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2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-xx-xx)</title>
5
6	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7	were added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	<listitem>
16	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
17	</listitem>
18
19	<listitem>
20	<para>Guest Additions: modules and features now are represented as facilities
21	to have a common interface for frontends.</para>
22	</listitem>
23
24	<listitem>
25	<para>New Networking Mode: <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>. Allows to
26	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
27	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
28	</listitem>
29
30	</itemizedlist>
31
32	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
33
34	<itemizedlist>
35
36	<listitem>
37	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 2TB</para>
38	</listitem>
39
40	<listitem>
41	<para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
42	of the current state</para>
43	</listitem>
44
45	<listitem>
46	<para>GUI: added <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
47	</listitem>
48
49	<listitem>
50	<para>GUI: added setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
51	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
52	</listitem>
53
54	<listitem>
55	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
56	command group, fixed various bugs</para>
57	</listitem>
58
59	<listitem>
60	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
61	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
62	</listitem>
63
64	<listitem>
65	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
66	be a valid UUID</para>
67	</listitem>
68
69	<listitem>
70	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB driver</para>
71	</listitem>
72
73	<listitem>
74	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
75	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
76	</listitem>
77
78	<listitem>
79	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
80	window (bug #4491)</para>
81	</listitem>
82
83	<listitem>
84	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
85	</listitem>
86
87	<listitem>
88	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
89	from the host</para>
90	</listitem>
91
92	</itemizedlist>
93
94	</sect1>
95
96	<sect1>
97	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
98
99	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
100	added:</para>
101
102	<itemizedlist>
103
104	<listitem>
105	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
106	settings vanished</para>
107	</listitem>
108
109	<listitem>
110	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
111	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
112	</listitem>
113
114	<listitem>
115	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
116	created (bug #8031)</para>
117	</listitem>
118
119	<listitem>
120	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
121	</listitem>
122
123	<listitem>
124	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
125	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
126	</listitem>
127
128	<listitem>
129	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
130	an extension pack</para>
131	</listitem>
132
133	<listitem>
134	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
135	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
136	</listitem>
137
138	<listitem>
139	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
140	</listitem>
141
142	<listitem>
143	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
144	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
145	</listitem>
146
147	<listitem>
148	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
149	host-only interface</para>
150	</listitem>
151
152	<listitem>
153	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
154	and async I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
155	</listitem>
156
157	<listitem>
158	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
159	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
160	</listitem>
161
162	<listitem>
163	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
164	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
165	</listitem>
166
167	<listitem>
168	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
169	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
170	</listitem>
171
172	<listitem>
173	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
174	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
175	</listitem>
176
177	<listitem>
178	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
179	</listitem>
180
181	<listitem>
182	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
187	guests</para>
188	</listitem>
189
190	<listitem>
191	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
196	</listitem>
197
198	<listitem>
199	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
200	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
201	</listitem>
202
203	<listitem>
204	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
205	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
206	</listitem>
207
208	<listitem>
209	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
210	a VM start</para>
211	</listitem>
212
213	<listitem>
214	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
215	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
216	</listitem>
217
218	<listitem>
219	<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented
220	(bug #6067)</para>
221	</listitem>
222
223	<listitem>
224	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
225	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
226	</listitem>
227
228	<listitem>
229	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
230	not saved to machine XML</para>
231	</listitem>
232
233	<listitem>
234	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
235	#7983)</para>
236	</listitem>
237
238	<listitem>
239	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
240	#7981)</para>
241	</listitem>
242
243	<listitem>
244	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.</para>
245	</listitem>
246
247	<listitem>
248	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
249	regression)</para>
250	</listitem>
251
252	<listitem>
253	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
254	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
255	</listitem>
256
257	<listitem>
258	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
259	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
260	</listitem>
261
262	</itemizedlist>
263
264	</sect1>
265
266	<sect1>
267	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
268
269	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
270	were added:</para>
271
272	<itemizedlist>
273
274	<listitem>
275	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
276	</listitem>
277
278	<listitem>
279	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
280	</listitem>
281
282	<listitem>
283	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
284	<itemizedlist>
285	<listitem>
286	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
287	</listitem>
288
289	<listitem>
290	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
291	</listitem>
292
293	<listitem>
294	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
295	</listitem>
296
297	<listitem>
298	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
299	</listitem>
300
301	<listitem>
302	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
303	states, and optionally including attached
304	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
305	can do the same now)</para>
306	</listitem>
307
308	<listitem>
309	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
310	</listitem>
311
312	</itemizedlist>
313	</para>
314	</listitem>
315
316	<listitem>
317	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
318	</listitem>
319
320	<listitem>
321	<para>New virtual hardware:
322	<itemizedlist>
323	<listitem>
324	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
325	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
326	</listitem>
327
328	<listitem>
329	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
330	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
331	</listitem>
332	</itemizedlist>
333	</para>
334	</listitem>
335
336	<listitem>
337	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
338	<itemizedlist>
339	<listitem>
340	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
341	</listitem>
342
343	<listitem>
344	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
345	</para>
346	</listitem>
347
348	<listitem>
349	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
350	now</para>
351	</listitem>
352
353	<listitem>
354	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
355	</listitem>
356
357	</itemizedlist>
358	</para>
359	</listitem>
360
361	<listitem>
362	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
363	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
364	</listitem>
365
366	<listitem>
367	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
368	Parallels images</para>
369	</listitem>
370
371	<listitem>
372	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
373	</listitem>
374
375	<listitem>
376	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
377	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
382	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
383	</listitem>
384
385	</itemizedlist>
386
387	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
388
389	<itemizedlist>
390
391	<listitem>
392	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
393	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
394	</listitem>
395
396	<listitem>
397	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
398	</listitem>
399
400	<listitem>
401	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
402	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
403	</listitem>
404
405	<listitem>
406	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
407	(bug #1657)</para>
408	</listitem>
409
410	<listitem>
411	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
412	</listitem>
413
414	<listitem>
415	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
416	</listitem>
417
418	<listitem>
419	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
420	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
421	</listitem>
422
423	<listitem>
424	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
425	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
426	</listitem>
427
428	<listitem>
429	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
430	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
431	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
436	again (bug #6864)</para>
437	</listitem>
438
439	<listitem>
440	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
441	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
442	</listitem>
443
444	<listitem>
445	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
446	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
447	</listitem>
448
449	<listitem>
450	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
451	</listitem>
452
453	<listitem>
454	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
455	</listitem>
456
457	<listitem>
458	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
459	</listitem>
460
461	<listitem>
462	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
463	</listitem>
464
465	<listitem>
466	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
467	</listitem>
468
469	<listitem>
470	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
471	</listitem>
472
473	<listitem>
474	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
475	</listitem>
476
477	<listitem>
478	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
479	(bug #7058)</para>
480	</listitem>
481
482	<listitem>
483	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
484	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
485	</listitem>
486
487	<listitem>
488	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
489	circumstances</para>
490	</listitem>
491
492	<listitem>
493	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
494	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
495	#5578)
496	</para>
497	</listitem>
498
499	<listitem>
500	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
501	</listitem>
502
503	<listitem>
504	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
505	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
506	</listitem>
507
508	<listitem>
509	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
510	</listitem>
511
512	<listitem>
513	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
514	#6760)</para>
515	</listitem>
516
517	<listitem>
518	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
519	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
520	</listitem>
521
522	<listitem>
523	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
524	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
525	</listitem>
526
527	<listitem>
528	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
529	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
530	</listitem>
531
532	<listitem>
533	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
534	</listitem>
535
536	<listitem>
537	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
538	file</para>
539	</listitem>
540
541	<listitem>
542	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
543	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
544	</listitem>
545
546	</itemizedlist>
547
548	</sect1>
549
550	<sect1>
551	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
552
553	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
554	added:</para>
555
556	<itemizedlist>
557
558	<listitem>
559	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
560	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
561	</listitem>
562
563	<listitem>
564	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
565	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
566	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
571	</listitem>
572
573	<listitem>
574	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
575	</listitem>
576
577	<listitem>
578	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
579	</listitem>
580
581	<listitem>
582	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
583	the VM is running</para>
584	</listitem>
585
586	<listitem>
587	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
588	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
589	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
590	starting from a saved state</para>
591	</listitem>
592
593	<listitem>
594	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
595	</listitem>
596
597	<listitem>
598	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
599	</listitem>
600
601	<listitem>
602	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
603	</listitem>
604
605	<listitem>
606	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
607	</listitem>
608
609	<listitem>
610	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
615	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
620	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
625	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
634	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
635	</para>
636	</listitem>
637
638	<listitem>
639	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
640	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
641	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
642	</listitem>
643
644	<listitem>
645	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
646	only)</para>
647	</listitem>
648
649	<listitem>
650	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
651	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
652	</listitem>
653
654	<listitem>
655	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
656	</listitem>
657
658	<listitem>
659	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
660	</listitem>
661
662	<listitem>
663	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
664	</listitem>
665
666	<listitem>
667	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
668	state (bug #4124)</para>
669	</listitem>
670
671	<listitem>
672	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
673	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
674	</listitem>
675
676	<listitem>
677	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
678	</listitem>
679
680	<listitem>
681	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
682	(bug #2996)</para>
683	</listitem>
684
685	<listitem>
686	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
687	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
688	</listitem>
689
690	<listitem>
691	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
692	</listitem>
693
694	<listitem>
695	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
696	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
697	</listitem>
698
699	<listitem>
700	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
701	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
702	</listitem>
703
704	<listitem>
705	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
706	user accounts for VM information</para>
707	</listitem>
708
709	</itemizedlist>
710
711	</sect1>
712
713	<sect1>
714	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
715
716	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
717	added:</para>
718
719	<itemizedlist>
720
721	<listitem>
722	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
723	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
724	</listitem>
725
726	<listitem>
727	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
728	</listitem>
729
730	<listitem>
731	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
732	</listitem>
733
734	<listitem>
735	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
736	</listitem>
737
738	<listitem>
739	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
740	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
741	</listitem>
742
743	<listitem>
744	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
745	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
746	</listitem>
747
748	<listitem>
749	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
750	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
751	</listitem>
752
753	<listitem>
754	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
755	(bug #4952)</para>
756	</listitem>
757
758	<listitem>
759	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
760	bug #6122)</para>
761	</listitem>
762
763	<listitem>
764	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
765	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
766	</listitem>
767
768	<listitem>
769	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
770	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
771	(Linux hosts only)</para>
772	</listitem>
773
774	<listitem>
775	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
776	</listitem>
777
778	<listitem>
779	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
