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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>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
13	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
14	</listitem>
15
16	<listitem>
17	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
18	</listitem>
19
20	<listitem>
21	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
22	</listitem>
23
24	</itemizedlist>
25
26	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
27
28	<itemizedlist>
29
30	<listitem>
31	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
32	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
33	</listitem>
34
35	<listitem>
36	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
37	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
38	</listitem>
39
40	<listitem>
41	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support</para>
42	</listitem>
43
44	<listitem>
45	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content</para>
46	</listitem>
47
48	<listitem>
49	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	<listitem>
53	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
54	</listitem>
55
56	<listitem>
57	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
58	</listitem>
59
60	<listitem>
61	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
62	guests</para>
63	</listitem>
64
65	<listitem>
66	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
67	separator character in its name (bug 6541#)</para>
68	</listitem>
69
70	<listitem>
71	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
72	</listitem>
73
74	<listitem>
75	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
76	</listitem>
77
78	</itemizedlist>
79	</sect1>
80
81	<sect1>
82	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
83
84	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
85	added:</para>
86
87	<itemizedlist>
88
89	<listitem>
90	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
91	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
92	(bug #3783)</para>
93	</listitem>
94
95	<listitem>
96	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
97	</listitem>
98
99	<listitem>
100	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
101	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
102	</listitem>
103
104	<listitem>
105	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
106	</listitem>
107
108	</itemizedlist>
109
110	</sect1>
111
112	<sect1>
113	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
114
115	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
116	added:</para>
117
118	<itemizedlist>
119
120	<listitem>
121	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
122	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
123	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
128	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
129	</listitem>
130
131	<listitem>
132	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
133	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
134	</listitem>
135
136	<listitem>
137	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
138	</listitem>
139
140	<listitem>
141	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
142	</listitem>
143
144	<listitem>
145	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
146	4.1.10 regression)</para>
147	</listitem>
148
149	<listitem>
150	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
151	</listitem>
152
153	<listitem>
154	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
155	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
156	</listitem>
157
158	<listitem>
159	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
160	</listitem>
161
162	<listitem>
163	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
164	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
165	</listitem>
166
167	<listitem>
168	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
169	4.1.10 regression)</para>
170	</listitem>
171
172	<listitem>
173	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
174	closed (bug #6473)</para>
175	</listitem>
176
177	<listitem>
178	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
179	properly installed</para>
180	</listitem>
181
182	<listitem>
183	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
184	</listitem>
185
186	</itemizedlist>
187	</sect1>
188
189	<sect1>
190	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
191
192	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
193	added:</para>
194
195	<itemizedlist>
196
197	<listitem>
198	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
199	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
200	</listitem>
201
202	<listitem>
203	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
204	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
205	</listitem>
206
207	<listitem>
208	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
209	fusion</para>
210	</listitem>
211
212	<listitem>
213	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
214	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
215	</listitem>
216
217	<listitem>
218	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
219	and network mask attributes</para>
220	</listitem>
221
222	<listitem>
223	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
224	(bug #10030)</para>
225	</listitem>
226
227	<listitem>
228	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
229	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
230	</listitem>
231
232	<listitem>
233	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
234	</listitem>
235
236	<listitem>
237	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
238	</listitem>
239
240	<listitem>
241	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
242	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
243	</listitem>
244
245	<listitem>
246	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
247	</listitem>
248
249	<listitem>
250	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
251	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
252	</listitem>
253
254	<listitem>
255	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
256	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
257	</listitem>
258
259	<listitem>
260	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
261	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
262	</listitem>
263
264	<listitem>
265	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
266	</listitem>
267
268	<listitem>
269	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
270	</listitem>
271
272	<listitem>
273	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
274	</listitem>
275
276	<listitem>
277	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
278	</listitem>
279
280	<listitem>
281	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
282	</listitem>
283
284	<listitem>
285	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
286	</listitem>
287
288	<listitem>
289	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
290	in a zone</para>
291	</listitem>
292
293	<listitem>
294	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
295	</listitem>
296
297	<listitem>
298	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
299	(bug #9651)</para>
300	</listitem>
301
302	<listitem>
303	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
304	</listitem>
305
306	<listitem>
307	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
308	#10010)</para>
309	</listitem>
310
311	<listitem>
312	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
313	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
314	</listitem>
315
316	<listitem>
317	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
318	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
319	</listitem>
320
321	<listitem>
322	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
323	</listitem>
324
325	<listitem>
326	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
327	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
328	</listitem>
329
330	<listitem>
331	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
332	(bug #10151)</para>
333	</listitem>
334
335	<listitem>
336	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
337	guests.</para>
338	</listitem>
339
340	<listitem>
341	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
342	</listitem>
343
344	<listitem>
345	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
346	</listitem>
347
348	<listitem>
349	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
350	</listitem>
351
352	</itemizedlist>
353	</sect1>
354
355	<sect1>
356	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
357
358	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
359	added:</para>
360
361	<itemizedlist>
362
363	<listitem>
364	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
365	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
366	</listitem>
367
368	<listitem>
369	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
370	</listitem>
371
372	<listitem>
373	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
374	(bug #9642)</para>
375	</listitem>
376
377	<listitem>
378	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
379	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
380	</para>
381	</listitem>
382
383	<listitem>
384	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
385	</listitem>
386
387	<listitem>
388	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
389	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
390	</listitem>
391
392	<listitem>
393	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
394	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
395	</listitem>
396
397	<listitem>
398	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
399	</listitem>
400
401	<listitem>
402	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
403	</listitem>
404
405	<listitem>
406	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
407	</listitem>
408
409	<listitem>
410	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
411	circumstances</para>
412	</listitem>
413
414	<listitem>
415	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
416	</listitem>
417
418	<listitem>
419	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
420	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
421	</listitem>
422
423	<listitem>
424	<para>3D Support: Fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
425	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
426	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
427	and for 3D support in general</para>
428	</listitem>
429
430	<listitem>
431	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
436	</listitem>
437
438	<listitem>
439	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
440	</listitem>
441
442	<listitem>
443	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
444	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
445	</listitem>
446
447	</itemizedlist>
448	</sect1>
449
450	<sect1>
451	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
452
453	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
454	added:</para>
455
456	<itemizedlist>
457
458	<listitem>
459	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
460	</listitem>
461
462	<listitem>
463	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
464	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
465	</listitem>
466
467	<listitem>
468	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
469	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
470	</listitem>
471
472	<listitem>
473	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
474	certain guests</para>
475	</listitem>
476
477	<listitem>
478	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
479	</listitem>
480
481	<listitem>
482	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
483	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
484	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
485	</listitem>
486
487	<listitem>
488	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
489	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
490	</listitem>
491
492	<listitem>
493	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
494	</listitem>
495
496	<listitem>
497	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
498	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
499	</listitem>
500
501	<listitem>
502	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
503	</listitem>
504
505	<listitem>
506	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
507	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
508	</listitem>
509
510	<listitem>
511	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
512	guests</para>
513	</listitem>
514
515	<listitem>
516	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
517	folders</para>
518	</listitem>
519
520	<listitem>
521	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
522	shared folders</para>
523	</listitem>
524
525	<listitem>
526	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
527	users and stale sessions</para>
528	</listitem>
529
530	<listitem>
531	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
532	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
533	</listitem>
534
535	</itemizedlist>
536	</sect1>
537
538	<sect1>
539	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
540
541	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
542	added:</para>
543
544	<itemizedlist>
545
546	<listitem>
547	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
548	bug #9458)</para>
549	</listitem>
550
551	<listitem>
552	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
553	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
554	</listitem>
555
556	<listitem>
557	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
558	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
559	</listitem>
560
561	<listitem>
562	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
563	</listitem>
564
565	<listitem>
566	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
567	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
568	</listitem>
569
570	<listitem>
571	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
572	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
573	</listitem>
574
575	<listitem>
576	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
577	(bug #9308)</para>
578	</listitem>
579
580	<listitem>
581	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
582	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
583	</listitem>
584
585	<listitem>
586	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
587	(bug #9503)</para>
588	</listitem>
589
590	<listitem>
591	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
592	(bug #9242)</para>
593	</listitem>
594
595	<listitem>
596	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
597	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
598	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
599	</listitem>
600
601	<listitem>
602	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
603	</listitem>
604
605	<listitem>
606	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
607	images</para>
608	</listitem>
609
610	<listitem>
611	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
612	(Windows hosts only)</para>
613	</listitem>
614
615	<listitem>
616	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
617	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
618	</listitem>
619
620	<listitem>
621	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
622	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
623	</listitem>
624
625	<listitem>
626	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
627	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
628	</listitem>
629
630	<listitem>
631	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
632	#9387)</para>
633	</listitem>
634
635	<listitem>
636	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
637	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
638	</listitem>
639
640	<listitem>
641	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
642	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
643	</listitem>
644
645	<listitem>
646	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
647	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
648	</listitem>
649
650	<listitem>
651	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
652	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
653	</listitem>
654
655	<listitem>
656	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
657	</listitem>
658
659	<listitem>
660	<para>Guest control: Miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
661	</listitem>
662
663	<listitem>
664	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
665	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
666	</listitem>
667
668	<listitem>
669	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
670	(bug #1578)</para>
671	</listitem>
672
673	<listitem>
