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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-xx-xx)</title>
5
6	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7	added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	<listitem>
16	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
17	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
18	</listitem>
19
20	<listitem>
21	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
22	</listitem>
23
24	<listitem>
25	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
26	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
27	</listitem>
28
29	<listitem>
30	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
31	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
32	</listitem>
33
34	<listitem>
35	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
36	a live snapshot</para>
37	</listitem>
38
39	<listitem>
40	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
41	due to a library version conflict</para>
42	</listitem>
43
44	<listitem>
45	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
46	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
47	</listitem>
48
49	<listitem>
50	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
51	at a time by default</para>
52	</listitem>
53
54	<listitem>
55	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
56	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
57	#9368)</para>
58	</listitem>
59
60	<listitem>
61	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
62	registered (bug #9303)</para>
63	</listitem>
64
65	<listitem>
66	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
67	VMs</para>
68	</listitem>
69
70	<listitem>
71	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
72	creation (bug #9379)</para>
73	</listitem>
74
75	<listitem>
76	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
77	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
78	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
79	</listitem>
80
81	<listitem>
82	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
83	(bug #9308)</para>
84	</listitem>
85
86	<listitem>
87	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
88	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
89	</listitem>
90
91	<listitem>
92	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
93	</listitem>
94
95	<listitem>
96	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
97	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
98	</listitem>
99
100	<listitem>
101	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
102	(bug #9242)</para>
103	</listitem>
104
105	<listitem>
106	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
107	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
108	</listitem>
109
110	<listitem>
111	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
112	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
113	</listitem>
114
115	<listitem>
116	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
117	USB devices</para>
118	</listitem>
119
120	<listitem>
121	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
122	and warn about it</para>
123	</listitem>
124
125	<listitem>
126	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
127	</listitem>
128
129	<listitem>
130	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
131	</listitem>
132
133	<listitem>
134	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
135	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
136	</listitem>
137
138	<listitem>
139	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
140	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
141	</listitem>
142
143	<listitem>
144	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
145	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
146	</listitem>
147
148	<listitem>
149	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
150	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
151	</listitem>
152
153	<listitem>
154	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
155	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
156	</listitem>
157
158	<listitem>
159	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
160	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
161	</listitem>
162
163	<listitem>
164	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
165	2.6.37 and above</para>
166	</listitem>
167
168	</itemizedlist>
169	</sect1>
170
171	<sect1>
172	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
173
174	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
175	were added:</para>
176
177	<itemizedlist>
178
179	<listitem>
180	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
181	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
182	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
191	</listitem>
192
193	<listitem>
194	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
195	bug #7822)</para>
196	</listitem>
197
198	<listitem>
199	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
200	</listitem>
201
202	<listitem>
203	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
204	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
205	</listitem>
206
207	<listitem>
208	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
209	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
210	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
211	anymore)</para>
212	</listitem>
213
214	<listitem>
215	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
216	queried separately by the frontends</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	<listitem>
220	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
221	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
222	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
223	</listitem>
224
225	<listitem>
226	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
227	</para>
228	</listitem>
229
230	<listitem>
231	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
232	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
233	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
234	</listitem>
235
236	<listitem>
237	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
238	with VBoxManage</para>
239	</listitem>
240
241	<listitem>
242	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
243	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
244	</listitem>
245
246
247	</itemizedlist>
248
249	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
250
251	<itemizedlist>
252
253	<listitem>
254	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
255	</listitem>
256
257	<listitem>
258	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
259	</listitem>
260
261	<listitem>
262	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
263	</listitem>
264
265	<listitem>
266	<para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
267	of the current state</para>
268	</listitem>
269
270	<listitem>
271	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
272	</listitem>
273
274	<listitem>
275	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
276	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
277	</listitem>
278
279	<listitem>
280	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
281	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
282	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/>.</para>
283	</listitem>
284
285	<listitem>
286	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
287	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
288	</listitem>
289
290	<listitem>
291	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
292	</listitem>
293
294	<listitem>
295	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
296	</listitem>
297
298	<listitem>
299	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
300	dialog</para>
301	</listitem>
302
303	<listitem>
304	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
305	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
306	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
307	</listitem>
308
309	<listitem>
310	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
311	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
316	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
317	</listitem>
318
319	<listitem>
320	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
321	be a valid UUID</para>
322	</listitem>
323
324	<listitem>
325	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
326	twice in a VM configuration</para>
327	</listitem>
328
329	<listitem>
330	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
331	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
332	cases</para>
333	</listitem>
334
335	<listitem>
336	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
337	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
338	improve performance</para>
339	</listitem>
340
341	<listitem>
342	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
343	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
344	on a temporary basis</para>
345	</listitem>
346
347	<listitem>
348	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
349	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
350	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
351	</listitem>
352
353	<listitem>
354	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
355	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
356	</listitem>
357
358	<listitem>
359	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
360	images in VDI format</para>
361	</listitem>
362
363	<listitem>
364	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
365	VMDK format</para>
366	</listitem>
367
368	<listitem>
369	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
370	controller (bug #8592)</para>
371	</listitem>
372
373	<listitem>
374	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
375	</listitem>
376
377	<listitem>
378	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
379	</listitem>
380
381	<listitem>
382	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
383	</listitem>
384
385	<listitem>
386	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
387	</listitem>
388
389	<listitem>
390	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
391	</listitem>
392
393	<listitem>
394	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
395	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
396	</listitem>
397
398	<listitem>
399	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
400	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
401	</listitem>
402
403	<listitem>
404	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
405	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
406	</listitem>
407
408	<listitem>
409	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
410	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
411	</listitem>
412
413	<listitem>
414	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
415	RDP clients</para>
416	</listitem>
417
418	<listitem>
419	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
424	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
425	</listitem>
426
427	<listitem>
428	<para>Webservice: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
429	be more robust when connections fail</para>
430	</listitem>
431
432	<listitem>
433	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
434	simultaneously</para>
435	</listitem>
436
437	<listitem>
438	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
439	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
440	location values in many places</para>
441	</listitem>
442
443	<listitem>
444	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
445	</listitem>
446
447	<listitem>
448	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
449	builds</para>
450	</listitem>
451
452	<listitem>
453	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
454	</listitem>
455
456	<listitem>
457	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
458	window (bug #4491)</para>
459	</listitem>
460
461	<listitem>
462	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
463	removing a VM</para>
464	</listitem>
465
466	<listitem>
467	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
468	</listitem>
469
470	<listitem>
471	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
472	</listitem>
473
474	<listitem>
475	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
476	166 and above)</para>
477	</listitem>
478
479	<listitem>
480	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
481	hosts</para>
482	</listitem>
483
484	<listitem>
485	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
486	</listitem>
487
488	<listitem>
489	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
490	from the host</para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	<listitem>
494	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
495	</listitem>
496
497	</itemizedlist>
498
499	</sect1>
500
501	<sect1>
502	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
503
504	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
505	added:</para>
506
507	<itemizedlist>
508
509	<listitem>
510	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
511	</listitem>
512
513	<listitem>
514	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
515	166 and above)</para>
516	</listitem>
517
518	<listitem>
519	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
520	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
521	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
522	</listitem>
523
524	<listitem>
525	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
526	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
527	</listitem>
528
529	<listitem>
530	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
531	controller (bug #8592)</para>
532	</listitem>
533
534	<listitem>
535	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
536	</listitem>
537
538	<listitem>
539	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
540	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
541	</listitem>
542
543	<listitem>
544	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
545	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
546	</listitem>
547
548	<listitem>
549	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
550	builds</para>
551	</listitem>
552
553	<listitem>
554	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
555	</listitem>
556
557	</itemizedlist>
558	</sect1>
559	<sect1>
560	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
561
562	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
563	added:</para>
564
565	<itemizedlist>
566
567	<listitem>
568	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
569	</listitem>
570
571	<listitem>
572	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
573	</listitem>
574
575	<listitem>
576	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
577	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
578	</listitem>
579
580	<listitem>
581	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
582	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
583	</listitem>
584
585	<listitem>
586	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
587	</listitem>
588
589	<listitem>
590	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
591	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
596	</listitem>
597
598	<listitem>
599	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
600	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
601	</listitem>
602
603	<listitem>
604	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
605	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
606	</listitem>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
610	</listitem>
611
612	<listitem>
613	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
614	</listitem>
615
616	<listitem>
617	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
618	file was not written during export</para>
619	</listitem>
620
621	<listitem>
622	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
623	</listitem>
624
625	<listitem>
626	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
627	</listitem>
628
629	<listitem>
630	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
635	binaries</para>
636	</listitem>
637
638	<listitem>
639	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
640	</listitem>
641
642	<listitem>
643	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
644	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
645	</listitem>
646
647	<listitem>
648	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
649	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
650	</listitem>
651
652	<listitem>
653	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
654	</listitem>
655
656	<listitem>
657	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
658	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
659	</listitem>
660
661	</itemizedlist>
662	</sect1>
663
664	<sect1>
665	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
666
667	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
668	added:</para>
669
670	<itemizedlist>
671
672	<listitem>
673	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
674	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
675	</listitem>
676
677	<listitem>
678	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
679	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
680	</listitem>
681
682	<listitem>
683	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
684	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
685	</listitem>
686
687	<listitem>
688	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
689	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
690	</listitem>
691
692	<listitem>
693	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
694	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
695	</listitem>
696
697	<listitem>
698	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
699	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
700	</listitem>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
704	(Windows hosts only)</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
709	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
710	</listitem>
711
712	<listitem>
713	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
718	</listitem>
719
720	<listitem>
721	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
722	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
723	</listitem>
724
725	<listitem>
726	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
727	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
728	</listitem>
729
730	<listitem>
731	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
732	</listitem>
733
734	<listitem>
735	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
736	</listitem>
737
738	<listitem>
739	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
740	(Linux hosts only)</para>
741	</listitem>
742
743	<listitem>
744	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
745	(Windows hosts only)</para>
746	</listitem>
747
748	<listitem>
749	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
750	window</para>
751	</listitem>
752
753	<listitem>
754	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
755	Fedora 15</para>
756	</listitem>
757
758	<listitem>
759	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
760	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
761	</listitem>
762
763	<listitem>
764	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
765	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
766	</listitem>
767
768	<listitem>
769	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
770	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
771	</listitem>
772
773	<listitem>
774	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
775	</listitem>
776
777	<listitem>
778	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
779	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
780	</listitem>
781
782	</itemizedlist>
783	</sect1>
784
785	<sect1>
786	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
787
788	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
789	added:</para>
790
791	<itemizedlist>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
795	a VMM from a saved state</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
800	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
801	</listitem>
802
803	<listitem>
804	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
805	(bug #8006)</para>
806	</listitem>
807
808	<listitem>
809	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
810	(bug #8726)</para>
811	</listitem>
812
813	<listitem>
814	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
815	</listitem>
816
817	<listitem>
818	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	<listitem>
822	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
823	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
824	</listitem>
825
826	<listitem>
827	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
828	(bug #8469)</para>
829	</listitem>
830
831	<listitem>
832	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
833	selectors</para>
834	</listitem>
835
836	<listitem>
837	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
838	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
839	</listitem>
840
841	<listitem>
842	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
843	folder (bug #8673)</para>
844	</listitem>
845
846	<listitem>
847	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
848	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
853	</listitem>
854
855	<listitem>
856	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
857	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
858	</listitem>
859
860	<listitem>
861	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
862	</listitem>
863
864	<listitem>
865	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
866	</listitem>
867
868	<listitem>
869	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
870	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
871	</listitem>
872
873	<listitem>
874	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
875	I/O error occurred</para>
876	</listitem>
877
878	<listitem>
879	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
880	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
881	</listitem>
882
883	<listitem>
884	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
885	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
886	</listitem>
887
888	<listitem>
889	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
890	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
891	if no medium is present</para>
892	</listitem>
893
894	<listitem>
895	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
896	</listitem>
897
898	<listitem>
899	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
900	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
901	</listitem>
902
903	<listitem>
904	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
905	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
906	</listitem>
907
908	<listitem>
909	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
910	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
