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3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.1.0 Beta 3 (2011-07-14)</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
13	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
14	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
15	</listitem>
16
17	<listitem>
18	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
19	</listitem>
20
21	<listitem>
22	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
23	</listitem>
24
25	<listitem>
26	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
27	bug #7822)</para>
28	</listitem>
29
30	<listitem>
31	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
32	</listitem>
33
34	<listitem>
35	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
36	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
37	</listitem>
38
39	<listitem>
40	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
41	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
42	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
43	anymore)</para>
44	</listitem>
45
46	<listitem>
47	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
48	queried separately by the frontends</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>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
59	</para>
60	</listitem>
61
62	<listitem>
63	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
64	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
65	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
66	</listitem>
67
68	<listitem>
69	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
70	with VBoxManage</para>
71	</listitem>
72
73	<listitem>
74	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
75	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
76	</listitem>
77
78
79	</itemizedlist>
80
81	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
82
83	<itemizedlist>
84
85	<listitem>
86	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
87	</listitem>
88
89	<listitem>
90	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
91	</listitem>
92
93	<listitem>
94	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
95	</listitem>
96
97	<listitem>
98	<para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
99	of the current state</para>
100	</listitem>
101
102	<listitem>
103	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
104	</listitem>
105
106	<listitem>
107	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
108	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
109	</listitem>
110
111	<listitem>
112	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
113	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
114	</listitem>
115
116	<listitem>
117	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
118	</listitem>
119
120	<listitem>
121	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
122	</listitem>
123
124	<listitem>
125	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
126	dialog</para>
127	</listitem>
128
129	<listitem>
130	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
131	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
132	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
133	</listitem>
134
135	<listitem>
136	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
137	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
138	</listitem>
139
140	<listitem>
141	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
142	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
143	</listitem>
144
145	<listitem>
146	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
147	be a valid UUID</para>
148	</listitem>
149
150	<listitem>
151	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
152	twice in a VM configuration</para>
153	</listitem>
154
155	<listitem>
156	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
157	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
158	cases</para>
159	</listitem>
160
161	<listitem>
162	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
163	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
164	improve performance</para>
165	</listitem>
166
167	<listitem>
168	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
169	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
170	on a temporary basis</para>
171	</listitem>
172
173	<listitem>
174	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
175	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
176	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
177	</listitem>
178
179	<listitem>
180	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
181	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
182	</listitem>
183
184	<listitem>
185	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
186	images in VDI format</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
191	VMDK format</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
196	controller (bug #8592)</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
201	</listitem>
202
203	<listitem>
204	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
205	</listitem>
206
207	<listitem>
208	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
209	</listitem>
210
211	<listitem>
212	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
213	</listitem>
214
215	<listitem>
216	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	<listitem>
220	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
221	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
226	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
231	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
232	</listitem>
233
234	<listitem>
235	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
236	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/></para>)
237	</listitem>
238
239	<listitem>
240	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
241	RDP clients</para>
242	</listitem>
243
244	<listitem>
245	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
246	</listitem>
247
248	<listitem>
249	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
250	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
251	</listitem>
252
253	<listitem>
254	<para>Webservice: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
255	be more robust when connections fail</para>
256	</listitem>
257
258	<listitem>
259	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
260	simultaneously</para>
261	</listitem>
262
263	<listitem>
264	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
265	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
266	location values in many places</para>
267	</listitem>
268
269	<listitem>
270	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
271	</listitem>
272
273	<listitem>
274	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
275	builds</para>
276	</listitem>
277
278	<listitem>
279	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
280	</listitem>
281
282	<listitem>
283	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
284	window (bug #4491)</para>
285	</listitem>
286
287	<listitem>
288	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
289	removing a VM</para>
290	</listitem>
291
292	<listitem>
293	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
294	</listitem>
295
296	<listitem>
297	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
298	</listitem>
299
300	<listitem>
301	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
302	166 and above)</para>
303	</listitem>
304
305	<listitem>
306	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
307	hosts</para>
308	</listitem>
309
310	<listitem>
311	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
316	from the host</para>
317	</listitem>
318
319	<listitem>
320	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
321	</listitem>
322
323	</itemizedlist>
324
325	</sect1>
326
327	<sect1>
328	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
329
330	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
331	added:</para>
332
333	<itemizedlist>
334
335	<listitem>
336	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
337	</listitem>
338
339	<listitem>
340	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
341	</listitem>
342
343	<listitem>
344	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
345	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
346	</listitem>
347
348	<listitem>
349	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
350	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
351	</listitem>
352
353	<listitem>
354	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
355	</listitem>
356
357	<listitem>
358	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
359	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
360	</listitem>
361
362	<listitem>
363	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
364	</listitem>
365
366	<listitem>
367	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
368	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
369	</listitem>
370
371	<listitem>
372	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
373	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
374	</listitem>
375
376	<listitem>
377	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
382	</listitem>
383
384	<listitem>
385	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
386	file was not written during export</para>
387	</listitem>
388
389	<listitem>
390	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
391	</listitem>
392
393	<listitem>
394	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
395	</listitem>
396
397	<listitem>
398	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
399	</listitem>
400
401	<listitem>
402	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
403	binaries</para>
404	</listitem>
405
406	<listitem>
407	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
408	</listitem>
409
410	<listitem>
411	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
412	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
413	</listitem>
414
415	<listitem>
416	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
417	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
418	</listitem>
419
420	<listitem>
421	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
422	</listitem>
423
424	<listitem>
425	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
426	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
427	</listitem>
428
429	</itemizedlist>
430	</sect1>
431
432	<sect1>
433	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
434
435	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
436	added:</para>
437
438	<itemizedlist>
439
440	<listitem>
441	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
442	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
443	</listitem>
444
445	<listitem>
446	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
447	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
448	</listitem>
449
450	<listitem>
451	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
452	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
453	</listitem>
454
455	<listitem>
456	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
457	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
458	</listitem>
459
460	<listitem>
461	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
462	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
463	</listitem>
464
465	<listitem>
466	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
467	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
468	</listitem>
469
470	<listitem>
471	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
472	(Windows hosts only)</para>
473	</listitem>
474
475	<listitem>
476	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
477	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
478	</listitem>
479
480	<listitem>
481	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
482	</listitem>
483
484	<listitem>
485	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
486	</listitem>
487
488	<listitem>
489	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
490	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	<listitem>
494	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
495	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
496	</listitem>
497
498	<listitem>
499	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
500	</listitem>
501
502	<listitem>
503	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
504	</listitem>
505
506	<listitem>
507	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
508	(Linux hosts only)</para>
509	</listitem>
510
511	<listitem>
512	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
513	(Windows hosts only)</para>
514	</listitem>
515
516	<listitem>
517	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
518	window</para>
519	</listitem>
520
521	<listitem>
522	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
523	Fedora 15</para>
524	</listitem>
525
526	<listitem>
527	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
528	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
529	</listitem>
530
531	<listitem>
532	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
533	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
534	</listitem>
535
536	<listitem>
537	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
538	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
539	</listitem>
540
541	<listitem>
542	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
547	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	</itemizedlist>
551	</sect1>
552
553	<sect1>
554	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
555
556	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
557	added:</para>
558
559	<itemizedlist>
560
561	<listitem>
562	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
563	a VMM from a saved state</para>
564	</listitem>
565
566	<listitem>
567	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
568	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
569	</listitem>
570
571	<listitem>
572	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
573	(bug #8006)</para>
574	</listitem>
575
576	<listitem>
577	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
578	(bug #8726)</para>
579	</listitem>
580
581	<listitem>
582	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
583	</listitem>
584
585	<listitem>
586	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
587	</listitem>
588
589	<listitem>
590	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
591	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
596	(bug #8469)</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
601	selectors</para>
602	</listitem>
603
604	<listitem>
605	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
606	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
607	</listitem>
608
609	<listitem>
610	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
611	folder (bug #8673)</para>
612	</listitem>
613
614	<listitem>
615	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
616	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
617	</listitem>
618
619	<listitem>
620	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
625	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
634	</listitem>
635
636	<listitem>
637	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
638	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
639	</listitem>
640
641	<listitem>
642	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
643	I/O error occurred</para>
644	</listitem>
645
646	<listitem>
647	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
648	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
649	</listitem>
650
651	<listitem>
652	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
653	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
654	</listitem>
655
656	<listitem>
657	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
658	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
659	if no medium is present</para>
660	</listitem>
661
662	<listitem>
663	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
664	</listitem>
665
666	<listitem>
667	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
668	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
669	</listitem>
670
671	<listitem>
672	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
673	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
674	</listitem>
675
676	<listitem>
677	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
678	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
679	</listitem>
680
681	<listitem>
682	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
683	</listitem>
684
685	<listitem>
686	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
687	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
688	</listitem>
689
690	<listitem>
691	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
692	library (bug #8063)</para>
693	</listitem>
694
695	<listitem>
696	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
697	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
698	</listitem>
699
700	<listitem>
701	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
702	</listitem>
703
704	<listitem>
705	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
706	</listitem>
707
708	<listitem>
709	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
710	</listitem>
711
712	<listitem>
713	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
714	changed on import</para>
715	</listitem>
716
717	<listitem>
718	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
719	</listitem>
720
721	<listitem>
722	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
723	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
724	</listitem>
725
726	<listitem>
727	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
728	(bug #8593)</para>
729	</listitem>
730
731	<listitem>
732	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
733	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
734	</listitem>
735
736	<listitem>
737	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
738	captured</para>
739	</listitem>
740
741	<listitem>
742	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
743	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
744	</listitem>
745
746	<listitem>
747	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
748	</para>
749	</listitem>
750
751	<listitem>
752	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
753	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
754	</listitem>
755
756	<listitem>
757	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
758	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
759	</listitem>
760
761	<listitem>
762	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
763	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
764	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
765	</listitem>
766
767	<listitem>
768	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
769	to unkillable VM processes</para>
770	</listitem>
771
772	<listitem>
773	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
774	</listitem>
775
776	<listitem>
777	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
778	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
779	</listitem>
780
781	<listitem>
782	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
783	on legacy Windows versions</para>
784	</listitem>
785
786	<listitem>
787	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
788	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
789	</listitem>
790
791	<listitem>
792	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
793	</listitem>
794
795	<listitem>
796	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
797	</listitem>
798
799	<listitem>
800	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
801	</listitem>
802
803	<listitem>
804	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
805	</listitem>
806
807	<listitem>
808	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
809	(bug #7946)</para>
810	</listitem>
811
812	<listitem>
813	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
814	</listitem>
815
816	<listitem>
817	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
818	</listitem>
819
820	<listitem>
821	<para>Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
822	</listitem>
823
824	</itemizedlist>
825
826	</sect1>
827
828	<sect1>
829	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
830
831	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
832	added:</para>
833
834	<itemizedlist>
835
836	<listitem>
837	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
838	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
839	</listitem>
840
841	<listitem>
842	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
843	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
844	</listitem>
845
846	<listitem>
847	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
848	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
853	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
854	</listitem>
855
856	<listitem>
857	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
858	number of host network interfaces</para>
859	</listitem>
860
861	<listitem>
862	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
863	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
864	</listitem>
865
866	<listitem>
867	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
868	</listitem>
869
870	<listitem>
871	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
872	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
873	</listitem>
874
875	<listitem>
876	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
877	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
878	</listitem>
879
880	<listitem>
881	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
882	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
887	</listitem>
888
889	<listitem>
890	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
891	(bug #6577)</para>
892	</listitem>
893
894	<listitem>
895	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
896	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
897	(bug #8235)</para>
898	</listitem>
899
900	<listitem>
901	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
902	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
