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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>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver</para>
25	</listitem>
26
27	<listitem>
28	<para>Guest Additions: modules and features now are represented as facilities
29	to have a common interface for frontends.</para>
30	</listitem>
31
32	<listitem>
33	<para>New Networking Mode: <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>. Allows to
34	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
35	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
36	</listitem>
37
38	</itemizedlist>
39
40	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
41
42	<itemizedlist>
43
44	<listitem>
45	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
46	</listitem>
47
48	<listitem>
49	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	<listitem>
53	<para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
54	of the current state</para>
55	</listitem>
56
57	<listitem>
58	<para>GUI: added <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
59	</listitem>
60
61	<listitem>
62	<para>GUI: added setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
63	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
64	</listitem>
65
66	<listitem>
67	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
68	a VM</para>
69	</listitem>
70
71	<listitem>
72	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
73	command group, fixed various bugs</para>
74	</listitem>
75
76	<listitem>
77	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
78	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
79	</listitem>
80
81	<listitem>
82	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
83	be a valid UUID</para>
84	</listitem>
85
86	<listitem>
87	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
88	</listitem>
89
90	<listitem>
91	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
92	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
93	</listitem>
94
95	<listitem>
96	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
97	window (bug #4491)</para>
98	</listitem>
99
100	<listitem>
101	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
102	</listitem>
103
104	<listitem>
105	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
106	from the host</para>
107	</listitem>
108
109	</itemizedlist>
110
111	</sect1>
112
113	<sect1>
114	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
115
116	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
117	added:</para>
118
119	<itemizedlist>
120
121	<listitem>
122	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
123	settings vanished</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
128	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
129	</listitem>
130
131	<listitem>
132	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
133	created (bug #8031)</para>
134	</listitem>
135
136	<listitem>
137	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
138	</listitem>
139
140	<listitem>
141	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
142	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
143	</listitem>
144
145	<listitem>
146	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
147	an extension pack</para>
148	</listitem>
149
150	<listitem>
151	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
152	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
153	</listitem>
154
155	<listitem>
156	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
157	</listitem>
158
159	<listitem>
160	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
161	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
162	</listitem>
163
164	<listitem>
165	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
166	host-only interface</para>
167	</listitem>
168
169	<listitem>
170	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
171	and async I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
172	</listitem>
173
174	<listitem>
175	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
176	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
177	</listitem>
178
179	<listitem>
180	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
181	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
182	</listitem>
183
184	<listitem>
185	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
186	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
191	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
196	</listitem>
197
198	<listitem>
199	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
200	</listitem>
201
202	<listitem>
203	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
204	guests</para>
205	</listitem>
206
207	<listitem>
208	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
209	</listitem>
210
211	<listitem>
212	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
213	</listitem>
214
215	<listitem>
216	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
217	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
218	</listitem>
219
220	<listitem>
221	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
222	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
223	</listitem>
224
225	<listitem>
226	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
227	a VM start</para>
228	</listitem>
229
230	<listitem>
231	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
232	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
233	</listitem>
234
235	<listitem>
236	<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented
237	(bug #6067)</para>
238	</listitem>
239
240	<listitem>
241	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
242	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
243	</listitem>
244
245	<listitem>
246	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
247	not saved to machine XML</para>
248	</listitem>
249
250	<listitem>
251	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
252	#7983)</para>
253	</listitem>
254
255	<listitem>
256	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
257	#7981)</para>
258	</listitem>
259
260	<listitem>
261	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.</para>
262	</listitem>
263
264	<listitem>
265	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
266	regression)</para>
267	</listitem>
268
269	<listitem>
270	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
271	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
272	</listitem>
273
274	<listitem>
275	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
276	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
277	</listitem>
278
279	</itemizedlist>
280
281	</sect1>
282
283	<sect1>
284	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
285
286	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
287	were added:</para>
288
289	<itemizedlist>
290
291	<listitem>
292	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
293	</listitem>
294
295	<listitem>
296	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
297	</listitem>
298
299	<listitem>
300	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
301	<itemizedlist>
302	<listitem>
303	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
304	</listitem>
305
306	<listitem>
307	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
308	</listitem>
309
310	<listitem>
311	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
316	</listitem>
317
318	<listitem>
319	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
320	states, and optionally including attached
321	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
322	can do the same now)</para>
323	</listitem>
324
325	<listitem>
326	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
327	</listitem>
328
329	</itemizedlist>
330	</para>
331	</listitem>
332
333	<listitem>
334	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
335	</listitem>
336
337	<listitem>
338	<para>New virtual hardware:
339	<itemizedlist>
340	<listitem>
341	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
342	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
343	</listitem>
344
345	<listitem>
346	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
347	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
348	</listitem>
349	</itemizedlist>
350	</para>
351	</listitem>
352
353	<listitem>
354	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
355	<itemizedlist>
356	<listitem>
357	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
362	</para>
363	</listitem>
364
365	<listitem>
366	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
367	now</para>
368	</listitem>
369
370	<listitem>
371	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
372	</listitem>
373
374	</itemizedlist>
375	</para>
376	</listitem>
377
378	<listitem>
379	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
380	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
381	</listitem>
382
383	<listitem>
384	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
385	Parallels images</para>
386	</listitem>
387
388	<listitem>
389	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
390	</listitem>
391
392	<listitem>
393	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
394	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
395	</listitem>
396
397	<listitem>
398	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
399	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
400	</listitem>
401
402	</itemizedlist>
403
404	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
405
406	<itemizedlist>
407
408	<listitem>
409	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
410	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
411	</listitem>
412
413	<listitem>
414	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
415	</listitem>
416
417	<listitem>
418	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
419	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
424	(bug #1657)</para>
425	</listitem>
426
427	<listitem>
428	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
429	</listitem>
430
431	<listitem>
432	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
433	</listitem>
434
435	<listitem>
436	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
437	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
438	</listitem>
439
440	<listitem>
441	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
442	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
443	</listitem>
444
445	<listitem>
446	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
447	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
448	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
449	</listitem>
450
451	<listitem>
452	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
453	again (bug #6864)</para>
454	</listitem>
455
456	<listitem>
457	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
458	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
459	</listitem>
460
461	<listitem>
462	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
463	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
464	</listitem>
465
466	<listitem>
467	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
468	</listitem>
469
470	<listitem>
471	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
472	</listitem>
473
474	<listitem>
475	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
476	</listitem>
477
478	<listitem>
479	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
480	</listitem>
481
482	<listitem>
483	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
484	</listitem>
485
486	<listitem>
487	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
488	</listitem>
489
490	<listitem>
491	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
492	</listitem>
493
494	<listitem>
495	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
496	(bug #7058)</para>
497	</listitem>
498
499	<listitem>
500	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
501	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
502	</listitem>
503
504	<listitem>
505	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
506	circumstances</para>
507	</listitem>
508
509	<listitem>
510	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
511	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
512	#5578)
513	</para>
514	</listitem>
515
516	<listitem>
517	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
518	</listitem>
519
520	<listitem>
521	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
522	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
523	</listitem>
524
525	<listitem>
526	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
527	</listitem>
528
529	<listitem>
530	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
531	#6760)</para>
532	</listitem>
533
534	<listitem>
535	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
536	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
537	</listitem>
538
539	<listitem>
540	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
541	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
542	</listitem>
543
544	<listitem>
545	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
546	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
547	</listitem>
548
549	<listitem>
550	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
551	</listitem>
552
553	<listitem>
554	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
555	file</para>
556	</listitem>
557
558	<listitem>
559	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
560	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
561	</listitem>
562
563	</itemizedlist>
564
565	</sect1>
566
567	<sect1>
568	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
569
570	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
571	added:</para>
572
573	<itemizedlist>
574
575	<listitem>
576	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
577	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
578	</listitem>
579
580	<listitem>
581	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
582	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
583	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
584	</listitem>
585
586	<listitem>
587	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
588	</listitem>
589
590	<listitem>
591	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
596	</listitem>
597
598	<listitem>
599	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
600	the VM is running</para>
601	</listitem>
602
603	<listitem>
604	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
605	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
606	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
607	starting from a saved state</para>
608	</listitem>
609
610	<listitem>
611	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
612	</listitem>
613
614	<listitem>
615	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
620	</listitem>
621
622	<listitem>
623	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
624	</listitem>
625
626	<listitem>
627	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
628	</listitem>
629
630	<listitem>
631	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
632	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
633	</listitem>
634
635	<listitem>
636	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
637	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
638	</listitem>
639
640	<listitem>
641	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
642	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
643	</listitem>
644
645	<listitem>
646	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
647	</listitem>
648
649	<listitem>
650	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
651	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
652	</para>
653	</listitem>
654
655	<listitem>
656	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
657	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
658	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
659	</listitem>
660
661	<listitem>
662	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
663	only)</para>
664	</listitem>
665
666	<listitem>
667	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
668	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
669	</listitem>
670
671	<listitem>
672	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
673	</listitem>
674
675	<listitem>
676	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
677	</listitem>
678
679	<listitem>
680	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
681	</listitem>
682
683	<listitem>
684	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
685	state (bug #4124)</para>
686	</listitem>
687
688	<listitem>
689	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
690	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
691	</listitem>
692
693	<listitem>
694	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
695	</listitem>
696
697	<listitem>
698	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
699	(bug #2996)</para>
700	</listitem>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
704	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
709	</listitem>
710
711	<listitem>
712	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
713	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
718	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
719	</listitem>
720
721	<listitem>
722	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
723	user accounts for VM information</para>
724	</listitem>
725
726	</itemizedlist>
727
728	</sect1>
729
730	<sect1>
731	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
732
733	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
734	added:</para>
735
736	<itemizedlist>
737
738	<listitem>
739	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
740	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
741	</listitem>
742
743	<listitem>
744	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
745	</listitem>
746
747	<listitem>
748	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
749	</listitem>
750
751	<listitem>
752	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
757	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
758	</listitem>
759
760	<listitem>
761	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
762	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
763	</listitem>
764
765	<listitem>
766	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
767	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
768	</listitem>
769
770	<listitem>
771	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
772	(bug #4952)</para>
773	</listitem>
774
775	<listitem>
776	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
777	bug #6122)</para>
778	</listitem>
779
780	<listitem>
781	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
782	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
783	</listitem>
784
785	<listitem>
786	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
787	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
788	(Linux hosts only)</para>
789	</listitem>
790
791	<listitem>
792	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
793	</listitem>
