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2
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
26	<listitem>
27	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
28	</listitem>
29
30	<listitem>
31	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
32	</listitem>
33
34	<listitem>
35	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
36	</listitem>
37
38	<listitem>
39	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
40	states, and optionally including attached
41	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
42	can do the same now)</para>
43	</listitem>
44
45	<listitem>
46	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
47	</listitem>
48
49	</itemizedlist>
50	</para>
51	</listitem>
52
53	<listitem>
54	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
55	</listitem>
56
57	<listitem>
58	<para>New virtual hardware:
59	<itemizedlist>
60	<listitem>
61	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
62	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
63	</listitem>
64
65	<listitem>
66	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
67	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
68	</listitem>
69	</itemizedlist>
70	</para>
71	</listitem>
72
73	<listitem>
74	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
75	<itemizedlist>
76	<listitem>
77	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
78	</listitem>
79
80	<listitem>
81	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
82	</para>
83	</listitem>
84
85	<listitem>
86	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
87	now</para>
88	</listitem>
89
90	<listitem>
91	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
92	</listitem>
93
94	</itemizedlist>
95	</para>
96	</listitem>
97
98	<listitem>
99	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
100	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
101	</listitem>
102
103	<listitem>
104	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
105	Parallels images</para>
106	</listitem>
107
108	<listitem>
109	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
110	</listitem>
111
112	<listitem>
113	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
114	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
115	</listitem>
116
117	<listitem>
118	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
119	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
120	</listitem>
121
122	</itemizedlist>
123
124	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
125
126	<itemizedlist>
127
128	<listitem>
129	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
130	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
131	</listitem>
132
133	<listitem>
134	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
135	</listitem>
136
137	<listitem>
138	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
139	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
140	</listitem>
141
142	<listitem>
143	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
144	(bug #1657)</para>
145	</listitem>
146
147	<listitem>
148	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
149	</listitem>
150
151	<listitem>
152	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
153	</listitem>
154
155	<listitem>
156	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
157	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
158	</listitem>
159
160	<listitem>
161	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
162	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
163	</listitem>
164
165	<listitem>
166	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
167	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
168	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
173	again (bug #6864)</para>
174	</listitem>
175
176	<listitem>
177	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
178	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
179	</listitem>
180
181	<listitem>
182	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
183	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
184	</listitem>
185
186	<listitem>
187	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
188	</listitem>
189
190	<listitem>
191	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
196	</listitem>
197
198	<listitem>
199	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
200	</listitem>
201
202	<listitem>
203	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
204	</listitem>
205
206	<listitem>
207	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
208	</listitem>
209
210	<listitem>
211	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
212	(bug #7058)</para>
213	</listitem>
214
215	<listitem>
216	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
217	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
218	</listitem>
219
220	<listitem>
221	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
222	circumstances</para>
223	</listitem>
224
225	<listitem>
226	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
227	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
228	#5578)
229	</para>
230	</listitem>
231
232	<listitem>
233	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
234	</listitem>
235
236	<listitem>
237	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
238	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
239	</listitem>
240
241	<listitem>
242	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
243	</listitem>
244
245	<listitem>
246	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
247	#6760)</para>
248	</listitem>
249
250	<listitem>
251	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
252	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
253	</listitem>
254
255	<listitem>
256	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
257	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
258	</listitem>
259
260	<listitem>
261	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
262	</listitem>
263
264	<listitem>
265	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
266	file</para>
267	</listitem>
268
269	<listitem>
270	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
271	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
272	</listitem>
273
274	</itemizedlist>
275
276	</sect1>
277
278	<sect1>
279	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
280
281	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
282	added:</para>
283
284	<itemizedlist>
285
286	<listitem>
287	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
288	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
289	</listitem>
290
291	<listitem>
292	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
293	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
294	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
295	</listitem>
296
297	<listitem>
298	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
299	</listitem>
300
301	<listitem>
302	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
303	</listitem>
304
305	<listitem>
306	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
307	</listitem>
308
309	<listitem>
310	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
311	the VM is running</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
316	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
317	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
318	starting from a saved state</para>
319	</listitem>
320
321	<listitem>
322	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
323	</listitem>
324
325	<listitem>
326	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
327	</listitem>
328
329	<listitem>
330	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
331	</listitem>
332
333	<listitem>
334	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
335	</listitem>
336
337	<listitem>
338	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
339	</listitem>
340
341	<listitem>
342	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
343	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
344	</listitem>
345
346	<listitem>
347	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
348	fixes for Koran keyboards</para>
349	</listitem>
350
351	<listitem>
352	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
353	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
354	</listitem>
355
356	<listitem>
357	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
362	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
363	</para>
364	</listitem>
365
366	<listitem>
367	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
368	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
369	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
370	</listitem>
371
372	<listitem>
373	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
374	only)</para>
375	</listitem>
376
377	<listitem>
378	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
379	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
380	</listitem>
381
382	<listitem>
383	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
384	</listitem>
385
386	<listitem>
387	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
388	</listitem>
389
390	<listitem>
391	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
396	state (bug #4124)</para>
397	</listitem>
398
399	<listitem>
400	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
401	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
402	</listitem>
403
404	<listitem>
405	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
406	</listitem>
407
408	<listitem>
409	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
410	(bug #2996)</para>
411	</listitem>
412
413	<listitem>
414	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
415	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
416	</listitem>
417
418	<listitem>
419	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
424	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
425	</listitem>
426
427	<listitem>
428	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
429	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
430	</listitem>
431
432	<listitem>
433	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
434	user accounts for VM information</para>
435	</listitem>
436
437	</itemizedlist>
438
439	</sect1>
440
441	<sect1>
442	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
443
444	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
445	added:</para>
446
447	<itemizedlist>
448
449	<listitem>
450	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
451	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
452	</listitem>
453
454	<listitem>
455	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
456	</listitem>
457
458	<listitem>
459	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
460	</listitem>
461
462	<listitem>
463	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
464	</listitem>
465
466	<listitem>
467	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
468	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
469	</listitem>
470
471	<listitem>
472	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
473	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
474	</listitem>
475
476	<listitem>
477	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
478	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
479	</listitem>
480
481	<listitem>
482	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
483	(bug #4952)</para>
484	</listitem>
485
486	<listitem>
487	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
488	bug #6122)</para>
489	</listitem>
490
491	<listitem>
492	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
493	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
494	</listitem>
495
496	<listitem>
497	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
498	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
499	(Linux hosts only)</para>
500	</listitem>
501
502	<listitem>
503	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
504	</listitem>
505
506	<listitem>
507	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
508	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
509	</listitem>
510
511	<listitem>
512	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
513	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
514	</listitem>
515
516	<listitem>
517	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
518	canceled</para>
519	</listitem>
520
521	<listitem>
522	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
523	</listitem>
524
525	<listitem>
526	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
527	</listitem>
528
529	<listitem>
530	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
531	</listitem>
532
533	<listitem>
534	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
535	</listitem>
536
537	<listitem>
538	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
539	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
540	</listitem>
541
542	<listitem>
543	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
544	</listitem>
545
546	<listitem>
547	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
548	(Linux hosts only)</para>
549	</listitem>
550
551	<listitem>
552	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
553	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
554	</listitem>
555
556	<listitem>
557	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
558	</listitem>
559
560	<listitem>
561	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
562	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
563	</listitem>
564
565	<listitem>
566	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
571	circumstances</para>
572	</listitem>
573
574	<listitem>
575	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
576	printers</para>
577	</listitem>
578
579	<listitem>
580	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
585	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
586	</listitem>
587
588	<listitem>
589	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
590	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
591	</listitem>
592
593	<listitem>
594	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
595	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
596	circumstances</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
601	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
602	</listitem>
603
604	<listitem>
605	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
606	as supported extension</para>
607	</listitem>
608
609	<listitem>
610	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
611	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
612	</listitem>
613
614	<listitem>
615	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
616	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
617	</listitem>
618
619	<listitem>
620	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
625	(bug #7366)</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
634	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
635	</listitem>
636
637	<listitem>
638	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
639	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
640	</listitem>
641
642	<listitem>
643	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
644	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
645	</listitem>
646
647	<listitem>
648	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
649	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
650	</listitem>
651
652	<listitem>
653	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
654	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
655	</listitem>
656
657	<listitem>
658	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
659	</listitem>
660
661	<listitem>
662	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
663	</listitem>
664
665	<listitem>
666	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
667	more than one environment variable</para>
668	</listitem>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
672	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
673	</listitem>
674
675	<listitem>
676	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
677	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
678	</listitem>
679
680	<listitem>
681	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
682	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
683	</listitem>
684
685	<listitem>
686	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
687	enumerating logged in users</para>
688	</listitem>
689
690	<listitem>
691	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
692	</listitem>
693
694	<listitem>
695	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
700	</listitem>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
704	in the event of a VM crash</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
709	</listitem>
710
711	<listitem>
712	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
713	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
718	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
719	</listitem>
720
721	<listitem>
722	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
723	(bug #7448)</para>
724	</listitem>
725
726	<listitem>
727	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
728	</listitem>
729
730	<listitem>
731	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
732	</listitem>
733
734	<listitem>
735	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
736	</listitem>
737
738	</itemizedlist>
739
740	</sect1>
741
742	<sect1>
743	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
744
745	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
746	added:</para>
747
748	<itemizedlist>
749
750	<listitem>
751	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
752	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
757	</listitem>
758
759	<listitem>
760	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
761	bug #6809)</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
766	</listitem>
767
768	<listitem>
769	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
770	</listitem>
771
772	<listitem>
773	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
774	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
775	</listitem>
776
777	<listitem>
778	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
779	changes</para>
780	</listitem>
781
782	<listitem>
783	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
784	</listitem>
785
786	<listitem>
787	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
788	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
789	</listitem>
790
791	<listitem>
792	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
793	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
794	</listitem>
795
796	<listitem>
797	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
798	</listitem>
799
800	<listitem>
801	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
802	</listitem>
803
804	<listitem>
805	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
806	</listitem>
807
808	<listitem>
809	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
810	</listitem>
811
812	<listitem>
813	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
814	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
815	</listitem>
816
817	<listitem>
818	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	<listitem>
822	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
823	(bug #6832)</para>
824	</listitem>
825
826	<listitem>
827	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
828	guests</para>
829	</listitem>
830
831	<listitem>
832	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
833	</listitem>
834
835	<listitem>
836	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
837	without external tools and tricks</para>
838	</listitem>
839
840	<listitem>
841	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
842	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
843	</listitem>
844
845	<listitem>
846	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	<listitem>
850	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
851	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
852	</listitem>
853
854	<listitem>
855	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
856	shutdown</para>
857	</listitem>
858
859	<listitem>
860	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
861	fixes</para>
862	</listitem>
863
864	<listitem>
865	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
866	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
867	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
868	</para>
869	</listitem>
870
871	<listitem>
872	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
873	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
874	</listitem>
875
876	<listitem>
877	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
878	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
879	</listitem>
880
881	<listitem>
882	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
883	</para>
884	</listitem>
885
886	<listitem>
887	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
892	</listitem>
893
894	<listitem>
895	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
896	</listitem>
897
898	</itemizedlist>
899
900	</sect1>
901
902	<sect1>
903	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
904
905	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
906	added:</para>
907
908	<itemizedlist>
909
910	<listitem>
911	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
912	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
913	</listitem>
914
915	<listitem>
916	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
917	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
918	</listitem>
919
920	<listitem>
921	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
922	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
923	</listitem>
924
925	<listitem>
926	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
927	</listitem>
928
929	<listitem>
930	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
935	</listitem>
936
937	<listitem>
938	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
943	assigned</para>
944	</listitem>
945
946	<listitem>
947	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
948	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
949	</listitem>
950
951	<listitem>
952	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
953	multiple screens are enabled</para>
954	</listitem>
955
956	<listitem>
957	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
958	</listitem>
959
960	<listitem>
961	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
962	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
963	</listitem>
964
965	<listitem>
966	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
967	again (bug #7022).