903	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
904	</listitem>
905
906	<listitem>
907	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
908	</listitem>
909
910	<listitem>
911	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
912	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
913	</listitem>
914
915	<listitem>
916	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric.</para>
917	</listitem>
918
919	<listitem>
920	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
921	(bug #7966)</para>
922	</listitem>
923
924	<listitem>
925	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
926	</listitem>
927
928	<listitem>
929	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
930	</listitem>
931
932	<listitem>
933	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
938	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
943	</listitem>
944
945	<listitem>
946	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
947	</listitem>
948
949	<listitem>
950	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
951	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
952	</listitem>
953
954	<listitem>
955	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
956	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
957	</listitem>
958
959	<listitem>
960	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
961	</listitem>
962
963	<listitem>
964	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
965	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
966	</listitem>
967
968	<listitem>
969	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
970	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
971	(bug #8122)</para>
972	</listitem>
973
974	<listitem>
975	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
976	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
977	</listitem>
978
979	<listitem>
980	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
981	</listitem>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
989	(bug #1548)</para>
990	</listitem>
991
992	<listitem>
993	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
994	</listitem>
995
996	<listitem>
997	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
998	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
999	</listitem>
1000
1001	<listitem>
1002	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
1003	</listitem>
1004
1005	<listitem>
1006	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
1007	(bug #8231)</para>
1008	</listitem>
1009
1010	<listitem>
1011	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
1012	11.04 Alpha.</para>
1013	</listitem>
1014
1015	<listitem>
1016	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
1017	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login.</para>
1018	</listitem>
1019
1020	<listitem>
1021	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
1022	VirtualBox versions can't handle.</para>
1023	</listitem>
1024
1025	<listitem>
1026	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
1027	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
1028	</listitem>
1029
1030	<listitem>
1031	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
1032	with VBoxGINA</para>
1033	</listitem>
1034
1035	</itemizedlist>
1036
1037	</sect1>
1038
1039	<sect1>
1040	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
1041
1042	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1043	added:</para>
1044
1045	<itemizedlist>
1046
1047	<listitem>
1048	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
1049	settings vanished</para>
1050	</listitem>
1051
1052	<listitem>
1053	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
1054	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
1055	</listitem>
1056
1057	<listitem>
1058	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
1059	created (bug #8031)</para>
1060	</listitem>
1061
1062	<listitem>
1063	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
1064	</listitem>
1065
1066	<listitem>
1067	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
1068	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
1069	</listitem>
1070
1071	<listitem>
1072	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
1073	an extension pack</para>
1074	</listitem>
1075
1076	<listitem>
1077	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
1078	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
1079	</listitem>
1080
1081	<listitem>
1082	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
1083	</listitem>
1084
1085	<listitem>
1086	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
1087	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
1088	</listitem>
1089
1090	<listitem>
1091	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
1092	host-only interface</para>
1093	</listitem>
1094
1095	<listitem>
1096	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
1097	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
1098	</listitem>
1099
1100	<listitem>
1101	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
1102	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
1103	</listitem>
1104
1105	<listitem>
1106	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
1107	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
1108	</listitem>
1109
1110	<listitem>
1111	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
1112	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
1113	</listitem>
1114
1115	<listitem>
1116	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
1117	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
1118	</listitem>
1119
1120	<listitem>
1121	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
1122	</listitem>
1123
1124	<listitem>
1125	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
1126	</listitem>
1127
1128	<listitem>
1129	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
1130	guests</para>
1131	</listitem>
1132
1133	<listitem>
1134	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
1135	</listitem>
1136
1137	<listitem>
1138	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
1139	</listitem>
1140
1141	<listitem>
1142	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
1143	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
1144	</listitem>
1145
1146	<listitem>
1147	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
1148	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
1153	a VM start</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
1158	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	<listitem>
1162	<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented
1163	(bug #6067)</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
1168	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
1173	not saved to machine XML</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
1178	#7983)</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
1183	#7981)</para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.</para>
1188	</listitem>
1189
1190	<listitem>
1191	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
1192	regression)</para>
1193	</listitem>
1194
1195	<listitem>
1196	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
1197	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
1198	</listitem>
1199
1200	<listitem>
1201	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
1202	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	</itemizedlist>
1206
1207	</sect1>
1208
1209	<sect1>
1210	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
1211
1212	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1213	were added:</para>
1214
1215	<itemizedlist>
1216
1217	<listitem>
1218	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
1219	</listitem>
1220
1221	<listitem>
1222	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
1223	</listitem>
1224
1225	<listitem>
1226	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
1227	<itemizedlist>
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
1230	</listitem>
1231
1232	<listitem>
1233	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
1238	</listitem>
1239
1240	<listitem>
1241	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
1242	</listitem>
1243
1244	<listitem>
1245	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
1246	states, and optionally including attached
1247	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
1248	can do the same now)</para>
1249	</listitem>
1250
1251	<listitem>
1252	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
1253	</listitem>
1254
1255	</itemizedlist>
1256	</para>
1257	</listitem>
1258
1259	<listitem>
1260	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
1261	</listitem>
1262
1263	<listitem>
1264	<para>New virtual hardware:
1265	<itemizedlist>
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
1268	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
1273	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275	</itemizedlist>
1276	</para>
1277	</listitem>
1278
1279	<listitem>
1280	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
1281	<itemizedlist>
1282	<listitem>
1283	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
1284	</listitem>
1285
1286	<listitem>
1287	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
1288	</para>
1289	</listitem>
1290
1291	<listitem>
1292	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
1293	now</para>
1294	</listitem>
1295
1296	<listitem>
1297	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
1298	</listitem>
1299
1300	</itemizedlist>
1301	</para>
1302	</listitem>
1303
1304	<listitem>
1305	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
1306	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
1307	</listitem>
1308
1309	<listitem>
1310	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
1311	Parallels images</para>
1312	</listitem>
1313
1314	<listitem>
1315	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
1316	</listitem>
1317
1318	<listitem>
1319	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
1320	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
1321	</listitem>
1322
1323	<listitem>
1324	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
1325	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
1326	</listitem>
1327
1328	</itemizedlist>
1329
1330	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1331
1332	<itemizedlist>
1333
1334	<listitem>
1335	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
1336	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
1337	</listitem>
1338
1339	<listitem>
1340	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
1341	</listitem>
1342
1343	<listitem>
1344	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
1345	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
1346	</listitem>
1347
1348	<listitem>
1349	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
1350	(bug #1657)</para>
1351	</listitem>
1352
1353	<listitem>
1354	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
1355	</listitem>
1356
1357	<listitem>
1358	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
1359	</listitem>
1360
1361	<listitem>
1362	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
1363	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
1364	</listitem>
1365
1366	<listitem>
1367	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
1368	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
1369	</listitem>
1370
1371	<listitem>
1372	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
1373	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
1374	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
1375	</listitem>
1376
1377	<listitem>
1378	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1379	again (bug #6864)</para>
1380	</listitem>
1381
1382	<listitem>
1383	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
1384	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
1385	</listitem>
1386
1387	<listitem>
1388	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
1389	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
1390	</listitem>
1391
1392	<listitem>
1393	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
1394	</listitem>
1395
1396	<listitem>
1397	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
1398	</listitem>
1399
1400	<listitem>
1401	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
1402	</listitem>
1403
1404	<listitem>
1405	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
1406	</listitem>
1407
1408	<listitem>
1409	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
1414	</listitem>
1415
1416	<listitem>
1417	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
1418	</listitem>
1419
1420	<listitem>
1421	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
1422	(bug #7058)</para>
1423	</listitem>
1424
1425	<listitem>
1426	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
1427	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
1428	</listitem>
1429
1430	<listitem>
1431	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
1432	circumstances</para>
1433	</listitem>
1434
1435	<listitem>
1436	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
1437	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
1438	#5578)
1439	</para>
1440	</listitem>
1441
1442	<listitem>
1443	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
1444	</listitem>
1445
1446	<listitem>
1447	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
1448	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
1449	</listitem>
1450
1451	<listitem>
1452	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
1453	</listitem>
1454
1455	<listitem>
1456	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
1457	#6760)</para>
1458	</listitem>
1459
1460	<listitem>
1461	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
1462	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
1463	</listitem>
1464
1465	<listitem>
1466	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
1467	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
1468	</listitem>
1469
1470	<listitem>
1471	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
1472	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
1473	</listitem>
1474
1475	<listitem>
1476	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
1477	</listitem>
1478
1479	<listitem>
1480	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
1481	file</para>
1482	</listitem>
1483
1484	<listitem>
1485	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1486	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1487	</listitem>
1488
1489	</itemizedlist>
1490
1491	</sect1>
1492
1493	<sect1>
1494	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
1495
1496	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1497	added:</para>
1498
1499	<itemizedlist>
1500
1501	<listitem>
1502	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
1503	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
1504	</listitem>
1505
1506	<listitem>
1507	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
1508	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
1509	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
1510	</listitem>
1511
1512	<listitem>
1513	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
1514	</listitem>
1515
1516	<listitem>
1517	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
1518	</listitem>
1519
1520	<listitem>
1521	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
1522	</listitem>
1523
1524	<listitem>
1525	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
1526	the VM is running</para>
1527	</listitem>
1528
1529	<listitem>
1530	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
1531	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
1532	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
1533	starting from a saved state</para>
1534	</listitem>
1535
1536	<listitem>
1537	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
1538	</listitem>
1539
1540	<listitem>
1541	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
1542	</listitem>
1543
1544	<listitem>
1545	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
1546	</listitem>
1547
1548	<listitem>
1549	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
1550	</listitem>
1551
1552	<listitem>
1553	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
1554	</listitem>
1555
1556	<listitem>
1557	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
1558	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
1559	</listitem>
1560
1561	<listitem>
1562	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
1563	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
1564	</listitem>
1565
1566	<listitem>
1567	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
1568	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
1569	</listitem>
1570
1571	<listitem>
1572	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
1573	</listitem>
1574
1575	<listitem>
1576	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
1577	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
1578	</para>
1579	</listitem>
1580
1581	<listitem>
1582	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
1583	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
1584	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
1585	</listitem>
1586
1587	<listitem>
1588	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
1589	only)</para>
1590	</listitem>
1591
1592	<listitem>
1593	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
1594	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
1595	</listitem>
1596
1597	<listitem>
1598	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
1599	</listitem>
1600
1601	<listitem>
1602	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
1603	</listitem>
1604
1605	<listitem>
1606	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
1607	</listitem>
1608
1609	<listitem>
1610	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
1611	state (bug #4124)</para>
1612	</listitem>
1613
1614	<listitem>
1615	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
1616	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
1617	</listitem>
1618
1619	<listitem>
1620	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
1621	</listitem>
1622
1623	<listitem>
1624	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
1625	(bug #2996)</para>
1626	</listitem>
1627
1628	<listitem>
1629	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
1630	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
1631	</listitem>
1632
1633	<listitem>
1634	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
1635	</listitem>
1636
1637	<listitem>
1638	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
1639	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
1640	</listitem>
1641
1642	<listitem>
1643	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
1644	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
1645	</listitem>
1646
1647	<listitem>
1648	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
1649	user accounts for VM information</para>
1650	</listitem>
1651
1652	</itemizedlist>
1653
1654	</sect1>
1655
1656	<sect1>
1657	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
1658
1659	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1660	added:</para>
1661
1662	<itemizedlist>
1663
1664	<listitem>
1665	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
1666	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
1667	</listitem>
1668
1669	<listitem>
1670	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
1671	</listitem>
1672
1673	<listitem>
1674	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
1675	</listitem>
1676
1677	<listitem>
1678	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
1679	</listitem>
1680
1681	<listitem>
1682	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
1683	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
1684	</listitem>
1685
1686	<listitem>
1687	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
1688	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
1689	</listitem>
1690
1691	<listitem>
1692	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
1693	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
1694	</listitem>
1695
1696	<listitem>
1697	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
1698	(bug #4952)</para>
1699	</listitem>
1700
1701	<listitem>
1702	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1703	bug #6122)</para>
1704	</listitem>
1705
1706	<listitem>
1707	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
1708	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
1709	</listitem>
1710
1711	<listitem>
1712	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
1713	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
1714	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1715	</listitem>
1716
1717	<listitem>
1718	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
1719	</listitem>
1720
1721	<listitem>
1722	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
1723	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	<listitem>
1727	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
1728	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
1729	</listitem>
1730
1731	<listitem>
1732	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
1733	canceled</para>
1734	</listitem>
1735
1736	<listitem>
1737	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
1738	</listitem>
1739
1740	<listitem>
1741	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
1742	</listitem>
1743
1744	<listitem>
1745	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
1746	</listitem>
1747
1748	<listitem>
1749	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
1750	</listitem>
1751
1752	<listitem>
1753	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
1754	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
1755	</listitem>
1756
1757	<listitem>
1758	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
1759	</listitem>
1760
1761	<listitem>
1762	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
1763	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1764	</listitem>
1765
1766	<listitem>
1767	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
1768	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
1769	</listitem>
1770
1771	<listitem>
1772	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
1773	</listitem>