794
795	<listitem>
796	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
797	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
798	</listitem>
799
800	<listitem>
801	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
802	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
803	</listitem>
804
805	<listitem>
806	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
807	canceled</para>
808	</listitem>
809
810	<listitem>
811	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
812	</listitem>
813
814	<listitem>
815	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
816	</listitem>
817
818	<listitem>
819	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
820	</listitem>
821
822	<listitem>
823	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
824	</listitem>
825
826	<listitem>
827	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
828	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
829	</listitem>
830
831	<listitem>
832	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
833	</listitem>
834
835	<listitem>
836	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
837	(Linux hosts only)</para>
838	</listitem>
839
840	<listitem>
841	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
842	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
843	</listitem>
844
845	<listitem>
846	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	<listitem>
850	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
851	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
852	</listitem>
853
854	<listitem>
855	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
856	</listitem>
857
858	<listitem>
859	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
860	circumstances</para>
861	</listitem>
862
863	<listitem>
864	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
865	printers</para>
866	</listitem>
867
868	<listitem>
869	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
870	</listitem>
871
872	<listitem>
873	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
874	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
875	</listitem>
876
877	<listitem>
878	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
879	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
880	</listitem>
881
882	<listitem>
883	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
884	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
885	circumstances</para>
886	</listitem>
887
888	<listitem>
889	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
890	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
891	</listitem>
892
893	<listitem>
894	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
895	as supported extension</para>
896	</listitem>
897
898	<listitem>
899	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
900	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
901	</listitem>
902
903	<listitem>
904	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
905	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
906	</listitem>
907
908	<listitem>
909	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
910	</listitem>
911
912	<listitem>
913	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
914	(bug #7366)</para>
915	</listitem>
916
917	<listitem>
918	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
919	</listitem>
920
921	<listitem>
922	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
923	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
924	</listitem>
925
926	<listitem>
927	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
928	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	<listitem>
932	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
933	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
938	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
943	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
944	</listitem>
945
946	<listitem>
947	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
948	</listitem>
949
950	<listitem>
951	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
952	</listitem>
953
954	<listitem>
955	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
956	more than one environment variable</para>
957	</listitem>
958
959	<listitem>
960	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
961	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
962	</listitem>
963
964	<listitem>
965	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
966	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
967	</listitem>
968
969	<listitem>
970	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
971	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
972	</listitem>
973
974	<listitem>
975	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
976	enumerating logged in users</para>
977	</listitem>
978
979	<listitem>
980	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
981	</listitem>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
989	</listitem>
990
991	<listitem>
992	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
993	in the event of a VM crash</para>
994	</listitem>
995
996	<listitem>
997	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
998	</listitem>
999
1000	<listitem>
1001	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
1002	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
1003	</listitem>
1004
1005	<listitem>
1006	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
1007	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
1008	</listitem>
1009
1010	<listitem>
1011	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
1012	(bug #7448)</para>
1013	</listitem>
1014
1015	<listitem>
1016	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
1017	</listitem>
1018
1019	<listitem>
1020	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
1021	</listitem>
1022
1023	<listitem>
1024	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
1025	</listitem>
1026
1027	</itemizedlist>
1028
1029	</sect1>
1030
1031	<sect1>
1032	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
1033
1034	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1035	added:</para>
1036
1037	<itemizedlist>
1038
1039	<listitem>
1040	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
1041	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
1042	</listitem>
1043
1044	<listitem>
1045	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
1046	</listitem>
1047
1048	<listitem>
1049	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
1050	bug #6809)</para>
1051	</listitem>
1052
1053	<listitem>
1054	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
1055	</listitem>
1056
1057	<listitem>
1058	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
1059	</listitem>
1060
1061	<listitem>
1062	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
1063	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
1064	</listitem>
1065
1066	<listitem>
1067	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
1068	changes</para>
1069	</listitem>
1070
1071	<listitem>
1072	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
1073	</listitem>
1074
1075	<listitem>
1076	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
1077	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
1078	</listitem>
1079
1080	<listitem>
1081	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
1082	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
1083	</listitem>
1084
1085	<listitem>
1086	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
1087	</listitem>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
1091	</listitem>
1092
1093	<listitem>
1094	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
1095	</listitem>
1096
1097	<listitem>
1098	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
1099	</listitem>
1100
1101	<listitem>
1102	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
1103	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
1104	</listitem>
1105
1106	<listitem>
1107	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
1108	</listitem>
1109
1110	<listitem>
1111	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
1112	(bug #6832)</para>
1113	</listitem>
1114
1115	<listitem>
1116	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
1117	guests</para>
1118	</listitem>
1119
1120	<listitem>
1121	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
1122	</listitem>
1123
1124	<listitem>
1125	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
1126	without external tools and tricks</para>
1127	</listitem>
1128
1129	<listitem>
1130	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
1131	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
1132	</listitem>
1133
1134	<listitem>
1135	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
1136	</listitem>
1137
1138	<listitem>
1139	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
1140	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
1141	</listitem>
1142
1143	<listitem>
1144	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
1145	shutdown</para>
1146	</listitem>
1147
1148	<listitem>
1149	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
1150	fixes</para>
1151	</listitem>
1152
1153	<listitem>
1154	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
1155	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
1156	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
1157	</para>
1158	</listitem>
1159
1160	<listitem>
1161	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
1162	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
1163	</listitem>
1164
1165	<listitem>
1166	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
1167	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
1168	</listitem>
1169
1170	<listitem>
1171	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
1172	</para>
1173	</listitem>
1174
1175	<listitem>
1176	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
1177	</listitem>
1178
1179	<listitem>
1180	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
1181	</listitem>
1182
1183	<listitem>
1184	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
1185	</listitem>
1186
1187	</itemizedlist>
1188
1189	</sect1>
1190
1191	<sect1>
1192	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
1193
1194	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1195	added:</para>
1196
1197	<itemizedlist>
1198
1199	<listitem>
1200	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
1201	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
1202	</listitem>
1203
1204	<listitem>
1205	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
1206	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
1207	</listitem>
1208
1209	<listitem>
1210	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
1211	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
1212	</listitem>
1213
1214	<listitem>
1215	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
1216	</listitem>
1217
1218	<listitem>
1219	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
1220	</listitem>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
1224	</listitem>
1225
1226	<listitem>
1227	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
1228	</listitem>
1229
1230	<listitem>
1231	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
1232	assigned</para>
1233	</listitem>
1234
1235	<listitem>
1236	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
1237	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
1238	</listitem>
1239
1240	<listitem>
1241	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
1242	multiple screens are enabled</para>
1243	</listitem>
1244
1245	<listitem>
1246	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1247	</listitem>
1248
1249	<listitem>
1250	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
1251	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
1252	</listitem>
1253
1254	<listitem>
1255	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
1256	again (bug #7022).
1257	</para>
1258	</listitem>
1259
1260	<listitem>
1261	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
1262	(bug #6768)</para>
1263	</listitem>
1264
1265	<listitem>
1266	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
1267	(bug #6927)</para>
1268	</listitem>
1269
1270	<listitem>
1271	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
1272	bug #7031)</para>
1273	</listitem>
1274
1275	<listitem>
1276	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
1277	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
1278	</listitem>
1279
1280	<listitem>
1281	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1282	bug #6987)</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
1287	</listitem>
1288
1289	<listitem>
1290	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
1291	</listitem>
1292
1293	<listitem>
1294	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
1295	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
1300	</listitem>
1301
1302	<listitem>
1303	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
1304	installation (bug #5101)</para>
1305	</listitem>
1306
1307	<listitem>
1308	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
1309	</listitem>
1310
1311	<listitem>
1312	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1313	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1314	bug #6872)</para>
1315	</listitem>
1316
1317	<listitem>
1318	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1319	</listitem>
1320
1321	<listitem>
1322	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1323	(performance tweak)</para>
1324	</listitem>
1325
1326	<listitem>
1327	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1328	is currently paused</para>
1329	</listitem>
1330
1331	<listitem>
1332	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1333	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1334	</listitem>
1335
1336	<listitem>
1337	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1338	</listitem>
1339
1340	<listitem>
1341	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1342	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1343	</listitem>
1344
1345	<listitem>
1346	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1347	not properly saved</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1352	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1353	</listitem>
1354
1355	<listitem>
1356	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1357	</listitem>
1358
1359	<listitem>
1360	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1361	</listitem>
1362
1363	<listitem>
1364	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1365	</listitem>
1366
1367	<listitem>
1368	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1369	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1370	</listitem>
1371
1372	<listitem>
1373	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1374	</listitem>
1375
1376	<listitem>
1377	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1378	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1379	</listitem>
1380
1381	<listitem>
1382	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1383	(bug #5251)</para>
1384	</listitem>
1385
1386	<listitem>
1387	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1388	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1389	</listitem>
1390
1391	<listitem>
1392	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1393	</listitem>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1397	</listitem>
1398
1399	<listitem>
1400	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1401	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1402	</listitem>
1403
1404	<listitem>
1405	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1406	</listitem>
1407
1408	<listitem>
1409	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1414	</listitem>
1415
1416	</itemizedlist>
1417	</sect1>
1418
1419	<sect1>
1420	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1421
1422	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1423	added:</para>
1424
1425	<itemizedlist>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1429	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1434	</listitem>
1435
1436	<listitem>
1437	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1438	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1439	</listitem>
1440
1441	<listitem>
1442	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1443	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1444	</listitem>
1445
1446	<listitem>
1447	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1448	</listitem>
1449
1450	<listitem>
1451	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1452	again (bug #6864)</para>
1453	</listitem>
1454
1455	<listitem>
1456	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1457	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1458	</listitem>
1459
1460	<listitem>
1461	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1462	</listitem>
1463
1464	<listitem>
1465	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1466	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1467	</listitem>
1468
1469	<listitem>
1470	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1471	</listitem>
1472
1473	</itemizedlist>
1474
1475	</sect1>
1476
1477	<sect1>
1478	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1479
1480	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1481	added:</para>
1482
1483	<itemizedlist>
1484
1485	<listitem>
1486	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1487	</listitem>
1488
1489	<listitem>
1490	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1491	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1492	</listitem>
1493
1494	<listitem>
1495	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1496	</listitem>
1497
1498	<listitem>
1499	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1500	state</para>
1501	</listitem>
1502
1503	<listitem>
1504	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1505	</listitem>
1506
1507	<listitem>
1508	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1509	</listitem>
1510
1511	<listitem>
1512	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1513	</listitem>
1514
1515	<listitem>
1516	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1517	</listitem>
1518
1519	<listitem>
1520	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1521	</listitem>
1522
1523	<listitem>
1524	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1525	</listitem>
1526
1527	<listitem>
1528	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1529	</listitem>
1530
1531	<listitem>
1532	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1533	</listitem>
1534
1535	<listitem>
1536	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1537	</listitem>
1538
1539	<listitem>
1540	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1541	</listitem>
1542
1543	<listitem>
1544	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1545	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1546	</listitem>
1547
1548	<listitem>
1549	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1550	(bug #6784)</para>
1551	</listitem>
1552
1553	<listitem>
