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2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2011-xx-xx)</title>
5
6	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
7	were added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>dummy</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	<listitem>
16	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
17	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
18	</listitem>
19
20	</itemizedlist>
21
22	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
23
24	<itemizedlist>
25
26	<listitem>
27	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
28	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support</para>
33	</listitem>
34
35	<listitem>
36	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the actual VM window content</para>
37	</listitem>
38
39	<listitem>
40	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
41	</listitem>
42
43	<listitem>
44	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
45	</listitem>
46
47	<listitem>
48	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
49	</listitem>
50
51	<listitem>
52	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
53	guests</para>
54	</listitem>
55
56	</itemizedlist>
57	</sect1>
58
59	<sect1>
60	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
61
62	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
63	added:</para>
64
65	<itemizedlist>
66
67	<listitem>
68	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
69	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
70	</listitem>
71
72	<listitem>
73	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
74	</listitem>
75
76	<listitem>
77	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
78	(bug #9642)</para>
79	</listitem>
80
81	<listitem>
82	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
83	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
84	</para>
85	</listitem>
86
87	<listitem>
88	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
89	</listitem>
90
91	<listitem>
92	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
93	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
94	</listitem>
95
96	<listitem>
97	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
98	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
99	</listitem>
100
101	<listitem>
102	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
103	</listitem>
104
105	<listitem>
106	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
107	</listitem>
108
109	<listitem>
110	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
111	</listitem>
112
113	<listitem>
114	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
115	circumstances</para>
116	</listitem>
117
118	<listitem>
119	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
120	</listitem>
121
122	<listitem>
123	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
124	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
125	</listitem>
126
127	<listitem>
128	<para>3D Support: Fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
129	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
130	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
131	and for 3D support in general</para>
132	</listitem>
133
134	<listitem>
135	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
136	</listitem>
137
138	<listitem>
139	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
140	</listitem>
141
142	<listitem>
143	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
144	</listitem>
145
146	<listitem>
147	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
148	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
149	</listitem>
150
151	</itemizedlist>
152	</sect1>
153
154	<sect1>
155	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
156
157	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
158	added:</para>
159
160	<itemizedlist>
161
162	<listitem>
163	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
168	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
173	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
174	</listitem>
175
176	<listitem>
177	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
178	certain guests</para>
179	</listitem>
180
181	<listitem>
182	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
187	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
188	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
189	</listitem>
190
191	<listitem>
192	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
193	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
194	</listitem>
195
196	<listitem>
197	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
198	</listitem>
199
200	<listitem>
201	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
202	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
203	</listitem>
204
205	<listitem>
206	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
207	</listitem>
208
209	<listitem>
210	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
211	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
212	</listitem>
213
214	<listitem>
215	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
216	guests</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	<listitem>
220	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
221	folders</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
226	shared folders</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
231	users and stale sessions</para>
232	</listitem>
233
234	<listitem>
235	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
236	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
237	</listitem>
238
239	</itemizedlist>
240	</sect1>
241
242	<sect1>
243	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
244
245	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
246	added:</para>
247
248	<itemizedlist>
249
250	<listitem>
251	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
252	bug #9458)</para>
253	</listitem>
254
255	<listitem>
256	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
257	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
258	</listitem>
259
260	<listitem>
261	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
262	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
263	</listitem>
264
265	<listitem>
266	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
267	</listitem>
268
269	<listitem>
270	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
271	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
272	</listitem>
273
274	<listitem>
275	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
276	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
277	</listitem>
278
279	<listitem>
280	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
281	(bug #9308)</para>
282	</listitem>
283
284	<listitem>
285	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
286	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
287	</listitem>
288
289	<listitem>
290	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
291	(bug #9503)</para>
292	</listitem>
293
294	<listitem>
295	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
296	(bug #9242)</para>
297	</listitem>
298
299	<listitem>
300	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
301	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
302	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
303	</listitem>
304
305	<listitem>
306	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
307	</listitem>
308
309	<listitem>
310	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
311	images</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
316	(Windows hosts only)</para>
317	</listitem>
318
319	<listitem>
320	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
321	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
322	</listitem>
323
324	<listitem>
325	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
326	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
327	</listitem>
328
329	<listitem>
330	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
331	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
332	</listitem>
333
334	<listitem>
335	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
336	#9387)</para>
337	</listitem>
338
339	<listitem>
340	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
341	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
342	</listitem>
343
344	<listitem>
345	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
346	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
347	</listitem>
348
349	<listitem>
350	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
351	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
352	</listitem>
353
354	<listitem>
355	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
356	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
357	</listitem>
358
359	<listitem>
360	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
361	</listitem>
362
363	<listitem>
364	<para>Guest control: Miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
365	</listitem>
366
367	<listitem>
368	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
369	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
370	</listitem>
371
372	<listitem>
373	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
374	(bug #1578)</para>
375	</listitem>
376
377	<listitem>
378	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
379	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
380	</listitem>
381
382	<listitem>
383	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
384	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
385	</listitem>
386
387	<listitem>
388	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
389	(bug #9535)</para>
390	</listitem>
391
392	<listitem>
393	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
394	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
395	</listitem>
396
397	<listitem>
398	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
399	help file (bug #9646)</para>
400	</listitem>
401
402	<listitem>
403	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
404	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
405	</listitem>
406
407	<listitem>
408	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
409	console window (bug #3549)</para>
410	</listitem>
411
412	<listitem>
413	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
414	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
415	</listitem>
416
417	<listitem>
418	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
419	</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
424	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
425	</para>
426	</listitem>
427
428	<listitem>
429	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
430	(bug #6229)
431	</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
436	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
437	</listitem>
438
439	<listitem>
440	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
441	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
442	</listitem>
443
444	<listitem>
445	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
446	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
447	</listitem>
448
449	<listitem>
450	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
451	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
452	</listitem>
453
454	<listitem>
455	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
456	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
457	</listitem>
458
459	<listitem>
460	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
461	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
462	</listitem>
463
464	<listitem>
465	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
466	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
467	</listitem>
468
469	<listitem>
470	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
471	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
472	</listitem>
473
474	</itemizedlist>
475	</sect1>
476
477	<sect1>
478	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
479
480	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
481	added:</para>
482
483	<itemizedlist>
484
485	<listitem>
486	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
487	</listitem>
488
489	<listitem>
490	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
491	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
492	</listitem>
493
494	<listitem>
495	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
496	</listitem>
497
498	<listitem>
499	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
500	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
501	</listitem>
502
503	<listitem>
504	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
505	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
506	</listitem>
507
508	<listitem>
509	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
510	a live snapshot</para>
511	</listitem>
512
513	<listitem>
514	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
515	due to a library version conflict</para>
516	</listitem>
517
518	<listitem>
519	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
520	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
521	</listitem>
522
523	<listitem>
524	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
525	at a time by default</para>
526	</listitem>
527
528	<listitem>
529	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
530	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
531	#9368)</para>
532	</listitem>
533
534	<listitem>
535	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
536	registered (bug #9303)</para>
537	</listitem>
538
539	<listitem>
540	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
541	VMs</para>
542	</listitem>
543
544	<listitem>
545	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
546	creation (bug #9379)</para>
547	</listitem>
548
549	<listitem>
550	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
551	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
552	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
553	</listitem>
554
555	<listitem>
556	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
557	(bug #9308)</para>
558	</listitem>
559
560	<listitem>
561	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
562	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
563	</listitem>
564
565	<listitem>
566	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
571	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
572	</listitem>
573
574	<listitem>
575	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
576	(bug #9242)</para>
577	</listitem>
578
579	<listitem>
580	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
581	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
582	</listitem>
583
584	<listitem>
585	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
586	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
587	</listitem>
588
589	<listitem>
590	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
591	USB devices</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
596	and warn about it</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
601	</listitem>
602
603	<listitem>
604	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
605	</listitem>
606
607	<listitem>
608	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
609	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
610	</listitem>
611
612	<listitem>
613	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
614	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
615	</listitem>
616
617	<listitem>
618	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
619	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
620	</listitem>
621
622	<listitem>
623	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
624	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
625	</listitem>
626
627	<listitem>
628	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
629	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
634	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
635	</listitem>
636
637	<listitem>
638	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
639	2.6.37 and above</para>
640	</listitem>
641
642	</itemizedlist>
643	</sect1>
644
645	<sect1>
646	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
647
648	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
649	were added:</para>
650
651	<itemizedlist>
652
653	<listitem>
654	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
655	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
656	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
657	</listitem>
658
659	<listitem>
660	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
661	</listitem>
662
663	<listitem>
664	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
665	</listitem>
666
667	<listitem>
668	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
669	bug #7822)</para>
670	</listitem>
671
672	<listitem>
673	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
674	</listitem>
675
676	<listitem>
677	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
678	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
679	</listitem>
680
681	<listitem>
682	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
683	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
684	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
685	anymore)</para>
686	</listitem>
687
688	<listitem>
689	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
690	queried separately by the frontends</para>
691	</listitem>
692
693	<listitem>
694	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
695	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
696	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
697	</listitem>
698
699	<listitem>
700	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
701	</para>
702	</listitem>
703
704	<listitem>
705	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
706	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
707	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
708	</listitem>
709
710	<listitem>
711	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
712	with VBoxManage</para>
713	</listitem>
714
715	<listitem>
716	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
717	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
718	</listitem>
719
720
721	</itemizedlist>
722
723	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
724
725	<itemizedlist>
726
727	<listitem>
728	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
729	</listitem>
730
731	<listitem>
732	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
733	</listitem>
734
735	<listitem>
736	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
737	</listitem>
738
739	<listitem>
740	<para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
741	of the current state</para>
742	</listitem>
743
744	<listitem>
745	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
746	</listitem>
747
748	<listitem>
749	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
750	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
751	</listitem>
752
753	<listitem>
754	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
755	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
756	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
757	</listitem>
758
759	<listitem>
760	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
761	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
766	</listitem>
767
768	<listitem>
769	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
770	</listitem>
771
772	<listitem>
773	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
774	dialog</para>
775	</listitem>
776
777	<listitem>
778	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
779	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
780	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
781	</listitem>
782
783	<listitem>
784	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
785	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
786	</listitem>
787
788	<listitem>
789	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
790	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
795	be a valid UUID</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
800	twice in a VM configuration</para>
801	</listitem>
802
803	<listitem>
804	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
805	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
806	cases</para>
807	</listitem>
808
809	<listitem>
810	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
811	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
812	improve performance</para>
813	</listitem>
814
815	<listitem>
816	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
817	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
818	on a temporary basis</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	<listitem>
822	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
823	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
824	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
825	</listitem>
826
827	<listitem>
828	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
829	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
830	</listitem>
831
832	<listitem>
833	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
834	images in VDI format</para>
835	</listitem>
836
837	<listitem>
838	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
839	VMDK format</para>
840	</listitem>
841
842	<listitem>
843	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
844	controller (bug #8592)</para>
845	</listitem>
846
847	<listitem>
848	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
853	</listitem>
854
855	<listitem>
856	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
857	</listitem>
858
859	<listitem>
860	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
861	</listitem>
862
863	<listitem>
864	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
865	</listitem>
866
867	<listitem>
868	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
869	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
870	</listitem>
871
872	<listitem>
873	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
874	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
875	</listitem>
876
877	<listitem>
878	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
879	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
880	</listitem>
881
882	<listitem>
883	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
884	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
885	</listitem>
886
887	<listitem>
888	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
889	RDP clients</para>
890	</listitem>
891
892	<listitem>
893	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
894	</listitem>
895
896	<listitem>
897	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
898	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
899	</listitem>
900
901	<listitem>
902	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
903	be more robust when connections fail</para>
904	</listitem>
905
906	<listitem>
907	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
908	simultaneously</para>
909	</listitem>
910
911	<listitem>
912	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
913	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
914	location values in many places</para>
915	</listitem>
916
917	<listitem>
918	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
919	</listitem>
920
921	<listitem>
922	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
923	builds</para>
924	</listitem>
925
926	<listitem>
927	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
928	</listitem>
929
930	<listitem>
931	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
932	window (bug #4491)</para>
933	</listitem>
934
935	<listitem>
936	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
937	removing a VM</para>
938	</listitem>
939
940	<listitem>
941	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
942	</listitem>
943
944	<listitem>
945	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
946	</listitem>
947
948	<listitem>
949	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
950	166 and above)</para>
951	</listitem>
952
953	<listitem>
954	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
955	hosts</para>
956	</listitem>
957
958	<listitem>
959	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
964	from the host</para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
969	</listitem>
970
971	</itemizedlist>
972
973	</sect1>
974
975	<sect1>
976	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
977
978	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
979	added:</para>
980
981	<itemizedlist>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
989	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
990	</listitem>
991
992	<listitem>
993	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
994	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
995	</listitem>
996
997	<listitem>
998	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
999	a live snapshot</para>
1000	</listitem>
1001
1002	<listitem>
1003	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1004	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1005	</listitem>
1006
1007	<listitem>
1008	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1009	</listitem>
1010
1011	<listitem>
1012	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1013	</listitem>
1014
1015	<listitem>
1016	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1017	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1018	</listitem>
1019
1020	<listitem>
1021	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1022	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1023	</listitem>
1024
1025	<listitem>
