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3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.0.0 Beta 3 (2010-12-14)</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>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	<listitem>
16	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
17	</listitem>
18
19	<listitem>
20	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
21	<itemizedlist>
22	<listitem>
23	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
24	</listitem>
25	<listitem>
26	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
27	</listitem>
28	<listitem>
29	<para>Support for creating and starting .vbox desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
30	</listitem>
31	<listitem>
32	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
33	</listitem>
34	<listitem>
35	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
36	states, and optionally including attached
37	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
38	can do the same now)</para>
39	</listitem>
40	<listitem>
41	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
42	</listitem>
43
44	</itemizedlist>
45	</para>
46	</listitem>
47
48	<listitem>
49	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support; see <xref linkend="ovf" /></para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	<listitem>
53	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
54	</listitem>
55
56	<listitem>
57	<para>New virtual hardware:
58	<itemizedlist>
59	<listitem>
60	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
61	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
62	</listitem>
63	<listitem>
64	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
65	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
66	</listitem>
67	</itemizedlist>
68	</para>
69	</listitem>
70
71	<listitem>
72	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
73	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
74	</listitem>
75
76	<listitem>
77	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
78	Parallels images</para>
79	</listitem>
80
81	<listitem>
82	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images</para>
83	</listitem>
84
85	<listitem>
86	<para>Guest Additions: support for copying files into the guest file system;
87	the Windows Additions can now automatically update themselves (requires
88	installed Windows Guest Additions 4.0 or later)</para>
89	</listitem>
90
91	<listitem>
92	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
93	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
94	</listitem>
95
96	<listitem>
97	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
98	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
99	</listitem>
100
101	</itemizedlist>
102
103	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
104
105	<itemizedlist>
106
107	<listitem>
108	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
109	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
110	</listitem>
111
112	<listitem>
113	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
114	</listitem>
115
116	<listitem>
117	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
118	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
119	</listitem>
120
121	<listitem>
122	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
123	(bug #1657)</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
128	</listitem>
129
130	<listitem>
131	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
132	</listitem>
133
134	<listitem>
135	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
136	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
137	</listitem>
138
139	<listitem>
140	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
141	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
142	</listitem>
143
144	<listitem>
145	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
146	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
147	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
148	</listitem>
149
150	<listitem>
151	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
152	again (bug #6864)</para>
153	</listitem>
154
155	<listitem>
156	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
157	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
158	</listitem>
159
160	<listitem>
161	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
162	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
163	</listitem>
164
165	<listitem>
166	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
167	</listitem>
168
169	<listitem>
170	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
171	</listitem>
172
173	<listitem>
174	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
175	</listitem>
176
177	<listitem>
178	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
179	</listitem>
180
181	<listitem>
182	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
191	(bug #7058)</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
196	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
201	circumstances</para>
202	</listitem>
203
204	<listitem>
205	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
206	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
207	#5578)
208	</para>
209	</listitem>
210
211	<listitem>
212	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
213	</listitem>
214
215	<listitem>
216	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
217	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
218	</listitem>
219
220	<listitem>
221	<para>OVF/OVA: significant performance improvements during export and import
222	</para>
223	</listitem>
224
225	<listitem>
226	<para>OVF/OVA: creation of the manifest file on export is optional
227	now</para>
228	</listitem>
229
230	<listitem>
231	<para>OVF/OVA: allow overwriting the target disk format on
232	import</para>
233	</listitem>
234
235	<listitem>
236	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
237	</listitem>
238
239	<listitem>
240	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
241	#6760)</para>
242	</listitem>
243
244	<listitem>
245	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
246	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
247	</listitem>
248
249	<listitem>
250	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
251	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
252	</listitem>
253
254	<listitem>
255	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
256	</listitem>
257
258	<listitem>
259	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
260	file</para>
261	</listitem>
262
263	<listitem>
264	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
265	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
266	</listitem>
267
268	</itemizedlist>
269
270	</sect1>
271
272	<sect1>
273	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
274
275	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
276	added:</para>
277
278	<itemizedlist>
279
280	<listitem>
281	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
282	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
283	</listitem>
284
285	<listitem>
286	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
287	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
288	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
289	</listitem>
290
291	<listitem>
292	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
293	</listitem>
294
295	<listitem>
296	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
297	</listitem>
298
299	<listitem>
300	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
301	</listitem>
302
303	<listitem>
304	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
305	the VM is running</para>
306	</listitem>
307
308	<listitem>
309	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
310	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
311	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
312	starting from a saved state</para>
313	</listitem>
314
315	<listitem>
316	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
317	</listitem>
318
319	<listitem>
320	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
321	</listitem>
322
323	<listitem>
324	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
325	</listitem>
326
327	<listitem>
328	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
329	</listitem>
330
331	<listitem>
332	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
333	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
334	</listitem>
335
336	<listitem>
337	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
338	fixes for Koran keyboards</para>
339	</listitem>
340
341	<listitem>
342	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
343	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
344	</listitem>
345
346	<listitem>
347	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
348	</listitem>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
352	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
353	</para>
354	</listitem>
355
356	<listitem>
357	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
358	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
359	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
360	</listitem>
361
362	<listitem>
363	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
364	only)</para>
365	</listitem>
366
367	<listitem>
368	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
369	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
370	</listitem>
371
372	<listitem>
373	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
374	</listitem>
375
376	<listitem>
377	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
382	</listitem>
383
384	<listitem>
385	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
386	state (bug #4124)</para>
387	</listitem>
388
389	<listitem>
390	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
391	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
396	</listitem>
397
398	<listitem>
399	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
400	(bug #2996)</para>
401	</listitem>
402
403	<listitem>
404	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
405	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
406	</listitem>
407
408	<listitem>
409	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
410	</listitem>
411
412	<listitem>
413	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
414	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
415	</listitem>
416
417	<listitem>
418	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
419	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
424	user accounts for VM information</para>
425	</listitem>
426
427	</itemizedlist>
428
429	</sect1>
430
431	<sect1>
432	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
433
434	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
435	added:</para>
436
437	<itemizedlist>
438
439	<listitem>
440	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
441	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
442	</listitem>
443
444	<listitem>
445	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
446	</listitem>
447
448	<listitem>
449	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
450	</listitem>
451
452	<listitem>
453	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
454	</listitem>
455
456	<listitem>
457	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
458	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
459	</listitem>
460
461	<listitem>
462	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
463	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
464	</listitem>
465
466	<listitem>
467	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
468	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
469	</listitem>
470
471	<listitem>
472	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
473	(bug #4952)</para>
474	</listitem>
475
476	<listitem>
477	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
478	bug #6122)</para>
479	</listitem>
480
481	<listitem>
482	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
483	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
484	</listitem>
485
486	<listitem>
487	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
488	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
489	(Linux hosts only)</para>
490	</listitem>
491
492	<listitem>
493	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
494	</listitem>
495
496	<listitem>
497	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
498	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
499	</listitem>
500
501	<listitem>
502	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
503	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
504	</listitem>
505
506	<listitem>
507	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
508	canceled</para>
509	</listitem>
510
511	<listitem>
512	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
513	</listitem>
514
515	<listitem>
516	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
517	</listitem>
518
519	<listitem>
520	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
521	</listitem>
522
523	<listitem>
524	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
525	</listitem>
526
527	<listitem>
528	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
529	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
530	</listitem>
531
532	<listitem>
533	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
534	</listitem>
535
536	<listitem>
537	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
538	(Linux hosts only)</para>
539	</listitem>
540
541	<listitem>
542	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
543	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
544	</listitem>
545
546	<listitem>
547	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	<listitem>
551	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
552	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
553	</listitem>
554
555	<listitem>
556	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
557	</listitem>
558
559	<listitem>
560	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
561	circumstances</para>
562	</listitem>
563
564	<listitem>
565	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
566	printers</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
571	</listitem>
572
573	<listitem>
574	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
575	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	<listitem>
579	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
580	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
585	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
586	circumstances</para>
587	</listitem>
588
589	<listitem>
590	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
591	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
596	as supported extension</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
601	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
602	</listitem>
603
604	<listitem>
605	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
606	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
607	</listitem>
608
609	<listitem>
610	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
615	(bug #7366)</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
620	</listitem>
621
622	<listitem>
623	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
624	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
625	</listitem>
626
627	<listitem>
628	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
629	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
634	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
635	</listitem>
636
637	<listitem>
638	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
639	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
640	</listitem>
641
642	<listitem>
643	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
644	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
645	</listitem>
646
647	<listitem>
648	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
649	</listitem>
650
651	<listitem>
652	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
653	</listitem>
654
655	<listitem>
656	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
657	more than one environment variable</para>
658	</listitem>
659
660	<listitem>
661	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
662	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
663	</listitem>
664
665	<listitem>
666	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
667	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
668	</listitem>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
672	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
673	</listitem>
674
675	<listitem>
676	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
677	enumerating logged in users</para>
678	</listitem>
679
680	<listitem>
681	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
682	</listitem>
683
684	<listitem>
685	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
686	</listitem>
687
688	<listitem>
689	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
690	</listitem>
691
692	<listitem>
693	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
694	in the event of a VM crash</para>
695	</listitem>
696
697	<listitem>
698	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
699	</listitem>
700
701	<listitem>
702	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
703	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
704	</listitem>
705
706	<listitem>
707	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
708	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
709	</listitem>
710
711	<listitem>
712	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
713	(bug #7448)</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
718	</listitem>
719
720	<listitem>
721	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
722	</listitem>
723
724	<listitem>
725	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
726	</listitem>
727
728	</itemizedlist>
729
730	</sect1>
731
732	<sect1>
733	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
734
735	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
736	added:</para>
737
738	<itemizedlist>
739
740	<listitem>
741	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
742	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
743	</listitem>
744
745	<listitem>
746	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
747	</listitem>
748
749	<listitem>
750	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
751	bug #6809)</para>
752	</listitem>
753
754	<listitem>
755	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
756	</listitem>
757
758	<listitem>
759	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
760	</listitem>
761
762	<listitem>
763	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
764	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
765	</listitem>
766
767	<listitem>
768	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
769	changes</para>
770	</listitem>
771
772	<listitem>
773	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
774	</listitem>
775
776	<listitem>
777	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
778	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
779	</listitem>
780
781	<listitem>
782	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
783	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
784	</listitem>
785
786	<listitem>
787	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
788	</listitem>
789
790	<listitem>
791	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
792	</listitem>
793
794	<listitem>
795	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
800	</listitem>
801
802	<listitem>
803	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
804	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
805	</listitem>
806
807	<listitem>
808	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
809	</listitem>
810
811	<listitem>
812	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
813	(bug #6832)</para>
814	</listitem>
815
816	<listitem>
817	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
818	guests</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	<listitem>
822	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
823	</listitem>
824
825	<listitem>
826	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
827	without external tools and tricks</para>
828	</listitem>
829
830	<listitem>
831	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
832	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
833	</listitem>
834
835	<listitem>
836	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
837	</listitem>
838
839	<listitem>
840	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
841	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
842	</listitem>
843
844	<listitem>
845	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
846	shutdown</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	<listitem>
850	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
851	fixes</para>
852	</listitem>
853
854	<listitem>
855	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
856	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
857	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
858	</para>
859	</listitem>
860
861	<listitem>
862	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
863	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
864	</listitem>
865
866	<listitem>
867	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
868	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
869	</listitem>
870
871	<listitem>
872	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
873	</para>
874	</listitem>
875
876	<listitem>
877	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
878	</listitem>
879
880	<listitem>
881	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
882	</listitem>
883
884	<listitem>
885	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
886	</listitem>
887
888	</itemizedlist>
889
890	</sect1>
891
892	<sect1>
893	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
894
895	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
896	added:</para>
897
898	<itemizedlist>
899
900	<listitem>
901	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
902	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
903	</listitem>
904
905	<listitem>
906	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
907	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
908	</listitem>
909
910	<listitem>
911	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
912	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
913	</listitem>
914
915	<listitem>
916	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
917	</listitem>
918
919	<listitem>
920	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
921	</listitem>
922
923	<listitem>
924	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
925	</listitem>
926
927	<listitem>
928	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	<listitem>
932	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
933	assigned</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
938	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
943	multiple screens are enabled</para>
944	</listitem>
945
946	<listitem>
947	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
948	</listitem>
949
950	<listitem>
951	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
952	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
953	</listitem>
954
955	<listitem>
956	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
957	again (bug #7022).
