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VBoxManage/VBoxManageGuestCtrl.cpp: Added "watch" command for printing current guest control activity. Currently limited to session (un)registration. More to come.
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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version xx.xx.0 (xxxx-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>VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code including many bug fixes and
13	performance improvements (for example bug #9659)</para>
14	</listitem>
15
16	<listitem>
17	<para>VRDP: support for IPv6</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>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
28	useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
33	will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
34	</listitem>
35
36	<listitem>
37	<para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
38	.VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
39	</listitem>
40
41	<listitem>
42	<para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
43	media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
44	option to show really all available details</para>
45	</listitem>
46
47	<listitem>
48	<para>VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for
49	the automatic Guest Additions update.</para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	<listitem>
53	<para>VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest sessions and
54	guest processes via
55	<computeroutput>guestcontrol list <all\|sessions\|processes></computeroutput>
56	</para>
57	</listitem>
58
59	<listitem>
60	<para>VBoxManage: added support for closing active guest sessions via
61	<computeroutput>guestcontrol session close --session-id <ID>\|
62	--session-name <name or pattern>\|--all</computeroutput>
63	</para>
64	</listitem>
65
66	<listitem>
67	<para>VBoxManage: added support for terminating active guest processes via
68	<computeroutput>guestcontrol process kill\|close\|terminate --session-id <ID>\|
69	--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
70	or
71	<computeroutput>guestcontrol [p[s]]kill --session-id <ID>\|
72	--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
73	</para>
74	</listitem>
75
76	<listitem>
77	<para>VBoxManage: added support for watching guest sessions via
78	<computeroutput>guestcontrol watch</computeroutput>
79	</para>
80	</listitem>
81
82	<listitem>
83	<para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
84	</listitem>
85
86	<listitem>
87	<para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
88	for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
89	</listitem>
90
91	<listitem>
92	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
93	by François Revol</para>
94	</listitem>
95
96	<listitem>
97	<para>Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (bug #6242)</para>
98	</listitem>
99
100	<listitem>
101	<para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
102	power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
103	</listitem>
104
105	<listitem>
106	<para>Windows guests: ability to track guest user idle times through
107	the newly introduced event IGuestUserStateChangedEvent</para>
108	</listitem>
109
110	</itemizedlist>
111
112	</sect1>
113
114	<sect1>
115
116	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
117
118	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
119	were added:</para>
120
121	<itemizedlist>
122
123	<listitem>
124	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
125	</listitem>
126
127	<listitem>
128	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
129	</listitem>
130
131	<listitem>
132	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
133	</listitem>
134
135	<listitem>
136	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
137	</listitem>
138
139	<listitem>
140	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
141	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
142	</listitem>
143
144	<listitem>
145	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
146	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
147	</listitem>
148
149	<listitem>
150	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
151	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
152	</listitem>
153
154	<listitem>
155	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
156	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
157	planned. (bug #81)</para>
158	</listitem>
159
160	<listitem>
161	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
162	</listitem>
163
164	<listitem>
165	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
166	documentation for more information</para>
167	</listitem>
168
169	</itemizedlist>
170
171	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
172
173	<itemizedlist>
174
175	<listitem>
176	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
177	on Mountain Lion</para>
178	</listitem>
179
180	<listitem>
181	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
182	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
183	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
184	</listitem>
185
186	<listitem>
187	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
188	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
189	</listitem>
190
191	<listitem>
192	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
193	nested paging</para>
194	</listitem>
195
196	<listitem>
197	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
198	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
199	</listitem>
200
201	<listitem>
202	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
203	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
204	</listitem>
205
206	<listitem>
207	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
208	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
209	</listitem>
210
211	<listitem>
212	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
213	</listitem>
214
215	<listitem>
216	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	<listitem>
220	<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
221	</listitem>
222
223	<listitem>
224	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
225	</listitem>
226
227	<listitem>
228	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
229	</listitem>
230
231	<listitem>
232	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
233	</listitem>
234
235	<listitem>
236	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
237	</listitem>
238
239	<listitem>
240	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
241	</listitem>
242
243	<listitem>
244	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
245	guests</para>
246	</listitem>
247
248	<listitem>
249	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
250	used ISO images</para>
251	</listitem>
252
253	<listitem>
254	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
255	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
256	</listitem>
257
258	<listitem>
259	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
260	(bug #9973)</para>
261	</listitem>
262
263	<listitem>
264	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
265	(bug #9864)</para>
266	</listitem>
267
268	<listitem>
269	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
270	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
271	immediately</para>
272	</listitem>
273
274	<listitem>
275	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
276	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
277	</listitem>
278
279	<listitem>
280	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
281	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
282	any time using the VM menu</para>
283	</listitem>
284
285	<listitem>
286	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
287	</listitem>
288
289	<listitem>
290	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
291	</listitem>
292
293	<listitem>
294	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
295	</listitem>
296
297	<listitem>
298	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
299	</listitem>
300
301	<listitem>
302	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
303	</listitem>
304
305	<listitem>
306	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
307	</listitem>
308
309	<listitem>
310	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
311	</listitem>
312
313	<listitem>
314	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
315	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
316	</listitem>
317
318	<listitem>
319	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
320	</listitem>
321
322	<listitem>
323	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
324	support for v2 images)</para>
325	</listitem>
326
327	<listitem>
328	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
329	</listitem>
330
331	<listitem>
332	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
333	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
334	</listitem>
335
336	<listitem>
337	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
338	</listitem>
339
340	<listitem>
341	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
342	</listitem>
343
344	<listitem>
345	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
346	VirtualBox update</para>
347	</listitem>
348
349	<listitem>
350	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
351	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
352	</listitem>
353
354	<listitem>
355	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
356	</listitem>
357
358	</itemizedlist>
359	</sect1>
360
361	<sect1>
362	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
363
364	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
365	added:</para>
366
367	<itemizedlist>
368
369	<listitem>
370	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
371	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
372	and others)</para>
373	</listitem>
374
375	<listitem>
376	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
377	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
382	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
383	</listitem>
384
385	<listitem>
386	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
387	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
388	</listitem>
389
390	<listitem>
391	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
392	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
393	</listitem>
394
395	<listitem>
396	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
397	(bug #10631)</para>
398	</listitem>
399
400	<listitem>
401	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
402	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
403	(bug #10624)</para>
404	</listitem>
405
406	<listitem>
407	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
408	</listitem>
409
410	<listitem>
411	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
412	updated (bug #9887)</para>
413	</listitem>
414
415	<listitem>
416	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
417	</listitem>
418
419	</itemizedlist>
420	</sect1>
421
422	<sect1>
423	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
424
425	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
426	added:</para>
427
428	<itemizedlist>
429
430	<listitem>
431	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
432	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
433	</listitem>
434
435	<listitem>
436	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
437	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
438	</listitem>
439
440	<listitem>
441	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
442	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
443	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
444	</listitem>
445
446	<listitem>
447	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
448	guests in rare cases</para>
449	</listitem>
450
451	<listitem>
452	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
453	</listitem>
454
455	<listitem>
456	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
457	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
458	</listitem>
459
460	<listitem>
461	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
462	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
463	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
464	</listitem>
465
466	<listitem>
467	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
468	</listitem>
469
470	<listitem>
471	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
472	</listitem>
473
474	<listitem>
475	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
476	reason (bug #6189)</para>
477	</listitem>
478
479	<listitem>
480	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
481	</listitem>
482
483	<listitem>
484	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
485	paused</para>
486	</listitem>
487
488	<listitem>
489	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
490	(bug #10267)</para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	<listitem>
494	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
495	</listitem>
496
497	<listitem>
498	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
499	(bug #10418)</para>
500	</listitem>
501
502	<listitem>
503	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
504	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
505	(bug #10581)</para>
506	</listitem>
507
508	<listitem>
509	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
510	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
511	</listitem>
512
513	<listitem>
514	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
515	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
516	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
517	</listitem>
518
519	<listitem>
520	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
521	</listitem>
522
523	</itemizedlist>
524
525	</sect1>
526
527	<sect1>
528	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
529
530	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
531	added:</para>
532
533	<itemizedlist>
534
535	<listitem>
536	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
537	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
538	(bug #3783)</para>
539	</listitem>
540
541	<listitem>
542	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
547	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	<listitem>
551	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
552	</listitem>
553
554	</itemizedlist>
555
556	</sect1>
557
558	<sect1>
559	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
560
561	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
562	added:</para>
563
564	<itemizedlist>
565
566	<listitem>
567	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
568	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
569	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
570	</listitem>
571
572	<listitem>
573	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
574	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
575	</listitem>
576
577	<listitem>
578	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
579	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
580	</listitem>
581
582	<listitem>
583	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
584	</listitem>
585
586	<listitem>
587	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
588	</listitem>
589
590	<listitem>
591	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
592	4.1.10 regression)</para>
593	</listitem>
594
595	<listitem>
596	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
601	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
602	</listitem>
603
604	<listitem>
605	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
606	</listitem>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
610	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
615	4.1.10 regression)</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
620	closed (bug #6473)</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
625	properly installed</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	</itemizedlist>
633	</sect1>
634
635	<sect1>
636	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
637
638	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
639	added:</para>
640
641	<itemizedlist>
642
643	<listitem>
644	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
645	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
646	</listitem>
647
648	<listitem>
649	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
650	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
651	</listitem>
652
653	<listitem>
654	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
655	fusion</para>
656	</listitem>
657
658	<listitem>
659	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
660	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
661	</listitem>
662
663	<listitem>
664	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
665	and network mask attributes</para>
666	</listitem>
667
668	<listitem>
669	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
670	(bug #10030)</para>
671	</listitem>
672
673	<listitem>
674	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
675	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
676	</listitem>
677
678	<listitem>
679	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
680	</listitem>
681
682	<listitem>
683	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
684	</listitem>
685
686	<listitem>
687	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
688	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
689	</listitem>
690
691	<listitem>
692	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
693	</listitem>
694
695	<listitem>
696	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
697	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
698	</listitem>
699
700	<listitem>
701	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
702	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
703	</listitem>
704
705	<listitem>
706	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
707	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
708	</listitem>
709
710	<listitem>
711	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
712	</listitem>
713
714	<listitem>
715	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
716	</listitem>
717
718	<listitem>
719	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
720	</listitem>
721
722	<listitem>
723	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
724	</listitem>
725
726	<listitem>
727	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
728	</listitem>
729
730	<listitem>
731	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
732	</listitem>
733
734	<listitem>
735	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
736	in a zone</para>
737	</listitem>
738
739	<listitem>
740	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
741	</listitem>
742
743	<listitem>
744	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
745	(bug #9651)</para>
746	</listitem>
747
748	<listitem>
749	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
750	</listitem>
751
752	<listitem>
753	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
754	#10010)</para>
755	</listitem>
756
757	<listitem>
758	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
759	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
760	</listitem>
761
762	<listitem>
763	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
764	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
765	</listitem>
766
767	<listitem>
768	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
769	</listitem>
770
771	<listitem>
772	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
773	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
774	</listitem>
775
776	<listitem>
777	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
778	(bug #10151)</para>
779	</listitem>
780
781	<listitem>
782	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
783	guests</para>
784	</listitem>
785
786	<listitem>
787	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
788	</listitem>
789
790	<listitem>
791	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
792	</listitem>
793
794	<listitem>
795	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	</itemizedlist>
799	</sect1>
800
801	<sect1>
802	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
803
804	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
805	added:</para>
806
807	<itemizedlist>
808
809	<listitem>
810	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
811	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
812	</listitem>
813
814	<listitem>
815	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
816	</listitem>
817
818	<listitem>
819	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
820	(bug #9642)</para>
821	</listitem>
822
823	<listitem>
824	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
825	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
826	</para>
827	</listitem>
828
829	<listitem>
830	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
831	</listitem>
832
833	<listitem>
834	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
835	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
836	</listitem>
837
838	<listitem>
839	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
840	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
841	</listitem>
842
843	<listitem>
844	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
845	</listitem>
846
847	<listitem>
848	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
853	</listitem>
854
855	<listitem>
856	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
857	circumstances</para>
858	</listitem>
859
860	<listitem>
861	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
862	</listitem>
863
864	<listitem>
865	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
866	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
867	</listitem>
868
869	<listitem>
870	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
871	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
872	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
873	and for 3D support in general</para>
874	</listitem>
875
876	<listitem>
877	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
878	</listitem>
879
880	<listitem>
881	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
882	</listitem>
883
884	<listitem>
885	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
886	</listitem>
887
888	<listitem>
889	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
890	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
891	</listitem>
892
893	</itemizedlist>
894	</sect1>
895
896	<sect1>
897	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
898
899	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
900	added:</para>
901
902	<itemizedlist>
903
904	<listitem>
905	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
906	</listitem>
907
908	<listitem>
909	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
910	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
911	</listitem>
912
913	<listitem>
914	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
915	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
916	</listitem>
917
918	<listitem>
919	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
920	certain guests</para>
921	</listitem>
922
923	<listitem>
924	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
925	</listitem>
926
927	<listitem>
928	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
929	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
930	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
935	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
936	</listitem>
937
938	<listitem>
939	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
940	</listitem>
941
942	<listitem>
943	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
944	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
949	</listitem>
950
951	<listitem>
952	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
953	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
954	</listitem>
955
956	<listitem>
957	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
958	guests</para>
959	</listitem>
960
961	<listitem>
962	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
963	folders</para>
964	</listitem>
965
966	<listitem>
967	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
968	shared folders</para>
969	</listitem>
970
971	<listitem>
972	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
973	users and stale sessions</para>
974	</listitem>
975
976	<listitem>
977	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
978	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
979	</listitem>
980
981	</itemizedlist>
982	</sect1>
983
984	<sect1>
985	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
986
987	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
988	added:</para>
989
990	<itemizedlist>
991
992	<listitem>
993	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
994	bug #9458)</para>
995	</listitem>
996
997	<listitem>
998	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
999	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
1000	</listitem>
1001
1002	<listitem>
1003	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
1004	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
1005	</listitem>
1006
1007	<listitem>
1008	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
1009	</listitem>
1010
1011	<listitem>
1012	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
1013	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
1014	</listitem>
1015
1016	<listitem>
1017	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1018	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1023	(bug #9308)</para>
1024	</listitem>
1025
1026	<listitem>
1027	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
1028	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
1033	(bug #9503)</para>
1034	</listitem>
1035
1036	<listitem>
1037	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
1038	(bug #9242)</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
1043	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
1044	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
1045	</listitem>
1046
1047	<listitem>
1048	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1049	</listitem>
1050
1051	<listitem>
1052	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1053	images</para>
1054	</listitem>
1055
1056	<listitem>
1057	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1058	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1059	</listitem>
1060
1061	<listitem>
1062	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
1063	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1064	</listitem>
1065
1066	<listitem>
1067	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1068	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1069	</listitem>
1070
1071	<listitem>
1072	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
1073	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
1074	</listitem>
1075
1076	<listitem>
1077	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
1078	#9387)</para>
1079	</listitem>
1080
1081	<listitem>
1082	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
1083	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
1084	</listitem>
1085
1086	<listitem>
1087	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1088	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1089	</listitem>
1090
1091	<listitem>
1092	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
1093	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
1094	</listitem>
1095
1096	<listitem>
1097	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
1098	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
1099	</listitem>
1100
1101	<listitem>
