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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.0.0 Beta 4 (2010-12-17)</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>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
196	</listitem>
197
198	<listitem>
199	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
200	</listitem>
201
202	<listitem>
203	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
204	</listitem>
205
206	<listitem>
207	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
208	</listitem>
209
210	<listitem>
211	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
212	</listitem>
213
214	<listitem>
215	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
216	(bug #7058)</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	<listitem>
220	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
221	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
226	circumstances</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
231	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
232	#5578)
233	</para>
234	</listitem>
235
236	<listitem>
237	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
238	</listitem>
239
240	<listitem>
241	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
242	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
243	</listitem>
244
245	<listitem>
246	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
247	</listitem>
248
249	<listitem>
250	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
251	#6760)</para>
252	</listitem>
253
254	<listitem>
255	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
256	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
257	</listitem>
258
259	<listitem>
260	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
261	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
262	</listitem>
263
264	<listitem>
265	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
266	</listitem>
267
268	<listitem>
269	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
270	file</para>
271	</listitem>
272
273	<listitem>
274	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
275	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
276	</listitem>
277
278	</itemizedlist>
279
280	</sect1>
281
282	<sect1>
283	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
284
285	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
286	added:</para>
287
288	<itemizedlist>
289
290	<listitem>
291	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
292	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
293	</listitem>
294
295	<listitem>
296	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
297	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
298	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
299	</listitem>
300
301	<listitem>
302	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
303	</listitem>
304
305	<listitem>
306	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
307	</listitem>
308
309	<listitem>
310	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
311	</listitem>
312
313	<listitem>
314	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
315	the VM is running</para>
316	</listitem>
317
318	<listitem>
319	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
320	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
321	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
322	starting from a saved state</para>
323	</listitem>
324
325	<listitem>
326	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
327	</listitem>
328
329	<listitem>
330	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
331	</listitem>
332
333	<listitem>
334	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
335	</listitem>
336
337	<listitem>
338	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
339	</listitem>
340
341	<listitem>
342	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
343	</listitem>
344
345	<listitem>
346	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
347	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
348	</listitem>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
352	fixes for Koran keyboards</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
357	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
362	</listitem>
363
364	<listitem>
365	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
366	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
367	</para>
368	</listitem>
369
370	<listitem>
371	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
372	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
373	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
374	</listitem>
375
376	<listitem>
377	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
378	only)</para>
379	</listitem>
380
381	<listitem>
382	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
383	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
384	</listitem>
385
386	<listitem>
387	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
388	</listitem>
389
390	<listitem>
391	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
396	</listitem>
397
398	<listitem>
399	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
400	state (bug #4124)</para>
401	</listitem>
402
403	<listitem>
404	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
405	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
406	</listitem>
407
408	<listitem>
409	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
410	</listitem>
411
412	<listitem>
413	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
414	(bug #2996)</para>
415	</listitem>
416
417	<listitem>
418	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
419	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
424	</listitem>
425
426	<listitem>
427	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
428	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
429	</listitem>
430
431	<listitem>
432	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
433	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
434	</listitem>
435
436	<listitem>
437	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
438	user accounts for VM information</para>
439	</listitem>
440
441	</itemizedlist>
442
443	</sect1>
444
445	<sect1>
446	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
447
448	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
449	added:</para>
450
451	<itemizedlist>
452
453	<listitem>
454	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
455	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
456	</listitem>
457
458	<listitem>
459	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
460	</listitem>
461
462	<listitem>
463	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
464	</listitem>
465
466	<listitem>
467	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
468	</listitem>
469
470	<listitem>
471	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
472	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
473	</listitem>
474
475	<listitem>
476	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
477	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
478	</listitem>
479
480	<listitem>
481	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
482	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
483	</listitem>
484
485	<listitem>
486	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
487	(bug #4952)</para>
488	</listitem>
489
490	<listitem>
491	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
492	bug #6122)</para>
493	</listitem>
494
495	<listitem>
496	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
497	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
498	</listitem>
499
500	<listitem>
501	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
502	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
503	(Linux hosts only)</para>
504	</listitem>
505
506	<listitem>
507	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
508	</listitem>
509
510	<listitem>
511	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
512	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
513	</listitem>
514
515	<listitem>
516	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
517	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
518	</listitem>
519
520	<listitem>
521	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
522	canceled</para>
523	</listitem>
524
525	<listitem>
526	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
527	</listitem>
528
529	<listitem>
530	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
531	</listitem>
532
533	<listitem>
534	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
535	</listitem>
536
537	<listitem>
538	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
539	</listitem>
540
541	<listitem>
542	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
543	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
544	</listitem>
545
546	<listitem>
547	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	<listitem>
551	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
552	(Linux hosts only)</para>
553	</listitem>
554
555	<listitem>
556	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
557	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
558	</listitem>
559
560	<listitem>
561	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
562	</listitem>
563
564	<listitem>
565	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
566	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
571	</listitem>
572
573	<listitem>
574	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
575	circumstances</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	<listitem>
579	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
580	printers</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
585	</listitem>
586
587	<listitem>
588	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
589	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
590	</listitem>
591
592	<listitem>
593	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
594	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
595	</listitem>
596
597	<listitem>
598	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
599	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
600	circumstances</para>
601	</listitem>
602
603	<listitem>
604	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
605	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
606	</listitem>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
610	as supported extension</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
615	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
620	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
625	</listitem>
626
627	<listitem>
628	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
629	(bug #7366)</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
634	</listitem>
635
636	<listitem>
637	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
638	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
639	</listitem>
640
641	<listitem>
642	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
643	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
644	</listitem>
645
646	<listitem>
647	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
648	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
649	</listitem>
650
651	<listitem>
652	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
653	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
654	</listitem>
655
656	<listitem>
657	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
658	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
659	</listitem>
660
661	<listitem>
662	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
663	</listitem>
664
665	<listitem>
666	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
667	</listitem>
668
669	<listitem>
670	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
671	more than one environment variable</para>
672	</listitem>
673
674	<listitem>
675	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
676	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
677	</listitem>
678
679	<listitem>
680	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
681	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
682	</listitem>
683
684	<listitem>
685	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
686	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
687	</listitem>
688
689	<listitem>
690	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
691	enumerating logged in users</para>
692	</listitem>
693
694	<listitem>
695	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
700	</listitem>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
704	</listitem>
705
706	<listitem>
707	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
708	in the event of a VM crash</para>
709	</listitem>
710
711	<listitem>
712	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
713	</listitem>
714
715	<listitem>
716	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
717	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
718	</listitem>
719
720	<listitem>
721	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
722	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
723	</listitem>
724
725	<listitem>
726	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
727	(bug #7448)</para>
728	</listitem>
729
730	<listitem>
731	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
732	</listitem>
733
734	<listitem>
735	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
736	</listitem>
737
738	<listitem>
739	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
740	</listitem>
741
742	</itemizedlist>
743
744	</sect1>
745
746	<sect1>
747	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
748
749	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
750	added:</para>
751
752	<itemizedlist>
753
754	<listitem>
755	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
756	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
757	</listitem>
758
759	<listitem>
760	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
761	</listitem>
762
763	<listitem>
764	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
765	bug #6809)</para>
766	</listitem>
767
768	<listitem>
769	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
770	</listitem>
771
772	<listitem>
773	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
774	</listitem>
775
776	<listitem>
777	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
778	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
779	</listitem>
780
781	<listitem>
782	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
783	changes</para>
784	</listitem>
785
786	<listitem>
787	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
788	</listitem>
789
790	<listitem>
791	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
792	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
793	</listitem>
794
795	<listitem>
796	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
797	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
798	</listitem>
799
800	<listitem>
801	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
802	</listitem>
803
804	<listitem>
805	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
806	</listitem>
807
808	<listitem>
809	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
810	</listitem>
811
812	<listitem>
813	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
814	</listitem>
815
816	<listitem>
817	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
818	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	<listitem>
822	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
823	</listitem>
824
825	<listitem>
826	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
827	(bug #6832)</para>
828	</listitem>
829
830	<listitem>
831	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
832	guests</para>
833	</listitem>
834
835	<listitem>
836	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
837	</listitem>
838
839	<listitem>
840	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
841	without external tools and tricks</para>
842	</listitem>
843
844	<listitem>
845	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
846	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	<listitem>
850	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
851	</listitem>
852
853	<listitem>
854	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
855	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
856	</listitem>
857
858	<listitem>
859	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
860	shutdown</para>
861	</listitem>
862
863	<listitem>
864	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
865	fixes</para>
866	</listitem>
867
868	<listitem>
869	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
870	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
871	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
872	</para>
873	</listitem>
874
875	<listitem>
876	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
877	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
878	</listitem>
879
880	<listitem>
881	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
882	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
887	</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
892	</listitem>
893
894	<listitem>
895	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
896	</listitem>
897
898	<listitem>
899	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
900	</listitem>
901
902	</itemizedlist>
903
904	</sect1>
905
906	<sect1>
907	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
908
909	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
910	added:</para>
911
912	<itemizedlist>
913
914	<listitem>
915	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
916	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
917	</listitem>
918
919	<listitem>
920	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
921	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
922	</listitem>
923
924	<listitem>
925	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
926	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
927	</listitem>
928
929	<listitem>
930	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
935	</listitem>
936
937	<listitem>
938	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
943	</listitem>
944
945	<listitem>
946	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
947	assigned</para>
948	</listitem>
949
950	<listitem>
951	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
952	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
953	</listitem>
954
955	<listitem>
956	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
957	multiple screens are enabled</para>
958	</listitem>
959
960	<listitem>
961	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
962	</listitem>
963
964	<listitem>
965	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
966	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
967	</listitem>
968
969	<listitem>
970	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
971	again (bug #7022).