1774
1775	<listitem>
1776	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
1777	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
1778	</listitem>
1779
1780	<listitem>
1781	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
1782	</listitem>
1783
1784	<listitem>
1785	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
1786	circumstances</para>
1787	</listitem>
1788
1789	<listitem>
1790	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
1791	printers</para>
1792	</listitem>
1793
1794	<listitem>
1795	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
1796	</listitem>
1797
1798	<listitem>
1799	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
1800	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
1801	</listitem>
1802
1803	<listitem>
1804	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
1805	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
1806	</listitem>
1807
1808	<listitem>
1809	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
1810	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
1811	circumstances</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
1816	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
1821	as supported extension</para>
1822	</listitem>
1823
1824	<listitem>
1825	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
1826	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
1827	</listitem>
1828
1829	<listitem>
1830	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
1831	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
1832	</listitem>
1833
1834	<listitem>
1835	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
1836	</listitem>
1837
1838	<listitem>
1839	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
1840	(bug #7366)</para>
1841	</listitem>
1842
1843	<listitem>
1844	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
1849	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
1854	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
1855	</listitem>
1856
1857	<listitem>
1858	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
1859	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
1860	</listitem>
1861
1862	<listitem>
1863	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
1864	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
1865	</listitem>
1866
1867	<listitem>
1868	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
1869	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
1870	</listitem>
1871
1872	<listitem>
1873	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
1878	</listitem>
1879
1880	<listitem>
1881	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
1882	more than one environment variable</para>
1883	</listitem>
1884
1885	<listitem>
1886	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
1887	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
1888	</listitem>
1889
1890	<listitem>
1891	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
1892	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	<listitem>
1896	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
1897	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
1898	</listitem>
1899
1900	<listitem>
1901	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
1902	enumerating logged in users</para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
1907	</listitem>
1908
1909	<listitem>
1910	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
1911	</listitem>
1912
1913	<listitem>
1914	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
1915	</listitem>
1916
1917	<listitem>
1918	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
1919	in the event of a VM crash</para>
1920	</listitem>
1921
1922	<listitem>
1923	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
1924	</listitem>
1925
1926	<listitem>
1927	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
1928	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	<listitem>
1932	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
1933	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
1934	</listitem>
1935
1936	<listitem>
1937	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
1938	(bug #7448)</para>
1939	</listitem>
1940
1941	<listitem>
1942	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
1943	</listitem>
1944
1945	<listitem>
1946	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	</itemizedlist>
1954
1955	</sect1>
1956
1957	<sect1>
1958	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
1959
1960	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1961	added:</para>
1962
1963	<itemizedlist>
1964
1965	<listitem>
1966	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
1967	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
1968	</listitem>
1969
1970	<listitem>
1971	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
1972	</listitem>
1973
1974	<listitem>
1975	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
1976	bug #6809)</para>
1977	</listitem>
1978
1979	<listitem>
1980	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
1981	</listitem>
1982
1983	<listitem>
1984	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
1985	</listitem>
1986
1987	<listitem>
1988	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
1989	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
1990	</listitem>
1991
1992	<listitem>
1993	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
1994	changes</para>
1995	</listitem>
1996
1997	<listitem>
1998	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
1999	</listitem>
2000
2001	<listitem>
2002	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
2003	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
2004	</listitem>
2005
2006	<listitem>
2007	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
2008	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
2009	</listitem>
2010
2011	<listitem>
2012	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
2013	</listitem>
2014
2015	<listitem>
2016	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
2017	</listitem>
2018
2019	<listitem>
2020	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	<listitem>
2028	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
2029	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
2030	</listitem>
2031
2032	<listitem>
2033	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
2034	</listitem>
2035
2036	<listitem>
2037	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
2038	(bug #6832)</para>
2039	</listitem>
2040
2041	<listitem>
2042	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
2043	guests</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
2048	</listitem>
2049
2050	<listitem>
2051	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
2052	without external tools and tricks</para>
2053	</listitem>
2054
2055	<listitem>
2056	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
2057	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
2058	</listitem>
2059
2060	<listitem>
2061	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
2062	</listitem>
2063
2064	<listitem>
2065	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
2066	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
2067	</listitem>
2068
2069	<listitem>
2070	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
2071	shutdown</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
2076	fixes</para>
2077	</listitem>
2078
2079	<listitem>
2080	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
2081	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
2082	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
2083	</para>
2084	</listitem>
2085
2086	<listitem>
2087	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
2088	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
2089	</listitem>
2090
2091	<listitem>
2092	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
2093	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
2094	</listitem>
2095
2096	<listitem>
2097	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
2098	</para>
2099	</listitem>
2100
2101	<listitem>
2102	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
2107	</listitem>
2108
2109	<listitem>
2110	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
2111	</listitem>
2112
2113	</itemizedlist>
2114
2115	</sect1>
2116
2117	<sect1>
2118	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
2119
2120	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2121	added:</para>
2122
2123	<itemizedlist>
2124
2125	<listitem>
2126	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
2127	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
2128	</listitem>
2129
2130	<listitem>
2131	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
2132	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
2133	</listitem>
2134
2135	<listitem>
2136	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
2137	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
2138	</listitem>
2139
2140	<listitem>
2141	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
2142	</listitem>
2143
2144	<listitem>
2145	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
2146	</listitem>
2147
2148	<listitem>
2149	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
2154	</listitem>
2155
2156	<listitem>
2157	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
2158	assigned</para>
2159	</listitem>
2160
2161	<listitem>
2162	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
2163	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
2164	</listitem>
2165
2166	<listitem>
2167	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
2168	multiple screens are enabled</para>
2169	</listitem>
2170
2171	<listitem>
2172	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2173	</listitem>
2174
2175	<listitem>
2176	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
2177	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
2178	</listitem>
2179
2180	<listitem>
2181	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
2182	again (bug #7022).
2183	</para>
2184	</listitem>
2185
2186	<listitem>
2187	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
2188	(bug #6768)</para>
2189	</listitem>
2190
2191	<listitem>
2192	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
2193	(bug #6927)</para>
2194	</listitem>
2195
2196	<listitem>
2197	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
2198	bug #7031)</para>
2199	</listitem>
2200
2201	<listitem>
2202	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
2203	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
2204	</listitem>
2205
2206	<listitem>
2207	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
2208	bug #6987)</para>
2209	</listitem>
2210
2211	<listitem>
2212	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
2213	</listitem>
2214
2215	<listitem>
2216	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
2221	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
2222	</listitem>
2223
2224	<listitem>
2225	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
2226	</listitem>
2227
2228	<listitem>
2229	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
2230	installation (bug #5101)</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
2235	</listitem>
2236
2237	<listitem>
2238	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
2239	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
2240	bug #6872)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
2245	</listitem>
2246
2247	<listitem>
2248	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
2249	(performance tweak)</para>
2250	</listitem>
2251
2252	<listitem>
2253	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
2254	is currently paused</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
2259	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
2260	</listitem>
2261
2262	<listitem>
2263	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
2264	</listitem>
2265
2266	<listitem>
2267	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
2268	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
2269	</listitem>
2270
2271	<listitem>
2272	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
2273	not properly saved</para>
2274	</listitem>
2275
2276	<listitem>
2277	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
2278	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
2279	</listitem>
2280
2281	<listitem>
2282	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
2283	</listitem>
2284
2285	<listitem>
2286	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
2291	</listitem>
2292
2293	<listitem>
2294	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
2295	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
2296	</listitem>
2297
2298	<listitem>
2299	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
2300	</listitem>
2301
2302	<listitem>
2303	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
2304	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
2305	</listitem>
2306
2307	<listitem>
2308	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
2309	(bug #5251)</para>
2310	</listitem>
2311
2312	<listitem>
2313	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
2314	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
2315	</listitem>
2316
2317	<listitem>
2318	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
2319	</listitem>
2320
2321	<listitem>
2322	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2327	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2328	</listitem>
2329
2330	<listitem>
2331	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
2332	</listitem>
2333
2334	<listitem>
2335	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
2336	</listitem>
2337
2338	<listitem>
2339	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	</itemizedlist>
2343	</sect1>
2344
2345	<sect1>
2346	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
2347
2348	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2349	added:</para>
2350
2351	<itemizedlist>
2352
2353	<listitem>
2354	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
2355	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
2356	</listitem>
2357
2358	<listitem>
2359	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2360	</listitem>
2361
2362	<listitem>
2363	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
2364	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
2365	</listitem>
2366
2367	<listitem>
2368	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
2369	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
2374	</listitem>
2375
2376	<listitem>
2377	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2378	again (bug #6864)</para>
2379	</listitem>
2380
2381	<listitem>
2382	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
2383	applications (bug #5236)</para>
2384	</listitem>
2385
2386	<listitem>
2387	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
2388	</listitem>
2389
2390	<listitem>
2391	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
2392	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
2393	</listitem>
2394
2395	<listitem>
2396	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
2397	</listitem>
2398
2399	</itemizedlist>
2400
2401	</sect1>
2402
2403	<sect1>
2404	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
2405
2406	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2407	added:</para>
2408
2409	<itemizedlist>
2410
2411	<listitem>
2412	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
2413	</listitem>
2414
2415	<listitem>
2416	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
2417	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
2418	</listitem>
2419
2420	<listitem>
2421	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
2422	</listitem>
2423
2424	<listitem>
2425	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
2426	state</para>
2427	</listitem>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
2431	</listitem>
2432
2433	<listitem>
2434	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2435	</listitem>
2436
2437	<listitem>
2438	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
2439	</listitem>
2440
2441	<listitem>
2442	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
2443	</listitem>
2444
2445	<listitem>
2446	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
2447	</listitem>
2448
2449	<listitem>
2450	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
2451	</listitem>
2452
2453	<listitem>
2454	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
2455	</listitem>
2456
2457	<listitem>
2458	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
2459	</listitem>
2460
2461	<listitem>
2462	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
2463	</listitem>
2464
2465	<listitem>
2466	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
2467	</listitem>
2468
2469	<listitem>
2470	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
2471	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
2472	</listitem>
2473
2474	<listitem>
2475	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
2476	(bug #6784)</para>
2477	</listitem>
2478
2479	<listitem>
2480	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
2481	</listitem>
2482
2483	<listitem>
2484	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
2485	</listitem>
2486
2487	<listitem>
2488	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
2489	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
2490	</listitem>
2491
2492	<listitem>
2493	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
2494	</listitem>
2495
2496	<listitem>
2497	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
2498	</listitem>
2499
2500	<listitem>
2501	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
2502	host only</para>
2503	</listitem>
2504
2505	<listitem>
2506	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
2507	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
2508	</listitem>
2509
2510	<listitem>
2511	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
2512	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
2513	</listitem>
2514
2515	<listitem>
2516	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
2517	</listitem>
2518
2519	<listitem>
2520	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
2521	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
2522	</listitem>
2523
2524	<listitem>
2525	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
2526	</listitem>
2527
2528	<listitem>
2529	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
2530	</listitem>
2531
2532	<listitem>
2533	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
2534	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
2535	</listitem>
2536
2537	<listitem>
2538	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
2539	</listitem>
2540
2541	<listitem>
2542	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
2543	</listitem>
2544
2545	<listitem>
2546	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
2547	</listitem>
2548
2549	<listitem>
2550	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
2551	(bug #6714)</para>
2552	</listitem>
2553
2554	<listitem>
2555	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
2556	</listitem>
2557
2558	<listitem>
2559	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
2560	</listitem>
2561
2562	<listitem>
2563	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
2564	</listitem>
2565
2566	<listitem>
2567	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
2568	</listitem>
2569
2570	<listitem>
2571	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
2572	</listitem>
2573
2574	</itemizedlist>
2575
2576	</sect1>
2577
2578	<sect1>
2579	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
2580
2581	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2582	were added:</para>
2583
2584	<itemizedlist>
2585
2586	<listitem>
2587	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
2588	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
2589	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
2590	</listitem>
2591
2592	<listitem>
2593	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
2594	</listitem>
2595
2596	<listitem>
2597	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
2598	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
2599	</listitem>
2600
2601	<listitem>
2602	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
2603	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
2604	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
2605	</listitem>
2606
2607	<listitem>
2608	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
2609	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
2610	</listitem>
2611
2612	<listitem>
2613	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
2614	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
2615	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
2616	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
2617	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
2618	</listitem>
2619
2620	<listitem>
2621	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
2626	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
2631	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
2632	</listitem>
2633
2634	<listitem>
2635	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
2636	</listitem>
2637
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
2640	</listitem>
2641
2642	<listitem>
2643	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
2644	</listitem>
2645
2646	<listitem>
2647	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
2648	</listitem>
2649
2650	<listitem>
2651	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
2652	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
2653	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
2654	</listitem>
2655
2656	<listitem>
2657	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
2658	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
2659	</listitem>
2660
2661	</itemizedlist>
2662
2663	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2664
2665	<itemizedlist>
2666
2667	<listitem>
2668	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
2669	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
2670	</listitem>
2671
2672	<listitem>
2673	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
2674	</listitem>
2675
2676	<listitem>
