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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>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853)</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	<listitem>
16	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
17	</listitem>
18
19	<listitem>
20	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
21	</listitem>
22
23	<listitem>
24	<para>Guest Additions: modules and features now are represented as facilities
25	to have a common interface for frontends.</para>
26	</listitem>
27
28	<listitem>
29	<para>New Networking Mode: <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>. Allows to
30	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
31	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
32	</listitem>
33
34	</itemizedlist>
35
36	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
37
38	<itemizedlist>
39
40	<listitem>
41	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 2TB</para>
42	</listitem>
43
44	<listitem>
45	<para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
46	of the current state</para>
47	</listitem>
48
49	<listitem>
50	<para>GUI: added <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
51	</listitem>
52
53	<listitem>
54	<para>GUI: added setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
55	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
56	</listitem>
57
58	<listitem>
59	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
60	command group, fixed various bugs</para>
61	</listitem>
62
63	<listitem>
64	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
65	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
66	</listitem>
67
68	<listitem>
69	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
70	be a valid UUID</para>
71	</listitem>
72
73	<listitem>
74	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB driver</para>
75	</listitem>
76
77	<listitem>
78	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
79	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
80	</listitem>
81
82	<listitem>
83	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
84	window (bug #4491)</para>
85	</listitem>
86
87	<listitem>
88	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
89	</listitem>
90
91	<listitem>
92	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
93	from the host</para>
94	</listitem>
95
96	</itemizedlist>
97
98	</sect1>
99
100	<sect1>
101	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
102
103	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
104	added:</para>
105
106	<itemizedlist>
107
108	<listitem>
109	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
110	settings vanished</para>
111	</listitem>
112
113	<listitem>
114	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
115	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
116	</listitem>
117
118	<listitem>
119	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
120	created (bug #8031)</para>
121	</listitem>
122
123	<listitem>
124	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
125	</listitem>
126
127	<listitem>
128	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
129	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
130	</listitem>
131
132	<listitem>
133	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
134	an extension pack</para>
135	</listitem>
136
137	<listitem>
138	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
139	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
140	</listitem>
141
142	<listitem>
143	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
144	</listitem>
145
146	<listitem>
147	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
148	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
149	</listitem>
150
151	<listitem>
152	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
153	host-only interface</para>
154	</listitem>
155
156	<listitem>
157	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
158	and async I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
159	</listitem>
160
161	<listitem>
162	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
163	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
168	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
173	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
174	</listitem>
175
176	<listitem>
177	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
178	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
179	</listitem>
180
181	<listitem>
182	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
191	guests</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
196	</listitem>
197
198	<listitem>
199	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
200	</listitem>
201
202	<listitem>
203	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
204	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
205	</listitem>
206
207	<listitem>
208	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
209	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
210	</listitem>
211
212	<listitem>
213	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
214	a VM start</para>
215	</listitem>
216
217	<listitem>
218	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
219	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
220	</listitem>
221
222	<listitem>
223	<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented
224	(bug #6067)</para>
225	</listitem>
226
227	<listitem>
228	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
229	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
230	</listitem>
231
232	<listitem>
233	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
234	not saved to machine XML</para>
235	</listitem>
236
237	<listitem>
238	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
239	#7983)</para>
240	</listitem>
241
242	<listitem>
243	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
244	#7981)</para>
245	</listitem>
246
247	<listitem>
248	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.</para>
249	</listitem>
250
251	<listitem>
252	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
253	regression)</para>
254	</listitem>
255
256	<listitem>
257	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
258	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
259	</listitem>
260
261	<listitem>
262	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
263	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
264	</listitem>
265
266	</itemizedlist>
267
268	</sect1>
269
270	<sect1>
271	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
272
273	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
274	were added:</para>
275
276	<itemizedlist>
277
278	<listitem>
279	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
280	</listitem>
281
282	<listitem>
283	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
284	</listitem>
285
286	<listitem>
287	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
288	<itemizedlist>
289	<listitem>
290	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
291	</listitem>
292
293	<listitem>
294	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
295	</listitem>
296
297	<listitem>
298	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
299	</listitem>
300
301	<listitem>
302	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
303	</listitem>
304
305	<listitem>
306	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
307	states, and optionally including attached
308	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
309	can do the same now)</para>
310	</listitem>
311
312	<listitem>
313	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
314	</listitem>
315
316	</itemizedlist>
317	</para>
318	</listitem>
319
320	<listitem>
321	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
322	</listitem>
323
324	<listitem>
325	<para>New virtual hardware:
326	<itemizedlist>
327	<listitem>
328	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
329	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
330	</listitem>
331
332	<listitem>
333	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
334	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
335	</listitem>
336	</itemizedlist>
337	</para>
338	</listitem>
339
340	<listitem>
341	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
342	<itemizedlist>
343	<listitem>
344	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
345	</listitem>
346
347	<listitem>
348	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
349	</para>
350	</listitem>
351
352	<listitem>
353	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
354	now</para>
355	</listitem>
356
357	<listitem>
358	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
359	</listitem>
360
361	</itemizedlist>
362	</para>
363	</listitem>
364
365	<listitem>
366	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
367	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
368	</listitem>
369
370	<listitem>
371	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
372	Parallels images</para>
373	</listitem>
374
375	<listitem>
376	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
377	</listitem>
378
379	<listitem>
380	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
381	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
382	</listitem>
383
384	<listitem>
385	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
386	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
387	</listitem>
388
389	</itemizedlist>
390
391	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
392
393	<itemizedlist>
394
395	<listitem>
396	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
397	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
398	</listitem>
399
400	<listitem>
401	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
402	</listitem>
403
404	<listitem>
405	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
406	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
407	</listitem>
408
409	<listitem>
410	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
411	(bug #1657)</para>
412	</listitem>
413
414	<listitem>
415	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
416	</listitem>
417
418	<listitem>
419	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
424	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
425	</listitem>
426
427	<listitem>
428	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
429	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
430	</listitem>
431
432	<listitem>
433	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
434	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
435	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
436	</listitem>
437
438	<listitem>
439	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
440	again (bug #6864)</para>
441	</listitem>
442
443	<listitem>
444	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
445	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
446	</listitem>
447
448	<listitem>
449	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
450	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
451	</listitem>
452
453	<listitem>
454	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
455	</listitem>
456
457	<listitem>
458	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
459	</listitem>
460
461	<listitem>
462	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
463	</listitem>
464
465	<listitem>
466	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
467	</listitem>
468
469	<listitem>
470	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
471	</listitem>
472
473	<listitem>
474	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
475	</listitem>
476
477	<listitem>
478	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
479	</listitem>
480
481	<listitem>
482	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
483	(bug #7058)</para>
484	</listitem>
485
486	<listitem>
487	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
488	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
489	</listitem>
490
491	<listitem>
492	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
493	circumstances</para>
494	</listitem>
495
496	<listitem>
497	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
498	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
499	#5578)
500	</para>
501	</listitem>
502
503	<listitem>
504	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
505	</listitem>
506
507	<listitem>
508	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
509	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
510	</listitem>
511
512	<listitem>
513	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
514	</listitem>
515
516	<listitem>
517	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
518	#6760)</para>
519	</listitem>
520
521	<listitem>
522	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
523	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
524	</listitem>
525
526	<listitem>
527	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
528	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
529	</listitem>
530
531	<listitem>
532	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
533	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
534	</listitem>
535
536	<listitem>
537	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
538	</listitem>
539
540	<listitem>
541	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
542	file</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
547	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	</itemizedlist>
551
552	</sect1>
553
554	<sect1>
555	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
556
557	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
558	added:</para>
559
560	<itemizedlist>
561
562	<listitem>
563	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
564	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
565	</listitem>
566
567	<listitem>
568	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
569	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
570	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
571	</listitem>
572
573	<listitem>
574	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
575	</listitem>
576
577	<listitem>
578	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
579	</listitem>
580
581	<listitem>
582	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
583	</listitem>
584
585	<listitem>
586	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
587	the VM is running</para>
588	</listitem>
589
590	<listitem>
591	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
592	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
593	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
594	starting from a saved state</para>
595	</listitem>
596
597	<listitem>
598	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
599	</listitem>
600
601	<listitem>
602	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
603	</listitem>
604
605	<listitem>
606	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
607	</listitem>
608
609	<listitem>
610	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
615	</listitem>
616
617	<listitem>
618	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
619	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
620	</listitem>
621
622	<listitem>
623	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
624	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
625	</listitem>
626
627	<listitem>
628	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
629	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
634	</listitem>
635
636	<listitem>
637	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
638	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
639	</para>
640	</listitem>
641
642	<listitem>
643	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
644	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
645	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
646	</listitem>
647
648	<listitem>
649	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
650	only)</para>
651	</listitem>
652
653	<listitem>
654	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
655	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
656	</listitem>
657
658	<listitem>
659	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
660	</listitem>
661
662	<listitem>
663	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
664	</listitem>
665
666	<listitem>
667	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
668	</listitem>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
672	state (bug #4124)</para>
673	</listitem>
674
675	<listitem>
676	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
677	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
678	</listitem>
679
680	<listitem>
681	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
682	</listitem>
683
684	<listitem>
685	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
686	(bug #2996)</para>
687	</listitem>
688
689	<listitem>
690	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
691	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
692	</listitem>
693
694	<listitem>
695	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
700	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
701	</listitem>
702
703	<listitem>
704	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
705	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
706	</listitem>
707
708	<listitem>
709	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
710	user accounts for VM information</para>
711	</listitem>
712
713	</itemizedlist>
714
715	</sect1>
716
717	<sect1>
718	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
719
720	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
721	added:</para>
722
723	<itemizedlist>
724
725	<listitem>
726	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
727	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
728	</listitem>
729
730	<listitem>
731	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
732	</listitem>
733
734	<listitem>
735	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
736	</listitem>
737
738	<listitem>
739	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
740	</listitem>
741
742	<listitem>
743	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
744	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
745	</listitem>
746
747	<listitem>
748	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
749	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
750	</listitem>
751
752	<listitem>
753	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
754	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
755	</listitem>
756
757	<listitem>
758	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
759	(bug #4952)</para>
760	</listitem>
761
762	<listitem>
763	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
764	bug #6122)</para>
765	</listitem>
766
767	<listitem>
768	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
769	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