780	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
781	</listitem>
782
783	<listitem>
784	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
785	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
786	</listitem>
787
788	<listitem>
789	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
790	canceled</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
795	</listitem>
796
797	<listitem>
798	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
799	</listitem>
800
801	<listitem>
802	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
803	</listitem>
804
805	<listitem>
806	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
807	</listitem>
808
809	<listitem>
810	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
811	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
812	</listitem>
813
814	<listitem>
815	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
816	</listitem>
817
818	<listitem>
819	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
820	(Linux hosts only)</para>
821	</listitem>
822
823	<listitem>
824	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
825	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
826	</listitem>
827
828	<listitem>
829	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
830	</listitem>
831
832	<listitem>
833	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
834	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
835	</listitem>
836
837	<listitem>
838	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
839	</listitem>
840
841	<listitem>
842	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
843	circumstances</para>
844	</listitem>
845
846	<listitem>
847	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
848	printers</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
853	</listitem>
854
855	<listitem>
856	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
857	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
858	</listitem>
859
860	<listitem>
861	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
862	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
863	</listitem>
864
865	<listitem>
866	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
867	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
868	circumstances</para>
869	</listitem>
870
871	<listitem>
872	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
873	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
874	</listitem>
875
876	<listitem>
877	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
878	as supported extension</para>
879	</listitem>
880
881	<listitem>
882	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
883	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
884	</listitem>
885
886	<listitem>
887	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
888	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
889	</listitem>
890
891	<listitem>
892	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
893	</listitem>
894
895	<listitem>
896	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
897	(bug #7366)</para>
898	</listitem>
899
900	<listitem>
901	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
902	</listitem>
903
904	<listitem>
905	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
906	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
907	</listitem>
908
909	<listitem>
910	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
911	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
912	</listitem>
913
914	<listitem>
915	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
916	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
917	</listitem>
918
919	<listitem>
920	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
921	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
922	</listitem>
923
924	<listitem>
925	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
926	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
927	</listitem>
928
929	<listitem>
930	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
935	</listitem>
936
937	<listitem>
938	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
939	more than one environment variable</para>
940	</listitem>
941
942	<listitem>
943	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
944	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
949	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
950	</listitem>
951
952	<listitem>
953	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
954	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
955	</listitem>
956
957	<listitem>
958	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
959	enumerating logged in users</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
964	</listitem>
965
966	<listitem>
967	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
968	</listitem>
969
970	<listitem>
971	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
972	</listitem>
973
974	<listitem>
975	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
976	in the event of a VM crash</para>
977	</listitem>
978
979	<listitem>
980	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
981	</listitem>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
985	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
986	</listitem>
987
988	<listitem>
989	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
990	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
991	</listitem>
992
993	<listitem>
994	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
995	(bug #7448)</para>
996	</listitem>
997
998	<listitem>
999	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
1000	</listitem>
1001
1002	<listitem>
1003	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
1004	</listitem>
1005
1006	<listitem>
1007	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
1008	</listitem>
1009
1010	</itemizedlist>
1011
1012	</sect1>
1013
1014	<sect1>
1015	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
1016
1017	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1018	added:</para>
1019
1020	<itemizedlist>
1021
1022	<listitem>
1023	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
1024	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
1025	</listitem>
1026
1027	<listitem>
1028	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
1033	bug #6809)</para>
1034	</listitem>
1035
1036	<listitem>
1037	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
1038	</listitem>
1039
1040	<listitem>
1041	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
1042	</listitem>
1043
1044	<listitem>
1045	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
1046	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
1047	</listitem>
1048
1049	<listitem>
1050	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
1051	changes</para>
1052	</listitem>
1053
1054	<listitem>
1055	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
1056	</listitem>
1057
1058	<listitem>
1059	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
1060	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
1061	</listitem>
1062
1063	<listitem>
1064	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
1065	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
1066	</listitem>
1067
1068	<listitem>
1069	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
1070	</listitem>
1071
1072	<listitem>
1073	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
1074	</listitem>
1075
1076	<listitem>
1077	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
1078	</listitem>
1079
1080	<listitem>
1081	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
1082	</listitem>
1083
1084	<listitem>
1085	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
1086	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
1087	</listitem>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
1091	</listitem>
1092
1093	<listitem>
1094	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
1095	(bug #6832)</para>
1096	</listitem>
1097
1098	<listitem>
1099	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
1100	guests</para>
1101	</listitem>
1102
1103	<listitem>
1104	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
1105	</listitem>
1106
1107	<listitem>
1108	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
1109	without external tools and tricks</para>
1110	</listitem>
1111
1112	<listitem>
1113	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
1114	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
1115	</listitem>
1116
1117	<listitem>
1118	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
1119	</listitem>
1120
1121	<listitem>
1122	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
1123	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
1124	</listitem>
1125
1126	<listitem>
1127	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
1128	shutdown</para>
1129	</listitem>
1130
1131	<listitem>
1132	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
1133	fixes</para>
1134	</listitem>
1135
1136	<listitem>
1137	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
1138	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
1139	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
1140	</para>
1141	</listitem>
1142
1143	<listitem>
1144	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
1145	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
1146	</listitem>
1147
1148	<listitem>
1149	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
1150	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
1151	</listitem>
1152
1153	<listitem>
1154	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
1155	</para>
1156	</listitem>
1157
1158	<listitem>
1159	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
1160	</listitem>
1161
1162	<listitem>
1163	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
1168	</listitem>
1169
1170	</itemizedlist>
1171
1172	</sect1>
1173
1174	<sect1>
1175	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
1176
1177	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1178	added:</para>
1179
1180	<itemizedlist>
1181
1182	<listitem>
1183	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
1184	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
1185	</listitem>
1186
1187	<listitem>
1188	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
1189	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
1190	</listitem>
1191
1192	<listitem>
1193	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
1194	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
1195	</listitem>
1196
1197	<listitem>
1198	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
1199	</listitem>
1200
1201	<listitem>
1202	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
1207	</listitem>
1208
1209	<listitem>
1210	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
1211	</listitem>
1212
1213	<listitem>
1214	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
1215	assigned</para>
1216	</listitem>
1217
1218	<listitem>
1219	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
1220	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
1221	</listitem>
1222
1223	<listitem>
1224	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
1225	multiple screens are enabled</para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1230	</listitem>
1231
1232	<listitem>
1233	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
1234	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
1235	</listitem>
1236
1237	<listitem>
1238	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
1239	again (bug #7022).
1240	</para>
1241	</listitem>
1242
1243	<listitem>
1244	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
1245	(bug #6768)</para>
1246	</listitem>
1247
1248	<listitem>
1249	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
1250	(bug #6927)</para>
1251	</listitem>
1252
1253	<listitem>
1254	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
1255	bug #7031)</para>
1256	</listitem>
1257
1258	<listitem>
1259	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
1260	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
1261	</listitem>
1262
1263	<listitem>
1264	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1265	bug #6987)</para>
1266	</listitem>
1267
1268	<listitem>
1269	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
1270	</listitem>
1271
1272	<listitem>
1273	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
1278	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
1287	installation (bug #5101)</para>
1288	</listitem>
1289
1290	<listitem>
1291	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
1292	</listitem>
1293
1294	<listitem>
1295	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1296	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1297	bug #6872)</para>
1298	</listitem>
1299
1300	<listitem>
1301	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1302	</listitem>
1303
1304	<listitem>
1305	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1306	(performance tweak)</para>
1307	</listitem>
1308
1309	<listitem>
1310	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1311	is currently paused</para>
1312	</listitem>
1313
1314	<listitem>
1315	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1316	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1317	</listitem>
1318
1319	<listitem>
1320	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1321	</listitem>
1322
1323	<listitem>
1324	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1325	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1326	</listitem>
1327
1328	<listitem>
1329	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1330	not properly saved</para>
1331	</listitem>
1332
1333	<listitem>
1334	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1335	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1336	</listitem>
1337
1338	<listitem>
1339	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1340	</listitem>
1341
1342	<listitem>
1343	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1344	</listitem>
1345
1346	<listitem>
1347	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1352	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1353	</listitem>
1354
1355	<listitem>
1356	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1357	</listitem>
1358
1359	<listitem>
1360	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1361	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1362	</listitem>
1363
1364	<listitem>
1365	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1366	(bug #5251)</para>
1367	</listitem>
1368
1369	<listitem>
1370	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1371	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1372	</listitem>
1373
1374	<listitem>
1375	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1376	</listitem>
1377
1378	<listitem>
1379	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1380	</listitem>
1381
1382	<listitem>
1383	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1384	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1385	</listitem>
1386
1387	<listitem>
1388	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1389	</listitem>
1390
1391	<listitem>
1392	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1393	</listitem>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1397	</listitem>
1398
1399	</itemizedlist>
1400	</sect1>
1401
1402	<sect1>
1403	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1404
1405	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1406	added:</para>
1407
1408	<itemizedlist>
1409
1410	<listitem>
1411	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1412	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1413	</listitem>
1414
1415	<listitem>
1416	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1417	</listitem>
1418
1419	<listitem>
1420	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1421	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1422	</listitem>
1423
1424	<listitem>
1425	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1426	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1427	</listitem>
1428
1429	<listitem>
1430	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1431	</listitem>
1432
1433	<listitem>
1434	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1435	again (bug #6864)</para>
1436	</listitem>
1437
1438	<listitem>
1439	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1440	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1441	</listitem>
1442
1443	<listitem>
1444	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1445	</listitem>
1446
1447	<listitem>
1448	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1449	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1450	</listitem>
1451
1452	<listitem>
1453	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1454	</listitem>
1455
1456	</itemizedlist>
1457
1458	</sect1>
1459
1460	<sect1>
1461	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1462
1463	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1464	added:</para>
1465
1466	<itemizedlist>
1467
1468	<listitem>
1469	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1470	</listitem>
1471
1472	<listitem>
1473	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1474	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1475	</listitem>
1476
1477	<listitem>
1478	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1479	</listitem>
1480
1481	<listitem>
1482	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1483	state</para>
1484	</listitem>
1485
1486	<listitem>
1487	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1488	</listitem>
1489
1490	<listitem>
1491	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1492	</listitem>
1493
1494	<listitem>
1495	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1496	</listitem>
1497
1498	<listitem>
1499	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1500	</listitem>
1501
1502	<listitem>
1503	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1504	</listitem>
1505
1506	<listitem>
1507	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1512	</listitem>
1513
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1516	</listitem>
1517
1518	<listitem>
1519	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1520	</listitem>
1521
1522	<listitem>
1523	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1524	</listitem>
1525
1526	<listitem>
1527	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1528	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1529	</listitem>
1530
1531	<listitem>
1532	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1533	(bug #6784)</para>
1534	</listitem>
1535
1536	<listitem>
1537	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1538	</listitem>
1539
1540	<listitem>
1541	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1542	</listitem>
1543
1544	<listitem>
1545	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1546	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1547	</listitem>
1548
1549	<listitem>
1550	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1551	</listitem>
1552
1553	<listitem>
1554	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1555	</listitem>
1556
1557	<listitem>
1558	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1559	host only</para>
1560	</listitem>
