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2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.1.0 Beta 3 (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, see <xref linkend="clone"/>)</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>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
25	bug #7822)</para>
26	</listitem>
27
28	<listitem>
29	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
30	</listitem>
31
32	<listitem>
33	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
34	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
35	</listitem>
36
37	<listitem>
38	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver</para>
39	</listitem>
40
41	<listitem>
42	<para>Guest Additions: modules and features now are represented as facilities
43	to have a common interface for frontends</para>
44	</listitem>
45
46	<listitem>
47	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
48	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
49	</listitem>
50
51	<listitem>
52	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
53	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
54	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
55	</listitem>
56
57	<listitem>
58	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
59	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
60	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
61	</listitem>
62
63	<listitem>
64	<para>Experimental support for SATA hotplug added. Currently only supported
65	for hard disks and only with VBoxManage.</para>
66	</listitem>
67
68	<listitem>
69	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for Solaris 11
70	hosts (build 159 and above).</para>
71	</listitem>
72
73
74	</itemizedlist>
75
76	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
77
78	<itemizedlist>
79
80	<listitem>
81	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
82	</listitem>
83
84	<listitem>
85	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
86	</listitem>
87
88	<listitem>
89	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
90	</listitem>
91
92	<listitem>
93	<para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
94	of the current state</para>
95	</listitem>
96
97	<listitem>
98	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
99	</listitem>
100
101	<listitem>
102	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
103	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
104	</listitem>
105
106	<listitem>
107	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
108	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
109	</listitem>
110
111	<listitem>
112	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
113	</listitem>
114
115	<listitem>
116	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
117	dialog</para>
118	</listitem>
119
120	<listitem>
121	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
122	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
123	</listitem>
124
125	<listitem>
126	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
127	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
128	</listitem>
129
130	<listitem>
131	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
132	be a valid UUID</para>
133	</listitem>
134
135	<listitem>
136	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
137	twice in a VM configuration</para>
138	</listitem>
139
140	<listitem>
141	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
142	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
143	cases</para>
144	</listitem>
145
146	<listitem>
147	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
148	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
149	improve performance</para>
150	</listitem>
151
152	<listitem>
153	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
154	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
155	on a temporary basis</para>
156	</listitem>
157
158	<listitem>
159	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
160	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
161	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
162	</listitem>
163
164	<listitem>
165	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
166	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
167	</listitem>
168
169	<listitem>
170	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
171	images in VDI format</para>
172	</listitem>
173
174	<listitem>
175	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
176	VMDK format</para>
177	</listitem>
178
179	<listitem>
180	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
181	controller (bug #8592)</para>
182	</listitem>
183
184	<listitem>
185	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
186	</listitem>
187
188	<listitem>
189	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
190	</listitem>
191
192	<listitem>
193	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
194	</listitem>
195
196	<listitem>
197	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
198	</listitem>
199
200	<listitem>
201	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
202	</listitem>
203
204	<listitem>
205	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
206	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
207	</listitem>
208
209	<listitem>
210	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
211	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
212	</listitem>
213
214	<listitem>
215	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections</para>
216	</listitem>
217
218	<listitem>
219	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
220	RDP clients</para>
221	</listitem>
222
223	<listitem>
224	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
225	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
226	</listitem>
227
228	<listitem>
229	<para>Webservice: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
230	be more robust when connections fail</para>
231	</listitem>
232
233	<listitem>
234	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
235	simultaneously</para>
236	</listitem>
237
238	<listitem>
239	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
240	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
241	location values in many places</para>
242	</listitem>
243
244	<listitem>
245	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
246	</listitem>
247
248	<listitem>
249	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
250	builds</para>
251	</listitem>
252
253	<listitem>
254	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
255	window (bug #4491)</para>
256	</listitem>
257
258	<listitem>
259	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
260	removing a VM</para>
261	</listitem>
262
263	<listitem>
264	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
265	</listitem>
266
267	<listitem>
268	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
269	</listitem>
270
271	<listitem>
272	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
273	from the host</para>
274	</listitem>
275
276	<listitem>
277	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
278	</listitem>
279
280	</itemizedlist>
281
282	</sect1>
283
284	<sect1>
285	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
286
287	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
288	added:</para>
289
290	<itemizedlist>
291
292	<listitem>
293	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
294	</listitem>
295
296	<listitem>
297	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
298	</listitem>
299
300	<listitem>
301	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
302	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
303	</listitem>
304
305	<listitem>
306	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
307	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
308	</listitem>
309
310	<listitem>
311	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
316	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
317	</listitem>
318
319	<listitem>
320	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
321	</listitem>
322
323	<listitem>
324	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
325	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
326	</listitem>
327
328	<listitem>
329	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
330	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
331	</listitem>
332
333	<listitem>
334	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
335	</listitem>
336
337	<listitem>
338	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
339	</listitem>
340
341	<listitem>
342	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
343	file was not written during export</para>
344	</listitem>
345
346	<listitem>
347	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
348	</listitem>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
352	</listitem>
353
354	<listitem>
355	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
356	</listitem>
357
358	<listitem>
359	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
360	binaries</para>
361	</listitem>
362
363	<listitem>
364	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
365	</listitem>
366
367	<listitem>
368	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
369	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
370	</listitem>
371
372	<listitem>
373	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
374	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
375	</listitem>
376
377	<listitem>
378	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
379	</listitem>
380
381	<listitem>
382	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
383	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
384	</listitem>
385
386	</itemizedlist>
387	</sect1>
388
389	<sect1>
390	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
391
392	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
393	added:</para>
394
395	<itemizedlist>
396
397	<listitem>
398	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
399	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
400	</listitem>
401
402	<listitem>
403	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
404	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
405	</listitem>
406
407	<listitem>
408	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
409	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
410	</listitem>
411
412	<listitem>
413	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
414	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
415	</listitem>
416
417	<listitem>
418	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
419	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
424	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
425	</listitem>
426
427	<listitem>
428	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
429	(Windows hosts only)</para>
430	</listitem>
431
432	<listitem>
433	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
434	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
435	</listitem>
436
437	<listitem>
438	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
439	</listitem>
440
441	<listitem>
442	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
443	</listitem>
444
445	<listitem>
446	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
447	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
448	</listitem>
449
450	<listitem>
451	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
452	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
453	</listitem>
454
455	<listitem>
456	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
457	</listitem>
458
459	<listitem>
460	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
461	</listitem>
462
463	<listitem>
464	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
465	(Linux hosts only)</para>
466	</listitem>
467
468	<listitem>
469	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
470	(Windows hosts only)</para>
471	</listitem>
472
473	<listitem>
474	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
475	window</para>
476	</listitem>
477
478	<listitem>
479	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
480	Fedora 15</para>
481	</listitem>
482
483	<listitem>
484	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
485	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
486	</listitem>
487
488	<listitem>
489	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
490	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	<listitem>
494	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
495	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
496	</listitem>
497
498	<listitem>
499	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
500	</listitem>
501
502	<listitem>
503	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
504	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
505	</listitem>
506
507	</itemizedlist>
508	</sect1>
509
510	<sect1>
511	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
512
513	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
514	added:</para>
515
516	<itemizedlist>
517
518	<listitem>
519	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
520	a VMM from a saved state</para>
521	</listitem>
522
523	<listitem>
524	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
525	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
526	</listitem>
527
528	<listitem>
529	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
530	(bug #8006)</para>
531	</listitem>
532
533	<listitem>
534	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
535	(bug #8726)</para>
536	</listitem>
537
538	<listitem>
539	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
540	</listitem>
541
542	<listitem>
543	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
544	</listitem>
545
546	<listitem>
547	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
548	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
549	</listitem>
550
551	<listitem>
552	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
553	(bug #8469)</para>
554	</listitem>
555
556	<listitem>
557	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
558	selectors</para>
559	</listitem>
560
561	<listitem>
562	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
563	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
564	</listitem>
565
566	<listitem>
567	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
568	folder (bug #8673)</para>
569	</listitem>
570
571	<listitem>
572	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
573	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
574	</listitem>
575
576	<listitem>
577	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
578	</listitem>
579
580	<listitem>
581	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
582	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
583	</listitem>
584
585	<listitem>
586	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
587	</listitem>
588
589	<listitem>
590	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
591	</listitem>
592
593	<listitem>
594	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
595	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
596	</listitem>
597
598	<listitem>
599	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
600	I/O error occurred</para>
601	</listitem>
602
603	<listitem>
604	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
605	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
606	</listitem>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
610	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
615	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
616	if no medium is present</para>
617	</listitem>
618
619	<listitem>
620	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
625	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
630	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
635	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
636	</listitem>
637
638	<listitem>
639	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
640	</listitem>
641
642	<listitem>
643	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
644	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
645	</listitem>
646
647	<listitem>
648	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
649	library (bug #8063)</para>
650	</listitem>
651
652	<listitem>
653	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
654	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
655	</listitem>
656
657	<listitem>
658	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
659	</listitem>
660
661	<listitem>
662	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
663	</listitem>
664
665	<listitem>
666	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
667	</listitem>
668
669	<listitem>
670	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
671	changed on import</para>
672	</listitem>
673
674	<listitem>
675	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
676	</listitem>
677
678	<listitem>
679	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
680	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
681	</listitem>
682
683	<listitem>
684	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
685	(bug #8593)</para>
686	</listitem>
687
688	<listitem>
689	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
690	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
691	</listitem>
692
693	<listitem>
694	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
695	captured</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
700	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
701	</listitem>
702
703	<listitem>
704	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
705	</para>
706	</listitem>
707
708	<listitem>
709	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
710	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
711	</listitem>
712
713	<listitem>
714	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
715	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
716	</listitem>
717
718	<listitem>
719	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
720	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
721	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
722	</listitem>
723
724	<listitem>
725	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
726	to unkillable VM processes</para>
727	</listitem>
728
729	<listitem>
730	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
731	</listitem>
732
733	<listitem>
734	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
735	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
736	</listitem>
737
738	<listitem>
739	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
740	on legacy Windows versions</para>
741	</listitem>
742
743	<listitem>
744	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
745	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
746	</listitem>
747
748	<listitem>
749	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
750	</listitem>
751
752	<listitem>
753	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
754	</listitem>
755
756	<listitem>
757	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
758	</listitem>
759
760	<listitem>
761	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
766	(bug #7946)</para>
767	</listitem>
768
769	<listitem>
770	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
771	</listitem>
772
773	<listitem>
774	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
775	</listitem>
776
777	<listitem>
778	<para>Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
779	</listitem>
780
781	</itemizedlist>
782
783	</sect1>
784
785	<sect1>
786	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
787
788	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
789	added:</para>
790
791	<itemizedlist>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
795	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
800	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
801	</listitem>
802
803	<listitem>
804	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
805	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
806	</listitem>
807
808	<listitem>
809	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
810	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
811	</listitem>
812
813	<listitem>
814	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
815	number of host network interfaces</para>
816	</listitem>
817
818	<listitem>
819	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
820	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
821	</listitem>
822
823	<listitem>
824	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
825	</listitem>
826
827	<listitem>
828	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
829	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
830	</listitem>
831
832	<listitem>
833	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
834	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
835	</listitem>
836
837	<listitem>
838	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
839	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
840	</listitem>
841
842	<listitem>
843	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
844	</listitem>
845
846	<listitem>
847	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
848	(bug #6577)</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
853	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
854	(bug #8235)</para>
855	</listitem>
856
857	<listitem>
858	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
859	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
860	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
861	</listitem>
862
863	<listitem>
864	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
865	</listitem>
866
867	<listitem>
868	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
869	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
870	</listitem>
871
872	<listitem>
873	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric.</para>
874	</listitem>
875
876	<listitem>
877	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
878	(bug #7966)</para>
879	</listitem>
880
881	<listitem>
882	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
887	</listitem>
888
889	<listitem>
890	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
891	</listitem>
892
893	<listitem>
894	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
895	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
896	</listitem>
897
898	<listitem>
899	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
900	</listitem>
901
902	<listitem>
903	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
904	</listitem>
905
906	<listitem>
907	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
908	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
909	</listitem>
910
911	<listitem>
912	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
913	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
914	</listitem>
915
916	<listitem>
917	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
918	</listitem>
919
920	<listitem>
921	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
922	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
923	</listitem>
924
925	<listitem>
926	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
927	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
928	(bug #8122)</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	<listitem>
932	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
933	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
938	</listitem>
939
940	<listitem>
941	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
942	</listitem>
943
944	<listitem>
945	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
946	(bug #1548)</para>
947	</listitem>
948
949	<listitem>
950	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
951	</listitem>
952
953	<listitem>
954	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
955	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
956	</listitem>
957
958	<listitem>
959	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
964	(bug #8231)</para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
969	11.04 Alpha.</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	<listitem>
973	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
974	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login.</para>
975	</listitem>
976
977	<listitem>
978	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
979	VirtualBox versions can't handle.</para>
980	</listitem>
981
982	<listitem>
983	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
984	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
989	with VBoxGINA</para>
990	</listitem>
991
992	</itemizedlist>
993
994	</sect1>
995
996	<sect1>
997	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
998
999	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1000	added:</para>
1001
1002	<itemizedlist>
1003
1004	<listitem>
1005	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
1006	settings vanished</para>
1007	</listitem>
1008
1009	<listitem>
1010	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
1011	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
1012	</listitem>
1013
1014	<listitem>
1015	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
1016	created (bug #8031)</para>
1017	</listitem>
1018
1019	<listitem>
1020	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
1021	</listitem>
1022
1023	<listitem>
1024	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
1025	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
1026	</listitem>
1027
1028	<listitem>
1029	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
1030	an extension pack</para>
1031	</listitem>
1032
1033	<listitem>
1034	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
1035	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
1036	</listitem>
1037
1038	<listitem>
1039	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
1040	</listitem>
1041
1042	<listitem>
1043	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
1044	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
1045	</listitem>
1046
1047	<listitem>
1048	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
1049	host-only interface</para>
1050	</listitem>
1051
1052	<listitem>
1053	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
1054	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
1055	</listitem>
1056
1057	<listitem>
1058	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
1059	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
1060	</listitem>
1061
1062	<listitem>
1063	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
1064	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
