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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</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>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
28	</listitem>
29
30	<listitem>
31	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
32	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
33	</listitem>
34
35	<listitem>
36	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
37	an extension pack</para>
38	</listitem>
39
40	<listitem>
41	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
42	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
43	</listitem>
44
45	<listitem>
46	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
47	</listitem>
48
49	<listitem>
50	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
51	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
52	</listitem>
53
54	<listitem>
55	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
56	host-only interface</para>
57	</listitem>
58
59	<listitem>
60	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
61	and async I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
62	</listitem>
63
64	<listitem>
65	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
66	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
67	</listitem>
68
69	<listitem>
70	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
71	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
72	</listitem>
73
74	<listitem>
75	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
76	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
77	</listitem>
78
79	<listitem>
80	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
81	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
82	</listitem>
83
84	<listitem>
85	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
86	</listitem>
87
88	<listitem>
89	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
90	</listitem>
91
92	<listitem>
93	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
94	guests</para>
95	</listitem>
96
97	<listitem>
98	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
99	</listitem>
100
101	<listitem>
102	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
103	</listitem>
104
105	<listitem>
106	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
107	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
108	</listitem>
109
110	<listitem>
111	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
112	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
113	</listitem>
114
115	<listitem>
116	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
117	a VM start</para>
118	</listitem>
119
120	<listitem>
121	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
122	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
123	</listitem>
124
125	<listitem>
126	<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented
127	(bug #6067)</para>
128	</listitem>
129
130	<listitem>
131	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
132	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
133	</listitem>
134
135	<listitem>
136	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
137	not saved to machine XML</para>
138	</listitem>
139
140	<listitem>
141	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
142	#7983)</para>
143	</listitem>
144
145	<listitem>
146	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
147	#7981)</para>
148	</listitem>
149
150	<listitem>
151	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.</para>
152	</listitem>
153
154	<listitem>
155	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
156	regression)</para>
157	</listitem>
158
159	<listitem>
160	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
161	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
162	</listitem>
163
164	<listitem>
165	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
166	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
167	</listitem>
168
169	</itemizedlist>
170
171	</sect1>
172
173	<sect1>
174	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
175
176	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
177	were added:</para>
178
179	<itemizedlist>
180
181	<listitem>
182	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
191	<itemizedlist>
192	<listitem>
193	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
194	</listitem>
195
196	<listitem>
197	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
198	</listitem>
199
200	<listitem>
201	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
202	</listitem>
203
204	<listitem>
205	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
206	</listitem>
207
208	<listitem>
209	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
210	states, and optionally including attached
211	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
212	can do the same now)</para>
213	</listitem>
214
215	<listitem>
216	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	</itemizedlist>
220	</para>
221	</listitem>
222
223	<listitem>
224	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
225	</listitem>
226
227	<listitem>
228	<para>New virtual hardware:
229	<itemizedlist>
230	<listitem>
231	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
232	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
233	</listitem>
234
235	<listitem>
236	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
237	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
238	</listitem>
239	</itemizedlist>
240	</para>
241	</listitem>
242
243	<listitem>
244	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
245	<itemizedlist>
246	<listitem>
247	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
248	</listitem>
249
250	<listitem>
251	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
252	</para>
253	</listitem>
254
255	<listitem>
256	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
257	now</para>
258	</listitem>
259
260	<listitem>
261	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
262	</listitem>
263
264	</itemizedlist>
265	</para>
266	</listitem>
267
268	<listitem>
269	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
270	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
271	</listitem>
272
273	<listitem>
274	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
275	Parallels images</para>
276	</listitem>
277
278	<listitem>
279	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
280	</listitem>
281
282	<listitem>
283	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
284	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
285	</listitem>
286
287	<listitem>
288	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
289	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
290	</listitem>
291
292	</itemizedlist>
293
294	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
295
296	<itemizedlist>
297
298	<listitem>
299	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
300	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
301	</listitem>
302
303	<listitem>
304	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
305	</listitem>
306
307	<listitem>
308	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
309	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
310	</listitem>
311
312	<listitem>
313	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
314	(bug #1657)</para>
315	</listitem>
316
317	<listitem>
318	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
319	</listitem>
320
321	<listitem>
322	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
323	</listitem>
324
325	<listitem>
326	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
327	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
328	</listitem>
329
330	<listitem>
331	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
332	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
333	</listitem>
334
335	<listitem>
336	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
337	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
338	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
339	</listitem>
340
341	<listitem>
342	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
343	again (bug #6864)</para>
344	</listitem>
345
346	<listitem>
347	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
348	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
349	</listitem>
350
351	<listitem>
352	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
353	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
354	</listitem>
355
356	<listitem>
357	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
362	</listitem>
363
364	<listitem>
365	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
366	</listitem>
367
368	<listitem>
369	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
370	</listitem>
371
372	<listitem>
373	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
374	</listitem>
375
376	<listitem>
377	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
382	</listitem>
383
384	<listitem>
385	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
386	(bug #7058)</para>
387	</listitem>
388
389	<listitem>
390	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
391	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
396	circumstances</para>
397	</listitem>
398
399	<listitem>
400	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
401	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
402	#5578)
403	</para>
404	</listitem>
405
406	<listitem>
407	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
408	</listitem>
409
410	<listitem>
411	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
412	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
413	</listitem>
414
415	<listitem>
416	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
417	</listitem>
418
419	<listitem>
420	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
421	#6760)</para>
422	</listitem>
423
424	<listitem>
425	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
426	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
427	</listitem>
428
429	<listitem>
430	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
431	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
436	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
437	</listitem>
438
439	<listitem>
440	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
441	</listitem>
442
443	<listitem>
444	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
445	file</para>
446	</listitem>
447
448	<listitem>
449	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
450	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
451	</listitem>
452
453	</itemizedlist>
454
455	</sect1>
456
457	<sect1>
458	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
459
460	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
461	added:</para>
462
463	<itemizedlist>
464
465	<listitem>
466	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
467	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
468	</listitem>
469
470	<listitem>
471	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
472	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
473	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
474	</listitem>
475
476	<listitem>
477	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
478	</listitem>
479
480	<listitem>
481	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
482	</listitem>
483
484	<listitem>
485	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
486	</listitem>
487
488	<listitem>
489	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
490	the VM is running</para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	<listitem>
494	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
495	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
496	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
497	starting from a saved state</para>
498	</listitem>
499
500	<listitem>
501	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
502	</listitem>
503
504	<listitem>
505	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
506	</listitem>
507
508	<listitem>
509	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
510	</listitem>
511
512	<listitem>
513	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
514	</listitem>
515
516	<listitem>
517	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
518	</listitem>
519
520	<listitem>
521	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
522	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
523	</listitem>
524
525	<listitem>
526	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
527	fixes for Koran keyboards</para>
528	</listitem>
529
530	<listitem>
531	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
532	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
533	</listitem>
534
535	<listitem>
536	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
537	</listitem>
538
539	<listitem>
540	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
541	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
542	</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
547	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
548	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
549	</listitem>
550
551	<listitem>
552	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
553	only)</para>
554	</listitem>
555
556	<listitem>
557	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
558	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
559	</listitem>
560
561	<listitem>
562	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
563	</listitem>
564
565	<listitem>
566	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
571	</listitem>
572
573	<listitem>
574	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
575	state (bug #4124)</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	<listitem>
579	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
580	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
585	</listitem>
586
587	<listitem>
588	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
589	(bug #2996)</para>
590	</listitem>
591
592	<listitem>
593	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
594	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
595	</listitem>
596
597	<listitem>
598	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
599	</listitem>
600
601	<listitem>
602	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
603	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
604	</listitem>
605
606	<listitem>
607	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
608	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
609	</listitem>
610
611	<listitem>
612	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
613	user accounts for VM information</para>
614	</listitem>
615
616	</itemizedlist>
617
618	</sect1>
619
620	<sect1>
621	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
622
623	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
624	added:</para>
625
626	<itemizedlist>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
630	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
635	</listitem>
636
637	<listitem>
638	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
639	</listitem>
640
641	<listitem>
642	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
643	</listitem>
644
645	<listitem>
646	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
647	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
648	</listitem>
649
650	<listitem>
651	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
652	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
653	</listitem>
654
655	<listitem>
656	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
657	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
658	</listitem>
659
660	<listitem>
661	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
662	(bug #4952)</para>
663	</listitem>
664
665	<listitem>
666	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
667	bug #6122)</para>
668	</listitem>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
672	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
673	</listitem>
674
675	<listitem>
676	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
677	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
678	(Linux hosts only)</para>
679	</listitem>
680
681	<listitem>
682	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
683	</listitem>
684
685	<listitem>
686	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
687	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
688	</listitem>
689
690	<listitem>
691	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
692	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
693	</listitem>
694
695	<listitem>
696	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
697	canceled</para>
698	</listitem>
699
700	<listitem>
701	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
702	</listitem>
703
704	<listitem>
705	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
706	</listitem>
707
708	<listitem>
709	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
710	</listitem>
711
712	<listitem>
713	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
718	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
719	</listitem>
720
721	<listitem>
722	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
723	</listitem>
724
725	<listitem>
726	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
727	(Linux hosts only)</para>
728	</listitem>
729
730	<listitem>
731	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
732	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
733	</listitem>
734
735	<listitem>
736	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
737	</listitem>
738
739	<listitem>
740	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
741	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
742	</listitem>
743
744	<listitem>
745	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
746	</listitem>
747
748	<listitem>
749	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
750	circumstances</para>
751	</listitem>
752
753	<listitem>
754	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
755	printers</para>
756	</listitem>
757
758	<listitem>
759	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
760	</listitem>
761
762	<listitem>
763	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
764	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
765	</listitem>
766
767	<listitem>
768	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
769	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
770	</listitem>
771
772	<listitem>
773	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