674	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
675	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
676	</listitem>
677
678	<listitem>
679	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
680	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
681	</listitem>
682
683	<listitem>
684	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
685	(bug #9535)</para>
686	</listitem>
687
688	<listitem>
689	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
690	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
691	</listitem>
692
693	<listitem>
694	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
695	help file (bug #9646)</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
700	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
701	</listitem>
702
703	<listitem>
704	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
705	console window (bug #3549)</para>
706	</listitem>
707
708	<listitem>
709	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
710	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
711	</listitem>
712
713	<listitem>
714	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
715	</para>
716	</listitem>
717
718	<listitem>
719	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
720	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
721	</para>
722	</listitem>
723
724	<listitem>
725	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
726	(bug #6229)
727	</para>
728	</listitem>
729
730	<listitem>
731	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
732	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
733	</listitem>
734
735	<listitem>
736	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
737	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
738	</listitem>
739
740	<listitem>
741	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
742	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
743	</listitem>
744
745	<listitem>
746	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
747	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
748	</listitem>
749
750	<listitem>
751	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
752	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
757	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
758	</listitem>
759
760	<listitem>
761	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
762	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
763	</listitem>
764
765	<listitem>
766	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
767	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
768	</listitem>
769
770	</itemizedlist>
771	</sect1>
772
773	<sect1>
774	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
775
776	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
777	added:</para>
778
779	<itemizedlist>
780
781	<listitem>
782	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
783	</listitem>
784
785	<listitem>
786	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
787	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
788	</listitem>
789
790	<listitem>
791	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
792	</listitem>
793
794	<listitem>
795	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
796	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
797	</listitem>
798
799	<listitem>
800	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
801	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
802	</listitem>
803
804	<listitem>
805	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
806	a live snapshot</para>
807	</listitem>
808
809	<listitem>
810	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
811	due to a library version conflict</para>
812	</listitem>
813
814	<listitem>
815	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
816	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
817	</listitem>
818
819	<listitem>
820	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
821	at a time by default</para>
822	</listitem>
823
824	<listitem>
825	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
826	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
827	#9368)</para>
828	</listitem>
829
830	<listitem>
831	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
832	registered (bug #9303)</para>
833	</listitem>
834
835	<listitem>
836	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
837	VMs</para>
838	</listitem>
839
840	<listitem>
841	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
842	creation (bug #9379)</para>
843	</listitem>
844
845	<listitem>
846	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
847	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
848	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
853	(bug #9308)</para>
854	</listitem>
855
856	<listitem>
857	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
858	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
859	</listitem>
860
861	<listitem>
862	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
863	</listitem>
864
865	<listitem>
866	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
867	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
868	</listitem>
869
870	<listitem>
871	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
872	(bug #9242)</para>
873	</listitem>
874
875	<listitem>
876	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
877	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
878	</listitem>
879
880	<listitem>
881	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
882	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
887	USB devices</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
892	and warn about it</para>
893	</listitem>
894
895	<listitem>
896	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
897	</listitem>
898
899	<listitem>
900	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
901	</listitem>
902
903	<listitem>
904	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
905	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
906	</listitem>
907
908	<listitem>
909	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
910	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
911	</listitem>
912
913	<listitem>
914	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
915	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
916	</listitem>
917
918	<listitem>
919	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
920	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
921	</listitem>
922
923	<listitem>
924	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
925	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
926	</listitem>
927
928	<listitem>
929	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
930	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
935	2.6.37 and above</para>
936	</listitem>
937
938	</itemizedlist>
939	</sect1>
940
941	<sect1>
942	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
943
944	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
945	were added:</para>
946
947	<itemizedlist>
948
949	<listitem>
950	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
951	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
952	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
953	</listitem>
954
955	<listitem>
956	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
957	</listitem>
958
959	<listitem>
960	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
961	</listitem>
962
963	<listitem>
964	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
965	bug #7822)</para>
966	</listitem>
967
968	<listitem>
969	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	<listitem>
973	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
974	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
975	</listitem>
976
977	<listitem>
978	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
979	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
980	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
981	anymore)</para>
982	</listitem>
983
984	<listitem>
985	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
986	queried separately by the frontends</para>
987	</listitem>
988
989	<listitem>
990	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
991	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
992	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
993	</listitem>
994
995	<listitem>
996	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
997	</para>
998	</listitem>
999
1000	<listitem>
1001	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1002	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1003	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1004	</listitem>
1005
1006	<listitem>
1007	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1008	with VBoxManage</para>
1009	</listitem>
1010
1011	<listitem>
1012	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1013	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1014	</listitem>
1015
1016
1017	</itemizedlist>
1018
1019	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1020
1021	<itemizedlist>
1022
1023	<listitem>
1024	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1025	</listitem>
1026
1027	<listitem>
1028	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1033	</listitem>
1034
1035	<listitem>
1036	<para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1037	of the current state</para>
1038	</listitem>
1039
1040	<listitem>
1041	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1042	</listitem>
1043
1044	<listitem>
1045	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1046	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1047	</listitem>
1048
1049	<listitem>
1050	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1051	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1052	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1053	</listitem>
1054
1055	<listitem>
1056	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1057	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1058	</listitem>
1059
1060	<listitem>
1061	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1062	</listitem>
1063
1064	<listitem>
1065	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1066	</listitem>
1067
1068	<listitem>
1069	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1070	dialog</para>
1071	</listitem>
1072
1073	<listitem>
1074	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1075	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1076	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1077	</listitem>
1078
1079	<listitem>
1080	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1081	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1082	</listitem>
1083
1084	<listitem>
1085	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1086	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1087	</listitem>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1091	be a valid UUID</para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1096	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1101	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1102	cases</para>
1103	</listitem>
1104
1105	<listitem>
1106	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1107	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1108	improve performance</para>
1109	</listitem>
1110
1111	<listitem>
1112	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1113	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1114	on a temporary basis</para>
1115	</listitem>
1116
1117	<listitem>
1118	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1119	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1120	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1121	</listitem>
1122
1123	<listitem>
1124	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1125	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1126	</listitem>
1127
1128	<listitem>
1129	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1130	images in VDI format</para>
1131	</listitem>
1132
1133	<listitem>
1134	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1135	VMDK format</para>
1136	</listitem>
1137
1138	<listitem>
1139	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1140	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1141	</listitem>
1142
1143	<listitem>
1144	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1153	</listitem>
1154
1155	<listitem>
1156	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1157	</listitem>
1158
1159	<listitem>
1160	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1161	</listitem>
1162
1163	<listitem>
1164	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1165	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1166	</listitem>
1167
1168	<listitem>
1169	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1170	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1171	</listitem>
1172
1173	<listitem>
1174	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1175	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1176	</listitem>
1177
1178	<listitem>
1179	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1180	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1181	</listitem>
1182
1183	<listitem>
1184	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1185	RDP clients</para>
1186	</listitem>
1187
1188	<listitem>
1189	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1190	</listitem>
1191
1192	<listitem>
1193	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1194	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1195	</listitem>
1196
1197	<listitem>
1198	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1199	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1200	</listitem>
1201
1202	<listitem>
1203	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1204	simultaneously</para>
1205	</listitem>
1206
1207	<listitem>
1208	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1209	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1210	location values in many places</para>
1211	</listitem>
1212
1213	<listitem>
1214	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1215	</listitem>
1216
1217	<listitem>
1218	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1219	builds</para>
1220	</listitem>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1224	</listitem>
1225
1226	<listitem>
1227	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1228	window (bug #4491)</para>
1229	</listitem>
1230
1231	<listitem>
1232	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1233	removing a VM</para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1238	</listitem>
1239
1240	<listitem>
1241	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1242	</listitem>
1243
1244	<listitem>
1245	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1246	166 and above)</para>
1247	</listitem>
1248
1249	<listitem>
1250	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1251	hosts</para>
1252	</listitem>
1253
1254	<listitem>
1255	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1256	</listitem>
1257
1258	<listitem>
1259	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1260	from the host</para>
1261	</listitem>
1262
1263	<listitem>
1264	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	</itemizedlist>
1268
1269	</sect1>
1270
1271	<sect1>
1272	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1273
1274	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1275	added:</para>
1276
1277	<itemizedlist>
1278
1279	<listitem>
1280	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1281	</listitem>
1282
1283	<listitem>
1284	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1285	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1286	</listitem>
1287
1288	<listitem>
1289	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1290	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1291	</listitem>
1292
1293	<listitem>
1294	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1295	a live snapshot</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1300	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1301	</listitem>
1302
1303	<listitem>
1304	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1305	</listitem>
1306
1307	<listitem>
1308	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1309	</listitem>
1310
1311	<listitem>
1312	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1313	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1314	</listitem>
1315
1316	<listitem>
1317	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1318	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1319	</listitem>
1320
1321	<listitem>
1322	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1323	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1324	</listitem>
1325
1326	<listitem>
1327	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1328	</listitem>
1329
1330	<listitem>
1331	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1332	images</para>
1333	</listitem>
1334
1335	<listitem>