1065	</listitem>
1066
1067	<listitem>
1068	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
1069	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
1070	</listitem>
1071
1072	<listitem>
1073	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
1074	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
1075	</listitem>
1076
1077	<listitem>
1078	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
1079	</listitem>
1080
1081	<listitem>
1082	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
1083	</listitem>
1084
1085	<listitem>
1086	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
1087	guests</para>
1088	</listitem>
1089
1090	<listitem>
1091	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
1096	</listitem>
1097
1098	<listitem>
1099	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
1100	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
1101	</listitem>
1102
1103	<listitem>
1104	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
1105	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
1106	</listitem>
1107
1108	<listitem>
1109	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
1110	a VM start</para>
1111	</listitem>
1112
1113	<listitem>
1114	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
1115	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
1116	</listitem>
1117
1118	<listitem>
1119	<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented
1120	(bug #6067)</para>
1121	</listitem>
1122
1123	<listitem>
1124	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
1125	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
1126	</listitem>
1127
1128	<listitem>
1129	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
1130	not saved to machine XML</para>
1131	</listitem>
1132
1133	<listitem>
1134	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
1135	#7983)</para>
1136	</listitem>
1137
1138	<listitem>
1139	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
1140	#7981)</para>
1141	</listitem>
1142
1143	<listitem>
1144	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
1149	regression)</para>
1150	</listitem>
1151
1152	<listitem>
1153	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
1154	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
1155	</listitem>
1156
1157	<listitem>
1158	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
1159	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
1160	</listitem>
1161
1162	</itemizedlist>
1163
1164	</sect1>
1165
1166	<sect1>
1167	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
1168
1169	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1170	were added:</para>
1171
1172	<itemizedlist>
1173
1174	<listitem>
1175	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
1176	</listitem>
1177
1178	<listitem>
1179	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
1180	</listitem>
1181
1182	<listitem>
1183	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
1184	<itemizedlist>
1185	<listitem>
1186	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
1187	</listitem>
1188
1189	<listitem>
1190	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
1191	</listitem>
1192
1193	<listitem>
1194	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
1195	</listitem>
1196
1197	<listitem>
1198	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
1199	</listitem>
1200
1201	<listitem>
1202	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
1203	states, and optionally including attached
1204	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
1205	can do the same now)</para>
1206	</listitem>
1207
1208	<listitem>
1209	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
1210	</listitem>
1211
1212	</itemizedlist>
1213	</para>
1214	</listitem>
1215
1216	<listitem>
1217	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
1218	</listitem>
1219
1220	<listitem>
1221	<para>New virtual hardware:
1222	<itemizedlist>
1223	<listitem>
1224	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
1225	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
1230	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
1231	</listitem>
1232	</itemizedlist>
1233	</para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
1238	<itemizedlist>
1239	<listitem>
1240	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
1241	</listitem>
1242
1243	<listitem>
1244	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
1245	</para>
1246	</listitem>
1247
1248	<listitem>
1249	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
1250	now</para>
1251	</listitem>
1252
1253	<listitem>
1254	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	</itemizedlist>
1258	</para>
1259	</listitem>
1260
1261	<listitem>
1262	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
1263	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
1264	</listitem>
1265
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
1268	Parallels images</para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
1273	</listitem>
1274
1275	<listitem>
1276	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
1277	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
1278	</listitem>
1279
1280	<listitem>
1281	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
1282	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	</itemizedlist>
1286
1287	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1288
1289	<itemizedlist>
1290
1291	<listitem>
1292	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
1293	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
1294	</listitem>
1295
1296	<listitem>
1297	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
1298	</listitem>
1299
1300	<listitem>
1301	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
1302	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
1303	</listitem>
1304
1305	<listitem>
1306	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
1307	(bug #1657)</para>
1308	</listitem>
1309
1310	<listitem>
1311	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
1312	</listitem>
1313
1314	<listitem>
1315	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
1316	</listitem>
1317
1318	<listitem>
1319	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
1320	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
1321	</listitem>
1322
1323	<listitem>
1324	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
1325	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
1326	</listitem>
1327
1328	<listitem>
1329	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
1330	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
1331	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
1332	</listitem>
1333
1334	<listitem>
1335	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1336	again (bug #6864)</para>
1337	</listitem>
1338
1339	<listitem>
1340	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
1341	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
1342	</listitem>
1343
1344	<listitem>
1345	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
1346	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
1347	</listitem>
1348
1349	<listitem>
1350	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
1351	</listitem>
1352
1353	<listitem>
1354	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
1355	</listitem>
1356
1357	<listitem>
1358	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
1359	</listitem>
1360
1361	<listitem>
1362	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
1363	</listitem>
1364
1365	<listitem>
1366	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
1367	</listitem>
1368
1369	<listitem>
1370	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
1371	</listitem>
1372
1373	<listitem>
1374	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
1375	</listitem>
1376
1377	<listitem>
1378	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
1379	(bug #7058)</para>
1380	</listitem>
1381
1382	<listitem>
1383	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
1384	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
1385	</listitem>
1386
1387	<listitem>
1388	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
1389	circumstances</para>
1390	</listitem>
1391
1392	<listitem>
1393	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
1394	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
1395	#5578)
1396	</para>
1397	</listitem>
1398
1399	<listitem>
1400	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
1401	</listitem>
1402
1403	<listitem>
1404	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
1405	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
1406	</listitem>
1407
1408	<listitem>
1409	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
1414	#6760)</para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417	<listitem>
1418	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
1419	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
1420	</listitem>
1421
1422	<listitem>
1423	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
1424	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
1429	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
1434	</listitem>
1435
1436	<listitem>
1437	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
1438	file</para>
1439	</listitem>
1440
1441	<listitem>
1442	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1443	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1444	</listitem>
1445
1446	</itemizedlist>
1447
1448	</sect1>
1449
1450	<sect1>
1451	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
1452
1453	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1454	added:</para>
1455
1456	<itemizedlist>
1457
1458	<listitem>
1459	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
1460	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
1461	</listitem>
1462
1463	<listitem>
1464	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
1465	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
1466	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
1467	</listitem>
1468
1469	<listitem>
1470	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
1471	</listitem>
1472
1473	<listitem>
1474	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
1475	</listitem>
1476
1477	<listitem>
1478	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
1479	</listitem>
1480
1481	<listitem>
1482	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
1483	the VM is running</para>
1484	</listitem>
1485
1486	<listitem>
1487	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
1488	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
1489	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
1490	starting from a saved state</para>
1491	</listitem>
1492
1493	<listitem>
1494	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
1495	</listitem>
1496
1497	<listitem>
1498	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
1499	</listitem>
1500
1501	<listitem>
1502	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
1507	</listitem>
1508
1509	<listitem>
1510	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
1511	</listitem>
1512
1513	<listitem>
1514	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
1515	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
1516	</listitem>
1517
1518	<listitem>
1519	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
1520	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
1521	</listitem>
1522
1523	<listitem>
1524	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
1525	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
1526	</listitem>
1527
1528	<listitem>
1529	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
1530	</listitem>
1531
1532	<listitem>
1533	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
1534	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
1535	</para>
1536	</listitem>
1537
1538	<listitem>
1539	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
1540	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
1541	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
1542	</listitem>
1543
1544	<listitem>
1545	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
1546	only)</para>
1547	</listitem>
1548
1549	<listitem>
1550	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
1551	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
1552	</listitem>
1553
1554	<listitem>
1555	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
1556	</listitem>
1557
1558	<listitem>
1559	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
1560	</listitem>
1561
1562	<listitem>
1563	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
1564	</listitem>
1565
1566	<listitem>
1567	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
1568	state (bug #4124)</para>
1569	</listitem>
1570
1571	<listitem>
1572	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
1573	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
1574	</listitem>
1575
1576	<listitem>
1577	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
1578	</listitem>
1579
1580	<listitem>
1581	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
1582	(bug #2996)</para>
1583	</listitem>
1584
1585	<listitem>
1586	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
1587	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
1588	</listitem>
1589
1590	<listitem>
1591	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
1592	</listitem>
1593
1594	<listitem>
1595	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
1596	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
1597	</listitem>
1598
1599	<listitem>
1600	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
1601	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
1602	</listitem>
1603
1604	<listitem>
1605	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
1606	user accounts for VM information</para>
1607	</listitem>
1608
1609	</itemizedlist>
1610
1611	</sect1>
1612
1613	<sect1>
1614	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
1615
1616	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1617	added:</para>
1618
1619	<itemizedlist>
1620
1621	<listitem>
1622	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
1623	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
1624	</listitem>
1625
1626	<listitem>
1627	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
1628	</listitem>
1629
1630	<listitem>
1631	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
1632	</listitem>
1633
1634	<listitem>
1635	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
1636	</listitem>
1637
1638	<listitem>
1639	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
1640	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
1641	</listitem>
1642
1643	<listitem>
1644	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
1645	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
1646	</listitem>
1647
1648	<listitem>
1649	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
1650	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
1651	</listitem>
1652
1653	<listitem>
1654	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
1655	(bug #4952)</para>
1656	</listitem>
1657
1658	<listitem>
1659	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1660	bug #6122)</para>
1661	</listitem>
1662
1663	<listitem>
1664	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
1665	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
1666	</listitem>
1667
1668	<listitem>
1669	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
1670	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
1671	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1672	</listitem>
1673
1674	<listitem>
1675	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
1676	</listitem>
1677
1678	<listitem>
1679	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
1680	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
1681	</listitem>
1682
1683	<listitem>
1684	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
1685	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
1686	</listitem>
1687
1688	<listitem>
1689	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
1690	canceled</para>
1691	</listitem>
1692
1693	<listitem>
1694	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
1695	</listitem>
1696
1697	<listitem>
1698	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
1699	</listitem>
1700
1701	<listitem>
1702	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
1703	</listitem>
1704
1705	<listitem>
1706	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
1707	</listitem>
1708
1709	<listitem>
1710	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
1711	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
1712	</listitem>
1713
1714	<listitem>
1715	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
1716	</listitem>
1717
1718	<listitem>
1719	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
1720	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1721	</listitem>
1722
1723	<listitem>
1724	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
1725	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
1726	</listitem>
1727
1728	<listitem>
1729	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
1730	</listitem>
1731
1732	<listitem>
1733	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
1734	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
1735	</listitem>
1736
1737	<listitem>
1738	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
1739	</listitem>
1740
1741	<listitem>
1742	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
1743	circumstances</para>
1744	</listitem>
1745
1746	<listitem>
1747	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
1748	printers</para>
1749	</listitem>
1750
1751	<listitem>
1752	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
1753	</listitem>
1754
1755	<listitem>
1756	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
1757	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
1758	</listitem>
1759
1760	<listitem>
1761	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
1762	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
1763	</listitem>
1764
1765	<listitem>
1766	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
1767	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
1768	circumstances</para>
1769	</listitem>
1770
1771	<listitem>
1772	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
1773	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
1774	</listitem>
1775
1776	<listitem>
1777	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
1778	as supported extension</para>
1779	</listitem>
1780
1781	<listitem>
1782	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
1783	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
1784	</listitem>
1785
1786	<listitem>
1787	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
1788	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
1789	</listitem>
1790
1791	<listitem>
1792	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
1793	</listitem>
1794
1795	<listitem>
1796	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
1797	(bug #7366)</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
1806	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
1811	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
1816	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
1821	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
1822	</listitem>
1823
1824	<listitem>
1825	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
1826	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
1827	</listitem>
1828
1829	<listitem>
1830	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
1831	</listitem>
1832
1833	<listitem>
1834	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
1835	</listitem>
1836
1837	<listitem>
1838	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
1839	more than one environment variable</para>
1840	</listitem>
1841
1842	<listitem>
1843	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
1844	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
1849	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
1854	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
1855	</listitem>
1856
1857	<listitem>
1858	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
1859	enumerating logged in users</para>
1860	</listitem>
1861
1862	<listitem>
1863	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
1868	</listitem>
1869
1870	<listitem>
1871	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
1872	</listitem>
1873
1874	<listitem>
1875	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
1876	in the event of a VM crash</para>
1877	</listitem>
1878
1879	<listitem>
1880	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
1881	</listitem>
1882
1883	<listitem>
1884	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
1885	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
1886	</listitem>
1887
1888	<listitem>
1889	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
1890	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
1891	</listitem>
1892
1893	<listitem>
1894	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
1895	(bug #7448)</para>
1896	</listitem>
1897
1898	<listitem>
1899	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
1900	</listitem>
1901
1902	<listitem>
1903	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
1904	</listitem>
1905
1906	<listitem>
1907	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
1908	</listitem>
1909
1910	</itemizedlist>
1911
1912	</sect1>
1913
1914	<sect1>
1915	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
1916
1917	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1918	added:</para>
1919
1920	<itemizedlist>
1921
1922	<listitem>
1923	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
1924	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
1925	</listitem>
1926
1927	<listitem>
1928	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	<listitem>
1932	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
1933	bug #6809)</para>
1934	</listitem>
1935
1936	<listitem>
1937	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
1938	</listitem>
1939
1940	<listitem>
1941	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
1946	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
1951	changes</para>
1952	</listitem>
1953
1954	<listitem>
1955	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
1956	</listitem>
1957
1958	<listitem>
1959	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
1960	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
1965	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
1966	</listitem>
1967
1968	<listitem>
1969	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
1974	</listitem>
1975
1976	<listitem>
1977	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
1978	</listitem>
1979
1980	<listitem>
1981	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
1982	</listitem>
1983
1984	<listitem>
1985	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
1986	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
1987	</listitem>
1988
1989	<listitem>
1990	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
1991	</listitem>
1992
1993	<listitem>
1994	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
1995	(bug #6832)</para>
1996	</listitem>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
2000	guests</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
2005	</listitem>
2006
2007	<listitem>
2008	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
2009	without external tools and tricks</para>
2010	</listitem>
2011
2012	<listitem>
2013	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
2014	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
2015	</listitem>
2016
2017	<listitem>
2018	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
2019	</listitem>
2020
2021	<listitem>
2022	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
2023	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
2024	</listitem>
2025
2026	<listitem>
2027	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
2028	shutdown</para>
2029	</listitem>
2030
2031	<listitem>
2032	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
2033	fixes</para>
2034	</listitem>
2035
2036	<listitem>
2037	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
2038	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
2039	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
2040	</para>
2041	</listitem>
2042
2043	<listitem>
2044	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
2045	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
2046	</listitem>
2047
2048	<listitem>
2049	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
2050	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
2051	</listitem>
2052
2053	<listitem>
2054	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
2055	</para>
2056	</listitem>
2057
2058	<listitem>
2059	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
2060	</listitem>
2061
2062	<listitem>
2063	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
2068	</listitem>
2069
2070	</itemizedlist>
2071
2072	</sect1>
2073
2074	<sect1>
2075	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
2076
2077	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2078	added:</para>
2079
2080	<itemizedlist>
2081
2082	<listitem>
2083	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
2084	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
2085	</listitem>
2086
2087	<listitem>
2088	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
2089	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
2090	</listitem>
2091
2092	<listitem>
2093	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
2094	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
2095	</listitem>
2096
2097	<listitem>
2098	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
2099	</listitem>
2100
2101	<listitem>
2102	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
2107	</listitem>
2108
2109	<listitem>
2110	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
2111	</listitem>
2112
2113	<listitem>
2114	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
2115	assigned</para>
2116	</listitem>
2117
2118	<listitem>
2119	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
2120	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
2125	multiple screens are enabled</para>
2126	</listitem>
2127
2128	<listitem>
2129	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2130	</listitem>
2131
2132	<listitem>
2133	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
2134	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
2135	</listitem>
2136
2137	<listitem>
2138	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
2139	again (bug #7022).