1561
1562	<listitem>
1563	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1564	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1565	</listitem>
1566
1567	<listitem>
1568	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1569	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1570	</listitem>
1571
1572	<listitem>
1573	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1574	</listitem>
1575
1576	<listitem>
1577	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1578	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1579	</listitem>
1580
1581	<listitem>
1582	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1583	</listitem>
1584
1585	<listitem>
1586	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1591	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1592	</listitem>
1593
1594	<listitem>
1595	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1596	</listitem>
1597
1598	<listitem>
1599	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1600	</listitem>
1601
1602	<listitem>
1603	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1604	</listitem>
1605
1606	<listitem>
1607	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1608	(bug #6714)</para>
1609	</listitem>
1610
1611	<listitem>
1612	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1613	</listitem>
1614
1615	<listitem>
1616	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1617	</listitem>
1618
1619	<listitem>
1620	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1621	</listitem>
1622
1623	<listitem>
1624	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1625	</listitem>
1626
1627	<listitem>
1628	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1629	</listitem>
1630
1631	</itemizedlist>
1632
1633	</sect1>
1634
1635	<sect1>
1636	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1637
1638	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1639	were added:</para>
1640
1641	<itemizedlist>
1642
1643	<listitem>
1644	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1645	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1646	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1647	</listitem>
1648
1649	<listitem>
1650	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1651	</listitem>
1652
1653	<listitem>
1654	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1655	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1656	</listitem>
1657
1658	<listitem>
1659	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1660	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1661	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1662	</listitem>
1663
1664	<listitem>
1665	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1666	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1667	</listitem>
1668
1669	<listitem>
1670	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1671	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1672	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1673	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1674	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1675	</listitem>
1676
1677	<listitem>
1678	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1679	</listitem>
1680
1681	<listitem>
1682	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1683	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1684	</listitem>
1685
1686	<listitem>
1687	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1688	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1689	</listitem>
1690
1691	<listitem>
1692	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1693	</listitem>
1694
1695	<listitem>
1696	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	<listitem>
1700	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1701	</listitem>
1702
1703	<listitem>
1704	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1705	</listitem>
1706
1707	<listitem>
1708	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1709	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1710	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1711	</listitem>
1712
1713	<listitem>
1714	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1715	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1716	</listitem>
1717
1718	</itemizedlist>
1719
1720	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1721
1722	<itemizedlist>
1723
1724	<listitem>
1725	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1726	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1727	</listitem>
1728
1729	<listitem>
1730	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1731	</listitem>
1732
1733	<listitem>
1734	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1735	VM</para>
1736	</listitem>
1737
1738	<listitem>
1739	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1740	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1741	</listitem>
1742
1743	<listitem>
1744	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1745	#1669)</para>
1746	</listitem>
1747
1748	<listitem>
1749	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1750	#6442)</para>
1751	</listitem>
1752
1753	<listitem>
1754	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1755	combination (bug #684)</para>
1756	</listitem>
1757
1758	<listitem>
1759	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1760	the VM from the GUI</para>
1761	</listitem>
1762
1763	<listitem>
1764	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1765	medium is not accessible</para>
1766	</listitem>
1767
1768	<listitem>
1769	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1770	</listitem>
1771
1772	<listitem>
1773	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1774	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1775	</listitem>
1776
1777	<listitem>
1778	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1779	#3106)</para>
1780	</listitem>
1781
1782	<listitem>
1783	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1784	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1785	it</para>
1786	</listitem>
1787
1788	<listitem>
1789	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1790	</listitem>
1791
1792	<listitem>
1793	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1794	</listitem>
1795
1796	<listitem>
1797	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1798	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1799	</listitem>
1800
1801	<listitem>
1802	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1803	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1804	</listitem>
1805
1806	<listitem>
1807	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1808	</listitem>
1809
1810	<listitem>
1811	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1816	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1825	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1826	</listitem>
1827
1828	<listitem>
1829	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1830	</listitem>
1831
1832	<listitem>
1833	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1834	in VirtualBox</para>
1835	</listitem>
1836
1837	<listitem>
1838	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1839	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1840	</listitem>
1841
1842	<listitem>
1843	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1844	VirtualBox</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1849	</listitem>
1850
1851	<listitem>
1852	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1853	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1854	</listitem>
1855
1856	</itemizedlist>
1857	</sect1>
1858
1859	<sect1>
1860	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1861
1862	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1863	added:</para>
1864
1865	<itemizedlist>
1866
1867	<listitem>
1868	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1869	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1870	</listitem>
1871
1872	<listitem>
1873	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1878	</listitem>
1879
1880	<listitem>
1881	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1882	only) </para>
1883	</listitem>
1884
1885	<listitem>
1886	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1887	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1888	</listitem>
1889
1890	<listitem>
1891	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1892	interface version</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	<listitem>
1896	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1897	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1898	slot empty</para>
1899	</listitem>
1900
1901	<listitem>
1902	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1903	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1904	(bug #4220)</para>
1905	</listitem>
1906
1907	<listitem>
1908	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1909	</listitem>
1910
1911	<listitem>
1912	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1913	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1914	</listitem>
1915
1916	<listitem>
1917	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1918	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1919	</listitem>
1920
1921	<listitem>
1922	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1923	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1924	</listitem>
1925
1926	<listitem>
1927	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1928	attached</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	<listitem>
1932	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1933	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1934	</listitem>
1935
1936	<listitem>
1937	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1938	</listitem>
1939
1940	<listitem>
1941	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1942	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1943	</listitem>
1944
1945	<listitem>
1946	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1947	is bug #6408)</para>
1948	</listitem>
1949
1950	<listitem>
1951	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1952	</listitem>
1953
1954	<listitem>
1955	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1956	fail to initialize</para>
1957	</listitem>
1958
1959	<listitem>
1960	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1965	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1966	</listitem>
1967
1968	<listitem>
1969	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1970	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1971	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1972	</listitem>
1973
1974	<listitem>
1975	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1976	</listitem>
1977
1978	<listitem>
1979	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1980	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1981	</listitem>
1982
1983	<listitem>
1984	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1985	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1986	</listitem>
1987
1988	<listitem>
1989	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1990	(bug #6435)</para>
1991	</listitem>
1992
1993	<listitem>
1994	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1995	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
1996	</listitem>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
2000	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
2001	(bug #6488)</para>
2002	</listitem>
2003
2004	<listitem>
2005	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
2006	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
2007	</listitem>
2008
2009	<listitem>
2010	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
2011	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
2012	</listitem>
2013
2014	<listitem>
2015	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
2016	#5227)</para>
2017	</listitem>
2018
2019	<listitem>
2020	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
2021	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
2022	</listitem>
2023
2024	<listitem>
2025	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
2026	</listitem>
2027
2028	<listitem>
2029	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
2030	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
2031	</listitem>
2032
2033	</itemizedlist>
2034	</sect1>
2035
2036	<sect1>
2037	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
2038
2039	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2040	added:</para>
2041
2042	<itemizedlist>
2043
2044	<listitem>
2045	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
2046	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
2047	</listitem>
2048
2049	<listitem>
2050	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
2051	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
2052	</listitem>
2053
2054	<listitem>
2055	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
2056	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
2057	</listitem>
2058
2059	<listitem>
2060	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
2061	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
2062	</listitem>
2063
2064	<listitem>
2065	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
2066	</listitem>
2067
2068	<listitem>
2069	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
2070	</listitem>
2071
2072	<listitem>
2073	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
2074	</listitem>
2075
2076	<listitem>
2077	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
2078	</listitem>
2079
2080	<listitem>
2081	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
2082	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
2083	</listitem>
2084
2085	<listitem>
2086	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
2087	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
2088	</listitem>
2089
2090	<listitem>
2091	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
2092	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
2093	</listitem>
2094
2095	<listitem>
2096	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
2097	</listitem>
2098
2099	<listitem>
2100	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
2101	</listitem>
2102
2103	<listitem>
2104	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
2105	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
2106	</listitem>
2107
2108	<listitem>
2109	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
2110	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
2111	calls (bug #6165)</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
2116	(bug #5297)</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
2121	(bug #4962)</para>
2122	</listitem>
2123
2124	<listitem>
2125	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
2126	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
2127	</listitem>
2128
2129	<listitem>
2130	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
2131	(bug #6176)</para>
2132	</listitem>
2133
2134	<listitem>
2135	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
2136	certain circumstances</para>
2137	</listitem>
2138
2139	<listitem>
2140	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
2141	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
2142	</listitem>
2143
2144	<listitem>
2145	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
2146	</listitem>
2147
2148	<listitem>
2149	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
2154	(bug #3571)</para>
2155	</listitem>
2156
2157	<listitem>
2158	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
2159	devices</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
2164	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
2165	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
2166	</listitem>
2167
2168	<listitem>
2169	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
2170	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
2171	</listitem>
2172
2173	<listitem>
2174	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
2175	</listitem>
2176
2177	<listitem>
2178	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
2179	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
2180	</listitem>
2181
2182	<listitem>
2183	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
2184	response</para>
2185	</listitem>
2186
2187	<listitem>
2188	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
2189	</listitem>
2190
2191	<listitem>
2192	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
2193	</listitem>
2194
2195	<listitem>
2196	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
2201	</listitem>
2202
2203	<listitem>
2204	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
2205	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
2206	</listitem>
2207
2208	<listitem>
2209	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
2210	</listitem>
2211
2212	<listitem>
2213	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
2214	</listitem>
2215
2216	<listitem>
2217	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
2218	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
2219	</listitem>
2220
2221	<listitem>
2222	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
2223	</listitem>
2224
2225	<listitem>
2226	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
2235	</listitem>
2236
2237	</itemizedlist>
2238	</sect1>
2239
2240	<sect1>
2241	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
2242
2243	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2244	added:</para>
2245
2246	<itemizedlist>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
2250	</listitem>
2251
2252	<listitem>
2253	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
2254	</listitem>
2255
2256	<listitem>
2257	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
2258	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
2259	</listitem>
2260
2261	<listitem>
2262	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
2263	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
2264	</listitem>
2265
2266	<listitem>
2267	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
2268	(bug #3945)</para>
2269	</listitem>
2270
2271	<listitem>
2272	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
2273	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
2274	</listitem>
2275
2276	<listitem>
2277	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
2278	and AMD-V only) </para>
2279	</listitem>
2280
2281	<listitem>
2282	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
2283	</listitem>
2284
2285	<listitem>
2286	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
2287	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
2288	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
2289	</listitem>
2290
2291	<listitem>
2292	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
2293	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
2294	</listitem>
2295
2296	<listitem>
2297	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2298	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2299	</listitem>
2300
2301	<listitem>
2302	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2303	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2304	</listitem>
2305
2306	<listitem>
2307	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2308	snapshots command</para>
