user_ChangeLogImpl.xml@ 35320

Last change on this file since 35320 was 35320, checked in by vboxsync, 14 years ago
VBoxManage: updated changelog entry with reference to public tracker
File size: 177.7 KB

Line
1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-xx-xx)</title>
5
6	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7	added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	<listitem>
16	<para>E1000: Fixed PXE boot issues with WDS; bug #6330</para>
17	</listitem>
18
19	<listitem>
20	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
21	supported for all platforms except Solaris; bug #7741</para>
22	</listitem>
23
24	</itemizedlist>
25
26	</sect1>
27
28	<sect1>
29	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
30
31	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
32	were added:</para>
33
34	<itemizedlist>
35
36	<listitem>
37	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
38	</listitem>
39
40	<listitem>
41	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
42	</listitem>
43
44	<listitem>
45	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
46	<itemizedlist>
47	<listitem>
48	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
49	</listitem>
50
51	<listitem>
52	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
53	</listitem>
54
55	<listitem>
56	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
57	</listitem>
58
59	<listitem>
60	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
61	</listitem>
62
63	<listitem>
64	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
65	states, and optionally including attached
66	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
67	can do the same now)</para>
68	</listitem>
69
70	<listitem>
71	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
72	</listitem>
73
74	</itemizedlist>
75	</para>
76	</listitem>
77
78	<listitem>
79	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
80	</listitem>
81
82	<listitem>
83	<para>New virtual hardware:
84	<itemizedlist>
85	<listitem>
86	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
87	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
88	</listitem>
89
90	<listitem>
91	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
92	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
93	</listitem>
94	</itemizedlist>
95	</para>
96	</listitem>
97
98	<listitem>
99	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
100	<itemizedlist>
101	<listitem>
102	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
103	</listitem>
104
105	<listitem>
106	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
107	</para>
108	</listitem>
109
110	<listitem>
111	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
112	now</para>
113	</listitem>
114
115	<listitem>
116	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
117	</listitem>
118
119	</itemizedlist>
120	</para>
121	</listitem>
122
123	<listitem>
124	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
125	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
126	</listitem>
127
128	<listitem>
129	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
130	Parallels images</para>
131	</listitem>
132
133	<listitem>
134	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
135	</listitem>
136
137	<listitem>
138	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
139	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
140	</listitem>
141
142	<listitem>
143	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
144	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
145	</listitem>
146
147	</itemizedlist>
148
149	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
150
151	<itemizedlist>
152
153	<listitem>
154	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
155	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
156	</listitem>
157
158	<listitem>
159	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
160	</listitem>
161
162	<listitem>
163	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
164	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
165	</listitem>
166
167	<listitem>
168	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
169	(bug #1657)</para>
170	</listitem>
171
172	<listitem>
173	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
174	</listitem>
175
176	<listitem>
177	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
178	</listitem>
179
180	<listitem>
181	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
182	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
187	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
188	</listitem>
189
190	<listitem>
191	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
192	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
193	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
194	</listitem>
195
196	<listitem>
197	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
198	again (bug #6864)</para>
199	</listitem>
200
201	<listitem>
202	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
203	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
204	</listitem>
205
206	<listitem>
207	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
208	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
209	</listitem>
210
211	<listitem>
212	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
213	</listitem>
214
215	<listitem>
216	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	<listitem>
220	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
221	</listitem>
222
223	<listitem>
224	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
225	</listitem>
226
227	<listitem>
228	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
229	</listitem>
230
231	<listitem>
232	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
233	</listitem>
234
235	<listitem>
236	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
237	</listitem>
238
239	<listitem>
240	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
241	(bug #7058)</para>
242	</listitem>
243
244	<listitem>
245	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
246	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
247	</listitem>
248
249	<listitem>
250	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
251	circumstances</para>
252	</listitem>
253
254	<listitem>
255	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
256	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
257	#5578)
258	</para>
259	</listitem>
260
261	<listitem>
262	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
263	</listitem>
264
265	<listitem>
266	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
267	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
268	</listitem>
269
270	<listitem>
271	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
272	</listitem>
273
274	<listitem>
275	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
276	#6760)</para>
277	</listitem>
278
279	<listitem>
280	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
281	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
282	</listitem>
283
284	<listitem>
285	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
286	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
287	</listitem>
288
289	<listitem>
290	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
291	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
292	</listitem>
293
294	<listitem>
295	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
296	</listitem>
297
298	<listitem>
299	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
300	file</para>
301	</listitem>
302
303	<listitem>
304	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
305	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
306	</listitem>
307
308	</itemizedlist>
309
310	</sect1>
311
312	<sect1>
313	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
314
315	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
316	added:</para>
317
318	<itemizedlist>
319
320	<listitem>
321	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
322	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
323	</listitem>
324
325	<listitem>
326	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
327	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
328	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
329	</listitem>
330
331	<listitem>
332	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
333	</listitem>
334
335	<listitem>
336	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
337	</listitem>
338
339	<listitem>
340	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
341	</listitem>
342
343	<listitem>
344	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
345	the VM is running</para>
346	</listitem>
347
348	<listitem>
349	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
350	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
351	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
352	starting from a saved state</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
357	</listitem>
358
359	<listitem>
360	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
361	</listitem>
362
363	<listitem>
364	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
365	</listitem>
366
367	<listitem>
368	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
369	</listitem>
370
371	<listitem>
372	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
373	</listitem>
374
375	<listitem>
376	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
377	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
382	fixes for Koran keyboards</para>
383	</listitem>
384
385	<listitem>
386	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
387	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
388	</listitem>
389
390	<listitem>
391	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
396	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
397	</para>
398	</listitem>
399
400	<listitem>
401	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
402	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
403	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
404	</listitem>
405
406	<listitem>
407	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
408	only)</para>
409	</listitem>
410
411	<listitem>
412	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
413	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
414	</listitem>
415
416	<listitem>
417	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
418	</listitem>
419
420	<listitem>
421	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
422	</listitem>
423
424	<listitem>
425	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
426	</listitem>
427
428	<listitem>
429	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
430	state (bug #4124)</para>
431	</listitem>
432
433	<listitem>
434	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
435	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
436	</listitem>
437
438	<listitem>
439	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
440	</listitem>
441
442	<listitem>
443	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
444	(bug #2996)</para>
445	</listitem>
446
447	<listitem>
448	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
449	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
450	</listitem>
451
452	<listitem>
453	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
454	</listitem>
455
456	<listitem>
457	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
458	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
459	</listitem>
460
461	<listitem>
462	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
463	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
464	</listitem>
465
466	<listitem>
467	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
468	user accounts for VM information</para>
469	</listitem>
470
471	</itemizedlist>
472
473	</sect1>
474
475	<sect1>
476	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
477
478	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
479	added:</para>
480
481	<itemizedlist>
482
483	<listitem>
484	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
485	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
486	</listitem>
487
488	<listitem>
489	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
490	</listitem>
491
492	<listitem>
493	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
494	</listitem>
495
496	<listitem>
497	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
498	</listitem>
499
500	<listitem>
501	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
502	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
503	</listitem>
504
505	<listitem>
506	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
507	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
508	</listitem>
509
510	<listitem>
511	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
512	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
513	</listitem>
514
515	<listitem>
516	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
517	(bug #4952)</para>
518	</listitem>
519
520	<listitem>
521	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
522	bug #6122)</para>
523	</listitem>
524
525	<listitem>
526	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
527	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
528	</listitem>
529
530	<listitem>
531	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
532	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
533	(Linux hosts only)</para>
534	</listitem>
535
536	<listitem>
537	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
538	</listitem>
539
540	<listitem>
541	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
542	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
547	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	<listitem>
551	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
552	canceled</para>
553	</listitem>
554
555	<listitem>
556	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
557	</listitem>
558
559	<listitem>
560	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
561	</listitem>
562
563	<listitem>
564	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
565	</listitem>
566
567	<listitem>
568	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
569	</listitem>
570
571	<listitem>
572	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
573	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
574	</listitem>
575
576	<listitem>
577	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
578	</listitem>
579
580	<listitem>
581	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
582	(Linux hosts only)</para>
583	</listitem>
584
585	<listitem>
586	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
587	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
588	</listitem>
589
590	<listitem>
591	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
596	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
601	</listitem>
602
603	<listitem>
604	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
605	circumstances</para>
606	</listitem>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
610	printers</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
615	</listitem>
616
617	<listitem>
618	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
619	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
620	</listitem>
621
622	<listitem>
623	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
624	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
625	</listitem>
626
627	<listitem>
628	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
629	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
630	circumstances</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
635	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
636	</listitem>
637
638	<listitem>
639	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
640	as supported extension</para>
641	</listitem>
642
643	<listitem>
644	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
645	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
646	</listitem>
647
648	<listitem>
649	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
650	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
651	</listitem>
652
653	<listitem>
654	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
655	</listitem>
656
657	<listitem>
658	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
659	(bug #7366)</para>
660	</listitem>
661
662	<listitem>
663	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
664	</listitem>
665
666	<listitem>
667	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
668	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
669	</listitem>
670
671	<listitem>
672	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
673	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
674	</listitem>
675
676	<listitem>
677	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
678	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
679	</listitem>
680
681	<listitem>
682	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
683	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
684	</listitem>
685
686	<listitem>
687	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
688	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
689	</listitem>
690
691	<listitem>
692	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
693	</listitem>
694
695	<listitem>
696	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
697	</listitem>
698
699	<listitem>
700	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
701	more than one environment variable</para>
702	</listitem>
703
704	<listitem>
705	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
706	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
707	</listitem>
708
709	<listitem>
710	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
711	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
712	</listitem>
713
714	<listitem>
715	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
716	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
717	</listitem>
718
719	<listitem>
720	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
721	enumerating logged in users</para>
722	</listitem>
723
724	<listitem>
725	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
726	</listitem>
727
728	<listitem>
729	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
730	</listitem>
731
732	<listitem>
733	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
734	</listitem>
735
736	<listitem>
737	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
738	in the event of a VM crash</para>
739	</listitem>
740
741	<listitem>
742	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
743	</listitem>
744
745	<listitem>
746	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
747	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
748	</listitem>
749
750	<listitem>
751	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
752	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
757	(bug #7448)</para>
758	</listitem>
759
760	<listitem>
761	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
766	</listitem>
767
768	<listitem>
769	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
770	</listitem>
771
772	</itemizedlist>
773
774	</sect1>
775
776	<sect1>
777	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
778
779	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
780	added:</para>
781
782	<itemizedlist>
783
784	<listitem>
785	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
786	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
787	</listitem>
788
789	<listitem>
790	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
795	bug #6809)</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
800	</listitem>
801
802	<listitem>
803	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
804	</listitem>
805
806	<listitem>
807	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
808	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
809	</listitem>
810
811	<listitem>
812	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
813	changes</para>
814	</listitem>
815
816	<listitem>
817	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
818	</listitem>
819
820	<listitem>
821	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
822	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
823	</listitem>
824
825	<listitem>
826	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
827	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
828	</listitem>
829
830	<listitem>
831	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
832	</listitem>
833
834	<listitem>
835	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
836	</listitem>
837
838	<listitem>
839	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
840	</listitem>
841
842	<listitem>
843	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
844	</listitem>
845
846	<listitem>
847	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
848	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
853	</listitem>
854
855	<listitem>
856	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
857	(bug #6832)</para>
858	</listitem>
859
860	<listitem>
861	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
862	guests</para>
863	</listitem>
864
865	<listitem>
866	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
867	</listitem>
868
869	<listitem>
870	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
871	without external tools and tricks</para>
872	</listitem>
873
874	<listitem>
875	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
876	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
877	</listitem>
878
879	<listitem>
880	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
881	</listitem>
882
883	<listitem>
884	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
885	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
886	</listitem>
887
888	<listitem>
889	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
890	shutdown</para>
891	</listitem>
892
893	<listitem>
894	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
895	fixes</para>
896	</listitem>
897
898	<listitem>
899	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
900	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
901	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
902	</para>
903	</listitem>
904
905	<listitem>
906	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
907	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
908	</listitem>
909
910	<listitem>
911	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
912	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
913	</listitem>
914
915	<listitem>
916	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
917	</para>
918	</listitem>
919
920	<listitem>
921	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
922	</listitem>
923
924	<listitem>
925	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
926	</listitem>
927
928	<listitem>
929	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
930	</listitem>
931
932	</itemizedlist>
933
934	</sect1>
935
936	<sect1>
937	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
938
939	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
940	added:</para>
941
942	<itemizedlist>
943
944	<listitem>
945	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
946	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
947	</listitem>
948
949	<listitem>
950	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
951	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
952	</listitem>
953
954	<listitem>
955	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
956	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
957	</listitem>
958
959	<listitem>
960	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
961	</listitem>
962
963	<listitem>
964	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
969	</listitem>
970
971	<listitem>
972	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
973	</listitem>
974
975	<listitem>
976	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
977	assigned</para>
978	</listitem>
979
980	<listitem>
981	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
982	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
983	</listitem>
984
985	<listitem>
986	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
987	multiple screens are enabled</para>
988	</listitem>
989
990	<listitem>
991	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
992	</listitem>
993
994	<listitem>
995	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
996	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
997	</listitem>
998
999	<listitem>
1000	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
1001	again (bug #7022).