774	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
775	circumstances</para>
776	</listitem>
777
778	<listitem>
779	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
780	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
781	</listitem>
782
783	<listitem>
784	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
785	as supported extension</para>
786	</listitem>
787
788	<listitem>
789	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
790	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
795	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
800	</listitem>
801
802	<listitem>
803	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
804	(bug #7366)</para>
805	</listitem>
806
807	<listitem>
808	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
809	</listitem>
810
811	<listitem>
812	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
813	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
814	</listitem>
815
816	<listitem>
817	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
818	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	<listitem>
822	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
823	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
824	</listitem>
825
826	<listitem>
827	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
828	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
829	</listitem>
830
831	<listitem>
832	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
833	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
834	</listitem>
835
836	<listitem>
837	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
838	</listitem>
839
840	<listitem>
841	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
842	</listitem>
843
844	<listitem>
845	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
846	more than one environment variable</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	<listitem>
850	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
851	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
852	</listitem>
853
854	<listitem>
855	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
856	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
857	</listitem>
858
859	<listitem>
860	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
861	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
862	</listitem>
863
864	<listitem>
865	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
866	enumerating logged in users</para>
867	</listitem>
868
869	<listitem>
870	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
871	</listitem>
872
873	<listitem>
874	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
875	</listitem>
876
877	<listitem>
878	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
879	</listitem>
880
881	<listitem>
882	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
883	in the event of a VM crash</para>
884	</listitem>
885
886	<listitem>
887	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
892	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
893	</listitem>
894
895	<listitem>
896	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
897	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
898	</listitem>
899
900	<listitem>
901	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
902	(bug #7448)</para>
903	</listitem>
904
905	<listitem>
906	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
907	</listitem>
908
909	<listitem>
910	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
911	</listitem>
912
913	<listitem>
914	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
915	</listitem>
916
917	</itemizedlist>
918
919	</sect1>
920
921	<sect1>
922	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
923
924	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
925	added:</para>
926
927	<itemizedlist>
928
929	<listitem>
930	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
931	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
932	</listitem>
933
934	<listitem>
935	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
936	</listitem>
937
938	<listitem>
939	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
940	bug #6809)</para>
941	</listitem>
942
943	<listitem>
944	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
949	</listitem>
950
951	<listitem>
952	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
953	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
954	</listitem>
955
956	<listitem>
957	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
958	changes</para>
959	</listitem>
960
961	<listitem>
962	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
963	</listitem>
964
965	<listitem>
966	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
967	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
968	</listitem>
969
970	<listitem>
971	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
972	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
973	</listitem>
974
975	<listitem>
976	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
977	</listitem>
978
979	<listitem>
980	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
981	</listitem>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
989	</listitem>
990
991	<listitem>
992	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
993	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
994	</listitem>
995
996	<listitem>
997	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
998	</listitem>
999
1000	<listitem>
1001	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
1002	(bug #6832)</para>
1003	</listitem>
1004
1005	<listitem>
1006	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
1007	guests</para>
1008	</listitem>
1009
1010	<listitem>
1011	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
1012	</listitem>
1013
1014	<listitem>
1015	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
1016	without external tools and tricks</para>
1017	</listitem>
1018
1019	<listitem>
1020	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
1021	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
1022	</listitem>
1023
1024	<listitem>
1025	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
1026	</listitem>
1027
1028	<listitem>
1029	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
1030	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
1031	</listitem>
1032
1033	<listitem>
1034	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
1035	shutdown</para>
1036	</listitem>
1037
1038	<listitem>
1039	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
1040	fixes</para>
1041	</listitem>
1042
1043	<listitem>
1044	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
1045	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
1046	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
1047	</para>
1048	</listitem>
1049
1050	<listitem>
1051	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
1052	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
1053	</listitem>
1054
1055	<listitem>
1056	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
1057	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
1058	</listitem>
1059
1060	<listitem>
1061	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
1062	</para>
1063	</listitem>
1064
1065	<listitem>
1066	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
1067	</listitem>
1068
1069	<listitem>
1070	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
1071	</listitem>
1072
1073	<listitem>
1074	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
1075	</listitem>
1076
1077	</itemizedlist>
1078
1079	</sect1>
1080
1081	<sect1>
1082	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
1083
1084	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1085	added:</para>
1086
1087	<itemizedlist>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
1091	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
1096	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
1101	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103
1104	<listitem>
1105	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
1106	</listitem>
1107
1108	<listitem>
1109	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
1110	</listitem>
1111
1112	<listitem>
1113	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
1114	</listitem>
1115
1116	<listitem>
1117	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
1118	</listitem>
1119
1120	<listitem>
1121	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
1122	assigned</para>
1123	</listitem>
1124
1125	<listitem>
1126	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
1127	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
1128	</listitem>
1129
1130	<listitem>
1131	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
1132	multiple screens are enabled</para>
1133	</listitem>
1134
1135	<listitem>
1136	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1137	</listitem>
1138
1139	<listitem>
1140	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
1141	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
1142	</listitem>
1143
1144	<listitem>
1145	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
1146	again (bug #7022).
1147	</para>
1148	</listitem>
1149
1150	<listitem>
1151	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
1152	(bug #6768)</para>
1153	</listitem>
1154
1155	<listitem>
1156	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
1157	(bug #6927)</para>
1158	</listitem>
1159
1160	<listitem>
1161	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
1162	bug #7031)</para>
1163	</listitem>
1164
1165	<listitem>
1166	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
1167	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
1168	</listitem>
1169
1170	<listitem>
1171	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1172	bug #6987)</para>
1173	</listitem>
1174
1175	<listitem>
1176	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
1177	</listitem>
1178
1179	<listitem>
1180	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
1181	</listitem>
1182
1183	<listitem>
1184	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
1185	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
1186	</listitem>
1187
1188	<listitem>
1189	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
1190	</listitem>
1191
1192	<listitem>
1193	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
1194	installation (bug #5101)</para>
1195	</listitem>
1196
1197	<listitem>
1198	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
1199	</listitem>
1200
1201	<listitem>
1202	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1203	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1204	bug #6872)</para>
1205	</listitem>
1206
1207	<listitem>
1208	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1209	</listitem>
1210
1211	<listitem>
1212	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1213	(performance tweak)</para>
1214	</listitem>
1215
1216	<listitem>
1217	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1218	is currently paused</para>
1219	</listitem>
1220
1221	<listitem>
1222	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1223	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1224	</listitem>
1225
1226	<listitem>
1227	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1228	</listitem>
1229
1230	<listitem>
1231	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1232	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1233	</listitem>
1234
1235	<listitem>
1236	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1237	not properly saved</para>
1238	</listitem>
1239
1240	<listitem>
1241	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1242	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1243	</listitem>
1244
1245	<listitem>
1246	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1247	</listitem>
1248
1249	<listitem>
1250	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1251	</listitem>
1252
1253	<listitem>
1254	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1259	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1264	</listitem>
1265
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1268	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1273	(bug #5251)</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1278	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1287	</listitem>
1288
1289	<listitem>
1290	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1291	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1292	</listitem>
1293
1294	<listitem>
1295	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1300	</listitem>
1301
1302	<listitem>
1303	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1304	</listitem>
1305
1306	</itemizedlist>
1307	</sect1>
1308
1309	<sect1>
1310	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1311
1312	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1313	added:</para>
1314
1315	<itemizedlist>
1316
1317	<listitem>
1318	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1319	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1320	</listitem>
1321
1322	<listitem>
1323	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1324	</listitem>
1325
1326	<listitem>
1327	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1328	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1329	</listitem>
1330
1331	<listitem>
1332	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1333	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1334	</listitem>
1335
1336	<listitem>
1337	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1338	</listitem>
1339
1340	<listitem>
1341	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1342	again (bug #6864)</para>
1343	</listitem>
1344
1345	<listitem>
1346	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1347	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1352	</listitem>
1353
1354	<listitem>
1355	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1356	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1357	</listitem>
1358
1359	<listitem>
1360	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1361	</listitem>
1362
1363	</itemizedlist>
1364
1365	</sect1>
1366
1367	<sect1>
1368	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1369
1370	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1371	added:</para>
1372
1373	<itemizedlist>
1374
1375	<listitem>
1376	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1377	</listitem>
1378
1379	<listitem>
1380	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1381	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1382	</listitem>
1383
1384	<listitem>
1385	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1386	</listitem>
1387
1388	<listitem>
1389	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1390	state</para>
1391	</listitem>
1392
1393	<listitem>
1394	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1395	</listitem>
1396
1397	<listitem>
1398	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1399	</listitem>
1400
1401	<listitem>
1402	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1403	</listitem>
1404
1405	<listitem>
1406	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1407	</listitem>
1408
1409	<listitem>
1410	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1411	</listitem>
1412
1413	<listitem>
1414	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417	<listitem>
1418	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1419	</listitem>
1420
1421	<listitem>
1422	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1423	</listitem>
1424
1425	<listitem>
1426	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1427	</listitem>
1428
1429	<listitem>
1430	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1431	</listitem>
1432
1433	<listitem>
1434	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1435	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1436	</listitem>
1437
1438	<listitem>
1439	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1440	(bug #6784)</para>
1441	</listitem>
1442
1443	<listitem>
1444	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1445	</listitem>
1446
1447	<listitem>
1448	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1449	</listitem>
1450
1451	<listitem>
1452	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1453	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1454	</listitem>
1455
1456	<listitem>
1457	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1458	</listitem>
1459
1460	<listitem>
1461	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1462	</listitem>
1463
1464	<listitem>
1465	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1466	host only</para>
1467	</listitem>
1468
1469	<listitem>
1470	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1471	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1472	</listitem>
1473
1474	<listitem>
1475	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1476	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1477	</listitem>
1478
1479	<listitem>
1480	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1485	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1486	</listitem>
1487
1488	<listitem>
1489	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1490	</listitem>
1491
1492	<listitem>
1493	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1494	</listitem>
1495
1496	<listitem>
1497	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1498	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1499	</listitem>
1500
1501	<listitem>
1502	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1507	</listitem>
1508
1509	<listitem>
1510	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1511	</listitem>
1512
1513	<listitem>
1514	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1515	(bug #6714)</para>
1516	</listitem>
1517
1518	<listitem>
1519	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1520	</listitem>
1521
1522	<listitem>
1523	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1524	</listitem>
1525
1526	<listitem>
1527	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1528	</listitem>
1529
1530	<listitem>
1531	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1536	</listitem>
1537
1538	</itemizedlist>
1539
1540	</sect1>
1541
1542	<sect1>
1543	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1544
1545	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1546	were added:</para>
1547
1548	<itemizedlist>
1549
1550	<listitem>
1551	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1552	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1553	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1554	</listitem>