972	</para>
973	</listitem>
974
975	<listitem>
976	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
977	(bug #6768)</para>
978	</listitem>
979
980	<listitem>
981	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
982	(bug #6927)</para>
983	</listitem>
984
985	<listitem>
986	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
987	bug #7031)</para>
988	</listitem>
989
990	<listitem>
991	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
992	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
993	</listitem>
994
995	<listitem>
996	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
997	bug #6987)</para>
998	</listitem>
999
1000	<listitem>
1001	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
1002	</listitem>
1003
1004	<listitem>
1005	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
1006	</listitem>
1007
1008	<listitem>
1009	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
1010	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
1011	</listitem>
1012
1013	<listitem>
1014	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
1015	</listitem>
1016
1017	<listitem>
1018	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
1019	installation (bug #5101)</para>
1020	</listitem>
1021
1022	<listitem>
1023	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
1024	</listitem>
1025
1026	<listitem>
1027	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1028	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1029	bug #6872)</para>
1030	</listitem>
1031
1032	<listitem>
1033	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1034	</listitem>
1035
1036	<listitem>
1037	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1038	(performance tweak)</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1043	is currently paused</para>
1044	</listitem>
1045
1046	<listitem>
1047	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1048	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1049	</listitem>
1050
1051	<listitem>
1052	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1053	</listitem>
1054
1055	<listitem>
1056	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1057	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1058	</listitem>
1059
1060	<listitem>
1061	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1062	not properly saved</para>
1063	</listitem>
1064
1065	<listitem>
1066	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1067	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1068	</listitem>
1069
1070	<listitem>
1071	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1076	</listitem>
1077
1078	<listitem>
1079	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1080	</listitem>
1081
1082	<listitem>
1083	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1084	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1085	</listitem>
1086
1087	<listitem>
1088	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1089	</listitem>
1090
1091	<listitem>
1092	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1093	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1094	</listitem>
1095
1096	<listitem>
1097	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1098	(bug #5251)</para>
1099	</listitem>
1100
1101	<listitem>
1102	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1103	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1104	</listitem>
1105
1106	<listitem>
1107	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1108	</listitem>
1109
1110	<listitem>
1111	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1112	</listitem>
1113
1114	<listitem>
1115	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1116	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1117	</listitem>
1118
1119	<listitem>
1120	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1121	</listitem>
1122
1123	<listitem>
1124	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1125	</listitem>
1126
1127	<listitem>
1128	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1129	</listitem>
1130
1131	</itemizedlist>
1132	</sect1>
1133
1134	<sect1>
1135	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1136
1137	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1138	added:</para>
1139
1140	<itemizedlist>
1141
1142	<listitem>
1143	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1144	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1153	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1158	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	<listitem>
1162	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1163	</listitem>
1164
1165	<listitem>
1166	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1167	again (bug #6864)</para>
1168	</listitem>
1169
1170	<listitem>
1171	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1172	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1173	</listitem>
1174
1175	<listitem>
1176	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1177	</listitem>
1178
1179	<listitem>
1180	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1181	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1182	</listitem>
1183
1184	<listitem>
1185	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1186	</listitem>
1187
1188	</itemizedlist>
1189
1190	</sect1>
1191
1192	<sect1>
1193	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1194
1195	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1196	added:</para>
1197
1198	<itemizedlist>
1199
1200	<listitem>
1201	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1202	</listitem>
1203
1204	<listitem>
1205	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1206	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1207	</listitem>
1208
1209	<listitem>
1210	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1211	</listitem>
1212
1213	<listitem>
1214	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1215	state</para>
1216	</listitem>
1217
1218	<listitem>
1219	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1220	</listitem>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1224	</listitem>
1225
1226	<listitem>
1227	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1228	</listitem>
1229
1230	<listitem>
1231	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1232	</listitem>
1233
1234	<listitem>
1235	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1236	</listitem>
1237
1238	<listitem>
1239	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1240	</listitem>
1241
1242	<listitem>
1243	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1244	</listitem>
1245
1246	<listitem>
1247	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1248	</listitem>
1249
1250	<listitem>
1251	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1252	</listitem>
1253
1254	<listitem>
1255	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1256	</listitem>
1257
1258	<listitem>
1259	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1260	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1261	</listitem>
1262
1263	<listitem>
1264	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1265	(bug #6784)</para>
1266	</listitem>
1267
1268	<listitem>
1269	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1270	</listitem>
1271
1272	<listitem>
1273	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1278	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1287	</listitem>
1288
1289	<listitem>
1290	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1291	host only</para>
1292	</listitem>
1293
1294	<listitem>
1295	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1296	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1297	</listitem>
1298
1299	<listitem>
1300	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1301	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1302	</listitem>
1303
1304	<listitem>
1305	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1306	</listitem>
1307
1308	<listitem>
1309	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1310	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1311	</listitem>
1312
1313	<listitem>
1314	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1315	</listitem>
1316
1317	<listitem>
1318	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1319	</listitem>
1320
1321	<listitem>
1322	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1323	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1324	</listitem>
1325
1326	<listitem>
1327	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1328	</listitem>
1329
1330	<listitem>
1331	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1332	</listitem>
1333
1334	<listitem>
1335	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1336	</listitem>
1337
1338	<listitem>
1339	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1340	(bug #6714)</para>
1341	</listitem>
1342
1343	<listitem>
1344	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1345	</listitem>
1346
1347	<listitem>
1348	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1349	</listitem>
1350
1351	<listitem>
1352	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1353	</listitem>
1354
1355	<listitem>
1356	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1357	</listitem>
1358
1359	<listitem>
1360	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1361	</listitem>
1362
1363	</itemizedlist>
1364
1365	</sect1>
1366
1367	<sect1>
1368	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1369
1370	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1371	were added:</para>
1372
1373	<itemizedlist>
1374
1375	<listitem>
1376	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1377	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1378	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1379	</listitem>
1380
1381	<listitem>
1382	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1383	</listitem>
1384
1385	<listitem>
1386	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1387	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1388	</listitem>
1389
1390	<listitem>
1391	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1392	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1393	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1394	</listitem>
1395
1396	<listitem>
1397	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1398	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1399	</listitem>
1400
1401	<listitem>
1402	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1403	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1404	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1405	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1406	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1407	</listitem>
1408
1409	<listitem>
1410	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1411	</listitem>
1412
1413	<listitem>
1414	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1415	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1416	</listitem>
1417
1418	<listitem>
1419	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1420	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1421	</listitem>
1422
1423	<listitem>
1424	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
1429	</listitem>
1430
1431	<listitem>
1432	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1433	</listitem>
1434
1435	<listitem>
1436	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1437	</listitem>
1438
1439	<listitem>
1440	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1441	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1442	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1443	</listitem>
1444
1445	<listitem>
1446	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1447	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1448	</listitem>
1449
1450	</itemizedlist>
1451
1452	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1453
1454	<itemizedlist>
1455
1456	<listitem>
1457	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1458	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1459	</listitem>
1460
1461	<listitem>
1462	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1463	</listitem>
1464
1465	<listitem>
1466	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1467	VM</para>
1468	</listitem>
1469
1470	<listitem>
1471	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1472	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1473	</listitem>
1474
1475	<listitem>
1476	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1477	#1669)</para>
1478	</listitem>
1479
1480	<listitem>
1481	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1482	#6442)</para>
1483	</listitem>
1484
1485	<listitem>
1486	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1487	combination (bug #684)</para>
1488	</listitem>
1489
1490	<listitem>
1491	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1492	the VM from the GUI</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1497	medium is not accessible</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1502	</listitem>
1503
1504	<listitem>
1505	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1506	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1507	</listitem>
1508
1509	<listitem>
1510	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1511	#3106)</para>
1512	</listitem>
1513
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1516	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1517	it</para>
1518	</listitem>
1519
1520	<listitem>
1521	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1522	</listitem>
1523
1524	<listitem>
1525	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1526	</listitem>
1527
1528	<listitem>
1529	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1530	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1531	</listitem>
1532
1533	<listitem>
1534	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1535	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1536	</listitem>
1537
1538	<listitem>
1539	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1540	</listitem>
1541
1542	<listitem>
1543	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1544	</listitem>
1545
1546	<listitem>
1547	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1548	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1553	</listitem>
1554
1555	<listitem>
1556	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1557	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1558	</listitem>
1559
1560	<listitem>
1561	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1562	</listitem>
1563
1564	<listitem>
1565	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1566	in VirtualBox</para>
1567	</listitem>
1568
1569	<listitem>
1570	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1571	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1576	VirtualBox</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1581	</listitem>
1582
1583	<listitem>
1584	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1585	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1586	</listitem>
1587
1588	</itemizedlist>
1589	</sect1>
1590
1591	<sect1>
1592	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1593
1594	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1595	added:</para>
1596
1597	<itemizedlist>
1598
1599	<listitem>
1600	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1601	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1602	</listitem>
1603
1604	<listitem>
1605	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1606	</listitem>
1607
1608	<listitem>
1609	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1610	</listitem>
1611
1612	<listitem>
1613	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1614	only) </para>
1615	</listitem>
1616
1617	<listitem>
1618	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1619	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1620	</listitem>
1621
1622	<listitem>
1623	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1624	interface version</para>
1625	</listitem>
1626
1627	<listitem>
1628	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1629	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1630	slot empty</para>
1631	</listitem>
1632
1633	<listitem>
1634	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1635	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1636	(bug #4220)</para>
1637	</listitem>
1638
1639	<listitem>
1640	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1641	</listitem>
1642
1643	<listitem>
1644	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1645	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1646	</listitem>
1647
1648	<listitem>
1649	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1650	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1651	</listitem>
1652
1653	<listitem>
1654	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1655	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1656	</listitem>
1657
1658	<listitem>
1659	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1660	attached</para>
1661	</listitem>
1662
1663	<listitem>