1002	</para>
1003	</listitem>
1004
1005	<listitem>
1006	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
1007	(bug #6768)</para>
1008	</listitem>
1009
1010	<listitem>
1011	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
1012	(bug #6927)</para>
1013	</listitem>
1014
1015	<listitem>
1016	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
1017	bug #7031)</para>
1018	</listitem>
1019
1020	<listitem>
1021	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
1022	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
1023	</listitem>
1024
1025	<listitem>
1026	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1027	bug #6987)</para>
1028	</listitem>
1029
1030	<listitem>
1031	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
1032	</listitem>
1033
1034	<listitem>
1035	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
1036	</listitem>
1037
1038	<listitem>
1039	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
1040	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
1041	</listitem>
1042
1043	<listitem>
1044	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
1045	</listitem>
1046
1047	<listitem>
1048	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
1049	installation (bug #5101)</para>
1050	</listitem>
1051
1052	<listitem>
1053	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
1054	</listitem>
1055
1056	<listitem>
1057	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1058	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1059	bug #6872)</para>
1060	</listitem>
1061
1062	<listitem>
1063	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1064	</listitem>
1065
1066	<listitem>
1067	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1068	(performance tweak)</para>
1069	</listitem>
1070
1071	<listitem>
1072	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1073	is currently paused</para>
1074	</listitem>
1075
1076	<listitem>
1077	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1078	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1079	</listitem>
1080
1081	<listitem>
1082	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1083	</listitem>
1084
1085	<listitem>
1086	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1087	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1088	</listitem>
1089
1090	<listitem>
1091	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1092	not properly saved</para>
1093	</listitem>
1094
1095	<listitem>
1096	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1097	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1098	</listitem>
1099
1100	<listitem>
1101	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103
1104	<listitem>
1105	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1106	</listitem>
1107
1108	<listitem>
1109	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1110	</listitem>
1111
1112	<listitem>
1113	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1114	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1115	</listitem>
1116
1117	<listitem>
1118	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1119	</listitem>
1120
1121	<listitem>
1122	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1123	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1124	</listitem>
1125
1126	<listitem>
1127	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1128	(bug #5251)</para>
1129	</listitem>
1130
1131	<listitem>
1132	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1133	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1134	</listitem>
1135
1136	<listitem>
1137	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1138	</listitem>
1139
1140	<listitem>
1141	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1142	</listitem>
1143
1144	<listitem>
1145	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1146	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1147	</listitem>
1148
1149	<listitem>
1150	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1151	</listitem>
1152
1153	<listitem>
1154	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1155	</listitem>
1156
1157	<listitem>
1158	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	</itemizedlist>
1162	</sect1>
1163
1164	<sect1>
1165	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1166
1167	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1168	added:</para>
1169
1170	<itemizedlist>
1171
1172	<listitem>
1173	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1174	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1175	</listitem>
1176
1177	<listitem>
1178	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1183	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1188	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1189	</listitem>
1190
1191	<listitem>
1192	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1193	</listitem>
1194
1195	<listitem>
1196	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1197	again (bug #6864)</para>
1198	</listitem>
1199
1200	<listitem>
1201	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1202	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1207	</listitem>
1208
1209	<listitem>
1210	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1211	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1212	</listitem>
1213
1214	<listitem>
1215	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1216	</listitem>
1217
1218	</itemizedlist>
1219
1220	</sect1>
1221
1222	<sect1>
1223	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1224
1225	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1226	added:</para>
1227
1228	<itemizedlist>
1229
1230	<listitem>
1231	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1232	</listitem>
1233
1234	<listitem>
1235	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1236	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1237	</listitem>
1238
1239	<listitem>
1240	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1241	</listitem>
1242
1243	<listitem>
1244	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1245	state</para>
1246	</listitem>
1247
1248	<listitem>
1249	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1254	</listitem>
1255
1256	<listitem>
1257	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1258	</listitem>
1259
1260	<listitem>
1261	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1262	</listitem>
1263
1264	<listitem>
1265	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1266	</listitem>
1267
1268	<listitem>
1269	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1270	</listitem>
1271
1272	<listitem>
1273	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1278	</listitem>
1279
1280	<listitem>
1281	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1282	</listitem>
1283
1284	<listitem>
1285	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1286	</listitem>
1287
1288	<listitem>
1289	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1290	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1291	</listitem>
1292
1293	<listitem>
1294	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1295	(bug #6784)</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1300	</listitem>
1301
1302	<listitem>
1303	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1304	</listitem>
1305
1306	<listitem>
1307	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1308	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1309	</listitem>
1310
1311	<listitem>
1312	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1313	</listitem>
1314
1315	<listitem>
1316	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1317	</listitem>
1318
1319	<listitem>
1320	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1321	host only</para>
1322	</listitem>
1323
1324	<listitem>
1325	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1326	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1327	</listitem>
1328
1329	<listitem>
1330	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1331	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1332	</listitem>
1333
1334	<listitem>
1335	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1336	</listitem>
1337
1338	<listitem>
1339	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1340	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1341	</listitem>
1342
1343	<listitem>
1344	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1345	</listitem>
1346
1347	<listitem>
1348	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1349	</listitem>
1350
1351	<listitem>
1352	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1353	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1354	</listitem>
1355
1356	<listitem>
1357	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1358	</listitem>
1359
1360	<listitem>
1361	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1362	</listitem>
1363
1364	<listitem>
1365	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1366	</listitem>
1367
1368	<listitem>
1369	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1370	(bug #6714)</para>
1371	</listitem>
1372
1373	<listitem>
1374	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1375	</listitem>
1376
1377	<listitem>
1378	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1379	</listitem>
1380
1381	<listitem>
1382	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1383	</listitem>
1384
1385	<listitem>
1386	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1387	</listitem>
1388
1389	<listitem>
1390	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1391	</listitem>
1392
1393	</itemizedlist>
1394
1395	</sect1>
1396
1397	<sect1>
1398	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1399
1400	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1401	were added:</para>
1402
1403	<itemizedlist>
1404
1405	<listitem>
1406	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1407	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1408	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1409	</listitem>
1410
1411	<listitem>
1412	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1413	</listitem>
1414
1415	<listitem>
1416	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1417	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1418	</listitem>
1419
1420	<listitem>
1421	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1422	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1423	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1424	</listitem>
1425
1426	<listitem>
1427	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1428	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1429	</listitem>
1430
1431	<listitem>
1432	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1433	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1434	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1435	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1436	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1437	</listitem>
1438
1439	<listitem>
1440	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1441	</listitem>
1442
1443	<listitem>
1444	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1445	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1446	</listitem>
1447
1448	<listitem>
1449	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1450	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1451	</listitem>
1452
1453	<listitem>
1454	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1455	</listitem>
1456
1457	<listitem>
1458	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
1459	</listitem>
1460
1461	<listitem>
1462	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1463	</listitem>
1464
1465	<listitem>
1466	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1467	</listitem>
1468
1469	<listitem>
1470	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1471	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1472	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1473	</listitem>
1474
1475	<listitem>
1476	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1477	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1478	</listitem>
1479
1480	</itemizedlist>
1481
1482	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1483
1484	<itemizedlist>
1485
1486	<listitem>
1487	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1488	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1489	</listitem>
1490
1491	<listitem>
1492	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1497	VM</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1502	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1507	#1669)</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1512	#6442)</para>
1513	</listitem>
1514
1515	<listitem>
1516	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1517	combination (bug #684)</para>
1518	</listitem>
1519
1520	<listitem>
1521	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1522	the VM from the GUI</para>
1523	</listitem>
1524
1525	<listitem>
1526	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1527	medium is not accessible</para>
1528	</listitem>
1529
1530	<listitem>
1531	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1536	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1537	</listitem>
1538
1539	<listitem>
1540	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1541	#3106)</para>
1542	</listitem>
1543
1544	<listitem>
1545	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1546	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1547	it</para>
1548	</listitem>
1549
1550	<listitem>
1551	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1552	</listitem>
1553
1554	<listitem>
1555	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1556	</listitem>
1557
1558	<listitem>
1559	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1560	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1561	</listitem>
1562
1563	<listitem>
1564	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1565	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1566	</listitem>
1567
1568	<listitem>
1569	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1570	</listitem>
1571
1572	<listitem>
1573	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1574	</listitem>
1575
1576	<listitem>
1577	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1578	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1579	</listitem>
1580
1581	<listitem>
1582	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1583	</listitem>
1584
1585	<listitem>
1586	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1587	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1588	</listitem>
1589
1590	<listitem>
1591	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1592	</listitem>
1593
1594	<listitem>
1595	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1596	in VirtualBox</para>
1597	</listitem>
1598
1599	<listitem>
1600	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1601	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1602	</listitem>
1603
1604	<listitem>
1605	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1606	VirtualBox</para>
1607	</listitem>
1608
1609	<listitem>
1610	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1611	</listitem>
1612
1613	<listitem>
1614	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1615	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1616	</listitem>
1617
1618	</itemizedlist>
1619	</sect1>
1620
1621	<sect1>
1622	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1623
1624	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1625	added:</para>
1626
1627	<itemizedlist>
1628
1629	<listitem>
1630	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1631	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1632	</listitem>
1633
1634	<listitem>
1635	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1636	</listitem>
1637
1638	<listitem>
1639	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1640	</listitem>
1641
1642	<listitem>
1643	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1644	only) </para>
1645	</listitem>
1646
1647	<listitem>
1648	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1649	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1650	</listitem>
1651
1652	<listitem>
1653	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1654	interface version</para>
1655	</listitem>
1656
1657	<listitem>
1658	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1659	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1660	slot empty</para>
1661	</listitem>
1662
1663	<listitem>
1664	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1665	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1666	(bug #4220)</para>
1667	</listitem>
1668
1669	<listitem>
1670	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1671	</listitem>
1672
1673	<listitem>
1674	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1675	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1676	</listitem>
1677
1678	<listitem>
1679	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1680	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1681	</listitem>
1682
1683	<listitem>
1684	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1685	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1686	</listitem>
1687
1688	<listitem>
1689	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1690	attached</para>
1691	</listitem>
1692
1693	<listitem>
1694	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1695	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1696	</listitem>
1697
1698	<listitem>
1699	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1700	</listitem>
1701
1702	<listitem>