2677	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
2678	VM</para>
2679	</listitem>
2680
2681	<listitem>
2682	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
2683	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
2684	</listitem>
2685
2686	<listitem>
2687	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
2688	#1669)</para>
2689	</listitem>
2690
2691	<listitem>
2692	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
2693	#6442)</para>
2694	</listitem>
2695
2696	<listitem>
2697	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
2698	combination (bug #684)</para>
2699	</listitem>
2700
2701	<listitem>
2702	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
2703	the VM from the GUI</para>
2704	</listitem>
2705
2706	<listitem>
2707	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
2708	medium is not accessible</para>
2709	</listitem>
2710
2711	<listitem>
2712	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
2713	</listitem>
2714
2715	<listitem>
2716	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
2717	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
2718	</listitem>
2719
2720	<listitem>
2721	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
2722	#3106)</para>
2723	</listitem>
2724
2725	<listitem>
2726	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
2727	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
2728	it</para>
2729	</listitem>
2730
2731	<listitem>
2732	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
2733	</listitem>
2734
2735	<listitem>
2736	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2737	</listitem>
2738
2739	<listitem>
2740	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
2741	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
2742	</listitem>
2743
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
2746	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
2747	</listitem>
2748
2749	<listitem>
2750	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
2751	</listitem>
2752
2753	<listitem>
2754	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
2755	</listitem>
2756
2757	<listitem>
2758	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
2759	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
2760	</listitem>
2761
2762	<listitem>
2763	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
2764	</listitem>
2765
2766	<listitem>
2767	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
2768	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
2769	</listitem>
2770
2771	<listitem>
2772	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
2773	</listitem>
2774
2775	<listitem>
2776	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
2777	in VirtualBox</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
2782	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
2783	</listitem>
2784
2785	<listitem>
2786	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
2787	VirtualBox</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
2792	</listitem>
2793
2794	<listitem>
2795	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
2796	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
2797	</listitem>
2798
2799	</itemizedlist>
2800	</sect1>
2801
2802	<sect1>
2803	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
2804
2805	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2806	added:</para>
2807
2808	<itemizedlist>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
2812	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
2813	</listitem>
2814
2815	<listitem>
2816	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
2817	</listitem>
2818
2819	<listitem>
2820	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
2821	</listitem>
2822
2823	<listitem>
2824	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
2825	only) </para>
2826	</listitem>
2827
2828	<listitem>
2829	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
2830	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
2835	interface version</para>
2836	</listitem>
2837
2838	<listitem>
2839	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
2840	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
2841	slot empty</para>
2842	</listitem>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
2846	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
2847	(bug #4220)</para>
2848	</listitem>
2849
2850	<listitem>
2851	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
2856	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
2857	</listitem>
2858
2859	<listitem>
2860	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
2861	using the drivers from LSI</para>
2862	</listitem>
2863
2864	<listitem>
2865	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
2866	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
2867	</listitem>
2868
2869	<listitem>
2870	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
2871	attached</para>
2872	</listitem>
2873
2874	<listitem>
2875	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
2876	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
2877	</listitem>
2878
2879	<listitem>
2880	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
2881	</listitem>
2882
2883	<listitem>
2884	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
2885	booting from SCSI devices</para>
2886	</listitem>
2887
2888	<listitem>
2889	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
2890	is bug #6408)</para>
2891	</listitem>
2892
2893	<listitem>
2894	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
2895	</listitem>
2896
2897	<listitem>
2898	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
2899	fail to initialize</para>
2900	</listitem>
2901
2902	<listitem>
2903	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
2904	</listitem>
2905
2906	<listitem>
2907	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
2908	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
2909	</listitem>
2910
2911	<listitem>
2912	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
2913	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
2914	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
2915	</listitem>
2916
2917	<listitem>
2918	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
2919	</listitem>
2920
2921	<listitem>
2922	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
2923	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
2924	</listitem>
2925
2926	<listitem>
2927	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
2928	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
2929	</listitem>
2930
2931	<listitem>
2932	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
2933	(bug #6435)</para>
2934	</listitem>
2935
2936	<listitem>
2937	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
2938	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
2939	</listitem>
2940
2941	<listitem>
2942	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
2943	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
2944	(bug #6488)</para>
2945	</listitem>
2946
2947	<listitem>
2948	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
2949	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
2950	</listitem>
2951
2952	<listitem>
2953	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
2954	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
2955	</listitem>
2956
2957	<listitem>
2958	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
2959	#5227)</para>
2960	</listitem>
2961
2962	<listitem>
2963	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
2964	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
2965	</listitem>
2966
2967	<listitem>
2968	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
2969	</listitem>
2970
2971	<listitem>
2972	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
2973	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
2974	</listitem>
2975
2976	</itemizedlist>
2977	</sect1>
2978
2979	<sect1>
2980	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
2981
2982	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2983	added:</para>
2984
2985	<itemizedlist>
2986
2987	<listitem>
2988	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
2989	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
2990	</listitem>
2991
2992	<listitem>
2993	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
2994	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
2995	</listitem>
2996
2997	<listitem>
2998	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
2999	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
3000	</listitem>
3001
3002	<listitem>
3003	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
3004	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
3005	</listitem>
3006
3007	<listitem>
3008	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
3009	</listitem>
3010
3011	<listitem>
3012	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
3013	</listitem>
3014
3015	<listitem>
3016	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
3017	</listitem>
3018
3019	<listitem>
3020	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
3025	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
3030	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
3035	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
3036	</listitem>
3037
3038	<listitem>
3039	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
3040	</listitem>
3041
3042	<listitem>
3043	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
3044	</listitem>
3045
3046	<listitem>
3047	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
3048	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
3049	</listitem>
3050
3051	<listitem>
3052	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
3053	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
3054	calls (bug #6165)</para>
3055	</listitem>
3056
3057	<listitem>
3058	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
3059	(bug #5297)</para>
3060	</listitem>
3061
3062	<listitem>
3063	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
3064	(bug #4962)</para>
3065	</listitem>
3066
3067	<listitem>
3068	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
3069	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
3070	</listitem>
3071
3072	<listitem>
3073	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
3074	(bug #6176)</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
3079	certain circumstances</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
3084	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
3085	</listitem>
3086
3087	<listitem>
3088	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
3089	</listitem>
3090
3091	<listitem>
3092	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
3093	</listitem>
3094
3095	<listitem>
3096	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
3097	(bug #3571)</para>
3098	</listitem>
3099
3100	<listitem>
3101	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
3102	devices</para>
3103	</listitem>
3104
3105	<listitem>
3106	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
3107	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
3108	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
3109	</listitem>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
3113	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
3114	</listitem>
3115
3116	<listitem>
3117	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
3118	</listitem>
3119
3120	<listitem>
3121	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
3122	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
3123	</listitem>
3124
3125	<listitem>
3126	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
3127	response</para>
3128	</listitem>
3129
3130	<listitem>
3131	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	<listitem>
3135	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
3136	</listitem>
3137
3138	<listitem>
3139	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
3140	</listitem>
3141
3142	<listitem>
3143	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
3144	</listitem>
3145
3146	<listitem>
3147	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
3148	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3149	</listitem>
3150
3151	<listitem>
3152	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
3153	</listitem>
3154
3155	<listitem>
3156	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
3157	</listitem>
3158
3159	<listitem>
3160	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
3161	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
3162	</listitem>
3163
3164	<listitem>
3165	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
3170	</listitem>
3171
3172	<listitem>
3173	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
3178	</listitem>
3179
3180	</itemizedlist>
3181	</sect1>
3182
3183	<sect1>
3184	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
3185
3186	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3187	added:</para>
3188
3189	<itemizedlist>
3190
3191	<listitem>
3192	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
3193	</listitem>
3194
3195	<listitem>
3196	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
3197	</listitem>
3198
3199	<listitem>
3200	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
3201	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
3202	</listitem>
3203
3204	<listitem>
3205	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
3206	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
3207	</listitem>
3208
3209	<listitem>
3210	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
3211	(bug #3945)</para>
3212	</listitem>
3213
3214	<listitem>
3215	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
3216	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
3217	</listitem>
3218
3219	<listitem>
3220	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
3221	and AMD-V only) </para>
3222	</listitem>
3223
3224	<listitem>
3225	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
3226	</listitem>
3227
3228	<listitem>
3229	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
3230	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
3231	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
3232	</listitem>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
3236	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
3241	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
3246	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
3247	</listitem>
3248
3249	<listitem>
3250	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
3251	snapshots command</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
3256	</listitem>
3257
3258	<listitem>
3259	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
3260	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
3261	</listitem>
3262
3263	<listitem>
3264	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
3269	</listitem>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
3273	</listitem>
3274
3275	<listitem>
3276	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
3277	(KWin bug)</para>
3278	</listitem>
3279
3280	<listitem>
3281	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
3282	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
3283	</listitem>
3284
3285	<listitem>
3286	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
3287	</listitem>
3288
3289	<listitem>
3290	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
3291	</listitem>
3292
3293	<listitem>
3294	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
3295	</listitem>
3296
3297	<listitem>
3298	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
3299	</listitem>
3300
3301	<listitem>
3302	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
3303	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
3304	</listitem>
3305
3306	<listitem>
3307	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
3308	bug #5787)</para>
3309	</listitem>
3310
3311	<listitem>
3312	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
3313	DHCP requests</para>
3314	</listitem>
3315
3316	<listitem>
3317	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
3318	(bug #3217)</para>
3319	</listitem>
3320
3321	<listitem>
3322	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
3323	range (bug #5923)</para>
3324	</listitem>
3325
3326	<listitem>
3327	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
3328	</listitem>
3329
3330	<listitem>
3331	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
3332	</listitem>
3333
3334	<listitem>
3335	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
3336	</listitem>
3337
3338	<listitem>
3339	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
3344	file (bug #5681)</para>
3345	</listitem>
3346
3347	<listitem>
3348	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
3349	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
3350	</listitem>
3351
3352	<listitem>
3353	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
3354	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
3355	</listitem>
3356
3357	<listitem>
3358	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
3359	regression)</para>
3360	</listitem>
3361
3362	<listitem>
3363	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
3368	</listitem>
3369
3370	<listitem>
3371	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
3372	</listitem>
3373
3374	<listitem>
3375	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
3380	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
3381	</listitem>
3382
3383	<listitem>
3384	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
3393	</listitem>
3394
3395	<listitem>
3396	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
3397	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
3402	</listitem>
3403
3404	<listitem>
3405	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
3406	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
3407	</listitem>
3408
3409	<listitem>
3410	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
3411	</listitem>
3412
3413	<listitem>
3414	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
3415	</listitem>
3416
3417	<listitem>
3418	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
3419	</listitem>
3420
3421	<listitem>
3422	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
3423	(bug #5731)</para>
3424	</listitem>
3425
3426	<listitem>
3427	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
3428	again</para>
3429	</listitem>
3430
3431	</itemizedlist>
3432
3433	</sect1>
3434
3435	<sect1>
3436	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
3437
3438	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3439	added:</para>
3440
3441	<itemizedlist>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
3445	</listitem>
3446
3447	<listitem>
3448	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
3449	</listitem>
3450
3451	<listitem>
3452	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
3453	</listitem>
3454
3455	<listitem>
3456	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
3457	</listitem>
3458
3459	<listitem>
3460	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
3461	</listitem>
3462
3463	<listitem>
3464	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
3465	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
3466	</listitem>
3467
3468	<listitem>
3469	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
3470	</listitem>
3471
3472	<listitem>
3473	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
3474	</listitem>
3475
3476	<listitem>
3477	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
3478	</listitem>
3479
3480	<listitem>
3481	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
3486	</listitem>
3487
3488	<listitem>
3489	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
3490	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
3491	</listitem>
3492
3493	<listitem>
3494	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
3495	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
3496	</listitem>
3497
3498	<listitem>
3499	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
3500	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
3501	#1762)</para>
3502	</listitem>
3503
3504	<listitem>
3505	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
3506	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
3507	</listitem>
3508
3509	<listitem>
3510	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
3511	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
3512	</listitem>
3513
3514	<listitem>
3515	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
3516	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
3517	</listitem>
3518
3519	<listitem>
3520	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
3521	</listitem>
3522
3523	<listitem>
3524	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
3525	</listitem>
3526
3527	<listitem>
3528	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
3529	several virtual CPU cores</para>
3530	</listitem>
3531
3532	<listitem>
3533	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
3534	</listitem>
3535
3536	<listitem>
3537	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
3538	</listitem>
3539
3540	<listitem>
3541	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
3542	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
3543	</listitem>
3544
3545	<listitem>
3546	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
3547	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
3548	</listitem>
3549
3550	<listitem>
3551	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
3552	</listitem>
3553
3554	<listitem>
3555	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
3556	guests</para>
3557	</listitem>
3558
3559	<listitem>
3560	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
3561	and on some 64bit guests</para>
3562	</listitem>
3563
3564	<listitem>
3565	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
3566	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
3567	</listitem>
3568
3569	<listitem>
3570	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
3571	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
3572	</listitem>
3573
3574	<listitem>
3575	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
3576	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
3577	</listitem>
3578
3579	<listitem>
3580	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