770	</listitem>
771
772	<listitem>
773	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
774	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
775	(Linux hosts only)</para>
776	</listitem>
777
778	<listitem>
779	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
780	</listitem>
781
782	<listitem>
783	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
784	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
785	</listitem>
786
787	<listitem>
788	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
789	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
790	</listitem>
791
792	<listitem>
793	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
794	canceled</para>
795	</listitem>
796
797	<listitem>
798	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
799	</listitem>
800
801	<listitem>
802	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
803	</listitem>
804
805	<listitem>
806	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
807	</listitem>
808
809	<listitem>
810	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
811	</listitem>
812
813	<listitem>
814	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
815	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
816	</listitem>
817
818	<listitem>
819	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
820	</listitem>
821
822	<listitem>
823	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
824	(Linux hosts only)</para>
825	</listitem>
826
827	<listitem>
828	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
829	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
830	</listitem>
831
832	<listitem>
833	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
834	</listitem>
835
836	<listitem>
837	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
838	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
839	</listitem>
840
841	<listitem>
842	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
843	</listitem>
844
845	<listitem>
846	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
847	circumstances</para>
848	</listitem>
849
850	<listitem>
851	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
852	printers</para>
853	</listitem>
854
855	<listitem>
856	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
857	</listitem>
858
859	<listitem>
860	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
861	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
862	</listitem>
863
864	<listitem>
865	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
866	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
867	</listitem>
868
869	<listitem>
870	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
871	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
872	circumstances</para>
873	</listitem>
874
875	<listitem>
876	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
877	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
878	</listitem>
879
880	<listitem>
881	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
882	as supported extension</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
887	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
892	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
893	</listitem>
894
895	<listitem>
896	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
897	</listitem>
898
899	<listitem>
900	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
901	(bug #7366)</para>
902	</listitem>
903
904	<listitem>
905	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
906	</listitem>
907
908	<listitem>
909	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
910	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
911	</listitem>
912
913	<listitem>
914	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
915	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
916	</listitem>
917
918	<listitem>
919	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
920	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
921	</listitem>
922
923	<listitem>
924	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
925	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
926	</listitem>
927
928	<listitem>
929	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
930	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
935	</listitem>
936
937	<listitem>
938	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
943	more than one environment variable</para>
944	</listitem>
945
946	<listitem>
947	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
948	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
949	</listitem>
950
951	<listitem>
952	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
953	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
954	</listitem>
955
956	<listitem>
957	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
958	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
959	</listitem>
960
961	<listitem>
962	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
963	enumerating logged in users</para>
964	</listitem>
965
966	<listitem>
967	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
968	</listitem>
969
970	<listitem>
971	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
972	</listitem>
973
974	<listitem>
975	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
976	</listitem>
977
978	<listitem>
979	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
980	in the event of a VM crash</para>
981	</listitem>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
989	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
990	</listitem>
991
992	<listitem>
993	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
994	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
995	</listitem>
996
997	<listitem>
998	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
999	(bug #7448)</para>
1000	</listitem>
1001
1002	<listitem>
1003	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
1004	</listitem>
1005
1006	<listitem>
1007	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
1008	</listitem>
1009
1010	<listitem>
1011	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
1012	</listitem>
1013
1014	</itemizedlist>
1015
1016	</sect1>
1017
1018	<sect1>
1019	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
1020
1021	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1022	added:</para>
1023
1024	<itemizedlist>
1025
1026	<listitem>
1027	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
1028	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
1033	</listitem>
1034
1035	<listitem>
1036	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
1037	bug #6809)</para>
1038	</listitem>
1039
1040	<listitem>
1041	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
1042	</listitem>
1043
1044	<listitem>
1045	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
1046	</listitem>
1047
1048	<listitem>
1049	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
1050	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
1051	</listitem>
1052
1053	<listitem>
1054	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
1055	changes</para>
1056	</listitem>
1057
1058	<listitem>
1059	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
1060	</listitem>
1061
1062	<listitem>
1063	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
1064	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
1065	</listitem>
1066
1067	<listitem>
1068	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
1069	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
1070	</listitem>
1071
1072	<listitem>
1073	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
1074	</listitem>
1075
1076	<listitem>
1077	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
1078	</listitem>
1079
1080	<listitem>
1081	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
1082	</listitem>
1083
1084	<listitem>
1085	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
1086	</listitem>
1087
1088	<listitem>
1089	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
1090	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
1091	</listitem>
1092
1093	<listitem>
1094	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
1095	</listitem>
1096
1097	<listitem>
1098	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
1099	(bug #6832)</para>
1100	</listitem>
1101
1102	<listitem>
1103	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
1104	guests</para>
1105	</listitem>
1106
1107	<listitem>
1108	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
1109	</listitem>
1110
1111	<listitem>
1112	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
1113	without external tools and tricks</para>
1114	</listitem>
1115
1116	<listitem>
1117	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
1118	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
1119	</listitem>
1120
1121	<listitem>
1122	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
1123	</listitem>
1124
1125	<listitem>
1126	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
1127	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
1128	</listitem>
1129
1130	<listitem>
1131	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
1132	shutdown</para>
1133	</listitem>
1134
1135	<listitem>
1136	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
1137	fixes</para>
1138	</listitem>
1139
1140	<listitem>
1141	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
1142	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
1143	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
1144	</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
1149	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
1150	</listitem>
1151
1152	<listitem>
1153	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
1154	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
1155	</listitem>
1156
1157	<listitem>
1158	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
1159	</para>
1160	</listitem>
1161
1162	<listitem>
1163	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
1168	</listitem>
1169
1170	<listitem>
1171	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
1172	</listitem>
1173
1174	</itemizedlist>
1175
1176	</sect1>
1177
1178	<sect1>
1179	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
1180
1181	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1182	added:</para>
1183
1184	<itemizedlist>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
1188	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
1189	</listitem>
1190
1191	<listitem>
1192	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
1193	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
1194	</listitem>
1195
1196	<listitem>
1197	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
1198	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
1199	</listitem>
1200
1201	<listitem>
1202	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
1207	</listitem>
1208
1209	<listitem>
1210	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
1211	</listitem>
1212
1213	<listitem>
1214	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
1215	</listitem>
1216
1217	<listitem>
1218	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
1219	assigned</para>
1220	</listitem>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
1224	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
1225	</listitem>
1226
1227	<listitem>
1228	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
1229	multiple screens are enabled</para>
1230	</listitem>
1231
1232	<listitem>
1233	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
1238	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
1239	</listitem>
1240
1241	<listitem>
1242	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
1243	again (bug #7022).
1244	</para>
1245	</listitem>
1246
1247	<listitem>
1248	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
1249	(bug #6768)</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
1254	(bug #6927)</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
1259	bug #7031)</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
1264	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	<listitem>
1268	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1269	bug #6987)</para>
1270	</listitem>
1271
1272	<listitem>
1273	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
1278	</listitem>
1279
1280	<listitem>
1281	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
1282	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
1287	</listitem>
1288
1289	<listitem>
1290	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
1291	installation (bug #5101)</para>
1292	</listitem>
1293
1294	<listitem>
1295	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1300	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1301	bug #6872)</para>
1302	</listitem>
1303
1304	<listitem>
1305	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1306	</listitem>
1307
1308	<listitem>
1309	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1310	(performance tweak)</para>
1311	</listitem>
1312
1313	<listitem>
1314	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1315	is currently paused</para>
1316	</listitem>
1317
1318	<listitem>
1319	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1320	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1321	</listitem>
1322
1323	<listitem>
1324	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1325	</listitem>
1326
1327	<listitem>
1328	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1329	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1330	</listitem>
1331
1332	<listitem>
1333	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1334	not properly saved</para>
1335	</listitem>
1336
1337	<listitem>
1338	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1339	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1340	</listitem>
1341
1342	<listitem>
1343	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1344	</listitem>
1345
1346	<listitem>
1347	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1352	</listitem>
1353
1354	<listitem>
1355	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1356	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1357	</listitem>
1358
1359	<listitem>
1360	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1361	</listitem>
1362
1363	<listitem>
1364	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1365	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1366	</listitem>
1367
1368	<listitem>
1369	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1370	(bug #5251)</para>
1371	</listitem>
1372
1373	<listitem>
1374	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1375	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1376	</listitem>
1377
1378	<listitem>
1379	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1380	</listitem>
1381
1382	<listitem>
1383	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1384	</listitem>
1385
1386	<listitem>
1387	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1388	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1389	</listitem>
1390
1391	<listitem>
1392	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1393	</listitem>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1397	</listitem>
1398
1399	<listitem>
1400	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1401	</listitem>
1402
1403	</itemizedlist>
1404	</sect1>
1405
1406	<sect1>
1407	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1408
1409	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1410	added:</para>
1411
1412	<itemizedlist>
1413
1414	<listitem>
1415	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1416	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1417	</listitem>
1418
1419	<listitem>
1420	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1421	</listitem>
1422
1423	<listitem>
1424	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1425	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1426	</listitem>
1427
1428	<listitem>
1429	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1430	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1431	</listitem>
1432
1433	<listitem>
1434	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	<listitem>
1438	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1439	again (bug #6864)</para>
1440	</listitem>
1441
1442	<listitem>
1443	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1444	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1445	</listitem>
1446
1447	<listitem>
1448	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1449	</listitem>
1450
1451	<listitem>
1452	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1453	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1454	</listitem>
1455
1456	<listitem>
1457	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1458	</listitem>
1459
1460	</itemizedlist>
1461
1462	</sect1>
1463
1464	<sect1>
1465	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1466
1467	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1468	added:</para>
1469
1470	<itemizedlist>
1471
1472	<listitem>
1473	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1474	</listitem>
1475
1476	<listitem>
1477	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1478	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1479	</listitem>
1480
1481	<listitem>
1482	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1483	</listitem>
1484
1485	<listitem>
1486	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1487	state</para>
1488	</listitem>
1489
1490	<listitem>
1491	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1492	</listitem>
1493
1494	<listitem>
1495	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1496	</listitem>
1497
1498	<listitem>
1499	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1500	</listitem>
1501
1502	<listitem>
1503	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1504	</listitem>
1505
1506	<listitem>
1507	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1512	</listitem>
1513
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1516	</listitem>
1517
1518	<listitem>
1519	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1520	</listitem>
1521
1522	<listitem>
1523	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1524	</listitem>
1525
1526	<listitem>
1527	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1528	</listitem>
1529
1530	<listitem>
1531	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1532	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1533	</listitem>
1534
1535	<listitem>
1536	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1537	(bug #6784)</para>
1538	</listitem>
1539
1540	<listitem>
1541	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1542	</listitem>
1543
1544	<listitem>
1545	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1546	</listitem>
1547
1548	<listitem>
1549	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1550	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1551	</listitem>
1552
1553	<listitem>
1554	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1555	</listitem>