1703	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1704	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1705	</listitem>
1706
1707	<listitem>
1708	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1709	is bug #6408)</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711
1712	<listitem>
1713	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1714	</listitem>
1715
1716	<listitem>
1717	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1718	fail to initialize</para>
1719	</listitem>
1720
1721	<listitem>
1722	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1723	</listitem>
1724
1725	<listitem>
1726	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1727	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1728	</listitem>
1729
1730	<listitem>
1731	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1732	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1733	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1734	</listitem>
1735
1736	<listitem>
1737	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1738	</listitem>
1739
1740	<listitem>
1741	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1742	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1743	</listitem>
1744
1745	<listitem>
1746	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1747	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1748	</listitem>
1749
1750	<listitem>
1751	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1752	(bug #6435)</para>
1753	</listitem>
1754
1755	<listitem>
1756	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1757	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
1758	</listitem>
1759
1760	<listitem>
1761	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
1762	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
1763	(bug #6488)</para>
1764	</listitem>
1765
1766	<listitem>
1767	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
1768	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
1769	</listitem>
1770
1771	<listitem>
1772	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1773	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1774	</listitem>
1775
1776	<listitem>
1777	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
1778	#5227)</para>
1779	</listitem>
1780
1781	<listitem>
1782	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
1783	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
1784	</listitem>
1785
1786	<listitem>
1787	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
1788	</listitem>
1789
1790	<listitem>
1791	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
1792	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
1793	</listitem>
1794
1795	</itemizedlist>
1796	</sect1>
1797
1798	<sect1>
1799	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
1800
1801	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1802	added:</para>
1803
1804	<itemizedlist>
1805
1806	<listitem>
1807	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
1808	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
1809	</listitem>
1810
1811	<listitem>
1812	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
1813	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
1814	</listitem>
1815
1816	<listitem>
1817	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
1818	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
1819	</listitem>
1820
1821	<listitem>
1822	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
1823	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
1824	</listitem>
1825
1826	<listitem>
1827	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
1828	</listitem>
1829
1830	<listitem>
1831	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
1832	</listitem>
1833
1834	<listitem>
1835	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
1836	</listitem>
1837
1838	<listitem>
1839	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
1840	</listitem>
1841
1842	<listitem>
1843	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
1844	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
1849	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
1854	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
1855	</listitem>
1856
1857	<listitem>
1858	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
1859	</listitem>
1860
1861	<listitem>
1862	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
1863	</listitem>
1864
1865	<listitem>
1866	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
1867	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1868	</listitem>
1869
1870	<listitem>
1871	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
1872	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
1873	calls (bug #6165)</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
1878	(bug #5297)</para>
1879	</listitem>
1880
1881	<listitem>
1882	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
1883	(bug #4962)</para>
1884	</listitem>
1885
1886	<listitem>
1887	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
1888	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
1889	</listitem>
1890
1891	<listitem>
1892	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
1893	(bug #6176)</para>
1894	</listitem>
1895
1896	<listitem>
1897	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
1898	certain circumstances</para>
1899	</listitem>
1900
1901	<listitem>
1902	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
1903	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
1904	</listitem>
1905
1906	<listitem>
1907	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
1908	</listitem>
1909
1910	<listitem>
1911	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
1912	</listitem>
1913
1914	<listitem>
1915	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
1916	(bug #3571)</para>
1917	</listitem>
1918
1919	<listitem>
1920	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
1921	devices</para>
1922	</listitem>
1923
1924	<listitem>
1925	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
1926	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
1927	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
1928	</listitem>
1929
1930	<listitem>
1931	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
1932	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
1933	</listitem>
1934
1935	<listitem>
1936	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
1937	</listitem>
1938
1939	<listitem>
1940	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
1941	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
1946	response</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
1955	</listitem>
1956
1957	<listitem>
1958	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
1959	</listitem>
1960
1961	<listitem>
1962	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
1963	</listitem>
1964
1965	<listitem>
1966	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
1967	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
1968	</listitem>
1969
1970	<listitem>
1971	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
1972	</listitem>
1973
1974	<listitem>
1975	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
1976	</listitem>
1977
1978	<listitem>
1979	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
1980	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
1981	</listitem>
1982
1983	<listitem>
1984	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
1985	</listitem>
1986
1987	<listitem>
1988	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
1989	</listitem>
1990
1991	<listitem>
1992	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
1993	</listitem>
1994
1995	<listitem>
1996	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	</itemizedlist>
2000	</sect1>
2001
2002	<sect1>
2003	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
2004
2005	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2006	added:</para>
2007
2008	<itemizedlist>
2009
2010	<listitem>
2011	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
2012	</listitem>
2013
2014	<listitem>
2015	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
2020	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
2025	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
2026	</listitem>
2027
2028	<listitem>
2029	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
2030	(bug #3945)</para>
2031	</listitem>
2032
2033	<listitem>
2034	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
2035	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
2036	</listitem>
2037
2038	<listitem>
2039	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
2040	and AMD-V only) </para>
2041	</listitem>
2042
2043	<listitem>
2044	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
2045	</listitem>
2046
2047	<listitem>
2048	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
2049	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
2050	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
2051	</listitem>
2052
2053	<listitem>
2054	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
2055	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
2056	</listitem>
2057
2058	<listitem>
2059	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2060	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2061	</listitem>
2062
2063	<listitem>
2064	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2065	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2066	</listitem>
2067
2068	<listitem>
2069	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2070	snapshots command</para>
2071	</listitem>
2072
2073	<listitem>
2074	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2075	</listitem>
2076
2077	<listitem>
2078	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2079	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2080	</listitem>
2081
2082	<listitem>
2083	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2084	</listitem>
2085
2086	<listitem>
2087	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2088	</listitem>
2089
2090	<listitem>
2091	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2092	</listitem>
2093
2094	<listitem>
2095	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2096	(KWin bug)</para>
2097	</listitem>
2098
2099	<listitem>
2100	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2101	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2102	</listitem>
2103
2104	<listitem>
2105	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2106	</listitem>
2107
2108	<listitem>
2109	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2110	</listitem>
2111
2112	<listitem>
2113	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2114	</listitem>
2115
2116	<listitem>
2117	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2118	</listitem>
2119
2120	<listitem>
2121	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2122	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2123	</listitem>
2124
2125	<listitem>
2126	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2127	bug #5787)</para>
2128	</listitem>
2129
2130	<listitem>
2131	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2132	DHCP requests</para>
2133	</listitem>
2134
2135	<listitem>
2136	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2137	(bug #3217)</para>
2138	</listitem>
2139
2140	<listitem>
2141	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2142	range (bug #5923)</para>
2143	</listitem>
2144
2145	<listitem>
2146	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2147	</listitem>
2148
2149	<listitem>
2150	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2151	</listitem>
2152
2153	<listitem>
2154	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2155	</listitem>
2156
2157	<listitem>
2158	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2159	</listitem>
2160
2161	<listitem>
2162	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2163	file (bug #5681)</para>
2164	</listitem>
2165
2166	<listitem>
2167	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2168	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2169	</listitem>
2170
2171	<listitem>
2172	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2173	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2174	</listitem>
2175
2176	<listitem>
2177	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2178	regression)</para>
2179	</listitem>
2180
2181	<listitem>
2182	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2183	</listitem>
2184
2185	<listitem>
2186	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2191	</listitem>
2192
2193	<listitem>
2194	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2195	</listitem>
2196
2197	<listitem>
2198	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2199	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2200	</listitem>
2201
2202	<listitem>
2203	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2204	</listitem>
2205
2206	<listitem>
2207	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2208	</listitem>
2209
2210	<listitem>
2211	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2212	</listitem>
2213
2214	<listitem>
2215	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2216	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2221	</listitem>
2222
2223	<listitem>
2224	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2225	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2226	</listitem>
2227
2228	<listitem>
2229	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2230	</listitem>
2231
2232	<listitem>
2233	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2234	</listitem>
2235
2236	<listitem>
2237	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2238	</listitem>
2239
2240	<listitem>
2241	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2242	(bug #5731)</para>
2243	</listitem>
2244
2245	<listitem>
2246	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2247	again</para>
2248	</listitem>
2249
2250	</itemizedlist>
2251
2252	</sect1>
2253
2254	<sect1>
2255	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2256
2257	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2258	added:</para>
2259
2260	<itemizedlist>
2261
2262	<listitem>
2263	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2264	</listitem>
2265
2266	<listitem>
2267	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2268	</listitem>
2269
2270	<listitem>
2271	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2272	</listitem>
2273
2274	<listitem>
2275	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2276	</listitem>
2277
2278	<listitem>
2279	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2280	</listitem>
2281
2282	<listitem>
2283	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2284	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2285	</listitem>
2286
2287	<listitem>
2288	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2289	</listitem>
2290
2291	<listitem>
2292	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2293	</listitem>
2294
2295	<listitem>
2296	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2297	</listitem>
2298
2299	<listitem>
2300	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2301	</listitem>
2302
2303	<listitem>
2304	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2305	</listitem>
2306
2307	<listitem>
2308	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2309	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2310	</listitem>
2311
2312	<listitem>
2313	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2314	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2315	</listitem>
2316
2317	<listitem>
2318	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2319	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2320	#1762)</para>
2321	</listitem>
2322
2323	<listitem>
2324	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2325	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2326	</listitem>
2327
2328	<listitem>
2329	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2330	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2331	</listitem>
2332
2333	<listitem>
2334	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2335	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2336	</listitem>
2337
2338	<listitem>
2339	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2344	</listitem>
2345
2346	<listitem>
2347	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2348	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2349	</listitem>
2350
2351	<listitem>
2352	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2353	</listitem>
2354
2355	<listitem>
2356	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2357	</listitem>
2358
2359	<listitem>
2360	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2361	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2362	</listitem>
2363
2364	<listitem>
2365	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2366	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2367	</listitem>
2368
2369	<listitem>
2370	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2371	</listitem>
2372
2373	<listitem>
2374	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2375	guests</para>
2376	</listitem>
2377
2378	<listitem>
2379	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2380	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2381	</listitem>
2382
2383	<listitem>
2384	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2385	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2386	</listitem>
2387
2388	<listitem>
2389	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2390	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2391	</listitem>
2392
2393	<listitem>