911	</listitem>
912
913	<listitem>
914	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
915	</listitem>
916
917	<listitem>
918	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
919	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
920	</listitem>
921
922	<listitem>
923	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
924	library (bug #8063)</para>
925	</listitem>
926
927	<listitem>
928	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
929	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
930	</listitem>
931
932	<listitem>
933	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
938	</listitem>
939
940	<listitem>
941	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
942	</listitem>
943
944	<listitem>
945	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
946	changed on import</para>
947	</listitem>
948
949	<listitem>
950	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
951	</listitem>
952
953	<listitem>
954	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
955	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
956	</listitem>
957
958	<listitem>
959	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
960	(bug #8593)</para>
961	</listitem>
962
963	<listitem>
964	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
965	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
966	</listitem>
967
968	<listitem>
969	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
970	captured</para>
971	</listitem>
972
973	<listitem>
974	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
975	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
976	</listitem>
977
978	<listitem>
979	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
980	</para>
981	</listitem>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
985	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
986	</listitem>
987
988	<listitem>
989	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
990	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
991	</listitem>
992
993	<listitem>
994	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
995	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
996	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
997	</listitem>
998
999	<listitem>
1000	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
1001	to unkillable VM processes</para>
1002	</listitem>
1003
1004	<listitem>
1005	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
1006	</listitem>
1007
1008	<listitem>
1009	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
1010	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
1011	</listitem>
1012
1013	<listitem>
1014	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
1015	on legacy Windows versions</para>
1016	</listitem>
1017
1018	<listitem>
1019	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
1020	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
1021	</listitem>
1022
1023	<listitem>
1024	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
1025	</listitem>
1026
1027	<listitem>
1028	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
1033	</listitem>
1034
1035	<listitem>
1036	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
1037	</listitem>
1038
1039	<listitem>
1040	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
1041	(bug #7946)</para>
1042	</listitem>
1043
1044	<listitem>
1045	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
1046	</listitem>
1047
1048	<listitem>
1049	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
1050	</listitem>
1051
1052	<listitem>
1053	<para>Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
1054	</listitem>
1055
1056	</itemizedlist>
1057
1058	</sect1>
1059
1060	<sect1>
1061	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
1062
1063	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1064	added:</para>
1065
1066	<itemizedlist>
1067
1068	<listitem>
1069	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
1070	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
1071	</listitem>
1072
1073	<listitem>
1074	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
1075	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
1076	</listitem>
1077
1078	<listitem>
1079	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
1080	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
1081	</listitem>
1082
1083	<listitem>
1084	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
1085	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
1086	</listitem>
1087
1088	<listitem>
1089	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
1090	number of host network interfaces</para>
1091	</listitem>
1092
1093	<listitem>
1094	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
1095	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
1096	</listitem>
1097
1098	<listitem>
1099	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
1100	</listitem>
1101
1102	<listitem>
1103	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
1104	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
1105	</listitem>
1106
1107	<listitem>
1108	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
1109	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
1110	</listitem>
1111
1112	<listitem>
1113	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
1114	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
1115	</listitem>
1116
1117	<listitem>
1118	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
1119	</listitem>
1120
1121	<listitem>
1122	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
1123	(bug #6577)</para>
1124	</listitem>
1125
1126	<listitem>
1127	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
1128	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
1129	(bug #8235)</para>
1130	</listitem>
1131
1132	<listitem>
1133	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
1134	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
1135	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
1136	</listitem>
1137
1138	<listitem>
1139	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
1140	</listitem>
1141
1142	<listitem>
1143	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
1144	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric.</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
1153	(bug #7966)</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
1158	</listitem>
1159
1160	<listitem>
1161	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
1162	</listitem>
1163
1164	<listitem>
1165	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
1166	</listitem>
1167
1168	<listitem>
1169	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
1170	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
1171	</listitem>
1172
1173	<listitem>
1174	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
1175	</listitem>
1176
1177	<listitem>
1178	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
1183	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
1188	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
1189	</listitem>
1190
1191	<listitem>
1192	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
1193	</listitem>
1194
1195	<listitem>
1196	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
1197	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
1198	</listitem>
1199
1200	<listitem>
1201	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
1202	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
1203	(bug #8122)</para>
1204	</listitem>
1205
1206	<listitem>
1207	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
1208	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
1209	</listitem>
1210
1211	<listitem>
1212	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
1213	</listitem>
1214
1215	<listitem>
1216	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
1217	</listitem>
1218
1219	<listitem>
1220	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
1221	(bug #1548)</para>
1222	</listitem>
1223
1224	<listitem>
1225	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
1230	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
1231	</listitem>
1232
1233	<listitem>
1234	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
1235	</listitem>
1236
1237	<listitem>
1238	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
1239	(bug #8231)</para>
1240	</listitem>
1241
1242	<listitem>
1243	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
1244	11.04 Alpha.</para>
1245	</listitem>
1246
1247	<listitem>
1248	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
1249	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login.</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
1254	VirtualBox versions can't handle.</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
1259	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
1264	with VBoxGINA</para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	</itemizedlist>
1268
1269	</sect1>
1270
1271	<sect1>
1272	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
1273
1274	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1275	added:</para>
1276
1277	<itemizedlist>
1278
1279	<listitem>
1280	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
1281	settings vanished</para>
1282	</listitem>
1283
1284	<listitem>
1285	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
1286	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
1287	</listitem>
1288
1289	<listitem>
1290	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
1291	created (bug #8031)</para>
1292	</listitem>
1293
1294	<listitem>
1295	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
1300	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
1301	</listitem>
1302
1303	<listitem>
1304	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
1305	an extension pack</para>
1306	</listitem>
1307
1308	<listitem>
1309	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
1310	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
1311	</listitem>
1312
1313	<listitem>
1314	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
1315	</listitem>
1316
1317	<listitem>
1318	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
1319	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
1320	</listitem>
1321
1322	<listitem>
1323	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
1324	host-only interface</para>
1325	</listitem>
1326
1327	<listitem>
1328	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
1329	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
1330	</listitem>
1331
1332	<listitem>
1333	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
1334	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
1335	</listitem>
1336
1337	<listitem>
1338	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
1339	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
1340	</listitem>
1341
1342	<listitem>
1343	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
1344	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
1345	</listitem>
1346
1347	<listitem>
1348	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
1349	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
1350	</listitem>
1351
1352	<listitem>
1353	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
1354	</listitem>
1355
1356	<listitem>
1357	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
1358	</listitem>
1359
1360	<listitem>
1361	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
1362	guests</para>
1363	</listitem>
1364
1365	<listitem>
1366	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
1367	</listitem>
1368
1369	<listitem>
1370	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
1371	</listitem>
1372
1373	<listitem>
1374	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
1375	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
1376	</listitem>
1377
1378	<listitem>
1379	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
1380	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
1381	</listitem>
1382
1383	<listitem>
1384	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
1385	a VM start</para>
1386	</listitem>
1387
1388	<listitem>
1389	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
1390	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
1391	</listitem>
1392
1393	<listitem>
1394	<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented
1395	(bug #6067)</para>
1396	</listitem>
1397
1398	<listitem>
1399	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
1400	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
1401	</listitem>
1402
1403	<listitem>
1404	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
1405	not saved to machine XML</para>
1406	</listitem>
1407
1408	<listitem>
1409	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
1410	#7983)</para>
1411	</listitem>
1412
1413	<listitem>
1414	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
1415	#7981)</para>
1416	</listitem>
1417
1418	<listitem>
1419	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.</para>
1420	</listitem>
1421
1422	<listitem>
1423	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
1424	regression)</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
1429	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
1434	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	</itemizedlist>
1438
1439	</sect1>
1440
1441	<sect1>
1442	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
1443
1444	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1445	were added:</para>
1446
1447	<itemizedlist>
1448
1449	<listitem>
1450	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
1451	</listitem>
1452
1453	<listitem>
1454	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
1455	</listitem>
1456
1457	<listitem>
1458	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
1459	<itemizedlist>
1460	<listitem>
1461	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
1462	</listitem>
1463
1464	<listitem>
1465	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
1466	</listitem>
1467
1468	<listitem>
1469	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
1470	</listitem>
1471
1472	<listitem>
1473	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
1474	</listitem>
1475
1476	<listitem>
1477	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
1478	states, and optionally including attached
1479	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
1480	can do the same now)</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
1485	</listitem>
1486
1487	</itemizedlist>
1488	</para>
1489	</listitem>
1490
1491	<listitem>
1492	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>New virtual hardware:
1497	<itemizedlist>
1498	<listitem>
1499	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
1500	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
1501	</listitem>
1502
1503	<listitem>
1504	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
1505	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
1506	</listitem>
1507	</itemizedlist>
1508	</para>
1509	</listitem>
1510
1511	<listitem>
1512	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
1513	<itemizedlist>
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
1516	</listitem>
1517
1518	<listitem>
1519	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
1520	</para>
1521	</listitem>
1522
1523	<listitem>
1524	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
1525	now</para>
1526	</listitem>
1527
1528	<listitem>
1529	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
1530	</listitem>
1531
1532	</itemizedlist>
1533	</para>
1534	</listitem>
1535
1536	<listitem>
1537	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
1538	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
1539	</listitem>
1540
1541	<listitem>
1542	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
1543	Parallels images</para>
1544	</listitem>
1545
1546	<listitem>
1547	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
1548	</listitem>
1549
1550	<listitem>
1551	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
1552	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
1553	</listitem>
1554
1555	<listitem>
1556	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
1557	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
1558	</listitem>
1559
1560	</itemizedlist>
1561
1562	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1563
1564	<itemizedlist>
1565
1566	<listitem>
1567	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
1568	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
1569	</listitem>
1570
1571	<listitem>
1572	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
1573	</listitem>
1574
1575	<listitem>
1576	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
1577	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
1578	</listitem>
1579
1580	<listitem>
1581	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
1582	(bug #1657)</para>
1583	</listitem>
1584
1585	<listitem>
1586	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
1591	</listitem>
1592
1593	<listitem>
1594	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
1595	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
1596	</listitem>
1597
1598	<listitem>
1599	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
1600	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
1601	</listitem>
1602
1603	<listitem>
1604	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
1605	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
1606	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
1607	</listitem>
1608
1609	<listitem>
1610	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1611	again (bug #6864)</para>
1612	</listitem>
1613
1614	<listitem>
1615	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
1616	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
1617	</listitem>
1618
1619	<listitem>
1620	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
1621	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
1622	</listitem>
1623
1624	<listitem>
1625	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
1626	</listitem>
1627
1628	<listitem>
1629	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
1630	</listitem>
1631
1632	<listitem>
1633	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
1638	</listitem>
1639
1640	<listitem>
1641	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
1642	</listitem>
1643
1644	<listitem>
1645	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
1646	</listitem>
1647
1648	<listitem>
1649	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
1650	</listitem>
1651
1652	<listitem>
1653	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
1654	(bug #7058)</para>
1655	</listitem>
1656
1657	<listitem>
1658	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
1659	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
1660	</listitem>
1661
1662	<listitem>
1663	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
1664	circumstances</para>
1665	</listitem>
1666
1667	<listitem>
1668	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
1669	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
1670	#5578)
1671	</para>
1672	</listitem>
1673
1674	<listitem>
1675	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
1676	</listitem>
1677
1678	<listitem>
1679	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
1680	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
1681	</listitem>
1682
1683	<listitem>
1684	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
1685	</listitem>
1686
1687	<listitem>
1688	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
1689	#6760)</para>
1690	</listitem>
1691
1692	<listitem>
1693	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
1694	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
1695	</listitem>
1696
1697	<listitem>
1698	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
1699	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
1700	</listitem>
1701
1702	<listitem>
1703	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
1704	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
1705	</listitem>
1706
1707	<listitem>
1708	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
1709	</listitem>
1710
1711	<listitem>
1712	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
1713	file</para>
1714	</listitem>
1715
1716	<listitem>
1717	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1718	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1719	</listitem>
1720
1721	</itemizedlist>
1722
1723	</sect1>
1724
1725	<sect1>
1726	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
1727
1728	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1729	added:</para>
1730
1731	<itemizedlist>
1732
1733	<listitem>
1734	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
1735	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
1736	</listitem>
1737
1738	<listitem>
1739	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
1740	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
1741	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
1742	</listitem>
1743
1744	<listitem>
1745	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
1746	</listitem>
1747
1748	<listitem>
1749	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
1750	</listitem>
1751
1752	<listitem>
1753	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
1754	</listitem>
1755
1756	<listitem>
1757	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
1758	the VM is running</para>
1759	</listitem>
1760
1761	<listitem>
1762	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
1763	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
1764	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
1765	starting from a saved state</para>
1766	</listitem>
1767
1768	<listitem>
1769	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
1770	</listitem>
1771
1772	<listitem>
1773	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
1774	</listitem>
1775
1776	<listitem>
1777	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
1778	</listitem>
1779
1780	<listitem>
1781	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
1782	</listitem>
1783
1784	<listitem>
1785	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
1786	</listitem>
1787
1788	<listitem>
1789	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
1790	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
1791	</listitem>
1792
1793	<listitem>
1794	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
1795	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
1796	</listitem>
1797
1798	<listitem>
1799	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
1800	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
1801	</listitem>
1802
1803	<listitem>
1804	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
1805	</listitem>
1806
1807	<listitem>
1808	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
1809	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
1810	</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
1815	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
1816	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
1821	only)</para>
1822	</listitem>
1823
1824	<listitem>
1825	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
1826	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