968	</para>
969	</listitem>
970
971	<listitem>
972	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
973	(bug #6768)</para>
974	</listitem>
975
976	<listitem>
977	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
978	(bug #6927)</para>
979	</listitem>
980
981	<listitem>
982	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
983	bug #7031)</para>
984	</listitem>
985
986	<listitem>
987	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
988	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
989	</listitem>
990
991	<listitem>
992	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
993	bug #6987)</para>
994	</listitem>
995
996	<listitem>
997	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
998	</listitem>
999
1000	<listitem>
1001	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
1002	</listitem>
1003
1004	<listitem>
1005	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
1006	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
1007	</listitem>
1008
1009	<listitem>
1010	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
1011	</listitem>
1012
1013	<listitem>
1014	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
1015	installation (bug #5101)</para>
1016	</listitem>
1017
1018	<listitem>
1019	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
1020	</listitem>
1021
1022	<listitem>
1023	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1024	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1025	bug #6872)</para>
1026	</listitem>
1027
1028	<listitem>
1029	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1030	</listitem>
1031
1032	<listitem>
1033	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1034	(performance tweak)</para>
1035	</listitem>
1036
1037	<listitem>
1038	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1039	is currently paused</para>
1040	</listitem>
1041
1042	<listitem>
1043	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1044	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1045	</listitem>
1046
1047	<listitem>
1048	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1049	</listitem>
1050
1051	<listitem>
1052	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1053	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1054	</listitem>
1055
1056	<listitem>
1057	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1058	not properly saved</para>
1059	</listitem>
1060
1061	<listitem>
1062	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1063	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1064	</listitem>
1065
1066	<listitem>
1067	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1068	</listitem>
1069
1070	<listitem>
1071	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1076	</listitem>
1077
1078	<listitem>
1079	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1080	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1081	</listitem>
1082
1083	<listitem>
1084	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1085	</listitem>
1086
1087	<listitem>
1088	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1089	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1090	</listitem>
1091
1092	<listitem>
1093	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1094	(bug #5251)</para>
1095	</listitem>
1096
1097	<listitem>
1098	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1099	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1100	</listitem>
1101
1102	<listitem>
1103	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1104	</listitem>
1105
1106	<listitem>
1107	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1108	</listitem>
1109
1110	<listitem>
1111	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1112	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1113	</listitem>
1114
1115	<listitem>
1116	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1117	</listitem>
1118
1119	<listitem>
1120	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1121	</listitem>
1122
1123	<listitem>
1124	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1125	</listitem>
1126
1127	</itemizedlist>
1128	</sect1>
1129
1130	<sect1>
1131	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1132
1133	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1134	added:</para>
1135
1136	<itemizedlist>
1137
1138	<listitem>
1139	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1140	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1141	</listitem>
1142
1143	<listitem>
1144	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1149	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1150	</listitem>
1151
1152	<listitem>
1153	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1154	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1155	</listitem>
1156
1157	<listitem>
1158	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	<listitem>
1162	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1163	again (bug #6864)</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1168	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1173	</listitem>
1174
1175	<listitem>
1176	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1177	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1178	</listitem>
1179
1180	<listitem>
1181	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1182	</listitem>
1183
1184	</itemizedlist>
1185
1186	</sect1>
1187
1188	<sect1>
1189	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1190
1191	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1192	added:</para>
1193
1194	<itemizedlist>
1195
1196	<listitem>
1197	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1198	</listitem>
1199
1200	<listitem>
1201	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1202	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1207	</listitem>
1208
1209	<listitem>
1210	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1211	state</para>
1212	</listitem>
1213
1214	<listitem>
1215	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1216	</listitem>
1217
1218	<listitem>
1219	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1220	</listitem>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1224	</listitem>
1225
1226	<listitem>
1227	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1228	</listitem>
1229
1230	<listitem>
1231	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1232	</listitem>
1233
1234	<listitem>
1235	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1236	</listitem>
1237
1238	<listitem>
1239	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1240	</listitem>
1241
1242	<listitem>
1243	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1244	</listitem>
1245
1246	<listitem>
1247	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1248	</listitem>
1249
1250	<listitem>
1251	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1252	</listitem>
1253
1254	<listitem>
1255	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1256	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1257	</listitem>
1258
1259	<listitem>
1260	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1261	(bug #6784)</para>
1262	</listitem>
1263
1264	<listitem>
1265	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1266	</listitem>
1267
1268	<listitem>
1269	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1270	</listitem>
1271
1272	<listitem>
1273	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1274	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1275	</listitem>
1276
1277	<listitem>
1278	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1287	host only</para>
1288	</listitem>
1289
1290	<listitem>
1291	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1292	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1293	</listitem>
1294
1295	<listitem>
1296	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1297	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1298	</listitem>
1299
1300	<listitem>
1301	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1302	</listitem>
1303
1304	<listitem>
1305	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1306	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1307	</listitem>
1308
1309	<listitem>
1310	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1311	</listitem>
1312
1313	<listitem>
1314	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1315	</listitem>
1316
1317	<listitem>
1318	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1319	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1320	</listitem>
1321
1322	<listitem>
1323	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1324	</listitem>
1325
1326	<listitem>
1327	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1328	</listitem>
1329
1330	<listitem>
1331	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1332	</listitem>
1333
1334	<listitem>
1335	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1336	(bug #6714)</para>
1337	</listitem>
1338
1339	<listitem>
1340	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1341	</listitem>
1342
1343	<listitem>
1344	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1345	</listitem>
1346
1347	<listitem>
1348	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1349	</listitem>
1350
1351	<listitem>
1352	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1353	</listitem>
1354
1355	<listitem>
1356	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1357	</listitem>
1358
1359	</itemizedlist>
1360
1361	</sect1>
1362
1363	<sect1>
1364	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1365
1366	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1367	were added:</para>
1368
1369	<itemizedlist>
1370
1371	<listitem>
1372	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1373	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1374	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1375	</listitem>
1376
1377	<listitem>
1378	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1379	</listitem>
1380
1381	<listitem>
1382	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1383	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1384	</listitem>
1385
1386	<listitem>
1387	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1388	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1389	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1390	</listitem>
1391
1392	<listitem>
1393	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1394	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1395	</listitem>
1396
1397	<listitem>
1398	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1399	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1400	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1401	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1402	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1403	</listitem>
1404
1405	<listitem>
1406	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1407	</listitem>
1408
1409	<listitem>
1410	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1411	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1412	</listitem>
1413
1414	<listitem>
1415	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1416	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1417	</listitem>
1418
1419	<listitem>
1420	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1421	</listitem>
1422
1423	<listitem>
1424	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrdp-videochannel"/>)</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1429	</listitem>
1430
1431	<listitem>
1432	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1433	</listitem>
1434
1435	<listitem>
1436	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1437	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1438	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1439	</listitem>
1440
1441	<listitem>
1442	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1443	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1444	</listitem>
1445
1446	</itemizedlist>
1447
1448	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1449
1450	<itemizedlist>
1451
1452	<listitem>
1453	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1454	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1455	</listitem>
1456
1457	<listitem>
1458	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1459	</listitem>
1460
1461	<listitem>
1462	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1463	VM</para>
1464	</listitem>
1465
1466	<listitem>
1467	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1468	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1469	</listitem>
1470
1471	<listitem>
1472	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1473	#1669)</para>
1474	</listitem>
1475
1476	<listitem>
1477	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1478	#6442)</para>
1479	</listitem>
1480
1481	<listitem>
1482	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1483	combination (bug #684)</para>
1484	</listitem>
1485
1486	<listitem>
1487	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1488	the VM from the GUI</para>
1489	</listitem>
1490
1491	<listitem>
1492	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1493	medium is not accessible</para>
1494	</listitem>
1495
1496	<listitem>
1497	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1502	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1507	#3106)</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1512	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1513	it</para>
1514	</listitem>
1515
1516	<listitem>
1517	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1518	</listitem>
1519
1520	<listitem>
1521	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1522	</listitem>
1523
1524	<listitem>
1525	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1526	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1527	</listitem>
1528
1529	<listitem>
1530	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1531	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1536	</listitem>
1537
1538	<listitem>
1539	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1540	</listitem>
1541
1542	<listitem>
1543	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1544	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1545	</listitem>
1546
1547	<listitem>
1548	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1553	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1554	</listitem>
1555
1556	<listitem>
1557	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1558	</listitem>
1559
1560	<listitem>
1561	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1562	in VirtualBox</para>
1563	</listitem>
1564
1565	<listitem>
1566	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1567	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1568	</listitem>
1569
1570	<listitem>
1571	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1572	VirtualBox</para>
1573	</listitem>
1574
1575	<listitem>
1576	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1581	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	</itemizedlist>
1585	</sect1>
1586
1587	<sect1>
1588	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1589
1590	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1591	added:</para>
1592
1593	<itemizedlist>
1594
1595	<listitem>
1596	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1597	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1598	</listitem>
1599
1600	<listitem>
1601	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1602	</listitem>
1603
1604	<listitem>
1605	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1606	</listitem>
1607
1608	<listitem>
1609	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1610	only) </para>
1611	</listitem>
1612
1613	<listitem>
1614	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1615	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1616	</listitem>
1617
1618	<listitem>
1619	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1620	interface version</para>
1621	</listitem>
1622
1623	<listitem>
1624	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1625	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1626	slot empty</para>
1627	</listitem>
1628
1629	<listitem>
1630	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1631	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1632	(bug #4220)</para>
1633	</listitem>
1634
1635	<listitem>
1636	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1637	</listitem>
1638
1639	<listitem>
1640	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1641	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1642	</listitem>
1643
1644	<listitem>
1645	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1646	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1647	</listitem>
1648
1649	<listitem>
1650	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1651	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1652	</listitem>