1102	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
1103	</listitem>
1104
1105	<listitem>
1106	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
1111	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
1112	</listitem>
1113
1114	<listitem>
1115	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1116	(bug #1578)</para>
1117	</listitem>
1118
1119	<listitem>
1120	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
1121	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
1122	</listitem>
1123
1124	<listitem>
1125	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
1126	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
1127	</listitem>
1128
1129	<listitem>
1130	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1131	(bug #9535)</para>
1132	</listitem>
1133
1134	<listitem>
1135	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
1136	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
1137	</listitem>
1138
1139	<listitem>
1140	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
1141	help file (bug #9646)</para>
1142	</listitem>
1143
1144	<listitem>
1145	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
1146	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
1147	</listitem>
1148
1149	<listitem>
1150	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
1151	console window (bug #3549)</para>
1152	</listitem>
1153
1154	<listitem>
1155	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1156	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1157	</listitem>
1158
1159	<listitem>
1160	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1161	</para>
1162	</listitem>
1163
1164	<listitem>
1165	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1166	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1167	</para>
1168	</listitem>
1169
1170	<listitem>
1171	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1172	(bug #6229)
1173	</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1178	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1183	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1188	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1189	</listitem>
1190
1191	<listitem>
1192	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1193	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1194	</listitem>
1195
1196	<listitem>
1197	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1198	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1199	</listitem>
1200
1201	<listitem>
1202	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1203	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1204	</listitem>
1205
1206	<listitem>
1207	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1208	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1209	</listitem>
1210
1211	<listitem>
1212	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1213	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1214	</listitem>
1215
1216	</itemizedlist>
1217	</sect1>
1218
1219	<sect1>
1220	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1221
1222	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1223	added:</para>
1224
1225	<itemizedlist>
1226
1227	<listitem>
1228	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1229	</listitem>
1230
1231	<listitem>
1232	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1233	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1238	</listitem>
1239
1240	<listitem>
1241	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1242	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1243	</listitem>
1244
1245	<listitem>
1246	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1247	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1248	</listitem>
1249
1250	<listitem>
1251	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1252	a live snapshot</para>
1253	</listitem>
1254
1255	<listitem>
1256	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1257	due to a library version conflict</para>
1258	</listitem>
1259
1260	<listitem>
1261	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1262	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1263	</listitem>
1264
1265	<listitem>
1266	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1267	at a time by default</para>
1268	</listitem>
1269
1270	<listitem>
1271	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1272	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1273	#9368)</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1278	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1283	VMs</para>
1284	</listitem>
1285
1286	<listitem>
1287	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1288	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1289	</listitem>
1290
1291	<listitem>
1292	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1293	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1294	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1295	</listitem>
1296
1297	<listitem>
1298	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1299	(bug #9308)</para>
1300	</listitem>
1301
1302	<listitem>
1303	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1304	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1305	</listitem>
1306
1307	<listitem>
1308	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1309	</listitem>
1310
1311	<listitem>
1312	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1313	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1314	</listitem>
1315
1316	<listitem>
1317	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1318	(bug #9242)</para>
1319	</listitem>
1320
1321	<listitem>
1322	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1323	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1324	</listitem>
1325
1326	<listitem>
1327	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1328	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1329	</listitem>
1330
1331	<listitem>
1332	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1333	USB devices</para>
1334	</listitem>
1335
1336	<listitem>
1337	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1338	and warn about it</para>
1339	</listitem>
1340
1341	<listitem>
1342	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1343	</listitem>
1344
1345	<listitem>
1346	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1347	</listitem>
1348
1349	<listitem>
1350	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1351	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1352	</listitem>
1353
1354	<listitem>
1355	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1356	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1357	</listitem>
1358
1359	<listitem>
1360	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1361	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1362	</listitem>
1363
1364	<listitem>
1365	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1366	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1367	</listitem>
1368
1369	<listitem>
1370	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1371	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1372	</listitem>
1373
1374	<listitem>
1375	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1376	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1377	</listitem>
1378
1379	<listitem>
1380	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1381	2.6.37 and above</para>
1382	</listitem>
1383
1384	</itemizedlist>
1385	</sect1>
1386
1387	<sect1>
1388	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1389
1390	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1391	were added:</para>
1392
1393	<itemizedlist>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1397	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1398	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1399	</listitem>
1400
1401	<listitem>
1402	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1403	</listitem>
1404
1405	<listitem>
1406	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1407	</listitem>
1408
1409	<listitem>
1410	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1411	bug #7822)</para>
1412	</listitem>
1413
1414	<listitem>
1415	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1416	</listitem>
1417
1418	<listitem>
1419	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1420	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1421	</listitem>
1422
1423	<listitem>
1424	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1425	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1426	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1427	anymore)</para>
1428	</listitem>
1429
1430	<listitem>
1431	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1432	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1433	</listitem>
1434
1435	<listitem>
1436	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1437	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1438	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1439	</listitem>
1440
1441	<listitem>
1442	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1443	</para>
1444	</listitem>
1445
1446	<listitem>
1447	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1448	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1449	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1450	</listitem>
1451
1452	<listitem>
1453	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1454	with VBoxManage</para>
1455	</listitem>
1456
1457	<listitem>
1458	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1459	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1460	</listitem>
1461
1462
1463	</itemizedlist>
1464
1465	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1466
1467	<itemizedlist>
1468
1469	<listitem>
1470	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1471	</listitem>
1472
1473	<listitem>
1474	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1475	</listitem>
1476
1477	<listitem>
1478	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1479	</listitem>
1480
1481	<listitem>
1482	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1483	of the current state</para>
1484	</listitem>
1485
1486	<listitem>
1487	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1488	</listitem>
1489
1490	<listitem>
1491	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1492	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1497	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1498	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1499	</listitem>
1500
1501	<listitem>
1502	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1503	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1504	</listitem>
1505
1506	<listitem>
1507	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1512	</listitem>
1513
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1516	dialog</para>
1517	</listitem>
1518
1519	<listitem>
1520	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1521	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1522	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1523	</listitem>
1524
1525	<listitem>
1526	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1527	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1528	</listitem>
1529
1530	<listitem>
1531	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1532	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1533	</listitem>
1534
1535	<listitem>
1536	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1537	be a valid UUID</para>
1538	</listitem>
1539
1540	<listitem>
1541	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1542	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1543	</listitem>
1544
1545	<listitem>
1546	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1547	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1548	cases</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1553	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1554	improve performance</para>
1555	</listitem>
1556
1557	<listitem>
1558	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1559	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1560	on a temporary basis</para>
1561	</listitem>
1562
1563	<listitem>
1564	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1565	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1566	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1567	</listitem>
1568
1569	<listitem>
1570	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1571	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1576	images in VDI format</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1581	VMDK format</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1586	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1591	</listitem>
1592
1593	<listitem>
1594	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1595	</listitem>
1596
1597	<listitem>
1598	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1599	</listitem>
1600
1601	<listitem>
1602	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1603	</listitem>
1604
1605	<listitem>
1606	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1607	</listitem>
1608
1609	<listitem>
1610	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1611	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1612	</listitem>
1613
1614	<listitem>
1615	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1616	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1617	</listitem>
1618
1619	<listitem>
1620	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1621	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1622	</listitem>
1623
1624	<listitem>
1625	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1626	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1627	</listitem>
1628
1629	<listitem>
1630	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1631	RDP clients</para>
1632	</listitem>
1633
1634	<listitem>
1635	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1636	</listitem>
1637
1638	<listitem>
1639	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1640	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1641	</listitem>
1642
1643	<listitem>
1644	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1645	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1646	</listitem>
1647
1648	<listitem>
1649	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1650	simultaneously</para>
1651	</listitem>
1652
1653	<listitem>
1654	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1655	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1656	location values in many places</para>
1657	</listitem>
1658
1659	<listitem>
1660	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1661	</listitem>
1662
1663	<listitem>
1664	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1665	builds</para>
1666	</listitem>
1667
1668	<listitem>
1669	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1670	</listitem>
1671
1672	<listitem>
1673	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1674	window (bug #4491)</para>
1675	</listitem>
1676
1677	<listitem>
1678	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1679	removing a VM</para>
1680	</listitem>
1681
1682	<listitem>
1683	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1684	</listitem>
1685
1686	<listitem>
1687	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1688	</listitem>
1689
1690	<listitem>
1691	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1692	166 and above)</para>
1693	</listitem>
1694
1695	<listitem>
1696	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1697	hosts</para>
1698	</listitem>
1699
1700	<listitem>
1701	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1702	</listitem>
1703
1704	<listitem>
1705	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1706	from the host</para>
1707	</listitem>
1708
1709	<listitem>
1710	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1711	</listitem>
1712
1713	</itemizedlist>
1714
1715	</sect1>
1716
1717	<sect1>
1718	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1719
1720	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1721	added:</para>
1722
1723	<itemizedlist>
1724
1725	<listitem>
1726	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1727	</listitem>
1728
1729	<listitem>
1730	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1731	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1732	</listitem>
1733
1734	<listitem>
1735	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1736	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1737	</listitem>
1738
1739	<listitem>
1740	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1741	a live snapshot</para>
1742	</listitem>
1743
1744	<listitem>
1745	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1746	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1747	</listitem>
1748
1749	<listitem>
1750	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1751	</listitem>
1752
1753	<listitem>
1754	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1755	</listitem>
1756
1757	<listitem>
1758	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1759	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1760	</listitem>
1761
1762	<listitem>
1763	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1764	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1765	</listitem>
1766
1767	<listitem>
1768	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1769	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1770	</listitem>
1771
1772	<listitem>
1773	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1774	</listitem>
1775
1776	<listitem>
1777	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1778	images</para>
1779	</listitem>
1780
1781	<listitem>
1782	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1783	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1784	</listitem>
1785	<listitem>
1786	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1787	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1788	</listitem>
1789
1790	<listitem>
1791	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1792	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1793	</listitem>
1794
1795	<listitem>
1796	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1801	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1806	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1815	(bug #9370)</para>
1816	</listitem>
1817
1818	<listitem>
1819	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1820	(bug #9535)</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1825	(bug #1578)</para>
1826	</listitem>
1827
1828	<listitem>
1829	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1830	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1831	</listitem>
1832
1833	<listitem>
1834	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1835	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1836	</para>
1837	</listitem>
1838
1839	<listitem>
1840	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1841	</para>
1842	</listitem>
1843
1844	<listitem>
1845	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1846	2.6.37 and above</para>
1847	</listitem>
1848
1849	<listitem>
1850	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1851	(bug #6229)</para>
1852	</listitem>
1853
1854	<listitem>
1855	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1856	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1857	</listitem>
1858
1859	</itemizedlist>
1860	</sect1>
1861
1862	<sect1>
1863	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1864
1865	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1866	added:</para>
1867
1868	<itemizedlist>
1869
1870	<listitem>
1871	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1872	</listitem>
1873
1874	<listitem>
1875	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1876	166 and above)</para>
1877	</listitem>
1878
1879	<listitem>
1880	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1881	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1882	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1883	</listitem>
1884
1885	<listitem>
1886	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1887	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1888	</listitem>
1889
1890	<listitem>
1891	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1892	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	<listitem>
1896	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1897	</listitem>
1898
1899	<listitem>
1900	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1901	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1902	</listitem>
1903
1904	<listitem>
1905	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1906	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1907	</listitem>
1908
1909	<listitem>
1910	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1911	builds</para>
1912	</listitem>
1913
1914	<listitem>
1915	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1916	</listitem>
1917
1918	</itemizedlist>
1919	</sect1>
1920	<sect1>
1921	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1922
1923	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1924	added:</para>
1925
1926	<itemizedlist>
1927
1928	<listitem>
1929	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1930	</listitem>
1931
1932	<listitem>
1933	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1934	</listitem>
1935
1936	<listitem>
1937	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1938	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1939	</listitem>
1940
1941	<listitem>
1942	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1943	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1944	</listitem>
1945
1946	<listitem>
1947	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1948	</listitem>
1949
1950	<listitem>
1951	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1952	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1953	</listitem>
1954
1955	<listitem>
1956	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1957	</listitem>
1958
1959	<listitem>
1960	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1961	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1962	</listitem>
1963
1964	<listitem>
1965	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1966	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1967	</listitem>
1968
1969	<listitem>
1970	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1971	</listitem>
1972
1973	<listitem>
1974	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1975	</listitem>
1976
1977	<listitem>
1978	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1979	file was not written during export</para>
1980	</listitem>
1981
1982	<listitem>
1983	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1984	</listitem>
1985
1986	<listitem>
1987	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1988	</listitem>
1989
1990	<listitem>
1991	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1992	</listitem>
1993
1994	<listitem>
1995	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1996	binaries</para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	<listitem>
2000	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
2005	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
2006	</listitem>
2007
2008	<listitem>
2009	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
2010	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
2015	</listitem>
2016
2017	<listitem>
2018	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
2019	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
2020	</listitem>
2021
2022	</itemizedlist>
2023	</sect1>
2024
2025	<sect1>
2026	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
2027
2028	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2029	added:</para>
2030
2031	<itemizedlist>
2032
2033	<listitem>
2034	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
2035	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
2036	</listitem>
2037
2038	<listitem>
2039	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
2040	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
2041	</listitem>
2042
2043	<listitem>
2044	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
2045	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
2046	</listitem>
2047
2048	<listitem>
2049	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
2050	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
2051	</listitem>
2052
2053	<listitem>
2054	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
2055	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
2056	</listitem>
2057
2058	<listitem>
2059	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
2060	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
2061	</listitem>
2062
2063	<listitem>
2064	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
2065	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2066	</listitem>
2067
2068	<listitem>
2069	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
2070	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
2071	</listitem>
2072
2073	<listitem>
2074	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
2075	</listitem>
2076
2077	<listitem>
2078	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
2079	</listitem>
2080
2081	<listitem>
2082	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
2083	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
2084	</listitem>
2085
2086	<listitem>
2087	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
2088	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
2089	</listitem>
2090
2091	<listitem>
2092	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
2093	</listitem>
2094
2095	<listitem>
2096	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
2097	</listitem>
2098
2099	<listitem>
2100	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
2101	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2102	</listitem>
2103
2104	<listitem>
2105	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
2106	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2107	</listitem>
2108
2109	<listitem>
2110	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
2111	window</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
2116	Fedora 15</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
2121	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2122	</listitem>
2123
2124	<listitem>
2125	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
2126	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
2127	</listitem>
2128
2129	<listitem>
2130	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
2131	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
2132	</listitem>
2133
2134	<listitem>
2135	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
2136	</listitem>
2137
2138	<listitem>
2139	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
2140	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	</itemizedlist>
2144	</sect1>
2145
2146	<sect1>
2147	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
2148
2149	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2150	added:</para>
2151
2152	<itemizedlist>
2153
2154	<listitem>
2155	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2156	a VMM from a saved state</para>
2157	</listitem>
2158
2159	<listitem>
2160	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2161	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2162	</listitem>
2163
2164	<listitem>
2165	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2166	(bug #8006)</para>
2167	</listitem>
2168
2169	<listitem>
2170	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2171	(bug #8726)</para>
2172	</listitem>
2173
2174	<listitem>
2175	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2176	</listitem>
2177
2178	<listitem>
2179	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2180	</listitem>
2181
2182	<listitem>
2183	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2184	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2185	</listitem>
2186
2187	<listitem>
