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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>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
13	settings vanished</para>
14	</listitem>
15
16	<listitem>
17	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
18	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
19	</listitem>
20
21	<listitem>
22	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
23	created (bug #8031)</para>
24	</listitem>
25
26	<listitem>
27	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
28	an extension pack</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
33	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
34	</listitem>
35
36	<listitem>
37	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
38	</listitem>
39
40	<listitem>
41	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
42	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
43	</listitem>
44
45	<listitem>
46	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
47	host-only interface</para>
48	</listitem>
49
50	<listitem>
51	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
52	and async I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
53	</listitem>
54
55	<listitem>
56	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
57	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
58	</listitem>
59
60	<listitem>
61	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
62	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
63	</listitem>
64
65	<listitem>
66	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
67	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
68	</listitem>
69
70	<listitem>
71	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
72	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
73	</listitem>
74
75	<listitem>
76	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
77	</listitem>
78
79	<listitem>
80	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
81	</listitem>
82
83	<listitem>
84	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
85	guests</para>
86	</listitem>
87
88	<listitem>
89	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
90	</listitem>
91
92	<listitem>
93	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
94	</listitem>
95
96	<listitem>
97	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
98	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
99	</listitem>
100
101	<listitem>
102	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
103	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
104	</listitem>
105
106	<listitem>
107	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
108	a VM start</para>
109	</listitem>
110
111	<listitem>
112	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
113	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
114	</listitem>
115
116	<listitem>
117	<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented
118	(bug #6067)</para>
119	</listitem>
120
121	<listitem>
122	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
123	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
128	not saved to machine XML</para>
129	</listitem>
130
131	<listitem>
132	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
133	#7983)</para>
134	</listitem>
135
136	<listitem>
137	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
138	#7981)</para>
139	</listitem>
140
141	<listitem>
142	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.</para>
143	</listitem>
144
145	<listitem>
146	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
147	regression)</para>
148	</listitem>
149
150	<listitem>
151	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
152	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
153	</listitem>
154
155	<listitem>
156	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
157	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
158	</listitem>
159
160	</itemizedlist>
161
162	</sect1>
163
164	<sect1>
165	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
166
167	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
168	were added:</para>
169
170	<itemizedlist>
171
172	<listitem>
173	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
174	</listitem>
175
176	<listitem>
177	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
178	</listitem>
179
180	<listitem>
181	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
182	<itemizedlist>
183	<listitem>
184	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
185	</listitem>
186
187	<listitem>
188	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
189	</listitem>
190
191	<listitem>
192	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
193	</listitem>
194
195	<listitem>
196	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
201	states, and optionally including attached
202	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
203	can do the same now)</para>
204	</listitem>
205
206	<listitem>
207	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
208	</listitem>
209
210	</itemizedlist>
211	</para>
212	</listitem>
213
214	<listitem>
215	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
216	</listitem>
217
218	<listitem>
219	<para>New virtual hardware:
220	<itemizedlist>
221	<listitem>
222	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
223	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
224	</listitem>
225
226	<listitem>
227	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
228	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
229	</listitem>
230	</itemizedlist>
231	</para>
232	</listitem>
233
234	<listitem>
235	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
236	<itemizedlist>
237	<listitem>
238	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
239	</listitem>
240
241	<listitem>
242	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
243	</para>
244	</listitem>
245
246	<listitem>
247	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
248	now</para>
249	</listitem>
250
251	<listitem>
252	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
253	</listitem>
254
255	</itemizedlist>
256	</para>
257	</listitem>
258
259	<listitem>
260	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
261	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
262	</listitem>
263
264	<listitem>
265	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
266	Parallels images</para>
267	</listitem>
268
269	<listitem>
270	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
271	</listitem>
272
273	<listitem>
274	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
275	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
276	</listitem>
277
278	<listitem>
279	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
280	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
281	</listitem>
282
283	</itemizedlist>
284
285	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
286
287	<itemizedlist>
288
289	<listitem>
290	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
291	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
292	</listitem>
293
294	<listitem>
295	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
296	</listitem>
297
298	<listitem>
299	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
300	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
301	</listitem>
302
303	<listitem>
304	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
305	(bug #1657)</para>
306	</listitem>
307
308	<listitem>
309	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
310	</listitem>
311
312	<listitem>
313	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
314	</listitem>
315
316	<listitem>
317	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
318	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
319	</listitem>
320
321	<listitem>
322	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
323	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
324	</listitem>
325
326	<listitem>
327	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
328	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
329	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
330	</listitem>
331
332	<listitem>
333	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
334	again (bug #6864)</para>
335	</listitem>
336
337	<listitem>
338	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
339	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
340	</listitem>
341
342	<listitem>
343	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
344	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
345	</listitem>
346
347	<listitem>
348	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
349	</listitem>
350
351	<listitem>
352	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
357	</listitem>
358
359	<listitem>
360	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
361	</listitem>
362
363	<listitem>
364	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
365	</listitem>
366
367	<listitem>
368	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
369	</listitem>
370
371	<listitem>
372	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
373	</listitem>
374
375	<listitem>
376	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
377	(bug #7058)</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
382	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
383	</listitem>
384
385	<listitem>
386	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
387	circumstances</para>
388	</listitem>
389
390	<listitem>
391	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
392	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
393	#5578)
394	</para>
395	</listitem>
396
397	<listitem>
398	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
399	</listitem>
400
401	<listitem>
402	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
403	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
404	</listitem>
405
406	<listitem>
407	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
408	</listitem>
409
410	<listitem>
411	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
412	#6760)</para>
413	</listitem>
414
415	<listitem>
416	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
417	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
418	</listitem>
419
420	<listitem>
421	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
422	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
423	</listitem>
424
425	<listitem>
426	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
427	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
428	</listitem>
429
430	<listitem>
431	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
436	file</para>
437	</listitem>
438
439	<listitem>
440	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
441	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
442	</listitem>
443
444	</itemizedlist>
445
446	</sect1>
447
448	<sect1>
449	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
450
451	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
452	added:</para>
453
454	<itemizedlist>
455
456	<listitem>
457	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
458	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
459	</listitem>
460
461	<listitem>
462	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
463	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
464	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
465	</listitem>
466
467	<listitem>
468	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
469	</listitem>
470
471	<listitem>
472	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
473	</listitem>
474
475	<listitem>
476	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
477	</listitem>
478
479	<listitem>
480	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
481	the VM is running</para>
482	</listitem>
483
484	<listitem>
485	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
486	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
487	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
488	starting from a saved state</para>
489	</listitem>
490
491	<listitem>
492	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
493	</listitem>
494
495	<listitem>
496	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
497	</listitem>
498
499	<listitem>
500	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
501	</listitem>
502
503	<listitem>
504	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
505	</listitem>
506
507	<listitem>
508	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
509	</listitem>
510
511	<listitem>
512	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
513	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
514	</listitem>
515
516	<listitem>
517	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
518	fixes for Koran keyboards</para>
519	</listitem>
520
521	<listitem>
522	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
523	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
524	</listitem>
525
526	<listitem>
527	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
528	</listitem>
529
530	<listitem>
531	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
532	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
533	</para>
534	</listitem>
535
536	<listitem>
537	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
538	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
539	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
540	</listitem>
541
542	<listitem>
543	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
544	only)</para>
545	</listitem>
546
547	<listitem>
548	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
549	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
550	</listitem>
551
552	<listitem>
553	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
554	</listitem>
555
556	<listitem>
557	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
558	</listitem>
559
560	<listitem>
561	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
562	</listitem>
563
564	<listitem>
565	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
566	state (bug #4124)</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
571	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
572	</listitem>
573
574	<listitem>
575	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	<listitem>
579	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
580	(bug #2996)</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
585	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
586	</listitem>
587
588	<listitem>
589	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
590	</listitem>
591
592	<listitem>
593	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
594	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
595	</listitem>
596
597	<listitem>
598	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
599	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
600	</listitem>
601
602	<listitem>
603	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
604	user accounts for VM information</para>
605	</listitem>
606
607	</itemizedlist>
608
609	</sect1>
610
611	<sect1>
612	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
613
614	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
615	added:</para>
616
617	<itemizedlist>
618
619	<listitem>
620	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
621	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
622	</listitem>
623
624	<listitem>
625	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
634	</listitem>
635
636	<listitem>
637	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
638	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
639	</listitem>
640
641	<listitem>
642	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
643	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
644	</listitem>
645
646	<listitem>
647	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
648	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
649	</listitem>
650
651	<listitem>
652	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
653	(bug #4952)</para>
654	</listitem>
655
656	<listitem>
657	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
658	bug #6122)</para>
659	</listitem>
660
661	<listitem>
662	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
663	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
664	</listitem>
665
666	<listitem>
667	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
668	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
669	(Linux hosts only)</para>
670	</listitem>
671
672	<listitem>
673	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
674	</listitem>
675
676	<listitem>
677	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
678	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
679	</listitem>
680
681	<listitem>
682	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
683	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
684	</listitem>
685
686	<listitem>
687	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
688	canceled</para>
689	</listitem>
690
691	<listitem>
692	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
693	</listitem>
694
695	<listitem>
696	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
697	</listitem>
698
699	<listitem>
700	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
701	</listitem>
702
703	<listitem>
704	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
709	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
710	</listitem>
711
712	<listitem>
713	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
718	(Linux hosts only)</para>
719	</listitem>
720
721	<listitem>
722	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
723	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
724	</listitem>
725
726	<listitem>
727	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
728	</listitem>
729
730	<listitem>
731	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
732	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
733	</listitem>
734
735	<listitem>
736	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
737	</listitem>
738
739	<listitem>
740	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
741	circumstances</para>
742	</listitem>
743
744	<listitem>
745	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
746	printers</para>
747	</listitem>
748
749	<listitem>
750	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
751	</listitem>
752
753	<listitem>
754	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
755	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
756	</listitem>
757
758	<listitem>