1555
1556	<listitem>
1557	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1558	</listitem>
1559
1560	<listitem>
1561	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1562	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1563	</listitem>
1564
1565	<listitem>
1566	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1567	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1568	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1569	</listitem>
1570
1571	<listitem>
1572	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1573	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1574	</listitem>
1575
1576	<listitem>
1577	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1578	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1579	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1580	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1581	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1586	</listitem>
1587
1588	<listitem>
1589	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1590	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1591	</listitem>
1592
1593	<listitem>
1594	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1595	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1596	</listitem>
1597
1598	<listitem>
1599	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1600	</listitem>
1601
1602	<listitem>
1603	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
1604	</listitem>
1605
1606	<listitem>
1607	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1608	</listitem>
1609
1610	<listitem>
1611	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1612	</listitem>
1613
1614	<listitem>
1615	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1616	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1617	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1618	</listitem>
1619
1620	<listitem>
1621	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1622	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1623	</listitem>
1624
1625	</itemizedlist>
1626
1627	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1628
1629	<itemizedlist>
1630
1631	<listitem>
1632	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1633	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1638	</listitem>
1639
1640	<listitem>
1641	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1642	VM</para>
1643	</listitem>
1644
1645	<listitem>
1646	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1647	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1648	</listitem>
1649
1650	<listitem>
1651	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1652	#1669)</para>
1653	</listitem>
1654
1655	<listitem>
1656	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1657	#6442)</para>
1658	</listitem>
1659
1660	<listitem>
1661	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1662	combination (bug #684)</para>
1663	</listitem>
1664
1665	<listitem>
1666	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1667	the VM from the GUI</para>
1668	</listitem>
1669
1670	<listitem>
1671	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1672	medium is not accessible</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1677	</listitem>
1678
1679	<listitem>
1680	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1681	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1682	</listitem>
1683
1684	<listitem>
1685	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1686	#3106)</para>
1687	</listitem>
1688
1689	<listitem>
1690	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1691	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1692	it</para>
1693	</listitem>
1694
1695	<listitem>
1696	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	<listitem>
1700	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1701	</listitem>
1702
1703	<listitem>
1704	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1705	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1706	</listitem>
1707
1708	<listitem>
1709	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1710	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1711	</listitem>
1712
1713	<listitem>
1714	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1715	</listitem>
1716
1717	<listitem>
1718	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1719	</listitem>
1720
1721	<listitem>
1722	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1723	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	<listitem>
1727	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1728	</listitem>
1729
1730	<listitem>
1731	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1732	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1733	</listitem>
1734
1735	<listitem>
1736	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1737	</listitem>
1738
1739	<listitem>
1740	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1741	in VirtualBox</para>
1742	</listitem>
1743
1744	<listitem>
1745	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1746	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1747	</listitem>
1748
1749	<listitem>
1750	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1751	VirtualBox</para>
1752	</listitem>
1753
1754	<listitem>
1755	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1756	</listitem>
1757
1758	<listitem>
1759	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1760	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1761	</listitem>
1762
1763	</itemizedlist>
1764	</sect1>
1765
1766	<sect1>
1767	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1768
1769	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1770	added:</para>
1771
1772	<itemizedlist>
1773
1774	<listitem>
1775	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1776	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1777	</listitem>
1778
1779	<listitem>
1780	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1785	</listitem>
1786
1787	<listitem>
1788	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1789	only) </para>
1790	</listitem>
1791
1792	<listitem>
1793	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1794	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1795	</listitem>
1796
1797	<listitem>
1798	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1799	interface version</para>
1800	</listitem>
1801
1802	<listitem>
1803	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1804	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1805	slot empty</para>
1806	</listitem>
1807
1808	<listitem>
1809	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1810	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1811	(bug #4220)</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1816	</listitem>
1817
1818	<listitem>
1819	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1820	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1825	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1826	</listitem>
1827
1828	<listitem>
1829	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1830	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1831	</listitem>
1832
1833	<listitem>
1834	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1835	attached</para>
1836	</listitem>
1837
1838	<listitem>
1839	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1840	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1841	</listitem>
1842
1843	<listitem>
1844	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1849	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1854	is bug #6408)</para>
1855	</listitem>
1856
1857	<listitem>
1858	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1859	</listitem>
1860
1861	<listitem>
1862	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1863	fail to initialize</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1868	</listitem>
1869
1870	<listitem>
1871	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1872	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1873	</listitem>
1874
1875	<listitem>
1876	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1877	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1878	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1879	</listitem>
1880
1881	<listitem>
1882	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1883	</listitem>
1884
1885	<listitem>
1886	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1887	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1888	</listitem>
1889
1890	<listitem>
1891	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1892	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	<listitem>
1896	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1897	(bug #6435)</para>
1898	</listitem>
1899
1900	<listitem>
1901	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1902	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
1907	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
1908	(bug #6488)</para>
1909	</listitem>
1910
1911	<listitem>
1912	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
1913	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
1914	</listitem>
1915
1916	<listitem>
1917	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1918	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1919	</listitem>
1920
1921	<listitem>
1922	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
1923	#5227)</para>
1924	</listitem>
1925
1926	<listitem>
1927	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
1928	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	<listitem>
1932	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
1933	</listitem>
1934
1935	<listitem>
1936	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
1937	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
1938	</listitem>
1939
1940	</itemizedlist>
1941	</sect1>
1942
1943	<sect1>
1944	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
1945
1946	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1947	added:</para>
1948
1949	<itemizedlist>
1950
1951	<listitem>
1952	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
1953	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
1954	</listitem>
1955
1956	<listitem>
1957	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
1958	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
1959	</listitem>
1960
1961	<listitem>
1962	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
1963	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
1964	</listitem>
1965
1966	<listitem>
1967	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
1968	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
1969	</listitem>
1970
1971	<listitem>
1972	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
1973	</listitem>
1974
1975	<listitem>
1976	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
1977	</listitem>
1978
1979	<listitem>
1980	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
1981	</listitem>
1982
1983	<listitem>
1984	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
1985	</listitem>
1986
1987	<listitem>
1988	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
1989	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
1990	</listitem>
1991
1992	<listitem>
1993	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
1994	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
1995	</listitem>
1996
1997	<listitem>
1998	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
1999	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
2000	</listitem>
2001
2002	<listitem>
2003	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
2004	</listitem>
2005
2006	<listitem>
2007	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
2008	</listitem>
2009
2010	<listitem>
2011	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
2012	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
2013	</listitem>
2014
2015	<listitem>
2016	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
2017	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
2018	calls (bug #6165)</para>
2019	</listitem>
2020
2021	<listitem>
2022	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
2023	(bug #5297)</para>
2024	</listitem>
2025
2026	<listitem>
2027	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
2028	(bug #4962)</para>
2029	</listitem>
2030
2031	<listitem>
2032	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
2033	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
2034	</listitem>
2035
2036	<listitem>
2037	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
2038	(bug #6176)</para>
2039	</listitem>
2040
2041	<listitem>
2042	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
2043	certain circumstances</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
2048	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
2053	</listitem>
2054
2055	<listitem>
2056	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
2057	</listitem>
2058
2059	<listitem>
2060	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
2061	(bug #3571)</para>
2062	</listitem>
2063
2064	<listitem>
2065	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
2066	devices</para>
2067	</listitem>
2068
2069	<listitem>
2070	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
2071	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
2072	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
2073	</listitem>
2074
2075	<listitem>
2076	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
2077	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
2078	</listitem>
2079
2080	<listitem>
2081	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
2082	</listitem>
2083
2084	<listitem>
2085	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
2086	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	<listitem>
2090	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
2091	response</para>
2092	</listitem>
2093
2094	<listitem>
2095	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
2096	</listitem>
2097
2098	<listitem>
2099	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
2100	</listitem>
2101
2102	<listitem>
2103	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
2104	</listitem>
2105
2106	<listitem>
2107	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
2112	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
2113	</listitem>
2114
2115	<listitem>
2116	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
2125	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
2126	</listitem>
2127
2128	<listitem>
2129	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
2130	</listitem>
2131
2132	<listitem>
2133	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
2134	</listitem>
2135
2136	<listitem>
2137	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
2138	</listitem>
2139
2140	<listitem>
2141	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
2142	</listitem>
2143
2144	</itemizedlist>
2145	</sect1>
2146
2147	<sect1>
2148	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
2149
2150	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2151	added:</para>
2152
2153	<itemizedlist>
2154
2155	<listitem>
2156	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
2157	</listitem>
2158
2159	<listitem>
2160	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
2161	</listitem>
2162
2163	<listitem>
2164	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
2165	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
2166	</listitem>
2167
2168	<listitem>
2169	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
2170	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
2171	</listitem>
2172
2173	<listitem>
2174	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
2175	(bug #3945)</para>
2176	</listitem>
2177
2178	<listitem>
2179	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
2180	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
2181	</listitem>
2182
2183	<listitem>
2184	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
2185	and AMD-V only) </para>
2186	</listitem>
2187
2188	<listitem>
2189	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
2190	</listitem>
2191
2192	<listitem>
2193	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
2194	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
2195	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
2196	</listitem>
2197
2198	<listitem>
2199	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
2200	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
2201	</listitem>
2202
2203	<listitem>
2204	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2205	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2206	</listitem>
2207
2208	<listitem>
2209	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2210	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2211	</listitem>
2212
2213	<listitem>
2214	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2215	snapshots command</para>
2216	</listitem>
2217
2218	<listitem>
2219	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2220	</listitem>
2221
2222	<listitem>
2223	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2224	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2225	</listitem>
2226
2227	<listitem>
2228	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2229	</listitem>
2230
2231	<listitem>
2232	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2233	</listitem>
2234
2235	<listitem>
2236	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2237	</listitem>
2238
2239	<listitem>
2240	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2241	(KWin bug)</para>
2242	</listitem>
2243
2244	<listitem>
2245	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2246	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2247	</listitem>
2248
2249	<listitem>
2250	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2251	</listitem>
2252
2253	<listitem>
2254	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2259	</listitem>
2260
2261	<listitem>
2262	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2267	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2268	</listitem>
2269
2270	<listitem>
2271	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2272	bug #5787)</para>
2273	</listitem>
2274
2275	<listitem>
2276	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2277	DHCP requests</para>
2278	</listitem>
2279
2280	<listitem>
2281	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2282	(bug #3217)</para>
2283	</listitem>
2284
2285	<listitem>
2286	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2287	range (bug #5923)</para>
2288	</listitem>
2289
2290	<listitem>