2188	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2189	(bug #8469)</para>
2190	</listitem>
2191
2192	<listitem>
2193	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2194	selectors</para>
2195	</listitem>
2196
2197	<listitem>
2198	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2199	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2200	</listitem>
2201
2202	<listitem>
2203	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2204	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2205	</listitem>
2206
2207	<listitem>
2208	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2209	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2210	</listitem>
2211
2212	<listitem>
2213	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2214	</listitem>
2215
2216	<listitem>
2217	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2218	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2219	</listitem>
2220
2221	<listitem>
2222	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2223	</listitem>
2224
2225	<listitem>
2226	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2231	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2232	</listitem>
2233
2234	<listitem>
2235	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2236	I/O error occurred</para>
2237	</listitem>
2238
2239	<listitem>
2240	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2241	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2242	</listitem>
2243
2244	<listitem>
2245	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2246	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2247	</listitem>
2248
2249	<listitem>
2250	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2251	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2252	if no medium is present</para>
2253	</listitem>
2254
2255	<listitem>
2256	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2257	</listitem>
2258
2259	<listitem>
2260	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2261	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2262	</listitem>
2263
2264	<listitem>
2265	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2266	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2267	</listitem>
2268
2269	<listitem>
2270	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2271	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2272	</listitem>
2273
2274	<listitem>
2275	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2276	</listitem>
2277
2278	<listitem>
2279	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2280	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2281	</listitem>
2282
2283	<listitem>
2284	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2285	library (bug #8063)</para>
2286	</listitem>
2287
2288	<listitem>
2289	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2290	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2291	</listitem>
2292
2293	<listitem>
2294	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2295	</listitem>
2296
2297	<listitem>
2298	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2299	</listitem>
2300
2301	<listitem>
2302	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2303	</listitem>
2304
2305	<listitem>
2306	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2307	changed on import</para>
2308	</listitem>
2309
2310	<listitem>
2311	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2312	</listitem>
2313
2314	<listitem>
2315	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2316	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2317	</listitem>
2318
2319	<listitem>
2320	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2321	(bug #8593)</para>
2322	</listitem>
2323
2324	<listitem>
2325	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2326	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2327	</listitem>
2328
2329	<listitem>
2330	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2331	captured</para>
2332	</listitem>
2333
2334	<listitem>
2335	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2336	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2341	</para>
2342	</listitem>
2343
2344	<listitem>
2345	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2346	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2347	</listitem>
2348
2349	<listitem>
2350	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2351	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2352	</listitem>
2353
2354	<listitem>
2355	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2356	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2357	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2358	</listitem>
2359
2360	<listitem>
2361	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2362	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2363	</listitem>
2364
2365	<listitem>
2366	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2367	</listitem>
2368
2369	<listitem>
2370	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2371	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2372	</listitem>
2373
2374	<listitem>
2375	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2376	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2377	</listitem>
2378
2379	<listitem>
2380	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2381	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2382	</listitem>
2383
2384	<listitem>
2385	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2386	</listitem>
2387
2388	<listitem>
2389	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2390	</listitem>
2391
2392	<listitem>
2393	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2394	</listitem>
2395
2396	<listitem>
2397	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2398	</listitem>
2399
2400	<listitem>
2401	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2402	(bug #7946)</para>
2403	</listitem>
2404
2405	<listitem>
2406	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2407	</listitem>
2408
2409	<listitem>
2410	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2411	</listitem>
2412
2413	<listitem>
2414	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2415	</listitem>
2416
2417	</itemizedlist>
2418
2419	</sect1>
2420
2421	<sect1>
2422	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2423
2424	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2425	added:</para>
2426
2427	<itemizedlist>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2431	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2432	</listitem>
2433
2434	<listitem>
2435	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2436	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2437	</listitem>
2438
2439	<listitem>
2440	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2441	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2442	</listitem>
2443
2444	<listitem>
2445	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2446	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2447	</listitem>
2448
2449	<listitem>
2450	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2451	number of host network interfaces</para>
2452	</listitem>
2453
2454	<listitem>
2455	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2456	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2457	</listitem>
2458
2459	<listitem>
2460	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2461	</listitem>
2462
2463	<listitem>
2464	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2465	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2466	</listitem>
2467
2468	<listitem>
2469	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2470	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2471	</listitem>
2472
2473	<listitem>
2474	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2475	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	<listitem>
2483	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2484	(bug #6577)</para>
2485	</listitem>
2486
2487	<listitem>
2488	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2489	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2490	(bug #8235)</para>
2491	</listitem>
2492
2493	<listitem>
2494	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2495	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2496	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2497	</listitem>
2498
2499	<listitem>
2500	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2501	</listitem>
2502
2503	<listitem>
2504	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2505	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2506	</listitem>
2507
2508	<listitem>
2509	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2510	</listitem>
2511
2512	<listitem>
2513	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2514	(bug #7966)</para>
2515	</listitem>
2516
2517	<listitem>
2518	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2519	</listitem>
2520
2521	<listitem>
2522	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2523	</listitem>
2524
2525	<listitem>
2526	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2527	</listitem>
2528
2529	<listitem>
2530	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2531	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2532	</listitem>
2533
2534	<listitem>
2535	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2536	</listitem>
2537
2538	<listitem>
2539	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2544	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2545	</listitem>
2546
2547	<listitem>
2548	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2549	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2550	</listitem>
2551
2552	<listitem>
2553	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2554	</listitem>
2555
2556	<listitem>
2557	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2558	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2559	</listitem>
2560
2561	<listitem>
2562	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2563	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2564	(bug #8122)</para>
2565	</listitem>
2566
2567	<listitem>
2568	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2569	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2570	</listitem>
2571
2572	<listitem>
2573	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2574	</listitem>
2575
2576	<listitem>
2577	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2578	</listitem>
2579
2580	<listitem>
2581	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2582	(bug #1548)</para>
2583	</listitem>
2584
2585	<listitem>
2586	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2587	</listitem>
2588
2589	<listitem>
2590	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2591	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2592	</listitem>
2593
2594	<listitem>
2595	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2596	</listitem>
2597
2598	<listitem>
2599	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2600	(bug #8231)</para>
2601	</listitem>
2602
2603	<listitem>
2604	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2605	11.04 Alpha</para>
2606	</listitem>
2607
2608	<listitem>
2609	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2610	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2611	</listitem>
2612
2613	<listitem>
2614	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2615	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2616	</listitem>
2617
2618	<listitem>
2619	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2620	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2621	</listitem>
2622
2623	<listitem>
2624	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2625	with VBoxGINA</para>
2626	</listitem>
2627
2628	</itemizedlist>
2629
2630	</sect1>
2631
2632	<sect1>
2633	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2634
2635	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2636	added:</para>
2637
2638	<itemizedlist>
2639
2640	<listitem>
2641	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2642	settings vanished</para>
2643	</listitem>
2644
2645	<listitem>
2646	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2647	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2648	</listitem>
2649
2650	<listitem>
2651	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2652	created (bug #8031)</para>
2653	</listitem>
2654
2655	<listitem>
2656	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2657	</listitem>
2658
2659	<listitem>
2660	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2661	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2662	</listitem>
2663
2664	<listitem>
2665	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2666	an extension pack</para>
2667	</listitem>
2668
2669	<listitem>
2670	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2671	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2672	</listitem>
2673
2674	<listitem>
2675	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2676	</listitem>
2677
2678	<listitem>
2679	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2680	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2681	</listitem>
2682
2683	<listitem>
2684	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2685	host-only interface</para>
2686	</listitem>
2687
2688	<listitem>
2689	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2690	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2691	</listitem>
2692
2693	<listitem>
2694	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2695	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2696	</listitem>
2697
2698	<listitem>
2699	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2700	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2701	</listitem>
2702
2703	<listitem>
2704	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2705	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2706	</listitem>
2707
2708	<listitem>
2709	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2710	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2711	</listitem>
2712
2713	<listitem>
2714	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2715	</listitem>
2716
2717	<listitem>
2718	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2719	</listitem>
2720
2721	<listitem>
2722	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2723	guests</para>
2724	</listitem>
2725
2726	<listitem>
2727	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2728	</listitem>
2729
2730	<listitem>
2731	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2732	</listitem>
2733
2734	<listitem>
2735	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2736	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2737	</listitem>
2738
2739	<listitem>
2740	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2741	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2742	</listitem>
2743
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2746	a VM start</para>
2747	</listitem>
2748
2749	<listitem>
2750	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2751	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2752	</listitem>
2753
2754	<listitem>
2755	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2756	(bug #6067)</para>
2757	</listitem>
2758
2759	<listitem>
2760	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2761	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2762	</listitem>
2763
2764	<listitem>
2765	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2766	not saved to machine XML</para>
2767	</listitem>
2768
2769	<listitem>
2770	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2771	#7983)</para>
2772	</listitem>
2773
2774	<listitem>
2775	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2776	#7981)</para>
2777	</listitem>
2778
2779	<listitem>
2780	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2781	</listitem>
2782
2783	<listitem>
2784	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2785	regression)</para>
2786	</listitem>
2787
2788	<listitem>
2789	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2790	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2791	</listitem>
2792
2793	<listitem>
2794	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2795	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2796	</listitem>
2797
2798	</itemizedlist>
2799
2800	</sect1>
2801
2802	<sect1>
2803	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2804
2805	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2806	were added:</para>
2807
2808	<itemizedlist>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2816	</listitem>
2817
2818	<listitem>
2819	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2820	<itemizedlist>
2821	<listitem>
2822	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2827	</listitem>
2828
2829	<listitem>
2830	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2835	</listitem>
2836
2837	<listitem>
2838	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2839	states, and optionally including attached
2840	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2841	can do the same now)</para>
2842	</listitem>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2846	</listitem>
2847
2848	</itemizedlist>
2849	</para>
2850	</listitem>
2851
2852	<listitem>
2853	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2854	</listitem>
2855
2856	<listitem>
2857	<para>New virtual hardware:
2858	<itemizedlist>
2859	<listitem>
2860	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2861	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2862	</listitem>
2863
2864	<listitem>
2865	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2866	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2867	</listitem>
2868	</itemizedlist>
2869	</para>
2870	</listitem>
2871
2872	<listitem>
2873	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2874	<itemizedlist>
2875	<listitem>
2876	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2877	</listitem>
2878
2879	<listitem>
2880	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2881	</para>
2882	</listitem>
2883
2884	<listitem>
2885	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2886	now</para>
2887	</listitem>
2888
2889	<listitem>
2890	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2891	</listitem>
2892
2893	</itemizedlist>
2894	</para>
2895	</listitem>
2896
2897	<listitem>
2898	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2899	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2900	</listitem>
2901
2902	<listitem>
2903	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2904	Parallels images</para>
2905	</listitem>
2906
2907	<listitem>
2908	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2909	</listitem>
2910
2911	<listitem>
2912	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2913	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2914	</listitem>
2915
2916	<listitem>
2917	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2918	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2919	</listitem>
2920
2921	</itemizedlist>
2922
2923	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2924
2925	<itemizedlist>
2926
2927	<listitem>
2928	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2929	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2930	</listitem>
2931
2932	<listitem>
2933	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2934	</listitem>
2935
2936	<listitem>
2937	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2938	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2939	</listitem>
2940
2941	<listitem>
2942	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2943	(bug #1657)</para>
2944	</listitem>
2945
2946	<listitem>
2947	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2948	</listitem>
2949
2950	<listitem>
2951	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2952	</listitem>
2953
2954	<listitem>
2955	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2956	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2957	</listitem>
2958
2959	<listitem>
2960	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2961	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2962	</listitem>
2963
2964	<listitem>
2965	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2966	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2967	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2968	</listitem>
2969
2970	<listitem>
2971	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2972	again (bug #6864)</para>
2973	</listitem>
2974
2975	<listitem>
2976	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2977	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2978	</listitem>
2979
2980	<listitem>
2981	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2982	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2991	</listitem>
2992
2993	<listitem>
2994	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2995	</listitem>
2996
2997	<listitem>
2998	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2999	</listitem>
3000
3001	<listitem>
3002	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
3003	</listitem>
3004
3005	<listitem>
3006	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3007	</listitem>
3008
3009	<listitem>
3010	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
3011	</listitem>
3012
3013	<listitem>
3014	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
3015	(bug #7058)</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
3020	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
3025	circumstances</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
3030	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
3031	#5578)
3032	</para>
3033	</listitem>
3034
3035	<listitem>
3036	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
3037	</listitem>
3038
3039	<listitem>
3040	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
3041	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
3042	</listitem>
3043
3044	<listitem>
3045	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
3046	</listitem>
3047
3048	<listitem>
3049	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
3050	#6760)</para>
3051	</listitem>
3052
3053	<listitem>
3054	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
3055	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
3056	</listitem>
3057
3058	<listitem>
3059	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
3060	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
3061	</listitem>
3062
3063	<listitem>
3064	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
3065	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3066	</listitem>
3067
3068	<listitem>
3069	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
3070	</listitem>
3071
3072	<listitem>
3073	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
3074	file</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3079	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	</itemizedlist>
3083
3084	</sect1>
3085
3086	<sect1>
3087	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
3088
3089	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3090	added:</para>
3091
3092	<itemizedlist>
3093
3094	<listitem>
3095	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3096	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
3097	</listitem>
3098
3099	<listitem>
3100	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
3101	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
3102	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
3103	</listitem>
3104
3105	<listitem>
3106	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
3107	</listitem>
3108
3109	<listitem>
3110	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
3111	</listitem>
3112
3113	<listitem>
3114	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
3115	</listitem>
3116
3117	<listitem>
3118	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
3119	the VM is running</para>
3120	</listitem>
3121
3122	<listitem>
3123	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
3124	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
3125	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
3126	starting from a saved state</para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
3131	</listitem>
3132
3133	<listitem>
3134	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
3135	</listitem>
3136
3137	<listitem>
3138	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
3139	</listitem>
3140
3141	<listitem>
3142	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
3143	</listitem>
3144
3145	<listitem>
3146	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3147	</listitem>
3148
3149	<listitem>
3150	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
3151	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
3152	</listitem>
3153
3154	<listitem>
3155	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3156	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3157	</listitem>
3158
3159	<listitem>
3160	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3161	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3162	</listitem>
3163
3164	<listitem>
3165	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3170	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3171	</para>
3172	</listitem>
3173
3174	<listitem>
3175	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3176	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3177	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3178	</listitem>
3179
3180	<listitem>
3181	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3182	only)</para>
3183	</listitem>
3184
3185	<listitem>
3186	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3187	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3188	</listitem>
3189
3190	<listitem>
3191	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3192	</listitem>
3193
3194	<listitem>
3195	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3196	</listitem>
3197
3198	<listitem>
3199	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3200	</listitem>
3201
3202	<listitem>
3203	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3204	state (bug #4124)</para>
3205	</listitem>
3206
3207	<listitem>
3208	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3209	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3210	</listitem>
3211
3212	<listitem>
3213	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3214	</listitem>
3215
3216	<listitem>
3217	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3218	(bug #2996)</para>
3219	</listitem>
3220
3221	<listitem>
3222	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3223	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3224	</listitem>
3225
3226	<listitem>
3227	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3228	</listitem>
3229
3230	<listitem>
3231	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3232	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3233	</listitem>
3234
3235	<listitem>
3236	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3237	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3238	</listitem>
3239
3240	<listitem>
3241	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3242	user accounts for VM information</para>
3243	</listitem>
3244
3245	</itemizedlist>
3246
3247	</sect1>
3248
3249	<sect1>
3250	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3251
3252	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3253	added:</para>
3254
3255	<itemizedlist>
3256
3257	<listitem>
3258	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3259	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3260	</listitem>
3261
3262	<listitem>
3263	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3264	</listitem>
3265
3266	<listitem>
3267	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3268	</listitem>
3269
3270	<listitem>
3271	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3272	</listitem>
3273
3274	<listitem>