2394	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2395	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2396	</listitem>
2397
2398	<listitem>
2399	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2400	</listitem>
2401
2402	<listitem>
2403	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2404	</listitem>
2405
2406	<listitem>
2407	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2408	</listitem>
2409
2410	<listitem>
2411	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2416	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2417	</listitem>
2418
2419	<listitem>
2420	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	</itemizedlist>
2424
2425	</sect1>
2426
2427	<sect1>
2428	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2429
2430	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2431	were added:</para>
2432
2433	<itemizedlist>
2434
2435	<listitem>
2436	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2437	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2438	</listitem>
2439
2440	<listitem>
2441	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2442	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2443	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2444	</listitem>
2445
2446	<listitem>
2447	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2448	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2449	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2454	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2455	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2456	</listitem>
2457
2458	<listitem>
2459	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2460	running</para>
2461	</listitem>
2462
2463	<listitem>
2464	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2465	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2466	</listitem>
2467
2468	<listitem>
2469	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2470	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2471	</listitem>
2472
2473	<listitem>
2474	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2475	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2480	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2481	</listitem>
2482
2483	</itemizedlist>
2484
2485	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2486
2487	<itemizedlist>
2488
2489	<listitem>
2490	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2491	</listitem>
2492
2493	<listitem>
2494	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2495	</listitem>
2496
2497	<listitem>
2498	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2499	</listitem>
2500
2501	<listitem>
2502	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2503	(bug #5291)</para>
2504	</listitem>
2505
2506	<listitem>
2507	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2508	</listitem>
2509
2510	<listitem>
2511	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2516	</listitem>
2517
2518	<listitem>
2519	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2520	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2521	</listitem>
2522
2523	<listitem>
2524	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2525	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2526	</listitem>
2527
2528	<listitem>
2529	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2530	</listitem>
2531
2532	<listitem>
2533	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2534	</listitem>
2535
2536	<listitem>
2537	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2538	</listitem>
2539
2540	<listitem>
2541	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2542	</listitem>
2543
2544	<listitem>
2545	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2546	</listitem>
2547
2548	<listitem>
2549	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2550	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2551	</listitem>
2552
2553	<listitem>
2554	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2555	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2556	</listitem>
2557
2558	<listitem>
2559	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2560	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2561	</listitem>
2562
2563	<listitem>
2564	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2565	(bug #2723)</para>
2566	</listitem>
2567
2568	<listitem>
2569	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2570	</listitem>
2571
2572	<listitem>
2573	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2574	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2575	</listitem>
2576
2577	<listitem>
2578	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2579	optional manifest file on import</para>
2580	</listitem>
2581
2582	<listitem>
2583	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2584	</listitem>
2585
2586	<listitem>
2587	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2588	(bug #3773)</para>
2589	</listitem>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2593	</listitem>
2594
2595	<listitem>
2596	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2597	</listitem>
2598
2599	<listitem>
2600	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2601	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2602	</listitem>
2603
2604	<listitem>
2605	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2606	(bug #4866)</para>
2607	</listitem>
2608
2609	<listitem>
2610	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2611	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2616	certain conditions</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2621	</listitem>
2622
2623	<listitem>
2624	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2625	</listitem>
2626
2627	<listitem>
2628	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2629	</listitem>
2630
2631	<listitem>
2632	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2633	</listitem>
2634
2635	<listitem>
2636	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2637	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2638	</listitem>
2639
2640	<listitem>
2641	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2642	</listitem>
2643
2644	<listitem>
2645	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2646	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2647	</listitem>
2648
2649	<listitem>
2650	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2655	</listitem>
2656
2657	<listitem>
2658	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2659	</listitem>
2660
2661	<listitem>
2662	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2663	</listitem>
2664
2665	<listitem>
2666	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2667	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2668	</listitem>
2669
2670	<listitem>
2671	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2672	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2673	(bug #928)</para>
2674	</listitem>
2675
2676	<listitem>
2677	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2678	</listitem>
2679
2680	</itemizedlist>
2681
2682	</sect1>
2683
2684	<sect1>
2685	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2686
2687	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2688	added:</para>
2689
2690	<itemizedlist>
2691
2692	<listitem>
2693	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2694	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2695	</listitem>
2696
2697	<listitem>
2698	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2699	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2700	</listitem>
2701
2702	<listitem>
2703	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2704	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2705	</listitem>
2706
2707	<listitem>
2708	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2709	enabled</para>
2710	</listitem>
2711
2712	<listitem>
2713	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2714	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2715	</listitem>
2716
2717	<listitem>
2718	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2719	(bug #2676)</para>
2720	</listitem>
2721
2722	<listitem>
2723	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2724	is connected to a raw file</para>
2725	</listitem>
2726
2727	<listitem>
2728	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2729	(bug #5355)</para>
2730	</listitem>
2731
2732	<listitem>
2733	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2734	</listitem>
2735
2736	<listitem>
2737	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2738	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2739	</listitem>
2740
2741	<listitem>
2742	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2743	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2744	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2745	</listitem>
2746
2747	<listitem>
2748	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2749	</listitem>
2750
2751	<listitem>
2752	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2753	</listitem>
2754
2755	<listitem>
2756	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2757	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
2758	</listitem>
2759
2760	<listitem>
2761	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
2762	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
2763	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
2764	</listitem>
2765
2766	</itemizedlist>
2767
2768	</sect1>
2769
2770	<sect1>
2771	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
2772
2773	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2774	added:</para>
2775
2776	<itemizedlist>
2777
2778	<listitem>
2779	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
2780	</listitem>
2781
2782	<listitem>
2783	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
2784	</listitem>
2785
2786	<listitem>
2787	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
2788	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
2789	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
2790	</listitem>
2791
2792	<listitem>
2793	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
2794	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
2795	</listitem>
2796
2797	<listitem>
2798	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
2799	</listitem>
2800
2801	<listitem>
2802	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
2803	</listitem>
2804
2805	<listitem>
2806	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
2807	</listitem>
2808
2809	<listitem>
2810	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
2811	</listitem>
2812
2813	<listitem>
2814	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
2815	</listitem>
2816
2817	<listitem>
2818	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
2819	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
2820	</listitem>
2821
2822	<listitem>
2823	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
2824	</listitem>
2825
2826	<listitem>
2827	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
2828	</listitem>
2829
2830	<listitem>
2831	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
2832	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
2833	</listitem>
2834
2835	<listitem>
2836	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
2841	exhaustion</para>
2842	</listitem>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
2846	</listitem>
2847
2848	<listitem>
2849	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
2850	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
2851	</listitem>
2852
2853	<listitem>
2854	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
2855	folders (bug #4106)</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
2860	folders (bug #4299)</para>
2861	</listitem>
2862
2863	<listitem>
2864	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
2865	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
2866	(bug #2921)</para>
2867	</listitem>
2868
2869	<listitem>
2870	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
2871	hosts only)</para>
2872	</listitem>
2873
2874	<listitem>
2875	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
2876	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
2877	</listitem>
2878
2879	<listitem>
2880	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
2881	</listitem>
2882
2883	<listitem>
2884	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
2885	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2886	</listitem>
2887
2888	<listitem>
2889	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
2890	</listitem>
2891
2892	<listitem>
2893	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
2894	image inconsistency </para>
2895	</listitem>
2896
2897	<listitem>
2898	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
2899	</listitem>
2900
2901	<listitem>
2902	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
2903	</listitem>
2904
2905	<listitem>
2906	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
2907	(bug #2025)</para>
2908	</listitem>
2909
2910	<listitem>
2911	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
2912	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
2913	</listitem>
2914
2915	</itemizedlist>
2916
2917	</sect1>
2918
2919	<sect1>
2920	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
2921
2922	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2923	added:</para>
2924
2925	<itemizedlist>
2926
2927	<listitem>
2928	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
2929	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
2930	</listitem>
2931
2932	<listitem>
2933	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
2934	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
2935	</listitem>
2936
2937	<listitem>
2938	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
2939	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
2940	</listitem>
2941
2942	<listitem>
2943	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
2944	</listitem>
2945
2946	<listitem>
2947	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
2948	software virtualization only) </para>
2949	</listitem>
2950
2951	<listitem>
2952	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
2953	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
2954	</listitem>
2955
2956	<listitem>
2957	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
2958	with root privileges</para>
2959	</listitem>
2960
2961	<listitem>
2962	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
2963	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
2964	</listitem>
2965
2966	<listitem>
2967	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
2968	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
2969	</listitem>
2970
2971	<listitem>
2972	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
2973	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
2974	</listitem>
2975
2976	<listitem>
2977	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
2978	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
2979	selector (bug #5063)</para>
2980	</listitem>
2981
2982	<listitem>
2983	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
2984	available</para>
2985	</listitem>
2986
2987	<listitem>
2988	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
2989	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
2990	</listitem>
2991
2992	<listitem>
2993	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
2994	networking (bug #4775)</para>
2995	</listitem>
2996
2997	<listitem>
2998	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
2999	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
3000	</listitem>
3001
3002	<listitem>
3003	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
3004	(bug #4907)</para>
3005	</listitem>
3006
3007	<listitem>
3008	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
3009	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
3010	</listitem>
3011
3012	<listitem>
3013	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
3014	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
3015	</listitem>
3016
3017	<listitem>
3018	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
3019	</listitem>
3020
3021	<listitem>
3022	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
3023	</listitem>
3024
3025	<listitem>
3026	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
3027	</listitem>
3028
3029	<listitem>
3030	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
3035	are installed</para>
3036	</listitem>
3037
3038	<listitem>
3039	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
3040	(bug #4771)</para>
3041	</listitem>
3042
3043	<listitem>
3044	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	<listitem>
3048	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
3049	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
3050	</listitem>
3051
3052	<listitem>
3053	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
3054	command</para>
3055	</listitem>
3056
3057	<listitem>
3058	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3059	</listitem>
3060
3061	<listitem>
3062	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3063	</listitem>
3064
3065	<listitem>
3066	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3067	(bug #5089)</para>
3068	</listitem>
3069
3070	<listitem>
3071	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3072	</listitem>
3073
3074	</itemizedlist>
3075
3076	</sect1>
3077
3078	<sect1>
3079	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3080
3081	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3082	added:</para>
3083
3084	<itemizedlist>
3085
3086	<listitem>
3087	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3088	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3089	</listitem>