1336	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1337	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1338	</listitem>
1339	<listitem>
1340	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1341	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1342	</listitem>
1343
1344	<listitem>
1345	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1346	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1347	</listitem>
1348
1349	<listitem>
1350	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1351	</listitem>
1352
1353	<listitem>
1354	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1355	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1356	</listitem>
1357
1358	<listitem>
1359	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1360	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1361	</listitem>
1362
1363	<listitem>
1364	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1365	</listitem>
1366
1367	<listitem>
1368	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1369	(bug #9370)</para>
1370	</listitem>
1371
1372	<listitem>
1373	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1374	(bug #9535)</para>
1375	</listitem>
1376
1377	<listitem>
1378	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1379	(bug #1578)</para>
1380	</listitem>
1381
1382	<listitem>
1383	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1384	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1385	</listitem>
1386
1387	<listitem>
1388	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1389	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1390	</para>
1391	</listitem>
1392
1393	<listitem>
1394	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1395	</para>
1396	</listitem>
1397
1398	<listitem>
1399	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1400	2.6.37 and above</para>
1401	</listitem>
1402
1403	<listitem>
1404	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1405	(bug #6229)</para>
1406	</listitem>
1407
1408	<listitem>
1409	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1410	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1411	</listitem>
1412
1413	</itemizedlist>
1414	</sect1>
1415
1416	<sect1>
1417	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1418
1419	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1420	added:</para>
1421
1422	<itemizedlist>
1423
1424	<listitem>
1425	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1426	</listitem>
1427
1428	<listitem>
1429	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1430	166 and above)</para>
1431	</listitem>
1432
1433	<listitem>
1434	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1435	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1436	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1437	</listitem>
1438
1439	<listitem>
1440	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1441	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1442	</listitem>
1443
1444	<listitem>
1445	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1446	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1447	</listitem>
1448
1449	<listitem>
1450	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1451	</listitem>
1452
1453	<listitem>
1454	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1455	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1456	</listitem>
1457
1458	<listitem>
1459	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1460	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1461	</listitem>
1462
1463	<listitem>
1464	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1465	builds</para>
1466	</listitem>
1467
1468	<listitem>
1469	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1470	</listitem>
1471
1472	</itemizedlist>
1473	</sect1>
1474	<sect1>
1475	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1476
1477	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1478	added:</para>
1479
1480	<itemizedlist>
1481
1482	<listitem>
1483	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1484	</listitem>
1485
1486	<listitem>
1487	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1488	</listitem>
1489
1490	<listitem>
1491	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1492	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1497	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1502	</listitem>
1503
1504	<listitem>
1505	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1506	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1507	</listitem>
1508
1509	<listitem>
1510	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1511	</listitem>
1512
1513	<listitem>
1514	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1515	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1516	</listitem>
1517
1518	<listitem>
1519	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1520	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1521	</listitem>
1522
1523	<listitem>
1524	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1525	</listitem>
1526
1527	<listitem>
1528	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1529	</listitem>
1530
1531	<listitem>
1532	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1533	file was not written during export</para>
1534	</listitem>
1535
1536	<listitem>
1537	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1538	</listitem>
1539
1540	<listitem>
1541	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1542	</listitem>
1543
1544	<listitem>
1545	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1546	</listitem>
1547
1548	<listitem>
1549	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1550	binaries</para>
1551	</listitem>
1552
1553	<listitem>
1554	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1555	</listitem>
1556
1557	<listitem>
1558	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1559	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1560	</listitem>
1561
1562	<listitem>
1563	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1564	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1565	</listitem>
1566
1567	<listitem>
1568	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1569	</listitem>
1570
1571	<listitem>
1572	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1573	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1574	</listitem>
1575
1576	</itemizedlist>
1577	</sect1>
1578
1579	<sect1>
1580	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1581
1582	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1583	added:</para>
1584
1585	<itemizedlist>
1586
1587	<listitem>
1588	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1589	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1590	</listitem>
1591
1592	<listitem>
1593	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1594	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1595	</listitem>
1596
1597	<listitem>
1598	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1599	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1600	</listitem>
1601
1602	<listitem>
1603	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1604	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1605	</listitem>
1606
1607	<listitem>
1608	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
1609	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
1610	</listitem>
1611
1612	<listitem>
1613	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
1614	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
1615	</listitem>
1616
1617	<listitem>
1618	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
1619	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1620	</listitem>
1621
1622	<listitem>
1623	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
1624	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
1625	</listitem>
1626
1627	<listitem>
1628	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
1629	</listitem>
1630
1631	<listitem>
1632	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
1633	</listitem>
1634
1635	<listitem>
1636	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
1637	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
1638	</listitem>
1639
1640	<listitem>
1641	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
1642	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
1643	</listitem>
1644
1645	<listitem>
1646	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
1647	</listitem>
1648
1649	<listitem>
1650	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
1651	</listitem>
1652
1653	<listitem>
1654	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
1655	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1656	</listitem>
1657
1658	<listitem>
1659	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
1660	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1661	</listitem>
1662
1663	<listitem>
1664	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
1665	window</para>
1666	</listitem>
1667
1668	<listitem>
1669	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
1670	Fedora 15</para>
1671	</listitem>
1672
1673	<listitem>
1674	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
1675	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1676	</listitem>
1677
1678	<listitem>
1679	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
1680	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
1681	</listitem>
1682
1683	<listitem>
1684	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
1685	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
1686	</listitem>
1687
1688	<listitem>
1689	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
1690	</listitem>
1691
1692	<listitem>
1693	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
1694	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
1695	</listitem>
1696
1697	</itemizedlist>
1698	</sect1>
1699
1700	<sect1>
1701	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
1702
1703	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1704	added:</para>
1705
1706	<itemizedlist>
1707
1708	<listitem>
1709	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
1710	a VMM from a saved state</para>
1711	</listitem>
1712
1713	<listitem>
1714	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
1715	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
1716	</listitem>
1717
1718	<listitem>
1719	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
1720	(bug #8006)</para>
1721	</listitem>
1722
1723	<listitem>
1724	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
1725	(bug #8726)</para>
1726	</listitem>
1727
1728	<listitem>
1729	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
1730	</listitem>
1731
1732	<listitem>
1733	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
1734	</listitem>
1735
1736	<listitem>
1737	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
1738	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
1739	</listitem>
1740
1741	<listitem>
1742	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
1743	(bug #8469)</para>
1744	</listitem>
1745
1746	<listitem>
1747	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
1748	selectors</para>
1749	</listitem>
1750
1751	<listitem>
1752	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
1753	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
1754	</listitem>
1755
1756	<listitem>
1757	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
1758	folder (bug #8673)</para>
1759	</listitem>
1760
1761	<listitem>
1762	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
1763	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1764	</listitem>
1765
1766	<listitem>
1767	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
1768	</listitem>
1769
1770	<listitem>
1771	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
1772	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
1773	</listitem>
1774
1775	<listitem>
1776	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
1777	</listitem>
1778
1779	<listitem>
1780	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
1785	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
1786	</listitem>
1787
1788	<listitem>
1789	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
1790	I/O error occurred</para>
1791	</listitem>
1792
1793	<listitem>
1794	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
1795	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
1796	</listitem>
1797
1798	<listitem>
1799	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
1800	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
1801	</listitem>
1802
1803	<listitem>
1804	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
1805	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
1806	if no medium is present</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
1815	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
1816	</listitem>
1817
1818	<listitem>
1819	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
1820	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
1825	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
1826	</listitem>
1827
1828	<listitem>
1829	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
1830	</listitem>
1831
1832	<listitem>
1833	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
1834	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
1835	</listitem>
1836
1837	<listitem>
1838	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
1839	library (bug #8063)</para>
1840	</listitem>
1841
1842	<listitem>
1843	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
1844	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
1849	</listitem>
1850
1851	<listitem>
1852	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
1853	</listitem>
1854
1855	<listitem>
1856	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
1857	</listitem>
1858
1859	<listitem>
1860	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
1861	changed on import</para>
1862	</listitem>
1863
1864	<listitem>
1865	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
1866	</listitem>
1867
1868	<listitem>
1869	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
1870	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
1871	</listitem>
1872
1873	<listitem>
1874	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
1875	(bug #8593)</para>
1876	</listitem>
1877
1878	<listitem>
1879	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
1880	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
1881	</listitem>
1882
1883	<listitem>
1884	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
1885	captured</para>
1886	</listitem>
1887
1888	<listitem>
1889	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
1890	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
1891	</listitem>
1892
1893	<listitem>
1894	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
1895	</para>
1896	</listitem>
1897
1898	<listitem>
1899	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
1900	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
1901	</listitem>
1902
1903	<listitem>
1904	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
1905	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
1906	</listitem>
1907
1908	<listitem>
1909	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
1910	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
1911	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
1912	</listitem>
1913
1914	<listitem>
1915	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
1916	to unkillable VM processes</para>
1917	</listitem>
1918
1919	<listitem>
1920	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
1921	</listitem>
1922
1923	<listitem>
1924	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
1925	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
1926	</listitem>
1927
1928	<listitem>
1929	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
1930	on legacy Windows versions</para>
1931	</listitem>
1932
1933	<listitem>
1934	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
1935	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
1936	</listitem>
1937
1938	<listitem>
1939	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
1940	</listitem>
1941
1942	<listitem>
1943	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
1944	</listitem>
1945
1946	<listitem>
1947	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
1948	</listitem>
1949
1950	<listitem>
1951	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
1952	</listitem>
1953
1954	<listitem>
1955	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
1956	(bug #7946)</para>
1957	</listitem>
1958
1959	<listitem>
1960	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
1965	</listitem>
1966
1967	<listitem>
1968	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
1969	</listitem>
1970
1971	</itemizedlist>
1972
1973	</sect1>
1974
1975	<sect1>
1976	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
1977
1978	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1979	added:</para>
1980
1981	<itemizedlist>
1982
1983	<listitem>