759	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
760	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
761	</listitem>
762
763	<listitem>
764	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
765	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
766	circumstances</para>
767	</listitem>
768
769	<listitem>
770	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
771	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
772	</listitem>
773
774	<listitem>
775	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
776	as supported extension</para>
777	</listitem>
778
779	<listitem>
780	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
781	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
782	</listitem>
783
784	<listitem>
785	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
786	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
787	</listitem>
788
789	<listitem>
790	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
795	(bug #7366)</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
800	</listitem>
801
802	<listitem>
803	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
804	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
805	</listitem>
806
807	<listitem>
808	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
809	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
810	</listitem>
811
812	<listitem>
813	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
814	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
815	</listitem>
816
817	<listitem>
818	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
819	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
820	</listitem>
821
822	<listitem>
823	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
824	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
825	</listitem>
826
827	<listitem>
828	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
829	</listitem>
830
831	<listitem>
832	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
833	</listitem>
834
835	<listitem>
836	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
837	more than one environment variable</para>
838	</listitem>
839
840	<listitem>
841	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
842	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
843	</listitem>
844
845	<listitem>
846	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
847	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
848	</listitem>
849
850	<listitem>
851	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
852	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
853	</listitem>
854
855	<listitem>
856	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
857	enumerating logged in users</para>
858	</listitem>
859
860	<listitem>
861	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
862	</listitem>
863
864	<listitem>
865	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
866	</listitem>
867
868	<listitem>
869	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
870	</listitem>
871
872	<listitem>
873	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
874	in the event of a VM crash</para>
875	</listitem>
876
877	<listitem>
878	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
879	</listitem>
880
881	<listitem>
882	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
883	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
884	</listitem>
885
886	<listitem>
887	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
888	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
889	</listitem>
890
891	<listitem>
892	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
893	(bug #7448)</para>
894	</listitem>
895
896	<listitem>
897	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
898	</listitem>
899
900	<listitem>
901	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
902	</listitem>
903
904	<listitem>
905	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
906	</listitem>
907
908	</itemizedlist>
909
910	</sect1>
911
912	<sect1>
913	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
914
915	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
916	added:</para>
917
918	<itemizedlist>
919
920	<listitem>
921	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
922	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
923	</listitem>
924
925	<listitem>
926	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
927	</listitem>
928
929	<listitem>
930	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
931	bug #6809)</para>
932	</listitem>
933
934	<listitem>
935	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
936	</listitem>
937
938	<listitem>
939	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
940	</listitem>
941
942	<listitem>
943	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
944	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
949	changes</para>
950	</listitem>
951
952	<listitem>
953	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
954	</listitem>
955
956	<listitem>
957	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
958	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
959	</listitem>
960
961	<listitem>
962	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
963	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
964	</listitem>
965
966	<listitem>
967	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
968	</listitem>
969
970	<listitem>
971	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
972	</listitem>
973
974	<listitem>
975	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
976	</listitem>
977
978	<listitem>
979	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
980	</listitem>
981
982	<listitem>
983	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
984	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
989	</listitem>
990
991	<listitem>
992	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
993	(bug #6832)</para>
994	</listitem>
995
996	<listitem>
997	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
998	guests</para>
999	</listitem>
1000
1001	<listitem>
1002	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
1003	</listitem>
1004
1005	<listitem>
1006	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
1007	without external tools and tricks</para>
1008	</listitem>
1009
1010	<listitem>
1011	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
1012	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
1013	</listitem>
1014
1015	<listitem>
1016	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
1017	</listitem>
1018
1019	<listitem>
1020	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
1021	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
1022	</listitem>
1023
1024	<listitem>
1025	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
1026	shutdown</para>
1027	</listitem>
1028
1029	<listitem>
1030	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
1031	fixes</para>
1032	</listitem>
1033
1034	<listitem>
1035	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
1036	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
1037	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
1038	</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
1043	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
1044	</listitem>
1045
1046	<listitem>
1047	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
1048	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
1049	</listitem>
1050
1051	<listitem>
1052	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
1053	</para>
1054	</listitem>
1055
1056	<listitem>
1057	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
1058	</listitem>
1059
1060	<listitem>
1061	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
1062	</listitem>
1063
1064	<listitem>
1065	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
1066	</listitem>
1067
1068	</itemizedlist>
1069
1070	</sect1>
1071
1072	<sect1>
1073	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
1074
1075	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1076	added:</para>
1077
1078	<itemizedlist>
1079
1080	<listitem>
1081	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
1082	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
1083	</listitem>
1084
1085	<listitem>
1086	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
1087	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
1088	</listitem>
1089
1090	<listitem>
1091	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
1092	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
1093	</listitem>
1094
1095	<listitem>
1096	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
1101	</listitem>
1102
1103	<listitem>
1104	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
1105	</listitem>
1106
1107	<listitem>
1108	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
1109	</listitem>
1110
1111	<listitem>
1112	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
1113	assigned</para>
1114	</listitem>
1115
1116	<listitem>
1117	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
1118	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
1119	</listitem>
1120
1121	<listitem>
1122	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
1123	multiple screens are enabled</para>
1124	</listitem>
1125
1126	<listitem>
1127	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1128	</listitem>
1129
1130	<listitem>
1131	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
1132	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
1133	</listitem>
1134
1135	<listitem>
1136	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
1137	again (bug #7022).
1138	</para>
1139	</listitem>
1140
1141	<listitem>
1142	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
1143	(bug #6768)</para>
1144	</listitem>
1145
1146	<listitem>
1147	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
1148	(bug #6927)</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
1153	bug #7031)</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
1158	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	<listitem>
1162	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1163	bug #6987)</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
1168	</listitem>
1169
1170	<listitem>
1171	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
1172	</listitem>
1173
1174	<listitem>
1175	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
1176	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
1177	</listitem>
1178
1179	<listitem>
1180	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
1181	</listitem>
1182
1183	<listitem>
1184	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
1185	installation (bug #5101)</para>
1186	</listitem>
1187
1188	<listitem>
1189	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
1190	</listitem>
1191
1192	<listitem>
1193	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1194	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1195	bug #6872)</para>
1196	</listitem>
1197
1198	<listitem>
1199	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1200	</listitem>
1201
1202	<listitem>
1203	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1204	(performance tweak)</para>
1205	</listitem>
1206
1207	<listitem>
1208	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1209	is currently paused</para>
1210	</listitem>
1211
1212	<listitem>
1213	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1214	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1215	</listitem>
1216
1217	<listitem>
1218	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1219	</listitem>
1220
1221	<listitem>
1222	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1223	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1224	</listitem>
1225
1226	<listitem>
1227	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1228	not properly saved</para>
1229	</listitem>
1230
1231	<listitem>
1232	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1233	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1238	</listitem>
1239
1240	<listitem>
1241	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1242	</listitem>
1243
1244	<listitem>
1245	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1246	</listitem>
1247
1248	<listitem>
1249	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1250	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1251	</listitem>
1252
1253	<listitem>
1254	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1259	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1264	(bug #5251)</para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	<listitem>
1268	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1269	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1270	</listitem>
1271
1272	<listitem>
1273	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1278	</listitem>
1279
1280	<listitem>
1281	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1282	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1287	</listitem>
1288
1289	<listitem>
1290	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1291	</listitem>
1292
1293	<listitem>
1294	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1295	</listitem>
1296
1297	</itemizedlist>
1298	</sect1>
1299
1300	<sect1>
1301	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1302
1303	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1304	added:</para>
1305
1306	<itemizedlist>
1307
1308	<listitem>
1309	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1310	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1311	</listitem>
1312
1313	<listitem>
1314	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1315	</listitem>
1316
1317	<listitem>
1318	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1319	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1320	</listitem>
1321
1322	<listitem>
1323	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1324	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1325	</listitem>
1326
1327	<listitem>
1328	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1329	</listitem>
1330
1331	<listitem>
1332	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1333	again (bug #6864)</para>
1334	</listitem>
1335
1336	<listitem>
1337	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1338	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1339	</listitem>
1340
1341	<listitem>
1342	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1343	</listitem>
1344
1345	<listitem>
1346	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1347	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1352	</listitem>
1353
1354	</itemizedlist>
1355
1356	</sect1>
1357
1358	<sect1>
1359	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1360
1361	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1362	added:</para>
1363
1364	<itemizedlist>
1365
1366	<listitem>
1367	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1368	</listitem>
1369
1370	<listitem>
1371	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1372	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1373	</listitem>
1374
1375	<listitem>
1376	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1377	</listitem>
1378
1379	<listitem>
1380	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1381	state</para>
1382	</listitem>
1383
1384	<listitem>
1385	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1386	</listitem>
1387
1388	<listitem>
1389	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1390	</listitem>
1391
1392	<listitem>
1393	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1394	</listitem>
1395
1396	<listitem>
1397	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1398	</listitem>
1399
1400	<listitem>
1401	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1402	</listitem>
1403
1404	<listitem>
1405	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1406	</listitem>
1407
1408	<listitem>
1409	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1414	</listitem>
1415
1416	<listitem>
1417	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1418	</listitem>
1419
1420	<listitem>
1421	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1422	</listitem>
1423
1424	<listitem>
1425	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1426	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1427	</listitem>
1428
1429	<listitem>
1430	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1431	(bug #6784)</para>
1432	</listitem>
1433
1434	<listitem>
1435	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1436	</listitem>
1437
1438	<listitem>
1439	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1440	</listitem>
1441
1442	<listitem>
1443	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1444	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1445	</listitem>
1446
1447	<listitem>
1448	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1449	</listitem>
1450
1451	<listitem>
1452	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1453	</listitem>
1454
1455	<listitem>
1456	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1457	host only</para>
1458	</listitem>
1459
1460	<listitem>
1461	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1462	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1463	</listitem>
1464
1465	<listitem>
1466	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1467	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1468	</listitem>
1469
1470	<listitem>
1471	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1472	</listitem>
1473
1474	<listitem>
1475	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1476	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1477	</listitem>
1478
1479	<listitem>
1480	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1485	</listitem>
1486
1487	<listitem>
1488	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1489	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1490	</listitem>
1491
1492	<listitem>
1493	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1494	</listitem>
1495
1496	<listitem>
1497	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1502	</listitem>
1503
1504	<listitem>
1505	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1506	(bug #6714)</para>
1507	</listitem>
1508
1509	<listitem>
1510	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1511	</listitem>
1512
1513	<listitem>
1514	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1515	</listitem>
1516
1517	<listitem>
1518	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1519	</listitem>
1520
1521	<listitem>
1522	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1523	</listitem>