3090
3091	<listitem>
3092	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3093	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3094	</listitem>
3095
3096	<listitem>
3097	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3098	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3099	</listitem>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3103	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3108	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3109	</listitem>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3113	</listitem>
3114
3115	<listitem>
3116	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3117	</listitem>
3118
3119	<listitem>
3120	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3121	</listitem>
3122
3123	<listitem>
3124	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3125	</listitem>
3126
3127	<listitem>
3128	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3129	</listitem>
3130
3131	<listitem>
3132	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3133	onlined or offlined</para>
3134	</listitem>
3135
3136	<listitem>
3137	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3138	</listitem>
3139
3140	<listitem>
3141	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3142	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3143	</listitem>
3144
3145	<listitem>
3146	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3147	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3148	</listitem>
3149
3150	<listitem>
3151	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3152	</listitem>
3153
3154	<listitem>
3155	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3156	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3157	</listitem>
3158
3159	<listitem>
3160	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3161	</listitem>
3162
3163	<listitem>
3164	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3165	</listitem>
3166
3167	<listitem>
3168	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3169	</listitem>
3170
3171	<listitem>
3172	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3173	</listitem>
3174
3175	<listitem>
3176	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3177	</listitem>
3178
3179	<listitem>
3180	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3181	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3182	</listitem>
3183
3184	<listitem>
3185	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3190	</listitem>
3191
3192	<listitem>
3193	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3194	</listitem>
3195
3196	<listitem>
3197	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3198	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3199	</listitem>
3200
3201	<listitem>
3202	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3203	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3204	</listitem>
3205
3206	<listitem>
3207	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3208	</listitem>
3209
3210	<listitem>
3211	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3212	</listitem>
3213
3214	<listitem>
3215	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3216	</listitem>
3217
3218	<listitem>
3219	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3220	</listitem>
3221
3222	<listitem>
3223	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3224	</listitem>
3225
3226	<listitem>
3227	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3228	</listitem>
3229
3230	<listitem>
3231	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3232	</listitem>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3236	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3237	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3238	phase collapse</para>
3239	</listitem>
3240
3241	<listitem>
3242	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3243	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3244	</listitem>
3245
3246	<listitem>
3247	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3248	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3249	</listitem>
3250
3251	<listitem>
3252	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3253	</listitem>
3254
3255	<listitem>
3256	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3257	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3258	</listitem>
3259
3260	<listitem>
3261	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3262	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3263	</listitem>
3264
3265	<listitem>
3266	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3267	</listitem>
3268
3269	<listitem>
3270	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3271	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3272	#4698, #4790)</para>
3273	</listitem>
3274
3275	<listitem>
3276	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3277	less than the configured range</para>
3278	</listitem>
3279
3280	<listitem>
3281	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3282	</listitem>
3283
3284	<listitem>
3285	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3286	</listitem>
3287
3288	<listitem>
3289	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3290	</listitem>
3291
3292	<listitem>
3293	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3294	</listitem>
3295
3296	<listitem>
3297	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3298	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3299	</listitem>
3300
3301	<listitem>
3302	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3303	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3304	</listitem>
3305
3306	<listitem>
3307	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3308	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3309	</listitem>
3310
3311	<listitem>
3312	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3313	</listitem>
3314
3315	<listitem>
3316	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3317	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3318	</listitem>
3319
3320	<listitem>
3321	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3322	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3323	</listitem>
3324
3325	<listitem>
3326	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3327	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3328	</listitem>
3329
3330	<listitem>
3331	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3332	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3333	</listitem>
3334
3335	<listitem>
3336	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3337	</listitem>
3338
3339	<listitem>
3340	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3341	</listitem>
3342
3343	</itemizedlist>
3344
3345	</sect1>
3346
3347	<sect1>
3348	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3349
3350	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3351	added:</para>
3352
3353	<itemizedlist>
3354
3355	<listitem>
3356	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3357	</listitem>
3358
3359	<listitem>
3360	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3361	</listitem>
3362
3363	<listitem>
3364	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3365	</listitem>
3366
3367	<listitem>
3368	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3369	</listitem>
3370
3371	<listitem>
3372	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3373	</listitem>
3374
3375	<listitem>
3376	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3377	</listitem>
3378
3379	<listitem>
3380	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3381	</listitem>
3382
3383	<listitem>
3384	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3393	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3402	</listitem>
3403
3404	<listitem>
3405	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3406	</listitem>
3407
3408	<listitem>
3409	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3410	</listitem>
3411
3412	<listitem>
3413	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3414	</listitem>
3415
3416	<listitem>
3417	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3422	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3423	</listitem>
3424
3425	<listitem>
3426	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3427	(bug #4654)</para>
3428	</listitem>
3429
3430	<listitem>
3431	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3432	</listitem>
3433
3434	<listitem>
3435	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3436	interfaces</para>
3437	</listitem>
3438
3439	<listitem>
3440	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3441	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3442	</listitem>
3443
3444	<listitem>
3445	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3446	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3447	</listitem>
3448
3449	<listitem>
3450	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3451	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3452	</listitem>
3453
3454	<listitem>
3455	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3456	(bug #1461)</para>
3457	</listitem>
3458
3459	<listitem>
3460	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3461	</listitem>
3462
3463	<listitem>
3464	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3465	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3466	</listitem>
3467
3468	<listitem>
3469	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3470	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3471	</listitem>
3472
3473	<listitem>
3474	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3475	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3476	</listitem>
3477
3478	<listitem>
3479	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3480	</listitem>
3481
3482	<listitem>
3483	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3484	</listitem>
3485
3486	<listitem>
3487	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3488	</listitem>
3489
3490	<listitem>
3491	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3492	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3493	</listitem>
3494
3495	<listitem>
3496	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3497	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3498	</listitem>
3499
3500	<listitem>
3501	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3502	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3503	</listitem>
3504
3505	<listitem>
3506	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3507	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3508	</listitem>
3509
3510	</itemizedlist>
3511
3512	</sect1>
3513	<sect1>
3514	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3515
3516	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3517	added:</para>
3518
3519	<itemizedlist>
3520
3521	<listitem>
3522	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3523	</listitem>
3524
3525	<listitem>
3526	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3527	</listitem>
3528
3529	<listitem>
3530	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3531	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3532	</listitem>
3533
3534	<listitem>
3535	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3536	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3537	</listitem>
3538
3539	<listitem>
3540	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3541	</listitem>
3542
3543	<listitem>
3544	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3545	</listitem>
3546
3547	<listitem>
3548	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3549	</listitem>
3550
3551	<listitem>
3552	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3553	</listitem>
3554
3555	<listitem>
3556	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3557	</listitem>
3558
3559	<listitem>
3560	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3561	</listitem>
3562
3563	<listitem>
3564	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3577	</listitem>
3578
3579	<listitem>
3580	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3581	</listitem>
3582
3583	<listitem>
3584	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3585	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3586	</listitem>
3587
3588	<listitem>
3589	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3590	</listitem>
3591
3592	<listitem>
3593	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3594	</listitem>
3595
3596	<listitem>
3597	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3598	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3599	</listitem>
3600
3601	<listitem>
3602	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3603	</listitem>
3604
3605	<listitem>
3606	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3607	</listitem>
3608
3609	<listitem>
3610	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3611	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3612	</listitem>
3613
3614	<listitem>
3615	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3616	</listitem>
3617
3618	<listitem>
3619	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3620	</listitem>
3621
3622	<listitem>
3623	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3624	</listitem>
3625
3626	<listitem>
3627	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3628	</listitem>
3629
3630	<listitem>
3631	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<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>
3636	</listitem>
3637
3638	</itemizedlist>
3639
3640	</sect1>
3641
3642	<sect1>
3643	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3644
3645	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3646	were added:</para>
3647
3648	<itemizedlist>
3649
3650	<listitem>
3651	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3652	</listitem>
3653
3654	<listitem>
3655	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3656	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3657	</listitem>
3658
3659	<listitem>
3660	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3661	</listitem>
3662
3663	</itemizedlist>
3664
3665	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3666
3667	<itemizedlist>
3668
3669	<listitem>
3670	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3671	</listitem>
3672
3673	<listitem>
3674	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3675	certain conditions</para>
3676	</listitem>
3677
3678	<listitem>
3679	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3680	</listitem>
3681
3682	<listitem>
3683	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3684	</listitem>
3685
3686	<listitem>
3687	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3688	</listitem>
3689
3690	<listitem>
3691	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3692	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3701	</listitem>
3702
3703	<listitem>
3704	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3705	</listitem>
3706
3707	<listitem>
3708	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3709	</listitem>
3710
3711	<listitem>
3712	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3713	</listitem>
3714
3715	<listitem>
3716	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3717	</listitem>
3718
3719	<listitem>
3720	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3721	</listitem>
3722
3723	<listitem>
3724	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3725	</listitem>
3726
3727	<listitem>
3728	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3729	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3730	</listitem>
3731
3732	<listitem>
3733	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3734	</listitem>
3735
3736	<listitem>
3737	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3738	</listitem>
3739
3740	<listitem>
3741	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3746	</listitem>
3747
3748	<listitem>
3749	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3750	</listitem>
3751
3752	<listitem>
3753	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3754	</listitem>
3755
3756	<listitem>
3757	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
3758	</listitem>
3759
3760	<listitem>
3761	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
3762	</listitem>
3763
3764	<listitem>
3765	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
3766	</listitem>
3767
3768	<listitem>
3769	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
3770	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
3771	</listitem>
3772
3773	<listitem>
3774	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
3775	</listitem>
3776
3777	<listitem>
3778	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
3779	</listitem>
3780
3781	<listitem>
3782	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
3783	</listitem>
3784
3785	<listitem>
3786	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
3791	</listitem>
3792
3793	<listitem>
3794	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
3795	</listitem>
3796
3797	<listitem>
3798	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
3799	</listitem>
3800
3801	<listitem>
3802	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
3803	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
3804	</listitem>
3805
3806	<listitem>
3807	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
3808	</listitem>
3809
3810	<listitem>
3811	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
3812	</listitem>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
3816	</listitem>
3817
3818	<listitem>
3819	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
3820	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
3821	</listitem>
3822
3823	<listitem>