1554	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1555	</listitem>
1556
1557	<listitem>
1558	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1559	</listitem>
1560
1561	<listitem>
1562	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1563	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1564	</listitem>
1565
1566	<listitem>
1567	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1568	</listitem>
1569
1570	<listitem>
1571	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1576	host only</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1581	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1586	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1591	</listitem>
1592
1593	<listitem>
1594	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1595	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1596	</listitem>
1597
1598	<listitem>
1599	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1600	</listitem>
1601
1602	<listitem>
1603	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1604	</listitem>
1605
1606	<listitem>
1607	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1608	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1609	</listitem>
1610
1611	<listitem>
1612	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1613	</listitem>
1614
1615	<listitem>
1616	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1617	</listitem>
1618
1619	<listitem>
1620	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1621	</listitem>
1622
1623	<listitem>
1624	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1625	(bug #6714)</para>
1626	</listitem>
1627
1628	<listitem>
1629	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1630	</listitem>
1631
1632	<listitem>
1633	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1638	</listitem>
1639
1640	<listitem>
1641	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1642	</listitem>
1643
1644	<listitem>
1645	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1646	</listitem>
1647
1648	</itemizedlist>
1649
1650	</sect1>
1651
1652	<sect1>
1653	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1654
1655	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1656	were added:</para>
1657
1658	<itemizedlist>
1659
1660	<listitem>
1661	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1662	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1663	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1664	</listitem>
1665
1666	<listitem>
1667	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1668	</listitem>
1669
1670	<listitem>
1671	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1672	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1677	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1678	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1679	</listitem>
1680
1681	<listitem>
1682	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1683	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1684	</listitem>
1685
1686	<listitem>
1687	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1688	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1689	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1690	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1691	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1692	</listitem>
1693
1694	<listitem>
1695	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1696	</listitem>
1697
1698	<listitem>
1699	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1700	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1701	</listitem>
1702
1703	<listitem>
1704	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1705	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1706	</listitem>
1707
1708	<listitem>
1709	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711
1712	<listitem>
1713	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
1714	</listitem>
1715
1716	<listitem>
1717	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1718	</listitem>
1719
1720	<listitem>
1721	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1722	</listitem>
1723
1724	<listitem>
1725	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1726	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1727	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1728	</listitem>
1729
1730	<listitem>
1731	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1732	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1733	</listitem>
1734
1735	</itemizedlist>
1736
1737	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1738
1739	<itemizedlist>
1740
1741	<listitem>
1742	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1743	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1744	</listitem>
1745
1746	<listitem>
1747	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1748	</listitem>
1749
1750	<listitem>
1751	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1752	VM</para>
1753	</listitem>
1754
1755	<listitem>
1756	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1757	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1758	</listitem>
1759
1760	<listitem>
1761	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1762	#1669)</para>
1763	</listitem>
1764
1765	<listitem>
1766	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1767	#6442)</para>
1768	</listitem>
1769
1770	<listitem>
1771	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1772	combination (bug #684)</para>
1773	</listitem>
1774
1775	<listitem>
1776	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1777	the VM from the GUI</para>
1778	</listitem>
1779
1780	<listitem>
1781	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1782	medium is not accessible</para>
1783	</listitem>
1784
1785	<listitem>
1786	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1787	</listitem>
1788
1789	<listitem>
1790	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1791	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1792	</listitem>
1793
1794	<listitem>
1795	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1796	#3106)</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1801	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1802	it</para>
1803	</listitem>
1804
1805	<listitem>
1806	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1815	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1816	</listitem>
1817
1818	<listitem>
1819	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1820	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1825	</listitem>
1826
1827	<listitem>
1828	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1829	</listitem>
1830
1831	<listitem>
1832	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1833	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1834	</listitem>
1835
1836	<listitem>
1837	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1838	</listitem>
1839
1840	<listitem>
1841	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1842	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1843	</listitem>
1844
1845	<listitem>
1846	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1847	</listitem>
1848
1849	<listitem>
1850	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1851	in VirtualBox</para>
1852	</listitem>
1853
1854	<listitem>
1855	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1856	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1857	</listitem>
1858
1859	<listitem>
1860	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1861	VirtualBox</para>
1862	</listitem>
1863
1864	<listitem>
1865	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1866	</listitem>
1867
1868	<listitem>
1869	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1870	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1871	</listitem>
1872
1873	</itemizedlist>
1874	</sect1>
1875
1876	<sect1>
1877	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1878
1879	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1880	added:</para>
1881
1882	<itemizedlist>
1883
1884	<listitem>
1885	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1886	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1887	</listitem>
1888
1889	<listitem>
1890	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1891	</listitem>
1892
1893	<listitem>
1894	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1895	</listitem>
1896
1897	<listitem>
1898	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1899	only) </para>
1900	</listitem>
1901
1902	<listitem>
1903	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1904	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1905	</listitem>
1906
1907	<listitem>
1908	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1909	interface version</para>
1910	</listitem>
1911
1912	<listitem>
1913	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1914	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1915	slot empty</para>
1916	</listitem>
1917
1918	<listitem>
1919	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1920	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1921	(bug #4220)</para>
1922	</listitem>
1923
1924	<listitem>
1925	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1926	</listitem>
1927
1928	<listitem>
1929	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1930	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1931	</listitem>
1932
1933	<listitem>
1934	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1935	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1936	</listitem>
1937
1938	<listitem>
1939	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1940	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1941	</listitem>
1942
1943	<listitem>
1944	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1945	attached</para>
1946	</listitem>
1947
1948	<listitem>
1949	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1950	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1955	</listitem>
1956
1957	<listitem>
1958	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1959	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1960	</listitem>
1961
1962	<listitem>
1963	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1964	is bug #6408)</para>
1965	</listitem>
1966
1967	<listitem>
1968	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1969	</listitem>
1970
1971	<listitem>
1972	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1973	fail to initialize</para>
1974	</listitem>
1975
1976	<listitem>
1977	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1978	</listitem>
1979
1980	<listitem>
1981	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1982	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1983	</listitem>
1984
1985	<listitem>
1986	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1987	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1988	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1989	</listitem>
1990
1991	<listitem>
1992	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1993	</listitem>
1994
1995	<listitem>
1996	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1997	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1998	</listitem>
1999
2000	<listitem>
2001	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
2002	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
2003	</listitem>
2004
2005	<listitem>
2006	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
2007	(bug #6435)</para>
2008	</listitem>
2009
2010	<listitem>
2011	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
2012	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
2013	</listitem>
2014
2015	<listitem>
2016	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
2017	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
2018	(bug #6488)</para>
2019	</listitem>
2020
2021	<listitem>
2022	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
2023	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
2024	</listitem>
2025
2026	<listitem>
2027	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
2028	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
2029	</listitem>
2030
2031	<listitem>
2032	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
2033	#5227)</para>
2034	</listitem>
2035
2036	<listitem>
2037	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
2038	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
2039	</listitem>
2040
2041	<listitem>
2042	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
2043	</listitem>
2044
2045	<listitem>
2046	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
2047	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
2048	</listitem>
2049
2050	</itemizedlist>
2051	</sect1>
2052
2053	<sect1>
2054	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
2055
2056	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2057	added:</para>
2058
2059	<itemizedlist>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
2063	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
2068	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
2069	</listitem>
2070
2071	<listitem>
2072	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
2073	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
2074	</listitem>
2075
2076	<listitem>
2077	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
2078	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
2079	</listitem>
2080
2081	<listitem>
2082	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
2083	</listitem>
2084
2085	<listitem>
2086	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	<listitem>
2090	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
2091	</listitem>
2092
2093	<listitem>
2094	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
2095	</listitem>
2096
2097	<listitem>
2098	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
2099	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
2100	</listitem>
2101
2102	<listitem>
2103	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
2104	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
2105	</listitem>
2106
2107	<listitem>
2108	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
2109	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
2110	</listitem>
2111
2112	<listitem>
2113	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
2114	</listitem>
2115
2116	<listitem>
2117	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
2118	</listitem>
2119
2120	<listitem>
2121	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
2122	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
2123	</listitem>
2124
2125	<listitem>
2126	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
2127	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
2128	calls (bug #6165)</para>
2129	</listitem>
2130
2131	<listitem>
2132	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
2133	(bug #5297)</para>
2134	</listitem>
2135
2136	<listitem>
2137	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
2138	(bug #4962)</para>
2139	</listitem>
2140
2141	<listitem>
2142	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
2143	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
2144	</listitem>
2145
2146	<listitem>
2147	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
2148	(bug #6176)</para>
2149	</listitem>
2150
2151	<listitem>
2152	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
2153	certain circumstances</para>
2154	</listitem>
2155
2156	<listitem>
2157	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
2158	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
2159	</listitem>
2160
2161	<listitem>
2162	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
2163	</listitem>
2164
2165	<listitem>
2166	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
2167	</listitem>
2168
2169	<listitem>
2170	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
2171	(bug #3571)</para>
2172	</listitem>
2173
2174	<listitem>
2175	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
2176	devices</para>
2177	</listitem>
2178
2179	<listitem>
2180	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
2181	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
2182	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
2183	</listitem>
2184
2185	<listitem>
2186	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
2187	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
2188	</listitem>
2189
2190	<listitem>
2191	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
2196	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
2201	response</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
2206	</listitem>
2207
2208	<listitem>
2209	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
2210	</listitem>
2211
2212	<listitem>
2213	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
2214	</listitem>
2215
2216	<listitem>
2217	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
2218	</listitem>
2219
2220	<listitem>
2221	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
2222	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
2223	</listitem>
2224
2225	<listitem>
2226	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
2235	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
2240	</listitem>
2241
2242	<listitem>
2243	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
2244	</listitem>
2245
2246	<listitem>
2247	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
2248	</listitem>
2249
2250	<listitem>
2251	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
2252	</listitem>
2253
2254	</itemizedlist>
2255	</sect1>
2256
2257	<sect1>
2258	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
2259
2260	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2261	added:</para>
2262
2263	<itemizedlist>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
2267	</listitem>
2268
2269	<listitem>
2270	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
2271	</listitem>
2272
2273	<listitem>
2274	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
2275	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
2276	</listitem>
2277
2278	<listitem>
2279	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
2280	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
2281	</listitem>
2282
2283	<listitem>
2284	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
2285	(bug #3945)</para>
2286	</listitem>
2287
2288	<listitem>
2289	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
2290	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
2291	</listitem>
2292
2293	<listitem>
2294	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
2295	and AMD-V only) </para>
2296	</listitem>
2297
2298	<listitem>
2299	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
2300	</listitem>
2301
2302	<listitem>
2303	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
2304	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
2305	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
2306	</listitem>
2307
2308	<listitem>
2309	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
2310	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
2311	</listitem>
2312
2313	<listitem>
2314	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2315	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2316	</listitem>