1026	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1027	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1028	</listitem>
1029
1030	<listitem>
1031	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1032	</listitem>
1033
1034	<listitem>
1035	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1036	images</para>
1037	</listitem>
1038
1039	<listitem>
1040	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1041	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1042	</listitem>
1043	<listitem>
1044	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1045	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1046	</listitem>
1047
1048	<listitem>
1049	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1050	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1051	</listitem>
1052
1053	<listitem>
1054	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1055	</listitem>
1056
1057	<listitem>
1058	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1059	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1060	</listitem>
1061
1062	<listitem>
1063	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1064	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1065	</listitem>
1066
1067	<listitem>
1068	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1069	</listitem>
1070
1071	<listitem>
1072	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1073	(bug #9370)</para>
1074	</listitem>
1075
1076	<listitem>
1077	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1078	(bug #9535)</para>
1079	</listitem>
1080
1081	<listitem>
1082	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1083	(bug #1578)</para>
1084	</listitem>
1085
1086	<listitem>
1087	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1088	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1089	</listitem>
1090
1091	<listitem>
1092	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1093	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1094	</para>
1095	</listitem>
1096
1097	<listitem>
1098	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1099	</para>
1100	</listitem>
1101
1102	<listitem>
1103	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1104	2.6.37 and above</para>
1105	</listitem>
1106
1107	<listitem>
1108	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1109	(bug #6229)</para>
1110	</listitem>
1111
1112	<listitem>
1113	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1114	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1115	</listitem>
1116
1117	</itemizedlist>
1118	</sect1>
1119
1120	<sect1>
1121	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1122
1123	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1124	added:</para>
1125
1126	<itemizedlist>
1127
1128	<listitem>
1129	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1130	</listitem>
1131
1132	<listitem>
1133	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1134	166 and above)</para>
1135	</listitem>
1136
1137	<listitem>
1138	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1139	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1140	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1141	</listitem>
1142
1143	<listitem>
1144	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1145	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1146	</listitem>
1147
1148	<listitem>
1149	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1150	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1151	</listitem>
1152
1153	<listitem>
1154	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1155	</listitem>
1156
1157	<listitem>
1158	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1159	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1160	</listitem>
1161
1162	<listitem>
1163	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1164	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1165	</listitem>
1166
1167	<listitem>
1168	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1169	builds</para>
1170	</listitem>
1171
1172	<listitem>
1173	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	</itemizedlist>
1177	</sect1>
1178	<sect1>
1179	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1180
1181	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1182	added:</para>
1183
1184	<itemizedlist>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1188	</listitem>
1189
1190	<listitem>
1191	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1192	</listitem>
1193
1194	<listitem>
1195	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1196	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1197	</listitem>
1198
1199	<listitem>
1200	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1201	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1202	</listitem>
1203
1204	<listitem>
1205	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1206	</listitem>
1207
1208	<listitem>
1209	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1210	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1211	</listitem>
1212
1213	<listitem>
1214	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1215	</listitem>
1216
1217	<listitem>
1218	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1219	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1220	</listitem>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1224	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1225	</listitem>
1226
1227	<listitem>
1228	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1229	</listitem>
1230
1231	<listitem>
1232	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1233	</listitem>
1234
1235	<listitem>
1236	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1237	file was not written during export</para>
1238	</listitem>
1239
1240	<listitem>
1241	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1242	</listitem>
1243
1244	<listitem>
1245	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1246	</listitem>
1247
1248	<listitem>
1249	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1254	binaries</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1259	</listitem>
1260
1261	<listitem>
1262	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1263	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1264	</listitem>
1265
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1268	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1273	</listitem>
1274
1275	<listitem>
1276	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1277	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1278	</listitem>
1279
1280	</itemizedlist>
1281	</sect1>
1282
1283	<sect1>
1284	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1285
1286	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1287	added:</para>
1288
1289	<itemizedlist>
1290
1291	<listitem>
1292	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1293	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1294	</listitem>
1295
1296	<listitem>
1297	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1298	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1299	</listitem>
1300
1301	<listitem>
1302	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1303	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1304	</listitem>
1305
1306	<listitem>
1307	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1308	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1309	</listitem>
1310
1311	<listitem>
1312	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
1313	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
1314	</listitem>
1315
1316	<listitem>
1317	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
1318	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
1319	</listitem>
1320
1321	<listitem>
1322	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
1323	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1324	</listitem>
1325
1326	<listitem>
1327	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
1328	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
1329	</listitem>
1330
1331	<listitem>
1332	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
1333	</listitem>
1334
1335	<listitem>
1336	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
1337	</listitem>
1338
1339	<listitem>
1340	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
1341	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
1342	</listitem>
1343
1344	<listitem>
1345	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
1346	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
1347	</listitem>
1348
1349	<listitem>
1350	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
1351	</listitem>
1352
1353	<listitem>
1354	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
1355	</listitem>
1356
1357	<listitem>
1358	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
1359	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1360	</listitem>
1361
1362	<listitem>
1363	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
1364	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1365	</listitem>
1366
1367	<listitem>
1368	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
1369	window</para>
1370	</listitem>
1371
1372	<listitem>
1373	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
1374	Fedora 15</para>
1375	</listitem>
1376
1377	<listitem>
1378	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
1379	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1380	</listitem>
1381
1382	<listitem>
1383	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
1384	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
1385	</listitem>
1386
1387	<listitem>
1388	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
1389	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
1390	</listitem>
1391
1392	<listitem>
1393	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
1394	</listitem>
1395
1396	<listitem>
1397	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
1398	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
1399	</listitem>
1400
1401	</itemizedlist>
1402	</sect1>
1403
1404	<sect1>
1405	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
1406
1407	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1408	added:</para>
1409
1410	<itemizedlist>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
1414	a VMM from a saved state</para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417	<listitem>
1418	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
1419	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
1420	</listitem>
1421
1422	<listitem>
1423	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
1424	(bug #8006)</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
1429	(bug #8726)</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
1434	</listitem>
1435
1436	<listitem>
1437	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
1438	</listitem>
1439
1440	<listitem>
1441	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
1442	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
1443	</listitem>
1444
1445	<listitem>
1446	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
1447	(bug #8469)</para>
1448	</listitem>
1449
1450	<listitem>
1451	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
1452	selectors</para>
1453	</listitem>
1454
1455	<listitem>
1456	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
1457	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
1458	</listitem>
1459
1460	<listitem>
1461	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
1462	folder (bug #8673)</para>
1463	</listitem>
1464
1465	<listitem>
1466	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
1467	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1468	</listitem>
1469
1470	<listitem>
1471	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
1472	</listitem>
1473
1474	<listitem>
1475	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
1476	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
1477	</listitem>
1478
1479	<listitem>
1480	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
1485	</listitem>
1486
1487	<listitem>
1488	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
1489	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
1490	</listitem>
1491
1492	<listitem>
1493	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
1494	I/O error occurred</para>
1495	</listitem>
1496
1497	<listitem>
1498	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
1499	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
1500	</listitem>
1501
1502	<listitem>
1503	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
1504	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
1505	</listitem>
1506
1507	<listitem>
1508	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
1509	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
1510	if no medium is present</para>
1511	</listitem>
1512
1513	<listitem>
1514	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
1515	</listitem>
1516
1517	<listitem>
1518	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
1519	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
1520	</listitem>
1521
1522	<listitem>
1523	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
1524	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
1525	</listitem>
1526
1527	<listitem>
1528	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
1529	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
1530	</listitem>
1531
1532	<listitem>
1533	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
1534	</listitem>
1535
1536	<listitem>
1537	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
1538	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
1539	</listitem>
1540
1541	<listitem>
1542	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
1543	library (bug #8063)</para>
1544	</listitem>
1545
1546	<listitem>
1547	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
1548	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
1553	</listitem>
1554
1555	<listitem>
1556	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
1557	</listitem>
1558
1559	<listitem>
1560	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
1561	</listitem>
1562
1563	<listitem>
1564	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
1565	changed on import</para>
1566	</listitem>
1567
1568	<listitem>
1569	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
1570	</listitem>
1571
1572	<listitem>
1573	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
1574	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
1575	</listitem>
1576
1577	<listitem>
1578	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
1579	(bug #8593)</para>
1580	</listitem>
1581
1582	<listitem>
1583	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
1584	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
1585	</listitem>
1586
1587	<listitem>
1588	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
1589	captured</para>
1590	</listitem>
1591
1592	<listitem>
1593	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
1594	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
1595	</listitem>
1596
1597	<listitem>
1598	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
1599	</para>
1600	</listitem>
1601
1602	<listitem>
1603	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
1604	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
1605	</listitem>
1606
1607	<listitem>
1608	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
1609	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
1610	</listitem>
1611
1612	<listitem>
1613	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
1614	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
1615	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
1616	</listitem>
1617
1618	<listitem>
1619	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
1620	to unkillable VM processes</para>
1621	</listitem>
1622
1623	<listitem>
1624	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
1625	</listitem>
1626
1627	<listitem>
1628	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
1629	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
1630	</listitem>
1631
1632	<listitem>
1633	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
1634	on legacy Windows versions</para>
1635	</listitem>
1636
1637	<listitem>
1638	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
1639	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
1640	</listitem>
1641
1642	<listitem>
1643	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
1644	</listitem>
1645
1646	<listitem>
1647	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
1648	</listitem>
1649
1650	<listitem>
1651	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
1652	</listitem>
1653
1654	<listitem>
1655	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
1656	</listitem>
1657
1658	<listitem>
1659	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
1660	(bug #7946)</para>
1661	</listitem>
1662
1663	<listitem>
1664	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
1665	</listitem>
1666
1667	<listitem>
1668	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
1669	</listitem>
1670
1671	<listitem>
1672	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	</itemizedlist>
1676
1677	</sect1>
1678
1679	<sect1>
1680	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
1681
1682	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1683	added:</para>
1684
1685	<itemizedlist>
1686
1687	<listitem>
1688	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
1689	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
1690	</listitem>
1691
1692	<listitem>
1693	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
1694	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
1695	</listitem>
1696
1697	<listitem>
1698	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
1699	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
1700	</listitem>
1701
1702	<listitem>
1703	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
1704	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
1705	</listitem>
1706
1707	<listitem>
1708	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
1709	number of host network interfaces</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711
1712	<listitem>
1713	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
1714	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
1715	</listitem>
1716
1717	<listitem>
1718	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
1719	</listitem>
1720
1721	<listitem>
1722	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
1723	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	<listitem>
1727	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
1728	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
1729	</listitem>
1730
1731	<listitem>
1732	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
1733	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
1734	</listitem>
1735
1736	<listitem>
1737	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
1738	</listitem>
1739
1740	<listitem>
1741	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
1742	(bug #6577)</para>
1743	</listitem>
1744
1745	<listitem>
1746	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
1747	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
1748	(bug #8235)</para>
1749	</listitem>
1750
1751	<listitem>
1752	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
1753	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
1754	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
1755	</listitem>
1756
1757	<listitem>
1758	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
1759	</listitem>
1760
1761	<listitem>
1762	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
1763	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
1764	</listitem>
1765
1766	<listitem>
1767	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
1768	</listitem>
1769
1770	<listitem>
1771	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
1772	(bug #7966)</para>
1773	</listitem>
1774
1775	<listitem>
1776	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
1777	</listitem>
1778
1779	<listitem>
1780	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
1785	</listitem>
1786
1787	<listitem>
1788	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
1789	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
1790	</listitem>
1791
1792	<listitem>
1793	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
1794	</listitem>
1795
1796	<listitem>
1797	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
1802	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
1803	</listitem>
1804
1805	<listitem>
1806	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
1807	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
1808	</listitem>
1809
1810	<listitem>
1811	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
1816	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
1821	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
1822	(bug #8122)</para>
1823	</listitem>
1824
1825	<listitem>
1826	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
1827	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
1828	</listitem>
1829
1830	<listitem>
1831	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
1832	</listitem>
1833
1834	<listitem>
1835	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
1836	</listitem>
1837
1838	<listitem>
1839	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
1840	(bug #1548)</para>
1841	</listitem>
1842
1843	<listitem>
1844	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
1849	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
1854	</listitem>
1855
1856	<listitem>
1857	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
1858	(bug #8231)</para>
1859	</listitem>
1860
1861	<listitem>
1862	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
1863	11.04 Alpha</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
1868	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
1869	</listitem>
1870
1871	<listitem>
1872	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
1873	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
1878	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
1879	</listitem>
1880
1881	<listitem>
1882	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
1883	with VBoxGINA</para>
1884	</listitem>
1885
1886	</itemizedlist>
1887
1888	</sect1>
1889
1890	<sect1>
1891	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
1892
1893	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1894	added:</para>
1895
1896	<itemizedlist>
1897
1898	<listitem>
1899	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
1900	settings vanished</para>
1901	</listitem>
1902
1903	<listitem>
1904	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
1905	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
1906	</listitem>
1907
1908	<listitem>
1909	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
1910	created (bug #8031)</para>
1911	</listitem>
1912
1913	<listitem>
1914	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
1915	</listitem>
1916
1917	<listitem>
1918	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
1919	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
1920	</listitem>
1921
1922	<listitem>
1923	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
1924	an extension pack</para>
1925	</listitem>
1926
1927	<listitem>
1928	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
1929	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
1930	</listitem>
1931
1932	<listitem>
1933	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
1934	</listitem>
1935
1936	<listitem>
1937	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
1938	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
1939	</listitem>
1940
1941	<listitem>
1942	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
1943	host-only interface</para>
1944	</listitem>
1945
1946	<listitem>
1947	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
1948	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
1949	</listitem>
1950
1951	<listitem>
1952	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
1953	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
1954	</listitem>
1955
1956	<listitem>
1957	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
1958	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
1959	</listitem>
1960
1961	<listitem>
1962	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
1963	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
1964	</listitem>
1965
1966	<listitem>
1967	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
1968	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
1969	</listitem>
1970
1971	<listitem>
1972	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
1973	</listitem>
1974
1975	<listitem>
1976	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
1977	</listitem>
1978
1979	<listitem>
1980	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
1981	guests</para>
1982	</listitem>
1983
1984	<listitem>
1985	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
1986	</listitem>
1987
1988	<listitem>
1989	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
1990	</listitem>
1991
1992	<listitem>
1993	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
1994	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
1995	</listitem>
1996
1997	<listitem>
1998	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
1999	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2000	</listitem>
2001
2002	<listitem>
2003	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2004	a VM start</para>
2005	</listitem>
2006
2007	<listitem>
2008	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2009	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2010	</listitem>
2011
2012	<listitem>
2013	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2014	(bug #6067)</para>
