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

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