3581	</listitem>
3582
3583	<listitem>
3584	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
3585	</listitem>
3586
3587	<listitem>
3588	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
3589	</listitem>
3590
3591	<listitem>
3592	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
3593	</listitem>
3594
3595	<listitem>
3596	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
3597	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
3598	</listitem>
3599
3600	<listitem>
3601	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	</itemizedlist>
3605
3606	</sect1>
3607
3608	<sect1>
3609	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
3610
3611	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3612	were added:</para>
3613
3614	<itemizedlist>
3615
3616	<listitem>
3617	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
3618	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
3619	</listitem>
3620
3621	<listitem>
3622	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
3623	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
3624	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
3625	</listitem>
3626
3627	<listitem>
3628	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
3629	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
3630	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
3631	</listitem>
3632
3633	<listitem>
3634	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
3635	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
3636	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
3641	running</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
3646	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
3651	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
3652	</listitem>
3653
3654	<listitem>
3655	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
3656	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
3657	</listitem>
3658
3659	<listitem>
3660	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
3661	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
3662	</listitem>
3663
3664	</itemizedlist>
3665
3666	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3667
3668	<itemizedlist>
3669
3670	<listitem>
3671	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
3672	</listitem>
3673
3674	<listitem>
3675	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
3676	</listitem>
3677
3678	<listitem>
3679	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
3680	</listitem>
3681
3682	<listitem>
3683	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
3684	(bug #5291)</para>
3685	</listitem>
3686
3687	<listitem>
3688	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
3689	</listitem>
3690
3691	<listitem>
3692	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
3701	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
3706	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	<listitem>
3710	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
3711	</listitem>
3712
3713	<listitem>
3714	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
3715	</listitem>
3716
3717	<listitem>
3718	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
3719	</listitem>
3720
3721	<listitem>
3722	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
3723	</listitem>
3724
3725	<listitem>
3726	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
3727	</listitem>
3728
3729	<listitem>
3730	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
3731	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
3732	</listitem>
3733
3734	<listitem>
3735	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
3736	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
3741	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
3746	(bug #2723)</para>
3747	</listitem>
3748
3749	<listitem>
3750	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
3751	</listitem>
3752
3753	<listitem>
3754	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
3755	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
3756	</listitem>
3757
3758	<listitem>
3759	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
3760	optional manifest file on import</para>
3761	</listitem>
3762
3763	<listitem>
3764	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
3769	(bug #3773)</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
3778	</listitem>
3779
3780	<listitem>
3781	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
3782	layout (bug #2302)</para>
3783	</listitem>
3784
3785	<listitem>
3786	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
3787	(bug #4866)</para>
3788	</listitem>
3789
3790	<listitem>
3791	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
3792	left click (bug #5049)</para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
3797	certain conditions</para>
3798	</listitem>
3799
3800	<listitem>
3801	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
3802	</listitem>
3803
3804	<listitem>
3805	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
3806	</listitem>
3807
3808	<listitem>
3809	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
3810	</listitem>
3811
3812	<listitem>
3813	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
3814	</listitem>
3815
3816	<listitem>
3817	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
3818	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
3819	</listitem>
3820
3821	<listitem>
3822	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
3823	</listitem>
3824
3825	<listitem>
3826	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
3827	properties (bug #5337)</para>
3828	</listitem>
3829
3830	<listitem>
3831	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
3832	</listitem>
3833
3834	<listitem>
3835	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
3836	</listitem>
3837
3838	<listitem>
3839	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
3840	</listitem>
3841
3842	<listitem>
3843	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
3844	</listitem>
3845
3846	<listitem>
3847	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
3848	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
3853	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
3854	(bug #928)</para>
3855	</listitem>
3856
3857	<listitem>
3858	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
3859	</listitem>
3860
3861	</itemizedlist>
3862
3863	</sect1>
3864
3865	<sect1>
3866	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
3867
3868	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3869	added:</para>
3870
3871	<itemizedlist>
3872
3873	<listitem>
3874	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
3875	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
3876	</listitem>
3877
3878	<listitem>
3879	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
3880	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
3881	</listitem>
3882
3883	<listitem>
3884	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
3885	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
3886	</listitem>
3887
3888	<listitem>
3889	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
3890	enabled</para>
3891	</listitem>
3892
3893	<listitem>
3894	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
3895	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
3896	</listitem>
3897
3898	<listitem>
3899	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
3900	(bug #2676)</para>
3901	</listitem>
3902
3903	<listitem>
3904	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
3905	is connected to a raw file</para>
3906	</listitem>
3907
3908	<listitem>
3909	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
3910	(bug #5355)</para>
3911	</listitem>
3912
3913	<listitem>
3914	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
3915	</listitem>
3916
3917	<listitem>
3918	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
3919	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
3920	</listitem>
3921
3922	<listitem>
3923	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
3924	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
3925	guest (bug #4496)</para>
3926	</listitem>
3927
3928	<listitem>
3929	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
3930	</listitem>
3931
3932	<listitem>
3933	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
3934	</listitem>
3935
3936	<listitem>
3937	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
3938	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
3939	</listitem>
3940
3941	<listitem>
3942	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
3943	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
3944	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
3945	</listitem>
3946
3947	</itemizedlist>
3948
3949	</sect1>
3950
3951	<sect1>
3952	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
3953
3954	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3955	added:</para>
3956
3957	<itemizedlist>
3958
3959	<listitem>
3960	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
3961	</listitem>
3962
3963	<listitem>
3964	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
3965	</listitem>
3966
3967	<listitem>
3968	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
3969	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
3970	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
3971	</listitem>
3972
3973	<listitem>
3974	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
3975	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
3976	</listitem>
3977
3978	<listitem>
3979	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	<listitem>
3983	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
3984	</listitem>
3985
3986	<listitem>
3987	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
3988	</listitem>
3989
3990	<listitem>
3991	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
3992	</listitem>
3993
3994	<listitem>
3995	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
3996	</listitem>
3997
3998	<listitem>
3999	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
4000	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
4001	</listitem>
4002
4003	<listitem>
4004	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
4005	</listitem>
4006
4007	<listitem>
4008	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
4009	</listitem>
4010
4011	<listitem>
4012	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
4013	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
4014	</listitem>
4015
4016	<listitem>
4017	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
4018	</listitem>
4019
4020	<listitem>
4021	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
4022	exhaustion</para>
4023	</listitem>
4024
4025	<listitem>
4026	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
4031	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
4036	folders (bug #4106)</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
4041	folders (bug #4299)</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
4046	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
4047	(bug #2921)</para>
4048	</listitem>
4049
4050	<listitem>
4051	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
4052	hosts only)</para>
4053	</listitem>
4054
4055	<listitem>
4056	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
4057	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
4058	</listitem>
4059
4060	<listitem>
4061	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
4062	</listitem>
4063
4064	<listitem>
4065	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
4066	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
4067	</listitem>
4068
4069	<listitem>
4070	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
4071	</listitem>
4072
4073	<listitem>
4074	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
4075	image inconsistency </para>
4076	</listitem>
4077
4078	<listitem>
4079	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
4080	</listitem>
4081
4082	<listitem>
4083	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
4084	</listitem>
4085
4086	<listitem>
4087	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
4088	(bug #2025)</para>
4089	</listitem>
4090
4091	<listitem>
4092	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
4093	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
4094	</listitem>
4095
4096	</itemizedlist>
4097
4098	</sect1>
4099
4100	<sect1>
4101	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
4102
4103	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4104	added:</para>
4105
4106	<itemizedlist>
4107
4108	<listitem>
4109	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
4110	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
4111	</listitem>
4112
4113	<listitem>
4114	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
4115	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
4116	</listitem>
4117
4118	<listitem>
4119	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
4120	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
4121	</listitem>
4122
4123	<listitem>
4124	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
4125	</listitem>
4126
4127	<listitem>
4128	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
4129	software virtualization only) </para>
4130	</listitem>
4131
4132	<listitem>
4133	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
4134	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
4135	</listitem>
4136
4137	<listitem>
4138	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
4139	with root privileges</para>
4140	</listitem>
4141
4142	<listitem>
4143	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
4144	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
4145	</listitem>
4146
4147	<listitem>
4148	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
4149	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
4150	</listitem>
4151
4152	<listitem>
4153	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
4154	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
4155	</listitem>
4156
4157	<listitem>
4158	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
4159	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
4160	selector (bug #5063)</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
4165	available</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
4170	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
4171	</listitem>
4172
4173	<listitem>
4174	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
4175	networking (bug #4775)</para>
4176	</listitem>
4177
4178	<listitem>
4179	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
4180	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
4181	</listitem>
4182
4183	<listitem>
4184	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
4185	(bug #4907)</para>
4186	</listitem>
4187
4188	<listitem>
4189	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
4190	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
4191	</listitem>
4192
4193	<listitem>
4194	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
4195	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
4196	</listitem>
4197
4198	<listitem>
4199	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
4200	</listitem>
4201
4202	<listitem>
4203	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
4204	</listitem>
4205
4206	<listitem>
4207	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
4208	</listitem>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
4212	</listitem>
4213
4214	<listitem>
4215	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
4216	are installed</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
4221	(bug #4771)</para>
4222	</listitem>
4223
4224	<listitem>
4225	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
4226	</listitem>
4227
4228	<listitem>
4229	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
4230	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
4231	</listitem>
4232
4233	<listitem>
4234	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
4235	command</para>
4236	</listitem>
4237
4238	<listitem>
4239	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
4240	</listitem>
4241
4242	<listitem>
4243	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
4244	</listitem>
4245
4246	<listitem>
4247	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
4248	(bug #5089)</para>
4249	</listitem>
4250
4251	<listitem>
4252	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
4253	</listitem>
4254
4255	</itemizedlist>
4256
4257	</sect1>
4258
4259	<sect1>
4260	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
4261
4262	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4263	added:</para>
4264
4265	<itemizedlist>
4266
4267	<listitem>
4268	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
4269	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
4270	</listitem>
4271
4272	<listitem>
4273	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
4274	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
4275	</listitem>
4276
4277	<listitem>
4278	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
4279	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
4280	</listitem>
4281
4282	<listitem>
4283	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
4284	guests (bug #2258)</para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	<listitem>
4288	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
4289	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
4294	</listitem>
4295
4296	<listitem>
4297	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
4298	</listitem>
4299
4300	<listitem>
4301	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
4302	</listitem>
4303
4304	<listitem>
4305	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
4306	</listitem>
4307
4308	<listitem>
4309	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
4310	</listitem>
4311
4312	<listitem>
4313	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
4314	onlined or offlined</para>
4315	</listitem>
4316
4317	<listitem>
4318	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
4319	</listitem>
4320
4321	<listitem>
4322	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
4323	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
4324	</listitem>
4325
4326	<listitem>
4327	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
4328	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
4329	</listitem>
4330
4331	<listitem>
4332	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
4333	</listitem>
4334
4335	<listitem>
4336	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
4337	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
4338	</listitem>
4339
4340	<listitem>
4341	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	<listitem>
4345	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
4354	</listitem>
4355
4356	<listitem>
4357	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
4358	</listitem>
4359
4360	<listitem>
4361	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
4362	filters in machine settings XML</para>
4363	</listitem>
4364
4365	<listitem>
4366	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
4367	</listitem>
4368
4369	<listitem>
4370	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
4371	</listitem>
4372
4373	<listitem>
4374	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
4375	</listitem>
4376
4377	<listitem>
4378	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
4379	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
4380	</listitem>
4381
4382	<listitem>
4383	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
4384	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
4385	</listitem>
4386
4387	<listitem>
4388	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
4389	</listitem>
4390
4391	<listitem>
4392	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
4393	</listitem>
4394
4395	<listitem>
4396	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
4397	</listitem>
4398
4399	<listitem>
4400	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
4401	</listitem>
4402
4403	<listitem>
4404	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
4405	</listitem>
4406
4407	<listitem>
4408	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
4409	</listitem>
4410
4411	<listitem>
4412	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
4413	</listitem>
4414
4415	<listitem>
4416	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
4417	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
4418	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
4419	phase collapse</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
4424	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
4425	</listitem>
4426
4427	<listitem>
4428	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
4429	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
4430	</listitem>
4431
4432	<listitem>
4433	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
4434	</listitem>
4435
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
4438	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
4439	</listitem>
4440
4441	<listitem>
4442	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
4443	interface bringup on Linux</para>
4444	</listitem>
4445
4446	<listitem>
4447	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
4448	</listitem>
4449
4450	<listitem>
4451	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
4452	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
4453	#4698, #4790)</para>
4454	</listitem>
4455
4456	<listitem>
4457	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
4458	less than the configured range</para>
4459	</listitem>
4460
4461	<listitem>
4462	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
4463	</listitem>
4464
4465	<listitem>
4466	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
4467	</listitem>
4468
4469	<listitem>
4470	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
4471	</listitem>
4472
4473	<listitem>
4474	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
4475	</listitem>
4476
4477	<listitem>
4478	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
4479	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
4480	</listitem>
4481
4482	<listitem>
4483	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
4484	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