1664	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1665	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1666	</listitem>
1667
1668	<listitem>
1669	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1670	</listitem>
1671
1672	<listitem>
1673	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1674	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1675	</listitem>
1676
1677	<listitem>
1678	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1679	is bug #6408)</para>
1680	</listitem>
1681
1682	<listitem>
1683	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1684	</listitem>
1685
1686	<listitem>
1687	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1688	fail to initialize</para>
1689	</listitem>
1690
1691	<listitem>
1692	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1693	</listitem>
1694
1695	<listitem>
1696	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1697	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1698	</listitem>
1699
1700	<listitem>
1701	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1702	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1703	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1704	</listitem>
1705
1706	<listitem>
1707	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1708	</listitem>
1709
1710	<listitem>
1711	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1712	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1713	</listitem>
1714
1715	<listitem>
1716	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1717	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1718	</listitem>
1719
1720	<listitem>
1721	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1722	(bug #6435)</para>
1723	</listitem>
1724
1725	<listitem>
1726	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1727	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
1728	</listitem>
1729
1730	<listitem>
1731	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
1732	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
1733	(bug #6488)</para>
1734	</listitem>
1735
1736	<listitem>
1737	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
1738	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
1739	</listitem>
1740
1741	<listitem>
1742	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1743	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1744	</listitem>
1745
1746	<listitem>
1747	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
1748	#5227)</para>
1749	</listitem>
1750
1751	<listitem>
1752	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
1753	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
1754	</listitem>
1755
1756	<listitem>
1757	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
1758	</listitem>
1759
1760	<listitem>
1761	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
1762	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
1763	</listitem>
1764
1765	</itemizedlist>
1766	</sect1>
1767
1768	<sect1>
1769	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
1770
1771	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1772	added:</para>
1773
1774	<itemizedlist>
1775
1776	<listitem>
1777	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
1778	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
1779	</listitem>
1780
1781	<listitem>
1782	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
1783	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
1784	</listitem>
1785
1786	<listitem>
1787	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
1788	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
1789	</listitem>
1790
1791	<listitem>
1792	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
1793	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
1794	</listitem>
1795
1796	<listitem>
1797	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
1806	</listitem>
1807
1808	<listitem>
1809	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
1810	</listitem>
1811
1812	<listitem>
1813	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
1814	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
1815	</listitem>
1816
1817	<listitem>
1818	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
1819	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
1820	</listitem>
1821
1822	<listitem>
1823	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
1824	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
1825	</listitem>
1826
1827	<listitem>
1828	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
1829	</listitem>
1830
1831	<listitem>
1832	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
1833	</listitem>
1834
1835	<listitem>
1836	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
1837	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1838	</listitem>
1839
1840	<listitem>
1841	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
1842	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
1843	calls (bug #6165)</para>
1844	</listitem>
1845
1846	<listitem>
1847	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
1848	(bug #5297)</para>
1849	</listitem>
1850
1851	<listitem>
1852	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
1853	(bug #4962)</para>
1854	</listitem>
1855
1856	<listitem>
1857	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
1858	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
1859	</listitem>
1860
1861	<listitem>
1862	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
1863	(bug #6176)</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
1868	certain circumstances</para>
1869	</listitem>
1870
1871	<listitem>
1872	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
1873	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
1878	</listitem>
1879
1880	<listitem>
1881	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
1882	</listitem>
1883
1884	<listitem>
1885	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
1886	(bug #3571)</para>
1887	</listitem>
1888
1889	<listitem>
1890	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
1891	devices</para>
1892	</listitem>
1893
1894	<listitem>
1895	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
1896	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
1897	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
1898	</listitem>
1899
1900	<listitem>
1901	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
1902	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
1907	</listitem>
1908
1909	<listitem>
1910	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
1911	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
1912	</listitem>
1913
1914	<listitem>
1915	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
1916	response</para>
1917	</listitem>
1918
1919	<listitem>
1920	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
1921	</listitem>
1922
1923	<listitem>
1924	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
1925	</listitem>
1926
1927	<listitem>
1928	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	<listitem>
1932	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
1933	</listitem>
1934
1935	<listitem>
1936	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
1937	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
1938	</listitem>
1939
1940	<listitem>
1941	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
1946	</listitem>
1947
1948	<listitem>
1949	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
1950	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
1955	</listitem>
1956
1957	<listitem>
1958	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
1959	</listitem>
1960
1961	<listitem>
1962	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
1963	</listitem>
1964
1965	<listitem>
1966	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
1967	</listitem>
1968
1969	</itemizedlist>
1970	</sect1>
1971
1972	<sect1>
1973	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
1974
1975	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1976	added:</para>
1977
1978	<itemizedlist>
1979
1980	<listitem>
1981	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
1982	</listitem>
1983
1984	<listitem>
1985	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
1986	</listitem>
1987
1988	<listitem>
1989	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
1990	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
1991	</listitem>
1992
1993	<listitem>
1994	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
1995	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
1996	</listitem>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
2000	(bug #3945)</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
2005	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
2006	</listitem>
2007
2008	<listitem>
2009	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
2010	and AMD-V only) </para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
2015	</listitem>
2016
2017	<listitem>
2018	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
2019	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
2020	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
2025	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
2026	</listitem>
2027
2028	<listitem>
2029	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2030	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2031	</listitem>
2032
2033	<listitem>
2034	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2035	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2036	</listitem>
2037
2038	<listitem>
2039	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2040	snapshots command</para>
2041	</listitem>
2042
2043	<listitem>
2044	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2045	</listitem>
2046
2047	<listitem>
2048	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2049	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2050	</listitem>
2051
2052	<listitem>
2053	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2058	</listitem>
2059
2060	<listitem>
2061	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2062	</listitem>
2063
2064	<listitem>
2065	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2066	(KWin bug)</para>
2067	</listitem>
2068
2069	<listitem>
2070	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2071	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2076	</listitem>
2077
2078	<listitem>
2079	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2080	</listitem>
2081
2082	<listitem>
2083	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2084	</listitem>
2085
2086	<listitem>
2087	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2088	</listitem>
2089
2090	<listitem>
2091	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2092	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2093	</listitem>
2094
2095	<listitem>
2096	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2097	bug #5787)</para>
2098	</listitem>
2099
2100	<listitem>
2101	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2102	DHCP requests</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2107	(bug #3217)</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2112	range (bug #5923)</para>
2113	</listitem>
2114
2115	<listitem>
2116	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2125	</listitem>
2126
2127	<listitem>
2128	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2129	</listitem>
2130
2131	<listitem>
2132	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2133	file (bug #5681)</para>
2134	</listitem>
2135
2136	<listitem>
2137	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2138	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2139	</listitem>
2140
2141	<listitem>
2142	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2143	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2144	</listitem>
2145
2146	<listitem>
2147	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2148	regression)</para>
2149	</listitem>
2150
2151	<listitem>
2152	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2153	</listitem>
2154
2155	<listitem>
2156	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2157	</listitem>
2158
2159	<listitem>
2160	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2161	</listitem>
2162
2163	<listitem>
2164	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2165	</listitem>
2166
2167	<listitem>
2168	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2169	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2170	</listitem>
2171
2172	<listitem>
2173	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2174	</listitem>
2175
2176	<listitem>
2177	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2178	</listitem>
2179
2180	<listitem>
2181	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2182	</listitem>
2183
2184	<listitem>
2185	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2186	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2191	</listitem>
2192
2193	<listitem>
2194	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2195	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2196	</listitem>
2197
2198	<listitem>
2199	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2200	</listitem>
2201
2202	<listitem>
2203	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2204	</listitem>
2205
2206	<listitem>
2207	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2208	</listitem>
2209
2210	<listitem>
2211	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2212	(bug #5731)</para>
2213	</listitem>
2214
2215	<listitem>
2216	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2217	again</para>
2218	</listitem>
2219
2220	</itemizedlist>
2221
2222	</sect1>
2223
2224	<sect1>
2225	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2226
2227	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2228	added:</para>
2229
2230	<itemizedlist>
2231
2232	<listitem>
2233	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2234	</listitem>
2235
2236	<listitem>
2237	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2238	</listitem>
2239
2240	<listitem>
2241	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2242	</listitem>
2243
2244	<listitem>
2245	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2246	</listitem>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2250	</listitem>
2251
2252	<listitem>
2253	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2254	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2259	</listitem>
2260
2261	<listitem>
2262	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2267	</listitem>
2268
2269	<listitem>
2270	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2271	</listitem>
2272
2273	<listitem>
2274	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2275	</listitem>
2276
2277	<listitem>
2278	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2279	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2280	</listitem>
2281
2282	<listitem>
2283	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2284	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2285	</listitem>
2286
2287	<listitem>
2288	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2289	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2290	#1762)</para>
2291	</listitem>
2292
2293	<listitem>
2294	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2295	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2296	</listitem>
2297
2298	<listitem>
2299	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2300	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2301	</listitem>
2302
2303	<listitem>
2304	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2305	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2306	</listitem>
2307
2308	<listitem>
2309	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2310	</listitem>
2311
2312	<listitem>
2313	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2314	</listitem>
2315
2316	<listitem>
2317	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2318	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2319	</listitem>
2320
2321	<listitem>
2322	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2327	</listitem>
2328
2329	<listitem>
2330	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2331	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2332	</listitem>
2333
2334	<listitem>
2335	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2336	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2341	</listitem>
2342
2343	<listitem>
2344	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2345	guests</para>
2346	</listitem>
2347
2348	<listitem>
2349	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2350	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2351	</listitem>
2352
2353	<listitem>
2354	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2355	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2356	</listitem>
2357
2358	<listitem>
2359	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2360	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2361	</listitem>
2362
2363	<listitem>
2364	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2365	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2366	</listitem>