3824	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
3825	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
3826	</listitem>
3827
3828	<listitem>
3829	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
3830	correct file mode when creating files</para>
3831	</listitem>
3832
3833	<listitem>
3834	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
3835	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
3836	</listitem>
3837
3838	<listitem>
3839	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
3840	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
3841	</listitem>
3842
3843	<listitem>
3844	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
3845	</listitem>
3846
3847	<listitem>
3848	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
3853	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
3854	</listitem>
3855
3856	<listitem>
3857	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
3858	guest property lookup</para>
3859	</listitem>
3860
3861	<listitem>
3862	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
3863	basic network information)</para>
3864	</listitem>
3865
3866	<listitem>
3867	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
3868	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
3869	</listitem>
3870
3871	<listitem>
3872	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
3873	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
3874	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
3875	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
3876	</listitem>
3877
3878	<listitem>
3879	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
3880	</listitem>
3881
3882	<listitem>
3883	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
3884	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
3885	web service</para>
3886	</listitem>
3887
3888	<listitem>
3889	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
3890	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
3891	</listitem>
3892
3893	<listitem>
3894	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
3895	unavailable</para>
3896	</listitem>
3897
3898	<listitem>
3899	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
3900	</listitem>
3901
3902	</itemizedlist>
3903	</sect1>
3904
3905	<sect1>
3906	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
3907
3908	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3909	added:</para>
3910
3911	<itemizedlist>
3912
3913	<listitem>
3914	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
3915	installation</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	<listitem>
3919	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
3920	</listitem>
3921
3922	<listitem>
3923	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
3924	later (bug #3981)</para>
3925	</listitem>
3926
3927	<listitem>
3928	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
3929	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
3930	</listitem>
3931
3932	<listitem>
3933	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
3934	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
3935	(bug #4034)
3936	</para>
3937	</listitem>
3938
3939	<listitem>
3940	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
3941	networking</para>
3942	</listitem>
3943
3944	<listitem>
3945	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
3946	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
3947	</listitem>
3948
3949	<listitem>
3950	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
3951	clicks</para>
3952	</listitem>
3953
3954	<listitem>
3955	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
3956	Windows 7 guests</para>
3957	</listitem>
3958
3959	<listitem>
3960	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
3961	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
3962	</listitem>
3963
3964	<listitem>
3965	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
3966	</listitem>
3967
3968	<listitem>
3969	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
3970	</listitem>
3971
3972	<listitem>
3973	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
3974	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
3975	</listitem>
3976
3977	<listitem>
3978	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
3979	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	<listitem>
3983	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
3984	</listitem>
3985
3986	<listitem>
3987	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
3988	</listitem>
3989
3990	<listitem>
3991	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
3992	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
3993	(bug #3864)</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
3998	now flushes the output stream</para>
3999	</listitem>
4000
4001	<listitem>
4002	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
4003	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
4004	</listitem>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
4008	</listitem>
4009
4010	<listitem>
4011	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
4012	</listitem>
4013
4014	<listitem>
4015	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
4016	</listitem>
4017
4018	<listitem>
4019	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
4020	</listitem>
4021
4022	<listitem>
4023	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
4024	(bug #3964)</para>
4025	</listitem>
4026
4027	<listitem>
4028	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
4029	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
4030	</listitem>
4031
4032	<listitem>
4033	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
4034	hosts</para>
4035	</listitem>
4036
4037	<listitem>
4038	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
4039	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
4040	e1000 adapter</para>
4041	</listitem>
4042
4043	<listitem>
4044	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
4045	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
4046	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
4047	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
4048	</listitem>
4049
4050	<listitem>
4051	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
4052	</listitem>
4053
4054	<listitem>
4055	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
4056	</listitem>
4057
4058	<listitem>
4059	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4060	</listitem>
4061
4062	<listitem>
4063	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4064	file (bug #1023)</para>
4065	</listitem>
4066
4067	<listitem>
4068	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4069	</listitem>
4070
4071	<listitem>
4072	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	</itemizedlist>
4076	</sect1>
4077
4078	<sect1>
4079	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4080
4081	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4082	added:</para>
4083
4084	<itemizedlist>
4085
4086	<listitem>
4087	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4088	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4089	</listitem>
4090
4091	<listitem>
4092	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4093	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4094	and later</para>
4095	</listitem>
4096
4097	<listitem>
4098	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4099	running services</para>
4100	</listitem>
4101
4102	<listitem>
4103	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4104	terminates</para>
4105	</listitem>
4106
4107	<listitem>
4108	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4109	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4110	</listitem>
4111
4112	<listitem>
4113	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4114	installed on the guest</para>
4115	</listitem>
4116
4117	<listitem>
4118	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4119	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4120	</listitem>
4121
4122	<listitem>
4123	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4124	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4125	</listitem>
4126
4127	<listitem>
4128	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4129	(bug #2628)</para>
4130	</listitem>
4131
4132	<listitem>
4133	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4134	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4135	</listitem>
4136
4137	<listitem>
4138	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4139	(bug #3657)</para>
4140	</listitem>
4141
4142	<listitem>
4143	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4144	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4145	</listitem>
4146
4147	<listitem>
4148	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4149	virtualization only)
4150	</para>
4151	</listitem>
4152
4153	<listitem>
4154	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4155	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4156	</listitem>
4157
4158	<listitem>
4159	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4160	</listitem>
4161
4162	<listitem>
4163	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4164	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4165	</listitem>
4166
4167	<listitem>
4168	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4169	bug #3689)</para>
4170	</listitem>
4171
4172	<listitem>
4173	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4174	bug #3679)</para>
4175	</listitem>
4176
4177	<listitem>
4178	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4179	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4180	</listitem>
4181
4182	<listitem>
4183	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4184	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4185	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4186	</listitem>
4187
4188	<listitem>
4189	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4190	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4191	</listitem>
4192
4193	<listitem>
4194	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4195	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4196	</listitem>
4197
4198	<listitem>
4199	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4200	(bug #3667)</para>
4201	</listitem>
4202
4203	<listitem>
4204	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4205	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4206	</listitem>
4207
4208	<listitem>
4209	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4210	</listitem>
4211
4212	<listitem>
4213	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4214	</listitem>
4215
4216	<listitem>
4217	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4218	</listitem>
4219
4220	<listitem>
4221	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4222	</listitem>
4223
4224	<listitem>
4225	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4226	</listitem>
4227
4228	<listitem>
4229	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4230	</listitem>
4231
4232	<listitem>
4233	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4234	</listitem>
4235
4236	</itemizedlist>
4237	</sect1>
4238
4239	<sect1>
4240	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4241
4242	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4243	were added:</para>
4244
4245	<itemizedlist>
4246
4247	<listitem>
4248	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4249	</listitem>
4250
4251	<listitem>
4252	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4253	</listitem>
4254
4255	<listitem>
4256	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4257	</listitem>
4258
4259	<listitem>
4260	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4261	</listitem>
4262
4263	<listitem>
4264	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4265	</listitem>
4266
4267	<listitem>
4268	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4269	</listitem>
4270
4271	<listitem>
4272	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4273	</listitem>
4274
4275	<listitem>
4276	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4277	</listitem>
4278
4279	<listitem>
4280	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	</itemizedlist>
4288
4289	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4290
4291	<itemizedlist>
4292
4293	<listitem>
4294	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4295	</listitem>
4296
4297	<listitem>
4298	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4299	</listitem>
4300
4301	<listitem>
4302	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4307	</listitem>
4308
4309	<listitem>
4310	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4311	</listitem>
4312
4313	<listitem>
4314	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4315	</listitem>
4316
4317	<listitem>
4318	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4319	</listitem>
4320
4321	<listitem>
4322	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4323	</listitem>
4324
4325	<listitem>
4326	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4327	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4328	</listitem>
4329
4330	<listitem>
4331	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4332	</listitem>
4333
4334	<listitem>
4335	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4336	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4337	</listitem>
4338
4339	<listitem>
4340	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4341	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	<listitem>
4345	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4354	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4355	</listitem>
4356
4357	<listitem>
4358	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4359	</listitem>
4360
4361	<listitem>
4362	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4363	ESX server images)</para>
4364	</listitem>
4365
4366	<listitem>
4367	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4368	writable</para>
4369	</listitem>
4370
4371	<listitem>
4372	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4373	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4374	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4375	</listitem>
4376
4377	<listitem>
4378	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4379	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4380	</listitem>
4381
4382	<listitem>
4383	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4384	</listitem>
4385
4386	<listitem>
4387	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4388	</listitem>
4389
4390	<listitem>
4391	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4392	hosts when creating files</para>
4393	</listitem>
4394
4395	<listitem>
4396	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4397	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4398	</listitem>
4399
4400	<listitem>
4401	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4402	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4403	#2306)</para>
4404	</listitem>
4405
4406	<listitem>
4407	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4408	(bug #3555)</para>
4409	</listitem>
4410
4411	<listitem>
4412	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4413	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4414	</listitem>
4415
4416	<listitem>
4417	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4418	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4419	</listitem>
4420
4421	<listitem>
4422	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4423	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4424	</listitem>
4425
4426	<listitem>
4427	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4428	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4429	</listitem>
4430
4431	<listitem>
4432	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4433	(bug #3586)</para>
4434	</listitem>
4435
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4438	from Scratch systems</para>
4439	</listitem>
4440
4441	<listitem>
4442	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4443	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4444	</listitem>
4445
4446	<listitem>
4447	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4448	</listitem>
4449
4450	<listitem>
4451	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4452	default to compact format</para>
4453	</listitem>
4454
4455	<listitem>
4456	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4457	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4458	</listitem>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4462	</listitem>
4463
4464	<listitem>
4465	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4466	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4467	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4472	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4473	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4474	</listitem>
4475
4476	<listitem>
4477	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4478	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4479	</listitem>
4480
4481	<listitem>
4482	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4483	</listitem>
4484
4485	<listitem>
4486	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4487	</listitem>
4488
4489	<listitem>
4490	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4491	</listitem>
4492
4493	<listitem>
4494	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4495	</listitem>
4496
4497	<listitem>
4498	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4499	</listitem>
4500
4501	<listitem>
4502	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	<listitem>