958	</para>
959	</listitem>
960
961	<listitem>
962	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
963	(bug #6768)</para>
964	</listitem>
965
966	<listitem>
967	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
968	(bug #6927)</para>
969	</listitem>
970
971	<listitem>
972	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
973	bug #7031)</para>
974	</listitem>
975
976	<listitem>
977	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
978	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
979	</listitem>
980
981	<listitem>
982	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
983	bug #6987)</para>
984	</listitem>
985
986	<listitem>
987	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
988	</listitem>
989
990	<listitem>
991	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
992	</listitem>
993
994	<listitem>
995	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
996	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
997	</listitem>
998
999	<listitem>
1000	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
1001	</listitem>
1002
1003	<listitem>
1004	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
1005	installation (bug #5101)</para>
1006	</listitem>
1007
1008	<listitem>
1009	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
1010	</listitem>
1011
1012	<listitem>
1013	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1014	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1015	bug #6872)</para>
1016	</listitem>
1017
1018	<listitem>
1019	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1020	</listitem>
1021
1022	<listitem>
1023	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1024	(performance tweak)</para>
1025	</listitem>
1026
1027	<listitem>
1028	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1029	is currently paused</para>
1030	</listitem>
1031
1032	<listitem>
1033	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1034	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1035	</listitem>
1036
1037	<listitem>
1038	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1043	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1044	</listitem>
1045
1046	<listitem>
1047	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1048	not properly saved</para>
1049	</listitem>
1050
1051	<listitem>
1052	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1053	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1054	</listitem>
1055
1056	<listitem>
1057	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1058	</listitem>
1059
1060	<listitem>
1061	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1062	</listitem>
1063
1064	<listitem>
1065	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1066	</listitem>
1067
1068	<listitem>
1069	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1070	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1071	</listitem>
1072
1073	<listitem>
1074	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1075	</listitem>
1076
1077	<listitem>
1078	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1079	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1080	</listitem>
1081
1082	<listitem>
1083	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1084	(bug #5251)</para>
1085	</listitem>
1086
1087	<listitem>
1088	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1089	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1090	</listitem>
1091
1092	<listitem>
1093	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1094	</listitem>
1095
1096	<listitem>
1097	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1098	</listitem>
1099
1100	<listitem>
1101	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1102	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1103	</listitem>
1104
1105	<listitem>
1106	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1111	</listitem>
1112
1113	<listitem>
1114	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1115	</listitem>
1116
1117	</itemizedlist>
1118	</sect1>
1119
1120	<sect1>
1121	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1122
1123	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1124	added:</para>
1125
1126	<itemizedlist>
1127
1128	<listitem>
1129	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1130	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1131	</listitem>
1132
1133	<listitem>
1134	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1135	</listitem>
1136
1137	<listitem>
1138	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1139	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1140	</listitem>
1141
1142	<listitem>
1143	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1144	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1153	again (bug #6864)</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1158	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	<listitem>
1162	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1163	</listitem>
1164
1165	<listitem>
1166	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1167	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1168	</listitem>
1169
1170	<listitem>
1171	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1172	</listitem>
1173
1174	</itemizedlist>
1175
1176	</sect1>
1177
1178	<sect1>
1179	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1180
1181	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1182	added:</para>
1183
1184	<itemizedlist>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1188	</listitem>
1189
1190	<listitem>
1191	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1192	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1193	</listitem>
1194
1195	<listitem>
1196	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1197	</listitem>
1198
1199	<listitem>
1200	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1201	state</para>
1202	</listitem>
1203
1204	<listitem>
1205	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1206	</listitem>
1207
1208	<listitem>
1209	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1210	</listitem>
1211
1212	<listitem>
1213	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1214	</listitem>
1215
1216	<listitem>
1217	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1218	</listitem>
1219
1220	<listitem>
1221	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1222	</listitem>
1223
1224	<listitem>
1225	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1230	</listitem>
1231
1232	<listitem>
1233	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1238	</listitem>
1239
1240	<listitem>
1241	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1242	</listitem>
1243
1244	<listitem>
1245	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1246	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1247	</listitem>
1248
1249	<listitem>
1250	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1251	(bug #6784)</para>
1252	</listitem>
1253
1254	<listitem>
1255	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1256	</listitem>
1257
1258	<listitem>
1259	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1264	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	<listitem>
1268	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1273	</listitem>
1274
1275	<listitem>
1276	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1277	host only</para>
1278	</listitem>
1279
1280	<listitem>
1281	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1282	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1287	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1288	</listitem>
1289
1290	<listitem>
1291	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1292	</listitem>
1293
1294	<listitem>
1295	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1296	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1297	</listitem>
1298
1299	<listitem>
1300	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1301	</listitem>
1302
1303	<listitem>
1304	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1305	</listitem>
1306
1307	<listitem>
1308	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1309	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1310	</listitem>
1311
1312	<listitem>
1313	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1314	</listitem>
1315
1316	<listitem>
1317	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1318	</listitem>
1319
1320	<listitem>
1321	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1322	</listitem>
1323
1324	<listitem>
1325	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1326	(bug #6714)</para>
1327	</listitem>
1328
1329	<listitem>
1330	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1331	</listitem>
1332
1333	<listitem>
1334	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1335	</listitem>
1336
1337	<listitem>
1338	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1339	</listitem>
1340
1341	<listitem>
1342	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1343	</listitem>
1344
1345	<listitem>
1346	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1347	</listitem>
1348
1349	</itemizedlist>
1350
1351	</sect1>
1352
1353	<sect1>
1354	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1355
1356	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1357	were added:</para>
1358
1359	<itemizedlist>
1360
1361	<listitem>
1362	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1363	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1364	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1365	</listitem>
1366
1367	<listitem>
1368	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1369	</listitem>
1370
1371	<listitem>
1372	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1373	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1374	</listitem>
1375
1376	<listitem>
1377	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1378	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1379	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1380	</listitem>
1381
1382	<listitem>
1383	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1384	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1385	</listitem>
1386
1387	<listitem>
1388	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1389	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1390	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1391	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1392	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1393	</listitem>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1397	</listitem>
1398
1399	<listitem>
1400	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1401	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1402	</listitem>
1403
1404	<listitem>
1405	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1406	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1407	</listitem>
1408
1409	<listitem>
1410	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1411	</listitem>
1412
1413	<listitem>
1414	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrdp-videochannel"/>)</para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417	<listitem>
1418	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1419	</listitem>
1420
1421	<listitem>
1422	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1423	</listitem>
1424
1425	<listitem>
1426	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1427	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1428	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1429	</listitem>
1430
1431	<listitem>
1432	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1433	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1434	</listitem>
1435
1436	</itemizedlist>
1437
1438	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1439
1440	<itemizedlist>
1441
1442	<listitem>
1443	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1444	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1445	</listitem>
1446
1447	<listitem>
1448	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1449	</listitem>
1450
1451	<listitem>
1452	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1453	VM</para>
1454	</listitem>
1455
1456	<listitem>
1457	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1458	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1459	</listitem>
1460
1461	<listitem>
1462	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1463	#1669)</para>
1464	</listitem>
1465
1466	<listitem>
1467	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1468	#6442)</para>
1469	</listitem>
1470
1471	<listitem>
1472	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1473	combination (bug #684)</para>
1474	</listitem>
1475
1476	<listitem>
1477	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1478	the VM from the GUI</para>
1479	</listitem>
1480
1481	<listitem>
1482	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1483	medium is not accessible</para>
1484	</listitem>
1485
1486	<listitem>
1487	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1488	</listitem>
1489
1490	<listitem>
1491	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1492	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1497	#3106)</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1502	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1503	it</para>
1504	</listitem>
1505
1506	<listitem>
1507	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1512	</listitem>
1513
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1516	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1517	</listitem>
1518
1519	<listitem>
1520	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1521	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1522	</listitem>
1523
1524	<listitem>
1525	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1526	</listitem>
1527
1528	<listitem>
1529	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1530	</listitem>
1531
1532	<listitem>
1533	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1534	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1535	</listitem>
1536
1537	<listitem>
1538	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1539	</listitem>
1540
1541	<listitem>
1542	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1543	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1544	</listitem>
1545
1546	<listitem>
1547	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1548	</listitem>
1549
1550	<listitem>
1551	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1552	in VirtualBox</para>
1553	</listitem>
1554
1555	<listitem>
1556	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1557	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1558	</listitem>
1559
1560	<listitem>
1561	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1562	VirtualBox</para>
1563	</listitem>
1564
1565	<listitem>
1566	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1567	</listitem>
1568
1569	<listitem>
1570	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1571	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	</itemizedlist>
1575	</sect1>
1576
1577	<sect1>
1578	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1579
1580	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1581	added:</para>
1582
1583	<itemizedlist>
1584
1585	<listitem>
1586	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1587	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1588	</listitem>
1589
1590	<listitem>
1591	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1592	</listitem>
1593
1594	<listitem>
1595	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1596	</listitem>
1597
1598	<listitem>
1599	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1600	only) </para>
1601	</listitem>
1602
1603	<listitem>
1604	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1605	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1606	</listitem>
1607
1608	<listitem>
1609	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1610	interface version</para>
1611	</listitem>
1612
1613	<listitem>
1614	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1615	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1616	slot empty</para>
1617	</listitem>
1618
1619	<listitem>
1620	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1621	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1622	(bug #4220)</para>
1623	</listitem>
1624
1625	<listitem>
1626	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1627	</listitem>
1628
1629	<listitem>
1630	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1631	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1632	</listitem>
1633
1634	<listitem>
1635	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1636	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1637	</listitem>
1638
1639	<listitem>
1640	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1641	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1642	</listitem>
1643
1644	<listitem>
1645	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1646	attached</para>
1647	</listitem>
1648
1649	<listitem>
1650	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1651	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1652	</listitem>
1653
1654	<listitem>
1655	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1656	</listitem>
1657
1658	<listitem>
1659	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1660	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1661	</listitem>
1662