1524
1525	<listitem>
1526	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1527	</listitem>
1528
1529	</itemizedlist>
1530
1531	</sect1>
1532
1533	<sect1>
1534	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1535
1536	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1537	were added:</para>
1538
1539	<itemizedlist>
1540
1541	<listitem>
1542	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1543	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1544	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1545	</listitem>
1546
1547	<listitem>
1548	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1553	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1554	</listitem>
1555
1556	<listitem>
1557	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1558	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1559	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1560	</listitem>
1561
1562	<listitem>
1563	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1564	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1565	</listitem>
1566
1567	<listitem>
1568	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1569	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1570	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1571	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1572	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1573	</listitem>
1574
1575	<listitem>
1576	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1581	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1586	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1591	</listitem>
1592
1593	<listitem>
1594	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
1595	</listitem>
1596
1597	<listitem>
1598	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1599	</listitem>
1600
1601	<listitem>
1602	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1603	</listitem>
1604
1605	<listitem>
1606	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1607	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1608	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1609	</listitem>
1610
1611	<listitem>
1612	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1613	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1614	</listitem>
1615
1616	</itemizedlist>
1617
1618	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1619
1620	<itemizedlist>
1621
1622	<listitem>
1623	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1624	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1625	</listitem>
1626
1627	<listitem>
1628	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1629	</listitem>
1630
1631	<listitem>
1632	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1633	VM</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1638	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1639	</listitem>
1640
1641	<listitem>
1642	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1643	#1669)</para>
1644	</listitem>
1645
1646	<listitem>
1647	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1648	#6442)</para>
1649	</listitem>
1650
1651	<listitem>
1652	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1653	combination (bug #684)</para>
1654	</listitem>
1655
1656	<listitem>
1657	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1658	the VM from the GUI</para>
1659	</listitem>
1660
1661	<listitem>
1662	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1663	medium is not accessible</para>
1664	</listitem>
1665
1666	<listitem>
1667	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1668	</listitem>
1669
1670	<listitem>
1671	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1672	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1677	#3106)</para>
1678	</listitem>
1679
1680	<listitem>
1681	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1682	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1683	it</para>
1684	</listitem>
1685
1686	<listitem>
1687	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1688	</listitem>
1689
1690	<listitem>
1691	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1692	</listitem>
1693
1694	<listitem>
1695	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1696	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	<listitem>
1700	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1701	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1702	</listitem>
1703
1704	<listitem>
1705	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1706	</listitem>
1707
1708	<listitem>
1709	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711
1712	<listitem>
1713	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1714	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1715	</listitem>
1716
1717	<listitem>
1718	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1719	</listitem>
1720
1721	<listitem>
1722	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1723	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	<listitem>
1727	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1728	</listitem>
1729
1730	<listitem>
1731	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1732	in VirtualBox</para>
1733	</listitem>
1734
1735	<listitem>
1736	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1737	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1738	</listitem>
1739
1740	<listitem>
1741	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1742	VirtualBox</para>
1743	</listitem>
1744
1745	<listitem>
1746	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1747	</listitem>
1748
1749	<listitem>
1750	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1751	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1752	</listitem>
1753
1754	</itemizedlist>
1755	</sect1>
1756
1757	<sect1>
1758	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1759
1760	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1761	added:</para>
1762
1763	<itemizedlist>
1764
1765	<listitem>
1766	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1767	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1768	</listitem>
1769
1770	<listitem>
1771	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1772	</listitem>
1773
1774	<listitem>
1775	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1776	</listitem>
1777
1778	<listitem>
1779	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1780	only) </para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1785	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1786	</listitem>
1787
1788	<listitem>
1789	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1790	interface version</para>
1791	</listitem>
1792
1793	<listitem>
1794	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1795	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1796	slot empty</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1801	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1802	(bug #4220)</para>
1803	</listitem>
1804
1805	<listitem>
1806	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1811	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1816	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1821	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1822	</listitem>
1823
1824	<listitem>
1825	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1826	attached</para>
1827	</listitem>
1828
1829	<listitem>
1830	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1831	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1832	</listitem>
1833
1834	<listitem>
1835	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1836	</listitem>
1837
1838	<listitem>
1839	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1840	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1841	</listitem>
1842
1843	<listitem>
1844	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1845	is bug #6408)</para>
1846	</listitem>
1847
1848	<listitem>
1849	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1854	fail to initialize</para>
1855	</listitem>
1856
1857	<listitem>
1858	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1859	</listitem>
1860
1861	<listitem>
1862	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1863	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1868	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1869	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1870	</listitem>
1871
1872	<listitem>
1873	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1878	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1879	</listitem>
1880
1881	<listitem>
1882	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1883	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1884	</listitem>
1885
1886	<listitem>
1887	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1888	(bug #6435)</para>
1889	</listitem>
1890
1891	<listitem>
1892	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1893	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
1894	</listitem>
1895
1896	<listitem>
1897	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
1898	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
1899	(bug #6488)</para>
1900	</listitem>
1901
1902	<listitem>
1903	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
1904	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
1905	</listitem>
1906
1907	<listitem>
1908	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1909	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1910	</listitem>
1911
1912	<listitem>
1913	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
1914	#5227)</para>
1915	</listitem>
1916
1917	<listitem>
1918	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
1919	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
1920	</listitem>
1921
1922	<listitem>
1923	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
1924	</listitem>
1925
1926	<listitem>
1927	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
1928	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	</itemizedlist>
1932	</sect1>
1933
1934	<sect1>
1935	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
1936
1937	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1938	added:</para>
1939
1940	<itemizedlist>
1941
1942	<listitem>
1943	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
1944	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
1945	</listitem>
1946
1947	<listitem>
1948	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
1949	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
1950	</listitem>
1951
1952	<listitem>
1953	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
1954	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
1955	</listitem>
1956
1957	<listitem>
1958	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
1959	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
1960	</listitem>
1961
1962	<listitem>
1963	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
1964	</listitem>
1965
1966	<listitem>
1967	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
1968	</listitem>
1969
1970	<listitem>
1971	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
1972	</listitem>
1973
1974	<listitem>
1975	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
1976	</listitem>
1977
1978	<listitem>
1979	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
1980	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
1981	</listitem>
1982
1983	<listitem>
1984	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
1985	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
1986	</listitem>
1987
1988	<listitem>
1989	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
1990	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
1991	</listitem>
1992
1993	<listitem>
1994	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
1995	</listitem>
1996
1997	<listitem>
1998	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
1999	</listitem>
2000
2001	<listitem>
2002	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
2003	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
2004	</listitem>
2005
2006	<listitem>
2007	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
2008	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
2009	calls (bug #6165)</para>
2010	</listitem>
2011
2012	<listitem>
2013	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
2014	(bug #5297)</para>
2015	</listitem>
2016
2017	<listitem>
2018	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
2019	(bug #4962)</para>
2020	</listitem>
2021
2022	<listitem>
2023	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
2024	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	<listitem>
2028	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
2029	(bug #6176)</para>
2030	</listitem>
2031
2032	<listitem>
2033	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
2034	certain circumstances</para>
2035	</listitem>
2036
2037	<listitem>
2038	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
2039	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
2040	</listitem>
2041
2042	<listitem>
2043	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
2048	</listitem>
2049
2050	<listitem>
2051	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
2052	(bug #3571)</para>
2053	</listitem>
2054
2055	<listitem>
2056	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
2057	devices</para>
2058	</listitem>
2059
2060	<listitem>
2061	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
2062	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
2063	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
2068	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
2069	</listitem>
2070
2071	<listitem>
2072	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
2073	</listitem>
2074
2075	<listitem>
2076	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
2077	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
2078	</listitem>
2079
2080	<listitem>
2081	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
2082	response</para>
2083	</listitem>
2084
2085	<listitem>
2086	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	<listitem>
2090	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
2091	</listitem>
2092
2093	<listitem>
2094	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
2095	</listitem>
2096
2097	<listitem>
2098	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
2099	</listitem>
2100
2101	<listitem>
2102	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
2103	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
2104	</listitem>
2105
2106	<listitem>
2107	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
2116	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
2125	</listitem>
2126
2127	<listitem>
2128	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
2129	</listitem>
2130
2131	<listitem>
2132	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
2133	</listitem>
2134
2135	</itemizedlist>
2136	</sect1>
2137
2138	<sect1>
2139	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
2140
2141	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2142	added:</para>
2143
2144	<itemizedlist>
2145
2146	<listitem>
2147	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
2148	</listitem>
2149
2150	<listitem>
2151	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
2152	</listitem>
2153
2154	<listitem>
2155	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
2156	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
2157	</listitem>
2158
2159	<listitem>
2160	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
2161	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
2162	</listitem>
2163
2164	<listitem>
2165	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
2166	(bug #3945)</para>
2167	</listitem>
2168
2169	<listitem>
2170	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
2171	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
2172	</listitem>
2173
2174	<listitem>
2175	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
2176	and AMD-V only) </para>
2177	</listitem>
2178
2179	<listitem>
2180	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
2181	</listitem>
2182
2183	<listitem>
2184	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
2185	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
2186	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
2191	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2196	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2201	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2206	snapshots command</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2211	</listitem>
2212
2213	<listitem>
2214	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2215	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2216	</listitem>
2217
2218	<listitem>
2219	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2220	</listitem>
2221
2222	<listitem>
2223	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2224	</listitem>
2225
2226	<listitem>
2227	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2228	</listitem>
2229
2230	<listitem>
2231	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2232	(KWin bug)</para>
2233	</listitem>
2234
2235	<listitem>
2236	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2237	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2238	</listitem>
2239
2240	<listitem>
2241	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2242	</listitem>
2243
2244	<listitem>
2245	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2246	</listitem>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2250	</listitem>
2251
2252	<listitem>
2253	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2254	</listitem>
2255
2256	<listitem>
2257	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2258	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2259	</listitem>
2260
2261	<listitem>
2262	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2263	bug #5787)</para>
2264	</listitem>
2265
2266	<listitem>
2267	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2268	DHCP requests</para>
2269	</listitem>
2270
2271	<listitem>
2272	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2273	(bug #3217)</para>
2274	</listitem>
2275
2276	<listitem>
2277	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2278	range (bug #5923)</para>
2279	</listitem>
2280
2281	<listitem>
2282	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2283	</listitem>
2284
2285	<listitem>
2286	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2291	</listitem>
2292
2293	<listitem>
2294	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2295	</listitem>
