem>
4515	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
4516	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
4517	</listitem>
4518
4519	</itemizedlist>
4520
4521	</sect1>
4522	<sect1>
4523	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
4524
4525	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4526	added:</para>
4527
4528	<itemizedlist>
4529
4530	<listitem>
4531	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
4532	</listitem>
4533
4534	<listitem>
4535	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
4536	</listitem>
4537
4538	<listitem>
4539	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
4540	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
4541	</listitem>
4542
4543	<listitem>
4544	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
4545	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
4546	</listitem>
4547
4548	<listitem>
4549	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
4550	</listitem>
4551
4552	<listitem>
4553	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
4554	</listitem>
4555
4556	<listitem>
4557	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
4558	</listitem>
4559
4560	<listitem>
4561	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
4562	</listitem>
4563
4564	<listitem>
4565	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
4566	</listitem>
4567
4568	<listitem>
4569	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
4578	</listitem>
4579
4580	<listitem>
4581	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
4582	</listitem>
4583
4584	<listitem>
4585	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
4586	</listitem>
4587
4588	<listitem>
4589	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
4590	</listitem>
4591
4592	<listitem>
4593	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
4594	guest (bug #4381)</para>
4595	</listitem>
4596
4597	<listitem>
4598	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
4599	</listitem>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
4607	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
4608	</listitem>
4609
4610	<listitem>
4611	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
4612	</listitem>
4613
4614	<listitem>
4615	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
4616	</listitem>
4617
4618	<listitem>
4619	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
4620	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
4621	</listitem>
4622
4623	<listitem>
4624	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
4625	</listitem>
4626
4627	<listitem>
4628	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
4629	</listitem>
4630
4631	<listitem>
4632	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
4633	</listitem>
4634
4635	<listitem>
4636	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
4637	</listitem>
4638
4639	<listitem>
4640	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
4641	</listitem>
4642
4643	<listitem>
4644	<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>
4645	</listitem>
4646
4647	</itemizedlist>
4648
4649	</sect1>
4650
4651	<sect1>
4652	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
4653
4654	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4655	were added:</para>
4656
4657	<itemizedlist>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
4665	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4666	</listitem>
4667
4668	<listitem>
4669	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
4670	</listitem>
4671
4672	</itemizedlist>
4673
4674	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4675
4676	<itemizedlist>
4677
4678	<listitem>
4679	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
4680	</listitem>
4681
4682	<listitem>
4683	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
4684	certain conditions</para>
4685	</listitem>
4686
4687	<listitem>
4688	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
4689	</listitem>
4690
4691	<listitem>
4692	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
4693	</listitem>
4694
4695	<listitem>
4696	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
4697	</listitem>
4698
4699	<listitem>
4700	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
4701	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
4702	</listitem>
4703
4704	<listitem>
4705	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
4706	</listitem>
4707
4708	<listitem>
4709	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
4710	</listitem>
4711
4712	<listitem>
4713	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
4714	</listitem>
4715
4716	<listitem>
4717	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
4718	</listitem>
4719
4720	<listitem>
4721	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
4722	</listitem>
4723
4724	<listitem>
4725	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
4726	</listitem>
4727
4728	<listitem>
4729	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
4730	</listitem>
4731
4732	<listitem>
4733	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
4734	</listitem>
4735
4736	<listitem>
4737	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
4738	(non Windows hosts)</para>
4739	</listitem>
4740
4741	<listitem>
4742	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
4743	</listitem>
4744
4745	<listitem>
4746	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
4747	</listitem>
4748
4749	<listitem>
4750	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
4751	</listitem>
4752
4753	<listitem>
4754	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
4755	</listitem>
4756
4757	<listitem>
4758	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
4759	</listitem>
4760
4761	<listitem>
4762	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
4763	</listitem>
4764
4765	<listitem>
4766	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
4767	</listitem>
4768
4769	<listitem>
4770	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
4771	</listitem>
4772
4773	<listitem>
4774	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
4775	</listitem>
4776
4777	<listitem>
4778	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
4779	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
4784	</listitem>
4785
4786	<listitem>
4787	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
4788	</listitem>
4789
4790	<listitem>
4791	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
4792	</listitem>
4793
4794	<listitem>
4795	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
4796	</listitem>
4797
4798	<listitem>
4799	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
4800	</listitem>
4801
4802	<listitem>
4803	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
4804	</listitem>
4805
4806	<listitem>
4807	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
4808	</listitem>
4809
4810	<listitem>
4811	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
4812	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
4813	</listitem>
4814
4815	<listitem>
4816	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
4817	</listitem>
4818
4819	<listitem>
4820	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
4821	</listitem>
4822
4823	<listitem>
4824	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
4825	</listitem>
4826
4827	<listitem>
4828	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
4829	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
4834	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
4839	correct file mode when creating files</para>
4840	</listitem>
4841
4842	<listitem>
4843	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
4844	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
4845	</listitem>
4846