1663	<listitem>
1664	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1665	is bug #6408)</para>
1666	</listitem>
1667
1668	<listitem>
1669	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1670	</listitem>
1671
1672	<listitem>
1673	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1674	fail to initialize</para>
1675	</listitem>
1676
1677	<listitem>
1678	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1679	</listitem>
1680
1681	<listitem>
1682	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1683	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1684	</listitem>
1685
1686	<listitem>
1687	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1688	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1689	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1690	</listitem>
1691
1692	<listitem>
1693	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1694	</listitem>
1695
1696	<listitem>
1697	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1698	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1699	</listitem>
1700
1701	<listitem>
1702	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1703	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1704	</listitem>
1705
1706	<listitem>
1707	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1708	(bug #6435)</para>
1709	</listitem>
1710
1711	<listitem>
1712	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1713	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
1714	</listitem>
1715
1716	<listitem>
1717	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
1718	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
1719	(bug #6488)</para>
1720	</listitem>
1721
1722	<listitem>
1723	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
1724	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
1725	</listitem>
1726
1727	<listitem>
1728	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1729	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1730	</listitem>
1731
1732	<listitem>
1733	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
1734	#5227)</para>
1735	</listitem>
1736
1737	<listitem>
1738	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
1739	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
1740	</listitem>
1741
1742	<listitem>
1743	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
1744	</listitem>
1745
1746	<listitem>
1747	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
1748	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
1749	</listitem>
1750
1751	</itemizedlist>
1752	</sect1>
1753
1754	<sect1>
1755	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
1756
1757	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1758	added:</para>
1759
1760	<itemizedlist>
1761
1762	<listitem>
1763	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
1764	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
1765	</listitem>
1766
1767	<listitem>
1768	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
1769	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
1770	</listitem>
1771
1772	<listitem>
1773	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
1774	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
1775	</listitem>
1776
1777	<listitem>
1778	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
1779	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
1780	</listitem>
1781
1782	<listitem>
1783	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
1784	</listitem>
1785
1786	<listitem>
1787	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
1788	</listitem>
1789
1790	<listitem>
1791	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
1792	</listitem>
1793
1794	<listitem>
1795	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
1796	</listitem>
1797
1798	<listitem>
1799	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
1800	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
1801	</listitem>
1802
1803	<listitem>
1804	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
1805	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
1806	</listitem>
1807
1808	<listitem>
1809	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
1810	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
1815	</listitem>
1816
1817	<listitem>
1818	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
1819	</listitem>
1820
1821	<listitem>
1822	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
1823	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1824	</listitem>
1825
1826	<listitem>
1827	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
1828	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
1829	calls (bug #6165)</para>
1830	</listitem>
1831
1832	<listitem>
1833	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
1834	(bug #5297)</para>
1835	</listitem>
1836
1837	<listitem>
1838	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
1839	(bug #4962)</para>
1840	</listitem>
1841
1842	<listitem>
1843	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
1844	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
1849	(bug #6176)</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
1854	certain circumstances</para>
1855	</listitem>
1856
1857	<listitem>
1858	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
1859	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
1860	</listitem>
1861
1862	<listitem>
1863	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
1868	</listitem>
1869
1870	<listitem>
1871	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
1872	(bug #3571)</para>
1873	</listitem>
1874
1875	<listitem>
1876	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
1877	devices</para>
1878	</listitem>
1879
1880	<listitem>
1881	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
1882	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
1883	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
1884	</listitem>
1885
1886	<listitem>
1887	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
1888	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
1889	</listitem>
1890
1891	<listitem>
1892	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	<listitem>
1896	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
1897	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
1898	</listitem>
1899
1900	<listitem>
1901	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
1902	response</para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
1907	</listitem>
1908
1909	<listitem>
1910	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
1911	</listitem>
1912
1913	<listitem>
1914	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
1915	</listitem>
1916
1917	<listitem>
1918	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
1919	</listitem>
1920
1921	<listitem>
1922	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
1923	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
1924	</listitem>
1925
1926	<listitem>
1927	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
1928	</listitem>
1929
1930	<listitem>
1931	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
1932	</listitem>
1933
1934	<listitem>
1935	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
1936	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
1937	</listitem>
1938
1939	<listitem>
1940	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
1941	</listitem>
1942
1943	<listitem>
1944	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
1945	</listitem>
1946
1947	<listitem>
1948	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
1949	</listitem>
1950
1951	<listitem>
1952	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
1953	</listitem>
1954
1955	</itemizedlist>
1956	</sect1>
1957
1958	<sect1>
1959	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
1960
1961	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1962	added:</para>
1963
1964	<itemizedlist>
1965
1966	<listitem>
1967	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
1968	</listitem>
1969
1970	<listitem>
1971	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
1972	</listitem>
1973
1974	<listitem>
1975	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
1976	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
1977	</listitem>
1978
1979	<listitem>
1980	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
1981	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
1982	</listitem>
1983
1984	<listitem>
1985	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
1986	(bug #3945)</para>
1987	</listitem>
1988
1989	<listitem>
1990	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
1991	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
1992	</listitem>
1993
1994	<listitem>
1995	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
1996	and AMD-V only) </para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	<listitem>
2000	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
2005	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
2006	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
2007	</listitem>
2008
2009	<listitem>
2010	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
2011	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
2012	</listitem>
2013
2014	<listitem>
2015	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2016	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2017	</listitem>
2018
2019	<listitem>
2020	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2021	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2022	</listitem>
2023
2024	<listitem>
2025	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2026	snapshots command</para>
2027	</listitem>
2028
2029	<listitem>
2030	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2031	</listitem>
2032
2033	<listitem>
2034	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2035	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2036	</listitem>
2037
2038	<listitem>
2039	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2040	</listitem>
2041
2042	<listitem>
2043	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2048	</listitem>
2049
2050	<listitem>
2051	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2052	(KWin bug)</para>
2053	</listitem>
2054
2055	<listitem>
2056	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2057	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2058	</listitem>
2059
2060	<listitem>
2061	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2062	</listitem>
2063
2064	<listitem>
2065	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2066	</listitem>
2067
2068	<listitem>
2069	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2070	</listitem>
2071
2072	<listitem>
2073	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2074	</listitem>
2075
2076	<listitem>
2077	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2078	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2079	</listitem>
2080
2081	<listitem>
2082	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2083	bug #5787)</para>
2084	</listitem>
2085
2086	<listitem>
2087	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2088	DHCP requests</para>
2089	</listitem>
2090
2091	<listitem>
2092	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2093	(bug #3217)</para>
2094	</listitem>
2095
2096	<listitem>
2097	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2098	range (bug #5923)</para>
2099	</listitem>
2100
2101	<listitem>
2102	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2107	</listitem>
2108
2109	<listitem>
2110	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2111	</listitem>
2112
2113	<listitem>
2114	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2115	</listitem>
2116
2117	<listitem>
2118	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2119	file (bug #5681)</para>
2120	</listitem>
2121
2122	<listitem>
2123	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2124	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2125	</listitem>
2126
2127	<listitem>
2128	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2129	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2130	</listitem>
2131
2132	<listitem>
2133	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2134	regression)</para>
2135	</listitem>
2136
2137	<listitem>
2138	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2139	</listitem>
2140
2141	<listitem>
2142	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2143	</listitem>
2144
2145	<listitem>
2146	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2147	</listitem>
2148
2149	<listitem>
2150	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2151	</listitem>
2152
2153	<listitem>
2154	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2155	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2156	</listitem>
2157
2158	<listitem>
2159	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2164	</listitem>
2165
2166	<listitem>
2167	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2168	</listitem>
2169
2170	<listitem>
2171	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2172	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2173	</listitem>
2174
2175	<listitem>
2176	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2177	</listitem>
2178
2179	<listitem>
2180	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2181	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2182	</listitem>
2183
2184	<listitem>
2185	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2186	</listitem>
2187
2188	<listitem>
2189	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2190	</listitem>
2191
2192	<listitem>
2193	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2194	</listitem>
2195
2196	<listitem>
2197	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2198	(bug #5731)</para>
2199	</listitem>
2200
2201	<listitem>
2202	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2203	again</para>
2204	</listitem>
2205
2206	</itemizedlist>
2207
2208	</sect1>
2209
2210	<sect1>
2211	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2212
2213	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2214	added:</para>
2215
2216	<itemizedlist>
2217
2218	<listitem>
2219	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2220	</listitem>
2221
2222	<listitem>
2223	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2224	</listitem>
2225
2226	<listitem>
2227	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2228	</listitem>
2229
2230	<listitem>
2231	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2232	</listitem>
2233
2234	<listitem>
2235	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2240	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2245	</listitem>
2246
2247	<listitem>
2248	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2249	</listitem>
2250
2251	<listitem>
2252	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2253	</listitem>
2254
2255	<listitem>
2256	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2257	</listitem>
2258
2259	<listitem>
2260	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2261	</listitem>
2262
2263	<listitem>
2264	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2265	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2266	</listitem>
2267
2268	<listitem>
2269	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2270	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2271	</listitem>
2272
2273	<listitem>
2274	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2275	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2276	#1762)</para>
2277	</listitem>
2278
2279	<listitem>
2280	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2281	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2282	</listitem>
2283
2284	<listitem>
2285	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2286	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2291	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2292	</listitem>
2293
2294	<listitem>
2295	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2296	</listitem>
2297
2298	<listitem>
2299	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2300	</listitem>
2301
2302	<listitem>
2303	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2304	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2305	</listitem>
2306
2307	<listitem>
2308	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2309	</listitem>
2310
2311	<listitem>
2312	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2317	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2318	</listitem>
2319
2320	<listitem>
2321	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2322	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2327	</listitem>
2328
2329	<listitem>
2330	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2331	guests</para>
2332	</listitem>
2333
2334	<listitem>
2335	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2336	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2341	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2342	</listitem>
2343
2344	<listitem>
2345	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2346	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2347	</listitem>
2348
2349	<listitem>
2350	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2351	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2352	</listitem>
2353
2354	<listitem>
2355	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2356	</listitem>
2357
2358	<listitem>