1653
1654	<listitem>
1655	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1656	attached</para>
1657	</listitem>
1658
1659	<listitem>
1660	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1661	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1662	</listitem>
1663
1664	<listitem>
1665	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1666	</listitem>
1667
1668	<listitem>
1669	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1670	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1671	</listitem>
1672
1673	<listitem>
1674	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1675	is bug #6408)</para>
1676	</listitem>
1677
1678	<listitem>
1679	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1680	</listitem>
1681
1682	<listitem>
1683	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1684	fail to initialize</para>
1685	</listitem>
1686
1687	<listitem>
1688	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1689	</listitem>
1690
1691	<listitem>
1692	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1693	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1694	</listitem>
1695
1696	<listitem>
1697	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1698	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1699	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1700	</listitem>
1701
1702	<listitem>
1703	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1704	</listitem>
1705
1706	<listitem>
1707	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1708	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1709	</listitem>
1710
1711	<listitem>
1712	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1713	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1714	</listitem>
1715
1716	<listitem>
1717	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1718	(bug #6435)</para>
1719	</listitem>
1720
1721	<listitem>
1722	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1723	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	<listitem>
1727	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
1728	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
1729	(bug #6488)</para>
1730	</listitem>
1731
1732	<listitem>
1733	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
1734	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
1735	</listitem>
1736
1737	<listitem>
1738	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1739	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1740	</listitem>
1741
1742	<listitem>
1743	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
1744	#5227)</para>
1745	</listitem>
1746
1747	<listitem>
1748	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
1749	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
1750	</listitem>
1751
1752	<listitem>
1753	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
1754	</listitem>
1755
1756	<listitem>
1757	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
1758	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
1759	</listitem>
1760
1761	</itemizedlist>
1762	</sect1>
1763
1764	<sect1>
1765	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
1766
1767	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1768	added:</para>
1769
1770	<itemizedlist>
1771
1772	<listitem>
1773	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
1774	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
1775	</listitem>
1776
1777	<listitem>
1778	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
1779	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
1780	</listitem>
1781
1782	<listitem>
1783	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
1784	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
1785	</listitem>
1786
1787	<listitem>
1788	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
1789	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
1790	</listitem>
1791
1792	<listitem>
1793	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
1794	</listitem>
1795
1796	<listitem>
1797	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
1806	</listitem>
1807
1808	<listitem>
1809	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
1810	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
1815	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
1816	</listitem>
1817
1818	<listitem>
1819	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
1820	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
1825	</listitem>
1826
1827	<listitem>
1828	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
1829	</listitem>
1830
1831	<listitem>
1832	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
1833	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1834	</listitem>
1835
1836	<listitem>
1837	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
1838	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
1839	calls (bug #6165)</para>
1840	</listitem>
1841
1842	<listitem>
1843	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
1844	(bug #5297)</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
1849	(bug #4962)</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
1854	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
1855	</listitem>
1856
1857	<listitem>
1858	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
1859	(bug #6176)</para>
1860	</listitem>
1861
1862	<listitem>
1863	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
1864	certain circumstances</para>
1865	</listitem>
1866
1867	<listitem>
1868	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
1869	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
1870	</listitem>
1871
1872	<listitem>
1873	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
1878	</listitem>
1879
1880	<listitem>
1881	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
1882	(bug #3571)</para>
1883	</listitem>
1884
1885	<listitem>
1886	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
1887	devices</para>
1888	</listitem>
1889
1890	<listitem>
1891	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
1892	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
1893	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
1894	</listitem>
1895
1896	<listitem>
1897	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
1898	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
1899	</listitem>
1900
1901	<listitem>
1902	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
1907	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
1908	</listitem>
1909
1910	<listitem>
1911	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
1912	response</para>
1913	</listitem>
1914
1915	<listitem>
1916	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
1917	</listitem>
1918
1919	<listitem>
1920	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
1921	</listitem>
1922
1923	<listitem>
1924	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
1925	</listitem>
1926
1927	<listitem>
1928	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	<listitem>
1932	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
1933	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
1934	</listitem>
1935
1936	<listitem>
1937	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
1938	</listitem>
1939
1940	<listitem>
1941	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
1946	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
1955	</listitem>
1956
1957	<listitem>
1958	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
1959	</listitem>
1960
1961	<listitem>
1962	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
1963	</listitem>
1964
1965	</itemizedlist>
1966	</sect1>
1967
1968	<sect1>
1969	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
1970
1971	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1972	added:</para>
1973
1974	<itemizedlist>
1975
1976	<listitem>
1977	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
1978	</listitem>
1979
1980	<listitem>
1981	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
1982	</listitem>
1983
1984	<listitem>
1985	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
1986	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
1987	</listitem>
1988
1989	<listitem>
1990	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
1991	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
1992	</listitem>
1993
1994	<listitem>
1995	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
1996	(bug #3945)</para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	<listitem>
2000	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
2001	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
2002	</listitem>
2003
2004	<listitem>
2005	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
2006	and AMD-V only) </para>
2007	</listitem>
2008
2009	<listitem>
2010	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
2015	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
2016	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
2017	</listitem>
2018
2019	<listitem>
2020	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
2021	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
2022	</listitem>
2023
2024	<listitem>
2025	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2026	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2027	</listitem>
2028
2029	<listitem>
2030	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2031	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2032	</listitem>
2033
2034	<listitem>
2035	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2036	snapshots command</para>
2037	</listitem>
2038
2039	<listitem>
2040	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2041	</listitem>
2042
2043	<listitem>
2044	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2045	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2046	</listitem>
2047
2048	<listitem>
2049	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2050	</listitem>
2051
2052	<listitem>
2053	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2058	</listitem>
2059
2060	<listitem>
2061	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2062	(KWin bug)</para>
2063	</listitem>
2064
2065	<listitem>
2066	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2067	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2068	</listitem>
2069
2070	<listitem>
2071	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2076	</listitem>
2077
2078	<listitem>
2079	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2080	</listitem>
2081
2082	<listitem>
2083	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2084	</listitem>
2085
2086	<listitem>
2087	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2088	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2089	</listitem>
2090
2091	<listitem>
2092	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2093	bug #5787)</para>
2094	</listitem>
2095
2096	<listitem>
2097	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2098	DHCP requests</para>
2099	</listitem>
2100
2101	<listitem>
2102	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2103	(bug #3217)</para>
2104	</listitem>
2105
2106	<listitem>
2107	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2108	range (bug #5923)</para>
2109	</listitem>
2110
2111	<listitem>
2112	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2113	</listitem>
2114
2115	<listitem>
2116	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2125	</listitem>
2126
2127	<listitem>
2128	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2129	file (bug #5681)</para>
2130	</listitem>
2131
2132	<listitem>
2133	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2134	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2135	</listitem>
2136
2137	<listitem>
2138	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2139	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2140	</listitem>
2141
2142	<listitem>
2143	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2144	regression)</para>
2145	</listitem>
2146
2147	<listitem>
2148	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2149	</listitem>
2150
2151	<listitem>
2152	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2153	</listitem>
2154
2155	<listitem>
2156	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2157	</listitem>
2158
2159	<listitem>
2160	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2161	</listitem>
2162
2163	<listitem>
2164	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2165	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2166	</listitem>
2167
2168	<listitem>
2169	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2170	</listitem>
2171
2172	<listitem>
2173	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2174	</listitem>
2175
2176	<listitem>
2177	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2178	</listitem>
2179
2180	<listitem>
2181	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2182	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2183	</listitem>
2184
2185	<listitem>
2186	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2191	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2196	</listitem>
2197
2198	<listitem>
2199	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2200	</listitem>
2201
2202	<listitem>
2203	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2204	</listitem>
2205
2206	<listitem>
2207	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2208	(bug #5731)</para>
2209	</listitem>
2210
2211	<listitem>
2212	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2213	again</para>
2214	</listitem>
2215
2216	</itemizedlist>
2217
2218	</sect1>
2219
2220	<sect1>
2221	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2222
2223	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2224	added:</para>
2225
2226	<itemizedlist>
2227
2228	<listitem>
2229	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2230	</listitem>
2231
2232	<listitem>
2233	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2234	</listitem>
2235
2236	<listitem>
2237	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2238	</listitem>
2239
2240	<listitem>
2241	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2242	</listitem>
2243
2244	<listitem>
2245	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2246	</listitem>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2250	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2251	</listitem>
2252
2253	<listitem>
2254	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2259	</listitem>
2260
2261	<listitem>
2262	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2267	</listitem>
2268
2269	<listitem>
2270	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2271	</listitem>
2272
2273	<listitem>
2274	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2275	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2276	</listitem>
2277
2278	<listitem>
2279	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2280	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2281	</listitem>
2282
2283	<listitem>
2284	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2285	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2286	#1762)</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2291	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2292	</listitem>
2293
2294	<listitem>
2295	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2296	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2297	</listitem>
2298
2299	<listitem>
2300	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2301	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2302	</listitem>
2303
2304	<listitem>
2305	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2306	</listitem>
2307
2308	<listitem>
2309	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2310	</listitem>
2311
2312	<listitem>
2313	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2314	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2315	</listitem>
2316
2317	<listitem>
2318	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2319	</listitem>
2320
2321	<listitem>
2322	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2327	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2328	</listitem>
2329
2330	<listitem>
2331	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2332	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2333	</listitem>
2334
2335	<listitem>
2336	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2341	guests</para>
2342	</listitem>
2343
2344	<listitem>
2345	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2346	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2347	</listitem>
2348
2349	<listitem>
2350	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2351	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2352	</listitem>
2353
2354	<listitem>
2355	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2356	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2357	</listitem>
2358