4847	<listitem>
4848	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
4849	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
4850	</listitem>
4851
4852	<listitem>
4853	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
4854	</listitem>
4855
4856	<listitem>
4857	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
4858	</listitem>
4859
4860	<listitem>
4861	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
4862	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
4863	</listitem>
4864
4865	<listitem>
4866	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
4867	guest property lookup</para>
4868	</listitem>
4869
4870	<listitem>
4871	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
4872	basic network information)</para>
4873	</listitem>
4874
4875	<listitem>
4876	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
4877	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
4878	</listitem>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
4882	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
4883	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
4884	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
4885	</listitem>
4886
4887	<listitem>
4888	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
4889	</listitem>
4890
4891	<listitem>
4892	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
4893	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
4894	web service</para>
4895	</listitem>
4896
4897	<listitem>
4898	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
4899	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
4900	</listitem>
4901
4902	<listitem>
4903	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
4904	unavailable</para>
4905	</listitem>
4906
4907	<listitem>
4908	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
4909	</listitem>
4910
4911	</itemizedlist>
4912	</sect1>
4913
4914	<sect1>
4915	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
4916
4917	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4918	added:</para>
4919
4920	<itemizedlist>
4921
4922	<listitem>
4923	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
4924	installation</para>
4925	</listitem>
4926
4927	<listitem>
4928	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
4929	</listitem>
4930
4931	<listitem>
4932	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
4933	later (bug #3981)</para>
4934	</listitem>
4935
4936	<listitem>
4937	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
4938	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
4939	</listitem>
4940
4941	<listitem>
4942	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
4943	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
4944	(bug #4034)
4945	</para>
4946	</listitem>
4947
4948	<listitem>
4949	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
4950	networking</para>
4951	</listitem>
4952
4953	<listitem>
4954	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
4955	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
4956	</listitem>
4957
4958	<listitem>
4959	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
4960	clicks</para>
4961	</listitem>
4962
4963	<listitem>
4964	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
4965	Windows 7 guests</para>
4966	</listitem>
4967
4968	<listitem>
4969	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
4970	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
4971	</listitem>
4972
4973	<listitem>
4974	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
4975	</listitem>
4976
4977	<listitem>
4978	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
4979	</listitem>
4980
4981	<listitem>
4982	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
4983	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
4984	</listitem>
4985
4986	<listitem>
4987	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
4988	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
4989	</listitem>
4990
4991	<listitem>
4992	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
4993	</listitem>
4994
4995	<listitem>
4996	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
4997	</listitem>
4998
4999	<listitem>
5000	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
5001	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
5002	(bug #3864)</para>
5003	</listitem>
5004
5005	<listitem>
5006	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
5007	now flushes the output stream</para>
5008	</listitem>
5009
5010	<listitem>
5011	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
5012	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
5013	</listitem>
5014
5015	<listitem>
5016	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
5017	</listitem>
5018
5019	<listitem>
5020	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
5021	</listitem>
5022
5023	<listitem>
5024	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
5025	</listitem>
5026
5027	<listitem>
5028	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
5029	</listitem>
5030
5031	<listitem>
5032	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
5033	(bug #3964)</para>
5034	</listitem>
5035
5036	<listitem>
5037	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
5038	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
5039	</listitem>
5040
5041	<listitem>
5042	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
5043	hosts</para>
5044	</listitem>
5045
5046	<listitem>
5047	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
5048	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
5049	e1000 adapter</para>
5050	</listitem>
5051
5052	<listitem>
5053	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
5054	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
5055	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
5056	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
5057	</listitem>
5058
5059	<listitem>
5060	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
5061	</listitem>
5062
5063	<listitem>
5064	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
5065	</listitem>
5066
5067	<listitem>
5068	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
5069	</listitem>
5070
5071	<listitem>
5072	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
5073	file (bug #1023)</para>
5074	</listitem>
5075
5076	<listitem>
5077	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
5078	</listitem>
5079
5080	<listitem>
5081	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
5082	</listitem>
5083
5084	</itemizedlist>
5085	</sect1>
5086
5087	<sect1>
5088	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
5089
5090	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5091	added:</para>
5092
5093	<itemizedlist>
5094
5095	<listitem>
5096	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
5097	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
5098	</listitem>
5099
5100	<listitem>
5101	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
5102	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
5103	and later</para>
5104	</listitem>
5105
5106	<listitem>
5107	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
5108	running services</para>
5109	</listitem>
5110
5111	<listitem>
5112	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
5113	terminates</para>
5114	</listitem>
5115
5116	<listitem>
5117	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
5118	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
5119	</listitem>
5120
5121	<listitem>
5122	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
5123	installed on the guest</para>
5124	</listitem>
5125
5126	<listitem>
5127	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
5128	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
5129	</listitem>