2296
2297	<listitem>
2298	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2299	file (bug #5681)</para>
2300	</listitem>
2301
2302	<listitem>
2303	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2304	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2305	</listitem>
2306
2307	<listitem>
2308	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2309	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2310	</listitem>
2311
2312	<listitem>
2313	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2314	regression)</para>
2315	</listitem>
2316
2317	<listitem>
2318	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2319	</listitem>
2320
2321	<listitem>
2322	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2327	</listitem>
2328
2329	<listitem>
2330	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2331	</listitem>
2332
2333	<listitem>
2334	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2335	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2336	</listitem>
2337
2338	<listitem>
2339	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2344	</listitem>
2345
2346	<listitem>
2347	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2348	</listitem>
2349
2350	<listitem>
2351	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2352	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2353	</listitem>
2354
2355	<listitem>
2356	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2357	</listitem>
2358
2359	<listitem>
2360	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2361	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2362	</listitem>
2363
2364	<listitem>
2365	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2366	</listitem>
2367
2368	<listitem>
2369	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2374	</listitem>
2375
2376	<listitem>
2377	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2378	(bug #5731)</para>
2379	</listitem>
2380
2381	<listitem>
2382	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2383	again</para>
2384	</listitem>
2385
2386	</itemizedlist>
2387
2388	</sect1>
2389
2390	<sect1>
2391	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2392
2393	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2394	added:</para>
2395
2396	<itemizedlist>
2397
2398	<listitem>
2399	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2400	</listitem>
2401
2402	<listitem>
2403	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2404	</listitem>
2405
2406	<listitem>
2407	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2408	</listitem>
2409
2410	<listitem>
2411	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2416	</listitem>
2417
2418	<listitem>
2419	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2420	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2425	</listitem>
2426
2427	<listitem>
2428	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2429	</listitem>
2430
2431	<listitem>
2432	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2433	</listitem>
2434
2435	<listitem>
2436	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2437	</listitem>
2438
2439	<listitem>
2440	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2441	</listitem>
2442
2443	<listitem>
2444	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2445	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2446	</listitem>
2447
2448	<listitem>
2449	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2450	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2451	</listitem>
2452
2453	<listitem>
2454	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2455	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2456	#1762)</para>
2457	</listitem>
2458
2459	<listitem>
2460	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2461	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2462	</listitem>
2463
2464	<listitem>
2465	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2466	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2467	</listitem>
2468
2469	<listitem>
2470	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2471	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2472	</listitem>
2473
2474	<listitem>
2475	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	<listitem>
2483	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2484	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2485	</listitem>
2486
2487	<listitem>
2488	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2489	</listitem>
2490
2491	<listitem>
2492	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2493	</listitem>
2494
2495	<listitem>
2496	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2497	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2498	</listitem>
2499
2500	<listitem>
2501	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2502	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2503	</listitem>
2504
2505	<listitem>
2506	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2507	</listitem>
2508
2509	<listitem>
2510	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2511	guests</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2516	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2517	</listitem>
2518
2519	<listitem>
2520	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2521	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2522	</listitem>
2523
2524	<listitem>
2525	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2526	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2527	</listitem>
2528
2529	<listitem>
2530	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2531	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2532	</listitem>
2533
2534	<listitem>
2535	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2536	</listitem>
2537
2538	<listitem>
2539	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2544	</listitem>
2545
2546	<listitem>
2547	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2548	</listitem>
2549
2550	<listitem>
2551	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2552	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2553	</listitem>
2554
2555	<listitem>
2556	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2557	</listitem>
2558
2559	</itemizedlist>
2560
2561	</sect1>
2562
2563	<sect1>
2564	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2565
2566	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2567	were added:</para>
2568
2569	<itemizedlist>
2570
2571	<listitem>
2572	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2573	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2574	</listitem>
2575
2576	<listitem>
2577	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2578	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2579	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2580	</listitem>
2581
2582	<listitem>
2583	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2584	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2585	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2586	</listitem>
2587
2588	<listitem>
2589	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2590	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2591	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2592	</listitem>
2593
2594	<listitem>
2595	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2596	running</para>
2597	</listitem>
2598
2599	<listitem>
2600	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2601	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2602	</listitem>
2603
2604	<listitem>
2605	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2606	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2607	</listitem>
2608
2609	<listitem>
2610	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2611	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2616	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	</itemizedlist>
2620
2621	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2622
2623	<itemizedlist>
2624
2625	<listitem>
2626	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2631	</listitem>
2632
2633	<listitem>
2634	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2635	</listitem>
2636
2637	<listitem>
2638	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2639	(bug #5291)</para>
2640	</listitem>
2641
2642	<listitem>
2643	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2644	</listitem>
2645
2646	<listitem>
2647	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2648	</listitem>
2649
2650	<listitem>
2651	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2652	</listitem>
2653
2654	<listitem>
2655	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2656	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2657	</listitem>
2658
2659	<listitem>
2660	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2661	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2662	</listitem>
2663
2664	<listitem>
2665	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2666	</listitem>
2667
2668	<listitem>
2669	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2670	</listitem>
2671
2672	<listitem>
2673	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2674	</listitem>
2675
2676	<listitem>
2677	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2678	</listitem>
2679
2680	<listitem>
2681	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2682	</listitem>
2683
2684	<listitem>
2685	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2686	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2687	</listitem>
2688
2689	<listitem>
2690	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2691	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2692	</listitem>
2693
2694	<listitem>
2695	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2696	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2697	</listitem>
2698
2699	<listitem>
2700	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2701	(bug #2723)</para>
2702	</listitem>
2703
2704	<listitem>
2705	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2706	</listitem>
2707
2708	<listitem>
2709	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2710	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2711	</listitem>
2712
2713	<listitem>
2714	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2715	optional manifest file on import</para>
2716	</listitem>
2717
2718	<listitem>
2719	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2720	</listitem>
2721
2722	<listitem>
2723	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2724	(bug #3773)</para>
2725	</listitem>
2726
2727	<listitem>
2728	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2729	</listitem>
2730
2731	<listitem>
2732	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2733	</listitem>
2734
2735	<listitem>
2736	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2737	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2738	</listitem>
2739
2740	<listitem>
2741	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2742	(bug #4866)</para>
2743	</listitem>
2744
2745	<listitem>
2746	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2747	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2748	</listitem>
2749
2750	<listitem>
2751	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2752	certain conditions</para>
2753	</listitem>
2754
2755	<listitem>
2756	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2757	</listitem>
2758
2759	<listitem>
2760	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2761	</listitem>
2762
2763	<listitem>
2764	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2765	</listitem>
2766
2767	<listitem>
2768	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2769	</listitem>
2770
2771	<listitem>
2772	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2773	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2774	</listitem>
2775
2776	<listitem>
2777	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2782	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2783	</listitem>
2784
2785	<listitem>
2786	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2787	</listitem>
2788
2789	<listitem>
2790	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2791	</listitem>
2792
2793	<listitem>
2794	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2795	</listitem>
2796
2797	<listitem>
2798	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2799	</listitem>
2800
2801	<listitem>
2802	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2803	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2804	</listitem>
2805
2806	<listitem>
2807	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2808	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2809	(bug #928)</para>
2810	</listitem>
2811
2812	<listitem>
2813	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2814	</listitem>
2815
2816	</itemizedlist>
2817
2818	</sect1>
2819
2820	<sect1>
2821	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2822
2823	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2824	added:</para>
2825
2826	<itemizedlist>
2827
2828	<listitem>
2829	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2830	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2835	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2836	</listitem>
2837
2838	<listitem>
2839	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2840	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2841	</listitem>
2842
2843	<listitem>
2844	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2845	enabled</para>
2846	</listitem>
2847
2848	<listitem>
2849	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2850	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2851	</listitem>
2852
2853	<listitem>
2854	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2855	(bug #2676)</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2860	is connected to a raw file</para>
2861	</listitem>
2862
2863	<listitem>
2864	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2865	(bug #5355)</para>
2866	</listitem>
2867
2868	<listitem>
2869	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2870	</listitem>
2871
2872	<listitem>
2873	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2874	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2875	</listitem>
2876
2877	<listitem>
2878	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2879	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2880	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2881	</listitem>
2882
2883	<listitem>
2884	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2885	</listitem>
2886
2887	<listitem>
2888	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2889	</listitem>
2890
2891	<listitem>
2892	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2893	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
2894	</listitem>
2895
2896	<listitem>
2897	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
2898	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
2899	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
2900	</listitem>
2901
2902	</itemizedlist>
2903
2904	</sect1>
2905
2906	<sect1>
2907	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
2908
2909	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2910	added:</para>
2911
2912	<itemizedlist>
2913
2914	<listitem>
2915	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
2916	</listitem>
2917
2918	<listitem>
2919	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
2920	</listitem>
2921
2922	<listitem>
2923	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
2924	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
2925	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
2926	</listitem>
2927
2928	<listitem>
2929	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
2930	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
2931	</listitem>
2932
2933	<listitem>
2934	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
2935	</listitem>
2936
2937	<listitem>
2938	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
2939	</listitem>
2940
2941	<listitem>
2942	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
2943	</listitem>
2944
2945	<listitem>
2946	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
2947	</listitem>
2948
2949	<listitem>
2950	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
2951	</listitem>
2952
2953	<listitem>
2954	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
2955	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
2956	</listitem>
2957
2958	<listitem>
2959	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
2960	</listitem>
2961
2962	<listitem>
2963	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
2964	</listitem>
2965
2966	<listitem>
2967	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
2968	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
2969	</listitem>
2970
2971	<listitem>
2972	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
2973	</listitem>
2974
2975	<listitem>
2976	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
2977	exhaustion</para>
2978	</listitem>
2979
2980	<listitem>
2981	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
2982	</listitem>
2983
2984	<listitem>
2985	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
2986	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
2991	folders (bug #4106)</para>
2992	</listitem>
2993
2994	<listitem>
2995	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
2996	folders (bug #4299)</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
3001	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
3002	(bug #2921)</para>
3003	</listitem>
3004
3005	<listitem>
3006	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
3007	hosts only)</para>
3008	</listitem>
3009
3010	<listitem>
3011	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
3012	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
3013	</listitem>
3014
3015	<listitem>
3016	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
3017	</listitem>
3018
3019	<listitem>
3020	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
3021	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
3022	</listitem>
3023
3024	<listitem>
3025	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
3030	image inconsistency </para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
3035	</listitem>
3036
3037	<listitem>
3038	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
3039	</listitem>
3040
3041	<listitem>
3042	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