1556
1557	<listitem>
1558	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1559	</listitem>
1560
1561	<listitem>
1562	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1563	host only</para>
1564	</listitem>
1565
1566	<listitem>
1567	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1568	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1569	</listitem>
1570
1571	<listitem>
1572	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1573	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1574	</listitem>
1575
1576	<listitem>
1577	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1578	</listitem>
1579
1580	<listitem>
1581	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1582	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1583	</listitem>
1584
1585	<listitem>
1586	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1591	</listitem>
1592
1593	<listitem>
1594	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1595	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1596	</listitem>
1597
1598	<listitem>
1599	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1600	</listitem>
1601
1602	<listitem>
1603	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1604	</listitem>
1605
1606	<listitem>
1607	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1608	</listitem>
1609
1610	<listitem>
1611	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1612	(bug #6714)</para>
1613	</listitem>
1614
1615	<listitem>
1616	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1617	</listitem>
1618
1619	<listitem>
1620	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1621	</listitem>
1622
1623	<listitem>
1624	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1625	</listitem>
1626
1627	<listitem>
1628	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1629	</listitem>
1630
1631	<listitem>
1632	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1633	</listitem>
1634
1635	</itemizedlist>
1636
1637	</sect1>
1638
1639	<sect1>
1640	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1641
1642	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1643	were added:</para>
1644
1645	<itemizedlist>
1646
1647	<listitem>
1648	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1649	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1650	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1651	</listitem>
1652
1653	<listitem>
1654	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1655	</listitem>
1656
1657	<listitem>
1658	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1659	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1660	</listitem>
1661
1662	<listitem>
1663	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1664	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1665	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1666	</listitem>
1667
1668	<listitem>
1669	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1670	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1671	</listitem>
1672
1673	<listitem>
1674	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1675	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1676	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1677	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1678	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1679	</listitem>
1680
1681	<listitem>
1682	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1683	</listitem>
1684
1685	<listitem>
1686	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1687	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1688	</listitem>
1689
1690	<listitem>
1691	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1692	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1693	</listitem>
1694
1695	<listitem>
1696	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	<listitem>
1700	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
1701	</listitem>
1702
1703	<listitem>
1704	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1705	</listitem>
1706
1707	<listitem>
1708	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1709	</listitem>
1710
1711	<listitem>
1712	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1713	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1714	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1715	</listitem>
1716
1717	<listitem>
1718	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1719	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1720	</listitem>
1721
1722	</itemizedlist>
1723
1724	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1725
1726	<itemizedlist>
1727
1728	<listitem>
1729	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1730	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1731	</listitem>
1732
1733	<listitem>
1734	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1735	</listitem>
1736
1737	<listitem>
1738	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1739	VM</para>
1740	</listitem>
1741
1742	<listitem>
1743	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1744	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1745	</listitem>
1746
1747	<listitem>
1748	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1749	#1669)</para>
1750	</listitem>
1751
1752	<listitem>
1753	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1754	#6442)</para>
1755	</listitem>
1756
1757	<listitem>
1758	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1759	combination (bug #684)</para>
1760	</listitem>
1761
1762	<listitem>
1763	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1764	the VM from the GUI</para>
1765	</listitem>
1766
1767	<listitem>
1768	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1769	medium is not accessible</para>
1770	</listitem>
1771
1772	<listitem>
1773	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1774	</listitem>
1775
1776	<listitem>
1777	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1778	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1779	</listitem>
1780
1781	<listitem>
1782	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1783	#3106)</para>
1784	</listitem>
1785
1786	<listitem>
1787	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1788	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1789	it</para>
1790	</listitem>
1791
1792	<listitem>
1793	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1794	</listitem>
1795
1796	<listitem>
1797	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1802	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1803	</listitem>
1804
1805	<listitem>
1806	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1807	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1808	</listitem>
1809
1810	<listitem>
1811	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1816	</listitem>
1817
1818	<listitem>
1819	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1820	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1825	</listitem>
1826
1827	<listitem>
1828	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1829	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1830	</listitem>
1831
1832	<listitem>
1833	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1834	</listitem>
1835
1836	<listitem>
1837	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1838	in VirtualBox</para>
1839	</listitem>
1840
1841	<listitem>
1842	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1843	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1844	</listitem>
1845
1846	<listitem>
1847	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1848	VirtualBox</para>
1849	</listitem>
1850
1851	<listitem>
1852	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1853	</listitem>
1854
1855	<listitem>
1856	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1857	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1858	</listitem>
1859
1860	</itemizedlist>
1861	</sect1>
1862
1863	<sect1>
1864	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1865
1866	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1867	added:</para>
1868
1869	<itemizedlist>
1870
1871	<listitem>
1872	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1873	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1878	</listitem>
1879
1880	<listitem>
1881	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1882	</listitem>
1883
1884	<listitem>
1885	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1886	only) </para>
1887	</listitem>
1888
1889	<listitem>
1890	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1891	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1892	</listitem>
1893
1894	<listitem>
1895	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1896	interface version</para>
1897	</listitem>
1898
1899	<listitem>
1900	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1901	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1902	slot empty</para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1907	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1908	(bug #4220)</para>
1909	</listitem>
1910
1911	<listitem>
1912	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1913	</listitem>
1914
1915	<listitem>
1916	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1917	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1918	</listitem>
1919
1920	<listitem>
1921	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1922	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1923	</listitem>
1924
1925	<listitem>
1926	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1927	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1928	</listitem>
1929
1930	<listitem>
1931	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1932	attached</para>
1933	</listitem>
1934
1935	<listitem>
1936	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1937	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1938	</listitem>
1939
1940	<listitem>
1941	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1946	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1951	is bug #6408)</para>
1952	</listitem>
1953
1954	<listitem>
1955	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1956	</listitem>
1957
1958	<listitem>
1959	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1960	fail to initialize</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1965	</listitem>
1966
1967	<listitem>
1968	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1969	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1974	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1975	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1976	</listitem>
1977
1978	<listitem>
1979	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1980	</listitem>
1981
1982	<listitem>
1983	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1984	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1985	</listitem>
1986
1987	<listitem>
1988	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1989	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1990	</listitem>
1991
1992	<listitem>
1993	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1994	(bug #6435)</para>
1995	</listitem>
1996
1997	<listitem>
1998	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1999	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
2000	</listitem>
2001
2002	<listitem>
2003	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
2004	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
2005	(bug #6488)</para>
2006	</listitem>
2007
2008	<listitem>
2009	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
2010	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
2015	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
2020	#5227)</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
2025	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
2026	</listitem>
2027
2028	<listitem>
2029	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
2030	</listitem>
2031
2032	<listitem>
2033	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
2034	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
2035	</listitem>
2036
2037	</itemizedlist>
2038	</sect1>
2039
2040	<sect1>
2041	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
2042
2043	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2044	added:</para>
2045
2046	<itemizedlist>
2047
2048	<listitem>
2049	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
2050	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
2051	</listitem>
2052
2053	<listitem>
2054	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
2055	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
2056	</listitem>
2057
2058	<listitem>
2059	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
2060	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
2061	</listitem>
2062
2063	<listitem>
2064	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
2065	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
2066	</listitem>
2067
2068	<listitem>
2069	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
2070	</listitem>
2071
2072	<listitem>
2073	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
2074	</listitem>
2075
2076	<listitem>
2077	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
2078	</listitem>
2079
2080	<listitem>
2081	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
2082	</listitem>
2083
2084	<listitem>
2085	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
2086	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	<listitem>
2090	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
2091	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
2092	</listitem>
2093
2094	<listitem>
2095	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
2096	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
2097	</listitem>
2098
2099	<listitem>
2100	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
2101	</listitem>
2102
2103	<listitem>
2104	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
2105	</listitem>
2106
2107	<listitem>
2108	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
2109	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
2110	</listitem>
2111
2112	<listitem>
2113	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
2114	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
2115	calls (bug #6165)</para>
2116	</listitem>
2117
2118	<listitem>
2119	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
2120	(bug #5297)</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
2125	(bug #4962)</para>
2126	</listitem>
2127
2128	<listitem>
2129	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
2130	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
2131	</listitem>
2132
2133	<listitem>
2134	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
2135	(bug #6176)</para>
2136	</listitem>
2137
2138	<listitem>
2139	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
2140	certain circumstances</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	<listitem>
2144	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
2145	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
2146	</listitem>
2147
2148	<listitem>
2149	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
2154	</listitem>
2155
2156	<listitem>
2157	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
2158	(bug #3571)</para>
2159	</listitem>
2160
2161	<listitem>
2162	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
2163	devices</para>
2164	</listitem>
2165
2166	<listitem>
2167	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
2168	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
2169	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
2170	</listitem>
2171
2172	<listitem>
2173	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
2174	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
2175	</listitem>
2176
2177	<listitem>
2178	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
2179	</listitem>
2180
2181	<listitem>
2182	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
2183	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
2184	</listitem>
2185
2186	<listitem>
2187	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
2188	response</para>
2189	</listitem>
2190
2191	<listitem>
2192	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
2193	</listitem>
2194
2195	<listitem>
2196	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
2201	</listitem>
2202
2203	<listitem>
2204	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
2205	</listitem>
2206
2207	<listitem>
2208	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
2209	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
2210	</listitem>
2211
2212	<listitem>
2213	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
2214	</listitem>
2215
2216	<listitem>
2217	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
2218	</listitem>
2219
2220	<listitem>
2221	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
2222	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
2223	</listitem>
2224
2225	<listitem>
2226	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
2235	</listitem>
2236
2237	<listitem>
2238	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
2239	</listitem>
2240
2241	</itemizedlist>
2242	</sect1>
2243
2244	<sect1>
2245	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
2246
2247	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2248	added:</para>
2249
2250	<itemizedlist>
2251
2252	<listitem>
2253	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
2254	</listitem>
2255
2256	<listitem>
2257	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
2258	</listitem>
2259
2260	<listitem>
2261	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
2262	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
2267	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
2268	</listitem>
2269
2270	<listitem>
2271	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
2272	(bug #3945)</para>
2273	</listitem>
2274
2275	<listitem>
2276	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
2277	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
2278	</listitem>
2279
2280	<listitem>
2281	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
2282	and AMD-V only) </para>
2283	</listitem>
2284
2285	<listitem>
2286	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
2291	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
2292	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
2293	</listitem>
2294
2295	<listitem>
2296	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
2297	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
2298	</listitem>
2299
2300	<listitem>
2301	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2302	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2303	</listitem>
2304
2305	<listitem>
2306	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2307	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2308	</listitem>
2309
2310	<listitem>
2311	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2312	snapshots command</para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2317	</listitem>
