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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	<listitem>
25	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
26	host-only interface</para>
27	</listitem>
28
29	<listitem>
30	<para>Storage: Fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots and async I/O</para>
31	</listitem>
32
33	<listitem>
34	<para>Bridged networking: Fixed host kernel panic when bridging
35	to devices with no TX queue (Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
36	</listitem>
37
38	<listitem>
39	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
40	guests</para>
41	</listitem>
42
43	<listitem>
44	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
45	logging string</para>
46	</listitem>
47
48	<listitem>
49	<para>Settings: fixed loading of removeable drives to which a host drive was attached</para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	</itemizedlist>
53
54	</sect1>
55
56	<sect1>
57	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
58
59	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
60	were added:</para>
61
62	<itemizedlist>
63
64	<listitem>
65	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
66	</listitem>
67
68	<listitem>
69	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
70	</listitem>
71
72	<listitem>
73	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
74	<itemizedlist>
75	<listitem>
76	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
77	</listitem>
78
79	<listitem>
80	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
81	</listitem>
82
83	<listitem>
84	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
85	</listitem>
86
87	<listitem>
88	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
89	</listitem>
90
91	<listitem>
92	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
93	states, and optionally including attached
94	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
95	can do the same now)</para>
96	</listitem>
97
98	<listitem>
99	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
100	</listitem>
101
102	</itemizedlist>
103	</para>
104	</listitem>
105
106	<listitem>
107	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
108	</listitem>
109
110	<listitem>
111	<para>New virtual hardware:
112	<itemizedlist>
113	<listitem>
114	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
115	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
116	</listitem>
117
118	<listitem>
119	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
120	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
121	</listitem>
122	</itemizedlist>
123	</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
128	<itemizedlist>
129	<listitem>
130	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
131	</listitem>
132
133	<listitem>
134	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
135	</para>
136	</listitem>
137
138	<listitem>
139	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
140	now</para>
141	</listitem>
142
143	<listitem>
144	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
145	</listitem>
146
147	</itemizedlist>
148	</para>
149	</listitem>
150
151	<listitem>
152	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
153	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
154	</listitem>
155
156	<listitem>
157	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
158	Parallels images</para>
159	</listitem>
160
161	<listitem>
162	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
163	</listitem>
164
165	<listitem>
166	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
167	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
168	</listitem>
169
170	<listitem>
171	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
172	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
173	</listitem>
174
175	</itemizedlist>
176
177	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
178
179	<itemizedlist>
180
181	<listitem>
182	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
183	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
184	</listitem>
185
186	<listitem>
187	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
188	</listitem>
189
190	<listitem>
191	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
192	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
193	</listitem>
194
195	<listitem>
196	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
197	(bug #1657)</para>
198	</listitem>
199
200	<listitem>
201	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
202	</listitem>
203
204	<listitem>
205	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
206	</listitem>
207
208	<listitem>
209	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
210	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
211	</listitem>
212
213	<listitem>
214	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
215	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
216	</listitem>
217
218	<listitem>
219	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
220	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
221	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
226	again (bug #6864)</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
231	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
232	</listitem>
233
234	<listitem>
235	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
236	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
237	</listitem>
238
239	<listitem>
240	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
241	</listitem>
242
243	<listitem>
244	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
245	</listitem>
246
247	<listitem>
248	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
249	</listitem>
250
251	<listitem>
252	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
253	</listitem>
254
255	<listitem>
256	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
257	</listitem>
258
259	<listitem>
260	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
261	</listitem>
262
263	<listitem>
264	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
265	</listitem>
266
267	<listitem>
268	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
269	(bug #7058)</para>
270	</listitem>
271
272	<listitem>
273	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
274	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
275	</listitem>
276
277	<listitem>
278	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
279	circumstances</para>
280	</listitem>
281
282	<listitem>
283	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
284	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
285	#5578)
286	</para>
287	</listitem>
288
289	<listitem>
290	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
291	</listitem>
292
293	<listitem>
294	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
295	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
296	</listitem>
297
298	<listitem>
299	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
300	</listitem>
301
302	<listitem>
303	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
304	#6760)</para>
305	</listitem>
306
307	<listitem>
308	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
309	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
310	</listitem>
311
312	<listitem>
313	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
314	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
315	</listitem>
316
317	<listitem>
318	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
319	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
320	</listitem>
321
322	<listitem>
323	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
324	</listitem>
325
326	<listitem>
327	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
328	file</para>
329	</listitem>
330
331	<listitem>
332	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
333	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
334	</listitem>
335
336	</itemizedlist>
337
338	</sect1>
339
340	<sect1>
341	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
342
343	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
344	added:</para>
345
346	<itemizedlist>
347
348	<listitem>
349	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
350	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
351	</listitem>
352
353	<listitem>
354	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
355	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
356	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
357	</listitem>
358
359	<listitem>
360	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
361	</listitem>
362
363	<listitem>
364	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
365	</listitem>
366
367	<listitem>
368	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
369	</listitem>
370
371	<listitem>
372	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
373	the VM is running</para>
374	</listitem>
375
376	<listitem>
377	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
378	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
379	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
380	starting from a saved state</para>
381	</listitem>
382
383	<listitem>
384	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
385	</listitem>
386
387	<listitem>
388	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
389	</listitem>
390
391	<listitem>
392	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
393	</listitem>
394
395	<listitem>
396	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
397	</listitem>
398
399	<listitem>
400	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
401	</listitem>
402
403	<listitem>
404	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
405	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
406	</listitem>
407
408	<listitem>
409	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
410	fixes for Koran keyboards</para>
411	</listitem>
412
413	<listitem>
414	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
415	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
416	</listitem>
417
418	<listitem>
419	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
424	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
425	</para>
426	</listitem>
427
428	<listitem>
429	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
430	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
431	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
436	only)</para>
437	</listitem>
438
439	<listitem>
440	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
441	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
442	</listitem>
443
444	<listitem>
445	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
446	</listitem>
447
448	<listitem>
449	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
450	</listitem>
451
452	<listitem>
453	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
454	</listitem>
455
456	<listitem>
457	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
458	state (bug #4124)</para>
459	</listitem>
460
461	<listitem>
462	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
463	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
464	</listitem>
465
466	<listitem>
467	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
468	</listitem>
469
470	<listitem>
471	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
472	(bug #2996)</para>
473	</listitem>
474
475	<listitem>
476	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
477	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
478	</listitem>
479
480	<listitem>
481	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
482	</listitem>
483
484	<listitem>
485	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
486	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
487	</listitem>
488
489	<listitem>
490	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
491	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
492	</listitem>
493
494	<listitem>
495	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
496	user accounts for VM information</para>
497	</listitem>
498
499	</itemizedlist>
500
501	</sect1>
502
503	<sect1>
504	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
505
506	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
507	added:</para>
508
509	<itemizedlist>
510
511	<listitem>
512	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
513	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
514	</listitem>
515
516	<listitem>
517	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
518	</listitem>
519
520	<listitem>
521	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
522	</listitem>
523
524	<listitem>
525	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
526	</listitem>
527
528	<listitem>
529	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
530	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
531	</listitem>
532
533	<listitem>
534	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
535	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
536	</listitem>
537
538	<listitem>
539	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
540	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
541	</listitem>
542
543	<listitem>
544	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
545	(bug #4952)</para>
546	</listitem>
547
548	<listitem>
549	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
550	bug #6122)</para>
551	</listitem>
552
553	<listitem>
554	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
555	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
556	</listitem>
557
558	<listitem>
559	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
560	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
561	(Linux hosts only)</para>
562	</listitem>
563
564	<listitem>
565	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
566	</listitem>
567
568	<listitem>
569	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
570	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
571	</listitem>
572
573	<listitem>
574	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
575	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	<listitem>
579	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
580	canceled</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
585	</listitem>
586
587	<listitem>
588	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
589	</listitem>
590
591	<listitem>
592	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
593	</listitem>
594
595	<listitem>
596	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
601	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
602	</listitem>
603
604	<listitem>
605	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
606	</listitem>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
610	(Linux hosts only)</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
615	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
620	</listitem>
621
622	<listitem>
623	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
624	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
625	</listitem>
626
627	<listitem>
628	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
629	</listitem>
630
631	<listitem>
632	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
633	circumstances</para>
634	</listitem>
635
636	<listitem>
637	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
638	printers</para>
639	</listitem>
640
641	<listitem>
642	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
643	</listitem>
644
645	<listitem>
646	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
647	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
648	</listitem>
649
650	<listitem>
651	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
652	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
653	</listitem>
654
655	<listitem>
656	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
657	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
658	circumstances</para>
659	</listitem>
660
661	<listitem>
662	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
663	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
664	</listitem>
665
666	<listitem>
667	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
668	as supported extension</para>
669	</listitem>
670
671	<listitem>
672	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
673	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
674	</listitem>
675
676	<listitem>
677	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
678	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
679	</listitem>
680
681	<listitem>
682	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
683	</listitem>
684
685	<listitem>
686	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
687	(bug #7366)</para>
688	</listitem>
689
690	<listitem>
691	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
692	</listitem>
693
694	<listitem>
695	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
696	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
697	</listitem>
698
699	<listitem>
700	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
701	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
702	</listitem>
703
704	<listitem>
705	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
706	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
707	</listitem>
708
709	<listitem>
710	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
711	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
712	</listitem>
713
714	<listitem>
715	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
716	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
717	</listitem>
718
719	<listitem>
720	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
721	</listitem>
722
723	<listitem>
724	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
725	</listitem>
726
727	<listitem>
728	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
729	more than one environment variable</para>
730	</listitem>
731
732	<listitem>
733	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
734	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
735	</listitem>
736
737	<listitem>
738	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
739	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
740	</listitem>