2367
2368	<listitem>
2369	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2374	</listitem>
2375
2376	<listitem>
2377	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2378	</listitem>
2379
2380	<listitem>
2381	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2382	</listitem>
2383
2384	<listitem>
2385	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2386	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2387	</listitem>
2388
2389	<listitem>
2390	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2391	</listitem>
2392
2393	</itemizedlist>
2394
2395	</sect1>
2396
2397	<sect1>
2398	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2399
2400	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2401	were added:</para>
2402
2403	<itemizedlist>
2404
2405	<listitem>
2406	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2407	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2408	</listitem>
2409
2410	<listitem>
2411	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2412	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2413	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2414	</listitem>
2415
2416	<listitem>
2417	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2418	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2419	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2420	</listitem>
2421
2422	<listitem>
2423	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2424	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2425	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2426	</listitem>
2427
2428	<listitem>
2429	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2430	running</para>
2431	</listitem>
2432
2433	<listitem>
2434	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2435	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2440	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2441	</listitem>
2442
2443	<listitem>
2444	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2445	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2446	</listitem>
2447
2448	<listitem>
2449	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2450	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2451	</listitem>
2452
2453	</itemizedlist>
2454
2455	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2456
2457	<itemizedlist>
2458
2459	<listitem>
2460	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2461	</listitem>
2462
2463	<listitem>
2464	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2465	</listitem>
2466
2467	<listitem>
2468	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2469	</listitem>
2470
2471	<listitem>
2472	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2473	(bug #5291)</para>
2474	</listitem>
2475
2476	<listitem>
2477	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2478	</listitem>
2479
2480	<listitem>
2481	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2482	</listitem>
2483
2484	<listitem>
2485	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2486	</listitem>
2487
2488	<listitem>
2489	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2490	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2491	</listitem>
2492
2493	<listitem>
2494	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2495	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2500	</listitem>
2501
2502	<listitem>
2503	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2504	</listitem>
2505
2506	<listitem>
2507	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2508	</listitem>
2509
2510	<listitem>
2511	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2516	</listitem>
2517
2518	<listitem>
2519	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2520	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2521	</listitem>
2522
2523	<listitem>
2524	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2525	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2526	</listitem>
2527
2528	<listitem>
2529	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2530	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2531	</listitem>
2532
2533	<listitem>
2534	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2535	(bug #2723)</para>
2536	</listitem>
2537
2538	<listitem>
2539	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2544	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2545	</listitem>
2546
2547	<listitem>
2548	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2549	optional manifest file on import</para>
2550	</listitem>
2551
2552	<listitem>
2553	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2554	</listitem>
2555
2556	<listitem>
2557	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2558	(bug #3773)</para>
2559	</listitem>
2560
2561	<listitem>
2562	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2563	</listitem>
2564
2565	<listitem>
2566	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2567	</listitem>
2568
2569	<listitem>
2570	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2571	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2572	</listitem>
2573
2574	<listitem>
2575	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2576	(bug #4866)</para>
2577	</listitem>
2578
2579	<listitem>
2580	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2581	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2582	</listitem>
2583
2584	<listitem>
2585	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2586	certain conditions</para>
2587	</listitem>
2588
2589	<listitem>
2590	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	<listitem>
2594	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2595	</listitem>
2596
2597	<listitem>
2598	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2599	</listitem>
2600
2601	<listitem>
2602	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2607	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2616	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2621	</listitem>
2622
2623	<listitem>
2624	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2625	</listitem>
2626
2627	<listitem>
2628	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2629	</listitem>
2630
2631	<listitem>
2632	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2633	</listitem>
2634
2635	<listitem>
2636	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2637	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2638	</listitem>
2639
2640	<listitem>
2641	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2642	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2643	(bug #928)</para>
2644	</listitem>
2645
2646	<listitem>
2647	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2648	</listitem>
2649
2650	</itemizedlist>
2651
2652	</sect1>
2653
2654	<sect1>
2655	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2656
2657	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2658	added:</para>
2659
2660	<itemizedlist>
2661
2662	<listitem>
2663	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2664	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2665	</listitem>
2666
2667	<listitem>
2668	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2669	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2670	</listitem>
2671
2672	<listitem>
2673	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2674	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2675	</listitem>
2676
2677	<listitem>
2678	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2679	enabled</para>
2680	</listitem>
2681
2682	<listitem>
2683	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2684	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2685	</listitem>
2686
2687	<listitem>
2688	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2689	(bug #2676)</para>
2690	</listitem>
2691
2692	<listitem>
2693	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2694	is connected to a raw file</para>
2695	</listitem>
2696
2697	<listitem>
2698	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2699	(bug #5355)</para>
2700	</listitem>
2701
2702	<listitem>
2703	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2704	</listitem>
2705
2706	<listitem>
2707	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2708	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2709	</listitem>
2710
2711	<listitem>
2712	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2713	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2714	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2715	</listitem>
2716
2717	<listitem>
2718	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2719	</listitem>
2720
2721	<listitem>
2722	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2723	</listitem>
2724
2725	<listitem>
2726	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2727	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
2728	</listitem>
2729
2730	<listitem>
2731	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
2732	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
2733	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
2734	</listitem>
2735
2736	</itemizedlist>
2737
2738	</sect1>
2739
2740	<sect1>
2741	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
2742
2743	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2744	added:</para>
2745
2746	<itemizedlist>
2747
2748	<listitem>
2749	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
2750	</listitem>
2751
2752	<listitem>
2753	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
2754	</listitem>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
2758	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
2759	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
2760	</listitem>
2761
2762	<listitem>
2763	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
2764	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
2765	</listitem>
2766
2767	<listitem>
2768	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
2769	</listitem>
2770
2771	<listitem>
2772	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
2773	</listitem>
2774
2775	<listitem>
2776	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
2777	</listitem>
2778
2779	<listitem>
2780	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
2781	</listitem>
2782
2783	<listitem>
2784	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
2785	</listitem>
2786
2787	<listitem>
2788	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
2789	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
2790	</listitem>
2791
2792	<listitem>
2793	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
2794	</listitem>
2795
2796	<listitem>
2797	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
2798	</listitem>
2799
2800	<listitem>
2801	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
2802	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
2803	</listitem>
2804
2805	<listitem>
2806	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
2807	</listitem>
2808
2809	<listitem>
2810	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
2811	exhaustion</para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
2816	</listitem>
2817
2818	<listitem>
2819	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
2820	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
2821	</listitem>
2822
2823	<listitem>
2824	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
2825	folders (bug #4106)</para>
2826	</listitem>
2827
2828	<listitem>
2829	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
2830	folders (bug #4299)</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
2835	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
2836	(bug #2921)</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
2841	hosts only)</para>
2842	</listitem>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
2846	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
2851	</listitem>
2852
2853	<listitem>
2854	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
2855	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	<listitem>
2863	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
2864	image inconsistency </para>
2865	</listitem>
2866
2867	<listitem>
2868	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
2869	</listitem>
2870
2871	<listitem>
2872	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
2873	</listitem>
2874
2875	<listitem>
2876	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
2877	(bug #2025)</para>
2878	</listitem>
2879
2880	<listitem>
2881	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
2882	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
2883	</listitem>
2884
2885	</itemizedlist>
2886
2887	</sect1>
2888
2889	<sect1>
2890	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
2891
2892	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2893	added:</para>
2894
2895	<itemizedlist>
2896
2897	<listitem>
2898	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
2899	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
2900	</listitem>
2901
2902	<listitem>
2903	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
2904	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
2905	</listitem>
2906
2907	<listitem>
2908	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
2909	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
2910	</listitem>
2911
2912	<listitem>
2913	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
2914	</listitem>
2915
2916	<listitem>
2917	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
2918	software virtualization only) </para>
2919	</listitem>
2920
2921	<listitem>
2922	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
2923	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
2924	</listitem>
2925
2926	<listitem>
2927	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
2928	with root privileges</para>
2929	</listitem>
2930
2931	<listitem>
2932	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
2933	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
2934	</listitem>
2935
2936	<listitem>
2937	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
2938	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
2939	</listitem>
2940
2941	<listitem>
2942	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
2943	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
2944	</listitem>
2945
2946	<listitem>
2947	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
2948	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
2949	selector (bug #5063)</para>
2950	</listitem>
2951
2952	<listitem>
2953	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
2954	available</para>
2955	</listitem>
2956
2957	<listitem>
2958	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
2959	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
2960	</listitem>
2961
2962	<listitem>
2963	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
2964	networking (bug #4775)</para>
2965	</listitem>
2966
2967	<listitem>
2968	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
2969	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
2970	</listitem>
2971
2972	<listitem>
2973	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
2974	(bug #4907)</para>
2975	</listitem>
2976
2977	<listitem>
2978	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
2979	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
2980	</listitem>
2981
2982	<listitem>
2983	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
2984	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
2985	</listitem>
2986
2987	<listitem>
2988	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
2989	</listitem>
2990
2991	<listitem>
2992	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
2993	</listitem>
2994
2995	<listitem>
2996	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
3005	are installed</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	<listitem>
3009	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
3010	(bug #4771)</para>
3011	</listitem>
3012
3013	<listitem>
3014	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
3015	</listitem>
3016
3017	<listitem>
3018	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
3019	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
3020	</listitem>
3021
3022	<listitem>
3023	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
3024	command</para>
3025	</listitem>
3026
3027	<listitem>
3028	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3029	</listitem>
3030
3031	<listitem>
3032	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3033	</listitem>
3034
3035	<listitem>
3036	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3037	(bug #5089)</para>
3038	</listitem>
3039
3040	<listitem>
3041	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3042	</listitem>
3043
3044	</itemizedlist>
3045
3046	</sect1>
3047
3048	<sect1>
3049	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3050
3051	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3052	added:</para>
3053
3054	<itemizedlist>
3055
3056	<listitem>
3057	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3058	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3059	</listitem>