2359	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2360	</listitem>
2361
2362	<listitem>
2363	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2364	</listitem>
2365
2366	<listitem>
2367	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2368	</listitem>
2369
2370	<listitem>
2371	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2372	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2373	</listitem>
2374
2375	<listitem>
2376	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2377	</listitem>
2378
2379	</itemizedlist>
2380
2381	</sect1>
2382
2383	<sect1>
2384	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2385
2386	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2387	were added:</para>
2388
2389	<itemizedlist>
2390
2391	<listitem>
2392	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2393	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2394	</listitem>
2395
2396	<listitem>
2397	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2398	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2399	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2400	</listitem>
2401
2402	<listitem>
2403	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2404	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2405	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2406	</listitem>
2407
2408	<listitem>
2409	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2410	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2411	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2416	running</para>
2417	</listitem>
2418
2419	<listitem>
2420	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2421	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2422	</listitem>
2423
2424	<listitem>
2425	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2426	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2427	</listitem>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2431	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2432	</listitem>
2433
2434	<listitem>
2435	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2436	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2437	</listitem>
2438
2439	</itemizedlist>
2440
2441	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2442
2443	<itemizedlist>
2444
2445	<listitem>
2446	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2447	</listitem>
2448
2449	<listitem>
2450	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2451	</listitem>
2452
2453	<listitem>
2454	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2455	</listitem>
2456
2457	<listitem>
2458	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2459	(bug #5291)</para>
2460	</listitem>
2461
2462	<listitem>
2463	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2464	</listitem>
2465
2466	<listitem>
2467	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2468	</listitem>
2469
2470	<listitem>
2471	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2472	</listitem>
2473
2474	<listitem>
2475	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2476	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2477	</listitem>
2478
2479	<listitem>
2480	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2481	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2482	</listitem>
2483
2484	<listitem>
2485	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2486	</listitem>
2487
2488	<listitem>
2489	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2490	</listitem>
2491
2492	<listitem>
2493	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2494	</listitem>
2495
2496	<listitem>
2497	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2498	</listitem>
2499
2500	<listitem>
2501	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2502	</listitem>
2503
2504	<listitem>
2505	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2506	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2507	</listitem>
2508
2509	<listitem>
2510	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2511	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2516	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2517	</listitem>
2518
2519	<listitem>
2520	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2521	(bug #2723)</para>
2522	</listitem>
2523
2524	<listitem>
2525	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2526	</listitem>
2527
2528	<listitem>
2529	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2530	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2531	</listitem>
2532
2533	<listitem>
2534	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2535	optional manifest file on import</para>
2536	</listitem>
2537
2538	<listitem>
2539	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2544	(bug #3773)</para>
2545	</listitem>
2546
2547	<listitem>
2548	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2549	</listitem>
2550
2551	<listitem>
2552	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2553	</listitem>
2554
2555	<listitem>
2556	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2557	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2558	</listitem>
2559
2560	<listitem>
2561	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2562	(bug #4866)</para>
2563	</listitem>
2564
2565	<listitem>
2566	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2567	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2568	</listitem>
2569
2570	<listitem>
2571	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2572	certain conditions</para>
2573	</listitem>
2574
2575	<listitem>
2576	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2577	</listitem>
2578
2579	<listitem>
2580	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2581	</listitem>
2582
2583	<listitem>
2584	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2585	</listitem>
2586
2587	<listitem>
2588	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2589	</listitem>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2593	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2594	</listitem>
2595
2596	<listitem>
2597	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2598	</listitem>
2599
2600	<listitem>
2601	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2602	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2607	</listitem>
2608
2609	<listitem>
2610	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2611	</listitem>
2612
2613	<listitem>
2614	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2615	</listitem>
2616
2617	<listitem>
2618	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2619	</listitem>
2620
2621	<listitem>
2622	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2623	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2624	</listitem>
2625
2626	<listitem>
2627	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2628	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2629	(bug #928)</para>
2630	</listitem>
2631
2632	<listitem>
2633	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2634	</listitem>
2635
2636	</itemizedlist>
2637
2638	</sect1>
2639
2640	<sect1>
2641	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2642
2643	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2644	added:</para>
2645
2646	<itemizedlist>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2650	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2655	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2656	</listitem>
2657
2658	<listitem>
2659	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2660	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2665	enabled</para>
2666	</listitem>
2667
2668	<listitem>
2669	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2670	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2671	</listitem>
2672
2673	<listitem>
2674	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2675	(bug #2676)</para>
2676	</listitem>
2677
2678	<listitem>
2679	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2680	is connected to a raw file</para>
2681	</listitem>
2682
2683	<listitem>
2684	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2685	(bug #5355)</para>
2686	</listitem>
2687
2688	<listitem>
2689	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2690	</listitem>
2691
2692	<listitem>
2693	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2694	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2695	</listitem>
2696
2697	<listitem>
2698	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2699	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2700	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2701	</listitem>
2702
2703	<listitem>
2704	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2705	</listitem>
2706
2707	<listitem>
2708	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2709	</listitem>
2710
2711	<listitem>
2712	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2713	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
2714	</listitem>
2715
2716	<listitem>
2717	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
2718	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
2719	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
2720	</listitem>
2721
2722	</itemizedlist>
2723
2724	</sect1>
2725
2726	<sect1>
2727	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
2728
2729	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2730	added:</para>
2731
2732	<itemizedlist>
2733
2734	<listitem>
2735	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
2736	</listitem>
2737
2738	<listitem>
2739	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
2740	</listitem>
2741
2742	<listitem>
2743	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
2744	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
2745	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
2746	</listitem>
2747
2748	<listitem>
2749	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
2750	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
2751	</listitem>
2752
2753	<listitem>
2754	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
2755	</listitem>
2756
2757	<listitem>
2758	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
2759	</listitem>
2760
2761	<listitem>
2762	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
2763	</listitem>
2764
2765	<listitem>
2766	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
2767	</listitem>
2768
2769	<listitem>
2770	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
2771	</listitem>
2772
2773	<listitem>
2774	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
2775	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
2776	</listitem>
2777
2778	<listitem>
2779	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
2780	</listitem>
2781
2782	<listitem>
2783	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
2784	</listitem>
2785
2786	<listitem>
2787	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
2788	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
2789	</listitem>
2790
2791	<listitem>
2792	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
2793	</listitem>
2794
2795	<listitem>
2796	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
2797	exhaustion</para>
2798	</listitem>
2799
2800	<listitem>
2801	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
2802	</listitem>
2803
2804	<listitem>
2805	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
2806	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
2807	</listitem>
2808
2809	<listitem>
2810	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
2811	folders (bug #4106)</para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
2816	folders (bug #4299)</para>
2817	</listitem>
2818
2819	<listitem>
2820	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
2821	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
2822	(bug #2921)</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
2827	hosts only)</para>
2828	</listitem>
2829
2830	<listitem>
2831	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
2832	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
2833	</listitem>
2834
2835	<listitem>
2836	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
2841	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2842	</listitem>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
2846	</listitem>
2847
2848	<listitem>
2849	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
2850	image inconsistency </para>
2851	</listitem>
2852
2853	<listitem>
2854	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
2855	</listitem>
2856
2857	<listitem>
2858	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
2859	</listitem>
2860
2861	<listitem>
2862	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
2863	(bug #2025)</para>
2864	</listitem>
2865
2866	<listitem>
2867	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
2868	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
2869	</listitem>
2870
2871	</itemizedlist>
2872
2873	</sect1>
2874
2875	<sect1>
2876	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
2877
2878	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2879	added:</para>
2880
2881	<itemizedlist>
2882
2883	<listitem>
2884	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
2885	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
2886	</listitem>
2887
2888	<listitem>
2889	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
2890	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
2891	</listitem>
2892
2893	<listitem>
2894	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
2895	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
2896	</listitem>
2897
2898	<listitem>
2899	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
2900	</listitem>
2901
2902	<listitem>
2903	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
2904	software virtualization only) </para>
2905	</listitem>
2906
2907	<listitem>
2908	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
2909	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
2910	</listitem>
2911
2912	<listitem>
2913	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
2914	with root privileges</para>
2915	</listitem>
2916
2917	<listitem>
2918	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
2919	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
2920	</listitem>
2921
2922	<listitem>
2923	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
2924	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
2925	</listitem>
2926
2927	<listitem>
2928	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
2929	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
2930	</listitem>
2931
2932	<listitem>
2933	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
2934	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
2935	selector (bug #5063)</para>
2936	</listitem>
2937
2938	<listitem>
2939	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
2940	available</para>
2941	</listitem>
2942
2943	<listitem>
2944	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
2945	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
2946	</listitem>
2947
2948	<listitem>
2949	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
2950	networking (bug #4775)</para>
2951	</listitem>
2952
2953	<listitem>
2954	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
2955	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
2956	</listitem>
2957
2958	<listitem>
2959	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
2960	(bug #4907)</para>
2961	</listitem>
2962
2963	<listitem>
2964	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
2965	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
2966	</listitem>
2967
2968	<listitem>
2969	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
2970	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
2971	</listitem>
2972
2973	<listitem>
2974	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
2975	</listitem>
2976
2977	<listitem>
2978	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
2979	</listitem>
2980
2981	<listitem>
2982	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
2991	are installed</para>
2992	</listitem>
2993
2994	<listitem>
2995	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
2996	(bug #4771)</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
3005	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	<listitem>
3009	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
3010	command</para>
3011	</listitem>
3012
3013	<listitem>
3014	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3015	</listitem>
3016
3017	<listitem>
3018	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3019	</listitem>
3020
3021	<listitem>
3022	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3023	(bug #5089)</para>
3024	</listitem>
3025
3026	<listitem>
3027	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3028	</listitem>
3029
3030	</itemizedlist>
3031
3032	</sect1>
3033
3034	<sect1>
3035	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3036
3037	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3038	added:</para>
3039
3040	<itemizedlist>
3041
3042	<listitem>
3043	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3044	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	<listitem>
3048	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3049	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3050	</listitem>
3051
3052	<listitem>
3053	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3054	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3055	</listitem>