741
742	<listitem>
743	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
744	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
745	</listitem>
746
747	<listitem>
748	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
749	enumerating logged in users</para>
750	</listitem>
751
752	<listitem>
753	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
754	</listitem>
755
756	<listitem>
757	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
758	</listitem>
759
760	<listitem>
761	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
766	in the event of a VM crash</para>
767	</listitem>
768
769	<listitem>
770	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
771	</listitem>
772
773	<listitem>
774	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
775	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
776	</listitem>
777
778	<listitem>
779	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
780	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
781	</listitem>
782
783	<listitem>
784	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
785	(bug #7448)</para>
786	</listitem>
787
788	<listitem>
789	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
790	</listitem>
791
792	<listitem>
793	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
794	</listitem>
795
796	<listitem>
797	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
798	</listitem>
799
800	</itemizedlist>
801
802	</sect1>
803
804	<sect1>
805	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
806
807	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
808	added:</para>
809
810	<itemizedlist>
811
812	<listitem>
813	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
814	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
815	</listitem>
816
817	<listitem>
818	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	<listitem>
822	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
823	bug #6809)</para>
824	</listitem>
825
826	<listitem>
827	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
828	</listitem>
829
830	<listitem>
831	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
832	</listitem>
833
834	<listitem>
835	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
836	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
837	</listitem>
838
839	<listitem>
840	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
841	changes</para>
842	</listitem>
843
844	<listitem>
845	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
846	</listitem>
847
848	<listitem>
849	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
850	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
851	</listitem>
852
853	<listitem>
854	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
855	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
856	</listitem>
857
858	<listitem>
859	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
860	</listitem>
861
862	<listitem>
863	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
864	</listitem>
865
866	<listitem>
867	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
868	</listitem>
869
870	<listitem>
871	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
872	</listitem>
873
874	<listitem>
875	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
876	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
877	</listitem>
878
879	<listitem>
880	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
881	</listitem>
882
883	<listitem>
884	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
885	(bug #6832)</para>
886	</listitem>
887
888	<listitem>
889	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
890	guests</para>
891	</listitem>
892
893	<listitem>
894	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
895	</listitem>
896
897	<listitem>
898	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
899	without external tools and tricks</para>
900	</listitem>
901
902	<listitem>
903	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
904	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
905	</listitem>
906
907	<listitem>
908	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
909	</listitem>
910
911	<listitem>
912	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
913	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
914	</listitem>
915
916	<listitem>
917	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
918	shutdown</para>
919	</listitem>
920
921	<listitem>
922	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
923	fixes</para>
924	</listitem>
925
926	<listitem>
927	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
928	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
929	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
930	</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
935	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
936	</listitem>
937
938	<listitem>
939	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
940	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
941	</listitem>
942
943	<listitem>
944	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
945	</para>
946	</listitem>
947
948	<listitem>
949	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
950	</listitem>
951
952	<listitem>
953	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
954	</listitem>
955
956	<listitem>
957	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
958	</listitem>
959
960	</itemizedlist>
961
962	</sect1>
963
964	<sect1>
965	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
966
967	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
968	added:</para>
969
970	<itemizedlist>
971
972	<listitem>
973	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
974	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
975	</listitem>
976
977	<listitem>
978	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
979	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
980	</listitem>
981
982	<listitem>
983	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
984	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
989	</listitem>
990
991	<listitem>
992	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
993	</listitem>
994
995	<listitem>
996	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
997	</listitem>
998
999	<listitem>
1000	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
1001	</listitem>
1002
1003	<listitem>
1004	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
1005	assigned</para>
1006	</listitem>
1007
1008	<listitem>
1009	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
1010	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
1011	</listitem>
1012
1013	<listitem>
1014	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
1015	multiple screens are enabled</para>
1016	</listitem>
1017
1018	<listitem>
1019	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1020	</listitem>
1021
1022	<listitem>
1023	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
1024	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
1025	</listitem>
1026
1027	<listitem>
1028	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
1029	again (bug #7022).
1030	</para>
1031	</listitem>
1032
1033	<listitem>
1034	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
1035	(bug #6768)</para>
1036	</listitem>
1037
1038	<listitem>
1039	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
1040	(bug #6927)</para>
1041	</listitem>
1042
1043	<listitem>
1044	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
1045	bug #7031)</para>
1046	</listitem>
1047
1048	<listitem>
1049	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
1050	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
1051	</listitem>
1052
1053	<listitem>
1054	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1055	bug #6987)</para>
1056	</listitem>
1057
1058	<listitem>
1059	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
1060	</listitem>
1061
1062	<listitem>
1063	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
1064	</listitem>
1065
1066	<listitem>
1067	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
1068	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
1069	</listitem>
1070
1071	<listitem>
1072	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
1073	</listitem>
1074
1075	<listitem>
1076	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
1077	installation (bug #5101)</para>
1078	</listitem>
1079
1080	<listitem>
1081	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
1082	</listitem>
1083
1084	<listitem>
1085	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1086	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1087	bug #6872)</para>
1088	</listitem>
1089
1090	<listitem>
1091	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1096	(performance tweak)</para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1101	is currently paused</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103
1104	<listitem>
1105	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1106	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1111	</listitem>
1112
1113	<listitem>
1114	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1115	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1116	</listitem>
1117
1118	<listitem>
1119	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1120	not properly saved</para>
1121	</listitem>
1122
1123	<listitem>
1124	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1125	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1126	</listitem>
1127
1128	<listitem>
1129	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1130	</listitem>
1131
1132	<listitem>
1133	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1134	</listitem>
1135
1136	<listitem>
1137	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1138	</listitem>
1139
1140	<listitem>
1141	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1142	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1143	</listitem>
1144
1145	<listitem>
1146	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1147	</listitem>
1148
1149	<listitem>
1150	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1151	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1152	</listitem>
1153
1154	<listitem>
1155	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1156	(bug #5251)</para>
1157	</listitem>
1158
1159	<listitem>
1160	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1161	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1162	</listitem>
1163
1164	<listitem>
1165	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1166	</listitem>
1167
1168	<listitem>
1169	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1170	</listitem>
1171
1172	<listitem>
1173	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1174	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1175	</listitem>
1176
1177	<listitem>
1178	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1183	</listitem>
1184
1185	<listitem>
1186	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1187	</listitem>
1188
1189	</itemizedlist>
1190	</sect1>
1191
1192	<sect1>
1193	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1194
1195	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1196	added:</para>
1197
1198	<itemizedlist>
1199
1200	<listitem>
1201	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1202	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1207	</listitem>
1208
1209	<listitem>
1210	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1211	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1212	</listitem>
1213
1214	<listitem>
1215	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1216	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1217	</listitem>
1218
1219	<listitem>
1220	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1221	</listitem>
1222
1223	<listitem>
1224	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1225	again (bug #6864)</para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1230	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1231	</listitem>
1232
1233	<listitem>
1234	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1235	</listitem>
1236
1237	<listitem>
1238	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1239	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1240	</listitem>
1241
1242	<listitem>
1243	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1244	</listitem>
1245
1246	</itemizedlist>
1247
1248	</sect1>
1249
1250	<sect1>
1251	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1252
1253	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1254	added:</para>
1255
1256	<itemizedlist>
1257
1258	<listitem>
1259	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1264	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	<listitem>
1268	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1273	state</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1278	</listitem>
1279
1280	<listitem>
1281	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1282	</listitem>
1283
1284	<listitem>
1285	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1286	</listitem>
1287
1288	<listitem>
1289	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1290	</listitem>
1291
1292	<listitem>
1293	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1294	</listitem>
1295
1296	<listitem>
1297	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1298	</listitem>
1299
1300	<listitem>
1301	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1302	</listitem>
1303
1304	<listitem>
1305	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1306	</listitem>
1307
1308	<listitem>
1309	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1310	</listitem>
1311
1312	<listitem>
1313	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1314	</listitem>
1315
1316	<listitem>
1317	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1318	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1319	</listitem>
1320
1321	<listitem>
1322	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1323	(bug #6784)</para>
1324	</listitem>
1325
1326	<listitem>
1327	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1328	</listitem>
1329
1330	<listitem>
1331	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1332	</listitem>
1333
1334	<listitem>
1335	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1336	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1337	</listitem>
1338
1339	<listitem>
1340	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1341	</listitem>
1342
1343	<listitem>
1344	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1345	</listitem>
1346
1347	<listitem>
1348	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1349	host only</para>
1350	</listitem>
1351
1352	<listitem>
1353	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1354	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1355	</listitem>
1356
1357	<listitem>
1358	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1359	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1360	</listitem>
1361
1362	<listitem>
1363	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1364	</listitem>
1365
1366	<listitem>
1367	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1368	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1369	</listitem>
1370
1371	<listitem>
1372	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1373	</listitem>
1374
1375	<listitem>
1376	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1377	</listitem>
1378
1379	<listitem>
1380	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1381	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1382	</listitem>
1383
1384	<listitem>
1385	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1386	</listitem>
1387
1388	<listitem>
1389	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1390	</listitem>
1391
1392	<listitem>
1393	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1394	</listitem>
1395
1396	<listitem>
1397	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1398	(bug #6714)</para>
1399	</listitem>
1400
1401	<listitem>
1402	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1403	</listitem>
1404
1405	<listitem>
1406	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1407	</listitem>
1408
1409	<listitem>
1410	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1411	</listitem>
1412
1413	<listitem>
1414	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417	<listitem>
1418	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1419	</listitem>
1420
1421	</itemizedlist>
1422
1423	</sect1>
1424
1425	<sect1>
1426	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1427
1428	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1429	were added:</para>
1430
1431	<itemizedlist>
1432
1433	<listitem>
1434	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1435	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1436	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1437	</listitem>
1438
1439	<listitem>
1440	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1441	</listitem>
1442
1443	<listitem>
1444	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1445	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1446	</listitem>
1447
1448	<listitem>
1449	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1450	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1451	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1452	</listitem>
1453
1454	<listitem>
1455	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1456	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1457	</listitem>
1458
1459	<listitem>
1460	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1461	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1462	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1463	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1464	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1465	</listitem>
1466
1467	<listitem>
1468	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1469	</listitem>
1470
1471	<listitem>
1472	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1473	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1474	</listitem>
1475
1476	<listitem>
1477	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1478	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1479	</listitem>