5130
5131	<listitem>
5132	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
5133	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
5134	</listitem>
5135
5136	<listitem>
5137	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
5138	(bug #2628)</para>
5139	</listitem>
5140
5141	<listitem>
5142	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
5143	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
5144	</listitem>
5145
5146	<listitem>
5147	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
5148	(bug #3657)</para>
5149	</listitem>
5150
5151	<listitem>
5152	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
5153	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
5154	</listitem>
5155
5156	<listitem>
5157	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
5158	virtualization only)
5159	</para>
5160	</listitem>
5161
5162	<listitem>
5163	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
5164	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
5165	</listitem>
5166
5167	<listitem>
5168	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
5169	</listitem>
5170
5171	<listitem>
5172	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
5173	networks (bug #3702)</para>
5174	</listitem>
5175
5176	<listitem>
5177	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
5178	bug #3689)</para>
5179	</listitem>
5180
5181	<listitem>
5182	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
5183	bug #3679)</para>
5184	</listitem>
5185
5186	<listitem>
5187	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
5188	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
5189	</listitem>
5190
5191	<listitem>
5192	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
5193	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
5194	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
5195	</listitem>
5196
5197	<listitem>
5198	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
5199	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
5200	</listitem>
5201
5202	<listitem>
5203	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
5204	lease (bug #3655)</para>
5205	</listitem>
5206
5207	<listitem>
5208	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
5209	(bug #3667)</para>
5210	</listitem>
5211
5212	<listitem>
5213	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
5214	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
5215	</listitem>
5216
5217	<listitem>
5218	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
5219	</listitem>
5220
5221	<listitem>
5222	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
5223	</listitem>
5224
5225	<listitem>
5226	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
5227	</listitem>
5228
5229	<listitem>
5230	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
5231	</listitem>
5232
5233	<listitem>
5234	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
5235	</listitem>
5236
5237	<listitem>
5238	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
5239	</listitem>
5240
5241	<listitem>
5242	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
5243	</listitem>
5244
5245	</itemizedlist>
5246	</sect1>
5247
5248	<sect1>
5249	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
5250
5251	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5252	were added:</para>
5253
5254	<itemizedlist>
5255
5256	<listitem>
5257	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
5258	</listitem>
5259
5260	<listitem>
5261	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
5262	</listitem>
5263
5264	<listitem>
5265	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
5266	</listitem>
5267
5268	<listitem>
5269	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
5270	</listitem>
5271
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
5274	</listitem>
5275
5276	<listitem>
5277	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
5278	</listitem>
5279
5280	<listitem>
5281	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
5282	</listitem>
5283
5284	<listitem>
5285	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
5286	</listitem>
5287
5288	<listitem>
5289	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
5294	</listitem>
5295
5296	</itemizedlist>
5297
5298	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5299
5300	<itemizedlist>
5301
5302	<listitem>
5303	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
5304	</listitem>
5305
5306	<listitem>
5307	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
5308	</listitem>
5309
5310	<listitem>
5311	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
5312	</listitem>
5313
5314	<listitem>
5315	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
5316	</listitem>
5317
5318	<listitem>
5319	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
5320	</listitem>
5321
5322	<listitem>
5323	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
5324	</listitem>
5325
5326	<listitem>
5327	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
5336	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
5337	</listitem>
5338
5339	<listitem>
5340	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
5341	</listitem>
5342
5343	<listitem>
5344	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
5345	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
5346	</listitem>
5347
5348	<listitem>
5349	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
5350	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
5351	</listitem>
5352
5353	<listitem>
5354	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
5355	</listitem>
5356
5357	<listitem>
5358	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
5359	</listitem>
5360
5361	<listitem>
5362	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
5363	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
5364	</listitem>
5365
5366	<listitem>
5367	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
5368	</listitem>
5369
5370	<listitem>
5371	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
5372	ESX server images)</para>
5373	</listitem>
5374
5375	<listitem>
5376	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
5377	writable</para>
5378	</listitem>
5379
5380	<listitem>
5381	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
5382	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
5383	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
5384	</listitem>
5385
5386	<listitem>
5387	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
5388	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
5389	</listitem>
5390
5391	<listitem>
5392	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
5393	</listitem>
5394
5395	<listitem>
5396	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
5397	</listitem>
5398
5399	<listitem>
5400	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
5401	hosts when creating files</para>
5402	</listitem>
5403
5404	<listitem>
5405	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
5406	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
5407	</listitem>
5408
5409	<listitem>
5410	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
5411	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
5412	#2306)</para>
5413	</listitem>
5414
5415	<listitem>
5416	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
5417	(bug #3555)</para>
5418	</listitem>
5419
5420	<listitem>
5421	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
5422	installer (bug #3524)</para>
5423	</listitem>
5424
5425	<listitem>
5426	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
5427	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
5428	</listitem>
5429
5430	<listitem>
5431	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
5432	interface (bug #3414)</para>