3056
3057	<listitem>
3058	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3059	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3060	</listitem>
3061
3062	<listitem>
3063	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3064	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3065	</listitem>
3066
3067	<listitem>
3068	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3069	</listitem>
3070
3071	<listitem>
3072	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3073	</listitem>
3074
3075	<listitem>
3076	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3077	</listitem>
3078
3079	<listitem>
3080	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3081	</listitem>
3082
3083	<listitem>
3084	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3085	</listitem>
3086
3087	<listitem>
3088	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3089	onlined or offlined</para>
3090	</listitem>
3091
3092	<listitem>
3093	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3094	</listitem>
3095
3096	<listitem>
3097	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3098	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3099	</listitem>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3103	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3108	</listitem>
3109
3110	<listitem>
3111	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3112	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3113	</listitem>
3114
3115	<listitem>
3116	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3117	</listitem>
3118
3119	<listitem>
3120	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3121	</listitem>
3122
3123	<listitem>
3124	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3125	</listitem>
3126
3127	<listitem>
3128	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3129	</listitem>
3130
3131	<listitem>
3132	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3133	</listitem>
3134
3135	<listitem>
3136	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3137	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3138	</listitem>
3139
3140	<listitem>
3141	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3142	</listitem>
3143
3144	<listitem>
3145	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3146	</listitem>
3147
3148	<listitem>
3149	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3150	</listitem>
3151
3152	<listitem>
3153	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3154	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3155	</listitem>
3156
3157	<listitem>
3158	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3159	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3164	</listitem>
3165
3166	<listitem>
3167	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3168	</listitem>
3169
3170	<listitem>
3171	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3172	</listitem>
3173
3174	<listitem>
3175	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3176	</listitem>
3177
3178	<listitem>
3179	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3180	</listitem>
3181
3182	<listitem>
3183	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3184	</listitem>
3185
3186	<listitem>
3187	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3188	</listitem>
3189
3190	<listitem>
3191	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3192	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3193	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3194	phase collapse</para>
3195	</listitem>
3196
3197	<listitem>
3198	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3199	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3200	</listitem>
3201
3202	<listitem>
3203	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3204	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3205	</listitem>
3206
3207	<listitem>
3208	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3209	</listitem>
3210
3211	<listitem>
3212	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3213	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3214	</listitem>
3215
3216	<listitem>
3217	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3218	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3219	</listitem>
3220
3221	<listitem>
3222	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3223	</listitem>
3224
3225	<listitem>
3226	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3227	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3228	#4698, #4790)</para>
3229	</listitem>
3230
3231	<listitem>
3232	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3233	less than the configured range</para>
3234	</listitem>
3235
3236	<listitem>
3237	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3238	</listitem>
3239
3240	<listitem>
3241	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3246	</listitem>
3247
3248	<listitem>
3249	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3250	</listitem>
3251
3252	<listitem>
3253	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3254	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3255	</listitem>
3256
3257	<listitem>
3258	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3259	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3260	</listitem>
3261
3262	<listitem>
3263	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3264	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3269	</listitem>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3273	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3278	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3279	</listitem>
3280
3281	<listitem>
3282	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3283	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3284	</listitem>
3285
3286	<listitem>
3287	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3288	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3289	</listitem>
3290
3291	<listitem>
3292	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3293	</listitem>
3294
3295	<listitem>
3296	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	</itemizedlist>
3300
3301	</sect1>
3302
3303	<sect1>
3304	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3305
3306	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3307	added:</para>
3308
3309	<itemizedlist>
3310
3311	<listitem>
3312	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3313	</listitem>
3314
3315	<listitem>
3316	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3317	</listitem>
3318
3319	<listitem>
3320	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3321	</listitem>
3322
3323	<listitem>
3324	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3325	</listitem>
3326
3327	<listitem>
3328	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3329	</listitem>
3330
3331	<listitem>
3332	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3333	</listitem>
3334
3335	<listitem>
3336	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3337	</listitem>
3338
3339	<listitem>
3340	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3341	</listitem>
3342
3343	<listitem>
3344	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3345	</listitem>
3346
3347	<listitem>
3348	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3349	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3350	</listitem>
3351
3352	<listitem>
3353	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3354	</listitem>
3355
3356	<listitem>
3357	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3358	</listitem>
3359
3360	<listitem>
3361	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3362	</listitem>
3363
3364	<listitem>
3365	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3366	</listitem>
3367
3368	<listitem>
3369	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3370	</listitem>
3371
3372	<listitem>
3373	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3374	</listitem>
3375
3376	<listitem>
3377	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3378	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3379	</listitem>
3380
3381	<listitem>
3382	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3383	(bug #4654)</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3388	</listitem>
3389
3390	<listitem>
3391	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3392	interfaces</para>
3393	</listitem>
3394
3395	<listitem>
3396	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3397	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3402	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3407	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3408	</listitem>
3409
3410	<listitem>
3411	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3412	(bug #1461)</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3417	</listitem>
3418
3419	<listitem>
3420	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3421	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3426	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3427	</listitem>
3428
3429	<listitem>
3430	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3431	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3432	</listitem>
3433
3434	<listitem>
3435	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3436	</listitem>
3437
3438	<listitem>
3439	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3440	</listitem>
3441
3442	<listitem>
3443	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3444	</listitem>
3445
3446	<listitem>
3447	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3448	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3449	</listitem>
3450
3451	<listitem>
3452	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3453	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3458	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3459	</listitem>
3460
3461	<listitem>
3462	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3463	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3464	</listitem>
3465
3466	</itemizedlist>
3467
3468	</sect1>
3469	<sect1>
3470	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3471
3472	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3473	added:</para>
3474
3475	<itemizedlist>
3476
3477	<listitem>
3478	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3479	</listitem>
3480
3481	<listitem>
3482	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3483	</listitem>
3484
3485	<listitem>
3486	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3487	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3488	</listitem>
3489
3490	<listitem>
3491	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3492	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3493	</listitem>
3494
3495	<listitem>
3496	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3497	</listitem>
3498
3499	<listitem>
3500	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3501	</listitem>
3502
3503	<listitem>
3504	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3505	</listitem>
3506
3507	<listitem>
3508	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	<listitem>
3512	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3513	</listitem>
3514
3515	<listitem>
3516	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3517	</listitem>
3518
3519	<listitem>
3520	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3521	</listitem>
3522
3523	<listitem>
3524	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3525	</listitem>
3526
3527	<listitem>
3528	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3529	</listitem>
3530
3531	<listitem>
3532	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3533	</listitem>
3534
3535	<listitem>
3536	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3537	</listitem>
3538
3539	<listitem>
3540	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3541	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3542	</listitem>
3543
3544	<listitem>
3545	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3546	</listitem>
3547
3548	<listitem>
3549	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3550	</listitem>
3551
3552	<listitem>
3553	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3554	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3555	</listitem>
3556
3557	<listitem>
3558	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3559	</listitem>
3560
3561	<listitem>
3562	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3563	</listitem>
3564
3565	<listitem>
3566	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3567	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3568	</listitem>
3569
3570	<listitem>
3571	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3572	</listitem>
3573
3574	<listitem>
3575	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3576	</listitem>
3577
3578	<listitem>
3579	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3580	</listitem>
3581
3582	<listitem>
3583	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3584	</listitem>
3585
3586	<listitem>
3587	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3588	</listitem>
3589
3590	<listitem>
3591	<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>
3592	</listitem>
3593
3594	</itemizedlist>
3595
3596	</sect1>
3597
3598	<sect1>
3599	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3600
3601	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3602	were added:</para>
3603
3604	<itemizedlist>
3605
3606	<listitem>
3607	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3608	</listitem>
3609
3610	<listitem>
3611	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3612	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3613	</listitem>
3614
3615	<listitem>
3616	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3617	</listitem>
3618
3619	</itemizedlist>
3620
3621	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3622
3623	<itemizedlist>
3624
3625	<listitem>
3626	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3627	</listitem>
3628
3629	<listitem>
3630	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3631	certain conditions</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3636	</listitem>
3637
3638	<listitem>
3639	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3640	</listitem>
3641
3642	<listitem>
3643	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3644	</listitem>
3645
3646	<listitem>
3647	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3648	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3649	</listitem>
3650
3651	<listitem>
3652	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3653	</listitem>
3654
3655	<listitem>
3656	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3657	</listitem>
3658
3659	<listitem>
3660	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3661	</listitem>
3662
3663	<listitem>
3664	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3665	</listitem>
3666
3667	<listitem>
3668	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3669	</listitem>
3670
3671	<listitem>
3672	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3673	</listitem>
3674
3675	<listitem>
3676	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3681	</listitem>
3682
3683	<listitem>
3684	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3685	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3686	</listitem>
3687
3688	<listitem>
3689	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3690	</listitem>
3691
3692	<listitem>
3693	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3694	</listitem>
3695
3696	<listitem>
3697	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3698	</listitem>
3699
3700	<listitem>
3701	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3706	</listitem>
3707
3708	<listitem>
3709	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3710	</listitem>
3711
3712	<listitem>
3713	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
3714	</listitem>
3715
3716	<listitem>
3717	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
3718	</listitem>
3719
3720	<listitem>
3721	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
3722	</listitem>
3723
3724	<listitem>
3725	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
3726	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
3727	</listitem>
3728
3729	<listitem>
3730	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
3731	</listitem>
3732
3733	<listitem>
3734	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
3735	</listitem>
3736
3737	<listitem>
3738	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
3739	</listitem>
3740
3741	<listitem>
3742	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3743	</listitem>
3744
3745	<listitem>
3746	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
3747	</listitem>
3748
3749	<listitem>
3750	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
3751	</listitem>
3752
3753	<listitem>
3754	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
3755	</listitem>
3756
3757	<listitem>
3758	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
3759	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
3760	</listitem>
3761
3762	<listitem>
3763	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
3764	</listitem>
3765
3766	<listitem>
3767	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
3768	</listitem>
3769
3770	<listitem>
3771	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
