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

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