1480
1481	<listitem>
1482	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1483	</listitem>
1484
1485	<listitem>
1486	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
1487	</listitem>
1488
1489	<listitem>
1490	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1491	</listitem>
1492
1493	<listitem>
1494	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1495	</listitem>
1496
1497	<listitem>
1498	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1499	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1500	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1501	</listitem>
1502
1503	<listitem>
1504	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1505	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1506	</listitem>
1507
1508	</itemizedlist>
1509
1510	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1511
1512	<itemizedlist>
1513
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1516	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1517	</listitem>
1518
1519	<listitem>
1520	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1521	</listitem>
1522
1523	<listitem>
1524	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1525	VM</para>
1526	</listitem>
1527
1528	<listitem>
1529	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1530	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1531	</listitem>
1532
1533	<listitem>
1534	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1535	#1669)</para>
1536	</listitem>
1537
1538	<listitem>
1539	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1540	#6442)</para>
1541	</listitem>
1542
1543	<listitem>
1544	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1545	combination (bug #684)</para>
1546	</listitem>
1547
1548	<listitem>
1549	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1550	the VM from the GUI</para>
1551	</listitem>
1552
1553	<listitem>
1554	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1555	medium is not accessible</para>
1556	</listitem>
1557
1558	<listitem>
1559	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1560	</listitem>
1561
1562	<listitem>
1563	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1564	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1565	</listitem>
1566
1567	<listitem>
1568	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1569	#3106)</para>
1570	</listitem>
1571
1572	<listitem>
1573	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1574	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1575	it</para>
1576	</listitem>
1577
1578	<listitem>
1579	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1580	</listitem>
1581
1582	<listitem>
1583	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1584	</listitem>
1585
1586	<listitem>
1587	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1588	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1589	</listitem>
1590
1591	<listitem>
1592	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1593	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1594	</listitem>
1595
1596	<listitem>
1597	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1598	</listitem>
1599
1600	<listitem>
1601	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1602	</listitem>
1603
1604	<listitem>
1605	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1606	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1607	</listitem>
1608
1609	<listitem>
1610	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1611	</listitem>
1612
1613	<listitem>
1614	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1615	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1616	</listitem>
1617
1618	<listitem>
1619	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1620	</listitem>
1621
1622	<listitem>
1623	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1624	in VirtualBox</para>
1625	</listitem>
1626
1627	<listitem>
1628	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1629	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1630	</listitem>
1631
1632	<listitem>
1633	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1634	VirtualBox</para>
1635	</listitem>
1636
1637	<listitem>
1638	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1639	</listitem>
1640
1641	<listitem>
1642	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1643	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1644	</listitem>
1645
1646	</itemizedlist>
1647	</sect1>
1648
1649	<sect1>
1650	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1651
1652	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1653	added:</para>
1654
1655	<itemizedlist>
1656
1657	<listitem>
1658	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1659	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1660	</listitem>
1661
1662	<listitem>
1663	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1664	</listitem>
1665
1666	<listitem>
1667	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1668	</listitem>
1669
1670	<listitem>
1671	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1672	only) </para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1677	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1678	</listitem>
1679
1680	<listitem>
1681	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1682	interface version</para>
1683	</listitem>
1684
1685	<listitem>
1686	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1687	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1688	slot empty</para>
1689	</listitem>
1690
1691	<listitem>
1692	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1693	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1694	(bug #4220)</para>
1695	</listitem>
1696
1697	<listitem>
1698	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1699	</listitem>
1700
1701	<listitem>
1702	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1703	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1704	</listitem>
1705
1706	<listitem>
1707	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1708	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1709	</listitem>
1710
1711	<listitem>
1712	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1713	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1714	</listitem>
1715
1716	<listitem>
1717	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1718	attached</para>
1719	</listitem>
1720
1721	<listitem>
1722	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1723	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	<listitem>
1727	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1728	</listitem>
1729
1730	<listitem>
1731	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1732	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1733	</listitem>
1734
1735	<listitem>
1736	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1737	is bug #6408)</para>
1738	</listitem>
1739
1740	<listitem>
1741	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1742	</listitem>
1743
1744	<listitem>
1745	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1746	fail to initialize</para>
1747	</listitem>
1748
1749	<listitem>
1750	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1751	</listitem>
1752
1753	<listitem>
1754	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1755	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1756	</listitem>
1757
1758	<listitem>
1759	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1760	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1761	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1762	</listitem>
1763
1764	<listitem>
1765	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1766	</listitem>
1767
1768	<listitem>
1769	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1770	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1771	</listitem>
1772
1773	<listitem>
1774	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1775	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1776	</listitem>
1777
1778	<listitem>
1779	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1780	(bug #6435)</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1785	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
1786	</listitem>
1787
1788	<listitem>
1789	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
1790	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
1791	(bug #6488)</para>
1792	</listitem>
1793
1794	<listitem>
1795	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
1796	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1801	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
1806	#5227)</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
1811	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
1816	</listitem>
1817
1818	<listitem>
1819	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
1820	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	</itemizedlist>
1824	</sect1>
1825
1826	<sect1>
1827	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
1828
1829	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1830	added:</para>
1831
1832	<itemizedlist>
1833
1834	<listitem>
1835	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
1836	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
1837	</listitem>
1838
1839	<listitem>
1840	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
1841	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
1842	</listitem>
1843
1844	<listitem>
1845	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
1846	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
1847	</listitem>
1848
1849	<listitem>
1850	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
1851	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
1852	</listitem>
1853
1854	<listitem>
1855	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
1856	</listitem>
1857
1858	<listitem>
1859	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
1860	</listitem>
1861
1862	<listitem>
1863	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
1868	</listitem>
1869
1870	<listitem>
1871	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
1872	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
1873	</listitem>
1874
1875	<listitem>
1876	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
1877	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
1878	</listitem>
1879
1880	<listitem>
1881	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
1882	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
1883	</listitem>
1884
1885	<listitem>
1886	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
1887	</listitem>
1888
1889	<listitem>
1890	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
1891	</listitem>
1892
1893	<listitem>
1894	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
1895	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1896	</listitem>
1897
1898	<listitem>
1899	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
1900	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
1901	calls (bug #6165)</para>
1902	</listitem>
1903
1904	<listitem>
1905	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
1906	(bug #5297)</para>
1907	</listitem>
1908
1909	<listitem>
1910	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
1911	(bug #4962)</para>
1912	</listitem>
1913
1914	<listitem>
1915	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
1916	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
1917	</listitem>
1918
1919	<listitem>
1920	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
1921	(bug #6176)</para>
1922	</listitem>
1923
1924	<listitem>
1925	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
1926	certain circumstances</para>
1927	</listitem>
1928
1929	<listitem>
1930	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
1931	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
1932	</listitem>
1933
1934	<listitem>
1935	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
1936	</listitem>
1937
1938	<listitem>
1939	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
1940	</listitem>
1941
1942	<listitem>
1943	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
1944	(bug #3571)</para>
1945	</listitem>
1946
1947	<listitem>
1948	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
1949	devices</para>
1950	</listitem>
1951
1952	<listitem>
1953	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
1954	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
1955	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
1956	</listitem>
1957
1958	<listitem>
1959	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
1960	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
1965	</listitem>
1966
1967	<listitem>
1968	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
1969	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
1974	response</para>
1975	</listitem>
1976
1977	<listitem>
1978	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
1979	</listitem>
1980
1981	<listitem>
1982	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
1983	</listitem>
1984
1985	<listitem>
1986	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
1987	</listitem>
1988
1989	<listitem>
1990	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
1991	</listitem>
1992
1993	<listitem>
1994	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
1995	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
1996	</listitem>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
2000	</listitem>
2001
2002	<listitem>
2003	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
2004	</listitem>
2005
2006	<listitem>
2007	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
2008	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
2009	</listitem>
2010
2011	<listitem>
2012	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
2013	</listitem>
2014
2015	<listitem>
2016	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
2017	</listitem>
2018
2019	<listitem>
2020	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	</itemizedlist>
2028	</sect1>
2029
2030	<sect1>
2031	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
2032
2033	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2034	added:</para>
2035
2036	<itemizedlist>
2037
2038	<listitem>
2039	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
2040	</listitem>
2041
2042	<listitem>
2043	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
2048	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
2053	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
2058	(bug #3945)</para>
2059	</listitem>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
2063	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
2068	and AMD-V only) </para>
2069	</listitem>
2070
2071	<listitem>
2072	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
2073	</listitem>
2074
2075	<listitem>
2076	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
2077	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
2078	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
2079	</listitem>
2080
2081	<listitem>
2082	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
2083	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
2084	</listitem>
2085
2086	<listitem>
2087	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2088	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2089	</listitem>
2090
2091	<listitem>
2092	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2093	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2094	</listitem>
2095
2096	<listitem>
2097	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2098	snapshots command</para>
2099	</listitem>
2100
2101	<listitem>
2102	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2107	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2116	</listitem>
2117
2118	<listitem>
2119	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2120	</listitem>
2121
2122	<listitem>
2123	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2124	(KWin bug)</para>
2125	</listitem>
2126
2127	<listitem>
2128	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2129	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2130	</listitem>
2131
2132	<listitem>
2133	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2134	</listitem>
2135
2136	<listitem>
2137	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2138	</listitem>
2139
2140	<listitem>
2141	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2142	</listitem>
2143
2144	<listitem>
2145	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2146	</listitem>
2147
2148	<listitem>
2149	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2150	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2151	</listitem>
2152
2153	<listitem>
2154	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2155	bug #5787)</para>
2156	</listitem>
2157
2158	<listitem>
2159	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2160	DHCP requests</para>
2161	</listitem>
2162
2163	<listitem>
2164	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2165	(bug #3217)</para>
2166	</listitem>
2167
2168	<listitem>
2169	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2170	range (bug #5923)</para>
2171	</listitem>
2172
2173	<listitem>
2174	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2175	</listitem>
2176
2177	<listitem>
2178	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2179	</listitem>
2180
2181	<listitem>
2182	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2183	</listitem>
2184
2185	<listitem>
2186	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2191	file (bug #5681)</para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2196	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2201	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2206	regression)</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2211	</listitem>
2212
2213	<listitem>
2214	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2215	</listitem>
2216
2217	<listitem>
2218	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2219	</listitem>
2220
2221	<listitem>
2222	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2223	</listitem>
2224
2225	<listitem>
2226	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2227	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2228	</listitem>