3772	</listitem>
3773
3774	<listitem>
3775	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
3776	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
3777	</listitem>
3778
3779	<listitem>
3780	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
3781	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
3782	</listitem>
3783
3784	<listitem>
3785	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
3786	correct file mode when creating files</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
3791	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
3792	</listitem>
3793
3794	<listitem>
3795	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
3796	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
3797	</listitem>
3798
3799	<listitem>
3800	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
3801	</listitem>
3802
3803	<listitem>
3804	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
3805	</listitem>
3806
3807	<listitem>
3808	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
3809	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
3810	</listitem>
3811
3812	<listitem>
3813	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
3814	guest property lookup</para>
3815	</listitem>
3816
3817	<listitem>
3818	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
3819	basic network information)</para>
3820	</listitem>
3821
3822	<listitem>
3823	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
3824	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
3825	</listitem>
3826
3827	<listitem>
3828	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
3829	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
3830	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
3831	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
3832	</listitem>
3833
3834	<listitem>
3835	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
3836	</listitem>
3837
3838	<listitem>
3839	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
3840	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
3841	web service</para>
3842	</listitem>
3843
3844	<listitem>
3845	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
3846	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
3847	</listitem>
3848
3849	<listitem>
3850	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
3851	unavailable</para>
3852	</listitem>
3853
3854	<listitem>
3855	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
3856	</listitem>
3857
3858	</itemizedlist>
3859	</sect1>
3860
3861	<sect1>
3862	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
3863
3864	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3865	added:</para>
3866
3867	<itemizedlist>
3868
3869	<listitem>
3870	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
3871	installation</para>
3872	</listitem>
3873
3874	<listitem>
3875	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
3876	</listitem>
3877
3878	<listitem>
3879	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
3880	later (bug #3981)</para>
3881	</listitem>
3882
3883	<listitem>
3884	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
3885	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
3886	</listitem>
3887
3888	<listitem>
3889	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
3890	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
3891	(bug #4034)
3892	</para>
3893	</listitem>
3894
3895	<listitem>
3896	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
3897	networking</para>
3898	</listitem>
3899
3900	<listitem>
3901	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
3902	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
3903	</listitem>
3904
3905	<listitem>
3906	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
3907	clicks</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
3912	Windows 7 guests</para>
3913	</listitem>
3914
3915	<listitem>
3916	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
3917	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
3922	</listitem>
3923
3924	<listitem>
3925	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
3926	</listitem>
3927
3928	<listitem>
3929	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
3930	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
3931	</listitem>
3932
3933	<listitem>
3934	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
3935	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
3940	</listitem>
3941
3942	<listitem>
3943	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
3944	</listitem>
3945
3946	<listitem>
3947	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
3948	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
3949	(bug #3864)</para>
3950	</listitem>
3951
3952	<listitem>
3953	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
3954	now flushes the output stream</para>
3955	</listitem>
3956
3957	<listitem>
3958	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
3959	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
3960	</listitem>
3961
3962	<listitem>
3963	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
3964	</listitem>
3965
3966	<listitem>
3967	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
3968	</listitem>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
3972	</listitem>
3973
3974	<listitem>
3975	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
3976	</listitem>
3977
3978	<listitem>
3979	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
3980	(bug #3964)</para>
3981	</listitem>
3982
3983	<listitem>
3984	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
3985	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
3986	</listitem>
3987
3988	<listitem>
3989	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
3990	hosts</para>
3991	</listitem>
3992
3993	<listitem>
3994	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
3995	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
3996	e1000 adapter</para>
3997	</listitem>
3998
3999	<listitem>
4000	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
4001	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
4002	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
4003	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
4004	</listitem>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
4008	</listitem>
4009
4010	<listitem>
4011	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
4012	</listitem>
4013
4014	<listitem>
4015	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4016	</listitem>
4017
4018	<listitem>
4019	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4020	file (bug #1023)</para>
4021	</listitem>
4022
4023	<listitem>
4024	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4025	</listitem>
4026
4027	<listitem>
4028	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4029	</listitem>
4030
4031	</itemizedlist>
4032	</sect1>
4033
4034	<sect1>
4035	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4036
4037	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4038	added:</para>
4039
4040	<itemizedlist>
4041
4042	<listitem>
4043	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4044	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4045	</listitem>
4046
4047	<listitem>
4048	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4049	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4050	and later</para>
4051	</listitem>
4052
4053	<listitem>
4054	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4055	running services</para>
4056	</listitem>
4057
4058	<listitem>
4059	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4060	terminates</para>
4061	</listitem>
4062
4063	<listitem>
4064	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4065	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4066	</listitem>
4067
4068	<listitem>
4069	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4070	installed on the guest</para>
4071	</listitem>
4072
4073	<listitem>
4074	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4075	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4076	</listitem>
4077
4078	<listitem>
4079	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4080	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4081	</listitem>
4082
4083	<listitem>
4084	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4085	(bug #2628)</para>
4086	</listitem>
4087
4088	<listitem>
4089	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4090	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	<listitem>
4094	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4095	(bug #3657)</para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	<listitem>
4099	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4100	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4101	</listitem>
4102
4103	<listitem>
4104	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4105	virtualization only)
4106	</para>
4107	</listitem>
4108
4109	<listitem>
4110	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4111	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4112	</listitem>
4113
4114	<listitem>
4115	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4116	</listitem>
4117
4118	<listitem>
4119	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4120	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4121	</listitem>
4122
4123	<listitem>
4124	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4125	bug #3689)</para>
4126	</listitem>
4127
4128	<listitem>
4129	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4130	bug #3679)</para>
4131	</listitem>
4132
4133	<listitem>
4134	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4135	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4136	</listitem>
4137
4138	<listitem>
4139	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4140	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4141	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4142	</listitem>
4143
4144	<listitem>
4145	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4146	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4147	</listitem>
4148
4149	<listitem>
4150	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4151	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4156	(bug #3667)</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4161	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4162	</listitem>
4163
4164	<listitem>
4165	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4170	</listitem>
4171
4172	<listitem>
4173	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4174	</listitem>
4175
4176	<listitem>
4177	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4178	</listitem>
4179
4180	<listitem>
4181	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4182	</listitem>
4183
4184	<listitem>
4185	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4186	</listitem>
4187
4188	<listitem>
4189	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4190	</listitem>
4191
4192	</itemizedlist>
4193	</sect1>
4194
4195	<sect1>
4196	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4197
4198	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4199	were added:</para>
4200
4201	<itemizedlist>
4202
4203	<listitem>
4204	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4205	</listitem>
4206
4207	<listitem>
4208	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4209	</listitem>
4210
4211	<listitem>
4212	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4213	</listitem>
4214
4215	<listitem>
4216	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4221	</listitem>
4222
4223	<listitem>
4224	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4225	</listitem>
4226
4227	<listitem>
4228	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4229	</listitem>
4230
4231	<listitem>
4232	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4233	</listitem>
4234
4235	<listitem>
4236	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4241	</listitem>
4242
4243	</itemizedlist>
4244
4245	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4246
4247	<itemizedlist>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4251	</listitem>
4252
4253	<listitem>
4254	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4255	</listitem>
4256
4257	<listitem>
4258	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4259	</listitem>
4260
4261	<listitem>
4262	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4263	</listitem>
4264
4265	<listitem>
4266	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4271	</listitem>
4272
4273	<listitem>
4274	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4275	</listitem>
4276
4277	<listitem>
4278	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4279	</listitem>
4280
4281	<listitem>
4282	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4283	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4284	</listitem>
4285
4286	<listitem>
4287	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4288	</listitem>
4289
4290	<listitem>
4291	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4292	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4293	</listitem>
4294
4295	<listitem>
4296	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4297	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4298	</listitem>
4299
4300	<listitem>
4301	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4302	</listitem>
4303
4304	<listitem>
4305	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4306	</listitem>
4307
4308	<listitem>
4309	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4310	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4311	</listitem>
4312
4313	<listitem>
4314	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4315	</listitem>
4316
4317	<listitem>
4318	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4319	ESX server images)</para>
4320	</listitem>
4321
4322	<listitem>
4323	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4324	writable</para>
4325	</listitem>
4326
4327	<listitem>
4328	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4329	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4330	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4335	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4336	</listitem>
4337
4338	<listitem>
4339	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4340	</listitem>
4341
4342	<listitem>
4343	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4344	</listitem>
4345
4346	<listitem>
4347	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4348	hosts when creating files</para>
4349	</listitem>
4350
4351	<listitem>
4352	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4353	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4354	</listitem>
4355
4356	<listitem>
4357	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4358	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4359	#2306)</para>
4360	</listitem>
4361
4362	<listitem>
4363	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4364	(bug #3555)</para>
4365	</listitem>
4366
4367	<listitem>
4368	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4369	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4370	</listitem>
4371
4372	<listitem>
4373	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4374	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4375	</listitem>
4376
4377	<listitem>
4378	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4379	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4380	</listitem>
4381
4382	<listitem>
4383	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4384	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4385	</listitem>
4386
4387	<listitem>
4388	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4389	(bug #3586)</para>
4390	</listitem>
4391
4392	<listitem>
4393	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4394	from Scratch systems</para>
4395	</listitem>
4396
4397	<listitem>
4398	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4399	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4400	</listitem>
4401
4402	<listitem>
4403	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4404	</listitem>
4405
4406	<listitem>
4407	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4408	default to compact format</para>
4409	</listitem>
4410
4411	<listitem>
4412	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4413	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4414	</listitem>
4415
4416	<listitem>
4417	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4418	</listitem>
4419
4420	<listitem>
4421	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4422	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4423	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4424	</listitem>
4425
4426	<listitem>
4427	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4428	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4429	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4430	</listitem>
4431
4432	<listitem>
4433	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4434	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4435	</listitem>
4436
4437	<listitem>
4438	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4439	</listitem>
4440
4441	<listitem>
4442	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4443	</listitem>
4444
4445	<listitem>
4446	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4447	</listitem>
4448
4449	<listitem>