2140	</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	<listitem>
2144	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
2145	(bug #6768)</para>
2146	</listitem>
2147
2148	<listitem>
2149	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
2150	(bug #6927)</para>
2151	</listitem>
2152
2153	<listitem>
2154	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
2155	bug #7031)</para>
2156	</listitem>
2157
2158	<listitem>
2159	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
2160	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
2161	</listitem>
2162
2163	<listitem>
2164	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
2165	bug #6987)</para>
2166	</listitem>
2167
2168	<listitem>
2169	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
2170	</listitem>
2171
2172	<listitem>
2173	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
2174	</listitem>
2175
2176	<listitem>
2177	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
2178	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
2179	</listitem>
2180
2181	<listitem>
2182	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
2183	</listitem>
2184
2185	<listitem>
2186	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
2187	installation (bug #5101)</para>
2188	</listitem>
2189
2190	<listitem>
2191	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
2196	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
2197	bug #6872)</para>
2198	</listitem>
2199
2200	<listitem>
2201	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
2206	(performance tweak)</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
2211	is currently paused</para>
2212	</listitem>
2213
2214	<listitem>
2215	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
2216	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
2221	</listitem>
2222
2223	<listitem>
2224	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
2225	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
2226	</listitem>
2227
2228	<listitem>
2229	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
2230	not properly saved</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
2235	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
2240	</listitem>
2241
2242	<listitem>
2243	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
2244	</listitem>
2245
2246	<listitem>
2247	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
2248	</listitem>
2249
2250	<listitem>
2251	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
2252	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
2253	</listitem>
2254
2255	<listitem>
2256	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
2257	</listitem>
2258
2259	<listitem>
2260	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
2261	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
2262	</listitem>
2263
2264	<listitem>
2265	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
2266	(bug #5251)</para>
2267	</listitem>
2268
2269	<listitem>
2270	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
2271	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
2272	</listitem>
2273
2274	<listitem>
2275	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
2276	</listitem>
2277
2278	<listitem>
2279	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
2280	</listitem>
2281
2282	<listitem>
2283	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2284	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2285	</listitem>
2286
2287	<listitem>
2288	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
2289	</listitem>
2290
2291	<listitem>
2292	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
2293	</listitem>
2294
2295	<listitem>
2296	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
2297	</listitem>
2298
2299	</itemizedlist>
2300	</sect1>
2301
2302	<sect1>
2303	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
2304
2305	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2306	added:</para>
2307
2308	<itemizedlist>
2309
2310	<listitem>
2311	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
2312	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2317	</listitem>
2318
2319	<listitem>
2320	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
2321	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
2322	</listitem>
2323
2324	<listitem>
2325	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
2326	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
2327	</listitem>
2328
2329	<listitem>
2330	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
2331	</listitem>
2332
2333	<listitem>
2334	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2335	again (bug #6864)</para>
2336	</listitem>
2337
2338	<listitem>
2339	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
2340	applications (bug #5236)</para>
2341	</listitem>
2342
2343	<listitem>
2344	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
2345	</listitem>
2346
2347	<listitem>
2348	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
2349	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
2350	</listitem>
2351
2352	<listitem>
2353	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
2354	</listitem>
2355
2356	</itemizedlist>
2357
2358	</sect1>
2359
2360	<sect1>
2361	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
2362
2363	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2364	added:</para>
2365
2366	<itemizedlist>
2367
2368	<listitem>
2369	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
2374	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
2375	</listitem>
2376
2377	<listitem>
2378	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
2379	</listitem>
2380
2381	<listitem>
2382	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
2383	state</para>
2384	</listitem>
2385
2386	<listitem>
2387	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
2388	</listitem>
2389
2390	<listitem>
2391	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2392	</listitem>
2393
2394	<listitem>
2395	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
2396	</listitem>
2397
2398	<listitem>
2399	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
2400	</listitem>
2401
2402	<listitem>
2403	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
2404	</listitem>
2405
2406	<listitem>
2407	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
2408	</listitem>
2409
2410	<listitem>
2411	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
2416	</listitem>
2417
2418	<listitem>
2419	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
2420	</listitem>
2421
2422	<listitem>
2423	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
2424	</listitem>
2425
2426	<listitem>
2427	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
2428	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
2429	</listitem>
2430
2431	<listitem>
2432	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
2433	(bug #6784)</para>
2434	</listitem>
2435
2436	<listitem>
2437	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
2438	</listitem>
2439
2440	<listitem>
2441	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
2442	</listitem>
2443
2444	<listitem>
2445	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
2446	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
2447	</listitem>
2448
2449	<listitem>
2450	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
2451	</listitem>
2452
2453	<listitem>
2454	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
2455	</listitem>
2456
2457	<listitem>
2458	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
2459	host only</para>
2460	</listitem>
2461
2462	<listitem>
2463	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
2464	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
2465	</listitem>
2466
2467	<listitem>
2468	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
2469	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
2470	</listitem>
2471
2472	<listitem>
2473	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
2474	</listitem>
2475
2476	<listitem>
2477	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
2478	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
2479	</listitem>
2480
2481	<listitem>
2482	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
2483	</listitem>
2484
2485	<listitem>
2486	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
2487	</listitem>
2488
2489	<listitem>
2490	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
2491	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
2492	</listitem>
2493
2494	<listitem>
2495	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
2500	</listitem>
2501
2502	<listitem>
2503	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
2504	</listitem>
2505
2506	<listitem>
2507	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
2508	(bug #6714)</para>
2509	</listitem>
2510
2511	<listitem>
2512	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
2513	</listitem>
2514
2515	<listitem>
2516	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
2517	</listitem>
2518
2519	<listitem>
2520	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
2521	</listitem>
2522
2523	<listitem>
2524	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
2525	</listitem>
2526
2527	<listitem>
2528	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
2529	</listitem>
2530
2531	</itemizedlist>
2532
2533	</sect1>
2534
2535	<sect1>
2536	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
2537
2538	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2539	were added:</para>
2540
2541	<itemizedlist>
2542
2543	<listitem>
2544	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
2545	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
2546	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
2547	</listitem>
2548
2549	<listitem>
2550	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
2551	</listitem>
2552
2553	<listitem>
2554	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
2555	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
2556	</listitem>
2557
2558	<listitem>
2559	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
2560	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
2561	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
2562	</listitem>
2563
2564	<listitem>
2565	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
2566	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
2567	</listitem>
2568
2569	<listitem>
2570	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
2571	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
2572	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
2573	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
2574	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
2575	</listitem>
2576
2577	<listitem>
2578	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
2579	</listitem>
2580
2581	<listitem>
2582	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
2583	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
2584	</listitem>
2585
2586	<listitem>
2587	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
2588	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
2589	</listitem>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
2593	</listitem>
2594
2595	<listitem>
2596	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
2597	</listitem>
2598
2599	<listitem>
2600	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
2601	</listitem>
2602
2603	<listitem>
2604	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
2605	</listitem>
2606
2607	<listitem>
2608	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
2609	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
2610	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
2611	</listitem>
2612
2613	<listitem>
2614	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
2615	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
2616	</listitem>
2617
2618	</itemizedlist>
2619
2620	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2621
2622	<itemizedlist>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
2626	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
2631	</listitem>
2632
2633	<listitem>
2634	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
2635	VM</para>
2636	</listitem>
2637
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
2640	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
2641	</listitem>
2642
2643	<listitem>
2644	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
2645	#1669)</para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
2650	#6442)</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
2655	combination (bug #684)</para>
2656	</listitem>
2657
2658	<listitem>
2659	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
2660	the VM from the GUI</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
2665	medium is not accessible</para>
2666	</listitem>
2667
2668	<listitem>
2669	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
2670	</listitem>
2671
2672	<listitem>
2673	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
2674	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
2675	</listitem>
2676
2677	<listitem>
2678	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
2679	#3106)</para>
2680	</listitem>
2681
2682	<listitem>
2683	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
2684	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
2685	it</para>
2686	</listitem>
2687
2688	<listitem>
2689	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
2690	</listitem>
2691
2692	<listitem>
2693	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2694	</listitem>
2695
2696	<listitem>
2697	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
2698	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
2699	</listitem>
2700
2701	<listitem>
2702	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
2703	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
2704	</listitem>
2705
2706	<listitem>
2707	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
2708	</listitem>
2709
2710	<listitem>
2711	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
2712	</listitem>
2713
2714	<listitem>
2715	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
2716	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
2717	</listitem>
2718
2719	<listitem>
2720	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
2721	</listitem>
2722
2723	<listitem>
2724	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
2725	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
2726	</listitem>
2727
2728	<listitem>
2729	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
2730	</listitem>
2731
2732	<listitem>
2733	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
2734	in VirtualBox</para>
2735	</listitem>
2736
2737	<listitem>
2738	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
2739	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
2740	</listitem>
2741
2742	<listitem>
2743	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
2744	VirtualBox</para>
2745	</listitem>
2746
2747	<listitem>
2748	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
2749	</listitem>
2750
2751	<listitem>
2752	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
2753	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
2754	</listitem>
2755
2756	</itemizedlist>
2757	</sect1>
2758
2759	<sect1>
2760	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
2761
2762	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2763	added:</para>
2764
2765	<itemizedlist>
2766
2767	<listitem>
2768	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
2769	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
2770	</listitem>
2771
2772	<listitem>
2773	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
2774	</listitem>
2775
2776	<listitem>
2777	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
2782	only) </para>
2783	</listitem>
2784
2785	<listitem>
2786	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
2787	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
2792	interface version</para>
2793	</listitem>
2794
2795	<listitem>
2796	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
2797	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
2798	slot empty</para>
2799	</listitem>
2800
2801	<listitem>
2802	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
2803	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
2804	(bug #4220)</para>
2805	</listitem>
2806
2807	<listitem>
2808	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
2809	</listitem>
2810
2811	<listitem>
2812	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
2813	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
2814	</listitem>
2815
2816	<listitem>
2817	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
2818	using the drivers from LSI</para>
2819	</listitem>
2820
2821	<listitem>
2822	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
2823	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
2824	</listitem>
2825
2826	<listitem>
2827	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
2828	attached</para>
2829	</listitem>
2830
2831	<listitem>
2832	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
2833	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
2834	</listitem>
2835
2836	<listitem>
2837	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
2838	</listitem>
2839
2840	<listitem>
2841	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
2842	booting from SCSI devices</para>
2843	</listitem>
2844
2845	<listitem>
2846	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
2847	is bug #6408)</para>
2848	</listitem>
2849
2850	<listitem>
2851	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
2856	fail to initialize</para>
2857	</listitem>
2858
2859	<listitem>
2860	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
2861	</listitem>
2862
2863	<listitem>
2864	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
2865	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
2866	</listitem>
2867
2868	<listitem>
2869	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
2870	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
2871	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
2872	</listitem>
2873
2874	<listitem>
2875	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
2880	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
2881	</listitem>
2882
2883	<listitem>
2884	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
2885	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
2886	</listitem>
2887
2888	<listitem>
2889	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
2890	(bug #6435)</para>
2891	</listitem>
2892
2893	<listitem>
2894	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
2895	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
2896	</listitem>
2897
2898	<listitem>
2899	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
2900	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
2901	(bug #6488)</para>
2902	</listitem>
2903
2904	<listitem>
2905	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
2906	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
2907	</listitem>
2908
2909	<listitem>
2910	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
2911	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
2912	</listitem>
2913
2914	<listitem>
2915	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
2916	#5227)</para>
2917	</listitem>
2918
2919	<listitem>
2920	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
2921	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
2922	</listitem>
2923
2924	<listitem>
2925	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
2926	</listitem>
2927
2928	<listitem>
2929	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
2930	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
2931	</listitem>
2932
2933	</itemizedlist>
2934	</sect1>
2935
2936	<sect1>
2937	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
2938
2939	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2940	added:</para>
2941
2942	<itemizedlist>
2943
2944	<listitem>
2945	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
2946	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
2947	</listitem>
2948
2949	<listitem>
2950	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
2951	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
2952	</listitem>
2953
2954	<listitem>
2955	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
2956	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
2957	</listitem>
2958
2959	<listitem>
2960	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
2961	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
2962	</listitem>
2963