4485	</listitem>
4486
4487	<listitem>
4488	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
4489	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
4490	</listitem>
4491
4492	<listitem>
4493	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
4494	</listitem>
4495
4496	<listitem>
4497	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
4498	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
4499	</listitem>
4500
4501	<listitem>
4502	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
4503	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
4504	</listitem>
4505
4506	<listitem>
4507	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
4508	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
4509	</listitem>
4510
4511	<listitem>
4512	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
4513	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
4514	</listitem>
4515
4516	<listitem>
4517	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
4518	</listitem>
4519
4520	<listitem>
4521	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
4522	</listitem>
4523
4524	</itemizedlist>
4525
4526	</sect1>
4527
4528	<sect1>
4529	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
4530
4531	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4532	added:</para>
4533
4534	<itemizedlist>
4535
4536	<listitem>
4537	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
4538	</listitem>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
4542	</listitem>
4543
4544	<listitem>
4545	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
4546	</listitem>
4547
4548	<listitem>
4549	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
4550	</listitem>
4551
4552	<listitem>
4553	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
4554	</listitem>
4555
4556	<listitem>
4557	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
4558	</listitem>
4559
4560	<listitem>
4561	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
4562	</listitem>
4563
4564	<listitem>
4565	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
4566	</listitem>
4567
4568	<listitem>
4569	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
4574	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
4575	</listitem>
4576
4577	<listitem>
4578	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
4583	</listitem>
4584
4585	<listitem>
4586	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
4587	</listitem>
4588
4589	<listitem>
4590	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
4591	</listitem>
4592
4593	<listitem>
4594	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
4595	</listitem>
4596
4597	<listitem>
4598	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
4599	</listitem>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
4603	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
4604	</listitem>
4605
4606	<listitem>
4607	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
4608	(bug #4654)</para>
4609	</listitem>
4610
4611	<listitem>
4612	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
4613	</listitem>
4614
4615	<listitem>
4616	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
4617	interfaces</para>
4618	</listitem>
4619
4620	<listitem>
4621	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
4622	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
4623	</listitem>
4624
4625	<listitem>
4626	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
4627	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
4632	properties (bug #3415)</para>
4633	</listitem>
4634
4635	<listitem>
4636	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
4637	(bug #1461)</para>
4638	</listitem>
4639
4640	<listitem>
4641	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
4642	</listitem>
4643
4644	<listitem>
4645	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
4646	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
4647	</listitem>
4648
4649	<listitem>
4650	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
4651	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
4652	</listitem>
4653
4654	<listitem>
4655	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
4656	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
4657	</listitem>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4665	</listitem>
4666
4667	<listitem>
4668	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
4669	</listitem>
4670
4671	<listitem>
4672	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
4673	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
4674	</listitem>
4675
4676	<listitem>
4677	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
4678	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
4683	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
4684	</listitem>
4685
4686	<listitem>
4687	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
4688	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
4689	</listitem>
4690
4691	</itemizedlist>
4692
4693	</sect1>
4694	<sect1>
4695	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
4696
4697	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4698	added:</para>
4699
4700	<itemizedlist>
4701
4702	<listitem>
4703	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
4704	</listitem>
4705
4706	<listitem>
4707	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
4708	</listitem>
4709
4710	<listitem>
4711	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
4712	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
4713	</listitem>
4714
4715	<listitem>
4716	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
4717	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
4718	</listitem>
4719
4720	<listitem>
4721	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
4722	</listitem>
4723
4724	<listitem>
4725	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
4726	</listitem>
4727
4728	<listitem>
4729	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
4730	</listitem>
4731
4732	<listitem>
4733	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
4734	</listitem>
4735
4736	<listitem>
4737	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
4738	</listitem>
4739
4740	<listitem>
4741	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
4742	</listitem>
4743
4744	<listitem>
4745	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	<listitem>
4749	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
4750	</listitem>
4751
4752	<listitem>
4753	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
4754	</listitem>
4755
4756	<listitem>
4757	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
4758	</listitem>
4759
4760	<listitem>
4761	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
4762	</listitem>
4763
4764	<listitem>
4765	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
4766	guest (bug #4381)</para>
4767	</listitem>
4768
4769	<listitem>
4770	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
4771	</listitem>
4772
4773	<listitem>
4774	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
4775	</listitem>
4776
4777	<listitem>
4778	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
4779	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
4784	</listitem>
4785
4786	<listitem>
4787	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
4788	</listitem>
4789
4790	<listitem>
4791	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
4792	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
4793	</listitem>
4794
4795	<listitem>
4796	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
4797	</listitem>
4798
4799	<listitem>
4800	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
4801	</listitem>
4802
4803	<listitem>
4804	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
4805	</listitem>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	<listitem>
4812	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
4813	</listitem>
4814
4815	<listitem>
4816	<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>
4817	</listitem>
4818
4819	</itemizedlist>
4820
4821	</sect1>
4822
4823	<sect1>
4824	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
4825
4826	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4827	were added:</para>
4828
4829	<itemizedlist>
4830
4831	<listitem>
4832	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
4833	</listitem>
4834
4835	<listitem>
4836	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
4837	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
4842	</listitem>
4843
4844	</itemizedlist>
4845
4846	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4847
4848	<itemizedlist>
4849
4850	<listitem>
4851	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
4852	</listitem>
4853
4854	<listitem>
4855	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
4856	certain conditions</para>
4857	</listitem>
4858
4859	<listitem>
4860	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
4861	</listitem>
4862
4863	<listitem>
4864	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
4865	</listitem>
4866
4867	<listitem>
4868	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
4869	</listitem>
4870
4871	<listitem>
4872	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
4873	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
4878	</listitem>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
4882	</listitem>
4883
4884	<listitem>
4885	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
4886	</listitem>
4887
4888	<listitem>
4889	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
4890	</listitem>
4891
4892	<listitem>
4893	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
4894	</listitem>
4895
4896	<listitem>
4897	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
4902	</listitem>
4903
4904	<listitem>
4905	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
4906	</listitem>
4907
4908	<listitem>
4909	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
4910	(non Windows hosts)</para>
4911	</listitem>
4912
4913	<listitem>
4914	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
4915	</listitem>
4916
4917	<listitem>
4918	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
4919	</listitem>
4920
4921	<listitem>
4922	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
4923	</listitem>
4924
4925	<listitem>
4926	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
4927	</listitem>
4928
4929	<listitem>
4930	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
4931	</listitem>
4932
4933	<listitem>
4934	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
4935	</listitem>
4936
4937	<listitem>
4938	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
4939	</listitem>
4940
4941	<listitem>
4942	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
4943	</listitem>
4944
4945	<listitem>
4946	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
4947	</listitem>
4948
4949	<listitem>
4950	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
4951	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
4952	</listitem>
4953
4954	<listitem>
4955	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
4956	</listitem>
4957
4958	<listitem>
4959	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
4960	</listitem>
4961
4962	<listitem>
4963	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
4964	</listitem>
4965
4966	<listitem>
4967	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
4968	</listitem>
4969
4970	<listitem>
4971	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	<listitem>
4975	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
4976	</listitem>
4977
4978	<listitem>
4979	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
4980	</listitem>
4981
4982	<listitem>
4983	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
4984	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
4985	</listitem>
4986
4987	<listitem>
4988	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
4989	</listitem>
4990
4991	<listitem>
4992	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
4993	</listitem>
4994
4995	<listitem>
4996	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
4997	</listitem>
4998
4999	<listitem>
5000	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
5001	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
5002	</listitem>
5003
5004	<listitem>
5005	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
5006	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
5007	</listitem>
5008
5009	<listitem>
5010	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
5011	correct file mode when creating files</para>
5012	</listitem>
5013
5014	<listitem>
5015	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
5016	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
5017	</listitem>
5018
5019	<listitem>
5020	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
5021	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
5022	</listitem>
5023
5024	<listitem>
5025	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
5026	</listitem>
5027
5028	<listitem>
5029	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
5030	</listitem>
5031
5032	<listitem>
5033	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
5034	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
5035	</listitem>
5036
5037	<listitem>
5038	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
5039	guest property lookup</para>
5040	</listitem>
5041
5042	<listitem>
5043	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
5044	basic network information)</para>
5045	</listitem>
5046
5047	<listitem>
5048	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
5049	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
5050	</listitem>
5051
5052	<listitem>
5053	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
5054	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
5055	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
5056	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
5057	</listitem>
5058
5059	<listitem>
5060	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
5061	</listitem>
5062
5063	<listitem>
5064	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
5065	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
5066	web service</para>
5067	</listitem>
5068
5069	<listitem>
5070	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
5071	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
5072	</listitem>
5073
5074	<listitem>
5075	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
5076	unavailable</para>
5077	</listitem>
5078
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
5081	</listitem>
5082
5083	</itemizedlist>
5084	</sect1>
5085
5086	<sect1>
5087	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
5088
5089	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5090	added:</para>
5091
5092	<itemizedlist>
5093
5094	<listitem>
5095	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
5096	installation</para>
5097	</listitem>
5098
5099	<listitem>
5100	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
5101	</listitem>
5102
5103	<listitem>
5104	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
5105	later (bug #3981)</para>
5106	</listitem>
5107
5108	<listitem>
5109	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
5110	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
5111	</listitem>
5112
5113	<listitem>
5114	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
5115	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
5116	(bug #4034)
5117	</para>
5118	</listitem>
5119
5120	<listitem>
5121	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
5122	networking</para>
5123	</listitem>
5124
5125	<listitem>
5126	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
5127	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
5128	</listitem>
5129
5130	<listitem>
5131	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
5132	clicks</para>
5133	</listitem>
5134
5135	<listitem>
5136	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
5137	Windows 7 guests</para>
5138	</listitem>
5139
5140	<listitem>
5141	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
5142	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
5143	</listitem>
5144
5145	<listitem>
5146	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
5147	</listitem>
5148
5149	<listitem>
5150	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
5151	</listitem>
5152
5153	<listitem>
5154	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
5155	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
5156	</listitem>
5157
5158	<listitem>
5159	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
5160	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
5161	</listitem>
5162
5163	<listitem>
5164	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
5165	</listitem>
5166
5167	<listitem>
5168	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
5169	</listitem>
5170
5171	<listitem>
5172	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
5173	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
5174	(bug #3864)</para>
5175	</listitem>
5176
5177	<listitem>
5178	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
5179	now flushes the output stream</para>
5180	</listitem>
5181
5182	<listitem>
5183	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
5184	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
5185	</listitem>
5186
5187	<listitem>
5188	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
5189	</listitem>
5190
5191	<listitem>
5192	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
5193	</listitem>
5194
5195	<listitem>
5196	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
5197	</listitem>
5198
5199	<listitem>
5200	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
5201	</listitem>
5202
5203	<listitem>
5204	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
5205	(bug #3964)</para>
5206	</listitem>
5207
5208	<listitem>
5209	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
5210	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
5211	</listitem>
5212
5213	<listitem>
5214	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
5215	hosts</para>
5216	</listitem>
5217
5218	<listitem>
5219	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
5220	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
5221	e1000 adapter</para>
5222	</listitem>
5223
5224	<listitem>
5225	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
5226	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
5227	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
5228	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
5229	</listitem>
5230
5231	<listitem>
5232	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
5233	</listitem>
5234
5235	<listitem>
5236	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
5237	</listitem>
5238
5239	<listitem>
5240	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
5241	</listitem>
5242
5243	<listitem>
5244	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
5245	file (bug #1023)</para>
5246	</listitem>
5247
5248	<listitem>
5249	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
5250	</listitem>
5251
5252	<listitem>
5253	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
5254	</listitem>
5255
5256	</itemizedlist>
5257	</sect1>
5258
5259	<sect1>
5260	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
5261
5262	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5263	added:</para>
5264
5265	<itemizedlist>
5266
5267	<listitem>
5268	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
5269	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
5270	</listitem>
5271
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
5274	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
5275	and later</para>
5276	</listitem>
5277
5278	<listitem>
5279	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
5280	running services</para>
5281	</listitem>
5282
5283	<listitem>
5284	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
5285	terminates</para>
5286	</listitem>
5287
5288	<listitem>
5289	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
5290	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
5291	</listitem>
5292
5293	<listitem>
5294	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
5295	installed on the guest</para>
5296	</listitem>
5297
5298	<listitem>
5299	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
5300	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
5301	</listitem>
5302
5303	<listitem>
5304	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
5305	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
5306	</listitem>
5307
5308	<listitem>
5309	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
5310	(bug #2628)</para>
5311	</listitem>
5312
5313	<listitem>
5314	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
5315	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
5316	</listitem>
5317
5318	<listitem>
5319	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
5320	(bug #3657)</para>
5321	</listitem>
5322
5323	<listitem>
5324	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
5325	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
5326	</listitem>
5327
5328	<listitem>
5329	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
5330	virtualization only)
5331	</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
5336	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
5337	</listitem>
5338
5339	<listitem>
5340	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
5341	</listitem>
5342
5343	<listitem>
5344	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
5345	networks (bug #3702)</para>
5346	</listitem>
5347
5348	<listitem>
5349	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
5350	bug #3689)</para>
5351	</listitem>
5352
5353	<listitem>
5354	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
5355	bug #3679)</para>
5356	</listitem>
5357
5358	<listitem>
5359	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
5360	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
5361	</listitem>
5362
5363	<listitem>
5364	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
5365	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
5366	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
5367	</listitem>
5368
5369	<listitem>
5370	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