4450	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4451	</listitem>
4452
4453	<listitem>
4454	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4455	</listitem>
4456
4457	<listitem>
4458	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4459	</listitem>
4460
4461	<listitem>
4462	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4463	</listitem>
4464
4465	<listitem>
4466	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4467	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	<listitem>
4475	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4476	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4477	</listitem>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4481	</listitem>
4482
4483	<listitem>
4484	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4485	</listitem>
4486
4487	<listitem>
4488	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4489	</listitem>
4490
4491	<listitem>
4492	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4493	#2536)</para>
4494	</listitem>
4495
4496	<listitem>
4497	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4498	</listitem>
4499
4500	<listitem>
4501	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4502	(bug #3548)</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	</itemizedlist>
4506	</sect1>
4507
4508	<sect1>
4509	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4510
4511	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4512	added:</para>
4513
4514	<itemizedlist>
4515
4516	<listitem>
4517	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4518	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4519	</listitem>
4520
4521	<listitem>
4522	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4523	</listitem>
4524
4525	<listitem>
4526	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4527	</listitem>
4528
4529	<listitem>
4530	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4531	</listitem>
4532
4533	<listitem>
4534	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4535	(bug #3115)</para>
4536	</listitem>
4537
4538	<listitem>
4539	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4540	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4541	</listitem>
4542
4543	<listitem>
4544	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4545	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4546	(bug #3215)</para>
4547	</listitem>
4548
4549	<listitem>
4550	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4551	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4552	</listitem>
4553
4554	<listitem>
4555	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4556	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4557	</listitem>
4558
4559	<listitem>
4560	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4561	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4562	</listitem>
4563
4564	<listitem>
4565	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4566	in parallel</para>
4567	</listitem>
4568
4569	<listitem>
4570	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4571	</listitem>
4572
4573	<listitem>
4574	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4575	</listitem>
4576
4577	<listitem>
4578	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4583	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4584	</listitem>
4585
4586	<listitem>
4587	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4588	</listitem>
4589
4590	<listitem>
4591	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4592	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4593	</listitem>
4594
4595	<listitem>
4596	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4597	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4598	</listitem>
4599
4600	<listitem>
4601	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4602	</listitem>
4603
4604	<listitem>
4605	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4606	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4611	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4612	</listitem>
4613
4614	<listitem>
4615	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4616	</listitem>
4617
4618	<listitem>
4619	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4620	</listitem>
4621
4622	<listitem>
4623	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4624	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4625	</listitem>
4626
4627	<listitem>
4628	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4629	</listitem>
4630
4631	<listitem>
4632	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4633	</listitem>
4634
4635	<listitem>
4636	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4637	</listitem>
4638
4639	<listitem>
4640	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4641	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4642	</listitem>
4643
4644	<listitem>
4645	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4646	</listitem>
4647
4648	<listitem>
4649	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4650	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4651	</listitem>
4652
4653	<listitem>
4654	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4655	</listitem>
4656
4657	<listitem>
4658	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4659	</listitem>
4660
4661	<listitem>
4662	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4663	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4664	</listitem>
4665
4666	<listitem>
4667	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4668	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4669	</listitem>
4670
4671	<listitem>
4672	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4673	</listitem>
4674
4675	<listitem>
4676	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4677	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4678	</listitem>
4679
4680	<listitem>
4681	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4682	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4683	</listitem>
4684
4685	<listitem>
4686	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4687	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4688	</listitem>
4689
4690	<listitem>
4691	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4692	(bug #3213)</para>
4693	</listitem>
4694
4695	<listitem>
4696	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4697	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4698	</listitem>
4699
4700	<listitem>
4701	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4702	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4703	</listitem>
4704
4705	</itemizedlist>
4706	</sect1>
4707
4708	<sect1>
4709	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4710
4711	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4712	added:</para>
4713
4714	<itemizedlist>
4715
4716	<listitem>
4717	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
4718	</listitem>
4719
4720	<listitem>
4721	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
4722	</listitem>
4723
4724	<listitem>
4725	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
4726	</listitem>
4727
4728	<listitem>
4729	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
4730	</listitem>
4731
4732	<listitem>
4733	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
4734	</listitem>
4735
4736	<listitem>
4737	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
4738	</listitem>
4739
4740	<listitem>
4741	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
4742	</listitem>
4743
4744	<listitem>
4745	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	<listitem>
4749	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
4750	</listitem>
4751
4752	<listitem>
4753	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
4754	</listitem>
4755
4756	<listitem>
4757	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
4758	</listitem>
4759
4760	<listitem>
4761	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
4762	</listitem>
4763
4764	<listitem>
4765	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
4766	</listitem>
4767
4768	<listitem>
4769	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
4774	</listitem>
4775
4776	<listitem>
4777	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
4778	</listitem>
4779
4780	<listitem>
4781	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
4782	(bug #3067)</para>
4783	</listitem>
4784
4785	<listitem>
4786	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
4787	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
4788	</listitem>
4789
4790	<listitem>
4791	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
4792	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
4793	</listitem>
4794
4795	<listitem>
4796	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
4797	</listitem>
4798
4799	<listitem>
4800	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
4801	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
4802	</listitem>
4803
4804	<listitem>
4805	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
4806	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4807	</listitem>
4808
4809	<listitem>
4810	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
4811	</listitem>
4812
4813	<listitem>
4814	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
4815	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
4816	</listitem>
4817
4818	<listitem>
4819	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
4820	</listitem>
4821
4822	<listitem>
4823	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
4824	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
4825	</listitem>
4826
4827	<listitem>
4828	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
4829	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
4834	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
4835	</para>
4836	</listitem>
4837
4838	<listitem>
4839	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
4840	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
4841	</para>
4842	</listitem>
4843
4844	<listitem>
4845	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
4846	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
4847	</para>
4848	</listitem>
4849
4850	<listitem>
4851	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
4852	</listitem>
4853
4854	<listitem>
4855	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
4856	</listitem>
4857
4858	<listitem>
4859	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
4860	</listitem>
4861
4862	<listitem>
4863	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
4864	</listitem>
4865
4866	<listitem>
4867	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
4868	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
4869	</listitem>
4870
4871	<listitem>
4872	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
4873	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
4878	formatting a drive</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	<listitem>
4886	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
4887	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
4892	</listitem>
4893
4894	<listitem>
4895	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
4896	</listitem>
4897
4898	<listitem>
4899	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4900	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
4901	</listitem>
4902
4903	<listitem>
4904	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
4905	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
4906	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
4907	</listitem>
4908
4909	<listitem>
4910	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
4911	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
4912	</listitem>
4913
4914	<listitem>
4915	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
4916	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
4917	</listitem>
4918
4919	<listitem>
4920	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
4921	(bug #2768)</para>
4922	</listitem>
4923
4924	<listitem>
4925	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
4926	</listitem>
4927
4928	<listitem>
4929	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
4930	</listitem>
4931
4932	<listitem>
4933	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
4934	single, unified package</para>
4935	</listitem>
4936
4937	<listitem>
4938	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
4939	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
4944	</listitem>
4945
4946	<listitem>
4947	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
4948	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
4949	</listitem>
4950
4951	<listitem>
4952	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
4953	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
4954	</listitem>
4955
4956	<listitem>
4957	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
4962	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
4963	doing 3D</para>
4964	</listitem>
4965
4966	<listitem>
4967	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
4968	</listitem>
4969
4970	<listitem>
4971	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
4972	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
4973	</listitem>
4974
4975	<listitem>
4976	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
4977	</listitem>
4978
4979	<listitem>
4980	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
4981	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
4982	</listitem>
4983
4984	<listitem>
4985	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
4986	</listitem>
4987
4988	<listitem>
4989	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
4990	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
4991	</listitem>
4992
4993	<listitem>
4994	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
4995	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
4996	(bug #2938)</para>
4997	</listitem>
4998
4999	<listitem>
5000	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
5001	Linux guests</para>
5002	</listitem>
5003
5004	<listitem>
5005	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
5006	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
5007	(bug #1776)</para>
5008	</listitem>
5009
5010	<listitem>
5011	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
5012	(bug #1612)</para>
5013	</listitem>
5014
5015	<listitem>
5016	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5017	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5018	</listitem>
5019
5020	<listitem>
5021	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5022	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5023	</listitem>
5024
5025	<listitem>
5026	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5027	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5028	</listitem>
5029
5030	</itemizedlist>
5031	</sect1>
5032
5033	<sect1>
5034	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5035
5036	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5037	were added:</para>
5038
5039	<itemizedlist>
5040	<listitem>
5041	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5042	</listitem>
5043
5044	<listitem>
5045	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5046	</listitem>
5047
5048	<listitem>
5049	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5050	</listitem>
5051
5052	<listitem>
5053	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5054	</listitem>
5055
5056	<listitem>
5057	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5058	</listitem>
5059
5060	<listitem>
5061	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5062	</listitem>
5063
5064	<listitem>
5065	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5066	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5067	</listitem>
5068
5069	<listitem>
5070	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5071	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5072	</listitem>
5073
5074	</itemizedlist>
5075
5076	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5077
5078	<itemizedlist>
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5081	</listitem>
5082
5083	<listitem>
5084	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5085	</listitem>
5086
5087	<listitem>
5088	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5089	</listitem>
5090
5091	<listitem>
5092	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5093	</listitem>
5094
5095	<listitem>
5096	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5097	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5098	</listitem>
5099
5100	<listitem>
5101	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5102	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5103	</listitem>
5104
5105	<listitem>
5106	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5107	</listitem>
5108
5109	<listitem>
5110	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5111	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5112	</listitem>
5113
5114	<listitem>
5115	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5116	</listitem>
5117
5118	<listitem>
5119	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5120	</listitem>
5121
5122	<listitem>
5123	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5124	</listitem>
5125
5126	<listitem>
5127	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5128	</listitem>
5129
5130	<listitem>
5131	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5132	</listitem>
5133
5134	<listitem>