3043	(bug #2025)</para>
3044	</listitem>
3045
3046	<listitem>
3047	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
3048	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
3049	</listitem>
3050
3051	</itemizedlist>
3052
3053	</sect1>
3054
3055	<sect1>
3056	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
3057
3058	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3059	added:</para>
3060
3061	<itemizedlist>
3062
3063	<listitem>
3064	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
3065	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
3066	</listitem>
3067
3068	<listitem>
3069	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
3070	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
3071	</listitem>
3072
3073	<listitem>
3074	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
3075	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
3076	</listitem>
3077
3078	<listitem>
3079	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
3084	software virtualization only) </para>
3085	</listitem>
3086
3087	<listitem>
3088	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
3089	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
3090	</listitem>
3091
3092	<listitem>
3093	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
3094	with root privileges</para>
3095	</listitem>
3096
3097	<listitem>
3098	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
3099	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
3100	</listitem>
3101
3102	<listitem>
3103	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
3104	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
3105	</listitem>
3106
3107	<listitem>
3108	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
3109	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
3110	</listitem>
3111
3112	<listitem>
3113	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
3114	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
3115	selector (bug #5063)</para>
3116	</listitem>
3117
3118	<listitem>
3119	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
3120	available</para>
3121	</listitem>
3122
3123	<listitem>
3124	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
3125	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
3126	</listitem>
3127
3128	<listitem>
3129	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
3130	networking (bug #4775)</para>
3131	</listitem>
3132
3133	<listitem>
3134	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
3135	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
3136	</listitem>
3137
3138	<listitem>
3139	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
3140	(bug #4907)</para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
3145	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
3146	</listitem>
3147
3148	<listitem>
3149	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
3150	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
3151	</listitem>
3152
3153	<listitem>
3154	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
3155	</listitem>
3156
3157	<listitem>
3158	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
3159	</listitem>
3160
3161	<listitem>
3162	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
3163	</listitem>
3164
3165	<listitem>
3166	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
3167	</listitem>
3168
3169	<listitem>
3170	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
3171	are installed</para>
3172	</listitem>
3173
3174	<listitem>
3175	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
3176	(bug #4771)</para>
3177	</listitem>
3178
3179	<listitem>
3180	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
3181	</listitem>
3182
3183	<listitem>
3184	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
3185	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
3190	command</para>
3191	</listitem>
3192
3193	<listitem>
3194	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3195	</listitem>
3196
3197	<listitem>
3198	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3199	</listitem>
3200
3201	<listitem>
3202	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3203	(bug #5089)</para>
3204	</listitem>
3205
3206	<listitem>
3207	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3208	</listitem>
3209
3210	</itemizedlist>
3211
3212	</sect1>
3213
3214	<sect1>
3215	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3216
3217	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3218	added:</para>
3219
3220	<itemizedlist>
3221
3222	<listitem>
3223	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3224	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3225	</listitem>
3226
3227	<listitem>
3228	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3229	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3230	</listitem>
3231
3232	<listitem>
3233	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3234	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3235	</listitem>
3236
3237	<listitem>
3238	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3239	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3240	</listitem>
3241
3242	<listitem>
3243	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3244	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3245	</listitem>
3246
3247	<listitem>
3248	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3249	</listitem>
3250
3251	<listitem>
3252	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3253	</listitem>
3254
3255	<listitem>
3256	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3257	</listitem>
3258
3259	<listitem>
3260	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3261	</listitem>
3262
3263	<listitem>
3264	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3269	onlined or offlined</para>
3270	</listitem>
3271
3272	<listitem>
3273	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3278	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3279	</listitem>
3280
3281	<listitem>
3282	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3283	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3284	</listitem>
3285
3286	<listitem>
3287	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3288	</listitem>
3289
3290	<listitem>
3291	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3292	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3293	</listitem>
3294
3295	<listitem>
3296	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	<listitem>
3300	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3301	</listitem>
3302
3303	<listitem>
3304	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3305	</listitem>
3306
3307	<listitem>
3308	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3309	</listitem>
3310
3311	<listitem>
3312	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3313	</listitem>
3314
3315	<listitem>
3316	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3317	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3318	</listitem>
3319
3320	<listitem>
3321	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3322	</listitem>
3323
3324	<listitem>
3325	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3326	</listitem>
3327
3328	<listitem>
3329	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3330	</listitem>
3331
3332	<listitem>
3333	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3334	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3339	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3344	</listitem>
3345
3346	<listitem>
3347	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3348	</listitem>
3349
3350	<listitem>
3351	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3352	</listitem>
3353
3354	<listitem>
3355	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3356	</listitem>
3357
3358	<listitem>
3359	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3360	</listitem>
3361
3362	<listitem>
3363	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3368	</listitem>
3369
3370	<listitem>
3371	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3372	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3373	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3374	phase collapse</para>
3375	</listitem>
3376
3377	<listitem>
3378	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3379	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3384	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3393	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3398	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3399	</listitem>
3400
3401	<listitem>
3402	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3407	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3408	#4698, #4790)</para>
3409	</listitem>
3410
3411	<listitem>
3412	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3413	less than the configured range</para>
3414	</listitem>
3415
3416	<listitem>
3417	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3426	</listitem>
3427
3428	<listitem>
3429	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3430	</listitem>
3431
3432	<listitem>
3433	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3434	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3435	</listitem>
3436
3437	<listitem>
3438	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3439	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3440	</listitem>
3441
3442	<listitem>
3443	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3444	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3445	</listitem>
3446
3447	<listitem>
3448	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3449	</listitem>
3450
3451	<listitem>
3452	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3453	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3458	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3459	</listitem>
3460
3461	<listitem>
3462	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3463	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3464	</listitem>
3465
3466	<listitem>
3467	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3468	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3469	</listitem>
3470
3471	<listitem>
3472	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3473	</listitem>
3474
3475	<listitem>
3476	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	</itemizedlist>
3480
3481	</sect1>
3482
3483	<sect1>
3484	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3485
3486	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3487	added:</para>
3488
3489	<itemizedlist>
3490
3491	<listitem>
3492	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3493	</listitem>
3494
3495	<listitem>
3496	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3497	</listitem>
3498
3499	<listitem>
3500	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3501	</listitem>
3502
3503	<listitem>
3504	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3505	</listitem>
3506
3507	<listitem>
3508	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	<listitem>
3512	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3513	</listitem>
3514
3515	<listitem>
3516	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3517	</listitem>
3518
3519	<listitem>
3520	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3521	</listitem>
3522
3523	<listitem>
3524	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3525	</listitem>
3526
3527	<listitem>
3528	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3529	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3530	</listitem>
3531
3532	<listitem>
3533	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3534	</listitem>
3535
3536	<listitem>
3537	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3538	</listitem>
3539
3540	<listitem>
3541	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3542	</listitem>
3543
3544	<listitem>
3545	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3546	</listitem>
3547
3548	<listitem>
3549	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3550	</listitem>
3551
3552	<listitem>
3553	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3554	</listitem>
3555
3556	<listitem>
3557	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3558	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3559	</listitem>
3560
3561	<listitem>
3562	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3563	(bug #4654)</para>
3564	</listitem>
3565
3566	<listitem>
3567	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3568	</listitem>
3569
3570	<listitem>
3571	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3572	interfaces</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3577	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	<listitem>
3581	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3582	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3587	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3588	</listitem>
3589
3590	<listitem>
3591	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3592	(bug #1461)</para>
3593	</listitem>
3594
3595	<listitem>
3596	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3597	</listitem>
3598
3599	<listitem>
3600	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3601	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	<listitem>
3605	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3606	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3607	</listitem>
3608
3609	<listitem>
3610	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3611	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3612	</listitem>
3613
3614	<listitem>
3615	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3616	</listitem>
3617
3618	<listitem>
3619	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3620	</listitem>
3621
3622	<listitem>
3623	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3624	</listitem>
3625
3626	<listitem>
3627	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3628	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3629	</listitem>
3630
3631	<listitem>
3632	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3633	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3634	</listitem>
3635
3636	<listitem>
3637	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3638	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3639	</listitem>
3640
3641	<listitem>
3642	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3643	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3644	</listitem>
3645
3646	</itemizedlist>
3647
3648	</sect1>
3649	<sect1>
3650	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3651
3652	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3653	added:</para>
3654
3655	<itemizedlist>
3656
3657	<listitem>
3658	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3659	</listitem>
3660
3661	<listitem>
3662	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3663	</listitem>
3664
3665	<listitem>
3666	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3667	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3668	</listitem>
3669
3670	<listitem>
3671	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3672	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3673	</listitem>
3674
3675	<listitem>
3676	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3681	</listitem>
3682
3683	<listitem>
3684	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3685	</listitem>
3686
3687	<listitem>
3688	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3689	</listitem>
3690
3691	<listitem>
3692	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3701	</listitem>
3702
3703	<listitem>
3704	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3705	</listitem>
3706
3707	<listitem>
3708	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3709	</listitem>
3710
3711	<listitem>
3712	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3713	</listitem>
3714
3715	<listitem>
3716	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3717	</listitem>
3718
3719	<listitem>
3720	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3721	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3722	</listitem>
3723
3724	<listitem>
3725	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3726	</listitem>
3727
3728	<listitem>
3729	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3730	</listitem>
3731
3732	<listitem>
3733	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3734	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3735	</listitem>
3736
3737	<listitem>
3738	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3739	</listitem>
3740
3741	<listitem>
3742	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3743	</listitem>
3744
3745	<listitem>
3746	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3747	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3748	</listitem>
3749
3750	<listitem>
3751	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3756	</listitem>
3757
3758	<listitem>
3759	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3760	</listitem>
3761
3762	<listitem>
3763	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3764	</listitem>
3765
3766	<listitem>
3767	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3768	</listitem>
3769
3770	<listitem>
3771	<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>
3772	</listitem>
3773
3774	</itemizedlist>
3775
3776	</sect1>
3777
3778	<sect1>
3779	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3780
3781	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3782	were added:</para>
3783
3784	<itemizedlist>
3785
3786	<listitem>
3787	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3788	</listitem>
3789
3790	<listitem>
3791	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3792	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3797	</listitem>
3798
3799	</itemizedlist>
3800
3801	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3802
3803	<itemizedlist>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3807	</listitem>
3808
3809	<listitem>
3810	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3811	certain conditions</para>
3812	</listitem>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3816	</listitem>
3817
3818	<listitem>
3819	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3820	</listitem>
3821
3822	<listitem>
3823	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3824	</listitem>
3825
3826	<listitem>
3827	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3828	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3829	</listitem>
3830
3831	<listitem>