5371	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
5372	</listitem>
5373
5374	<listitem>
5375	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
5376	lease (bug #3655)</para>
5377	</listitem>
5378
5379	<listitem>
5380	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
5381	(bug #3667)</para>
5382	</listitem>
5383
5384	<listitem>
5385	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
5386	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
5387	</listitem>
5388
5389	<listitem>
5390	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
5391	</listitem>
5392
5393	<listitem>
5394	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
5395	</listitem>
5396
5397	<listitem>
5398	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
5399	</listitem>
5400
5401	<listitem>
5402	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
5403	</listitem>
5404
5405	<listitem>
5406	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
5407	</listitem>
5408
5409	<listitem>
5410	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
5411	</listitem>
5412
5413	<listitem>
5414	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
5415	</listitem>
5416
5417	</itemizedlist>
5418	</sect1>
5419
5420	<sect1>
5421	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
5422
5423	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5424	were added:</para>
5425
5426	<itemizedlist>
5427
5428	<listitem>
5429	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
5430	</listitem>
5431
5432	<listitem>
5433	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
5438	</listitem>
5439
5440	<listitem>
5441	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
5442	</listitem>
5443
5444	<listitem>
5445	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
5446	</listitem>
5447
5448	<listitem>
5449	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
5450	</listitem>
5451
5452	<listitem>
5453	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
5454	</listitem>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
5458	</listitem>
5459
5460	<listitem>
5461	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5462	</listitem>
5463
5464	<listitem>
5465	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
5466	</listitem>
5467
5468	</itemizedlist>
5469
5470	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5471
5472	<itemizedlist>
5473
5474	<listitem>
5475	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
5476	</listitem>
5477
5478	<listitem>
5479	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
5480	</listitem>
5481
5482	<listitem>
5483	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
5484	</listitem>
5485
5486	<listitem>
5487	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
5488	</listitem>
5489
5490	<listitem>
5491	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
5492	</listitem>
5493
5494	<listitem>
5495	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
5496	</listitem>
5497
5498	<listitem>
5499	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
5500	</listitem>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	<listitem>
5507	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
5508	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
5509	</listitem>
5510
5511	<listitem>
5512	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
5513	</listitem>
5514
5515	<listitem>
5516	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
5517	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
5518	</listitem>
5519
5520	<listitem>
5521	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
5522	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
5523	</listitem>
5524
5525	<listitem>
5526	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
5527	</listitem>
5528
5529	<listitem>
5530	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
5535	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
5536	</listitem>
5537
5538	<listitem>
5539	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
5540	</listitem>
5541
5542	<listitem>
5543	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
5544	ESX server images)</para>
5545	</listitem>
5546
5547	<listitem>
5548	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
5549	writable</para>
5550	</listitem>
5551
5552	<listitem>
5553	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
5554	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
5555	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
5556	</listitem>
5557
5558	<listitem>
5559	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
5560	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
5561	</listitem>
5562
5563	<listitem>
5564	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
5565	</listitem>
5566
5567	<listitem>
5568	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
5569	</listitem>
5570
5571	<listitem>
5572	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
5573	hosts when creating files</para>
5574	</listitem>
5575
5576	<listitem>
5577	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
5578	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
5579	</listitem>
5580
5581	<listitem>
5582	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
5583	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
5584	#2306)</para>
5585	</listitem>
5586
5587	<listitem>
5588	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
5589	(bug #3555)</para>
5590	</listitem>
5591
5592	<listitem>
5593	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
5594	installer (bug #3524)</para>
5595	</listitem>
5596
5597	<listitem>
5598	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
5599	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	<listitem>
5603	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
5604	interface (bug #3414)</para>
5605	</listitem>
5606
5607	<listitem>
5608	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
5609	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
5610	</listitem>
5611
5612	<listitem>
5613	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
5614	(bug #3586)</para>
5615	</listitem>
5616
5617	<listitem>
5618	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
5619	from Scratch systems</para>
5620	</listitem>
5621
5622	<listitem>
5623	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
5624	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
5625	</listitem>
5626
5627	<listitem>
5628	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
5629	</listitem>
5630
5631	<listitem>
5632	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
5633	default to compact format</para>
5634	</listitem>
5635
5636	<listitem>
5637	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
5638	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
5639	</listitem>
5640
5641	<listitem>
5642	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
5643	</listitem>
5644
5645	<listitem>
5646	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5647	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
5648	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
5649	</listitem>
5650
5651	<listitem>
5652	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
5653	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
5654	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
5655	</listitem>
5656
5657	<listitem>
5658	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
5659	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
5660	</listitem>
5661
5662	<listitem>
5663	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
5668	</listitem>
5669
5670	<listitem>
5671	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
5672	</listitem>
5673
5674	<listitem>
5675	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
5676	</listitem>
5677
5678	<listitem>
5679	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
5680	</listitem>
5681
5682	<listitem>
5683	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
5684	</listitem>
5685
5686	<listitem>
5687	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
5688	</listitem>
5689
5690	<listitem>
5691	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
5692	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
5693	</listitem>
5694
5695	<listitem>
5696	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
5697	</listitem>
5698
5699	<listitem>
5700	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
5701	regression; bug #2065)</para>
5702	</listitem>
5703
5704	<listitem>
5705	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
5706	</listitem>
5707
5708	<listitem>
5709	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
5710	</listitem>
5711
5712	<listitem>
5713	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
5714	</listitem>
5715
5716	<listitem>
5717	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
5718	#2536)</para>
5719	</listitem>
5720
5721	<listitem>
5722	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
5723	</listitem>
5724
5725	<listitem>
5726	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
5727	(bug #3548)</para>
5728	</listitem>
5729
5730	</itemizedlist>
5731	</sect1>
5732
5733	<sect1>
5734	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
5735
5736	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5737	added:</para>
5738
5739	<itemizedlist>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5743	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5744	</listitem>
5745
5746	<listitem>
5747	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
5748	</listitem>
5749
5750	<listitem>
5751	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
5752	</listitem>
5753
5754	<listitem>
5755	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5756	</listitem>
5757
5758	<listitem>
5759	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
5760	(bug #3115)</para>
5761	</listitem>
5762
5763	<listitem>
5764	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
5765	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
5766	</listitem>
5767
5768	<listitem>
5769	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
5770	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
5771	(bug #3215)</para>
5772	</listitem>
5773
5774	<listitem>
5775	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
5776	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
5777	</listitem>
5778
5779	<listitem>
5780	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
5781	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
5782	</listitem>
5783
5784	<listitem>
5785	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
5786	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
5787	</listitem>
5788
5789	<listitem>
5790	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5791	in parallel</para>
5792	</listitem>
5793
5794	<listitem>
5795	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5796	</listitem>
5797
5798	<listitem>
5799	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
5800	</listitem>
5801
5802	<listitem>
5803	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
5804	</listitem>
5805
5806	<listitem>
5807	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
5808	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
5809	</listitem>
5810
5811	<listitem>
5812	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
5813	</listitem>
5814
5815	<listitem>
5816	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
5817	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
5818	</listitem>
5819
5820	<listitem>
5821	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
5822	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
5827	</listitem>
5828
5829	<listitem>
5830	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5831	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5832	</listitem>
5833
5834	<listitem>
5835	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
5836	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
5837	</listitem>
5838
5839	<listitem>
5840	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
5841	</listitem>
5842
5843	<listitem>
5844	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
5845	</listitem>
5846
5847	<listitem>
5848	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
5849	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
5850	</listitem>
5851
5852	<listitem>
5853	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
5854	</listitem>
5855
5856	<listitem>
5857	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
5858	</listitem>
5859
5860	<listitem>
5861	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
5862	</listitem>
5863
5864	<listitem>
5865	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
5866	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
5867	</listitem>
5868
5869	<listitem>
5870	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
5871	</listitem>
5872
5873	<listitem>
5874	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5875	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5876	</listitem>
5877
5878	<listitem>
5879	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5880	</listitem>
5881
5882	<listitem>
5883	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
5884	</listitem>
5885
5886	<listitem>
5887	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
5888	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
5889	</listitem>
5890
5891	<listitem>
5892	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
5893	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
5894	</listitem>
5895
5896	<listitem>
5897	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
5898	</listitem>
5899
5900	<listitem>
5901	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
5902	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
5903	</listitem>
5904
5905	<listitem>
5906	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5907	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5908	</listitem>
5909
5910	<listitem>
5911	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
5912	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
5913	</listitem>
5914
5915	<listitem>
5916	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
5917	(bug #3213)</para>
5918	</listitem>
5919
5920	<listitem>
5921	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
5922	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
5923	</listitem>
5924
5925	<listitem>
5926	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
5927	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
5928	</listitem>
5929
5930	</itemizedlist>
5931	</sect1>
5932
5933	<sect1>
5934	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
5935
5936	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5937	added:</para>
5938
5939	<itemizedlist>
5940
5941	<listitem>
5942	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
5943	</listitem>
5944
5945	<listitem>
5946	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
5947	</listitem>
5948
5949	<listitem>
5950	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
5951	</listitem>
5952
5953	<listitem>
5954	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
5955	</listitem>
5956
5957	<listitem>
5958	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
5959	</listitem>
5960
5961	<listitem>
5962	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
5963	</listitem>
5964
5965	<listitem>
5966	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
5967	</listitem>
5968
5969	<listitem>
5970	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
5971	</listitem>
5972
5973	<listitem>
5974	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
5975	</listitem>
5976
5977	<listitem>
5978	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
5979	</listitem>
5980
5981	<listitem>
5982	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
5983	</listitem>
5984
5985	<listitem>
5986	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
5987	</listitem>
5988
5989	<listitem>
5990	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
5991	</listitem>
5992
5993	<listitem>
5994	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
5995	</listitem>
5996
5997	<listitem>
5998	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
5999	</listitem>
6000
6001	<listitem>
6002	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
6003	</listitem>
6004
6005	<listitem>
6006	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
6007	(bug #3067)</para>
6008	</listitem>
6009
6010	<listitem>
6011	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
6012	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
6013	</listitem>
6014
6015	<listitem>
6016	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
6017	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
6018	</listitem>
6019
6020	<listitem>
6021	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
6022	</listitem>
6023
6024	<listitem>
6025	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
6026	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
6027	</listitem>
6028
6029	<listitem>
6030	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
6031	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6032	</listitem>
6033
6034	<listitem>
6035	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
6036	</listitem>
6037
6038	<listitem>
6039	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
6040	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
6041	</listitem>
6042
6043	<listitem>
6044	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
6045	</listitem>
6046
6047	<listitem>
6048	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
6049	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
6050	</listitem>
6051
6052	<listitem>
6053	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
6054	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
6055	</listitem>
6056
6057	<listitem>
6058	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
6059	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
6060	</para>
6061	</listitem>
6062
6063	<listitem>
6064	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
6065	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
6066	</para>
6067	</listitem>
6068
6069	<listitem>
6070	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
6071	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
6072	</para>
6073	</listitem>
6074
6075	<listitem>
6076	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
6077	</listitem>
6078
6079	<listitem>
6080	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
6081	</listitem>
6082
6083	<listitem>
6084	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
6085	</listitem>
6086
6087	<listitem>
6088	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
6089	</listitem>
6090
6091	<listitem>
6092	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
6093	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
6094	</listitem>
6095
6096	<listitem>
6097	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
6098	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
6099	</listitem>
6100
6101	<listitem>
6102	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
6103	formatting a drive</para>
6104	</listitem>
6105
6106	<listitem>
6107	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
6108	</listitem>
6109
6110	<listitem>
6111	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
6112	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
6113	</listitem>
6114
6115	<listitem>
6116	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
6117	</listitem>
6118
6119	<listitem>
6120	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
6121	</listitem>
6122
6123	<listitem>
6124	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
6125	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
6126	</listitem>
6127
6128	<listitem>
6129	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
6130	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
6131	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
6132	</listitem>
6133
6134	<listitem>
6135	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
6136	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
6137	</listitem>
6138
6139	<listitem>
6140	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
6141	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
6142	</listitem>
6143
6144	<listitem>
6145	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
6146	(bug #2768)</para>
6147	</listitem>
6148
6149	<listitem>
6150	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
6151	</listitem>
6152
6153	<listitem>
6154	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
6155	</listitem>
6156
6157	<listitem>
6158	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
6159	single, unified package</para>
6160	</listitem>
6161
6162	<listitem>
6163	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
6164	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
6165	</listitem>
6166
6167	<listitem>
6168	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
6169	</listitem>
6170
6171	<listitem>
6172	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
6173	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
6174	</listitem>
6175
6176	<listitem>
6177	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
6178	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
6179	</listitem>
6180
6181	<listitem>
6182	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
6183	</listitem>
6184
6185	<listitem>
6186	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
6187	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
6188	doing 3D</para>
6189	</listitem>
6190
6191	<listitem>
6192	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
6193	</listitem>
6194
6195	<listitem>
6196	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
6197	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
6198	</listitem>
6199
6200	<listitem>
6201	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
6202	</listitem>
6203
6204	<listitem>
6205	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
6206	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
6207	</listitem>
6208
6209	<listitem>
6210	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
6211	</listitem>
6212
6213	<listitem>
6214	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
6215	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
6216	</listitem>
6217
6218	<listitem>