3060
3061	<listitem>
3062	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3063	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3064	</listitem>
3065
3066	<listitem>
3067	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3068	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3069	</listitem>
3070
3071	<listitem>
3072	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3073	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3074	</listitem>
3075
3076	<listitem>
3077	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3078	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3079	</listitem>
3080
3081	<listitem>
3082	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3083	</listitem>
3084
3085	<listitem>
3086	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3087	</listitem>
3088
3089	<listitem>
3090	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3091	</listitem>
3092
3093	<listitem>
3094	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3095	</listitem>
3096
3097	<listitem>
3098	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3099	</listitem>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3103	onlined or offlined</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3108	</listitem>
3109
3110	<listitem>
3111	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3112	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3113	</listitem>
3114
3115	<listitem>
3116	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3117	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3118	</listitem>
3119
3120	<listitem>
3121	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3122	</listitem>
3123
3124	<listitem>
3125	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3126	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3131	</listitem>
3132
3133	<listitem>
3134	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3135	</listitem>
3136
3137	<listitem>
3138	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3139	</listitem>
3140
3141	<listitem>
3142	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3143	</listitem>
3144
3145	<listitem>
3146	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3147	</listitem>
3148
3149	<listitem>
3150	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3151	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3152	</listitem>
3153
3154	<listitem>
3155	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3164	</listitem>
3165
3166	<listitem>
3167	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3168	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3169	</listitem>
3170
3171	<listitem>
3172	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3173	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3178	</listitem>
3179
3180	<listitem>
3181	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3182	</listitem>
3183
3184	<listitem>
3185	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3190	</listitem>
3191
3192	<listitem>
3193	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3194	</listitem>
3195
3196	<listitem>
3197	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3198	</listitem>
3199
3200	<listitem>
3201	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3202	</listitem>
3203
3204	<listitem>
3205	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3206	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3207	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3208	phase collapse</para>
3209	</listitem>
3210
3211	<listitem>
3212	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3213	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3214	</listitem>
3215
3216	<listitem>
3217	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3218	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3219	</listitem>
3220
3221	<listitem>
3222	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3223	</listitem>
3224
3225	<listitem>
3226	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3227	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3228	</listitem>
3229
3230	<listitem>
3231	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3232	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3233	</listitem>
3234
3235	<listitem>
3236	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3241	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3242	#4698, #4790)</para>
3243	</listitem>
3244
3245	<listitem>
3246	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3247	less than the configured range</para>
3248	</listitem>
3249
3250	<listitem>
3251	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3256	</listitem>
3257
3258	<listitem>
3259	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3260	</listitem>
3261
3262	<listitem>
3263	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3264	</listitem>
3265
3266	<listitem>
3267	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3268	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3269	</listitem>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3273	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3278	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3279	</listitem>
3280
3281	<listitem>
3282	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3283	</listitem>
3284
3285	<listitem>
3286	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3287	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3288	</listitem>
3289
3290	<listitem>
3291	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3292	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3293	</listitem>
3294
3295	<listitem>
3296	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3297	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3302	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3303	</listitem>
3304
3305	<listitem>
3306	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3307	</listitem>
3308
3309	<listitem>
3310	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3311	</listitem>
3312
3313	</itemizedlist>
3314
3315	</sect1>
3316
3317	<sect1>
3318	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3319
3320	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3321	added:</para>
3322
3323	<itemizedlist>
3324
3325	<listitem>
3326	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	<listitem>
3330	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3339	</listitem>
3340
3341	<listitem>
3342	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3343	</listitem>
3344
3345	<listitem>
3346	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3347	</listitem>
3348
3349	<listitem>
3350	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3351	</listitem>
3352
3353	<listitem>
3354	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3355	</listitem>
3356
3357	<listitem>
3358	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3359	</listitem>
3360
3361	<listitem>
3362	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3363	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3368	</listitem>
3369
3370	<listitem>
3371	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3372	</listitem>
3373
3374	<listitem>
3375	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3388	</listitem>
3389
3390	<listitem>
3391	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3392	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3393	</listitem>
3394
3395	<listitem>
3396	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3397	(bug #4654)</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3402	</listitem>
3403
3404	<listitem>
3405	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3406	interfaces</para>
3407	</listitem>
3408
3409	<listitem>
3410	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3411	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3412	</listitem>
3413
3414	<listitem>
3415	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3416	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3417	</listitem>
3418
3419	<listitem>
3420	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3421	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3426	(bug #1461)</para>
3427	</listitem>
3428
3429	<listitem>
3430	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3431	</listitem>
3432
3433	<listitem>
3434	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3435	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3436	</listitem>
3437
3438	<listitem>
3439	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3440	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3441	</listitem>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3445	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3450	</listitem>
3451
3452	<listitem>
3453	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3462	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3467	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3472	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3473	</listitem>
3474
3475	<listitem>
3476	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3477	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3478	</listitem>
3479
3480	</itemizedlist>
3481
3482	</sect1>
3483	<sect1>
3484	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3485
3486	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3487	added:</para>
3488
3489	<itemizedlist>
3490
3491	<listitem>
3492	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3493	</listitem>
3494
3495	<listitem>
3496	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3497	</listitem>
3498
3499	<listitem>
3500	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3501	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3502	</listitem>
3503
3504	<listitem>
3505	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3506	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3507	</listitem>
3508
3509	<listitem>
3510	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3511	</listitem>
3512
3513	<listitem>
3514	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3515	</listitem>
3516
3517	<listitem>
3518	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3519	</listitem>
3520
3521	<listitem>
3522	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3523	</listitem>
3524
3525	<listitem>
3526	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3527	</listitem>
3528
3529	<listitem>
3530	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3531	</listitem>
3532
3533	<listitem>
3534	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3535	</listitem>
3536
3537	<listitem>
3538	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3539	</listitem>
3540
3541	<listitem>
3542	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3543	</listitem>
3544
3545	<listitem>
3546	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3547	</listitem>
3548
3549	<listitem>
3550	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3551	</listitem>
3552
3553	<listitem>
3554	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3555	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3556	</listitem>
3557
3558	<listitem>
3559	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3564	</listitem>
3565
3566	<listitem>
3567	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3568	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3577	</listitem>
3578
3579	<listitem>
3580	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3581	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3582	</listitem>
3583
3584	<listitem>
3585	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3586	</listitem>
3587
3588	<listitem>
3589	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3590	</listitem>
3591
3592	<listitem>
3593	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3594	</listitem>
3595
3596	<listitem>
3597	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3598	</listitem>
3599
3600	<listitem>
3601	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	<listitem>
3605	<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>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	</itemizedlist>
3609
3610	</sect1>
3611
3612	<sect1>
3613	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3614
3615	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3616	were added:</para>
3617
3618	<itemizedlist>
3619
3620	<listitem>
3621	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3622	</listitem>
3623
3624	<listitem>
3625	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3626	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3627	</listitem>
3628
3629	<listitem>
3630	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3631	</listitem>
3632
3633	</itemizedlist>
3634
3635	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3636
3637	<itemizedlist>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3641	</listitem>
3642
3643	<listitem>
3644	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3645	certain conditions</para>
3646	</listitem>
3647
3648	<listitem>
3649	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3650	</listitem>
3651
3652	<listitem>
3653	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3654	</listitem>
3655
3656	<listitem>
3657	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3658	</listitem>
3659
3660	<listitem>
3661	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3662	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3663	</listitem>
3664
3665	<listitem>
3666	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3667	</listitem>
3668
3669	<listitem>
3670	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3671	</listitem>
3672
3673	<listitem>
3674	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3675	</listitem>
3676
3677	<listitem>
3678	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3679	</listitem>
3680
3681	<listitem>
3682	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3683	</listitem>
3684
3685	<listitem>
3686	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3687	</listitem>
3688
3689	<listitem>
3690	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3691	</listitem>
3692
3693	<listitem>
3694	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3695	</listitem>
3696
3697	<listitem>
3698	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3699	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3700	</listitem>
3701
3702	<listitem>
3703	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3704	</listitem>
3705
3706	<listitem>
3707	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3716	</listitem>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3720	</listitem>
3721
3722	<listitem>
3723	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3724	</listitem>
3725
3726	<listitem>
3727	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
3732	</listitem>
3733
3734	<listitem>
3735	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
3736	</listitem>
3737
3738	<listitem>
3739	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
3740	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
3745	</listitem>
3746
3747	<listitem>
3748	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
3749	</listitem>
3750
3751	<listitem>
3752	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
3753	</listitem>
3754
3755	<listitem>
3756	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3757	</listitem>
3758
3759	<listitem>
3760	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
3761	</listitem>
3762
3763	<listitem>
3764	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
3769	</listitem>
3770
3771	<listitem>
3772	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
3773	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
3778	</listitem>
3779
3780	<listitem>
3781	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
3782	</listitem>
3783
3784	<listitem>
3785	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
3786	</listitem>
3787
3788	<listitem>
3789	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
3790	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
3791	</listitem>
3792
3793	<listitem>
3794	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
3795	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
3796	</listitem>
3797
3798	<listitem>
3799	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
3800	correct file mode when creating files</para>
3801	</listitem>
3802
3803	<listitem>
3804	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
3805	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
3806	</listitem>
3807
3808	<listitem>
3809	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
3810	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
3811	</listitem>
3812
3813	<listitem>
3814	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
3815	</listitem>
3816
3817	<listitem>
3818	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
3819	</listitem>
3820
3821	<listitem>
3822	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
3823	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
3824	</listitem>
3825
3826	<listitem>
3827	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