2318
2319	<listitem>
2320	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2321	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2322	</listitem>
2323
2324	<listitem>
2325	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2326	</listitem>
2327
2328	<listitem>
2329	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2330	</listitem>
2331
2332	<listitem>
2333	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2334	</listitem>
2335
2336	<listitem>
2337	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2338	(KWin bug)</para>
2339	</listitem>
2340
2341	<listitem>
2342	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2343	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2344	</listitem>
2345
2346	<listitem>
2347	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2348	</listitem>
2349
2350	<listitem>
2351	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2352	</listitem>
2353
2354	<listitem>
2355	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2356	</listitem>
2357
2358	<listitem>
2359	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2360	</listitem>
2361
2362	<listitem>
2363	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2364	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2365	</listitem>
2366
2367	<listitem>
2368	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2369	bug #5787)</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2374	DHCP requests</para>
2375	</listitem>
2376
2377	<listitem>
2378	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2379	(bug #3217)</para>
2380	</listitem>
2381
2382	<listitem>
2383	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2384	range (bug #5923)</para>
2385	</listitem>
2386
2387	<listitem>
2388	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2389	</listitem>
2390
2391	<listitem>
2392	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2393	</listitem>
2394
2395	<listitem>
2396	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2397	</listitem>
2398
2399	<listitem>
2400	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2401	</listitem>
2402
2403	<listitem>
2404	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2405	file (bug #5681)</para>
2406	</listitem>
2407
2408	<listitem>
2409	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2410	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2411	</listitem>
2412
2413	<listitem>
2414	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2415	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2416	</listitem>
2417
2418	<listitem>
2419	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2420	regression)</para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2425	</listitem>
2426
2427	<listitem>
2428	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2429	</listitem>
2430
2431	<listitem>
2432	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2433	</listitem>
2434
2435	<listitem>
2436	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2437	</listitem>
2438
2439	<listitem>
2440	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2441	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2442	</listitem>
2443
2444	<listitem>
2445	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2446	</listitem>
2447
2448	<listitem>
2449	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2454	</listitem>
2455
2456	<listitem>
2457	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2458	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2459	</listitem>
2460
2461	<listitem>
2462	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2463	</listitem>
2464
2465	<listitem>
2466	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2467	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2468	</listitem>
2469
2470	<listitem>
2471	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2472	</listitem>
2473
2474	<listitem>
2475	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	<listitem>
2483	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2484	(bug #5731)</para>
2485	</listitem>
2486
2487	<listitem>
2488	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2489	again</para>
2490	</listitem>
2491
2492	</itemizedlist>
2493
2494	</sect1>
2495
2496	<sect1>
2497	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2498
2499	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2500	added:</para>
2501
2502	<itemizedlist>
2503
2504	<listitem>
2505	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2506	</listitem>
2507
2508	<listitem>
2509	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2510	</listitem>
2511
2512	<listitem>
2513	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2514	</listitem>
2515
2516	<listitem>
2517	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2518	</listitem>
2519
2520	<listitem>
2521	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2522	</listitem>
2523
2524	<listitem>
2525	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2526	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2527	</listitem>
2528
2529	<listitem>
2530	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2531	</listitem>
2532
2533	<listitem>
2534	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2535	</listitem>
2536
2537	<listitem>
2538	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2539	</listitem>
2540
2541	<listitem>
2542	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2543	</listitem>
2544
2545	<listitem>
2546	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2547	</listitem>
2548
2549	<listitem>
2550	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2551	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2552	</listitem>
2553
2554	<listitem>
2555	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2556	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2557	</listitem>
2558
2559	<listitem>
2560	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2561	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2562	#1762)</para>
2563	</listitem>
2564
2565	<listitem>
2566	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2567	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2568	</listitem>
2569
2570	<listitem>
2571	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2572	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2573	</listitem>
2574
2575	<listitem>
2576	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2577	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2578	</listitem>
2579
2580	<listitem>
2581	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2582	</listitem>
2583
2584	<listitem>
2585	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2586	</listitem>
2587
2588	<listitem>
2589	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2590	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	<listitem>
2594	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2595	</listitem>
2596
2597	<listitem>
2598	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2599	</listitem>
2600
2601	<listitem>
2602	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2603	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2604	</listitem>
2605
2606	<listitem>
2607	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2608	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2609	</listitem>
2610
2611	<listitem>
2612	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2613	</listitem>
2614
2615	<listitem>
2616	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2617	guests</para>
2618	</listitem>
2619
2620	<listitem>
2621	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2622	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2623	</listitem>
2624
2625	<listitem>
2626	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2627	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2628	</listitem>
2629
2630	<listitem>
2631	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2632	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2633	</listitem>
2634
2635	<listitem>
2636	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2637	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2638	</listitem>
2639
2640	<listitem>
2641	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2642	</listitem>
2643
2644	<listitem>
2645	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2650	</listitem>
2651
2652	<listitem>
2653	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2654	</listitem>
2655
2656	<listitem>
2657	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2658	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2659	</listitem>
2660
2661	<listitem>
2662	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2663	</listitem>
2664
2665	</itemizedlist>
2666
2667	</sect1>
2668
2669	<sect1>
2670	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2671
2672	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2673	were added:</para>
2674
2675	<itemizedlist>
2676
2677	<listitem>
2678	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2679	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2680	</listitem>
2681
2682	<listitem>
2683	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2684	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2685	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2686	</listitem>
2687
2688	<listitem>
2689	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2690	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2691	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2692	</listitem>
2693
2694	<listitem>
2695	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2696	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2697	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2698	</listitem>
2699
2700	<listitem>
2701	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2702	running</para>
2703	</listitem>
2704
2705	<listitem>
2706	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2707	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2708	</listitem>
2709
2710	<listitem>
2711	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2712	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2713	</listitem>
2714
2715	<listitem>
2716	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2717	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2718	</listitem>
2719
2720	<listitem>
2721	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2722	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2723	</listitem>
2724
2725	</itemizedlist>
2726
2727	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2728
2729	<itemizedlist>
2730
2731	<listitem>
2732	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2733	</listitem>
2734
2735	<listitem>
2736	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2737	</listitem>
2738
2739	<listitem>
2740	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2741	</listitem>
2742
2743	<listitem>
2744	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2745	(bug #5291)</para>
2746	</listitem>
2747
2748	<listitem>
2749	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2750	</listitem>
2751
2752	<listitem>
2753	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2754	</listitem>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2758	</listitem>
2759
2760	<listitem>
2761	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2762	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2763	</listitem>
2764
2765	<listitem>
2766	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2767	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2768	</listitem>
2769
2770	<listitem>
2771	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2772	</listitem>
2773
2774	<listitem>
2775	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2776	</listitem>
2777
2778	<listitem>
2779	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2780	</listitem>
2781
2782	<listitem>
2783	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2784	</listitem>
2785
2786	<listitem>
2787	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2792	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2793	</listitem>
2794
2795	<listitem>
2796	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2797	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2798	</listitem>
2799
2800	<listitem>
2801	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2802	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2803	</listitem>
2804
2805	<listitem>
2806	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2807	(bug #2723)</para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2816	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2817	</listitem>
2818
2819	<listitem>
2820	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2821	optional manifest file on import</para>
2822	</listitem>
2823
2824	<listitem>
2825	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2826	</listitem>
2827
2828	<listitem>
2829	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2830	(bug #3773)</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2835	</listitem>
2836
2837	<listitem>
2838	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2839	</listitem>
2840
2841	<listitem>
2842	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2843	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2844	</listitem>
2845
2846	<listitem>
2847	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2848	(bug #4866)</para>
2849	</listitem>
2850
2851	<listitem>
2852	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2853	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2854	</listitem>
2855
2856	<listitem>
2857	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2858	certain conditions</para>
2859	</listitem>
2860
2861	<listitem>
2862	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2863	</listitem>
2864
2865	<listitem>
2866	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2867	</listitem>
2868
2869	<listitem>
2870	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2871	</listitem>
2872
2873	<listitem>
2874	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2875	</listitem>
2876
2877	<listitem>
2878	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2879	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2880	</listitem>
2881
2882	<listitem>
2883	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2884	</listitem>
2885
2886	<listitem>
2887	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2888	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2889	</listitem>
2890
2891	<listitem>
2892	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2893	</listitem>
2894
2895	<listitem>
2896	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2897	</listitem>
2898
2899	<listitem>
2900	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2901	</listitem>
2902
2903	<listitem>
2904	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2905	</listitem>
2906
2907	<listitem>
2908	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2909	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2910	</listitem>
2911
2912	<listitem>
2913	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2914	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2915	(bug #928)</para>
2916	</listitem>
2917
2918	<listitem>
2919	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2920	</listitem>
2921
2922	</itemizedlist>
2923
2924	</sect1>
2925
2926	<sect1>
2927	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2928
2929	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2930	added:</para>
2931
2932	<itemizedlist>
2933
2934	<listitem>
2935	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2936	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2937	</listitem>
2938
2939	<listitem>
2940	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2941	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2942	</listitem>
2943
2944	<listitem>
2945	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2946	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2947	</listitem>
2948
2949	<listitem>
2950	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2951	enabled</para>
2952	</listitem>
2953
2954	<listitem>
2955	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2956	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2957	</listitem>
2958
2959	<listitem>
2960	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2961	(bug #2676)</para>
2962	</listitem>
2963
2964	<listitem>
2965	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2966	is connected to a raw file</para>
2967	</listitem>
2968
2969	<listitem>
2970	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2971	(bug #5355)</para>
2972	</listitem>
2973
2974	<listitem>
2975	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2976	</listitem>
2977
2978	<listitem>
2979	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2980	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2981	</listitem>
2982
2983	<listitem>
2984	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2985	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2986	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2991	</listitem>
2992
2993	<listitem>
2994	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2995	</listitem>
2996
2997	<listitem>
2998	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2999	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
3000	</listitem>
3001
3002	<listitem>
3003	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
3004	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
3005	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	</itemizedlist>
3009
3010	</sect1>
3011
3012	<sect1>
3013	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
3014
3015	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3016	added:</para>
3017
3018	<itemizedlist>
3019
3020	<listitem>
3021	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
3022	</listitem>
3023
3024	<listitem>
3025	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
3030	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
3031	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
3032	</listitem>
3033
3034	<listitem>
3035	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
3036	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
3037	</listitem>
3038
3039	<listitem>
3040	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
3041	</listitem>
3042
3043	<listitem>
3044	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	<listitem>
3048	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
3049	</listitem>
3050
3051	<listitem>
3052	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
3053	</listitem>
3054
3055	<listitem>
3056	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
3057	</listitem>
3058
3059	<listitem>
3060	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
3061	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
3062	</listitem>
3063
3064	<listitem>
3065	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
3066	</listitem>
3067
3068	<listitem>
3069	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