2291	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2292	</listitem>
2293
2294	<listitem>
2295	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2296	</listitem>
2297
2298	<listitem>
2299	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2300	</listitem>
2301
2302	<listitem>
2303	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2304	</listitem>
2305
2306	<listitem>
2307	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2308	file (bug #5681)</para>
2309	</listitem>
2310
2311	<listitem>
2312	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2313	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2314	</listitem>
2315
2316	<listitem>
2317	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2318	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2319	</listitem>
2320
2321	<listitem>
2322	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2323	regression)</para>
2324	</listitem>
2325
2326	<listitem>
2327	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2328	</listitem>
2329
2330	<listitem>
2331	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2332	</listitem>
2333
2334	<listitem>
2335	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2336	</listitem>
2337
2338	<listitem>
2339	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2344	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2345	</listitem>
2346
2347	<listitem>
2348	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2349	</listitem>
2350
2351	<listitem>
2352	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2353	</listitem>
2354
2355	<listitem>
2356	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2357	</listitem>
2358
2359	<listitem>
2360	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2361	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2362	</listitem>
2363
2364	<listitem>
2365	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2366	</listitem>
2367
2368	<listitem>
2369	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2370	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2371	</listitem>
2372
2373	<listitem>
2374	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2375	</listitem>
2376
2377	<listitem>
2378	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2379	</listitem>
2380
2381	<listitem>
2382	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2383	</listitem>
2384
2385	<listitem>
2386	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2387	(bug #5731)</para>
2388	</listitem>
2389
2390	<listitem>
2391	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2392	again</para>
2393	</listitem>
2394
2395	</itemizedlist>
2396
2397	</sect1>
2398
2399	<sect1>
2400	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2401
2402	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2403	added:</para>
2404
2405	<itemizedlist>
2406
2407	<listitem>
2408	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2409	</listitem>
2410
2411	<listitem>
2412	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2413	</listitem>
2414
2415	<listitem>
2416	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2417	</listitem>
2418
2419	<listitem>
2420	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2425	</listitem>
2426
2427	<listitem>
2428	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2429	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2430	</listitem>
2431
2432	<listitem>
2433	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2434	</listitem>
2435
2436	<listitem>
2437	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2438	</listitem>
2439
2440	<listitem>
2441	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2442	</listitem>
2443
2444	<listitem>
2445	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2446	</listitem>
2447
2448	<listitem>
2449	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2454	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2455	</listitem>
2456
2457	<listitem>
2458	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2459	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2460	</listitem>
2461
2462	<listitem>
2463	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2464	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2465	#1762)</para>
2466	</listitem>
2467
2468	<listitem>
2469	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2470	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2471	</listitem>
2472
2473	<listitem>
2474	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2475	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2480	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2481	</listitem>
2482
2483	<listitem>
2484	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2485	</listitem>
2486
2487	<listitem>
2488	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2489	</listitem>
2490
2491	<listitem>
2492	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2493	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2494	</listitem>
2495
2496	<listitem>
2497	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2498	</listitem>
2499
2500	<listitem>
2501	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2502	</listitem>
2503
2504	<listitem>
2505	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2506	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2507	</listitem>
2508
2509	<listitem>
2510	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2511	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2516	</listitem>
2517
2518	<listitem>
2519	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2520	guests</para>
2521	</listitem>
2522
2523	<listitem>
2524	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2525	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2526	</listitem>
2527
2528	<listitem>
2529	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2530	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2531	</listitem>
2532
2533	<listitem>
2534	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2535	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2536	</listitem>
2537
2538	<listitem>
2539	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2540	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2541	</listitem>
2542
2543	<listitem>
2544	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2545	</listitem>
2546
2547	<listitem>
2548	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2549	</listitem>
2550
2551	<listitem>
2552	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2553	</listitem>
2554
2555	<listitem>
2556	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2557	</listitem>
2558
2559	<listitem>
2560	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2561	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2562	</listitem>
2563
2564	<listitem>
2565	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2566	</listitem>
2567
2568	</itemizedlist>
2569
2570	</sect1>
2571
2572	<sect1>
2573	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2574
2575	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2576	were added:</para>
2577
2578	<itemizedlist>
2579
2580	<listitem>
2581	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2582	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2583	</listitem>
2584
2585	<listitem>
2586	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2587	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2588	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2589	</listitem>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2593	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2594	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2595	</listitem>
2596
2597	<listitem>
2598	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2599	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2600	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2601	</listitem>
2602
2603	<listitem>
2604	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2605	running</para>
2606	</listitem>
2607
2608	<listitem>
2609	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2610	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2611	</listitem>
2612
2613	<listitem>
2614	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2615	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2616	</listitem>
2617
2618	<listitem>
2619	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2620	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2621	</listitem>
2622
2623	<listitem>
2624	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2625	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2626	</listitem>
2627
2628	</itemizedlist>
2629
2630	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2631
2632	<itemizedlist>
2633
2634	<listitem>
2635	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2636	</listitem>
2637
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2640	</listitem>
2641
2642	<listitem>
2643	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2644	</listitem>
2645
2646	<listitem>
2647	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2648	(bug #5291)</para>
2649	</listitem>
2650
2651	<listitem>
2652	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2653	</listitem>
2654
2655	<listitem>
2656	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2657	</listitem>
2658
2659	<listitem>
2660	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2665	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2666	</listitem>
2667
2668	<listitem>
2669	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2670	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2671	</listitem>
2672
2673	<listitem>
2674	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2675	</listitem>
2676
2677	<listitem>
2678	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2679	</listitem>
2680
2681	<listitem>
2682	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2683	</listitem>
2684
2685	<listitem>
2686	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2687	</listitem>
2688
2689	<listitem>
2690	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2691	</listitem>
2692
2693	<listitem>
2694	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2695	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2696	</listitem>
2697
2698	<listitem>
2699	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2700	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2701	</listitem>
2702
2703	<listitem>
2704	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2705	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2706	</listitem>
2707
2708	<listitem>
2709	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2710	(bug #2723)</para>
2711	</listitem>
2712
2713	<listitem>
2714	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2715	</listitem>
2716
2717	<listitem>
2718	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2719	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2720	</listitem>
2721
2722	<listitem>
2723	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2724	optional manifest file on import</para>
2725	</listitem>
2726
2727	<listitem>
2728	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2729	</listitem>
2730
2731	<listitem>
2732	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2733	(bug #3773)</para>
2734	</listitem>
2735
2736	<listitem>
2737	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2738	</listitem>
2739
2740	<listitem>
2741	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2742	</listitem>
2743
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2746	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2747	</listitem>
2748
2749	<listitem>
2750	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2751	(bug #4866)</para>
2752	</listitem>
2753
2754	<listitem>
2755	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2756	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2757	</listitem>
2758
2759	<listitem>
2760	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2761	certain conditions</para>
2762	</listitem>
2763
2764	<listitem>
2765	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2766	</listitem>
2767
2768	<listitem>
2769	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2770	</listitem>
2771
2772	<listitem>
2773	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2774	</listitem>
2775
2776	<listitem>
2777	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2782	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2783	</listitem>
2784
2785	<listitem>
2786	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2787	</listitem>
2788
2789	<listitem>
2790	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2791	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2792	</listitem>
2793
2794	<listitem>
2795	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2796	</listitem>
2797
2798	<listitem>
2799	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2800	</listitem>
2801
2802	<listitem>
2803	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2804	</listitem>
2805
2806	<listitem>
2807	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2812	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2813	</listitem>
2814
2815	<listitem>
2816	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2817	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2818	(bug #928)</para>
2819	</listitem>
2820
2821	<listitem>
2822	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	</itemizedlist>
2826
2827	</sect1>
2828
2829	<sect1>
2830	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2831
2832	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2833	added:</para>
2834
2835	<itemizedlist>
2836
2837	<listitem>
2838	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2839	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2840	</listitem>
2841
2842	<listitem>
2843	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2844	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2845	</listitem>
2846
2847	<listitem>
2848	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2849	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2850	</listitem>
2851
2852	<listitem>
2853	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2854	enabled</para>
2855	</listitem>
2856
2857	<listitem>
2858	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2859	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	<listitem>
2863	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2864	(bug #2676)</para>
2865	</listitem>
2866
2867	<listitem>
2868	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2869	is connected to a raw file</para>
2870	</listitem>
2871
2872	<listitem>
2873	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2874	(bug #5355)</para>
2875	</listitem>
2876
2877	<listitem>
2878	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2879	</listitem>
2880
2881	<listitem>
2882	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2883	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2884	</listitem>
2885
2886	<listitem>
2887	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2888	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2889	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2890	</listitem>
2891
2892	<listitem>
2893	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2894	</listitem>
2895
2896	<listitem>
2897	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2898	</listitem>
2899
2900	<listitem>
2901	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2902	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
2903	</listitem>
2904
2905	<listitem>
2906	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
2907	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
2908	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
2909	</listitem>
2910
2911	</itemizedlist>
2912
2913	</sect1>
2914
2915	<sect1>
2916	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
2917
2918	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2919	added:</para>
2920
2921	<itemizedlist>
2922
2923	<listitem>
2924	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
2925	</listitem>
2926
2927	<listitem>
2928	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
2929	</listitem>
2930
2931	<listitem>
2932	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
2933	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
2934	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
2935	</listitem>
2936
2937	<listitem>
2938	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
2939	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
2940	</listitem>
2941
2942	<listitem>
2943	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
2944	</listitem>
2945
2946	<listitem>
2947	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
2948	</listitem>
2949
2950	<listitem>
2951	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
2952	</listitem>
2953
2954	<listitem>
2955	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
2956	</listitem>
2957
2958	<listitem>
2959	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
2960	</listitem>
2961
2962	<listitem>
2963	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
2964	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
2965	</listitem>
2966
2967	<listitem>
2968	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
2969	</listitem>
2970
2971	<listitem>
2972	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
2973	</listitem>
2974
2975	<listitem>
2976	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
2977	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
2978	</listitem>
2979
2980	<listitem>
2981	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
2982	</listitem>
2983
2984	<listitem>
2985	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
2986	exhaustion</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
2991	</listitem>
2992
2993	<listitem>
2994	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
2995	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
2996	</listitem>
2997
2998	<listitem>
2999	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
3000	folders (bug #4106)</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
3005	folders (bug #4299)</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	<listitem>
3009	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
3010	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
3011	(bug #2921)</para>
3012	</listitem>
3013
3014	<listitem>
3015	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
3016	hosts only)</para>
3017	</listitem>
3018
3019	<listitem>
3020	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
3021	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
3022	</listitem>