5135	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5136	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5137	</listitem>
5138
5139	<listitem>
5140	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5141	the compiz window manager</para>
5142	</listitem>
5143
5144	<listitem>
5145	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5146	</listitem>
5147
5148	<listitem>
5149	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5150	</listitem>
5151
5152	<listitem>
5153	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5154	</listitem>
5155
5156	<listitem>
5157	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5158	</listitem>
5159
5160	<listitem>
5161	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5162	</listitem>
5163
5164	<listitem>
5165	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5166	</listitem>
5167
5168	<listitem>
5169	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5170	</listitem>
5171
5172	<listitem>
5173	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5174	</listitem>
5175
5176	<listitem>
5177	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5178	</listitem>
5179
5180	<listitem>
5181	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5182	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5183	</listitem>
5184
5185	<listitem>
5186	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5187	for direct device access</para>
5188	</listitem>
5189
5190	<listitem>
5191	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5192	</listitem>
5193
5194	<listitem>
5195	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5196	</listitem>
5197
5198	<listitem>
5199	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5200	</listitem>
5201
5202	<listitem>
5203	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5204	</listitem>
5205
5206	<listitem>
5207	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5208	</listitem>
5209
5210	<listitem>
5211	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5212	</listitem>
5213
5214	<listitem>
5215	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5216	</listitem>
5217
5218	<listitem>
5219	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5220	</listitem>
5221
5222	</itemizedlist>
5223	</sect1>
5224
5225	<sect1>
5226	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5227
5228	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5229	added:</para>
5230
5231	<itemizedlist>
5232
5233	<listitem>
5234	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5235	states/snapshots</para>
5236	</listitem>
5237
5238	<listitem>
5239	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5240	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5241	</listitem>
5242
5243	<listitem>
5244	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5245	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5246	</listitem>
5247
5248	<listitem>
5249	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5250	collisions</para>
5251	</listitem>
5252
5253	<listitem>
5254	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5255	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5260	</listitem>
5261
5262	<listitem>
5263	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5264	reliably</para>
5265	</listitem>
5266
5267	<listitem>
5268	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5269	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5270	</listitem>
5271
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5274	a reboot</para>
5275	</listitem>
5276
5277	<listitem>
5278	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5279	</listitem>
5280
5281	<listitem>
5282	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5283	in parallel</para>
5284	</listitem>
5285
5286	<listitem>
5287	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5288	</listitem>
5289
5290	<listitem>
5291	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5292	correctly</para>
5293	</listitem>
5294
5295	<listitem>
5296	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5297	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5298	</listitem>
5299
5300	</itemizedlist>
5301	</sect1>
5302
5303	<sect1>
5304	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5305
5306	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5307	added:</para>
5308
5309	<itemizedlist>
5310
5311	<listitem>
5312	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5313	(bug #2220)</para>
5314	</listitem>
5315
5316	<listitem>
5317	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5318	</listitem>
5319
5320	<listitem>
5321	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5322	</listitem>
5323
5324	<listitem>
5325	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5326	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5327	</listitem>
5328
5329	<listitem>
5330	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5331	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5336	(bug #2624)</para>
5337	</listitem>
5338
5339	<listitem>
5340	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5341	(bug #2024)</para>
5342	</listitem>
5343
5344	<listitem>
5345	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5346	</listitem>
5347
5348	<listitem>
5349	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5350	</listitem>
5351
5352	<listitem>
5353	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5354	</listitem>
5355
5356	<listitem>
5357	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5358	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5359	</listitem>
5360
5361	<listitem>
5362	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5363	applications when updating the installation</para>
5364	</listitem>
5365
5366	<listitem>
5367	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5368	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5369	</listitem>
5370
5371	<listitem>
5372	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5373	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5374	</listitem>
5375
5376	<listitem>
5377	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5378	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5379	</listitem>
5380
5381	<listitem>
5382	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5383	connected to a host device</para>
5384	</listitem>
5385
5386	<listitem>
5387	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5388	</listitem>
5389
5390	<listitem>
5391	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5392	</listitem>
5393
5394	<listitem>
5395	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5396	</listitem>
5397
5398	<listitem>
5399	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5400	when using native RDP connections</para>
5401	</listitem>
5402
5403	<listitem>
5404	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5405	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5406	</listitem>
5407
5408	<listitem>
5409	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5410	(bug #2591)</para>
5411	</listitem>
5412
5413	<listitem>
5414	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5415	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5416	</listitem>
5417
5418	<listitem>
5419	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5420	</listitem>
5421
5422	</itemizedlist>
5423	</sect1>
5424
5425	<sect1>
5426	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5427
5428	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5429	added:</para>
5430
5431	<itemizedlist>
5432	<listitem>
5433	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5438	</listitem>
5439
5440	<listitem>
5441	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5442	</listitem>
5443
5444	<listitem>
5445	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5446	</listitem>
5447
5448	<listitem>
5449	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5450	</listitem>
5451
5452	<listitem>
5453	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5454	</listitem>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5458	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5463	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5472	equal to the client resolution</para>
5473	</listitem>
5474
5475	<listitem>
5476	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5477	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5482	</listitem>
5483
5484	<listitem>
5485	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5486	</listitem>
5487
5488	<listitem>
5489	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5490	</listitem>
5491
5492	<listitem>
5493	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5494	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5495	</listitem>
5496
5497	<listitem>
5498	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5499	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5500	</listitem>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5504	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5505	</listitem>
5506
5507	<listitem>
5508	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5509	</listitem>
5510
5511	<listitem>
5512	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5513	</listitem>
5514
5515	<listitem>
5516	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5517	</listitem>
5518
5519	<listitem>
5520	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5521	</listitem>
5522
5523	<listitem>
5524	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5525	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5526	</listitem>
5527
5528	<listitem>
5529	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5530	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5535	</listitem>
5536
5537	<listitem>
5538	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5539	</listitem>
5540
5541	<listitem>
5542	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5543	</listitem>
5544
5545	</itemizedlist>
5546
5547	</sect1>
5548
5549	<sect1>
5550	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5551
5552	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5553	added:</para>
5554
5555	<itemizedlist>
5556
5557	<listitem>
5558	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5559	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5560	</listitem>
5561
5562	<listitem>
5563	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5564	</listitem>
5565
5566	<listitem>
5567	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5568	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5569	</listitem>
5570
5571	<listitem>
5572	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5573	</listitem>
5574
5575	<listitem>
5576	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5577	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5578	</listitem>
5579
5580	<listitem>
5581	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5582	</listitem>
5583
5584	<listitem>
5585	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5586	the virtual disk manager</para>
5587	</listitem>
5588
5589	<listitem>
5590	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5591	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5592	</listitem>
5593
5594	<listitem>
5595	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5596	</listitem>
5597
5598	<listitem>
5599	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	<listitem>
5603	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5604	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5605	</listitem>
5606
5607	<listitem>
5608	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5609	bug #2067)</para>
5610	</listitem>
5611
5612	<listitem>
5613	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5614	</listitem>
5615
5616	<listitem>
5617	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5618	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5619	</listitem>
5620
5621	<listitem>
5622	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5623	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5624	(bug #2184)</para>
5625	</listitem>
5626
5627	<listitem>
5628	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5629	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5630	</listitem>
5631
5632	<listitem>
5633	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5634	(Windows guests only)</para>
5635	</listitem>
5636
5637	<listitem>
5638	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5639	</listitem>
5640
5641	<listitem>
5642	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5643	</listitem>
5644
5645	<listitem>
5646	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5647	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5648	</listitem>
5649
5650	<listitem>
5651	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5652	</listitem>
5653
5654	<listitem>
5655	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5656	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5657	</para>
5658	</listitem>
5659
5660	<listitem>
5661	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5662	</listitem>
5663
5664	<listitem>
5665	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5666	</listitem>
5667
5668	<listitem>
5669	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5670	a VM reboot</para>
5671	</listitem>
5672
5673	<listitem>
5674	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5675	</listitem>
5676
5677	<listitem>
5678	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5679	buggy X servers</para>
5680	</listitem>
5681
5682	<listitem>
5683	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5684	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	<listitem>
5688	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5689	</listitem>
5690
5691	<listitem>
5692	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5693	(bug #2128)</para>
5694	</listitem>
5695
5696	<listitem>
5697	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5698	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5699	</listitem>
5700
5701	<listitem>
5702	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5703	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5704	</listitem>
5705
5706	<listitem>
5707	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5708	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5709	</listitem>
5710
5711	<listitem>
5712	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5713	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
5714	</listitem>
5715
5716	<listitem>
5717	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
5718	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
5719	</listitem>
5720
5721	<listitem>
5722	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
5723	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
5724	</listitem>
5725
5726	<listitem>
5727	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
5728	installer into a single package</para>
5729	</listitem>
5730
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
5733	port to the guest
5734	</para>
5735	</listitem>
5736
5737	</itemizedlist>
5738
5739	</sect1>
5740
5741	<sect1>
5742	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
5743
5744	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5745	were added:<itemizedlist>
5746
5747	<listitem>
5748	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5753	</listitem>
5754
5755	<listitem>
5756	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
5757	</listitem>
5758
5759	<listitem>
5760	<para>New-version notifier</para>
5761	</listitem>
5762
5763	<listitem>
5764	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
5765	</listitem>
5766
5767	<listitem>
5768	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5769	</listitem>
5770
5771	<listitem>
5772	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
5773	</listitem>
5774
5775	<listitem>
5776	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
5777	</listitem>
5778
5779	<listitem>
5780	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
5781	</listitem>
5782
5783	<listitem>
5784	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
5785	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
5786	</listitem>
5787
5788	<listitem>
5789	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
5790	</listitem>
5791
5792	<listitem>
5793	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
5798	</listitem>
5799
5800	</itemizedlist></para>
5801
5802	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5803
5804	<itemizedlist>
5805
5806	<listitem>
5807	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
5808	</listitem>
5809
5810	<listitem>
5811	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
5812	</listitem>
5813
5814	<listitem>
5815	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
5816	</listitem>
5817
5818	<listitem>
5819	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
5820	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
5821	</listitem>
5822
5823	<listitem>
5824	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
5825	restored</para>
5826	</listitem>
5827
5828	<listitem>
5829	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
5830	</listitem>
5831
5832	<listitem>
5833	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
5834	</listitem>
5835
5836	<listitem>
5837	<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>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	</itemizedlist>
5841
5842	</sect1>
5843
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