2309	</listitem>
2310
2311	<listitem>
2312	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2317	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2318	</listitem>
2319
2320	<listitem>
2321	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2322	</listitem>
2323
2324	<listitem>
2325	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2326	</listitem>
2327
2328	<listitem>
2329	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2330	</listitem>
2331
2332	<listitem>
2333	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2334	(KWin bug)</para>
2335	</listitem>
2336
2337	<listitem>
2338	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2339	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2344	</listitem>
2345
2346	<listitem>
2347	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2348	</listitem>
2349
2350	<listitem>
2351	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2352	</listitem>
2353
2354	<listitem>
2355	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2356	</listitem>
2357
2358	<listitem>
2359	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2360	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2361	</listitem>
2362
2363	<listitem>
2364	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2365	bug #5787)</para>
2366	</listitem>
2367
2368	<listitem>
2369	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2370	DHCP requests</para>
2371	</listitem>
2372
2373	<listitem>
2374	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2375	(bug #3217)</para>
2376	</listitem>
2377
2378	<listitem>
2379	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2380	range (bug #5923)</para>
2381	</listitem>
2382
2383	<listitem>
2384	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2385	</listitem>
2386
2387	<listitem>
2388	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2389	</listitem>
2390
2391	<listitem>
2392	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2393	</listitem>
2394
2395	<listitem>
2396	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2397	</listitem>
2398
2399	<listitem>
2400	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2401	file (bug #5681)</para>
2402	</listitem>
2403
2404	<listitem>
2405	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2406	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2407	</listitem>
2408
2409	<listitem>
2410	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2411	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2416	regression)</para>
2417	</listitem>
2418
2419	<listitem>
2420	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2425	</listitem>
2426
2427	<listitem>
2428	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2429	</listitem>
2430
2431	<listitem>
2432	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2433	</listitem>
2434
2435	<listitem>
2436	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2437	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2438	</listitem>
2439
2440	<listitem>
2441	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2442	</listitem>
2443
2444	<listitem>
2445	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2446	</listitem>
2447
2448	<listitem>
2449	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2454	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2455	</listitem>
2456
2457	<listitem>
2458	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2459	</listitem>
2460
2461	<listitem>
2462	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2463	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2464	</listitem>
2465
2466	<listitem>
2467	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2468	</listitem>
2469
2470	<listitem>
2471	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2472	</listitem>
2473
2474	<listitem>
2475	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2480	(bug #5731)</para>
2481	</listitem>
2482
2483	<listitem>
2484	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2485	again</para>
2486	</listitem>
2487
2488	</itemizedlist>
2489
2490	</sect1>
2491
2492	<sect1>
2493	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2494
2495	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2496	added:</para>
2497
2498	<itemizedlist>
2499
2500	<listitem>
2501	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2502	</listitem>
2503
2504	<listitem>
2505	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2506	</listitem>
2507
2508	<listitem>
2509	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2510	</listitem>
2511
2512	<listitem>
2513	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2514	</listitem>
2515
2516	<listitem>
2517	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2518	</listitem>
2519
2520	<listitem>
2521	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2522	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2523	</listitem>
2524
2525	<listitem>
2526	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2527	</listitem>
2528
2529	<listitem>
2530	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2531	</listitem>
2532
2533	<listitem>
2534	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2535	</listitem>
2536
2537	<listitem>
2538	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2539	</listitem>
2540
2541	<listitem>
2542	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2543	</listitem>
2544
2545	<listitem>
2546	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2547	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2548	</listitem>
2549
2550	<listitem>
2551	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2552	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2553	</listitem>
2554
2555	<listitem>
2556	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2557	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2558	#1762)</para>
2559	</listitem>
2560
2561	<listitem>
2562	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2563	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2564	</listitem>
2565
2566	<listitem>
2567	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2568	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2569	</listitem>
2570
2571	<listitem>
2572	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2573	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2574	</listitem>
2575
2576	<listitem>
2577	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2578	</listitem>
2579
2580	<listitem>
2581	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2582	</listitem>
2583
2584	<listitem>
2585	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2586	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2587	</listitem>
2588
2589	<listitem>
2590	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	<listitem>
2594	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2595	</listitem>
2596
2597	<listitem>
2598	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2599	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2600	</listitem>
2601
2602	<listitem>
2603	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2604	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2605	</listitem>
2606
2607	<listitem>
2608	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2609	</listitem>
2610
2611	<listitem>
2612	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2613	guests</para>
2614	</listitem>
2615
2616	<listitem>
2617	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2618	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2619	</listitem>
2620
2621	<listitem>
2622	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2623	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2624	</listitem>
2625
2626	<listitem>
2627	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2628	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2629	</listitem>
2630
2631	<listitem>
2632	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2633	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2634	</listitem>
2635
2636	<listitem>
2637	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2638	</listitem>
2639
2640	<listitem>
2641	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2642	</listitem>
2643
2644	<listitem>
2645	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2650	</listitem>
2651
2652	<listitem>
2653	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2654	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2655	</listitem>
2656
2657	<listitem>
2658	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2659	</listitem>
2660
2661	</itemizedlist>
2662
2663	</sect1>
2664
2665	<sect1>
2666	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2667
2668	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2669	were added:</para>
2670
2671	<itemizedlist>
2672
2673	<listitem>
2674	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2675	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2676	</listitem>
2677
2678	<listitem>
2679	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2680	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2681	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2682	</listitem>
2683
2684	<listitem>
2685	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2686	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2687	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2688	</listitem>
2689
2690	<listitem>
2691	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2692	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2693	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2694	</listitem>
2695
2696	<listitem>
2697	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2698	running</para>
2699	</listitem>
2700
2701	<listitem>
2702	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2703	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2704	</listitem>
2705
2706	<listitem>
2707	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2708	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2709	</listitem>
2710
2711	<listitem>
2712	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2713	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2714	</listitem>
2715
2716	<listitem>
2717	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2718	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2719	</listitem>
2720
2721	</itemizedlist>
2722
2723	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2724
2725	<itemizedlist>
2726
2727	<listitem>
2728	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2729	</listitem>
2730
2731	<listitem>
2732	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2733	</listitem>
2734
2735	<listitem>
2736	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2737	</listitem>
2738
2739	<listitem>
2740	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2741	(bug #5291)</para>
2742	</listitem>
2743
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2746	</listitem>
2747
2748	<listitem>
2749	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2750	</listitem>
2751
2752	<listitem>
2753	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2754	</listitem>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2758	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2759	</listitem>
2760
2761	<listitem>
2762	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2763	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2764	</listitem>
2765
2766	<listitem>
2767	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2768	</listitem>
2769
2770	<listitem>
2771	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2772	</listitem>
2773
2774	<listitem>
2775	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2776	</listitem>
2777
2778	<listitem>
2779	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2780	</listitem>
2781
2782	<listitem>
2783	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2784	</listitem>
2785
2786	<listitem>
2787	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2788	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2789	</listitem>
2790
2791	<listitem>
2792	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2793	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2794	</listitem>
2795
2796	<listitem>
2797	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2798	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2799	</listitem>
2800
2801	<listitem>
2802	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2803	(bug #2723)</para>
2804	</listitem>
2805
2806	<listitem>
2807	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2812	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2813	</listitem>
2814
2815	<listitem>
2816	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2817	optional manifest file on import</para>
2818	</listitem>
2819
2820	<listitem>
2821	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2822	</listitem>
2823
2824	<listitem>
2825	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2826	(bug #3773)</para>
2827	</listitem>
2828
2829	<listitem>
2830	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2835	</listitem>
2836
2837	<listitem>
2838	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2839	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2840	</listitem>
2841
2842	<listitem>
2843	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2844	(bug #4866)</para>
2845	</listitem>
2846
2847	<listitem>
2848	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2849	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2850	</listitem>
2851
2852	<listitem>
2853	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2854	certain conditions</para>
2855	</listitem>
2856
2857	<listitem>
2858	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2859	</listitem>
2860
2861	<listitem>
2862	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2863	</listitem>
2864
2865	<listitem>
2866	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2867	</listitem>
2868
2869	<listitem>
2870	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2871	</listitem>
2872
2873	<listitem>
2874	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2875	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2880	</listitem>
2881
2882	<listitem>
2883	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2884	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2885	</listitem>
2886
2887	<listitem>
2888	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2889	</listitem>
2890
2891	<listitem>
2892	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2893	</listitem>
2894
2895	<listitem>
2896	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2897	</listitem>
2898
2899	<listitem>
2900	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2901	</listitem>
2902
2903	<listitem>
2904	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2905	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2906	</listitem>
2907
2908	<listitem>
2909	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2910	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2911	(bug #928)</para>
2912	</listitem>
2913
2914	<listitem>
2915	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2916	</listitem>
2917
2918	</itemizedlist>
2919
2920	</sect1>
2921
2922	<sect1>
2923	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2924
2925	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2926	added:</para>
2927
2928	<itemizedlist>
2929
2930	<listitem>
2931	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2932	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2933	</listitem>
2934
2935	<listitem>
2936	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2937	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2938	</listitem>
2939
2940	<listitem>
2941	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2942	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2943	</listitem>
2944
2945	<listitem>
2946	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2947	enabled</para>
2948	</listitem>
2949
2950	<listitem>
2951	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2952	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2953	</listitem>
2954
2955	<listitem>
2956	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2957	(bug #2676)</para>
2958	</listitem>
2959
2960	<listitem>
2961	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2962	is connected to a raw file</para>
2963	</listitem>
2964
2965	<listitem>
2966	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2967	(bug #5355)</para>
2968	</listitem>
2969
2970	<listitem>
2971	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2972	</listitem>
2973
2974	<listitem>
2975	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2976	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2977	</listitem>
2978
2979	<listitem>
2980	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2981	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2982	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2991	</listitem>
2992
2993	<listitem>
2994	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2995	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
2996	</listitem>
2997
2998	<listitem>
2999	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
3000	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
3001	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
3002	</listitem>
3003
3004	</itemizedlist>
3005
3006	</sect1>
3007
3008	<sect1>
3009	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
3010
3011	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3012	added:</para>
3013
3014	<itemizedlist>
3015
3016	<listitem>
3017	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
3018	</listitem>
3019
3020	<listitem>
3021	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
3022	</listitem>
3023
3024	<listitem>
3025	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
3026	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
3027	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
3028	</listitem>
3029
3030	<listitem>
3031	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
3032	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
3033	</listitem>
3034
3035	<listitem>
3036	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
3037	</listitem>
3038
3039	<listitem>
3040	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
3041	</listitem>
3042
3043	<listitem>
3044	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	<listitem>
3048	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
3049	</listitem>
3050
3051	<listitem>
3052	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
3053	</listitem>
3054
3055	<listitem>
3056	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
3057	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
3058	</listitem>
3059
3060	<listitem>
3061	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
3062	</listitem>
3063
3064	<listitem>
3065	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
3066	</listitem>
3067
3068	<listitem>
3069	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
3070	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
3071	</listitem>
3072
3073	<listitem>
3074	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
3079	exhaustion</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
3084	</listitem>
3085
3086	<listitem>