2229
2230	<listitem>
2231	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2232	</listitem>
2233
2234	<listitem>
2235	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2240	</listitem>
2241
2242	<listitem>
2243	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2244	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2245	</listitem>
2246
2247	<listitem>
2248	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2249	</listitem>
2250
2251	<listitem>
2252	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2253	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2254	</listitem>
2255
2256	<listitem>
2257	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2258	</listitem>
2259
2260	<listitem>
2261	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2262	</listitem>
2263
2264	<listitem>
2265	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2266	</listitem>
2267
2268	<listitem>
2269	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2270	(bug #5731)</para>
2271	</listitem>
2272
2273	<listitem>
2274	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2275	again</para>
2276	</listitem>
2277
2278	</itemizedlist>
2279
2280	</sect1>
2281
2282	<sect1>
2283	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2284
2285	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2286	added:</para>
2287
2288	<itemizedlist>
2289
2290	<listitem>
2291	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2292	</listitem>
2293
2294	<listitem>
2295	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2296	</listitem>
2297
2298	<listitem>
2299	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2300	</listitem>
2301
2302	<listitem>
2303	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2304	</listitem>
2305
2306	<listitem>
2307	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2308	</listitem>
2309
2310	<listitem>
2311	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2312	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2317	</listitem>
2318
2319	<listitem>
2320	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2321	</listitem>
2322
2323	<listitem>
2324	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2325	</listitem>
2326
2327	<listitem>
2328	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2329	</listitem>
2330
2331	<listitem>
2332	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2333	</listitem>
2334
2335	<listitem>
2336	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2337	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2338	</listitem>
2339
2340	<listitem>
2341	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2342	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2343	</listitem>
2344
2345	<listitem>
2346	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2347	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2348	#1762)</para>
2349	</listitem>
2350
2351	<listitem>
2352	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2353	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2354	</listitem>
2355
2356	<listitem>
2357	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2358	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2359	</listitem>
2360
2361	<listitem>
2362	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2363	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2364	</listitem>
2365
2366	<listitem>
2367	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2368	</listitem>
2369
2370	<listitem>
2371	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2372	</listitem>
2373
2374	<listitem>
2375	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2376	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2377	</listitem>
2378
2379	<listitem>
2380	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2381	</listitem>
2382
2383	<listitem>
2384	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2385	</listitem>
2386
2387	<listitem>
2388	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2389	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2390	</listitem>
2391
2392	<listitem>
2393	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2394	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2395	</listitem>
2396
2397	<listitem>
2398	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2399	</listitem>
2400
2401	<listitem>
2402	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2403	guests</para>
2404	</listitem>
2405
2406	<listitem>
2407	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2408	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2409	</listitem>
2410
2411	<listitem>
2412	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2413	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2414	</listitem>
2415
2416	<listitem>
2417	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2418	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2419	</listitem>
2420
2421	<listitem>
2422	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2423	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2424	</listitem>
2425
2426	<listitem>
2427	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2428	</listitem>
2429
2430	<listitem>
2431	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2432	</listitem>
2433
2434	<listitem>
2435	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2440	</listitem>
2441
2442	<listitem>
2443	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2444	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2445	</listitem>
2446
2447	<listitem>
2448	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2449	</listitem>
2450
2451	</itemizedlist>
2452
2453	</sect1>
2454
2455	<sect1>
2456	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2457
2458	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2459	were added:</para>
2460
2461	<itemizedlist>
2462
2463	<listitem>
2464	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2465	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2466	</listitem>
2467
2468	<listitem>
2469	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2470	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2471	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2472	</listitem>
2473
2474	<listitem>
2475	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2476	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2477	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2478	</listitem>
2479
2480	<listitem>
2481	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2482	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2483	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2484	</listitem>
2485
2486	<listitem>
2487	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2488	running</para>
2489	</listitem>
2490
2491	<listitem>
2492	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2493	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2494	</listitem>
2495
2496	<listitem>
2497	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2498	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2499	</listitem>
2500
2501	<listitem>
2502	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2503	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2504	</listitem>
2505
2506	<listitem>
2507	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2508	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2509	</listitem>
2510
2511	</itemizedlist>
2512
2513	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2514
2515	<itemizedlist>
2516
2517	<listitem>
2518	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2519	</listitem>
2520
2521	<listitem>
2522	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2523	</listitem>
2524
2525	<listitem>
2526	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2527	</listitem>
2528
2529	<listitem>
2530	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2531	(bug #5291)</para>
2532	</listitem>
2533
2534	<listitem>
2535	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2536	</listitem>
2537
2538	<listitem>
2539	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2544	</listitem>
2545
2546	<listitem>
2547	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2548	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2549	</listitem>
2550
2551	<listitem>
2552	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2553	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2554	</listitem>
2555
2556	<listitem>
2557	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2558	</listitem>
2559
2560	<listitem>
2561	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2562	</listitem>
2563
2564	<listitem>
2565	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2566	</listitem>
2567
2568	<listitem>
2569	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2570	</listitem>
2571
2572	<listitem>
2573	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2574	</listitem>
2575
2576	<listitem>
2577	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2578	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2579	</listitem>
2580
2581	<listitem>
2582	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2583	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2584	</listitem>
2585
2586	<listitem>
2587	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2588	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2589	</listitem>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2593	(bug #2723)</para>
2594	</listitem>
2595
2596	<listitem>
2597	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2598	</listitem>
2599
2600	<listitem>
2601	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2602	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2607	optional manifest file on import</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2616	(bug #3773)</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2621	</listitem>
2622
2623	<listitem>
2624	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2625	</listitem>
2626
2627	<listitem>
2628	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2629	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2630	</listitem>
2631
2632	<listitem>
2633	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2634	(bug #4866)</para>
2635	</listitem>
2636
2637	<listitem>
2638	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2639	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2640	</listitem>
2641
2642	<listitem>
2643	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2644	certain conditions</para>
2645	</listitem>
2646
2647	<listitem>
2648	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2649	</listitem>
2650
2651	<listitem>
2652	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2653	</listitem>
2654
2655	<listitem>
2656	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2657	</listitem>
2658
2659	<listitem>
2660	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2665	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2666	</listitem>
2667
2668	<listitem>
2669	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2670	</listitem>
2671
2672	<listitem>
2673	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2674	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2675	</listitem>
2676
2677	<listitem>
2678	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2679	</listitem>
2680
2681	<listitem>
2682	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2683	</listitem>
2684
2685	<listitem>
2686	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2687	</listitem>
2688
2689	<listitem>
2690	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2691	</listitem>
2692
2693	<listitem>
2694	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2695	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2696	</listitem>
2697
2698	<listitem>
2699	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2700	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2701	(bug #928)</para>
2702	</listitem>
2703
2704	<listitem>
2705	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2706	</listitem>
2707
2708	</itemizedlist>
2709
2710	</sect1>
2711
2712	<sect1>
2713	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2714
2715	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2716	added:</para>
2717
2718	<itemizedlist>
2719
2720	<listitem>
2721	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2722	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2723	</listitem>
2724
2725	<listitem>
2726	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2727	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2728	</listitem>
2729
2730	<listitem>
2731	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2732	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2733	</listitem>
2734
2735	<listitem>
2736	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2737	enabled</para>
2738	</listitem>
2739
2740	<listitem>
2741	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2742	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2743	</listitem>
2744
2745	<listitem>
2746	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2747	(bug #2676)</para>
2748	</listitem>
2749
2750	<listitem>
2751	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2752	is connected to a raw file</para>
2753	</listitem>
2754
2755	<listitem>
2756	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2757	(bug #5355)</para>
2758	</listitem>
2759
2760	<listitem>
2761	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2762	</listitem>
2763
2764	<listitem>
2765	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2766	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2767	</listitem>
2768
2769	<listitem>
2770	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2771	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2772	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2773	</listitem>
2774
2775	<listitem>
2776	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2777	</listitem>
2778
2779	<listitem>
2780	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2781	</listitem>
2782
2783	<listitem>
2784	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2785	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
2786	</listitem>
2787
2788	<listitem>
2789	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
2790	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
2791	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
2792	</listitem>
2793
2794	</itemizedlist>
2795
2796	</sect1>
2797
2798	<sect1>
2799	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
2800
2801	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2802	added:</para>
2803
2804	<itemizedlist>
2805
2806	<listitem>
2807	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
2816	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
2817	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
2818	</listitem>
2819
2820	<listitem>
2821	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
2822	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
2827	</listitem>
2828
2829	<listitem>
2830	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
2835	</listitem>
2836
2837	<listitem>
2838	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
2839	</listitem>
2840
2841	<listitem>
2842	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
2843	</listitem>
2844
2845	<listitem>
2846	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
2847	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
2848	</listitem>
2849
2850	<listitem>
2851	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
2860	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
2861	</listitem>
2862
2863	<listitem>
2864	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
2865	</listitem>
2866
2867	<listitem>
2868	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
2869	exhaustion</para>
2870	</listitem>
2871
2872	<listitem>
2873	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
2874	</listitem>
2875
2876	<listitem>
2877	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
2878	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
2879	</listitem>
2880
2881	<listitem>
2882	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
2883	folders (bug #4106)</para>
2884	</listitem>
2885
2886	<listitem>
2887	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
2888	folders (bug #4299)</para>
2889	</listitem>
2890
2891	<listitem>
2892	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
2893	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
2894	(bug #2921)</para>
2895	</listitem>
2896
2897	<listitem>
2898	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
2899	hosts only)</para>
2900	</listitem>
2901
2902	<listitem>
2903	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
2904	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
2905	</listitem>
2906
2907	<listitem>
2908	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
2909	</listitem>
2910
2911	<listitem>
2912	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
2913	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2914	</listitem>
2915
2916	<listitem>
2917	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
2918	</listitem>
2919
2920	<listitem>
2921	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
2922	image inconsistency </para>
2923	</listitem>
2924
2925	<listitem>
2926	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
2927	</listitem>
2928
2929	<listitem>
2930	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
2931	</listitem>
2932
2933	<listitem>
2934	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
2935	(bug #2025)</para>
2936	</listitem>
2937
2938	<listitem>
2939	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
2940	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
2941	</listitem>
2942
2943	</itemizedlist>
2944
2945	</sect1>
2946
2947	<sect1>
2948	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
2949
2950	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2951	added:</para>
2952
2953	<itemizedlist>
2954
2955	<listitem>
2956	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
2957	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
2958	</listitem>
2959
2960	<listitem>
2961	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