2015	</listitem>
2016
2017	<listitem>
2018	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2019	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2020	</listitem>
2021
2022	<listitem>
2023	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2024	not saved to machine XML</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	<listitem>
2028	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2029	#7983)</para>
2030	</listitem>
2031
2032	<listitem>
2033	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2034	#7981)</para>
2035	</listitem>
2036
2037	<listitem>
2038	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2039	</listitem>
2040
2041	<listitem>
2042	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2043	regression)</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2048	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2053	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	</itemizedlist>
2057
2058	</sect1>
2059
2060	<sect1>
2061	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2062
2063	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2064	were added:</para>
2065
2066	<itemizedlist>
2067
2068	<listitem>
2069	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2070	</listitem>
2071
2072	<listitem>
2073	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2074	</listitem>
2075
2076	<listitem>
2077	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2078	<itemizedlist>
2079	<listitem>
2080	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2081	</listitem>
2082
2083	<listitem>
2084	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2085	</listitem>
2086
2087	<listitem>
2088	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2089	</listitem>
2090
2091	<listitem>
2092	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2093	</listitem>
2094
2095	<listitem>
2096	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2097	states, and optionally including attached
2098	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2099	can do the same now)</para>
2100	</listitem>
2101
2102	<listitem>
2103	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2104	</listitem>
2105
2106	</itemizedlist>
2107	</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>New virtual hardware:
2116	<itemizedlist>
2117	<listitem>
2118	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2119	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2120	</listitem>
2121
2122	<listitem>
2123	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2124	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2125	</listitem>
2126	</itemizedlist>
2127	</para>
2128	</listitem>
2129
2130	<listitem>
2131	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2132	<itemizedlist>
2133	<listitem>
2134	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2135	</listitem>
2136
2137	<listitem>
2138	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2139	</para>
2140	</listitem>
2141
2142	<listitem>
2143	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2144	now</para>
2145	</listitem>
2146
2147	<listitem>
2148	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2149	</listitem>
2150
2151	</itemizedlist>
2152	</para>
2153	</listitem>
2154
2155	<listitem>
2156	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2157	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2158	</listitem>
2159
2160	<listitem>
2161	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2162	Parallels images</para>
2163	</listitem>
2164
2165	<listitem>
2166	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2167	</listitem>
2168
2169	<listitem>
2170	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2171	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2172	</listitem>
2173
2174	<listitem>
2175	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2176	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2177	</listitem>
2178
2179	</itemizedlist>
2180
2181	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2182
2183	<itemizedlist>
2184
2185	<listitem>
2186	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2187	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2188	</listitem>
2189
2190	<listitem>
2191	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2196	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2201	(bug #1657)</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2206	</listitem>
2207
2208	<listitem>
2209	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2210	</listitem>
2211
2212	<listitem>
2213	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2214	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2215	</listitem>
2216
2217	<listitem>
2218	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2219	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2220	</listitem>
2221
2222	<listitem>
2223	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2224	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2225	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2226	</listitem>
2227
2228	<listitem>
2229	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2230	again (bug #6864)</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2235	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2240	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2245	</listitem>
2246
2247	<listitem>
2248	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2249	</listitem>
2250
2251	<listitem>
2252	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2253	</listitem>
2254
2255	<listitem>
2256	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2257	</listitem>
2258
2259	<listitem>
2260	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2261	</listitem>
2262
2263	<listitem>
2264	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2265	</listitem>
2266
2267	<listitem>
2268	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2269	</listitem>
2270
2271	<listitem>
2272	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2273	(bug #7058)</para>
2274	</listitem>
2275
2276	<listitem>
2277	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2278	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2279	</listitem>
2280
2281	<listitem>
2282	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2283	circumstances</para>
2284	</listitem>
2285
2286	<listitem>
2287	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2288	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2289	#5578)
2290	</para>
2291	</listitem>
2292
2293	<listitem>
2294	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2295	</listitem>
2296
2297	<listitem>
2298	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2299	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2300	</listitem>
2301
2302	<listitem>
2303	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2304	</listitem>
2305
2306	<listitem>
2307	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2308	#6760)</para>
2309	</listitem>
2310
2311	<listitem>
2312	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
2313	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
2314	</listitem>
2315
2316	<listitem>
2317	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
2318	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
2319	</listitem>
2320
2321	<listitem>
2322	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
2323	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2324	</listitem>
2325
2326	<listitem>
2327	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
2328	</listitem>
2329
2330	<listitem>
2331	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
2332	file</para>
2333	</listitem>
2334
2335	<listitem>
2336	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2337	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2338	</listitem>
2339
2340	</itemizedlist>
2341
2342	</sect1>
2343
2344	<sect1>
2345	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
2346
2347	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2348	added:</para>
2349
2350	<itemizedlist>
2351
2352	<listitem>
2353	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2354	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
2355	</listitem>
2356
2357	<listitem>
2358	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
2359	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
2360	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
2361	</listitem>
2362
2363	<listitem>
2364	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
2365	</listitem>
2366
2367	<listitem>
2368	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
2369	</listitem>
2370
2371	<listitem>
2372	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
2373	</listitem>
2374
2375	<listitem>
2376	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
2377	the VM is running</para>
2378	</listitem>
2379
2380	<listitem>
2381	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
2382	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
2383	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
2384	starting from a saved state</para>
2385	</listitem>
2386
2387	<listitem>
2388	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
2389	</listitem>
2390
2391	<listitem>
2392	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
2393	</listitem>
2394
2395	<listitem>
2396	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
2397	</listitem>
2398
2399	<listitem>
2400	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2401	</listitem>
2402
2403	<listitem>
2404	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2405	</listitem>
2406
2407	<listitem>
2408	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
2409	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
2410	</listitem>
2411
2412	<listitem>
2413	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
2414	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
2415	</listitem>
2416
2417	<listitem>
2418	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
2419	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
2420	</listitem>
2421
2422	<listitem>
2423	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
2424	</listitem>
2425
2426	<listitem>
2427	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
2428	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
2429	</para>
2430	</listitem>
2431
2432	<listitem>
2433	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
2434	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
2435	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
2440	only)</para>
2441	</listitem>
2442
2443	<listitem>
2444	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
2445	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
2446	</listitem>
2447
2448	<listitem>
2449	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
2454	</listitem>
2455
2456	<listitem>
2457	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
2458	</listitem>
2459
2460	<listitem>
2461	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
2462	state (bug #4124)</para>
2463	</listitem>
2464
2465	<listitem>
2466	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
2467	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
2468	</listitem>
2469
2470	<listitem>
2471	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
2472	</listitem>
2473
2474	<listitem>
2475	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
2476	(bug #2996)</para>
2477	</listitem>
2478
2479	<listitem>
2480	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
2481	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
2482	</listitem>
2483
2484	<listitem>
2485	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
2486	</listitem>
2487
2488	<listitem>
2489	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
2490	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
2491	</listitem>
2492
2493	<listitem>
2494	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
2495	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
2500	user accounts for VM information</para>
2501	</listitem>
2502
2503	</itemizedlist>
2504
2505	</sect1>
2506
2507	<sect1>
2508	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
2509
2510	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2511	added:</para>
2512
2513	<itemizedlist>
2514
2515	<listitem>
2516	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
2517	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
2518	</listitem>
2519
2520	<listitem>
2521	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
2522	</listitem>
2523
2524	<listitem>
2525	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
2526	</listitem>
2527
2528	<listitem>
2529	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
2530	</listitem>
2531
2532	<listitem>
2533	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2534	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
2535	</listitem>
2536
2537	<listitem>
2538	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
2539	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
2544	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
2545	</listitem>
2546
2547	<listitem>
2548	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
2549	(bug #4952)</para>
2550	</listitem>
2551
2552	<listitem>
2553	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
2554	bug #6122)</para>
2555	</listitem>
2556
2557	<listitem>
2558	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
2559	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
2560	</listitem>
2561
2562	<listitem>
2563	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
2564	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
2565	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2566	</listitem>
2567
2568	<listitem>
2569	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
2570	</listitem>
2571
2572	<listitem>
2573	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
2574	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
2575	</listitem>
2576
2577	<listitem>
2578	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
2579	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
2580	</listitem>
2581
2582	<listitem>
2583	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
2584	canceled</para>
2585	</listitem>
2586
2587	<listitem>
2588	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
2589	</listitem>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
2593	</listitem>
2594
2595	<listitem>
2596	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
2597	</listitem>
2598
2599	<listitem>
2600	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
2601	</listitem>
2602
2603	<listitem>
2604	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
2605	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
2606	</listitem>
2607
2608	<listitem>
2609	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
2610	</listitem>
2611
2612	<listitem>
2613	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
2614	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2615	</listitem>
2616
2617	<listitem>
2618	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
2619	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
2620	</listitem>
2621
2622	<listitem>
2623	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
2624	</listitem>
2625
2626	<listitem>
2627	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
2628	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
2629	</listitem>
2630
2631	<listitem>
2632	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
2633	</listitem>
2634
2635	<listitem>
2636	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
2637	circumstances</para>
2638	</listitem>
2639
2640	<listitem>
2641	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
2642	printers</para>
2643	</listitem>
2644
2645	<listitem>
2646	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
2647	</listitem>
2648
2649	<listitem>
2650	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
2651	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
2652	</listitem>
2653
2654	<listitem>
2655	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
2656	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
2657	</listitem>
2658
2659	<listitem>
2660	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
2661	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
2662	circumstances</para>
2663	</listitem>
2664
2665	<listitem>
2666	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
2667	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
2668	</listitem>
2669
2670	<listitem>
2671	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
2672	as supported extension</para>
2673	</listitem>
2674
2675	<listitem>
2676	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2677	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
2678	</listitem>
2679
2680	<listitem>
2681	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
2682	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
2683	</listitem>
2684
2685	<listitem>
2686	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
2687	</listitem>
2688
2689	<listitem>
2690	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
2691	(bug #7366)</para>
2692	</listitem>
2693
2694	<listitem>
2695	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
2696	</listitem>
2697
2698	<listitem>
2699	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
2700	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
2701	</listitem>
2702
2703	<listitem>
2704	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
2705	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
2706	</listitem>
2707
2708	<listitem>
2709	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
2710	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
2711	</listitem>
2712
2713	<listitem>
2714	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
2715	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
2716	</listitem>
2717
2718	<listitem>
2719	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
2720	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
2721	</listitem>
2722
2723	<listitem>
2724	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
2725	</listitem>
2726
2727	<listitem>
2728	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
2729	</listitem>
2730
2731	<listitem>
2732	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
2733	more than one environment variable</para>
2734	</listitem>
2735
2736	<listitem>
2737	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
2738	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
2739	</listitem>
2740
2741	<listitem>
2742	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
2743	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
2744	</listitem>
2745
2746	<listitem>
2747	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
2748	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
2749	</listitem>
2750
2751	<listitem>
2752	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
2753	enumerating logged in users</para>
2754	</listitem>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
2758	</listitem>
2759
2760	<listitem>
2761	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
2762	</listitem>
2763
2764	<listitem>
2765	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
2766	</listitem>
2767
2768	<listitem>
2769	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
2770	in the event of a VM crash</para>
2771	</listitem>
2772
2773	<listitem>
2774	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
2775	</listitem>
2776
2777	<listitem>
2778	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
2779	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
2780	</listitem>
2781
2782	<listitem>
2783	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
2784	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
2785	</listitem>
2786
2787	<listitem>
2788	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
2789	(bug #7448)</para>
2790	</listitem>
2791
2792	<listitem>
2793	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
2794	</listitem>
2795
2796	<listitem>
2797	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
2798	</listitem>
2799
2800	<listitem>
2801	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
2802	</listitem>
2803
2804	</itemizedlist>
2805
2806	</sect1>
2807
2808	<sect1>
2809	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
2810
2811	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2812	added:</para>
2813
2814	<itemizedlist>
2815
2816	<listitem>
2817	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
2818	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
2819	</listitem>
2820
2821	<listitem>
2822	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
2827	bug #6809)</para>
2828	</listitem>
2829
2830	<listitem>
2831	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
2832	</listitem>
2833
2834	<listitem>
2835	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
2836	</listitem>
2837
2838	<listitem>
2839	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
2840	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
2841	</listitem>
2842
2843	<listitem>
2844	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
2845	changes</para>
2846	</listitem>
2847
2848	<listitem>
2849	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
2850	</listitem>
2851
2852	<listitem>
2853	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
2854	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
2855	</listitem>
2856
2857	<listitem>
2858	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
2859	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	<listitem>
2863	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
2864	</listitem>
2865
2866	<listitem>
2867	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
2868	</listitem>
2869
2870	<listitem>
2871	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
2872	</listitem>
2873
2874	<listitem>
2875	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
2880	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
2881	</listitem>
2882
2883	<listitem>
2884	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
2885	</listitem>
2886
2887	<listitem>
2888	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
2889	(bug #6832)</para>
2890	</listitem>
2891
2892	<listitem>
2893	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
2894	guests</para>
2895	</listitem>
2896
2897	<listitem>
2898	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
2899	</listitem>
2900
2901	<listitem>
2902	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
2903	without external tools and tricks</para>
2904	</listitem>
2905
2906	<listitem>
2907	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
2908	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
2909	</listitem>
2910
2911	<listitem>
2912	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
2913	</listitem>
2914
2915	<listitem>
2916	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
2917	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
2918	</listitem>
2919
2920	<listitem>
2921	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
2922	shutdown</para>
2923	</listitem>
2924
2925	<listitem>
2926	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
2927	fixes</para>
2928	</listitem>
2929
2930	<listitem>
2931	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
2932	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
2933	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
2934	</para>
2935	</listitem>
2936
2937	<listitem>
2938	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
2939	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
2940	</listitem>
2941
2942	<listitem>
2943	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
2944	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
2945	</listitem>
2946
2947	<listitem>
2948	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
2949	</para>
2950	</listitem>
2951
2952	<listitem>
2953	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
2954	</listitem>
2955
2956	<listitem>
2957	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
2958	</listitem>
2959
2960	<listitem>
2961	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
2962	</listitem>
2963
2964	</itemizedlist>
2965
2966	</sect1>
2967
2968	<sect1>
2969	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
2970
2971	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2972	added:</para>
2973
2974	<itemizedlist>
2975
2976	<listitem>
2977	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
2978	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
2979	</listitem>
2980
2981	<listitem>
2982	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
2983	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
2984	</listitem>
2985
2986	<listitem>
2987	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
2988	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
2989	</listitem>
2990
2991	<listitem>
2992	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
2993	</listitem>
2994
2995	<listitem>
2996	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3005	</listitem>
3006
3007	<listitem>
3008	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3009	assigned</para>
3010	</listitem>
3011
3012	<listitem>
3013	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3014	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3015	</listitem>
3016
3017	<listitem>
3018	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3019	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3020	</listitem>
3021
3022	<listitem>
3023	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3024	</listitem>
3025
3026	<listitem>
3027	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3028	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3029	</listitem>
3030
3031	<listitem>
3032	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3033	again (bug #7022).