5433	</listitem>
5434
5435	<listitem>
5436	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
5437	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
5438	</listitem>
5439
5440	<listitem>
5441	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
5442	(bug #3586)</para>
5443	</listitem>
5444
5445	<listitem>
5446	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
5447	from Scratch systems</para>
5448	</listitem>
5449
5450	<listitem>
5451	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
5452	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
5453	</listitem>
5454
5455	<listitem>
5456	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
5457	</listitem>
5458
5459	<listitem>
5460	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
5461	default to compact format</para>
5462	</listitem>
5463
5464	<listitem>
5465	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
5466	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
5467	</listitem>
5468
5469	<listitem>
5470	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
5471	</listitem>
5472
5473	<listitem>
5474	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5475	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
5476	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
5477	</listitem>
5478
5479	<listitem>
5480	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
5481	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
5482	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
5483	</listitem>
5484
5485	<listitem>
5486	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
5487	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
5488	</listitem>
5489
5490	<listitem>
5491	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
5492	</listitem>
5493
5494	<listitem>
5495	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
5496	</listitem>
5497
5498	<listitem>
5499	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
5500	</listitem>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	<listitem>
5507	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
5508	</listitem>
5509
5510	<listitem>
5511	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
5512	</listitem>
5513
5514	<listitem>
5515	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
5516	</listitem>
5517
5518	<listitem>
5519	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
5520	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
5521	</listitem>
5522
5523	<listitem>
5524	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
5525	</listitem>
5526
5527	<listitem>
5528	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
5529	regression; bug #2065)</para>
5530	</listitem>
5531
5532	<listitem>
5533	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
5534	</listitem>
5535
5536	<listitem>
5537	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
5538	</listitem>
5539
5540	<listitem>
5541	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
5542	</listitem>
5543
5544	<listitem>
5545	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
5546	#2536)</para>
5547	</listitem>
5548
5549	<listitem>
5550	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
5551	</listitem>
5552
5553	<listitem>
5554	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
5555	(bug #3548)</para>
5556	</listitem>
5557
5558	</itemizedlist>
5559	</sect1>
5560
5561	<sect1>
5562	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
5563
5564	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5565	added:</para>
5566
5567	<itemizedlist>
5568
5569	<listitem>
5570	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5571	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5572	</listitem>
5573
5574	<listitem>
5575	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
5576	</listitem>
5577
5578	<listitem>
5579	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
5580	</listitem>
5581
5582	<listitem>
5583	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5584	</listitem>
5585
5586	<listitem>
5587	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
5588	(bug #3115)</para>
5589	</listitem>
5590
5591	<listitem>
5592	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
5593	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
5594	</listitem>
5595
5596	<listitem>
5597	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
5598	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
5599	(bug #3215)</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	<listitem>
5603	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
5604	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
5605	</listitem>
5606
5607	<listitem>
5608	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
5609	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
5610	</listitem>
5611
5612	<listitem>
5613	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
5614	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
5615	</listitem>
5616
5617	<listitem>
5618	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5619	in parallel</para>
5620	</listitem>
5621
5622	<listitem>
5623	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5624	</listitem>
5625
5626	<listitem>
5627	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
5628	</listitem>
5629
5630	<listitem>
5631	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
5636	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
5637	</listitem>
5638
5639	<listitem>
5640	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
5645	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
5646	</listitem>
5647
5648	<listitem>
5649	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
5650	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
5651	</listitem>
5652
5653	<listitem>
5654	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
5655	</listitem>
5656
5657	<listitem>
5658	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5659	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5660	</listitem>
5661
5662	<listitem>
5663	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
5664	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
5665	</listitem>
5666
5667	<listitem>
5668	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
5669	</listitem>
5670
5671	<listitem>
5672	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
5673	</listitem>
5674
5675	<listitem>
5676	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
5677	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
5678	</listitem>
5679
5680	<listitem>
5681	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
5682	</listitem>
5683
5684	<listitem>
5685	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
5686	</listitem>
5687
5688	<listitem>
5689	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
5690	</listitem>
5691
5692	<listitem>
5693	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
5694	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
5695	</listitem>
5696
5697	<listitem>
5698	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
5699	</listitem>
5700
5701	<listitem>
5702	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5703	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5704	</listitem>
5705
5706	<listitem>
5707	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5708	</listitem>
5709
5710	<listitem>
5711	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
5712	</listitem>
5713
5714	<listitem>
5715	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
5716	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
5717	</listitem>
5718
5719	<listitem>
5720	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
5721	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
5722	</listitem>
5723
5724	<listitem>