3832	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3833	</listitem>
3834
3835	<listitem>
3836	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3837	</listitem>
3838
3839	<listitem>
3840	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3841	</listitem>
3842
3843	<listitem>
3844	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3845	</listitem>
3846
3847	<listitem>
3848	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3853	</listitem>
3854
3855	<listitem>
3856	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3857	</listitem>
3858
3859	<listitem>
3860	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3861	</listitem>
3862
3863	<listitem>
3864	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3865	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3866	</listitem>
3867
3868	<listitem>
3869	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3870	</listitem>
3871
3872	<listitem>
3873	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3874	</listitem>
3875
3876	<listitem>
3877	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3878	</listitem>
3879
3880	<listitem>
3881	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3882	</listitem>
3883
3884	<listitem>
3885	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3886	</listitem>
3887
3888	<listitem>
3889	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3890	</listitem>
3891
3892	<listitem>
3893	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
3894	</listitem>
3895
3896	<listitem>
3897	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
3898	</listitem>
3899
3900	<listitem>
3901	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
3902	</listitem>
3903
3904	<listitem>
3905	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
3906	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
3907	</listitem>
3908
3909	<listitem>
3910	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
3911	</listitem>
3912
3913	<listitem>
3914	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
3915	</listitem>
3916
3917	<listitem>
3918	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
3919	</listitem>
3920
3921	<listitem>
3922	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3923	</listitem>
3924
3925	<listitem>
3926	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
3927	</listitem>
3928
3929	<listitem>
3930	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
3931	</listitem>
3932
3933	<listitem>
3934	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
3935	</listitem>
3936
3937	<listitem>
3938	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
3939	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
3940	</listitem>
3941
3942	<listitem>
3943	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
3944	</listitem>
3945
3946	<listitem>
3947	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
3948	</listitem>
3949
3950	<listitem>
3951	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
3952	</listitem>
3953
3954	<listitem>
3955	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
3956	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
3957	</listitem>
3958
3959	<listitem>
3960	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
3961	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
3962	</listitem>
3963
3964	<listitem>
3965	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
3966	correct file mode when creating files</para>
3967	</listitem>
3968
3969	<listitem>
3970	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
3971	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
3972	</listitem>
3973
3974	<listitem>
3975	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
3976	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
3977	</listitem>
3978
3979	<listitem>
3980	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
3981	</listitem>
3982
3983	<listitem>
3984	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
3985	</listitem>
3986
3987	<listitem>
3988	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
3989	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
3994	guest property lookup</para>
3995	</listitem>
3996
3997	<listitem>
3998	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
3999	basic network information)</para>
4000	</listitem>
4001
4002	<listitem>
4003	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
4004	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
4005	</listitem>
4006
4007	<listitem>
4008	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
4009	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
4010	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
4011	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
4012	</listitem>
4013
4014	<listitem>
4015	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
4016	</listitem>
4017
4018	<listitem>
4019	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
4020	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
4021	web service</para>
4022	</listitem>
4023
4024	<listitem>
4025	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
4026	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
4031	unavailable</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
4036	</listitem>
4037
4038	</itemizedlist>
4039	</sect1>
4040
4041	<sect1>
4042	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
4043
4044	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4045	added:</para>
4046
4047	<itemizedlist>
4048
4049	<listitem>
4050	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
4051	installation</para>
4052	</listitem>
4053
4054	<listitem>
4055	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
4056	</listitem>
4057
4058	<listitem>
4059	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
4060	later (bug #3981)</para>
4061	</listitem>
4062
4063	<listitem>
4064	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
4065	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
4066	</listitem>
4067
4068	<listitem>
4069	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
4070	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
4071	(bug #4034)
4072	</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
4077	networking</para>
4078	</listitem>
4079
4080	<listitem>
4081	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
4082	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
4087	clicks</para>
4088	</listitem>
4089
4090	<listitem>
4091	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
4092	Windows 7 guests</para>
4093	</listitem>
4094
4095	<listitem>
4096	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
4097	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
4098	</listitem>
4099
4100	<listitem>
4101	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
4102	</listitem>
4103
4104	<listitem>
4105	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
4106	</listitem>
4107
4108	<listitem>
4109	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
4110	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
4111	</listitem>
4112
4113	<listitem>
4114	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
4115	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
4116	</listitem>
4117
4118	<listitem>
4119	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
4120	</listitem>
4121
4122	<listitem>
4123	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
4124	</listitem>
4125
4126	<listitem>
4127	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4128	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
4129	(bug #3864)</para>
4130	</listitem>
4131
4132	<listitem>
4133	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
4134	now flushes the output stream</para>
4135	</listitem>
4136
4137	<listitem>
4138	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
4139	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
4140	</listitem>
4141
4142	<listitem>
4143	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
4144	</listitem>
4145
4146	<listitem>
4147	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
4148	</listitem>
4149
4150	<listitem>
4151	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
4156	</listitem>
4157
4158	<listitem>
4159	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
4160	(bug #3964)</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
4165	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
4170	hosts</para>
4171	</listitem>
4172
4173	<listitem>
4174	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
4175	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
4176	e1000 adapter</para>
4177	</listitem>
4178
4179	<listitem>
4180	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
4181	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
4182	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
4183	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
4184	</listitem>
4185
4186	<listitem>
4187	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
4188	</listitem>
4189
4190	<listitem>
4191	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4196	</listitem>
4197
4198	<listitem>
4199	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4200	file (bug #1023)</para>
4201	</listitem>
4202
4203	<listitem>
4204	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4205	</listitem>
4206
4207	<listitem>
4208	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4209	</listitem>
4210
4211	</itemizedlist>
4212	</sect1>
4213
4214	<sect1>
4215	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4216
4217	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4218	added:</para>
4219
4220	<itemizedlist>
4221
4222	<listitem>
4223	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4224	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4225	</listitem>
4226
4227	<listitem>
4228	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4229	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4230	and later</para>
4231	</listitem>
4232
4233	<listitem>
4234	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4235	running services</para>
4236	</listitem>
4237
4238	<listitem>
4239	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4240	terminates</para>
4241	</listitem>
4242
4243	<listitem>
4244	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4245	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4246	</listitem>
4247
4248	<listitem>
4249	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4250	installed on the guest</para>
4251	</listitem>
4252
4253	<listitem>
4254	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4255	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4256	</listitem>
4257
4258	<listitem>
4259	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4260	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4261	</listitem>
4262
4263	<listitem>
4264	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4265	(bug #2628)</para>
4266	</listitem>
4267
4268	<listitem>
4269	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4270	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4271	</listitem>
4272
4273	<listitem>
4274	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4275	(bug #3657)</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	<listitem>
4279	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4280	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4285	virtualization only)
4286	</para>
4287	</listitem>
4288
4289	<listitem>
4290	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4291	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4292	</listitem>
4293
4294	<listitem>
4295	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4296	</listitem>
4297
4298	<listitem>
4299	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4300	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4301	</listitem>
4302
4303	<listitem>
4304	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4305	bug #3689)</para>
4306	</listitem>
4307
4308	<listitem>
4309	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4310	bug #3679)</para>
4311	</listitem>
4312
4313	<listitem>
4314	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4315	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4316	</listitem>
4317
4318	<listitem>
4319	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4320	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4321	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4322	</listitem>
4323
4324	<listitem>
4325	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4326	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4327	</listitem>
4328
4329	<listitem>
4330	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4331	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4332	</listitem>
4333
4334	<listitem>
4335	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4336	(bug #3667)</para>
4337	</listitem>
4338
4339	<listitem>
4340	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4341	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	<listitem>
4345	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4354	</listitem>
4355
4356	<listitem>
4357	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4358	</listitem>
4359
4360	<listitem>
4361	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4362	</listitem>
4363
4364	<listitem>
4365	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4366	</listitem>
4367
4368	<listitem>
4369	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4370	</listitem>
4371
4372	</itemizedlist>
4373	</sect1>
4374
4375	<sect1>
4376	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4377
4378	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4379	were added:</para>
4380
4381	<itemizedlist>
4382
4383	<listitem>
4384	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4385	</listitem>
4386
4387	<listitem>
4388	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4389	</listitem>
4390
4391	<listitem>
4392	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4393	</listitem>
4394
4395	<listitem>
4396	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4397	</listitem>
4398
4399	<listitem>
4400	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4401	</listitem>
4402
4403	<listitem>
4404	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4405	</listitem>
4406
4407	<listitem>
4408	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4409	</listitem>
4410
4411	<listitem>
4412	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4413	</listitem>
4414
4415	<listitem>
4416	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4417	</listitem>
4418
4419	<listitem>
4420	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4421	</listitem>
4422
4423	</itemizedlist>
4424
4425	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4426
4427	<itemizedlist>
4428
4429	<listitem>
4430	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4431	</listitem>
4432
4433	<listitem>
4434	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4435	</listitem>
4436
4437	<listitem>
4438	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4439	</listitem>
4440
4441	<listitem>
4442	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4443	</listitem>
4444
4445	<listitem>
4446	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4447	</listitem>
4448
4449	<listitem>
4450	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4451	</listitem>
4452
4453	<listitem>
4454	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4455	</listitem>
4456
4457	<listitem>
4458	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4459	</listitem>
4460
4461	<listitem>
4462	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4463	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4464	</listitem>
4465
4466	<listitem>
4467	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4472	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4473	</listitem>
4474
4475	<listitem>
4476	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4477	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4478	</listitem>
4479
4480	<listitem>
4481	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4482	</listitem>
4483
4484	<listitem>
4485	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4486	</listitem>
4487
4488	<listitem>
4489	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4490	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4491	</listitem>
4492
4493	<listitem>
4494	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4495	</listitem>
4496
4497	<listitem>
4498	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4499	ESX server images)</para>
4500	</listitem>
4501
4502	<listitem>
4503	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4504	writable</para>
4505	</listitem>
4506
4507	<listitem>
4508	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4509	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4510	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4511	</listitem>
4512
4513	<listitem>
4514	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4515	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4516	</listitem>
4517
4518	<listitem>
4519	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4520	</listitem>
4521
4522	<listitem>
4523	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4524	</listitem>
4525
4526	<listitem>
4527	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4528	hosts when creating files</para>
4529	</listitem>
4530
4531	<listitem>
4532	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4533	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4534	</listitem>
4535
4536	<listitem>
4537	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4538	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4539	#2306)</para>
4540	</listitem>
4541
4542	<listitem>
4543	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4544	(bug #3555)</para>
4545	</listitem>
4546
4547	<listitem>
4548	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4549	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4550	</listitem>
4551
4552	<listitem>
4553	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4554	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4555	</listitem>
4556
4557	<listitem>
4558	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4559	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4560	</listitem>
4561
4562	<listitem>
4563	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4564	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4565	</listitem>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4569	(bug #3586)</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4574	from Scratch systems</para>