3070	</listitem>
3071
3072	<listitem>
3073	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
3074	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
3079	</listitem>
3080
3081	<listitem>
3082	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
3083	exhaustion</para>
3084	</listitem>
3085
3086	<listitem>
3087	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
3088	</listitem>
3089
3090	<listitem>
3091	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
3092	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
3093	</listitem>
3094
3095	<listitem>
3096	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
3097	folders (bug #4106)</para>
3098	</listitem>
3099
3100	<listitem>
3101	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
3102	folders (bug #4299)</para>
3103	</listitem>
3104
3105	<listitem>
3106	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
3107	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
3108	(bug #2921)</para>
3109	</listitem>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
3113	hosts only)</para>
3114	</listitem>
3115
3116	<listitem>
3117	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
3118	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
3119	</listitem>
3120
3121	<listitem>
3122	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
3123	</listitem>
3124
3125	<listitem>
3126	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
3127	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
3128	</listitem>
3129
3130	<listitem>
3131	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	<listitem>
3135	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
3136	image inconsistency </para>
3137	</listitem>
3138
3139	<listitem>
3140	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
3145	</listitem>
3146
3147	<listitem>
3148	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
3149	(bug #2025)</para>
3150	</listitem>
3151
3152	<listitem>
3153	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
3154	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
3155	</listitem>
3156
3157	</itemizedlist>
3158
3159	</sect1>
3160
3161	<sect1>
3162	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
3163
3164	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3165	added:</para>
3166
3167	<itemizedlist>
3168
3169	<listitem>
3170	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
3171	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
3172	</listitem>
3173
3174	<listitem>
3175	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
3176	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
3177	</listitem>
3178
3179	<listitem>
3180	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
3181	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
3182	</listitem>
3183
3184	<listitem>
3185	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
3190	software virtualization only) </para>
3191	</listitem>
3192
3193	<listitem>
3194	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
3195	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
3196	</listitem>
3197
3198	<listitem>
3199	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
3200	with root privileges</para>
3201	</listitem>
3202
3203	<listitem>
3204	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
3205	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
3206	</listitem>
3207
3208	<listitem>
3209	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
3210	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
3211	</listitem>
3212
3213	<listitem>
3214	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
3215	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
3216	</listitem>
3217
3218	<listitem>
3219	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
3220	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
3221	selector (bug #5063)</para>
3222	</listitem>
3223
3224	<listitem>
3225	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
3226	available</para>
3227	</listitem>
3228
3229	<listitem>
3230	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
3231	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
3232	</listitem>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
3236	networking (bug #4775)</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
3241	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
3246	(bug #4907)</para>
3247	</listitem>
3248
3249	<listitem>
3250	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
3251	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
3256	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
3257	</listitem>
3258
3259	<listitem>
3260	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
3261	</listitem>
3262
3263	<listitem>
3264	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
3269	</listitem>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
3273	</listitem>
3274
3275	<listitem>
3276	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
3277	are installed</para>
3278	</listitem>
3279
3280	<listitem>
3281	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
3282	(bug #4771)</para>
3283	</listitem>
3284
3285	<listitem>
3286	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
3287	</listitem>
3288
3289	<listitem>
3290	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
3291	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
3292	</listitem>
3293
3294	<listitem>
3295	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
3296	command</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	<listitem>
3300	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3301	</listitem>
3302
3303	<listitem>
3304	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3305	</listitem>
3306
3307	<listitem>
3308	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3309	(bug #5089)</para>
3310	</listitem>
3311
3312	<listitem>
3313	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3314	</listitem>
3315
3316	</itemizedlist>
3317
3318	</sect1>
3319
3320	<sect1>
3321	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3322
3323	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3324	added:</para>
3325
3326	<itemizedlist>
3327
3328	<listitem>
3329	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3330	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3335	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3336	</listitem>
3337
3338	<listitem>
3339	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3340	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3341	</listitem>
3342
3343	<listitem>
3344	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3345	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3346	</listitem>
3347
3348	<listitem>
3349	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3350	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3351	</listitem>
3352
3353	<listitem>
3354	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3355	</listitem>
3356
3357	<listitem>
3358	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3359	</listitem>
3360
3361	<listitem>
3362	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3363	</listitem>
3364
3365	<listitem>
3366	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3367	</listitem>
3368
3369	<listitem>
3370	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3371	</listitem>
3372
3373	<listitem>
3374	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3375	onlined or offlined</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3384	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3389	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3390	</listitem>
3391
3392	<listitem>
3393	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3398	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3399	</listitem>
3400
3401	<listitem>
3402	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3407	</listitem>
3408
3409	<listitem>
3410	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3411	</listitem>
3412
3413	<listitem>
3414	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3415	</listitem>
3416
3417	<listitem>
3418	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3419	</listitem>
3420
3421	<listitem>
3422	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3423	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3424	</listitem>
3425
3426	<listitem>
3427	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3428	</listitem>
3429
3430	<listitem>
3431	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3432	</listitem>
3433
3434	<listitem>
3435	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3436	</listitem>
3437
3438	<listitem>
3439	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3440	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3441	</listitem>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3445	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3450	</listitem>
3451
3452	<listitem>
3453	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3462	</listitem>
3463
3464	<listitem>
3465	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3466	</listitem>
3467
3468	<listitem>
3469	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3470	</listitem>
3471
3472	<listitem>
3473	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3474	</listitem>
3475
3476	<listitem>
3477	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3478	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3479	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3480	phase collapse</para>
3481	</listitem>
3482
3483	<listitem>
3484	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3485	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3486	</listitem>
3487
3488	<listitem>
3489	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3490	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3491	</listitem>
3492
3493	<listitem>
3494	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3495	</listitem>
3496
3497	<listitem>
3498	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3499	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3500	</listitem>
3501
3502	<listitem>
3503	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3504	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3505	</listitem>
3506
3507	<listitem>
3508	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	<listitem>
3512	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3513	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3514	#4698, #4790)</para>
3515	</listitem>
3516
3517	<listitem>
3518	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3519	less than the configured range</para>
3520	</listitem>
3521
3522	<listitem>
3523	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3524	</listitem>
3525
3526	<listitem>
3527	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3528	</listitem>
3529
3530	<listitem>
3531	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3532	</listitem>
3533
3534	<listitem>
3535	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3536	</listitem>
3537
3538	<listitem>
3539	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3540	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3541	</listitem>
3542
3543	<listitem>
3544	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3545	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3546	</listitem>
3547
3548	<listitem>
3549	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3550	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3551	</listitem>
3552
3553	<listitem>
3554	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3555	</listitem>
3556
3557	<listitem>
3558	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3559	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3564	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3569	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3570	</listitem>
3571
3572	<listitem>
3573	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3574	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3575	</listitem>
3576
3577	<listitem>
3578	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3579	</listitem>
3580
3581	<listitem>
3582	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	</itemizedlist>
3586
3587	</sect1>
3588
3589	<sect1>
3590	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3591
3592	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3593	added:</para>
3594
3595	<itemizedlist>
3596
3597	<listitem>
3598	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3599	</listitem>
3600
3601	<listitem>
3602	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3603	</listitem>
3604
3605	<listitem>
3606	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3607	</listitem>
3608
3609	<listitem>
3610	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	<listitem>
3614	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3615	</listitem>
3616
3617	<listitem>
3618	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3619	</listitem>
3620
3621	<listitem>
3622	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3623	</listitem>
3624
3625	<listitem>
3626	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3627	</listitem>
3628
3629	<listitem>
3630	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3631	</listitem>
3632
3633	<listitem>
3634	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3635	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3636	</listitem>
3637
3638	<listitem>
3639	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3640	</listitem>
3641
3642	<listitem>
3643	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3644	</listitem>
3645
3646	<listitem>
3647	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3648	</listitem>
3649
3650	<listitem>
3651	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3652	</listitem>
3653
3654	<listitem>
3655	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3656	</listitem>
3657
3658	<listitem>
3659	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3660	</listitem>
3661
3662	<listitem>
3663	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3664	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3665	</listitem>
3666
3667	<listitem>
3668	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3669	(bug #4654)</para>
3670	</listitem>
3671
3672	<listitem>
3673	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3674	</listitem>
3675
3676	<listitem>
3677	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3678	interfaces</para>
3679	</listitem>
3680
3681	<listitem>
3682	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3683	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3684	</listitem>
3685
3686	<listitem>
3687	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3688	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3689	</listitem>
3690
3691	<listitem>
3692	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3693	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3694	</listitem>
3695
3696	<listitem>
3697	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3698	(bug #1461)</para>
3699	</listitem>
3700
3701	<listitem>
3702	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3703	</listitem>
3704
3705	<listitem>
3706	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3707	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3712	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3713	</listitem>
3714
3715	<listitem>
3716	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3717	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3718	</listitem>
3719
3720	<listitem>
3721	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3722	</listitem>
3723
3724	<listitem>
3725	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3726	</listitem>
3727
3728	<listitem>
3729	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3730	</listitem>
3731
3732	<listitem>
3733	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3734	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3735	</listitem>
3736
3737	<listitem>
3738	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3739	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3740	</listitem>
3741
3742	<listitem>
3743	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3744	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3745	</listitem>
3746
3747	<listitem>
3748	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3749	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3750	</listitem>
3751
3752	</itemizedlist>
3753
3754	</sect1>
3755	<sect1>
3756	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3757
3758	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3759	added:</para>
3760
3761	<itemizedlist>
3762
3763	<listitem>
3764	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3769	</listitem>
3770
3771	<listitem>
3772	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3773	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3778	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3779	</listitem>
3780
3781	<listitem>
3782	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3783	</listitem>
3784
3785	<listitem>
3786	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3791	</listitem>
3792
3793	<listitem>
3794	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3795	</listitem>
3796
3797	<listitem>
3798	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3799	</listitem>
3800
3801	<listitem>
3802	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3807	</listitem>
3808
3809	<listitem>
3810	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3811	</listitem>
3812
3813	<listitem>
3814	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3815	</listitem>
3816
3817	<listitem>
3818	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3819	</listitem>
3820
3821	<listitem>
3822	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3823	</listitem>
3824
3825	<listitem>
3826	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3827	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3828	</listitem>
3829
3830	<listitem>
3831	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3832	</listitem>
3833
3834	<listitem>
3835	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3836	</listitem>
3837
3838	<listitem>
3839	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3840	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3841	</listitem>
3842
3843	<listitem>
3844	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3845	</listitem>
3846
3847	<listitem>
3848	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3853	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3854	</listitem>
3855
3856	<listitem>
3857	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3858	</listitem>
3859
3860	<listitem>
3861	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3862	</listitem>
3863
3864	<listitem>
3865	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3866	</listitem>
3867
3868	<listitem>
3869	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3870	</listitem>
3871
3872	<listitem>
3873	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3874	</listitem>