3023
3024	<listitem>
3025	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
3030	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
3035	</listitem>
3036
3037	<listitem>
3038	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
3039	image inconsistency </para>
3040	</listitem>
3041
3042	<listitem>
3043	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
3044	</listitem>
3045
3046	<listitem>
3047	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
3048	</listitem>
3049
3050	<listitem>
3051	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
3052	(bug #2025)</para>
3053	</listitem>
3054
3055	<listitem>
3056	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
3057	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
3058	</listitem>
3059
3060	</itemizedlist>
3061
3062	</sect1>
3063
3064	<sect1>
3065	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
3066
3067	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3068	added:</para>
3069
3070	<itemizedlist>
3071
3072	<listitem>
3073	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
3074	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
3079	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
3084	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
3085	</listitem>
3086
3087	<listitem>
3088	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
3089	</listitem>
3090
3091	<listitem>
3092	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
3093	software virtualization only) </para>
3094	</listitem>
3095
3096	<listitem>
3097	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
3098	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
3099	</listitem>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
3103	with root privileges</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
3108	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
3109	</listitem>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
3113	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
3114	</listitem>
3115
3116	<listitem>
3117	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
3118	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
3119	</listitem>
3120
3121	<listitem>
3122	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
3123	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
3124	selector (bug #5063)</para>
3125	</listitem>
3126
3127	<listitem>
3128	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
3129	available</para>
3130	</listitem>
3131
3132	<listitem>
3133	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
3134	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
3135	</listitem>
3136
3137	<listitem>
3138	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
3139	networking (bug #4775)</para>
3140	</listitem>
3141
3142	<listitem>
3143	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
3144	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
3145	</listitem>
3146
3147	<listitem>
3148	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
3149	(bug #4907)</para>
3150	</listitem>
3151
3152	<listitem>
3153	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
3154	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
3155	</listitem>
3156
3157	<listitem>
3158	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
3159	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
3164	</listitem>
3165
3166	<listitem>
3167	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
3168	</listitem>
3169
3170	<listitem>
3171	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
3172	</listitem>
3173
3174	<listitem>
3175	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
3176	</listitem>
3177
3178	<listitem>
3179	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
3180	are installed</para>
3181	</listitem>
3182
3183	<listitem>
3184	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
3185	(bug #4771)</para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
3190	</listitem>
3191
3192	<listitem>
3193	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
3194	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
3195	</listitem>
3196
3197	<listitem>
3198	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
3199	command</para>
3200	</listitem>
3201
3202	<listitem>
3203	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3204	</listitem>
3205
3206	<listitem>
3207	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3208	</listitem>
3209
3210	<listitem>
3211	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3212	(bug #5089)</para>
3213	</listitem>
3214
3215	<listitem>
3216	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3217	</listitem>
3218
3219	</itemizedlist>
3220
3221	</sect1>
3222
3223	<sect1>
3224	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3225
3226	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3227	added:</para>
3228
3229	<itemizedlist>
3230
3231	<listitem>
3232	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3233	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3234	</listitem>
3235
3236	<listitem>
3237	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3238	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3239	</listitem>
3240
3241	<listitem>
3242	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3243	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3244	</listitem>
3245
3246	<listitem>
3247	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3248	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3249	</listitem>
3250
3251	<listitem>
3252	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3253	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3254	</listitem>
3255
3256	<listitem>
3257	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3258	</listitem>
3259
3260	<listitem>
3261	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3262	</listitem>
3263
3264	<listitem>
3265	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3266	</listitem>
3267
3268	<listitem>
3269	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3270	</listitem>
3271
3272	<listitem>
3273	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3278	onlined or offlined</para>
3279	</listitem>
3280
3281	<listitem>
3282	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3283	</listitem>
3284
3285	<listitem>
3286	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3287	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3288	</listitem>
3289
3290	<listitem>
3291	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3292	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3293	</listitem>
3294
3295	<listitem>
3296	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	<listitem>
3300	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3301	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3302	</listitem>
3303
3304	<listitem>
3305	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3306	</listitem>
3307
3308	<listitem>
3309	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3310	</listitem>
3311
3312	<listitem>
3313	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3314	</listitem>
3315
3316	<listitem>
3317	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3318	</listitem>
3319
3320	<listitem>
3321	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3322	</listitem>
3323
3324	<listitem>
3325	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3326	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	<listitem>
3330	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3339	</listitem>
3340
3341	<listitem>
3342	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3343	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3344	</listitem>
3345
3346	<listitem>
3347	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3348	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3349	</listitem>
3350
3351	<listitem>
3352	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3353	</listitem>
3354
3355	<listitem>
3356	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3357	</listitem>
3358
3359	<listitem>
3360	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3361	</listitem>
3362
3363	<listitem>
3364	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3365	</listitem>
3366
3367	<listitem>
3368	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3369	</listitem>
3370
3371	<listitem>
3372	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3373	</listitem>
3374
3375	<listitem>
3376	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3377	</listitem>
3378
3379	<listitem>
3380	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3381	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3382	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3383	phase collapse</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3388	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3393	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3402	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3407	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3408	</listitem>
3409
3410	<listitem>
3411	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3412	</listitem>
3413
3414	<listitem>
3415	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3416	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3417	#4698, #4790)</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3422	less than the configured range</para>
3423	</listitem>
3424
3425	<listitem>
3426	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3427	</listitem>
3428
3429	<listitem>
3430	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3431	</listitem>
3432
3433	<listitem>
3434	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3435	</listitem>
3436
3437	<listitem>
3438	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3439	</listitem>
3440
3441	<listitem>
3442	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3443	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3444	</listitem>
3445
3446	<listitem>
3447	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3448	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3449	</listitem>
3450
3451	<listitem>
3452	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3453	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3462	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3467	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3472	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3473	</listitem>
3474
3475	<listitem>
3476	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3477	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3478	</listitem>
3479
3480	<listitem>
3481	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3486	</listitem>
3487
3488	</itemizedlist>
3489
3490	</sect1>
3491
3492	<sect1>
3493	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3494
3495	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3496	added:</para>
3497
3498	<itemizedlist>
3499
3500	<listitem>
3501	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3502	</listitem>
3503
3504	<listitem>
3505	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3506	</listitem>
3507
3508	<listitem>
3509	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3510	</listitem>
3511
3512	<listitem>
3513	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3514	</listitem>
3515
3516	<listitem>
3517	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3518	</listitem>
3519
3520	<listitem>
3521	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3522	</listitem>
3523
3524	<listitem>
3525	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3526	</listitem>
3527
3528	<listitem>
3529	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3530	</listitem>
3531
3532	<listitem>
3533	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3534	</listitem>
3535
3536	<listitem>
3537	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3538	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3539	</listitem>
3540
3541	<listitem>
3542	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3543	</listitem>
3544
3545	<listitem>
3546	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3547	</listitem>
3548
3549	<listitem>
3550	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3551	</listitem>
3552
3553	<listitem>
3554	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3555	</listitem>
3556
3557	<listitem>
3558	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3559	</listitem>
3560
3561	<listitem>
3562	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3563	</listitem>
3564
3565	<listitem>
3566	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3567	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3568	</listitem>
3569
3570	<listitem>
3571	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3572	(bug #4654)</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3577	</listitem>
3578
3579	<listitem>
3580	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3581	interfaces</para>
3582	</listitem>
3583
3584	<listitem>
3585	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3586	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3587	</listitem>
3588
3589	<listitem>
3590	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3591	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3592	</listitem>
3593
3594	<listitem>
3595	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3596	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3597	</listitem>
3598
3599	<listitem>
3600	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3601	(bug #1461)</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	<listitem>
3605	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3610	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	<listitem>
3614	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3615	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3616	</listitem>
3617
3618	<listitem>
3619	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3620	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3621	</listitem>
3622
3623	<listitem>
3624	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3625	</listitem>
3626
3627	<listitem>
3628	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3629	</listitem>
3630
3631	<listitem>
3632	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3633	</listitem>
3634
3635	<listitem>
3636	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3637	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3638	</listitem>
3639
3640	<listitem>
3641	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3642	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3643	</listitem>
3644
3645	<listitem>
3646	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3647	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3648	</listitem>
3649
3650	<listitem>
3651	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3652	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3653	</listitem>
3654
3655	</itemizedlist>
3656
3657	</sect1>
3658	<sect1>
3659	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3660
3661	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3662	added:</para>
3663
3664	<itemizedlist>
3665
3666	<listitem>
3667	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3668	</listitem>
3669
3670	<listitem>
3671	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3672	</listitem>
3673
3674	<listitem>
3675	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3676	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3681	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3682	</listitem>
3683
3684	<listitem>
3685	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3686	</listitem>
3687
3688	<listitem>
3689	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3690	</listitem>
3691
3692	<listitem>
3693	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3694	</listitem>
3695
3696	<listitem>
3697	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3698	</listitem>
3699
3700	<listitem>
3701	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3706	</listitem>
3707
3708	<listitem>
3709	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3710	</listitem>
3711
3712	<listitem>
3713	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3714	</listitem>
3715
3716	<listitem>
3717	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3718	</listitem>
3719
3720	<listitem>
3721	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3722	</listitem>
3723
3724	<listitem>
3725	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3726	</listitem>
3727
3728	<listitem>
3729	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3730	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3731	</listitem>
3732
3733	<listitem>
3734	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3735	</listitem>
3736
3737	<listitem>
3738	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3739	</listitem>
3740
3741	<listitem>
3742	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3743	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3744	</listitem>
3745
3746	<listitem>
3747	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3748	</listitem>
3749
3750	<listitem>
3751	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3756	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3757	</listitem>
3758
3759	<listitem>
3760	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3761	</listitem>
3762
3763	<listitem>
3764	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3769	</listitem>
3770
3771	<listitem>
3772	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3773	</listitem>
3774
3775	<listitem>
3776	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3777	</listitem>
3778
3779	<listitem>
3780	<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>
3781	</listitem>
3782
3783	</itemizedlist>
3784
3785	</sect1>
3786
3787	<sect1>
3788	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3789
3790	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3791	were added:</para>
3792
3793	<itemizedlist>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3797	</listitem>
3798
3799	<listitem>
3800	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3801	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3802	</listitem>
3803
3804	<listitem>
3805	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3806	</listitem>
3807
3808	</itemizedlist>
3809
3810	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3811
3812	<itemizedlist>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3816	</listitem>
3817
3818	<listitem>
3819	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3820	certain conditions</para>
3821	</listitem>
3822
3823	<listitem>