2359	<listitem>
2360	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2361	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2362	</listitem>
2363
2364	<listitem>
2365	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2366	</listitem>
2367
2368	<listitem>
2369	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2374	</listitem>
2375
2376	<listitem>
2377	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2378	</listitem>
2379
2380	<listitem>
2381	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2382	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2383	</listitem>
2384
2385	<listitem>
2386	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2387	</listitem>
2388
2389	</itemizedlist>
2390
2391	</sect1>
2392
2393	<sect1>
2394	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2395
2396	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2397	were added:</para>
2398
2399	<itemizedlist>
2400
2401	<listitem>
2402	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2403	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2404	</listitem>
2405
2406	<listitem>
2407	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2408	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2409	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2410	</listitem>
2411
2412	<listitem>
2413	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2414	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2415	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2416	</listitem>
2417
2418	<listitem>
2419	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2420	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2421	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2422	</listitem>
2423
2424	<listitem>
2425	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2426	running</para>
2427	</listitem>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2431	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2432	</listitem>
2433
2434	<listitem>
2435	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2436	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2437	</listitem>
2438
2439	<listitem>
2440	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2441	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2442	</listitem>
2443
2444	<listitem>
2445	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2446	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2447	</listitem>
2448
2449	</itemizedlist>
2450
2451	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2452
2453	<itemizedlist>
2454
2455	<listitem>
2456	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2457	</listitem>
2458
2459	<listitem>
2460	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2461	</listitem>
2462
2463	<listitem>
2464	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2465	</listitem>
2466
2467	<listitem>
2468	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2469	(bug #5291)</para>
2470	</listitem>
2471
2472	<listitem>
2473	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2474	</listitem>
2475
2476	<listitem>
2477	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2478	</listitem>
2479
2480	<listitem>
2481	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2482	</listitem>
2483
2484	<listitem>
2485	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2486	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2487	</listitem>
2488
2489	<listitem>
2490	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2491	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2492	</listitem>
2493
2494	<listitem>
2495	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2500	</listitem>
2501
2502	<listitem>
2503	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2504	</listitem>
2505
2506	<listitem>
2507	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2508	</listitem>
2509
2510	<listitem>
2511	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2516	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2517	</listitem>
2518
2519	<listitem>
2520	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2521	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2522	</listitem>
2523
2524	<listitem>
2525	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2526	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2527	</listitem>
2528
2529	<listitem>
2530	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2531	(bug #2723)</para>
2532	</listitem>
2533
2534	<listitem>
2535	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2536	</listitem>
2537
2538	<listitem>
2539	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2540	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2541	</listitem>
2542
2543	<listitem>
2544	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2545	optional manifest file on import</para>
2546	</listitem>
2547
2548	<listitem>
2549	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2550	</listitem>
2551
2552	<listitem>
2553	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2554	(bug #3773)</para>
2555	</listitem>
2556
2557	<listitem>
2558	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2559	</listitem>
2560
2561	<listitem>
2562	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2563	</listitem>
2564
2565	<listitem>
2566	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2567	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2568	</listitem>
2569
2570	<listitem>
2571	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2572	(bug #4866)</para>
2573	</listitem>
2574
2575	<listitem>
2576	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2577	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2578	</listitem>
2579
2580	<listitem>
2581	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2582	certain conditions</para>
2583	</listitem>
2584
2585	<listitem>
2586	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2587	</listitem>
2588
2589	<listitem>
2590	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	<listitem>
2594	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2595	</listitem>
2596
2597	<listitem>
2598	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2599	</listitem>
2600
2601	<listitem>
2602	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2603	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2604	</listitem>
2605
2606	<listitem>
2607	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2612	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2613	</listitem>
2614
2615	<listitem>
2616	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2621	</listitem>
2622
2623	<listitem>
2624	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2625	</listitem>
2626
2627	<listitem>
2628	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2629	</listitem>
2630
2631	<listitem>
2632	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2633	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2634	</listitem>
2635
2636	<listitem>
2637	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2638	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2639	(bug #928)</para>
2640	</listitem>
2641
2642	<listitem>
2643	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2644	</listitem>
2645
2646	</itemizedlist>
2647
2648	</sect1>
2649
2650	<sect1>
2651	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2652
2653	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2654	added:</para>
2655
2656	<itemizedlist>
2657
2658	<listitem>
2659	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2660	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2665	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2666	</listitem>
2667
2668	<listitem>
2669	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2670	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2671	</listitem>
2672
2673	<listitem>
2674	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2675	enabled</para>
2676	</listitem>
2677
2678	<listitem>
2679	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2680	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2681	</listitem>
2682
2683	<listitem>
2684	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2685	(bug #2676)</para>
2686	</listitem>
2687
2688	<listitem>
2689	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2690	is connected to a raw file</para>
2691	</listitem>
2692
2693	<listitem>
2694	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2695	(bug #5355)</para>
2696	</listitem>
2697
2698	<listitem>
2699	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2700	</listitem>
2701
2702	<listitem>
2703	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2704	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2705	</listitem>
2706
2707	<listitem>
2708	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2709	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2710	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2711	</listitem>
2712
2713	<listitem>
2714	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2715	</listitem>
2716
2717	<listitem>
2718	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2719	</listitem>
2720
2721	<listitem>
2722	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2723	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
2724	</listitem>
2725
2726	<listitem>
2727	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
2728	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
2729	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
2730	</listitem>
2731
2732	</itemizedlist>
2733
2734	</sect1>
2735
2736	<sect1>
2737	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
2738
2739	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2740	added:</para>
2741
2742	<itemizedlist>
2743
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
2746	</listitem>
2747
2748	<listitem>
2749	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
2750	</listitem>
2751
2752	<listitem>
2753	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
2754	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
2755	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
2756	</listitem>
2757
2758	<listitem>
2759	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
2760	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
2761	</listitem>
2762
2763	<listitem>
2764	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
2765	</listitem>
2766
2767	<listitem>
2768	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
2769	</listitem>
2770
2771	<listitem>
2772	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
2773	</listitem>
2774
2775	<listitem>
2776	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
2777	</listitem>
2778
2779	<listitem>
2780	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
2781	</listitem>
2782
2783	<listitem>
2784	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
2785	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
2786	</listitem>
2787
2788	<listitem>
2789	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
2790	</listitem>
2791
2792	<listitem>
2793	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
2794	</listitem>
2795
2796	<listitem>
2797	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
2798	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
2799	</listitem>
2800
2801	<listitem>
2802	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
2803	</listitem>
2804
2805	<listitem>
2806	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
2807	exhaustion</para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
2816	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
2817	</listitem>
2818
2819	<listitem>
2820	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
2821	folders (bug #4106)</para>
2822	</listitem>
2823
2824	<listitem>
2825	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
2826	folders (bug #4299)</para>
2827	</listitem>
2828
2829	<listitem>
2830	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
2831	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
2832	(bug #2921)</para>
2833	</listitem>
2834
2835	<listitem>
2836	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
2837	hosts only)</para>
2838	</listitem>
2839
2840	<listitem>
2841	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
2842	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
2843	</listitem>
2844
2845	<listitem>
2846	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
2851	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
2860	image inconsistency </para>
2861	</listitem>
2862
2863	<listitem>
2864	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
2865	</listitem>
2866
2867	<listitem>
2868	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
2869	</listitem>
2870
2871	<listitem>
2872	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
2873	(bug #2025)</para>
2874	</listitem>
2875
2876	<listitem>
2877	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
2878	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
2879	</listitem>
2880
2881	</itemizedlist>
2882
2883	</sect1>
2884
2885	<sect1>
2886	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
2887
2888	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2889	added:</para>
2890
2891	<itemizedlist>
2892
2893	<listitem>
2894	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
2895	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
2896	</listitem>
2897
2898	<listitem>
2899	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
2900	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
2901	</listitem>
2902
2903	<listitem>
2904	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
2905	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
2906	</listitem>
2907
2908	<listitem>
2909	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
2910	</listitem>
2911
2912	<listitem>
2913	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
2914	software virtualization only) </para>
2915	</listitem>
2916
2917	<listitem>
2918	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
2919	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
2920	</listitem>
2921
2922	<listitem>
2923	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
2924	with root privileges</para>
2925	</listitem>
2926
2927	<listitem>
2928	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
2929	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
2930	</listitem>
2931
2932	<listitem>
2933	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
2934	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
2935	</listitem>
2936
2937	<listitem>
2938	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
2939	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
2940	</listitem>
2941
2942	<listitem>
2943	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
2944	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
2945	selector (bug #5063)</para>
2946	</listitem>
2947
2948	<listitem>
2949	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
2950	available</para>
2951	</listitem>
2952
2953	<listitem>
2954	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
2955	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
2956	</listitem>
2957
2958	<listitem>
2959	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
2960	networking (bug #4775)</para>
2961	</listitem>
2962
2963	<listitem>
2964	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
2965	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
2966	</listitem>
2967
2968	<listitem>
2969	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
2970	(bug #4907)</para>
2971	</listitem>
2972
2973	<listitem>
2974	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
2975	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
2976	</listitem>
2977
2978	<listitem>
2979	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
2980	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
2981	</listitem>
2982
2983	<listitem>
2984	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
2985	</listitem>
2986
2987	<listitem>
2988	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
2989	</listitem>
2990
2991	<listitem>
2992	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
2993	</listitem>
2994
2995	<listitem>
2996	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
3001	are installed</para>
3002	</listitem>
3003
3004	<listitem>
3005	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
3006	(bug #4771)</para>
3007	</listitem>
3008
3009	<listitem>
3010	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
3011	</listitem>
3012
3013	<listitem>
3014	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
3015	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
3020	command</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3025	</listitem>
3026
3027	<listitem>
3028	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3029	</listitem>
3030
3031	<listitem>
3032	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3033	(bug #5089)</para>