2962	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
2963	</listitem>
2964
2965	<listitem>
2966	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
2967	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
2968	</listitem>
2969
2970	<listitem>
2971	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
2972	</listitem>
2973
2974	<listitem>
2975	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
2976	software virtualization only) </para>
2977	</listitem>
2978
2979	<listitem>
2980	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
2981	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
2982	</listitem>
2983
2984	<listitem>
2985	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
2986	with root privileges</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
2991	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
2992	</listitem>
2993
2994	<listitem>
2995	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
2996	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
3001	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
3002	</listitem>
3003
3004	<listitem>
3005	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
3006	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
3007	selector (bug #5063)</para>
3008	</listitem>
3009
3010	<listitem>
3011	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
3012	available</para>
3013	</listitem>
3014
3015	<listitem>
3016	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
3017	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
3018	</listitem>
3019
3020	<listitem>
3021	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
3022	networking (bug #4775)</para>
3023	</listitem>
3024
3025	<listitem>
3026	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
3027	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
3028	</listitem>
3029
3030	<listitem>
3031	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
3032	(bug #4907)</para>
3033	</listitem>
3034
3035	<listitem>
3036	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
3037	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
3038	</listitem>
3039
3040	<listitem>
3041	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
3042	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
3043	</listitem>
3044
3045	<listitem>
3046	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
3047	</listitem>
3048
3049	<listitem>
3050	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
3051	</listitem>
3052
3053	<listitem>
3054	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
3055	</listitem>
3056
3057	<listitem>
3058	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
3059	</listitem>
3060
3061	<listitem>
3062	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
3063	are installed</para>
3064	</listitem>
3065
3066	<listitem>
3067	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
3068	(bug #4771)</para>
3069	</listitem>
3070
3071	<listitem>
3072	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
3073	</listitem>
3074
3075	<listitem>
3076	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
3077	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
3078	</listitem>
3079
3080	<listitem>
3081	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
3082	command</para>
3083	</listitem>
3084
3085	<listitem>
3086	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3087	</listitem>
3088
3089	<listitem>
3090	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3091	</listitem>
3092
3093	<listitem>
3094	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3095	(bug #5089)</para>
3096	</listitem>
3097
3098	<listitem>
3099	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3100	</listitem>
3101
3102	</itemizedlist>
3103
3104	</sect1>
3105
3106	<sect1>
3107	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3108
3109	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3110	added:</para>
3111
3112	<itemizedlist>
3113
3114	<listitem>
3115	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3116	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3117	</listitem>
3118
3119	<listitem>
3120	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3121	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3122	</listitem>
3123
3124	<listitem>
3125	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3126	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3131	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	<listitem>
3135	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3136	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3137	</listitem>
3138
3139	<listitem>
3140	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3145	</listitem>
3146
3147	<listitem>
3148	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3149	</listitem>
3150
3151	<listitem>
3152	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3153	</listitem>
3154
3155	<listitem>
3156	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3157	</listitem>
3158
3159	<listitem>
3160	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3161	onlined or offlined</para>
3162	</listitem>
3163
3164	<listitem>
3165	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3170	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3171	</listitem>
3172
3173	<listitem>
3174	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3175	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3176	</listitem>
3177
3178	<listitem>
3179	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3180	</listitem>
3181
3182	<listitem>
3183	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3184	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3185	</listitem>
3186
3187	<listitem>
3188	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3189	</listitem>
3190
3191	<listitem>
3192	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3193	</listitem>
3194
3195	<listitem>
3196	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3197	</listitem>
3198
3199	<listitem>
3200	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3201	</listitem>
3202
3203	<listitem>
3204	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3205	</listitem>
3206
3207	<listitem>
3208	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3209	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3210	</listitem>
3211
3212	<listitem>
3213	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3214	</listitem>
3215
3216	<listitem>
3217	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3218	</listitem>
3219
3220	<listitem>
3221	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3222	</listitem>
3223
3224	<listitem>
3225	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3226	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3227	</listitem>
3228
3229	<listitem>
3230	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3231	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3232	</listitem>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3236	</listitem>
3237
3238	<listitem>
3239	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3240	</listitem>
3241
3242	<listitem>
3243	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3244	</listitem>
3245
3246	<listitem>
3247	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3248	</listitem>
3249
3250	<listitem>
3251	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3256	</listitem>
3257
3258	<listitem>
3259	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3260	</listitem>
3261
3262	<listitem>
3263	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3264	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3265	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3266	phase collapse</para>
3267	</listitem>
3268
3269	<listitem>
3270	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3271	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3272	</listitem>
3273
3274	<listitem>
3275	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3276	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3277	</listitem>
3278
3279	<listitem>
3280	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3281	</listitem>
3282
3283	<listitem>
3284	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3285	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3286	</listitem>
3287
3288	<listitem>
3289	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3290	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3291	</listitem>
3292
3293	<listitem>
3294	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3295	</listitem>
3296
3297	<listitem>
3298	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3299	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3300	#4698, #4790)</para>
3301	</listitem>
3302
3303	<listitem>
3304	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3305	less than the configured range</para>
3306	</listitem>
3307
3308	<listitem>
3309	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3310	</listitem>
3311
3312	<listitem>
3313	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3314	</listitem>
3315
3316	<listitem>
3317	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3318	</listitem>
3319
3320	<listitem>
3321	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3322	</listitem>
3323
3324	<listitem>
3325	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3326	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	<listitem>
3330	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3331	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3332	</listitem>
3333
3334	<listitem>
3335	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3336	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3337	</listitem>
3338
3339	<listitem>
3340	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3341	</listitem>
3342
3343	<listitem>
3344	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3345	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3346	</listitem>
3347
3348	<listitem>
3349	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3350	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3351	</listitem>
3352
3353	<listitem>
3354	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3355	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3356	</listitem>
3357
3358	<listitem>
3359	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3360	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3361	</listitem>
3362
3363	<listitem>
3364	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3365	</listitem>
3366
3367	<listitem>
3368	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3369	</listitem>
3370
3371	</itemizedlist>
3372
3373	</sect1>
3374
3375	<sect1>
3376	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3377
3378	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3379	added:</para>
3380
3381	<itemizedlist>
3382
3383	<listitem>
3384	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3393	</listitem>
3394
3395	<listitem>
3396	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3397	</listitem>
3398
3399	<listitem>
3400	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3401	</listitem>
3402
3403	<listitem>
3404	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3405	</listitem>
3406
3407	<listitem>
3408	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3409	</listitem>
3410
3411	<listitem>
3412	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3417	</listitem>
3418
3419	<listitem>
3420	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3421	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3426	</listitem>
3427
3428	<listitem>
3429	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3430	</listitem>
3431
3432	<listitem>
3433	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3434	</listitem>
3435
3436	<listitem>
3437	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3438	</listitem>
3439
3440	<listitem>
3441	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3442	</listitem>
3443
3444	<listitem>
3445	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3450	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3451	</listitem>
3452
3453	<listitem>
3454	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3455	(bug #4654)</para>
3456	</listitem>
3457
3458	<listitem>
3459	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3460	</listitem>
3461
3462	<listitem>
3463	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3464	interfaces</para>
3465	</listitem>
3466
3467	<listitem>
3468	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3469	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3470	</listitem>
3471
3472	<listitem>
3473	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3474	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3475	</listitem>
3476
3477	<listitem>
3478	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3479	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3480	</listitem>
3481
3482	<listitem>
3483	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3484	(bug #1461)</para>
3485	</listitem>
3486
3487	<listitem>
3488	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3489	</listitem>
3490
3491	<listitem>
3492	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3493	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3494	</listitem>
3495
3496	<listitem>
3497	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3498	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3499	</listitem>
3500
3501	<listitem>
3502	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3503	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3504	</listitem>
3505
3506	<listitem>
3507	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3508	</listitem>
3509
3510	<listitem>
3511	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3512	</listitem>
3513
3514	<listitem>
3515	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3516	</listitem>
3517
3518	<listitem>
3519	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3520	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3521	</listitem>
3522
3523	<listitem>
3524	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3525	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3526	</listitem>
3527
3528	<listitem>
3529	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3530	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3531	</listitem>
3532
3533	<listitem>
3534	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3535	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3536	</listitem>
3537
3538	</itemizedlist>
3539
3540	</sect1>
3541	<sect1>
3542	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3543
3544	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3545	added:</para>
3546
3547	<itemizedlist>
3548
3549	<listitem>
3550	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3551	</listitem>
3552
3553	<listitem>
3554	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3555	</listitem>
3556
3557	<listitem>
3558	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3559	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3564	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3577	</listitem>
3578
3579	<listitem>
3580	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3581	</listitem>
3582
3583	<listitem>
3584	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3585	</listitem>
3586
3587	<listitem>
3588	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3589	</listitem>
3590
3591	<listitem>
3592	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3593	</listitem>
3594
3595	<listitem>
3596	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3597	</listitem>
3598
3599	<listitem>
3600	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3601	</listitem>
3602
3603	<listitem>
3604	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3605	</listitem>
3606
3607	<listitem>
3608	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3609	</listitem>
3610
3611	<listitem>
3612	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3613	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3614	</listitem>
3615
3616	<listitem>
3617	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3618	</listitem>
3619
3620	<listitem>
3621	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3622	</listitem>
3623
3624	<listitem>
3625	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3626	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3627	</listitem>
3628
3629	<listitem>
3630	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3631	</listitem>
3632
3633	<listitem>
3634	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3635	</listitem>
3636
3637	<listitem>
3638	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3639	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3640	</listitem>
3641
3642	<listitem>
3643	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3644	</listitem>
3645
3646	<listitem>
3647	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3648	</listitem>
3649
3650	<listitem>
3651	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3652	</listitem>
3653
3654	<listitem>
3655	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3656	</listitem>
3657
3658	<listitem>
3659	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3660	</listitem>
3661
3662	<listitem>
3663	<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>
3664	</listitem>
3665
3666	</itemizedlist>
3667
3668	</sect1>
3669
3670	<sect1>
3671	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3672
3673	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3674	were added:</para>
3675
3676	<itemizedlist>
3677
3678	<listitem>
3679	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3680	</listitem>
3681
3682	<listitem>
3683	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3684	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3685	</listitem>
3686
3687	<listitem>
3688	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3689	</listitem>
3690
3691	</itemizedlist>
3692
3693	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3694
3695	<itemizedlist>
3696
3697	<listitem>
3698	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3699	</listitem>
3700
3701	<listitem>
3702	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3703	certain conditions</para>
3704	</listitem>
3705