3824	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3825	</listitem>
3826
3827	<listitem>
3828	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3829	</listitem>
3830
3831	<listitem>
3832	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3833	</listitem>
3834
3835	<listitem>
3836	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3837	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3838	</listitem>
3839
3840	<listitem>
3841	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3842	</listitem>
3843
3844	<listitem>
3845	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3846	</listitem>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3850	</listitem>
3851
3852	<listitem>
3853	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3854	</listitem>
3855
3856	<listitem>
3857	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3858	</listitem>
3859
3860	<listitem>
3861	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3862	</listitem>
3863
3864	<listitem>
3865	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3866	</listitem>
3867
3868	<listitem>
3869	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3870	</listitem>
3871
3872	<listitem>
3873	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3874	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3875	</listitem>
3876
3877	<listitem>
3878	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3879	</listitem>
3880
3881	<listitem>
3882	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3883	</listitem>
3884
3885	<listitem>
3886	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3887	</listitem>
3888
3889	<listitem>
3890	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3891	</listitem>
3892
3893	<listitem>
3894	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3895	</listitem>
3896
3897	<listitem>
3898	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3899	</listitem>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
3903	</listitem>
3904
3905	<listitem>
3906	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
3907	</listitem>
3908
3909	<listitem>
3910	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
3911	</listitem>
3912
3913	<listitem>
3914	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
3915	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	<listitem>
3919	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
3920	</listitem>
3921
3922	<listitem>
3923	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
3924	</listitem>
3925
3926	<listitem>
3927	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
3928	</listitem>
3929
3930	<listitem>
3931	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3932	</listitem>
3933
3934	<listitem>
3935	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
3940	</listitem>
3941
3942	<listitem>
3943	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
3944	</listitem>
3945
3946	<listitem>
3947	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
3948	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
3949	</listitem>
3950
3951	<listitem>
3952	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
3957	</listitem>
3958
3959	<listitem>
3960	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
3961	</listitem>
3962
3963	<listitem>
3964	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
3965	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
3966	</listitem>
3967
3968	<listitem>
3969	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
3970	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
3971	</listitem>
3972
3973	<listitem>
3974	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
3975	correct file mode when creating files</para>
3976	</listitem>
3977
3978	<listitem>
3979	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
3980	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
3981	</listitem>
3982
3983	<listitem>
3984	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
3985	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
3986	</listitem>
3987
3988	<listitem>
3989	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
3998	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
3999	</listitem>
4000
4001	<listitem>
4002	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
4003	guest property lookup</para>
4004	</listitem>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
4008	basic network information)</para>
4009	</listitem>
4010
4011	<listitem>
4012	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
4013	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
4014	</listitem>
4015
4016	<listitem>
4017	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
4018	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
4019	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
4020	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
4021	</listitem>
4022
4023	<listitem>
4024	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
4025	</listitem>
4026
4027	<listitem>
4028	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
4029	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
4030	web service</para>
4031	</listitem>
4032
4033	<listitem>
4034	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
4035	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
4036	</listitem>
4037
4038	<listitem>
4039	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
4040	unavailable</para>
4041	</listitem>
4042
4043	<listitem>
4044	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
4045	</listitem>
4046
4047	</itemizedlist>
4048	</sect1>
4049
4050	<sect1>
4051	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
4052
4053	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4054	added:</para>
4055
4056	<itemizedlist>
4057
4058	<listitem>
4059	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
4060	installation</para>
4061	</listitem>
4062
4063	<listitem>
4064	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
4065	</listitem>
4066
4067	<listitem>
4068	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
4069	later (bug #3981)</para>
4070	</listitem>
4071
4072	<listitem>
4073	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
4074	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
4075	</listitem>
4076
4077	<listitem>
4078	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
4079	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
4080	(bug #4034)
4081	</para>
4082	</listitem>
4083
4084	<listitem>
4085	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
4086	networking</para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	<listitem>
4090	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
4091	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
4092	</listitem>
4093
4094	<listitem>
4095	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
4096	clicks</para>
4097	</listitem>
4098
4099	<listitem>
4100	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
4101	Windows 7 guests</para>
4102	</listitem>
4103
4104	<listitem>
4105	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
4106	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
4107	</listitem>
4108
4109	<listitem>
4110	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
4111	</listitem>
4112
4113	<listitem>
4114	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
4115	</listitem>
4116
4117	<listitem>
4118	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
4119	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
4120	</listitem>
4121
4122	<listitem>
4123	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
4124	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
4125	</listitem>
4126
4127	<listitem>
4128	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
4129	</listitem>
4130
4131	<listitem>
4132	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
4133	</listitem>
4134
4135	<listitem>
4136	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4137	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
4138	(bug #3864)</para>
4139	</listitem>
4140
4141	<listitem>
4142	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
4143	now flushes the output stream</para>
4144	</listitem>
4145
4146	<listitem>
4147	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
4148	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
4149	</listitem>
4150
4151	<listitem>
4152	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
4153	</listitem>
4154
4155	<listitem>
4156	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
4165	</listitem>
4166
4167	<listitem>
4168	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
4169	(bug #3964)</para>
4170	</listitem>
4171
4172	<listitem>
4173	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
4174	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
4175	</listitem>
4176
4177	<listitem>
4178	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
4179	hosts</para>
4180	</listitem>
4181
4182	<listitem>
4183	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
4184	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
4185	e1000 adapter</para>
4186	</listitem>
4187
4188	<listitem>
4189	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
4190	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
4191	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
4192	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
4193	</listitem>
4194
4195	<listitem>
4196	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
4197	</listitem>
4198
4199	<listitem>
4200	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
4201	</listitem>
4202
4203	<listitem>
4204	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4205	</listitem>
4206
4207	<listitem>
4208	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4209	file (bug #1023)</para>
4210	</listitem>
4211
4212	<listitem>
4213	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4214	</listitem>
4215
4216	<listitem>
4217	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4218	</listitem>
4219
4220	</itemizedlist>
4221	</sect1>
4222
4223	<sect1>
4224	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4225
4226	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4227	added:</para>
4228
4229	<itemizedlist>
4230
4231	<listitem>
4232	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4233	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4234	</listitem>
4235
4236	<listitem>
4237	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4238	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4239	and later</para>
4240	</listitem>
4241
4242	<listitem>
4243	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4244	running services</para>
4245	</listitem>
4246
4247	<listitem>
4248	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4249	terminates</para>
4250	</listitem>
4251
4252	<listitem>
4253	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4254	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4255	</listitem>
4256
4257	<listitem>
4258	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4259	installed on the guest</para>
4260	</listitem>
4261
4262	<listitem>
4263	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4264	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4265	</listitem>
4266
4267	<listitem>
4268	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4269	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4270	</listitem>
4271
4272	<listitem>
4273	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4274	(bug #2628)</para>
4275	</listitem>
4276
4277	<listitem>
4278	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4279	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4280	</listitem>
4281
4282	<listitem>
4283	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4284	(bug #3657)</para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	<listitem>
4288	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4289	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4294	virtualization only)
4295	</para>
4296	</listitem>
4297
4298	<listitem>
4299	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4300	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4301	</listitem>
4302
4303	<listitem>
4304	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4305	</listitem>
4306
4307	<listitem>
4308	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4309	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4310	</listitem>
4311
4312	<listitem>
4313	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4314	bug #3689)</para>
4315	</listitem>
4316
4317	<listitem>
4318	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4319	bug #3679)</para>
4320	</listitem>
4321
4322	<listitem>
4323	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4324	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4325	</listitem>
4326
4327	<listitem>
4328	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4329	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4330	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4335	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4336	</listitem>
4337
4338	<listitem>
4339	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4340	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4341	</listitem>
4342
4343	<listitem>
4344	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4345	(bug #3667)</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4350	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4351	</listitem>
4352
4353	<listitem>
4354	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4355	</listitem>
4356
4357	<listitem>
4358	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4359	</listitem>
4360
4361	<listitem>
4362	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4363	</listitem>
4364
4365	<listitem>
4366	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4367	</listitem>
4368
4369	<listitem>
4370	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4371	</listitem>
4372
4373	<listitem>
4374	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4375	</listitem>
4376
4377	<listitem>
4378	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4379	</listitem>
4380
4381	</itemizedlist>
4382	</sect1>
4383
4384	<sect1>
4385	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4386
4387	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4388	were added:</para>
4389
4390	<itemizedlist>
4391
4392	<listitem>
4393	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4394	</listitem>
4395
4396	<listitem>
4397	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4398	</listitem>
4399
4400	<listitem>
4401	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4402	</listitem>
4403
4404	<listitem>
4405	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4406	</listitem>
4407
4408	<listitem>
4409	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4414	</listitem>
4415
4416	<listitem>
4417	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4418	</listitem>
4419
4420	<listitem>
4421	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4422	</listitem>
4423
4424	<listitem>
4425	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4426	</listitem>
4427
4428	<listitem>
4429	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4430	</listitem>
4431
4432	</itemizedlist>
4433
4434	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4435
4436	<itemizedlist>
4437
4438	<listitem>
4439	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4440	</listitem>
4441
4442	<listitem>
4443	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4444	</listitem>
4445
4446	<listitem>
4447	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4448	</listitem>
4449
4450	<listitem>
4451	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4452	</listitem>
4453
4454	<listitem>
4455	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4456	</listitem>
4457
4458	<listitem>
4459	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4460	</listitem>
4461
4462	<listitem>
4463	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4464	</listitem>
4465
4466	<listitem>
4467	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4472	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4473	</listitem>
4474
4475	<listitem>
4476	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4477	</listitem>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4481	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4482	</listitem>
4483
4484	<listitem>
4485	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4486	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4487	</listitem>
4488
4489	<listitem>
4490	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4491	</listitem>
4492
4493	<listitem>
4494	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4495	</listitem>
4496
4497	<listitem>
4498	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4499	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4500	</listitem>
4501
4502	<listitem>
4503	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4504	</listitem>
4505
4506	<listitem>
4507	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4508	ESX server images)</para>
4509	</listitem>
4510
4511	<listitem>
4512	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4513	writable</para>
4514	</listitem>
4515
4516	<listitem>
4517	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4518	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4519	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4520	</listitem>
4521
4522	<listitem>
4523	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4524	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4525	</listitem>
4526
4527	<listitem>
4528	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4529	</listitem>
4530
4531	<listitem>
4532	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4533	</listitem>
4534
4535	<listitem>
4536	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4537	hosts when creating files</para>
4538	</listitem>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4542	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4543	</listitem>
4544
4545	<listitem>
4546	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4547	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4548	#2306)</para>
4549	</listitem>
4550
4551	<listitem>
4552	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4553	(bug #3555)</para>
4554	</listitem>
4555
4556	<listitem>
4557	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4558	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4559	</listitem>
4560
4561	<listitem>
4562	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4563	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4564	</listitem>