3275	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3276	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3277	</listitem>
3278
3279	<listitem>
3280	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3281	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3282	</listitem>
3283
3284	<listitem>
3285	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3286	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3287	</listitem>
3288
3289	<listitem>
3290	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3291	(bug #4952)</para>
3292	</listitem>
3293
3294	<listitem>
3295	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3296	bug #6122)</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	<listitem>
3300	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3301	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3302	</listitem>
3303
3304	<listitem>
3305	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3306	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3307	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3308	</listitem>
3309
3310	<listitem>
3311	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3312	</listitem>
3313
3314	<listitem>
3315	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3316	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3317	</listitem>
3318
3319	<listitem>
3320	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3321	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3322	</listitem>
3323
3324	<listitem>
3325	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3326	canceled</para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	<listitem>
3330	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3339	</listitem>
3340
3341	<listitem>
3342	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3343	</listitem>
3344
3345	<listitem>
3346	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3347	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3348	</listitem>
3349
3350	<listitem>
3351	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3352	</listitem>
3353
3354	<listitem>
3355	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3356	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3357	</listitem>
3358
3359	<listitem>
3360	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3361	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3362	</listitem>
3363
3364	<listitem>
3365	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3366	</listitem>
3367
3368	<listitem>
3369	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3370	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3371	</listitem>
3372
3373	<listitem>
3374	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3375	</listitem>
3376
3377	<listitem>
3378	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3379	circumstances</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3384	printers</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3393	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3398	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3399	</listitem>
3400
3401	<listitem>
3402	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3403	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3404	circumstances</para>
3405	</listitem>
3406
3407	<listitem>
3408	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3409	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3410	</listitem>
3411
3412	<listitem>
3413	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3414	as supported extension</para>
3415	</listitem>
3416
3417	<listitem>
3418	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3419	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3420	</listitem>
3421
3422	<listitem>
3423	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3424	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3425	</listitem>
3426
3427	<listitem>
3428	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3429	</listitem>
3430
3431	<listitem>
3432	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3433	(bug #7366)</para>
3434	</listitem>
3435
3436	<listitem>
3437	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3438	</listitem>
3439
3440	<listitem>
3441	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3442	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3443	</listitem>
3444
3445	<listitem>
3446	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3447	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3448	</listitem>
3449
3450	<listitem>
3451	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3452	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3453	</listitem>
3454
3455	<listitem>
3456	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3457	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3462	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3467	</listitem>
3468
3469	<listitem>
3470	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3471	</listitem>
3472
3473	<listitem>
3474	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3475	more than one environment variable</para>
3476	</listitem>
3477
3478	<listitem>
3479	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3480	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3481	</listitem>
3482
3483	<listitem>
3484	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3485	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3486	</listitem>
3487
3488	<listitem>
3489	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3490	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3491	</listitem>
3492
3493	<listitem>
3494	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3495	enumerating logged in users</para>
3496	</listitem>
3497
3498	<listitem>
3499	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3500	</listitem>
3501
3502	<listitem>
3503	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3504	</listitem>
3505
3506	<listitem>
3507	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3508	</listitem>
3509
3510	<listitem>
3511	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3512	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3513	</listitem>
3514
3515	<listitem>
3516	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3517	</listitem>
3518
3519	<listitem>
3520	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3521	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3522	</listitem>
3523
3524	<listitem>
3525	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3526	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3527	</listitem>
3528
3529	<listitem>
3530	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3531	(bug #7448)</para>
3532	</listitem>
3533
3534	<listitem>
3535	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3536	</listitem>
3537
3538	<listitem>
3539	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3540	</listitem>
3541
3542	<listitem>
3543	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3544	</listitem>
3545
3546	</itemizedlist>
3547
3548	</sect1>
3549
3550	<sect1>
3551	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3552
3553	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3554	added:</para>
3555
3556	<itemizedlist>
3557
3558	<listitem>
3559	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3560	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3561	</listitem>
3562
3563	<listitem>
3564	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3569	bug #6809)</para>
3570	</listitem>
3571
3572	<listitem>
3573	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3574	</listitem>
3575
3576	<listitem>
3577	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	<listitem>
3581	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3582	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3587	changes</para>
3588	</listitem>
3589
3590	<listitem>
3591	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3592	</listitem>
3593
3594	<listitem>
3595	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3596	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3597	</listitem>
3598
3599	<listitem>
3600	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3601	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	<listitem>
3605	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3610	</listitem>
3611
3612	<listitem>
3613	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3614	</listitem>
3615
3616	<listitem>
3617	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3618	</listitem>
3619
3620	<listitem>
3621	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3622	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3623	</listitem>
3624
3625	<listitem>
3626	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3627	</listitem>
3628
3629	<listitem>
3630	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3631	(bug #6832)</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3636	guests</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3641	</listitem>
3642
3643	<listitem>
3644	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3645	without external tools and tricks</para>
3646	</listitem>
3647
3648	<listitem>
3649	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3650	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3651	</listitem>
3652
3653	<listitem>
3654	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3655	</listitem>
3656
3657	<listitem>
3658	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3659	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3660	</listitem>
3661
3662	<listitem>
3663	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3664	shutdown</para>
3665	</listitem>
3666
3667	<listitem>
3668	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3669	fixes</para>
3670	</listitem>
3671
3672	<listitem>
3673	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3674	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3675	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3676	</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3681	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3682	</listitem>
3683
3684	<listitem>
3685	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3686	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3687	</listitem>
3688
3689	<listitem>
3690	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3691	</para>
3692	</listitem>
3693
3694	<listitem>
3695	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3696	</listitem>
3697
3698	<listitem>
3699	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3700	</listitem>
3701
3702	<listitem>
3703	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3704	</listitem>
3705
3706	</itemizedlist>
3707
3708	</sect1>
3709
3710	<sect1>
3711	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3712
3713	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3714	added:</para>
3715
3716	<itemizedlist>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3720	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3721	</listitem>
3722
3723	<listitem>
3724	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3725	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3726	</listitem>
3727
3728	<listitem>
3729	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3730	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3731	</listitem>
3732
3733	<listitem>
3734	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3735	</listitem>
3736
3737	<listitem>
3738	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3739	</listitem>
3740
3741	<listitem>
3742	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3743	</listitem>
3744
3745	<listitem>
3746	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3747	</listitem>
3748
3749	<listitem>
3750	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3751	assigned</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3756	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3757	</listitem>
3758
3759	<listitem>
3760	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3761	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3762	</listitem>
3763
3764	<listitem>
3765	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3766	</listitem>
3767
3768	<listitem>
3769	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3770	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3771	</listitem>
3772
3773	<listitem>
3774	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3775	again (bug #7022).
3776	</para>
3777	</listitem>
3778
3779	<listitem>
3780	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3781	(bug #6768)</para>
3782	</listitem>
3783
3784	<listitem>
3785	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3786	(bug #6927)</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3791	bug #7031)</para>
3792	</listitem>
3793
3794	<listitem>
3795	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3796	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3797	</listitem>
3798
3799	<listitem>
3800	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3801	bug #6987)</para>
3802	</listitem>
3803
3804	<listitem>
3805	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3806	</listitem>
3807
3808	<listitem>
3809	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3810	</listitem>
3811
3812	<listitem>
3813	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3814	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3815	</listitem>
3816
3817	<listitem>
3818	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3819	</listitem>
3820
3821	<listitem>
3822	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3823	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3824	</listitem>
3825
3826	<listitem>
3827	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3828	</listitem>
3829
3830	<listitem>
3831	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3832	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3833	bug #6872)</para>
3834	</listitem>
3835
3836	<listitem>
3837	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3838	</listitem>
3839
3840	<listitem>
3841	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3842	(performance tweak)</para>
3843	</listitem>
3844
3845	<listitem>
3846	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3847	is currently paused</para>
3848	</listitem>
3849
3850	<listitem>
3851	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3852	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3853	</listitem>
3854
3855	<listitem>
3856	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3857	</listitem>
3858
3859	<listitem>
3860	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3861	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3862	</listitem>
3863
3864	<listitem>
3865	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3866	not properly saved</para>
3867	</listitem>
3868
3869	<listitem>
3870	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3871	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3872	</listitem>
3873
3874	<listitem>
3875	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3876	</listitem>
3877
3878	<listitem>
3879	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3880	</listitem>
3881
3882	<listitem>
3883	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3884	</listitem>
3885
3886	<listitem>
3887	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3888	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3889	</listitem>
3890
3891	<listitem>
3892	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3893	</listitem>
3894
3895	<listitem>
3896	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3897	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3898	</listitem>
3899
3900	<listitem>
3901	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3902	(bug #5251)</para>
3903	</listitem>
3904
3905	<listitem>
3906	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3907	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3912	</listitem>
3913
3914	<listitem>
3915	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	<listitem>
3919	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3920	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3921	</listitem>
3922
3923	<listitem>
3924	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3925	</listitem>
3926
3927	<listitem>
3928	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3929	</listitem>
3930
3931	<listitem>
3932	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3933	</listitem>
3934
3935	</itemizedlist>
3936	</sect1>
3937
3938	<sect1>
3939	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3940
3941	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3942	added:</para>
3943
3944	<itemizedlist>
3945
3946	<listitem>
3947	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3948	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3949	</listitem>
3950
3951	<listitem>
3952	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3957	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3962	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3963	</listitem>
3964
3965	<listitem>
3966	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3967	</listitem>
3968
3969	<listitem>
3970	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3971	again (bug #6864)</para>
3972	</listitem>
3973
3974	<listitem>
3975	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3976	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3977	</listitem>
3978
3979	<listitem>
3980	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3981	</listitem>
3982
3983	<listitem>
3984	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3985	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3986	</listitem>
3987
3988	<listitem>
3989	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	</itemizedlist>
3993
3994	</sect1>
3995
3996	<sect1>
3997	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3998
3999	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4000	added:</para>
4001
4002	<itemizedlist>
4003
4004	<listitem>
4005	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
4006	</listitem>
4007
4008	<listitem>
4009	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
4010	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
4011	</listitem>
4012
4013	<listitem>
4014	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
4015	</listitem>
4016
4017	<listitem>
4018	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
4019	state</para>
4020	</listitem>
4021
4022	<listitem>
4023	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
4024	</listitem>
4025
4026	<listitem>
4027	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
4028	</listitem>
4029
4030	<listitem>
4031	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
4036	</listitem>
4037
4038	<listitem>
4039	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
4040	</listitem>
4041
4042	<listitem>
4043	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
4044	</listitem>
4045
4046	<listitem>
4047	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
4048	</listitem>
4049
4050	<listitem>
4051	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
4052	</listitem>
4053
4054	<listitem>
4055	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
4056	</listitem>
4057
4058	<listitem>
4059	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
4060	</listitem>
4061
4062	<listitem>
4063	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
4064	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
4065	</listitem>
4066
4067	<listitem>
4068	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
4069	(bug #6784)</para>
4070	</listitem>
4071
4072	<listitem>
4073	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
4074	</listitem>
4075
4076	<listitem>
4077	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
4078	</listitem>
4079
4080	<listitem>
4081	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
4082	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	<listitem>
4090	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	<listitem>
4094	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
4095	host only</para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	<listitem>
4099	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
4100	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
4101	</listitem>
4102
4103	<listitem>
4104	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
4105	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
4106	</listitem>
4107
4108	<listitem>
4109	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
4110	</listitem>
4111
4112	<listitem>
4113	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
4114	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
4115	</listitem>
4116
4117	<listitem>
4118	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
4119	</listitem>
4120
4121	<listitem>
4122	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
4123	</listitem>
4124
4125	<listitem>
4126	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
4127	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
4128	</listitem>
4129
4130	<listitem>
4131	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
4132	</listitem>
4133
4134	<listitem>
4135	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
4136	</listitem>
4137
4138	<listitem>
4139	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
4140	</listitem>
4141
4142	<listitem>
4143	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
4144	(bug #6714)</para>
4145	</listitem>
4146
4147	<listitem>
4148	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
4149	</listitem>
4150
4151	<listitem>
4152	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
4153	</listitem>
4154
4155	<listitem>
4156	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4165	</listitem>
4166
4167	</itemizedlist>
4168
4169	</sect1>
4170
4171	<sect1>
4172	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4173
4174	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4175	were added:</para>
4176
4177	<itemizedlist>
4178
4179	<listitem>
4180	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4181	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4182	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4183	</listitem>
4184
4185	<listitem>
4186	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4187	</listitem>
4188
4189	<listitem>
4190	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4191	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4196	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4197	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4198	</listitem>
4199
4200	<listitem>
4201	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4202	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4203	</listitem>
4204
4205	<listitem>
4206	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4207	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4208	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4209	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4210	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4211	</listitem>
4212
4213	<listitem>
4214	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4215	</listitem>
4216
4217	<listitem>
4218	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4219	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4220	</listitem>
4221
4222	<listitem>
4223	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4224	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4225	</listitem>
4226
4227	<listitem>
4228	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4229	</listitem>
4230
4231	<listitem>
4232	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4233	</listitem>
4234
4235	<listitem>
4236	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4241	</listitem>
4242
4243	<listitem>
4244	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4245	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4246	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4247	</listitem>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4251	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4252	</listitem>
4253
4254	</itemizedlist>
4255
4256	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4257
4258	<itemizedlist>
4259
4260	<listitem>
4261	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4262	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4263	</listitem>
4264
4265	<listitem>
4266	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4271	VM</para>
4272	</listitem>
4273
4274	<listitem>
4275	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4276	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4277	</listitem>
4278
4279	<listitem>
4280	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4281	#1669)</para>
4282	</listitem>
4283
4284	<listitem>
4285	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4286	#6442)</para>
4287	</listitem>
4288
4289	<listitem>
4290	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4291	combination (bug #684)</para>
4292	</listitem>
4293
4294	<listitem>
4295	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4296	the VM from the GUI</para>
4297	</listitem>
4298
4299	<listitem>
4300	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4301	medium is not accessible</para>
4302	</listitem>
4303
4304	<listitem>
4305	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4306	</listitem>
4307
4308	<listitem>
4309	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4310	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4311	</listitem>
4312
4313	<listitem>
4314	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4315	#3106)</para>
4316	</listitem>
4317
4318	<listitem>
4319	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4320	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4321	it</para>
4322	</listitem>
4323
4324	<listitem>
4325	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4326	</listitem>
4327
4328	<listitem>
4329	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4330	</listitem>
4331
4332	<listitem>
4333	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4334	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4335	</listitem>
4336
4337	<listitem>
4338	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4339	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4340	</listitem>
4341
4342	<listitem>
4343	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4344	</listitem>
4345
4346	<listitem>
4347	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4348	</listitem>
4349
4350	<listitem>
4351	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4352	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4353	</listitem>
4354
4355	<listitem>
4356	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4357	</listitem>
4358
4359	<listitem>
4360	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4361	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4362	</listitem>
4363
4364	<listitem>
4365	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4366	</listitem>
4367
4368	<listitem>
4369	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4370	in VirtualBox</para>
4371	</listitem>
4372
4373	<listitem>
4374	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4375	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4376	</listitem>
4377
4378	<listitem>
4379	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4380	VirtualBox</para>
4381	</listitem>
4382
4383	<listitem>
4384	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4385	</listitem>
4386
4387	<listitem>
4388	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4389	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4390	</listitem>
4391
4392	</itemizedlist>
4393	</sect1>
4394
4395	<sect1>
4396	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4397
4398	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4399	added:</para>
4400
4401	<itemizedlist>
4402
4403	<listitem>
4404	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4405	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4406	</listitem>
4407
4408	<listitem>