2964	<listitem>
2965	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
2966	</listitem>
2967
2968	<listitem>
2969	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
2970	</listitem>
2971
2972	<listitem>
2973	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
2974	</listitem>
2975
2976	<listitem>
2977	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
2978	</listitem>
2979
2980	<listitem>
2981	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
2982	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
2987	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
2988	</listitem>
2989
2990	<listitem>
2991	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
2992	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
2993	</listitem>
2994
2995	<listitem>
2996	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
3005	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	<listitem>
3009	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
3010	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
3011	calls (bug #6165)</para>
3012	</listitem>
3013
3014	<listitem>
3015	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
3016	(bug #5297)</para>
3017	</listitem>
3018
3019	<listitem>
3020	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
3021	(bug #4962)</para>
3022	</listitem>
3023
3024	<listitem>
3025	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
3026	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
3027	</listitem>
3028
3029	<listitem>
3030	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
3031	(bug #6176)</para>
3032	</listitem>
3033
3034	<listitem>
3035	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
3036	certain circumstances</para>
3037	</listitem>
3038
3039	<listitem>
3040	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
3041	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
3042	</listitem>
3043
3044	<listitem>
3045	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
3046	</listitem>
3047
3048	<listitem>
3049	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
3050	</listitem>
3051
3052	<listitem>
3053	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
3054	(bug #3571)</para>
3055	</listitem>
3056
3057	<listitem>
3058	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
3059	devices</para>
3060	</listitem>
3061
3062	<listitem>
3063	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
3064	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
3065	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
3066	</listitem>
3067
3068	<listitem>
3069	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
3070	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
3071	</listitem>
3072
3073	<listitem>
3074	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
3079	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
3084	response</para>
3085	</listitem>
3086
3087	<listitem>
3088	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
3089	</listitem>
3090
3091	<listitem>
3092	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
3093	</listitem>
3094
3095	<listitem>
3096	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
3097	</listitem>
3098
3099	<listitem>
3100	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
3101	</listitem>
3102
3103	<listitem>
3104	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
3105	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3106	</listitem>
3107
3108	<listitem>
3109	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
3110	</listitem>
3111
3112	<listitem>
3113	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
3114	</listitem>
3115
3116	<listitem>
3117	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
3118	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
3119	</listitem>
3120
3121	<listitem>
3122	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
3123	</listitem>
3124
3125	<listitem>
3126	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
3131	</listitem>
3132
3133	<listitem>
3134	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
3135	</listitem>
3136
3137	</itemizedlist>
3138	</sect1>
3139
3140	<sect1>
3141	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
3142
3143	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3144	added:</para>
3145
3146	<itemizedlist>
3147
3148	<listitem>
3149	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
3150	</listitem>
3151
3152	<listitem>
3153	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
3154	</listitem>
3155
3156	<listitem>
3157	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
3158	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
3159	</listitem>
3160
3161	<listitem>
3162	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
3163	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
3164	</listitem>
3165
3166	<listitem>
3167	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
3168	(bug #3945)</para>
3169	</listitem>
3170
3171	<listitem>
3172	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
3173	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
3178	and AMD-V only) </para>
3179	</listitem>
3180
3181	<listitem>
3182	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
3183	</listitem>
3184
3185	<listitem>
3186	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
3187	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
3188	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
3189	</listitem>
3190
3191	<listitem>
3192	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
3193	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
3194	</listitem>
3195
3196	<listitem>
3197	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
3198	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
3199	</listitem>
3200
3201	<listitem>
3202	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
3203	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
3204	</listitem>
3205
3206	<listitem>
3207	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
3208	snapshots command</para>
3209	</listitem>
3210
3211	<listitem>
3212	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
3213	</listitem>
3214
3215	<listitem>
3216	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
3217	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
3218	</listitem>
3219
3220	<listitem>
3221	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
3222	</listitem>
3223
3224	<listitem>
3225	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
3226	</listitem>
3227
3228	<listitem>
3229	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
3230	</listitem>
3231
3232	<listitem>
3233	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
3234	(KWin bug)</para>
3235	</listitem>
3236
3237	<listitem>
3238	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
3239	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
3240	</listitem>
3241
3242	<listitem>
3243	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
3244	</listitem>
3245
3246	<listitem>
3247	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
3248	</listitem>
3249
3250	<listitem>
3251	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
3256	</listitem>
3257
3258	<listitem>
3259	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
3260	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
3261	</listitem>
3262
3263	<listitem>
3264	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
3265	bug #5787)</para>
3266	</listitem>
3267
3268	<listitem>
3269	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
3270	DHCP requests</para>
3271	</listitem>
3272
3273	<listitem>
3274	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
3275	(bug #3217)</para>
3276	</listitem>
3277
3278	<listitem>
3279	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
3280	range (bug #5923)</para>
3281	</listitem>
3282
3283	<listitem>
3284	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
3285	</listitem>
3286
3287	<listitem>
3288	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
3289	</listitem>
3290
3291	<listitem>
3292	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
3293	</listitem>
3294
3295	<listitem>
3296	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	<listitem>
3300	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
3301	file (bug #5681)</para>
3302	</listitem>
3303
3304	<listitem>
3305	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
3306	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
3307	</listitem>
3308
3309	<listitem>
3310	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
3311	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
3312	</listitem>
3313
3314	<listitem>
3315	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
3316	regression)</para>
3317	</listitem>
3318
3319	<listitem>
3320	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
3321	</listitem>
3322
3323	<listitem>
3324	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
3325	</listitem>
3326
3327	<listitem>
3328	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
3329	</listitem>
3330
3331	<listitem>
3332	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
3333	</listitem>
3334
3335	<listitem>
3336	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
3337	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
3338	</listitem>
3339
3340	<listitem>
3341	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
3342	</listitem>
3343
3344	<listitem>
3345	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
3346	</listitem>
3347
3348	<listitem>
3349	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
3350	</listitem>
3351
3352	<listitem>
3353	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
3354	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
3355	</listitem>
3356
3357	<listitem>
3358	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
3359	</listitem>
3360
3361	<listitem>
3362	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
3363	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
3368	</listitem>
3369
3370	<listitem>
3371	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
3372	</listitem>
3373
3374	<listitem>
3375	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
3380	(bug #5731)</para>
3381	</listitem>
3382
3383	<listitem>
3384	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
3385	again</para>
3386	</listitem>
3387
3388	</itemizedlist>
3389
3390	</sect1>
3391
3392	<sect1>
3393	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
3394
3395	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3396	added:</para>
3397
3398	<itemizedlist>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
3402	</listitem>
3403
3404	<listitem>
3405	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
3406	</listitem>
3407
3408	<listitem>
3409	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
3410	</listitem>
3411
3412	<listitem>
3413	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
3414	</listitem>
3415
3416	<listitem>
3417	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
3422	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
3423	</listitem>
3424
3425	<listitem>
3426	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
3427	</listitem>
3428
3429	<listitem>
3430	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
3431	</listitem>
3432
3433	<listitem>
3434	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
3435	</listitem>
3436
3437	<listitem>
3438	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
3439	</listitem>
3440
3441	<listitem>
3442	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
3443	</listitem>
3444
3445	<listitem>
3446	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
3447	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
3448	</listitem>
3449
3450	<listitem>
3451	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
3452	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
3453	</listitem>
3454
3455	<listitem>
3456	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
3457	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
3458	#1762)</para>
3459	</listitem>
3460
3461	<listitem>
3462	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
3463	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
3464	</listitem>
3465
3466	<listitem>
3467	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
3468	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
3469	</listitem>
3470
3471	<listitem>
3472	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
3473	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
3474	</listitem>
3475
3476	<listitem>
3477	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
3478	</listitem>
3479
3480	<listitem>
3481	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
3486	several virtual CPU cores</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
3491	</listitem>
3492
3493	<listitem>
3494	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
3495	</listitem>
3496
3497	<listitem>
3498	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
3499	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
3500	</listitem>
3501
3502	<listitem>
3503	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
3504	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
3505	</listitem>
3506
3507	<listitem>
3508	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	<listitem>
3512	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
3513	guests</para>
3514	</listitem>
3515
3516	<listitem>
3517	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
3518	and on some 64bit guests</para>
3519	</listitem>
3520
3521	<listitem>
3522	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
3523	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
3524	</listitem>
3525
3526	<listitem>
3527	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
3528	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
3529	</listitem>
3530
3531	<listitem>
3532	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
3533	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
3534	</listitem>
3535
3536	<listitem>
3537	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
3538	</listitem>
3539
3540	<listitem>
3541	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
3542	</listitem>
3543
3544	<listitem>
3545	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
3546	</listitem>
3547
3548	<listitem>
3549	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
3550	</listitem>
3551
3552	<listitem>
3553	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
3554	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
3555	</listitem>
3556
3557	<listitem>
3558	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
3559	</listitem>
3560
3561	</itemizedlist>
3562
3563	</sect1>
3564
3565	<sect1>
3566	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
3567
3568	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3569	were added:</para>
3570
3571	<itemizedlist>
3572
3573	<listitem>
3574	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
3575	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
3576	</listitem>
3577
3578	<listitem>
3579	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
3580	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
3581	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
3582	</listitem>
3583
3584	<listitem>
3585	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
3586	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
3587	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
3588	</listitem>
3589
3590	<listitem>
3591	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
3592	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
3593	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
3594	</listitem>
3595
3596	<listitem>
3597	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
3598	running</para>
3599	</listitem>
3600
3601	<listitem>
3602	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
3603	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
3604	</listitem>
3605
3606	<listitem>
3607	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
3608	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
3609	</listitem>
3610
3611	<listitem>
3612	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
3613	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
3614	</listitem>
3615
3616	<listitem>
3617	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
3618	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
3619	</listitem>
3620
3621	</itemizedlist>
3622
3623	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3624
3625	<itemizedlist>
3626
3627	<listitem>
3628	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
3629	</listitem>
3630
3631	<listitem>
3632	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
3633	</listitem>
3634
3635	<listitem>
3636	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
3641	(bug #5291)</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
3646	</listitem>
3647
3648	<listitem>
3649	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
3650	</listitem>
3651
3652	<listitem>
3653	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
3654	</listitem>
3655
3656	<listitem>
3657	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
3658	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
3659	</listitem>
3660
3661	<listitem>
3662	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
3663	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
3664	</listitem>
3665
3666	<listitem>
3667	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
3668	</listitem>
3669
3670	<listitem>
3671	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
3672	</listitem>
3673
3674	<listitem>
3675	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
3676	</listitem>
3677
3678	<listitem>
3679	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
3680	</listitem>
3681
3682	<listitem>
3683	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
3684	</listitem>
3685
3686	<listitem>
3687	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
3688	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
3689	</listitem>
3690
3691	<listitem>
3692	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
3693	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
3694	</listitem>
3695
3696	<listitem>
3697	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
3698	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
3699	</listitem>
3700
3701	<listitem>
3702	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
3703	(bug #2723)</para>
3704	</listitem>
3705
3706	<listitem>
3707	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
3712	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
3713	</listitem>
3714
3715	<listitem>
3716	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
3717	optional manifest file on import</para>
3718	</listitem>
3719
3720	<listitem>
3721	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
3722	</listitem>
3723
3724	<listitem>
3725	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
3726	(bug #3773)</para>
3727	</listitem>
3728
3729	<listitem>
3730	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
3731	</listitem>
3732
3733	<listitem>
3734	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
3735	</listitem>
3736
3737	<listitem>
3738	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
3739	layout (bug #2302)</para>
3740	</listitem>
3741
3742	<listitem>
3743	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
3744	(bug #4866)</para>
3745	</listitem>
3746
3747	<listitem>
3748	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
3749	left click (bug #5049)</para>
3750	</listitem>
3751
3752	<listitem>
3753	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
3754	certain conditions</para>
3755	</listitem>
3756
3757	<listitem>
3758	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
3759	</listitem>
3760
3761	<listitem>
3762	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
3763	</listitem>
3764
3765	<listitem>
3766	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
3767	</listitem>
3768
3769	<listitem>
3770	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
3771	</listitem>
3772
3773	<listitem>
3774	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
3775	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
3776	</listitem>
3777
3778	<listitem>
3779	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
3780	</listitem>
3781
3782	<listitem>
3783	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
3784	properties (bug #5337)</para>
3785	</listitem>
3786
3787	<listitem>
3788	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
3789	</listitem>
3790
3791	<listitem>
3792	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