4565
4566	<listitem>
4567	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4568	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4569	</listitem>
4570
4571	<listitem>
4572	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4573	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4578	(bug #3586)</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4583	from Scratch systems</para>
4584	</listitem>
4585
4586	<listitem>
4587	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4588	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4589	</listitem>
4590
4591	<listitem>
4592	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4593	</listitem>
4594
4595	<listitem>
4596	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4597	default to compact format</para>
4598	</listitem>
4599
4600	<listitem>
4601	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4602	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4611	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4612	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4613	</listitem>
4614
4615	<listitem>
4616	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4617	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4618	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4619	</listitem>
4620
4621	<listitem>
4622	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4623	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4624	</listitem>
4625
4626	<listitem>
4627	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4632	</listitem>
4633
4634	<listitem>
4635	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4636	</listitem>
4637
4638	<listitem>
4639	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4640	</listitem>
4641
4642	<listitem>
4643	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4644	</listitem>
4645
4646	<listitem>
4647	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4648	</listitem>
4649
4650	<listitem>
4651	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4652	</listitem>
4653
4654	<listitem>
4655	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4656	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4657	</listitem>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4665	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4666	</listitem>
4667
4668	<listitem>
4669	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4670	</listitem>
4671
4672	<listitem>
4673	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4674	</listitem>
4675
4676	<listitem>
4677	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4678	</listitem>
4679
4680	<listitem>
4681	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4682	#2536)</para>
4683	</listitem>
4684
4685	<listitem>
4686	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4687	</listitem>
4688
4689	<listitem>
4690	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4691	(bug #3548)</para>
4692	</listitem>
4693
4694	</itemizedlist>
4695	</sect1>
4696
4697	<sect1>
4698	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4699
4700	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4701	added:</para>
4702
4703	<itemizedlist>
4704
4705	<listitem>
4706	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4707	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4708	</listitem>
4709
4710	<listitem>
4711	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4712	</listitem>
4713
4714	<listitem>
4715	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4716	</listitem>
4717
4718	<listitem>
4719	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4720	</listitem>
4721
4722	<listitem>
4723	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4724	(bug #3115)</para>
4725	</listitem>
4726
4727	<listitem>
4728	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4729	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4730	</listitem>
4731
4732	<listitem>
4733	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4734	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4735	(bug #3215)</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4740	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4741	</listitem>
4742
4743	<listitem>
4744	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4745	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	<listitem>
4749	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4750	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4751	</listitem>
4752
4753	<listitem>
4754	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4755	in parallel</para>
4756	</listitem>
4757
4758	<listitem>
4759	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4764	</listitem>
4765
4766	<listitem>
4767	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4768	</listitem>
4769
4770	<listitem>
4771	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4772	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4773	</listitem>
4774
4775	<listitem>
4776	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4777	</listitem>
4778
4779	<listitem>
4780	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4781	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4782	</listitem>
4783
4784	<listitem>
4785	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4786	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4787	</listitem>
4788
4789	<listitem>
4790	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4791	</listitem>
4792
4793	<listitem>
4794	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4795	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4796	</listitem>
4797
4798	<listitem>
4799	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4800	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4801	</listitem>
4802
4803	<listitem>
4804	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4805	</listitem>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	<listitem>
4812	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4813	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4814	</listitem>
4815
4816	<listitem>
4817	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4818	</listitem>
4819
4820	<listitem>
4821	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4830	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4831	</listitem>
4832
4833	<listitem>
4834	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4839	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4840	</listitem>
4841
4842	<listitem>
4843	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4844	</listitem>
4845
4846	<listitem>
4847	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4848	</listitem>
4849
4850	<listitem>
4851	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4852	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4853	</listitem>
4854
4855	<listitem>
4856	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4857	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4858	</listitem>
4859
4860	<listitem>
4861	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	<listitem>
4865	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4866	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4867	</listitem>
4868
4869	<listitem>
4870	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4871	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4872	</listitem>
4873
4874	<listitem>
4875	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4876	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4877	</listitem>
4878
4879	<listitem>
4880	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4881	(bug #3213)</para>
4882	</listitem>
4883
4884	<listitem>
4885	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4886	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4887	</listitem>
4888
4889	<listitem>
4890	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4891	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4892	</listitem>
4893
4894	</itemizedlist>
4895	</sect1>
4896
4897	<sect1>
4898	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4899
4900	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4901	added:</para>
4902
4903	<itemizedlist>
4904
4905	<listitem>
4906	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
4907	</listitem>
4908
4909	<listitem>
4910	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
4911	</listitem>
4912
4913	<listitem>
4914	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
4915	</listitem>
4916
4917	<listitem>
4918	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
4919	</listitem>
4920
4921	<listitem>
4922	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
4923	</listitem>
4924
4925	<listitem>
4926	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
4927	</listitem>
4928
4929	<listitem>
4930	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
4931	</listitem>
4932
4933	<listitem>
4934	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
4935	</listitem>
4936
4937	<listitem>
4938	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
4939	</listitem>
4940
4941	<listitem>
4942	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
4943	</listitem>
4944
4945	<listitem>
4946	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
4947	</listitem>
4948
4949	<listitem>
4950	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
4951	</listitem>
4952
4953	<listitem>
4954	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
4955	</listitem>
4956
4957	<listitem>
4958	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
4959	</listitem>
4960
4961	<listitem>
4962	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
4963	</listitem>
4964
4965	<listitem>
4966	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
4967	</listitem>
4968
4969	<listitem>
4970	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
4971	(bug #3067)</para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	<listitem>
4975	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
4976	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
4977	</listitem>
4978
4979	<listitem>
4980	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
4981	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
4982	</listitem>
4983
4984	<listitem>
4985	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
4986	</listitem>
4987
4988	<listitem>
4989	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
4990	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
4991	</listitem>
4992
4993	<listitem>
4994	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
4995	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4996	</listitem>
4997
4998	<listitem>
4999	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
5000	</listitem>
5001
5002	<listitem>
5003	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
5004	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
5005	</listitem>
5006
5007	<listitem>
5008	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
5009	</listitem>
5010
5011	<listitem>
5012	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
5013	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
5014	</listitem>
5015
5016	<listitem>
5017	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
5018	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
5019	</listitem>
5020
5021	<listitem>
5022	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
5023	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
5024	</para>
5025	</listitem>
5026
5027	<listitem>
5028	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
5029	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
5030	</para>
5031	</listitem>
5032
5033	<listitem>
5034	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
5035	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
5036	</para>
5037	</listitem>
5038
5039	<listitem>
5040	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
5041	</listitem>
5042
5043	<listitem>
5044	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
5045	</listitem>
5046
5047	<listitem>
5048	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
5049	</listitem>
5050
5051	<listitem>
5052	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
5053	</listitem>
5054
5055	<listitem>
5056	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
5057	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
5058	</listitem>
5059
5060	<listitem>
5061	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
5062	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
5063	</listitem>
5064
5065	<listitem>
5066	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
5067	formatting a drive</para>
5068	</listitem>
5069
5070	<listitem>
5071	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
5072	</listitem>
5073
5074	<listitem>
5075	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
5076	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5077	</listitem>
5078
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
5081	</listitem>
5082
5083	<listitem>
5084	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
5085	</listitem>
5086
5087	<listitem>
5088	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5089	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
5090	</listitem>
5091
5092	<listitem>
5093	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
5094	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
5095	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
5096	</listitem>
5097
5098	<listitem>
5099	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
5100	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
5101	</listitem>
5102
5103	<listitem>
5104	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
5105	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
5106	</listitem>
5107
5108	<listitem>
5109	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
5110	(bug #2768)</para>
5111	</listitem>
5112
5113	<listitem>
5114	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
5115	</listitem>
5116
5117	<listitem>
5118	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
5119	</listitem>
5120
5121	<listitem>
5122	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
5123	single, unified package</para>
5124	</listitem>
5125
5126	<listitem>
5127	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
5128	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
5129	</listitem>
5130
5131	<listitem>
5132	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
5133	</listitem>
5134
5135	<listitem>
5136	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
5137	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
5138	</listitem>
5139
5140	<listitem>
5141	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
5142	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
5143	</listitem>
5144
5145	<listitem>
5146	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
5147	</listitem>
5148
5149	<listitem>
5150	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
5151	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
5152	doing 3D</para>
5153	</listitem>
5154
5155	<listitem>
5156	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
5157	</listitem>
5158
5159	<listitem>
5160	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
5161	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
5162	</listitem>
5163
5164	<listitem>
5165	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
5166	</listitem>
5167
5168	<listitem>
5169	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
5170	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
5171	</listitem>
5172
5173	<listitem>
5174	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
5175	</listitem>
5176
5177	<listitem>
5178	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
5179	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
5180	</listitem>
5181
5182	<listitem>
5183	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
5184	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
5185	(bug #2938)</para>
5186	</listitem>
5187
5188	<listitem>
5189	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
5190	Linux guests</para>
5191	</listitem>
5192
5193	<listitem>
5194	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
5195	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
5196	(bug #1776)</para>
5197	</listitem>
5198
5199	<listitem>
5200	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
5201	(bug #1612)</para>
5202	</listitem>
5203
5204	<listitem>
5205	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5206	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5207	</listitem>
5208
5209	<listitem>
5210	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5211	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5212	</listitem>
5213
5214	<listitem>
5215	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5216	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5217	</listitem>
5218
5219	</itemizedlist>
5220	</sect1>
5221
5222	<sect1>
5223	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5224
5225	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5226	were added:</para>
5227
5228	<itemizedlist>
5229	<listitem>
5230	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5231	</listitem>
5232
5233	<listitem>
5234	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5235	</listitem>
5236
5237	<listitem>
5238	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5239	</listitem>
5240
5241	<listitem>
5242	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5243	</listitem>
5244
5245	<listitem>
5246	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5247	</listitem>
5248
5249	<listitem>
5250	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5251	</listitem>
5252
5253	<listitem>
5254	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5255	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5260	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5261	</listitem>
5262
5263	</itemizedlist>
5264
5265	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5266
5267	<itemizedlist>
5268	<listitem>
5269	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5270	</listitem>
5271
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5274	</listitem>
5275
5276	<listitem>
5277	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5278	</listitem>
5279
5280	<listitem>
5281	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5282	</listitem>
5283
5284	<listitem>
5285	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5286	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5287	</listitem>
5288
5289	<listitem>