3875
3876	<listitem>
3877	<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>
3878	</listitem>
3879
3880	</itemizedlist>
3881
3882	</sect1>
3883
3884	<sect1>
3885	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3886
3887	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3888	were added:</para>
3889
3890	<itemizedlist>
3891
3892	<listitem>
3893	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3894	</listitem>
3895
3896	<listitem>
3897	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3898	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3899	</listitem>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3903	</listitem>
3904
3905	</itemizedlist>
3906
3907	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3908
3909	<itemizedlist>
3910
3911	<listitem>
3912	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3913	</listitem>
3914
3915	<listitem>
3916	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3917	certain conditions</para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3922	</listitem>
3923
3924	<listitem>
3925	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3926	</listitem>
3927
3928	<listitem>
3929	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3930	</listitem>
3931
3932	<listitem>
3933	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3934	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3935	</listitem>
3936
3937	<listitem>
3938	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3939	</listitem>
3940
3941	<listitem>
3942	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3943	</listitem>
3944
3945	<listitem>
3946	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3947	</listitem>
3948
3949	<listitem>
3950	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3951	</listitem>
3952
3953	<listitem>
3954	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3955	</listitem>
3956
3957	<listitem>
3958	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3959	</listitem>
3960
3961	<listitem>
3962	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3963	</listitem>
3964
3965	<listitem>
3966	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3967	</listitem>
3968
3969	<listitem>
3970	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3971	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3972	</listitem>
3973
3974	<listitem>
3975	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3976	</listitem>
3977
3978	<listitem>
3979	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	<listitem>
3983	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3984	</listitem>
3985
3986	<listitem>
3987	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3988	</listitem>
3989
3990	<listitem>
3991	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3992	</listitem>
3993
3994	<listitem>
3995	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3996	</listitem>
3997
3998	<listitem>
3999	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
4000	</listitem>
4001
4002	<listitem>
4003	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
4004	</listitem>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
4008	</listitem>
4009
4010	<listitem>
4011	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
4012	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
4013	</listitem>
4014
4015	<listitem>
4016	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
4017	</listitem>
4018
4019	<listitem>
4020	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
4021	</listitem>
4022
4023	<listitem>
4024	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
4025	</listitem>
4026
4027	<listitem>
4028	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
4029	</listitem>
4030
4031	<listitem>
4032	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
4033	</listitem>
4034
4035	<listitem>
4036	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
4041	</listitem>
4042
4043	<listitem>
4044	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
4045	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
4046	</listitem>
4047
4048	<listitem>
4049	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
4050	</listitem>
4051
4052	<listitem>
4053	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
4054	</listitem>
4055
4056	<listitem>
4057	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
4058	</listitem>
4059
4060	<listitem>
4061	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
4062	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
4063	</listitem>
4064
4065	<listitem>
4066	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
4067	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
4068	</listitem>
4069
4070	<listitem>
4071	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
4072	correct file mode when creating files</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
4077	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
4078	</listitem>
4079
4080	<listitem>
4081	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
4082	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	<listitem>
4090	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	<listitem>
4094	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
4095	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	<listitem>
4099	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
4100	guest property lookup</para>
4101	</listitem>
4102
4103	<listitem>
4104	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
4105	basic network information)</para>
4106	</listitem>
4107
4108	<listitem>
4109	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
4110	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
4111	</listitem>
4112
4113	<listitem>
4114	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
4115	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
4116	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
4117	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
4118	</listitem>
4119
4120	<listitem>
4121	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
4122	</listitem>
4123
4124	<listitem>
4125	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
4126	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
4127	web service</para>
4128	</listitem>
4129
4130	<listitem>
4131	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
4132	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
4133	</listitem>
4134
4135	<listitem>
4136	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
4137	unavailable</para>
4138	</listitem>
4139
4140	<listitem>
4141	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
4142	</listitem>
4143
4144	</itemizedlist>
4145	</sect1>
4146
4147	<sect1>
4148	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
4149
4150	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4151	added:</para>
4152
4153	<itemizedlist>
4154
4155	<listitem>
4156	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
4157	installation</para>
4158	</listitem>
4159
4160	<listitem>
4161	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
4162	</listitem>
4163
4164	<listitem>
4165	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
4166	later (bug #3981)</para>
4167	</listitem>
4168
4169	<listitem>
4170	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
4171	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
4172	</listitem>
4173
4174	<listitem>
4175	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
4176	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
4177	(bug #4034)
4178	</para>
4179	</listitem>
4180
4181	<listitem>
4182	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
4183	networking</para>
4184	</listitem>
4185
4186	<listitem>
4187	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
4188	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
4189	</listitem>
4190
4191	<listitem>
4192	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
4193	clicks</para>
4194	</listitem>
4195
4196	<listitem>
4197	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
4198	Windows 7 guests</para>
4199	</listitem>
4200
4201	<listitem>
4202	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
4203	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
4204	</listitem>
4205
4206	<listitem>
4207	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
4208	</listitem>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
4212	</listitem>
4213
4214	<listitem>
4215	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
4216	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
4221	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
4222	</listitem>
4223
4224	<listitem>
4225	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
4226	</listitem>
4227
4228	<listitem>
4229	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
4230	</listitem>
4231
4232	<listitem>
4233	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4234	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
4235	(bug #3864)</para>
4236	</listitem>
4237
4238	<listitem>
4239	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
4240	now flushes the output stream</para>
4241	</listitem>
4242
4243	<listitem>
4244	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
4245	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
4246	</listitem>
4247
4248	<listitem>
4249	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
4250	</listitem>
4251
4252	<listitem>
4253	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
4254	</listitem>
4255
4256	<listitem>
4257	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
4258	</listitem>
4259
4260	<listitem>
4261	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	<listitem>
4265	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
4266	(bug #3964)</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
4271	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
4272	</listitem>
4273
4274	<listitem>
4275	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
4276	hosts</para>
4277	</listitem>
4278
4279	<listitem>
4280	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
4281	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
4282	e1000 adapter</para>
4283	</listitem>
4284
4285	<listitem>
4286	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
4287	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
4288	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
4289	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
4294	</listitem>
4295
4296	<listitem>
4297	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
4298	</listitem>
4299
4300	<listitem>
4301	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4302	</listitem>
4303
4304	<listitem>
4305	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4306	file (bug #1023)</para>
4307	</listitem>
4308
4309	<listitem>
4310	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4311	</listitem>
4312
4313	<listitem>
4314	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4315	</listitem>
4316
4317	</itemizedlist>
4318	</sect1>
4319
4320	<sect1>
4321	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4322
4323	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4324	added:</para>
4325
4326	<itemizedlist>
4327
4328	<listitem>
4329	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4330	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4335	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4336	and later</para>
4337	</listitem>
4338
4339	<listitem>
4340	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4341	running services</para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	<listitem>
4345	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4346	terminates</para>
4347	</listitem>
4348
4349	<listitem>
4350	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4351	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4352	</listitem>
4353
4354	<listitem>
4355	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4356	installed on the guest</para>
4357	</listitem>
4358
4359	<listitem>
4360	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4361	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4362	</listitem>
4363
4364	<listitem>
4365	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4366	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4367	</listitem>
4368
4369	<listitem>
4370	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4371	(bug #2628)</para>
4372	</listitem>
4373
4374	<listitem>
4375	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4376	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4377	</listitem>
4378
4379	<listitem>
4380	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4381	(bug #3657)</para>
4382	</listitem>
4383
4384	<listitem>
4385	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4386	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4387	</listitem>
4388
4389	<listitem>
4390	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4391	virtualization only)
4392	</para>
4393	</listitem>
4394
4395	<listitem>
4396	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4397	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4398	</listitem>
4399
4400	<listitem>
4401	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4402	</listitem>
4403
4404	<listitem>
4405	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4406	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4407	</listitem>
4408
4409	<listitem>
4410	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4411	bug #3689)</para>
4412	</listitem>
4413
4414	<listitem>
4415	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4416	bug #3679)</para>
4417	</listitem>
4418
4419	<listitem>
4420	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4421	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4422	</listitem>
4423
4424	<listitem>
4425	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4426	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4427	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4432	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4433	</listitem>
4434
4435	<listitem>
4436	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4437	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4438	</listitem>
4439
4440	<listitem>
4441	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4442	(bug #3667)</para>
4443	</listitem>
4444
4445	<listitem>
4446	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4447	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4448	</listitem>
4449
4450	<listitem>
4451	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4452	</listitem>
4453
4454	<listitem>
4455	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4456	</listitem>
4457
4458	<listitem>
4459	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4460	</listitem>
4461
4462	<listitem>
4463	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4464	</listitem>
4465
4466	<listitem>
4467	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	<listitem>
4475	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4476	</listitem>
4477
4478	</itemizedlist>
4479	</sect1>
4480
4481	<sect1>
4482	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4483
4484	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4485	were added:</para>
4486
4487	<itemizedlist>
4488
4489	<listitem>
4490	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4491	</listitem>
4492
4493	<listitem>
4494	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4495	</listitem>
4496
4497	<listitem>
4498	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4499	</listitem>
4500
4501	<listitem>
4502	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	<listitem>
4506	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4507	</listitem>
4508
4509	<listitem>
4510	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4511	</listitem>
4512
4513	<listitem>
4514	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4515	</listitem>
4516
4517	<listitem>
4518	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4519	</listitem>
4520
4521	<listitem>
4522	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4523	</listitem>
4524
4525	<listitem>
4526	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4527	</listitem>
4528
4529	</itemizedlist>
4530
4531	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4532
4533	<itemizedlist>
4534
4535	<listitem>
4536	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4537	</listitem>
4538
4539	<listitem>
4540	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4541	</listitem>
4542
4543	<listitem>
4544	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4545	</listitem>
4546
4547	<listitem>
4548	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4549	</listitem>
4550
4551	<listitem>
4552	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4557	</listitem>
4558
4559	<listitem>
4560	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4561	</listitem>
4562
4563	<listitem>
4564	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4565	</listitem>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4569	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4578	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4583	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4584	</listitem>
4585
4586	<listitem>
4587	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4588	</listitem>
4589
4590	<listitem>
4591	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4592	</listitem>
4593
4594	<listitem>
4595	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4596	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4597	</listitem>
4598
4599	<listitem>
4600	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4601	</listitem>
4602
4603	<listitem>
4604	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4605	ESX server images)</para>
4606	</listitem>
4607
4608	<listitem>
4609	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4610	writable</para>
4611	</listitem>
4612
4613	<listitem>
4614	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4615	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4616	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4617	</listitem>
4618
4619	<listitem>
4620	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4621	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4622	</listitem>
4623
4624	<listitem>
4625	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4626	</listitem>
4627
4628	<listitem>
4629	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4630	</listitem>
4631
4632	<listitem>
4633	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4634	hosts when creating files</para>
4635	</listitem>
4636
4637	<listitem>
4638	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4639	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4640	</listitem>
4641
4642	<listitem>
4643	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4644	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4645	#2306)</para>
4646	</listitem>
4647
4648	<listitem>