3797	</listitem>
3798
3799	<listitem>
3800	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
3801	</listitem>
3802
3803	<listitem>
3804	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
3805	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
3806	</listitem>
3807
3808	<listitem>
3809	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
3810	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
3811	(bug #928)</para>
3812	</listitem>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
3816	</listitem>
3817
3818	</itemizedlist>
3819
3820	</sect1>
3821
3822	<sect1>
3823	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
3824
3825	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3826	added:</para>
3827
3828	<itemizedlist>
3829
3830	<listitem>
3831	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
3832	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
3833	</listitem>
3834
3835	<listitem>
3836	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
3837	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
3838	</listitem>
3839
3840	<listitem>
3841	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
3842	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
3843	</listitem>
3844
3845	<listitem>
3846	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
3847	enabled</para>
3848	</listitem>
3849
3850	<listitem>
3851	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
3852	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
3853	</listitem>
3854
3855	<listitem>
3856	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
3857	(bug #2676)</para>
3858	</listitem>
3859
3860	<listitem>
3861	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
3862	is connected to a raw file</para>
3863	</listitem>
3864
3865	<listitem>
3866	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
3867	(bug #5355)</para>
3868	</listitem>
3869
3870	<listitem>
3871	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
3872	</listitem>
3873
3874	<listitem>
3875	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
3876	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
3877	</listitem>
3878
3879	<listitem>
3880	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
3881	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
3882	guest (bug #4496)</para>
3883	</listitem>
3884
3885	<listitem>
3886	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
3887	</listitem>
3888
3889	<listitem>
3890	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
3891	</listitem>
3892
3893	<listitem>
3894	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
3895	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
3896	</listitem>
3897
3898	<listitem>
3899	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
3900	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
3901	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
3902	</listitem>
3903
3904	</itemizedlist>
3905
3906	</sect1>
3907
3908	<sect1>
3909	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
3910
3911	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3912	added:</para>
3913
3914	<itemizedlist>
3915
3916	<listitem>
3917	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
3922	</listitem>
3923
3924	<listitem>
3925	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
3926	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
3927	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
3928	</listitem>
3929
3930	<listitem>
3931	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
3932	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
3933	</listitem>
3934
3935	<listitem>
3936	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
3937	</listitem>
3938
3939	<listitem>
3940	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
3941	</listitem>
3942
3943	<listitem>
3944	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
3945	</listitem>
3946
3947	<listitem>
3948	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
3949	</listitem>
3950
3951	<listitem>
3952	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
3957	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
3962	</listitem>
3963
3964	<listitem>
3965	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
3966	</listitem>
3967
3968	<listitem>
3969	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
3970	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
3971	</listitem>
3972
3973	<listitem>
3974	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
3975	</listitem>
3976
3977	<listitem>
3978	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
3979	exhaustion</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	<listitem>
3983	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
3984	</listitem>
3985
3986	<listitem>
3987	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
3988	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
3989	</listitem>
3990
3991	<listitem>
3992	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
3993	folders (bug #4106)</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
3998	folders (bug #4299)</para>
3999	</listitem>
4000
4001	<listitem>
4002	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
4003	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
4004	(bug #2921)</para>
4005	</listitem>
4006
4007	<listitem>
4008	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
4009	hosts only)</para>
4010	</listitem>
4011
4012	<listitem>
4013	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
4014	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
4015	</listitem>
4016
4017	<listitem>
4018	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
4019	</listitem>
4020
4021	<listitem>
4022	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
4023	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
4024	</listitem>
4025
4026	<listitem>
4027	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
4028	</listitem>
4029
4030	<listitem>
4031	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
4032	image inconsistency </para>
4033	</listitem>
4034
4035	<listitem>
4036	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
4041	</listitem>
4042
4043	<listitem>
4044	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
4045	(bug #2025)</para>
4046	</listitem>
4047
4048	<listitem>
4049	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
4050	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
4051	</listitem>
4052
4053	</itemizedlist>
4054
4055	</sect1>
4056
4057	<sect1>
4058	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
4059
4060	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4061	added:</para>
4062
4063	<itemizedlist>
4064
4065	<listitem>
4066	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
4067	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
4068	</listitem>
4069
4070	<listitem>
4071	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
4072	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
4077	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
4078	</listitem>
4079
4080	<listitem>
4081	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
4082	</listitem>
4083
4084	<listitem>
4085	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
4086	software virtualization only) </para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	<listitem>
4090	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
4091	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
4092	</listitem>
4093
4094	<listitem>
4095	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
4096	with root privileges</para>
4097	</listitem>
4098
4099	<listitem>
4100	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
4101	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
4102	</listitem>
4103
4104	<listitem>
4105	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
4106	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
4107	</listitem>
4108
4109	<listitem>
4110	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
4111	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
4112	</listitem>
4113
4114	<listitem>
4115	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
4116	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
4117	selector (bug #5063)</para>
4118	</listitem>
4119
4120	<listitem>
4121	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
4122	available</para>
4123	</listitem>
4124
4125	<listitem>
4126	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
4127	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
4128	</listitem>
4129
4130	<listitem>
4131	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
4132	networking (bug #4775)</para>
4133	</listitem>
4134
4135	<listitem>
4136	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
4137	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
4138	</listitem>
4139
4140	<listitem>
4141	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
4142	(bug #4907)</para>
4143	</listitem>
4144
4145	<listitem>
4146	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
4147	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
4148	</listitem>
4149
4150	<listitem>
4151	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
4152	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
4153	</listitem>
4154
4155	<listitem>
4156	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
4165	</listitem>
4166
4167	<listitem>
4168	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
4169	</listitem>
4170
4171	<listitem>
4172	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
4173	are installed</para>
4174	</listitem>
4175
4176	<listitem>
4177	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
4178	(bug #4771)</para>
4179	</listitem>
4180
4181	<listitem>
4182	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
4183	</listitem>
4184
4185	<listitem>
4186	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
4187	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
4188	</listitem>
4189
4190	<listitem>
4191	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
4192	command</para>
4193	</listitem>
4194
4195	<listitem>
4196	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
4197	</listitem>
4198
4199	<listitem>
4200	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
4201	</listitem>
4202
4203	<listitem>
4204	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
4205	(bug #5089)</para>
4206	</listitem>
4207
4208	<listitem>
4209	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
4210	</listitem>
4211
4212	</itemizedlist>
4213
4214	</sect1>
4215
4216	<sect1>
4217	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
4218
4219	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4220	added:</para>
4221
4222	<itemizedlist>
4223
4224	<listitem>
4225	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
4226	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
4227	</listitem>
4228
4229	<listitem>
4230	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
4231	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
4232	</listitem>
4233
4234	<listitem>
4235	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
4236	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
4241	guests (bug #2258)</para>
4242	</listitem>
4243
4244	<listitem>
4245	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
4246	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
4247	</listitem>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
4251	</listitem>
4252
4253	<listitem>
4254	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
4255	</listitem>
4256
4257	<listitem>
4258	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
4259	</listitem>
4260
4261	<listitem>
4262	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
4263	</listitem>
4264
4265	<listitem>
4266	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
4271	onlined or offlined</para>
4272	</listitem>
4273
4274	<listitem>
4275	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	<listitem>
4279	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
4280	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
4285	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
4286	</listitem>
4287
4288	<listitem>
4289	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
4294	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
4295	</listitem>
4296
4297	<listitem>
4298	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
4299	</listitem>
4300
4301	<listitem>
4302	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
4307	</listitem>
4308
4309	<listitem>
4310	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
4311	</listitem>
4312
4313	<listitem>
4314	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
4315	</listitem>
4316
4317	<listitem>
4318	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
4319	filters in machine settings XML</para>
4320	</listitem>
4321
4322	<listitem>
4323	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
4324	</listitem>
4325
4326	<listitem>
4327	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
4328	</listitem>
4329
4330	<listitem>
4331	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
4332	</listitem>
4333
4334	<listitem>
4335	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
4336	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
4337	</listitem>
4338
4339	<listitem>
4340	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
4341	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	<listitem>
4345	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
4354	</listitem>
4355
4356	<listitem>
4357	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
4358	</listitem>
4359
4360	<listitem>
4361	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
4362	</listitem>
4363
4364	<listitem>
4365	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
4366	</listitem>
4367
4368	<listitem>
4369	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
4370	</listitem>
4371
4372	<listitem>
4373	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
4374	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
4375	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
4376	phase collapse</para>
4377	</listitem>
4378
4379	<listitem>
4380	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
4381	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
4382	</listitem>
4383
4384	<listitem>
4385	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
4386	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
4387	</listitem>
4388
4389	<listitem>
4390	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
4391	</listitem>
4392
4393	<listitem>
4394	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
4395	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
4396	</listitem>
4397
4398	<listitem>
4399	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
4400	interface bringup on Linux</para>
4401	</listitem>
4402
4403	<listitem>
4404	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
4405	</listitem>
4406
4407	<listitem>
4408	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
4409	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
4410	#4698, #4790)</para>
4411	</listitem>
4412
4413	<listitem>
4414	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
4415	less than the configured range</para>
4416	</listitem>
4417
4418	<listitem>
4419	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
4424	</listitem>
4425
4426	<listitem>
4427	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
4432	</listitem>
4433
4434	<listitem>
4435	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
4436	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
4437	</listitem>
4438
4439	<listitem>
4440	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
4441	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
4442	</listitem>
4443
4444	<listitem>
4445	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
4446	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
4447	</listitem>
4448
4449	<listitem>
4450	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
4451	</listitem>
4452
4453	<listitem>
4454	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
4455	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
4456	</listitem>
4457
4458	<listitem>
4459	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
4460	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
4461	</listitem>
4462
4463	<listitem>
4464	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
4465	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
4466	</listitem>
4467
4468	<listitem>
4469	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
4470	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
4471	</listitem>
4472
4473	<listitem>
4474	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
4475	</listitem>
4476
4477	<listitem>
4478	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
4479	</listitem>
4480
4481	</itemizedlist>
4482
4483	</sect1>
4484
4485	<sect1>
4486	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
4487
4488	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4489	added:</para>
4490
4491	<itemizedlist>
4492
4493	<listitem>
4494	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
4495	</listitem>
4496
4497	<listitem>
4498	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
4499	</listitem>
4500
4501	<listitem>
4502	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	<listitem>
4506	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
4507	</listitem>
4508
4509	<listitem>
4510	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
4511	</listitem>
4512
4513	<listitem>
4514	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
4515	</listitem>
4516
4517	<listitem>
4518	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
4519	</listitem>
4520
4521	<listitem>
4522	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
4523	</listitem>
4524
4525	<listitem>
4526	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
4527	</listitem>
4528
4529	<listitem>
4530	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
4531	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
4532	</listitem>
4533
4534	<listitem>
4535	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
4536	</listitem>
4537
4538	<listitem>
4539	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
4540	</listitem>
4541
4542	<listitem>
4543	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
4544	</listitem>
4545
4546	<listitem>
4547	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
4548	</listitem>
4549
4550	<listitem>
4551	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
4552	</listitem>
4553
4554	<listitem>
4555	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
4556	</listitem>
4557
4558	<listitem>
4559	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
4560	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
4561	</listitem>
4562
4563	<listitem>
4564	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
4565	(bug #4654)</para>
4566	</listitem>
4567
4568	<listitem>
4569	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
4574	interfaces</para>
4575	</listitem>
4576
4577	<listitem>
4578	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
4579	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
4580	</listitem>
4581
4582	<listitem>
4583	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
4584	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
4585	</listitem>
4586
4587	<listitem>
4588	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
4589	properties (bug #3415)</para>
4590	</listitem>
4591
4592	<listitem>
4593	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
4594	(bug #1461)</para>
4595	</listitem>
4596
4597	<listitem>
4598	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
4599	</listitem>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
4603	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
4604	</listitem>
4605
4606	<listitem>
4607	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
4608	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
4609	</listitem>
4610
4611	<listitem>
4612	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
4613	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
4614	</listitem>
4615
4616	<listitem>
4617	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
4618	</listitem>
4619
4620	<listitem>
4621	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4622	</listitem>
4623
4624	<listitem>
4625	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
4626	</listitem>
4627
4628	<listitem>
4629	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
4630	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
4631	</listitem>
4632
4633	<listitem>