1827	</listitem>
1828
1829	<listitem>
1830	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
1831	</listitem>
1832
1833	<listitem>
1834	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
1835	</listitem>
1836
1837	<listitem>
1838	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
1839	</listitem>
1840
1841	<listitem>
1842	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
1843	state (bug #4124)</para>
1844	</listitem>
1845
1846	<listitem>
1847	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
1848	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
1849	</listitem>
1850
1851	<listitem>
1852	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
1853	</listitem>
1854
1855	<listitem>
1856	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
1857	(bug #2996)</para>
1858	</listitem>
1859
1860	<listitem>
1861	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
1862	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
1863	</listitem>
1864
1865	<listitem>
1866	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
1867	</listitem>
1868
1869	<listitem>
1870	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
1871	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
1872	</listitem>
1873
1874	<listitem>
1875	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
1876	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
1877	</listitem>
1878
1879	<listitem>
1880	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
1881	user accounts for VM information</para>
1882	</listitem>
1883
1884	</itemizedlist>
1885
1886	</sect1>
1887
1888	<sect1>
1889	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
1890
1891	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1892	added:</para>
1893
1894	<itemizedlist>
1895
1896	<listitem>
1897	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
1898	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
1899	</listitem>
1900
1901	<listitem>
1902	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
1907	</listitem>
1908
1909	<listitem>
1910	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
1911	</listitem>
1912
1913	<listitem>
1914	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
1915	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
1916	</listitem>
1917
1918	<listitem>
1919	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
1920	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
1921	</listitem>
1922
1923	<listitem>
1924	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
1925	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
1926	</listitem>
1927
1928	<listitem>
1929	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
1930	(bug #4952)</para>
1931	</listitem>
1932
1933	<listitem>
1934	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1935	bug #6122)</para>
1936	</listitem>
1937
1938	<listitem>
1939	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
1940	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
1941	</listitem>
1942
1943	<listitem>
1944	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
1945	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
1946	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
1955	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
1956	</listitem>
1957
1958	<listitem>
1959	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
1960	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
1965	canceled</para>
1966	</listitem>
1967
1968	<listitem>
1969	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
1974	</listitem>
1975
1976	<listitem>
1977	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
1978	</listitem>
1979
1980	<listitem>
1981	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
1982	</listitem>
1983
1984	<listitem>
1985	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
1986	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
1987	</listitem>
1988
1989	<listitem>
1990	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
1991	</listitem>
1992
1993	<listitem>
1994	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
1995	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1996	</listitem>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
2000	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
2005	</listitem>
2006
2007	<listitem>
2008	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
2009	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
2010	</listitem>
2011
2012	<listitem>
2013	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
2014	</listitem>
2015
2016	<listitem>
2017	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
2018	circumstances</para>
2019	</listitem>
2020
2021	<listitem>
2022	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
2023	printers</para>
2024	</listitem>
2025
2026	<listitem>
2027	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
2028	</listitem>
2029
2030	<listitem>
2031	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
2032	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
2033	</listitem>
2034
2035	<listitem>
2036	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
2037	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
2038	</listitem>
2039
2040	<listitem>
2041	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
2042	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
2043	circumstances</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
2048	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
2053	as supported extension</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2058	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
2059	</listitem>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
2063	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
2068	</listitem>
2069
2070	<listitem>
2071	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
2072	(bug #7366)</para>
2073	</listitem>
2074
2075	<listitem>
2076	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
2077	</listitem>
2078
2079	<listitem>
2080	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
2081	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
2082	</listitem>
2083
2084	<listitem>
2085	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
2086	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	<listitem>
2090	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
2091	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
2092	</listitem>
2093
2094	<listitem>
2095	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
2096	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
2097	</listitem>
2098
2099	<listitem>
2100	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
2101	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
2102	</listitem>
2103
2104	<listitem>
2105	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
2106	</listitem>
2107
2108	<listitem>
2109	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
2110	</listitem>
2111
2112	<listitem>
2113	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
2114	more than one environment variable</para>
2115	</listitem>
2116
2117	<listitem>
2118	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
2119	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
2120	</listitem>
2121
2122	<listitem>
2123	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
2124	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
2125	</listitem>
2126
2127	<listitem>
2128	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
2129	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
2130	</listitem>
2131
2132	<listitem>
2133	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
2134	enumerating logged in users</para>
2135	</listitem>
2136
2137	<listitem>
2138	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
2139	</listitem>
2140
2141	<listitem>
2142	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
2143	</listitem>
2144
2145	<listitem>
2146	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
2147	</listitem>
2148
2149	<listitem>
2150	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
2151	in the event of a VM crash</para>
2152	</listitem>
2153
2154	<listitem>
2155	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
2156	</listitem>
2157
2158	<listitem>
2159	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
2160	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
2161	</listitem>
2162
2163	<listitem>
2164	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
2165	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
2166	</listitem>
2167
2168	<listitem>
2169	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
2170	(bug #7448)</para>
2171	</listitem>
2172
2173	<listitem>
2174	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
2175	</listitem>
2176
2177	<listitem>
2178	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
2179	</listitem>
2180
2181	<listitem>
2182	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
2183	</listitem>
2184
2185	</itemizedlist>
2186
2187	</sect1>
2188
2189	<sect1>
2190	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
2191
2192	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2193	added:</para>
2194
2195	<itemizedlist>
2196
2197	<listitem>
2198	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
2199	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
2200	</listitem>
2201
2202	<listitem>
2203	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
2204	</listitem>
2205
2206	<listitem>
2207	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
2208	bug #6809)</para>
2209	</listitem>
2210
2211	<listitem>
2212	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
2213	</listitem>
2214
2215	<listitem>
2216	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
2221	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
2222	</listitem>
2223
2224	<listitem>
2225	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
2226	changes</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
2235	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
2240	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
2245	</listitem>
2246
2247	<listitem>
2248	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
2249	</listitem>
2250
2251	<listitem>
2252	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
2253	</listitem>
2254
2255	<listitem>
2256	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
2257	</listitem>
2258
2259	<listitem>
2260	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
2261	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
2262	</listitem>
2263
2264	<listitem>
2265	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
2266	</listitem>
2267
2268	<listitem>
2269	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
2270	(bug #6832)</para>
2271	</listitem>
2272
2273	<listitem>
2274	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
2275	guests</para>
2276	</listitem>
2277
2278	<listitem>
2279	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
2280	</listitem>
2281
2282	<listitem>
2283	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
2284	without external tools and tricks</para>
2285	</listitem>
2286
2287	<listitem>
2288	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
2289	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
2290	</listitem>
2291
2292	<listitem>
2293	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
2294	</listitem>
2295
2296	<listitem>
2297	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
2298	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
2299	</listitem>
2300
2301	<listitem>
2302	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
2303	shutdown</para>
2304	</listitem>
2305
2306	<listitem>
2307	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
2308	fixes</para>
2309	</listitem>
2310
2311	<listitem>
2312	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
2313	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
2314	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
2315	</para>
2316	</listitem>
2317
2318	<listitem>
2319	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
2320	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
2321	</listitem>
2322
2323	<listitem>
2324	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
2325	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
2326	</listitem>
2327
2328	<listitem>
2329	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
2330	</para>
2331	</listitem>
2332
2333	<listitem>
2334	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
2335	</listitem>
2336
2337	<listitem>
2338	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
2339	</listitem>
2340
2341	<listitem>
2342	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
2343	</listitem>
2344
2345	</itemizedlist>
2346
2347	</sect1>
2348
2349	<sect1>
2350	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
2351
2352	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2353	added:</para>
2354
2355	<itemizedlist>
2356
2357	<listitem>
2358	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
2359	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
2360	</listitem>
2361
2362	<listitem>
2363	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
2364	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
2365	</listitem>
2366
2367	<listitem>
2368	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
2369	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
2374	</listitem>
2375
2376	<listitem>
2377	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
2378	</listitem>
2379
2380	<listitem>
2381	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
2382	</listitem>
2383
2384	<listitem>
2385	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
2386	</listitem>
2387
2388	<listitem>
2389	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
2390	assigned</para>
2391	</listitem>
2392
2393	<listitem>
2394	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
2395	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
2396	</listitem>
2397
2398	<listitem>
2399	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
2400	multiple screens are enabled</para>
2401	</listitem>
2402
2403	<listitem>
2404	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2405	</listitem>
2406
2407	<listitem>
2408	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
2409	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
2410	</listitem>
2411
2412	<listitem>
2413	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
2414	again (bug #7022).
2415	</para>
2416	</listitem>
2417
2418	<listitem>
2419	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
2420	(bug #6768)</para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
2425	(bug #6927)</para>
2426	</listitem>
2427
2428	<listitem>
2429	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
2430	bug #7031)</para>
2431	</listitem>
2432
2433	<listitem>
2434	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
2435	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
2440	bug #6987)</para>
2441	</listitem>
2442
2443	<listitem>
2444	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
2445	</listitem>
2446
2447	<listitem>
2448	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
2449	</listitem>
2450
2451	<listitem>
2452	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
2453	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
2454	</listitem>
2455
2456	<listitem>
2457	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
2458	</listitem>
2459
2460	<listitem>
2461	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
2462	installation (bug #5101)</para>
2463	</listitem>
2464
2465	<listitem>
2466	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
2467	</listitem>
2468
2469	<listitem>
2470	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
2471	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
2472	bug #6872)</para>
2473	</listitem>
2474
2475	<listitem>
2476	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
2477	</listitem>
2478
2479	<listitem>
2480	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
2481	(performance tweak)</para>
2482	</listitem>
2483
2484	<listitem>
2485	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
2486	is currently paused</para>
2487	</listitem>
2488
2489	<listitem>
2490	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
2491	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
2492	</listitem>
2493
2494	<listitem>
2495	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
2500	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
2501	</listitem>
2502
2503	<listitem>
2504	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
2505	not properly saved</para>
2506	</listitem>
2507
2508	<listitem>
2509	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
2510	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
2511	</listitem>
2512
2513	<listitem>
2514	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
2515	</listitem>
2516
2517	<listitem>
2518	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
2519	</listitem>
2520
2521	<listitem>
2522	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
2523	</listitem>
2524
2525	<listitem>
2526	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
2527	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
2528	</listitem>
2529
2530	<listitem>
2531	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
2532	</listitem>
2533
2534	<listitem>
2535	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
2536	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
2537	</listitem>
2538
2539	<listitem>
2540	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
2541	(bug #5251)</para>
2542	</listitem>
2543
2544	<listitem>
2545	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
2546	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
2547	</listitem>
2548
2549	<listitem>
2550	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
2551	</listitem>
2552
2553	<listitem>
2554	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
2555	</listitem>
2556
2557	<listitem>
2558	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2559	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2560	</listitem>
2561
2562	<listitem>
2563	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
2564	</listitem>
2565
2566	<listitem>
2567	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
2568	</listitem>
2569
2570	<listitem>
2571	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
2572	</listitem>
2573
2574	</itemizedlist>
2575	</sect1>
2576
2577	<sect1>
2578	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
2579
2580	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2581	added:</para>
2582
2583	<itemizedlist>
2584
2585	<listitem>
2586	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
2587	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
2588	</listitem>
2589
2590	<listitem>
2591	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2592	</listitem>
2593
2594	<listitem>
2595	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
2596	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
2597	</listitem>
2598
2599	<listitem>
2600	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
2601	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
2602	</listitem>
2603
2604	<listitem>
2605	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
2606	</listitem>
2607
2608	<listitem>
2609	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2610	again (bug #6864)</para>
2611	</listitem>
2612
2613	<listitem>
2614	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
2615	applications (bug #5236)</para>
2616	</listitem>
2617
2618	<listitem>
2619	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
2620	</listitem>
2621
2622	<listitem>
2623	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
2624	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
2625	</listitem>
2626
2627	<listitem>
2628	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
2629	</listitem>
2630
2631	</itemizedlist>
2632
2633	</sect1>
2634
2635	<sect1>
2636	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
2637
2638	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2639	added:</para>
2640
2641	<itemizedlist>
2642
2643	<listitem>
2644	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
2645	</listitem>
2646
2647	<listitem>
2648	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
2649	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
2650	</listitem>
2651
2652	<listitem>
2653	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
2654	</listitem>
2655
2656	<listitem>
2657	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
2658	state</para>
2659	</listitem>
2660
2661	<listitem>
2662	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
2663	</listitem>
2664
2665	<listitem>
2666	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2667	</listitem>
2668
2669	<listitem>
2670	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
2671	</listitem>
2672
2673	<listitem>
2674	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
2675	</listitem>
2676
2677	<listitem>
2678	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
2679	</listitem>
2680
2681	<listitem>
2682	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
2683	</listitem>
2684
2685	<listitem>
2686	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
2687	</listitem>
2688
2689	<listitem>
2690	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
2691	</listitem>
2692
2693	<listitem>
2694	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
2695	</listitem>
2696
2697	<listitem>
2698	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
2699	</listitem>
2700
2701	<listitem>
2702	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
2703	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
2704	</listitem>
2705
2706	<listitem>
2707	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
2708	(bug #6784)</para>
2709	</listitem>
2710
2711	<listitem>
2712	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
2713	</listitem>
2714
2715	<listitem>
2716	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
2717	</listitem>
2718
2719	<listitem>
2720	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
2721	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
2726	</listitem>
2727
2728	<listitem>
2729	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
2730	</listitem>
2731
2732	<listitem>
2733	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
2734	host only</para>
2735	</listitem>
2736
2737	<listitem>
2738	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
2739	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
2740	</listitem>
2741
2742	<listitem>
2743	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
2744	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
2745	</listitem>
2746
2747	<listitem>
2748	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
2749	</listitem>
2750
2751	<listitem>
2752	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
2753	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
2754	</listitem>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
2758	</listitem>
2759
2760	<listitem>
2761	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
2762	</listitem>
2763
2764	<listitem>
2765	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
2766	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
2767	</listitem>
2768
2769	<listitem>
2770	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
2771	</listitem>
2772
2773	<listitem>
2774	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
2775	</listitem>
2776
2777	<listitem>
2778	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
2779	</listitem>
2780
2781	<listitem>
2782	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
2783	(bug #6714)</para>
2784	</listitem>
2785
2786	<listitem>
2787	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
2792	</listitem>
2793
2794	<listitem>
2795	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
2796	</listitem>
2797
2798	<listitem>
2799	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
2800	</listitem>
2801
2802	<listitem>
2803	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
2804	</listitem>
2805
2806	</itemizedlist>
2807
2808	</sect1>
2809
2810	<sect1>
2811	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
2812
2813	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2814	were added:</para>
2815
2816	<itemizedlist>
2817
2818	<listitem>
2819	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
2820	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
2821	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
2822	</listitem>
2823
2824	<listitem>
2825	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
2826	</listitem>
2827
2828	<listitem>
2829	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
2830	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
2835	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
2836	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
2841	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
2842	</listitem>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
2846	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
2847	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
2848	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
2849	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
2850	</listitem>
2851
2852	<listitem>
2853	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
2854	</listitem>
2855
2856	<listitem>
2857	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
2858	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
2859	</listitem>
2860
2861	<listitem>
2862	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
2863	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
2864	</listitem>
2865
2866	<listitem>
2867	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
2868	</listitem>
2869
2870	<listitem>
2871	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
2872	</listitem>
2873
2874	<listitem>
2875	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
2880	</listitem>
2881
2882	<listitem>
2883	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
2884	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
2885	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
2886	</listitem>
2887
2888	<listitem>
2889	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
2890	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
2891	</listitem>
2892
2893	</itemizedlist>
2894
2895	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2896
2897	<itemizedlist>
2898
2899	<listitem>
2900	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
2901	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
2902	</listitem>
2903
2904	<listitem>
2905	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
2906	</listitem>
2907
2908	<listitem>
2909	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
2910	VM</para>
2911	</listitem>
2912
2913	<listitem>
2914	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
2915	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
2916	</listitem>
2917
2918	<listitem>
2919	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
2920	#1669)</para>
2921	</listitem>
2922
2923	<listitem>
2924	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
2925	#6442)</para>
2926	</listitem>
2927
2928	<listitem>
2929	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
2930	combination (bug #684)</para>
2931	</listitem>
2932
2933	<listitem>
2934	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
2935	the VM from the GUI</para>
2936	</listitem>
2937
2938	<listitem>
2939	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
2940	medium is not accessible</para>
2941	</listitem>
2942
2943	<listitem>
2944	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
2945	</listitem>
2946
2947	<listitem>
2948	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
2949	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
2950	</listitem>
2951
2952	<listitem>
2953	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
2954	#3106)</para>
2955	</listitem>
2956
2957	<listitem>
2958	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
2959	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
2960	it</para>
2961	</listitem>
2962
2963	<listitem>
2964	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
2965	</listitem>
2966
2967	<listitem>
2968	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2969	</listitem>
2970
2971	<listitem>
2972	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
2973	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
2974	</listitem>
2975
2976	<listitem>
2977	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
2978	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
2979	</listitem>
2980
2981	<listitem>
2982	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
2991	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
2992	</listitem>
2993
2994	<listitem>
2995	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
2996	</listitem>
2997
2998	<listitem>
2999	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
3000	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
3005	</listitem>
3006
3007	<listitem>
3008	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
3009	in VirtualBox</para>
3010	</listitem>
3011
3012	<listitem>
3013	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
3014	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
3015	</listitem>
3016
3017	<listitem>
3018	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
3019	VirtualBox</para>
3020	</listitem>
3021
3022	<listitem>
3023	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
3024	</listitem>
3025
3026	<listitem>
3027	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
3028	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
3029	</listitem>
3030
3031	</itemizedlist>
3032	</sect1>
3033
3034	<sect1>
3035	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
3036
3037	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3038	added:</para>
3039
3040	<itemizedlist>
3041
3042	<listitem>
3043	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
3044	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	<listitem>
3048	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
3049	</listitem>
3050
3051	<listitem>
3052	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
3053	</listitem>
3054
3055	<listitem>
3056	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
3057	only) </para>
3058	</listitem>
3059
3060	<listitem>
3061	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
3062	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
3063	</listitem>
3064
3065	<listitem>
3066	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
3067	interface version</para>
3068	</listitem>
3069
3070	<listitem>
3071	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
3072	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
3073	slot empty</para>
3074	</listitem>
3075
3076	<listitem>
3077	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
3078	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
3079	(bug #4220)</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
3084	</listitem>
3085
3086	<listitem>
3087	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
3088	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
3089	</listitem>
3090
3091	<listitem>
3092	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
3093	using the drivers from LSI</para>
3094	</listitem>
3095
3096	<listitem>
3097	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
3098	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
3099	</listitem>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
3103	attached</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
3108	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
3109	</listitem>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
3113	</listitem>
3114
3115	<listitem>
3116	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
3117	booting from SCSI devices</para>
3118	</listitem>
3119
3120	<listitem>
3121	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
3122	is bug #6408)</para>
3123	</listitem>
3124
3125	<listitem>
3126	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
3131	fail to initialize</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	<listitem>
3135	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
3136	</listitem>
3137
3138	<listitem>
3139	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
3140	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
3145	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
3146	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
3147	</listitem>
3148
3149	<listitem>
3150	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
3151	</listitem>
3152
3153	<listitem>
3154	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
3155	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
3160	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
3161	</listitem>
3162
3163	<listitem>
3164	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
3165	(bug #6435)</para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
3170	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
3171	</listitem>
3172
3173	<listitem>
3174	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
3175	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
3176	(bug #6488)</para>
3177	</listitem>
3178
3179	<listitem>
3180	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
3181	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
3182	</listitem>
3183
3184	<listitem>
3185	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
3186	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
3187	</listitem>
3188
3189	<listitem>
3190	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
3191	#5227)</para>
3192	</listitem>
3193
3194	<listitem>
3195	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
3196	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
3197	</listitem>
3198
3199	<listitem>
3200	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
3201	</listitem>
3202
3203	<listitem>
3204	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
3205	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
3206	</listitem>
3207
3208	</itemizedlist>
3209	</sect1>
3210
3211	<sect1>
3212	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
3213
3214	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3215	added:</para>
3216
3217	<itemizedlist>
3218
3219	<listitem>
3220	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
3221	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
3222	</listitem>
3223
3224	<listitem>
3225	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
3226	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
3227	</listitem>
3228
3229	<listitem>
3230	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
3231	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
3232	</listitem>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
3236	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
3241	</listitem>
3242
3243	<listitem>
3244	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
3245	</listitem>
3246
3247	<listitem>
3248	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
3249	</listitem>
3250
3251	<listitem>
3252	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
3253	</listitem>
3254
3255	<listitem>
3256	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
3257	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
3258	</listitem>
3259
3260	<listitem>
3261	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
3262	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
3263	</listitem>
3264
3265	<listitem>
3266	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
3267	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
3268	</listitem>
3269
3270	<listitem>
3271	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
3272	</listitem>
3273
3274	<listitem>
3275	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
3276	</listitem>
3277
3278	<listitem>
3279	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
3280	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
3281	</listitem>
3282
3283	<listitem>
3284	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
3285	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
3286	calls (bug #6165)</para>
3287	</listitem>
3288
3289	<listitem>
3290	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
3291	(bug #5297)</para>
3292	</listitem>
3293
3294	<listitem>
3295	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
3296	(bug #4962)</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	<listitem>
3300	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
3301	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
3302	</listitem>
3303
3304	<listitem>
3305	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
3306	(bug #6176)</para>
3307	</listitem>
3308
3309	<listitem>
3310	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
3311	certain circumstances</para>
3312	</listitem>
3313
3314	<listitem>
3315	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
3316	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
3317	</listitem>
3318
3319	<listitem>
3320	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
3321	</listitem>
3322
3323	<listitem>
3324	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
3325	</listitem>
3326
3327	<listitem>
3328	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
3329	(bug #3571)</para>
3330	</listitem>
3331
3332	<listitem>
3333	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
3334	devices</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
3339	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
3340	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
3341	</listitem>
3342
3343	<listitem>
3344	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
3345	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
3346	</listitem>
3347
3348	<listitem>
3349	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
3350	</listitem>
3351
3352	<listitem>
3353	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
3354	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
3355	</listitem>
3356
3357	<listitem>
3358	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
3359	response</para>
3360	</listitem>
3361
3362	<listitem>
3363	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
3368	</listitem>
3369
3370	<listitem>
3371	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
3372	</listitem>
3373
3374	<listitem>
3375	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
3380	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3381	</listitem>
3382
3383	<listitem>
3384	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
3393	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
3402	</listitem>
3403
3404	<listitem>
3405	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
3406	</listitem>
3407
3408	<listitem>
3409	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
3410	</listitem>
3411
3412	</itemizedlist>
3413	</sect1>
3414
3415	<sect1>
3416	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
3417
3418	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3419	added:</para>
3420
3421	<itemizedlist>
3422
3423	<listitem>
3424	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
3425	</listitem>
3426
3427	<listitem>
3428	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
3429	</listitem>
3430
3431	<listitem>
3432	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
3433	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
3434	</listitem>
3435
3436	<listitem>
3437	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
3438	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
3439	</listitem>
3440
3441	<listitem>
3442	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
3443	(bug #3945)</para>
3444	</listitem>
3445
3446	<listitem>
3447	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
3448	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
3449	</listitem>
3450
3451	<listitem>
3452	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
3453	and AMD-V only) </para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
3462	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
3463	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
3464	</listitem>
3465
3466	<listitem>
3467	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
3468	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
3469	</listitem>
3470
3471	<listitem>
3472	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
3473	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
3474	</listitem>
3475
3476	<listitem>
3477	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
3478	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
3479	</listitem>
3480
3481	<listitem>
3482	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
3483	snapshots command</para>
3484	</listitem>
3485
3486	<listitem>
3487	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
3488	</listitem>
3489
3490	<listitem>
3491	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
3492	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
3493	</listitem>
3494
3495	<listitem>
3496	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
3497	</listitem>
3498
3499	<listitem>
3500	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
3501	</listitem>
3502
3503	<listitem>
3504	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
3505	</listitem>
3506
3507	<listitem>
3508	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
3509	(KWin bug)</para>
3510	</listitem>
3511
3512	<listitem>
3513	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
3514	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
3515	</listitem>
3516
3517	<listitem>
3518	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
3519	</listitem>
3520
3521	<listitem>
3522	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
3523	</listitem>
3524
3525	<listitem>
3526	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
3527	</listitem>
3528
3529	<listitem>
3530	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
3531	</listitem>
3532
3533	<listitem>
3534	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
3535	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
3536	</listitem>
3537
3538	<listitem>
3539	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
3540	bug #5787)</para>
3541	</listitem>
3542
3543	<listitem>
3544	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
3545	DHCP requests</para>
3546	</listitem>
3547
3548	<listitem>
3549	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
3550	(bug #3217)</para>
3551	</listitem>
3552
3553	<listitem>
3554	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
3555	range (bug #5923)</para>
3556	</listitem>
3557
3558	<listitem>
3559	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
3564	</listitem>
3565
3566	<listitem>
3567	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
3568	</listitem>
3569
3570	<listitem>
3571	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
3572	</listitem>
3573
3574	<listitem>
3575	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
3576	file (bug #5681)</para>
3577	</listitem>
3578
3579	<listitem>
3580	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
3581	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
3582	</listitem>
3583
3584	<listitem>
3585	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
3586	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
3587	</listitem>
3588
3589	<listitem>
3590	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
3591	regression)</para>
3592	</listitem>
3593
3594	<listitem>
3595	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
3596	</listitem>
3597
3598	<listitem>
3599	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
3600	</listitem>
3601
3602	<listitem>
3603	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
3604	</listitem>
3605
3606	<listitem>
3607	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
3608	</listitem>
3609
3610	<listitem>
3611	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
3612	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
3613	</listitem>
3614
3615	<listitem>
3616	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
3617	</listitem>
3618
3619	<listitem>
3620	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
3621	</listitem>
3622
3623	<listitem>
3624	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
3625	</listitem>
3626
3627	<listitem>
3628	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
3629	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
3630	</listitem>
3631
3632	<listitem>
3633	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
3634	</listitem>
3635
3636	<listitem>
3637	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
3638	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
3639	</listitem>
3640
3641	<listitem>
3642	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
3643	</listitem>
3644
3645	<listitem>
3646	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
3651	</listitem>
3652
3653	<listitem>
3654	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
3655	(bug #5731)</para>
3656	</listitem>
3657
3658	<listitem>
3659	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
3660	again</para>
3661	</listitem>
3662
3663	</itemizedlist>
3664
3665	</sect1>
3666
3667	<sect1>
3668	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
3669
3670	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3671	added:</para>
3672
3673	<itemizedlist>
3674
3675	<listitem>
3676	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
3681	</listitem>
3682
3683	<listitem>
3684	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
3685	</listitem>
3686
3687	<listitem>
3688	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
3689	</listitem>
3690
3691	<listitem>
3692	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
3697	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
3698	</listitem>
3699
3700	<listitem>
3701	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
3706	</listitem>
3707
3708	<listitem>
3709	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
3710	</listitem>
3711
3712	<listitem>
3713	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
3714	</listitem>
3715
3716	<listitem>
3717	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
3718	</listitem>
3719
3720	<listitem>
3721	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
3722	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
3723	</listitem>
3724
3725	<listitem>
3726	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
3727	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
3732	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
3733	#1762)</para>
3734	</listitem>
3735
3736	<listitem>
3737	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
3738	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
3739	</listitem>
3740
3741	<listitem>
3742	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
3743	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
3744	</listitem>
3745
3746	<listitem>
3747	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
3748	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
3749	</listitem>
3750
3751	<listitem>
3752	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
3753	</listitem>
3754
3755	<listitem>
3756	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
3757	</listitem>
3758
3759	<listitem>
3760	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
3761	several virtual CPU cores</para>
3762	</listitem>
3763
3764	<listitem>
3765	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
3766	</listitem>
3767
3768	<listitem>
3769	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
3774	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
3775	</listitem>
3776
3777	<listitem>
3778	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
3779	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
3780	</listitem>
3781
3782	<listitem>
3783	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
3784	</listitem>
3785
3786	<listitem>
3787	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
3788	guests</para>
3789	</listitem>
3790
3791	<listitem>
3792	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
3793	and on some 64bit guests</para>
3794	</listitem>
3795
3796	<listitem>
3797	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
3798	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
3799	</listitem>
3800
3801	<listitem>
3802	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
3803	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
3804	</listitem>
3805
3806	<listitem>
3807	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
3808	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
3809	</listitem>
3810
3811	<listitem>
3812	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
3813	</listitem>
3814
3815	<listitem>
3816	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
3817	</listitem>
3818
3819	<listitem>
3820	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
3821	</listitem>
3822
3823	<listitem>
3824	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
3825	</listitem>
3826
3827	<listitem>
3828	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
3829	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
3830	</listitem>
3831
3832	<listitem>
3833	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
3834	</listitem>
3835
3836	</itemizedlist>
3837
3838	</sect1>
3839
3840	<sect1>
3841	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
3842
3843	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3844	were added:</para>
3845
3846	<itemizedlist>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
3850	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
3851	</listitem>
3852
3853	<listitem>
3854	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
3855	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
3856	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
3857	</listitem>
3858
3859	<listitem>
3860	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
3861	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
3862	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
3863	</listitem>
3864
3865	<listitem>
3866	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
3867	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
3868	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
3869	</listitem>
3870
3871	<listitem>
3872	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
3873	running</para>
3874	</listitem>
3875
3876	<listitem>
3877	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
3878	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
3879	</listitem>
3880
3881	<listitem>
3882	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
3883	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
3884	</listitem>
3885
3886	<listitem>
3887	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
3888	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
3889	</listitem>
3890
3891	<listitem>
3892	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
3893	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
3894	</listitem>
3895
3896	</itemizedlist>
3897
3898	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3899
3900	<itemizedlist>
3901
3902	<listitem>
3903	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
3904	</listitem>
3905
3906	<listitem>
3907	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
3912	</listitem>
3913
3914	<listitem>
3915	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
3916	(bug #5291)</para>
3917	</listitem>
3918
3919	<listitem>
3920	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
3921	</listitem>
3922
3923	<listitem>
3924	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
3925	</listitem>
3926
3927	<listitem>
3928	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
3929	</listitem>
3930
3931	<listitem>
3932	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
3933	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
3934	</listitem>
3935
3936	<listitem>
3937	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
3938	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
3939	</listitem>
3940
3941	<listitem>
3942	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
3943	</listitem>
3944
3945	<listitem>
3946	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
3947	</listitem>
3948
3949	<listitem>
3950	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
3951	</listitem>
3952
3953	<listitem>
3954	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
3955	</listitem>
3956
3957	<listitem>
3958	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
3959	</listitem>
3960
3961	<listitem>
3962	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
3963	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
3964	</listitem>
3965
3966	<listitem>
3967	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
3968	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
3969	</listitem>
3970
3971	<listitem>
3972	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
3973	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
3974	</listitem>
3975
3976	<listitem>
3977	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
3978	(bug #2723)</para>
3979	</listitem>
3980
3981	<listitem>
3982	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
3983	</listitem>
3984
3985	<listitem>
3986	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
3987	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
3988	</listitem>
3989
3990	<listitem>
3991	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
3992	optional manifest file on import</para>
3993	</listitem>
3994
3995	<listitem>
3996	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
3997	</listitem>
3998
3999	<listitem>
4000	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
4001	(bug #3773)</para>
4002	</listitem>
4003
4004	<listitem>
4005	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
4006	</listitem>
4007
4008	<listitem>
4009	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
4010	</listitem>
4011
4012	<listitem>
4013	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
4014	layout (bug #2302)</para>
4015	</listitem>
4016
4017	<listitem>
4018	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
4019	(bug #4866)</para>
4020	</listitem>
4021
4022	<listitem>
4023	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
4024	left click (bug #5049)</para>
4025	</listitem>
4026
4027	<listitem>
4028	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
4029	certain conditions</para>
4030	</listitem>
4031
4032	<listitem>
4033	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
4034	</listitem>
4035
4036	<listitem>
4037	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
4038	</listitem>
4039
4040	<listitem>
4041	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
4046	</listitem>
4047
4048	<listitem>
4049	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
4050	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
4051	</listitem>
4052
4053	<listitem>
4054	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
4055	</listitem>
4056
4057	<listitem>
4058	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
4059	properties (bug #5337)</para>
4060	</listitem>
4061
4062	<listitem>
4063	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
4064	</listitem>
4065
4066	<listitem>
4067	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
4068	</listitem>
4069
4070	<listitem>
4071	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
4072	</listitem>
4073
4074	<listitem>
4075	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
4076	</listitem>
4077
4078	<listitem>
4079	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
4080	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
4081	</listitem>
4082
4083	<listitem>
4084	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
4085	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
4086	(bug #928)</para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	<listitem>
4090	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	</itemizedlist>
4094
4095	</sect1>
4096
4097	<sect1>
4098	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
4099
4100	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4101	added:</para>
4102
4103	<itemizedlist>
4104
4105	<listitem>
4106	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
4107	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
4108	</listitem>
4109
4110	<listitem>
4111	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
4112	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
4113	</listitem>
4114
4115	<listitem>
4116	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
4117	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
4118	</listitem>
4119
4120	<listitem>
4121	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
4122	enabled</para>
4123	</listitem>
4124
4125	<listitem>
4126	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
4127	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
4128	</listitem>
4129
4130	<listitem>
4131	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
4132	(bug #2676)</para>
4133	</listitem>
4134
4135	<listitem>
4136	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
4137	is connected to a raw file</para>
4138	</listitem>
4139
4140	<listitem>
4141	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
4142	(bug #5355)</para>
4143	</listitem>
4144
4145	<listitem>
4146	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
4147	</listitem>
4148
4149	<listitem>
4150	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
4151	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
4156	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
4157	guest (bug #4496)</para>
4158	</listitem>
4159
4160	<listitem>
4161	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
4162	</listitem>
4163
4164	<listitem>
4165	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
4170	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
4171	</listitem>
4172
4173	<listitem>
4174	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
4175	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
4176	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
4177	</listitem>
4178
4179	</itemizedlist>
4180
4181	</sect1>
4182
4183	<sect1>
4184	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
4185
4186	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4187	added:</para>
4188
4189	<itemizedlist>
4190
4191	<listitem>
4192	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
4193	</listitem>
4194
4195	<listitem>
4196	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
4197	</listitem>
4198
4199	<listitem>
4200	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
4201	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
4202	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
4203	</listitem>
4204
4205	<listitem>
4206	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
4207	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
4208	</listitem>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
4212	</listitem>
4213
4214	<listitem>
4215	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
4216	</listitem>
4217
4218	<listitem>
4219	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
4220	</listitem>
4221
4222	<listitem>
4223	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
4224	</listitem>
4225
4226	<listitem>
4227	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
4228	</listitem>
4229
4230	<listitem>
4231	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
4232	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
4233	</listitem>
4234
4235	<listitem>
4236	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
4241	</listitem>
4242
4243	<listitem>
4244	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
4245	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
4246	</listitem>
4247
4248	<listitem>
4249	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
4250	</listitem>
4251
4252	<listitem>
4253	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
4254	exhaustion</para>
4255	</listitem>
4256
4257	<listitem>
4258	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
4259	</listitem>
4260
4261	<listitem>
4262	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
4263	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
4264	</listitem>
4265
4266	<listitem>
4267	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
4268	folders (bug #4106)</para>
4269	</listitem>
4270
4271	<listitem>
4272	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
4273	folders (bug #4299)</para>
4274	</listitem>
4275
4276	<listitem>
4277	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
4278	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
4279	(bug #2921)</para>
4280	</listitem>
4281
4282	<listitem>
4283	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
4284	hosts only)</para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	<listitem>
4288	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
4289	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
4294	</listitem>
4295
4296	<listitem>
4297	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
4298	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
4299	</listitem>
4300
4301	<listitem>
4302	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
4307	image inconsistency </para>
4308	</listitem>
4309
4310	<listitem>
4311	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
4312	</listitem>
4313
4314	<listitem>
4315	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
4316	</listitem>
4317
4318	<listitem>
4319	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
4320	(bug #2025)</para>
4321	</listitem>
4322
4323	<listitem>
4324	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
4325	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
4326	</listitem>
4327
4328	</itemizedlist>
4329
4330	</sect1>
4331
4332	<sect1>
4333	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
4334
4335	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4336	added:</para>
4337
4338	<itemizedlist>
4339
4340	<listitem>
4341	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
4342	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
4343	</listitem>
4344
4345	<listitem>
4346	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
4347	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
4348	</listitem>
4349
4350	<listitem>
4351	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
4352	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
4353	</listitem>
4354
4355	<listitem>
4356	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
4357	</listitem>
4358
4359	<listitem>
4360	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
4361	software virtualization only) </para>
4362	</listitem>
4363
4364	<listitem>
4365	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
4366	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
4367	</listitem>
4368
4369	<listitem>
4370	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
4371	with root privileges</para>
4372	</listitem>
4373
4374	<listitem>
4375	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
4376	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
4377	</listitem>
4378
4379	<listitem>
4380	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
4381	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
4382	</listitem>
4383
4384	<listitem>
4385	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
4386	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
4387	</listitem>
4388
4389	<listitem>
4390	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
4391	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
4392	selector (bug #5063)</para>
4393	</listitem>
4394
4395	<listitem>
4396	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
4397	available</para>
4398	</listitem>
4399
4400	<listitem>
4401	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
4402	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
4403	</listitem>
4404
4405	<listitem>
4406	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
4407	networking (bug #4775)</para>
4408	</listitem>
4409
4410	<listitem>
4411	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
4412	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
4413	</listitem>
4414
4415	<listitem>
4416	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
4417	(bug #4907)</para>
4418	</listitem>
4419
4420	<listitem>
4421	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
4422	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
4423	</listitem>
4424
4425	<listitem>
4426	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
4427	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
4432	</listitem>
4433
4434	<listitem>
4435	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
4436	</listitem>
4437
4438	<listitem>
4439	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
4440	</listitem>
4441
4442	<listitem>
4443	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
4444	</listitem>
4445
4446	<listitem>
4447	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
4448	are installed</para>
4449	</listitem>
4450
4451	<listitem>
4452	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
4453	(bug #4771)</para>
4454	</listitem>
4455
4456	<listitem>
4457	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
4458	</listitem>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
4462	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
4463	</listitem>
4464
4465	<listitem>
4466	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
4467	command</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	<listitem>
4475	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
4476	</listitem>
4477
4478	<listitem>
4479	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
4480	(bug #5089)</para>
4481	</listitem>
4482
4483	<listitem>
4484	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
4485	</listitem>
4486
4487	</itemizedlist>
4488
4489	</sect1>
4490
4491	<sect1>
4492	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
4493
4494	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4495	added:</para>
4496
4497	<itemizedlist>
4498
4499	<listitem>
4500	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
4501	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
4502	</listitem>
4503
4504	<listitem>
4505	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
4506	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
4507	</listitem>
4508
4509	<listitem>
4510	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
4511	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
4512	</listitem>
4513
4514	<listitem>
4515	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
4516	guests (bug #2258)</para>
4517	</listitem>
4518
4519	<listitem>
4520	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
4521	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
4522	</listitem>
4523
4524	<listitem>
4525	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
4526	</listitem>
4527
4528	<listitem>
4529	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
4530	</listitem>
4531
4532	<listitem>
4533	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
4534	</listitem>
4535
4536	<listitem>
4537	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
4538	</listitem>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
4542	</listitem>
4543
4544	<listitem>
4545	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
4546	onlined or offlined</para>
4547	</listitem>
4548
4549	<listitem>
4550	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
4551	</listitem>
4552
4553	<listitem>
4554	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
4555	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
4556	</listitem>
4557
4558	<listitem>
4559	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
4560	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
4561	</listitem>
4562
4563	<listitem>
4564	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
4565	</listitem>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
4569	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
4578	</listitem>
4579
4580	<listitem>
4581	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
4582	</listitem>
4583
4584	<listitem>
4585	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
4586	</listitem>
4587
4588	<listitem>
4589	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
4590	</listitem>
4591
4592	<listitem>
4593	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
4594	filters in machine settings XML</para>
4595	</listitem>
4596
4597	<listitem>
4598	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
4599	</listitem>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
4611	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
4612	</listitem>
4613
4614	<listitem>
4615	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
4616	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
4617	</listitem>
4618
4619	<listitem>
4620	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
4621	</listitem>
4622
4623	<listitem>
4624	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
4625	</listitem>
4626
4627	<listitem>
4628	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
4629	</listitem>
4630
4631	<listitem>
4632	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
4633	</listitem>
4634
4635	<listitem>
4636	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
4637	</listitem>
4638
4639	<listitem>
4640	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
4641	</listitem>
4642
4643	<listitem>
4644	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
4645	</listitem>
4646
4647	<listitem>
4648	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
4649	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
4650	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
4651	phase collapse</para>
4652	</listitem>
4653
4654	<listitem>
4655	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
4656	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
4657	</listitem>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
4661	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
4662	</listitem>
4663
4664	<listitem>
4665	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
4666	</listitem>
4667
4668	<listitem>
4669	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
4670	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
4671	</listitem>
4672
4673	<listitem>
4674	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
4675	interface bringup on Linux</para>
4676	</listitem>
4677
4678	<listitem>
4679	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
4680	</listitem>
4681
4682	<listitem>
4683	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
4684	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
4685	#4698, #4790)</para>
4686	</listitem>
4687
4688	<listitem>
4689	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
4690	less than the configured range</para>
4691	</listitem>
4692
4693	<listitem>
4694	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
4695	</listitem>
4696
4697	<listitem>
4698	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
4699	</listitem>
4700
4701	<listitem>
4702	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
4703	</listitem>
4704
4705	<listitem>
4706	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
4707	</listitem>
4708
4709	<listitem>
4710	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
4711	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
4712	</listitem>
4713
4714	<listitem>
4715	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
4716	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
4717	</listitem>
4718
4719	<listitem>
4720	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
4721	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
4722	</listitem>
4723
4724	<listitem>
4725	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
4726	</listitem>
4727
4728	<listitem>
4729	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
4730	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
4731	</listitem>
4732
4733	<listitem>
4734	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
4735	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
4740	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
4741	</listitem>
4742
4743	<listitem>
4744	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
4745	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	<listitem>
4749	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
4750	</listitem>
4751
4752	<listitem>
4753	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
4754	</listitem>
4755
4756	</itemizedlist>
4757
4758	</sect1>
4759
4760	<sect1>
4761	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
4762
4763	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4764	added:</para>
4765
4766	<itemizedlist>
4767
4768	<listitem>
4769	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
4774	</listitem>
4775
4776	<listitem>
4777	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
4778	</listitem>
4779
4780	<listitem>
4781	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
4782	</listitem>
4783
4784	<listitem>
4785	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
4786	</listitem>
4787
4788	<listitem>
4789	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
4794	</listitem>
4795
4796	<listitem>
4797	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
4798	</listitem>
4799
4800	<listitem>
4801	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
4802	</listitem>
4803
4804	<listitem>
4805	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
4806	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
4807	</listitem>
4808
4809	<listitem>
4810	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
4811	</listitem>
4812
4813	<listitem>
4814	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
4815	</listitem>
4816
4817	<listitem>
4818	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
4819	</listitem>
4820
4821	<listitem>
4822	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
4823	</listitem>
4824
4825	<listitem>
4826	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
4827	</listitem>
4828
4829	<listitem>
4830	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
4831	</listitem>
4832
4833	<listitem>
4834	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
4835	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
4836	</listitem>
4837
4838	<listitem>
4839	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
4840	(bug #4654)</para>
4841	</listitem>
4842
4843	<listitem>
4844	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
4845	</listitem>
4846
4847	<listitem>
4848	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
4849	interfaces</para>
4850	</listitem>
4851
4852	<listitem>
4853	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
4854	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
4855	</listitem>
4856
4857	<listitem>
4858	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
4859	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
4860	</listitem>
4861
4862	<listitem>
4863	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
4864	properties (bug #3415)</para>
4865	</listitem>
4866
4867	<listitem>
4868	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
4869	(bug #1461)</para>
4870	</listitem>
4871
4872	<listitem>
4873	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
4878	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
4883	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
4888	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
4889	</listitem>
4890
4891	<listitem>
4892	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
4893	</listitem>
4894
4895	<listitem>
4896	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4897	</listitem>
4898
4899	<listitem>
4900	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
4901	</listitem>
4902
4903	<listitem>
4904	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
4905	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
4906	</listitem>
4907
4908	<listitem>
4909	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
4910	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
4911	</listitem>
4912
4913	<listitem>
4914	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
4915	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
4916	</listitem>
4917
4918	<listitem>
4919	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
4920	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
4921	</listitem>
4922
4923	</itemizedlist>
4924
4925	</sect1>
4926	<sect1>
4927	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
4928
4929	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4930	added:</para>
4931
4932	<itemizedlist>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
4936	</listitem>
4937
4938	<listitem>
4939	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
4944	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
4945	</listitem>
4946
4947	<listitem>
4948	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
4949	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
4950	</listitem>
4951
4952	<listitem>
4953	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
4954	</listitem>
4955
4956	<listitem>
4957	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
4962	</listitem>
4963
4964	<listitem>
4965	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
4966	</listitem>
4967
4968	<listitem>
4969	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
4970	</listitem>
4971
4972	<listitem>
4973	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
4974	</listitem>
4975
4976	<listitem>
4977	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
4978	</listitem>
4979
4980	<listitem>
4981	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
4982	</listitem>
4983
4984	<listitem>
4985	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
4986	</listitem>
4987
4988	<listitem>
4989	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
4990	</listitem>
4991
4992	<listitem>
4993	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
4994	</listitem>
4995
4996	<listitem>
4997	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
4998	guest (bug #4381)</para>
4999	</listitem>
5000
5001	<listitem>
5002	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
5003	</listitem>
5004
5005	<listitem>
5006	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
5007	</listitem>
5008
5009	<listitem>
5010	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
5011	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
5012	</listitem>
5013
5014	<listitem>
5015	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
5016	</listitem>
5017
5018	<listitem>
5019	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
5020	</listitem>
5021
5022	<listitem>
5023	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
5024	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
5025	</listitem>
5026
5027	<listitem>
5028	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
5029	</listitem>
5030
5031	<listitem>
5032	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
5033	</listitem>
5034
5035	<listitem>
5036	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
5037	</listitem>
5038
5039	<listitem>
5040	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
5041	</listitem>
5042
5043	<listitem>
5044	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
5045	</listitem>
5046
5047	<listitem>
5048	<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>
5049	</listitem>
5050
5051	</itemizedlist>
5052
5053	</sect1>
5054
5055	<sect1>
5056	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
5057
5058	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5059	were added:</para>
5060
5061	<itemizedlist>
5062
5063	<listitem>
5064	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
5065	</listitem>
5066
5067	<listitem>
5068	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
5069	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5070	</listitem>
5071
5072	<listitem>
5073	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
5074	</listitem>
5075
5076	</itemizedlist>
5077
5078	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5079
5080	<itemizedlist>
5081
5082	<listitem>
5083	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
5084	</listitem>
5085
5086	<listitem>
5087	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
5088	certain conditions</para>
5089	</listitem>
5090
5091	<listitem>
5092	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
5093	</listitem>
5094
5095	<listitem>
5096	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
5097	</listitem>
5098
5099	<listitem>
5100	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
5101	</listitem>
5102
5103	<listitem>
5104	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
5105	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
5106	</listitem>
5107
5108	<listitem>
5109	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
5110	</listitem>
5111
5112	<listitem>
5113	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
5114	</listitem>
5115
5116	<listitem>
5117	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
5118	</listitem>
5119
5120	<listitem>
5121	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
5122	</listitem>
5123
5124	<listitem>
5125	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
5126	</listitem>
5127
5128	<listitem>
5129	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
5130	</listitem>
5131
5132	<listitem>
5133	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
5134	</listitem>
5135
5136	<listitem>
5137	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
5138	</listitem>
5139
5140	<listitem>
5141	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
5142	(non Windows hosts)</para>
5143	</listitem>
5144
5145	<listitem>
5146	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
5147	</listitem>
5148
5149	<listitem>
5150	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
5151	</listitem>
5152
5153	<listitem>
5154	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
5155	</listitem>
5156
5157	<listitem>
5158	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
5159	</listitem>
5160
5161	<listitem>
5162	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
5163	</listitem>
5164
5165	<listitem>
5166	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
5167	</listitem>
5168
5169	<listitem>
5170	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
5171	</listitem>
5172
5173	<listitem>
5174	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
5175	</listitem>
5176
5177	<listitem>
5178	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
5179	</listitem>
5180
5181	<listitem>
5182	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
5183	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
5184	</listitem>
5185
5186	<listitem>
5187	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
5188	</listitem>
5189
5190	<listitem>
5191	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
5192	</listitem>
5193
5194	<listitem>
5195	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
5196	</listitem>
5197
5198	<listitem>
5199	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
5200	</listitem>
5201
5202	<listitem>
5203	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
5204	</listitem>
5205
5206	<listitem>
5207	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
5208	</listitem>
5209
5210	<listitem>
5211	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
5212	</listitem>
5213
5214	<listitem>
5215	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
5216	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
5217	</listitem>
5218
5219	<listitem>
5220	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
5221	</listitem>
5222
5223	<listitem>
5224	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
5225	</listitem>
5226
5227	<listitem>
5228	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
5229	</listitem>
5230
5231	<listitem>
5232	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
5233	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
5234	</listitem>
5235
5236	<listitem>
5237	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
5238	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
5239	</listitem>
5240
5241	<listitem>
5242	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
5243	correct file mode when creating files</para>
5244	</listitem>
5245
5246	<listitem>
5247	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
5248	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
5249	</listitem>
5250
5251	<listitem>
5252	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
5253	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
5254	</listitem>
5255
5256	<listitem>
5257	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
5258	</listitem>
5259
5260	<listitem>
5261	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
5262	</listitem>
5263
5264	<listitem>
5265	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
5266	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
5267	</listitem>
5268
5269	<listitem>
5270	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
5271	guest property lookup</para>
5272	</listitem>
5273
5274	<listitem>
5275	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
5276	basic network information)</para>
5277	</listitem>
5278
5279	<listitem>
5280	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
5281	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
5282	</listitem>
5283
5284	<listitem>
5285	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
5286	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
5287	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
5288	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
5289	</listitem>
5290
5291	<listitem>
5292	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
5293	</listitem>
5294
5295	<listitem>
5296	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
5297	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
5298	web service</para>
5299	</listitem>
5300
5301	<listitem>
5302	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
5303	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
5304	</listitem>
5305
5306	<listitem>
5307	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
5308	unavailable</para>
5309	</listitem>
5310
5311	<listitem>
5312	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	</itemizedlist>
5316	</sect1>
5317
5318	<sect1>
5319	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
5320
5321	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5322	added:</para>
5323
5324	<itemizedlist>
5325
5326	<listitem>
5327	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
5328	installation</para>
5329	</listitem>
5330
5331	<listitem>
5332	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
5333	</listitem>
5334
5335	<listitem>
5336	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
5337	later (bug #3981)</para>
5338	</listitem>
5339
5340	<listitem>
5341	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
5342	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
5343	</listitem>
5344
5345	<listitem>
5346	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
5347	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
5348	(bug #4034)
5349	</para>
5350	</listitem>
5351
5352	<listitem>
5353	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
5354	networking</para>
5355	</listitem>
5356
5357	<listitem>
5358	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
5359	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
5360	</listitem>
5361
5362	<listitem>
5363	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
5364	clicks</para>
5365	</listitem>
5366
5367	<listitem>
5368	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
5369	Windows 7 guests</para>
5370	</listitem>
5371
5372	<listitem>
5373	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
5374	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
5375	</listitem>
5376
5377	<listitem>
5378	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
5379	</listitem>
5380
5381	<listitem>
5382	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
5383	</listitem>
5384
5385	<listitem>
5386	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
5387	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
5388	</listitem>
5389
5390	<listitem>
5391	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
5392	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
5393	</listitem>
5394
5395	<listitem>
5396	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
5397	</listitem>
5398
5399	<listitem>
5400	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
5401	</listitem>
5402
5403	<listitem>
5404	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
5405	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
5406	(bug #3864)</para>
5407	</listitem>
5408
5409	<listitem>
5410	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
5411	now flushes the output stream</para>
5412	</listitem>
5413
5414	<listitem>
5415	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
5416	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
5417	</listitem>
5418
5419	<listitem>
5420	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
5421	</listitem>
5422
5423	<listitem>
5424	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
5429	</listitem>
5430
5431	<listitem>
5432	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
5433	</listitem>
5434
5435	<listitem>
5436	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
5437	(bug #3964)</para>
5438	</listitem>
5439
5440	<listitem>
5441	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
5442	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
5443	</listitem>
5444
5445	<listitem>
5446	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
5447	hosts</para>
5448	</listitem>
5449
5450	<listitem>
5451	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
5452	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
5453	e1000 adapter</para>
5454	</listitem>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
5458	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
5459	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
5460	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
5461	</listitem>
5462
5463	<listitem>
5464	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
5465	</listitem>
5466
5467	<listitem>
5468	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
5469	</listitem>
5470
5471	<listitem>
5472	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
5473	</listitem>
5474
5475	<listitem>
5476	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
5477	file (bug #1023)</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
5482	</listitem>
5483
5484	<listitem>
5485	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
5486	</listitem>
5487
5488	</itemizedlist>
5489	</sect1>
5490
5491	<sect1>
5492	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
5493
5494	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5495	added:</para>
5496
5497	<itemizedlist>
5498
5499	<listitem>
5500	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
5501	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
5502	</listitem>
5503
5504	<listitem>
5505	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
5506	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
5507	and later</para>
5508	</listitem>
5509
5510	<listitem>
5511	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
5512	running services</para>
5513	</listitem>
5514
5515	<listitem>
5516	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
5517	terminates</para>
5518	</listitem>
5519
5520	<listitem>
5521	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
5522	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
5523	</listitem>
5524
5525	<listitem>
5526	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
5527	installed on the guest</para>
5528	</listitem>
5529
5530	<listitem>
5531	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
5532	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
5533	</listitem>
5534
5535	<listitem>
5536	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
5537	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
5538	</listitem>
5539
5540	<listitem>
5541	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
5542	(bug #2628)</para>
5543	</listitem>
5544
5545	<listitem>
5546	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
5547	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
5548	</listitem>
5549
5550	<listitem>
5551	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
5552	(bug #3657)</para>
5553	</listitem>
5554
5555	<listitem>
5556	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
5557	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
5558	</listitem>
5559
5560	<listitem>
5561	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
5562	virtualization only)
5563	</para>
5564	</listitem>
5565
5566	<listitem>
5567	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
5568	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
5569	</listitem>
5570
5571	<listitem>
5572	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
5573	</listitem>
5574
5575	<listitem>
5576	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
5577	networks (bug #3702)</para>
5578	</listitem>
5579
5580	<listitem>
5581	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
5582	bug #3689)</para>
5583	</listitem>
5584
5585	<listitem>
5586	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
5587	bug #3679)</para>
5588	</listitem>
5589
5590	<listitem>
5591	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
5592	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
5593	</listitem>
5594
5595	<listitem>
5596	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
5597	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
5598	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
5599	</listitem>
5600
5601	<listitem>
5602	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
5603	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
5604	</listitem>
5605
5606	<listitem>
5607	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
5608	lease (bug #3655)</para>
5609	</listitem>
5610
5611	<listitem>
5612	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
5613	(bug #3667)</para>
5614	</listitem>
5615
5616	<listitem>
5617	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
5618	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
5619	</listitem>
5620
5621	<listitem>
5622	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
5623	</listitem>
5624
5625	<listitem>
5626	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
5627	</listitem>
5628
5629	<listitem>
5630	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
5631	</listitem>
5632
5633	<listitem>
5634	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
5635	</listitem>
5636
5637	<listitem>
5638	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
5639	</listitem>
5640
5641	<listitem>
5642	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
5643	</listitem>
5644
5645	<listitem>
5646	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
5647	</listitem>
5648
5649	</itemizedlist>
5650	</sect1>
5651
5652	<sect1>
5653	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
5654
5655	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5656	were added:</para>
5657
5658	<itemizedlist>
5659
5660	<listitem>
5661	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
5662	</listitem>
5663
5664	<listitem>
5665	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
5666	</listitem>
5667
5668	<listitem>
5669	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
5670	</listitem>
5671
5672	<listitem>
5673	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
5678	</listitem>
5679
5680	<listitem>
5681	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
5682	</listitem>
5683
5684	<listitem>
5685	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
5686	</listitem>
5687
5688	<listitem>
5689	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
5690	</listitem>
5691
5692	<listitem>
5693	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5694	</listitem>
5695
5696	<listitem>
5697	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
5698	</listitem>
5699
5700	</itemizedlist>
5701
5702	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5703
5704	<itemizedlist>
5705
5706	<listitem>
5707	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
5708	</listitem>
5709
5710	<listitem>
5711	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
5712	</listitem>
5713
5714	<listitem>
5715	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
5716	</listitem>
5717
5718	<listitem>
5719	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
5720	</listitem>
5721
5722	<listitem>
5723	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
5724	</listitem>
5725
5726	<listitem>
5727	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
5728	</listitem>
5729
5730	<listitem>
5731	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
5732	</listitem>
5733
5734	<listitem>
5735	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
5736	</listitem>
5737
5738	<listitem>
5739	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
5740	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
5741	</listitem>
5742
5743	<listitem>
5744	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
5745	</listitem>
5746
5747	<listitem>
5748	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
5749	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
5750	</listitem>
5751
5752	<listitem>
5753	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
5754	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
5755	</listitem>
5756
5757	<listitem>
5758	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
5759	</listitem>
5760
5761	<listitem>
5762	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	<listitem>
5766	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
5767	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
5768	</listitem>
5769
5770	<listitem>
5771	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
5772	</listitem>
5773
5774	<listitem>
5775	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
5776	ESX server images)</para>
5777	</listitem>
5778
5779	<listitem>
5780	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
5781	writable</para>
5782	</listitem>
5783
5784	<listitem>
5785	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
5786	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
5787	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
5788	</listitem>
5789
5790	<listitem>
5791	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
5792	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
5793	</listitem>
5794
5795	<listitem>
5796	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
5797	</listitem>
5798
5799	<listitem>
5800	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
5801	</listitem>
5802
5803	<listitem>
5804	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
5805	hosts when creating files</para>
5806	</listitem>
5807
5808	<listitem>
5809	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
5810	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
5811	</listitem>
5812
5813	<listitem>
5814	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
5815	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
5816	#2306)</para>
5817	</listitem>
5818
5819	<listitem>
5820	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
5821	(bug #3555)</para>
5822	</listitem>
5823
5824	<listitem>
5825	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
5826	installer (bug #3524)</para>
5827	</listitem>
5828
5829	<listitem>
5830	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
5831	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
5832	</listitem>
5833
5834	<listitem>
5835	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
5836	interface (bug #3414)</para>
5837	</listitem>
5838
5839	<listitem>
5840	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
5841	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
5842	</listitem>
5843
5844	<listitem>
5845	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
5846	(bug #3586)</para>
5847	</listitem>
5848
5849	<listitem>
5850	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
5851	from Scratch systems</para>
5852	</listitem>
5853
5854	<listitem>
5855	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
5856	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
5857	</listitem>
5858
5859	<listitem>
5860	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
5861	</listitem>
5862
5863	<listitem>
5864	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
5865	default to compact format</para>
5866	</listitem>
5867
5868	<listitem>
5869	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
5870	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
5871	</listitem>
5872
5873	<listitem>
5874	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
5875	</listitem>
5876
5877	<listitem>
5878	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5879	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
5880	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
5881	</listitem>
5882
5883	<listitem>
5884	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
5885	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
5886	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
5887	</listitem>
5888
5889	<listitem>
5890	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
5891	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
5892	</listitem>
5893
5894	<listitem>
5895	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
5896	</listitem>
5897
5898	<listitem>
5899	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
5900	</listitem>
5901
5902	<listitem>
5903	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
5904	</listitem>
5905
5906	<listitem>
5907	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
5908	</listitem>
5909
5910	<listitem>
5911	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
5912	</listitem>
5913
5914	<listitem>
5915	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
5916	</listitem>
5917
5918	<listitem>
5919	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
5920	</listitem>
5921
5922	<listitem>
5923	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
5924	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
5925	</listitem>
5926
5927	<listitem>
5928	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
5929	</listitem>
5930
5931	<listitem>
5932	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
5933	regression; bug #2065)</para>
5934	</listitem>
5935
5936	<listitem>
5937	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
5938	</listitem>
5939
5940	<listitem>
5941	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
5942	</listitem>
5943
5944	<listitem>
5945	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
5946	</listitem>
5947
5948	<listitem>
5949	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
5950	#2536)</para>
5951	</listitem>
5952
5953	<listitem>
5954	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
5955	</listitem>
5956
5957	<listitem>
5958	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
5959	(bug #3548)</para>
5960	</listitem>
5961
5962	</itemizedlist>
5963	</sect1>
5964
5965	<sect1>
5966	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
5967
5968	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5969	added:</para>
5970
5971	<itemizedlist>
5972
5973	<listitem>
5974	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5975	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5976	</listitem>
5977
5978	<listitem>
5979	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
5980	</listitem>
5981
5982	<listitem>
5983	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
5984	</listitem>
5985
5986	<listitem>
5987	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5988	</listitem>
5989
5990	<listitem>
5991	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
5992	(bug #3115)</para>
5993	</listitem>
5994
5995	<listitem>
5996	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
5997	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
5998	</listitem>
5999
6000	<listitem>
6001	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
6002	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
6003	(bug #3215)</para>
6004	</listitem>
6005
6006	<listitem>
6007	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
6008	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
6009	</listitem>
6010
6011	<listitem>
6012	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
6013	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
6014	</listitem>
6015
6016	<listitem>
6017	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
6018	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
6019	</listitem>
6020
6021	<listitem>
6022	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
6023	in parallel</para>
6024	</listitem>
6025
6026	<listitem>
6027	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
6028	</listitem>
6029
6030	<listitem>
6031	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
6032	</listitem>
6033
6034	<listitem>
6035	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
6036	</listitem>
6037
6038	<listitem>
6039	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
6040	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
6041	</listitem>
6042
6043	<listitem>
6044	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
6045	</listitem>
6046
6047	<listitem>
6048	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
6049	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
6050	</listitem>
6051
6052	<listitem>
6053	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
6054	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
6055	</listitem>
6056
6057	<listitem>
6058	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
6059	</listitem>
6060
6061	<listitem>
6062	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
6063	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
6064	</listitem>
6065
6066	<listitem>
6067	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
6068	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
6069	</listitem>
6070
6071	<listitem>
6072	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
6073	</listitem>
6074
6075	<listitem>
6076	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
6077	</listitem>
6078
6079	<listitem>
6080	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
6081	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
6082	</listitem>
6083
6084	<listitem>
6085	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
6086	</listitem>
6087
6088	<listitem>
6089	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
6090	</listitem>
6091
6092	<listitem>
6093	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
6094	</listitem>
6095
6096	<listitem>
6097	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
6098	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
6099	</listitem>
6100
6101	<listitem>
6102	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
6103	</listitem>
6104
6105	<listitem>
6106	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
6107	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
6108	</listitem>
6109
6110	<listitem>
6111	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
6112	</listitem>
6113
6114	<listitem>
6115	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
6116	</listitem>
6117
6118	<listitem>
6119	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
6120	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
6121	</listitem>
6122
6123	<listitem>
6124	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
6125	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
6126	</listitem>
6127
6128	<listitem>
6129	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
6130	</listitem>
6131
6132	<listitem>
6133	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
6134	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
6135	</listitem>
6136
6137	<listitem>
6138	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
6139	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
6140	</listitem>
6141
6142	<listitem>
6143	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
6144	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
6145	</listitem>
6146
6147	<listitem>
6148	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
6149	(bug #3213)</para>
6150	</listitem>
6151
6152	<listitem>
6153	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
6154	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
6155	</listitem>
6156
6157	<listitem>
6158	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
6159	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
6160	</listitem>
6161
6162	</itemizedlist>
6163	</sect1>
6164
6165	<sect1>
6166	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
6167
6168	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6169	added:</para>
6170
6171	<itemizedlist>
6172
6173	<listitem>
6174	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
6175	</listitem>
6176
6177	<listitem>
6178	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
6179	</listitem>
6180
6181	<listitem>
6182	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
6183	</listitem>
6184
6185	<listitem>
6186	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
6187	</listitem>
6188
6189	<listitem>
6190	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
6191	</listitem>
6192
6193	<listitem>
6194	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
6195	</listitem>
6196
6197	<listitem>
6198	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
6199	</listitem>
6200
6201	<listitem>
6202	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
6203	</listitem>
6204
6205	<listitem>
6206	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
6207	</listitem>
6208
6209	<listitem>
6210	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
6211	</listitem>
6212
6213	<listitem>
6214	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
6215	</listitem>
6216
6217	<listitem>
6218	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
6219	</listitem>
6220
6221	<listitem>
6222	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
6223	</listitem>
6224
6225	<listitem>
6226	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
6227	</listitem>
6228
6229	<listitem>
6230	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
6231	</listitem>
6232
6233	<listitem>
6234	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
6235	</listitem>
6236
6237	<listitem>
6238	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
6239	(bug #3067)</para>
6240	</listitem>
6241
6242	<listitem>
6243	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
6244	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
6245	</listitem>
6246
6247	<listitem>
6248	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
6249	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
6250	</listitem>
6251
6252	<listitem>
6253	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
6254	</listitem>
6255
6256	<listitem>
6257	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
6258	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
6259	</listitem>
6260
6261	<listitem>
6262	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
6263	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6264	</listitem>
6265
6266	<listitem>
6267	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
6268	</listitem>
6269
6270	<listitem>
6271	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
6272	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
6273	</listitem>
6274
6275	<listitem>
6276	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
6277	</listitem>
6278
6279	<listitem>
6280	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
6281	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
6282	</listitem>
6283
6284	<listitem>
6285	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
6286	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
6287	</listitem>
6288
6289	<listitem>
6290	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
6291	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
6292	</para>
6293	</listitem>
6294
6295	<listitem>
6296	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
6297	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
6298	</para>
6299	</listitem>
6300
6301	<listitem>
6302	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
6303	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
6304	</para>
6305	</listitem>
6306
6307	<listitem>
6308	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
6309	</listitem>
6310
6311	<listitem>
6312	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
6313	</listitem>
6314
6315	<listitem>
6316	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
6317	</listitem>
6318
6319	<listitem>
6320	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
6321	</listitem>
6322
6323	<listitem>
6324	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
6325	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
6326	</listitem>
6327
6328	<listitem>
6329	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
6330	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
6331	</listitem>
6332
6333	<listitem>
6334	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
6335	formatting a drive</para>
6336	</listitem>
6337
6338	<listitem>
6339	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
6340	</listitem>
6341
6342	<listitem>
6343	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
6344	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
6345	</listitem>
6346
6347	<listitem>
6348	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
6349	</listitem>
6350
6351	<listitem>
6352	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
6353	</listitem>
6354
6355	<listitem>
6356	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
6357	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
6358	</listitem>
6359
6360	<listitem>
6361	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
6362	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
6363	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
6364	</listitem>
6365
6366	<listitem>
6367	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
6368	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
6369	</listitem>
6370
6371	<listitem>
6372	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
6373	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
6374	</listitem>
6375
6376	<listitem>
6377	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
6378	(bug #2768)</para>
6379	</listitem>
6380
6381	<listitem>
6382	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
6383	</listitem>
6384
6385	<listitem>
6386	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
6387	</listitem>
6388
6389	<listitem>
6390	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
6391	single, unified package</para>
6392	</listitem>
6393
6394	<listitem>
6395	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
6396	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
6397	</listitem>
6398
6399	<listitem>
6400	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
6401	</listitem>
6402
6403	<listitem>
6404	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
6405	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
6406	</listitem>
6407
6408	<listitem>
6409	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
6410	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
6411	</listitem>
6412
6413	<listitem>
6414	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
6415	</listitem>
6416
6417	<listitem>
6418	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
6419	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
6420	doing 3D</para>
6421	</listitem>
6422
6423	<listitem>
6424	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
6425	</listitem>
6426
6427	<listitem>
6428	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
6429	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
6430	</listitem>
6431
6432	<listitem>
6433	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
6434	</listitem>
6435
6436	<listitem>
6437	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
6438	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
6439	</listitem>
6440
6441	<listitem>
6442	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
6443	</listitem>
6444
6445	<listitem>
6446	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
6447	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
6448	</listitem>
6449
6450	<listitem>
6451	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
6452	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
6453	(bug #2938)</para>
6454	</listitem>
6455
6456	<listitem>
6457	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
6458	Linux guests</para>
6459	</listitem>
6460
6461	<listitem>
6462	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
6463	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
6464	(bug #1776)</para>
6465	</listitem>
6466
6467	<listitem>
6468	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
6469	(bug #1612)</para>
6470	</listitem>
6471
6472	<listitem>
6473	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
6474	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
6475	</listitem>
6476
6477	<listitem>
6478	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
6479	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
6480	</listitem>
6481
6482	<listitem>
6483	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
6484	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
6485	</listitem>
6486
6487	</itemizedlist>
6488	</sect1>
6489
6490	<sect1>
6491	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
6492
6493	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6494	were added:</para>
6495
6496	<itemizedlist>
6497	<listitem>
6498	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6499	</listitem>
6500
6501	<listitem>
6502	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
6503	</listitem>
6504
6505	<listitem>
6506	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
6507	</listitem>
6508
6509	<listitem>
6510	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6511	</listitem>
6512
6513	<listitem>
6514	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
6515	</listitem>
6516
6517	<listitem>
6518	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
6519	</listitem>
6520
6521	<listitem>
6522	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
6523	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
6524	</listitem>
6525
6526	<listitem>
6527	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
6528	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
6529	</listitem>
6530
6531	</itemizedlist>
6532
6533	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6534
6535	<itemizedlist>
6536	<listitem>
6537	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
6538	</listitem>
6539
6540	<listitem>
6541	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
6542	</listitem>
6543
6544	<listitem>
6545	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
6546	</listitem>
6547
6548	<listitem>
6549	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
6550	</listitem>
6551
6552	<listitem>
6553	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
6554	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
6555	</listitem>
6556
6557	<listitem>
6558	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
6559	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
6560	</listitem>
6561
6562	<listitem>
6563	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
6564	</listitem>
6565
6566	<listitem>
6567	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
6568	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
6569	</listitem>
6570
6571	<listitem>
6572	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
6573	</listitem>
6574
6575	<listitem>
6576	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
6577	</listitem>
6578
6579	<listitem>
6580	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
6581	</listitem>
6582
6583	<listitem>
6584	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
6585	</listitem>
6586
6587	<listitem>
6588	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
6589	</listitem>
6590
6591	<listitem>
6592	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
6593	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
6594	</listitem>
6595
6596	<listitem>
6597	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
6598	the compiz window manager</para>
6599	</listitem>
6600
6601	<listitem>
6602	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
6603	</listitem>
6604
6605	<listitem>
6606	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
6607	</listitem>
6608
6609	<listitem>
6610	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
6611	</listitem>
6612
6613	<listitem>
6614	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
6615	</listitem>
6616
6617	<listitem>
6618	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
6619	</listitem>
6620
6621	<listitem>
6622	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
6623	</listitem>
6624
6625	<listitem>
6626	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
6627	</listitem>
6628
6629	<listitem>
6630	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
6631	</listitem>
6632
6633	<listitem>
6634	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
6635	</listitem>
6636
6637	<listitem>
6638	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
6639	of two (bug #2724)</para>
6640	</listitem>
6641
6642	<listitem>
6643	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
6644	for direct device access</para>
6645	</listitem>
6646
6647	<listitem>
6648	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
6649	</listitem>
6650
6651	<listitem>
6652	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
6653	</listitem>
6654
6655	<listitem>
6656	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
6657	</listitem>
6658
6659	<listitem>
6660	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
6661	</listitem>
6662
6663	<listitem>
6664	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
6665	</listitem>
6666
6667	<listitem>
6668	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
6669	</listitem>
6670
6671	<listitem>
6672	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
6673	</listitem>
6674
6675	<listitem>
6676	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
6677	</listitem>
6678
6679	</itemizedlist>
6680	</sect1>
6681
6682	<sect1>
6683	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
6684
6685	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6686	added:</para>
6687
6688	<itemizedlist>
6689
6690	<listitem>
6691	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
6692	states/snapshots</para>
6693	</listitem>
6694
6695	<listitem>
6696	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
6697	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
6698	</listitem>
6699
6700	<listitem>
6701	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
6702	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
6703	</listitem>
6704
6705	<listitem>
6706	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
6707	collisions</para>
6708	</listitem>
6709
6710	<listitem>
6711	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
6712	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
6713	</listitem>
6714
6715	<listitem>
6716	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
6717	</listitem>
6718
6719	<listitem>
6720	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
6721	reliably</para>
6722	</listitem>
6723
6724	<listitem>
6725	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
6726	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
6727	</listitem>
6728
6729	<listitem>
6730	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
6731	a reboot</para>
6732	</listitem>
6733
6734	<listitem>
6735	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
6736	</listitem>
6737
6738	<listitem>
6739	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
6740	in parallel</para>
6741	</listitem>
6742
6743	<listitem>
6744	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
6745	</listitem>
6746
6747	<listitem>
6748	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
6749	correctly</para>
6750	</listitem>
6751
6752	<listitem>
6753	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
6754	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
6755	</listitem>
6756
6757	</itemizedlist>
6758	</sect1>
6759
6760	<sect1>
6761	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
6762
6763	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6764	added:</para>
6765
6766	<itemizedlist>
6767
6768	<listitem>
6769	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
6770	(bug #2220)</para>
6771	</listitem>
6772
6773	<listitem>
6774	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
6775	</listitem>
6776
6777	<listitem>
6778	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
6779	</listitem>
6780
6781	<listitem>
6782	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
6783	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
6784	</listitem>
6785
6786	<listitem>
6787	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
6788	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
6789	</listitem>
6790
6791	<listitem>
6792	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
6793	(bug #2624)</para>
6794	</listitem>
6795
6796	<listitem>
6797	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
6798	(bug #2024)</para>
6799	</listitem>
6800
6801	<listitem>
6802	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
6803	</listitem>
6804
6805	<listitem>
6806	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
6807	</listitem>
6808
6809	<listitem>
6810	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
6811	</listitem>
6812
6813	<listitem>
6814	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
6815	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
6816	</listitem>
6817
6818	<listitem>
6819	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
6820	applications when updating the installation</para>
6821	</listitem>
6822
6823	<listitem>
6824	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
6825	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
6826	</listitem>
6827
6828	<listitem>
6829	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
6830	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
6831	</listitem>
6832
6833	<listitem>
6834	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
6835	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
6836	</listitem>
6837
6838	<listitem>
6839	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
6840	connected to a host device</para>
6841	</listitem>
6842
6843	<listitem>
6844	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
6845	</listitem>
6846
6847	<listitem>
6848	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
6849	</listitem>
6850
6851	<listitem>
6852	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
6853	</listitem>
6854
6855	<listitem>
6856	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
6857	when using native RDP connections</para>
6858	</listitem>
6859
6860	<listitem>
6861	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
6862	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
6863	</listitem>
6864
6865	<listitem>
6866	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
6867	(bug #2591)</para>
6868	</listitem>
6869
6870	<listitem>
6871	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
6872	guests (bug #2550)</para>
6873	</listitem>
6874
6875	<listitem>
6876	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
6877	</listitem>
6878
6879	</itemizedlist>
6880	</sect1>
6881
6882	<sect1>
6883	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
6884
6885	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6886	added:</para>
6887
6888	<itemizedlist>
6889	<listitem>
6890	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
6891	</listitem>
6892
6893	<listitem>
6894	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
6895	</listitem>
6896
6897	<listitem>
6898	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
6899	</listitem>
6900
6901	<listitem>
6902	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
6903	</listitem>
6904
6905	<listitem>
6906	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
6907	</listitem>
6908
6909	<listitem>
6910	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
6911	</listitem>
6912
6913	<listitem>
6914	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
6915	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
6916	</listitem>
6917
6918	<listitem>
6919	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
6920	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
6921	</listitem>
6922
6923	<listitem>
6924	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
6925	</listitem>
6926
6927	<listitem>
6928	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
6929	equal to the client resolution</para>
6930	</listitem>
6931
6932	<listitem>
6933	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
6934	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
6935	</listitem>
6936
6937	<listitem>
6938	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
6939	</listitem>
6940
6941	<listitem>
6942	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
6943	</listitem>
6944
6945	<listitem>
6946	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
6947	</listitem>
6948
6949	<listitem>
6950	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
6951	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
6952	</listitem>
6953
6954	<listitem>
6955	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
6956	networking (bug #2474)</para>
6957	</listitem>
6958
6959	<listitem>
6960	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
6961	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
6962	</listitem>
6963
6964	<listitem>
6965	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
6966	</listitem>
6967
6968	<listitem>
6969	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
6970	</listitem>
6971
6972	<listitem>
6973	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
6974	</listitem>
6975
6976	<listitem>
6977	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
6978	</listitem>
6979
6980	<listitem>
6981	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
6982	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
6983	</listitem>
6984
6985	<listitem>
6986	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
6987	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
6988	</listitem>
6989
6990	<listitem>
6991	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
6992	</listitem>
6993
6994	<listitem>
6995	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
6996	</listitem>
6997
6998	<listitem>
6999	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
7000	</listitem>
7001
7002	</itemizedlist>
7003
7004	</sect1>
7005
7006	<sect1>
7007	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
7008
7009	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7010	added:</para>
7011
7012	<itemizedlist>
7013
7014	<listitem>
7015	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
7016	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
7017	</listitem>
7018
7019	<listitem>
7020	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
7021	</listitem>
7022
7023	<listitem>
7024	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
7025	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
7026	</listitem>
7027
7028	<listitem>
7029	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
7030	</listitem>
7031
7032	<listitem>
7033	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
7034	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
7035	</listitem>
7036
7037	<listitem>
7038	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
7039	</listitem>
7040
7041	<listitem>
7042	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
7043	the virtual disk manager</para>
7044	</listitem>
7045
7046	<listitem>
7047	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
7048	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
7049	</listitem>
7050
7051	<listitem>
7052	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
7053	</listitem>
7054
7055	<listitem>
7056	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
7057	</listitem>
7058
7059	<listitem>
7060	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
7061	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
7062	</listitem>
7063
7064	<listitem>
7065	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
7066	bug #2067)</para>
7067	</listitem>
7068
7069	<listitem>
7070	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
7071	</listitem>
7072
7073	<listitem>
7074	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
7075	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
7076	</listitem>
7077
7078	<listitem>
7079	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
7080	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
7081	(bug #2184)</para>
7082	</listitem>
7083
7084	<listitem>
7085	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
7086	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
7087	</listitem>
7088
7089	<listitem>
7090	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
7091	(Windows guests only)</para>
7092	</listitem>
7093
7094	<listitem>
7095	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
7096	</listitem>
7097
7098	<listitem>
7099	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7100	</listitem>
7101
7102	<listitem>
7103	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
7104	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
7105	</listitem>
7106
7107	<listitem>
7108	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
7109	</listitem>
7110
7111	<listitem>
7112	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
7113	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
7114	</para>
7115	</listitem>
7116
7117	<listitem>
7118	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
7119	</listitem>
7120
7121	<listitem>
7122	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
7123	</listitem>
7124
7125	<listitem>
7126	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
7127	a VM reboot</para>
7128	</listitem>
7129
7130	<listitem>
7131	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
7132	</listitem>
7133
7134	<listitem>
7135	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
7136	buggy X servers</para>
7137	</listitem>
7138
7139	<listitem>
7140	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
7141	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
7142	</listitem>
7143
7144	<listitem>
7145	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
7146	</listitem>
7147
7148	<listitem>
7149	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
7150	(bug #2128)</para>
7151	</listitem>
7152
7153	<listitem>
7154	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
7155	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
7156	</listitem>
7157
7158	<listitem>
7159	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
7160	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
7161	</listitem>
7162
7163	<listitem>
7164	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
7165	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
7166	</listitem>
7167
7168	<listitem>
7169	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
7170	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
7171	</listitem>
7172
7173	<listitem>
7174	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
7175	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
7176	</listitem>
7177
7178	<listitem>
7179	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
7180	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
7181	</listitem>
7182
7183	<listitem>
7184	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
7185	installer into a single package</para>
7186	</listitem>
7187
7188	<listitem>
7189	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
7190	port to the guest
7191	</para>
7192	</listitem>
7193
7194	</itemizedlist>
7195
7196	</sect1>
7197
7198	<sect1>
7199	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
7200
7201	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7202	were added:<itemizedlist>
7203
7204	<listitem>
7205	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
7206	</listitem>
7207
7208	<listitem>
7209	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7210	</listitem>
7211
7212	<listitem>
7213	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
7214	</listitem>
7215
7216	<listitem>
7217	<para>New-version notifier</para>
7218	</listitem>
7219
7220	<listitem>
7221	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
7222	</listitem>
7223
7224	<listitem>
7225	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7226	</listitem>
7227
7228	<listitem>
7229	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
7230	</listitem>
7231
7232	<listitem>
7233	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
7234	</listitem>
7235
7236	<listitem>
7237	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
7238	</listitem>
7239
7240	<listitem>
7241	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
7242	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
7243	</listitem>
7244
7245	<listitem>
7246	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
7247	</listitem>
7248
7249	<listitem>
7250	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
7251	</listitem>
7252
7253	<listitem>
7254	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
7255	</listitem>
7256
7257	</itemizedlist></para>
7258
7259	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7260
7261	<itemizedlist>
7262
7263	<listitem>
7264	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
7265	</listitem>
7266
7267	<listitem>
7268	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
7269	</listitem>
7270
7271	<listitem>
7272	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
7273	</listitem>
7274
7275	<listitem>
7276	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
7277	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
7278	</listitem>
7279
7280	<listitem>
7281	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
7282	restored</para>
7283	</listitem>
7284
7285	<listitem>
7286	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
7287	</listitem>
7288
7289	<listitem>
7290	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
7291	</listitem>
7292
7293	<listitem>
7294	<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>
7295	</listitem>
7296
7297	</itemizedlist>
7298
7299	</sect1>
7300
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