4649	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4650	(bug #3555)</para>
4651	</listitem>
4652
4653	<listitem>
4654	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4655	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4656	</listitem>
4657
4658	<listitem>
4659	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4660	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4665	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4666	</listitem>
4667
4668	<listitem>
4669	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4670	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4671	</listitem>
4672
4673	<listitem>
4674	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4675	(bug #3586)</para>
4676	</listitem>
4677
4678	<listitem>
4679	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4680	from Scratch systems</para>
4681	</listitem>
4682
4683	<listitem>
4684	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4685	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4686	</listitem>
4687
4688	<listitem>
4689	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4690	</listitem>
4691
4692	<listitem>
4693	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4694	default to compact format</para>
4695	</listitem>
4696
4697	<listitem>
4698	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4699	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4700	</listitem>
4701
4702	<listitem>
4703	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4704	</listitem>
4705
4706	<listitem>
4707	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4708	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4709	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4710	</listitem>
4711
4712	<listitem>
4713	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4714	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4715	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4716	</listitem>
4717
4718	<listitem>
4719	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4720	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4721	</listitem>
4722
4723	<listitem>
4724	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4725	</listitem>
4726
4727	<listitem>
4728	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4729	</listitem>
4730
4731	<listitem>
4732	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4733	</listitem>
4734
4735	<listitem>
4736	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4737	</listitem>
4738
4739	<listitem>
4740	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4741	</listitem>
4742
4743	<listitem>
4744	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4745	</listitem>
4746
4747	<listitem>
4748	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4749	</listitem>
4750
4751	<listitem>
4752	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4753	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4754	</listitem>
4755
4756	<listitem>
4757	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4758	</listitem>
4759
4760	<listitem>
4761	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4762	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4763	</listitem>
4764
4765	<listitem>
4766	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4767	</listitem>
4768
4769	<listitem>
4770	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4771	</listitem>
4772
4773	<listitem>
4774	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4775	</listitem>
4776
4777	<listitem>
4778	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4779	#2536)</para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4784	</listitem>
4785
4786	<listitem>
4787	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4788	(bug #3548)</para>
4789	</listitem>
4790
4791	</itemizedlist>
4792	</sect1>
4793
4794	<sect1>
4795	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4796
4797	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4798	added:</para>
4799
4800	<itemizedlist>
4801
4802	<listitem>
4803	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4804	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4805	</listitem>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	<listitem>
4812	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4813	</listitem>
4814
4815	<listitem>
4816	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4817	</listitem>
4818
4819	<listitem>
4820	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4821	(bug #3115)</para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4826	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4827	</listitem>
4828
4829	<listitem>
4830	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4831	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4832	(bug #3215)</para>
4833	</listitem>
4834
4835	<listitem>
4836	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4837	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4842	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4843	</listitem>
4844
4845	<listitem>
4846	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4847	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4848	</listitem>
4849
4850	<listitem>
4851	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4852	in parallel</para>
4853	</listitem>
4854
4855	<listitem>
4856	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4857	</listitem>
4858
4859	<listitem>
4860	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4861	</listitem>
4862
4863	<listitem>
4864	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4865	</listitem>
4866
4867	<listitem>
4868	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4869	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4870	</listitem>
4871
4872	<listitem>
4873	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4878	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4883	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4892	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4893	</listitem>
4894
4895	<listitem>
4896	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4897	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4902	</listitem>
4903
4904	<listitem>
4905	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4906	</listitem>
4907
4908	<listitem>
4909	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4910	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4911	</listitem>
4912
4913	<listitem>
4914	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4915	</listitem>
4916
4917	<listitem>
4918	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4919	</listitem>
4920
4921	<listitem>
4922	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4923	</listitem>
4924
4925	<listitem>
4926	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4927	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4928	</listitem>
4929
4930	<listitem>
4931	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4932	</listitem>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4936	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4937	</listitem>
4938
4939	<listitem>
4940	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4941	</listitem>
4942
4943	<listitem>
4944	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4945	</listitem>
4946
4947	<listitem>
4948	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4949	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4950	</listitem>
4951
4952	<listitem>
4953	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4954	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4955	</listitem>
4956
4957	<listitem>
4958	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4959	</listitem>
4960
4961	<listitem>
4962	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4963	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4964	</listitem>
4965
4966	<listitem>
4967	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4968	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4969	</listitem>
4970
4971	<listitem>
4972	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4973	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4974	</listitem>
4975
4976	<listitem>
4977	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4978	(bug #3213)</para>
4979	</listitem>
4980
4981	<listitem>
4982	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4983	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4984	</listitem>
4985
4986	<listitem>
4987	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4988	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4989	</listitem>
4990
4991	</itemizedlist>
4992	</sect1>
4993
4994	<sect1>
4995	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4996
4997	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4998	added:</para>
4999
5000	<itemizedlist>
5001
5002	<listitem>
5003	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
5004	</listitem>
5005
5006	<listitem>
5007	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
5008	</listitem>
5009
5010	<listitem>
5011	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
5012	</listitem>
5013
5014	<listitem>
5015	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
5016	</listitem>
5017
5018	<listitem>
5019	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
5020	</listitem>
5021
5022	<listitem>
5023	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
5024	</listitem>
5025
5026	<listitem>
5027	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
5028	</listitem>
5029
5030	<listitem>
5031	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
5032	</listitem>
5033
5034	<listitem>
5035	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
5036	</listitem>
5037
5038	<listitem>
5039	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
5040	</listitem>
5041
5042	<listitem>
5043	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
5044	</listitem>
5045
5046	<listitem>
5047	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
5048	</listitem>
5049
5050	<listitem>
5051	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
5052	</listitem>
5053
5054	<listitem>
5055	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
5056	</listitem>
5057
5058	<listitem>
5059	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
5060	</listitem>
5061
5062	<listitem>
5063	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
5064	</listitem>
5065
5066	<listitem>
5067	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
5068	(bug #3067)</para>
5069	</listitem>
5070
5071	<listitem>
5072	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
5073	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
5074	</listitem>
5075
5076	<listitem>
5077	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
5078	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
5079	</listitem>
5080
5081	<listitem>
5082	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
5083	</listitem>
5084
5085	<listitem>
5086	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
5087	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
5088	</listitem>
5089
5090	<listitem>
5091	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
5092	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5093	</listitem>
5094
5095	<listitem>
5096	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
5097	</listitem>
5098
5099	<listitem>
5100	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
5101	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
5102	</listitem>
5103
5104	<listitem>
5105	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
5106	</listitem>
5107
5108	<listitem>
5109	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
5110	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
5111	</listitem>
5112
5113	<listitem>
5114	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
5115	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
5116	</listitem>
5117
5118	<listitem>
5119	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
5120	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
5121	</para>
5122	</listitem>
5123
5124	<listitem>
5125	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
5126	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
5127	</para>
5128	</listitem>
5129
5130	<listitem>
5131	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
5132	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
5133	</para>
5134	</listitem>
5135
5136	<listitem>
5137	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
5138	</listitem>
5139
5140	<listitem>
5141	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
5142	</listitem>
5143
5144	<listitem>
5145	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
5146	</listitem>
5147
5148	<listitem>
5149	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
5150	</listitem>
5151
5152	<listitem>
5153	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
5154	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
5155	</listitem>
5156
5157	<listitem>
5158	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
5159	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
5160	</listitem>
5161
5162	<listitem>
5163	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
5164	formatting a drive</para>
5165	</listitem>
5166
5167	<listitem>
5168	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
5169	</listitem>
5170
5171	<listitem>
5172	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
5173	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5174	</listitem>
5175
5176	<listitem>
5177	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
5178	</listitem>
5179
5180	<listitem>
5181	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
5182	</listitem>
5183
5184	<listitem>
5185	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5186	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
5187	</listitem>
5188
5189	<listitem>
5190	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
5191	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
5192	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
5193	</listitem>
5194
5195	<listitem>
5196	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
5197	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
5198	</listitem>
5199
5200	<listitem>
5201	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
5202	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
5203	</listitem>
5204
5205	<listitem>
5206	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
5207	(bug #2768)</para>
5208	</listitem>
5209
5210	<listitem>
5211	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
5212	</listitem>
5213
5214	<listitem>
5215	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
5216	</listitem>
5217
5218	<listitem>
5219	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
5220	single, unified package</para>
5221	</listitem>
5222
5223	<listitem>
5224	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
5225	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
5226	</listitem>
5227
5228	<listitem>
5229	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
5230	</listitem>
5231
5232	<listitem>
5233	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
5234	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
5235	</listitem>
5236
5237	<listitem>
5238	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
5239	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
5240	</listitem>
5241
5242	<listitem>
5243	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
5244	</listitem>
5245
5246	<listitem>
5247	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
5248	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
5249	doing 3D</para>
5250	</listitem>
5251
5252	<listitem>
5253	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
5254	</listitem>
5255
5256	<listitem>
5257	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
5258	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
5259	</listitem>
5260
5261	<listitem>
5262	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
5263	</listitem>
5264
5265	<listitem>
5266	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
5267	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
5268	</listitem>
5269
5270	<listitem>
5271	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
5272	</listitem>
5273
5274	<listitem>
5275	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
5276	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
5277	</listitem>
5278
5279	<listitem>
5280	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
5281	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
5282	(bug #2938)</para>
5283	</listitem>
5284
5285	<listitem>
5286	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
5287	Linux guests</para>
5288	</listitem>
5289
5290	<listitem>
5291	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
5292	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
5293	(bug #1776)</para>
5294	</listitem>
5295
5296	<listitem>
5297	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
5298	(bug #1612)</para>
5299	</listitem>
5300
5301	<listitem>
5302	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5303	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5304	</listitem>
5305
5306	<listitem>
5307	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5308	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5309	</listitem>
5310
5311	<listitem>
5312	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5313	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5314	</listitem>
5315
5316	</itemizedlist>
5317	</sect1>
5318
5319	<sect1>
5320	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5321
5322	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5323	were added:</para>
5324
5325	<itemizedlist>
5326	<listitem>
5327	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5336	</listitem>
5337
5338	<listitem>
5339	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5340	</listitem>
5341
5342	<listitem>
5343	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5344	</listitem>
5345
5346	<listitem>
5347	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5348	</listitem>
5349
5350	<listitem>
5351	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5352	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5353	</listitem>
5354
5355	<listitem>
5356	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5357	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5358	</listitem>
5359
5360	</itemizedlist>
5361
5362	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5363
5364	<itemizedlist>
5365	<listitem>
5366	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5367	</listitem>
5368
5369	<listitem>
5370	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5371	</listitem>
5372
5373	<listitem>
5374	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5375	</listitem>
5376
5377	<listitem>
5378	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5379	</listitem>
5380
5381	<listitem>
5382	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5383	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5384	</listitem>
5385