1984	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
1985	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
1986	</listitem>
1987
1988	<listitem>
1989	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
1990	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
1991	</listitem>
1992
1993	<listitem>
1994	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
1995	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
1996	</listitem>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2000	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2005	number of host network interfaces</para>
2006	</listitem>
2007
2008	<listitem>
2009	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2010	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2015	</listitem>
2016
2017	<listitem>
2018	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2019	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2020	</listitem>
2021
2022	<listitem>
2023	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2024	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	<listitem>
2028	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2029	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2030	</listitem>
2031
2032	<listitem>
2033	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2034	</listitem>
2035
2036	<listitem>
2037	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2038	(bug #6577)</para>
2039	</listitem>
2040
2041	<listitem>
2042	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2043	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2044	(bug #8235)</para>
2045	</listitem>
2046
2047	<listitem>
2048	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2049	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2050	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2051	</listitem>
2052
2053	<listitem>
2054	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2055	</listitem>
2056
2057	<listitem>
2058	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2059	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2060	</listitem>
2061
2062	<listitem>
2063	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2068	(bug #7966)</para>
2069	</listitem>
2070
2071	<listitem>
2072	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2073	</listitem>
2074
2075	<listitem>
2076	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2077	</listitem>
2078
2079	<listitem>
2080	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2081	</listitem>
2082
2083	<listitem>
2084	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2085	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2086	</listitem>
2087
2088	<listitem>
2089	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2090	</listitem>
2091
2092	<listitem>
2093	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2094	</listitem>
2095
2096	<listitem>
2097	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2098	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2099	</listitem>
2100
2101	<listitem>
2102	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2103	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2104	</listitem>
2105
2106	<listitem>
2107	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2112	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2113	</listitem>
2114
2115	<listitem>
2116	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2117	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2118	(bug #8122)</para>
2119	</listitem>
2120
2121	<listitem>
2122	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2123	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2124	</listitem>
2125
2126	<listitem>
2127	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2128	</listitem>
2129
2130	<listitem>
2131	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2132	</listitem>
2133
2134	<listitem>
2135	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2136	(bug #1548)</para>
2137	</listitem>
2138
2139	<listitem>
2140	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	<listitem>
2144	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2145	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2146	</listitem>
2147
2148	<listitem>
2149	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2154	(bug #8231)</para>
2155	</listitem>
2156
2157	<listitem>
2158	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2159	11.04 Alpha</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2164	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2165	</listitem>
2166
2167	<listitem>
2168	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2169	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2170	</listitem>
2171
2172	<listitem>
2173	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2174	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2175	</listitem>
2176
2177	<listitem>
2178	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2179	with VBoxGINA</para>
2180	</listitem>
2181
2182	</itemizedlist>
2183
2184	</sect1>
2185
2186	<sect1>
2187	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2188
2189	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2190	added:</para>
2191
2192	<itemizedlist>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2196	settings vanished</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2201	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2206	created (bug #8031)</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2211	</listitem>
2212
2213	<listitem>
2214	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2215	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2216	</listitem>
2217
2218	<listitem>
2219	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2220	an extension pack</para>
2221	</listitem>
2222
2223	<listitem>
2224	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2225	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2226	</listitem>
2227
2228	<listitem>
2229	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2230	</listitem>
2231
2232	<listitem>
2233	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2234	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2235	</listitem>
2236
2237	<listitem>
2238	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2239	host-only interface</para>
2240	</listitem>
2241
2242	<listitem>
2243	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2244	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2245	</listitem>
2246
2247	<listitem>
2248	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2249	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2250	</listitem>
2251
2252	<listitem>
2253	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2254	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2259	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2260	</listitem>
2261
2262	<listitem>
2263	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2264	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2265	</listitem>
2266
2267	<listitem>
2268	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2269	</listitem>
2270
2271	<listitem>
2272	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2273	</listitem>
2274
2275	<listitem>
2276	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2277	guests</para>
2278	</listitem>
2279
2280	<listitem>
2281	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2282	</listitem>
2283
2284	<listitem>
2285	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2286	</listitem>
2287
2288	<listitem>
2289	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2290	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2291	</listitem>
2292
2293	<listitem>
2294	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2295	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2296	</listitem>
2297
2298	<listitem>
2299	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2300	a VM start</para>
2301	</listitem>
2302
2303	<listitem>
2304	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2305	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2306	</listitem>
2307
2308	<listitem>
2309	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2310	(bug #6067)</para>
2311	</listitem>
2312
2313	<listitem>
2314	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2315	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2316	</listitem>
2317
2318	<listitem>
2319	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2320	not saved to machine XML</para>
2321	</listitem>
2322
2323	<listitem>
2324	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2325	#7983)</para>
2326	</listitem>
2327
2328	<listitem>
2329	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2330	#7981)</para>
2331	</listitem>
2332
2333	<listitem>
2334	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2335	</listitem>
2336
2337	<listitem>
2338	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2339	regression)</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2344	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2345	</listitem>
2346
2347	<listitem>
2348	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2349	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2350	</listitem>
2351
2352	</itemizedlist>
2353
2354	</sect1>
2355
2356	<sect1>
2357	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2358
2359	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2360	were added:</para>
2361
2362	<itemizedlist>
2363
2364	<listitem>
2365	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2366	</listitem>
2367
2368	<listitem>
2369	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2374	<itemizedlist>
2375	<listitem>
2376	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2377	</listitem>
2378
2379	<listitem>
2380	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2381	</listitem>
2382
2383	<listitem>
2384	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2385	</listitem>
2386
2387	<listitem>
2388	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2389	</listitem>
2390
2391	<listitem>
2392	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2393	states, and optionally including attached
2394	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2395	can do the same now)</para>
2396	</listitem>
2397
2398	<listitem>
2399	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2400	</listitem>
2401
2402	</itemizedlist>
2403	</para>
2404	</listitem>
2405
2406	<listitem>
2407	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2408	</listitem>
2409
2410	<listitem>
2411	<para>New virtual hardware:
2412	<itemizedlist>
2413	<listitem>
2414	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2415	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2416	</listitem>
2417
2418	<listitem>
2419	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2420	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2421	</listitem>
2422	</itemizedlist>
2423	</para>
2424	</listitem>
2425
2426	<listitem>
2427	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2428	<itemizedlist>
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2431	</listitem>
2432
2433	<listitem>
2434	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2435	</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2440	now</para>
2441	</listitem>
2442
2443	<listitem>
2444	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2445	</listitem>
2446
2447	</itemizedlist>
2448	</para>
2449	</listitem>
2450
2451	<listitem>
2452	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2453	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2454	</listitem>
2455
2456	<listitem>
2457	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2458	Parallels images</para>
2459	</listitem>
2460
2461	<listitem>
2462	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2463	</listitem>
2464
2465	<listitem>
2466	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2467	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2468	</listitem>
2469
2470	<listitem>
2471	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2472	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2473	</listitem>
2474
2475	</itemizedlist>
2476
2477	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2478
2479	<itemizedlist>
2480
2481	<listitem>
2482	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2483	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2484	</listitem>
2485
2486	<listitem>
2487	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2488	</listitem>
2489
2490	<listitem>
2491	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2492	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2493	</listitem>
2494
2495	<listitem>
2496	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2497	(bug #1657)</para>
2498	</listitem>
2499
2500	<listitem>
2501	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2502	</listitem>
2503
2504	<listitem>
2505	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2506	</listitem>
2507
2508	<listitem>
2509	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2510	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2511	</listitem>
2512
2513	<listitem>
2514	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2515	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2516	</listitem>
2517
2518	<listitem>
2519	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2520	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2521	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2522	</listitem>
2523
2524	<listitem>
2525	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2526	again (bug #6864)</para>
2527	</listitem>
2528
2529	<listitem>
2530	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2531	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2532	</listitem>
2533
2534	<listitem>
2535	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2536	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2537	</listitem>
2538
2539	<listitem>
2540	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2541	</listitem>
2542
2543	<listitem>
2544	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2545	</listitem>
2546
2547	<listitem>
2548	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2549	</listitem>
2550
2551	<listitem>
2552	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2553	</listitem>
2554
2555	<listitem>
2556	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2557	</listitem>
2558
2559	<listitem>
2560	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2561	</listitem>
2562
2563	<listitem>
2564	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2565	</listitem>
2566
2567	<listitem>
2568	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2569	(bug #7058)</para>
2570	</listitem>
2571
2572	<listitem>
2573	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2574	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2575	</listitem>
2576
2577	<listitem>
2578	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2579	circumstances</para>
2580	</listitem>
2581
2582	<listitem>
2583	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2584	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2585	#5578)
2586	</para>
2587	</listitem>
2588
2589	<listitem>
2590	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	<listitem>
2594	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2595	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2596	</listitem>
2597
2598	<listitem>
2599	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2600	</listitem>
2601
2602	<listitem>
2603	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2604	#6760)</para>
2605	</listitem>
2606
2607	<listitem>
2608	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
2609	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
2610	</listitem>
2611
2612	<listitem>
2613	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
2614	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
2615	</listitem>
2616
2617	<listitem>
2618	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
2619	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2620	</listitem>
2621
2622	<listitem>
2623	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
2624	</listitem>
2625
2626	<listitem>
2627	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
2628	file</para>
2629	</listitem>
2630
2631	<listitem>
2632	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2633	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2634	</listitem>
2635
2636	</itemizedlist>
2637
2638	</sect1>
2639
2640	<sect1>
2641	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
2642
2643	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2644	added:</para>
2645
2646	<itemizedlist>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2650	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
2655	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
2656	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
2657	</listitem>
2658
2659	<listitem>
2660	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
2665	</listitem>
2666
2667	<listitem>