5725	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
5726	</listitem>
5727
5728	<listitem>
5729	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
5730	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
5731	</listitem>
5732
5733	<listitem>
5734	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5735	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5736	</listitem>
5737
5738	<listitem>
5739	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
5740	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
5741	</listitem>
5742
5743	<listitem>
5744	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
5745	(bug #3213)</para>
5746	</listitem>
5747
5748	<listitem>
5749	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
5750	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
5751	</listitem>
5752
5753	<listitem>
5754	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
5755	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
5756	</listitem>
5757
5758	</itemizedlist>
5759	</sect1>
5760
5761	<sect1>
5762	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
5763
5764	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5765	added:</para>
5766
5767	<itemizedlist>
5768
5769	<listitem>
5770	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
5771	</listitem>
5772
5773	<listitem>
5774	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
5783	</listitem>
5784
5785	<listitem>
5786	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
5787	</listitem>
5788
5789	<listitem>
5790	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
5791	</listitem>
5792
5793	<listitem>
5794	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
5795	</listitem>
5796
5797	<listitem>
5798	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	<listitem>
5802	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
5803	</listitem>
5804
5805	<listitem>
5806	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
5807	</listitem>
5808
5809	<listitem>
5810	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
5811	</listitem>
5812
5813	<listitem>
5814	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
5815	</listitem>
5816
5817	<listitem>
5818	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
5819	</listitem>
5820
5821	<listitem>
5822	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
5827	</listitem>
5828
5829	<listitem>
5830	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
5831	</listitem>
5832
5833	<listitem>
5834	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
5835	(bug #3067)</para>
5836	</listitem>
5837
5838	<listitem>
5839	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
5840	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
5841	</listitem>
5842
5843	<listitem>
5844	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
5845	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
5846	</listitem>
5847
5848	<listitem>
5849	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
5850	</listitem>
5851
5852	<listitem>
5853	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
5854	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
5855	</listitem>
5856
5857	<listitem>
5858	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
5859	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5860	</listitem>
5861
5862	<listitem>
5863	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
5864	</listitem>
5865
5866	<listitem>
5867	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
5868	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
5869	</listitem>
5870
5871	<listitem>
5872	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
5873	</listitem>
5874
5875	<listitem>
5876	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
5877	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
5878	</listitem>
5879
5880	<listitem>
5881	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
5882	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
5883	</listitem>
5884
5885	<listitem>
5886	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
5887	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
5888	</para>
5889	</listitem>
5890
5891	<listitem>
5892	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
5893	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
5894	</para>
5895	</listitem>
5896
5897	<listitem>
5898	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
5899	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
5900	</para>
5901	</listitem>
5902
5903	<listitem>
5904	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
5905	</listitem>
5906
5907	<listitem>
5908	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
5909	</listitem>
5910
5911	<listitem>
5912	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
5913	</listitem>
5914
5915	<listitem>
5916	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
5917	</listitem>
5918
5919	<listitem>
5920	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
5921	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
5922	</listitem>
5923
5924	<listitem>
5925	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
5926	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
5927	</listitem>
5928
5929	<listitem>
5930	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
5931	formatting a drive</para>
5932	</listitem>
5933
5934	<listitem>
5935	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
5936	</listitem>
5937
5938	<listitem>
5939	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
5940	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5941	</listitem>
5942
5943	<listitem>
5944	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
5945	</listitem>
5946
5947	<listitem>
5948	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
5949	</listitem>
5950
5951	<listitem>
5952	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5953	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
5954	</listitem>
5955
5956	<listitem>
5957	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
5958	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
5959	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
5960	</listitem>
5961
5962	<listitem>
5963	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
5964	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
5965	</listitem>
5966
5967	<listitem>
5968	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
5969	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
5970	</listitem>
5971
5972	<listitem>
5973	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
5974	(bug #2768)</para>
5975	</listitem>
5976
5977	<listitem>
5978	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
5979	</listitem>
5980
5981	<listitem>
5982	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
5983	</listitem>
5984
5985	<listitem>
5986	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
5987	single, unified package</para>
5988	</listitem>
5989
5990	<listitem>
5991	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
5992	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
5993	</listitem>
5994
5995	<listitem>
5996	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
5997	</listitem>
5998
5999	<listitem>
6000	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
6001	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
6002	</listitem>
6003
6004	<listitem>
6005	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
6006	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
6007	</listitem>
6008
6009	<listitem>
6010	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
6011	</listitem>
6012
6013	<listitem>
6014	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
6015	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
6016	doing 3D</para>
