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