3034	</listitem>
3035
3036	<listitem>
3037	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3038	</listitem>
3039
3040	</itemizedlist>
3041
3042	</sect1>
3043
3044	<sect1>
3045	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3046
3047	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3048	added:</para>
3049
3050	<itemizedlist>
3051
3052	<listitem>
3053	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3054	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3055	</listitem>
3056
3057	<listitem>
3058	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3059	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3060	</listitem>
3061
3062	<listitem>
3063	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3064	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3065	</listitem>
3066
3067	<listitem>
3068	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3069	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3070	</listitem>
3071
3072	<listitem>
3073	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3074	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3079	</listitem>
3080
3081	<listitem>
3082	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3083	</listitem>
3084
3085	<listitem>
3086	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3087	</listitem>
3088
3089	<listitem>
3090	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3091	</listitem>
3092
3093	<listitem>
3094	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3095	</listitem>
3096
3097	<listitem>
3098	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3099	onlined or offlined</para>
3100	</listitem>
3101
3102	<listitem>
3103	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3108	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3109	</listitem>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3113	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3114	</listitem>
3115
3116	<listitem>
3117	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3118	</listitem>
3119
3120	<listitem>
3121	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3122	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3123	</listitem>
3124
3125	<listitem>
3126	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3131	</listitem>
3132
3133	<listitem>
3134	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3135	</listitem>
3136
3137	<listitem>
3138	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3139	</listitem>
3140
3141	<listitem>
3142	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3143	</listitem>
3144
3145	<listitem>
3146	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3147	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3148	</listitem>
3149
3150	<listitem>
3151	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3152	</listitem>
3153
3154	<listitem>
3155	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3164	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3165	</listitem>
3166
3167	<listitem>
3168	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3169	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3170	</listitem>
3171
3172	<listitem>
3173	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3178	</listitem>
3179
3180	<listitem>
3181	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3182	</listitem>
3183
3184	<listitem>
3185	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3190	</listitem>
3191
3192	<listitem>
3193	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3194	</listitem>
3195
3196	<listitem>
3197	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3198	</listitem>
3199
3200	<listitem>
3201	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3202	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3203	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3204	phase collapse</para>
3205	</listitem>
3206
3207	<listitem>
3208	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3209	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3210	</listitem>
3211
3212	<listitem>
3213	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3214	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3215	</listitem>
3216
3217	<listitem>
3218	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3219	</listitem>
3220
3221	<listitem>
3222	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3223	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3224	</listitem>
3225
3226	<listitem>
3227	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3228	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3229	</listitem>
3230
3231	<listitem>
3232	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3233	</listitem>
3234
3235	<listitem>
3236	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3237	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3238	#4698, #4790)</para>
3239	</listitem>
3240
3241	<listitem>
3242	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3243	less than the configured range</para>
3244	</listitem>
3245
3246	<listitem>
3247	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3248	</listitem>
3249
3250	<listitem>
3251	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3256	</listitem>
3257
3258	<listitem>
3259	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3260	</listitem>
3261
3262	<listitem>
3263	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3264	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3269	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3270	</listitem>
3271
3272	<listitem>
3273	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3274	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3275	</listitem>
3276
3277	<listitem>
3278	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3279	</listitem>
3280
3281	<listitem>
3282	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3283	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3284	</listitem>
3285
3286	<listitem>
3287	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3288	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3289	</listitem>
3290
3291	<listitem>
3292	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3293	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3294	</listitem>
3295
3296	<listitem>
3297	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3298	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3299	</listitem>
3300
3301	<listitem>
3302	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3303	</listitem>
3304
3305	<listitem>
3306	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3307	</listitem>
3308
3309	</itemizedlist>
3310
3311	</sect1>
3312
3313	<sect1>
3314	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3315
3316	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3317	added:</para>
3318
3319	<itemizedlist>
3320
3321	<listitem>
3322	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3323	</listitem>
3324
3325	<listitem>
3326	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	<listitem>
3330	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3339	</listitem>
3340
3341	<listitem>
3342	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3343	</listitem>
3344
3345	<listitem>
3346	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3347	</listitem>
3348
3349	<listitem>
3350	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3351	</listitem>
3352
3353	<listitem>
3354	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3355	</listitem>
3356
3357	<listitem>
3358	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3359	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3360	</listitem>
3361
3362	<listitem>
3363	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3368	</listitem>
3369
3370	<listitem>
3371	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3372	</listitem>
3373
3374	<listitem>
3375	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3388	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3393	(bug #4654)</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3402	interfaces</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3407	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3408	</listitem>
3409
3410	<listitem>
3411	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3412	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3417	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3422	(bug #1461)</para>
3423	</listitem>
3424
3425	<listitem>
3426	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3427	</listitem>
3428
3429	<listitem>
3430	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3431	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3432	</listitem>
3433
3434	<listitem>
3435	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3436	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3437	</listitem>
3438
3439	<listitem>
3440	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3441	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3442	</listitem>
3443
3444	<listitem>
3445	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3450	</listitem>
3451
3452	<listitem>
3453	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3458	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3459	</listitem>
3460
3461	<listitem>
3462	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3463	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3464	</listitem>
3465
3466	<listitem>
3467	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3468	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3469	</listitem>
3470
3471	<listitem>
3472	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3473	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3474	</listitem>
3475
3476	</itemizedlist>
3477
3478	</sect1>
3479	<sect1>
3480	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3481
3482	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3483	added:</para>
3484
3485	<itemizedlist>
3486
3487	<listitem>
3488	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3489	</listitem>
3490
3491	<listitem>
3492	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3493	</listitem>
3494
3495	<listitem>
3496	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3497	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3498	</listitem>
3499
3500	<listitem>
3501	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3502	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3503	</listitem>
3504
3505	<listitem>
3506	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3507	</listitem>
3508
3509	<listitem>
3510	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3511	</listitem>
3512
3513	<listitem>
3514	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3515	</listitem>
3516
3517	<listitem>
3518	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3519	</listitem>
3520
3521	<listitem>
3522	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3523	</listitem>
3524
3525	<listitem>
3526	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3527	</listitem>
3528
3529	<listitem>
3530	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3531	</listitem>
3532
3533	<listitem>
3534	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3535	</listitem>
3536
3537	<listitem>
3538	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3539	</listitem>
3540
3541	<listitem>
3542	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3543	</listitem>
3544
3545	<listitem>
3546	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3547	</listitem>
3548
3549	<listitem>
3550	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3551	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3552	</listitem>
3553
3554	<listitem>
3555	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3556	</listitem>
3557
3558	<listitem>
3559	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3564	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3577	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	<listitem>
3581	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3582	</listitem>
3583
3584	<listitem>
3585	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3586	</listitem>
3587
3588	<listitem>
3589	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3590	</listitem>
3591
3592	<listitem>
3593	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3594	</listitem>
3595
3596	<listitem>
3597	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3598	</listitem>
3599
3600	<listitem>
3601	<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>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	</itemizedlist>
3605
3606	</sect1>
3607
3608	<sect1>
3609	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3610
3611	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3612	were added:</para>
3613
3614	<itemizedlist>
3615
3616	<listitem>
3617	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3618	</listitem>
3619
3620	<listitem>
3621	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3622	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3623	</listitem>
3624
3625	<listitem>
3626	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3627	</listitem>
3628
3629	</itemizedlist>
3630
3631	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3632
3633	<itemizedlist>
3634
3635	<listitem>
3636	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3641	certain conditions</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3646	</listitem>
3647
3648	<listitem>
3649	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3650	</listitem>
3651
3652	<listitem>
3653	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3654	</listitem>
3655
3656	<listitem>
3657	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3658	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3659	</listitem>
3660
3661	<listitem>
3662	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3663	</listitem>
3664
3665	<listitem>
3666	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3667	</listitem>
3668
3669	<listitem>
3670	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3671	</listitem>
3672
3673	<listitem>
3674	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3675	</listitem>
3676
3677	<listitem>
3678	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3679	</listitem>
3680
3681	<listitem>
3682	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3683	</listitem>
3684
3685	<listitem>
3686	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3687	</listitem>
3688
3689	<listitem>
3690	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3691	</listitem>
3692
3693	<listitem>
3694	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3695	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3696	</listitem>
3697
3698	<listitem>
3699	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3700	</listitem>
3701
3702	<listitem>
3703	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3704	</listitem>
3705
3706	<listitem>
3707	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3716	</listitem>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3720	</listitem>
3721
3722	<listitem>
3723	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
3724	</listitem>
3725
3726	<listitem>
3727	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
3732	</listitem>
3733
3734	<listitem>
3735	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
3736	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
3745	</listitem>
3746
3747	<listitem>
3748	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
3749	</listitem>
3750
3751	<listitem>
3752	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3753	</listitem>
3754
3755	<listitem>
3756	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
3757	</listitem>
3758
3759	<listitem>
3760	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
3761	</listitem>
3762
3763	<listitem>
3764	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
3769	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
3778	</listitem>
3779
3780	<listitem>
3781	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
3782	</listitem>
3783
3784	<listitem>
3785	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
3786	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
3791	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
3792	</listitem>
3793
3794	<listitem>
3795	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
3796	correct file mode when creating files</para>
3797	</listitem>
3798
3799	<listitem>
3800	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
3801	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
3802	</listitem>
3803
3804	<listitem>
3805	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
3806	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
3807	</listitem>
3808
3809	<listitem>
3810	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
3811	</listitem>
3812
3813	<listitem>
3814	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
3815	</listitem>
3816