5290	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5291	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5292	</listitem>
5293
5294	<listitem>
5295	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5296	</listitem>
5297
5298	<listitem>
5299	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5300	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5301	</listitem>
5302
5303	<listitem>
5304	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5305	</listitem>
5306
5307	<listitem>
5308	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5309	</listitem>
5310
5311	<listitem>
5312	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	<listitem>
5316	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5317	</listitem>
5318
5319	<listitem>
5320	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5321	</listitem>
5322
5323	<listitem>
5324	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5325	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5326	</listitem>
5327
5328	<listitem>
5329	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5330	the compiz window manager</para>
5331	</listitem>
5332
5333	<listitem>
5334	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5335	</listitem>
5336
5337	<listitem>
5338	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5339	</listitem>
5340
5341	<listitem>
5342	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5343	</listitem>
5344
5345	<listitem>
5346	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5347	</listitem>
5348
5349	<listitem>
5350	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5351	</listitem>
5352
5353	<listitem>
5354	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5355	</listitem>
5356
5357	<listitem>
5358	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5359	</listitem>
5360
5361	<listitem>
5362	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5363	</listitem>
5364
5365	<listitem>
5366	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5367	</listitem>
5368
5369	<listitem>
5370	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5371	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5372	</listitem>
5373
5374	<listitem>
5375	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5376	for direct device access</para>
5377	</listitem>
5378
5379	<listitem>
5380	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5381	</listitem>
5382
5383	<listitem>
5384	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5385	</listitem>
5386
5387	<listitem>
5388	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5389	</listitem>
5390
5391	<listitem>
5392	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5393	</listitem>
5394
5395	<listitem>
5396	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5397	</listitem>
5398
5399	<listitem>
5400	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5401	</listitem>
5402
5403	<listitem>
5404	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5405	</listitem>
5406
5407	<listitem>
5408	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5409	</listitem>
5410
5411	</itemizedlist>
5412	</sect1>
5413
5414	<sect1>
5415	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5416
5417	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5418	added:</para>
5419
5420	<itemizedlist>
5421
5422	<listitem>
5423	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5424	states/snapshots</para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5429	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5430	</listitem>
5431
5432	<listitem>
5433	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5434	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5435	</listitem>
5436
5437	<listitem>
5438	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5439	collisions</para>
5440	</listitem>
5441
5442	<listitem>
5443	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5444	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5445	</listitem>
5446
5447	<listitem>
5448	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5449	</listitem>
5450
5451	<listitem>
5452	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5453	reliably</para>
5454	</listitem>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5458	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5463	a reboot</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5472	in parallel</para>
5473	</listitem>
5474
5475	<listitem>
5476	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5477	</listitem>
5478
5479	<listitem>
5480	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5481	correctly</para>
5482	</listitem>
5483
5484	<listitem>
5485	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5486	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5487	</listitem>
5488
5489	</itemizedlist>
5490	</sect1>
5491
5492	<sect1>
5493	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5494
5495	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5496	added:</para>
5497
5498	<itemizedlist>
5499
5500	<listitem>
5501	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5502	(bug #2220)</para>
5503	</listitem>
5504
5505	<listitem>
5506	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5507	</listitem>
5508
5509	<listitem>
5510	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5511	</listitem>
5512
5513	<listitem>
5514	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5515	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5516	</listitem>
5517
5518	<listitem>
5519	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5520	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5521	</listitem>
5522
5523	<listitem>
5524	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5525	(bug #2624)</para>
5526	</listitem>
5527
5528	<listitem>
5529	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5530	(bug #2024)</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5535	</listitem>
5536
5537	<listitem>
5538	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5539	</listitem>
5540
5541	<listitem>
5542	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5543	</listitem>
5544
5545	<listitem>
5546	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5547	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5548	</listitem>
5549
5550	<listitem>
5551	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5552	applications when updating the installation</para>
5553	</listitem>
5554
5555	<listitem>
5556	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5557	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5558	</listitem>
5559
5560	<listitem>
5561	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5562	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5563	</listitem>
5564
5565	<listitem>
5566	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5567	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5568	</listitem>
5569
5570	<listitem>
5571	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5572	connected to a host device</para>
5573	</listitem>
5574
5575	<listitem>
5576	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5581	</listitem>
5582
5583	<listitem>
5584	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5585	</listitem>
5586
5587	<listitem>
5588	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5589	when using native RDP connections</para>
5590	</listitem>
5591
5592	<listitem>
5593	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5594	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5595	</listitem>
5596
5597	<listitem>
5598	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5599	(bug #2591)</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	<listitem>
5603	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5604	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5605	</listitem>
5606
5607	<listitem>
5608	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5609	</listitem>
5610
5611	</itemizedlist>
5612	</sect1>
5613
5614	<sect1>
5615	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5616
5617	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5618	added:</para>
5619
5620	<itemizedlist>
5621	<listitem>
5622	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5623	</listitem>
5624
5625	<listitem>
5626	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5627	</listitem>
5628
5629	<listitem>
5630	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5631	</listitem>
5632
5633	<listitem>
5634	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5635	</listitem>
5636
5637	<listitem>
5638	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5639	</listitem>
5640
5641	<listitem>
5642	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5643	</listitem>
5644
5645	<listitem>
5646	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5647	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5648	</listitem>
5649
5650	<listitem>
5651	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5652	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5653	</listitem>
5654
5655	<listitem>
5656	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5657	</listitem>
5658
5659	<listitem>
5660	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5661	equal to the client resolution</para>
5662	</listitem>
5663
5664	<listitem>
5665	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5666	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5667	</listitem>
5668
5669	<listitem>
5670	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5671	</listitem>
5672
5673	<listitem>
5674	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5675	</listitem>
5676
5677	<listitem>
5678	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5679	</listitem>
5680
5681	<listitem>
5682	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5683	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5684	</listitem>
5685
5686	<listitem>
5687	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5688	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5689	</listitem>
5690
5691	<listitem>
5692	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5693	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5694	</listitem>
5695
5696	<listitem>
5697	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5698	</listitem>
5699
5700	<listitem>
5701	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5702	</listitem>
5703
5704	<listitem>
5705	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5706	</listitem>
5707
5708	<listitem>
5709	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5710	</listitem>
5711
5712	<listitem>
5713	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5714	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5715	</listitem>
5716
5717	<listitem>
5718	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5719	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5720	</listitem>
5721
5722	<listitem>
5723	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5724	</listitem>
5725
5726	<listitem>
5727	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5728	</listitem>
5729
5730	<listitem>
5731	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5732	</listitem>
5733
5734	</itemizedlist>
5735
5736	</sect1>
5737
5738	<sect1>
5739	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5740
5741	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5742	added:</para>
5743
5744	<itemizedlist>
5745
5746	<listitem>
5747	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5748	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5753	</listitem>
5754
5755	<listitem>
5756	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5757	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5758	</listitem>
5759
5760	<listitem>
5761	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5762	</listitem>
5763
5764	<listitem>
5765	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5766	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5767	</listitem>
5768
5769	<listitem>
5770	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5771	</listitem>
5772
5773	<listitem>
5774	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5775	the virtual disk manager</para>
5776	</listitem>
5777
5778	<listitem>
5779	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5780	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5781	</listitem>
5782
5783	<listitem>
5784	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5785	</listitem>
5786
5787	<listitem>
5788	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5793	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5798	bug #2067)</para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	<listitem>
5802	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5803	</listitem>
5804
5805	<listitem>
5806	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5807	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5808	</listitem>
5809
5810	<listitem>
5811	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5812	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5813	(bug #2184)</para>
5814	</listitem>
5815
5816	<listitem>
5817	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5818	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5819	</listitem>
5820
5821	<listitem>
5822	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5823	(Windows guests only)</para>
5824	</listitem>
5825
5826	<listitem>
5827	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5828	</listitem>
5829
5830	<listitem>
5831	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5832	</listitem>
5833
5834	<listitem>
5835	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5836	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5837	</listitem>
5838
5839	<listitem>
5840	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5841	</listitem>
5842
5843	<listitem>
5844	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5845	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5846	</para>
5847	</listitem>
5848
5849	<listitem>
5850	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5851	</listitem>
5852
5853	<listitem>
5854	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5855	</listitem>
5856
5857	<listitem>
5858	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5859	a VM reboot</para>
5860	</listitem>
5861
5862	<listitem>
5863	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5864	</listitem>
5865
5866	<listitem>
5867	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5868	buggy X servers</para>
5869	</listitem>
5870
5871	<listitem>
5872	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5873	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5874	</listitem>
5875
5876	<listitem>
5877	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5878	</listitem>
5879
5880	<listitem>
5881	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5882	(bug #2128)</para>
5883	</listitem>
5884
5885	<listitem>
5886	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5887	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5888	</listitem>
5889
5890	<listitem>
5891	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5892	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5893	</listitem>
5894
5895	<listitem>
5896	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5897	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5898	</listitem>
5899
5900	<listitem>
5901	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5902	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
5903	</listitem>
5904
5905	<listitem>
5906	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
5907	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
5908	</listitem>
5909
5910	<listitem>
5911	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
5912	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
5913	</listitem>
5914
5915	<listitem>
5916	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
5917	installer into a single package</para>
5918	</listitem>
5919
5920	<listitem>
5921	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
5922	port to the guest
5923	</para>
5924	</listitem>
5925
5926	</itemizedlist>
5927
5928	</sect1>
5929
5930	<sect1>
5931	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
5932
5933	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5934	were added:<itemizedlist>
5935
5936	<listitem>
5937	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
5938	</listitem>
5939
5940	<listitem>
5941	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5942	</listitem>
5943
5944	<listitem>
5945	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
5946	</listitem>
5947
5948	<listitem>
5949	<para>New-version notifier</para>
5950	</listitem>
5951
5952	<listitem>
5953	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
5954	</listitem>
5955
5956	<listitem>
5957	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5958	</listitem>
5959
5960	<listitem>
5961	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
5962	</listitem>
5963
5964	<listitem>
5965	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
5966	</listitem>
5967
5968	<listitem>
5969	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
5970	</listitem>
5971
5972	<listitem>
5973	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
5974	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
5975	</listitem>
5976
5977	<listitem>
5978	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
5979	</listitem>
5980
5981	<listitem>
5982	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
5983	</listitem>
5984
5985	<listitem>
5986	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
5987	</listitem>
5988
5989	</itemizedlist></para>
5990
5991	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5992
5993	<itemizedlist>
5994
5995	<listitem>
5996	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
5997	</listitem>
5998
5999	<listitem>
6000	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
6001	</listitem>
6002
6003	<listitem>
6004	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
6005	</listitem>
6006
6007	<listitem>
6008	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
6009	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
6010	</listitem>
6011
6012	<listitem>
6013	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
6014	restored</para>
6015	</listitem>
6016
6017	<listitem>
6018	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
6019	</listitem>
6020
6021	<listitem>
6022	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
6023	</listitem>
6024
6025	<listitem>
6026	<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>
6027	</listitem>
6028
6029	</itemizedlist>
6030
6031	</sect1>
6032
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