3828	guest property lookup</para>
3829	</listitem>
3830
3831	<listitem>
3832	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
3833	basic network information)</para>
3834	</listitem>
3835
3836	<listitem>
3837	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
3838	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
3839	</listitem>
3840
3841	<listitem>
3842	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
3843	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
3844	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
3845	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
3846	</listitem>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
3850	</listitem>
3851
3852	<listitem>
3853	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
3854	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
3855	web service</para>
3856	</listitem>
3857
3858	<listitem>
3859	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
3860	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
3861	</listitem>
3862
3863	<listitem>
3864	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
3865	unavailable</para>
3866	</listitem>
3867
3868	<listitem>
3869	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
3870	</listitem>
3871
3872	</itemizedlist>
3873	</sect1>
3874
3875	<sect1>
3876	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
3877
3878	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3879	added:</para>
3880
3881	<itemizedlist>
3882
3883	<listitem>
3884	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
3885	installation</para>
3886	</listitem>
3887
3888	<listitem>
3889	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
3890	</listitem>
3891
3892	<listitem>
3893	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
3894	later (bug #3981)</para>
3895	</listitem>
3896
3897	<listitem>
3898	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
3899	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
3900	</listitem>
3901
3902	<listitem>
3903	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
3904	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
3905	(bug #4034)
3906	</para>
3907	</listitem>
3908
3909	<listitem>
3910	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
3911	networking</para>
3912	</listitem>
3913
3914	<listitem>
3915	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
3916	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
3917	</listitem>
3918
3919	<listitem>
3920	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
3921	clicks</para>
3922	</listitem>
3923
3924	<listitem>
3925	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
3926	Windows 7 guests</para>
3927	</listitem>
3928
3929	<listitem>
3930	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
3931	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
3932	</listitem>
3933
3934	<listitem>
3935	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
3940	</listitem>
3941
3942	<listitem>
3943	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
3944	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
3945	</listitem>
3946
3947	<listitem>
3948	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
3949	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
3950	</listitem>
3951
3952	<listitem>
3953	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
3954	</listitem>
3955
3956	<listitem>
3957	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
3962	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
3963	(bug #3864)</para>
3964	</listitem>
3965
3966	<listitem>
3967	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
3968	now flushes the output stream</para>
3969	</listitem>
3970
3971	<listitem>
3972	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
3973	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
3974	</listitem>
3975
3976	<listitem>
3977	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
3978	</listitem>
3979
3980	<listitem>
3981	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
3982	</listitem>
3983
3984	<listitem>
3985	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
3986	</listitem>
3987
3988	<listitem>
3989	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
3994	(bug #3964)</para>
3995	</listitem>
3996
3997	<listitem>
3998	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
3999	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
4000	</listitem>
4001
4002	<listitem>
4003	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
4004	hosts</para>
4005	</listitem>
4006
4007	<listitem>
4008	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
4009	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
4010	e1000 adapter</para>
4011	</listitem>
4012
4013	<listitem>
4014	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
4015	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
4016	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
4017	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
4018	</listitem>
4019
4020	<listitem>
4021	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
4022	</listitem>
4023
4024	<listitem>
4025	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
4026	</listitem>
4027
4028	<listitem>
4029	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4030	</listitem>
4031
4032	<listitem>
4033	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4034	file (bug #1023)</para>
4035	</listitem>
4036
4037	<listitem>
4038	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4039	</listitem>
4040
4041	<listitem>
4042	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4043	</listitem>
4044
4045	</itemizedlist>
4046	</sect1>
4047
4048	<sect1>
4049	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4050
4051	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4052	added:</para>
4053
4054	<itemizedlist>
4055
4056	<listitem>
4057	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4058	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4059	</listitem>
4060
4061	<listitem>
4062	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4063	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4064	and later</para>
4065	</listitem>
4066
4067	<listitem>
4068	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4069	running services</para>
4070	</listitem>
4071
4072	<listitem>
4073	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4074	terminates</para>
4075	</listitem>
4076
4077	<listitem>
4078	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4079	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4080	</listitem>
4081
4082	<listitem>
4083	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4084	installed on the guest</para>
4085	</listitem>
4086
4087	<listitem>
4088	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4089	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4090	</listitem>
4091
4092	<listitem>
4093	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4094	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4095	</listitem>
4096
4097	<listitem>
4098	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4099	(bug #2628)</para>
4100	</listitem>
4101
4102	<listitem>
4103	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4104	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4105	</listitem>
4106
4107	<listitem>
4108	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4109	(bug #3657)</para>
4110	</listitem>
4111
4112	<listitem>
4113	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4114	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4115	</listitem>
4116
4117	<listitem>
4118	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4119	virtualization only)
4120	</para>
4121	</listitem>
4122
4123	<listitem>
4124	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4125	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4126	</listitem>
4127
4128	<listitem>
4129	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4130	</listitem>
4131
4132	<listitem>
4133	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4134	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4135	</listitem>
4136
4137	<listitem>
4138	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4139	bug #3689)</para>
4140	</listitem>
4141
4142	<listitem>
4143	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4144	bug #3679)</para>
4145	</listitem>
4146
4147	<listitem>
4148	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4149	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4150	</listitem>
4151
4152	<listitem>
4153	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4154	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4155	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4156	</listitem>
4157
4158	<listitem>
4159	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4160	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4165	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4170	(bug #3667)</para>
4171	</listitem>
4172
4173	<listitem>
4174	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4175	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4176	</listitem>
4177
4178	<listitem>
4179	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4180	</listitem>
4181
4182	<listitem>
4183	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4184	</listitem>
4185
4186	<listitem>
4187	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4188	</listitem>
4189
4190	<listitem>
4191	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4196	</listitem>
4197
4198	<listitem>
4199	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4200	</listitem>
4201
4202	<listitem>
4203	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4204	</listitem>
4205
4206	</itemizedlist>
4207	</sect1>
4208
4209	<sect1>
4210	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4211
4212	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4213	were added:</para>
4214
4215	<itemizedlist>
4216
4217	<listitem>
4218	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4219	</listitem>
4220
4221	<listitem>
4222	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4223	</listitem>
4224
4225	<listitem>
4226	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4227	</listitem>
4228
4229	<listitem>
4230	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4231	</listitem>
4232
4233	<listitem>
4234	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4235	</listitem>
4236
4237	<listitem>
4238	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4239	</listitem>
4240
4241	<listitem>
4242	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4243	</listitem>
4244
4245	<listitem>
4246	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4247	</listitem>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4251	</listitem>
4252
4253	<listitem>
4254	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4255	</listitem>
4256
4257	</itemizedlist>
4258
4259	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4260
4261	<itemizedlist>
4262
4263	<listitem>
4264	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4265	</listitem>
4266
4267	<listitem>
4268	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4269	</listitem>
4270
4271	<listitem>
4272	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4273	</listitem>
4274
4275	<listitem>
4276	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4277	</listitem>
4278
4279	<listitem>
4280	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	<listitem>
4288	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4289	</listitem>
4290
4291	<listitem>
4292	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4293	</listitem>
4294
4295	<listitem>
4296	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4297	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4298	</listitem>
4299
4300	<listitem>
4301	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4302	</listitem>
4303
4304	<listitem>
4305	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4306	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4307	</listitem>
4308
4309	<listitem>
4310	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4311	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4312	</listitem>
4313
4314	<listitem>
4315	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4316	</listitem>
4317
4318	<listitem>
4319	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4320	</listitem>
4321
4322	<listitem>
4323	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4324	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4325	</listitem>
4326
4327	<listitem>
4328	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4329	</listitem>
4330
4331	<listitem>
4332	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4333	ESX server images)</para>
4334	</listitem>
4335
4336	<listitem>
4337	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4338	writable</para>
4339	</listitem>
4340
4341	<listitem>
4342	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4343	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4344	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4345	</listitem>
4346
4347	<listitem>
4348	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4349	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4354	</listitem>
4355
4356	<listitem>
4357	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4358	</listitem>
4359
4360	<listitem>
4361	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4362	hosts when creating files</para>
4363	</listitem>
4364
4365	<listitem>
4366	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4367	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4368	</listitem>
4369
4370	<listitem>
4371	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4372	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4373	#2306)</para>
4374	</listitem>
4375
4376	<listitem>
4377	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4378	(bug #3555)</para>
4379	</listitem>
4380
4381	<listitem>
4382	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4383	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4384	</listitem>
4385
4386	<listitem>
4387	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4388	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4389	</listitem>
4390
4391	<listitem>
4392	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4393	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4394	</listitem>
4395
4396	<listitem>
4397	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4398	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4399	</listitem>
4400
4401	<listitem>
4402	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4403	(bug #3586)</para>
4404	</listitem>
4405
4406	<listitem>
4407	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4408	from Scratch systems</para>
4409	</listitem>
4410
4411	<listitem>
4412	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4413	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4414	</listitem>
4415
4416	<listitem>
4417	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4418	</listitem>
4419
4420	<listitem>
4421	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4422	default to compact format</para>
4423	</listitem>
4424
4425	<listitem>
4426	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4427	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4432	</listitem>
4433
4434	<listitem>
4435	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4436	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4437	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4438	</listitem>
4439
4440	<listitem>
4441	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4442	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4443	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4444	</listitem>
4445
4446	<listitem>
4447	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4448	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4449	</listitem>
4450
4451	<listitem>
4452	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4453	</listitem>
4454
4455	<listitem>
4456	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4457	</listitem>
4458
4459	<listitem>
4460	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4461	</listitem>
4462
4463	<listitem>
4464	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4465	</listitem>
4466
4467	<listitem>
4468	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4469	</listitem>
4470
4471	<listitem>
4472	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4473	</listitem>
4474
4475	<listitem>
4476	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4477	</listitem>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4481	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4482	</listitem>
4483
4484	<listitem>
4485	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4486	</listitem>
4487
4488	<listitem>
4489	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4490	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4491	</listitem>
4492
4493	<listitem>
4494	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4495	</listitem>
4496
4497	<listitem>