3087	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
3088	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
3089	</listitem>
3090
3091	<listitem>
3092	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
3093	folders (bug #4106)</para>
3094	</listitem>
3095
3096	<listitem>
3097	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
3098	folders (bug #4299)</para>
3099	</listitem>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
3103	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
3104	(bug #2921)</para>
3105	</listitem>
3106
3107	<listitem>
3108	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
3109	hosts only)</para>
3110	</listitem>
3111
3112	<listitem>
3113	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
3114	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
3115	</listitem>
3116
3117	<listitem>
3118	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
3119	</listitem>
3120
3121	<listitem>
3122	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
3123	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
3124	</listitem>
3125
3126	<listitem>
3127	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
3128	</listitem>
3129
3130	<listitem>
3131	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
3132	image inconsistency </para>
3133	</listitem>
3134
3135	<listitem>
3136	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
3137	</listitem>
3138
3139	<listitem>
3140	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
3145	(bug #2025)</para>
3146	</listitem>
3147
3148	<listitem>
3149	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
3150	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
3151	</listitem>
3152
3153	</itemizedlist>
3154
3155	</sect1>
3156
3157	<sect1>
3158	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
3159
3160	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3161	added:</para>
3162
3163	<itemizedlist>
3164
3165	<listitem>
3166	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
3167	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
3168	</listitem>
3169
3170	<listitem>
3171	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
3172	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
3173	</listitem>
3174
3175	<listitem>
3176	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
3177	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
3178	</listitem>
3179
3180	<listitem>
3181	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
3182	</listitem>
3183
3184	<listitem>
3185	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
3186	software virtualization only) </para>
3187	</listitem>
3188
3189	<listitem>
3190	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
3191	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
3192	</listitem>
3193
3194	<listitem>
3195	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
3196	with root privileges</para>
3197	</listitem>
3198
3199	<listitem>
3200	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
3201	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
3202	</listitem>
3203
3204	<listitem>
3205	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
3206	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
3207	</listitem>
3208
3209	<listitem>
3210	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
3211	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
3212	</listitem>
3213
3214	<listitem>
3215	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
3216	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
3217	selector (bug #5063)</para>
3218	</listitem>
3219
3220	<listitem>
3221	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
3222	available</para>
3223	</listitem>
3224
3225	<listitem>
3226	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
3227	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
3228	</listitem>
3229
3230	<listitem>
3231	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
3232	networking (bug #4775)</para>
3233	</listitem>
3234
3235	<listitem>
3236	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
3237	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
3238	</listitem>
3239
3240	<listitem>
3241	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
3242	(bug #4907)</para>
3243	</listitem>
3244
3245	<listitem>
3246	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
3247	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
3248	</listitem>
3249
3250	<listitem>
3251	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
3252	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
3253	</listitem>
3254
3255	<listitem>
3256	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
3257	</listitem>
3258
3259	<listitem>
3260	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
3261	</listitem>
3262
3263	<listitem>
3264	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
3269	</listitem>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
3273	are installed</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
3278	(bug #4771)</para>
3279	</listitem>
3280
3281	<listitem>
3282	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
3283	</listitem>
3284
3285	<listitem>
3286	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
3287	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
3288	</listitem>
3289
3290	<listitem>
3291	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
3292	command</para>
3293	</listitem>
3294
3295	<listitem>
3296	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	<listitem>
3300	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3301	</listitem>
3302
3303	<listitem>
3304	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3305	(bug #5089)</para>
3306	</listitem>
3307
3308	<listitem>
3309	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3310	</listitem>
3311
3312	</itemizedlist>
3313
3314	</sect1>
3315
3316	<sect1>
3317	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3318
3319	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3320	added:</para>
3321
3322	<itemizedlist>
3323
3324	<listitem>
3325	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3326	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	<listitem>
3330	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3331	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3332	</listitem>
3333
3334	<listitem>
3335	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3336	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3337	</listitem>
3338
3339	<listitem>
3340	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3341	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3342	</listitem>
3343
3344	<listitem>
3345	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3346	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3347	</listitem>
3348
3349	<listitem>
3350	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3351	</listitem>
3352
3353	<listitem>
3354	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3355	</listitem>
3356
3357	<listitem>
3358	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3359	</listitem>
3360
3361	<listitem>
3362	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3363	</listitem>
3364
3365	<listitem>
3366	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3367	</listitem>
3368
3369	<listitem>
3370	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3371	onlined or offlined</para>
3372	</listitem>
3373
3374	<listitem>
3375	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3380	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3381	</listitem>
3382
3383	<listitem>
3384	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3385	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3386	</listitem>
3387
3388	<listitem>
3389	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3390	</listitem>
3391
3392	<listitem>
3393	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3394	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3395	</listitem>
3396
3397	<listitem>
3398	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3399	</listitem>
3400
3401	<listitem>
3402	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3407	</listitem>
3408
3409	<listitem>
3410	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3411	</listitem>
3412
3413	<listitem>
3414	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3415	</listitem>
3416
3417	<listitem>
3418	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3419	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3420	</listitem>
3421
3422	<listitem>
3423	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3424	</listitem>
3425
3426	<listitem>
3427	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3428	</listitem>
3429
3430	<listitem>
3431	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3432	</listitem>
3433
3434	<listitem>
3435	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3436	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3437	</listitem>
3438
3439	<listitem>
3440	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3441	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3442	</listitem>
3443
3444	<listitem>
3445	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3450	</listitem>
3451
3452	<listitem>
3453	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3462	</listitem>
3463
3464	<listitem>
3465	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3466	</listitem>
3467
3468	<listitem>
3469	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3470	</listitem>
3471
3472	<listitem>
3473	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3474	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3475	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3476	phase collapse</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	<listitem>
3480	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3481	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3486	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3491	</listitem>
3492
3493	<listitem>
3494	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3495	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3496	</listitem>
3497
3498	<listitem>
3499	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3500	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3501	</listitem>
3502
3503	<listitem>
3504	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3505	</listitem>
3506
3507	<listitem>
3508	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3509	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3510	#4698, #4790)</para>
3511	</listitem>
3512
3513	<listitem>
3514	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3515	less than the configured range</para>
3516	</listitem>
3517
3518	<listitem>
3519	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3520	</listitem>
3521
3522	<listitem>
3523	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3524	</listitem>
3525
3526	<listitem>
3527	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3528	</listitem>
3529
3530	<listitem>
3531	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3532	</listitem>
3533
3534	<listitem>
3535	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3536	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3537	</listitem>
3538
3539	<listitem>
3540	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3541	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3542	</listitem>
3543
3544	<listitem>
3545	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3546	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3547	</listitem>
3548
3549	<listitem>
3550	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3551	</listitem>
3552
3553	<listitem>
3554	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3555	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3556	</listitem>
3557
3558	<listitem>
3559	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3560	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3561	</listitem>
3562
3563	<listitem>
3564	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3565	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3566	</listitem>
3567
3568	<listitem>
3569	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3570	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3571	</listitem>
3572
3573	<listitem>
3574	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3575	</listitem>
3576
3577	<listitem>
3578	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3579	</listitem>
3580
3581	</itemizedlist>
3582
3583	</sect1>
3584
3585	<sect1>
3586	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3587
3588	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3589	added:</para>
3590
3591	<itemizedlist>
3592
3593	<listitem>
3594	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3595	</listitem>
3596
3597	<listitem>
3598	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3599	</listitem>
3600
3601	<listitem>
3602	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3603	</listitem>
3604
3605	<listitem>
3606	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3607	</listitem>
3608
3609	<listitem>
3610	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	<listitem>
3614	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3615	</listitem>
3616
3617	<listitem>
3618	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3619	</listitem>
3620
3621	<listitem>
3622	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3623	</listitem>
3624
3625	<listitem>
3626	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3627	</listitem>
3628
3629	<listitem>
3630	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3631	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3636	</listitem>
3637
3638	<listitem>
3639	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3640	</listitem>
3641
3642	<listitem>
3643	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3644	</listitem>
3645
3646	<listitem>
3647	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3648	</listitem>
3649
3650	<listitem>
3651	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3652	</listitem>
3653
3654	<listitem>
3655	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3656	</listitem>
3657
3658	<listitem>
3659	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3660	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3661	</listitem>
3662
3663	<listitem>
3664	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3665	(bug #4654)</para>
3666	</listitem>
3667
3668	<listitem>
3669	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3670	</listitem>
3671
3672	<listitem>
3673	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3674	interfaces</para>
3675	</listitem>
3676
3677	<listitem>
3678	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3679	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3680	</listitem>
3681
3682	<listitem>
3683	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3684	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3685	</listitem>
3686
3687	<listitem>
3688	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3689	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3690	</listitem>
3691
3692	<listitem>
3693	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3694	(bug #1461)</para>
3695	</listitem>
3696
3697	<listitem>
3698	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3699	</listitem>
3700
3701	<listitem>
3702	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3703	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3704	</listitem>
3705
3706	<listitem>
3707	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3708	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3709	</listitem>
3710
3711	<listitem>
3712	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3713	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3714	</listitem>
3715
3716	<listitem>
3717	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3718	</listitem>
3719
3720	<listitem>
3721	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3722	</listitem>
3723
3724	<listitem>
3725	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3726	</listitem>
3727
3728	<listitem>
3729	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3730	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3731	</listitem>
3732
3733	<listitem>
3734	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3735	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3736	</listitem>
3737
3738	<listitem>
3739	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3740	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3745	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3746	</listitem>
3747
3748	</itemizedlist>
3749
3750	</sect1>
3751	<sect1>
3752	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3753
3754	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3755	added:</para>
3756
3757	<itemizedlist>
3758
3759	<listitem>
3760	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3761	</listitem>
3762
3763	<listitem>
3764	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3769	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3774	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3775	</listitem>
3776
3777	<listitem>
3778	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3779	</listitem>
3780
3781	<listitem>
3782	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3783	</listitem>
3784
3785	<listitem>
3786	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3791	</listitem>
3792
3793	<listitem>
3794	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3795	</listitem>
3796
3797	<listitem>
3798	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3799	</listitem>
3800
3801	<listitem>
3802	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3807	</listitem>
3808
3809	<listitem>
3810	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3811	</listitem>
3812
3813	<listitem>
3814	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3815	</listitem>
3816
3817	<listitem>
3818	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3819	</listitem>
3820
3821	<listitem>
3822	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3823	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3824	</listitem>
3825
3826	<listitem>
3827	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3828	</listitem>
3829
3830	<listitem>
3831	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3832	</listitem>
3833
3834	<listitem>
3835	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3836	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3837	</listitem>
3838
3839	<listitem>
3840	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3841	</listitem>
3842
3843	<listitem>
3844	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3845	</listitem>
3846
3847	<listitem>
3848	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3849	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3850	</listitem>
3851
3852	<listitem>
3853	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3854	</listitem>
3855
3856	<listitem>
3857	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3858	</listitem>
3859
3860	<listitem>
3861	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3862	</listitem>
3863
3864	<listitem>
3865	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3866	</listitem>
3867
3868	<listitem>