4634	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
4635	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
4636	</listitem>
4637
4638	<listitem>
4639	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
4640	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
4641	</listitem>
4642
4643	<listitem>
4644	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
4645	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
4646	</listitem>
4647
4648	</itemizedlist>
4649
4650	</sect1>
4651	<sect1>
4652	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
4653
4654	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4655	added:</para>
4656
4657	<itemizedlist>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
4665	</listitem>
4666
4667	<listitem>
4668	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
4669	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
4670	</listitem>
4671
4672	<listitem>
4673	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
4674	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
4675	</listitem>
4676
4677	<listitem>
4678	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
4683	</listitem>
4684
4685	<listitem>
4686	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
4687	</listitem>
4688
4689	<listitem>
4690	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
4691	</listitem>
4692
4693	<listitem>
4694	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
4695	</listitem>
4696
4697	<listitem>
4698	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
4699	</listitem>
4700
4701	<listitem>
4702	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
4703	</listitem>
4704
4705	<listitem>
4706	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
4707	</listitem>
4708
4709	<listitem>
4710	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
4711	</listitem>
4712
4713	<listitem>
4714	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
4715	</listitem>
4716
4717	<listitem>
4718	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
4719	</listitem>
4720
4721	<listitem>
4722	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
4723	guest (bug #4381)</para>
4724	</listitem>
4725
4726	<listitem>
4727	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
4728	</listitem>
4729
4730	<listitem>
4731	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
4736	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
4737	</listitem>
4738
4739	<listitem>
4740	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
4741	</listitem>
4742
4743	<listitem>
4744	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
4745	</listitem>
4746
4747	<listitem>
4748	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
4749	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
4750	</listitem>
4751
4752	<listitem>
4753	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
4754	</listitem>
4755
4756	<listitem>
4757	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
4758	</listitem>
4759
4760	<listitem>
4761	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
4762	</listitem>
4763
4764	<listitem>
4765	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
4766	</listitem>
4767
4768	<listitem>
4769	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<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>
4774	</listitem>
4775
4776	</itemizedlist>
4777
4778	</sect1>
4779
4780	<sect1>
4781	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
4782
4783	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4784	were added:</para>
4785
4786	<itemizedlist>
4787
4788	<listitem>
4789	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
4794	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4795	</listitem>
4796
4797	<listitem>
4798	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
4799	</listitem>
4800
4801	</itemizedlist>
4802
4803	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4804
4805	<itemizedlist>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	<listitem>
4812	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
4813	certain conditions</para>
4814	</listitem>
4815
4816	<listitem>
4817	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
4818	</listitem>
4819
4820	<listitem>
4821	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
4830	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
4831	</listitem>
4832
4833	<listitem>
4834	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
4839	</listitem>
4840
4841	<listitem>
4842	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
4843	</listitem>
4844
4845	<listitem>
4846	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
4847	</listitem>
4848
4849	<listitem>
4850	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
4851	</listitem>
4852
4853	<listitem>
4854	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
4855	</listitem>
4856
4857	<listitem>
4858	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
4859	</listitem>
4860
4861	<listitem>
4862	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
4863	</listitem>
4864
4865	<listitem>
4866	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
4867	(non Windows hosts)</para>
4868	</listitem>
4869
4870	<listitem>
4871	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
4872	</listitem>
4873
4874	<listitem>
4875	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
4876	</listitem>
4877
4878	<listitem>
4879	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
4880	</listitem>
4881
4882	<listitem>
4883	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
4892	</listitem>
4893
4894	<listitem>
4895	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
4896	</listitem>
4897
4898	<listitem>
4899	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
4900	</listitem>
4901
4902	<listitem>
4903	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
4904	</listitem>
4905
4906	<listitem>
4907	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
4908	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
4909	</listitem>
4910
4911	<listitem>
4912	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
4913	</listitem>
4914
4915	<listitem>
4916	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
4917	</listitem>
4918
4919	<listitem>
4920	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
4921	</listitem>
4922
4923	<listitem>
4924	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
4925	</listitem>
4926
4927	<listitem>
4928	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
4929	</listitem>
4930
4931	<listitem>
4932	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
4933	</listitem>
4934
4935	<listitem>
4936	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
4937	</listitem>
4938
4939	<listitem>
4940	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
4941	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
4942	</listitem>
4943
4944	<listitem>
4945	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
4946	</listitem>
4947
4948	<listitem>
4949	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
4950	</listitem>
4951
4952	<listitem>
4953	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
4954	</listitem>
4955
4956	<listitem>
4957	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
4958	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
4959	</listitem>
4960
4961	<listitem>
4962	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
4963	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
4964	</listitem>
4965
4966	<listitem>
4967	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
4968	correct file mode when creating files</para>
4969	</listitem>
4970
4971	<listitem>
4972	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
4973	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
4974	</listitem>
4975
4976	<listitem>
4977	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
4978	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
4979	</listitem>
4980
4981	<listitem>
4982	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
4983	</listitem>
4984
4985	<listitem>
4986	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
4987	</listitem>
4988
4989	<listitem>
4990	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
4991	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
4992	</listitem>
4993
4994	<listitem>
4995	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
4996	guest property lookup</para>
4997	</listitem>
4998
4999	<listitem>
5000	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
5001	basic network information)</para>
5002	</listitem>
5003
5004	<listitem>
5005	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
5006	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
5007	</listitem>
5008
5009	<listitem>
5010	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
5011	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
5012	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
5013	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
5014	</listitem>
5015
5016	<listitem>
5017	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
5018	</listitem>
5019
5020	<listitem>
5021	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
5022	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
5023	web service</para>
5024	</listitem>
5025
5026	<listitem>
5027	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
5028	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
5029	</listitem>
5030
5031	<listitem>
5032	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
5033	unavailable</para>
5034	</listitem>
5035
5036	<listitem>
5037	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
5038	</listitem>
5039
5040	</itemizedlist>
5041	</sect1>
5042
5043	<sect1>
5044	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
5045
5046	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5047	added:</para>
5048
5049	<itemizedlist>
5050
5051	<listitem>
5052	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
5053	installation</para>
5054	</listitem>
5055
5056	<listitem>
5057	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
5058	</listitem>
5059
5060	<listitem>
5061	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
5062	later (bug #3981)</para>
5063	</listitem>
5064
5065	<listitem>
5066	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
5067	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
5068	</listitem>
5069
5070	<listitem>
5071	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
5072	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
5073	(bug #4034)
5074	</para>
5075	</listitem>
5076
5077	<listitem>
5078	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
5079	networking</para>
5080	</listitem>
5081
5082	<listitem>
5083	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
5084	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
5085	</listitem>
5086
5087	<listitem>
5088	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
5089	clicks</para>
5090	</listitem>
5091
5092	<listitem>
5093	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
5094	Windows 7 guests</para>
5095	</listitem>
5096
5097	<listitem>
5098	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
5099	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
5100	</listitem>
5101
5102	<listitem>
5103	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
5104	</listitem>
5105
5106	<listitem>
5107	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
5108	</listitem>
5109
5110	<listitem>
5111	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
5112	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
5113	</listitem>
5114
5115	<listitem>
5116	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
5117	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
5118	</listitem>
5119
5120	<listitem>
5121	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
5122	</listitem>
5123
5124	<listitem>
5125	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
5126	</listitem>
5127
5128	<listitem>
5129	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
5130	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
5131	(bug #3864)</para>
5132	</listitem>
5133
5134	<listitem>
5135	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
5136	now flushes the output stream</para>
5137	</listitem>
5138
5139	<listitem>
5140	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
5141	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
5142	</listitem>
5143
5144	<listitem>
5145	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
5146	</listitem>
5147
5148	<listitem>
5149	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
5150	</listitem>
5151
5152	<listitem>
5153	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
5154	</listitem>
5155
5156	<listitem>
5157	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
5158	</listitem>
5159
5160	<listitem>
5161	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
5162	(bug #3964)</para>
5163	</listitem>
5164
5165	<listitem>
5166	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
5167	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
5168	</listitem>
5169
5170	<listitem>
5171	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
5172	hosts</para>
5173	</listitem>
5174
5175	<listitem>
5176	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
5177	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
5178	e1000 adapter</para>
5179	</listitem>
5180
5181	<listitem>
5182	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
5183	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
5184	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
5185	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
5186	</listitem>
5187
5188	<listitem>
5189	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
5190	</listitem>
5191
5192	<listitem>
5193	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
5194	</listitem>
5195
5196	<listitem>
5197	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
5198	</listitem>
5199
5200	<listitem>
5201	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
5202	file (bug #1023)</para>
5203	</listitem>
5204
5205	<listitem>
5206	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
5207	</listitem>
5208
5209	<listitem>
5210	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
5211	</listitem>
5212
5213	</itemizedlist>
5214	</sect1>
5215
5216	<sect1>
5217	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
5218
5219	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5220	added:</para>
5221
5222	<itemizedlist>
5223
5224	<listitem>
5225	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
5226	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
5227	</listitem>
5228
5229	<listitem>
5230	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
5231	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
5232	and later</para>
5233	</listitem>
5234
5235	<listitem>
5236	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
5237	running services</para>
5238	</listitem>
5239
5240	<listitem>
5241	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
5242	terminates</para>
5243	</listitem>
5244
5245	<listitem>
5246	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
5247	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
5248	</listitem>
5249
5250	<listitem>
5251	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
5252	installed on the guest</para>
5253	</listitem>
5254
5255	<listitem>
5256	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
5257	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
5258	</listitem>
5259
5260	<listitem>
5261	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
5262	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
5263	</listitem>
5264
5265	<listitem>
5266	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
5267	(bug #2628)</para>
5268	</listitem>
5269
5270	<listitem>
5271	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
5272	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
5273	</listitem>
5274
5275	<listitem>
5276	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
5277	(bug #3657)</para>
5278	</listitem>
5279
5280	<listitem>
5281	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
5282	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
5283	</listitem>
5284
5285	<listitem>
5286	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
5287	virtualization only)
5288	</para>
5289	</listitem>
5290
5291	<listitem>
5292	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
5293	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
5294	</listitem>
5295
5296	<listitem>
5297	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
5298	</listitem>
5299
5300	<listitem>
5301	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
5302	networks (bug #3702)</para>
5303	</listitem>
5304
5305	<listitem>
5306	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
5307	bug #3689)</para>
5308	</listitem>
5309
5310	<listitem>
5311	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
5312	bug #3679)</para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	<listitem>
5316	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
5317	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
5318	</listitem>
5319
5320	<listitem>
5321	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
5322	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
5323	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
5324	</listitem>
5325
5326	<listitem>
5327	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
5328	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
5329	</listitem>
5330
5331	<listitem>
5332	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
5333	lease (bug #3655)</para>
5334	</listitem>
5335
5336	<listitem>
5337	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
5338	(bug #3667)</para>
5339	</listitem>
5340
5341	<listitem>
5342	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
5343	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
5344	</listitem>
5345
5346	<listitem>
5347	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
5348	</listitem>
5349
5350	<listitem>
5351	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
5352	</listitem>
5353
5354	<listitem>
5355	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
5356	</listitem>
5357
5358	<listitem>
5359	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
5360	</listitem>
5361
5362	<listitem>
5363	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
5364	</listitem>
5365
5366	<listitem>
5367	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
5368	</listitem>
5369
5370	<listitem>
5371	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
5372	</listitem>
5373
5374	</itemizedlist>
5375	</sect1>
5376
5377	<sect1>
5378	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
5379
5380	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5381	were added:</para>
5382
5383	<itemizedlist>
5384
5385	<listitem>
5386	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
5387	</listitem>
5388
5389	<listitem>
5390	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
5391	</listitem>
5392
5393	<listitem>
5394	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
5395	</listitem>
5396
5397	<listitem>
5398	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
5399	</listitem>
5400
5401	<listitem>
5402	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
5403	</listitem>
5404
5405	<listitem>
5406	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
5407	</listitem>
5408
5409	<listitem>
5410	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
5411	</listitem>
5412
5413	<listitem>
5414	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
5415	</listitem>
5416
5417	<listitem>
5418	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5419	</listitem>
5420
5421	<listitem>
5422	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
5423	</listitem>
5424
5425	</itemizedlist>
5426
5427	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5428
5429	<itemizedlist>
5430
5431	<listitem>
5432	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
5433	</listitem>
5434
5435	<listitem>
5436	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
5437	</listitem>
5438
5439	<listitem>
5440	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
5441	</listitem>
5442
5443	<listitem>
5444	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
5445	</listitem>
5446
5447	<listitem>
5448	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
5449	</listitem>
5450
5451	<listitem>
5452	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
5453	</listitem>
5454
5455	<listitem>
5456	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
5457	</listitem>
5458
5459	<listitem>