6017	</listitem>
6018
6019	<listitem>
6020	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
6021	</listitem>
6022
6023	<listitem>
6024	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
6025	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
6026	</listitem>
6027
6028	<listitem>
6029	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
6030	</listitem>
6031
6032	<listitem>
6033	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
6034	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
6035	</listitem>
6036
6037	<listitem>
6038	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
6039	</listitem>
6040
6041	<listitem>
6042	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
6043	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
6044	</listitem>
6045
6046	<listitem>
6047	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
6048	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
6049	(bug #2938)</para>
6050	</listitem>
6051
6052	<listitem>
6053	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
6054	Linux guests</para>
6055	</listitem>
6056
6057	<listitem>
6058	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
6059	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
6060	(bug #1776)</para>
6061	</listitem>
6062
6063	<listitem>
6064	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
6065	(bug #1612)</para>
6066	</listitem>
6067
6068	<listitem>
6069	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
6070	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
6071	</listitem>
6072
6073	<listitem>
6074	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
6075	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
6076	</listitem>
6077
6078	<listitem>
6079	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
6080	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
6081	</listitem>
6082
6083	</itemizedlist>
6084	</sect1>
6085
6086	<sect1>
6087	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
6088
6089	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6090	were added:</para>
6091
6092	<itemizedlist>
6093	<listitem>
6094	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6095	</listitem>
6096
6097	<listitem>
6098	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
6099	</listitem>
6100
6101	<listitem>
6102	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
6103	</listitem>
6104
6105	<listitem>
6106	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6107	</listitem>
6108
6109	<listitem>
6110	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
6111	</listitem>
6112
6113	<listitem>
6114	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
6115	</listitem>
6116
6117	<listitem>
6118	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
6119	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
6120	</listitem>
6121
6122	<listitem>
6123	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
6124	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
6125	</listitem>
6126
6127	</itemizedlist>
6128
6129	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6130
6131	<itemizedlist>
6132	<listitem>
6133	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
6134	</listitem>
6135
6136	<listitem>
6137	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
6138	</listitem>
6139
6140	<listitem>
6141	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
6142	</listitem>
6143
6144	<listitem>
6145	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
6146	</listitem>
6147
6148	<listitem>
6149	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
6150	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
6151	</listitem>
6152
6153	<listitem>
6154	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
6155	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
6156	</listitem>
6157
6158	<listitem>
6159	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
6160	</listitem>
6161
6162	<listitem>
6163	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
6164	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
6165	</listitem>
6166
6167	<listitem>
6168	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
6169	</listitem>
6170
6171	<listitem>
6172	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
6173	</listitem>
6174
6175	<listitem>
6176	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
6177	</listitem>
6178
6179	<listitem>
6180	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
6181	</listitem>
6182
6183	<listitem>
6184	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
6185	</listitem>
6186
6187	<listitem>
6188	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
6189	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
6190	</listitem>
6191
6192	<listitem>
6193	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
6194	the compiz window manager</para>
6195	</listitem>
6196
6197	<listitem>
6198	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
6199	</listitem>
6200
6201	<listitem>
6202	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
6203	</listitem>
6204
6205	<listitem>
6206	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
6207	</listitem>
6208
6209	<listitem>
6210	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
6211	</listitem>
6212
6213	<listitem>
6214	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
6215	</listitem>
6216
6217	<listitem>
6218	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
6219	</listitem>
6220
6221	<listitem>
6222	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
6223	</listitem>
6224
6225	<listitem>
6226	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
6227	</listitem>
6228
6229	<listitem>
6230	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
6231	</listitem>
6232
6233	<listitem>
6234	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
6235	of two (bug #2724)</para>
6236	</listitem>
6237
6238	<listitem>
6239	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
6240	for direct device access</para>
6241	</listitem>
6242
6243	<listitem>
6244	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
6245	</listitem>
6246
6247	<listitem>
6248	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
6249	</listitem>
6250
6251	<listitem>
6252	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
6253	</listitem>
6254
6255	<listitem>
6256	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
6257	</listitem>
6258
6259	<listitem>
6260	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
6261	</listitem>
6262
6263	<listitem>
6264	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
6265	</listitem>
6266
6267	<listitem>
6268	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
6269	</listitem>
6270
6271	<listitem>
6272	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
6273	</listitem>
6274
6275	</itemizedlist>
6276	</sect1>
6277
6278	<sect1>
6279	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
6280
6281	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6282	added:</para>
6283
6284	<itemizedlist>
6285
6286	<listitem>
6287	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
6288	states/snapshots</para>
6289	</listitem>
6290
6291	<listitem>
6292	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
6293	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
6294	</listitem>
6295
6296	<listitem>
6297	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
6298	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
6299	</listitem>
6300
6301	<listitem>
6302	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
6303	collisions</para>
6304	</listitem>
6305
6306	<listitem>
6307	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
6308	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
6309	</listitem>
6310