3869	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3870	</listitem>
3871
3872	<listitem>
3873	<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>
3874	</listitem>
3875
3876	</itemizedlist>
3877
3878	</sect1>
3879
3880	<sect1>
3881	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3882
3883	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3884	were added:</para>
3885
3886	<itemizedlist>
3887
3888	<listitem>
3889	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3890	</listitem>
3891
3892	<listitem>
3893	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3894	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3895	</listitem>
3896
3897	<listitem>
3898	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3899	</listitem>
3900
3901	</itemizedlist>
3902
3903	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3904
3905	<itemizedlist>
3906
3907	<listitem>
3908	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3909	</listitem>
3910
3911	<listitem>
3912	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3913	certain conditions</para>
3914	</listitem>
3915
3916	<listitem>
3917	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3922	</listitem>
3923
3924	<listitem>
3925	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3926	</listitem>
3927
3928	<listitem>
3929	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3930	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3931	</listitem>
3932
3933	<listitem>
3934	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3935	</listitem>
3936
3937	<listitem>
3938	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3939	</listitem>
3940
3941	<listitem>
3942	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3943	</listitem>
3944
3945	<listitem>
3946	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3947	</listitem>
3948
3949	<listitem>
3950	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3951	</listitem>
3952
3953	<listitem>
3954	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3955	</listitem>
3956
3957	<listitem>
3958	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3959	</listitem>
3960
3961	<listitem>
3962	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3963	</listitem>
3964
3965	<listitem>
3966	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3967	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3968	</listitem>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3972	</listitem>
3973
3974	<listitem>
3975	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3976	</listitem>
3977
3978	<listitem>
3979	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	<listitem>
3983	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3984	</listitem>
3985
3986	<listitem>
3987	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3988	</listitem>
3989
3990	<listitem>
3991	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3992	</listitem>
3993
3994	<listitem>
3995	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
3996	</listitem>
3997
3998	<listitem>
3999	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
4000	</listitem>
4001
4002	<listitem>
4003	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
4004	</listitem>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
4008	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
4009	</listitem>
4010
4011	<listitem>
4012	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
4013	</listitem>
4014
4015	<listitem>
4016	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
4017	</listitem>
4018
4019	<listitem>
4020	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
4021	</listitem>
4022
4023	<listitem>
4024	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
4025	</listitem>
4026
4027	<listitem>
4028	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
4029	</listitem>
4030
4031	<listitem>
4032	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
4033	</listitem>
4034
4035	<listitem>
4036	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
4041	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
4046	</listitem>
4047
4048	<listitem>
4049	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
4050	</listitem>
4051
4052	<listitem>
4053	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
4054	</listitem>
4055
4056	<listitem>
4057	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
4058	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
4059	</listitem>
4060
4061	<listitem>
4062	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
4063	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
4064	</listitem>
4065
4066	<listitem>
4067	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
4068	correct file mode when creating files</para>
4069	</listitem>
4070
4071	<listitem>
4072	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
4073	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
4074	</listitem>
4075
4076	<listitem>
4077	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
4078	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
4079	</listitem>
4080
4081	<listitem>
4082	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	<listitem>
4090	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
4091	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
4092	</listitem>
4093
4094	<listitem>
4095	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
4096	guest property lookup</para>
4097	</listitem>
4098
4099	<listitem>
4100	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
4101	basic network information)</para>
4102	</listitem>
4103
4104	<listitem>
4105	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
4106	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
4107	</listitem>
4108
4109	<listitem>
4110	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
4111	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
4112	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
4113	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
4114	</listitem>
4115
4116	<listitem>
4117	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
4118	</listitem>
4119
4120	<listitem>
4121	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
4122	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
4123	web service</para>
4124	</listitem>
4125
4126	<listitem>
4127	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
4128	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
4129	</listitem>
4130
4131	<listitem>
4132	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
4133	unavailable</para>
4134	</listitem>
4135
4136	<listitem>
4137	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
4138	</listitem>
4139
4140	</itemizedlist>
4141	</sect1>
4142
4143	<sect1>
4144	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
4145
4146	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4147	added:</para>
4148
4149	<itemizedlist>
4150
4151	<listitem>
4152	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
4153	installation</para>
4154	</listitem>
4155
4156	<listitem>
4157	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
4158	</listitem>
4159
4160	<listitem>
4161	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
4162	later (bug #3981)</para>
4163	</listitem>
4164
4165	<listitem>
4166	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
4167	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
4168	</listitem>
4169
4170	<listitem>
4171	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
4172	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
4173	(bug #4034)
4174	</para>
4175	</listitem>
4176
4177	<listitem>
4178	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
4179	networking</para>
4180	</listitem>
4181
4182	<listitem>
4183	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
4184	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
4185	</listitem>
4186
4187	<listitem>
4188	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
4189	clicks</para>
4190	</listitem>
4191
4192	<listitem>
4193	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
4194	Windows 7 guests</para>
4195	</listitem>
4196
4197	<listitem>
4198	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
4199	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
4200	</listitem>
4201
4202	<listitem>
4203	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
4204	</listitem>
4205
4206	<listitem>
4207	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
4208	</listitem>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
4212	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
4213	</listitem>
4214
4215	<listitem>
4216	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
4217	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
4218	</listitem>
4219
4220	<listitem>
4221	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
4222	</listitem>
4223
4224	<listitem>
4225	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
4226	</listitem>
4227
4228	<listitem>
4229	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4230	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
4231	(bug #3864)</para>
4232	</listitem>
4233
4234	<listitem>
4235	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
4236	now flushes the output stream</para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
4241	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
4242	</listitem>
4243
4244	<listitem>
4245	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
4246	</listitem>
4247
4248	<listitem>
4249	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
4250	</listitem>
4251
4252	<listitem>
4253	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
4254	</listitem>
4255
4256	<listitem>
4257	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
4258	</listitem>
4259
4260	<listitem>
4261	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
4262	(bug #3964)</para>
4263	</listitem>
4264
4265	<listitem>
4266	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
4267	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
4268	</listitem>
4269
4270	<listitem>
4271	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
4272	hosts</para>
4273	</listitem>
4274
4275	<listitem>
4276	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
4277	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
4278	e1000 adapter</para>
4279	</listitem>
4280
4281	<listitem>
4282	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
4283	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
4284	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
4285	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
4286	</listitem>
4287
4288	<listitem>
4289	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
4294	</listitem>
4295
4296	<listitem>
4297	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4298	</listitem>
4299
4300	<listitem>
4301	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4302	file (bug #1023)</para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4307	</listitem>
4308
4309	<listitem>
4310	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4311	</listitem>
4312
4313	</itemizedlist>
4314	</sect1>
4315
4316	<sect1>
4317	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4318
4319	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4320	added:</para>
4321
4322	<itemizedlist>
4323
4324	<listitem>
4325	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4326	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4327	</listitem>
4328
4329	<listitem>
4330	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4331	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4332	and later</para>
4333	</listitem>
4334
4335	<listitem>
4336	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4337	running services</para>
4338	</listitem>
4339
4340	<listitem>
4341	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4342	terminates</para>
4343	</listitem>
4344
4345	<listitem>
4346	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4347	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4348	</listitem>
4349
4350	<listitem>
4351	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4352	installed on the guest</para>
4353	</listitem>
4354
4355	<listitem>
4356	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4357	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4358	</listitem>
4359
4360	<listitem>
4361	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4362	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4363	</listitem>
4364
4365	<listitem>
4366	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4367	(bug #2628)</para>
4368	</listitem>
4369
4370	<listitem>
4371	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4372	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4373	</listitem>
4374
4375	<listitem>
4376	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4377	(bug #3657)</para>
4378	</listitem>
4379
4380	<listitem>
4381	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4382	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4383	</listitem>
4384
4385	<listitem>
4386	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4387	virtualization only)
4388	</para>
4389	</listitem>
4390
4391	<listitem>
4392	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4393	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4394	</listitem>
4395
4396	<listitem>
4397	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4398	</listitem>
4399
4400	<listitem>
4401	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4402	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4403	</listitem>
4404
4405	<listitem>
4406	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4407	bug #3689)</para>
4408	</listitem>
4409
4410	<listitem>
4411	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4412	bug #3679)</para>
4413	</listitem>
4414
4415	<listitem>
4416	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4417	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4418	</listitem>
4419
4420	<listitem>
4421	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4422	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4423	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4424	</listitem>
4425
4426	<listitem>
4427	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4428	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4429	</listitem>
4430
4431	<listitem>
4432	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4433	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4434	</listitem>
4435
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4438	(bug #3667)</para>
4439	</listitem>
4440
4441	<listitem>
4442	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4443	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4444	</listitem>
4445
4446	<listitem>
4447	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4448	</listitem>
4449
4450	<listitem>
4451	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4452	</listitem>
4453
4454	<listitem>
4455	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4456	</listitem>
4457
4458	<listitem>
4459	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4460	</listitem>
4461
4462	<listitem>
4463	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4464	</listitem>
4465
4466	<listitem>
4467	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	</itemizedlist>
4475	</sect1>
4476
4477	<sect1>
4478	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4479
4480	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4481	were added:</para>
4482
4483	<itemizedlist>
4484
4485	<listitem>
4486	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4487	</listitem>
4488
4489	<listitem>
4490	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4491	</listitem>
4492
4493	<listitem>
4494	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4495	</listitem>
4496
4497	<listitem>
4498	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4499	</listitem>
4500
4501	<listitem>
4502	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	<listitem>
4506	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4507	</listitem>
4508
4509	<listitem>
4510	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4511	</listitem>
4512
4513	<listitem>
4514	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4515	</listitem>
4516
4517	<listitem>
4518	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4519	</listitem>
4520
4521	<listitem>
4522	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4523	</listitem>
4524
4525	</itemizedlist>
4526
4527	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4528
4529	<itemizedlist>
4530
4531	<listitem>
4532	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4533	</listitem>
4534
4535	<listitem>
4536	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4537	</listitem>
4538
4539	<listitem>
4540	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4541	</listitem>
4542
4543	<listitem>
4544	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4545	</listitem>
4546
4547	<listitem>
4548	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4549	</listitem>
4550
4551	<listitem>
4552	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4557	</listitem>
4558
4559	<listitem>
4560	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4561	</listitem>
4562
4563	<listitem>
4564	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4565	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4566	</listitem>
4567
4568	<listitem>
4569	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4574	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4575	</listitem>
4576
4577	<listitem>
4578	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4579	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4580	</listitem>
4581
4582	<listitem>
4583	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4584	</listitem>
4585
4586	<listitem>
4587	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4588	</listitem>
4589
4590	<listitem>
4591	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4592	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4593	</listitem>
4594
4595	<listitem>
4596	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4597	</listitem>
4598
4599	<listitem>
4600	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4601	ESX server images)</para>
4602	</listitem>
4603
4604	<listitem>
4605	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4606	writable</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4611	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4612	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4613	</listitem>
4614
4615	<listitem>
4616	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4617	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4618	</listitem>
4619
4620	<listitem>
4621	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4622	</listitem>
4623
4624	<listitem>
4625	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4626	</listitem>
4627
4628	<listitem>
4629	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4630	hosts when creating files</para>
4631	</listitem>
4632
4633	<listitem>
4634	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4635	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4636	</listitem>
4637
4638	<listitem>
4639	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4640	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4641	#2306)</para>