3817	<listitem>
3818	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
3819	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
3820	</listitem>
3821
3822	<listitem>
3823	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
3824	guest property lookup</para>
3825	</listitem>
3826
3827	<listitem>
3828	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
3829	basic network information)</para>
3830	</listitem>
3831
3832	<listitem>
3833	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
3834	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
3835	</listitem>
3836
3837	<listitem>
3838	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
3839	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
3840	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
3841	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
3842	</listitem>
3843
3844	<listitem>
3845	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
3846	</listitem>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
3850	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
3851	web service</para>
3852	</listitem>
3853
3854	<listitem>
3855	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
3856	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
3857	</listitem>
3858
3859	<listitem>
3860	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
3861	unavailable</para>
3862	</listitem>
3863
3864	<listitem>
3865	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
3866	</listitem>
3867
3868	</itemizedlist>
3869	</sect1>
3870
3871	<sect1>
3872	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
3873
3874	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3875	added:</para>
3876
3877	<itemizedlist>
3878
3879	<listitem>
3880	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
3881	installation</para>
3882	</listitem>
3883
3884	<listitem>
3885	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
3886	</listitem>
3887
3888	<listitem>
3889	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
3890	later (bug #3981)</para>
3891	</listitem>
3892
3893	<listitem>
3894	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
3895	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
3896	</listitem>
3897
3898	<listitem>
3899	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
3900	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
3901	(bug #4034)
3902	</para>
3903	</listitem>
3904
3905	<listitem>
3906	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
3907	networking</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
3912	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
3913	</listitem>
3914
3915	<listitem>
3916	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
3917	clicks</para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
3922	Windows 7 guests</para>
3923	</listitem>
3924
3925	<listitem>
3926	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
3927	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
3928	</listitem>
3929
3930	<listitem>
3931	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
3932	</listitem>
3933
3934	<listitem>
3935	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
3940	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
3941	</listitem>
3942
3943	<listitem>
3944	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
3945	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
3946	</listitem>
3947
3948	<listitem>
3949	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
3950	</listitem>
3951
3952	<listitem>
3953	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
3954	</listitem>
3955
3956	<listitem>
3957	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
3958	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
3959	(bug #3864)</para>
3960	</listitem>
3961
3962	<listitem>
3963	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
3964	now flushes the output stream</para>
3965	</listitem>
3966
3967	<listitem>
3968	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
3969	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
3970	</listitem>
3971
3972	<listitem>
3973	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
3974	</listitem>
3975
3976	<listitem>
3977	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
3978	</listitem>
3979
3980	<listitem>
3981	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
3982	</listitem>
3983
3984	<listitem>
3985	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
3986	</listitem>
3987
3988	<listitem>
3989	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
3990	(bug #3964)</para>
3991	</listitem>
3992
3993	<listitem>
3994	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
3995	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
3996	</listitem>
3997
3998	<listitem>
3999	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
4000	hosts</para>
4001	</listitem>
4002
4003	<listitem>
4004	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
4005	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
4006	e1000 adapter</para>
4007	</listitem>
4008
4009	<listitem>
4010	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
4011	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
4012	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
4013	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
4014	</listitem>
4015
4016	<listitem>
4017	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
4018	</listitem>
4019
4020	<listitem>
4021	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
4022	</listitem>
4023
4024	<listitem>
4025	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4026	</listitem>
4027
4028	<listitem>
4029	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4030	file (bug #1023)</para>
4031	</listitem>
4032
4033	<listitem>
4034	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4035	</listitem>
4036
4037	<listitem>
4038	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4039	</listitem>
4040
4041	</itemizedlist>
4042	</sect1>
4043
4044	<sect1>
4045	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4046
4047	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4048	added:</para>
4049
4050	<itemizedlist>
4051
4052	<listitem>
4053	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4054	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4055	</listitem>
4056
4057	<listitem>
4058	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4059	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4060	and later</para>
4061	</listitem>
4062
4063	<listitem>
4064	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4065	running services</para>
4066	</listitem>
4067
4068	<listitem>
4069	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4070	terminates</para>
4071	</listitem>
4072
4073	<listitem>
4074	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4075	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4076	</listitem>
4077
4078	<listitem>
4079	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4080	installed on the guest</para>
4081	</listitem>
4082
4083	<listitem>
4084	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4085	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4086	</listitem>
4087
4088	<listitem>
4089	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4090	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	<listitem>
4094	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4095	(bug #2628)</para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	<listitem>
4099	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4100	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4101	</listitem>
4102
4103	<listitem>
4104	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4105	(bug #3657)</para>
4106	</listitem>
4107
4108	<listitem>
4109	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4110	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4111	</listitem>
4112
4113	<listitem>
4114	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4115	virtualization only)
4116	</para>
4117	</listitem>
4118
4119	<listitem>
4120	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4121	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4122	</listitem>
4123
4124	<listitem>
4125	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4126	</listitem>
4127
4128	<listitem>
4129	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4130	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4131	</listitem>
4132
4133	<listitem>
4134	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4135	bug #3689)</para>
4136	</listitem>
4137
4138	<listitem>
4139	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4140	bug #3679)</para>
4141	</listitem>
4142
4143	<listitem>
4144	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4145	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4146	</listitem>
4147
4148	<listitem>
4149	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4150	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4151	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4156	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4161	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4162	</listitem>
4163
4164	<listitem>
4165	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4166	(bug #3667)</para>
4167	</listitem>
4168
4169	<listitem>
4170	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4171	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4172	</listitem>
4173
4174	<listitem>
4175	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4176	</listitem>
4177
4178	<listitem>
4179	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4180	</listitem>
4181
4182	<listitem>
4183	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4184	</listitem>
4185
4186	<listitem>
4187	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4188	</listitem>
4189
4190	<listitem>
4191	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4196	</listitem>
4197
4198	<listitem>
4199	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4200	</listitem>
4201
4202	</itemizedlist>
4203	</sect1>
4204
4205	<sect1>
4206	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4207
4208	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4209	were added:</para>
4210
4211	<itemizedlist>
4212
4213	<listitem>
4214	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4215	</listitem>
4216
4217	<listitem>
4218	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4219	</listitem>
4220
4221	<listitem>
4222	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4223	</listitem>
4224
4225	<listitem>
4226	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4227	</listitem>
4228
4229	<listitem>
4230	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4231	</listitem>
4232
4233	<listitem>
4234	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4235	</listitem>
4236
4237	<listitem>
4238	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4239	</listitem>
4240
4241	<listitem>
4242	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4243	</listitem>
4244
4245	<listitem>
4246	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4247	</listitem>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4251	</listitem>
4252
4253	</itemizedlist>
4254
4255	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4256
4257	<itemizedlist>
4258
4259	<listitem>
4260	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4261	</listitem>
4262
4263	<listitem>
4264	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4265	</listitem>
4266
4267	<listitem>
4268	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4269	</listitem>
4270
4271	<listitem>
4272	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4273	</listitem>
4274
4275	<listitem>
4276	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4277	</listitem>
4278
4279	<listitem>
4280	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	<listitem>
4288	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4289	</listitem>
4290
4291	<listitem>
4292	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4293	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4294	</listitem>
4295
4296	<listitem>
4297	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4298	</listitem>
4299
4300	<listitem>
4301	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4302	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4307	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4308	</listitem>
4309
4310	<listitem>
4311	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4312	</listitem>
4313
4314	<listitem>
4315	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4316	</listitem>
4317
4318	<listitem>
4319	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4320	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4321	</listitem>
4322
4323	<listitem>
4324	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4325	</listitem>
4326
4327	<listitem>
4328	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4329	ESX server images)</para>
4330	</listitem>
4331
4332	<listitem>
4333	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4334	writable</para>
4335	</listitem>
4336
4337	<listitem>
4338	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4339	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4340	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4341	</listitem>
4342
4343	<listitem>
4344	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4345	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4354	</listitem>
4355
4356	<listitem>
4357	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4358	hosts when creating files</para>
4359	</listitem>
4360
4361	<listitem>
4362	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4363	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4364	</listitem>
4365
4366	<listitem>
4367	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4368	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4369	#2306)</para>
4370	</listitem>
4371
4372	<listitem>
4373	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4374	(bug #3555)</para>
4375	</listitem>
4376
4377	<listitem>
4378	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4379	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4380	</listitem>
4381
4382	<listitem>
4383	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4384	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4385	</listitem>
4386
4387	<listitem>
4388	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4389	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4390	</listitem>
4391
4392	<listitem>
4393	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4394	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4395	</listitem>
4396
4397	<listitem>
4398	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4399	(bug #3586)</para>
4400	</listitem>
4401
4402	<listitem>
4403	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4404	from Scratch systems</para>
4405	</listitem>
4406
4407	<listitem>
4408	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4409	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4414	</listitem>
4415
4416	<listitem>
4417	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4418	default to compact format</para>
4419	</listitem>
4420
4421	<listitem>
4422	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4423	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4424	</listitem>
4425
4426	<listitem>
4427	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4432	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4433	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4434	</listitem>
4435
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4438	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4439	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4440	</listitem>
4441
4442	<listitem>
4443	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4444	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4445	</listitem>
4446
4447	<listitem>
4448	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4449	</listitem>
4450
4451	<listitem>
4452	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4453	</listitem>
4454
4455	<listitem>
4456	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4457	</listitem>
4458
4459	<listitem>
4460	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4461	</listitem>
4462
4463	<listitem>
4464	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4465	</listitem>
4466
4467	<listitem>
4468	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4469	</listitem>
4470
4471	<listitem>
4472	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4473	</listitem>
4474
4475	<listitem>
4476	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4477	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4478	</listitem>
4479
4480	<listitem>
4481	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4482	</listitem>
4483
4484	<listitem>