2668	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
2669	</listitem>
2670
2671	<listitem>
2672	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
2673	the VM is running</para>
2674	</listitem>
2675
2676	<listitem>
2677	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
2678	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
2679	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
2680	starting from a saved state</para>
2681	</listitem>
2682
2683	<listitem>
2684	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
2685	</listitem>
2686
2687	<listitem>
2688	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
2689	</listitem>
2690
2691	<listitem>
2692	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
2693	</listitem>
2694
2695	<listitem>
2696	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2697	</listitem>
2698
2699	<listitem>
2700	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2701	</listitem>
2702
2703	<listitem>
2704	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
2705	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
2706	</listitem>
2707
2708	<listitem>
2709	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
2710	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
2711	</listitem>
2712
2713	<listitem>
2714	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
2715	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
2716	</listitem>
2717
2718	<listitem>
2719	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
2720	</listitem>
2721
2722	<listitem>
2723	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
2724	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
2725	</para>
2726	</listitem>
2727
2728	<listitem>
2729	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
2730	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
2731	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
2732	</listitem>
2733
2734	<listitem>
2735	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
2736	only)</para>
2737	</listitem>
2738
2739	<listitem>
2740	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
2741	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
2742	</listitem>
2743
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
2746	</listitem>
2747
2748	<listitem>
2749	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
2750	</listitem>
2751
2752	<listitem>
2753	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
2754	</listitem>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
2758	state (bug #4124)</para>
2759	</listitem>
2760
2761	<listitem>
2762	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
2763	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
2764	</listitem>
2765
2766	<listitem>
2767	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
2768	</listitem>
2769
2770	<listitem>
2771	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
2772	(bug #2996)</para>
2773	</listitem>
2774
2775	<listitem>
2776	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
2777	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
2782	</listitem>
2783
2784	<listitem>
2785	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
2786	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
2787	</listitem>
2788
2789	<listitem>
2790	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
2791	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
2792	</listitem>
2793
2794	<listitem>
2795	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
2796	user accounts for VM information</para>
2797	</listitem>
2798
2799	</itemizedlist>
2800
2801	</sect1>
2802
2803	<sect1>
2804	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
2805
2806	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2807	added:</para>
2808
2809	<itemizedlist>
2810
2811	<listitem>
2812	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
2813	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
2814	</listitem>
2815
2816	<listitem>
2817	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
2818	</listitem>
2819
2820	<listitem>
2821	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
2822	</listitem>
2823
2824	<listitem>
2825	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
2826	</listitem>
2827
2828	<listitem>
2829	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2830	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
2835	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
2836	</listitem>
2837
2838	<listitem>
2839	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
2840	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
2841	</listitem>
2842
2843	<listitem>
2844	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
2845	(bug #4952)</para>
2846	</listitem>
2847
2848	<listitem>
2849	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
2850	bug #6122)</para>
2851	</listitem>
2852
2853	<listitem>
2854	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
2855	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
2860	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
2861	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2862	</listitem>
2863
2864	<listitem>
2865	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
2866	</listitem>
2867
2868	<listitem>
2869	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
2870	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
2871	</listitem>
2872
2873	<listitem>
2874	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
2875	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
2880	canceled</para>
2881	</listitem>
2882
2883	<listitem>
2884	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
2885	</listitem>
2886
2887	<listitem>
2888	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
2889	</listitem>
2890
2891	<listitem>
2892	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
2893	</listitem>
2894
2895	<listitem>
2896	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
2897	</listitem>
2898
2899	<listitem>
2900	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
2901	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
2902	</listitem>
2903
2904	<listitem>
2905	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
2906	</listitem>
2907
2908	<listitem>
2909	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
2910	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2911	</listitem>
2912
2913	<listitem>
2914	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
2915	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
2916	</listitem>
2917
2918	<listitem>
2919	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
2920	</listitem>
2921
2922	<listitem>
2923	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
2924	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
2925	</listitem>
2926
2927	<listitem>
2928	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
2929	</listitem>
2930
2931	<listitem>
2932	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
2933	circumstances</para>
2934	</listitem>
2935
2936	<listitem>
2937	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
2938	printers</para>
2939	</listitem>
2940
2941	<listitem>
2942	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
2943	</listitem>
2944
2945	<listitem>
2946	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
2947	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
2948	</listitem>
2949
2950	<listitem>
2951	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
2952	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
2953	</listitem>
2954
2955	<listitem>
2956	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
2957	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
2958	circumstances</para>
2959	</listitem>
2960
2961	<listitem>
2962	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
2963	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
2964	</listitem>
2965
2966	<listitem>
2967	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
2968	as supported extension</para>
2969	</listitem>
2970
2971	<listitem>
2972	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2973	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
2974	</listitem>
2975
2976	<listitem>
2977	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
2978	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
2979	</listitem>
2980
2981	<listitem>
2982	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
2987	(bug #7366)</para>
2988	</listitem>
2989
2990	<listitem>
2991	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
2992	</listitem>
2993
2994	<listitem>
2995	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
2996	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3001	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3002	</listitem>
3003
3004	<listitem>
3005	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3006	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3007	</listitem>
3008
3009	<listitem>
3010	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3011	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3012	</listitem>
3013
3014	<listitem>
3015	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3016	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3017	</listitem>
3018
3019	<listitem>
3020	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3025	</listitem>
3026
3027	<listitem>
3028	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3029	more than one environment variable</para>
3030	</listitem>
3031
3032	<listitem>
3033	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3034	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3035	</listitem>
3036
3037	<listitem>
3038	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3039	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3040	</listitem>
3041
3042	<listitem>
3043	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3044	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	<listitem>
3048	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3049	enumerating logged in users</para>
3050	</listitem>
3051
3052	<listitem>
3053	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3054	</listitem>
3055
3056	<listitem>
3057	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3058	</listitem>
3059
3060	<listitem>
3061	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3062	</listitem>
3063
3064	<listitem>
3065	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3066	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3067	</listitem>
3068
3069	<listitem>
3070	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3071	</listitem>
3072
3073	<listitem>
3074	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3075	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3076	</listitem>
3077
3078	<listitem>
3079	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3080	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3081	</listitem>
3082
3083	<listitem>
3084	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3085	(bug #7448)</para>
3086	</listitem>
3087
3088	<listitem>
3089	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3090	</listitem>
3091
3092	<listitem>
3093	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3094	</listitem>
3095
3096	<listitem>
3097	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3098	</listitem>
3099
3100	</itemizedlist>
3101
3102	</sect1>
3103
3104	<sect1>
3105	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3106
3107	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3108	added:</para>
3109
3110	<itemizedlist>
3111
3112	<listitem>
3113	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3114	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3115	</listitem>
3116
3117	<listitem>
3118	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3119	</listitem>
3120
3121	<listitem>
3122	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3123	bug #6809)</para>
3124	</listitem>
3125
3126	<listitem>
3127	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3128	</listitem>
3129
3130	<listitem>
3131	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	<listitem>
3135	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3136	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3137	</listitem>
3138
3139	<listitem>
3140	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3141	changes</para>
3142	</listitem>
3143
3144	<listitem>
3145	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3146	</listitem>
3147
3148	<listitem>
3149	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3150	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3151	</listitem>
3152
3153	<listitem>
3154	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3155	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3164	</listitem>
3165
3166	<listitem>
3167	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3168	</listitem>
3169
3170	<listitem>
3171	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3172	</listitem>
3173
3174	<listitem>
3175	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3176	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3177	</listitem>
3178
3179	<listitem>
3180	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3181	</listitem>
3182
3183	<listitem>
3184	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3185	(bug #6832)</para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3190	guests</para>
3191	</listitem>
3192
3193	<listitem>
3194	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3195	</listitem>
3196
3197	<listitem>
3198	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3199	without external tools and tricks</para>
3200	</listitem>
3201
3202	<listitem>
3203	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3204	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3205	</listitem>
3206
3207	<listitem>
3208	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3209	</listitem>
3210
3211	<listitem>
3212	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3213	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3214	</listitem>
3215
3216	<listitem>
3217	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3218	shutdown</para>
3219	</listitem>
3220
3221	<listitem>
3222	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3223	fixes</para>
3224	</listitem>
3225
3226	<listitem>
3227	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3228	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3229	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3230	</para>
3231	</listitem>
3232
3233	<listitem>
3234	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3235	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3236	</listitem>
3237
3238	<listitem>
3239	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3240	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3241	</listitem>
3242
3243	<listitem>
3244	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3245	</para>
3246	</listitem>
3247
3248	<listitem>
3249	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3250	</listitem>
3251
3252	<listitem>
3253	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3254	</listitem>
3255
3256	<listitem>
3257	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3258	</listitem>
3259
3260	</itemizedlist>
3261
3262	</sect1>
3263
3264	<sect1>
3265	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3266
3267	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3268	added:</para>
3269
3270	<itemizedlist>
3271
3272	<listitem>
3273	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3274	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3275	</listitem>
3276
3277	<listitem>
3278	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3279	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3280	</listitem>
3281
3282	<listitem>
3283	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3284	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3285	</listitem>
3286
3287	<listitem>
3288	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3289	</listitem>
3290
3291	<listitem>
3292	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3293	</listitem>
3294
3295	<listitem>
3296	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	<listitem>
3300	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3301	</listitem>
3302
3303	<listitem>
3304	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3305	assigned</para>
3306	</listitem>
3307
3308	<listitem>
3309	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3310	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3311	</listitem>
3312
3313	<listitem>
3314	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3315	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3316	</listitem>
3317
3318	<listitem>
3319	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3320	</listitem>
3321
3322	<listitem>
3323	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3324	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3325	</listitem>
3326
3327	<listitem>
3328	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3329	again (bug #7022).