4506	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4507	</listitem>
4508
4509	<listitem>
4510	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4511	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4512	</listitem>
4513
4514	<listitem>
4515	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4516	</listitem>
4517
4518	<listitem>
4519	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4520	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4521	</listitem>
4522
4523	<listitem>
4524	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4525	</listitem>
4526
4527	<listitem>
4528	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4529	</listitem>
4530
4531	<listitem>
4532	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4533	</listitem>
4534
4535	<listitem>
4536	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4537	#2536)</para>
4538	</listitem>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4542	</listitem>
4543
4544	<listitem>
4545	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4546	(bug #3548)</para>
4547	</listitem>
4548
4549	</itemizedlist>
4550	</sect1>
4551
4552	<sect1>
4553	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4554
4555	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4556	added:</para>
4557
4558	<itemizedlist>
4559
4560	<listitem>
4561	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4562	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4563	</listitem>
4564
4565	<listitem>
4566	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4567	</listitem>
4568
4569	<listitem>
4570	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4571	</listitem>
4572
4573	<listitem>
4574	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4575	</listitem>
4576
4577	<listitem>
4578	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4579	(bug #3115)</para>
4580	</listitem>
4581
4582	<listitem>
4583	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4584	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4585	</listitem>
4586
4587	<listitem>
4588	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4589	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4590	(bug #3215)</para>
4591	</listitem>
4592
4593	<listitem>
4594	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4595	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4596	</listitem>
4597
4598	<listitem>
4599	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4600	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4601	</listitem>
4602
4603	<listitem>
4604	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4605	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4606	</listitem>
4607
4608	<listitem>
4609	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4610	in parallel</para>
4611	</listitem>
4612
4613	<listitem>
4614	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4615	</listitem>
4616
4617	<listitem>
4618	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4619	</listitem>
4620
4621	<listitem>
4622	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4623	</listitem>
4624
4625	<listitem>
4626	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4627	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4632	</listitem>
4633
4634	<listitem>
4635	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4636	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4637	</listitem>
4638
4639	<listitem>
4640	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4641	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4642	</listitem>
4643
4644	<listitem>
4645	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4646	</listitem>
4647
4648	<listitem>
4649	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4650	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4651	</listitem>
4652
4653	<listitem>
4654	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4655	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4656	</listitem>
4657
4658	<listitem>
4659	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4660	</listitem>
4661
4662	<listitem>
4663	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4664	</listitem>
4665
4666	<listitem>
4667	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4668	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4669	</listitem>
4670
4671	<listitem>
4672	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4673	</listitem>
4674
4675	<listitem>
4676	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4677	</listitem>
4678
4679	<listitem>
4680	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4681	</listitem>
4682
4683	<listitem>
4684	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4685	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4686	</listitem>
4687
4688	<listitem>
4689	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4690	</listitem>
4691
4692	<listitem>
4693	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4694	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4695	</listitem>
4696
4697	<listitem>
4698	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4699	</listitem>
4700
4701	<listitem>
4702	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4703	</listitem>
4704
4705	<listitem>
4706	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4707	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4708	</listitem>
4709
4710	<listitem>
4711	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4712	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4713	</listitem>
4714
4715	<listitem>
4716	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4717	</listitem>
4718
4719	<listitem>
4720	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4721	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4722	</listitem>
4723
4724	<listitem>
4725	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4726	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4727	</listitem>
4728
4729	<listitem>
4730	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4731	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4736	(bug #3213)</para>
4737	</listitem>
4738
4739	<listitem>
4740	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4741	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4742	</listitem>
4743
4744	<listitem>
4745	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4746	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4747	</listitem>
4748
4749	</itemizedlist>
4750	</sect1>
4751
4752	<sect1>
4753	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4754
4755	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4756	added:</para>
4757
4758	<itemizedlist>
4759
4760	<listitem>
4761	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
4762	</listitem>
4763
4764	<listitem>
4765	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
4766	</listitem>
4767
4768	<listitem>
4769	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
4774	</listitem>
4775
4776	<listitem>
4777	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
4778	</listitem>
4779
4780	<listitem>
4781	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
4782	</listitem>
4783
4784	<listitem>
4785	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
4786	</listitem>
4787
4788	<listitem>
4789	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
4794	</listitem>
4795
4796	<listitem>
4797	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
4798	</listitem>
4799
4800	<listitem>
4801	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
4802	</listitem>
4803
4804	<listitem>
4805	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
4806	</listitem>
4807
4808	<listitem>
4809	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
4810	</listitem>
4811
4812	<listitem>
4813	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
4814	</listitem>
4815
4816	<listitem>
4817	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
4818	</listitem>
4819
4820	<listitem>
4821	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
4826	(bug #3067)</para>
4827	</listitem>
4828
4829	<listitem>
4830	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
4831	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
4832	</listitem>
4833
4834	<listitem>
4835	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
4836	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
4837	</listitem>
4838
4839	<listitem>
4840	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
4841	</listitem>
4842
4843	<listitem>
4844	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
4845	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
4846	</listitem>
4847
4848	<listitem>
4849	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
4850	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4851	</listitem>
4852
4853	<listitem>
4854	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
4855	</listitem>
4856
4857	<listitem>
4858	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
4859	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
4860	</listitem>
4861
4862	<listitem>
4863	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
4864	</listitem>
4865
4866	<listitem>
4867	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
4868	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
4869	</listitem>
4870
4871	<listitem>
4872	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
4873	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
4878	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
4879	</para>
4880	</listitem>
4881
4882	<listitem>
4883	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
4884	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
4885	</para>
4886	</listitem>
4887
4888	<listitem>
4889	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
4890	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
4891	</para>
4892	</listitem>
4893
4894	<listitem>
4895	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
4896	</listitem>
4897
4898	<listitem>
4899	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
4900	</listitem>
4901
4902	<listitem>
4903	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
4904	</listitem>
4905
4906	<listitem>
4907	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
4908	</listitem>
4909
4910	<listitem>
4911	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
4912	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
4913	</listitem>
4914
4915	<listitem>
4916	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
4917	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
4918	</listitem>
4919
4920	<listitem>
4921	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
4922	formatting a drive</para>
4923	</listitem>
4924
4925	<listitem>
4926	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
4927	</listitem>
4928
4929	<listitem>
4930	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
4931	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
4932	</listitem>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
4936	</listitem>
4937
4938	<listitem>
4939	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4944	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
4945	</listitem>
4946
4947	<listitem>
4948	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
4949	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
4950	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
4951	</listitem>
4952
4953	<listitem>
4954	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
4955	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
4956	</listitem>
4957
4958	<listitem>
4959	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
4960	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
4961	</listitem>
4962
4963	<listitem>
4964	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
4965	(bug #2768)</para>
4966	</listitem>
4967
4968	<listitem>
4969	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
4970	</listitem>
4971
4972	<listitem>
4973	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
4974	</listitem>
4975
4976	<listitem>
4977	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
4978	single, unified package</para>
4979	</listitem>
4980
4981	<listitem>
4982	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
4983	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
4984	</listitem>
4985
4986	<listitem>
4987	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
4988	</listitem>
4989
4990	<listitem>
4991	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
4992	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
4993	</listitem>
4994
4995	<listitem>
4996	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
4997	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
4998	</listitem>
4999
5000	<listitem>
5001	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
5002	</listitem>
5003
5004	<listitem>
5005	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
5006	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
5007	doing 3D</para>
5008	</listitem>
5009
5010	<listitem>
5011	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
5012	</listitem>
5013
5014	<listitem>
5015	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
5016	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
5017	</listitem>
5018
5019	<listitem>
5020	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
5021	</listitem>
5022
5023	<listitem>
5024	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
5025	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
5026	</listitem>
5027
5028	<listitem>
5029	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
5030	</listitem>
5031
5032	<listitem>
5033	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
5034	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
5035	</listitem>
5036
5037	<listitem>
5038	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
5039	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
5040	(bug #2938)</para>
5041	</listitem>
5042
5043	<listitem>
5044	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
5045	Linux guests</para>
5046	</listitem>
5047
5048	<listitem>
5049	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
5050	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
5051	(bug #1776)</para>
5052	</listitem>
5053
5054	<listitem>
5055	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
5056	(bug #1612)</para>
5057	</listitem>
5058
5059	<listitem>
5060	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5061	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5062	</listitem>
5063
5064	<listitem>
5065	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5066	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5067	</listitem>
5068
5069	<listitem>
5070	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5071	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5072	</listitem>
5073
5074	</itemizedlist>
5075	</sect1>
5076
5077	<sect1>
5078	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5079
5080	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5081	were added:</para>
5082
5083	<itemizedlist>
5084	<listitem>
5085	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5086	</listitem>
5087
5088	<listitem>
5089	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5090	</listitem>
5091
5092	<listitem>
5093	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5094	</listitem>
5095
5096	<listitem>
5097	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5098	</listitem>
5099
5100	<listitem>
5101	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5102	</listitem>
5103
5104	<listitem>
5105	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5106	</listitem>
5107
5108	<listitem>
5109	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5110	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5111	</listitem>
5112
5113	<listitem>
5114	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5115	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5116	</listitem>
5117
5118	</itemizedlist>
5119
5120	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5121
5122	<itemizedlist>
5123	<listitem>
5124	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5125	</listitem>
5126
5127	<listitem>
5128	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5129	</listitem>
5130
5131	<listitem>
5132	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5133	</listitem>
5134
5135	<listitem>
5136	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5137	</listitem>
5138
5139	<listitem>
5140	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5141	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5142	</listitem>
5143
5144	<listitem>
5145	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5146	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5147	</listitem>
5148
5149	<listitem>
5150	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5151	</listitem>
5152
5153	<listitem>
5154	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5155	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5156	</listitem>
5157
5158	<listitem>
5159	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5160	</listitem>
5161
5162	<listitem>
5163	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5164	</listitem>
5165
5166	<listitem>
5167	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5168	</listitem>
5169
5170	<listitem>
5171	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5172	</listitem>
5173
5174	<listitem>
5175	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5176	</listitem>
5177
5178	<listitem>
5179	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5180	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5181	</listitem>
5182
5183	<listitem>
5184	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5185	the compiz window manager</para>