4485	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4486	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4487	</listitem>
4488
4489	<listitem>
4490	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4491	</listitem>
4492
4493	<listitem>
4494	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4495	</listitem>
4496
4497	<listitem>
4498	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4499	</listitem>
4500
4501	<listitem>
4502	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4503	#2536)</para>
4504	</listitem>
4505
4506	<listitem>
4507	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4512	(bug #3548)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	</itemizedlist>
4516	</sect1>
4517
4518	<sect1>
4519	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4520
4521	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4522	added:</para>
4523
4524	<itemizedlist>
4525
4526	<listitem>
4527	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4528	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4529	</listitem>
4530
4531	<listitem>
4532	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4533	</listitem>
4534
4535	<listitem>
4536	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4537	</listitem>
4538
4539	<listitem>
4540	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4541	</listitem>
4542
4543	<listitem>
4544	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4545	(bug #3115)</para>
4546	</listitem>
4547
4548	<listitem>
4549	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4550	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4551	</listitem>
4552
4553	<listitem>
4554	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4555	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4556	(bug #3215)</para>
4557	</listitem>
4558
4559	<listitem>
4560	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4561	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4562	</listitem>
4563
4564	<listitem>
4565	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4566	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4567	</listitem>
4568
4569	<listitem>
4570	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4571	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4572	</listitem>
4573
4574	<listitem>
4575	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4576	in parallel</para>
4577	</listitem>
4578
4579	<listitem>
4580	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4581	</listitem>
4582
4583	<listitem>
4584	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4585	</listitem>
4586
4587	<listitem>
4588	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4589	</listitem>
4590
4591	<listitem>
4592	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4593	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4594	</listitem>
4595
4596	<listitem>
4597	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4598	</listitem>
4599
4600	<listitem>
4601	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4602	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4607	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4608	</listitem>
4609
4610	<listitem>
4611	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4612	</listitem>
4613
4614	<listitem>
4615	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4616	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4617	</listitem>
4618
4619	<listitem>
4620	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4621	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4622	</listitem>
4623
4624	<listitem>
4625	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4626	</listitem>
4627
4628	<listitem>
4629	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4630	</listitem>
4631
4632	<listitem>
4633	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4634	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4635	</listitem>
4636
4637	<listitem>
4638	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4639	</listitem>
4640
4641	<listitem>
4642	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4643	</listitem>
4644
4645	<listitem>
4646	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4647	</listitem>
4648
4649	<listitem>
4650	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4651	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4652	</listitem>
4653
4654	<listitem>
4655	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4656	</listitem>
4657
4658	<listitem>
4659	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4660	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4665	</listitem>
4666
4667	<listitem>
4668	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4669	</listitem>
4670
4671	<listitem>
4672	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4673	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4674	</listitem>
4675
4676	<listitem>
4677	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4678	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4683	</listitem>
4684
4685	<listitem>
4686	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4687	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4688	</listitem>
4689
4690	<listitem>
4691	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4692	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4693	</listitem>
4694
4695	<listitem>
4696	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4697	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4698	</listitem>
4699
4700	<listitem>
4701	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4702	(bug #3213)</para>
4703	</listitem>
4704
4705	<listitem>
4706	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4707	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4708	</listitem>
4709
4710	<listitem>
4711	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4712	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4713	</listitem>
4714
4715	</itemizedlist>
4716	</sect1>
4717
4718	<sect1>
4719	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4720
4721	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4722	added:</para>
4723
4724	<itemizedlist>
4725
4726	<listitem>
4727	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
4728	</listitem>
4729
4730	<listitem>
4731	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
4740	</listitem>
4741
4742	<listitem>
4743	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
4744	</listitem>
4745
4746	<listitem>
4747	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
4748	</listitem>
4749
4750	<listitem>
4751	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
4752	</listitem>
4753
4754	<listitem>
4755	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
4756	</listitem>
4757
4758	<listitem>
4759	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
4764	</listitem>
4765
4766	<listitem>
4767	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
4768	</listitem>
4769
4770	<listitem>
4771	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
4772	</listitem>
4773
4774	<listitem>
4775	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
4776	</listitem>
4777
4778	<listitem>
4779	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
4784	</listitem>
4785
4786	<listitem>
4787	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
4788	</listitem>
4789
4790	<listitem>
4791	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
4792	(bug #3067)</para>
4793	</listitem>
4794
4795	<listitem>
4796	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
4797	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
4798	</listitem>
4799
4800	<listitem>
4801	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
4802	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
4803	</listitem>
4804
4805	<listitem>
4806	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
4807	</listitem>
4808
4809	<listitem>
4810	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
4811	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
4812	</listitem>
4813
4814	<listitem>
4815	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
4816	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4817	</listitem>
4818
4819	<listitem>
4820	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
4821	</listitem>
4822
4823	<listitem>
4824	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
4825	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
4834	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
4839	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
4840	</listitem>
4841
4842	<listitem>
4843	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
4844	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
4845	</para>
4846	</listitem>
4847
4848	<listitem>
4849	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
4850	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
4851	</para>
4852	</listitem>
4853
4854	<listitem>
4855	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
4856	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
4857	</para>
4858	</listitem>
4859
4860	<listitem>
4861	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	<listitem>
4865	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
4866	</listitem>
4867
4868	<listitem>
4869	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
4870	</listitem>
4871
4872	<listitem>
4873	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
4878	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
4883	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
4888	formatting a drive</para>
4889	</listitem>
4890
4891	<listitem>
4892	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
4893	</listitem>
4894
4895	<listitem>
4896	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
4897	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
4902	</listitem>
4903
4904	<listitem>
4905	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
4906	</listitem>
4907
4908	<listitem>
4909	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4910	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
4911	</listitem>
4912
4913	<listitem>
4914	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
4915	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
4916	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
4917	</listitem>
4918
4919	<listitem>
4920	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
4921	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
4922	</listitem>
4923
4924	<listitem>
4925	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
4926	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
4927	</listitem>
4928
4929	<listitem>
4930	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
4931	(bug #2768)</para>
4932	</listitem>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
4936	</listitem>
4937
4938	<listitem>
4939	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
4944	single, unified package</para>
4945	</listitem>
4946
4947	<listitem>
4948	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
4949	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
4950	</listitem>
4951
4952	<listitem>
4953	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
4954	</listitem>
4955
4956	<listitem>
4957	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
4958	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
4959	</listitem>
4960
4961	<listitem>
4962	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
4963	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
4964	</listitem>
4965
4966	<listitem>
4967	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
4968	</listitem>
4969
4970	<listitem>
4971	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
4972	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
4973	doing 3D</para>
4974	</listitem>
4975
4976	<listitem>
4977	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
4978	</listitem>
4979
4980	<listitem>
4981	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
4982	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
4983	</listitem>
4984
4985	<listitem>
4986	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
4987	</listitem>
4988
4989	<listitem>
4990	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
4991	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
4992	</listitem>
4993
4994	<listitem>
4995	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
4996	</listitem>
4997
4998	<listitem>
4999	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
5000	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
5001	</listitem>
5002
5003	<listitem>
5004	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
5005	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
5006	(bug #2938)</para>
5007	</listitem>
5008
5009	<listitem>
5010	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
5011	Linux guests</para>
5012	</listitem>
5013
5014	<listitem>
5015	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
5016	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
5017	(bug #1776)</para>
5018	</listitem>
5019
5020	<listitem>
5021	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
5022	(bug #1612)</para>
5023	</listitem>
5024
5025	<listitem>
5026	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5027	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5028	</listitem>
5029
5030	<listitem>
5031	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5032	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5033	</listitem>
5034
5035	<listitem>
5036	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5037	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5038	</listitem>
5039
5040	</itemizedlist>
5041	</sect1>
5042
5043	<sect1>
5044	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5045
5046	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5047	were added:</para>
5048
5049	<itemizedlist>
5050	<listitem>
5051	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5052	</listitem>
5053
5054	<listitem>
5055	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5056	</listitem>
5057
5058	<listitem>
5059	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5060	</listitem>
5061
5062	<listitem>
5063	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5064	</listitem>
5065
5066	<listitem>
5067	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5068	</listitem>
5069
5070	<listitem>
5071	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5072	</listitem>
5073
5074	<listitem>
5075	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5076	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5077	</listitem>
5078
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5081	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5082	</listitem>
5083
5084	</itemizedlist>
5085
5086	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5087
5088	<itemizedlist>
5089	<listitem>
5090	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5091	</listitem>
5092
5093	<listitem>
5094	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5095	</listitem>
5096
5097	<listitem>
5098	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5099	</listitem>
5100
5101	<listitem>
5102	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5103	</listitem>
5104
5105	<listitem>
5106	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5107	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5108	</listitem>
5109
5110	<listitem>
5111	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5112	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5113	</listitem>
5114
5115	<listitem>
5116	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5117	</listitem>
5118
5119	<listitem>
5120	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5121	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5122	</listitem>
5123
5124	<listitem>
5125	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5126	</listitem>
5127
5128	<listitem>
5129	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5130	</listitem>
5131
5132	<listitem>
5133	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5134	</listitem>
5135
5136	<listitem>
5137	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5138	</listitem>
5139
5140	<listitem>
5141	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5142	</listitem>
5143
5144	<listitem>
5145	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5146	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5147	</listitem>
5148
5149	<listitem>
5150	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5151	the compiz window manager</para>
5152	</listitem>
5153
5154	<listitem>
5155	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5156	</listitem>
5157
5158	<listitem>
5159	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5160	</listitem>
5161
5162	<listitem>
5163	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5164	</listitem>
5165
5166	<listitem>
5167	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5168	</listitem>
5169
5170	<listitem>