3706	<listitem>
3707	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3716	</listitem>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3720	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3721	</listitem>
3722
3723	<listitem>
3724	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3725	</listitem>
3726
3727	<listitem>
3728	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3729	</listitem>
3730
3731	<listitem>
3732	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3733	</listitem>
3734
3735	<listitem>
3736	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3745	</listitem>
3746
3747	<listitem>
3748	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3749	</listitem>
3750
3751	<listitem>
3752	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3753	</listitem>
3754
3755	<listitem>
3756	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3757	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3758	</listitem>
3759
3760	<listitem>
3761	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3762	</listitem>
3763
3764	<listitem>
3765	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3766	</listitem>
3767
3768	<listitem>
3769	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3778	</listitem>
3779
3780	<listitem>
3781	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3782	</listitem>
3783
3784	<listitem>
3785	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
3786	</listitem>
3787
3788	<listitem>
3789	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
3790	</listitem>
3791
3792	<listitem>
3793	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
3794	</listitem>
3795
3796	<listitem>
3797	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
3798	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
3799	</listitem>
3800
3801	<listitem>
3802	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
3807	</listitem>
3808
3809	<listitem>
3810	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
3811	</listitem>
3812
3813	<listitem>
3814	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3815	</listitem>
3816
3817	<listitem>
3818	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
3819	</listitem>
3820
3821	<listitem>
3822	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
3823	</listitem>
3824
3825	<listitem>
3826	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
3827	</listitem>
3828
3829	<listitem>
3830	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
3831	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
3832	</listitem>
3833
3834	<listitem>
3835	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
3836	</listitem>
3837
3838	<listitem>
3839	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
3840	</listitem>
3841
3842	<listitem>
3843	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
3844	</listitem>
3845
3846	<listitem>
3847	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
3848	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
3853	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
3854	</listitem>
3855
3856	<listitem>
3857	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
3858	correct file mode when creating files</para>
3859	</listitem>
3860
3861	<listitem>
3862	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
3863	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
3864	</listitem>
3865
3866	<listitem>
3867	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
3868	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
3869	</listitem>
3870
3871	<listitem>
3872	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
3873	</listitem>
3874
3875	<listitem>
3876	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
3877	</listitem>
3878
3879	<listitem>
3880	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
3881	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
3882	</listitem>
3883
3884	<listitem>
3885	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
3886	guest property lookup</para>
3887	</listitem>
3888
3889	<listitem>
3890	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
3891	basic network information)</para>
3892	</listitem>
3893
3894	<listitem>
3895	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
3896	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
3897	</listitem>
3898
3899	<listitem>
3900	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
3901	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
3902	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
3903	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
3904	</listitem>
3905
3906	<listitem>
3907	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
3912	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
3913	web service</para>
3914	</listitem>
3915
3916	<listitem>
3917	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
3918	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
3919	</listitem>
3920
3921	<listitem>
3922	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
3923	unavailable</para>
3924	</listitem>
3925
3926	<listitem>
3927	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
3928	</listitem>
3929
3930	</itemizedlist>
3931	</sect1>
3932
3933	<sect1>
3934	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
3935
3936	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3937	added:</para>
3938
3939	<itemizedlist>
3940
3941	<listitem>
3942	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
3943	installation</para>
3944	</listitem>
3945
3946	<listitem>
3947	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
3948	</listitem>
3949
3950	<listitem>
3951	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
3952	later (bug #3981)</para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
3957	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
3962	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
3963	(bug #4034)
3964	</para>
3965	</listitem>
3966
3967	<listitem>
3968	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
3969	networking</para>
3970	</listitem>
3971
3972	<listitem>
3973	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
3974	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
3975	</listitem>
3976
3977	<listitem>
3978	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
3979	clicks</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	<listitem>
3983	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
3984	Windows 7 guests</para>
3985	</listitem>
3986
3987	<listitem>
3988	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
3989	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
3998	</listitem>
3999
4000	<listitem>
4001	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
4002	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
4003	</listitem>
4004
4005	<listitem>
4006	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
4007	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
4008	</listitem>
4009
4010	<listitem>
4011	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
4012	</listitem>
4013
4014	<listitem>
4015	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
4016	</listitem>
4017
4018	<listitem>
4019	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4020	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
4021	(bug #3864)</para>
4022	</listitem>
4023
4024	<listitem>
4025	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
4026	now flushes the output stream</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
4031	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
4036	</listitem>
4037
4038	<listitem>
4039	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
4040	</listitem>
4041
4042	<listitem>
4043	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
4044	</listitem>
4045
4046	<listitem>
4047	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
4048	</listitem>
4049
4050	<listitem>
4051	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
4052	(bug #3964)</para>
4053	</listitem>
4054
4055	<listitem>
4056	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
4057	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
4058	</listitem>
4059
4060	<listitem>
4061	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
4062	hosts</para>
4063	</listitem>
4064
4065	<listitem>
4066	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
4067	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
4068	e1000 adapter</para>
4069	</listitem>
4070
4071	<listitem>
4072	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
4073	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
4074	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
4075	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
4076	</listitem>
4077
4078	<listitem>
4079	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
4080	</listitem>
4081
4082	<listitem>
4083	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
4084	</listitem>
4085
4086	<listitem>
4087	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4088	</listitem>
4089
4090	<listitem>
4091	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4092	file (bug #1023)</para>
4093	</listitem>
4094
4095	<listitem>
4096	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4097	</listitem>
4098
4099	<listitem>
4100	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4101	</listitem>
4102
4103	</itemizedlist>
4104	</sect1>
4105
4106	<sect1>
4107	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4108
4109	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4110	added:</para>
4111
4112	<itemizedlist>
4113
4114	<listitem>
4115	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4116	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4117	</listitem>
4118
4119	<listitem>
4120	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4121	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4122	and later</para>
4123	</listitem>
4124
4125	<listitem>
4126	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4127	running services</para>
4128	</listitem>
4129
4130	<listitem>
4131	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4132	terminates</para>
4133	</listitem>
4134
4135	<listitem>
4136	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4137	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4138	</listitem>
4139
4140	<listitem>
4141	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4142	installed on the guest</para>
4143	</listitem>
4144
4145	<listitem>
4146	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4147	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4148	</listitem>
4149
4150	<listitem>
4151	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4152	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4153	</listitem>
4154
4155	<listitem>
4156	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4157	(bug #2628)</para>
4158	</listitem>
4159
4160	<listitem>
4161	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4162	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4163	</listitem>
4164
4165	<listitem>
4166	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4167	(bug #3657)</para>
4168	</listitem>
4169
4170	<listitem>
4171	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4172	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4173	</listitem>
4174
4175	<listitem>
4176	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4177	virtualization only)
4178	</para>
4179	</listitem>
4180
4181	<listitem>
4182	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4183	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4184	</listitem>
4185
4186	<listitem>
4187	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4188	</listitem>
4189
4190	<listitem>
4191	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4192	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4193	</listitem>
4194
4195	<listitem>
4196	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4197	bug #3689)</para>
4198	</listitem>
4199
4200	<listitem>
4201	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4202	bug #3679)</para>
4203	</listitem>
4204
4205	<listitem>
4206	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4207	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4208	</listitem>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4212	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4213	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4214	</listitem>
4215
4216	<listitem>
4217	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4218	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4219	</listitem>
4220
4221	<listitem>
4222	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4223	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4224	</listitem>
4225
4226	<listitem>
4227	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4228	(bug #3667)</para>
4229	</listitem>
4230
4231	<listitem>
4232	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4233	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4234	</listitem>
4235
4236	<listitem>
4237	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4238	</listitem>
4239
4240	<listitem>
4241	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4242	</listitem>
4243
4244	<listitem>
4245	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4246	</listitem>
4247
4248	<listitem>
4249	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4250	</listitem>
4251
4252	<listitem>
4253	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4254	</listitem>
4255
4256	<listitem>
4257	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4258	</listitem>
4259
4260	<listitem>
4261	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	</itemizedlist>
4265	</sect1>
4266
4267	<sect1>
4268	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4269
4270	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4271	were added:</para>
4272
4273	<itemizedlist>
4274
4275	<listitem>
4276	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4277	</listitem>
4278
4279	<listitem>
4280	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	<listitem>
4288	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4289	</listitem>
4290
4291	<listitem>
4292	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4293	</listitem>
4294
4295	<listitem>
4296	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4297	</listitem>
4298
4299	<listitem>
4300	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4301	</listitem>
4302
4303	<listitem>
4304	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4305	</listitem>
4306
4307	<listitem>
4308	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4309	</listitem>
4310
4311	<listitem>
4312	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4313	</listitem>
4314
4315	</itemizedlist>
4316
4317	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4318
4319	<itemizedlist>
4320
4321	<listitem>
4322	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4323	</listitem>
4324
4325	<listitem>
4326	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4327	</listitem>
4328
4329	<listitem>
4330	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4335	</listitem>
4336
4337	<listitem>
4338	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4339	</listitem>
4340
4341	<listitem>
4342	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4343	</listitem>
4344
4345	<listitem>
4346	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4347	</listitem>
4348
4349	<listitem>
4350	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4351	</listitem>
4352
4353	<listitem>
4354	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4355	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4356	</listitem>
4357
4358	<listitem>
4359	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4360	</listitem>
4361
4362	<listitem>
4363	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4364	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4365	</listitem>
4366
4367	<listitem>
4368	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4369	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4370	</listitem>
4371
4372	<listitem>
4373	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4374	</listitem>
4375
4376	<listitem>
4377	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4378	</listitem>
4379
4380	<listitem>
4381	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4382	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4383	</listitem>
4384
4385	<listitem>
4386	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4387	</listitem>
4388
4389	<listitem>
4390	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4391	ESX server images)</para>
4392	</listitem>
4393
4394	<listitem>
4395	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4396	writable</para>
4397	</listitem>
4398
4399	<listitem>
4400	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4401	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4402	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4403	</listitem>
4404
4405	<listitem>
4406	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4407	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4408	</listitem>
4409
4410	<listitem>
4411	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4412	</listitem>
4413
4414	<listitem>
4415	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4416	</listitem>
4417
4418	<listitem>
4419	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4420	hosts when creating files</para>
4421	</listitem>
4422
4423	<listitem>
4424	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4425	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4426	</listitem>
4427
4428	<listitem>
4429	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4430	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4431	#2306)</para>
4432	</listitem>
4433
4434	<listitem>
4435	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4436	(bug #3555)</para>
4437	</listitem>
4438
4439	<listitem>
4440	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4441	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4442	</listitem>
4443
4444	<listitem>
4445	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4446	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4447	</listitem>
4448
4449	<listitem>