3034	</para>
3035	</listitem>
3036
3037	<listitem>
3038	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3039	(bug #6768)</para>
3040	</listitem>
3041
3042	<listitem>
3043	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3044	(bug #6927)</para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	<listitem>
3048	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3049	bug #7031)</para>
3050	</listitem>
3051
3052	<listitem>
3053	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3054	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3055	</listitem>
3056
3057	<listitem>
3058	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3059	bug #6987)</para>
3060	</listitem>
3061
3062	<listitem>
3063	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3064	</listitem>
3065
3066	<listitem>
3067	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3068	</listitem>
3069
3070	<listitem>
3071	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3072	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3073	</listitem>
3074
3075	<listitem>
3076	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3077	</listitem>
3078
3079	<listitem>
3080	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3081	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3082	</listitem>
3083
3084	<listitem>
3085	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3086	</listitem>
3087
3088	<listitem>
3089	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3090	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3091	bug #6872)</para>
3092	</listitem>
3093
3094	<listitem>
3095	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3096	</listitem>
3097
3098	<listitem>
3099	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3100	(performance tweak)</para>
3101	</listitem>
3102
3103	<listitem>
3104	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3105	is currently paused</para>
3106	</listitem>
3107
3108	<listitem>
3109	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3110	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3111	</listitem>
3112
3113	<listitem>
3114	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3115	</listitem>
3116
3117	<listitem>
3118	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3119	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3120	</listitem>
3121
3122	<listitem>
3123	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3124	not properly saved</para>
3125	</listitem>
3126
3127	<listitem>
3128	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3129	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3130	</listitem>
3131
3132	<listitem>
3133	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3134	</listitem>
3135
3136	<listitem>
3137	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3138	</listitem>
3139
3140	<listitem>
3141	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3142	</listitem>
3143
3144	<listitem>
3145	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3146	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3147	</listitem>
3148
3149	<listitem>
3150	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3151	</listitem>
3152
3153	<listitem>
3154	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3155	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3160	(bug #5251)</para>
3161	</listitem>
3162
3163	<listitem>
3164	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3165	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3170	</listitem>
3171
3172	<listitem>
3173	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3178	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3179	</listitem>
3180
3181	<listitem>
3182	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3183	</listitem>
3184
3185	<listitem>
3186	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3187	</listitem>
3188
3189	<listitem>
3190	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3191	</listitem>
3192
3193	</itemizedlist>
3194	</sect1>
3195
3196	<sect1>
3197	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3198
3199	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3200	added:</para>
3201
3202	<itemizedlist>
3203
3204	<listitem>
3205	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3206	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3207	</listitem>
3208
3209	<listitem>
3210	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3211	</listitem>
3212
3213	<listitem>
3214	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3215	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3216	</listitem>
3217
3218	<listitem>
3219	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3220	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3221	</listitem>
3222
3223	<listitem>
3224	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3225	</listitem>
3226
3227	<listitem>
3228	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3229	again (bug #6864)</para>
3230	</listitem>
3231
3232	<listitem>
3233	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3234	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3235	</listitem>
3236
3237	<listitem>
3238	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3239	</listitem>
3240
3241	<listitem>
3242	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3243	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3244	</listitem>
3245
3246	<listitem>
3247	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3248	</listitem>
3249
3250	</itemizedlist>
3251
3252	</sect1>
3253
3254	<sect1>
3255	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3256
3257	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3258	added:</para>
3259
3260	<itemizedlist>
3261
3262	<listitem>
3263	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3264	</listitem>
3265
3266	<listitem>
3267	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3268	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3269	</listitem>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3273	</listitem>
3274
3275	<listitem>
3276	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3277	state</para>
3278	</listitem>
3279
3280	<listitem>
3281	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3282	</listitem>
3283
3284	<listitem>
3285	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3286	</listitem>
3287
3288	<listitem>
3289	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3290	</listitem>
3291
3292	<listitem>
3293	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3294	</listitem>
3295
3296	<listitem>
3297	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3302	</listitem>
3303
3304	<listitem>
3305	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3306	</listitem>
3307
3308	<listitem>
3309	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3310	</listitem>
3311
3312	<listitem>
3313	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
3314	</listitem>
3315
3316	<listitem>
3317	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
3318	</listitem>
3319
3320	<listitem>
3321	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
3322	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
3323	</listitem>
3324
3325	<listitem>
3326	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
3327	(bug #6784)</para>
3328	</listitem>
3329
3330	<listitem>
3331	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
3332	</listitem>
3333
3334	<listitem>
3335	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
3336	</listitem>
3337
3338	<listitem>
3339	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
3340	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
3341	</listitem>
3342
3343	<listitem>
3344	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
3345	</listitem>
3346
3347	<listitem>
3348	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
3349	</listitem>
3350
3351	<listitem>
3352	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
3353	host only</para>
3354	</listitem>
3355
3356	<listitem>
3357	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
3358	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
3359	</listitem>
3360
3361	<listitem>
3362	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
3363	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
3368	</listitem>
3369
3370	<listitem>
3371	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
3372	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
3373	</listitem>
3374
3375	<listitem>
3376	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
3377	</listitem>
3378
3379	<listitem>
3380	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
3381	</listitem>
3382
3383	<listitem>
3384	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
3385	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
3386	</listitem>
3387
3388	<listitem>
3389	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
3390	</listitem>
3391
3392	<listitem>
3393	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
3402	(bug #6714)</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
3407	</listitem>
3408
3409	<listitem>
3410	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
3411	</listitem>
3412
3413	<listitem>
3414	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
3415	</listitem>
3416
3417	<listitem>
3418	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
3419	</listitem>
3420
3421	<listitem>
3422	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
3423	</listitem>
3424
3425	</itemizedlist>
3426
3427	</sect1>
3428
3429	<sect1>
3430	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
3431
3432	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3433	were added:</para>
3434
3435	<itemizedlist>
3436
3437	<listitem>
3438	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
3439	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
3440	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
3441	</listitem>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
3445	</listitem>
3446
3447	<listitem>
3448	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
3449	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
3450	</listitem>
3451
3452	<listitem>
3453	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
3454	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
3455	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
3456	</listitem>
3457
3458	<listitem>
3459	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
3460	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
3461	</listitem>
3462
3463	<listitem>
3464	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
3465	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
3466	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
3467	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
3468	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
3469	</listitem>
3470
3471	<listitem>
3472	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
3473	</listitem>
3474
3475	<listitem>
3476	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
3477	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
3478	</listitem>
3479
3480	<listitem>
3481	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
3482	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
3483	</listitem>
3484
3485	<listitem>
3486	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
3491	</listitem>
3492
3493	<listitem>
3494	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
3495	</listitem>
3496
3497	<listitem>
3498	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
3499	</listitem>
3500
3501	<listitem>
3502	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
3503	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
3504	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
3505	</listitem>
3506
3507	<listitem>
3508	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
3509	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
3510	</listitem>
3511
3512	</itemizedlist>
3513
3514	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3515
3516	<itemizedlist>
3517
3518	<listitem>
3519	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
3520	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
3521	</listitem>
3522
3523	<listitem>
3524	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
3525	</listitem>
3526
3527	<listitem>
3528	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
3529	VM</para>
3530	</listitem>
3531
3532	<listitem>
3533	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
3534	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
3535	</listitem>
3536
3537	<listitem>
3538	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
3539	#1669)</para>
3540	</listitem>
3541
3542	<listitem>
3543	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
3544	#6442)</para>
3545	</listitem>
3546
3547	<listitem>
3548	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
3549	combination (bug #684)</para>
3550	</listitem>
3551
3552	<listitem>
3553	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
3554	the VM from the GUI</para>
3555	</listitem>
3556
3557	<listitem>
3558	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
3559	medium is not accessible</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
3564	</listitem>
3565
3566	<listitem>
3567	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
3568	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
3573	#3106)</para>
3574	</listitem>
3575
3576	<listitem>
3577	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
3578	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
3579	it</para>
3580	</listitem>
3581
3582	<listitem>
3583	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
3584	</listitem>
3585
3586	<listitem>
3587	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
3588	</listitem>
3589
3590	<listitem>
3591	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
3592	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
3593	</listitem>
3594
3595	<listitem>
3596	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
3597	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
3598	</listitem>
3599
3600	<listitem>
3601	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	<listitem>
3605	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
3610	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	<listitem>
3614	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
3615	</listitem>
3616
3617	<listitem>
3618	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
3619	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
3620	</listitem>
3621
3622	<listitem>
3623	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
3624	</listitem>
3625
3626	<listitem>
3627	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
3628	in VirtualBox</para>
3629	</listitem>
3630
3631	<listitem>
3632	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
3633	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
3634	</listitem>
3635
3636	<listitem>
3637	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
3638	VirtualBox</para>
3639	</listitem>
3640
3641	<listitem>
3642	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
3643	</listitem>
3644
3645	<listitem>
3646	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
3647	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
3648	</listitem>
3649
3650	</itemizedlist>
3651	</sect1>
3652
3653	<sect1>
3654	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
3655
3656	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3657	added:</para>
3658
3659	<itemizedlist>
3660
3661	<listitem>
3662	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
3663	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
3664	</listitem>
3665
3666	<listitem>
3667	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
3668	</listitem>
3669
3670	<listitem>
3671	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
3672	</listitem>
3673
3674	<listitem>
3675	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
3676	only) </para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
3681	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
3682	</listitem>
3683
3684	<listitem>
3685	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
3686	interface version</para>
3687	</listitem>
3688
3689	<listitem>
3690	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
3691	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
3692	slot empty</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
3697	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
3698	(bug #4220)</para>
3699	</listitem>
3700
3701	<listitem>
3702	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
3703	</listitem>
3704
3705	<listitem>
3706	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
3707	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
3712	using the drivers from LSI</para>
3713	</listitem>
3714
3715	<listitem>
3716	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
3717	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
3718	</listitem>
3719
3720	<listitem>
3721	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
3722	attached</para>
3723	</listitem>
3724
3725	<listitem>
3726	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
3727	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
3732	</listitem>
3733
3734	<listitem>
3735	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
3736	booting from SCSI devices</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
3741	is bug #6408)</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
3746	</listitem>
3747
3748	<listitem>
3749	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
3750	fail to initialize</para>
3751	</listitem>
3752
3753	<listitem>
3754	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
3755	</listitem>
3756
3757	<listitem>
3758	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
3759	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
3760	</listitem>
3761
3762	<listitem>
3763	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
3764	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
3765	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
3766	</listitem>
3767
3768	<listitem>
3769	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
3774	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
3775	</listitem>
3776
3777	<listitem>
3778	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
3779	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
3780	</listitem>
3781
3782	<listitem>
3783	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
3784	(bug #6435)</para>
3785	</listitem>
3786
3787	<listitem>
3788	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
3789	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
3790	</listitem>
3791
3792	<listitem>
3793	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
3794	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
3795	(bug #6488)</para>
3796	</listitem>
3797
3798	<listitem>
3799	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
3800	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
3801	</listitem>
3802
3803	<listitem>
3804	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
3805	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
3806	</listitem>
3807
3808	<listitem>
3809	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
3810	#5227)</para>
3811	</listitem>
3812
3813	<listitem>
3814	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
3815	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
3816	</listitem>
3817
3818	<listitem>
3819	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
3820	</listitem>
3821
3822	<listitem>
3823	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
3824	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
3825	</listitem>
3826
3827	</itemizedlist>
3828	</sect1>
3829
3830	<sect1>
3831	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
3832
3833	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3834	added:</para>
3835
3836	<itemizedlist>
3837
3838	<listitem>
3839	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
3840	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
3841	</listitem>
3842
3843	<listitem>
3844	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
3845	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
3846	</listitem>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
3850	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
3851	</listitem>
3852
3853	<listitem>
3854	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
3855	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
3856	</listitem>
3857
3858	<listitem>
3859	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
3860	</listitem>
3861
3862	<listitem>
3863	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
3864	</listitem>
3865
3866	<listitem>
3867	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
3868	</listitem>
3869
3870	<listitem>
3871	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
3872	</listitem>
3873
3874	<listitem>
3875	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
3876	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
3877	</listitem>
3878
3879	<listitem>
3880	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
3881	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
3882	</listitem>
3883
3884	<listitem>
3885	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
3886	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
3887	</listitem>
3888
3889	<listitem>
3890	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
3891	</listitem>
3892
3893	<listitem>
3894	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
3895	</listitem>
3896
3897	<listitem>
3898	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
3899	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
3900	</listitem>
3901
3902	<listitem>
3903	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
3904	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
3905	calls (bug #6165)</para>
3906	</listitem>
3907
3908	<listitem>
3909	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
3910	(bug #5297)</para>
3911	</listitem>
3912
3913	<listitem>
3914	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
3915	(bug #4962)</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	<listitem>
3919	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
3920	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
3921	</listitem>
3922
3923	<listitem>
3924	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
3925	(bug #6176)</para>
3926	</listitem>
3927
3928	<listitem>
3929	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
3930	certain circumstances</para>
3931	</listitem>
3932
3933	<listitem>
3934	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
3935	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
3940	</listitem>
3941
3942	<listitem>
3943	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
3944	</listitem>
3945
3946	<listitem>
3947	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
3948	(bug #3571)</para>
3949	</listitem>
3950
3951	<listitem>
3952	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
3953	devices</para>
3954	</listitem>
3955
3956	<listitem>
3957	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
3958	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
3959	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
3960	</listitem>
3961
3962	<listitem>
3963	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
3964	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
3965	</listitem>
3966
3967	<listitem>
3968	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
3969	</listitem>
3970
3971	<listitem>
3972	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
3973	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
3974	</listitem>
3975
3976	<listitem>
3977	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
3978	response</para>
3979	</listitem>
3980
3981	<listitem>
3982	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
3983	</listitem>
3984
3985	<listitem>
3986	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
3987	</listitem>
3988
3989	<listitem>
3990	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
3991	</listitem>
3992
3993	<listitem>
3994	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
3995	</listitem>
3996
3997	<listitem>
3998	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
3999	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4000	</listitem>
4001
4002	<listitem>
4003	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4004	</listitem>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4008	</listitem>
4009
4010	<listitem>
4011	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4012	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4013	</listitem>
4014
4015	<listitem>
4016	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4017	</listitem>
4018
4019	<listitem>
4020	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4021	</listitem>
4022
4023	<listitem>
4024	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4025	</listitem>
4026
4027	<listitem>
4028	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4029	</listitem>
4030
4031	</itemizedlist>
4032	</sect1>
4033
4034	<sect1>
4035	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4036