5171	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5172	</listitem>
5173
5174	<listitem>
5175	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5176	</listitem>
5177
5178	<listitem>
5179	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5180	</listitem>
5181
5182	<listitem>
5183	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5184	</listitem>
5185
5186	<listitem>
5187	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5188	</listitem>
5189
5190	<listitem>
5191	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5192	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5193	</listitem>
5194
5195	<listitem>
5196	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5197	for direct device access</para>
5198	</listitem>
5199
5200	<listitem>
5201	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5202	</listitem>
5203
5204	<listitem>
5205	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5206	</listitem>
5207
5208	<listitem>
5209	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5210	</listitem>
5211
5212	<listitem>
5213	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5214	</listitem>
5215
5216	<listitem>
5217	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5218	</listitem>
5219
5220	<listitem>
5221	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5222	</listitem>
5223
5224	<listitem>
5225	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5226	</listitem>
5227
5228	<listitem>
5229	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5230	</listitem>
5231
5232	</itemizedlist>
5233	</sect1>
5234
5235	<sect1>
5236	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5237
5238	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5239	added:</para>
5240
5241	<itemizedlist>
5242
5243	<listitem>
5244	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5245	states/snapshots</para>
5246	</listitem>
5247
5248	<listitem>
5249	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5250	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5251	</listitem>
5252
5253	<listitem>
5254	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5255	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5260	collisions</para>
5261	</listitem>
5262
5263	<listitem>
5264	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5265	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5266	</listitem>
5267
5268	<listitem>
5269	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5270	</listitem>
5271
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5274	reliably</para>
5275	</listitem>
5276
5277	<listitem>
5278	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5279	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5280	</listitem>
5281
5282	<listitem>
5283	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5284	a reboot</para>
5285	</listitem>
5286
5287	<listitem>
5288	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5289	</listitem>
5290
5291	<listitem>
5292	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5293	in parallel</para>
5294	</listitem>
5295
5296	<listitem>
5297	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5298	</listitem>
5299
5300	<listitem>
5301	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5302	correctly</para>
5303	</listitem>
5304
5305	<listitem>
5306	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5307	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5308	</listitem>
5309
5310	</itemizedlist>
5311	</sect1>
5312
5313	<sect1>
5314	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5315
5316	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5317	added:</para>
5318
5319	<itemizedlist>
5320
5321	<listitem>
5322	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5323	(bug #2220)</para>
5324	</listitem>
5325
5326	<listitem>
5327	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5336	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5337	</listitem>
5338
5339	<listitem>
5340	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5341	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5342	</listitem>
5343
5344	<listitem>
5345	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5346	(bug #2624)</para>
5347	</listitem>
5348
5349	<listitem>
5350	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5351	(bug #2024)</para>
5352	</listitem>
5353
5354	<listitem>
5355	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5356	</listitem>
5357
5358	<listitem>
5359	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5360	</listitem>
5361
5362	<listitem>
5363	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5364	</listitem>
5365
5366	<listitem>
5367	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5368	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5369	</listitem>
5370
5371	<listitem>
5372	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5373	applications when updating the installation</para>
5374	</listitem>
5375
5376	<listitem>
5377	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5378	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5379	</listitem>
5380
5381	<listitem>
5382	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5383	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5384	</listitem>
5385
5386	<listitem>
5387	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5388	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5389	</listitem>
5390
5391	<listitem>
5392	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5393	connected to a host device</para>
5394	</listitem>
5395
5396	<listitem>
5397	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5398	</listitem>
5399
5400	<listitem>
5401	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5402	</listitem>
5403
5404	<listitem>
5405	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5406	</listitem>
5407
5408	<listitem>
5409	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5410	when using native RDP connections</para>
5411	</listitem>
5412
5413	<listitem>
5414	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5415	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5416	</listitem>
5417
5418	<listitem>
5419	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5420	(bug #2591)</para>
5421	</listitem>
5422
5423	<listitem>
5424	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5425	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5426	</listitem>
5427
5428	<listitem>
5429	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5430	</listitem>
5431
5432	</itemizedlist>
5433	</sect1>
5434
5435	<sect1>
5436	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5437
5438	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5439	added:</para>
5440
5441	<itemizedlist>
5442	<listitem>
5443	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5444	</listitem>
5445
5446	<listitem>
5447	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5448	</listitem>
5449
5450	<listitem>
5451	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5452	</listitem>
5453
5454	<listitem>
5455	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5456	</listitem>
5457
5458	<listitem>
5459	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5460	</listitem>
5461
5462	<listitem>
5463	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5468	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5469	</listitem>
5470
5471	<listitem>
5472	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5473	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5474	</listitem>
5475
5476	<listitem>
5477	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5482	equal to the client resolution</para>
5483	</listitem>
5484
5485	<listitem>
5486	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5487	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5488	</listitem>
5489
5490	<listitem>
5491	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5492	</listitem>
5493
5494	<listitem>
5495	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5496	</listitem>
5497
5498	<listitem>
5499	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5500	</listitem>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5504	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5505	</listitem>
5506
5507	<listitem>
5508	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5509	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5510	</listitem>
5511
5512	<listitem>
5513	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5514	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5515	</listitem>
5516
5517	<listitem>
5518	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5519	</listitem>
5520
5521	<listitem>
5522	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5523	</listitem>
5524
5525	<listitem>
5526	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5527	</listitem>
5528
5529	<listitem>
5530	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5535	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5536	</listitem>
5537
5538	<listitem>
5539	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5540	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5541	</listitem>
5542
5543	<listitem>
5544	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5545	</listitem>
5546
5547	<listitem>
5548	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5549	</listitem>
5550
5551	<listitem>
5552	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5553	</listitem>
5554
5555	</itemizedlist>
5556
5557	</sect1>
5558
5559	<sect1>
5560	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5561
5562	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5563	added:</para>
5564
5565	<itemizedlist>
5566
5567	<listitem>
5568	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5569	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5570	</listitem>
5571
5572	<listitem>
5573	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5574	</listitem>
5575
5576	<listitem>
5577	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5578	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5579	</listitem>
5580
5581	<listitem>
5582	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5583	</listitem>
5584
5585	<listitem>
5586	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5587	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5588	</listitem>
5589
5590	<listitem>
5591	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5592	</listitem>
5593
5594	<listitem>
5595	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5596	the virtual disk manager</para>
5597	</listitem>
5598
5599	<listitem>
5600	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5601	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5602	</listitem>
5603
5604	<listitem>
5605	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5606	</listitem>
5607
5608	<listitem>
5609	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5610	</listitem>
5611
5612	<listitem>
5613	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5614	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5615	</listitem>
5616
5617	<listitem>
5618	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5619	bug #2067)</para>
5620	</listitem>
5621
5622	<listitem>
5623	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5624	</listitem>
5625
5626	<listitem>
5627	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5628	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5629	</listitem>
5630
5631	<listitem>
5632	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5633	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5634	(bug #2184)</para>
5635	</listitem>
5636
5637	<listitem>
5638	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5639	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5640	</listitem>
5641
5642	<listitem>
5643	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5644	(Windows guests only)</para>
5645	</listitem>
5646
5647	<listitem>
5648	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5649	</listitem>
5650
5651	<listitem>
5652	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5653	</listitem>
5654
5655	<listitem>
5656	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5657	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5658	</listitem>
5659
5660	<listitem>
5661	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5662	</listitem>
5663
5664	<listitem>
5665	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5666	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5667	</para>
5668	</listitem>
5669
5670	<listitem>
5671	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5672	</listitem>
5673
5674	<listitem>
5675	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5676	</listitem>
5677
5678	<listitem>
5679	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5680	a VM reboot</para>
5681	</listitem>
5682
5683	<listitem>
5684	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	<listitem>
5688	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5689	buggy X servers</para>
5690	</listitem>
5691
5692	<listitem>
5693	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5694	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5695	</listitem>
5696
5697	<listitem>
5698	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5699	</listitem>
5700
5701	<listitem>
5702	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5703	(bug #2128)</para>
5704	</listitem>
5705
5706	<listitem>
5707	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5708	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5709	</listitem>
5710
5711	<listitem>
5712	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5713	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5714	</listitem>
5715
5716	<listitem>
5717	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5718	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5719	</listitem>
5720
5721	<listitem>
5722	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5723	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
5724	</listitem>
5725
5726	<listitem>
5727	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
5728	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
5729	</listitem>
5730
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
5733	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
5734	</listitem>
5735
5736	<listitem>
5737	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
5738	installer into a single package</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
5743	port to the guest
5744	</para>
5745	</listitem>
5746
5747	</itemizedlist>
5748
5749	</sect1>
5750
5751	<sect1>
5752	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
5753
5754	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5755	were added:<itemizedlist>
5756
5757	<listitem>
5758	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
5759	</listitem>
5760
5761	<listitem>
5762	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	<listitem>
5766	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
5767	</listitem>
5768
5769	<listitem>
5770	<para>New-version notifier</para>
5771	</listitem>
5772
5773	<listitem>
5774	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
5783	</listitem>
5784
5785	<listitem>
5786	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
5787	</listitem>
5788
5789	<listitem>
5790	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
5791	</listitem>
5792
5793	<listitem>
5794	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
5795	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
5796	</listitem>
5797
5798	<listitem>
5799	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
5800	</listitem>
5801
5802	<listitem>
5803	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
5804	</listitem>
5805
5806	<listitem>
5807	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
5808	</listitem>
5809
5810	</itemizedlist></para>
5811
5812	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5813
5814	<itemizedlist>
5815
5816	<listitem>
5817	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
5818	</listitem>
5819
5820	<listitem>
5821	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
5822	</listitem>
5823
5824	<listitem>
5825	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
5826	</listitem>
5827
5828	<listitem>
5829	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
5830	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
5831	</listitem>
5832
5833	<listitem>
5834	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
5835	restored</para>
5836	</listitem>
5837
5838	<listitem>
5839	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
5840	</listitem>
5841
5842	<listitem>
5843	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
5844	</listitem>
5845
5846	<listitem>
5847	<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>
5848	</listitem>
5849
5850	</itemizedlist>
5851
5852	</sect1>
5853
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