2317
2318	<listitem>
2319	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2320	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2321	</listitem>
2322
2323	<listitem>
2324	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2325	snapshots command</para>
2326	</listitem>
2327
2328	<listitem>
2329	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2330	</listitem>
2331
2332	<listitem>
2333	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2334	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2335	</listitem>
2336
2337	<listitem>
2338	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2339	</listitem>
2340
2341	<listitem>
2342	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2343	</listitem>
2344
2345	<listitem>
2346	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2347	</listitem>
2348
2349	<listitem>
2350	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2351	(KWin bug)</para>
2352	</listitem>
2353
2354	<listitem>
2355	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2356	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2357	</listitem>
2358
2359	<listitem>
2360	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2361	</listitem>
2362
2363	<listitem>
2364	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2365	</listitem>
2366
2367	<listitem>
2368	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2369	</listitem>
2370
2371	<listitem>
2372	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2373	</listitem>
2374
2375	<listitem>
2376	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2377	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2378	</listitem>
2379
2380	<listitem>
2381	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2382	bug #5787)</para>
2383	</listitem>
2384
2385	<listitem>
2386	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2387	DHCP requests</para>
2388	</listitem>
2389
2390	<listitem>
2391	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2392	(bug #3217)</para>
2393	</listitem>
2394
2395	<listitem>
2396	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2397	range (bug #5923)</para>
2398	</listitem>
2399
2400	<listitem>
2401	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2402	</listitem>
2403
2404	<listitem>
2405	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2406	</listitem>
2407
2408	<listitem>
2409	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2410	</listitem>
2411
2412	<listitem>
2413	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2414	</listitem>
2415
2416	<listitem>
2417	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2418	file (bug #5681)</para>
2419	</listitem>
2420
2421	<listitem>
2422	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2423	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2424	</listitem>
2425
2426	<listitem>
2427	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2428	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2429	</listitem>
2430
2431	<listitem>
2432	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2433	regression)</para>
2434	</listitem>
2435
2436	<listitem>
2437	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2438	</listitem>
2439
2440	<listitem>
2441	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2442	</listitem>
2443
2444	<listitem>
2445	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2446	</listitem>
2447
2448	<listitem>
2449	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2454	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2455	</listitem>
2456
2457	<listitem>
2458	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2459	</listitem>
2460
2461	<listitem>
2462	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2463	</listitem>
2464
2465	<listitem>
2466	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2467	</listitem>
2468
2469	<listitem>
2470	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2471	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2472	</listitem>
2473
2474	<listitem>
2475	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2480	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2481	</listitem>
2482
2483	<listitem>
2484	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2485	</listitem>
2486
2487	<listitem>
2488	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2489	</listitem>
2490
2491	<listitem>
2492	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2493	</listitem>
2494
2495	<listitem>
2496	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2497	(bug #5731)</para>
2498	</listitem>
2499
2500	<listitem>
2501	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2502	again</para>
2503	</listitem>
2504
2505	</itemizedlist>
2506
2507	</sect1>
2508
2509	<sect1>
2510	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2511
2512	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2513	added:</para>
2514
2515	<itemizedlist>
2516
2517	<listitem>
2518	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2519	</listitem>
2520
2521	<listitem>
2522	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2523	</listitem>
2524
2525	<listitem>
2526	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2527	</listitem>
2528
2529	<listitem>
2530	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2531	</listitem>
2532
2533	<listitem>
2534	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2535	</listitem>
2536
2537	<listitem>
2538	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2539	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2544	</listitem>
2545
2546	<listitem>
2547	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2548	</listitem>
2549
2550	<listitem>
2551	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2552	</listitem>
2553
2554	<listitem>
2555	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2556	</listitem>
2557
2558	<listitem>
2559	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2560	</listitem>
2561
2562	<listitem>
2563	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2564	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2565	</listitem>
2566
2567	<listitem>
2568	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2569	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2570	</listitem>
2571
2572	<listitem>
2573	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2574	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2575	#1762)</para>
2576	</listitem>
2577
2578	<listitem>
2579	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2580	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2581	</listitem>
2582
2583	<listitem>
2584	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2585	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2586	</listitem>
2587
2588	<listitem>
2589	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2590	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	<listitem>
2594	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2595	</listitem>
2596
2597	<listitem>
2598	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2599	</listitem>
2600
2601	<listitem>
2602	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2603	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2604	</listitem>
2605
2606	<listitem>
2607	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2616	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2621	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2626	</listitem>
2627
2628	<listitem>
2629	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2630	guests</para>
2631	</listitem>
2632
2633	<listitem>
2634	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2635	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2636	</listitem>
2637
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2640	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2641	</listitem>
2642
2643	<listitem>
2644	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2645	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2650	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2655	</listitem>
2656
2657	<listitem>
2658	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2659	</listitem>
2660
2661	<listitem>
2662	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2663	</listitem>
2664
2665	<listitem>
2666	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2667	</listitem>
2668
2669	<listitem>
2670	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2671	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2672	</listitem>
2673
2674	<listitem>
2675	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2676	</listitem>
2677
2678	</itemizedlist>
2679
2680	</sect1>
2681
2682	<sect1>
2683	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2684
2685	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2686	were added:</para>
2687
2688	<itemizedlist>
2689
2690	<listitem>
2691	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2692	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2693	</listitem>
2694
2695	<listitem>
2696	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2697	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2698	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2699	</listitem>
2700
2701	<listitem>
2702	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2703	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2704	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2705	</listitem>
2706
2707	<listitem>
2708	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2709	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2710	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2711	</listitem>
2712
2713	<listitem>
2714	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2715	running</para>
2716	</listitem>
2717
2718	<listitem>
2719	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2720	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2721	</listitem>
2722
2723	<listitem>
2724	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2725	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2726	</listitem>
2727
2728	<listitem>
2729	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2730	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2731	</listitem>
2732
2733	<listitem>
2734	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2735	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2736	</listitem>
2737
2738	</itemizedlist>
2739
2740	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2741
2742	<itemizedlist>
2743
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2746	</listitem>
2747
2748	<listitem>
2749	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2750	</listitem>
2751
2752	<listitem>
2753	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2754	</listitem>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2758	(bug #5291)</para>
2759	</listitem>
2760
2761	<listitem>
2762	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2763	</listitem>
2764
2765	<listitem>
2766	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2767	</listitem>
2768
2769	<listitem>
2770	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2771	</listitem>
2772
2773	<listitem>
2774	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2775	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2776	</listitem>
2777
2778	<listitem>
2779	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2780	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2781	</listitem>
2782
2783	<listitem>
2784	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2785	</listitem>
2786
2787	<listitem>
2788	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2789	</listitem>
2790
2791	<listitem>
2792	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2793	</listitem>
2794
2795	<listitem>
2796	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2797	</listitem>
2798
2799	<listitem>
2800	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2801	</listitem>
2802
2803	<listitem>
2804	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2805	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2806	</listitem>
2807
2808	<listitem>
2809	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2810	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2811	</listitem>
2812
2813	<listitem>
2814	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2815	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2816	</listitem>
2817
2818	<listitem>
2819	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2820	(bug #2723)</para>
2821	</listitem>
2822
2823	<listitem>
2824	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2825	</listitem>
2826
2827	<listitem>
2828	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2829	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2830	</listitem>
2831
2832	<listitem>
2833	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2834	optional manifest file on import</para>
2835	</listitem>
2836
2837	<listitem>
2838	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2839	</listitem>
2840
2841	<listitem>
2842	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2843	(bug #3773)</para>
2844	</listitem>
2845
2846	<listitem>
2847	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2848	</listitem>
2849
2850	<listitem>
2851	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2856	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2857	</listitem>
2858
2859	<listitem>
2860	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2861	(bug #4866)</para>
2862	</listitem>
2863
2864	<listitem>
2865	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2866	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2867	</listitem>
2868
2869	<listitem>
2870	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2871	certain conditions</para>
2872	</listitem>
2873
2874	<listitem>
2875	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2880	</listitem>
2881
2882	<listitem>
2883	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2884	</listitem>
2885
2886	<listitem>
2887	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2888	</listitem>
2889
2890	<listitem>
2891	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2892	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2893	</listitem>
2894
2895	<listitem>
2896	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2897	</listitem>
2898
2899	<listitem>
2900	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2901	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2902	</listitem>
2903
2904	<listitem>
2905	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2906	</listitem>
2907
2908	<listitem>
2909	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2910	</listitem>
2911
2912	<listitem>
2913	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2914	</listitem>
2915
2916	<listitem>
2917	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2918	</listitem>
2919
2920	<listitem>
2921	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2922	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2923	</listitem>
2924
2925	<listitem>
2926	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2927	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2928	(bug #928)</para>
2929	</listitem>
2930
2931	<listitem>
2932	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2933	</listitem>
2934
2935	</itemizedlist>
2936
2937	</sect1>
2938
2939	<sect1>
2940	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2941
2942	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2943	added:</para>
2944
2945	<itemizedlist>
2946
2947	<listitem>
2948	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2949	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2950	</listitem>
2951
2952	<listitem>
2953	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2954	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2955	</listitem>
2956
2957	<listitem>
2958	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2959	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2960	</listitem>
2961
2962	<listitem>
2963	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2964	enabled</para>
2965	</listitem>
2966
2967	<listitem>
2968	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2969	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2970	</listitem>
2971
2972	<listitem>
2973	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2974	(bug #2676)</para>
2975	</listitem>
2976
2977	<listitem>
2978	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2979	is connected to a raw file</para>
2980	</listitem>
2981
2982	<listitem>
2983	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2984	(bug #5355)</para>
2985	</listitem>
2986
2987	<listitem>
2988	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2989	</listitem>
2990
2991	<listitem>
2992	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2993	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2994	</listitem>
2995
2996	<listitem>
2997	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2998	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2999	guest (bug #4496)</para>
3000	</listitem>
3001
3002	<listitem>
3003	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
3004	</listitem>
3005
3006	<listitem>
3007	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
3008	</listitem>
3009
3010	<listitem>
3011	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
3012	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
3013	</listitem>
3014
3015	<listitem>
3016	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
3017	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
3018	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
3019	</listitem>
3020
3021	</itemizedlist>
3022
3023	</sect1>
3024
3025	<sect1>
3026	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
3027
3028	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3029	added:</para>
3030
3031	<itemizedlist>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
3035	</listitem>
3036
3037	<listitem>
3038	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
3039	</listitem>
3040
3041	<listitem>
3042	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
3043	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
3044	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	<listitem>
3048	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
3049	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
3050	</listitem>
3051
3052	<listitem>
3053	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
3054	</listitem>
3055
3056	<listitem>
3057	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
3058	</listitem>
3059
3060	<listitem>
3061	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
3062	</listitem>
3063
3064	<listitem>
3065	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
3066	</listitem>
3067
3068	<listitem>
3069	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
3070	</listitem>
3071
3072	<listitem>
3073	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
3074	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
3079	</listitem>
3080
3081	<listitem>
3082	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
3083	</listitem>
3084