4037	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4038	added:</para>
4039
4040	<itemizedlist>
4041
4042	<listitem>
4043	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4044	</listitem>
4045
4046	<listitem>
4047	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4048	</listitem>
4049
4050	<listitem>
4051	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4052	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4053	</listitem>
4054
4055	<listitem>
4056	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4057	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4058	</listitem>
4059
4060	<listitem>
4061	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4062	(bug #3945)</para>
4063	</listitem>
4064
4065	<listitem>
4066	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4067	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4068	</listitem>
4069
4070	<listitem>
4071	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4072	and AMD-V only) </para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4077	</listitem>
4078
4079	<listitem>
4080	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4081	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4082	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4087	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4088	</listitem>
4089
4090	<listitem>
4091	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4092	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4093	</listitem>
4094
4095	<listitem>
4096	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4097	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4098	</listitem>
4099
4100	<listitem>
4101	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4102	snapshots command</para>
4103	</listitem>
4104
4105	<listitem>
4106	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4107	</listitem>
4108
4109	<listitem>
4110	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4111	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4112	</listitem>
4113
4114	<listitem>
4115	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4116	</listitem>
4117
4118	<listitem>
4119	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4120	</listitem>
4121
4122	<listitem>
4123	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4124	</listitem>
4125
4126	<listitem>
4127	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4128	(KWin bug)</para>
4129	</listitem>
4130
4131	<listitem>
4132	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4133	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4134	</listitem>
4135
4136	<listitem>
4137	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4138	</listitem>
4139
4140	<listitem>
4141	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4142	</listitem>
4143
4144	<listitem>
4145	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4146	</listitem>
4147
4148	<listitem>
4149	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4150	</listitem>
4151
4152	<listitem>
4153	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4154	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4155	</listitem>
4156
4157	<listitem>
4158	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4159	bug #5787)</para>
4160	</listitem>
4161
4162	<listitem>
4163	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4164	DHCP requests</para>
4165	</listitem>
4166
4167	<listitem>
4168	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4169	(bug #3217)</para>
4170	</listitem>
4171
4172	<listitem>
4173	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4174	range (bug #5923)</para>
4175	</listitem>
4176
4177	<listitem>
4178	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4179	</listitem>
4180
4181	<listitem>
4182	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4183	</listitem>
4184
4185	<listitem>
4186	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4187	</listitem>
4188
4189	<listitem>
4190	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4191	</listitem>
4192
4193	<listitem>
4194	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4195	file (bug #5681)</para>
4196	</listitem>
4197
4198	<listitem>
4199	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4200	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4201	</listitem>
4202
4203	<listitem>
4204	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4205	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4206	</listitem>
4207
4208	<listitem>
4209	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4210	regression)</para>
4211	</listitem>
4212
4213	<listitem>
4214	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4215	</listitem>
4216
4217	<listitem>
4218	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4219	</listitem>
4220
4221	<listitem>
4222	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4223	</listitem>
4224
4225	<listitem>
4226	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4227	</listitem>
4228
4229	<listitem>
4230	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4231	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4232	</listitem>
4233
4234	<listitem>
4235	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4236	</listitem>
4237
4238	<listitem>
4239	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4240	</listitem>
4241
4242	<listitem>
4243	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4244	</listitem>
4245
4246	<listitem>
4247	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4248	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4249	</listitem>
4250
4251	<listitem>
4252	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4253	</listitem>
4254
4255	<listitem>
4256	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4257	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4258	</listitem>
4259
4260	<listitem>
4261	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	<listitem>
4265	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4266	</listitem>
4267
4268	<listitem>
4269	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4270	</listitem>
4271
4272	<listitem>
4273	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4274	(bug #5731)</para>
4275	</listitem>
4276
4277	<listitem>
4278	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4279	again</para>
4280	</listitem>
4281
4282	</itemizedlist>
4283
4284	</sect1>
4285
4286	<sect1>
4287	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4288
4289	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4290	added:</para>
4291
4292	<itemizedlist>
4293
4294	<listitem>
4295	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4296	</listitem>
4297
4298	<listitem>
4299	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4300	</listitem>
4301
4302	<listitem>
4303	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4304	</listitem>
4305
4306	<listitem>
4307	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4308	</listitem>
4309
4310	<listitem>
4311	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
4312	</listitem>
4313
4314	<listitem>
4315	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
4316	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
4317	</listitem>
4318
4319	<listitem>
4320	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
4321	</listitem>
4322
4323	<listitem>
4324	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
4325	</listitem>
4326
4327	<listitem>
4328	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
4329	</listitem>
4330
4331	<listitem>
4332	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
4333	</listitem>
4334
4335	<listitem>
4336	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
4337	</listitem>
4338
4339	<listitem>
4340	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
4341	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	<listitem>
4345	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
4346	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
4347	</listitem>
4348
4349	<listitem>
4350	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
4351	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
4352	#1762)</para>
4353	</listitem>
4354
4355	<listitem>
4356	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
4357	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
4358	</listitem>
4359
4360	<listitem>
4361	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
4362	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
4363	</listitem>
4364
4365	<listitem>
4366	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
4367	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
4368	</listitem>
4369
4370	<listitem>
4371	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
4372	</listitem>
4373
4374	<listitem>
4375	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
4376	</listitem>
4377
4378	<listitem>
4379	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
4380	several virtual CPU cores</para>
4381	</listitem>
4382
4383	<listitem>
4384	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
4385	</listitem>
4386
4387	<listitem>
4388	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
4389	</listitem>
4390
4391	<listitem>
4392	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
4393	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
4394	</listitem>
4395
4396	<listitem>
4397	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
4398	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
4399	</listitem>
4400
4401	<listitem>
4402	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
4403	</listitem>
4404
4405	<listitem>
4406	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
4407	guests</para>
4408	</listitem>
4409
4410	<listitem>
4411	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
4412	and on some 64bit guests</para>
4413	</listitem>
4414
4415	<listitem>
4416	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
4417	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
4418	</listitem>
4419
4420	<listitem>
4421	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
4422	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
4423	</listitem>
4424
4425	<listitem>
4426	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
4427	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
4432	</listitem>
4433
4434	<listitem>
4435	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
4436	</listitem>
4437
4438	<listitem>
4439	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
4440	</listitem>
4441
4442	<listitem>
4443	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
4444	</listitem>
4445
4446	<listitem>
4447	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
4448	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
4449	</listitem>
4450
4451	<listitem>
4452	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
4453	</listitem>
4454
4455	</itemizedlist>
4456
4457	</sect1>
4458
4459	<sect1>
4460	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
4461
4462	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4463	were added:</para>
4464
4465	<itemizedlist>
4466
4467	<listitem>
4468	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
4469	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
4470	</listitem>
4471
4472	<listitem>
4473	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
4474	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
4475	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
4476	</listitem>
4477
4478	<listitem>
4479	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
4480	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
4481	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
4482	</listitem>
4483
4484	<listitem>
4485	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
4486	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
4487	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
4488	</listitem>
4489
4490	<listitem>
4491	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
4492	running</para>
4493	</listitem>
4494
4495	<listitem>
4496	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
4497	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
4498	</listitem>
4499
4500	<listitem>
4501	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
4502	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	<listitem>
4506	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
4507	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
4512	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	</itemizedlist>
4516
4517	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4518
4519	<itemizedlist>
4520
4521	<listitem>
4522	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
4523	</listitem>
4524
4525	<listitem>
4526	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
4527	</listitem>
4528
4529	<listitem>
4530	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
4531	</listitem>
4532
4533	<listitem>
4534	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
4535	(bug #5291)</para>
4536	</listitem>
4537
4538	<listitem>
4539	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
4540	</listitem>
4541
4542	<listitem>
4543	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
4544	</listitem>
4545
4546	<listitem>
4547	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
4548	</listitem>
4549
4550	<listitem>
4551	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
4552	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
4557	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
4558	</listitem>
4559
4560	<listitem>
4561	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
4562	</listitem>
4563
4564	<listitem>
4565	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
4566	</listitem>
4567
4568	<listitem>
4569	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
4578	</listitem>
4579
4580	<listitem>
4581	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
4582	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
4583	</listitem>
4584
4585	<listitem>
4586	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
4587	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
4588	</listitem>
4589
4590	<listitem>
4591	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
4592	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
4593	</listitem>
4594
4595	<listitem>
4596	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
4597	(bug #2723)</para>
4598	</listitem>
4599
4600	<listitem>
4601	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
4602	</listitem>
4603
4604	<listitem>
4605	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
4606	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
4611	optional manifest file on import</para>
4612	</listitem>
4613
4614	<listitem>
4615	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
4616	</listitem>
4617
4618	<listitem>
4619	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
4620	(bug #3773)</para>
4621	</listitem>
4622
4623	<listitem>
4624	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
4625	</listitem>
4626
4627	<listitem>
4628	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
4629	</listitem>
4630
4631	<listitem>
4632	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
4633	layout (bug #2302)</para>
4634	</listitem>
4635
4636	<listitem>
4637	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
4638	(bug #4866)</para>
4639	</listitem>
4640
4641	<listitem>
4642	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
4643	left click (bug #5049)</para>
4644	</listitem>
4645
4646	<listitem>
4647	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
4648	certain conditions</para>
4649	</listitem>
4650
4651	<listitem>
4652	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
4653	</listitem>
4654
4655	<listitem>
4656	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
4657	</listitem>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
4665	</listitem>
4666
4667	<listitem>
4668	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
4669	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
4670	</listitem>
4671
4672	<listitem>
4673	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
4674	</listitem>
4675
4676	<listitem>
4677	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
4678	properties (bug #5337)</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
4683	</listitem>
4684
4685	<listitem>
4686	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
4687	</listitem>
4688
4689	<listitem>
4690	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
4691	</listitem>
4692
4693	<listitem>
4694	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
4695	</listitem>
4696
4697	<listitem>
4698	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
4699	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
4700	</listitem>
4701
4702	<listitem>
4703	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
4704	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
4705	(bug #928)</para>
4706	</listitem>
4707
4708	<listitem>
4709	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
4710	</listitem>
4711
4712	</itemizedlist>
4713
4714	</sect1>
4715
4716	<sect1>
4717	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
4718
4719	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4720	added:</para>
4721
4722	<itemizedlist>
4723
4724	<listitem>
4725	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
4726	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
4727	</listitem>
4728
4729	<listitem>
4730	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
4731	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
4736	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
4737	</listitem>
4738
4739	<listitem>
4740	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
4741	enabled</para>
4742	</listitem>
4743
4744	<listitem>
4745	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
4746	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
4747	</listitem>
4748
4749	<listitem>
4750	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
4751	(bug #2676)</para>
4752	</listitem>
4753
4754	<listitem>
4755	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
4756	is connected to a raw file</para>
4757	</listitem>
4758
4759	<listitem>
4760	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
4761	(bug #5355)</para>
4762	</listitem>
4763
4764	<listitem>
4765	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
4766	</listitem>
4767
4768	<listitem>
4769	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
4770	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
4771	</listitem>
4772
4773	<listitem>
4774	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
4775	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
4776	guest (bug #4496)</para>
4777	</listitem>
4778
4779	<listitem>
4780	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
4781	</listitem>
4782
4783	<listitem>
4784	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
4785	</listitem>
4786
4787	<listitem>
4788	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
4789	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
4794	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
4795	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
4796	</listitem>
4797
4798	</itemizedlist>
4799
4800	</sect1>
4801
4802	<sect1>
4803	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
4804
4805	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4806	added:</para>
4807
4808	<itemizedlist>
4809
4810	<listitem>
4811	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
4812	</listitem>
4813
4814	<listitem>
4815	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
4816	</listitem>
4817
4818	<listitem>
4819	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
4820	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
4821	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
4826	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
4827	</listitem>
4828
4829	<listitem>
4830	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
4831	</listitem>
4832
4833	<listitem>
4834	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
4839	</listitem>
4840
4841	<listitem>
4842	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
4843	</listitem>
4844
4845	<listitem>
4846	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
4847	</listitem>
4848
4849	<listitem>
4850	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
4851	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
4852	</listitem>
4853
4854	<listitem>
4855	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
4856	</listitem>
4857
4858	<listitem>
4859	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
4860	</listitem>
4861
4862	<listitem>
4863	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
4864	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
4865	</listitem>
4866
4867	<listitem>
4868	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
4869	</listitem>
4870
4871	<listitem>
4872	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
4873	exhaustion</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
4878	</listitem>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
4882	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	<listitem>
4886	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
4887	folders (bug #4106)</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
4892	folders (bug #4299)</para>
4893	</listitem>
4894
4895	<listitem>
4896	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
4897	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
4898	(bug #2921)</para>
4899	</listitem>
4900
4901	<listitem>
4902	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
4903	hosts only)</para>
4904	</listitem>
4905
4906	<listitem>
4907	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
4908	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
4909	</listitem>
4910
4911	<listitem>
4912	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
4913	</listitem>
4914
4915	<listitem>
4916	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
4917	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
4918	</listitem>
4919
4920	<listitem>
4921	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
4922	</listitem>
4923
4924	<listitem>
4925	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
4926	image inconsistency </para>
4927	</listitem>
4928
4929	<listitem>
4930	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
4931	</listitem>
4932
4933	<listitem>
4934	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
4935	</listitem>
4936
4937	<listitem>
4938	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
4939	(bug #2025)</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
4944	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
4945	</listitem>
4946
4947	</itemizedlist>
4948
4949	</sect1>
4950
4951	<sect1>
4952	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
4953
4954	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4955	added:</para>
4956
4957	<itemizedlist>
4958
4959	<listitem>
4960	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
4961	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
4962	</listitem>
4963
4964	<listitem>
4965	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
4966	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
4967	</listitem>
4968
4969	<listitem>
4970	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
4971	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	<listitem>
4975	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
4976	</listitem>
4977
4978	<listitem>
4979	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
4980	software virtualization only) </para>
4981	</listitem>
4982
4983	<listitem>
4984	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
4985	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
4986	</listitem>
4987
4988	<listitem>
4989	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
4990	with root privileges</para>
4991	</listitem>
4992
4993	<listitem>
4994	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
4995	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
4996	</listitem>
4997
4998	<listitem>
4999	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5000	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5001	</listitem>
5002
5003	<listitem>
5004	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5005	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5006	</listitem>
5007
5008	<listitem>
5009	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5010	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5011	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5012	</listitem>
5013
5014	<listitem>
5015	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5016	available</para>
5017	</listitem>
5018
5019	<listitem>
5020	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5021	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5022	</listitem>
5023
5024	<listitem>
5025	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5026	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5027	</listitem>
5028
5029	<listitem>
5030	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5031	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5032	</listitem>
5033
5034	<listitem>
5035	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5036	(bug #4907)</para>