4575	</listitem>
4576
4577	<listitem>
4578	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4579	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4580	</listitem>
4581
4582	<listitem>
4583	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4584	</listitem>
4585
4586	<listitem>
4587	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4588	default to compact format</para>
4589	</listitem>
4590
4591	<listitem>
4592	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4593	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4594	</listitem>
4595
4596	<listitem>
4597	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4598	</listitem>
4599
4600	<listitem>
4601	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4602	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4603	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4604	</listitem>
4605
4606	<listitem>
4607	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4608	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4609	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4610	</listitem>
4611
4612	<listitem>
4613	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4614	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4615	</listitem>
4616
4617	<listitem>
4618	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4619	</listitem>
4620
4621	<listitem>
4622	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4623	</listitem>
4624
4625	<listitem>
4626	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4627	</listitem>
4628
4629	<listitem>
4630	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4631	</listitem>
4632
4633	<listitem>
4634	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4635	</listitem>
4636
4637	<listitem>
4638	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4639	</listitem>
4640
4641	<listitem>
4642	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4643	</listitem>
4644
4645	<listitem>
4646	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4647	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4648	</listitem>
4649
4650	<listitem>
4651	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4652	</listitem>
4653
4654	<listitem>
4655	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4656	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4657	</listitem>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4665	</listitem>
4666
4667	<listitem>
4668	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4669	</listitem>
4670
4671	<listitem>
4672	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4673	#2536)</para>
4674	</listitem>
4675
4676	<listitem>
4677	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4678	</listitem>
4679
4680	<listitem>
4681	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4682	(bug #3548)</para>
4683	</listitem>
4684
4685	</itemizedlist>
4686	</sect1>
4687
4688	<sect1>
4689	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4690
4691	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4692	added:</para>
4693
4694	<itemizedlist>
4695
4696	<listitem>
4697	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4698	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4699	</listitem>
4700
4701	<listitem>
4702	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4703	</listitem>
4704
4705	<listitem>
4706	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4707	</listitem>
4708
4709	<listitem>
4710	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4711	</listitem>
4712
4713	<listitem>
4714	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4715	(bug #3115)</para>
4716	</listitem>
4717
4718	<listitem>
4719	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4720	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4721	</listitem>
4722
4723	<listitem>
4724	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4725	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4726	(bug #3215)</para>
4727	</listitem>
4728
4729	<listitem>
4730	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4731	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4736	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4737	</listitem>
4738
4739	<listitem>
4740	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4741	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4742	</listitem>
4743
4744	<listitem>
4745	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4746	in parallel</para>
4747	</listitem>
4748
4749	<listitem>
4750	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4751	</listitem>
4752
4753	<listitem>
4754	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4755	</listitem>
4756
4757	<listitem>
4758	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4759	</listitem>
4760
4761	<listitem>
4762	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4763	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4764	</listitem>
4765
4766	<listitem>
4767	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4768	</listitem>
4769
4770	<listitem>
4771	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4772	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4773	</listitem>
4774
4775	<listitem>
4776	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4777	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4778	</listitem>
4779
4780	<listitem>
4781	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4782	</listitem>
4783
4784	<listitem>
4785	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4786	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4787	</listitem>
4788
4789	<listitem>
4790	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4791	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4792	</listitem>
4793
4794	<listitem>
4795	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4796	</listitem>
4797
4798	<listitem>
4799	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4800	</listitem>
4801
4802	<listitem>
4803	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4804	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4805	</listitem>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	<listitem>
4812	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4813	</listitem>
4814
4815	<listitem>
4816	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4817	</listitem>
4818
4819	<listitem>
4820	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4821	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4830	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4831	</listitem>
4832
4833	<listitem>
4834	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4839	</listitem>
4840
4841	<listitem>
4842	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4843	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4844	</listitem>
4845
4846	<listitem>
4847	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4848	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4849	</listitem>
4850
4851	<listitem>
4852	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4853	</listitem>
4854
4855	<listitem>
4856	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4857	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4858	</listitem>
4859
4860	<listitem>
4861	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4862	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4863	</listitem>
4864
4865	<listitem>
4866	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4867	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4868	</listitem>
4869
4870	<listitem>
4871	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4872	(bug #3213)</para>
4873	</listitem>
4874
4875	<listitem>
4876	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4877	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4878	</listitem>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4882	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	</itemizedlist>
4886	</sect1>
4887
4888	<sect1>
4889	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4890
4891	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4892	added:</para>
4893
4894	<itemizedlist>
4895
4896	<listitem>
4897	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
4902	</listitem>
4903
4904	<listitem>
4905	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
4906	</listitem>
4907
4908	<listitem>
4909	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
4910	</listitem>
4911
4912	<listitem>
4913	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
4914	</listitem>
4915
4916	<listitem>
4917	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
4918	</listitem>
4919
4920	<listitem>
4921	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
4922	</listitem>
4923
4924	<listitem>
4925	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
4926	</listitem>
4927
4928	<listitem>
4929	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
4930	</listitem>
4931
4932	<listitem>
4933	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
4934	</listitem>
4935
4936	<listitem>
4937	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
4938	</listitem>
4939
4940	<listitem>
4941	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
4942	</listitem>
4943
4944	<listitem>
4945	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
4946	</listitem>
4947
4948	<listitem>
4949	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
4950	</listitem>
4951
4952	<listitem>
4953	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
4954	</listitem>
4955
4956	<listitem>
4957	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
4962	(bug #3067)</para>
4963	</listitem>
4964
4965	<listitem>
4966	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
4967	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
4968	</listitem>
4969
4970	<listitem>
4971	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
4972	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
4973	</listitem>
4974
4975	<listitem>
4976	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
4977	</listitem>
4978
4979	<listitem>
4980	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
4981	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
4982	</listitem>
4983
4984	<listitem>
4985	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
4986	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4987	</listitem>
4988
4989	<listitem>
4990	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
4991	</listitem>
4992
4993	<listitem>
4994	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
4995	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
4996	</listitem>
4997
4998	<listitem>
4999	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
5000	</listitem>
5001
5002	<listitem>
5003	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
5004	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
5005	</listitem>
5006
5007	<listitem>
5008	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
5009	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
5010	</listitem>
5011
5012	<listitem>
5013	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
5014	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
5015	</para>
5016	</listitem>
5017
5018	<listitem>
5019	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
5020	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
5021	</para>
5022	</listitem>
5023
5024	<listitem>
5025	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
5026	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
5027	</para>
5028	</listitem>
5029
5030	<listitem>
5031	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
5032	</listitem>
5033
5034	<listitem>
5035	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
5036	</listitem>
5037
5038	<listitem>
5039	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
5040	</listitem>
5041
5042	<listitem>
5043	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
5044	</listitem>
5045
5046	<listitem>
5047	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
5048	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
5049	</listitem>
5050
5051	<listitem>
5052	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
5053	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
5054	</listitem>
5055
5056	<listitem>
5057	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
5058	formatting a drive</para>
5059	</listitem>
5060
5061	<listitem>
5062	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
5063	</listitem>
5064
5065	<listitem>
5066	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
5067	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5068	</listitem>
5069
5070	<listitem>
5071	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
5072	</listitem>
5073
5074	<listitem>
5075	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
5076	</listitem>
5077
5078	<listitem>
5079	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5080	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
5081	</listitem>
5082
5083	<listitem>
5084	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
5085	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
5086	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
5087	</listitem>
5088
5089	<listitem>
5090	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
5091	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
5092	</listitem>
5093
5094	<listitem>
5095	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
5096	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
5097	</listitem>
5098
5099	<listitem>
5100	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
5101	(bug #2768)</para>
5102	</listitem>
5103
5104	<listitem>
5105	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
5106	</listitem>
5107
5108	<listitem>
5109	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
5110	</listitem>
5111
5112	<listitem>
5113	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
5114	single, unified package</para>
5115	</listitem>
5116
5117	<listitem>
5118	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
5119	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
5120	</listitem>
5121
5122	<listitem>
5123	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
5124	</listitem>
5125
5126	<listitem>
5127	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
5128	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
5129	</listitem>
5130
5131	<listitem>
5132	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
5133	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
5134	</listitem>
5135
5136	<listitem>
5137	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
5138	</listitem>
5139
5140	<listitem>
5141	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
5142	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
5143	doing 3D</para>
5144	</listitem>
5145
5146	<listitem>
5147	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
5148	</listitem>
5149
5150	<listitem>
5151	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
5152	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
5153	</listitem>
5154
5155	<listitem>
5156	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
5157	</listitem>
5158
5159	<listitem>
5160	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
5161	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
5162	</listitem>
5163
5164	<listitem>
5165	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
5166	</listitem>
5167
5168	<listitem>
5169	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
5170	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
5171	</listitem>
5172
5173	<listitem>
5174	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
5175	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
5176	(bug #2938)</para>
5177	</listitem>
5178
5179	<listitem>
5180	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
5181	Linux guests</para>
5182	</listitem>
5183
5184	<listitem>
5185	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
5186	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
5187	(bug #1776)</para>
5188	</listitem>
5189
5190	<listitem>
5191	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
5192	(bug #1612)</para>
5193	</listitem>
5194
5195	<listitem>
5196	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5197	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5198	</listitem>
5199
5200	<listitem>
5201	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5202	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5203	</listitem>
5204
5205	<listitem>
5206	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5207	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5208	</listitem>
5209
5210	</itemizedlist>
5211	</sect1>
5212
5213	<sect1>
5214	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5215
5216	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5217	were added:</para>
5218
5219	<itemizedlist>
5220	<listitem>
5221	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5222	</listitem>
5223
5224	<listitem>
5225	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5226	</listitem>
5227
5228	<listitem>
5229	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5230	</listitem>
5231
5232	<listitem>
5233	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5234	</listitem>
5235
5236	<listitem>
5237	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5238	</listitem>
5239
5240	<listitem>
5241	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5242	</listitem>
5243
5244	<listitem>
5245	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5246	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5247	</listitem>
5248
5249	<listitem>
5250	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5251	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5252	</listitem>
5253
5254	</itemizedlist>
5255
5256	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5257
5258	<itemizedlist>
5259	<listitem>
5260	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5261	</listitem>
5262
5263	<listitem>
5264	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5265	</listitem>
5266
5267	<listitem>
5268	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5269	</listitem>
5270
5271	<listitem>
5272	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5273	</listitem>
5274
5275	<listitem>
5276	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5277	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5278	</listitem>
5279
5280	<listitem>
5281	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5282	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5283	</listitem>
5284
5285	<listitem>