4498	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4499	</listitem>
4500
4501	<listitem>
4502	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	<listitem>
4506	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4507	#2536)</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4512	</listitem>
4513
4514	<listitem>
4515	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4516	(bug #3548)</para>
4517	</listitem>
4518
4519	</itemizedlist>
4520	</sect1>
4521
4522	<sect1>
4523	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4524
4525	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4526	added:</para>
4527
4528	<itemizedlist>
4529
4530	<listitem>
4531	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4532	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4533	</listitem>
4534
4535	<listitem>
4536	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4537	</listitem>
4538
4539	<listitem>
4540	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4541	</listitem>
4542
4543	<listitem>
4544	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4545	</listitem>
4546
4547	<listitem>
4548	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4549	(bug #3115)</para>
4550	</listitem>
4551
4552	<listitem>
4553	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4554	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4555	</listitem>
4556
4557	<listitem>
4558	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4559	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4560	(bug #3215)</para>
4561	</listitem>
4562
4563	<listitem>
4564	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4565	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4566	</listitem>
4567
4568	<listitem>
4569	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4570	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4571	</listitem>
4572
4573	<listitem>
4574	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4575	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4576	</listitem>
4577
4578	<listitem>
4579	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4580	in parallel</para>
4581	</listitem>
4582
4583	<listitem>
4584	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4585	</listitem>
4586
4587	<listitem>
4588	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4589	</listitem>
4590
4591	<listitem>
4592	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4593	</listitem>
4594
4595	<listitem>
4596	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4597	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4598	</listitem>
4599
4600	<listitem>
4601	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4602	</listitem>
4603
4604	<listitem>
4605	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4606	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4611	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4612	</listitem>
4613
4614	<listitem>
4615	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4616	</listitem>
4617
4618	<listitem>
4619	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4620	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4621	</listitem>
4622
4623	<listitem>
4624	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4625	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4626	</listitem>
4627
4628	<listitem>
4629	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4630	</listitem>
4631
4632	<listitem>
4633	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4634	</listitem>
4635
4636	<listitem>
4637	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4638	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4639	</listitem>
4640
4641	<listitem>
4642	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4643	</listitem>
4644
4645	<listitem>
4646	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4647	</listitem>
4648
4649	<listitem>
4650	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4651	</listitem>
4652
4653	<listitem>
4654	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4655	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4656	</listitem>
4657
4658	<listitem>
4659	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4660	</listitem>
4661
4662	<listitem>
4663	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4664	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4665	</listitem>
4666
4667	<listitem>
4668	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4669	</listitem>
4670
4671	<listitem>
4672	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4673	</listitem>
4674
4675	<listitem>
4676	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4677	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4678	</listitem>
4679
4680	<listitem>
4681	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4682	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4683	</listitem>
4684
4685	<listitem>
4686	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4687	</listitem>
4688
4689	<listitem>
4690	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4691	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4692	</listitem>
4693
4694	<listitem>
4695	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4696	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4697	</listitem>
4698
4699	<listitem>
4700	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4701	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4702	</listitem>
4703
4704	<listitem>
4705	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4706	(bug #3213)</para>
4707	</listitem>
4708
4709	<listitem>
4710	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4711	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4712	</listitem>
4713
4714	<listitem>
4715	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4716	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4717	</listitem>
4718
4719	</itemizedlist>
4720	</sect1>
4721
4722	<sect1>
4723	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4724
4725	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4726	added:</para>
4727
4728	<itemizedlist>
4729
4730	<listitem>
4731	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
4740	</listitem>
4741
4742	<listitem>
4743	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
4744	</listitem>
4745
4746	<listitem>
4747	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
4748	</listitem>
4749
4750	<listitem>
4751	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
4752	</listitem>
4753
4754	<listitem>
4755	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
4756	</listitem>
4757
4758	<listitem>
4759	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
4764	</listitem>
4765
4766	<listitem>
4767	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
4768	</listitem>
4769
4770	<listitem>
4771	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
4772	</listitem>
4773
4774	<listitem>
4775	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
4776	</listitem>
4777
4778	<listitem>
4779	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
4784	</listitem>
4785
4786	<listitem>
4787	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
4788	</listitem>
4789
4790	<listitem>
4791	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
4792	</listitem>
4793
4794	<listitem>
4795	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
4796	(bug #3067)</para>
4797	</listitem>
4798
4799	<listitem>
4800	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
4801	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
4802	</listitem>
4803
4804	<listitem>
4805	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
4806	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
4807	</listitem>
4808
4809	<listitem>
4810	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
4811	</listitem>
4812
4813	<listitem>
4814	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
4815	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
4816	</listitem>
4817
4818	<listitem>
4819	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
4820	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4821	</listitem>
4822
4823	<listitem>
4824	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
4825	</listitem>
4826
4827	<listitem>
4828	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
4829	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
4834	</listitem>
4835
4836	<listitem>
4837	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
4838	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
4839	</listitem>
4840
4841	<listitem>
4842	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
4843	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
4844	</listitem>
4845
4846	<listitem>
4847	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
4848	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
4849	</para>
4850	</listitem>
4851
4852	<listitem>
4853	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
4854	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
4855	</para>
4856	</listitem>
4857
4858	<listitem>
4859	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
4860	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
4861	</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	<listitem>
4865	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
4866	</listitem>
4867
4868	<listitem>
4869	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
4870	</listitem>
4871
4872	<listitem>
4873	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
4878	</listitem>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
4882	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	<listitem>
4886	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
4887	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
4892	formatting a drive</para>
4893	</listitem>
4894
4895	<listitem>
4896	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
4897	</listitem>
4898
4899	<listitem>
4900	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
4901	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
4902	</listitem>
4903
4904	<listitem>
4905	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
4906	</listitem>
4907
4908	<listitem>
4909	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
4910	</listitem>
4911
4912	<listitem>
4913	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4914	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
4915	</listitem>
4916
4917	<listitem>
4918	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
4919	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
4920	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
4921	</listitem>
4922
4923	<listitem>
4924	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
4925	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
4926	</listitem>
4927
4928	<listitem>
4929	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
4930	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
4931	</listitem>
4932
4933	<listitem>
4934	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
4935	(bug #2768)</para>
4936	</listitem>
4937
4938	<listitem>
4939	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
4944	</listitem>
4945
4946	<listitem>
4947	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
4948	single, unified package</para>
4949	</listitem>
4950
4951	<listitem>
4952	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
4953	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
4954	</listitem>
4955
4956	<listitem>
4957	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
4962	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
4963	</listitem>
4964
4965	<listitem>
4966	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
4967	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
4968	</listitem>
4969
4970	<listitem>
4971	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	<listitem>
4975	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
4976	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
4977	doing 3D</para>
4978	</listitem>
4979
4980	<listitem>
4981	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
4982	</listitem>
4983
4984	<listitem>
4985	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
4986	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
4987	</listitem>
4988
4989	<listitem>
4990	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
4991	</listitem>
4992
4993	<listitem>
4994	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
4995	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
4996	</listitem>
4997
4998	<listitem>
4999	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
5000	</listitem>
5001
5002	<listitem>
5003	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
5004	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
5005	</listitem>
5006
5007	<listitem>
5008	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
5009	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
5010	(bug #2938)</para>
5011	</listitem>
5012
5013	<listitem>
5014	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
5015	Linux guests</para>
5016	</listitem>
5017
5018	<listitem>
5019	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
5020	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
5021	(bug #1776)</para>
5022	</listitem>
5023
5024	<listitem>
5025	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
5026	(bug #1612)</para>
5027	</listitem>
5028
5029	<listitem>
5030	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5031	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5032	</listitem>
5033
5034	<listitem>
5035	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5036	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5037	</listitem>
5038
5039	<listitem>
5040	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5041	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5042	</listitem>
5043
5044	</itemizedlist>
5045	</sect1>
5046
5047	<sect1>
5048	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5049
5050	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5051	were added:</para>
5052
5053	<itemizedlist>
5054	<listitem>
5055	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5056	</listitem>
5057
5058	<listitem>
5059	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5060	</listitem>
5061
5062	<listitem>
5063	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5064	</listitem>
5065
5066	<listitem>
5067	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5068	</listitem>
5069
5070	<listitem>
5071	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5072	</listitem>
5073
5074	<listitem>
5075	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5076	</listitem>
5077
5078	<listitem>
5079	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5080	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5081	</listitem>
5082
5083	<listitem>
5084	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5085	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5086	</listitem>
5087
5088	</itemizedlist>
5089
5090	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5091
5092	<itemizedlist>
5093	<listitem>
5094	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5095	</listitem>
5096
5097	<listitem>
5098	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5099	</listitem>
5100
5101	<listitem>
5102	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5103	</listitem>
5104
5105	<listitem>
5106	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5107	</listitem>
5108
5109	<listitem>
5110	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5111	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5112	</listitem>
5113
5114	<listitem>
5115	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5116	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5117	</listitem>
5118
5119	<listitem>
5120	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5121	</listitem>
5122
5123	<listitem>
5124	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5125	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5126	</listitem>
5127
5128	<listitem>
5129	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5130	</listitem>
5131
5132	<listitem>
5133	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5134	</listitem>
5135
5136	<listitem>
5137	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5138	</listitem>
5139
5140	<listitem>
5141	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5142	</listitem>
5143
5144	<listitem>
5145	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5146	</listitem>
5147
5148	<listitem>
5149	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5150	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5151	</listitem>
5152
5153	<listitem>
5154	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5155	the compiz window manager</para>
5156	</listitem>
5157
5158	<listitem>
5159	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5160	</listitem>
5161
5162	<listitem>
5163	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5164	</listitem>
5165
5166	<listitem>
5167	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5168	</listitem>
5169
5170	<listitem>