6311	<listitem>
6312	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
6313	</listitem>
6314
6315	<listitem>
6316	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
6317	reliably</para>
6318	</listitem>
6319
6320	<listitem>
6321	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
6322	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
6323	</listitem>
6324
6325	<listitem>
6326	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
6327	a reboot</para>
6328	</listitem>
6329
6330	<listitem>
6331	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
6332	</listitem>
6333
6334	<listitem>
6335	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
6336	in parallel</para>
6337	</listitem>
6338
6339	<listitem>
6340	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
6341	</listitem>
6342
6343	<listitem>
6344	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
6345	correctly</para>
6346	</listitem>
6347
6348	<listitem>
6349	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
6350	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
6351	</listitem>
6352
6353	</itemizedlist>
6354	</sect1>
6355
6356	<sect1>
6357	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
6358
6359	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6360	added:</para>
6361
6362	<itemizedlist>
6363
6364	<listitem>
6365	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
6366	(bug #2220)</para>
6367	</listitem>
6368
6369	<listitem>
6370	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
6371	</listitem>
6372
6373	<listitem>
6374	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
6375	</listitem>
6376
6377	<listitem>
6378	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
6379	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
6380	</listitem>
6381
6382	<listitem>
6383	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
6384	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
6385	</listitem>
6386
6387	<listitem>
6388	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
6389	(bug #2624)</para>
6390	</listitem>
6391
6392	<listitem>
6393	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
6394	(bug #2024)</para>
6395	</listitem>
6396
6397	<listitem>
6398	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
6399	</listitem>
6400
6401	<listitem>
6402	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
6403	</listitem>
6404
6405	<listitem>
6406	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
6407	</listitem>
6408
6409	<listitem>
6410	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
6411	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
6412	</listitem>
6413
6414	<listitem>
6415	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
6416	applications when updating the installation</para>
6417	</listitem>
6418
6419	<listitem>
6420	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
6421	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
6422	</listitem>
6423
6424	<listitem>
6425	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
6426	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
6427	</listitem>
6428
6429	<listitem>
6430	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
6431	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
6432	</listitem>
6433
6434	<listitem>
6435	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
6436	connected to a host device</para>
6437	</listitem>
6438
6439	<listitem>
6440	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
6441	</listitem>
6442
6443	<listitem>
6444	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
6445	</listitem>
6446
6447	<listitem>
6448	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
6449	</listitem>
6450
6451	<listitem>
6452	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
6453	when using native RDP connections</para>
6454	</listitem>
6455
6456	<listitem>
6457	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
6458	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
6459	</listitem>
6460
6461	<listitem>
6462	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
6463	(bug #2591)</para>
6464	</listitem>
6465
6466	<listitem>
6467	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
6468	guests (bug #2550)</para>
6469	</listitem>
6470
6471	<listitem>
6472	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
6473	</listitem>
6474
6475	</itemizedlist>
6476	</sect1>
6477
6478	<sect1>
6479	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
6480
6481	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6482	added:</para>
6483
6484	<itemizedlist>
6485	<listitem>
6486	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
6487	</listitem>
6488
6489	<listitem>
6490	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
6491	</listitem>
6492
6493	<listitem>
6494	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
6495	</listitem>
6496
6497	<listitem>
6498	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
6499	</listitem>
6500
6501	<listitem>
6502	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
6503	</listitem>
6504
6505	<listitem>
6506	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
6507	</listitem>
6508
6509	<listitem>
6510	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
6511	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
6512	</listitem>
6513
6514	<listitem>
6515	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
6516	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
6517	</listitem>
6518
6519	<listitem>
6520	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
6521	</listitem>
6522
6523	<listitem>
6524	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
6525	equal to the client resolution</para>
6526	</listitem>
6527
6528	<listitem>
6529	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
6530	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
6531	</listitem>
6532
6533	<listitem>
6534	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
6535	</listitem>
6536
6537	<listitem>
6538	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
6539	</listitem>
6540
6541	<listitem>
6542	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
6543	</listitem>
6544
6545	<listitem>
6546	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
6547	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
6548	</listitem>
6549
6550	<listitem>
6551	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
6552	networking (bug #2474)</para>
6553	</listitem>
6554
6555	<listitem>
6556	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
6557	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
6558	</listitem>
6559
6560	<listitem>
6561	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
6562	</listitem>
6563
6564	<listitem>
6565	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
6566	</listitem>
6567
6568	<listitem>
6569	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
6570	</listitem>
6571
6572	<listitem>
6573	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
6574	</listitem>
6575
6576	<listitem>
6577	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
6578	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
6579	</listitem>
6580
6581	<listitem>
6582	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
6583	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
6584	</listitem>
6585
6586	<listitem>
6587	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
6588	</listitem>
6589
6590	<listitem>
6591	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
6592	</listitem>
6593
6594	<listitem>
6595	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
6596	</listitem>
6597
6598	</itemizedlist>
6599
6600	</sect1>
6601
6602	<sect1>
6603	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
6604