4642	</listitem>
4643
4644	<listitem>
4645	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4646	(bug #3555)</para>
4647	</listitem>
4648
4649	<listitem>
4650	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4651	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4652	</listitem>
4653
4654	<listitem>
4655	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4656	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4657	</listitem>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4661	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4662	</listitem>
4663
4664	<listitem>
4665	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4666	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4667	</listitem>
4668
4669	<listitem>
4670	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4671	(bug #3586)</para>
4672	</listitem>
4673
4674	<listitem>
4675	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4676	from Scratch systems</para>
4677	</listitem>
4678
4679	<listitem>
4680	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4681	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4682	</listitem>
4683
4684	<listitem>
4685	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4686	</listitem>
4687
4688	<listitem>
4689	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4690	default to compact format</para>
4691	</listitem>
4692
4693	<listitem>
4694	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4695	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4696	</listitem>
4697
4698	<listitem>
4699	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4700	</listitem>
4701
4702	<listitem>
4703	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4704	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4705	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4706	</listitem>
4707
4708	<listitem>
4709	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4710	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4711	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4712	</listitem>
4713
4714	<listitem>
4715	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4716	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4717	</listitem>
4718
4719	<listitem>
4720	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4721	</listitem>
4722
4723	<listitem>
4724	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4725	</listitem>
4726
4727	<listitem>
4728	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4729	</listitem>
4730
4731	<listitem>
4732	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4733	</listitem>
4734
4735	<listitem>
4736	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4737	</listitem>
4738
4739	<listitem>
4740	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4741	</listitem>
4742
4743	<listitem>
4744	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4745	</listitem>
4746
4747	<listitem>
4748	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4749	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4750	</listitem>
4751
4752	<listitem>
4753	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4754	</listitem>
4755
4756	<listitem>
4757	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4758	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4759	</listitem>
4760
4761	<listitem>
4762	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4763	</listitem>
4764
4765	<listitem>
4766	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4767	</listitem>
4768
4769	<listitem>
4770	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4771	</listitem>
4772
4773	<listitem>
4774	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4775	#2536)</para>
4776	</listitem>
4777
4778	<listitem>
4779	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4784	(bug #3548)</para>
4785	</listitem>
4786
4787	</itemizedlist>
4788	</sect1>
4789
4790	<sect1>
4791	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4792
4793	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4794	added:</para>
4795
4796	<itemizedlist>
4797
4798	<listitem>
4799	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4800	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4801	</listitem>
4802
4803	<listitem>
4804	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4805	</listitem>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	<listitem>
4812	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4813	</listitem>
4814
4815	<listitem>
4816	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4817	(bug #3115)</para>
4818	</listitem>
4819
4820	<listitem>
4821	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4822	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4823	</listitem>
4824
4825	<listitem>
4826	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4827	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4828	(bug #3215)</para>
4829	</listitem>
4830
4831	<listitem>
4832	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4833	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4834	</listitem>
4835
4836	<listitem>
4837	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4838	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4839	</listitem>
4840
4841	<listitem>
4842	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4843	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4844	</listitem>
4845
4846	<listitem>
4847	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4848	in parallel</para>
4849	</listitem>
4850
4851	<listitem>
4852	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4853	</listitem>
4854
4855	<listitem>
4856	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4857	</listitem>
4858
4859	<listitem>
4860	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4861	</listitem>
4862
4863	<listitem>
4864	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4865	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4866	</listitem>
4867
4868	<listitem>
4869	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4870	</listitem>
4871
4872	<listitem>
4873	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4874	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4875	</listitem>
4876
4877	<listitem>
4878	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4879	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4880	</listitem>
4881
4882	<listitem>
4883	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4888	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4889	</listitem>
4890
4891	<listitem>
4892	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4893	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4894	</listitem>
4895
4896	<listitem>
4897	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4902	</listitem>
4903
4904	<listitem>
4905	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4906	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4907	</listitem>
4908
4909	<listitem>
4910	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4911	</listitem>
4912
4913	<listitem>
4914	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4915	</listitem>
4916
4917	<listitem>
4918	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4919	</listitem>
4920
4921	<listitem>
4922	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4923	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4924	</listitem>
4925
4926	<listitem>
4927	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4928	</listitem>
4929
4930	<listitem>
4931	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4932	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4933	</listitem>
4934
4935	<listitem>
4936	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4937	</listitem>
4938
4939	<listitem>
4940	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4941	</listitem>
4942
4943	<listitem>
4944	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4945	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4946	</listitem>
4947
4948	<listitem>
4949	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4950	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4951	</listitem>
4952
4953	<listitem>
4954	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4955	</listitem>
4956
4957	<listitem>
4958	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4959	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4960	</listitem>
4961
4962	<listitem>
4963	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4964	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4965	</listitem>
4966
4967	<listitem>
4968	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4969	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4970	</listitem>
4971
4972	<listitem>
4973	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4974	(bug #3213)</para>
4975	</listitem>
4976
4977	<listitem>
4978	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4979	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4980	</listitem>
4981
4982	<listitem>
4983	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4984	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4985	</listitem>
4986
4987	</itemizedlist>
4988	</sect1>
4989
4990	<sect1>
4991	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4992
4993	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4994	added:</para>
4995
4996	<itemizedlist>
4997
4998	<listitem>
4999	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
5000	</listitem>
5001
5002	<listitem>
5003	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
5004	</listitem>
5005
5006	<listitem>
5007	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
5008	</listitem>
5009
5010	<listitem>
5011	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
5012	</listitem>
5013
5014	<listitem>
5015	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
5016	</listitem>
5017
5018	<listitem>
5019	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
5020	</listitem>
5021
5022	<listitem>
5023	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
5024	</listitem>
5025
5026	<listitem>
5027	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
5028	</listitem>
5029
5030	<listitem>
5031	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
5032	</listitem>
5033
5034	<listitem>
5035	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
5036	</listitem>
5037
5038	<listitem>
5039	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
5040	</listitem>
5041
5042	<listitem>
5043	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
5044	</listitem>
5045
5046	<listitem>
5047	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
5048	</listitem>
5049
5050	<listitem>
5051	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
5052	</listitem>
5053
5054	<listitem>
5055	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
5056	</listitem>
5057
5058	<listitem>
5059	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
5060	</listitem>
5061
5062	<listitem>
5063	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
5064	(bug #3067)</para>
5065	</listitem>
5066
5067	<listitem>
5068	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
5069	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
5070	</listitem>
5071
5072	<listitem>
5073	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
5074	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
5075	</listitem>
5076
5077	<listitem>
5078	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
5079	</listitem>
5080
5081	<listitem>
5082	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
5083	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
5084	</listitem>
5085
5086	<listitem>
5087	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
5088	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5089	</listitem>
5090
5091	<listitem>
5092	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
5093	</listitem>
5094
5095	<listitem>
5096	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
5097	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
5098	</listitem>
5099
5100	<listitem>
5101	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
5102	</listitem>
5103
5104	<listitem>
5105	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
5106	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
5107	</listitem>
5108
5109	<listitem>
5110	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
5111	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
5112	</listitem>
5113
5114	<listitem>
5115	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
5116	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
5117	</para>
5118	</listitem>
5119
5120	<listitem>
5121	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
5122	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
5123	</para>
5124	</listitem>
5125
5126	<listitem>
5127	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
5128	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
5129	</para>
5130	</listitem>
5131
5132	<listitem>
5133	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
5134	</listitem>
5135
5136	<listitem>
5137	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
5138	</listitem>
5139
5140	<listitem>
5141	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
5142	</listitem>
5143
5144	<listitem>
5145	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
5146	</listitem>
5147
5148	<listitem>
5149	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
5150	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
5151	</listitem>
5152
5153	<listitem>
5154	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
5155	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
5156	</listitem>
5157
5158	<listitem>
5159	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
5160	formatting a drive</para>
5161	</listitem>
5162
5163	<listitem>
5164	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
5165	</listitem>
5166
5167	<listitem>
5168	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
5169	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5170	</listitem>
5171
5172	<listitem>
5173	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
5174	</listitem>
5175
5176	<listitem>
5177	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
5178	</listitem>
5179
5180	<listitem>
5181	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5182	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
5183	</listitem>
5184
5185	<listitem>
5186	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
5187	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
5188	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
5189	</listitem>
5190
5191	<listitem>
5192	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
5193	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
5194	</listitem>
5195
5196	<listitem>
5197	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
5198	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
5199	</listitem>
5200
5201	<listitem>
5202	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
5203	(bug #2768)</para>
5204	</listitem>
5205
5206	<listitem>
5207	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
5208	</listitem>
5209
5210	<listitem>
5211	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
5212	</listitem>
5213
5214	<listitem>
5215	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
5216	single, unified package</para>
5217	</listitem>
5218
5219	<listitem>
5220	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
5221	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
5222	</listitem>
5223
5224	<listitem>
5225	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
5226	</listitem>
5227
5228	<listitem>
5229	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
5230	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
5231	</listitem>
5232
5233	<listitem>
5234	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
5235	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
5236	</listitem>
5237
5238	<listitem>
5239	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
5240	</listitem>
5241
5242	<listitem>
5243	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
5244	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
5245	doing 3D</para>
5246	</listitem>
5247
5248	<listitem>
5249	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
5250	</listitem>
5251
5252	<listitem>
5253	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
5254	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
5255	</listitem>
5256
5257	<listitem>
5258	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
5259	</listitem>
5260
5261	<listitem>
5262	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
5263	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
5264	</listitem>
5265
5266	<listitem>
5267	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
5268	</listitem>
5269
5270	<listitem>
5271	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
5272	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
5273	</listitem>
5274
5275	<listitem>
5276	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
5277	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
5278	(bug #2938)</para>
5279	</listitem>
5280
5281	<listitem>
5282	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
5283	Linux guests</para>
5284	</listitem>
5285
5286	<listitem>
5287	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
5288	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
5289	(bug #1776)</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
5294	(bug #1612)</para>
5295	</listitem>
5296
5297	<listitem>
5298	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5299	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5300	</listitem>
5301
5302	<listitem>
5303	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5304	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5305	</listitem>
5306
5307	<listitem>
5308	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5309	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5310	</listitem>
5311
5312	</itemizedlist>
5313	</sect1>
5314
5315	<sect1>
5316	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5317
5318	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5319	were added:</para>
5320
5321	<itemizedlist>
5322	<listitem>
5323	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5324	</listitem>
5325
5326	<listitem>
5327	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5336	</listitem>
5337
5338	<listitem>
5339	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5340	</listitem>
5341
5342	<listitem>
5343	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5344	</listitem>
5345
5346	<listitem>
5347	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5348	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5349	</listitem>
5350
5351	<listitem>
5352	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5353	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5354	</listitem>
5355
5356	</itemizedlist>
5357
5358	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5359
5360	<itemizedlist>
5361	<listitem>
5362	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5363	</listitem>
5364
5365	<listitem>
5366	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5367	</listitem>
5368
5369	<listitem>