4409	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4414	</listitem>
4415
4416	<listitem>
4417	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4418	only) </para>
4419	</listitem>
4420
4421	<listitem>
4422	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4423	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4424	</listitem>
4425
4426	<listitem>
4427	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4428	interface version</para>
4429	</listitem>
4430
4431	<listitem>
4432	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4433	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4434	slot empty</para>
4435	</listitem>
4436
4437	<listitem>
4438	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4439	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4440	(bug #4220)</para>
4441	</listitem>
4442
4443	<listitem>
4444	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4445	</listitem>
4446
4447	<listitem>
4448	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4449	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4450	</listitem>
4451
4452	<listitem>
4453	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4454	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4455	</listitem>
4456
4457	<listitem>
4458	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4459	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4460	</listitem>
4461
4462	<listitem>
4463	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4464	attached</para>
4465	</listitem>
4466
4467	<listitem>
4468	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4469	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4470	</listitem>
4471
4472	<listitem>
4473	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4474	</listitem>
4475
4476	<listitem>
4477	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4478	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4479	</listitem>
4480
4481	<listitem>
4482	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4483	is bug #6408)</para>
4484	</listitem>
4485
4486	<listitem>
4487	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4488	</listitem>
4489
4490	<listitem>
4491	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4492	fail to initialize</para>
4493	</listitem>
4494
4495	<listitem>
4496	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4497	</listitem>
4498
4499	<listitem>
4500	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4501	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4502	</listitem>
4503
4504	<listitem>
4505	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4506	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4507	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4512	</listitem>
4513
4514	<listitem>
4515	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4516	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4517	</listitem>
4518
4519	<listitem>
4520	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4521	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4522	</listitem>
4523
4524	<listitem>
4525	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4526	(bug #6435)</para>
4527	</listitem>
4528
4529	<listitem>
4530	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4531	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4532	</listitem>
4533
4534	<listitem>
4535	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4536	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4537	(bug #6488)</para>
4538	</listitem>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4542	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4543	</listitem>
4544
4545	<listitem>
4546	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4547	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4548	</listitem>
4549
4550	<listitem>
4551	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4552	#5227)</para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4557	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4558	</listitem>
4559
4560	<listitem>
4561	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4562	</listitem>
4563
4564	<listitem>
4565	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4566	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4567	</listitem>
4568
4569	</itemizedlist>
4570	</sect1>
4571
4572	<sect1>
4573	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4574
4575	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4576	added:</para>
4577
4578	<itemizedlist>
4579
4580	<listitem>
4581	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4582	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4583	</listitem>
4584
4585	<listitem>
4586	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4587	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4588	</listitem>
4589
4590	<listitem>
4591	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4592	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4593	</listitem>
4594
4595	<listitem>
4596	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4597	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4598	</listitem>
4599
4600	<listitem>
4601	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4602	</listitem>
4603
4604	<listitem>
4605	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4606	</listitem>
4607
4608	<listitem>
4609	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4610	</listitem>
4611
4612	<listitem>
4613	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4614	</listitem>
4615
4616	<listitem>
4617	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4618	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4619	</listitem>
4620
4621	<listitem>
4622	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4623	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4624	</listitem>
4625
4626	<listitem>
4627	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4628	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4629	</listitem>
4630
4631	<listitem>
4632	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4633	</listitem>
4634
4635	<listitem>
4636	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4637	</listitem>
4638
4639	<listitem>
4640	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4641	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4642	</listitem>
4643
4644	<listitem>
4645	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4646	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4647	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4648	</listitem>
4649
4650	<listitem>
4651	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4652	(bug #5297)</para>
4653	</listitem>
4654
4655	<listitem>
4656	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4657	(bug #4962)</para>
4658	</listitem>
4659
4660	<listitem>
4661	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4662	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4663	</listitem>
4664
4665	<listitem>
4666	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4667	(bug #6176)</para>
4668	</listitem>
4669
4670	<listitem>
4671	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4672	certain circumstances</para>
4673	</listitem>
4674
4675	<listitem>
4676	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4677	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4678	</listitem>
4679
4680	<listitem>
4681	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4682	</listitem>
4683
4684	<listitem>
4685	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4686	</listitem>
4687
4688	<listitem>
4689	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4690	(bug #3571)</para>
4691	</listitem>
4692
4693	<listitem>
4694	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4695	devices</para>
4696	</listitem>
4697
4698	<listitem>
4699	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4700	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4701	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4702	</listitem>
4703
4704	<listitem>
4705	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4706	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4707	</listitem>
4708
4709	<listitem>
4710	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4711	</listitem>
4712
4713	<listitem>
4714	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4715	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4716	</listitem>
4717
4718	<listitem>
4719	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4720	response</para>
4721	</listitem>
4722
4723	<listitem>
4724	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4725	</listitem>
4726
4727	<listitem>
4728	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4729	</listitem>
4730
4731	<listitem>
4732	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4733	</listitem>
4734
4735	<listitem>
4736	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4737	</listitem>
4738
4739	<listitem>
4740	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4741	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4742	</listitem>
4743
4744	<listitem>
4745	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	<listitem>
4749	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4750	</listitem>
4751
4752	<listitem>
4753	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4754	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4755	</listitem>
4756
4757	<listitem>
4758	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4759	</listitem>
4760
4761	<listitem>
4762	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4763	</listitem>
4764
4765	<listitem>
4766	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4767	</listitem>
4768
4769	<listitem>
4770	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4771	</listitem>
4772
4773	</itemizedlist>
4774	</sect1>
4775
4776	<sect1>
4777	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4778
4779	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4780	added:</para>
4781
4782	<itemizedlist>
4783
4784	<listitem>
4785	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4786	</listitem>
4787
4788	<listitem>
4789	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4794	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4795	</listitem>
4796
4797	<listitem>
4798	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4799	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4800	</listitem>
4801
4802	<listitem>
4803	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4804	(bug #3945)</para>
4805	</listitem>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4809	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4810	</listitem>
4811
4812	<listitem>
4813	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4814	and AMD-V only) </para>
4815	</listitem>
4816
4817	<listitem>
4818	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4819	</listitem>
4820
4821	<listitem>
4822	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4823	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4824	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4825	</listitem>
4826
4827	<listitem>
4828	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4829	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4834	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4839	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4840	</listitem>
4841
4842	<listitem>
4843	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4844	snapshots command</para>
4845	</listitem>
4846
4847	<listitem>
4848	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4849	</listitem>
4850
4851	<listitem>
4852	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4853	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4854	</listitem>
4855
4856	<listitem>
4857	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4858	</listitem>
4859
4860	<listitem>
4861	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	<listitem>
4865	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4866	</listitem>
4867
4868	<listitem>
4869	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4870	(KWin bug)</para>
4871	</listitem>
4872
4873	<listitem>
4874	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4875	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4876	</listitem>
4877
4878	<listitem>
4879	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4880	</listitem>
4881
4882	<listitem>
4883	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4892	</listitem>
4893
4894	<listitem>
4895	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4896	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4897	</listitem>
4898
4899	<listitem>
4900	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4901	bug #5787)</para>
4902	</listitem>
4903
4904	<listitem>
4905	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4906	DHCP requests</para>
4907	</listitem>
4908
4909	<listitem>
4910	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4911	(bug #3217)</para>
4912	</listitem>
4913
4914	<listitem>
4915	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4916	range (bug #5923)</para>
4917	</listitem>
4918
4919	<listitem>
4920	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4921	</listitem>
4922
4923	<listitem>
4924	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4925	</listitem>
4926
4927	<listitem>
4928	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4929	</listitem>
4930
4931	<listitem>
4932	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4933	</listitem>
4934
4935	<listitem>
4936	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4937	file (bug #5681)</para>
4938	</listitem>
4939
4940	<listitem>
4941	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4942	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4943	</listitem>
4944
4945	<listitem>
4946	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4947	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4948	</listitem>
4949
4950	<listitem>
4951	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4952	regression)</para>
4953	</listitem>
4954
4955	<listitem>
4956	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4957	</listitem>
4958
4959	<listitem>
4960	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4961	</listitem>
4962
4963	<listitem>
4964	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4965	</listitem>
4966
4967	<listitem>
4968	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4969	</listitem>
4970
4971	<listitem>
4972	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4973	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4974	</listitem>
4975
4976	<listitem>
4977	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4978	</listitem>
4979
4980	<listitem>
4981	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4982	</listitem>
4983
4984	<listitem>
4985	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4986	</listitem>
4987
4988	<listitem>
4989	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4990	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4991	</listitem>
4992
4993	<listitem>
4994	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4995	</listitem>
4996
4997	<listitem>
4998	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4999	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
5000	</listitem>
5001
5002	<listitem>
5003	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
5004	</listitem>
5005
5006	<listitem>
5007	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
5008	</listitem>
5009
5010	<listitem>
5011	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
5012	</listitem>
5013
5014	<listitem>
5015	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
5016	(bug #5731)</para>
5017	</listitem>
5018
5019	<listitem>
5020	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
5021	again</para>
5022	</listitem>
5023
5024	</itemizedlist>
5025
5026	</sect1>
5027
5028	<sect1>
5029	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
5030
5031	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5032	added:</para>
5033
5034	<itemizedlist>
5035
5036	<listitem>
5037	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
5038	</listitem>
5039
5040	<listitem>
5041	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
5042	</listitem>
5043
5044	<listitem>
5045	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
5046	</listitem>
5047
5048	<listitem>
5049	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
5050	</listitem>
5051
5052	<listitem>
5053	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
5054	</listitem>
5055
5056	<listitem>
5057	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
5058	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
5059	</listitem>
5060
5061	<listitem>
5062	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
5063	</listitem>
5064
5065	<listitem>
5066	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
5067	</listitem>
5068
5069	<listitem>
5070	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
5071	</listitem>
5072
5073	<listitem>
5074	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
5075	</listitem>
5076
5077	<listitem>
5078	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
5079	</listitem>
5080
5081	<listitem>
5082	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
5083	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
5084	</listitem>
5085
5086	<listitem>
5087	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
5088	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
5089	</listitem>
5090
5091	<listitem>
5092	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
5093	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
5094	#1762)</para>
5095	</listitem>
5096
5097	<listitem>
5098	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
5099	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
5100	</listitem>
5101
5102	<listitem>
5103	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
5104	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
5105	</listitem>
5106
5107	<listitem>
5108	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
5109	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
5110	</listitem>
5111
5112	<listitem>
5113	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
5114	</listitem>
5115
5116	<listitem>
5117	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
5118	</listitem>
5119
5120	<listitem>
5121	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
5122	several virtual CPU cores</para>
5123	</listitem>
5124
5125	<listitem>
5126	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
5127	</listitem>
5128
5129	<listitem>
5130	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
5131	</listitem>
5132
5133	<listitem>
5134	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
5135	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
5136	</listitem>
5137
5138	<listitem>
5139	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
5140	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
5141	</listitem>
5142
5143	<listitem>
5144	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
5145	</listitem>
5146
5147	<listitem>
5148	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
5149	guests</para>
5150	</listitem>
5151
5152	<listitem>
5153	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
5154	and on some 64bit guests</para>
5155	</listitem>
5156
5157	<listitem>
5158	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5159	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5160	</listitem>
5161
5162	<listitem>
5163	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5164	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5165	</listitem>
5166
5167	<listitem>
5168	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5169	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5170	</listitem>
5171
5172	<listitem>
5173	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5174	</listitem>
5175
5176	<listitem>
5177	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5178	</listitem>
5179
5180	<listitem>
5181	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5182	</listitem>
5183
5184	<listitem>
5185	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5186	</listitem>
5187
5188	<listitem>
5189	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5190	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5191	</listitem>
5192
5193	<listitem>
5194	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5195	</listitem>
5196
5197	</itemizedlist>
5198
5199	</sect1>
5200
5201	<sect1>
5202	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5203
5204	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5205	were added:</para>
5206
5207	<itemizedlist>
5208
5209	<listitem>
5210	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5211	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5212	</listitem>
5213
5214	<listitem>
5215	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5216	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5217	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5218	</listitem>
5219
5220	<listitem>
5221	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5222	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5223	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5224	</listitem>
5225
5226	<listitem>
5227	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5228	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5229	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5230	</listitem>
5231
5232	<listitem>
5233	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5234	running</para>
5235	</listitem>
5236
5237	<listitem>
5238	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5239	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5240	</listitem>
5241
5242	<listitem>
5243	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5244	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5245	</listitem>
5246
5247	<listitem>
5248	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5249	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5250	</listitem>
5251
5252	<listitem>
5253	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5254	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5255	</listitem>
5256
5257	</itemizedlist>
5258
5259	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5260
5261	<itemizedlist>
5262
5263	<listitem>
5264	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5265	</listitem>
5266
5267	<listitem>
5268	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5269	</listitem>
5270
5271	<listitem>
5272	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5273	</listitem>
5274
5275	<listitem>
5276	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5277	(bug #5291)</para>
5278	</listitem>
5279
5280	<listitem>
5281	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5282	</listitem>
5283
5284	<listitem>
5285	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5286	</listitem>
5287
5288	<listitem>
5289	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5294	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5295	</listitem>
5296
5297	<listitem>
5298	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5299	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5300	</listitem>
5301
5302	<listitem>
5303	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5304	</listitem>
5305
5306	<listitem>
5307	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5308	</listitem>
5309
5310	<listitem>
5311	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5312	</listitem>
5313
5314	<listitem>
5315	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5316	</listitem>
5317
5318	<listitem>
5319	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5320	</listitem>
5321
5322	<listitem>
5323	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5324	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5325	</listitem>
5326
5327	<listitem>
5328	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5329	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5330	</listitem>
5331
5332	<listitem>
5333	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5334	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5335	</listitem>
5336
5337	<listitem>
5338	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5339	(bug #2723)</para>
5340	</listitem>
5341
5342	<listitem>
5343	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5344	</listitem>
5345
5346	<listitem>
5347	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5348	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5349	</listitem>
5350
5351	<listitem>
5352	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5353	optional manifest file on import</para>
5354	</listitem>
5355
5356	<listitem>
5357	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5358	</listitem>
5359
5360	<listitem>
5361	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5362	(bug #3773)</para>
5363	</listitem>
5364
5365	<listitem>
5366	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5367	</listitem>
5368
5369	<listitem>
5370	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5371	</listitem>
5372
5373	<listitem>
5374	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5375	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5376	</listitem>
5377
5378	<listitem>
5379	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5380	(bug #4866)</para>
5381	</listitem>
5382
5383	<listitem>
5384	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5385	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5386	</listitem>
5387
5388	<listitem>
5389	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5390	certain conditions</para>
5391	</listitem>
5392
5393	<listitem>
5394	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5395	</listitem>
5396
5397	<listitem>
5398	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5399	</listitem>
5400
5401	<listitem>
5402	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5403	</listitem>
5404
5405	<listitem>
5406	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5407	</listitem>
5408
5409	<listitem>
5410	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5411	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5412	</listitem>
5413
5414	<listitem>
5415	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5416	</listitem>
5417
5418	<listitem>
5419	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5420	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5421	</listitem>
5422
5423	<listitem>
5424	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5429	</listitem>
5430
5431	<listitem>
5432	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5433	</listitem>
5434
5435	<listitem>
5436	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5437	</listitem>
5438
5439	<listitem>
5440	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5441	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5442	</listitem>
5443
5444	<listitem>
5445	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5446	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5447	(bug #928)</para>
5448	</listitem>
5449
5450	<listitem>
5451	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5452	</listitem>
5453
5454	</itemizedlist>
5455
5456	</sect1>
5457
5458	<sect1>
5459	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5460
5461	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5462	added:</para>
5463
5464	<itemizedlist>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5468	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5469	</listitem>
5470
5471	<listitem>
5472	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5473	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5474	</listitem>
5475
5476	<listitem>
5477	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5478	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5479	</listitem>
5480
5481	<listitem>
5482	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5483	enabled</para>
5484	</listitem>
5485
5486	<listitem>