5037	</listitem>
5038
5039	<listitem>
5040	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5041	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5042	</listitem>
5043
5044	<listitem>
5045	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5046	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5047	</listitem>
5048
5049	<listitem>
5050	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5051	</listitem>
5052
5053	<listitem>
5054	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5055	</listitem>
5056
5057	<listitem>
5058	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5059	</listitem>
5060
5061	<listitem>
5062	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5063	</listitem>
5064
5065	<listitem>
5066	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5067	are installed</para>
5068	</listitem>
5069
5070	<listitem>
5071	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5072	(bug #4771)</para>
5073	</listitem>
5074
5075	<listitem>
5076	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5077	</listitem>
5078
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5081	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5082	</listitem>
5083
5084	<listitem>
5085	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5086	command</para>
5087	</listitem>
5088
5089	<listitem>
5090	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5091	</listitem>
5092
5093	<listitem>
5094	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5095	</listitem>
5096
5097	<listitem>
5098	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5099	(bug #5089)</para>
5100	</listitem>
5101
5102	<listitem>
5103	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5104	</listitem>
5105
5106	</itemizedlist>
5107
5108	</sect1>
5109
5110	<sect1>
5111	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5112
5113	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5114	added:</para>
5115
5116	<itemizedlist>
5117
5118	<listitem>
5119	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5120	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5121	</listitem>
5122
5123	<listitem>
5124	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5125	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5126	</listitem>
5127
5128	<listitem>
5129	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5130	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5131	</listitem>
5132
5133	<listitem>
5134	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5135	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5136	</listitem>
5137
5138	<listitem>
5139	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5140	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5141	</listitem>
5142
5143	<listitem>
5144	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5145	</listitem>
5146
5147	<listitem>
5148	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5149	</listitem>
5150
5151	<listitem>
5152	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5153	</listitem>
5154
5155	<listitem>
5156	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5157	</listitem>
5158
5159	<listitem>
5160	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5161	</listitem>
5162
5163	<listitem>
5164	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5165	onlined or offlined</para>
5166	</listitem>
5167
5168	<listitem>
5169	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5170	</listitem>
5171
5172	<listitem>
5173	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5174	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5175	</listitem>
5176
5177	<listitem>
5178	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5179	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5180	</listitem>
5181
5182	<listitem>
5183	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5184	</listitem>
5185
5186	<listitem>
5187	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5188	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5189	</listitem>
5190
5191	<listitem>
5192	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5193	</listitem>
5194
5195	<listitem>
5196	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5197	</listitem>
5198
5199	<listitem>
5200	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5201	</listitem>
5202
5203	<listitem>
5204	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5205	</listitem>
5206
5207	<listitem>
5208	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5209	</listitem>
5210
5211	<listitem>
5212	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5213	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5214	</listitem>
5215
5216	<listitem>
5217	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5218	</listitem>
5219
5220	<listitem>
5221	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5222	</listitem>
5223
5224	<listitem>
5225	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5226	</listitem>
5227
5228	<listitem>
5229	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5230	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5231	</listitem>
5232
5233	<listitem>
5234	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5235	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5236	</listitem>
5237
5238	<listitem>
5239	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5240	</listitem>
5241
5242	<listitem>
5243	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5244	</listitem>
5245
5246	<listitem>
5247	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5248	</listitem>
5249
5250	<listitem>
5251	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5252	</listitem>
5253
5254	<listitem>
5255	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5260	</listitem>
5261
5262	<listitem>
5263	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5264	</listitem>
5265
5266	<listitem>
5267	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5268	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5269	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5270	phase collapse</para>
5271	</listitem>
5272
5273	<listitem>
5274	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5275	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5276	</listitem>
5277
5278	<listitem>
5279	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5280	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5281	</listitem>
5282
5283	<listitem>
5284	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5285	</listitem>
5286
5287	<listitem>
5288	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5289	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5294	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5295	</listitem>
5296
5297	<listitem>
5298	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5299	</listitem>
5300
5301	<listitem>
5302	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5303	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5304	#4698, #4790)</para>
5305	</listitem>
5306
5307	<listitem>
5308	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5309	less than the configured range</para>
5310	</listitem>
5311
5312	<listitem>
5313	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
5314	</listitem>
5315
5316	<listitem>
5317	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
5318	</listitem>
5319
5320	<listitem>
5321	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
5322	</listitem>
5323
5324	<listitem>
5325	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
5326	</listitem>
5327
5328	<listitem>
5329	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
5330	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
5331	</listitem>
5332
5333	<listitem>
5334	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
5335	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
5336	</listitem>
5337
5338	<listitem>
5339	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
5340	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
5341	</listitem>
5342
5343	<listitem>
5344	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
5345	</listitem>
5346
5347	<listitem>
5348	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
5349	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
5350	</listitem>
5351
5352	<listitem>
5353	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
5354	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
5355	</listitem>
5356
5357	<listitem>
5358	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
5359	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
5360	</listitem>
5361
5362	<listitem>
5363	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
5364	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
5365	</listitem>
5366
5367	<listitem>
5368	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
5369	</listitem>
5370
5371	<listitem>
5372	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
5373	</listitem>
5374
5375	</itemizedlist>
5376
5377	</sect1>
5378
5379	<sect1>
5380	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
5381
5382	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5383	added:</para>
5384
5385	<itemizedlist>
5386
5387	<listitem>
5388	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
5389	</listitem>
5390
5391	<listitem>
5392	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
5393	</listitem>
5394
5395	<listitem>
5396	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
5397	</listitem>
5398
5399	<listitem>
5400	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
5401	</listitem>
5402
5403	<listitem>
5404	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
5405	</listitem>
5406
5407	<listitem>
5408	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
5409	</listitem>
5410
5411	<listitem>
5412	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
5413	</listitem>
5414
5415	<listitem>
5416	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
5417	</listitem>
5418
5419	<listitem>
5420	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
5421	</listitem>
5422
5423	<listitem>
5424	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
5425	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
5426	</listitem>
5427
5428	<listitem>
5429	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
5430	</listitem>
5431
5432	<listitem>
5433	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
5438	</listitem>
5439
5440	<listitem>
5441	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
5442	</listitem>
5443
5444	<listitem>
5445	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
5446	</listitem>
5447
5448	<listitem>
5449	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
5450	</listitem>
5451
5452	<listitem>
5453	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
5454	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
5455	</listitem>
5456
5457	<listitem>
5458	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
5459	(bug #4654)</para>
5460	</listitem>
5461
5462	<listitem>
5463	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
5468	interfaces</para>
5469	</listitem>
5470
5471	<listitem>
5472	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
5473	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
5474	</listitem>
5475
5476	<listitem>
5477	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
5478	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
5479	</listitem>
5480
5481	<listitem>
5482	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
5483	properties (bug #3415)</para>
5484	</listitem>
5485
5486	<listitem>
5487	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
5488	(bug #1461)</para>
5489	</listitem>
5490
5491	<listitem>
5492	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
5493	</listitem>
5494
5495	<listitem>
5496	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
5497	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
5498	</listitem>
5499
5500	<listitem>
5501	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
5502	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
5503	</listitem>
5504
5505	<listitem>
5506	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
5507	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
5508	</listitem>
5509
5510	<listitem>
5511	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
5512	</listitem>
5513
5514	<listitem>
5515	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
5516	</listitem>
5517
5518	<listitem>
5519	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
5520	</listitem>
5521
5522	<listitem>
5523	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
5524	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
5525	</listitem>
5526
5527	<listitem>
5528	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
5529	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
5530	</listitem>
5531
5532	<listitem>
5533	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
5534	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
5535	</listitem>
5536
5537	<listitem>
5538	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
5539	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
5540	</listitem>
5541
5542	</itemizedlist>
5543
5544	</sect1>
5545	<sect1>
5546	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
5547
5548	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5549	added:</para>
5550
5551	<itemizedlist>
5552
5553	<listitem>
5554	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
5555	</listitem>
5556
5557	<listitem>
5558	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
5559	</listitem>
5560
5561	<listitem>
5562	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
5563	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
5564	</listitem>
5565
5566	<listitem>
5567	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
5568	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
5569	</listitem>
5570
5571	<listitem>
5572	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
5573	</listitem>
5574
5575	<listitem>
5576	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
5581	</listitem>
5582
5583	<listitem>
5584	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
5585	</listitem>
5586
5587	<listitem>
5588	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
5589	</listitem>
5590
5591	<listitem>
5592	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
5593	</listitem>
5594
5595	<listitem>
5596	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
5597	</listitem>
5598
5599	<listitem>
5600	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
5601	</listitem>
5602
5603	<listitem>
5604	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
5605	</listitem>
5606
5607	<listitem>
5608	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
5609	</listitem>
5610
5611	<listitem>
5612	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
5613	</listitem>
5614
5615	<listitem>
5616	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
5617	guest (bug #4381)</para>
5618	</listitem>
5619
5620	<listitem>
5621	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
5622	</listitem>
5623
5624	<listitem>
5625	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
5626	</listitem>
5627
5628	<listitem>
5629	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
5630	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
5631	</listitem>
5632
5633	<listitem>
5634	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
5635	</listitem>
5636
5637	<listitem>
5638	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
5639	</listitem>
5640
5641	<listitem>
5642	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
5643	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
5644	</listitem>
5645
5646	<listitem>
5647	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
5648	</listitem>
5649
5650	<listitem>
5651	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
5652	</listitem>
5653
5654	<listitem>
5655	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
5656	</listitem>
5657
5658	<listitem>
5659	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
5660	</listitem>
5661
5662	<listitem>
5663	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<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>
5668	</listitem>
5669
5670	</itemizedlist>
5671
5672	</sect1>
5673
5674	<sect1>
5675	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
5676
5677	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5678	were added:</para>
5679
5680	<itemizedlist>
5681
5682	<listitem>
5683	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
5684	</listitem>
5685
5686	<listitem>
5687	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
5688	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5689	</listitem>
5690
5691	<listitem>
5692	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
5693	</listitem>
5694
5695	</itemizedlist>
5696
5697	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5698
5699	<itemizedlist>
5700
5701	<listitem>
5702	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
5703	</listitem>
5704
5705	<listitem>
5706	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
5707	certain conditions</para>
5708	</listitem>
5709
5710	<listitem>
5711	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
5712	</listitem>
5713
5714	<listitem>
5715	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
5716	</listitem>
5717
5718	<listitem>
5719	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
5720	</listitem>
5721
5722	<listitem>
5723	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
5724	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
5725	</listitem>
5726
5727	<listitem>
5728	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
5729	</listitem>
5730
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
5733	</listitem>
5734
5735	<listitem>
5736	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
5737	</listitem>
5738
5739	<listitem>
5740	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
5741	</listitem>
5742
5743	<listitem>
5744	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
5745	</listitem>
5746
5747	<listitem>
5748	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
5753	</listitem>
5754
5755	<listitem>
5756	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
5757	</listitem>
5758
5759	<listitem>
5760	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
5761	(non Windows hosts)</para>
5762	</listitem>
5763
5764	<listitem>
5765	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
5766	</listitem>
5767
5768	<listitem>
5769	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
5770	</listitem>
5771
5772	<listitem>
5773	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
5774	</listitem>
5775
5776	<listitem>
5777	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
5778	</listitem>
5779
5780	<listitem>
5781	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
5782	</listitem>
5783
5784	<listitem>
5785	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
5786	</listitem>
5787
5788	<listitem>
5789	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
5790	</listitem>
5791
5792	<listitem>
5793	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
5798	</listitem>
5799
5800	<listitem>
5801	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
5802	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
5803	</listitem>
5804
5805	<listitem>
5806	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
5807	</listitem>
5808
5809	<listitem>
5810	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
5811	</listitem>
5812
5813	<listitem>
5814	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
5815	</listitem>
5816
5817	<listitem>
5818	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
5819	</listitem>
5820
5821	<listitem>
5822	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
5827	</listitem>
5828
5829	<listitem>
5830	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
5831	</listitem>
5832
5833	<listitem>
5834	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
5835	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
5836	</listitem>
5837
5838	<listitem>
5839	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
5840	</listitem>
5841
5842	<listitem>
5843	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
5844	</listitem>
5845
5846	<listitem>
5847	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
5848	</listitem>
5849
5850	<listitem>
5851	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
5852	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
5853	</listitem>
5854
5855	<listitem>
5856	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
5857	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
5858	</listitem>
5859
5860	<listitem>
5861	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
5862	correct file mode when creating files</para>
5863	</listitem>
5864
5865	<listitem>
5866	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
5867	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
5868	</listitem>
5869
5870	<listitem>
5871	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
5872	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
5873	</listitem>
5874
5875	<listitem>
5876	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
5877	</listitem>
5878
5879	<listitem>
5880	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
5881	</listitem>
5882
5883	<listitem>
5884	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
5885	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
5886	</listitem>
5887
5888	<listitem>
5889	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
5890	guest property lookup</para>
5891	</listitem>
5892
5893	<listitem>
5894	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
5895	basic network information)</para>
5896	</listitem>
5897
5898	<listitem>
5899	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
5900	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
5901	</listitem>
5902
5903	<listitem>
5904	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
5905	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
5906	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
5907	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
5908	</listitem>
5909
5910	<listitem>
5911	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
5912	</listitem>
5913
5914	<listitem>
5915	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
5916	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
5917	web service</para>
5918	</listitem>
5919
5920	<listitem>
5921	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
5922	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
5923	</listitem>
5924
5925	<listitem>
5926	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
5927	unavailable</para>
5928	</listitem>
5929
5930	<listitem>
5931	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
5932	</listitem>
5933
5934	</itemizedlist>
5935	</sect1>
5936
5937	<sect1>
5938	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
5939
5940	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5941	added:</para>
5942
5943	<itemizedlist>
5944
5945	<listitem>
5946	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
5947	installation</para>
5948	</listitem>
5949
5950	<listitem>
5951	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
5952	</listitem>
5953
5954	<listitem>
5955	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
5956	later (bug #3981)</para>
5957	</listitem>
5958
5959	<listitem>
5960	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
5961	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
5962	</listitem>
5963
5964	<listitem>
5965	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
5966	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
5967	(bug #4034)
5968	</para>
5969	</listitem>
5970
5971	<listitem>
5972	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
5973	networking</para>
5974	</listitem>
5975
5976	<listitem>
5977	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
5978	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
5979	</listitem>
5980
5981	<listitem>
5982	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
5983	clicks</para>
5984	</listitem>
5985
5986	<listitem>
5987	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
5988	Windows 7 guests</para>
5989	</listitem>
5990
5991	<listitem>
5992	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
5993	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
5994	</listitem>
5995
5996	<listitem>
5997	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
5998	</listitem>
5999
6000	<listitem>
6001	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6002	</listitem>
6003
6004	<listitem>
6005	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6006	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6007	</listitem>
6008
6009	<listitem>
6010	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6011	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6012	</listitem>
6013
6014	<listitem>
6015	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6016	</listitem>
6017
6018	<listitem>
6019	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6020	</listitem>
6021
6022	<listitem>
6023	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6024	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6025	(bug #3864)</para>