6219	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
6220	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
6221	(bug #2938)</para>
6222	</listitem>
6223
6224	<listitem>
6225	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
6226	Linux guests</para>
6227	</listitem>
6228
6229	<listitem>
6230	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
6231	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
6232	(bug #1776)</para>
6233	</listitem>
6234
6235	<listitem>
6236	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
6237	(bug #1612)</para>
6238	</listitem>
6239
6240	<listitem>
6241	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
6242	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
6243	</listitem>
6244
6245	<listitem>
6246	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
6247	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
6248	</listitem>
6249
6250	<listitem>
6251	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
6252	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
6253	</listitem>
6254
6255	</itemizedlist>
6256	</sect1>
6257
6258	<sect1>
6259	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
6260
6261	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6262	were added:</para>
6263
6264	<itemizedlist>
6265	<listitem>
6266	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6267	</listitem>
6268
6269	<listitem>
6270	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
6271	</listitem>
6272
6273	<listitem>
6274	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
6275	</listitem>
6276
6277	<listitem>
6278	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6279	</listitem>
6280
6281	<listitem>
6282	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
6283	</listitem>
6284
6285	<listitem>
6286	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
6287	</listitem>
6288
6289	<listitem>
6290	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
6291	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
6292	</listitem>
6293
6294	<listitem>
6295	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
6296	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
6297	</listitem>
6298
6299	</itemizedlist>
6300
6301	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6302
6303	<itemizedlist>
6304	<listitem>
6305	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
6306	</listitem>
6307
6308	<listitem>
6309	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
6310	</listitem>
6311
6312	<listitem>
6313	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
6314	</listitem>
6315
6316	<listitem>
6317	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
6318	</listitem>
6319
6320	<listitem>
6321	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
6322	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
6323	</listitem>
6324
6325	<listitem>
6326	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
6327	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
6328	</listitem>
6329
6330	<listitem>
6331	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
6332	</listitem>
6333
6334	<listitem>
6335	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
6336	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
6337	</listitem>
6338
6339	<listitem>
6340	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
6341	</listitem>
6342
6343	<listitem>
6344	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
6345	</listitem>
6346
6347	<listitem>
6348	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
6349	</listitem>
6350
6351	<listitem>
6352	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
6353	</listitem>
6354
6355	<listitem>
6356	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
6357	</listitem>
6358
6359	<listitem>
6360	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
6361	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
6362	</listitem>
6363
6364	<listitem>
6365	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
6366	the compiz window manager</para>
6367	</listitem>
6368
6369	<listitem>
6370	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
6371	</listitem>
6372
6373	<listitem>
6374	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
6375	</listitem>
6376
6377	<listitem>
6378	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
6379	</listitem>
6380
6381	<listitem>
6382	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
6383	</listitem>
6384
6385	<listitem>
6386	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
6387	</listitem>
6388
6389	<listitem>
6390	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
6391	</listitem>
6392
6393	<listitem>
6394	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
6395	</listitem>
6396
6397	<listitem>
6398	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
6399	</listitem>
6400
6401	<listitem>
6402	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
6403	</listitem>
6404
6405	<listitem>
6406	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
6407	of two (bug #2724)</para>
6408	</listitem>
6409
6410	<listitem>
6411	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
6412	for direct device access</para>
6413	</listitem>
6414
6415	<listitem>
6416	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
6417	</listitem>
6418
6419	<listitem>
6420	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
6421	</listitem>
6422
6423	<listitem>
6424	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
6425	</listitem>
6426
6427	<listitem>
6428	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
6429	</listitem>
6430
6431	<listitem>
6432	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
6433	</listitem>
6434
6435	<listitem>
6436	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
6437	</listitem>
6438
6439	<listitem>
6440	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
6441	</listitem>
6442
6443	<listitem>
6444	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
6445	</listitem>
6446
6447	</itemizedlist>
6448	</sect1>
6449
6450	<sect1>
6451	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
6452
6453	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6454	added:</para>
6455
6456	<itemizedlist>
6457
6458	<listitem>
6459	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
6460	states/snapshots</para>
6461	</listitem>
6462
6463	<listitem>
6464	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
6465	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
6466	</listitem>
6467
6468	<listitem>
6469	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
6470	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
6471	</listitem>
6472
6473	<listitem>
6474	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
6475	collisions</para>
6476	</listitem>
6477
6478	<listitem>
6479	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
6480	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
6481	</listitem>
6482
6483	<listitem>
6484	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
6485	</listitem>
6486
6487	<listitem>
6488	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
6489	reliably</para>
6490	</listitem>
6491
6492	<listitem>
6493	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
6494	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
6495	</listitem>
6496
6497	<listitem>
6498	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
6499	a reboot</para>
6500	</listitem>
6501
6502	<listitem>
6503	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
6504	</listitem>
6505
6506	<listitem>
6507	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
6508	in parallel</para>
6509	</listitem>
6510
6511	<listitem>
6512	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
6513	</listitem>
6514
6515	<listitem>
6516	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
6517	correctly</para>
6518	</listitem>
6519
6520	<listitem>
6521	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
6522	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
6523	</listitem>
6524
6525	</itemizedlist>
6526	</sect1>
6527
6528	<sect1>
6529	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
6530
6531	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6532	added:</para>
6533
6534	<itemizedlist>
6535
6536	<listitem>
6537	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
6538	(bug #2220)</para>
6539	</listitem>
6540
6541	<listitem>
6542	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
6543	</listitem>
6544
6545	<listitem>
6546	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
6547	</listitem>
6548
6549	<listitem>
6550	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
6551	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
6552	</listitem>
6553
6554	<listitem>
6555	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
6556	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
6557	</listitem>
6558
6559	<listitem>
6560	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
6561	(bug #2624)</para>
6562	</listitem>
6563
6564	<listitem>
6565	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
6566	(bug #2024)</para>
6567	</listitem>
6568
6569	<listitem>
6570	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
6571	</listitem>
6572
6573	<listitem>
6574	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
6575	</listitem>
6576
6577	<listitem>
6578	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
6579	</listitem>
6580
6581	<listitem>
6582	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
6583	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
6584	</listitem>
6585
6586	<listitem>
6587	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
6588	applications when updating the installation</para>
6589	</listitem>
6590
6591	<listitem>
6592	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
6593	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
6594	</listitem>
6595
6596	<listitem>
6597	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
6598	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
6599	</listitem>
6600
6601	<listitem>
6602	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
6603	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
6604	</listitem>
6605
6606	<listitem>
6607	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
6608	connected to a host device</para>
6609	</listitem>
6610
6611	<listitem>
6612	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
6613	</listitem>
6614
6615	<listitem>
6616	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
6617	</listitem>
6618
6619	<listitem>
6620	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
6621	</listitem>
6622
6623	<listitem>
6624	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
6625	when using native RDP connections</para>
6626	</listitem>
6627
6628	<listitem>
6629	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
6630	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
6631	</listitem>
6632
6633	<listitem>
6634	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
6635	(bug #2591)</para>
6636	</listitem>
6637
6638	<listitem>
6639	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
6640	guests (bug #2550)</para>
6641	</listitem>
6642
6643	<listitem>
6644	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
6645	</listitem>
6646
6647	</itemizedlist>
6648	</sect1>
6649
6650	<sect1>
6651	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
6652
6653	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6654	added:</para>
6655
6656	<itemizedlist>
6657	<listitem>
6658	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
6659	</listitem>
6660
6661	<listitem>
6662	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
6663	</listitem>
6664
6665	<listitem>
6666	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
6667	</listitem>
6668
6669	<listitem>
6670	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
6671	</listitem>
6672
6673	<listitem>
6674	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
6675	</listitem>
6676
6677	<listitem>
6678	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
6679	</listitem>
6680
6681	<listitem>
6682	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
6683	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
6684	</listitem>
6685
6686	<listitem>
6687	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
6688	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
6689	</listitem>
6690
6691	<listitem>
6692	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
6693	</listitem>
6694
6695	<listitem>
6696	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
6697	equal to the client resolution</para>
6698	</listitem>
6699
6700	<listitem>
6701	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
6702	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
6703	</listitem>
6704
6705	<listitem>
6706	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
6707	</listitem>
6708
6709	<listitem>
6710	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
6711	</listitem>
6712
6713	<listitem>
6714	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
6715	</listitem>
6716
6717	<listitem>
6718	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
6719	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
6720	</listitem>
6721
6722	<listitem>
6723	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
6724	networking (bug #2474)</para>
6725	</listitem>
6726
6727	<listitem>
6728	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
6729	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
6730	</listitem>
6731
6732	<listitem>
6733	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
6734	</listitem>
6735
6736	<listitem>
6737	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
6738	</listitem>
6739
6740	<listitem>
6741	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
6742	</listitem>
6743
6744	<listitem>
6745	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
6746	</listitem>
6747
6748	<listitem>
6749	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
6750	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
6751	</listitem>
6752
6753	<listitem>
6754	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
6755	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
6756	</listitem>
6757
6758	<listitem>
6759	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
6760	</listitem>
6761
6762	<listitem>
6763	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
6764	</listitem>
6765
6766	<listitem>
6767	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
6768	</listitem>
6769
6770	</itemizedlist>
6771
6772	</sect1>
6773
6774	<sect1>
6775	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
6776
6777	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6778	added:</para>
6779
6780	<itemizedlist>
6781
6782	<listitem>
6783	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
6784	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
6785	</listitem>
6786
6787	<listitem>
6788	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
6789	</listitem>
6790
6791	<listitem>
6792	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
6793	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
6794	</listitem>
6795
6796	<listitem>
6797	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
6798	</listitem>
6799
6800	<listitem>
6801	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
6802	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
6803	</listitem>
6804
6805	<listitem>
6806	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
6807	</listitem>
6808
6809	<listitem>
6810	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
6811	the virtual disk manager</para>
6812	</listitem>
6813
6814	<listitem>
6815	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
6816	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
6817	</listitem>
6818
6819	<listitem>
6820	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
6821	</listitem>
6822
6823	<listitem>
6824	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
6825	</listitem>
6826
6827	<listitem>
6828	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
6829	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
6830	</listitem>
6831
6832	<listitem>
6833	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
6834	bug #2067)</para>
6835	</listitem>
6836
6837	<listitem>
6838	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
6839	</listitem>
6840
6841	<listitem>
6842	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
6843	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
6844	</listitem>
6845
6846	<listitem>
6847	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
6848	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
6849	(bug #2184)</para>
6850	</listitem>
6851
6852	<listitem>
6853	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
6854	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
6855	</listitem>
6856
6857	<listitem>
6858	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
6859	(Windows guests only)</para>
6860	</listitem>
6861
6862	<listitem>
6863	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
6864	</listitem>
6865
6866	<listitem>
6867	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
6868	</listitem>
6869
6870	<listitem>
6871	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
6872	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
6873	</listitem>
6874
6875	<listitem>
6876	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
6877	</listitem>
6878
6879	<listitem>
6880	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
6881	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
6882	</para>
6883	</listitem>
6884
6885	<listitem>
6886	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
6887	</listitem>
6888
6889	<listitem>
6890	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
6891	</listitem>
6892
6893	<listitem>
6894	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
6895	a VM reboot</para>
6896	</listitem>
6897
6898	<listitem>
6899	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
6900	</listitem>
6901
6902	<listitem>
6903	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
6904	buggy X servers</para>
6905	</listitem>
6906
6907	<listitem>
6908	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
6909	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
6910	</listitem>
6911
6912	<listitem>
6913	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
6914	</listitem>
6915
6916	<listitem>
6917	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
6918	(bug #2128)</para>
6919	</listitem>
6920
6921	<listitem>
6922	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
6923	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
6924	</listitem>
6925
6926	<listitem>
6927	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
6928	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
6929	</listitem>
6930
6931	<listitem>
6932	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
6933	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
6934	</listitem>
6935
6936	<listitem>
6937	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
6938	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
6939	</listitem>
6940
6941	<listitem>
6942	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
6943	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
6944	</listitem>
6945
6946	<listitem>
6947	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
6948	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
6949	</listitem>
6950
6951	<listitem>
6952	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
6953	installer into a single package</para>
6954	</listitem>
6955
6956	<listitem>
6957	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
6958	port to the guest
6959	</para>
6960	</listitem>
6961
6962	</itemizedlist>
6963
6964	</sect1>
6965
6966	<sect1>
6967	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
6968
6969	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6970	were added:<itemizedlist>
6971
6972	<listitem>
6973	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
6974	</listitem>
6975
6976	<listitem>
6977	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6978	</listitem>
6979
6980	<listitem>
6981	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
6982	</listitem>
6983
6984	<listitem>
6985	<para>New-version notifier</para>
6986	</listitem>
6987
6988	<listitem>
6989	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
6990	</listitem>
6991
6992	<listitem>
6993	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6994	</listitem>
6995
6996	<listitem>
6997	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
6998	</listitem>
6999
7000	<listitem>
7001	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
7002	</listitem>
7003
7004	<listitem>
7005	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
7006	</listitem>
7007
7008	<listitem>
7009	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
7010	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
7011	</listitem>
7012
7013	<listitem>
7014	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
7015	</listitem>
7016
7017	<listitem>
7018	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
7019	</listitem>
7020
7021	<listitem>
7022	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
7023	</listitem>
7024
7025	</itemizedlist></para>
7026
7027	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7028
7029	<itemizedlist>
7030
7031	<listitem>
7032	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
7033	</listitem>
7034
7035	<listitem>
7036	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
7037	</listitem>
7038
7039	<listitem>
7040	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
7041	</listitem>
7042
7043	<listitem>
7044	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
7045	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
7046	</listitem>
7047
7048	<listitem>
7049	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
7050	restored</para>
7051	</listitem>
7052
7053	<listitem>
7054	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
7055	</listitem>
7056
7057	<listitem>
7058	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
7059	</listitem>
7060
7061	<listitem>
7062	<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>
7063	</listitem>
7064
7065	</itemizedlist>
7066
7067	</sect1>
7068
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