5487	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5488	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5489	</listitem>
5490
5491	<listitem>
5492	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5493	(bug #2676)</para>
5494	</listitem>
5495
5496	<listitem>
5497	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5498	is connected to a raw file</para>
5499	</listitem>
5500
5501	<listitem>
5502	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5503	(bug #5355)</para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	<listitem>
5507	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5508	</listitem>
5509
5510	<listitem>
5511	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5512	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5513	</listitem>
5514
5515	<listitem>
5516	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5517	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5518	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5519	</listitem>
5520
5521	<listitem>
5522	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5523	</listitem>
5524
5525	<listitem>
5526	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5527	</listitem>
5528
5529	<listitem>
5530	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5531	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5532	</listitem>
5533
5534	<listitem>
5535	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5536	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5537	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5538	</listitem>
5539
5540	</itemizedlist>
5541
5542	</sect1>
5543
5544	<sect1>
5545	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5546
5547	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5548	added:</para>
5549
5550	<itemizedlist>
5551
5552	<listitem>
5553	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5554	</listitem>
5555
5556	<listitem>
5557	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5558	</listitem>
5559
5560	<listitem>
5561	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5562	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5563	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5564	</listitem>
5565
5566	<listitem>
5567	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5568	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5569	</listitem>
5570
5571	<listitem>
5572	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5573	</listitem>
5574
5575	<listitem>
5576	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5581	</listitem>
5582
5583	<listitem>
5584	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5585	</listitem>
5586
5587	<listitem>
5588	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5589	</listitem>
5590
5591	<listitem>
5592	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5593	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5594	</listitem>
5595
5596	<listitem>
5597	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5598	</listitem>
5599
5600	<listitem>
5601	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5602	</listitem>
5603
5604	<listitem>
5605	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5606	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5607	</listitem>
5608
5609	<listitem>
5610	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5611	</listitem>
5612
5613	<listitem>
5614	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5615	exhaustion</para>
5616	</listitem>
5617
5618	<listitem>
5619	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5620	</listitem>
5621
5622	<listitem>
5623	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5624	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5625	</listitem>
5626
5627	<listitem>
5628	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5629	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5630	</listitem>
5631
5632	<listitem>
5633	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5634	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5635	</listitem>
5636
5637	<listitem>
5638	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5639	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5640	(bug #2921)</para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5645	hosts only)</para>
5646	</listitem>
5647
5648	<listitem>
5649	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5650	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5651	</listitem>
5652
5653	<listitem>
5654	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5655	</listitem>
5656
5657	<listitem>
5658	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5659	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5660	</listitem>
5661
5662	<listitem>
5663	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5668	image inconsistency </para>
5669	</listitem>
5670
5671	<listitem>
5672	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5673	</listitem>
5674
5675	<listitem>
5676	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5677	</listitem>
5678
5679	<listitem>
5680	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5681	(bug #2025)</para>
5682	</listitem>
5683
5684	<listitem>
5685	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5686	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5687	</listitem>
5688
5689	</itemizedlist>
5690
5691	</sect1>
5692
5693	<sect1>
5694	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5695
5696	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5697	added:</para>
5698
5699	<itemizedlist>
5700
5701	<listitem>
5702	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5703	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5704	</listitem>
5705
5706	<listitem>
5707	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5708	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5709	</listitem>
5710
5711	<listitem>
5712	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5713	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5714	</listitem>
5715
5716	<listitem>
5717	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5718	</listitem>
5719
5720	<listitem>
5721	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5722	software virtualization only) </para>
5723	</listitem>
5724
5725	<listitem>
5726	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5727	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5728	</listitem>
5729
5730	<listitem>
5731	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5732	with root privileges</para>
5733	</listitem>
5734
5735	<listitem>
5736	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5737	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5738	</listitem>
5739
5740	<listitem>
5741	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5742	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5743	</listitem>
5744
5745	<listitem>
5746	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5747	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5748	</listitem>
5749
5750	<listitem>
5751	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5752	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5753	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5754	</listitem>
5755
5756	<listitem>
5757	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5758	available</para>
5759	</listitem>
5760
5761	<listitem>
5762	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5763	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5764	</listitem>
5765
5766	<listitem>
5767	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5768	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5769	</listitem>
5770
5771	<listitem>
5772	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5773	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5774	</listitem>
5775
5776	<listitem>
5777	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5778	(bug #4907)</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5783	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5784	</listitem>
5785
5786	<listitem>
5787	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5788	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5793	</listitem>
5794
5795	<listitem>
5796	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5797	</listitem>
5798
5799	<listitem>
5800	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5801	</listitem>
5802
5803	<listitem>
5804	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5805	</listitem>
5806
5807	<listitem>
5808	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5809	are installed</para>
5810	</listitem>
5811
5812	<listitem>
5813	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5814	(bug #4771)</para>
5815	</listitem>
5816
5817	<listitem>
5818	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5819	</listitem>
5820
5821	<listitem>
5822	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5823	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5824	</listitem>
5825
5826	<listitem>
5827	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5828	command</para>
5829	</listitem>
5830
5831	<listitem>
5832	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5833	</listitem>
5834
5835	<listitem>
5836	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5837	</listitem>
5838
5839	<listitem>
5840	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5841	(bug #5089)</para>
5842	</listitem>
5843
5844	<listitem>
5845	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5846	</listitem>
5847
5848	</itemizedlist>
5849
5850	</sect1>
5851
5852	<sect1>
5853	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5854
5855	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5856	added:</para>
5857
5858	<itemizedlist>
5859
5860	<listitem>
5861	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5862	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5863	</listitem>
5864
5865	<listitem>
5866	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5867	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5868	</listitem>
5869
5870	<listitem>
5871	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5872	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5873	</listitem>
5874
5875	<listitem>
5876	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5877	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5878	</listitem>
5879
5880	<listitem>
5881	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5882	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5883	</listitem>
5884
5885	<listitem>
5886	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5887	</listitem>
5888
5889	<listitem>
5890	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5891	</listitem>
5892
5893	<listitem>
5894	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5895	</listitem>
5896
5897	<listitem>
5898	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5899	</listitem>
5900
5901	<listitem>
5902	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5903	</listitem>
5904
5905	<listitem>
5906	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5907	onlined or offlined</para>
5908	</listitem>
5909
5910	<listitem>
5911	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5912	</listitem>
5913
5914	<listitem>
5915	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5916	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5917	</listitem>
5918
5919	<listitem>
5920	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5921	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5922	</listitem>
5923
5924	<listitem>
5925	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5926	</listitem>
5927
5928	<listitem>
5929	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5930	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5931	</listitem>
5932
5933	<listitem>
5934	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5935	</listitem>
5936
5937	<listitem>
5938	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5939	</listitem>
5940
5941	<listitem>
5942	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5943	</listitem>
5944
5945	<listitem>
5946	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5947	</listitem>
5948
5949	<listitem>
5950	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5951	</listitem>
5952
5953	<listitem>
5954	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5955	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5956	</listitem>
5957
5958	<listitem>
5959	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5960	</listitem>
5961
5962	<listitem>
5963	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5964	</listitem>
5965
5966	<listitem>
5967	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5968	</listitem>
5969
5970	<listitem>
5971	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5972	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5973	</listitem>
5974
5975	<listitem>
5976	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5977	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5978	</listitem>
5979
5980	<listitem>
5981	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5982	</listitem>
5983
5984	<listitem>
5985	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5986	</listitem>
5987
5988	<listitem>
5989	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5990	</listitem>
5991
5992	<listitem>
5993	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5994	</listitem>
5995
5996	<listitem>
5997	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5998	</listitem>
5999
6000	<listitem>
6001	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
6002	</listitem>
6003
6004	<listitem>
6005	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
6006	</listitem>
6007
6008	<listitem>
6009	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
6010	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
6011	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
6012	phase collapse</para>
6013	</listitem>
6014
6015	<listitem>
6016	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
6017	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
6018	</listitem>
6019
6020	<listitem>
6021	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
6022	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
6023	</listitem>
6024
6025	<listitem>
6026	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
6027	</listitem>
6028
6029	<listitem>
6030	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
6031	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
6032	</listitem>
6033
6034	<listitem>
6035	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
6036	interface bringup on Linux</para>
6037	</listitem>
6038
6039	<listitem>
6040	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
6041	</listitem>
6042
6043	<listitem>
6044	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
6045	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
6046	#4698, #4790)</para>
6047	</listitem>
6048
6049	<listitem>
6050	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
6051	less than the configured range</para>
6052	</listitem>
6053
6054	<listitem>
6055	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
6056	</listitem>
6057
6058	<listitem>
6059	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
6060	</listitem>
6061
6062	<listitem>
6063	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
6064	</listitem>
6065
6066	<listitem>
6067	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
6068	</listitem>
6069
6070	<listitem>
6071	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
6072	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
6073	</listitem>
6074
6075	<listitem>
6076	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
6077	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
6078	</listitem>
6079
6080	<listitem>
6081	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
6082	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
6083	</listitem>
6084
6085	<listitem>
6086	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
6087	</listitem>
6088
6089	<listitem>
6090	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
6091	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
6092	</listitem>
6093
6094	<listitem>
6095	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
6096	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
6097	</listitem>
6098
6099	<listitem>
6100	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
6101	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
6102	</listitem>
6103
6104	<listitem>
6105	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
6106	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
6107	</listitem>
6108
6109	<listitem>
6110	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
6111	</listitem>
6112
6113	<listitem>
6114	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
6115	</listitem>
6116
6117	</itemizedlist>
6118
6119	</sect1>
6120
6121	<sect1>
6122	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
6123
6124	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6125	added:</para>
6126
6127	<itemizedlist>
6128
6129	<listitem>
6130	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
6131	</listitem>
6132
6133	<listitem>
6134	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
6135	</listitem>
6136
6137	<listitem>
6138	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
6139	</listitem>
6140
6141	<listitem>
6142	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
6143	</listitem>
6144
6145	<listitem>
6146	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
6147	</listitem>
6148
6149	<listitem>
6150	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
6151	</listitem>
6152
6153	<listitem>
6154	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
6155	</listitem>
6156
6157	<listitem>
6158	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6159	</listitem>
6160
6161	<listitem>
6162	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6163	</listitem>
6164
6165	<listitem>
6166	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6167	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6168	</listitem>
6169
6170	<listitem>
6171	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6172	</listitem>
6173
6174	<listitem>
6175	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6176	</listitem>
6177
6178	<listitem>
6179	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6180	</listitem>
6181
6182	<listitem>
6183	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6184	</listitem>
6185
6186	<listitem>
6187	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6188	</listitem>
6189
6190	<listitem>
6191	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6192	</listitem>
6193
6194	<listitem>
6195	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6196	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6197	</listitem>
6198
6199	<listitem>
6200	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6201	(bug #4654)</para>
6202	</listitem>
6203
6204	<listitem>
6205	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6206	</listitem>
6207
6208	<listitem>
6209	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6210	interfaces</para>
6211	</listitem>
6212
6213	<listitem>
6214	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6215	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6216	</listitem>
6217
6218	<listitem>
6219	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6220	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6221	</listitem>
6222
6223	<listitem>
6224	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6225	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6226	</listitem>
6227
6228	<listitem>
6229	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6230	(bug #1461)</para>
6231	</listitem>
6232
6233	<listitem>
6234	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6235	</listitem>
6236
6237	<listitem>
6238	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6239	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6240	</listitem>
6241
6242	<listitem>
6243	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6244	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6245	</listitem>
6246
6247	<listitem>
6248	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6249	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6250	</listitem>
6251
6252	<listitem>
6253	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6254	</listitem>
6255
6256	<listitem>
6257	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6258	</listitem>
6259
6260	<listitem>
6261	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6262	</listitem>
6263
6264	<listitem>
6265	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6266	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6267	</listitem>
6268
6269	<listitem>
6270	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6271	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6272	</listitem>
6273
6274	<listitem>
6275	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6276	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6277	</listitem>
6278
6279	<listitem>
6280	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6281	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6282	</listitem>
6283
6284	</itemizedlist>
6285
6286	</sect1>
6287	<sect1>
6288	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6289
6290	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6291	added:</para>
6292
6293	<itemizedlist>
6294
6295	<listitem>
6296	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6297	</listitem>
6298
6299	<listitem>
6300	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6301	</listitem>
6302
6303	<listitem>
6304	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6305	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6306	</listitem>
6307
6308	<listitem>
6309	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6310	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6311	</listitem>
6312
6313	<listitem>
6314	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6315	</listitem>
6316
6317	<listitem>
6318	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6319	</listitem>
6320
6321	<listitem>
6322	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6323	</listitem>
6324
6325	<listitem>
6326	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6327	</listitem>
6328
6329	<listitem>
6330	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6331	</listitem>
6332
6333	<listitem>
6334	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6335	</listitem>
6336
6337	<listitem>
6338	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6339	</listitem>
6340
6341	<listitem>
6342	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6343	</listitem>
6344
6345	<listitem>
6346	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6347	</listitem>
6348
6349	<listitem>
6350	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6351	</listitem>
6352
6353	<listitem>
6354	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6355	</listitem>
6356
6357	<listitem>
6358	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6359	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6360	</listitem>
6361
6362	<listitem>
6363	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6364	</listitem>
6365
6366	<listitem>
6367	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6368	</listitem>
6369
6370	<listitem>
6371	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6372	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6373	</listitem>
6374
6375	<listitem>
6376	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6377	</listitem>
6378
6379	<listitem>
6380	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6381	</listitem>
6382
6383	<listitem>
6384	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6385	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6386	</listitem>
6387
6388	<listitem>
6389	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6390	</listitem>
6391
6392	<listitem>
6393	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6394	</listitem>
6395
6396	<listitem>
6397	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6398	</listitem>
6399
6400	<listitem>
6401	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6402	</listitem>
6403
6404	<listitem>
6405	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6406	</listitem>
6407
6408	<listitem>
6409	<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>
6410	</listitem>
6411
6412	</itemizedlist>
6413
6414	</sect1>
6415
6416	<sect1>
6417	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6418
6419	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6420	were added:</para>
6421
6422	<itemizedlist>
6423
6424	<listitem>
6425	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6426	</listitem>
6427
6428	<listitem>
6429	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6430	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6431	</listitem>
6432
6433	<listitem>
6434	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6435	</listitem>
6436
6437	</itemizedlist>
6438
6439	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6440
6441	<itemizedlist>
6442
6443	<listitem>
6444	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6445	</listitem>
6446
6447	<listitem>
6448	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6449	certain conditions</para>
6450	</listitem>
6451
6452	<listitem>
6453	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6454	</listitem>
6455
6456	<listitem>
6457	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6458	</listitem>
6459
6460	<listitem>
6461	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6462	</listitem>
6463
6464	<listitem>
6465	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6466	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6467	</listitem>
6468
6469	<listitem>
6470	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6471	</listitem>
6472
6473	<listitem>
6474	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6475	</listitem>
6476
6477	<listitem>
6478	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6479	</listitem>
6480
6481	<listitem>
6482	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6483	</listitem>
6484
6485	<listitem>
6486	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6487	</listitem>
6488
6489	<listitem>
6490	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6491	</listitem>
6492
6493	<listitem>
6494	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6495	</listitem>
6496
6497	<listitem>
6498	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6499	</listitem>
6500
6501	<listitem>
6502	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6503	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6504	</listitem>
6505
6506	<listitem>
6507	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6508	</listitem>
6509
6510	<listitem>
6511	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6512	</listitem>
6513
6514	<listitem>
6515	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6516	</listitem>
6517
6518	<listitem>
6519	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6520	</listitem>
6521
6522	<listitem>
6523	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6524	</listitem>
6525
6526	<listitem>
6527	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6528	</listitem>
6529
6530	<listitem>
6531	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6532	</listitem>
6533
6534	<listitem>
6535	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6536	</listitem>
6537
6538	<listitem>
6539	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6540	</listitem>
6541
6542	<listitem>
6543	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6544	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6545	</listitem>
6546
6547	<listitem>
6548	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6549	</listitem>
6550
6551	<listitem>
6552	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6553	</listitem>
6554
6555	<listitem>
6556	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6557	</listitem>
6558
6559	<listitem>