6026	</listitem>
6027
6028	<listitem>
6029	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6030	now flushes the output stream</para>
6031	</listitem>
6032
6033	<listitem>
6034	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6035	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6036	</listitem>
6037
6038	<listitem>
6039	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6040	</listitem>
6041
6042	<listitem>
6043	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6044	</listitem>
6045
6046	<listitem>
6047	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6048	</listitem>
6049
6050	<listitem>
6051	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6052	</listitem>
6053
6054	<listitem>
6055	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6056	(bug #3964)</para>
6057	</listitem>
6058
6059	<listitem>
6060	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6061	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6062	</listitem>
6063
6064	<listitem>
6065	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6066	hosts</para>
6067	</listitem>
6068
6069	<listitem>
6070	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6071	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6072	e1000 adapter</para>
6073	</listitem>
6074
6075	<listitem>
6076	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6077	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6078	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6079	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6080	</listitem>
6081
6082	<listitem>
6083	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6084	</listitem>
6085
6086	<listitem>
6087	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6088	</listitem>
6089
6090	<listitem>
6091	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6092	</listitem>
6093
6094	<listitem>
6095	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6096	file (bug #1023)</para>
6097	</listitem>
6098
6099	<listitem>
6100	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6101	</listitem>
6102
6103	<listitem>
6104	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6105	</listitem>
6106
6107	</itemizedlist>
6108	</sect1>
6109
6110	<sect1>
6111	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6112
6113	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6114	added:</para>
6115
6116	<itemizedlist>
6117
6118	<listitem>
6119	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6120	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6121	</listitem>
6122
6123	<listitem>
6124	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6125	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6126	and later</para>
6127	</listitem>
6128
6129	<listitem>
6130	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6131	running services</para>
6132	</listitem>
6133
6134	<listitem>
6135	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6136	terminates</para>
6137	</listitem>
6138
6139	<listitem>
6140	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6141	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6142	</listitem>
6143
6144	<listitem>
6145	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6146	installed on the guest</para>
6147	</listitem>
6148
6149	<listitem>
6150	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6151	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6152	</listitem>
6153
6154	<listitem>
6155	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6156	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6157	</listitem>
6158
6159	<listitem>
6160	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6161	(bug #2628)</para>
6162	</listitem>
6163
6164	<listitem>
6165	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6166	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6167	</listitem>
6168
6169	<listitem>
6170	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6171	(bug #3657)</para>
6172	</listitem>
6173
6174	<listitem>
6175	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6176	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6177	</listitem>
6178
6179	<listitem>
6180	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6181	virtualization only)
6182	</para>
6183	</listitem>
6184
6185	<listitem>
6186	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6187	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6188	</listitem>
6189
6190	<listitem>
6191	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6192	</listitem>
6193
6194	<listitem>
6195	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6196	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6197	</listitem>
6198
6199	<listitem>
6200	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6201	bug #3689)</para>
6202	</listitem>
6203
6204	<listitem>
6205	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6206	bug #3679)</para>
6207	</listitem>
6208
6209	<listitem>
6210	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6211	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6212	</listitem>
6213
6214	<listitem>
6215	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6216	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6217	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6218	</listitem>
6219
6220	<listitem>
6221	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6222	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6223	</listitem>
6224
6225	<listitem>
6226	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6227	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6228	</listitem>
6229
6230	<listitem>
6231	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6232	(bug #3667)</para>
6233	</listitem>
6234
6235	<listitem>
6236	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6237	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6238	</listitem>
6239
6240	<listitem>
6241	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6242	</listitem>
6243
6244	<listitem>
6245	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6246	</listitem>
6247
6248	<listitem>
6249	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6250	</listitem>
6251
6252	<listitem>
6253	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6254	</listitem>
6255
6256	<listitem>
6257	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6258	</listitem>
6259
6260	<listitem>
6261	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6262	</listitem>
6263
6264	<listitem>
6265	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6266	</listitem>
6267
6268	</itemizedlist>
6269	</sect1>
6270
6271	<sect1>
6272	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6273
6274	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6275	were added:</para>
6276
6277	<itemizedlist>
6278
6279	<listitem>
6280	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6281	</listitem>
6282
6283	<listitem>
6284	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6285	</listitem>
6286
6287	<listitem>
6288	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6289	</listitem>
6290
6291	<listitem>
6292	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6293	</listitem>
6294
6295	<listitem>
6296	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6297	</listitem>
6298
6299	<listitem>
6300	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6301	</listitem>
6302
6303	<listitem>
6304	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6305	</listitem>
6306
6307	<listitem>
6308	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6309	</listitem>
6310
6311	<listitem>
6312	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6313	</listitem>
6314
6315	<listitem>
6316	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
6317	</listitem>
6318
6319	</itemizedlist>
6320
6321	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6322
6323	<itemizedlist>
6324
6325	<listitem>
6326	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
6327	</listitem>
6328
6329	<listitem>
6330	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
6331	</listitem>
6332
6333	<listitem>
6334	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
6335	</listitem>
6336
6337	<listitem>
6338	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
6339	</listitem>
6340
6341	<listitem>
6342	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
6343	</listitem>
6344
6345	<listitem>
6346	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6347	</listitem>
6348
6349	<listitem>
6350	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6351	</listitem>
6352
6353	<listitem>
6354	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
6355	</listitem>
6356
6357	<listitem>
6358	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
6359	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
6360	</listitem>
6361
6362	<listitem>
6363	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
6364	</listitem>
6365
6366	<listitem>
6367	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
6368	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
6369	</listitem>
6370
6371	<listitem>
6372	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
6373	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
6374	</listitem>
6375
6376	<listitem>
6377	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
6378	</listitem>
6379
6380	<listitem>
6381	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
6382	</listitem>
6383
6384	<listitem>
6385	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
6386	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
6387	</listitem>
6388
6389	<listitem>
6390	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
6391	</listitem>
6392
6393	<listitem>
6394	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
6395	ESX server images)</para>
6396	</listitem>
6397
6398	<listitem>
6399	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
6400	writable</para>
6401	</listitem>
6402
6403	<listitem>
6404	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
6405	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
6406	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
6407	</listitem>
6408
6409	<listitem>
6410	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
6411	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
6412	</listitem>
6413
6414	<listitem>
6415	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
6416	</listitem>
6417
6418	<listitem>
6419	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
6420	</listitem>
6421
6422	<listitem>
6423	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
6424	hosts when creating files</para>
6425	</listitem>
6426
6427	<listitem>
6428	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
6429	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
6430	</listitem>
6431
6432	<listitem>
6433	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
6434	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
6435	#2306)</para>
6436	</listitem>
6437
6438	<listitem>
6439	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
6440	(bug #3555)</para>
6441	</listitem>
6442
6443	<listitem>
6444	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
6445	installer (bug #3524)</para>
6446	</listitem>
6447
6448	<listitem>
6449	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
6450	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
6451	</listitem>
6452
6453	<listitem>
6454	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
6455	interface (bug #3414)</para>
6456	</listitem>
6457
6458	<listitem>
6459	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
6460	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
6461	</listitem>
6462
6463	<listitem>
6464	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
6465	(bug #3586)</para>
6466	</listitem>
6467
6468	<listitem>
6469	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
6470	from Scratch systems</para>
6471	</listitem>
6472
6473	<listitem>
6474	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
6475	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
6476	</listitem>
6477
6478	<listitem>
6479	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
6480	</listitem>
6481
6482	<listitem>
6483	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
6484	default to compact format</para>
6485	</listitem>
6486
6487	<listitem>
6488	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
6489	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
6490	</listitem>
6491
6492	<listitem>
6493	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
6494	</listitem>
6495
6496	<listitem>
6497	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
6498	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
6499	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
6500	</listitem>
6501
6502	<listitem>
6503	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
6504	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
6505	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
6506	</listitem>
6507
6508	<listitem>
6509	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
6510	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
6511	</listitem>
6512
6513	<listitem>
6514	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
6515	</listitem>
6516
6517	<listitem>
6518	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
6519	</listitem>
6520
6521	<listitem>
6522	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
6523	</listitem>
6524
6525	<listitem>
6526	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
6527	</listitem>
6528
6529	<listitem>
6530	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
6531	</listitem>
6532
6533	<listitem>
6534	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
6535	</listitem>
6536
6537	<listitem>
6538	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
6539	</listitem>
6540
6541	<listitem>
6542	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
6543	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
6544	</listitem>
6545
6546	<listitem>
6547	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
6548	</listitem>
6549
6550	<listitem>
6551	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
6552	regression; bug #2065)</para>
6553	</listitem>
6554
6555	<listitem>
6556	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
6557	</listitem>
6558
6559	<listitem>
6560	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
6561	</listitem>
6562
6563	<listitem>
6564	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
6565	</listitem>
6566
6567	<listitem>
6568	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
6569	#2536)</para>
6570	</listitem>
6571
6572	<listitem>
6573	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
6574	</listitem>
6575
6576	<listitem>
6577	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
6578	(bug #3548)</para>
6579	</listitem>
6580
6581	</itemizedlist>
6582	</sect1>
6583
6584	<sect1>
6585	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
6586
6587	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6588	added:</para>
6589
6590	<itemizedlist>
6591
6592	<listitem>
6593	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
6594	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
6595	</listitem>
6596
6597	<listitem>
6598	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
6599	</listitem>
6600
6601	<listitem>
6602	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
6603	</listitem>
6604
6605	<listitem>
6606	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
6607	</listitem>
6608
6609	<listitem>
6610	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
6611	(bug #3115)</para>
6612	</listitem>
6613
6614	<listitem>
6615	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
6616	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
6617	</listitem>
6618
6619	<listitem>
6620	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
6621	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
6622	(bug #3215)</para>
6623	</listitem>
6624
6625	<listitem>
6626	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
6627	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
6628	</listitem>
6629
6630	<listitem>
6631	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
6632	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
6633	</listitem>
6634
6635	<listitem>
6636	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
6637	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
6638	</listitem>
6639
6640	<listitem>
6641	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
6642	in parallel</para>
6643	</listitem>
6644
6645	<listitem>
6646	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
6647	</listitem>
6648
6649	<listitem>
6650	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
6651	</listitem>
6652
6653	<listitem>
6654	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
6655	</listitem>
6656
6657	<listitem>
6658	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
6659	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
6660	</listitem>
6661
6662	<listitem>
6663	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
6664	</listitem>
6665
6666	<listitem>
6667	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
6668	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
6669	</listitem>
6670
6671	<listitem>
6672	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
6673	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
6674	</listitem>
6675
6676	<listitem>
6677	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
6678	</listitem>
6679
6680	<listitem>
6681	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
6682	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
6683	</listitem>
6684
6685	<listitem>
6686	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
6687	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
6688	</listitem>
6689
6690	<listitem>
6691	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
6692	</listitem>
6693
6694	<listitem>
6695	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
6696	</listitem>
6697
6698	<listitem>
6699	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
6700	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
6701	</listitem>
6702
6703	<listitem>
6704	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
6705	</listitem>
6706
6707	<listitem>
6708	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
6709	</listitem>
6710
6711	<listitem>
6712	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
6713	</listitem>
6714
6715	<listitem>
6716	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
6717	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
6718	</listitem>
6719
6720	<listitem>
6721	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
6722	</listitem>
6723
6724	<listitem>
6725	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
6726	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
6727	</listitem>
6728
6729	<listitem>
6730	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
6731	</listitem>
6732
6733	<listitem>
6734	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
6735	</listitem>
6736
6737	<listitem>
6738	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
6739	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
6740	</listitem>
6741
6742	<listitem>
6743	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
6744	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
6745	</listitem>
6746
6747	<listitem>
6748	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
6749	</listitem>
6750
6751	<listitem>
6752	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
6753	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
6754	</listitem>
6755
6756	<listitem>
6757	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
6758	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
6759	</listitem>
6760
6761	<listitem>
6762	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
6763	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
6764	</listitem>
6765
6766	<listitem>
6767	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
6768	(bug #3213)</para>
6769	</listitem>
6770
6771	<listitem>
6772	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
6773	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
6774	</listitem>
6775
6776	<listitem>
6777	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
6778	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
6779	</listitem>
6780
6781	</itemizedlist>
6782	</sect1>
6783
6784	<sect1>
6785	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
6786
6787	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6788	added:</para>
6789
6790	<itemizedlist>
6791
6792	<listitem>
6793	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
6794	</listitem>
6795
6796	<listitem>
6797	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
6798	</listitem>
6799
6800	<listitem>
6801	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
6802	</listitem>
6803
6804	<listitem>
6805	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
6806	</listitem>
6807
6808	<listitem>
6809	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
6810	</listitem>
6811
6812	<listitem>
6813	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
6814	</listitem>
6815
6816	<listitem>
6817	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
6818	</listitem>
6819
6820	<listitem>
6821	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
6822	</listitem>
6823
6824	<listitem>
6825	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
6826	</listitem>
6827
6828	<listitem>
6829	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
6830	</listitem>
6831
6832	<listitem>
6833	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
6834	</listitem>
6835
6836	<listitem>
6837	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
6838	</listitem>
6839
6840	<listitem>
6841	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
6842	</listitem>
6843
6844	<listitem>
6845	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
6846	</listitem>
6847
6848	<listitem>
6849	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
6850	</listitem>
6851
6852	<listitem>
6853	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
6854	</listitem>
6855
6856	<listitem>
6857	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
6858	(bug #3067)</para>
6859	</listitem>
6860
6861	<listitem>
6862	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
6863	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
6864	</listitem>
6865
6866	<listitem>
6867	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
6868	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
6869	</listitem>
6870
6871	<listitem>
6872	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
6873	</listitem>
6874
6875	<listitem>
6876	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
6877	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
6878	</listitem>
6879
6880	<listitem>
6881	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
6882	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6883	</listitem>
6884
6885	<listitem>
6886	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
6887	</listitem>
6888
6889	<listitem>
6890	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
6891	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
6892	</listitem>
6893
6894	<listitem>
6895	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
6896	</listitem>
6897
6898	<listitem>
6899	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
6900	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
6901	</listitem>
6902
6903	<listitem>
6904	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
6905	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
6906	</listitem>
6907
6908	<listitem>
6909	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
6910	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
6911	</para>
6912	</listitem>
6913
6914	<listitem>
6915	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
6916	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
6917	</para>
6918	</listitem>
6919
6920	<listitem>
6921	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
6922	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
6923	</para>
6924	</listitem>
6925
6926	<listitem>
6927	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
6928	</listitem>
6929
6930	<listitem>
6931	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
6932	</listitem>
6933
6934	<listitem>
6935	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
6936	</listitem>
6937
6938	<listitem>
6939	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
6940	</listitem>
6941
6942	<listitem>
6943	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
6944	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
6945	</listitem>
6946
6947	<listitem>
6948	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
6949	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
6950	</listitem>
6951
6952	<listitem>
6953	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
6954	formatting a drive</para>
6955	</listitem>
6956
6957	<listitem>
6958	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
6959	</listitem>
6960
6961	<listitem>
6962	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
6963	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