4450	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4451	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4452	</listitem>
4453
4454	<listitem>
4455	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4456	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4457	</listitem>
4458
4459	<listitem>
4460	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4461	(bug #3586)</para>
4462	</listitem>
4463
4464	<listitem>
4465	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4466	from Scratch systems</para>
4467	</listitem>
4468
4469	<listitem>
4470	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4471	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	<listitem>
4475	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4476	</listitem>
4477
4478	<listitem>
4479	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4480	default to compact format</para>
4481	</listitem>
4482
4483	<listitem>
4484	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4485	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4486	</listitem>
4487
4488	<listitem>
4489	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4490	</listitem>
4491
4492	<listitem>
4493	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4494	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4495	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4496	</listitem>
4497
4498	<listitem>
4499	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4500	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4501	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4502	</listitem>
4503
4504	<listitem>
4505	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4506	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4507	</listitem>
4508
4509	<listitem>
4510	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4511	</listitem>
4512
4513	<listitem>
4514	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4515	</listitem>
4516
4517	<listitem>
4518	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4519	</listitem>
4520
4521	<listitem>
4522	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4523	</listitem>
4524
4525	<listitem>
4526	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4527	</listitem>
4528
4529	<listitem>
4530	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4531	</listitem>
4532
4533	<listitem>
4534	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4535	</listitem>
4536
4537	<listitem>
4538	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4539	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4540	</listitem>
4541
4542	<listitem>
4543	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4544	</listitem>
4545
4546	<listitem>
4547	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4548	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4549	</listitem>
4550
4551	<listitem>
4552	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4557	</listitem>
4558
4559	<listitem>
4560	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4561	</listitem>
4562
4563	<listitem>
4564	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4565	#2536)</para>
4566	</listitem>
4567
4568	<listitem>
4569	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4574	(bug #3548)</para>
4575	</listitem>
4576
4577	</itemizedlist>
4578	</sect1>
4579
4580	<sect1>
4581	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4582
4583	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4584	added:</para>
4585
4586	<itemizedlist>
4587
4588	<listitem>
4589	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4590	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4591	</listitem>
4592
4593	<listitem>
4594	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4595	</listitem>
4596
4597	<listitem>
4598	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4599	</listitem>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4607	(bug #3115)</para>
4608	</listitem>
4609
4610	<listitem>
4611	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4612	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4613	</listitem>
4614
4615	<listitem>
4616	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4617	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4618	(bug #3215)</para>
4619	</listitem>
4620
4621	<listitem>
4622	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4623	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4624	</listitem>
4625
4626	<listitem>
4627	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4628	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4629	</listitem>
4630
4631	<listitem>
4632	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4633	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4634	</listitem>
4635
4636	<listitem>
4637	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4638	in parallel</para>
4639	</listitem>
4640
4641	<listitem>
4642	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4643	</listitem>
4644
4645	<listitem>
4646	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4647	</listitem>
4648
4649	<listitem>
4650	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4651	</listitem>
4652
4653	<listitem>
4654	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4655	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4656	</listitem>
4657
4658	<listitem>
4659	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4660	</listitem>
4661
4662	<listitem>
4663	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4664	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4665	</listitem>
4666
4667	<listitem>
4668	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4669	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4670	</listitem>
4671
4672	<listitem>
4673	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4674	</listitem>
4675
4676	<listitem>
4677	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4678	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4683	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4684	</listitem>
4685
4686	<listitem>
4687	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4688	</listitem>
4689
4690	<listitem>
4691	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4692	</listitem>
4693
4694	<listitem>
4695	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4696	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4697	</listitem>
4698
4699	<listitem>
4700	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4701	</listitem>
4702
4703	<listitem>
4704	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4705	</listitem>
4706
4707	<listitem>
4708	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4709	</listitem>
4710
4711	<listitem>
4712	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4713	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4714	</listitem>
4715
4716	<listitem>
4717	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4718	</listitem>
4719
4720	<listitem>
4721	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4722	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4723	</listitem>
4724
4725	<listitem>
4726	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4727	</listitem>
4728
4729	<listitem>
4730	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4731	</listitem>
4732
4733	<listitem>
4734	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4735	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4740	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4741	</listitem>
4742
4743	<listitem>
4744	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4745	</listitem>
4746
4747	<listitem>
4748	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4749	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4750	</listitem>
4751
4752	<listitem>
4753	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4754	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4755	</listitem>
4756
4757	<listitem>
4758	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4759	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4764	(bug #3213)</para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4769	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4774	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4775	</listitem>
4776
4777	</itemizedlist>
4778	</sect1>
4779
4780	<sect1>
4781	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4782
4783	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4784	added:</para>
4785
4786	<itemizedlist>
4787
4788	<listitem>
4789	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
4794	</listitem>
4795
4796	<listitem>
4797	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
4798	</listitem>
4799
4800	<listitem>
4801	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
4802	</listitem>
4803
4804	<listitem>
4805	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
4806	</listitem>
4807
4808	<listitem>
4809	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
4810	</listitem>
4811
4812	<listitem>
4813	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
4814	</listitem>
4815
4816	<listitem>
4817	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
4818	</listitem>
4819
4820	<listitem>
4821	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
4834	</listitem>
4835
4836	<listitem>
4837	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
4842	</listitem>
4843
4844	<listitem>
4845	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
4846	</listitem>
4847
4848	<listitem>
4849	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
4850	</listitem>
4851
4852	<listitem>
4853	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
4854	(bug #3067)</para>
4855	</listitem>
4856
4857	<listitem>
4858	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
4859	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
4860	</listitem>
4861
4862	<listitem>
4863	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
4864	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
4865	</listitem>
4866
4867	<listitem>
4868	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
4869	</listitem>
4870
4871	<listitem>
4872	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
4873	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
4878	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	<listitem>
4886	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
4887	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
4892	</listitem>
4893
4894	<listitem>
4895	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
4896	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
4897	</listitem>
4898
4899	<listitem>
4900	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
4901	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
4902	</listitem>
4903
4904	<listitem>
4905	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
4906	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
4907	</para>
4908	</listitem>
4909
4910	<listitem>
4911	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
4912	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
4913	</para>
4914	</listitem>
4915
4916	<listitem>
4917	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
4918	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
4919	</para>
4920	</listitem>
4921
4922	<listitem>
4923	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
4924	</listitem>
4925
4926	<listitem>
4927	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
4928	</listitem>
4929
4930	<listitem>
4931	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
4932	</listitem>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
4936	</listitem>
4937
4938	<listitem>
4939	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
4940	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
4941	</listitem>
4942
4943	<listitem>
4944	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
4945	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
4946	</listitem>
4947
4948	<listitem>
4949	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
4950	formatting a drive</para>
4951	</listitem>
4952
4953	<listitem>
4954	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
4955	</listitem>
4956
4957	<listitem>
4958	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
4959	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
4960	</listitem>
4961
4962	<listitem>
4963	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
4964	</listitem>
4965
4966	<listitem>
4967	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
4968	</listitem>
4969
4970	<listitem>
4971	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4972	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
4973	</listitem>
4974
4975	<listitem>
4976	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
4977	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
4978	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
4979	</listitem>
4980
4981	<listitem>
4982	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
4983	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
4984	</listitem>
4985
4986	<listitem>
4987	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
4988	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
4989	</listitem>
4990
4991	<listitem>
4992	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
4993	(bug #2768)</para>
4994	</listitem>
4995
4996	<listitem>
4997	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
4998	</listitem>
4999
5000	<listitem>
5001	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
5002	</listitem>
5003
5004	<listitem>
5005	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
5006	single, unified package</para>
5007	</listitem>
5008
5009	<listitem>
5010	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
5011	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
5012	</listitem>
5013
5014	<listitem>
5015	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
5016	</listitem>
5017
5018	<listitem>
5019	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
5020	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
5021	</listitem>
5022
5023	<listitem>
5024	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
5025	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
5026	</listitem>
5027
5028	<listitem>
5029	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
5030	</listitem>
5031
5032	<listitem>
5033	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
5034	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
5035	doing 3D</para>
5036	</listitem>
5037
5038	<listitem>
5039	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
5040	</listitem>
5041
5042	<listitem>
5043	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
5044	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
5045	</listitem>
5046
5047	<listitem>
5048	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
5049	</listitem>
5050
5051	<listitem>
5052	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
5053	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
5054	</listitem>
5055
5056	<listitem>
5057	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
5058	</listitem>
5059
5060	<listitem>
5061	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
5062	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
5063	</listitem>
5064
5065	<listitem>
5066	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
5067	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
5068	(bug #2938)</para>
5069	</listitem>
5070
5071	<listitem>
5072	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
5073	Linux guests</para>
5074	</listitem>
5075
5076	<listitem>
5077	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
5078	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
5079	(bug #1776)</para>
5080	</listitem>
5081
5082	<listitem>
5083	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
5084	(bug #1612)</para>
5085	</listitem>
5086
5087	<listitem>
5088	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5089	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5090	</listitem>
5091
5092	<listitem>
5093	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5094	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5095	</listitem>
5096
5097	<listitem>
5098	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5099	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5100	</listitem>
5101
5102	</itemizedlist>
5103	</sect1>
5104
5105	<sect1>
5106	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5107
5108	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5109	were added:</para>
5110
5111	<itemizedlist>
5112	<listitem>
5113	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5114	</listitem>
5115
5116	<listitem>
5117	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5118	</listitem>
5119
5120	<listitem>
5121	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5122	</listitem>
5123
5124	<listitem>
5125	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5126	</listitem>
5127
5128	<listitem>
5129	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5130	</listitem>
5131
5132	<listitem>
5133	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5134	</listitem>
5135
5136	<listitem>
5137	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5138	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5139	</listitem>
5140
5141	<listitem>
5142	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5143	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5144	</listitem>
5145
5146	</itemizedlist>
5147
5148	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5149
5150	<itemizedlist>
5151	<listitem>
5152	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5153	</listitem>
5154
5155	<listitem>
5156	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5157	</listitem>
5158
5159	<listitem>
5160	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5161	</listitem>
5162
5163	<listitem>
5164	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5165	</listitem>
5166
5167	<listitem>
5168	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5169	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5170	</listitem>
5171
5172	<listitem>
5173	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5174	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5175	</listitem>
5176
5177	<listitem>