6560	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6561	</listitem>
6562
6563	<listitem>
6564	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6565	</listitem>
6566
6567	<listitem>
6568	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6569	</listitem>
6570
6571	<listitem>
6572	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6573	</listitem>
6574
6575	<listitem>
6576	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6577	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6578	</listitem>
6579
6580	<listitem>
6581	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6582	</listitem>
6583
6584	<listitem>
6585	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6586	</listitem>
6587
6588	<listitem>
6589	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6590	</listitem>
6591
6592	<listitem>
6593	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6594	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6595	</listitem>
6596
6597	<listitem>
6598	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6599	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6600	</listitem>
6601
6602	<listitem>
6603	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6604	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6605	</listitem>
6606
6607	<listitem>
6608	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6609	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6610	</listitem>
6611
6612	<listitem>
6613	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6614	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6615	</listitem>
6616
6617	<listitem>
6618	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6619	</listitem>
6620
6621	<listitem>
6622	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6623	</listitem>
6624
6625	<listitem>
6626	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6627	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6628	</listitem>
6629
6630	<listitem>
6631	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6632	guest property lookup</para>
6633	</listitem>
6634
6635	<listitem>
6636	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6637	basic network information)</para>
6638	</listitem>
6639
6640	<listitem>
6641	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6642	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6643	</listitem>
6644
6645	<listitem>
6646	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6647	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6648	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6649	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6650	</listitem>
6651
6652	<listitem>
6653	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6654	</listitem>
6655
6656	<listitem>
6657	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6658	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6659	web service</para>
6660	</listitem>
6661
6662	<listitem>
6663	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6664	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6665	</listitem>
6666
6667	<listitem>
6668	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6669	unavailable</para>
6670	</listitem>
6671
6672	<listitem>
6673	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6674	</listitem>
6675
6676	</itemizedlist>
6677	</sect1>
6678
6679	<sect1>
6680	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6681
6682	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6683	added:</para>
6684
6685	<itemizedlist>
6686
6687	<listitem>
6688	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6689	installation</para>
6690	</listitem>
6691
6692	<listitem>
6693	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6694	</listitem>
6695
6696	<listitem>
6697	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6698	later (bug #3981)</para>
6699	</listitem>
6700
6701	<listitem>
6702	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6703	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6704	</listitem>
6705
6706	<listitem>
6707	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6708	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6709	(bug #4034)
6710	</para>
6711	</listitem>
6712
6713	<listitem>
6714	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6715	networking</para>
6716	</listitem>
6717
6718	<listitem>
6719	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6720	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6721	</listitem>
6722
6723	<listitem>
6724	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6725	clicks</para>
6726	</listitem>
6727
6728	<listitem>
6729	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6730	Windows 7 guests</para>
6731	</listitem>
6732
6733	<listitem>
6734	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6735	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6736	</listitem>
6737
6738	<listitem>
6739	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6740	</listitem>
6741
6742	<listitem>
6743	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6744	</listitem>
6745
6746	<listitem>
6747	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6748	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6749	</listitem>
6750
6751	<listitem>
6752	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6753	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6754	</listitem>
6755
6756	<listitem>
6757	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6758	</listitem>
6759
6760	<listitem>
6761	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6762	</listitem>
6763
6764	<listitem>
6765	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6766	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6767	(bug #3864)</para>
6768	</listitem>
6769
6770	<listitem>
6771	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6772	now flushes the output stream</para>
6773	</listitem>
6774
6775	<listitem>
6776	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6777	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6778	</listitem>
6779
6780	<listitem>
6781	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6782	</listitem>
6783
6784	<listitem>
6785	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6786	</listitem>
6787
6788	<listitem>
6789	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6790	</listitem>
6791
6792	<listitem>
6793	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6794	</listitem>
6795
6796	<listitem>
6797	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6798	(bug #3964)</para>
6799	</listitem>
6800
6801	<listitem>
6802	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6803	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6804	</listitem>
6805
6806	<listitem>
6807	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6808	hosts</para>
6809	</listitem>
6810
6811	<listitem>
6812	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6813	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6814	e1000 adapter</para>
6815	</listitem>
6816
6817	<listitem>
6818	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6819	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6820	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6821	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6822	</listitem>
6823
6824	<listitem>
6825	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6826	</listitem>
6827
6828	<listitem>
6829	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6830	</listitem>
6831
6832	<listitem>
6833	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6834	</listitem>
6835
6836	<listitem>
6837	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6838	file (bug #1023)</para>
6839	</listitem>
6840
6841	<listitem>
6842	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6843	</listitem>
6844
6845	<listitem>
6846	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6847	</listitem>
6848
6849	</itemizedlist>
6850	</sect1>
6851
6852	<sect1>
6853	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6854
6855	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6856	added:</para>
6857
6858	<itemizedlist>
6859
6860	<listitem>
6861	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6862	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6863	</listitem>
6864
6865	<listitem>
6866	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6867	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6868	and later</para>
6869	</listitem>
6870
6871	<listitem>
6872	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6873	running services</para>
6874	</listitem>
6875
6876	<listitem>
6877	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6878	terminates</para>
6879	</listitem>
6880
6881	<listitem>
6882	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6883	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6884	</listitem>
6885
6886	<listitem>
6887	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6888	installed on the guest</para>
6889	</listitem>
6890
6891	<listitem>
6892	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6893	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6894	</listitem>
6895
6896	<listitem>
6897	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6898	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6899	</listitem>
6900
6901	<listitem>
6902	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6903	(bug #2628)</para>
6904	</listitem>
6905
6906	<listitem>
6907	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6908	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6909	</listitem>
6910
6911	<listitem>
6912	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6913	(bug #3657)</para>
6914	</listitem>
6915
6916	<listitem>
6917	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6918	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6919	</listitem>
6920
6921	<listitem>
6922	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6923	virtualization only)
6924	</para>
6925	</listitem>
6926
6927	<listitem>
6928	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6929	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6930	</listitem>
6931
6932	<listitem>
6933	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6934	</listitem>
6935
6936	<listitem>
6937	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6938	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6939	</listitem>
6940
6941	<listitem>
6942	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6943	bug #3689)</para>
6944	</listitem>
6945
6946	<listitem>
6947	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6948	bug #3679)</para>
6949	</listitem>
6950
6951	<listitem>
6952	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6953	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6954	</listitem>
6955
6956	<listitem>
6957	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6958	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6959	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6960	</listitem>
6961
6962	<listitem>
6963	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6964	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6965	</listitem>
6966
6967	<listitem>
6968	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6969	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6970	</listitem>
6971
6972	<listitem>
6973	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6974	(bug #3667)</para>
6975	</listitem>
6976
6977	<listitem>
6978	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6979	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6980	</listitem>
6981
6982	<listitem>
6983	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6984	</listitem>
6985
6986	<listitem>
6987	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6988	</listitem>
6989
6990	<listitem>
6991	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6992	</listitem>
6993
6994	<listitem>
6995	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6996	</listitem>
6997
6998	<listitem>
6999	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
7000	</listitem>
7001
7002	<listitem>
7003	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
7004	</listitem>
7005
7006	<listitem>
7007	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
7008	</listitem>
7009
7010	</itemizedlist>
7011	</sect1>
7012
7013	<sect1>
7014	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
7015
7016	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7017	were added:</para>
7018
7019	<itemizedlist>
7020
7021	<listitem>
7022	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
7023	</listitem>
7024
7025	<listitem>
7026	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
7027	</listitem>
7028
7029	<listitem>
7030	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
7031	</listitem>
7032
7033	<listitem>
7034	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
7035	</listitem>
7036
7037	<listitem>
7038	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
7039	</listitem>
7040
7041	<listitem>
7042	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
7043	</listitem>
7044
7045	<listitem>
7046	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
7047	</listitem>
7048
7049	<listitem>
7050	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
7051	</listitem>
7052
7053	<listitem>
7054	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7055	</listitem>
7056
7057	<listitem>
7058	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
7059	</listitem>
7060
7061	</itemizedlist>
7062
7063	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7064
7065	<itemizedlist>
7066
7067	<listitem>
7068	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
7069	</listitem>
7070
7071	<listitem>
7072	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
7073	</listitem>
7074
7075	<listitem>
7076	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
7077	</listitem>
7078
7079	<listitem>
7080	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
7081	</listitem>
7082
7083	<listitem>
7084	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
7085	</listitem>
7086
7087	<listitem>
7088	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7089	</listitem>
7090
7091	<listitem>
7092	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7093	</listitem>
7094
7095	<listitem>
7096	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
7097	</listitem>
7098
7099	<listitem>
7100	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
7101	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
7102	</listitem>
7103
7104	<listitem>
7105	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
7106	</listitem>
7107
7108	<listitem>
7109	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
7110	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
7111	</listitem>
7112
7113	<listitem>
7114	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
7115	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
7116	</listitem>
7117
7118	<listitem>
7119	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
7120	</listitem>
7121
7122	<listitem>
7123	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
7124	</listitem>
7125
7126	<listitem>
7127	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
7128	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
7129	</listitem>
7130
7131	<listitem>
7132	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
7133	</listitem>
7134
7135	<listitem>
7136	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
7137	ESX server images)</para>
7138	</listitem>
7139
7140	<listitem>
7141	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
7142	writable</para>
7143	</listitem>
7144
7145	<listitem>
7146	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
7147	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
7148	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
7149	</listitem>
7150
7151	<listitem>
7152	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
7153	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
7154	</listitem>
7155
7156	<listitem>
7157	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7158	</listitem>
7159
7160	<listitem>
7161	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7162	</listitem>
7163
7164	<listitem>
7165	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7166	hosts when creating files</para>
7167	</listitem>
7168
7169	<listitem>
7170	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7171	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7172	</listitem>
7173
7174	<listitem>
7175	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7176	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7177	#2306)</para>
7178	</listitem>
7179
7180	<listitem>
7181	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7182	(bug #3555)</para>
7183	</listitem>
7184
7185	<listitem>
7186	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7187	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7188	</listitem>
7189
7190	<listitem>
7191	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7192	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7193	</listitem>
7194
7195	<listitem>
7196	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7197	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7198	</listitem>
7199
7200	<listitem>
7201	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7202	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7203	</listitem>
7204
7205	<listitem>
7206	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7207	(bug #3586)</para>
7208	</listitem>
7209
7210	<listitem>
7211	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7212	from Scratch systems</para>
7213	</listitem>
7214
7215	<listitem>
7216	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7217	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7218	</listitem>
7219
7220	<listitem>
7221	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7222	</listitem>
7223
7224	<listitem>
7225	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7226	default to compact format</para>
7227	</listitem>
7228
7229	<listitem>
7230	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7231	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7232	</listitem>
7233
7234	<listitem>
7235	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7236	</listitem>
7237
7238	<listitem>
7239	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7240	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7241	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7242	</listitem>
7243
7244	<listitem>
7245	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7246	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7247	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7248	</listitem>
7249
7250	<listitem>
7251	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7252	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7253	</listitem>
7254
7255	<listitem>
7256	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7257	</listitem>
7258
7259	<listitem>
7260	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7261	</listitem>
7262
7263	<listitem>
7264	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7265	</listitem>
7266
7267	<listitem>
7268	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7269	</listitem>
7270
7271	<listitem>
7272	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7273	</listitem>
7274
7275	<listitem>
7276	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7277	</listitem>
7278
7279	<listitem>
7280	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7281	</listitem>
7282
7283	<listitem>
7284	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7285	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7286	</listitem>
7287
7288	<listitem>
7289	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7290	</listitem>
7291
7292	<listitem>
7293	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7294	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7295	</listitem>
7296
7297	<listitem>
7298	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7299	</listitem>
7300
7301	<listitem>
7302	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7303	</listitem>
7304
7305	<listitem>
7306	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7307	</listitem>
7308
7309	<listitem>
7310	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7311	#2536)</para>
7312	</listitem>
7313
7314	<listitem>
7315	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7316	</listitem>
7317
7318	<listitem>
7319	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7320	(bug #3548)</para>
7321	</listitem>
7322
7323	</itemizedlist>
7324	</sect1>
7325
7326	<sect1>
7327	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7328
7329	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7330	added:</para>
7331
7332	<itemizedlist>
7333
7334	<listitem>
7335	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7336	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7337	</listitem>
7338
7339	<listitem>
7340	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7341	</listitem>
7342
7343	<listitem>
7344	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7345	</listitem>
7346
7347	<listitem>
7348	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7349	</listitem>
7350
7351	<listitem>
7352	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7353	(bug #3115)</para>
7354	</listitem>
7355
7356	<listitem>
7357	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7358	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7359	</listitem>
7360
7361	<listitem>
7362	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7363	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7364	(bug #3215)</para>
7365	</listitem>
7366
7367	<listitem>
7368	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7369	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7370	</listitem>
7371
7372	<listitem>
7373	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7374	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7375	</listitem>
7376
7377	<listitem>
7378	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7379	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7380	</listitem>
7381
7382	<listitem>
7383	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7384	in parallel</para>
7385	</listitem>
7386
7387	<listitem>
7388	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7389	</listitem>
7390
7391	<listitem>
7392	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7393	</listitem>
7394
7395	<listitem>
7396	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7397	</listitem>
7398
7399	<listitem>
7400	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7401	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7402	</listitem>
7403
7404	<listitem>
7405	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7406	</listitem>
7407
7408	<listitem>
7409	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7410	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7411	</listitem>
7412
7413	<listitem>
7414	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7415	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7416	</listitem>
7417
7418	<listitem>
7419	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7420	</listitem>
7421
7422	<listitem>
7423	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7424	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7425	</listitem>
7426
7427	<listitem>
7428	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7429	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7430	</listitem>
7431
7432	<listitem>
7433	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7434	</listitem>
7435
7436	<listitem>
7437	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7438	</listitem>
7439
7440	<listitem>
7441	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7442	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7443	</listitem>
7444
7445	<listitem>
7446	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7447	</listitem>
7448
7449	<listitem>
7450	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7451	</listitem>
7452
7453	<listitem>
7454	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7455	</listitem>
7456
7457	<listitem>
7458	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7459	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7460	</listitem>
7461
7462	<listitem>
7463	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7464	</listitem>
7465
7466	<listitem>
7467	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7468	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7469	</listitem>
7470
7471	<listitem>
7472	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7473	</listitem>
7474
7475	<listitem>
7476	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7477	</listitem>
7478
7479	<listitem>
7480	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7481	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7482	</listitem>
7483
7484	<listitem>
7485	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7486	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7487	</listitem>
7488
7489	<listitem>
7490	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7491	</listitem>
7492
7493	<listitem>
7494	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7495	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7496	</listitem>
7497
7498	<listitem>
7499	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7500	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7501	</listitem>
7502
7503	<listitem>
7504	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7505	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7506	</listitem>
7507
7508	<listitem>
7509	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7510	(bug #3213)</para>
7511	</listitem>
7512
7513	<listitem>
7514	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7515	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7516	</listitem>
7517
7518	<listitem>
7519	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7520	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7521	</listitem>
7522
7523	</itemizedlist>
7524	</sect1>
7525
7526	<sect1>
7527	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7528
7529	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7530	added:</para>
7531
7532	<itemizedlist>
7533
7534	<listitem>
7535	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7536	</listitem>
7537
7538	<listitem>
7539	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7540	</listitem>
7541
7542	<listitem>
7543	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7544	</listitem>
7545
7546	<listitem>
7547	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7548	</listitem>
7549
7550	<listitem>
7551	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7552	</listitem>
7553
7554	<listitem>
7555	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7556	</listitem>
7557
7558	<listitem>
7559	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7560	</listitem>
7561
7562	<listitem>
7563	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7564	</listitem>
7565
7566	<listitem>
7567	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7568	</listitem>
7569
7570	<listitem>
7571	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7572	</listitem>
7573
7574	<listitem>
7575	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7576	</listitem>
7577
7578	<listitem>
7579	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7580	</listitem>
7581
7582	<listitem>
7583	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7584	</listitem>
7585
7586	<listitem>
7587	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7588	</listitem>
7589
7590	<listitem>
7591	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7592	</listitem>
7593
7594	<listitem>
7595	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7596	</listitem>
7597
7598	<listitem>
7599	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7600	(bug #3067)</para>
7601	</listitem>
7602
7603	<listitem>
7604	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7605	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7606	</listitem>