3085	<listitem>
3086	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
3087	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
3088	</listitem>
3089
3090	<listitem>
3091	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
3092	</listitem>
3093
3094	<listitem>
3095	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
3096	exhaustion</para>
3097	</listitem>
3098
3099	<listitem>
3100	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
3101	</listitem>
3102
3103	<listitem>
3104	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
3105	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
3106	</listitem>
3107
3108	<listitem>
3109	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
3110	folders (bug #4106)</para>
3111	</listitem>
3112
3113	<listitem>
3114	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
3115	folders (bug #4299)</para>
3116	</listitem>
3117
3118	<listitem>
3119	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
3120	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
3121	(bug #2921)</para>
3122	</listitem>
3123
3124	<listitem>
3125	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
3126	hosts only)</para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
3131	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	<listitem>
3135	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
3136	</listitem>
3137
3138	<listitem>
3139	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
3140	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
3145	</listitem>
3146
3147	<listitem>
3148	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
3149	image inconsistency </para>
3150	</listitem>
3151
3152	<listitem>
3153	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
3154	</listitem>
3155
3156	<listitem>
3157	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
3158	</listitem>
3159
3160	<listitem>
3161	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
3162	(bug #2025)</para>
3163	</listitem>
3164
3165	<listitem>
3166	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
3167	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
3168	</listitem>
3169
3170	</itemizedlist>
3171
3172	</sect1>
3173
3174	<sect1>
3175	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
3176
3177	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3178	added:</para>
3179
3180	<itemizedlist>
3181
3182	<listitem>
3183	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
3184	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
3185	</listitem>
3186
3187	<listitem>
3188	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
3189	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
3190	</listitem>
3191
3192	<listitem>
3193	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
3194	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
3195	</listitem>
3196
3197	<listitem>
3198	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
3199	</listitem>
3200
3201	<listitem>
3202	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
3203	software virtualization only) </para>
3204	</listitem>
3205
3206	<listitem>
3207	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
3208	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
3209	</listitem>
3210
3211	<listitem>
3212	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
3213	with root privileges</para>
3214	</listitem>
3215
3216	<listitem>
3217	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
3218	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
3219	</listitem>
3220
3221	<listitem>
3222	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
3223	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
3224	</listitem>
3225
3226	<listitem>
3227	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
3228	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
3229	</listitem>
3230
3231	<listitem>
3232	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
3233	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
3234	selector (bug #5063)</para>
3235	</listitem>
3236
3237	<listitem>
3238	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
3239	available</para>
3240	</listitem>
3241
3242	<listitem>
3243	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
3244	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
3245	</listitem>
3246
3247	<listitem>
3248	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
3249	networking (bug #4775)</para>
3250	</listitem>
3251
3252	<listitem>
3253	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
3254	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
3255	</listitem>
3256
3257	<listitem>
3258	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
3259	(bug #4907)</para>
3260	</listitem>
3261
3262	<listitem>
3263	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
3264	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
3269	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
3270	</listitem>
3271
3272	<listitem>
3273	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
3278	</listitem>
3279
3280	<listitem>
3281	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
3282	</listitem>
3283
3284	<listitem>
3285	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
3286	</listitem>
3287
3288	<listitem>
3289	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
3290	are installed</para>
3291	</listitem>
3292
3293	<listitem>
3294	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
3295	(bug #4771)</para>
3296	</listitem>
3297
3298	<listitem>
3299	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
3300	</listitem>
3301
3302	<listitem>
3303	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
3304	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
3305	</listitem>
3306
3307	<listitem>
3308	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
3309	command</para>
3310	</listitem>
3311
3312	<listitem>
3313	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3314	</listitem>
3315
3316	<listitem>
3317	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3318	</listitem>
3319
3320	<listitem>
3321	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3322	(bug #5089)</para>
3323	</listitem>
3324
3325	<listitem>
3326	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	</itemizedlist>
3330
3331	</sect1>
3332
3333	<sect1>
3334	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3335
3336	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3337	added:</para>
3338
3339	<itemizedlist>
3340
3341	<listitem>
3342	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3343	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3344	</listitem>
3345
3346	<listitem>
3347	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3348	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3349	</listitem>
3350
3351	<listitem>
3352	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3353	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3354	</listitem>
3355
3356	<listitem>
3357	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3358	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3359	</listitem>
3360
3361	<listitem>
3362	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3363	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3368	</listitem>
3369
3370	<listitem>
3371	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3372	</listitem>
3373
3374	<listitem>
3375	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3388	onlined or offlined</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3393	</listitem>
3394
3395	<listitem>
3396	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3397	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3402	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3407	</listitem>
3408
3409	<listitem>
3410	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3411	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3412	</listitem>
3413
3414	<listitem>
3415	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3416	</listitem>
3417
3418	<listitem>
3419	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3420	</listitem>
3421
3422	<listitem>
3423	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3424	</listitem>
3425
3426	<listitem>
3427	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3428	</listitem>
3429
3430	<listitem>
3431	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3432	</listitem>
3433
3434	<listitem>
3435	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3436	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3437	</listitem>
3438
3439	<listitem>
3440	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3441	</listitem>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3445	</listitem>
3446
3447	<listitem>
3448	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3449	</listitem>
3450
3451	<listitem>
3452	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3453	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3458	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3459	</listitem>
3460
3461	<listitem>
3462	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3467	</listitem>
3468
3469	<listitem>
3470	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3471	</listitem>
3472
3473	<listitem>
3474	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3475	</listitem>
3476
3477	<listitem>
3478	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3479	</listitem>
3480
3481	<listitem>
3482	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3483	</listitem>
3484
3485	<listitem>
3486	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3491	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3492	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3493	phase collapse</para>
3494	</listitem>
3495
3496	<listitem>
3497	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3498	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3499	</listitem>
3500
3501	<listitem>
3502	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3503	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3504	</listitem>
3505
3506	<listitem>
3507	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3508	</listitem>
3509
3510	<listitem>
3511	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3512	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3513	</listitem>
3514
3515	<listitem>
3516	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3517	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3518	</listitem>
3519
3520	<listitem>
3521	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3522	</listitem>
3523
3524	<listitem>
3525	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3526	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3527	#4698, #4790)</para>
3528	</listitem>
3529
3530	<listitem>
3531	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3532	less than the configured range</para>
3533	</listitem>
3534
3535	<listitem>
3536	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3537	</listitem>
3538
3539	<listitem>
3540	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3541	</listitem>
3542
3543	<listitem>
3544	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3545	</listitem>
3546
3547	<listitem>
3548	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3549	</listitem>
3550
3551	<listitem>
3552	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3553	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3554	</listitem>
3555
3556	<listitem>
3557	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3558	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3559	</listitem>
3560
3561	<listitem>
3562	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3563	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3564	</listitem>
3565
3566	<listitem>
3567	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3568	</listitem>
3569
3570	<listitem>
3571	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3572	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3577	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	<listitem>
3581	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3582	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3587	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3588	</listitem>
3589
3590	<listitem>
3591	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3592	</listitem>
3593
3594	<listitem>
3595	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3596	</listitem>
3597
3598	</itemizedlist>
3599
3600	</sect1>
3601
3602	<sect1>
3603	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3604
3605	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3606	added:</para>
3607
3608	<itemizedlist>
3609
3610	<listitem>
3611	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3612	</listitem>
3613
3614	<listitem>
3615	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3616	</listitem>
3617
3618	<listitem>
3619	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3620	</listitem>
3621
3622	<listitem>
3623	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3624	</listitem>
3625
3626	<listitem>
3627	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3628	</listitem>
3629
3630	<listitem>
3631	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3636	</listitem>
3637
3638	<listitem>
3639	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3640	</listitem>
3641
3642	<listitem>
3643	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3644	</listitem>
3645
3646	<listitem>
3647	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3648	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3649	</listitem>
3650
3651	<listitem>
3652	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3653	</listitem>
3654
3655	<listitem>
3656	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3657	</listitem>
3658
3659	<listitem>
3660	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3661	</listitem>
3662
3663	<listitem>
3664	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3665	</listitem>
3666
3667	<listitem>
3668	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3669	</listitem>
3670
3671	<listitem>
3672	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3673	</listitem>
3674
3675	<listitem>
3676	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3677	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3678	</listitem>
3679
3680	<listitem>
3681	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3682	(bug #4654)</para>
3683	</listitem>
3684
3685	<listitem>
3686	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3687	</listitem>
3688
3689	<listitem>
3690	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3691	interfaces</para>
3692	</listitem>
3693
3694	<listitem>
3695	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3696	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3701	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3706	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	<listitem>
3710	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3711	(bug #1461)</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3716	</listitem>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3720	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3721	</listitem>
3722
3723	<listitem>
3724	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3725	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3726	</listitem>
3727
3728	<listitem>
3729	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3730	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3731	</listitem>
3732
3733	<listitem>
3734	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3735	</listitem>
3736
3737	<listitem>
3738	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3739	</listitem>
3740
3741	<listitem>
3742	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3743	</listitem>
3744
3745	<listitem>
3746	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3747	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3748	</listitem>
3749
3750	<listitem>
3751	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3752	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3753	</listitem>
3754
3755	<listitem>
3756	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3757	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3758	</listitem>
3759
3760	<listitem>
3761	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3762	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3763	</listitem>
3764
3765	</itemizedlist>
3766
3767	</sect1>
3768	<sect1>
3769	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3770
3771	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3772	added:</para>
3773
3774	<itemizedlist>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3778	</listitem>
3779
3780	<listitem>
3781	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3782	</listitem>
3783
3784	<listitem>
3785	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3786	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3791	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3792	</listitem>
3793
3794	<listitem>
3795	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3796	</listitem>
3797
3798	<listitem>
3799	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3800	</listitem>
3801
3802	<listitem>
3803	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3804	</listitem>
3805
3806	<listitem>
3807	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3808	</listitem>
3809
3810	<listitem>
3811	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3812	</listitem>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3816	</listitem>
3817
3818	<listitem>
3819	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3820	</listitem>
3821
3822	<listitem>
3823	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3824	</listitem>
3825
3826	<listitem>
3827	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3828	</listitem>
3829
3830	<listitem>
3831	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3832	</listitem>
3833
3834	<listitem>
3835	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3836	</listitem>
3837
3838	<listitem>
3839	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3840	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3841	</listitem>
3842
3843	<listitem>
3844	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3845	</listitem>
3846
3847	<listitem>
3848	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3853	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3854	</listitem>
3855
3856	<listitem>
3857	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3858	</listitem>
3859
3860	<listitem>
3861	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3862	</listitem>
3863
3864	<listitem>
3865	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3866	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3867	</listitem>
3868
3869	<listitem>
3870	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3871	</listitem>
3872
3873	<listitem>
3874	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3875	</listitem>
3876
3877	<listitem>
3878	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3879	</listitem>
3880
3881	<listitem>
3882	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3883	</listitem>