5286	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5287	</listitem>
5288
5289	<listitem>
5290	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5291	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5292	</listitem>
5293
5294	<listitem>
5295	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5296	</listitem>
5297
5298	<listitem>
5299	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5300	</listitem>
5301
5302	<listitem>
5303	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5304	</listitem>
5305
5306	<listitem>
5307	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5308	</listitem>
5309
5310	<listitem>
5311	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5312	</listitem>
5313
5314	<listitem>
5315	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5316	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5317	</listitem>
5318
5319	<listitem>
5320	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5321	the compiz window manager</para>
5322	</listitem>
5323
5324	<listitem>
5325	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5326	</listitem>
5327
5328	<listitem>
5329	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5330	</listitem>
5331
5332	<listitem>
5333	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5334	</listitem>
5335
5336	<listitem>
5337	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5338	</listitem>
5339
5340	<listitem>
5341	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5342	</listitem>
5343
5344	<listitem>
5345	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5346	</listitem>
5347
5348	<listitem>
5349	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5350	</listitem>
5351
5352	<listitem>
5353	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5354	</listitem>
5355
5356	<listitem>
5357	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5358	</listitem>
5359
5360	<listitem>
5361	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5362	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5363	</listitem>
5364
5365	<listitem>
5366	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5367	for direct device access</para>
5368	</listitem>
5369
5370	<listitem>
5371	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5372	</listitem>
5373
5374	<listitem>
5375	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5376	</listitem>
5377
5378	<listitem>
5379	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5380	</listitem>
5381
5382	<listitem>
5383	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5384	</listitem>
5385
5386	<listitem>
5387	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5388	</listitem>
5389
5390	<listitem>
5391	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5392	</listitem>
5393
5394	<listitem>
5395	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5396	</listitem>
5397
5398	<listitem>
5399	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5400	</listitem>
5401
5402	</itemizedlist>
5403	</sect1>
5404
5405	<sect1>
5406	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5407
5408	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5409	added:</para>
5410
5411	<itemizedlist>
5412
5413	<listitem>
5414	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5415	states/snapshots</para>
5416	</listitem>
5417
5418	<listitem>
5419	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5420	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5421	</listitem>
5422
5423	<listitem>
5424	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5425	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5426	</listitem>
5427
5428	<listitem>
5429	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5430	collisions</para>
5431	</listitem>
5432
5433	<listitem>
5434	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5435	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5436	</listitem>
5437
5438	<listitem>
5439	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5440	</listitem>
5441
5442	<listitem>
5443	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5444	reliably</para>
5445	</listitem>
5446
5447	<listitem>
5448	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5449	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5450	</listitem>
5451
5452	<listitem>
5453	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5454	a reboot</para>
5455	</listitem>
5456
5457	<listitem>
5458	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5463	in parallel</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5472	correctly</para>
5473	</listitem>
5474
5475	<listitem>
5476	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5477	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	</itemizedlist>
5481	</sect1>
5482
5483	<sect1>
5484	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5485
5486	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5487	added:</para>
5488
5489	<itemizedlist>
5490
5491	<listitem>
5492	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5493	(bug #2220)</para>
5494	</listitem>
5495
5496	<listitem>
5497	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5498	</listitem>
5499
5500	<listitem>
5501	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5502	</listitem>
5503
5504	<listitem>
5505	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5506	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5507	</listitem>
5508
5509	<listitem>
5510	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5511	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5512	</listitem>
5513
5514	<listitem>
5515	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5516	(bug #2624)</para>
5517	</listitem>
5518
5519	<listitem>
5520	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5521	(bug #2024)</para>
5522	</listitem>
5523
5524	<listitem>
5525	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5526	</listitem>
5527
5528	<listitem>
5529	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5530	</listitem>
5531
5532	<listitem>
5533	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5534	</listitem>
5535
5536	<listitem>
5537	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5538	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5539	</listitem>
5540
5541	<listitem>
5542	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5543	applications when updating the installation</para>
5544	</listitem>
5545
5546	<listitem>
5547	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5548	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5549	</listitem>
5550
5551	<listitem>
5552	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5553	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5554	</listitem>
5555
5556	<listitem>
5557	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5558	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5559	</listitem>
5560
5561	<listitem>
5562	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5563	connected to a host device</para>
5564	</listitem>
5565
5566	<listitem>
5567	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5568	</listitem>
5569
5570	<listitem>
5571	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5572	</listitem>
5573
5574	<listitem>
5575	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5576	</listitem>
5577
5578	<listitem>
5579	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5580	when using native RDP connections</para>
5581	</listitem>
5582
5583	<listitem>
5584	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5585	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5586	</listitem>
5587
5588	<listitem>
5589	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5590	(bug #2591)</para>
5591	</listitem>
5592
5593	<listitem>
5594	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5595	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5596	</listitem>
5597
5598	<listitem>
5599	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	</itemizedlist>
5603	</sect1>
5604
5605	<sect1>
5606	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5607
5608	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5609	added:</para>
5610
5611	<itemizedlist>
5612	<listitem>
5613	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5614	</listitem>
5615
5616	<listitem>
5617	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5618	</listitem>
5619
5620	<listitem>
5621	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5622	</listitem>
5623
5624	<listitem>
5625	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5626	</listitem>
5627
5628	<listitem>
5629	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5630	</listitem>
5631
5632	<listitem>
5633	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5634	</listitem>
5635
5636	<listitem>
5637	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5638	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5639	</listitem>
5640
5641	<listitem>
5642	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5643	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5644	</listitem>
5645
5646	<listitem>
5647	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5648	</listitem>
5649
5650	<listitem>
5651	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5652	equal to the client resolution</para>
5653	</listitem>
5654
5655	<listitem>
5656	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5657	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5658	</listitem>
5659
5660	<listitem>
5661	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5662	</listitem>
5663
5664	<listitem>
5665	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5666	</listitem>
5667
5668	<listitem>
5669	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5670	</listitem>
5671
5672	<listitem>
5673	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5674	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5675	</listitem>
5676
5677	<listitem>
5678	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5679	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5680	</listitem>
5681
5682	<listitem>
5683	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5684	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	<listitem>
5688	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5689	</listitem>
5690
5691	<listitem>
5692	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5693	</listitem>
5694
5695	<listitem>
5696	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5697	</listitem>
5698
5699	<listitem>
5700	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5701	</listitem>
5702
5703	<listitem>
5704	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5705	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5706	</listitem>
5707
5708	<listitem>
5709	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5710	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5711	</listitem>
5712
5713	<listitem>
5714	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5715	</listitem>
5716
5717	<listitem>
5718	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5719	</listitem>
5720
5721	<listitem>
5722	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5723	</listitem>
5724
5725	</itemizedlist>
5726
5727	</sect1>
5728
5729	<sect1>
5730	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5731
5732	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5733	added:</para>
5734
5735	<itemizedlist>
5736
5737	<listitem>
5738	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5739	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5740	</listitem>
5741
5742	<listitem>
5743	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5744	</listitem>
5745
5746	<listitem>
5747	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5748	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5753	</listitem>
5754
5755	<listitem>
5756	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5757	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5758	</listitem>
5759
5760	<listitem>
5761	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5762	</listitem>
5763
5764	<listitem>
5765	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5766	the virtual disk manager</para>
5767	</listitem>
5768
5769	<listitem>
5770	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5771	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5772	</listitem>
5773
5774	<listitem>
5775	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5776	</listitem>
5777
5778	<listitem>
5779	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5780	</listitem>
5781
5782	<listitem>
5783	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5784	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5785	</listitem>
5786
5787	<listitem>
5788	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5789	bug #2067)</para>
5790	</listitem>
5791
5792	<listitem>
5793	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5798	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	<listitem>
5802	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5803	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5804	(bug #2184)</para>
5805	</listitem>
5806
5807	<listitem>
5808	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5809	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5810	</listitem>
5811
5812	<listitem>
5813	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5814	(Windows guests only)</para>
5815	</listitem>
5816
5817	<listitem>
5818	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5819	</listitem>
5820
5821	<listitem>
5822	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5827	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5828	</listitem>
5829
5830	<listitem>
5831	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5832	</listitem>
5833
5834	<listitem>
5835	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5836	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5837	</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5842	</listitem>
5843
5844	<listitem>
5845	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5846	</listitem>
5847
5848	<listitem>
5849	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5850	a VM reboot</para>
5851	</listitem>
5852
5853	<listitem>
5854	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5855	</listitem>
5856
5857	<listitem>
5858	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5859	buggy X servers</para>
5860	</listitem>
5861
5862	<listitem>
5863	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5864	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5865	</listitem>
5866
5867	<listitem>
5868	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5869	</listitem>
5870
5871	<listitem>
5872	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5873	(bug #2128)</para>
5874	</listitem>
5875
5876	<listitem>
5877	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5878	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5879	</listitem>
5880
5881	<listitem>
5882	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5883	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5884	</listitem>
5885
5886	<listitem>
5887	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5888	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5889	</listitem>
5890
5891	<listitem>
5892	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5893	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
5894	</listitem>
5895
5896	<listitem>
5897	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
5898	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
5899	</listitem>
5900
5901	<listitem>
5902	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
5903	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
5904	</listitem>
5905
5906	<listitem>
5907	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
5908	installer into a single package</para>
5909	</listitem>
5910
5911	<listitem>
5912	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
5913	port to the guest
5914	</para>
5915	</listitem>
5916
5917	</itemizedlist>
5918
5919	</sect1>
5920
5921	<sect1>
5922	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
5923
5924	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5925	were added:<itemizedlist>
5926
5927	<listitem>
5928	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
5929	</listitem>
5930
5931	<listitem>
5932	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5933	</listitem>
5934
5935	<listitem>
5936	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
5937	</listitem>
5938
5939	<listitem>
5940	<para>New-version notifier</para>
5941	</listitem>
5942
5943	<listitem>
5944	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
5945	</listitem>
5946
5947	<listitem>
5948	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5949	</listitem>
5950
5951	<listitem>
5952	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
5953	</listitem>
5954
5955	<listitem>
5956	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
5957	</listitem>
5958
5959	<listitem>
5960	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
5961	</listitem>
5962
5963	<listitem>
5964	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
5965	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
5966	</listitem>
5967
5968	<listitem>
5969	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
5970	</listitem>
5971
5972	<listitem>
5973	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
5974	</listitem>
5975
5976	<listitem>
5977	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
5978	</listitem>
5979
5980	</itemizedlist></para>
5981
5982	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5983
5984	<itemizedlist>
5985
5986	<listitem>
5987	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
5988	</listitem>
5989
5990	<listitem>
5991	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
5992	</listitem>
5993
5994	<listitem>
5995	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
5996	</listitem>
5997
5998	<listitem>
5999	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
6000	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
6001	</listitem>
6002
6003	<listitem>
6004	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
6005	restored</para>
6006	</listitem>
6007
6008	<listitem>
6009	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
6010	</listitem>
6011
6012	<listitem>
6013	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
6014	</listitem>
6015
6016	<listitem>
6017	<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>
6018	</listitem>
6019
6020	</itemizedlist>
6021
6022	</sect1>
6023
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