6964	</listitem>
6965
6966	<listitem>
6967	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
6968	</listitem>
6969
6970	<listitem>
6971	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
6972	</listitem>
6973
6974	<listitem>
6975	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
6976	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
6977	</listitem>
6978
6979	<listitem>
6980	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
6981	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
6982	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
6983	</listitem>
6984
6985	<listitem>
6986	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
6987	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
6988	</listitem>
6989
6990	<listitem>
6991	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
6992	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
6993	</listitem>
6994
6995	<listitem>
6996	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
6997	(bug #2768)</para>
6998	</listitem>
6999
7000	<listitem>
7001	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7002	</listitem>
7003
7004	<listitem>
7005	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7006	</listitem>
7007
7008	<listitem>
7009	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7010	single, unified package</para>
7011	</listitem>
7012
7013	<listitem>
7014	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7015	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7016	</listitem>
7017
7018	<listitem>
7019	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7020	</listitem>
7021
7022	<listitem>
7023	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7024	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7025	</listitem>
7026
7027	<listitem>
7028	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7029	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7030	</listitem>
7031
7032	<listitem>
7033	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7034	</listitem>
7035
7036	<listitem>
7037	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7038	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7039	doing 3D</para>
7040	</listitem>
7041
7042	<listitem>
7043	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7044	</listitem>
7045
7046	<listitem>
7047	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7048	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7049	</listitem>
7050
7051	<listitem>
7052	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7053	</listitem>
7054
7055	<listitem>
7056	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7057	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7058	</listitem>
7059
7060	<listitem>
7061	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7062	</listitem>
7063
7064	<listitem>
7065	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7066	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7067	</listitem>
7068
7069	<listitem>
7070	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7071	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7072	(bug #2938)</para>
7073	</listitem>
7074
7075	<listitem>
7076	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7077	Linux guests</para>
7078	</listitem>
7079
7080	<listitem>
7081	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7082	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7083	(bug #1776)</para>
7084	</listitem>
7085
7086	<listitem>
7087	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7088	(bug #1612)</para>
7089	</listitem>
7090
7091	<listitem>
7092	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7093	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7094	</listitem>
7095
7096	<listitem>
7097	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7098	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7099	</listitem>
7100
7101	<listitem>
7102	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7103	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7104	</listitem>
7105
7106	</itemizedlist>
7107	</sect1>
7108
7109	<sect1>
7110	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7111
7112	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7113	were added:</para>
7114
7115	<itemizedlist>
7116	<listitem>
7117	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7118	</listitem>
7119
7120	<listitem>
7121	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7122	</listitem>
7123
7124	<listitem>
7125	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7126	</listitem>
7127
7128	<listitem>
7129	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7130	</listitem>
7131
7132	<listitem>
7133	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7134	</listitem>
7135
7136	<listitem>
7137	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7138	</listitem>
7139
7140	<listitem>
7141	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7142	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7143	</listitem>
7144
7145	<listitem>
7146	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7147	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7148	</listitem>
7149
7150	</itemizedlist>
7151
7152	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7153
7154	<itemizedlist>
7155	<listitem>
7156	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7157	</listitem>
7158
7159	<listitem>
7160	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7161	</listitem>
7162
7163	<listitem>
7164	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7165	</listitem>
7166
7167	<listitem>
7168	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7169	</listitem>
7170
7171	<listitem>
7172	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7173	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7174	</listitem>
7175
7176	<listitem>
7177	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7178	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7179	</listitem>
7180
7181	<listitem>
7182	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7183	</listitem>
7184
7185	<listitem>
7186	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7187	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7188	</listitem>
7189
7190	<listitem>
7191	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7192	</listitem>
7193
7194	<listitem>
7195	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7196	</listitem>
7197
7198	<listitem>
7199	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7200	</listitem>
7201
7202	<listitem>
7203	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7204	</listitem>
7205
7206	<listitem>
7207	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7208	</listitem>
7209
7210	<listitem>
7211	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7212	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7213	</listitem>
7214
7215	<listitem>
7216	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7217	the compiz window manager</para>
7218	</listitem>
7219
7220	<listitem>
7221	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7222	</listitem>
7223
7224	<listitem>
7225	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7226	</listitem>
7227
7228	<listitem>
7229	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7230	</listitem>
7231
7232	<listitem>
7233	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7234	</listitem>
7235
7236	<listitem>
7237	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7238	</listitem>
7239
7240	<listitem>
7241	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7242	</listitem>
7243
7244	<listitem>
7245	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7246	</listitem>
7247
7248	<listitem>
7249	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7250	</listitem>
7251
7252	<listitem>
7253	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7254	</listitem>
7255
7256	<listitem>
7257	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7258	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7259	</listitem>
7260
7261	<listitem>
7262	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7263	for direct device access</para>
7264	</listitem>
7265
7266	<listitem>
7267	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7268	</listitem>
7269
7270	<listitem>
7271	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7272	</listitem>
7273
7274	<listitem>
7275	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7276	</listitem>
7277
7278	<listitem>
7279	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7280	</listitem>
7281
7282	<listitem>
7283	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7284	</listitem>
7285
7286	<listitem>
7287	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7288	</listitem>
7289
7290	<listitem>
7291	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7292	</listitem>
7293
7294	<listitem>
7295	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7296	</listitem>
7297
7298	</itemizedlist>
7299	</sect1>
7300
7301	<sect1>
7302	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7303
7304	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7305	added:</para>
7306
7307	<itemizedlist>
7308
7309	<listitem>
7310	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7311	states/snapshots</para>
7312	</listitem>
7313
7314	<listitem>
7315	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
7316	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
7317	</listitem>
7318
7319	<listitem>
7320	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7321	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7322	</listitem>
7323
7324	<listitem>
7325	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
7326	collisions</para>
7327	</listitem>
7328
7329	<listitem>
7330	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7331	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7332	</listitem>
7333
7334	<listitem>
7335	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7336	</listitem>
7337
7338	<listitem>
7339	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
7340	reliably</para>
7341	</listitem>
7342
7343	<listitem>
7344	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7345	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7346	</listitem>
7347
7348	<listitem>
7349	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
7350	a reboot</para>
7351	</listitem>
7352
7353	<listitem>
7354	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7355	</listitem>
7356
7357	<listitem>
7358	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7359	in parallel</para>
7360	</listitem>
7361
7362	<listitem>
7363	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7364	</listitem>
7365
7366	<listitem>
7367	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
7368	correctly</para>
7369	</listitem>
7370
7371	<listitem>
7372	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7373	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7374	</listitem>
7375
7376	</itemizedlist>
7377	</sect1>
7378
7379	<sect1>
7380	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
7381
7382	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7383	added:</para>
7384
7385	<itemizedlist>
7386
7387	<listitem>
7388	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
7389	(bug #2220)</para>
7390	</listitem>
7391
7392	<listitem>
7393	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
7394	</listitem>
7395
7396	<listitem>
7397	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
7398	</listitem>
7399
7400	<listitem>
7401	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
7402	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
7403	</listitem>
7404
7405	<listitem>
7406	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
7407	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
7408	</listitem>
7409
7410	<listitem>
7411	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
7412	(bug #2624)</para>
7413	</listitem>
7414
7415	<listitem>
7416	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
7417	(bug #2024)</para>
7418	</listitem>
7419
7420	<listitem>
7421	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
7422	</listitem>
7423
7424	<listitem>
7425	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
7426	</listitem>
7427
7428	<listitem>
7429	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
7430	</listitem>
7431
7432	<listitem>
7433	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
7434	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
7435	</listitem>
7436
7437	<listitem>
7438	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
7439	applications when updating the installation</para>
7440	</listitem>
7441
7442	<listitem>
7443	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
7444	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
7445	</listitem>
7446
7447	<listitem>
7448	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
7449	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
7450	</listitem>
7451
7452	<listitem>
7453	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
7454	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
7455	</listitem>
7456
7457	<listitem>
7458	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
7459	connected to a host device</para>
7460	</listitem>
7461
7462	<listitem>
7463	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
7464	</listitem>
7465
7466	<listitem>
7467	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
7468	</listitem>
7469
7470	<listitem>
7471	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
7472	</listitem>
7473
7474	<listitem>
7475	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
7476	when using native RDP connections</para>
7477	</listitem>
7478
7479	<listitem>
7480	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
7481	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
7482	</listitem>
7483
7484	<listitem>
7485	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
7486	(bug #2591)</para>
7487	</listitem>
7488
7489	<listitem>
7490	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
7491	guests (bug #2550)</para>
7492	</listitem>
7493
7494	<listitem>
7495	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
7496	</listitem>
7497
7498	</itemizedlist>
7499	</sect1>
7500
7501	<sect1>
7502	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
7503
7504	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7505	added:</para>
7506
7507	<itemizedlist>
7508	<listitem>
7509	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
7510	</listitem>
7511
7512	<listitem>
7513	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
7514	</listitem>
7515
7516	<listitem>
7517	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
7518	</listitem>
7519
7520	<listitem>
7521	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
7522	</listitem>
7523
7524	<listitem>
7525	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
7526	</listitem>
7527
7528	<listitem>
7529	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
7530	</listitem>
7531
7532	<listitem>
7533	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
7534	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
7535	</listitem>
7536
7537	<listitem>
7538	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
7539	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
7540	</listitem>
7541
7542	<listitem>
7543	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
7544	</listitem>
7545
7546	<listitem>
7547	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
7548	equal to the client resolution</para>
7549	</listitem>
7550
7551	<listitem>
7552	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
7553	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
7554	</listitem>
7555
7556	<listitem>
7557	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
7558	</listitem>
7559
7560	<listitem>
7561	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
7562	</listitem>
7563
7564	<listitem>
7565	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
7566	</listitem>
7567
7568	<listitem>
7569	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
7570	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
7571	</listitem>
7572
7573	<listitem>
7574	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
7575	networking (bug #2474)</para>
7576	</listitem>
7577
7578	<listitem>
7579	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
7580	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
7581	</listitem>
7582
7583	<listitem>
7584	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
7585	</listitem>
7586
7587	<listitem>
7588	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
7589	</listitem>
7590
7591	<listitem>
7592	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
7593	</listitem>
7594
7595	<listitem>
7596	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
7597	</listitem>
7598
7599	<listitem>
7600	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
7601	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
7602	</listitem>
7603
7604	<listitem>
7605	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
7606	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
7607	</listitem>
7608
7609	<listitem>
7610	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
7611	</listitem>
7612
7613	<listitem>
7614	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
7615	</listitem>
7616
7617	<listitem>
7618	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
7619	</listitem>
7620
7621	</itemizedlist>
7622
7623	</sect1>
7624
7625	<sect1>
7626	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
7627
7628	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7629	added:</para>
7630
7631	<itemizedlist>
7632
7633	<listitem>
7634	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
7635	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
7636	</listitem>
7637
7638	<listitem>
7639	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
7640	</listitem>
7641
7642	<listitem>
7643	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
7644	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
7645	</listitem>
7646
7647	<listitem>
7648	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
7649	</listitem>
7650
7651	<listitem>
7652	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
7653	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
7654	</listitem>
7655
7656	<listitem>
7657	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
7658	</listitem>
7659
7660	<listitem>
7661	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
7662	the virtual disk manager</para>
7663	</listitem>
7664
7665	<listitem>
7666	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
7667	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
7668	</listitem>
7669
7670	<listitem>
7671	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
7672	</listitem>
7673
7674	<listitem>
7675	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
7676	</listitem>
7677
7678	<listitem>
7679	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
7680	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
7681	</listitem>
7682
7683	<listitem>
7684	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
7685	bug #2067)</para>
7686	</listitem>
7687
7688	<listitem>
7689	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
7690	</listitem>
7691
7692	<listitem>
7693	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
7694	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
7695	</listitem>
7696
7697	<listitem>
7698	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
7699	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
7700	(bug #2184)</para>
7701	</listitem>
7702
7703	<listitem>
7704	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
7705	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
7706	</listitem>
7707
7708	<listitem>
7709	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
7710	(Windows guests only)</para>
7711	</listitem>
7712
7713	<listitem>
7714	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
7715	</listitem>
7716
7717	<listitem>
7718	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7719	</listitem>
7720
7721	<listitem>
7722	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
7723	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
7724	</listitem>
7725
7726	<listitem>
7727	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
7728	</listitem>
7729
7730	<listitem>
7731	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
7732	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
7733	</para>
7734	</listitem>
7735
7736	<listitem>
7737	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
7738	</listitem>
7739
7740	<listitem>
7741	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
7742	</listitem>
7743
7744	<listitem>
7745	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
7746	a VM reboot</para>
7747	</listitem>
7748
7749	<listitem>
7750	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
7751	</listitem>
7752
7753	<listitem>
7754	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
7755	buggy X servers</para>
7756	</listitem>
7757
7758	<listitem>
7759	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
7760	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
7761	</listitem>
7762
7763	<listitem>
7764	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
7765	</listitem>
7766
7767	<listitem>
7768	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
7769	(bug #2128)</para>
7770	</listitem>
7771
7772	<listitem>
7773	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
7774	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
7775	</listitem>
7776
7777	<listitem>
7778	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
7779	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
7780	</listitem>
7781
7782	<listitem>
7783	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
7784	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
7785	</listitem>
7786
7787	<listitem>
7788	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
7789	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
7790	</listitem>
7791
7792	<listitem>
7793	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
7794	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
7795	</listitem>
7796
7797	<listitem>
7798	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
7799	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
7800	</listitem>
7801
7802	<listitem>
7803	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
7804	installer into a single package</para>
7805	</listitem>
7806
7807	<listitem>
7808	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
7809	port to the guest
7810	</para>
7811	</listitem>
7812
7813	</itemizedlist>
7814
7815	</sect1>
7816
7817	<sect1>
7818	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
7819
7820	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7821	were added:<itemizedlist>
7822
7823	<listitem>
7824	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
7825	</listitem>
7826
7827	<listitem>
7828	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7829	</listitem>
7830
7831	<listitem>
7832	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
7833	</listitem>
7834
7835	<listitem>
7836	<para>New-version notifier</para>
7837	</listitem>
7838
7839	<listitem>
7840	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
7841	</listitem>
7842
7843	<listitem>
7844	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7845	</listitem>
7846
7847	<listitem>
7848	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
7849	</listitem>
7850
7851	<listitem>
7852	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
7853	</listitem>
7854
7855	<listitem>
7856	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
7857	</listitem>
7858
7859	<listitem>
7860	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
7861	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
7862	</listitem>
7863
7864	<listitem>
7865	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
7866	</listitem>
7867
7868	<listitem>
7869	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
7870	</listitem>
7871
7872	<listitem>
7873	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
7874	</listitem>
7875
7876	</itemizedlist></para>
7877
7878	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7879
7880	<itemizedlist>
7881
7882	<listitem>
7883	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
7884	</listitem>
7885
7886	<listitem>
7887	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
7888	</listitem>
7889
7890	<listitem>
7891	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
7892	</listitem>
7893
7894	<listitem>
7895	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
7896	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
7897	</listitem>
7898
7899	<listitem>
7900	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
7901	restored</para>
7902	</listitem>
7903
7904	<listitem>
7905	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
7906	</listitem>
7907
7908	<listitem>
7909	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
7910	</listitem>
7911
7912	<listitem>
7913	<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>
7914	</listitem>
7915
7916	</itemizedlist>
7917
7918	</sect1>
7919

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