3884
3885	<listitem>
3886	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3887	</listitem>
3888
3889	<listitem>
3890	<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>
3891	</listitem>
3892
3893	</itemizedlist>
3894
3895	</sect1>
3896
3897	<sect1>
3898	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3899
3900	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3901	were added:</para>
3902
3903	<itemizedlist>
3904
3905	<listitem>
3906	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3907	</listitem>
3908
3909	<listitem>
3910	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3911	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3912	</listitem>
3913
3914	<listitem>
3915	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	</itemizedlist>
3919
3920	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3921
3922	<itemizedlist>
3923
3924	<listitem>
3925	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3926	</listitem>
3927
3928	<listitem>
3929	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3930	certain conditions</para>
3931	</listitem>
3932
3933	<listitem>
3934	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3935	</listitem>
3936
3937	<listitem>
3938	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3939	</listitem>
3940
3941	<listitem>
3942	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3943	</listitem>
3944
3945	<listitem>
3946	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3947	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3948	</listitem>
3949
3950	<listitem>
3951	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3952	</listitem>
3953
3954	<listitem>
3955	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3956	</listitem>
3957
3958	<listitem>
3959	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3960	</listitem>
3961
3962	<listitem>
3963	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3964	</listitem>
3965
3966	<listitem>
3967	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3968	</listitem>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3972	</listitem>
3973
3974	<listitem>
3975	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3976	</listitem>
3977
3978	<listitem>
3979	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	<listitem>
3983	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3984	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3985	</listitem>
3986
3987	<listitem>
3988	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3989	</listitem>
3990
3991	<listitem>
3992	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3993	</listitem>
3994
3995	<listitem>
3996	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3997	</listitem>
3998
3999	<listitem>
4000	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
4001	</listitem>
4002
4003	<listitem>
4004	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
4005	</listitem>
4006
4007	<listitem>
4008	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
4009	</listitem>
4010
4011	<listitem>
4012	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
4013	</listitem>
4014
4015	<listitem>
4016	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
4017	</listitem>
4018
4019	<listitem>
4020	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
4021	</listitem>
4022
4023	<listitem>
4024	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
4025	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
4026	</listitem>
4027
4028	<listitem>
4029	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
4030	</listitem>
4031
4032	<listitem>
4033	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
4034	</listitem>
4035
4036	<listitem>
4037	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
4038	</listitem>
4039
4040	<listitem>
4041	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
4046	</listitem>
4047
4048	<listitem>
4049	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
4050	</listitem>
4051
4052	<listitem>
4053	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
4054	</listitem>
4055
4056	<listitem>
4057	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
4058	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
4059	</listitem>
4060
4061	<listitem>
4062	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
4063	</listitem>
4064
4065	<listitem>
4066	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
4067	</listitem>
4068
4069	<listitem>
4070	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
4071	</listitem>
4072
4073	<listitem>
4074	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
4075	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
4076	</listitem>
4077
4078	<listitem>
4079	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
4080	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
4081	</listitem>
4082
4083	<listitem>
4084	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
4085	correct file mode when creating files</para>
4086	</listitem>
4087
4088	<listitem>
4089	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
4090	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	<listitem>
4094	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
4095	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	<listitem>
4099	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
4100	</listitem>
4101
4102	<listitem>
4103	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
4104	</listitem>
4105
4106	<listitem>
4107	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
4108	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
4109	</listitem>
4110
4111	<listitem>
4112	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
4113	guest property lookup</para>
4114	</listitem>
4115
4116	<listitem>
4117	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
4118	basic network information)</para>
4119	</listitem>
4120
4121	<listitem>
4122	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
4123	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
4124	</listitem>
4125
4126	<listitem>
4127	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
4128	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
4129	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
4130	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
4131	</listitem>
4132
4133	<listitem>
4134	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
4135	</listitem>
4136
4137	<listitem>
4138	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
4139	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
4140	web service</para>
4141	</listitem>
4142
4143	<listitem>
4144	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
4145	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
4146	</listitem>
4147
4148	<listitem>
4149	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
4150	unavailable</para>
4151	</listitem>
4152
4153	<listitem>
4154	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
4155	</listitem>
4156
4157	</itemizedlist>
4158	</sect1>
4159
4160	<sect1>
4161	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
4162
4163	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4164	added:</para>
4165
4166	<itemizedlist>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
4170	installation</para>
4171	</listitem>
4172
4173	<listitem>
4174	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
4175	</listitem>
4176
4177	<listitem>
4178	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
4179	later (bug #3981)</para>
4180	</listitem>
4181
4182	<listitem>
4183	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
4184	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
4185	</listitem>
4186
4187	<listitem>
4188	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
4189	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
4190	(bug #4034)
4191	</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
4196	networking</para>
4197	</listitem>
4198
4199	<listitem>
4200	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
4201	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	<listitem>
4205	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
4206	clicks</para>
4207	</listitem>
4208
4209	<listitem>
4210	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
4211	Windows 7 guests</para>
4212	</listitem>
4213
4214	<listitem>
4215	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
4216	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
4221	</listitem>
4222
4223	<listitem>
4224	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
4225	</listitem>
4226
4227	<listitem>
4228	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
4229	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
4230	</listitem>
4231
4232	<listitem>
4233	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
4234	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
4235	</listitem>
4236
4237	<listitem>
4238	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
4239	</listitem>
4240
4241	<listitem>
4242	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
4243	</listitem>
4244
4245	<listitem>
4246	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4247	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
4248	(bug #3864)</para>
4249	</listitem>
4250
4251	<listitem>
4252	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
4253	now flushes the output stream</para>
4254	</listitem>
4255
4256	<listitem>
4257	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
4258	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
4259	</listitem>
4260
4261	<listitem>
4262	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
4263	</listitem>
4264
4265	<listitem>
4266	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
4271	</listitem>
4272
4273	<listitem>
4274	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
4275	</listitem>
4276
4277	<listitem>
4278	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
4279	(bug #3964)</para>
4280	</listitem>
4281
4282	<listitem>
4283	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
4284	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	<listitem>
4288	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
4289	hosts</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
4294	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
4295	e1000 adapter</para>
4296	</listitem>
4297
4298	<listitem>
4299	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
4300	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
4301	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
4302	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
4307	</listitem>
4308
4309	<listitem>
4310	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
4311	</listitem>
4312
4313	<listitem>
4314	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4315	</listitem>
4316
4317	<listitem>
4318	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4319	file (bug #1023)</para>
4320	</listitem>
4321
4322	<listitem>
4323	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4324	</listitem>
4325
4326	<listitem>
4327	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4328	</listitem>
4329
4330	</itemizedlist>
4331	</sect1>
4332
4333	<sect1>
4334	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4335
4336	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4337	added:</para>
4338
4339	<itemizedlist>
4340
4341	<listitem>
4342	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4343	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4344	</listitem>
4345
4346	<listitem>
4347	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4348	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4349	and later</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4354	running services</para>
4355	</listitem>
4356
4357	<listitem>
4358	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4359	terminates</para>
4360	</listitem>
4361
4362	<listitem>
4363	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4364	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4365	</listitem>
4366
4367	<listitem>
4368	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4369	installed on the guest</para>
4370	</listitem>
4371
4372	<listitem>
4373	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4374	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4375	</listitem>
4376
4377	<listitem>
4378	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4379	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4380	</listitem>
4381
4382	<listitem>
4383	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4384	(bug #2628)</para>
4385	</listitem>
4386
4387	<listitem>
4388	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4389	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4390	</listitem>
4391
4392	<listitem>
4393	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4394	(bug #3657)</para>
4395	</listitem>
4396
4397	<listitem>
4398	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4399	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4400	</listitem>
4401
4402	<listitem>
4403	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4404	virtualization only)
4405	</para>
4406	</listitem>
4407
4408	<listitem>
4409	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4410	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4411	</listitem>
4412
4413	<listitem>
4414	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4415	</listitem>
4416
4417	<listitem>
4418	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4419	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4424	bug #3689)</para>
4425	</listitem>
4426
4427	<listitem>
4428	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4429	bug #3679)</para>
4430	</listitem>
4431
4432	<listitem>
4433	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4434	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4435	</listitem>
4436
4437	<listitem>
4438	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4439	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4440	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4441	</listitem>
4442
4443	<listitem>
4444	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4445	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4446	</listitem>
4447
4448	<listitem>
4449	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4450	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4451	</listitem>
4452
4453	<listitem>
4454	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4455	(bug #3667)</para>
4456	</listitem>
4457
4458	<listitem>
4459	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4460	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4461	</listitem>
4462
4463	<listitem>
4464	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4465	</listitem>
4466
4467	<listitem>
4468	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4469	</listitem>
4470
4471	<listitem>
4472	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4473	</listitem>
4474
4475	<listitem>
4476	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4477	</listitem>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4481	</listitem>
4482
4483	<listitem>
4484	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4485	</listitem>
4486
4487	<listitem>
4488	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4489	</listitem>
4490
4491	</itemizedlist>
4492	</sect1>
4493
4494	<sect1>
4495	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4496
4497	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4498	were added:</para>
4499
4500	<itemizedlist>
4501
4502	<listitem>
4503	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4504	</listitem>
4505
4506	<listitem>
4507	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4512	</listitem>
4513
4514	<listitem>
4515	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4516	</listitem>
4517
4518	<listitem>
4519	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4520	</listitem>
4521
4522	<listitem>
4523	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4524	</listitem>
4525
4526	<listitem>
4527	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4528	</listitem>
4529
4530	<listitem>
4531	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4532	</listitem>
4533
4534	<listitem>
4535	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4536	</listitem>
4537
4538	<listitem>
4539	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4540	</listitem>
4541
4542	</itemizedlist>
4543
4544	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4545
4546	<itemizedlist>
4547
4548	<listitem>
4549	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4550	</listitem>
4551
4552	<listitem>
4553	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4554	</listitem>
4555
4556	<listitem>
4557	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4558	</listitem>
4559
4560	<listitem>
4561	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4562	</listitem>
4563
4564	<listitem>
4565	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4566	</listitem>
4567
4568	<listitem>
4569	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4578	</listitem>
4579
4580	<listitem>
4581	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4582	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4583	</listitem>
4584
4585	<listitem>
4586	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4587	</listitem>
4588
4589	<listitem>
4590	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4591	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4592	</listitem>
4593
4594	<listitem>
4595	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4596	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4597	</listitem>
4598
4599	<listitem>
4600	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4601	</listitem>
4602
4603	<listitem>
4604	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4605	</listitem>
4606
4607	<listitem>
4608	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4609	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4610	</listitem>
4611
4612	<listitem>
4613	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4614	</listitem>
4615
4616	<listitem>
4617	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4618	ESX server images)</para>
4619	</listitem>
4620
4621	<listitem>
4622	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4623	writable</para>
4624	</listitem>
4625
4626	<listitem>
4627	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4628	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4629	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4630	</listitem>
4631
4632	<listitem>
4633	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4634	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4635	</listitem>
4636
4637	<listitem>
4638	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4639	</listitem>
4640
4641	<listitem>
4642	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4643	</listitem>
4644
4645	<listitem>
4646	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4647	hosts when creating files</para>
4648	</listitem>
4649
4650	<listitem>
4651	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4652	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4653	</listitem>