5370	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5371	</listitem>
5372
5373	<listitem>
5374	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5375	</listitem>
5376
5377	<listitem>
5378	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5379	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5380	</listitem>
5381
5382	<listitem>
5383	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5384	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5385	</listitem>
5386
5387	<listitem>
5388	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5389	</listitem>
5390
5391	<listitem>
5392	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5393	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5394	</listitem>
5395
5396	<listitem>
5397	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5398	</listitem>
5399
5400	<listitem>
5401	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5402	</listitem>
5403
5404	<listitem>
5405	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5406	</listitem>
5407
5408	<listitem>
5409	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5410	</listitem>
5411
5412	<listitem>
5413	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5414	</listitem>
5415
5416	<listitem>
5417	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5418	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5419	</listitem>
5420
5421	<listitem>
5422	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5423	the compiz window manager</para>
5424	</listitem>
5425
5426	<listitem>
5427	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5428	</listitem>
5429
5430	<listitem>
5431	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5432	</listitem>
5433
5434	<listitem>
5435	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5436	</listitem>
5437
5438	<listitem>
5439	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5440	</listitem>
5441
5442	<listitem>
5443	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5444	</listitem>
5445
5446	<listitem>
5447	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5448	</listitem>
5449
5450	<listitem>
5451	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5452	</listitem>
5453
5454	<listitem>
5455	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5456	</listitem>
5457
5458	<listitem>
5459	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5460	</listitem>
5461
5462	<listitem>
5463	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5464	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5465	</listitem>
5466
5467	<listitem>
5468	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5469	for direct device access</para>
5470	</listitem>
5471
5472	<listitem>
5473	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5474	</listitem>
5475
5476	<listitem>
5477	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5482	</listitem>
5483
5484	<listitem>
5485	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5486	</listitem>
5487
5488	<listitem>
5489	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5490	</listitem>
5491
5492	<listitem>
5493	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5494	</listitem>
5495
5496	<listitem>
5497	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5498	</listitem>
5499
5500	<listitem>
5501	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5502	</listitem>
5503
5504	</itemizedlist>
5505	</sect1>
5506
5507	<sect1>
5508	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5509
5510	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5511	added:</para>
5512
5513	<itemizedlist>
5514
5515	<listitem>
5516	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5517	states/snapshots</para>
5518	</listitem>
5519
5520	<listitem>
5521	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5522	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5523	</listitem>
5524
5525	<listitem>
5526	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5527	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5528	</listitem>
5529
5530	<listitem>
5531	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5532	collisions</para>
5533	</listitem>
5534
5535	<listitem>
5536	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5537	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5538	</listitem>
5539
5540	<listitem>
5541	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5542	</listitem>
5543
5544	<listitem>
5545	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5546	reliably</para>
5547	</listitem>
5548
5549	<listitem>
5550	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5551	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5552	</listitem>
5553
5554	<listitem>
5555	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5556	a reboot</para>
5557	</listitem>
5558
5559	<listitem>
5560	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5561	</listitem>
5562
5563	<listitem>
5564	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5565	in parallel</para>
5566	</listitem>
5567
5568	<listitem>
5569	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5570	</listitem>
5571
5572	<listitem>
5573	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5574	correctly</para>
5575	</listitem>
5576
5577	<listitem>
5578	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5579	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5580	</listitem>
5581
5582	</itemizedlist>
5583	</sect1>
5584
5585	<sect1>
5586	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5587
5588	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5589	added:</para>
5590
5591	<itemizedlist>
5592
5593	<listitem>
5594	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5595	(bug #2220)</para>
5596	</listitem>
5597
5598	<listitem>
5599	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	<listitem>
5603	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5604	</listitem>
5605
5606	<listitem>
5607	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5608	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5609	</listitem>
5610
5611	<listitem>
5612	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5613	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5614	</listitem>
5615
5616	<listitem>
5617	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5618	(bug #2624)</para>
5619	</listitem>
5620
5621	<listitem>
5622	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5623	(bug #2024)</para>
5624	</listitem>
5625
5626	<listitem>
5627	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5628	</listitem>
5629
5630	<listitem>
5631	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5636	</listitem>
5637
5638	<listitem>
5639	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5640	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5645	applications when updating the installation</para>
5646	</listitem>
5647
5648	<listitem>
5649	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5650	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5651	</listitem>
5652
5653	<listitem>
5654	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5655	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5656	</listitem>
5657
5658	<listitem>
5659	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5660	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5661	</listitem>
5662
5663	<listitem>
5664	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5665	connected to a host device</para>
5666	</listitem>
5667
5668	<listitem>
5669	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5670	</listitem>
5671
5672	<listitem>
5673	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5678	</listitem>
5679
5680	<listitem>
5681	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5682	when using native RDP connections</para>
5683	</listitem>
5684
5685	<listitem>
5686	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5687	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5688	</listitem>
5689
5690	<listitem>
5691	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5692	(bug #2591)</para>
5693	</listitem>
5694
5695	<listitem>
5696	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5697	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5698	</listitem>
5699
5700	<listitem>
5701	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5702	</listitem>
5703
5704	</itemizedlist>
5705	</sect1>
5706
5707	<sect1>
5708	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5709
5710	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5711	added:</para>
5712
5713	<itemizedlist>
5714	<listitem>
5715	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5716	</listitem>
5717
5718	<listitem>
5719	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5720	</listitem>
5721
5722	<listitem>
5723	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5724	</listitem>
5725
5726	<listitem>
5727	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5728	</listitem>
5729
5730	<listitem>
5731	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5732	</listitem>
5733
5734	<listitem>
5735	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5736	</listitem>
5737
5738	<listitem>
5739	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5740	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5741	</listitem>
5742
5743	<listitem>
5744	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5745	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5746	</listitem>
5747
5748	<listitem>
5749	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5750	</listitem>
5751
5752	<listitem>
5753	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5754	equal to the client resolution</para>
5755	</listitem>
5756
5757	<listitem>
5758	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5759	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5760	</listitem>
5761
5762	<listitem>
5763	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5764	</listitem>
5765
5766	<listitem>
5767	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5768	</listitem>
5769
5770	<listitem>
5771	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5772	</listitem>
5773
5774	<listitem>
5775	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5776	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5777	</listitem>
5778
5779	<listitem>
5780	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5781	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5782	</listitem>
5783
5784	<listitem>
5785	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5786	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5787	</listitem>
5788
5789	<listitem>
5790	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5791	</listitem>
5792
5793	<listitem>
5794	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5795	</listitem>
5796
5797	<listitem>
5798	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	<listitem>
5802	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5803	</listitem>
5804
5805	<listitem>
5806	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5807	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5808	</listitem>
5809
5810	<listitem>
5811	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5812	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5813	</listitem>
5814
5815	<listitem>
5816	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5817	</listitem>
5818
5819	<listitem>
5820	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5821	</listitem>
5822
5823	<listitem>
5824	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5825	</listitem>
5826
5827	</itemizedlist>
5828
5829	</sect1>
5830
5831	<sect1>
5832	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5833
5834	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5835	added:</para>
5836
5837	<itemizedlist>
5838
5839	<listitem>
5840	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5841	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5842	</listitem>
5843
5844	<listitem>
5845	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5846	</listitem>
5847
5848	<listitem>
5849	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5850	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5851	</listitem>
5852
5853	<listitem>
5854	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5855	</listitem>
5856
5857	<listitem>
5858	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5859	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5860	</listitem>
5861
5862	<listitem>
5863	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5864	</listitem>
5865
5866	<listitem>
5867	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5868	the virtual disk manager</para>
5869	</listitem>
5870
5871	<listitem>
5872	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5873	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5874	</listitem>
5875
5876	<listitem>
5877	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5878	</listitem>
5879
5880	<listitem>
5881	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5882	</listitem>
5883
5884	<listitem>
5885	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5886	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5887	</listitem>
5888
5889	<listitem>
5890	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5891	bug #2067)</para>
5892	</listitem>
5893
5894	<listitem>
5895	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5896	</listitem>
5897
5898	<listitem>
5899	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5900	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5901	</listitem>
5902
5903	<listitem>
5904	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5905	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5906	(bug #2184)</para>
5907	</listitem>
5908
5909	<listitem>
5910	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5911	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5912	</listitem>
5913
5914	<listitem>
5915	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5916	(Windows guests only)</para>
5917	</listitem>
5918
5919	<listitem>
5920	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5921	</listitem>
5922
5923	<listitem>
5924	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5925	</listitem>
5926
5927	<listitem>
5928	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5929	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5930	</listitem>
5931
5932	<listitem>
5933	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5934	</listitem>
5935
5936	<listitem>
5937	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5938	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5939	</para>
5940	</listitem>
5941
5942	<listitem>
5943	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5944	</listitem>
5945
5946	<listitem>
5947	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5948	</listitem>
5949
5950	<listitem>
5951	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5952	a VM reboot</para>
5953	</listitem>
5954
5955	<listitem>
5956	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5957	</listitem>
5958
5959	<listitem>
5960	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5961	buggy X servers</para>
5962	</listitem>
5963
5964	<listitem>
5965	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5966	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5967	</listitem>
5968
5969	<listitem>
5970	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5971	</listitem>
5972
5973	<listitem>
5974	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5975	(bug #2128)</para>
5976	</listitem>
5977
5978	<listitem>
5979	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5980	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5981	</listitem>
5982
5983	<listitem>
5984	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5985	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5986	</listitem>
5987
5988	<listitem>
5989	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5990	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5991	</listitem>
5992
5993	<listitem>
5994	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5995	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
5996	</listitem>
5997
5998	<listitem>
5999	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
6000	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
6001	</listitem>
6002
6003	<listitem>
6004	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
6005	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
6006	</listitem>
6007
6008	<listitem>
6009	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
6010	installer into a single package</para>
6011	</listitem>
6012
6013	<listitem>
6014	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
6015	port to the guest
6016	</para>
6017	</listitem>
6018
6019	</itemizedlist>
6020
6021	</sect1>
6022
6023	<sect1>
6024	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
6025
6026	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6027	were added:<itemizedlist>
6028
6029	<listitem>
6030	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
6031	</listitem>
6032
6033	<listitem>
6034	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6035	</listitem>
6036
6037	<listitem>
6038	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
6039	</listitem>
6040
6041	<listitem>
6042	<para>New-version notifier</para>
6043	</listitem>
6044
6045	<listitem>
6046	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
6047	</listitem>
6048
6049	<listitem>
6050	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6051	</listitem>
6052
6053	<listitem>
6054	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
6055	</listitem>
6056
6057	<listitem>
6058	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
6059	</listitem>
6060
6061	<listitem>
6062	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
6063	</listitem>
6064
6065	<listitem>
6066	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
6067	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
6068	</listitem>
6069
6070	<listitem>
6071	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
6072	</listitem>
6073
6074	<listitem>
6075	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
6076	</listitem>
6077
6078	<listitem>
6079	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
6080	</listitem>
6081
6082	</itemizedlist></para>
6083
6084	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6085
6086	<itemizedlist>
6087
6088	<listitem>
6089	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
6090	</listitem>
6091
6092	<listitem>
6093	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
6094	</listitem>
6095
6096	<listitem>
6097	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
6098	</listitem>
6099
6100	<listitem>
6101	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
6102	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
6103	</listitem>
6104
6105	<listitem>
6106	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
6107	restored</para>
6108	</listitem>
6109
6110	<listitem>
6111	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
6112	</listitem>
6113
6114	<listitem>
6115	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
6116	</listitem>
6117
6118	<listitem>
6119	<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>
6120	</listitem>
6121
6122	</itemizedlist>
6123
6124	</sect1>
6125
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