3330	</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3335	(bug #6768)</para>
3336	</listitem>
3337
3338	<listitem>
3339	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3340	(bug #6927)</para>
3341	</listitem>
3342
3343	<listitem>
3344	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3345	bug #7031)</para>
3346	</listitem>
3347
3348	<listitem>
3349	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3350	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3351	</listitem>
3352
3353	<listitem>
3354	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3355	bug #6987)</para>
3356	</listitem>
3357
3358	<listitem>
3359	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3360	</listitem>
3361
3362	<listitem>
3363	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3368	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3369	</listitem>
3370
3371	<listitem>
3372	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3373	</listitem>
3374
3375	<listitem>
3376	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3377	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3378	</listitem>
3379
3380	<listitem>
3381	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3382	</listitem>
3383
3384	<listitem>
3385	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3386	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3387	bug #6872)</para>
3388	</listitem>
3389
3390	<listitem>
3391	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3392	</listitem>
3393
3394	<listitem>
3395	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3396	(performance tweak)</para>
3397	</listitem>
3398
3399	<listitem>
3400	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3401	is currently paused</para>
3402	</listitem>
3403
3404	<listitem>
3405	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3406	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3407	</listitem>
3408
3409	<listitem>
3410	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3411	</listitem>
3412
3413	<listitem>
3414	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3415	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3416	</listitem>
3417
3418	<listitem>
3419	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3420	not properly saved</para>
3421	</listitem>
3422
3423	<listitem>
3424	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3425	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3426	</listitem>
3427
3428	<listitem>
3429	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3430	</listitem>
3431
3432	<listitem>
3433	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3434	</listitem>
3435
3436	<listitem>
3437	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3438	</listitem>
3439
3440	<listitem>
3441	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3442	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3443	</listitem>
3444
3445	<listitem>
3446	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3447	</listitem>
3448
3449	<listitem>
3450	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3451	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3452	</listitem>
3453
3454	<listitem>
3455	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3456	(bug #5251)</para>
3457	</listitem>
3458
3459	<listitem>
3460	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3461	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3462	</listitem>
3463
3464	<listitem>
3465	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3466	</listitem>
3467
3468	<listitem>
3469	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3470	</listitem>
3471
3472	<listitem>
3473	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3474	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3475	</listitem>
3476
3477	<listitem>
3478	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3479	</listitem>
3480
3481	<listitem>
3482	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3483	</listitem>
3484
3485	<listitem>
3486	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	</itemizedlist>
3490	</sect1>
3491
3492	<sect1>
3493	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3494
3495	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3496	added:</para>
3497
3498	<itemizedlist>
3499
3500	<listitem>
3501	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3502	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3503	</listitem>
3504
3505	<listitem>
3506	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3507	</listitem>
3508
3509	<listitem>
3510	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3511	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3512	</listitem>
3513
3514	<listitem>
3515	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3516	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3517	</listitem>
3518
3519	<listitem>
3520	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3521	</listitem>
3522
3523	<listitem>
3524	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3525	again (bug #6864)</para>
3526	</listitem>
3527
3528	<listitem>
3529	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3530	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3531	</listitem>
3532
3533	<listitem>
3534	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3535	</listitem>
3536
3537	<listitem>
3538	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3539	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3540	</listitem>
3541
3542	<listitem>
3543	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3544	</listitem>
3545
3546	</itemizedlist>
3547
3548	</sect1>
3549
3550	<sect1>
3551	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3552
3553	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3554	added:</para>
3555
3556	<itemizedlist>
3557
3558	<listitem>
3559	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3564	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3573	state</para>
3574	</listitem>
3575
3576	<listitem>
3577	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	<listitem>
3581	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3582	</listitem>
3583
3584	<listitem>
3585	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3586	</listitem>
3587
3588	<listitem>
3589	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3590	</listitem>
3591
3592	<listitem>
3593	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3594	</listitem>
3595
3596	<listitem>
3597	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3598	</listitem>
3599
3600	<listitem>
3601	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	<listitem>
3605	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
3610	</listitem>
3611
3612	<listitem>
3613	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
3614	</listitem>
3615
3616	<listitem>
3617	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
3618	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
3619	</listitem>
3620
3621	<listitem>
3622	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
3623	(bug #6784)</para>
3624	</listitem>
3625
3626	<listitem>
3627	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
3628	</listitem>
3629
3630	<listitem>
3631	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
3636	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
3641	</listitem>
3642
3643	<listitem>
3644	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
3645	</listitem>
3646
3647	<listitem>
3648	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
3649	host only</para>
3650	</listitem>
3651
3652	<listitem>
3653	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
3654	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
3655	</listitem>
3656
3657	<listitem>
3658	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
3659	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
3660	</listitem>
3661
3662	<listitem>
3663	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
3664	</listitem>
3665
3666	<listitem>
3667	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
3668	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
3669	</listitem>
3670
3671	<listitem>
3672	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
3673	</listitem>
3674
3675	<listitem>
3676	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
3681	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
3682	</listitem>
3683
3684	<listitem>
3685	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
3686	</listitem>
3687
3688	<listitem>
3689	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
3690	</listitem>
3691
3692	<listitem>
3693	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
3694	</listitem>
3695
3696	<listitem>
3697	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
3698	(bug #6714)</para>
3699	</listitem>
3700
3701	<listitem>
3702	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
3703	</listitem>
3704
3705	<listitem>
3706	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	<listitem>
3710	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
3711	</listitem>
3712
3713	<listitem>
3714	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
3715	</listitem>
3716
3717	<listitem>
3718	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
3719	</listitem>
3720
3721	</itemizedlist>
3722
3723	</sect1>
3724
3725	<sect1>
3726	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
3727
3728	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3729	were added:</para>
3730
3731	<itemizedlist>
3732
3733	<listitem>
3734	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
3735	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
3736	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
3745	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
3746	</listitem>
3747
3748	<listitem>
3749	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
3750	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
3751	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
3756	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
3757	</listitem>
3758
3759	<listitem>
3760	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
3761	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
3762	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
3763	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
3764	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
3769	</listitem>
3770
3771	<listitem>
3772	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
3773	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
3778	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
3779	</listitem>
3780
3781	<listitem>
3782	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
3783	</listitem>
3784
3785	<listitem>
3786	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
3791	</listitem>
3792
3793	<listitem>
3794	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
3795	</listitem>
3796
3797	<listitem>
3798	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
3799	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
3800	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
3801	</listitem>
3802
3803	<listitem>
3804	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
3805	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
3806	</listitem>
3807
3808	</itemizedlist>
3809
3810	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3811
3812	<itemizedlist>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
3816	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
3817	</listitem>
3818
3819	<listitem>
3820	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
3821	</listitem>
3822
3823	<listitem>
3824	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
3825	VM</para>
3826	</listitem>
3827
3828	<listitem>
3829	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
3830	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
3831	</listitem>
3832
3833	<listitem>
3834	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
3835	#1669)</para>
3836	</listitem>
3837
3838	<listitem>
3839	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
3840	#6442)</para>
3841	</listitem>
3842
3843	<listitem>
3844	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
3845	combination (bug #684)</para>
3846	</listitem>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
3850	the VM from the GUI</para>
3851	</listitem>
3852
3853	<listitem>
3854	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
3855	medium is not accessible</para>
3856	</listitem>
3857
3858	<listitem>
3859	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
3860	</listitem>
3861
3862	<listitem>
3863	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
3864	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
3865	</listitem>
3866
3867	<listitem>
3868	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
3869	#3106)</para>
3870	</listitem>
3871
3872	<listitem>
3873	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
3874	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
3875	it</para>
3876	</listitem>
3877
3878	<listitem>
3879	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
3880	</listitem>
3881
3882	<listitem>
3883	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
3884	</listitem>
3885
3886	<listitem>
3887	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
3888	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
3889	</listitem>
3890
3891	<listitem>
3892	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
3893	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
3894	</listitem>
3895
3896	<listitem>
3897	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
3898	</listitem>
3899
3900	<listitem>
3901	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
3902	</listitem>
3903
3904	<listitem>
3905	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
3906	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
3907	</listitem>
3908
3909	<listitem>
3910	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
3911	</listitem>
3912
3913	<listitem>
3914	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
3915	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	<listitem>
3919	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
3920	</listitem>
3921
3922	<listitem>
3923	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
3924	in VirtualBox</para>
3925	</listitem>
3926
3927	<listitem>
3928	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
3929	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
3930	</listitem>
3931
3932	<listitem>
3933	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
3934	VirtualBox</para>
3935	</listitem>
3936
3937	<listitem>
3938	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
3939	</listitem>
3940
3941	<listitem>
3942	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
3943	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
3944	</listitem>
3945
3946	</itemizedlist>
3947	</sect1>
3948
3949	<sect1>
3950	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
3951
3952	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3953	added:</para>
3954
3955	<itemizedlist>
3956
3957	<listitem>
3958	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
3959	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
3960	</listitem>
3961
3962	<listitem>
3963	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
3964	</listitem>
3965
3966	<listitem>
3967	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
3968	</listitem>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
3972	only) </para>
3973	</listitem>
3974
3975	<listitem>
3976	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
3977	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
3978	</listitem>
3979
3980	<listitem>
3981	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
3982	interface version</para>
3983	</listitem>
3984
3985	<listitem>
3986	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
3987	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
3988	slot empty</para>
3989	</listitem>
3990
3991	<listitem>
3992	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
3993	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
3994	(bug #4220)</para>
3995	</listitem>
3996
3997	<listitem>
3998	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
3999	</listitem>
4000
4001	<listitem>
4002	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4003	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4004	</listitem>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4008	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4009	</listitem>
4010
4011	<listitem>
4012	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4013	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4014	</listitem>
4015
4016	<listitem>
4017	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4018	attached</para>
4019	</listitem>
4020
4021	<listitem>
4022	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4023	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4024	</listitem>
4025
4026	<listitem>
4027	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4028	</listitem>
4029
4030	<listitem>