4654
4655	<listitem>
4656	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4657	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4658	#2306)</para>
4659	</listitem>
4660
4661	<listitem>
4662	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4663	(bug #3555)</para>
4664	</listitem>
4665
4666	<listitem>
4667	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4668	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4669	</listitem>
4670
4671	<listitem>
4672	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4673	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4674	</listitem>
4675
4676	<listitem>
4677	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4678	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4683	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4684	</listitem>
4685
4686	<listitem>
4687	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4688	(bug #3586)</para>
4689	</listitem>
4690
4691	<listitem>
4692	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4693	from Scratch systems</para>
4694	</listitem>
4695
4696	<listitem>
4697	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4698	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4699	</listitem>
4700
4701	<listitem>
4702	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4703	</listitem>
4704
4705	<listitem>
4706	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4707	default to compact format</para>
4708	</listitem>
4709
4710	<listitem>
4711	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4712	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4713	</listitem>
4714
4715	<listitem>
4716	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4717	</listitem>
4718
4719	<listitem>
4720	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4721	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4722	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4723	</listitem>
4724
4725	<listitem>
4726	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4727	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4728	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4729	</listitem>
4730
4731	<listitem>
4732	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4733	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4734	</listitem>
4735
4736	<listitem>
4737	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4738	</listitem>
4739
4740	<listitem>
4741	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4742	</listitem>
4743
4744	<listitem>
4745	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	<listitem>
4749	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4750	</listitem>
4751
4752	<listitem>
4753	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4754	</listitem>
4755
4756	<listitem>
4757	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4758	</listitem>
4759
4760	<listitem>
4761	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4762	</listitem>
4763
4764	<listitem>
4765	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4766	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4767	</listitem>
4768
4769	<listitem>
4770	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4771	</listitem>
4772
4773	<listitem>
4774	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4775	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4776	</listitem>
4777
4778	<listitem>
4779	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4784	</listitem>
4785
4786	<listitem>
4787	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4788	</listitem>
4789
4790	<listitem>
4791	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4792	#2536)</para>
4793	</listitem>
4794
4795	<listitem>
4796	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4797	</listitem>
4798
4799	<listitem>
4800	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4801	(bug #3548)</para>
4802	</listitem>
4803
4804	</itemizedlist>
4805	</sect1>
4806
4807	<sect1>
4808	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4809
4810	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4811	added:</para>
4812
4813	<itemizedlist>
4814
4815	<listitem>
4816	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4817	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4818	</listitem>
4819
4820	<listitem>
4821	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4834	(bug #3115)</para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4839	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4840	</listitem>
4841
4842	<listitem>
4843	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4844	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4845	(bug #3215)</para>
4846	</listitem>
4847
4848	<listitem>
4849	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4850	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4851	</listitem>
4852
4853	<listitem>
4854	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4855	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4856	</listitem>
4857
4858	<listitem>
4859	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4860	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4861	</listitem>
4862
4863	<listitem>
4864	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4865	in parallel</para>
4866	</listitem>
4867
4868	<listitem>
4869	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4870	</listitem>
4871
4872	<listitem>
4873	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4878	</listitem>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4882	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	<listitem>
4886	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4887	</listitem>
4888
4889	<listitem>
4890	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4891	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4892	</listitem>
4893
4894	<listitem>
4895	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4896	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4897	</listitem>
4898
4899	<listitem>
4900	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4901	</listitem>
4902
4903	<listitem>
4904	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4905	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4906	</listitem>
4907
4908	<listitem>
4909	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4910	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4911	</listitem>
4912
4913	<listitem>
4914	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4915	</listitem>
4916
4917	<listitem>
4918	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4919	</listitem>
4920
4921	<listitem>
4922	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4923	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4924	</listitem>
4925
4926	<listitem>
4927	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4928	</listitem>
4929
4930	<listitem>
4931	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4932	</listitem>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4936	</listitem>
4937
4938	<listitem>
4939	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4940	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4941	</listitem>
4942
4943	<listitem>
4944	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4945	</listitem>
4946
4947	<listitem>
4948	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4949	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4950	</listitem>
4951
4952	<listitem>
4953	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4954	</listitem>
4955
4956	<listitem>
4957	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4962	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4963	</listitem>
4964
4965	<listitem>
4966	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4967	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4968	</listitem>
4969
4970	<listitem>
4971	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	<listitem>
4975	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4976	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4977	</listitem>
4978
4979	<listitem>
4980	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4981	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4982	</listitem>
4983
4984	<listitem>
4985	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4986	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4987	</listitem>
4988
4989	<listitem>
4990	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4991	(bug #3213)</para>
4992	</listitem>
4993
4994	<listitem>
4995	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4996	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4997	</listitem>
4998
4999	<listitem>
5000	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
5001	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
5002	</listitem>
5003
5004	</itemizedlist>
5005	</sect1>
5006
5007	<sect1>
5008	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
5009
5010	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5011	added:</para>
5012
5013	<itemizedlist>
5014
5015	<listitem>
5016	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
5017	</listitem>
5018
5019	<listitem>
5020	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
5021	</listitem>
5022
5023	<listitem>
5024	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
5025	</listitem>
5026
5027	<listitem>
5028	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
5029	</listitem>
5030
5031	<listitem>
5032	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
5033	</listitem>
5034
5035	<listitem>
5036	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
5037	</listitem>
5038
5039	<listitem>
5040	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
5041	</listitem>
5042
5043	<listitem>
5044	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
5045	</listitem>
5046
5047	<listitem>
5048	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
5049	</listitem>
5050
5051	<listitem>
5052	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
5053	</listitem>
5054
5055	<listitem>
5056	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
5057	</listitem>
5058
5059	<listitem>
5060	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
5061	</listitem>
5062
5063	<listitem>
5064	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
5065	</listitem>
5066
5067	<listitem>
5068	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
5069	</listitem>
5070
5071	<listitem>
5072	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
5073	</listitem>
5074
5075	<listitem>
5076	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
5077	</listitem>
5078
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
5081	(bug #3067)</para>
5082	</listitem>
5083
5084	<listitem>
5085	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
5086	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
5087	</listitem>
5088
5089	<listitem>
5090	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
5091	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
5092	</listitem>
5093
5094	<listitem>
5095	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
5096	</listitem>
5097
5098	<listitem>
5099	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
5100	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
5101	</listitem>
5102
5103	<listitem>
5104	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
5105	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5106	</listitem>
5107
5108	<listitem>
5109	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
5110	</listitem>
5111
5112	<listitem>
5113	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
5114	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
5115	</listitem>
5116
5117	<listitem>
5118	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
5119	</listitem>
5120
5121	<listitem>
5122	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
5123	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
5124	</listitem>
5125
5126	<listitem>
5127	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
5128	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
5129	</listitem>
5130
5131	<listitem>
5132	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
5133	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
5134	</para>
5135	</listitem>
5136
5137	<listitem>
5138	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
5139	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
5140	</para>
5141	</listitem>
5142
5143	<listitem>
5144	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
5145	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
5146	</para>
5147	</listitem>
5148
5149	<listitem>
5150	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
5151	</listitem>
5152
5153	<listitem>
5154	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
5155	</listitem>
5156
5157	<listitem>
5158	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
5159	</listitem>
5160
5161	<listitem>
5162	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
5163	</listitem>
5164
5165	<listitem>
5166	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
5167	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
5168	</listitem>
5169
5170	<listitem>
5171	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
5172	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
5173	</listitem>
5174
5175	<listitem>
5176	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
5177	formatting a drive</para>
5178	</listitem>
5179
5180	<listitem>
5181	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
5182	</listitem>
5183
5184	<listitem>
5185	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
5186	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5187	</listitem>
5188
5189	<listitem>
5190	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
5191	</listitem>
5192
5193	<listitem>
5194	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
5195	</listitem>
5196
5197	<listitem>
5198	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5199	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
5200	</listitem>
5201
5202	<listitem>
5203	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
5204	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
5205	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
5206	</listitem>
5207
5208	<listitem>
5209	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
5210	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
5211	</listitem>
5212
5213	<listitem>
5214	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
5215	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
5216	</listitem>
5217
5218	<listitem>
5219	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
5220	(bug #2768)</para>
5221	</listitem>
5222
5223	<listitem>
5224	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
5225	</listitem>
5226
5227	<listitem>
5228	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
5229	</listitem>
5230
5231	<listitem>
5232	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
5233	single, unified package</para>
5234	</listitem>
5235
5236	<listitem>
5237	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
5238	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
5239	</listitem>
5240
5241	<listitem>
5242	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
5243	</listitem>
5244
5245	<listitem>
5246	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
5247	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
5248	</listitem>
5249
5250	<listitem>
5251	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
5252	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
5253	</listitem>
5254
5255	<listitem>
5256	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
5257	</listitem>
5258
5259	<listitem>
5260	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
5261	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
5262	doing 3D</para>
5263	</listitem>
5264
5265	<listitem>
5266	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
5267	</listitem>
5268
5269	<listitem>
5270	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
5271	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
5272	</listitem>
5273
5274	<listitem>
5275	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
5276	</listitem>
5277
5278	<listitem>
5279	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
5280	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
5281	</listitem>
5282
5283	<listitem>
5284	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
5285	</listitem>
5286
5287	<listitem>
5288	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
5289	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
5294	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
5295	(bug #2938)</para>
5296	</listitem>
5297
5298	<listitem>
5299	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
5300	Linux guests</para>
5301	</listitem>
5302
5303	<listitem>
5304	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
5305	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
5306	(bug #1776)</para>
5307	</listitem>
5308
5309	<listitem>
5310	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
5311	(bug #1612)</para>
5312	</listitem>
5313
5314	<listitem>
5315	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5316	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5317	</listitem>
5318
5319	<listitem>
5320	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5321	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5322	</listitem>
5323
5324	<listitem>
5325	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5326	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5327	</listitem>
5328
5329	</itemizedlist>
5330	</sect1>
5331
5332	<sect1>
5333	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5334
5335	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5336	were added:</para>
5337
5338	<itemizedlist>
5339	<listitem>
5340	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5341	</listitem>
5342
5343	<listitem>
5344	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5345	</listitem>
5346
5347	<listitem>
5348	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5349	</listitem>
5350
5351	<listitem>
5352	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5353	</listitem>
5354
5355	<listitem>
5356	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5357	</listitem>
5358
5359	<listitem>
5360	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5361	</listitem>
5362
5363	<listitem>
5364	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5365	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5366	</listitem>
5367
5368	<listitem>
5369	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5370	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5371	</listitem>
5372
5373	</itemizedlist>
5374
5375	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5376
5377	<itemizedlist>
5378	<listitem>
5379	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5380	</listitem>
5381
5382	<listitem>
5383	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5384	</listitem>
5385
5386	<listitem>
5387	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5388	</listitem>
5389
5390	<listitem>