5386	<listitem>
5387	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5388	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5389	</listitem>
5390
5391	<listitem>
5392	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5393	</listitem>
5394
5395	<listitem>
5396	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5397	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5398	</listitem>
5399
5400	<listitem>
5401	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5402	</listitem>
5403
5404	<listitem>
5405	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5406	</listitem>
5407
5408	<listitem>
5409	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5410	</listitem>
5411
5412	<listitem>
5413	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5414	</listitem>
5415
5416	<listitem>
5417	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5418	</listitem>
5419
5420	<listitem>
5421	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5422	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5423	</listitem>
5424
5425	<listitem>
5426	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5427	the compiz window manager</para>
5428	</listitem>
5429
5430	<listitem>
5431	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5432	</listitem>
5433
5434	<listitem>
5435	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5436	</listitem>
5437
5438	<listitem>
5439	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5440	</listitem>
5441
5442	<listitem>
5443	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5444	</listitem>
5445
5446	<listitem>
5447	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5448	</listitem>
5449
5450	<listitem>
5451	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5452	</listitem>
5453
5454	<listitem>
5455	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5456	</listitem>
5457
5458	<listitem>
5459	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5460	</listitem>
5461
5462	<listitem>
5463	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5468	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5469	</listitem>
5470
5471	<listitem>
5472	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5473	for direct device access</para>
5474	</listitem>
5475
5476	<listitem>
5477	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5482	</listitem>
5483
5484	<listitem>
5485	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5486	</listitem>
5487
5488	<listitem>
5489	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5490	</listitem>
5491
5492	<listitem>
5493	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5494	</listitem>
5495
5496	<listitem>
5497	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5498	</listitem>
5499
5500	<listitem>
5501	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5502	</listitem>
5503
5504	<listitem>
5505	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5506	</listitem>
5507
5508	</itemizedlist>
5509	</sect1>
5510
5511	<sect1>
5512	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5513
5514	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5515	added:</para>
5516
5517	<itemizedlist>
5518
5519	<listitem>
5520	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5521	states/snapshots</para>
5522	</listitem>
5523
5524	<listitem>
5525	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5526	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5527	</listitem>
5528
5529	<listitem>
5530	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5531	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5532	</listitem>
5533
5534	<listitem>
5535	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5536	collisions</para>
5537	</listitem>
5538
5539	<listitem>
5540	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5541	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5542	</listitem>
5543
5544	<listitem>
5545	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5546	</listitem>
5547
5548	<listitem>
5549	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5550	reliably</para>
5551	</listitem>
5552
5553	<listitem>
5554	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5555	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5556	</listitem>
5557
5558	<listitem>
5559	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5560	a reboot</para>
5561	</listitem>
5562
5563	<listitem>
5564	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5565	</listitem>
5566
5567	<listitem>
5568	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5569	in parallel</para>
5570	</listitem>
5571
5572	<listitem>
5573	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5574	</listitem>
5575
5576	<listitem>
5577	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5578	correctly</para>
5579	</listitem>
5580
5581	<listitem>
5582	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5583	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5584	</listitem>
5585
5586	</itemizedlist>
5587	</sect1>
5588
5589	<sect1>
5590	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5591
5592	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5593	added:</para>
5594
5595	<itemizedlist>
5596
5597	<listitem>
5598	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5599	(bug #2220)</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	<listitem>
5603	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5604	</listitem>
5605
5606	<listitem>
5607	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5608	</listitem>
5609
5610	<listitem>
5611	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5612	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5613	</listitem>
5614
5615	<listitem>
5616	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5617	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5618	</listitem>
5619
5620	<listitem>
5621	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5622	(bug #2624)</para>
5623	</listitem>
5624
5625	<listitem>
5626	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5627	(bug #2024)</para>
5628	</listitem>
5629
5630	<listitem>
5631	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5636	</listitem>
5637
5638	<listitem>
5639	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5640	</listitem>
5641
5642	<listitem>
5643	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5644	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5645	</listitem>
5646
5647	<listitem>
5648	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5649	applications when updating the installation</para>
5650	</listitem>
5651
5652	<listitem>
5653	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5654	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5655	</listitem>
5656
5657	<listitem>
5658	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5659	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5660	</listitem>
5661
5662	<listitem>
5663	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5664	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5665	</listitem>
5666
5667	<listitem>
5668	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5669	connected to a host device</para>
5670	</listitem>
5671
5672	<listitem>
5673	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5678	</listitem>
5679
5680	<listitem>
5681	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5682	</listitem>
5683
5684	<listitem>
5685	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5686	when using native RDP connections</para>
5687	</listitem>
5688
5689	<listitem>
5690	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5691	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5692	</listitem>
5693
5694	<listitem>
5695	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5696	(bug #2591)</para>
5697	</listitem>
5698
5699	<listitem>
5700	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5701	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5702	</listitem>
5703
5704	<listitem>
5705	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5706	</listitem>
5707
5708	</itemizedlist>
5709	</sect1>
5710
5711	<sect1>
5712	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5713
5714	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5715	added:</para>
5716
5717	<itemizedlist>
5718	<listitem>
5719	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5720	</listitem>
5721
5722	<listitem>
5723	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5724	</listitem>
5725
5726	<listitem>
5727	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5728	</listitem>
5729
5730	<listitem>
5731	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5732	</listitem>
5733
5734	<listitem>
5735	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5736	</listitem>
5737
5738	<listitem>
5739	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5740	</listitem>
5741
5742	<listitem>
5743	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5744	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5745	</listitem>
5746
5747	<listitem>
5748	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5749	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5750	</listitem>
5751
5752	<listitem>
5753	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5754	</listitem>
5755
5756	<listitem>
5757	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5758	equal to the client resolution</para>
5759	</listitem>
5760
5761	<listitem>
5762	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5763	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5764	</listitem>
5765
5766	<listitem>
5767	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5768	</listitem>
5769
5770	<listitem>
5771	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5772	</listitem>
5773
5774	<listitem>
5775	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5776	</listitem>
5777
5778	<listitem>
5779	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5780	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5781	</listitem>
5782
5783	<listitem>
5784	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5785	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5786	</listitem>
5787
5788	<listitem>
5789	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5790	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5791	</listitem>
5792
5793	<listitem>
5794	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5795	</listitem>
5796
5797	<listitem>
5798	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	<listitem>
5802	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5803	</listitem>
5804
5805	<listitem>
5806	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5807	</listitem>
5808
5809	<listitem>
5810	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5811	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5812	</listitem>
5813
5814	<listitem>
5815	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5816	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5817	</listitem>
5818
5819	<listitem>
5820	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5821	</listitem>
5822
5823	<listitem>
5824	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5825	</listitem>
5826
5827	<listitem>
5828	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5829	</listitem>
5830
5831	</itemizedlist>
5832
5833	</sect1>
5834
5835	<sect1>
5836	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5837
5838	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5839	added:</para>
5840
5841	<itemizedlist>
5842
5843	<listitem>
5844	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5845	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5846	</listitem>
5847
5848	<listitem>
5849	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5850	</listitem>
5851
5852	<listitem>
5853	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5854	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5855	</listitem>
5856
5857	<listitem>
5858	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5859	</listitem>
5860
5861	<listitem>
5862	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5863	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5864	</listitem>
5865
5866	<listitem>
5867	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5868	</listitem>
5869
5870	<listitem>
5871	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5872	the virtual disk manager</para>
5873	</listitem>
5874
5875	<listitem>
5876	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5877	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5878	</listitem>
5879
5880	<listitem>
5881	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5882	</listitem>
5883
5884	<listitem>
5885	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5886	</listitem>
5887
5888	<listitem>
5889	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5890	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5891	</listitem>
5892
5893	<listitem>
5894	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5895	bug #2067)</para>
5896	</listitem>
5897
5898	<listitem>
5899	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5900	</listitem>
5901
5902	<listitem>
5903	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5904	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5905	</listitem>
5906
5907	<listitem>
5908	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5909	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5910	(bug #2184)</para>
5911	</listitem>
5912
5913	<listitem>
5914	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5915	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5916	</listitem>
5917
5918	<listitem>
5919	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5920	(Windows guests only)</para>
5921	</listitem>
5922
5923	<listitem>
5924	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5925	</listitem>
5926
5927	<listitem>
5928	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5929	</listitem>
5930
5931	<listitem>
5932	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5933	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5934	</listitem>
5935
5936	<listitem>
5937	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5938	</listitem>
5939
5940	<listitem>
5941	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5942	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5943	</para>
5944	</listitem>
5945
5946	<listitem>
5947	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5948	</listitem>
5949
5950	<listitem>
5951	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5952	</listitem>
5953
5954	<listitem>
5955	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5956	a VM reboot</para>
5957	</listitem>
5958
5959	<listitem>
5960	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5961	</listitem>
5962
5963	<listitem>
5964	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5965	buggy X servers</para>
5966	</listitem>
5967
5968	<listitem>
5969	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5970	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5971	</listitem>
5972
5973	<listitem>
5974	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5975	</listitem>
5976
5977	<listitem>
5978	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5979	(bug #2128)</para>
5980	</listitem>
5981
5982	<listitem>
5983	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5984	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5985	</listitem>
5986
5987	<listitem>
5988	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5989	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5990	</listitem>
5991
5992	<listitem>
5993	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5994	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5995	</listitem>
5996
5997	<listitem>
5998	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5999	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
6000	</listitem>
6001
6002	<listitem>
6003	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
6004	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
6005	</listitem>
6006
6007	<listitem>
6008	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
6009	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
6010	</listitem>
6011
6012	<listitem>
6013	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
6014	installer into a single package</para>
6015	</listitem>
6016
6017	<listitem>
6018	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
6019	port to the guest
6020	</para>
6021	</listitem>
6022
6023	</itemizedlist>
6024
6025	</sect1>
6026
6027	<sect1>
6028	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
6029
6030	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6031	were added:<itemizedlist>
6032
6033	<listitem>
6034	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
6035	</listitem>
6036
6037	<listitem>
6038	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6039	</listitem>
6040
6041	<listitem>
6042	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
6043	</listitem>
6044
6045	<listitem>
6046	<para>New-version notifier</para>
6047	</listitem>
6048
6049	<listitem>
6050	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
6051	</listitem>
6052
6053	<listitem>
6054	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6055	</listitem>
6056
6057	<listitem>
6058	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
6059	</listitem>
6060
6061	<listitem>
6062	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
6063	</listitem>
6064
6065	<listitem>
6066	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
6067	</listitem>
6068
6069	<listitem>
6070	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
6071	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
6072	</listitem>
6073
6074	<listitem>
6075	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
6076	</listitem>
6077
6078	<listitem>
6079	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
6080	</listitem>
6081
6082	<listitem>
6083	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
6084	</listitem>
6085
6086	</itemizedlist></para>
6087
6088	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6089
6090	<itemizedlist>
6091
6092	<listitem>
6093	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
6094	</listitem>
6095
6096	<listitem>
6097	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
6098	</listitem>
6099
6100	<listitem>
6101	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
6102	</listitem>
6103
6104	<listitem>
6105	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
6106	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
6107	</listitem>
6108
6109	<listitem>
6110	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
6111	restored</para>
6112	</listitem>
6113
6114	<listitem>
6115	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
6116	</listitem>
6117
6118	<listitem>
6119	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
6120	</listitem>
6121
6122	<listitem>
6123	<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>
6124	</listitem>
6125
6126	</itemizedlist>
6127
6128	</sect1>
6129
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