7607
7608	<listitem>
7609	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7610	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7611	</listitem>
7612
7613	<listitem>
7614	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7615	</listitem>
7616
7617	<listitem>
7618	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7619	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7620	</listitem>
7621
7622	<listitem>
7623	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7624	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7625	</listitem>
7626
7627	<listitem>
7628	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7629	</listitem>
7630
7631	<listitem>
7632	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7633	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7634	</listitem>
7635
7636	<listitem>
7637	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7638	</listitem>
7639
7640	<listitem>
7641	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7642	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7643	</listitem>
7644
7645	<listitem>
7646	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7647	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7648	</listitem>
7649
7650	<listitem>
7651	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7652	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7653	</para>
7654	</listitem>
7655
7656	<listitem>
7657	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7658	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7659	</para>
7660	</listitem>
7661
7662	<listitem>
7663	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7664	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7665	</para>
7666	</listitem>
7667
7668	<listitem>
7669	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7670	</listitem>
7671
7672	<listitem>
7673	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7674	</listitem>
7675
7676	<listitem>
7677	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7678	</listitem>
7679
7680	<listitem>
7681	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7682	</listitem>
7683
7684	<listitem>
7685	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7686	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7687	</listitem>
7688
7689	<listitem>
7690	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7691	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7692	</listitem>
7693
7694	<listitem>
7695	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7696	formatting a drive</para>
7697	</listitem>
7698
7699	<listitem>
7700	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7701	</listitem>
7702
7703	<listitem>
7704	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7705	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7706	</listitem>
7707
7708	<listitem>
7709	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7710	</listitem>
7711
7712	<listitem>
7713	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7714	</listitem>
7715
7716	<listitem>
7717	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7718	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7719	</listitem>
7720
7721	<listitem>
7722	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7723	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7724	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7725	</listitem>
7726
7727	<listitem>
7728	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7729	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7730	</listitem>
7731
7732	<listitem>
7733	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7734	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7735	</listitem>
7736
7737	<listitem>
7738	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7739	(bug #2768)</para>
7740	</listitem>
7741
7742	<listitem>
7743	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7744	</listitem>
7745
7746	<listitem>
7747	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7748	</listitem>
7749
7750	<listitem>
7751	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7752	single, unified package</para>
7753	</listitem>
7754
7755	<listitem>
7756	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7757	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7758	</listitem>
7759
7760	<listitem>
7761	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7762	</listitem>
7763
7764	<listitem>
7765	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7766	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7767	</listitem>
7768
7769	<listitem>
7770	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7771	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7772	</listitem>
7773
7774	<listitem>
7775	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7776	</listitem>
7777
7778	<listitem>
7779	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7780	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7781	doing 3D</para>
7782	</listitem>
7783
7784	<listitem>
7785	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7786	</listitem>
7787
7788	<listitem>
7789	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7790	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7791	</listitem>
7792
7793	<listitem>
7794	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7795	</listitem>
7796
7797	<listitem>
7798	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7799	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7800	</listitem>
7801
7802	<listitem>
7803	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7804	</listitem>
7805
7806	<listitem>
7807	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7808	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7809	</listitem>
7810
7811	<listitem>
7812	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7813	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7814	(bug #2938)</para>
7815	</listitem>
7816
7817	<listitem>
7818	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7819	Linux guests</para>
7820	</listitem>
7821
7822	<listitem>
7823	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7824	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7825	(bug #1776)</para>
7826	</listitem>
7827
7828	<listitem>
7829	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7830	(bug #1612)</para>
7831	</listitem>
7832
7833	<listitem>
7834	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7835	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7836	</listitem>
7837
7838	<listitem>
7839	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7840	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7841	</listitem>
7842
7843	<listitem>
7844	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7845	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7846	</listitem>
7847
7848	</itemizedlist>
7849	</sect1>
7850
7851	<sect1>
7852	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7853
7854	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7855	were added:</para>
7856
7857	<itemizedlist>
7858	<listitem>
7859	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7860	</listitem>
7861
7862	<listitem>
7863	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7864	</listitem>
7865
7866	<listitem>
7867	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7868	</listitem>
7869
7870	<listitem>
7871	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7872	</listitem>
7873
7874	<listitem>
7875	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7876	</listitem>
7877
7878	<listitem>
7879	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7880	</listitem>
7881
7882	<listitem>
7883	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7884	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7885	</listitem>
7886
7887	<listitem>
7888	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7889	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7890	</listitem>
7891
7892	</itemizedlist>
7893
7894	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7895
7896	<itemizedlist>
7897	<listitem>
7898	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7899	</listitem>
7900
7901	<listitem>
7902	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7903	</listitem>
7904
7905	<listitem>
7906	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7907	</listitem>
7908
7909	<listitem>
7910	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7911	</listitem>
7912
7913	<listitem>
7914	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7915	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7916	</listitem>
7917
7918	<listitem>
7919	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7920	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7921	</listitem>
7922
7923	<listitem>
7924	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7925	</listitem>
7926
7927	<listitem>
7928	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7929	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7930	</listitem>
7931
7932	<listitem>
7933	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7934	</listitem>
7935
7936	<listitem>
7937	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7938	</listitem>
7939
7940	<listitem>
7941	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7942	</listitem>
7943
7944	<listitem>
7945	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7946	</listitem>
7947
7948	<listitem>
7949	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7950	</listitem>
7951
7952	<listitem>
7953	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7954	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7955	</listitem>
7956
7957	<listitem>
7958	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7959	the compiz window manager</para>
7960	</listitem>
7961
7962	<listitem>
7963	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7964	</listitem>
7965
7966	<listitem>
7967	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7968	</listitem>
7969
7970	<listitem>
7971	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7972	</listitem>
7973
7974	<listitem>
7975	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7976	</listitem>
7977
7978	<listitem>
7979	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7980	</listitem>
7981
7982	<listitem>
7983	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7984	</listitem>
7985
7986	<listitem>
7987	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7988	</listitem>
7989
7990	<listitem>
7991	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7992	</listitem>
7993
7994	<listitem>
7995	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7996	</listitem>
7997
7998	<listitem>
7999	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
8000	of two (bug #2724)</para>
8001	</listitem>
8002
8003	<listitem>
8004	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
8005	for direct device access</para>
8006	</listitem>
8007
8008	<listitem>
8009	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
8010	</listitem>
8011
8012	<listitem>
8013	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
8014	</listitem>
8015
8016	<listitem>
8017	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
8018	</listitem>
8019
8020	<listitem>
8021	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
8022	</listitem>
8023
8024	<listitem>
8025	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
8026	</listitem>
8027
8028	<listitem>
8029	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
8030	</listitem>
8031
8032	<listitem>
8033	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
8034	</listitem>
8035
8036	<listitem>
8037	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
8038	</listitem>
8039
8040	</itemizedlist>
8041	</sect1>
8042
8043	<sect1>
8044	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
8045
8046	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8047	added:</para>
8048
8049	<itemizedlist>
8050
8051	<listitem>
8052	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
8053	states/snapshots</para>
8054	</listitem>
8055
8056	<listitem>
8057	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
8058	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
8059	</listitem>
8060
8061	<listitem>
8062	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
8063	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
8064	</listitem>
8065
8066	<listitem>
8067	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
8068	collisions</para>
8069	</listitem>
8070
8071	<listitem>
8072	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
8073	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
8074	</listitem>
8075
8076	<listitem>
8077	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
8078	</listitem>
8079
8080	<listitem>
8081	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
8082	reliably</para>
8083	</listitem>
8084
8085	<listitem>
8086	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
8087	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
8088	</listitem>
8089
8090	<listitem>
8091	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
8092	a reboot</para>
8093	</listitem>
8094
8095	<listitem>
8096	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
8097	</listitem>
8098
8099	<listitem>
8100	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
8101	in parallel</para>
8102	</listitem>
8103
8104	<listitem>
8105	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
8106	</listitem>
8107
8108	<listitem>
8109	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
8110	correctly</para>
8111	</listitem>
8112
8113	<listitem>
8114	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
8115	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
8116	</listitem>
8117
8118	</itemizedlist>
8119	</sect1>
8120
8121	<sect1>
8122	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
8123
8124	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8125	added:</para>
8126
8127	<itemizedlist>
8128
8129	<listitem>
8130	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
8131	(bug #2220)</para>
8132	</listitem>
8133
8134	<listitem>
8135	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
8136	</listitem>
8137
8138	<listitem>
8139	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
8140	</listitem>
8141
8142	<listitem>
8143	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
8144	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
8145	</listitem>
8146
8147	<listitem>
8148	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
8149	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
8150	</listitem>
8151
8152	<listitem>
8153	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
8154	(bug #2624)</para>
8155	</listitem>
8156
8157	<listitem>
8158	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8159	(bug #2024)</para>
8160	</listitem>
8161
8162	<listitem>
8163	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8164	</listitem>
8165
8166	<listitem>
8167	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8168	</listitem>
8169
8170	<listitem>
8171	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8172	</listitem>
8173
8174	<listitem>
8175	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8176	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8177	</listitem>
8178
8179	<listitem>
8180	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8181	applications when updating the installation</para>
8182	</listitem>
8183
8184	<listitem>
8185	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8186	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8187	</listitem>
8188
8189	<listitem>
8190	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8191	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8192	</listitem>
8193
8194	<listitem>
8195	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8196	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8197	</listitem>
8198
8199	<listitem>
8200	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8201	connected to a host device</para>
8202	</listitem>
8203
8204	<listitem>
8205	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8206	</listitem>
8207
8208	<listitem>
8209	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8210	</listitem>
8211
8212	<listitem>
8213	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8214	</listitem>
8215
8216	<listitem>
8217	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8218	when using native RDP connections</para>
8219	</listitem>
8220
8221	<listitem>
8222	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8223	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8224	</listitem>
8225
8226	<listitem>
8227	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8228	(bug #2591)</para>
8229	</listitem>
8230
8231	<listitem>
8232	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8233	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8234	</listitem>
8235
8236	<listitem>
8237	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8238	</listitem>
8239
8240	</itemizedlist>
8241	</sect1>
8242
8243	<sect1>
8244	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8245
8246	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8247	added:</para>
8248
8249	<itemizedlist>
8250	<listitem>
8251	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8252	</listitem>
8253
8254	<listitem>
8255	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8256	</listitem>
8257
8258	<listitem>
8259	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8260	</listitem>
8261
8262	<listitem>
8263	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8264	</listitem>
8265
8266	<listitem>
8267	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8268	</listitem>
8269
8270	<listitem>
8271	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8272	</listitem>
8273
8274	<listitem>
8275	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8276	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8277	</listitem>
8278
8279	<listitem>
8280	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8281	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8282	</listitem>
8283
8284	<listitem>
8285	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8286	</listitem>
8287
8288	<listitem>
8289	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8290	equal to the client resolution</para>
8291	</listitem>
8292
8293	<listitem>
8294	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8295	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8296	</listitem>
8297
8298	<listitem>
8299	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8300	</listitem>
8301
8302	<listitem>
8303	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8304	</listitem>
8305
8306	<listitem>
8307	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8308	</listitem>
8309
8310	<listitem>
8311	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8312	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8313	</listitem>
8314
8315	<listitem>
8316	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8317	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8318	</listitem>
8319
8320	<listitem>
8321	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8322	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8323	</listitem>
8324
8325	<listitem>
8326	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8327	</listitem>
8328
8329	<listitem>
8330	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8331	</listitem>
8332
8333	<listitem>
8334	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8335	</listitem>
8336
8337	<listitem>
8338	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8339	</listitem>
8340
8341	<listitem>
8342	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8343	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8344	</listitem>
8345
8346	<listitem>
8347	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8348	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8349	</listitem>
8350
8351	<listitem>
8352	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8353	</listitem>
8354
8355	<listitem>
8356	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8357	</listitem>
8358
8359	<listitem>
8360	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8361	</listitem>
8362
8363	</itemizedlist>
8364
8365	</sect1>
8366
8367	<sect1>
8368	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8369
8370	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8371	added:</para>
8372
8373	<itemizedlist>
8374
8375	<listitem>
8376	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8377	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8378	</listitem>
8379
8380	<listitem>
8381	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8382	</listitem>
8383
8384	<listitem>
8385	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8386	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8387	</listitem>
8388
8389	<listitem>
8390	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8391	</listitem>
8392
8393	<listitem>
8394	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8395	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8396	</listitem>
8397
8398	<listitem>
8399	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8400	</listitem>
8401
8402	<listitem>
8403	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8404	the virtual disk manager</para>
8405	</listitem>
8406
8407	<listitem>
8408	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8409	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8410	</listitem>
8411
8412	<listitem>
8413	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8414	</listitem>
8415
8416	<listitem>
8417	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8418	</listitem>
8419
8420	<listitem>
8421	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8422	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8423	</listitem>
8424
8425	<listitem>
8426	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8427	bug #2067)</para>
8428	</listitem>
8429
8430	<listitem>
8431	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8432	</listitem>
8433
8434	<listitem>
8435	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8436	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8437	</listitem>
8438
8439	<listitem>
8440	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8441	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8442	(bug #2184)</para>
8443	</listitem>
8444
8445	<listitem>
8446	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8447	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8448	</listitem>
8449
8450	<listitem>
8451	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8452	(Windows guests only)</para>
8453	</listitem>
8454
8455	<listitem>
8456	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8457	</listitem>
8458
8459	<listitem>
8460	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8461	</listitem>
8462
8463	<listitem>
8464	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8465	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8466	</listitem>
8467
8468	<listitem>
8469	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8470	</listitem>
8471
8472	<listitem>
8473	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8474	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8475	</para>
8476	</listitem>
8477
8478	<listitem>
8479	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8480	</listitem>
8481
8482	<listitem>
8483	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8484	</listitem>
8485
8486	<listitem>
8487	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8488	a VM reboot</para>
8489	</listitem>
8490
8491	<listitem>
8492	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8493	</listitem>
8494
8495	<listitem>
8496	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8497	buggy X servers</para>
8498	</listitem>
8499
8500	<listitem>
8501	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8502	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8503	</listitem>
8504
8505	<listitem>
8506	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8507	</listitem>
8508
8509	<listitem>
8510	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8511	(bug #2128)</para>
8512	</listitem>
8513
8514	<listitem>
8515	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8516	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8517	</listitem>
8518
8519	<listitem>
8520	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8521	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8522	</listitem>
8523
8524	<listitem>
8525	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8526	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8527	</listitem>
8528
8529	<listitem>
8530	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8531	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8532	</listitem>
8533
8534	<listitem>
8535	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8536	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8537	</listitem>
8538
8539	<listitem>
8540	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8541	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8542	</listitem>
8543
8544	<listitem>
8545	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8546	installer into a single package</para>
8547	</listitem>
8548
8549	<listitem>
8550	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8551	port to the guest
8552	</para>
8553	</listitem>
8554
8555	</itemizedlist>
8556
8557	</sect1>
8558
8559	<sect1>
8560	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8561
8562	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8563	were added:<itemizedlist>
8564
8565	<listitem>
8566	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8567	</listitem>
8568
8569	<listitem>
8570	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8571	</listitem>
8572
8573	<listitem>
8574	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8575	</listitem>
8576
8577	<listitem>
8578	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8579	</listitem>
8580
8581	<listitem>
8582	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8583	</listitem>
8584
8585	<listitem>
8586	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8587	</listitem>
8588
8589	<listitem>
8590	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8591	</listitem>
8592
8593	<listitem>
8594	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8595	</listitem>
8596
8597	<listitem>
8598	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8599	</listitem>
8600
8601	<listitem>
8602	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8603	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8604	</listitem>
8605
8606	<listitem>
8607	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8608	</listitem>
8609
8610	<listitem>
8611	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8612	</listitem>
8613
8614	<listitem>
8615	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8616	</listitem>
8617
8618	</itemizedlist></para>
8619
8620	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8621
8622	<itemizedlist>
8623
8624	<listitem>
8625	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8626	</listitem>
8627
8628	<listitem>
8629	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8630	</listitem>
8631
8632	<listitem>
8633	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8634	</listitem>
8635
8636	<listitem>
8637	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8638	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8639	</listitem>
8640
8641	<listitem>
8642	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8643	restored</para>
8644	</listitem>
8645
8646	<listitem>
8647	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8648	</listitem>
8649
8650	<listitem>
8651	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8652	</listitem>
8653
8654	<listitem>
8655	<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>
8656	</listitem>
8657
8658	</itemizedlist>
8659
8660	</sect1>
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