5391	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5392	</listitem>
5393
5394	<listitem>
5395	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5396	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5397	</listitem>
5398
5399	<listitem>
5400	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5401	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5402	</listitem>
5403
5404	<listitem>
5405	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5406	</listitem>
5407
5408	<listitem>
5409	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5410	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5411	</listitem>
5412
5413	<listitem>
5414	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5415	</listitem>
5416
5417	<listitem>
5418	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5419	</listitem>
5420
5421	<listitem>
5422	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5423	</listitem>
5424
5425	<listitem>
5426	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5427	</listitem>
5428
5429	<listitem>
5430	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5431	</listitem>
5432
5433	<listitem>
5434	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5435	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5436	</listitem>
5437
5438	<listitem>
5439	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5440	the compiz window manager</para>
5441	</listitem>
5442
5443	<listitem>
5444	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5445	</listitem>
5446
5447	<listitem>
5448	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5449	</listitem>
5450
5451	<listitem>
5452	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5453	</listitem>
5454
5455	<listitem>
5456	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5457	</listitem>
5458
5459	<listitem>
5460	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5461	</listitem>
5462
5463	<listitem>
5464	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5465	</listitem>
5466
5467	<listitem>
5468	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5469	</listitem>
5470
5471	<listitem>
5472	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5473	</listitem>
5474
5475	<listitem>
5476	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5477	</listitem>
5478
5479	<listitem>
5480	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5481	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5482	</listitem>
5483
5484	<listitem>
5485	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5486	for direct device access</para>
5487	</listitem>
5488
5489	<listitem>
5490	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5491	</listitem>
5492
5493	<listitem>
5494	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5495	</listitem>
5496
5497	<listitem>
5498	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5499	</listitem>
5500
5501	<listitem>
5502	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5503	</listitem>
5504
5505	<listitem>
5506	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5507	</listitem>
5508
5509	<listitem>
5510	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5511	</listitem>
5512
5513	<listitem>
5514	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5515	</listitem>
5516
5517	<listitem>
5518	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5519	</listitem>
5520
5521	</itemizedlist>
5522	</sect1>
5523
5524	<sect1>
5525	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5526
5527	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5528	added:</para>
5529
5530	<itemizedlist>
5531
5532	<listitem>
5533	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5534	states/snapshots</para>
5535	</listitem>
5536
5537	<listitem>
5538	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5539	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5540	</listitem>
5541
5542	<listitem>
5543	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5544	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5545	</listitem>
5546
5547	<listitem>
5548	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5549	collisions</para>
5550	</listitem>
5551
5552	<listitem>
5553	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5554	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5555	</listitem>
5556
5557	<listitem>
5558	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5559	</listitem>
5560
5561	<listitem>
5562	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5563	reliably</para>
5564	</listitem>
5565
5566	<listitem>
5567	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5568	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5569	</listitem>
5570
5571	<listitem>
5572	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5573	a reboot</para>
5574	</listitem>
5575
5576	<listitem>
5577	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5578	</listitem>
5579
5580	<listitem>
5581	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5582	in parallel</para>
5583	</listitem>
5584
5585	<listitem>
5586	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5587	</listitem>
5588
5589	<listitem>
5590	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5591	correctly</para>
5592	</listitem>
5593
5594	<listitem>
5595	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5596	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5597	</listitem>
5598
5599	</itemizedlist>
5600	</sect1>
5601
5602	<sect1>
5603	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5604
5605	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5606	added:</para>
5607
5608	<itemizedlist>
5609
5610	<listitem>
5611	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5612	(bug #2220)</para>
5613	</listitem>
5614
5615	<listitem>
5616	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5617	</listitem>
5618
5619	<listitem>
5620	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5621	</listitem>
5622
5623	<listitem>
5624	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5625	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5626	</listitem>
5627
5628	<listitem>
5629	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5630	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5631	</listitem>
5632
5633	<listitem>
5634	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5635	(bug #2624)</para>
5636	</listitem>
5637
5638	<listitem>
5639	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5640	(bug #2024)</para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5645	</listitem>
5646
5647	<listitem>
5648	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5649	</listitem>
5650
5651	<listitem>
5652	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5653	</listitem>
5654
5655	<listitem>
5656	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5657	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5658	</listitem>
5659
5660	<listitem>
5661	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5662	applications when updating the installation</para>
5663	</listitem>
5664
5665	<listitem>
5666	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5667	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5668	</listitem>
5669
5670	<listitem>
5671	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5672	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5673	</listitem>
5674
5675	<listitem>
5676	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5677	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5678	</listitem>
5679
5680	<listitem>
5681	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5682	connected to a host device</para>
5683	</listitem>
5684
5685	<listitem>
5686	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5687	</listitem>
5688
5689	<listitem>
5690	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5691	</listitem>
5692
5693	<listitem>
5694	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5695	</listitem>
5696
5697	<listitem>
5698	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5699	when using native RDP connections</para>
5700	</listitem>
5701
5702	<listitem>
5703	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5704	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5705	</listitem>
5706
5707	<listitem>
5708	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5709	(bug #2591)</para>
5710	</listitem>
5711
5712	<listitem>
5713	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5714	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5715	</listitem>
5716
5717	<listitem>
5718	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5719	</listitem>
5720
5721	</itemizedlist>
5722	</sect1>
5723
5724	<sect1>
5725	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5726
5727	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5728	added:</para>
5729
5730	<itemizedlist>
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5733	</listitem>
5734
5735	<listitem>
5736	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5737	</listitem>
5738
5739	<listitem>
5740	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5741	</listitem>
5742
5743	<listitem>
5744	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5745	</listitem>
5746
5747	<listitem>
5748	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5753	</listitem>
5754
5755	<listitem>
5756	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5757	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5758	</listitem>
5759
5760	<listitem>
5761	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5762	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	<listitem>
5766	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5767	</listitem>
5768
5769	<listitem>
5770	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5771	equal to the client resolution</para>
5772	</listitem>
5773
5774	<listitem>
5775	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5776	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5777	</listitem>
5778
5779	<listitem>
5780	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5781	</listitem>
5782
5783	<listitem>
5784	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5785	</listitem>
5786
5787	<listitem>
5788	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5793	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5798	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	<listitem>
5802	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5803	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5804	</listitem>
5805
5806	<listitem>
5807	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5808	</listitem>
5809
5810	<listitem>
5811	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5812	</listitem>
5813
5814	<listitem>
5815	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5816	</listitem>
5817
5818	<listitem>
5819	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5820	</listitem>
5821
5822	<listitem>
5823	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5824	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5825	</listitem>
5826
5827	<listitem>
5828	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5829	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5830	</listitem>
5831
5832	<listitem>
5833	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5834	</listitem>
5835
5836	<listitem>
5837	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5842	</listitem>
5843
5844	</itemizedlist>
5845
5846	</sect1>
5847
5848	<sect1>
5849	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5850
5851	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5852	added:</para>
5853
5854	<itemizedlist>
5855
5856	<listitem>
5857	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5858	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5859	</listitem>
5860
5861	<listitem>
5862	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5863	</listitem>
5864
5865	<listitem>
5866	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5867	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5868	</listitem>
5869
5870	<listitem>
5871	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5872	</listitem>
5873
5874	<listitem>
5875	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5876	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5877	</listitem>
5878
5879	<listitem>
5880	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5881	</listitem>
5882
5883	<listitem>
5884	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5885	the virtual disk manager</para>
5886	</listitem>
5887
5888	<listitem>
5889	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5890	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5891	</listitem>
5892
5893	<listitem>
5894	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5895	</listitem>
5896
5897	<listitem>
5898	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5899	</listitem>
5900
5901	<listitem>
5902	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5903	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5904	</listitem>
5905
5906	<listitem>
5907	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5908	bug #2067)</para>
5909	</listitem>
5910
5911	<listitem>
5912	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5913	</listitem>
5914
5915	<listitem>
5916	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5917	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5918	</listitem>
5919
5920	<listitem>
5921	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5922	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5923	(bug #2184)</para>
5924	</listitem>
5925
5926	<listitem>
5927	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5928	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5929	</listitem>
5930
5931	<listitem>
5932	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5933	(Windows guests only)</para>
5934	</listitem>
5935
5936	<listitem>
5937	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5938	</listitem>
5939
5940	<listitem>
5941	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5942	</listitem>
5943
5944	<listitem>
5945	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5946	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5947	</listitem>
5948
5949	<listitem>
5950	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5951	</listitem>
5952
5953	<listitem>
5954	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5955	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5956	</para>
5957	</listitem>
5958
5959	<listitem>
5960	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5961	</listitem>
5962
5963	<listitem>
5964	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5965	</listitem>
5966
5967	<listitem>
5968	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5969	a VM reboot</para>
5970	</listitem>
5971
5972	<listitem>
5973	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5974	</listitem>
5975
5976	<listitem>
5977	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5978	buggy X servers</para>
5979	</listitem>
5980
5981	<listitem>
5982	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5983	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5984	</listitem>
5985
5986	<listitem>
5987	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5988	</listitem>
5989
5990	<listitem>
5991	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5992	(bug #2128)</para>
5993	</listitem>
5994
5995	<listitem>
5996	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5997	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5998	</listitem>
5999
6000	<listitem>
6001	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
6002	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
6003	</listitem>
6004
6005	<listitem>
6006	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
6007	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
6008	</listitem>
6009
6010	<listitem>
6011	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
6012	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
6013	</listitem>
6014
6015	<listitem>
6016	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
6017	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
6018	</listitem>
6019
6020	<listitem>
6021	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
6022	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
6023	</listitem>
6024
6025	<listitem>
6026	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
6027	installer into a single package</para>
6028	</listitem>
6029
6030	<listitem>
6031	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
6032	port to the guest
6033	</para>
6034	</listitem>
6035
6036	</itemizedlist>
6037
6038	</sect1>
6039
6040	<sect1>
6041	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
6042
6043	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6044	were added:<itemizedlist>
6045
6046	<listitem>
6047	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
6048	</listitem>
6049
6050	<listitem>
6051	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6052	</listitem>
6053
6054	<listitem>
6055	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
6056	</listitem>
6057
6058	<listitem>
6059	<para>New-version notifier</para>
6060	</listitem>
6061
6062	<listitem>
6063	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
6064	</listitem>
6065
6066	<listitem>
6067	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6068	</listitem>
6069
6070	<listitem>
6071	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
6072	</listitem>
6073
6074	<listitem>
6075	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
6076	</listitem>
6077
6078	<listitem>
6079	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
6080	</listitem>
6081
6082	<listitem>
6083	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
6084	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
6085	</listitem>
6086
6087	<listitem>
6088	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
6089	</listitem>
6090
6091	<listitem>
6092	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
6093	</listitem>
6094
6095	<listitem>
6096	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
6097	</listitem>
6098
6099	</itemizedlist></para>
6100
6101	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6102
6103	<itemizedlist>
6104
6105	<listitem>
6106	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
6107	</listitem>
6108
6109	<listitem>
6110	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
6111	</listitem>
6112
6113	<listitem>
6114	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
6115	</listitem>
6116
6117	<listitem>
6118	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
6119	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
6120	</listitem>
6121
6122	<listitem>
6123	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
6124	restored</para>
6125	</listitem>
6126
6127	<listitem>
6128	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
6129	</listitem>
6130
6131	<listitem>
6132	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
6133	</listitem>
6134
6135	<listitem>
6136	<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>
6137	</listitem>
6138
6139	</itemizedlist>
6140
6141	</sect1>
6142
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