6605	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6606	added:</para>
6607
6608	<itemizedlist>
6609
6610	<listitem>
6611	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
6612	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
6613	</listitem>
6614
6615	<listitem>
6616	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
6617	</listitem>
6618
6619	<listitem>
6620	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
6621	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
6622	</listitem>
6623
6624	<listitem>
6625	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
6626	</listitem>
6627
6628	<listitem>
6629	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
6630	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
6631	</listitem>
6632
6633	<listitem>
6634	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
6635	</listitem>
6636
6637	<listitem>
6638	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
6639	the virtual disk manager</para>
6640	</listitem>
6641
6642	<listitem>
6643	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
6644	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
6645	</listitem>
6646
6647	<listitem>
6648	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
6649	</listitem>
6650
6651	<listitem>
6652	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
6653	</listitem>
6654
6655	<listitem>
6656	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
6657	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
6658	</listitem>
6659
6660	<listitem>
6661	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
6662	bug #2067)</para>
6663	</listitem>
6664
6665	<listitem>
6666	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
6667	</listitem>
6668
6669	<listitem>
6670	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
6671	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
6672	</listitem>
6673
6674	<listitem>
6675	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
6676	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
6677	(bug #2184)</para>
6678	</listitem>
6679
6680	<listitem>
6681	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
6682	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
6683	</listitem>
6684
6685	<listitem>
6686	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
6687	(Windows guests only)</para>
6688	</listitem>
6689
6690	<listitem>
6691	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
6692	</listitem>
6693
6694	<listitem>
6695	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
6696	</listitem>
6697
6698	<listitem>
6699	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
6700	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
6701	</listitem>
6702
6703	<listitem>
6704	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
6705	</listitem>
6706
6707	<listitem>
6708	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
6709	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
6710	</para>
6711	</listitem>
6712
6713	<listitem>
6714	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
6715	</listitem>
6716
6717	<listitem>
6718	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
6719	</listitem>
6720
6721	<listitem>
6722	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
6723	a VM reboot</para>
6724	</listitem>
6725
6726	<listitem>
6727	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
6728	</listitem>
6729
6730	<listitem>
6731	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
6732	buggy X servers</para>
6733	</listitem>
6734
6735	<listitem>
6736	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
6737	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
6738	</listitem>
6739
6740	<listitem>
6741	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
6742	</listitem>
6743
6744	<listitem>
6745	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
6746	(bug #2128)</para>
6747	</listitem>
6748
6749	<listitem>
6750	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
6751	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
6752	</listitem>
6753
6754	<listitem>
6755	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
6756	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
6757	</listitem>
6758
6759	<listitem>
6760	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
6761	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
6762	</listitem>
6763
6764	<listitem>
6765	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
6766	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
6767	</listitem>
6768
6769	<listitem>
6770	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
6771	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
6772	</listitem>
6773
6774	<listitem>
6775	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
6776	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
6777	</listitem>
6778
6779	<listitem>
6780	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
6781	installer into a single package</para>
6782	</listitem>
6783
6784	<listitem>
6785	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
6786	port to the guest
6787	</para>
6788	</listitem>
6789
6790	</itemizedlist>
6791
6792	</sect1>
6793
6794	<sect1>
6795	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
6796
6797	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6798	were added:<itemizedlist>
6799
6800	<listitem>
6801	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
6802	</listitem>
6803
6804	<listitem>
6805	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6806	</listitem>
6807
6808	<listitem>
6809	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
6810	</listitem>
6811
6812	<listitem>
6813	<para>New-version notifier</para>
6814	</listitem>
6815
6816	<listitem>
6817	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
6818	</listitem>
6819
6820	<listitem>
6821	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6822	</listitem>
6823
6824	<listitem>
6825	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
6826	</listitem>
6827
6828	<listitem>
6829	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
6830	</listitem>
6831
6832	<listitem>
6833	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
6834	</listitem>
6835
6836	<listitem>
6837	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
6838	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
6839	</listitem>
6840
6841	<listitem>
6842	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
6843	</listitem>
6844
6845	<listitem>
6846	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
6847	</listitem>
6848
6849	<listitem>
6850	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
6851	</listitem>
6852
6853	</itemizedlist></para>
6854
6855	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6856
6857	<itemizedlist>
6858
6859	<listitem>
6860	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
6861	</listitem>
6862
6863	<listitem>
6864	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
6865	</listitem>
6866
6867	<listitem>
6868	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
6869	</listitem>
6870
6871	<listitem>
6872	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
6873	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
6874	</listitem>
6875
6876	<listitem>
6877	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
6878	restored</para>
6879	</listitem>
6880
6881	<listitem>
6882	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
6883	</listitem>
6884
6885	<listitem>
6886	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
6887	</listitem>
6888
6889	<listitem>
6890	<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>
6891	</listitem>
6892
6893	</itemizedlist>
6894
6895	</sect1>
6896
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