5186	</listitem>
5187
5188	<listitem>
5189	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5190	</listitem>
5191
5192	<listitem>
5193	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5194	</listitem>
5195
5196	<listitem>
5197	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5198	</listitem>
5199
5200	<listitem>
5201	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5202	</listitem>
5203
5204	<listitem>
5205	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5206	</listitem>
5207
5208	<listitem>
5209	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5210	</listitem>
5211
5212	<listitem>
5213	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5214	</listitem>
5215
5216	<listitem>
5217	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5218	</listitem>
5219
5220	<listitem>
5221	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5222	</listitem>
5223
5224	<listitem>
5225	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5226	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5227	</listitem>
5228
5229	<listitem>
5230	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5231	for direct device access</para>
5232	</listitem>
5233
5234	<listitem>
5235	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5236	</listitem>
5237
5238	<listitem>
5239	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5240	</listitem>
5241
5242	<listitem>
5243	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5244	</listitem>
5245
5246	<listitem>
5247	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5248	</listitem>
5249
5250	<listitem>
5251	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5252	</listitem>
5253
5254	<listitem>
5255	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5260	</listitem>
5261
5262	<listitem>
5263	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5264	</listitem>
5265
5266	</itemizedlist>
5267	</sect1>
5268
5269	<sect1>
5270	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5271
5272	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5273	added:</para>
5274
5275	<itemizedlist>
5276
5277	<listitem>
5278	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5279	states/snapshots</para>
5280	</listitem>
5281
5282	<listitem>
5283	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5284	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5285	</listitem>
5286
5287	<listitem>
5288	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5289	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5294	collisions</para>
5295	</listitem>
5296
5297	<listitem>
5298	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5299	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5300	</listitem>
5301
5302	<listitem>
5303	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5304	</listitem>
5305
5306	<listitem>
5307	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5308	reliably</para>
5309	</listitem>
5310
5311	<listitem>
5312	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5313	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5314	</listitem>
5315
5316	<listitem>
5317	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5318	a reboot</para>
5319	</listitem>
5320
5321	<listitem>
5322	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5323	</listitem>
5324
5325	<listitem>
5326	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5327	in parallel</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5336	correctly</para>
5337	</listitem>
5338
5339	<listitem>
5340	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5341	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5342	</listitem>
5343
5344	</itemizedlist>
5345	</sect1>
5346
5347	<sect1>
5348	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5349
5350	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5351	added:</para>
5352
5353	<itemizedlist>
5354
5355	<listitem>
5356	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5357	(bug #2220)</para>
5358	</listitem>
5359
5360	<listitem>
5361	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5362	</listitem>
5363
5364	<listitem>
5365	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5366	</listitem>
5367
5368	<listitem>
5369	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5370	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5371	</listitem>
5372
5373	<listitem>
5374	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5375	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5376	</listitem>
5377
5378	<listitem>
5379	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5380	(bug #2624)</para>
5381	</listitem>
5382
5383	<listitem>
5384	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5385	(bug #2024)</para>
5386	</listitem>
5387
5388	<listitem>
5389	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5390	</listitem>
5391
5392	<listitem>
5393	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5394	</listitem>
5395
5396	<listitem>
5397	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5398	</listitem>
5399
5400	<listitem>
5401	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5402	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5403	</listitem>
5404
5405	<listitem>
5406	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5407	applications when updating the installation</para>
5408	</listitem>
5409
5410	<listitem>
5411	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5412	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5413	</listitem>
5414
5415	<listitem>
5416	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5417	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5418	</listitem>
5419
5420	<listitem>
5421	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5422	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5423	</listitem>
5424
5425	<listitem>
5426	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5427	connected to a host device</para>
5428	</listitem>
5429
5430	<listitem>
5431	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5432	</listitem>
5433
5434	<listitem>
5435	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5436	</listitem>
5437
5438	<listitem>
5439	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5440	</listitem>
5441
5442	<listitem>
5443	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5444	when using native RDP connections</para>
5445	</listitem>
5446
5447	<listitem>
5448	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5449	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5450	</listitem>
5451
5452	<listitem>
5453	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5454	(bug #2591)</para>
5455	</listitem>
5456
5457	<listitem>
5458	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5459	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5460	</listitem>
5461
5462	<listitem>
5463	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	</itemizedlist>
5467	</sect1>
5468
5469	<sect1>
5470	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5471
5472	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5473	added:</para>
5474
5475	<itemizedlist>
5476	<listitem>
5477	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5482	</listitem>
5483
5484	<listitem>
5485	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5486	</listitem>
5487
5488	<listitem>
5489	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5490	</listitem>
5491
5492	<listitem>
5493	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5494	</listitem>
5495
5496	<listitem>
5497	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5498	</listitem>
5499
5500	<listitem>
5501	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5502	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5503	</listitem>
5504
5505	<listitem>
5506	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5507	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5508	</listitem>
5509
5510	<listitem>
5511	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5512	</listitem>
5513
5514	<listitem>
5515	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5516	equal to the client resolution</para>
5517	</listitem>
5518
5519	<listitem>
5520	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5521	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5522	</listitem>
5523
5524	<listitem>
5525	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5526	</listitem>
5527
5528	<listitem>
5529	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5530	</listitem>
5531
5532	<listitem>
5533	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5534	</listitem>
5535
5536	<listitem>
5537	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5538	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5539	</listitem>
5540
5541	<listitem>
5542	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5543	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5544	</listitem>
5545
5546	<listitem>
5547	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5548	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5549	</listitem>
5550
5551	<listitem>
5552	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5553	</listitem>
5554
5555	<listitem>
5556	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5557	</listitem>
5558
5559	<listitem>
5560	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5561	</listitem>
5562
5563	<listitem>
5564	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5565	</listitem>
5566
5567	<listitem>
5568	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5569	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5570	</listitem>
5571
5572	<listitem>
5573	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5574	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5575	</listitem>
5576
5577	<listitem>
5578	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5579	</listitem>
5580
5581	<listitem>
5582	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5583	</listitem>
5584
5585	<listitem>
5586	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5587	</listitem>
5588
5589	</itemizedlist>
5590
5591	</sect1>
5592
5593	<sect1>
5594	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5595
5596	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5597	added:</para>
5598
5599	<itemizedlist>
5600
5601	<listitem>
5602	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5603	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5604	</listitem>
5605
5606	<listitem>
5607	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5608	</listitem>
5609
5610	<listitem>
5611	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5612	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5613	</listitem>
5614
5615	<listitem>
5616	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5617	</listitem>
5618
5619	<listitem>
5620	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5621	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5622	</listitem>
5623
5624	<listitem>
5625	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5626	</listitem>
5627
5628	<listitem>
5629	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5630	the virtual disk manager</para>
5631	</listitem>
5632
5633	<listitem>
5634	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5635	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5636	</listitem>
5637
5638	<listitem>
5639	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5640	</listitem>
5641
5642	<listitem>
5643	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5644	</listitem>
5645
5646	<listitem>
5647	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5648	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5649	</listitem>
5650
5651	<listitem>
5652	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5653	bug #2067)</para>
5654	</listitem>
5655
5656	<listitem>
5657	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5658	</listitem>
5659
5660	<listitem>
5661	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5662	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5663	</listitem>
5664
5665	<listitem>
5666	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5667	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5668	(bug #2184)</para>
5669	</listitem>
5670
5671	<listitem>
5672	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5673	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5678	(Windows guests only)</para>
5679	</listitem>
5680
5681	<listitem>
5682	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5683	</listitem>
5684
5685	<listitem>
5686	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5687	</listitem>
5688
5689	<listitem>
5690	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5691	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5692	</listitem>
5693
5694	<listitem>
5695	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5696	</listitem>
5697
5698	<listitem>
5699	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5700	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5701	</para>
5702	</listitem>
5703
5704	<listitem>
5705	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5706	</listitem>
5707
5708	<listitem>
5709	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5710	</listitem>
5711
5712	<listitem>
5713	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5714	a VM reboot</para>
5715	</listitem>
5716
5717	<listitem>
5718	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5719	</listitem>
5720
5721	<listitem>
5722	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5723	buggy X servers</para>
5724	</listitem>
5725
5726	<listitem>
5727	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5728	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5729	</listitem>
5730
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5733	</listitem>
5734
5735	<listitem>
5736	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5737	(bug #2128)</para>
5738	</listitem>
5739
5740	<listitem>
5741	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5742	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5743	</listitem>
5744
5745	<listitem>
5746	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5747	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5748	</listitem>
5749
5750	<listitem>
5751	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5752	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5753	</listitem>
5754
5755	<listitem>
5756	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5757	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
5758	</listitem>
5759
5760	<listitem>
5761	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
5762	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	<listitem>
5766	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
5767	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
5768	</listitem>
5769
5770	<listitem>
5771	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
5772	installer into a single package</para>
5773	</listitem>
5774
5775	<listitem>
5776	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
5777	port to the guest
5778	</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	</itemizedlist>
5782
5783	</sect1>
5784
5785	<sect1>
5786	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
5787
5788	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5789	were added:<itemizedlist>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
5793	</listitem>
5794
5795	<listitem>
5796	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5797	</listitem>
5798
5799	<listitem>
5800	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
5801	</listitem>
5802
5803	<listitem>
5804	<para>New-version notifier</para>
5805	</listitem>
5806
5807	<listitem>
5808	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
5809	</listitem>
5810
5811	<listitem>
5812	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5813	</listitem>
5814
5815	<listitem>
5816	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
5817	</listitem>
5818
5819	<listitem>
5820	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
5821	</listitem>
5822
5823	<listitem>
5824	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
5825	</listitem>
5826
5827	<listitem>
5828	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
5829	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
5830	</listitem>
5831
5832	<listitem>
5833	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
5834	</listitem>
5835
5836	<listitem>
5837	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
5842	</listitem>
5843
5844	</itemizedlist></para>
5845
5846	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5847
5848	<itemizedlist>
5849
5850	<listitem>
5851	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
5852	</listitem>
5853
5854	<listitem>
5855	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
5856	</listitem>
5857
5858	<listitem>
5859	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
5860	</listitem>
5861
5862	<listitem>
5863	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
5864	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
5865	</listitem>
5866
5867	<listitem>
5868	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
5869	restored</para>
5870	</listitem>
5871
5872	<listitem>
5873	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
5874	</listitem>
5875
5876	<listitem>
5877	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
5878	</listitem>
5879
5880	<listitem>
5881	<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>
5882	</listitem>
5883
5884	</itemizedlist>
5885
5886	</sect1>
5887
5888

Note: See TracBrowser for help on using the repository browser.

source: vbox/trunk/doc/manual/user_ChangeLogImpl.xml@ 35320

Download in other formats: