user_ChangeLogImpl.xml@ 39271

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Runtime: new guest OS type for Solaris 11
Frontends/VirtualBox: add new patterns for Solaris 11 guest OS type, reuse the icon
Frontends/VBoxManage: more details for "list ostypes"
Main/xml: make guest OS type in config file an arbitrary string (still validated/mapped in the old way in the settings code), remove hardcoded limit of 8 network adapters
Main/Global: move list of valid guest OS types into a single place, add function to get the network adapter limit for each chipset type
Main/Console+Machine+Snapshot+NetworkAdapter+Appliance+VirtualBox+Guest+SystemProperties: consistently use the appropriate network adapter limit so that ICH9 chipset can use 36 network adapters, adapt to cleaned up guest OS type handling, remove leftover rendundant guest OS mapping, whitespace
Network/NAT: release log message cosmetics, allow unlimited number of instances, fix maxconn clamping
Network/PCNet+VirtioNet+E1000: allow unlimited number of instances

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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2011-xx-xx)</title>
5
6	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
7	were added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>dummy</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	<listitem>
16	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
17	ICH9 chipset configuration.</para>
18	</listitem>
19
20	</itemizedlist>
21
22	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
23
24	<itemizedlist>
25
26	<listitem>
27	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
28	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from fullscreen text mode apps (bug #9636)</para>
33	</listitem>
34
35	<listitem>
36	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
37	</listitem>
38
39	</itemizedlist>
40	</sect1>
41
42	<sect1>
43	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
44
45	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
46	added:</para>
47
48	<itemizedlist>
49
50	<listitem>
51	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
52	</listitem>
53
54	<listitem>
55	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
56	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
57	</listitem>
58
59	<listitem>
60	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
61	</listitem>
62
63	<listitem>
64	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
65	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
66	</listitem>
67
68	<listitem>
69	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
70	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
71	</listitem>
72
73	<listitem>
74	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
75	a live snapshot</para>
76	</listitem>
77
78	<listitem>
79	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
80	due to a library version conflict</para>
81	</listitem>
82
83	<listitem>
84	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
85	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
86	</listitem>
87
88	<listitem>
89	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
90	at a time by default</para>
91	</listitem>
92
93	<listitem>
94	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
95	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
96	#9368)</para>
97	</listitem>
98
99	<listitem>
100	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
101	registered (bug #9303)</para>
102	</listitem>
103
104	<listitem>
105	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
106	VMs</para>
107	</listitem>
108
109	<listitem>
110	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
111	creation (bug #9379)</para>
112	</listitem>
113
114	<listitem>
115	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
116	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
117	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
118	</listitem>
119
120	<listitem>
121	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
122	(bug #9308)</para>
123	</listitem>
124
125	<listitem>
126	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
127	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
128	</listitem>
129
130	<listitem>
131	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
132	</listitem>
133
134	<listitem>
135	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
136	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
137	</listitem>
138
139	<listitem>
140	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
141	(bug #9242)</para>
142	</listitem>
143
144	<listitem>
145	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
146	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
147	</listitem>
148
149	<listitem>
150	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
151	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
152	</listitem>
153
154	<listitem>
155	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
156	USB devices</para>
157	</listitem>
158
159	<listitem>
160	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
161	and warn about it</para>
162	</listitem>
163
164	<listitem>
165	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
166	</listitem>
167
168	<listitem>
169	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
170	</listitem>
171
172	<listitem>
173	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
174	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
175	</listitem>
176
177	<listitem>
178	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
179	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
180	</listitem>
181
182	<listitem>
183	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
184	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
185	</listitem>
186
187	<listitem>
188	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
189	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
190	</listitem>
191
192	<listitem>
193	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
194	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
195	</listitem>
196
197	<listitem>
198	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
199	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
200	</listitem>
201
202	<listitem>
203	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
204	2.6.37 and above</para>
205	</listitem>
206
207	</itemizedlist>
208	</sect1>
209
210	<sect1>
211	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
212
213	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
214	were added:</para>
215
216	<itemizedlist>
217
218	<listitem>
219	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
220	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
221	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
226	</listitem>
227
228	<listitem>
229	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
230	</listitem>
231
232	<listitem>
233	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
234	bug #7822)</para>
235	</listitem>
236
237	<listitem>
238	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
239	</listitem>
240
241	<listitem>
242	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
243	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
244	</listitem>
245
246	<listitem>
247	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
248	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
249	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
250	anymore)</para>
251	</listitem>
252
253	<listitem>
254	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
255	queried separately by the frontends</para>
256	</listitem>
257
258	<listitem>
259	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
260	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
261	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
262	</listitem>
263
264	<listitem>
265	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
266	</para>
267	</listitem>
268
269	<listitem>
270	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
271	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
272	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
273	</listitem>
274
275	<listitem>
276	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
277	with VBoxManage</para>
278	</listitem>
279
280	<listitem>
281	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
282	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
283	</listitem>
284
285
286	</itemizedlist>
287
288	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
289
290	<itemizedlist>
291
292	<listitem>
293	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
294	</listitem>
295
296	<listitem>
297	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
298	</listitem>
299
300	<listitem>
301	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
302	</listitem>
303
304	<listitem>
305	<para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
306	of the current state</para>
307	</listitem>
308
309	<listitem>
310	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
311	</listitem>
312
313	<listitem>
314	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
315	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
316	</listitem>
317
318	<listitem>
319	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
320	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
321	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/>.</para>
322	</listitem>
323
324	<listitem>
325	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
326	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
327	</listitem>
328
329	<listitem>
330	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
331	</listitem>
332
333	<listitem>
334	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
335	</listitem>
336
337	<listitem>
338	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
339	dialog</para>
340	</listitem>
341
342	<listitem>
343	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
344	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
345	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
346	</listitem>
347
348	<listitem>
349	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
350	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
351	</listitem>
352
353	<listitem>
354	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
355	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
356	</listitem>
357
358	<listitem>
359	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
360	be a valid UUID</para>
361	</listitem>
362
363	<listitem>
364	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
365	twice in a VM configuration</para>
366	</listitem>
367
368	<listitem>
369	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
370	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
371	cases</para>
372	</listitem>
373
374	<listitem>
375	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
376	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
377	improve performance</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
382	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
383	on a temporary basis</para>
384	</listitem>
385
386	<listitem>
387	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
388	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
389	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
390	</listitem>
391
392	<listitem>
393	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
394	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
395	</listitem>
396
397	<listitem>
398	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
399	images in VDI format</para>
400	</listitem>
401
402	<listitem>
403	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
404	VMDK format</para>
405	</listitem>
406
407	<listitem>
408	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
409	controller (bug #8592)</para>
410	</listitem>
411
412	<listitem>
413	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
414	</listitem>
415
416	<listitem>
417	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
418	</listitem>
419
420	<listitem>
421	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
422	</listitem>
423
424	<listitem>
425	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
426	</listitem>
427
428	<listitem>
429	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
430	</listitem>
431
432	<listitem>
433	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
434	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
435	</listitem>
436
437	<listitem>
438	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
439	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
440	</listitem>
441
442	<listitem>
443	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
444	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
445	</listitem>
446
447	<listitem>
448	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
449	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
450	</listitem>
451
452	<listitem>
453	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
454	RDP clients</para>
455	</listitem>
456
457	<listitem>
458	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
459	</listitem>
460
461	<listitem>
462	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
463	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
464	</listitem>
465
466	<listitem>
467	<para>Webservice: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
468	be more robust when connections fail</para>
469	</listitem>
470
471	<listitem>
472	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
473	simultaneously</para>
474	</listitem>
475
476	<listitem>
477	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
478	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
479	location values in many places</para>
480	</listitem>
481
482	<listitem>
483	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
484	</listitem>
485
486	<listitem>
487	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
488	builds</para>
489	</listitem>
490
491	<listitem>
492	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
493	</listitem>
494
495	<listitem>
496	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
497	window (bug #4491)</para>
498	</listitem>
499
500	<listitem>
501	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
502	removing a VM</para>
503	</listitem>
504
505	<listitem>
506	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
507	</listitem>
508
509	<listitem>
510	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</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>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
520	hosts</para>
521	</listitem>
522
523	<listitem>
524	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
525	</listitem>
526
527	<listitem>
528	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
529	from the host</para>
530	</listitem>
531
532	<listitem>
533	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
534	</listitem>
535
536	</itemizedlist>
537
538	</sect1>
539
540	<sect1>
541	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
542
543	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
544	added:</para>
545
546	<itemizedlist>
547
548	<listitem>
549	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
550	</listitem>
551
552	<listitem>
553	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
554	166 and above)</para>
555	</listitem>
556
557	<listitem>
558	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
559	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
560	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
561	</listitem>
562
563	<listitem>
564	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
565	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
566	</listitem>
567
568	<listitem>
569	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
570	controller (bug #8592)</para>
571	</listitem>
572
573	<listitem>
574	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
575	</listitem>
576
577	<listitem>
578	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
579	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
580	</listitem>
581
582	<listitem>
583	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
584	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
585	</listitem>
586
587	<listitem>
588	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
589	builds</para>
590	</listitem>
591
592	<listitem>
593	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
594	</listitem>
595
596	</itemizedlist>
597	</sect1>
598	<sect1>
599	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
600
601	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
602	added:</para>
603
604	<itemizedlist>
605
606	<listitem>
607	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
608	</listitem>
609
610	<listitem>
611	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
612	</listitem>
613
614	<listitem>
615	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
616	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
617	</listitem>
618
619	<listitem>
620	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
621	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
622	</listitem>
623
624	<listitem>
625	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
630	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
635	</listitem>
636
637	<listitem>
638	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
639	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
640	</listitem>
641
642	<listitem>
643	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
644	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
645	</listitem>
646
647	<listitem>
648	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
649	</listitem>
650
651	<listitem>
652	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
653	</listitem>
654
655	<listitem>
656	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
657	file was not written during export</para>
658	</listitem>
659
660	<listitem>
661	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
662	</listitem>
663
664	<listitem>
665	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
666	</listitem>
667
668	<listitem>
669	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
670	</listitem>
671
672	<listitem>
673	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
674	binaries</para>
675	</listitem>
676
677	<listitem>
678	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
679	</listitem>
680
681	<listitem>
682	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
683	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
684	</listitem>
685
686	<listitem>
687	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
688	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
689	</listitem>
690
691	<listitem>
692	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
693	</listitem>
694
695	<listitem>
696	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
697	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
698	</listitem>
699
700	</itemizedlist>
701	</sect1>
702
703	<sect1>
704	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
705
706	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
707	added:</para>
708
709	<itemizedlist>
710
711	<listitem>
712	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
713	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
718	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
719	</listitem>
720
721	<listitem>
722	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
723	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
724	</listitem>
725
726	<listitem>
727	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
728	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
729	</listitem>
730
731	<listitem>
732	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
733	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
734	</listitem>
735
736	<listitem>
737	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
738	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
739	</listitem>
740
741	<listitem>
742	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
743	(Windows hosts only)</para>
744	</listitem>
745
746	<listitem>
747	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
748	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
749	</listitem>
750
751	<listitem>
752	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
757	</listitem>
758
759	<listitem>
760	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
761	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
766	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
767	</listitem>
768
769	<listitem>
770	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
771	</listitem>
772
773	<listitem>
774	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
775	</listitem>
776
777	<listitem>
778	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
779	(Linux hosts only)</para>
780	</listitem>
781
782	<listitem>
783	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
784	(Windows hosts only)</para>
785	</listitem>
786
787	<listitem>
788	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
789	window</para>
790	</listitem>
791
792	<listitem>
793	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
794	Fedora 15</para>
795	</listitem>
796
797	<listitem>
798	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
799	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
800	</listitem>
801
802	<listitem>
803	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
804	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
805	</listitem>
806
807	<listitem>
808	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
809	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
810	</listitem>
811
812	<listitem>
813	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
814	</listitem>
815
816	<listitem>
817	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
818	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	</itemizedlist>
822	</sect1>
823
824	<sect1>
825	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
826
827	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
828	added:</para>
829
830	<itemizedlist>
831
832	<listitem>
833	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
834	a VMM from a saved state</para>
835	</listitem>
836
837	<listitem>
838	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
839	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
840	</listitem>
841
842	<listitem>
843	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
844	(bug #8006)</para>
845	</listitem>
846
847	<listitem>
848	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
849	(bug #8726)</para>
850	</listitem>
851
852	<listitem>
853	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
854	</listitem>
855
856	<listitem>
857	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
858	</listitem>
859
860	<listitem>
861	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
862	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
863	</listitem>
864
865	<listitem>
866	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
867	(bug #8469)</para>
868	</listitem>
869
870	<listitem>
871	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
872	selectors</para>
873	</listitem>
874
875	<listitem>
876	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
877	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
878	</listitem>
879
880	<listitem>
881	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
882	folder (bug #8673)</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
887	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
892	</listitem>
893
894	<listitem>
895	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
896	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
897	</listitem>
898
899	<listitem>
900	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
901	</listitem>
902
903	<listitem>
904	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
905	</listitem>
906
907	<listitem>
908	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
909	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
910	</listitem>
911
912	<listitem>
913	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
914	I/O error occurred</para>
915	</listitem>
916
917	<listitem>
918	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
919	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
920	</listitem>
921
922	<listitem>
923	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
924	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
925	</listitem>
926
927	<listitem>
928	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
929	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
930	if no medium is present</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
935	</listitem>
936
937	<listitem>
938	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
939	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
940	</listitem>
941
942	<listitem>
943	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
944	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
949	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
950	</listitem>
951
952	<listitem>
953	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
954	</listitem>
955
956	<listitem>
957	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
958	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
959	</listitem>
960
961	<listitem>
962	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
963	library (bug #8063)</para>
964	</listitem>
965
966	<listitem>
967	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
968	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
969	</listitem>
970
971	<listitem>
972	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
973	</listitem>
974
975	<listitem>
976	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
977	</listitem>
978
979	<listitem>
980	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
981	</listitem>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
985	changed on import</para>
986	</listitem>
987
988	<listitem>
989	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
990	</listitem>
991
992	<listitem>
993	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
994	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
995	</listitem>
996
997	<listitem>
998	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
999	(bug #8593)</para>
1000	</listitem>
1001
1002	<listitem>
1003	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
1004	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
1005	</listitem>
1006
1007	<listitem>
1008	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
1009	captured</para>
1010	</listitem>
1011
1012	<listitem>
1013	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
1014	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
1015	</listitem>
1016
1017	<listitem>
1018	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
1019	</para>
1020	</listitem>
1021
1022	<listitem>
1023	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
1024	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
1025	</listitem>
1026
1027	<listitem>
1028	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
1029	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
1030	</listitem>
1031
1032	<listitem>
1033	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
1034	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
1035	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
1036	</listitem>
1037
1038	<listitem>
1039	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
1040	to unkillable VM processes</para>
1041	</listitem>
1042
1043	<listitem>
1044	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
1045	</listitem>
1046
1047	<listitem>
1048	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
1049	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
1050	</listitem>
1051
1052	<listitem>
1053	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
1054	on legacy Windows versions</para>
1055	</listitem>
1056
1057	<listitem>
1058	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
1059	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
1060	</listitem>
1061
1062	<listitem>
1063	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
1064	</listitem>
1065
1066	<listitem>
1067	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
1068	</listitem>
1069
1070	<listitem>
1071	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
1076	</listitem>
1077
1078	<listitem>
1079	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
1080	(bug #7946)</para>
1081	</listitem>
1082
1083	<listitem>
1084	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
1085	</listitem>
1086
1087	<listitem>
1088	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
1089	</listitem>
1090
1091	<listitem>
1092	<para>Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
1093	</listitem>
1094
1095	</itemizedlist>
1096
1097	</sect1>
1098
1099	<sect1>
1100	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
1101
1102	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1103	added:</para>
1104
1105	<itemizedlist>
1106
1107	<listitem>
1108	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
1109	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
1110	</listitem>
1111
1112	<listitem>
1113	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
1114	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
1115	</listitem>
1116
1117	<listitem>
1118	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
1119	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
1120	</listitem>
1121
1122	<listitem>
1123	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
1124	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
1125	</listitem>
1126
1127	<listitem>
1128	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
1129	number of host network interfaces</para>
1130	</listitem>
1131
1132	<listitem>
1133	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
1134	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
1135	</listitem>
1136
1137	<listitem>
1138	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
1139	</listitem>
1140
1141	<listitem>
1142	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
1143	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
1144	</listitem>
1145
1146	<listitem>
1147	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
1148	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
1153	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
1158	</listitem>
1159
1160	<listitem>
1161	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
1162	(bug #6577)</para>
1163	</listitem>
1164
1165	<listitem>
1166	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
1167	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
1168	(bug #8235)</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
1173	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
1174	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
1175	</listitem>
1176
1177	<listitem>
1178	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
1183	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric.</para>
1188	</listitem>
1189
1190	<listitem>
1191	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
1192	(bug #7966)</para>
1193	</listitem>
1194
1195	<listitem>
1196	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
1197	</listitem>
1198
1199	<listitem>
1200	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
1201	</listitem>
1202
1203	<listitem>
1204	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
1205	</listitem>
1206
1207	<listitem>
1208	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
1209	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
1210	</listitem>
1211
1212	<listitem>
1213	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
1214	</listitem>
1215
1216	<listitem>
1217	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
1218	</listitem>
1219
1220	<listitem>
1221	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
1222	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
1223	</listitem>
1224
1225	<listitem>
1226	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
1227	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
1228	</listitem>
1229
1230	<listitem>
1231	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
1232	</listitem>
1233
1234	<listitem>
1235	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
1236	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
1237	</listitem>
1238
1239	<listitem>
1240	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
1241	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
1242	(bug #8122)</para>
1243	</listitem>
1244
1245	<listitem>
1246	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
1247	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
1248	</listitem>
1249
1250	<listitem>
1251	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
1252	</listitem>
1253
1254	<listitem>
1255	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
1256	</listitem>
1257
1258	<listitem>
1259	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
1260	(bug #1548)</para>
1261	</listitem>
1262
1263	<listitem>
1264	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	<listitem>
1268	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
1269	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
1270	</listitem>
1271
1272	<listitem>
1273	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
1278	(bug #8231)</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
1283	11.04 Alpha.</para>
1284	</listitem>
1285
1286	<listitem>
1287	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
1288	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login.</para>
1289	</listitem>
1290
1291	<listitem>
1292	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
1293	VirtualBox versions can't handle.</para>
1294	</listitem>
1295
1296	<listitem>
1297	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
1298	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
1299	</listitem>
1300
1301	<listitem>
1302	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
1303	with VBoxGINA</para>
1304	</listitem>
1305
1306	</itemizedlist>
1307
1308	</sect1>
1309
1310	<sect1>
1311	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
1312
1313	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1314	added:</para>
1315
1316	<itemizedlist>
1317
1318	<listitem>
1319	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
1320	settings vanished</para>
1321	</listitem>
1322
1323	<listitem>
1324	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
1325	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
1326	</listitem>
1327
1328	<listitem>
1329	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
1330	created (bug #8031)</para>
1331	</listitem>
1332
1333	<listitem>
1334	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
1335	</listitem>
1336
1337	<listitem>
1338	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
1339	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
1340	</listitem>
1341
1342	<listitem>
1343	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
1344	an extension pack</para>
1345	</listitem>
1346
1347	<listitem>
1348	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
1349	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
1350	</listitem>
1351
1352	<listitem>
1353	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
1354	</listitem>
1355
1356	<listitem>
1357	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
1358	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
1359	</listitem>
1360
1361	<listitem>
1362	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
1363	host-only interface</para>
1364	</listitem>
1365
1366	<listitem>
1367	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
1368	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
1369	</listitem>
1370
1371	<listitem>
1372	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
1373	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
1374	</listitem>
1375
1376	<listitem>
1377	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
1378	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
1379	</listitem>
1380
1381	<listitem>
1382	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
1383	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
1384	</listitem>
1385
1386	<listitem>
1387	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
1388	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
1389	</listitem>
1390
1391	<listitem>
1392	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
1393	</listitem>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
1397	</listitem>
1398
1399	<listitem>
1400	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
1401	guests</para>
1402	</listitem>
1403
1404	<listitem>
1405	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
1406	</listitem>
1407
1408	<listitem>
1409	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
1414	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417	<listitem>
1418	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
1419	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
1420	</listitem>
1421
1422	<listitem>
1423	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
1424	a VM start</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
1429	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented
1434	(bug #6067)</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	<listitem>
1438	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
1439	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
1440	</listitem>
1441
1442	<listitem>
1443	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
1444	not saved to machine XML</para>
1445	</listitem>
1446
1447	<listitem>
1448	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
1449	#7983)</para>
1450	</listitem>
1451
1452	<listitem>
1453	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
1454	#7981)</para>
1455	</listitem>
1456
1457	<listitem>
1458	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.</para>
1459	</listitem>
1460
1461	<listitem>
1462	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
1463	regression)</para>
1464	</listitem>
1465
1466	<listitem>
1467	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
1468	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
1469	</listitem>
1470
1471	<listitem>
1472	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
1473	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
1474	</listitem>
1475
1476	</itemizedlist>
1477
1478	</sect1>
1479
1480	<sect1>
1481	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
1482
1483	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1484	were added:</para>
1485
1486	<itemizedlist>
1487
1488	<listitem>
1489	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
1490	</listitem>
1491
1492	<listitem>
1493	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
1494	</listitem>
1495
1496	<listitem>
1497	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
1498	<itemizedlist>
1499	<listitem>
1500	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
1501	</listitem>
1502
1503	<listitem>
1504	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
1505	</listitem>
1506
1507	<listitem>
1508	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
1509	</listitem>
1510
1511	<listitem>
1512	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
1513	</listitem>
1514
1515	<listitem>
1516	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
1517	states, and optionally including attached
1518	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
1519	can do the same now)</para>
1520	</listitem>
1521
1522	<listitem>
1523	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
1524	</listitem>
1525
1526	</itemizedlist>
1527	</para>
1528	</listitem>
1529
1530	<listitem>
1531	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>New virtual hardware:
1536	<itemizedlist>
1537	<listitem>
1538	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
1539	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
1540	</listitem>
1541
1542	<listitem>
1543	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
1544	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
1545	</listitem>
1546	</itemizedlist>
1547	</para>
1548	</listitem>
1549
1550	<listitem>
1551	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
1552	<itemizedlist>
1553	<listitem>
1554	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
1555	</listitem>
1556
1557	<listitem>
1558	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
1559	</para>
1560	</listitem>
1561
1562	<listitem>
1563	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
1564	now</para>
1565	</listitem>
1566
1567	<listitem>
1568	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
1569	</listitem>
1570
1571	</itemizedlist>
1572	</para>
1573	</listitem>
1574
1575	<listitem>
1576	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
1577	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
1578	</listitem>
1579
1580	<listitem>
1581	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
1582	Parallels images</para>
1583	</listitem>
1584
1585	<listitem>
1586	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
1591	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
1592	</listitem>
1593
1594	<listitem>
1595	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
1596	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
1597	</listitem>
1598
1599	</itemizedlist>
1600
1601	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1602
1603	<itemizedlist>
1604
1605	<listitem>
1606	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
1607	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
1608	</listitem>
1609
1610	<listitem>
1611	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
1612	</listitem>
1613
1614	<listitem>
1615	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
1616	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
1617	</listitem>
1618
1619	<listitem>
1620	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
1621	(bug #1657)</para>
1622	</listitem>
1623
1624	<listitem>
1625	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
1626	</listitem>
1627
1628	<listitem>
1629	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
1630	</listitem>
1631
1632	<listitem>
1633	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
1634	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
1635	</listitem>
1636
1637	<listitem>
1638	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
1639	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
1640	</listitem>
1641
1642	<listitem>
1643	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
1644	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
1645	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
1646	</listitem>
1647
1648	<listitem>
1649	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1650	again (bug #6864)</para>
1651	</listitem>
1652
1653	<listitem>
1654	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
1655	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
1656	</listitem>
1657
1658	<listitem>
1659	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
1660	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
1661	</listitem>
1662
1663	<listitem>
1664	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
1665	</listitem>
1666
1667	<listitem>
1668	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
1669	</listitem>
1670
1671	<listitem>
1672	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
1677	</listitem>
1678
1679	<listitem>
1680	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
1681	</listitem>
1682
1683	<listitem>
1684	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
1685	</listitem>
1686
1687	<listitem>
1688	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
1689	</listitem>
1690
1691	<listitem>
1692	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
1693	(bug #7058)</para>
1694	</listitem>
1695
1696	<listitem>
1697	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
1698	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
1699	</listitem>
1700
1701	<listitem>
1702	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
1703	circumstances</para>
1704	</listitem>
1705
1706	<listitem>
1707	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
1708	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
1709	#5578)
1710	</para>
1711	</listitem>
1712
1713	<listitem>
1714	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
1715	</listitem>
1716
1717	<listitem>
1718	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
1719	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
1720	</listitem>
1721
1722	<listitem>
1723	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	<listitem>
1727	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
1728	#6760)</para>
1729	</listitem>
1730
1731	<listitem>
1732	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
1733	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
1734	</listitem>
1735
1736	<listitem>
1737	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
1738	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
1739	</listitem>
1740
1741	<listitem>
1742	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
1743	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
1744	</listitem>
1745
1746	<listitem>
1747	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
1748	</listitem>
1749
1750	<listitem>
1751	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
1752	file</para>
1753	</listitem>
1754
1755	<listitem>
1756	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1757	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1758	</listitem>
1759
1760	</itemizedlist>
1761
1762	</sect1>
1763
1764	<sect1>
1765	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
1766
1767	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1768	added:</para>
1769
1770	<itemizedlist>
1771
1772	<listitem>
1773	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
1774	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
1775	</listitem>
1776
1777	<listitem>
1778	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
1779	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
1780	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
1785	</listitem>
1786
1787	<listitem>
1788	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
1789	</listitem>
1790
1791	<listitem>
1792	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
1793	</listitem>
1794
1795	<listitem>
1796	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
1797	the VM is running</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
1802	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
1803	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
1804	starting from a saved state</para>
1805	</listitem>
1806
1807	<listitem>
1808	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
1809	</listitem>
1810
1811	<listitem>
1812	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
1813	</listitem>
1814
1815	<listitem>
1816	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
1825	</listitem>
1826
1827	<listitem>
1828	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
1829	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
1830	</listitem>
1831
1832	<listitem>
1833	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
1834	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
1835	</listitem>
1836
1837	<listitem>
1838	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
1839	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
1840	</listitem>
1841
1842	<listitem>
1843	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
1844	</listitem>
1845
1846	<listitem>
1847	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
1848	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
1849	</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
1854	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
1855	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
1856	</listitem>
1857
1858	<listitem>
1859	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
1860	only)</para>
1861	</listitem>
1862
1863	<listitem>
1864	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
1865	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
1866	</listitem>
1867
1868	<listitem>
1869	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
1870	</listitem>
1871
1872	<listitem>
1873	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
1878	</listitem>
1879
1880	<listitem>
1881	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
1882	state (bug #4124)</para>
1883	</listitem>
1884
1885	<listitem>
1886	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
1887	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
1888	</listitem>
1889
1890	<listitem>
1891	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
1892	</listitem>
1893
1894	<listitem>
1895	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
1896	(bug #2996)</para>
1897	</listitem>
1898
1899	<listitem>
1900	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
1901	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
1902	</listitem>
1903
1904	<listitem>
1905	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
1906	</listitem>
1907
1908	<listitem>
1909	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
1910	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
1911	</listitem>
1912
1913	<listitem>
1914	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
1915	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
1916	</listitem>
1917
1918	<listitem>
1919	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
1920	user accounts for VM information</para>
1921	</listitem>
1922
1923	</itemizedlist>
1924
1925	</sect1>
1926
1927	<sect1>
1928	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
1929
1930	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1931	added:</para>
1932
1933	<itemizedlist>
1934
1935	<listitem>
1936	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
1937	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
1938	</listitem>
1939
1940	<listitem>
1941	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
1946	</listitem>
1947
1948	<listitem>
1949	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
1950	</listitem>
1951
1952	<listitem>
1953	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
1954	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
1955	</listitem>
1956
1957	<listitem>
1958	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
1959	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
1960	</listitem>
1961
1962	<listitem>
1963	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
1964	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
1965	</listitem>
1966
1967	<listitem>
1968	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
1969	(bug #4952)</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1974	bug #6122)</para>
1975	</listitem>
1976
1977	<listitem>
1978	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
1979	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
1980	</listitem>
1981
1982	<listitem>
1983	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
1984	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
1985	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1986	</listitem>
1987
1988	<listitem>
1989	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
1990	</listitem>
1991
1992	<listitem>
1993	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
1994	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
1995	</listitem>
1996
1997	<listitem>
1998	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
1999	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
2000	</listitem>
2001
2002	<listitem>
2003	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
2004	canceled</para>
2005	</listitem>
2006
2007	<listitem>
2008	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
2009	</listitem>
2010
2011	<listitem>
2012	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
2013	</listitem>
2014
2015	<listitem>
2016	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
2017	</listitem>
2018
2019	<listitem>
2020	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
2025	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
2026	</listitem>
2027
2028	<listitem>
2029	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
2030	</listitem>
2031
2032	<listitem>
2033	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
2034	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2035	</listitem>
2036
2037	<listitem>
2038	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
2039	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
2040	</listitem>
2041
2042	<listitem>
2043	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
2048	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
2053	</listitem>
2054
2055	<listitem>
2056	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
2057	circumstances</para>
2058	</listitem>
2059
2060	<listitem>
2061	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
2062	printers</para>
2063	</listitem>
2064
2065	<listitem>
2066	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
2067	</listitem>
2068
2069	<listitem>
2070	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
2071	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
2076	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
2077	</listitem>
2078
2079	<listitem>
2080	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
2081	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
2082	circumstances</para>
2083	</listitem>
2084
2085	<listitem>
2086	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
2087	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
2088	</listitem>
2089
2090	<listitem>
2091	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
2092	as supported extension</para>
2093	</listitem>
2094
2095	<listitem>
2096	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2097	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
2098	</listitem>
2099
2100	<listitem>
2101	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
2102	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
2107	</listitem>
2108
2109	<listitem>
2110	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
2111	(bug #7366)</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
2116	</listitem>
2117
2118	<listitem>
2119	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
2120	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
2125	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
2126	</listitem>
2127
2128	<listitem>
2129	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
2130	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
2131	</listitem>
2132
2133	<listitem>
2134	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
2135	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
2136	</listitem>
2137
2138	<listitem>
2139	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
2140	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	<listitem>
2144	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
2145	</listitem>
2146
2147	<listitem>
2148	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
2149	</listitem>
2150
2151	<listitem>
2152	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
2153	more than one environment variable</para>
2154	</listitem>
2155
2156	<listitem>
2157	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
2158	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
2159	</listitem>
2160
2161	<listitem>
2162	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
2163	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
2164	</listitem>
2165
2166	<listitem>
2167	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
2168	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
2169	</listitem>
2170
2171	<listitem>
2172	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
2173	enumerating logged in users</para>
2174	</listitem>
2175
2176	<listitem>
2177	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
2178	</listitem>
2179
2180	<listitem>
2181	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
2182	</listitem>
2183
2184	<listitem>
2185	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
2186	</listitem>
2187
2188	<listitem>
2189	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
2190	in the event of a VM crash</para>
2191	</listitem>
2192
2193	<listitem>
2194	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
2195	</listitem>
2196
2197	<listitem>
2198	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
2199	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
2200	</listitem>
2201
2202	<listitem>
2203	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
2204	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
2205	</listitem>
2206
2207	<listitem>
2208	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
2209	(bug #7448)</para>
2210	</listitem>
2211
2212	<listitem>
2213	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
2214	</listitem>
2215
2216	<listitem>
2217	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
2218	</listitem>
2219
2220	<listitem>
2221	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
2222	</listitem>
2223
2224	</itemizedlist>
2225
2226	</sect1>
2227
2228	<sect1>
2229	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
2230
2231	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2232	added:</para>
2233
2234	<itemizedlist>
2235
2236	<listitem>
2237	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
2238	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
2239	</listitem>
2240
2241	<listitem>
2242	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
2243	</listitem>
2244
2245	<listitem>
2246	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
2247	bug #6809)</para>
2248	</listitem>
2249
2250	<listitem>
2251	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
2252	</listitem>
2253
2254	<listitem>
2255	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
2256	</listitem>
2257
2258	<listitem>
2259	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
2260	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
2261	</listitem>
2262
2263	<listitem>
2264	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
2265	changes</para>
2266	</listitem>
2267
2268	<listitem>
2269	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
2270	</listitem>
2271
2272	<listitem>
2273	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
2274	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
2275	</listitem>
2276
2277	<listitem>
2278	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
2279	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
2280	</listitem>
2281
2282	<listitem>
2283	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
2284	</listitem>
2285
2286	<listitem>
2287	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
2288	</listitem>
2289
2290	<listitem>
2291	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
2292	</listitem>
2293
2294	<listitem>
2295	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
2296	</listitem>
2297
2298	<listitem>
2299	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
2300	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
2301	</listitem>
2302
2303	<listitem>
2304	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
2305	</listitem>
2306
2307	<listitem>
2308	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
2309	(bug #6832)</para>
2310	</listitem>
2311
2312	<listitem>
2313	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
2314	guests</para>
2315	</listitem>
2316
2317	<listitem>
2318	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
2319	</listitem>
2320
2321	<listitem>
2322	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
2323	without external tools and tricks</para>
2324	</listitem>
2325
2326	<listitem>
2327	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
2328	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
2329	</listitem>
2330
2331	<listitem>
2332	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
2333	</listitem>
2334
2335	<listitem>
2336	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
2337	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
2338	</listitem>
2339
2340	<listitem>
2341	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
2342	shutdown</para>
2343	</listitem>
2344
2345	<listitem>
2346	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
2347	fixes</para>
2348	</listitem>
2349
2350	<listitem>
2351	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
2352	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
2353	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
2354	</para>
2355	</listitem>
2356
2357	<listitem>
2358	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
2359	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
2360	</listitem>
2361
2362	<listitem>
2363	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
2364	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
2365	</listitem>
2366
2367	<listitem>
2368	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
2369	</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
2374	</listitem>
2375
2376	<listitem>
2377	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
2378	</listitem>
2379
2380	<listitem>
2381	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
2382	</listitem>
2383
2384	</itemizedlist>
2385
2386	</sect1>
2387
2388	<sect1>
2389	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
2390
2391	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2392	added:</para>
2393
2394	<itemizedlist>
2395
2396	<listitem>
2397	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
2398	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
2399	</listitem>
2400
2401	<listitem>
2402	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
2403	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
2404	</listitem>
2405
2406	<listitem>
2407	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
2408	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
2409	</listitem>
2410
2411	<listitem>
2412	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
2413	</listitem>
2414
2415	<listitem>
2416	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
2417	</listitem>
2418
2419	<listitem>
2420	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
2425	</listitem>
2426
2427	<listitem>
2428	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
2429	assigned</para>
2430	</listitem>
2431
2432	<listitem>
2433	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
2434	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
2435	</listitem>
2436
2437	<listitem>
2438	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
2439	multiple screens are enabled</para>
2440	</listitem>
2441
2442	<listitem>
2443	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2444	</listitem>
2445
2446	<listitem>
2447	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
2448	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
2449	</listitem>
2450
2451	<listitem>
2452	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
2453	again (bug #7022).
2454	</para>
2455	</listitem>
2456
2457	<listitem>
2458	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
2459	(bug #6768)</para>
2460	</listitem>
2461
2462	<listitem>
2463	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
2464	(bug #6927)</para>
2465	</listitem>
2466
2467	<listitem>
2468	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
2469	bug #7031)</para>
2470	</listitem>
2471
2472	<listitem>
2473	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
2474	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
2475	</listitem>
2476
2477	<listitem>
2478	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
2479	bug #6987)</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	<listitem>
2483	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
2484	</listitem>
2485
2486	<listitem>
2487	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
2488	</listitem>
2489
2490	<listitem>
2491	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
2492	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
2493	</listitem>
2494
2495	<listitem>
2496	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
2497	</listitem>
2498
2499	<listitem>
2500	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
2501	installation (bug #5101)</para>
2502	</listitem>
2503
2504	<listitem>
2505	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
2506	</listitem>
2507
2508	<listitem>
2509	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
2510	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
2511	bug #6872)</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
2516	</listitem>
2517
2518	<listitem>
2519	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
2520	(performance tweak)</para>
2521	</listitem>
2522
2523	<listitem>
2524	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
2525	is currently paused</para>
2526	</listitem>
2527
2528	<listitem>
2529	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
2530	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
2531	</listitem>
2532
2533	<listitem>
2534	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
2535	</listitem>
2536
2537	<listitem>
2538	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
2539	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
2544	not properly saved</para>
2545	</listitem>
2546
2547	<listitem>
2548	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
2549	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
2550	</listitem>
2551
2552	<listitem>
2553	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
2554	</listitem>
2555
2556	<listitem>
2557	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
2558	</listitem>
2559
2560	<listitem>
2561	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
2562	</listitem>
2563
2564	<listitem>
2565	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
2566	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
2567	</listitem>
2568
2569	<listitem>
2570	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
2571	</listitem>
2572
2573	<listitem>
2574	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
2575	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
2576	</listitem>
2577
2578	<listitem>
2579	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
2580	(bug #5251)</para>
2581	</listitem>
2582
2583	<listitem>
2584	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
2585	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
2586	</listitem>
2587
2588	<listitem>
2589	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
2590	</listitem>
2591
2592	<listitem>
2593	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
2594	</listitem>
2595
2596	<listitem>
2597	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2598	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2599	</listitem>
2600
2601	<listitem>
2602	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
2607	</listitem>
2608
2609	<listitem>
2610	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
2611	</listitem>
2612
2613	</itemizedlist>
2614	</sect1>
2615
2616	<sect1>
2617	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
2618
2619	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2620	added:</para>
2621
2622	<itemizedlist>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
2626	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2631	</listitem>
2632
2633	<listitem>
2634	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
2635	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
2636	</listitem>
2637
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
2640	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
2641	</listitem>
2642
2643	<listitem>
2644	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
2645	</listitem>
2646
2647	<listitem>
2648	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2649	again (bug #6864)</para>
2650	</listitem>
2651
2652	<listitem>
2653	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
2654	applications (bug #5236)</para>
2655	</listitem>
2656
2657	<listitem>
2658	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
2659	</listitem>
2660
2661	<listitem>
2662	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
2663	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
2664	</listitem>
2665
2666	<listitem>
2667	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
2668	</listitem>
2669
2670	</itemizedlist>
2671
2672	</sect1>
2673
2674	<sect1>
2675	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
2676
2677	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2678	added:</para>
2679
2680	<itemizedlist>
2681
2682	<listitem>
2683	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
2684	</listitem>
2685
2686	<listitem>
2687	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
2688	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
2689	</listitem>
2690
2691	<listitem>
2692	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
2693	</listitem>
2694
2695	<listitem>
2696	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
2697	state</para>
2698	</listitem>
2699
2700	<listitem>
2701	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
2702	</listitem>
2703
2704	<listitem>
2705	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
2706	</listitem>
2707
2708	<listitem>
2709	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
2710	</listitem>
2711
2712	<listitem>
2713	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
2714	</listitem>
2715
2716	<listitem>
2717	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
2718	</listitem>
2719
2720	<listitem>
2721	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
2726	</listitem>
2727
2728	<listitem>
2729	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
2730	</listitem>
2731
2732	<listitem>
2733	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
2734	</listitem>
2735
2736	<listitem>
2737	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
2738	</listitem>
2739
2740	<listitem>
2741	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
2742	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
2743	</listitem>
2744
2745	<listitem>
2746	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
2747	(bug #6784)</para>
2748	</listitem>
2749
2750	<listitem>
2751	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
2752	</listitem>
2753
2754	<listitem>
2755	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
2756	</listitem>
2757
2758	<listitem>
2759	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
2760	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
2761	</listitem>
2762
2763	<listitem>
2764	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
2765	</listitem>
2766
2767	<listitem>
2768	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
2769	</listitem>
2770
2771	<listitem>
2772	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
2773	host only</para>
2774	</listitem>
2775
2776	<listitem>
2777	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
2778	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
2779	</listitem>
2780
2781	<listitem>
2782	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
2783	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
2784	</listitem>
2785
2786	<listitem>
2787	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
2792	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
2793	</listitem>
2794
2795	<listitem>
2796	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
2797	</listitem>
2798
2799	<listitem>
2800	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
2801	</listitem>
2802
2803	<listitem>
2804	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
2805	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
2806	</listitem>
2807
2808	<listitem>
2809	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
2810	</listitem>
2811
2812	<listitem>
2813	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
2814	</listitem>
2815
2816	<listitem>
2817	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
2818	</listitem>
2819
2820	<listitem>
2821	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
2822	(bug #6714)</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
2827	</listitem>
2828
2829	<listitem>
2830	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
2835	</listitem>
2836
2837	<listitem>
2838	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
2839	</listitem>
2840
2841	<listitem>
2842	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
2843	</listitem>
2844
2845	</itemizedlist>
2846
2847	</sect1>
2848
2849	<sect1>
2850	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
2851
2852	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2853	were added:</para>
2854
2855	<itemizedlist>
2856
2857	<listitem>
2858	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
2859	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
2860	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
2861	</listitem>
2862
2863	<listitem>
2864	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
2865	</listitem>
2866
2867	<listitem>
2868	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
2869	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
2870	</listitem>
2871
2872	<listitem>
2873	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
2874	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
2875	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
2880	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
2881	</listitem>
2882
2883	<listitem>
2884	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
2885	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
2886	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
2887	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
2888	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
2889	</listitem>
2890
2891	<listitem>
2892	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
2893	</listitem>
2894
2895	<listitem>
2896	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
2897	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
2898	</listitem>
2899
2900	<listitem>
2901	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
2902	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
2903	</listitem>
2904
2905	<listitem>
2906	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
2907	</listitem>
2908
2909	<listitem>
2910	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
2911	</listitem>
2912
2913	<listitem>
2914	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
2915	</listitem>
2916
2917	<listitem>
2918	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
2919	</listitem>
2920
2921	<listitem>
2922	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
2923	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
2924	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
2925	</listitem>
2926
2927	<listitem>
2928	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
2929	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
2930	</listitem>
2931
2932	</itemizedlist>
2933
2934	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2935
2936	<itemizedlist>
2937
2938	<listitem>
2939	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
2940	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
2941	</listitem>
2942
2943	<listitem>
2944	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
2945	</listitem>
2946
2947	<listitem>
2948	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
2949	VM</para>
2950	</listitem>
2951
2952	<listitem>
2953	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
2954	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
2955	</listitem>
2956
2957	<listitem>
2958	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
2959	#1669)</para>
2960	</listitem>
2961
2962	<listitem>
2963	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
2964	#6442)</para>
2965	</listitem>
2966
2967	<listitem>
2968	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
2969	combination (bug #684)</para>
2970	</listitem>
2971
2972	<listitem>
2973	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
2974	the VM from the GUI</para>
2975	</listitem>
2976
2977	<listitem>
2978	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
2979	medium is not accessible</para>
2980	</listitem>
2981
2982	<listitem>
2983	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
2984	</listitem>
2985
2986	<listitem>
2987	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
2988	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
2989	</listitem>
2990
2991	<listitem>
2992	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
2993	#3106)</para>
2994	</listitem>
2995
2996	<listitem>
2997	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
2998	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
2999	it</para>
3000	</listitem>
3001
3002	<listitem>
3003	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
3004	</listitem>
3005
3006	<listitem>
3007	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
3008	</listitem>
3009
3010	<listitem>
3011	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
3012	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
3013	</listitem>
3014
3015	<listitem>
3016	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
3017	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
3018	</listitem>
3019
3020	<listitem>
3021	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
3022	</listitem>
3023
3024	<listitem>
3025	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
3030	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
3035	</listitem>
3036
3037	<listitem>
3038	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
3039	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
3040	</listitem>
3041
3042	<listitem>
3043	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
3044	</listitem>
3045
3046	<listitem>
3047	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
3048	in VirtualBox</para>
3049	</listitem>
3050
3051	<listitem>
3052	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
3053	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
3054	</listitem>
3055
3056	<listitem>
3057	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
3058	VirtualBox</para>
3059	</listitem>
3060
3061	<listitem>
3062	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
3063	</listitem>
3064
3065	<listitem>
3066	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
3067	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
3068	</listitem>
3069
3070	</itemizedlist>
3071	</sect1>
3072
3073	<sect1>
3074	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
3075
3076	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3077	added:</para>
3078
3079	<itemizedlist>
3080
3081	<listitem>
3082	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
3083	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
3084	</listitem>
3085
3086	<listitem>
3087	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
3088	</listitem>
3089
3090	<listitem>
3091	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
3092	</listitem>
3093
3094	<listitem>
3095	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
3096	only) </para>
3097	</listitem>
3098
3099	<listitem>
3100	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
3101	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
3102	</listitem>
3103
3104	<listitem>
3105	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
3106	interface version</para>
3107	</listitem>
3108
3109	<listitem>
3110	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
3111	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
3112	slot empty</para>
3113	</listitem>
3114
3115	<listitem>
3116	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
3117	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
3118	(bug #4220)</para>
3119	</listitem>
3120
3121	<listitem>
3122	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
3123	</listitem>
3124
3125	<listitem>
3126	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
3127	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
3128	</listitem>
3129
3130	<listitem>
3131	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
3132	using the drivers from LSI</para>
3133	</listitem>
3134
3135	<listitem>
3136	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
3137	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
3138	</listitem>
3139
3140	<listitem>
3141	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
3142	attached</para>
3143	</listitem>
3144
3145	<listitem>
3146	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
3147	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
3148	</listitem>
3149
3150	<listitem>
3151	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
3152	</listitem>
3153
3154	<listitem>
3155	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
3156	booting from SCSI devices</para>
3157	</listitem>
3158
3159	<listitem>
3160	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
3161	is bug #6408)</para>
3162	</listitem>
3163
3164	<listitem>
3165	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
3170	fail to initialize</para>
3171	</listitem>
3172
3173	<listitem>
3174	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
3175	</listitem>
3176
3177	<listitem>
3178	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
3179	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
3180	</listitem>
3181
3182	<listitem>
3183	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
3184	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
3185	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
3190	</listitem>
3191
3192	<listitem>
3193	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
3194	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
3195	</listitem>
3196
3197	<listitem>
3198	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
3199	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
3200	</listitem>
3201
3202	<listitem>
3203	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
3204	(bug #6435)</para>
3205	</listitem>
3206
3207	<listitem>
3208	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
3209	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
3210	</listitem>
3211
3212	<listitem>
3213	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
3214	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
3215	(bug #6488)</para>
3216	</listitem>
3217
3218	<listitem>
3219	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
3220	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
3221	</listitem>
3222
3223	<listitem>
3224	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
3225	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
3226	</listitem>
3227
3228	<listitem>
3229	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
3230	#5227)</para>
3231	</listitem>
3232
3233	<listitem>
3234	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
3235	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
3236	</listitem>
3237
3238	<listitem>
3239	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
3240	</listitem>
3241
3242	<listitem>
3243	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
3244	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
3245	</listitem>
3246
3247	</itemizedlist>
3248	</sect1>
3249
3250	<sect1>
3251	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
3252
3253	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3254	added:</para>
3255
3256	<itemizedlist>
3257
3258	<listitem>
3259	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
3260	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
3261	</listitem>
3262
3263	<listitem>
3264	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
3265	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
3266	</listitem>
3267
3268	<listitem>
3269	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
3270	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
3271	</listitem>
3272
3273	<listitem>
3274	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
3275	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
3276	</listitem>
3277
3278	<listitem>
3279	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
3280	</listitem>
3281
3282	<listitem>
3283	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
3284	</listitem>
3285
3286	<listitem>
3287	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
3288	</listitem>
3289
3290	<listitem>
3291	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
3292	</listitem>
3293
3294	<listitem>
3295	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
3296	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	<listitem>
3300	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
3301	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
3302	</listitem>
3303
3304	<listitem>
3305	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
3306	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
3307	</listitem>
3308
3309	<listitem>
3310	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
3311	</listitem>
3312
3313	<listitem>
3314	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
3315	</listitem>
3316
3317	<listitem>
3318	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
3319	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
3320	</listitem>
3321
3322	<listitem>
3323	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
3324	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
3325	calls (bug #6165)</para>
3326	</listitem>
3327
3328	<listitem>
3329	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
3330	(bug #5297)</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
3335	(bug #4962)</para>
3336	</listitem>
3337
3338	<listitem>
3339	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
3340	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
3341	</listitem>
3342
3343	<listitem>
3344	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
3345	(bug #6176)</para>
3346	</listitem>
3347
3348	<listitem>
3349	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
3350	certain circumstances</para>
3351	</listitem>
3352
3353	<listitem>
3354	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
3355	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
3356	</listitem>
3357
3358	<listitem>
3359	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
3360	</listitem>
3361
3362	<listitem>
3363	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
3368	(bug #3571)</para>
3369	</listitem>
3370
3371	<listitem>
3372	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
3373	devices</para>
3374	</listitem>
3375
3376	<listitem>
3377	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
3378	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
3379	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
3384	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
3393	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
3398	response</para>
3399	</listitem>
3400
3401	<listitem>
3402	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
3407	</listitem>
3408
3409	<listitem>
3410	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
3411	</listitem>
3412
3413	<listitem>
3414	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
3415	</listitem>
3416
3417	<listitem>
3418	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
3419	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3420	</listitem>
3421
3422	<listitem>
3423	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
3424	</listitem>
3425
3426	<listitem>
3427	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
3428	</listitem>
3429
3430	<listitem>
3431	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
3432	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
3433	</listitem>
3434
3435	<listitem>
3436	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
3437	</listitem>
3438
3439	<listitem>
3440	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
3441	</listitem>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
3445	</listitem>
3446
3447	<listitem>
3448	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
3449	</listitem>
3450
3451	</itemizedlist>
3452	</sect1>
3453
3454	<sect1>
3455	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
3456
3457	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3458	added:</para>
3459
3460	<itemizedlist>
3461
3462	<listitem>
3463	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
3464	</listitem>
3465
3466	<listitem>
3467	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
3472	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
3473	</listitem>
3474
3475	<listitem>
3476	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
3477	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
3478	</listitem>
3479
3480	<listitem>
3481	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
3482	(bug #3945)</para>
3483	</listitem>
3484
3485	<listitem>
3486	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
3487	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
3488	</listitem>
3489
3490	<listitem>
3491	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
3492	and AMD-V only) </para>
3493	</listitem>
3494
3495	<listitem>
3496	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
3497	</listitem>
3498
3499	<listitem>
3500	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
3501	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
3502	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
3503	</listitem>
3504
3505	<listitem>
3506	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
3507	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
3508	</listitem>
3509
3510	<listitem>
3511	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
3512	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
3513	</listitem>
3514
3515	<listitem>
3516	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
3517	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
3518	</listitem>
3519
3520	<listitem>
3521	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
3522	snapshots command</para>
3523	</listitem>
3524
3525	<listitem>
3526	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
3527	</listitem>
3528
3529	<listitem>
3530	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
3531	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
3532	</listitem>
3533
3534	<listitem>
3535	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
3536	</listitem>
3537
3538	<listitem>
3539	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
3540	</listitem>
3541
3542	<listitem>
3543	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
3544	</listitem>
3545
3546	<listitem>
3547	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
3548	(KWin bug)</para>
3549	</listitem>
3550
3551	<listitem>
3552	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
3553	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
3554	</listitem>
3555
3556	<listitem>
3557	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
3558	</listitem>
3559
3560	<listitem>
3561	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
3562	</listitem>
3563
3564	<listitem>
3565	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
3566	</listitem>
3567
3568	<listitem>
3569	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
3570	</listitem>
3571
3572	<listitem>
3573	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
3574	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
3575	</listitem>
3576
3577	<listitem>
3578	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
3579	bug #5787)</para>
3580	</listitem>
3581
3582	<listitem>
3583	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
3584	DHCP requests</para>
3585	</listitem>
3586
3587	<listitem>
3588	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
3589	(bug #3217)</para>
3590	</listitem>
3591
3592	<listitem>
3593	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
3594	range (bug #5923)</para>
3595	</listitem>
3596
3597	<listitem>
3598	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
3599	</listitem>
3600
3601	<listitem>
3602	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
3603	</listitem>
3604
3605	<listitem>
3606	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
3607	</listitem>
3608
3609	<listitem>
3610	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	<listitem>
3614	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
3615	file (bug #5681)</para>
3616	</listitem>
3617
3618	<listitem>
3619	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
3620	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
3621	</listitem>
3622
3623	<listitem>
3624	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
3625	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
3626	</listitem>
3627
3628	<listitem>
3629	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
3630	regression)</para>
3631	</listitem>
3632
3633	<listitem>
3634	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
3635	</listitem>
3636
3637	<listitem>
3638	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
3639	</listitem>
3640
3641	<listitem>
3642	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
3643	</listitem>
3644
3645	<listitem>
3646	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
3651	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
3652	</listitem>
3653
3654	<listitem>
3655	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
3656	</listitem>
3657
3658	<listitem>
3659	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
3660	</listitem>
3661
3662	<listitem>
3663	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
3664	</listitem>
3665
3666	<listitem>
3667	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
3668	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
3669	</listitem>
3670
3671	<listitem>
3672	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
3673	</listitem>
3674
3675	<listitem>
3676	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
3677	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
3678	</listitem>
3679
3680	<listitem>
3681	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
3682	</listitem>
3683
3684	<listitem>
3685	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
3686	</listitem>
3687
3688	<listitem>
3689	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
3690	</listitem>
3691
3692	<listitem>
3693	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
3694	(bug #5731)</para>
3695	</listitem>
3696
3697	<listitem>
3698	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
3699	again</para>
3700	</listitem>
3701
3702	</itemizedlist>
3703
3704	</sect1>
3705
3706	<sect1>
3707	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
3708
3709	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3710	added:</para>
3711
3712	<itemizedlist>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
3716	</listitem>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
3720	</listitem>
3721
3722	<listitem>
3723	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
3724	</listitem>
3725
3726	<listitem>
3727	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
3732	</listitem>
3733
3734	<listitem>
3735	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
3736	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
3745	</listitem>
3746
3747	<listitem>
3748	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
3749	</listitem>
3750
3751	<listitem>
3752	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
3753	</listitem>
3754
3755	<listitem>
3756	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
3757	</listitem>
3758
3759	<listitem>
3760	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
3761	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
3762	</listitem>
3763
3764	<listitem>
3765	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
3766	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
3767	</listitem>
3768
3769	<listitem>
3770	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
3771	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
3772	#1762)</para>
3773	</listitem>
3774
3775	<listitem>
3776	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
3777	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
3778	</listitem>
3779
3780	<listitem>
3781	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
3782	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
3783	</listitem>
3784
3785	<listitem>
3786	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
3787	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
3788	</listitem>
3789
3790	<listitem>
3791	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
3792	</listitem>
3793
3794	<listitem>
3795	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
3796	</listitem>
3797
3798	<listitem>
3799	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
3800	several virtual CPU cores</para>
3801	</listitem>
3802
3803	<listitem>
3804	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
3805	</listitem>
3806
3807	<listitem>
3808	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
3809	</listitem>
3810
3811	<listitem>
3812	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
3813	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
3814	</listitem>
3815
3816	<listitem>
3817	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
3818	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
3819	</listitem>
3820
3821	<listitem>
3822	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
3823	</listitem>
3824
3825	<listitem>
3826	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
3827	guests</para>
3828	</listitem>
3829
3830	<listitem>
3831	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
3832	and on some 64bit guests</para>
3833	</listitem>
3834
3835	<listitem>
3836	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
3837	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
3838	</listitem>
3839
3840	<listitem>
3841	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
3842	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
3843	</listitem>
3844
3845	<listitem>
3846	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
3847	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
3848	</listitem>
3849
3850	<listitem>
3851	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
3852	</listitem>
3853
3854	<listitem>
3855	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
3856	</listitem>
3857
3858	<listitem>
3859	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
3860	</listitem>
3861
3862	<listitem>
3863	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
3864	</listitem>
3865
3866	<listitem>
3867	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
3868	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
3869	</listitem>
3870
3871	<listitem>
3872	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
3873	</listitem>
3874
3875	</itemizedlist>
3876
3877	</sect1>
3878
3879	<sect1>
3880	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
3881
3882	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3883	were added:</para>
3884
3885	<itemizedlist>
3886
3887	<listitem>
3888	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
3889	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
3890	</listitem>
3891
3892	<listitem>
3893	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
3894	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
3895	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
3896	</listitem>
3897
3898	<listitem>
3899	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
3900	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
3901	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
3902	</listitem>
3903
3904	<listitem>
3905	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
3906	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
3907	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
3912	running</para>
3913	</listitem>
3914
3915	<listitem>
3916	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
3917	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
3922	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
3923	</listitem>
3924
3925	<listitem>
3926	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
3927	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
3928	</listitem>
3929
3930	<listitem>
3931	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
3932	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
3933	</listitem>
3934
3935	</itemizedlist>
3936
3937	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3938
3939	<itemizedlist>
3940
3941	<listitem>
3942	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
3943	</listitem>
3944
3945	<listitem>
3946	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
3947	</listitem>
3948
3949	<listitem>
3950	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
3951	</listitem>
3952
3953	<listitem>
3954	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
3955	(bug #5291)</para>
3956	</listitem>
3957
3958	<listitem>
3959	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
3960	</listitem>
3961
3962	<listitem>
3963	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
3964	</listitem>
3965
3966	<listitem>
3967	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
3968	</listitem>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
3972	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
3973	</listitem>
3974
3975	<listitem>
3976	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
3977	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
3978	</listitem>
3979
3980	<listitem>
3981	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
3982	</listitem>
3983
3984	<listitem>
3985	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
3986	</listitem>
3987
3988	<listitem>
3989	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
3998	</listitem>
3999
4000	<listitem>
4001	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
4002	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
4003	</listitem>
4004
4005	<listitem>
4006	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
4007	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
4008	</listitem>
4009
4010	<listitem>
4011	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
4012	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
4013	</listitem>
4014
4015	<listitem>
4016	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
4017	(bug #2723)</para>
4018	</listitem>
4019
4020	<listitem>
4021	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
4022	</listitem>
4023
4024	<listitem>
4025	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
4026	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
4031	optional manifest file on import</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
4036	</listitem>
4037
4038	<listitem>
4039	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
4040	(bug #3773)</para>
4041	</listitem>
4042
4043	<listitem>
4044	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
4045	</listitem>
4046
4047	<listitem>
4048	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
4049	</listitem>
4050
4051	<listitem>
4052	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
4053	layout (bug #2302)</para>
4054	</listitem>
4055
4056	<listitem>
4057	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
4058	(bug #4866)</para>
4059	</listitem>
4060
4061	<listitem>
4062	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
4063	left click (bug #5049)</para>
4064	</listitem>
4065
4066	<listitem>
4067	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
4068	certain conditions</para>
4069	</listitem>
4070
4071	<listitem>
4072	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
4077	</listitem>
4078
4079	<listitem>
4080	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
4081	</listitem>
4082
4083	<listitem>
4084	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
4085	</listitem>
4086
4087	<listitem>
4088	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
4089	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
4090	</listitem>
4091
4092	<listitem>
4093	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
4094	</listitem>
4095
4096	<listitem>
4097	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
4098	properties (bug #5337)</para>
4099	</listitem>
4100
4101	<listitem>
4102	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
4103	</listitem>
4104
4105	<listitem>
4106	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
4107	</listitem>
4108
4109	<listitem>
4110	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
4111	</listitem>
4112
4113	<listitem>
4114	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
4115	</listitem>
4116
4117	<listitem>
4118	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
4119	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
4120	</listitem>
4121
4122	<listitem>
4123	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
4124	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
4125	(bug #928)</para>
4126	</listitem>
4127
4128	<listitem>
4129	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
4130	</listitem>
4131
4132	</itemizedlist>
4133
4134	</sect1>
4135
4136	<sect1>
4137	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
4138
4139	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4140	added:</para>
4141
4142	<itemizedlist>
4143
4144	<listitem>
4145	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
4146	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
4147	</listitem>
4148
4149	<listitem>
4150	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
4151	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
4156	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
4161	enabled</para>
4162	</listitem>
4163
4164	<listitem>
4165	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
4166	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
4167	</listitem>
4168
4169	<listitem>
4170	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
4171	(bug #2676)</para>
4172	</listitem>
4173
4174	<listitem>
4175	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
4176	is connected to a raw file</para>
4177	</listitem>
4178
4179	<listitem>
4180	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
4181	(bug #5355)</para>
4182	</listitem>
4183
4184	<listitem>
4185	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
4186	</listitem>
4187
4188	<listitem>
4189	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
4190	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
4191	</listitem>
4192
4193	<listitem>
4194	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
4195	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
4196	guest (bug #4496)</para>
4197	</listitem>
4198
4199	<listitem>
4200	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
4201	</listitem>
4202
4203	<listitem>
4204	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
4205	</listitem>
4206
4207	<listitem>
4208	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
4209	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
4210	</listitem>
4211
4212	<listitem>
4213	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
4214	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
4215	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
4216	</listitem>
4217
4218	</itemizedlist>
4219
4220	</sect1>
4221
4222	<sect1>
4223	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
4224
4225	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4226	added:</para>
4227
4228	<itemizedlist>
4229
4230	<listitem>
4231	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
4232	</listitem>
4233
4234	<listitem>
4235	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
4236	</listitem>
4237
4238	<listitem>
4239	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
4240	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
4241	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
4242	</listitem>
4243
4244	<listitem>
4245	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
4246	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
4247	</listitem>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
4251	</listitem>
4252
4253	<listitem>
4254	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
4255	</listitem>
4256
4257	<listitem>
4258	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
4259	</listitem>
4260
4261	<listitem>
4262	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
4263	</listitem>
4264
4265	<listitem>
4266	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
4271	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
4272	</listitem>
4273
4274	<listitem>
4275	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	<listitem>
4279	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
4280	</listitem>
4281
4282	<listitem>
4283	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
4284	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	<listitem>
4288	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
4289	</listitem>
4290
4291	<listitem>
4292	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
4293	exhaustion</para>
4294	</listitem>
4295
4296	<listitem>
4297	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
4298	</listitem>
4299
4300	<listitem>
4301	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
4302	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
4307	folders (bug #4106)</para>
4308	</listitem>
4309
4310	<listitem>
4311	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
4312	folders (bug #4299)</para>
4313	</listitem>
4314
4315	<listitem>
4316	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
4317	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
4318	(bug #2921)</para>
4319	</listitem>
4320
4321	<listitem>
4322	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
4323	hosts only)</para>
4324	</listitem>
4325
4326	<listitem>
4327	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
4328	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
4329	</listitem>
4330
4331	<listitem>
4332	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
4333	</listitem>
4334
4335	<listitem>
4336	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
4337	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
4338	</listitem>
4339
4340	<listitem>
4341	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	<listitem>
4345	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
4346	image inconsistency </para>
4347	</listitem>
4348
4349	<listitem>
4350	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
4351	</listitem>
4352
4353	<listitem>
4354	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
4355	</listitem>
4356
4357	<listitem>
4358	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
4359	(bug #2025)</para>
4360	</listitem>
4361
4362	<listitem>
4363	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
4364	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
4365	</listitem>
4366
4367	</itemizedlist>
4368
4369	</sect1>
4370
4371	<sect1>
4372	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
4373
4374	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4375	added:</para>
4376
4377	<itemizedlist>
4378
4379	<listitem>
4380	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
4381	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
4382	</listitem>
4383
4384	<listitem>
4385	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
4386	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
4387	</listitem>
4388
4389	<listitem>
4390	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
4391	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
4392	</listitem>
4393
4394	<listitem>
4395	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
4396	</listitem>
4397
4398	<listitem>
4399	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
4400	software virtualization only) </para>
4401	</listitem>
4402
4403	<listitem>
4404	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
4405	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
4406	</listitem>
4407
4408	<listitem>
4409	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
4410	with root privileges</para>
4411	</listitem>
4412
4413	<listitem>
4414	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
4415	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
4416	</listitem>
4417
4418	<listitem>
4419	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
4420	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
4421	</listitem>
4422
4423	<listitem>
4424	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
4425	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
4426	</listitem>
4427
4428	<listitem>
4429	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
4430	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
4431	selector (bug #5063)</para>
4432	</listitem>
4433
4434	<listitem>
4435	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
4436	available</para>
4437	</listitem>
4438
4439	<listitem>
4440	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
4441	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
4442	</listitem>
4443
4444	<listitem>
4445	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
4446	networking (bug #4775)</para>
4447	</listitem>
4448
4449	<listitem>
4450	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
4451	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
4452	</listitem>
4453
4454	<listitem>
4455	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
4456	(bug #4907)</para>
4457	</listitem>
4458
4459	<listitem>
4460	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
4461	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
4462	</listitem>
4463
4464	<listitem>
4465	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
4466	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
4467	</listitem>
4468
4469	<listitem>
4470	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
4471	</listitem>
4472
4473	<listitem>
4474	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
4475	</listitem>
4476
4477	<listitem>
4478	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
4479	</listitem>
4480
4481	<listitem>
4482	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
4483	</listitem>
4484
4485	<listitem>
4486	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
4487	are installed</para>
4488	</listitem>
4489
4490	<listitem>
4491	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
4492	(bug #4771)</para>
4493	</listitem>
4494
4495	<listitem>
4496	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
4497	</listitem>
4498
4499	<listitem>
4500	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
4501	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
4502	</listitem>
4503
4504	<listitem>
4505	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
4506	command</para>
4507	</listitem>
4508
4509	<listitem>
4510	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
4511	</listitem>
4512
4513	<listitem>
4514	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
4515	</listitem>
4516
4517	<listitem>
4518	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
4519	(bug #5089)</para>
4520	</listitem>
4521
4522	<listitem>
4523	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
4524	</listitem>
4525
4526	</itemizedlist>
4527
4528	</sect1>
4529
4530	<sect1>
4531	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
4532
4533	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4534	added:</para>
4535
4536	<itemizedlist>
4537
4538	<listitem>
4539	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
4540	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
4541	</listitem>
4542
4543	<listitem>
4544	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
4545	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
4546	</listitem>
4547
4548	<listitem>
4549	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
4550	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
4551	</listitem>
4552
4553	<listitem>
4554	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
4555	guests (bug #2258)</para>
4556	</listitem>
4557
4558	<listitem>
4559	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
4560	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
4561	</listitem>
4562
4563	<listitem>
4564	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
4565	</listitem>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
4569	</listitem>
4570
4571	<listitem>
4572	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
4573	</listitem>
4574
4575	<listitem>
4576	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
4577	</listitem>
4578
4579	<listitem>
4580	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
4581	</listitem>
4582
4583	<listitem>
4584	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
4585	onlined or offlined</para>
4586	</listitem>
4587
4588	<listitem>
4589	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
4590	</listitem>
4591
4592	<listitem>
4593	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
4594	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
4595	</listitem>
4596
4597	<listitem>
4598	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
4599	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
4600	</listitem>
4601
4602	<listitem>
4603	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
4604	</listitem>
4605
4606	<listitem>
4607	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
4608	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
4609	</listitem>
4610
4611	<listitem>
4612	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
4613	</listitem>
4614
4615	<listitem>
4616	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
4617	</listitem>
4618
4619	<listitem>
4620	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
4621	</listitem>
4622
4623	<listitem>
4624	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
4625	</listitem>
4626
4627	<listitem>
4628	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
4629	</listitem>
4630
4631	<listitem>
4632	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
4633	filters in machine settings XML</para>
4634	</listitem>
4635
4636	<listitem>
4637	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
4638	</listitem>
4639
4640	<listitem>
4641	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
4642	</listitem>
4643
4644	<listitem>
4645	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
4646	</listitem>
4647
4648	<listitem>
4649	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
4650	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
4651	</listitem>
4652
4653	<listitem>
4654	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
4655	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
4656	</listitem>
4657
4658	<listitem>
4659	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
4660	</listitem>
4661
4662	<listitem>
4663	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
4664	</listitem>
4665
4666	<listitem>
4667	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
4668	</listitem>
4669
4670	<listitem>
4671	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
4672	</listitem>
4673
4674	<listitem>
4675	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
4676	</listitem>
4677
4678	<listitem>
4679	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
4680	</listitem>
4681
4682	<listitem>
4683	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
4684	</listitem>
4685
4686	<listitem>
4687	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
4688	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
4689	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
4690	phase collapse</para>
4691	</listitem>
4692
4693	<listitem>
4694	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
4695	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
4696	</listitem>
4697
4698	<listitem>
4699	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
4700	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
4701	</listitem>
4702
4703	<listitem>
4704	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
4705	</listitem>
4706
4707	<listitem>
4708	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
4709	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
4710	</listitem>
4711
4712	<listitem>
4713	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
4714	interface bringup on Linux</para>
4715	</listitem>
4716
4717	<listitem>
4718	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
4719	</listitem>
4720
4721	<listitem>
4722	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
4723	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
4724	#4698, #4790)</para>
4725	</listitem>
4726
4727	<listitem>
4728	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
4729	less than the configured range</para>
4730	</listitem>
4731
4732	<listitem>
4733	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
4734	</listitem>
4735
4736	<listitem>
4737	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
4738	</listitem>
4739
4740	<listitem>
4741	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
4742	</listitem>
4743
4744	<listitem>
4745	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	<listitem>
4749	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
4750	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
4751	</listitem>
4752
4753	<listitem>
4754	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
4755	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
4756	</listitem>
4757
4758	<listitem>
4759	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
4760	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
4761	</listitem>
4762
4763	<listitem>
4764	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
4769	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
4774	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
4775	</listitem>
4776
4777	<listitem>
4778	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
4779	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
4784	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
4785	</listitem>
4786
4787	<listitem>
4788	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
4789	</listitem>
4790
4791	<listitem>
4792	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
4793	</listitem>
4794
4795	</itemizedlist>
4796
4797	</sect1>
4798
4799	<sect1>
4800	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
4801
4802	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4803	added:</para>
4804
4805	<itemizedlist>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	<listitem>
4812	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
4813	</listitem>
4814
4815	<listitem>
4816	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
4817	</listitem>
4818
4819	<listitem>
4820	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
4821	</listitem>
4822
4823	<listitem>
4824	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
4825	</listitem>
4826
4827	<listitem>
4828	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
4829	</listitem>
4830
4831	<listitem>
4832	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
4833	</listitem>
4834
4835	<listitem>
4836	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
4837	</listitem>
4838
4839	<listitem>
4840	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
4841	</listitem>
4842
4843	<listitem>
4844	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
4845	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
4846	</listitem>
4847
4848	<listitem>
4849	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
4850	</listitem>
4851
4852	<listitem>
4853	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
4854	</listitem>
4855
4856	<listitem>
4857	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
4858	</listitem>
4859
4860	<listitem>
4861	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	<listitem>
4865	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
4866	</listitem>
4867
4868	<listitem>
4869	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
4870	</listitem>
4871
4872	<listitem>
4873	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
4874	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
4875	</listitem>
4876
4877	<listitem>
4878	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
4879	(bug #4654)</para>
4880	</listitem>
4881
4882	<listitem>
4883	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
4888	interfaces</para>
4889	</listitem>
4890
4891	<listitem>
4892	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
4893	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
4894	</listitem>
4895
4896	<listitem>
4897	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
4898	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
4899	</listitem>
4900
4901	<listitem>
4902	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
4903	properties (bug #3415)</para>
4904	</listitem>
4905
4906	<listitem>
4907	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
4908	(bug #1461)</para>
4909	</listitem>
4910
4911	<listitem>
4912	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
4913	</listitem>
4914
4915	<listitem>
4916	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
4917	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
4918	</listitem>
4919
4920	<listitem>
4921	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
4922	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
4923	</listitem>
4924
4925	<listitem>
4926	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
4927	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
4928	</listitem>
4929
4930	<listitem>
4931	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
4932	</listitem>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4936	</listitem>
4937
4938	<listitem>
4939	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
4944	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
4945	</listitem>
4946
4947	<listitem>
4948	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
4949	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
4950	</listitem>
4951
4952	<listitem>
4953	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
4954	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
4955	</listitem>
4956
4957	<listitem>
4958	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
4959	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
4960	</listitem>
4961
4962	</itemizedlist>
4963
4964	</sect1>
4965	<sect1>
4966	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
4967
4968	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4969	added:</para>
4970
4971	<itemizedlist>
4972
4973	<listitem>
4974	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
4975	</listitem>
4976
4977	<listitem>
4978	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
4979	</listitem>
4980
4981	<listitem>
4982	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
4983	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
4984	</listitem>
4985
4986	<listitem>
4987	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
4988	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
4989	</listitem>
4990
4991	<listitem>
4992	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
4993	</listitem>
4994
4995	<listitem>
4996	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
4997	</listitem>
4998
4999	<listitem>
5000	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
5001	</listitem>
5002
5003	<listitem>
5004	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
5005	</listitem>
5006
5007	<listitem>
5008	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
5009	</listitem>
5010
5011	<listitem>
5012	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
5013	</listitem>
5014
5015	<listitem>
5016	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
5017	</listitem>
5018
5019	<listitem>
5020	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
5021	</listitem>
5022
5023	<listitem>
5024	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
5025	</listitem>
5026
5027	<listitem>
5028	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
5029	</listitem>
5030
5031	<listitem>
5032	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
5033	</listitem>
5034
5035	<listitem>
5036	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
5037	guest (bug #4381)</para>
5038	</listitem>
5039
5040	<listitem>
5041	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
5042	</listitem>
5043
5044	<listitem>
5045	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
5046	</listitem>
5047
5048	<listitem>
5049	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
5050	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
5051	</listitem>
5052
5053	<listitem>
5054	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
5055	</listitem>
5056
5057	<listitem>
5058	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
5059	</listitem>
5060
5061	<listitem>
5062	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
5063	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
5064	</listitem>
5065
5066	<listitem>
5067	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
5068	</listitem>
5069
5070	<listitem>
5071	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
5072	</listitem>
5073
5074	<listitem>
5075	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
5076	</listitem>
5077
5078	<listitem>
5079	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
5080	</listitem>
5081
5082	<listitem>
5083	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
5084	</listitem>
5085
5086	<listitem>
5087	<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>
5088	</listitem>
5089
5090	</itemizedlist>
5091
5092	</sect1>
5093
5094	<sect1>
5095	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
5096
5097	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5098	were added:</para>
5099
5100	<itemizedlist>
5101
5102	<listitem>
5103	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
5104	</listitem>
5105
5106	<listitem>
5107	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
5108	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5109	</listitem>
5110
5111	<listitem>
5112	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
5113	</listitem>
5114
5115	</itemizedlist>
5116
5117	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5118
5119	<itemizedlist>
5120
5121	<listitem>
5122	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
5123	</listitem>
5124
5125	<listitem>
5126	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
5127	certain conditions</para>
5128	</listitem>
5129
5130	<listitem>
5131	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
5132	</listitem>
5133
5134	<listitem>
5135	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
5136	</listitem>
5137
5138	<listitem>
5139	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
5140	</listitem>
5141
5142	<listitem>
5143	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
5144	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
5145	</listitem>
5146
5147	<listitem>
5148	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
5149	</listitem>
5150
5151	<listitem>
5152	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
5153	</listitem>
5154
5155	<listitem>
5156	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
5157	</listitem>
5158
5159	<listitem>
5160	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
5161	</listitem>
5162
5163	<listitem>
5164	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
5165	</listitem>
5166
5167	<listitem>
5168	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
5169	</listitem>
5170
5171	<listitem>
5172	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
5173	</listitem>
5174
5175	<listitem>
5176	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
5177	</listitem>
5178
5179	<listitem>
5180	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
5181	(non Windows hosts)</para>
5182	</listitem>
5183
5184	<listitem>
5185	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
5186	</listitem>
5187
5188	<listitem>
5189	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
5190	</listitem>
5191
5192	<listitem>
5193	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
5194	</listitem>
5195
5196	<listitem>
5197	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
5198	</listitem>
5199
5200	<listitem>
5201	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
5202	</listitem>
5203
5204	<listitem>
5205	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
5206	</listitem>
5207
5208	<listitem>
5209	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
5210	</listitem>
5211
5212	<listitem>
5213	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
5214	</listitem>
5215
5216	<listitem>
5217	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
5218	</listitem>
5219
5220	<listitem>
5221	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
5222	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
5223	</listitem>
5224
5225	<listitem>
5226	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
5227	</listitem>
5228
5229	<listitem>
5230	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
5231	</listitem>
5232
5233	<listitem>
5234	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
5235	</listitem>
5236
5237	<listitem>
5238	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
5239	</listitem>
5240
5241	<listitem>
5242	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
5243	</listitem>
5244
5245	<listitem>
5246	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
5247	</listitem>
5248
5249	<listitem>
5250	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
5251	</listitem>
5252
5253	<listitem>
5254	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
5255	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
5260	</listitem>
5261
5262	<listitem>
5263	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
5264	</listitem>
5265
5266	<listitem>
5267	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
5268	</listitem>
5269
5270	<listitem>
5271	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
5272	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
5273	</listitem>
5274
5275	<listitem>
5276	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
5277	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
5278	</listitem>
5279
5280	<listitem>
5281	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
5282	correct file mode when creating files</para>
5283	</listitem>
5284
5285	<listitem>
5286	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
5287	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
5288	</listitem>
5289
5290	<listitem>
5291	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
5292	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
5293	</listitem>
5294
5295	<listitem>
5296	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
5297	</listitem>
5298
5299	<listitem>
5300	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
5301	</listitem>
5302
5303	<listitem>
5304	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
5305	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
5306	</listitem>
5307
5308	<listitem>
5309	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
5310	guest property lookup</para>
5311	</listitem>
5312
5313	<listitem>
5314	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
5315	basic network information)</para>
5316	</listitem>
5317
5318	<listitem>
5319	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
5320	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
5321	</listitem>
5322
5323	<listitem>
5324	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
5325	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
5326	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
5327	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
5336	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
5337	web service</para>
5338	</listitem>
5339
5340	<listitem>
5341	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
5342	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
5343	</listitem>
5344
5345	<listitem>
5346	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
5347	unavailable</para>
5348	</listitem>
5349
5350	<listitem>
5351	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
5352	</listitem>
5353
5354	</itemizedlist>
5355	</sect1>
5356
5357	<sect1>
5358	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
5359
5360	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5361	added:</para>
5362
5363	<itemizedlist>
5364
5365	<listitem>
5366	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
5367	installation</para>
5368	</listitem>
5369
5370	<listitem>
5371	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
5372	</listitem>
5373
5374	<listitem>
5375	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
5376	later (bug #3981)</para>
5377	</listitem>
5378
5379	<listitem>
5380	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
5381	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
5382	</listitem>
5383
5384	<listitem>
5385	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
5386	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
5387	(bug #4034)
5388	</para>
5389	</listitem>
5390
5391	<listitem>
5392	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
5393	networking</para>
5394	</listitem>
5395
5396	<listitem>
5397	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
5398	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
5399	</listitem>
5400
5401	<listitem>
5402	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
5403	clicks</para>
5404	</listitem>
5405
5406	<listitem>
5407	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
5408	Windows 7 guests</para>
5409	</listitem>
5410
5411	<listitem>
5412	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
5413	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
5414	</listitem>
5415
5416	<listitem>
5417	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
5418	</listitem>
5419
5420	<listitem>
5421	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
5422	</listitem>
5423
5424	<listitem>
5425	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
5426	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
5427	</listitem>
5428
5429	<listitem>
5430	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
5431	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
5432	</listitem>
5433
5434	<listitem>
5435	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
5436	</listitem>
5437
5438	<listitem>
5439	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
5440	</listitem>
5441
5442	<listitem>
5443	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
5444	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
5445	(bug #3864)</para>
5446	</listitem>
5447
5448	<listitem>
5449	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
5450	now flushes the output stream</para>
5451	</listitem>
5452
5453	<listitem>
5454	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
5455	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
5456	</listitem>
5457
5458	<listitem>
5459	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
5460	</listitem>
5461
5462	<listitem>
5463	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
5472	</listitem>
5473
5474	<listitem>
5475	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
5476	(bug #3964)</para>
5477	</listitem>
5478
5479	<listitem>
5480	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
5481	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
5482	</listitem>
5483
5484	<listitem>
5485	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
5486	hosts</para>
5487	</listitem>
5488
5489	<listitem>
5490	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
5491	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
5492	e1000 adapter</para>
5493	</listitem>
5494
5495	<listitem>
5496	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
5497	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
5498	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
5499	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
5500	</listitem>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	<listitem>
5507	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
5508	</listitem>
5509
5510	<listitem>
5511	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
5512	</listitem>
5513
5514	<listitem>
5515	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
5516	file (bug #1023)</para>
5517	</listitem>
5518
5519	<listitem>
5520	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
5521	</listitem>
5522
5523	<listitem>
5524	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
5525	</listitem>
5526
5527	</itemizedlist>
5528	</sect1>
5529
5530	<sect1>
5531	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
5532
5533	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5534	added:</para>
5535
5536	<itemizedlist>
5537
5538	<listitem>
5539	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
5540	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
5541	</listitem>
5542
5543	<listitem>
5544	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
5545	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
5546	and later</para>
5547	</listitem>
5548
5549	<listitem>
5550	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
5551	running services</para>
5552	</listitem>
5553
5554	<listitem>
5555	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
5556	terminates</para>
5557	</listitem>
5558
5559	<listitem>
5560	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
5561	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
5562	</listitem>
5563
5564	<listitem>
5565	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
5566	installed on the guest</para>
5567	</listitem>
5568
5569	<listitem>
5570	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
5571	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
5572	</listitem>
5573
5574	<listitem>
5575	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
5576	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
5581	(bug #2628)</para>
5582	</listitem>
5583
5584	<listitem>
5585	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
5586	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
5587	</listitem>
5588
5589	<listitem>
5590	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
5591	(bug #3657)</para>
5592	</listitem>
5593
5594	<listitem>
5595	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
5596	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
5597	</listitem>
5598
5599	<listitem>
5600	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
5601	virtualization only)
5602	</para>
5603	</listitem>
5604
5605	<listitem>
5606	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
5607	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
5608	</listitem>
5609
5610	<listitem>
5611	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
5612	</listitem>
5613
5614	<listitem>
5615	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
5616	networks (bug #3702)</para>
5617	</listitem>
5618
5619	<listitem>
5620	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
5621	bug #3689)</para>
5622	</listitem>
5623
5624	<listitem>
5625	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
5626	bug #3679)</para>
5627	</listitem>
5628
5629	<listitem>
5630	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
5631	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
5636	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
5637	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
5638	</listitem>
5639
5640	<listitem>
5641	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
5642	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
5643	</listitem>
5644
5645	<listitem>
5646	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
5647	lease (bug #3655)</para>
5648	</listitem>
5649
5650	<listitem>
5651	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
5652	(bug #3667)</para>
5653	</listitem>
5654
5655	<listitem>
5656	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
5657	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
5658	</listitem>
5659
5660	<listitem>
5661	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
5662	</listitem>
5663
5664	<listitem>
5665	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
5666	</listitem>
5667
5668	<listitem>
5669	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
5670	</listitem>
5671
5672	<listitem>
5673	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
5678	</listitem>
5679
5680	<listitem>
5681	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
5682	</listitem>
5683
5684	<listitem>
5685	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
5686	</listitem>
5687
5688	</itemizedlist>
5689	</sect1>
5690
5691	<sect1>
5692	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
5693
5694	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5695	were added:</para>
5696
5697	<itemizedlist>
5698
5699	<listitem>
5700	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
5701	</listitem>
5702
5703	<listitem>
5704	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
5705	</listitem>
5706
5707	<listitem>
5708	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
5709	</listitem>
5710
5711	<listitem>
5712	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
5713	</listitem>
5714
5715	<listitem>
5716	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
5717	</listitem>
5718
5719	<listitem>
5720	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
5721	</listitem>
5722
5723	<listitem>
5724	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
5725	</listitem>
5726
5727	<listitem>
5728	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
5729	</listitem>
5730
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5733	</listitem>
5734
5735	<listitem>
5736	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
5737	</listitem>
5738
5739	</itemizedlist>
5740
5741	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5742
5743	<itemizedlist>
5744
5745	<listitem>
5746	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
5747	</listitem>
5748
5749	<listitem>
5750	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
5751	</listitem>
5752
5753	<listitem>
5754	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
5755	</listitem>
5756
5757	<listitem>
5758	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
5759	</listitem>
5760
5761	<listitem>
5762	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	<listitem>
5766	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
5767	</listitem>
5768
5769	<listitem>
5770	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
5771	</listitem>
5772
5773	<listitem>
5774	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
5779	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
5780	</listitem>
5781
5782	<listitem>
5783	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
5784	</listitem>
5785
5786	<listitem>
5787	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
5788	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
5793	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
5798	</listitem>
5799
5800	<listitem>
5801	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
5802	</listitem>
5803
5804	<listitem>
5805	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
5806	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
5807	</listitem>
5808
5809	<listitem>
5810	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
5811	</listitem>
5812
5813	<listitem>
5814	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
5815	ESX server images)</para>
5816	</listitem>
5817
5818	<listitem>
5819	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
5820	writable</para>
5821	</listitem>
5822
5823	<listitem>
5824	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
5825	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
5826	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
5827	</listitem>
5828
5829	<listitem>
5830	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
5831	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
5832	</listitem>
5833
5834	<listitem>
5835	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
5836	</listitem>
5837
5838	<listitem>
5839	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
5840	</listitem>
5841
5842	<listitem>
5843	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
5844	hosts when creating files</para>
5845	</listitem>
5846
5847	<listitem>
5848	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
5849	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
5850	</listitem>
5851
5852	<listitem>
5853	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
5854	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
5855	#2306)</para>
5856	</listitem>
5857
5858	<listitem>
5859	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
5860	(bug #3555)</para>
5861	</listitem>
5862
5863	<listitem>
5864	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
5865	installer (bug #3524)</para>
5866	</listitem>
5867
5868	<listitem>
5869	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
5870	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
5871	</listitem>
5872
5873	<listitem>
5874	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
5875	interface (bug #3414)</para>
5876	</listitem>
5877
5878	<listitem>
5879	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
5880	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
5881	</listitem>
5882
5883	<listitem>
5884	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
5885	(bug #3586)</para>
5886	</listitem>
5887
5888	<listitem>
5889	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
5890	from Scratch systems</para>
5891	</listitem>
5892
5893	<listitem>
5894	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
5895	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
5896	</listitem>
5897
5898	<listitem>
5899	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
5900	</listitem>
5901
5902	<listitem>
5903	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
5904	default to compact format</para>
5905	</listitem>
5906
5907	<listitem>
5908	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
5909	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
5910	</listitem>
5911
5912	<listitem>
5913	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
5914	</listitem>
5915
5916	<listitem>
5917	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5918	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
5919	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
5920	</listitem>
5921
5922	<listitem>
5923	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
5924	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
5925	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
5926	</listitem>
5927
5928	<listitem>
5929	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
5930	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
5931	</listitem>
5932
5933	<listitem>
5934	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
5935	</listitem>
5936
5937	<listitem>
5938	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
5939	</listitem>
5940
5941	<listitem>
5942	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
5943	</listitem>
5944
5945	<listitem>
5946	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
5947	</listitem>
5948
5949	<listitem>
5950	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
5951	</listitem>
5952
5953	<listitem>
5954	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
5955	</listitem>
5956
5957	<listitem>
5958	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
5959	</listitem>
5960
5961	<listitem>
5962	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
5963	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
5964	</listitem>
5965
5966	<listitem>
5967	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
5968	</listitem>
5969
5970	<listitem>
5971	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
5972	regression; bug #2065)</para>
5973	</listitem>
5974
5975	<listitem>
5976	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
5977	</listitem>
5978
5979	<listitem>
5980	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
5981	</listitem>
5982
5983	<listitem>
5984	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
5985	</listitem>
5986
5987	<listitem>
5988	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
5989	#2536)</para>
5990	</listitem>
5991
5992	<listitem>
5993	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
5994	</listitem>
5995
5996	<listitem>
5997	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
5998	(bug #3548)</para>
5999	</listitem>
6000
6001	</itemizedlist>
6002	</sect1>
6003
6004	<sect1>
6005	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
6006
6007	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6008	added:</para>
6009
6010	<itemizedlist>
6011
6012	<listitem>
6013	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
6014	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
6015	</listitem>
6016
6017	<listitem>
6018	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
6019	</listitem>
6020
6021	<listitem>
6022	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
6023	</listitem>
6024
6025	<listitem>
6026	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
6027	</listitem>
6028
6029	<listitem>
6030	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
6031	(bug #3115)</para>
6032	</listitem>
6033
6034	<listitem>
6035	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
6036	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
6037	</listitem>
6038
6039	<listitem>
6040	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
6041	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
6042	(bug #3215)</para>
6043	</listitem>
6044
6045	<listitem>
6046	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
6047	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
6048	</listitem>
6049
6050	<listitem>
6051	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
6052	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
6053	</listitem>
6054
6055	<listitem>
6056	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
6057	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
6058	</listitem>
6059
6060	<listitem>
6061	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
6062	in parallel</para>
6063	</listitem>
6064
6065	<listitem>
6066	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
6067	</listitem>
6068
6069	<listitem>
6070	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
6071	</listitem>
6072
6073	<listitem>
6074	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
6075	</listitem>
6076
6077	<listitem>
6078	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
6079	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
6080	</listitem>
6081
6082	<listitem>
6083	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
6084	</listitem>
6085
6086	<listitem>
6087	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
6088	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
6089	</listitem>
6090
6091	<listitem>
6092	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
6093	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
6094	</listitem>
6095
6096	<listitem>
6097	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
6098	</listitem>
6099
6100	<listitem>
6101	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
6102	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
6103	</listitem>
6104
6105	<listitem>
6106	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
6107	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
6108	</listitem>
6109
6110	<listitem>
6111	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
6112	</listitem>
6113
6114	<listitem>
6115	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
6116	</listitem>
6117
6118	<listitem>
6119	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
6120	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
6121	</listitem>
6122
6123	<listitem>
6124	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
6125	</listitem>
6126
6127	<listitem>
6128	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
6129	</listitem>
6130
6131	<listitem>
6132	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
6133	</listitem>
6134
6135	<listitem>
6136	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
6137	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
6138	</listitem>
6139
6140	<listitem>
6141	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
6142	</listitem>
6143
6144	<listitem>
6145	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
6146	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
6147	</listitem>
6148
6149	<listitem>
6150	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
6151	</listitem>
6152
6153	<listitem>
6154	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
6155	</listitem>
6156
6157	<listitem>
6158	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
6159	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
6160	</listitem>
6161
6162	<listitem>
6163	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
6164	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
6165	</listitem>
6166
6167	<listitem>
6168	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
6169	</listitem>
6170
6171	<listitem>
6172	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
6173	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
6174	</listitem>
6175
6176	<listitem>
6177	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
6178	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
6179	</listitem>
6180
6181	<listitem>
6182	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
6183	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
6184	</listitem>
6185
6186	<listitem>
6187	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
6188	(bug #3213)</para>
6189	</listitem>
6190
6191	<listitem>
6192	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
6193	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
6194	</listitem>
6195
6196	<listitem>
6197	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
6198	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
6199	</listitem>
6200
6201	</itemizedlist>
6202	</sect1>
6203
6204	<sect1>
6205	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
6206
6207	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6208	added:</para>
6209
6210	<itemizedlist>
6211
6212	<listitem>
6213	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
6214	</listitem>
6215
6216	<listitem>
6217	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
6218	</listitem>
6219
6220	<listitem>
6221	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
6222	</listitem>
6223
6224	<listitem>
6225	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
6226	</listitem>
6227
6228	<listitem>
6229	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
6230	</listitem>
6231
6232	<listitem>
6233	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
6234	</listitem>
6235
6236	<listitem>
6237	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
6238	</listitem>
6239
6240	<listitem>
6241	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
6242	</listitem>
6243
6244	<listitem>
6245	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
6246	</listitem>
6247
6248	<listitem>
6249	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
6250	</listitem>
6251
6252	<listitem>
6253	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
6254	</listitem>
6255
6256	<listitem>
6257	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
6258	</listitem>
6259
6260	<listitem>
6261	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
6262	</listitem>
6263
6264	<listitem>
6265	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
6266	</listitem>
6267
6268	<listitem>
6269	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
6270	</listitem>
6271
6272	<listitem>
6273	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
6274	</listitem>
6275
6276	<listitem>
6277	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
6278	(bug #3067)</para>
6279	</listitem>
6280
6281	<listitem>
6282	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
6283	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
6284	</listitem>
6285
6286	<listitem>
6287	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
6288	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
6289	</listitem>
6290
6291	<listitem>
6292	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
6293	</listitem>
6294
6295	<listitem>
6296	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
6297	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
6298	</listitem>
6299
6300	<listitem>
6301	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
6302	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6303	</listitem>
6304
6305	<listitem>
6306	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
6307	</listitem>
6308
6309	<listitem>
6310	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
6311	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
6312	</listitem>
6313
6314	<listitem>
6315	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
6316	</listitem>
6317
6318	<listitem>
6319	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
6320	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
6321	</listitem>
6322
6323	<listitem>
6324	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
6325	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
6326	</listitem>
6327
6328	<listitem>
6329	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
6330	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
6331	</para>
6332	</listitem>
6333
6334	<listitem>
6335	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
6336	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
6337	</para>
6338	</listitem>
6339
6340	<listitem>
6341	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
6342	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
6343	</para>
6344	</listitem>
6345
6346	<listitem>
6347	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
6348	</listitem>
6349
6350	<listitem>
6351	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
6352	</listitem>
6353
6354	<listitem>
6355	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
6356	</listitem>
6357
6358	<listitem>
6359	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
6360	</listitem>
6361
6362	<listitem>
6363	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
6364	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
6365	</listitem>
6366
6367	<listitem>
6368	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
6369	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
6370	</listitem>
6371
6372	<listitem>
6373	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
6374	formatting a drive</para>
6375	</listitem>
6376
6377	<listitem>
6378	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
6379	</listitem>
6380
6381	<listitem>
6382	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
6383	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
6384	</listitem>
6385
6386	<listitem>
6387	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
6388	</listitem>
6389
6390	<listitem>
6391	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
6392	</listitem>
6393
6394	<listitem>
6395	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
6396	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
6397	</listitem>
6398
6399	<listitem>
6400	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
6401	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
6402	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
6403	</listitem>
6404
6405	<listitem>
6406	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
6407	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
6408	</listitem>
6409
6410	<listitem>
6411	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
6412	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
6413	</listitem>
6414
6415	<listitem>
6416	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
6417	(bug #2768)</para>
6418	</listitem>
6419
6420	<listitem>
6421	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
6422	</listitem>
6423
6424	<listitem>
6425	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
6426	</listitem>
6427
6428	<listitem>
6429	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
6430	single, unified package</para>
6431	</listitem>
6432
6433	<listitem>
6434	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
6435	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
6436	</listitem>
6437
6438	<listitem>
6439	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
6440	</listitem>
6441
6442	<listitem>
6443	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
6444	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
6445	</listitem>