4031	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4032	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4033	</listitem>
4034
4035	<listitem>
4036	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4037	is bug #6408)</para>
4038	</listitem>
4039
4040	<listitem>
4041	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4046	fail to initialize</para>
4047	</listitem>
4048
4049	<listitem>
4050	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4051	</listitem>
4052
4053	<listitem>
4054	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4055	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4056	</listitem>
4057
4058	<listitem>
4059	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4060	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4061	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4062	</listitem>
4063
4064	<listitem>
4065	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4066	</listitem>
4067
4068	<listitem>
4069	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4070	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4071	</listitem>
4072
4073	<listitem>
4074	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4075	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4076	</listitem>
4077
4078	<listitem>
4079	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4080	(bug #6435)</para>
4081	</listitem>
4082
4083	<listitem>
4084	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4085	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4086	</listitem>
4087
4088	<listitem>
4089	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4090	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4091	(bug #6488)</para>
4092	</listitem>
4093
4094	<listitem>
4095	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4096	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4097	</listitem>
4098
4099	<listitem>
4100	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4101	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4102	</listitem>
4103
4104	<listitem>
4105	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4106	#5227)</para>
4107	</listitem>
4108
4109	<listitem>
4110	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4111	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4112	</listitem>
4113
4114	<listitem>
4115	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4116	</listitem>
4117
4118	<listitem>
4119	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4120	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4121	</listitem>
4122
4123	</itemizedlist>
4124	</sect1>
4125
4126	<sect1>
4127	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4128
4129	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4130	added:</para>
4131
4132	<itemizedlist>
4133
4134	<listitem>
4135	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4136	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4137	</listitem>
4138
4139	<listitem>
4140	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4141	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4142	</listitem>
4143
4144	<listitem>
4145	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4146	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4147	</listitem>
4148
4149	<listitem>
4150	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4151	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4156	</listitem>
4157
4158	<listitem>
4159	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4160	</listitem>
4161
4162	<listitem>
4163	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4164	</listitem>
4165
4166	<listitem>
4167	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4168	</listitem>
4169
4170	<listitem>
4171	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4172	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4173	</listitem>
4174
4175	<listitem>
4176	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4177	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4178	</listitem>
4179
4180	<listitem>
4181	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4182	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4183	</listitem>
4184
4185	<listitem>
4186	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4187	</listitem>
4188
4189	<listitem>
4190	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4191	</listitem>
4192
4193	<listitem>
4194	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4195	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4196	</listitem>
4197
4198	<listitem>
4199	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4200	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4201	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	<listitem>
4205	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4206	(bug #5297)</para>
4207	</listitem>
4208
4209	<listitem>
4210	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4211	(bug #4962)</para>
4212	</listitem>
4213
4214	<listitem>
4215	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4216	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4221	(bug #6176)</para>
4222	</listitem>
4223
4224	<listitem>
4225	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4226	certain circumstances</para>
4227	</listitem>
4228
4229	<listitem>
4230	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4231	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4232	</listitem>
4233
4234	<listitem>
4235	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4236	</listitem>
4237
4238	<listitem>
4239	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4240	</listitem>
4241
4242	<listitem>
4243	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4244	(bug #3571)</para>
4245	</listitem>
4246
4247	<listitem>
4248	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4249	devices</para>
4250	</listitem>
4251
4252	<listitem>
4253	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4254	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4255	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4256	</listitem>
4257
4258	<listitem>
4259	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4260	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4261	</listitem>
4262
4263	<listitem>
4264	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4265	</listitem>
4266
4267	<listitem>
4268	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4269	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4270	</listitem>
4271
4272	<listitem>
4273	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4274	response</para>
4275	</listitem>
4276
4277	<listitem>
4278	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4279	</listitem>
4280
4281	<listitem>
4282	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4283	</listitem>
4284
4285	<listitem>
4286	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4287	</listitem>
4288
4289	<listitem>
4290	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4291	</listitem>
4292
4293	<listitem>
4294	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4295	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4296	</listitem>
4297
4298	<listitem>
4299	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4300	</listitem>
4301
4302	<listitem>
4303	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4304	</listitem>
4305
4306	<listitem>
4307	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4308	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4309	</listitem>
4310
4311	<listitem>
4312	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4313	</listitem>
4314
4315	<listitem>
4316	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4317	</listitem>
4318
4319	<listitem>
4320	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4321	</listitem>
4322
4323	<listitem>
4324	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4325	</listitem>
4326
4327	</itemizedlist>
4328	</sect1>
4329
4330	<sect1>
4331	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4332
4333	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4334	added:</para>
4335
4336	<itemizedlist>
4337
4338	<listitem>
4339	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4340	</listitem>
4341
4342	<listitem>
4343	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4344	</listitem>
4345
4346	<listitem>
4347	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4348	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4349	</listitem>
4350
4351	<listitem>
4352	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4353	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4354	</listitem>
4355
4356	<listitem>
4357	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4358	(bug #3945)</para>
4359	</listitem>
4360
4361	<listitem>
4362	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4363	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4364	</listitem>
4365
4366	<listitem>
4367	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4368	and AMD-V only) </para>
4369	</listitem>
4370
4371	<listitem>
4372	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4373	</listitem>
4374
4375	<listitem>
4376	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4377	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4378	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4379	</listitem>
4380
4381	<listitem>
4382	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4383	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4384	</listitem>
4385
4386	<listitem>
4387	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4388	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4389	</listitem>
4390
4391	<listitem>
4392	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4393	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4394	</listitem>
4395
4396	<listitem>
4397	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4398	snapshots command</para>
4399	</listitem>
4400
4401	<listitem>
4402	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4403	</listitem>
4404
4405	<listitem>
4406	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4407	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4408	</listitem>
4409
4410	<listitem>
4411	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4412	</listitem>
4413
4414	<listitem>
4415	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4416	</listitem>
4417
4418	<listitem>
4419	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4424	(KWin bug)</para>
4425	</listitem>
4426
4427	<listitem>
4428	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4429	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4430	</listitem>
4431
4432	<listitem>
4433	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4434	</listitem>
4435
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4438	</listitem>
4439
4440	<listitem>
4441	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4442	</listitem>
4443
4444	<listitem>
4445	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4446	</listitem>
4447
4448	<listitem>
4449	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4450	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4451	</listitem>
4452
4453	<listitem>
4454	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4455	bug #5787)</para>
4456	</listitem>
4457
4458	<listitem>
4459	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4460	DHCP requests</para>
4461	</listitem>
4462
4463	<listitem>
4464	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4465	(bug #3217)</para>
4466	</listitem>
4467
4468	<listitem>
4469	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4470	range (bug #5923)</para>
4471	</listitem>
4472
4473	<listitem>
4474	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4475	</listitem>
4476
4477	<listitem>
4478	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4479	</listitem>
4480
4481	<listitem>
4482	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4483	</listitem>
4484
4485	<listitem>
4486	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4487	</listitem>
4488
4489	<listitem>
4490	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4491	file (bug #5681)</para>
4492	</listitem>
4493
4494	<listitem>
4495	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4496	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4497	</listitem>
4498
4499	<listitem>
4500	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4501	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4502	</listitem>
4503
4504	<listitem>
4505	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4506	regression)</para>
4507	</listitem>
4508
4509	<listitem>
4510	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4511	</listitem>
4512
4513	<listitem>
4514	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4515	</listitem>
4516
4517	<listitem>
4518	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4519	</listitem>
4520
4521	<listitem>
4522	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4523	</listitem>
4524
4525	<listitem>
4526	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4527	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4528	</listitem>
4529
4530	<listitem>
4531	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4532	</listitem>
4533
4534	<listitem>
4535	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4536	</listitem>
4537
4538	<listitem>
4539	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4540	</listitem>
4541
4542	<listitem>
4543	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4544	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4545	</listitem>
4546
4547	<listitem>
4548	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4549	</listitem>
4550
4551	<listitem>
4552	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4553	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4554	</listitem>
4555
4556	<listitem>
4557	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4558	</listitem>
4559
4560	<listitem>
4561	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4562	</listitem>
4563
4564	<listitem>
4565	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4566	</listitem>
4567
4568	<listitem>
4569	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4570	(bug #5731)</para>
4571	</listitem>
4572
4573	<listitem>
4574	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4575	again</para>
4576	</listitem>
4577
4578	</itemizedlist>
4579
4580	</sect1>
4581
4582	<sect1>
4583	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4584
4585	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4586	added:</para>
4587
4588	<itemizedlist>
4589
4590	<listitem>
4591	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4592	</listitem>
4593
4594	<listitem>
4595	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4596	</listitem>
4597
4598	<listitem>
4599	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4600	</listitem>
4601
4602	<listitem>
4603	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4604	</listitem>
4605
4606	<listitem>
4607	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
4608	</listitem>
4609
4610	<listitem>
4611	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
4612	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
4613	</listitem>
4614
4615	<listitem>
4616	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
4617	</listitem>
4618
4619	<listitem>
4620	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
4621	</listitem>
4622
4623	<listitem>
4624	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
4625	</listitem>
4626
4627	<listitem>
4628	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
4629	</listitem>
4630
4631	<listitem>
4632	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
4633	</listitem>
4634
4635	<listitem>
4636	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
4637	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
4638	</listitem>
4639
4640	<listitem>
4641	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
4642	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
4643	</listitem>
4644
4645	<listitem>
4646	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
4647	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
4648	#1762)</para>
4649	</listitem>
4650
4651	<listitem>
4652	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
4653	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
4654	</listitem>
4655
4656	<listitem>
4657	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
4658	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
4659	</listitem>
4660
4661	<listitem>
4662	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
4663	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
4664	</listitem>
4665
4666	<listitem>
4667	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
4668	</listitem>
4669
4670	<listitem>
4671	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
4672	</listitem>
4673
4674	<listitem>
4675	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
4676	several virtual CPU cores</para>
4677	</listitem>
4678
4679	<listitem>
4680	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
4681	</listitem>
4682
4683	<listitem>