5460	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
5461	</listitem>
5462
5463	<listitem>
5464	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
5465	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
5466	</listitem>
5467
5468	<listitem>
5469	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
5470	</listitem>
5471
5472	<listitem>
5473	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
5474	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
5475	</listitem>
5476
5477	<listitem>
5478	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
5479	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
5480	</listitem>
5481
5482	<listitem>
5483	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
5484	</listitem>
5485
5486	<listitem>
5487	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
5488	</listitem>
5489
5490	<listitem>
5491	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
5492	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
5493	</listitem>
5494
5495	<listitem>
5496	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
5497	</listitem>
5498
5499	<listitem>
5500	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
5501	ESX server images)</para>
5502	</listitem>
5503
5504	<listitem>
5505	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
5506	writable</para>
5507	</listitem>
5508
5509	<listitem>
5510	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
5511	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
5512	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
5513	</listitem>
5514
5515	<listitem>
5516	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
5517	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
5518	</listitem>
5519
5520	<listitem>
5521	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
5522	</listitem>
5523
5524	<listitem>
5525	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
5526	</listitem>
5527
5528	<listitem>
5529	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
5530	hosts when creating files</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
5535	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
5536	</listitem>
5537
5538	<listitem>
5539	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
5540	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
5541	#2306)</para>
5542	</listitem>
5543
5544	<listitem>
5545	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
5546	(bug #3555)</para>
5547	</listitem>
5548
5549	<listitem>
5550	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
5551	installer (bug #3524)</para>
5552	</listitem>
5553
5554	<listitem>
5555	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
5556	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
5557	</listitem>
5558
5559	<listitem>
5560	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
5561	interface (bug #3414)</para>
5562	</listitem>
5563
5564	<listitem>
5565	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
5566	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
5567	</listitem>
5568
5569	<listitem>
5570	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
5571	(bug #3586)</para>
5572	</listitem>
5573
5574	<listitem>
5575	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
5576	from Scratch systems</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
5581	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
5582	</listitem>
5583
5584	<listitem>
5585	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
5586	</listitem>
5587
5588	<listitem>
5589	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
5590	default to compact format</para>
5591	</listitem>
5592
5593	<listitem>
5594	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
5595	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
5596	</listitem>
5597
5598	<listitem>
5599	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	<listitem>
5603	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5604	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
5605	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
5606	</listitem>
5607
5608	<listitem>
5609	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
5610	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
5611	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
5612	</listitem>
5613
5614	<listitem>
5615	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
5616	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
5617	</listitem>
5618
5619	<listitem>
5620	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
5621	</listitem>
5622
5623	<listitem>
5624	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
5625	</listitem>
5626
5627	<listitem>
5628	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
5629	</listitem>
5630
5631	<listitem>
5632	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
5633	</listitem>
5634
5635	<listitem>
5636	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
5637	</listitem>
5638
5639	<listitem>
5640	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
5645	</listitem>
5646
5647	<listitem>
5648	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
5649	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
5650	</listitem>
5651
5652	<listitem>
5653	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
5654	</listitem>
5655
5656	<listitem>
5657	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
5658	regression; bug #2065)</para>
5659	</listitem>
5660
5661	<listitem>
5662	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
5663	</listitem>
5664
5665	<listitem>
5666	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
5667	</listitem>
5668
5669	<listitem>
5670	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
5671	</listitem>
5672
5673	<listitem>
5674	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
5675	#2536)</para>
5676	</listitem>
5677
5678	<listitem>
5679	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
5680	</listitem>
5681
5682	<listitem>
5683	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
5684	(bug #3548)</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	</itemizedlist>
5688	</sect1>
5689
5690	<sect1>
5691	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
5692
5693	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5694	added:</para>
5695
5696	<itemizedlist>
5697
5698	<listitem>
5699	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5700	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5701	</listitem>
5702
5703	<listitem>
5704	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
5705	</listitem>
5706
5707	<listitem>
5708	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
5709	</listitem>
5710
5711	<listitem>
5712	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5713	</listitem>
5714
5715	<listitem>
5716	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
5717	(bug #3115)</para>
5718	</listitem>
5719
5720	<listitem>
5721	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
5722	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
5723	</listitem>
5724
5725	<listitem>
5726	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
5727	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
5728	(bug #3215)</para>
5729	</listitem>
5730
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
5733	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
5734	</listitem>
5735
5736	<listitem>
5737	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
5738	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
5743	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
5744	</listitem>
5745
5746	<listitem>
5747	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5748	in parallel</para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5753	</listitem>
5754
5755	<listitem>
5756	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
5757	</listitem>
5758
5759	<listitem>
5760	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
5761	</listitem>
5762
5763	<listitem>
5764	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
5765	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
5766	</listitem>
5767
5768	<listitem>
5769	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
5770	</listitem>
5771
5772	<listitem>
5773	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
5774	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
5779	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
5780	</listitem>
5781
5782	<listitem>
5783	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
5784	</listitem>
5785
5786	<listitem>
5787	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5788	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
5793	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
5798	</listitem>
5799
5800	<listitem>
5801	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
5802	</listitem>
5803
5804	<listitem>
5805	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
5806	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
5807	</listitem>
5808
5809	<listitem>
5810	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
5811	</listitem>
5812
5813	<listitem>
5814	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
5815	</listitem>
5816
5817	<listitem>
5818	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
5819	</listitem>
5820
5821	<listitem>
5822	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
5823	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
5824	</listitem>
5825
5826	<listitem>
5827	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
5828	</listitem>
5829
5830	<listitem>
5831	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5832	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5833	</listitem>
5834
5835	<listitem>
5836	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5837	</listitem>
5838
5839	<listitem>
5840	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
5841	</listitem>
5842
5843	<listitem>
5844	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
5845	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
5846	</listitem>
5847
5848	<listitem>
5849	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
5850	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
5851	</listitem>
5852
5853	<listitem>
5854	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
5855	</listitem>
5856
5857	<listitem>
5858	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
5859	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
5860	</listitem>
5861
5862	<listitem>
5863	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5864	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5865	</listitem>
5866
5867	<listitem>
5868	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
5869	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
5870	</listitem>
5871
5872	<listitem>
5873	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
5874	(bug #3213)</para>
5875	</listitem>
5876
5877	<listitem>
5878	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
5879	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
5880	</listitem>
5881
5882	<listitem>
5883	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
5884	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
5885	</listitem>
5886
5887	</itemizedlist>
5888	</sect1>
5889
5890	<sect1>
5891	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
5892
5893	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5894	added:</para>
5895
5896	<itemizedlist>
5897
5898	<listitem>
5899	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
5900	</listitem>
5901
5902	<listitem>
5903	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
5904	</listitem>
5905
5906	<listitem>
5907	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
5908	</listitem>
5909
5910	<listitem>
5911	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
5912	</listitem>
5913
5914	<listitem>
5915	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
5916	</listitem>
5917
5918	<listitem>
5919	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
5920	</listitem>
5921
5922	<listitem>
5923	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
5924	</listitem>
5925
5926	<listitem>
5927	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
5928	</listitem>
5929
5930	<listitem>
5931	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
5932	</listitem>
5933
5934	<listitem>
5935	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
5936	</listitem>
5937
5938	<listitem>
5939	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
5940	</listitem>
5941
5942	<listitem>
5943	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
5944	</listitem>
5945
5946	<listitem>
5947	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
5948	</listitem>
5949
5950	<listitem>
5951	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
5952	</listitem>
5953
5954	<listitem>
5955	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
5956	</listitem>
5957
5958	<listitem>
5959	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
5960	</listitem>
5961
5962	<listitem>
5963	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
5964	(bug #3067)</para>
5965	</listitem>
5966
5967	<listitem>
5968	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
5969	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
5970	</listitem>
5971
5972	<listitem>
5973	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
5974	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
5975	</listitem>
5976
5977	<listitem>
5978	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
5979	</listitem>
5980
5981	<listitem>
5982	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
5983	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
5984	</listitem>
5985
5986	<listitem>
5987	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
5988	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5989	</listitem>
5990
5991	<listitem>
5992	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
5993	</listitem>
5994
5995	<listitem>
5996	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
5997	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
5998	</listitem>
5999
6000	<listitem>
6001	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
6002	</listitem>
6003
6004	<listitem>
6005	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
6006	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
6007	</listitem>
6008
6009	<listitem>
6010	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
6011	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
6012	</listitem>
6013
6014	<listitem>
6015	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
6016	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
6017	</para>
6018	</listitem>
6019
6020	<listitem>
6021	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
6022	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
6023	</para>
6024	</listitem>
6025
6026	<listitem>
6027	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
6028	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
6029	</para>
6030	</listitem>
6031
6032	<listitem>
6033	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
6034	</listitem>
6035
6036	<listitem>
6037	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
6038	</listitem>
6039
6040	<listitem>
6041	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
6042	</listitem>
6043
6044	<listitem>
6045	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
6046	</listitem>
6047
6048	<listitem>
6049	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
6050	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
6051	</listitem>
6052
6053	<listitem>
6054	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
6055	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
6056	</listitem>
6057
6058	<listitem>
6059	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
6060	formatting a drive</para>
6061	</listitem>
6062
6063	<listitem>
6064	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
6065	</listitem>
6066
6067	<listitem>
6068	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
6069	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
6070	</listitem>
6071
6072	<listitem>
6073	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
6074	</listitem>
6075
6076	<listitem>
6077	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
6078	</listitem>
6079
6080	<listitem>
6081	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
6082	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
6083	</listitem>
6084
6085	<listitem>
6086	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
6087	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
6088	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
6089	</listitem>
6090
6091	<listitem>
6092	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
6093	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
6094	</listitem>
6095
6096	<listitem>
6097	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
6098	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
6099	</listitem>
6100
6101	<listitem>
6102	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
6103	(bug #2768)</para>
6104	</listitem>
6105
6106	<listitem>
6107	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
6108	</listitem>
6109
6110	<listitem>
6111	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
6112	</listitem>
6113
6114	<listitem>
6115	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
6116	single, unified package</para>
6117	</listitem>
6118
6119	<listitem>
6120	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
6121	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
6122	</listitem>
6123
6124	<listitem>
6125	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
6126	</listitem>
6127
6128	<listitem>
6129	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
6130	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
6131	</listitem>
6132
6133	<listitem>
6134	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
6135	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
6136	</listitem>
6137
6138	<listitem>
6139	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
6140	</listitem>
6141
6142	<listitem>
6143	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
6144	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
6145	doing 3D</para>
6146	</listitem>
6147
6148	<listitem>
6149	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
6150	</listitem>
6151
6152	<listitem>
6153	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
6154	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
6155	</listitem>
6156
6157	<listitem>
6158	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
6159	</listitem>
6160
6161	<listitem>
6162	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
6163	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
6164	</listitem>
6165
6166	<listitem>
6167	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
6168	</listitem>
6169
6170	<listitem>
6171	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
6172	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
6173	</listitem>
6174
6175	<listitem>
6176	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
6177	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
6178	(bug #2938)</para>
6179	</listitem>
6180
6181	<listitem>
6182	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
6183	Linux guests</para>
6184	</listitem>
6185
6186	<listitem>
6187	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
6188	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
6189	(bug #1776)</para>
6190	</listitem>
6191
6192	<listitem>
6193	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
6194	(bug #1612)</para>
6195	</listitem>
6196
6197	<listitem>
6198	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
6199	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
6200	</listitem>
6201
6202	<listitem>
6203	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
6204	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
6205	</listitem>
6206
6207	<listitem>
6208	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
6209	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
6210	</listitem>
6211
6212	</itemizedlist>
6213	</sect1>
6214
6215	<sect1>
6216	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
6217
6218	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6219	were added:</para>
6220
6221	<itemizedlist>
6222	<listitem>
6223	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6224	</listitem>
6225
6226	<listitem>
6227	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
6228	</listitem>
6229
6230	<listitem>
6231	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
6232	</listitem>
6233
6234	<listitem>
6235	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6236	</listitem>