6446
6447	<listitem>
6448	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
6449	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
6450	</listitem>
6451
6452	<listitem>
6453	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
6454	</listitem>
6455
6456	<listitem>
6457	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
6458	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
6459	doing 3D</para>
6460	</listitem>
6461
6462	<listitem>
6463	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
6464	</listitem>
6465
6466	<listitem>
6467	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
6468	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
6469	</listitem>
6470
6471	<listitem>
6472	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
6473	</listitem>
6474
6475	<listitem>
6476	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
6477	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
6478	</listitem>
6479
6480	<listitem>
6481	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
6482	</listitem>
6483
6484	<listitem>
6485	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
6486	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
6487	</listitem>
6488
6489	<listitem>
6490	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
6491	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
6492	(bug #2938)</para>
6493	</listitem>
6494
6495	<listitem>
6496	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
6497	Linux guests</para>
6498	</listitem>
6499
6500	<listitem>
6501	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
6502	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
6503	(bug #1776)</para>
6504	</listitem>
6505
6506	<listitem>
6507	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
6508	(bug #1612)</para>
6509	</listitem>
6510
6511	<listitem>
6512	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
6513	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
6514	</listitem>
6515
6516	<listitem>
6517	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
6518	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
6519	</listitem>
6520
6521	<listitem>
6522	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
6523	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
6524	</listitem>
6525
6526	</itemizedlist>
6527	</sect1>
6528
6529	<sect1>
6530	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
6531
6532	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6533	were added:</para>
6534
6535	<itemizedlist>
6536	<listitem>
6537	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6538	</listitem>
6539
6540	<listitem>
6541	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
6542	</listitem>
6543
6544	<listitem>
6545	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
6546	</listitem>
6547
6548	<listitem>
6549	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6550	</listitem>
6551
6552	<listitem>
6553	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
6554	</listitem>
6555
6556	<listitem>
6557	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
6558	</listitem>
6559
6560	<listitem>
6561	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
6562	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
6563	</listitem>
6564
6565	<listitem>
6566	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
6567	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
6568	</listitem>
6569
6570	</itemizedlist>
6571
6572	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6573
6574	<itemizedlist>
6575	<listitem>
6576	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
6577	</listitem>
6578
6579	<listitem>
6580	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
6581	</listitem>
6582
6583	<listitem>
6584	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
6585	</listitem>
6586
6587	<listitem>
6588	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
6589	</listitem>
6590
6591	<listitem>
6592	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
6593	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
6594	</listitem>
6595
6596	<listitem>
6597	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
6598	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
6599	</listitem>
6600
6601	<listitem>
6602	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
6603	</listitem>
6604
6605	<listitem>
6606	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
6607	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
6608	</listitem>
6609
6610	<listitem>
6611	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
6612	</listitem>
6613
6614	<listitem>
6615	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
6616	</listitem>
6617
6618	<listitem>
6619	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
6620	</listitem>
6621
6622	<listitem>
6623	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
6624	</listitem>
6625
6626	<listitem>
6627	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
6628	</listitem>
6629
6630	<listitem>
6631	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
6632	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
6633	</listitem>
6634
6635	<listitem>
6636	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
6637	the compiz window manager</para>
6638	</listitem>
6639
6640	<listitem>
6641	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
6642	</listitem>
6643
6644	<listitem>
6645	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
6646	</listitem>
6647
6648	<listitem>
6649	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
6650	</listitem>
6651
6652	<listitem>
6653	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
6654	</listitem>
6655
6656	<listitem>
6657	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
6658	</listitem>
6659
6660	<listitem>
6661	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
6662	</listitem>
6663
6664	<listitem>
6665	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
6666	</listitem>
6667
6668	<listitem>
6669	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
6670	</listitem>
6671
6672	<listitem>
6673	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
6674	</listitem>
6675
6676	<listitem>
6677	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
6678	of two (bug #2724)</para>
6679	</listitem>
6680
6681	<listitem>
6682	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
6683	for direct device access</para>
6684	</listitem>
6685
6686	<listitem>
6687	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
6688	</listitem>
6689
6690	<listitem>
6691	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
6692	</listitem>
6693
6694	<listitem>
6695	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
6696	</listitem>
6697
6698	<listitem>
6699	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
6700	</listitem>
6701
6702	<listitem>
6703	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
6704	</listitem>
6705
6706	<listitem>
6707	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
6708	</listitem>
6709
6710	<listitem>
6711	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
6712	</listitem>
6713
6714	<listitem>
6715	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
6716	</listitem>
6717
6718	</itemizedlist>
6719	</sect1>
6720
6721	<sect1>
6722	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
6723
6724	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6725	added:</para>
6726
6727	<itemizedlist>
6728
6729	<listitem>
6730	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
6731	states/snapshots</para>
6732	</listitem>
6733
6734	<listitem>
6735	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
6736	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
6737	</listitem>
6738
6739	<listitem>
6740	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
6741	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
6742	</listitem>
6743
6744	<listitem>
6745	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
6746	collisions</para>
6747	</listitem>
6748
6749	<listitem>
6750	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
6751	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
6752	</listitem>
6753
6754	<listitem>
6755	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
6756	</listitem>
6757
6758	<listitem>
6759	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
6760	reliably</para>
6761	</listitem>
6762
6763	<listitem>
6764	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
6765	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
6766	</listitem>
6767
6768	<listitem>
6769	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
6770	a reboot</para>
6771	</listitem>
6772
6773	<listitem>
6774	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
6775	</listitem>
6776
6777	<listitem>
6778	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
6779	in parallel</para>
6780	</listitem>
6781
6782	<listitem>
6783	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
6784	</listitem>
6785
6786	<listitem>
6787	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
6788	correctly</para>
6789	</listitem>
6790
6791	<listitem>
6792	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
6793	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
6794	</listitem>
6795
6796	</itemizedlist>
6797	</sect1>
6798
6799	<sect1>
6800	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
6801
6802	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6803	added:</para>
6804
6805	<itemizedlist>
6806
6807	<listitem>
6808	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
6809	(bug #2220)</para>
6810	</listitem>
6811
6812	<listitem>
6813	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
6814	</listitem>
6815
6816	<listitem>
6817	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
6818	</listitem>
6819
6820	<listitem>
6821	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
6822	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
6823	</listitem>
6824
6825	<listitem>
6826	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
6827	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
6828	</listitem>
6829
6830	<listitem>
6831	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
6832	(bug #2624)</para>
6833	</listitem>
6834
6835	<listitem>
6836	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
6837	(bug #2024)</para>
6838	</listitem>
6839
6840	<listitem>
6841	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
6842	</listitem>
6843
6844	<listitem>
6845	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
6846	</listitem>
6847
6848	<listitem>
6849	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
6850	</listitem>
6851
6852	<listitem>
6853	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
6854	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
6855	</listitem>
6856
6857	<listitem>
6858	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
6859	applications when updating the installation</para>
6860	</listitem>
6861
6862	<listitem>
6863	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
6864	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
6865	</listitem>
6866
6867	<listitem>
6868	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
6869	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
6870	</listitem>
6871
6872	<listitem>
6873	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
6874	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
6875	</listitem>
6876
6877	<listitem>
6878	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
6879	connected to a host device</para>
6880	</listitem>
6881
6882	<listitem>
6883	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
6884	</listitem>
6885
6886	<listitem>
6887	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
6888	</listitem>
6889
6890	<listitem>
6891	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
6892	</listitem>
6893
6894	<listitem>
6895	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
6896	when using native RDP connections</para>
6897	</listitem>
6898
6899	<listitem>
6900	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
6901	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
6902	</listitem>
6903
6904	<listitem>
6905	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
6906	(bug #2591)</para>
6907	</listitem>
6908
6909	<listitem>
6910	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
6911	guests (bug #2550)</para>
6912	</listitem>
6913
6914	<listitem>
6915	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
6916	</listitem>
6917
6918	</itemizedlist>
6919	</sect1>
6920
6921	<sect1>
6922	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
6923
6924	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6925	added:</para>
6926
6927	<itemizedlist>
6928	<listitem>
6929	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
6930	</listitem>
6931
6932	<listitem>
6933	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
6934	</listitem>
6935
6936	<listitem>
6937	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
6938	</listitem>
6939
6940	<listitem>
6941	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
6942	</listitem>
6943
6944	<listitem>
6945	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
6946	</listitem>
6947
6948	<listitem>
6949	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
6950	</listitem>
6951
6952	<listitem>
6953	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
6954	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
6955	</listitem>
6956
6957	<listitem>
6958	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
6959	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
6960	</listitem>
6961
6962	<listitem>
6963	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
6964	</listitem>
6965
6966	<listitem>
6967	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
6968	equal to the client resolution</para>
6969	</listitem>
6970
6971	<listitem>
6972	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
6973	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
6974	</listitem>
6975
6976	<listitem>
6977	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
6978	</listitem>
6979
6980	<listitem>
6981	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
6982	</listitem>
6983
6984	<listitem>
6985	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
6986	</listitem>
6987
6988	<listitem>
6989	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
6990	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
6991	</listitem>
6992
6993	<listitem>
6994	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
6995	networking (bug #2474)</para>
6996	</listitem>
6997
6998	<listitem>
6999	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
7000	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
7001	</listitem>
7002
7003	<listitem>
7004	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
7005	</listitem>
7006
7007	<listitem>
7008	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
7009	</listitem>
7010
7011	<listitem>
7012	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
7013	</listitem>
7014
7015	<listitem>
7016	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
7017	</listitem>
7018
7019	<listitem>
7020	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
7021	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
7022	</listitem>
7023
7024	<listitem>
7025	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
7026	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
7027	</listitem>
7028
7029	<listitem>
7030	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
7031	</listitem>
7032
7033	<listitem>
7034	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
7035	</listitem>
7036
7037	<listitem>
7038	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
7039	</listitem>
7040
7041	</itemizedlist>
7042
7043	</sect1>
7044
7045	<sect1>
7046	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
7047
7048	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7049	added:</para>
7050
7051	<itemizedlist>
7052
7053	<listitem>
7054	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
7055	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
7056	</listitem>
7057
7058	<listitem>
7059	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
7060	</listitem>
7061
7062	<listitem>
7063	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
7064	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
7065	</listitem>
7066
7067	<listitem>
7068	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
7069	</listitem>
7070
7071	<listitem>
7072	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
7073	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
7074	</listitem>
7075
7076	<listitem>
7077	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
7078	</listitem>
7079
7080	<listitem>
7081	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
7082	the virtual disk manager</para>
7083	</listitem>
7084
7085	<listitem>
7086	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
7087	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
7088	</listitem>
7089
7090	<listitem>
7091	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
7092	</listitem>
7093
7094	<listitem>
7095	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
7096	</listitem>
7097
7098	<listitem>
7099	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
7100	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
7101	</listitem>
7102
7103	<listitem>
7104	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
7105	bug #2067)</para>
7106	</listitem>
7107
7108	<listitem>
7109	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
7110	</listitem>
7111
7112	<listitem>
7113	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
7114	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
7115	</listitem>
7116
7117	<listitem>
7118	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
7119	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
7120	(bug #2184)</para>
7121	</listitem>
7122
7123	<listitem>
7124	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
7125	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
7126	</listitem>
7127
7128	<listitem>
7129	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
7130	(Windows guests only)</para>
7131	</listitem>
7132
7133	<listitem>
7134	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
7135	</listitem>
7136
7137	<listitem>
7138	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7139	</listitem>
7140
7141	<listitem>
7142	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
7143	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
7144	</listitem>
7145
7146	<listitem>
7147	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
7148	</listitem>
7149
7150	<listitem>
7151	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
7152	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
7153	</para>
7154	</listitem>
7155
7156	<listitem>
7157	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
7158	</listitem>
7159
7160	<listitem>
7161	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
7162	</listitem>
7163
7164	<listitem>
7165	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
7166	a VM reboot</para>
7167	</listitem>
7168
7169	<listitem>
7170	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
7171	</listitem>
7172
7173	<listitem>
7174	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
7175	buggy X servers</para>
7176	</listitem>
7177
7178	<listitem>
7179	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
7180	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
7181	</listitem>
7182
7183	<listitem>
7184	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
7185	</listitem>
7186
7187	<listitem>
7188	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
7189	(bug #2128)</para>
7190	</listitem>
7191
7192	<listitem>
7193	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
7194	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
7195	</listitem>
7196
7197	<listitem>
7198	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
7199	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
7200	</listitem>
7201
7202	<listitem>
7203	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
7204	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
7205	</listitem>
7206
7207	<listitem>
7208	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
7209	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
7210	</listitem>
7211
7212	<listitem>
7213	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
7214	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
7215	</listitem>
7216
7217	<listitem>
7218	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
7219	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
7220	</listitem>
7221
7222	<listitem>
7223	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
7224	installer into a single package</para>
7225	</listitem>
7226
7227	<listitem>
7228	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
7229	port to the guest
7230	</para>
7231	</listitem>
7232
7233	</itemizedlist>
7234
7235	</sect1>
7236
7237	<sect1>
7238	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
7239
7240	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7241	were added:<itemizedlist>
7242
7243	<listitem>
7244	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
7245	</listitem>
7246
7247	<listitem>
7248	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7249	</listitem>
7250
7251	<listitem>
7252	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
7253	</listitem>
7254
7255	<listitem>
7256	<para>New-version notifier</para>
7257	</listitem>
7258
7259	<listitem>
7260	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
7261	</listitem>
7262
7263	<listitem>
7264	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7265	</listitem>
7266
7267	<listitem>
7268	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
7269	</listitem>
7270
7271	<listitem>
7272	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
7273	</listitem>
7274
7275	<listitem>
7276	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
7277	</listitem>
7278
7279	<listitem>
7280	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
7281	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
7282	</listitem>
7283
7284	<listitem>
7285	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
7286	</listitem>
7287
7288	<listitem>
7289	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
7290	</listitem>
7291
7292	<listitem>
7293	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
7294	</listitem>
7295
7296	</itemizedlist></para>
7297
7298	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7299
7300	<itemizedlist>
7301
7302	<listitem>
7303	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
7304	</listitem>
7305
7306	<listitem>
7307	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
7308	</listitem>
7309
7310	<listitem>
7311	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
7312	</listitem>
7313
7314	<listitem>
7315	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
7316	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
7317	</listitem>
7318
7319	<listitem>
7320	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
7321	restored</para>
7322	</listitem>
7323
7324	<listitem>
7325	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
7326	</listitem>
7327
7328	<listitem>
7329	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
7330	</listitem>
7331
7332	<listitem>
7333	<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>
7334	</listitem>
7335
7336	</itemizedlist>
7337
7338	</sect1>
7339
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