5171	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5172	</listitem>
5173
5174	<listitem>
5175	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5176	</listitem>
5177
5178	<listitem>
5179	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5180	</listitem>
5181
5182	<listitem>
5183	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5184	</listitem>
5185
5186	<listitem>
5187	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5188	</listitem>
5189
5190	<listitem>
5191	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5192	</listitem>
5193
5194	<listitem>
5195	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5196	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5197	</listitem>
5198
5199	<listitem>
5200	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5201	for direct device access</para>
5202	</listitem>
5203
5204	<listitem>
5205	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5206	</listitem>
5207
5208	<listitem>
5209	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5210	</listitem>
5211
5212	<listitem>
5213	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5214	</listitem>
5215
5216	<listitem>
5217	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5218	</listitem>
5219
5220	<listitem>
5221	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5222	</listitem>
5223
5224	<listitem>
5225	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5226	</listitem>
5227
5228	<listitem>
5229	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5230	</listitem>
5231
5232	<listitem>
5233	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5234	</listitem>
5235
5236	</itemizedlist>
5237	</sect1>
5238
5239	<sect1>
5240	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5241
5242	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5243	added:</para>
5244
5245	<itemizedlist>
5246
5247	<listitem>
5248	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5249	states/snapshots</para>
5250	</listitem>
5251
5252	<listitem>
5253	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5254	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5255	</listitem>
5256
5257	<listitem>
5258	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5259	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5260	</listitem>
5261
5262	<listitem>
5263	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5264	collisions</para>
5265	</listitem>
5266
5267	<listitem>
5268	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5269	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5270	</listitem>
5271
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5274	</listitem>
5275
5276	<listitem>
5277	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5278	reliably</para>
5279	</listitem>
5280
5281	<listitem>
5282	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5283	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5284	</listitem>
5285
5286	<listitem>
5287	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5288	a reboot</para>
5289	</listitem>
5290
5291	<listitem>
5292	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5293	</listitem>
5294
5295	<listitem>
5296	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5297	in parallel</para>
5298	</listitem>
5299
5300	<listitem>
5301	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5302	</listitem>
5303
5304	<listitem>
5305	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5306	correctly</para>
5307	</listitem>
5308
5309	<listitem>
5310	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5311	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5312	</listitem>
5313
5314	</itemizedlist>
5315	</sect1>
5316
5317	<sect1>
5318	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5319
5320	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5321	added:</para>
5322
5323	<itemizedlist>
5324
5325	<listitem>
5326	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5327	(bug #2220)</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5336	</listitem>
5337
5338	<listitem>
5339	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5340	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5341	</listitem>
5342
5343	<listitem>
5344	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5345	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5346	</listitem>
5347
5348	<listitem>
5349	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5350	(bug #2624)</para>
5351	</listitem>
5352
5353	<listitem>
5354	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5355	(bug #2024)</para>
5356	</listitem>
5357
5358	<listitem>
5359	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5360	</listitem>
5361
5362	<listitem>
5363	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5364	</listitem>
5365
5366	<listitem>
5367	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5368	</listitem>
5369
5370	<listitem>
5371	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5372	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5373	</listitem>
5374
5375	<listitem>
5376	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5377	applications when updating the installation</para>
5378	</listitem>
5379
5380	<listitem>
5381	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5382	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5383	</listitem>
5384
5385	<listitem>
5386	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5387	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5388	</listitem>
5389
5390	<listitem>
5391	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5392	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5393	</listitem>
5394
5395	<listitem>
5396	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5397	connected to a host device</para>
5398	</listitem>
5399
5400	<listitem>
5401	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5402	</listitem>
5403
5404	<listitem>
5405	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5406	</listitem>
5407
5408	<listitem>
5409	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5410	</listitem>
5411
5412	<listitem>
5413	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5414	when using native RDP connections</para>
5415	</listitem>
5416
5417	<listitem>
5418	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5419	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5420	</listitem>
5421
5422	<listitem>
5423	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5424	(bug #2591)</para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5429	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5430	</listitem>
5431
5432	<listitem>
5433	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	</itemizedlist>
5437	</sect1>
5438
5439	<sect1>
5440	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5441
5442	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5443	added:</para>
5444
5445	<itemizedlist>
5446	<listitem>
5447	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5448	</listitem>
5449
5450	<listitem>
5451	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5452	</listitem>
5453
5454	<listitem>
5455	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5456	</listitem>
5457
5458	<listitem>
5459	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5460	</listitem>
5461
5462	<listitem>
5463	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5472	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5473	</listitem>
5474
5475	<listitem>
5476	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5477	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5482	</listitem>
5483
5484	<listitem>
5485	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5486	equal to the client resolution</para>
5487	</listitem>
5488
5489	<listitem>
5490	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5491	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5492	</listitem>
5493
5494	<listitem>
5495	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5496	</listitem>
5497
5498	<listitem>
5499	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5500	</listitem>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	<listitem>
5507	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5508	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5509	</listitem>
5510
5511	<listitem>
5512	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5513	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5514	</listitem>
5515
5516	<listitem>
5517	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5518	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5519	</listitem>
5520
5521	<listitem>
5522	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5523	</listitem>
5524
5525	<listitem>
5526	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5527	</listitem>
5528
5529	<listitem>
5530	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5535	</listitem>
5536
5537	<listitem>
5538	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5539	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5540	</listitem>
5541
5542	<listitem>
5543	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5544	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5545	</listitem>
5546
5547	<listitem>
5548	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5549	</listitem>
5550
5551	<listitem>
5552	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5553	</listitem>
5554
5555	<listitem>
5556	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5557	</listitem>
5558
5559	</itemizedlist>
5560
5561	</sect1>
5562
5563	<sect1>
5564	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5565
5566	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5567	added:</para>
5568
5569	<itemizedlist>
5570
5571	<listitem>
5572	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5573	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5574	</listitem>
5575
5576	<listitem>
5577	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5578	</listitem>
5579
5580	<listitem>
5581	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5582	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5583	</listitem>
5584
5585	<listitem>
5586	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5587	</listitem>
5588
5589	<listitem>
5590	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5591	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5592	</listitem>
5593
5594	<listitem>
5595	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5596	</listitem>
5597
5598	<listitem>
5599	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5600	the virtual disk manager</para>
5601	</listitem>
5602
5603	<listitem>
5604	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5605	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5606	</listitem>
5607
5608	<listitem>
5609	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5610	</listitem>
5611
5612	<listitem>
5613	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5614	</listitem>
5615
5616	<listitem>
5617	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5618	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5619	</listitem>
5620
5621	<listitem>
5622	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5623	bug #2067)</para>
5624	</listitem>
5625
5626	<listitem>
5627	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5628	</listitem>
5629
5630	<listitem>
5631	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5632	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5633	</listitem>
5634
5635	<listitem>
5636	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5637	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5638	(bug #2184)</para>
5639	</listitem>
5640
5641	<listitem>
5642	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5643	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5644	</listitem>
5645
5646	<listitem>
5647	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5648	(Windows guests only)</para>
5649	</listitem>
5650
5651	<listitem>
5652	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5653	</listitem>
5654
5655	<listitem>
5656	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5657	</listitem>
5658
5659	<listitem>
5660	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5661	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5662	</listitem>
5663
5664	<listitem>
5665	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5666	</listitem>
5667
5668	<listitem>
5669	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5670	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5671	</para>
5672	</listitem>
5673
5674	<listitem>
5675	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5676	</listitem>
5677
5678	<listitem>
5679	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5680	</listitem>
5681
5682	<listitem>
5683	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5684	a VM reboot</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	<listitem>
5688	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5689	</listitem>
5690
5691	<listitem>
5692	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5693	buggy X servers</para>
5694	</listitem>
5695
5696	<listitem>
5697	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5698	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5699	</listitem>
5700
5701	<listitem>
5702	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5703	</listitem>
5704
5705	<listitem>
5706	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5707	(bug #2128)</para>
5708	</listitem>
5709
5710	<listitem>
5711	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5712	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5713	</listitem>
5714
5715	<listitem>
5716	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5717	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5718	</listitem>
5719
5720	<listitem>
5721	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5722	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5723	</listitem>
5724
5725	<listitem>
5726	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5727	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
5728	</listitem>
5729
5730	<listitem>
5731	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
5732	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
5733	</listitem>
5734
5735	<listitem>
5736	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
5737	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
5738	</listitem>
5739
5740	<listitem>
5741	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
5742	installer into a single package</para>
5743	</listitem>
5744
5745	<listitem>
5746	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
5747	port to the guest
5748	</para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	</itemizedlist>
5752
5753	</sect1>
5754
5755	<sect1>
5756	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
5757
5758	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5759	were added:<itemizedlist>
5760
5761	<listitem>
5762	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	<listitem>
5766	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5767	</listitem>
5768
5769	<listitem>
5770	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
5771	</listitem>
5772
5773	<listitem>
5774	<para>New-version notifier</para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5783	</listitem>
5784
5785	<listitem>
5786	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
5787	</listitem>
5788
5789	<listitem>
5790	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
5791	</listitem>
5792
5793	<listitem>
5794	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
5795	</listitem>
5796
5797	<listitem>
5798	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
5799	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
5800	</listitem>
5801
5802	<listitem>
5803	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
5804	</listitem>
5805
5806	<listitem>
5807	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
5808	</listitem>
5809
5810	<listitem>
5811	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
5812	</listitem>
5813
5814	</itemizedlist></para>
5815
5816	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5817
5818	<itemizedlist>
5819
5820	<listitem>
5821	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
5822	</listitem>
5823
5824	<listitem>
5825	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
5826	</listitem>
5827
5828	<listitem>
5829	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
5830	</listitem>
5831
5832	<listitem>
5833	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
5834	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
5835	</listitem>
5836
5837	<listitem>
5838	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
5839	restored</para>
5840	</listitem>
5841
5842	<listitem>
5843	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
5844	</listitem>
5845
5846	<listitem>
5847	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
5848	</listitem>
5849
5850	<listitem>
5851	<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>
5852	</listitem>
5853
5854	</itemizedlist>
5855
5856	</sect1>
5857
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