5178	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5179	</listitem>
5180
5181	<listitem>
5182	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5183	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5184	</listitem>
5185
5186	<listitem>
5187	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5188	</listitem>
5189
5190	<listitem>
5191	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5192	</listitem>
5193
5194	<listitem>
5195	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5196	</listitem>
5197
5198	<listitem>
5199	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5200	</listitem>
5201
5202	<listitem>
5203	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5204	</listitem>
5205
5206	<listitem>
5207	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5208	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5209	</listitem>
5210
5211	<listitem>
5212	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5213	the compiz window manager</para>
5214	</listitem>
5215
5216	<listitem>
5217	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5218	</listitem>
5219
5220	<listitem>
5221	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5222	</listitem>
5223
5224	<listitem>
5225	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5226	</listitem>
5227
5228	<listitem>
5229	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5230	</listitem>
5231
5232	<listitem>
5233	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5234	</listitem>
5235
5236	<listitem>
5237	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5238	</listitem>
5239
5240	<listitem>
5241	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5242	</listitem>
5243
5244	<listitem>
5245	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5246	</listitem>
5247
5248	<listitem>
5249	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5250	</listitem>
5251
5252	<listitem>
5253	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5254	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5255	</listitem>
5256
5257	<listitem>
5258	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5259	for direct device access</para>
5260	</listitem>
5261
5262	<listitem>
5263	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5264	</listitem>
5265
5266	<listitem>
5267	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5268	</listitem>
5269
5270	<listitem>
5271	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5272	</listitem>
5273
5274	<listitem>
5275	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5276	</listitem>
5277
5278	<listitem>
5279	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5280	</listitem>
5281
5282	<listitem>
5283	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5284	</listitem>
5285
5286	<listitem>
5287	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5288	</listitem>
5289
5290	<listitem>
5291	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5292	</listitem>
5293
5294	</itemizedlist>
5295	</sect1>
5296
5297	<sect1>
5298	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5299
5300	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5301	added:</para>
5302
5303	<itemizedlist>
5304
5305	<listitem>
5306	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5307	states/snapshots</para>
5308	</listitem>
5309
5310	<listitem>
5311	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5312	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	<listitem>
5316	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5317	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5318	</listitem>
5319
5320	<listitem>
5321	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5322	collisions</para>
5323	</listitem>
5324
5325	<listitem>
5326	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5327	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5336	reliably</para>
5337	</listitem>
5338
5339	<listitem>
5340	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5341	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5342	</listitem>
5343
5344	<listitem>
5345	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5346	a reboot</para>
5347	</listitem>
5348
5349	<listitem>
5350	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5351	</listitem>
5352
5353	<listitem>
5354	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5355	in parallel</para>
5356	</listitem>
5357
5358	<listitem>
5359	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5360	</listitem>
5361
5362	<listitem>
5363	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5364	correctly</para>
5365	</listitem>
5366
5367	<listitem>
5368	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5369	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5370	</listitem>
5371
5372	</itemizedlist>
5373	</sect1>
5374
5375	<sect1>
5376	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5377
5378	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5379	added:</para>
5380
5381	<itemizedlist>
5382
5383	<listitem>
5384	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5385	(bug #2220)</para>
5386	</listitem>
5387
5388	<listitem>
5389	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5390	</listitem>
5391
5392	<listitem>
5393	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5394	</listitem>
5395
5396	<listitem>
5397	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5398	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5399	</listitem>
5400
5401	<listitem>
5402	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5403	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5404	</listitem>
5405
5406	<listitem>
5407	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5408	(bug #2624)</para>
5409	</listitem>
5410
5411	<listitem>
5412	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5413	(bug #2024)</para>
5414	</listitem>
5415
5416	<listitem>
5417	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5418	</listitem>
5419
5420	<listitem>
5421	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5422	</listitem>
5423
5424	<listitem>
5425	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5426	</listitem>
5427
5428	<listitem>
5429	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5430	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5431	</listitem>
5432
5433	<listitem>
5434	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5435	applications when updating the installation</para>
5436	</listitem>
5437
5438	<listitem>
5439	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5440	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5441	</listitem>
5442
5443	<listitem>
5444	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5445	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5446	</listitem>
5447
5448	<listitem>
5449	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5450	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5451	</listitem>
5452
5453	<listitem>
5454	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5455	connected to a host device</para>
5456	</listitem>
5457
5458	<listitem>
5459	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5460	</listitem>
5461
5462	<listitem>
5463	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5472	when using native RDP connections</para>
5473	</listitem>
5474
5475	<listitem>
5476	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5477	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5482	(bug #2591)</para>
5483	</listitem>
5484
5485	<listitem>
5486	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5487	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5488	</listitem>
5489
5490	<listitem>
5491	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5492	</listitem>
5493
5494	</itemizedlist>
5495	</sect1>
5496
5497	<sect1>
5498	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5499
5500	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5501	added:</para>
5502
5503	<itemizedlist>
5504	<listitem>
5505	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5506	</listitem>
5507
5508	<listitem>
5509	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5510	</listitem>
5511
5512	<listitem>
5513	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5514	</listitem>
5515
5516	<listitem>
5517	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5518	</listitem>
5519
5520	<listitem>
5521	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5522	</listitem>
5523
5524	<listitem>
5525	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5526	</listitem>
5527
5528	<listitem>
5529	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5530	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5535	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5536	</listitem>
5537
5538	<listitem>
5539	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5540	</listitem>
5541
5542	<listitem>
5543	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5544	equal to the client resolution</para>
5545	</listitem>
5546
5547	<listitem>
5548	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5549	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5550	</listitem>
5551
5552	<listitem>
5553	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5554	</listitem>
5555
5556	<listitem>
5557	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5558	</listitem>
5559
5560	<listitem>
5561	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5562	</listitem>
5563
5564	<listitem>
5565	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5566	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5567	</listitem>
5568
5569	<listitem>
5570	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5571	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5572	</listitem>
5573
5574	<listitem>
5575	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5576	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5581	</listitem>
5582
5583	<listitem>
5584	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5585	</listitem>
5586
5587	<listitem>
5588	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5589	</listitem>
5590
5591	<listitem>
5592	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5593	</listitem>
5594
5595	<listitem>
5596	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5597	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5598	</listitem>
5599
5600	<listitem>
5601	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5602	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5603	</listitem>
5604
5605	<listitem>
5606	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5607	</listitem>
5608
5609	<listitem>
5610	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5611	</listitem>
5612
5613	<listitem>
5614	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5615	</listitem>
5616
5617	</itemizedlist>
5618
5619	</sect1>
5620
5621	<sect1>
5622	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5623
5624	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5625	added:</para>
5626
5627	<itemizedlist>
5628
5629	<listitem>
5630	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5631	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5636	</listitem>
5637
5638	<listitem>
5639	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5640	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5645	</listitem>
5646
5647	<listitem>
5648	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5649	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5650	</listitem>
5651
5652	<listitem>
5653	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5654	</listitem>
5655
5656	<listitem>
5657	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5658	the virtual disk manager</para>
5659	</listitem>
5660
5661	<listitem>
5662	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5663	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5668	</listitem>
5669
5670	<listitem>
5671	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5672	</listitem>
5673
5674	<listitem>
5675	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5676	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5677	</listitem>
5678
5679	<listitem>
5680	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5681	bug #2067)</para>
5682	</listitem>
5683
5684	<listitem>
5685	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5686	</listitem>
5687
5688	<listitem>
5689	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5690	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5691	</listitem>
5692
5693	<listitem>
5694	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5695	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5696	(bug #2184)</para>
5697	</listitem>
5698
5699	<listitem>
5700	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5701	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5702	</listitem>
5703
5704	<listitem>
5705	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5706	(Windows guests only)</para>
5707	</listitem>
5708
5709	<listitem>
5710	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5711	</listitem>
5712
5713	<listitem>
5714	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5715	</listitem>
5716
5717	<listitem>
5718	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5719	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5720	</listitem>
5721
5722	<listitem>
5723	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5724	</listitem>
5725
5726	<listitem>
5727	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5728	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5729	</para>
5730	</listitem>
5731
5732	<listitem>
5733	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5734	</listitem>
5735
5736	<listitem>
5737	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5738	</listitem>
5739
5740	<listitem>
5741	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5742	a VM reboot</para>
5743	</listitem>
5744
5745	<listitem>
5746	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5747	</listitem>
5748
5749	<listitem>
5750	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5751	buggy X servers</para>
5752	</listitem>
5753
5754	<listitem>
5755	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5756	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5757	</listitem>
5758
5759	<listitem>
5760	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5761	</listitem>
5762
5763	<listitem>
5764	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5765	(bug #2128)</para>
5766	</listitem>
5767
5768	<listitem>
5769	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5770	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5771	</listitem>
5772
5773	<listitem>
5774	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5775	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5776	</listitem>
5777
5778	<listitem>
5779	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5780	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5781	</listitem>
5782
5783	<listitem>
5784	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5785	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
5786	</listitem>
5787
5788	<listitem>
5789	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
5790	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
5791	</listitem>
5792
5793	<listitem>
5794	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
5795	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
5796	</listitem>
5797
5798	<listitem>
5799	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
5800	installer into a single package</para>
5801	</listitem>
5802
5803	<listitem>
5804	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
5805	port to the guest
5806	</para>
5807	</listitem>
5808
5809	</itemizedlist>
5810
5811	</sect1>
5812
5813	<sect1>
5814	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
5815
5816	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5817	were added:<itemizedlist>
5818
5819	<listitem>
5820	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
5821	</listitem>
5822
5823	<listitem>
5824	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5825	</listitem>
5826
5827	<listitem>
5828	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
5829	</listitem>
5830
5831	<listitem>
5832	<para>New-version notifier</para>
5833	</listitem>
5834
5835	<listitem>
5836	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
5837	</listitem>
5838
5839	<listitem>
5840	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5841	</listitem>
5842
5843	<listitem>
5844	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
5845	</listitem>
5846
5847	<listitem>
5848	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
5849	</listitem>
5850
5851	<listitem>
5852	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
5853	</listitem>
5854
5855	<listitem>
5856	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
5857	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
5858	</listitem>
5859
5860	<listitem>
5861	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
5862	</listitem>
5863
5864	<listitem>
5865	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
5866	</listitem>
5867
5868	<listitem>
5869	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
5870	</listitem>
5871
5872	</itemizedlist></para>
5873
5874	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5875
5876	<itemizedlist>
5877
5878	<listitem>
5879	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
5880	</listitem>
5881
5882	<listitem>
5883	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
5884	</listitem>
5885
5886	<listitem>
5887	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
5888	</listitem>
5889
5890	<listitem>
5891	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
5892	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
5893	</listitem>
5894
5895	<listitem>
5896	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
5897	restored</para>
5898	</listitem>
5899
5900	<listitem>
5901	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
5902	</listitem>
5903
5904	<listitem>
5905	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
5906	</listitem>
5907
5908	<listitem>
5909	<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>
5910	</listitem>
5911
5912	</itemizedlist>
5913
5914	</sect1>
5915
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