6237
6238	<listitem>
6239	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
6240	</listitem>
6241
6242	<listitem>
6243	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
6244	</listitem>
6245
6246	<listitem>
6247	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
6248	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
6249	</listitem>
6250
6251	<listitem>
6252	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
6253	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
6254	</listitem>
6255
6256	</itemizedlist>
6257
6258	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6259
6260	<itemizedlist>
6261	<listitem>
6262	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
6263	</listitem>
6264
6265	<listitem>
6266	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
6267	</listitem>
6268
6269	<listitem>
6270	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
6271	</listitem>
6272
6273	<listitem>
6274	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
6275	</listitem>
6276
6277	<listitem>
6278	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
6279	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
6280	</listitem>
6281
6282	<listitem>
6283	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
6284	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
6285	</listitem>
6286
6287	<listitem>
6288	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
6289	</listitem>
6290
6291	<listitem>
6292	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
6293	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
6294	</listitem>
6295
6296	<listitem>
6297	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
6298	</listitem>
6299
6300	<listitem>
6301	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
6302	</listitem>
6303
6304	<listitem>
6305	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
6306	</listitem>
6307
6308	<listitem>
6309	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
6310	</listitem>
6311
6312	<listitem>
6313	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
6314	</listitem>
6315
6316	<listitem>
6317	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
6318	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
6319	</listitem>
6320
6321	<listitem>
6322	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
6323	the compiz window manager</para>
6324	</listitem>
6325
6326	<listitem>
6327	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
6328	</listitem>
6329
6330	<listitem>
6331	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
6332	</listitem>
6333
6334	<listitem>
6335	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
6336	</listitem>
6337
6338	<listitem>
6339	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
6340	</listitem>
6341
6342	<listitem>
6343	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
6344	</listitem>
6345
6346	<listitem>
6347	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
6348	</listitem>
6349
6350	<listitem>
6351	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
6352	</listitem>
6353
6354	<listitem>
6355	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
6356	</listitem>
6357
6358	<listitem>
6359	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
6360	</listitem>
6361
6362	<listitem>
6363	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
6364	of two (bug #2724)</para>
6365	</listitem>
6366
6367	<listitem>
6368	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
6369	for direct device access</para>
6370	</listitem>
6371
6372	<listitem>
6373	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
6374	</listitem>
6375
6376	<listitem>
6377	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
6378	</listitem>
6379
6380	<listitem>
6381	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
6382	</listitem>
6383
6384	<listitem>
6385	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
6386	</listitem>
6387
6388	<listitem>
6389	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
6390	</listitem>
6391
6392	<listitem>
6393	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
6394	</listitem>
6395
6396	<listitem>
6397	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
6398	</listitem>
6399
6400	<listitem>
6401	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
6402	</listitem>
6403
6404	</itemizedlist>
6405	</sect1>
6406
6407	<sect1>
6408	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
6409
6410	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6411	added:</para>
6412
6413	<itemizedlist>
6414
6415	<listitem>
6416	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
6417	states/snapshots</para>
6418	</listitem>
6419
6420	<listitem>
6421	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
6422	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
6423	</listitem>
6424
6425	<listitem>
6426	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
6427	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
6428	</listitem>
6429
6430	<listitem>
6431	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
6432	collisions</para>
6433	</listitem>
6434
6435	<listitem>
6436	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
6437	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
6438	</listitem>
6439
6440	<listitem>
6441	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
6442	</listitem>
6443
6444	<listitem>
6445	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
6446	reliably</para>
6447	</listitem>
6448
6449	<listitem>
6450	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
6451	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
6452	</listitem>
6453
6454	<listitem>
6455	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
6456	a reboot</para>
6457	</listitem>
6458
6459	<listitem>
6460	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
6461	</listitem>
6462
6463	<listitem>
6464	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
6465	in parallel</para>
6466	</listitem>
6467
6468	<listitem>
6469	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
6470	</listitem>
6471
6472	<listitem>
6473	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
6474	correctly</para>
6475	</listitem>
6476
6477	<listitem>
6478	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
6479	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
6480	</listitem>
6481
6482	</itemizedlist>
6483	</sect1>
6484
6485	<sect1>
6486	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
6487
6488	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6489	added:</para>
6490
6491	<itemizedlist>
6492
6493	<listitem>
6494	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
6495	(bug #2220)</para>
6496	</listitem>
6497
6498	<listitem>
6499	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
6500	</listitem>
6501
6502	<listitem>
6503	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
6504	</listitem>
6505
6506	<listitem>
6507	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
6508	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
6509	</listitem>
6510
6511	<listitem>
6512	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
6513	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
6514	</listitem>
6515
6516	<listitem>
6517	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
6518	(bug #2624)</para>
6519	</listitem>
6520
6521	<listitem>
6522	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
6523	(bug #2024)</para>
6524	</listitem>
6525
6526	<listitem>
6527	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
6528	</listitem>
6529
6530	<listitem>
6531	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
6532	</listitem>
6533
6534	<listitem>
6535	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
6536	</listitem>
6537
6538	<listitem>
6539	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
6540	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
6541	</listitem>
6542
6543	<listitem>
6544	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
6545	applications when updating the installation</para>
6546	</listitem>
6547
6548	<listitem>
6549	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
6550	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
6551	</listitem>
6552
6553	<listitem>
6554	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
6555	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
6556	</listitem>
6557
6558	<listitem>
6559	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
6560	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
6561	</listitem>
6562
6563	<listitem>
6564	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
6565	connected to a host device</para>
6566	</listitem>
6567
6568	<listitem>
6569	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
6570	</listitem>
6571
6572	<listitem>
6573	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
6574	</listitem>
6575
6576	<listitem>
6577	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
6578	</listitem>
6579
6580	<listitem>
6581	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
6582	when using native RDP connections</para>
6583	</listitem>
6584
6585	<listitem>
6586	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
6587	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
6588	</listitem>
6589
6590	<listitem>
6591	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
6592	(bug #2591)</para>
6593	</listitem>
6594
6595	<listitem>
6596	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
6597	guests (bug #2550)</para>
6598	</listitem>
6599
6600	<listitem>
6601	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
6602	</listitem>
6603
6604	</itemizedlist>
6605	</sect1>
6606
6607	<sect1>
6608	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
6609
6610	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6611	added:</para>
6612
6613	<itemizedlist>
6614	<listitem>
6615	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
6616	</listitem>
6617
6618	<listitem>
6619	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
6620	</listitem>
6621
6622	<listitem>
6623	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
6624	</listitem>
6625
6626	<listitem>
6627	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
6628	</listitem>
6629
6630	<listitem>
6631	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
6632	</listitem>
6633
6634	<listitem>
6635	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
6636	</listitem>
6637
6638	<listitem>
6639	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
6640	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
6641	</listitem>
6642
6643	<listitem>
6644	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
6645	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
6646	</listitem>
6647
6648	<listitem>
6649	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
6650	</listitem>
6651
6652	<listitem>
6653	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
6654	equal to the client resolution</para>
6655	</listitem>
6656
6657	<listitem>
6658	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
6659	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
6660	</listitem>
6661
6662	<listitem>
6663	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
6664	</listitem>
6665
6666	<listitem>
6667	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
6668	</listitem>
6669
6670	<listitem>
6671	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
6672	</listitem>
6673
6674	<listitem>
6675	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
6676	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
6677	</listitem>
6678
6679	<listitem>
6680	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
6681	networking (bug #2474)</para>
6682	</listitem>
6683
6684	<listitem>
6685	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
6686	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
6687	</listitem>
6688
6689	<listitem>
6690	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
6691	</listitem>
6692
6693	<listitem>
6694	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
6695	</listitem>
6696
6697	<listitem>
6698	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
6699	</listitem>
6700
6701	<listitem>
6702	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
6703	</listitem>
6704
6705	<listitem>
6706	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
6707	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
6708	</listitem>
6709
6710	<listitem>
6711	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
6712	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
6713	</listitem>
6714
6715	<listitem>
6716	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
6717	</listitem>
6718
6719	<listitem>
6720	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
6721	</listitem>
6722
6723	<listitem>
6724	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
6725	</listitem>
6726
6727	</itemizedlist>
6728
6729	</sect1>
6730
6731	<sect1>
6732	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
6733
6734	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6735	added:</para>
6736
6737	<itemizedlist>
6738
6739	<listitem>
6740	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
6741	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
6742	</listitem>
6743
6744	<listitem>
6745	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
6746	</listitem>
6747
6748	<listitem>
6749	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
6750	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
6751	</listitem>
6752
6753	<listitem>
6754	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
6755	</listitem>
6756
6757	<listitem>
6758	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
6759	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
6760	</listitem>
6761
6762	<listitem>
6763	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
6764	</listitem>
6765
6766	<listitem>
6767	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
6768	the virtual disk manager</para>
6769	</listitem>
6770
6771	<listitem>
6772	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
6773	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
6774	</listitem>
6775
6776	<listitem>
6777	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
6778	</listitem>
6779
6780	<listitem>
6781	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
6782	</listitem>
6783
6784	<listitem>
6785	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
6786	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
6787	</listitem>
6788
6789	<listitem>
6790	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
6791	bug #2067)</para>
6792	</listitem>
6793
6794	<listitem>
6795	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
6796	</listitem>
6797
6798	<listitem>
6799	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
6800	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
6801	</listitem>
6802
6803	<listitem>
6804	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
6805	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
6806	(bug #2184)</para>
6807	</listitem>
6808
6809	<listitem>
6810	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
6811	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
6812	</listitem>
6813
6814	<listitem>
6815	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
6816	(Windows guests only)</para>
6817	</listitem>
6818
6819	<listitem>
6820	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
6821	</listitem>
6822
6823	<listitem>
6824	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
6825	</listitem>
6826
6827	<listitem>
6828	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
6829	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
6830	</listitem>
6831
6832	<listitem>
6833	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
6834	</listitem>
6835
6836	<listitem>
6837	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
6838	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
6839	</para>
6840	</listitem>
6841
6842	<listitem>
6843	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
6844	</listitem>
6845
6846	<listitem>
6847	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
6848	</listitem>
6849
6850	<listitem>
6851	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
6852	a VM reboot</para>
6853	</listitem>
6854
6855	<listitem>
6856	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
6857	</listitem>
6858
6859	<listitem>
6860	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
6861	buggy X servers</para>
6862	</listitem>
6863
6864	<listitem>
6865	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
6866	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
6867	</listitem>
6868
6869	<listitem>
6870	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
6871	</listitem>
6872
6873	<listitem>
6874	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
6875	(bug #2128)</para>
6876	</listitem>
6877
6878	<listitem>
6879	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
6880	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
6881	</listitem>
6882
6883	<listitem>
6884	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
6885	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
6886	</listitem>
6887
6888	<listitem>
6889	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
6890	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
6891	</listitem>
6892
6893	<listitem>
6894	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
6895	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
6896	</listitem>
6897
6898	<listitem>
6899	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
6900	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
6901	</listitem>
6902
6903	<listitem>
6904	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
6905	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
6906	</listitem>
6907
6908	<listitem>
6909	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
6910	installer into a single package</para>
6911	</listitem>
6912
6913	<listitem>
6914	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
6915	port to the guest
6916	</para>
6917	</listitem>
6918
6919	</itemizedlist>
6920
6921	</sect1>
6922
6923	<sect1>
6924	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
6925
6926	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6927	were added:<itemizedlist>
6928
6929	<listitem>
6930	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
6931	</listitem>
6932
6933	<listitem>
6934	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6935	</listitem>
6936
6937	<listitem>
6938	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
6939	</listitem>
6940
6941	<listitem>
6942	<para>New-version notifier</para>
6943	</listitem>
6944
6945	<listitem>
6946	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
6947	</listitem>
6948
6949	<listitem>
6950	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6951	</listitem>
6952
6953	<listitem>
6954	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
6955	</listitem>
6956
6957	<listitem>
6958	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
6959	</listitem>
6960
6961	<listitem>
6962	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
6963	</listitem>
6964
6965	<listitem>
6966	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
6967	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
6968	</listitem>
6969
6970	<listitem>
6971	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
6972	</listitem>
6973
6974	<listitem>
6975	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
6976	</listitem>
6977
6978	<listitem>
6979	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
6980	</listitem>
6981
6982	</itemizedlist></para>
6983
6984	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6985
6986	<itemizedlist>
6987
6988	<listitem>
6989	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
6990	</listitem>
6991
6992	<listitem>
6993	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
6994	</listitem>
6995
6996	<listitem>
6997	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
6998	</listitem>
6999
7000	<listitem>
7001	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
7002	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
7003	</listitem>
7004
7005	<listitem>
7006	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
7007	restored</para>
7008	</listitem>
7009
7010	<listitem>
7011	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
7012	</listitem>
7013
7014	<listitem>
7015	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
7016	</listitem>
7017
7018	<listitem>
7019	<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>
7020	</listitem>
7021
7022	</itemizedlist>
7023
7024	</sect1>
7025
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