4684	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
4685	</listitem>
4686
4687	<listitem>
4688	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
4689	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
4690	</listitem>
4691
4692	<listitem>
4693	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
4694	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
4695	</listitem>
4696
4697	<listitem>
4698	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
4699	</listitem>
4700
4701	<listitem>
4702	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
4703	guests</para>
4704	</listitem>
4705
4706	<listitem>
4707	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
4708	and on some 64bit guests</para>
4709	</listitem>
4710
4711	<listitem>
4712	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
4713	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
4714	</listitem>
4715
4716	<listitem>
4717	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
4718	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
4719	</listitem>
4720
4721	<listitem>
4722	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
4723	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
4724	</listitem>
4725
4726	<listitem>
4727	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
4728	</listitem>
4729
4730	<listitem>
4731	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
4740	</listitem>
4741
4742	<listitem>
4743	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
4744	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
4745	</listitem>
4746
4747	<listitem>
4748	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
4749	</listitem>
4750
4751	</itemizedlist>
4752
4753	</sect1>
4754
4755	<sect1>
4756	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
4757
4758	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4759	were added:</para>
4760
4761	<itemizedlist>
4762
4763	<listitem>
4764	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
4765	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
4766	</listitem>
4767
4768	<listitem>
4769	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
4770	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
4771	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
4772	</listitem>
4773
4774	<listitem>
4775	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
4776	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
4777	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
4778	</listitem>
4779
4780	<listitem>
4781	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
4782	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
4783	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
4784	</listitem>
4785
4786	<listitem>
4787	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
4788	running</para>
4789	</listitem>
4790
4791	<listitem>
4792	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
4793	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
4794	</listitem>
4795
4796	<listitem>
4797	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
4798	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
4799	</listitem>
4800
4801	<listitem>
4802	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
4803	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
4804	</listitem>
4805
4806	<listitem>
4807	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
4808	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	</itemizedlist>
4812
4813	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4814
4815	<itemizedlist>
4816
4817	<listitem>
4818	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
4819	</listitem>
4820
4821	<listitem>
4822	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
4823	</listitem>
4824
4825	<listitem>
4826	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
4827	</listitem>
4828
4829	<listitem>
4830	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
4831	(bug #5291)</para>
4832	</listitem>
4833
4834	<listitem>
4835	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
4836	</listitem>
4837
4838	<listitem>
4839	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
4840	</listitem>
4841
4842	<listitem>
4843	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
4844	</listitem>
4845
4846	<listitem>
4847	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
4848	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
4849	</listitem>
4850
4851	<listitem>
4852	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
4853	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
4854	</listitem>
4855
4856	<listitem>
4857	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
4858	</listitem>
4859
4860	<listitem>
4861	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	<listitem>
4865	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
4866	</listitem>
4867
4868	<listitem>
4869	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
4870	</listitem>
4871
4872	<listitem>
4873	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
4878	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
4883	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
4888	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
4889	</listitem>
4890
4891	<listitem>
4892	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
4893	(bug #2723)</para>
4894	</listitem>
4895
4896	<listitem>
4897	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
4902	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
4903	</listitem>
4904
4905	<listitem>
4906	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
4907	optional manifest file on import</para>
4908	</listitem>
4909
4910	<listitem>
4911	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
4912	</listitem>
4913
4914	<listitem>
4915	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
4916	(bug #3773)</para>
4917	</listitem>
4918
4919	<listitem>
4920	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
4921	</listitem>
4922
4923	<listitem>
4924	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
4925	</listitem>
4926
4927	<listitem>
4928	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
4929	layout (bug #2302)</para>
4930	</listitem>
4931
4932	<listitem>
4933	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
4934	(bug #4866)</para>
4935	</listitem>
4936
4937	<listitem>
4938	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
4939	left click (bug #5049)</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
4944	certain conditions</para>
4945	</listitem>
4946
4947	<listitem>
4948	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
4949	</listitem>
4950
4951	<listitem>
4952	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
4953	</listitem>
4954
4955	<listitem>
4956	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
4957	</listitem>
4958
4959	<listitem>
4960	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
4961	</listitem>
4962
4963	<listitem>
4964	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
4965	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
4966	</listitem>
4967
4968	<listitem>
4969	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
4970	</listitem>
4971
4972	<listitem>
4973	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
4974	properties (bug #5337)</para>
4975	</listitem>
4976
4977	<listitem>
4978	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
4979	</listitem>
4980
4981	<listitem>
4982	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
4983	</listitem>
4984
4985	<listitem>
4986	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
4987	</listitem>
4988
4989	<listitem>
4990	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
4991	</listitem>
4992
4993	<listitem>
4994	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
4995	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
4996	</listitem>
4997
4998	<listitem>
4999	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5000	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5001	(bug #928)</para>
5002	</listitem>
5003
5004	<listitem>
5005	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5006	</listitem>
5007
5008	</itemizedlist>
5009
5010	</sect1>
5011
5012	<sect1>
5013	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5014
5015	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5016	added:</para>
5017
5018	<itemizedlist>
5019
5020	<listitem>
5021	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5022	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5023	</listitem>
5024
5025	<listitem>
5026	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5027	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5028	</listitem>
5029
5030	<listitem>
5031	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5032	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5033	</listitem>
5034
5035	<listitem>
5036	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5037	enabled</para>
5038	</listitem>
5039
5040	<listitem>
5041	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5042	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5043	</listitem>
5044
5045	<listitem>
5046	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5047	(bug #2676)</para>
5048	</listitem>
5049
5050	<listitem>
5051	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5052	is connected to a raw file</para>
5053	</listitem>
5054
5055	<listitem>
5056	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5057	(bug #5355)</para>
5058	</listitem>
5059
5060	<listitem>
5061	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5062	</listitem>
5063
5064	<listitem>
5065	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5066	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5067	</listitem>
5068
5069	<listitem>
5070	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5071	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5072	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5073	</listitem>
5074
5075	<listitem>
5076	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5077	</listitem>
5078
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5081	</listitem>
5082
5083	<listitem>
5084	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5085	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5086	</listitem>
5087
5088	<listitem>
5089	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5090	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5091	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5092	</listitem>
5093
5094	</itemizedlist>
5095
5096	</sect1>
5097
5098	<sect1>
5099	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5100
5101	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5102	added:</para>
5103
5104	<itemizedlist>
5105
5106	<listitem>
5107	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5108	</listitem>
5109
5110	<listitem>
5111	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5112	</listitem>
5113
5114	<listitem>
5115	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5116	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5117	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5118	</listitem>
5119
5120	<listitem>
5121	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5122	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5123	</listitem>
5124
5125	<listitem>
5126	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5127	</listitem>
5128
5129	<listitem>
5130	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5131	</listitem>
5132
5133	<listitem>
5134	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5135	</listitem>
5136
5137	<listitem>
5138	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5139	</listitem>
5140
5141	<listitem>
5142	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5143	</listitem>
5144
5145	<listitem>
5146	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5147	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5148	</listitem>
5149
5150	<listitem>
5151	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5152	</listitem>
5153
5154	<listitem>
5155	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5156	</listitem>
5157
5158	<listitem>
5159	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5160	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5161	</listitem>
5162
5163	<listitem>
5164	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5165	</listitem>
5166
5167	<listitem>
5168	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5169	exhaustion</para>
5170	</listitem>
5171
5172	<listitem>
5173	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5174	</listitem>
5175
5176	<listitem>
5177	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5178	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5179	</listitem>
5180
5181	<listitem>
5182	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5183	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5184	</listitem>
5185
5186	<listitem>
5187	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5188	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5189	</listitem>
5190
5191	<listitem>
5192	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5193	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5194	(bug #2921)</para>
5195	</listitem>
5196
5197	<listitem>
5198	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5199	hosts only)</para>
5200	</listitem>
5201
5202	<listitem>
5203	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5204	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5205	</listitem>
5206
5207	<listitem>
5208	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5209	</listitem>
5210
5211	<listitem>
5212	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5213	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5214	</listitem>
5215
5216	<listitem>
5217	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5218	</listitem>
5219
5220	<listitem>
5221	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5222	image inconsistency </para>
5223	</listitem>
5224
5225	<listitem>
5226	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5227	</listitem>
5228
5229	<listitem>
5230	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5231	</listitem>
5232
5233	<listitem>
5234	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5235	(bug #2025)</para>
5236	</listitem>
5237
5238	<listitem>
5239	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5240	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5241	</listitem>
5242
5243	</itemizedlist>
5244
5245	</sect1>
5246
5247	<sect1>
5248	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5249
5250	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5251	added:</para>
5252
5253	<itemizedlist>
5254
5255	<listitem>
5256	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5257	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5258	</listitem>
5259
5260	<listitem>
5261	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5262	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5263	</listitem>
5264
5265	<listitem>
5266	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5267	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5268	</listitem>
5269
5270	<listitem>
5271	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5272	</listitem>
5273
5274	<listitem>
5275	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5276	software virtualization only) </para>
5277	</listitem>
5278
5279	<listitem>
5280	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5281	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5282	</listitem>
5283
5284	<listitem>
5285	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5286	with root privileges</para>
5287	</listitem>
5288
5289	<listitem>
5290	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5291	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5292	</listitem>
5293
5294	<listitem>
5295	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5296	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5297	</listitem>
5298
5299	<listitem>
5300	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5301	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5302	</listitem>
5303
5304	<listitem>
5305	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5306	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5307	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5308	</listitem>
5309
5310	<listitem>
5311	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5312	available</para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	<listitem>
5316	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5317	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5318	</listitem>
5319
5320	<listitem>
5321	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5322	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5323	</listitem>
5324
5325	<listitem>
5326	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5327	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5332	(bug #4907)</para>
5333	</listitem>
5334
5335	<listitem>
5336	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5337	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5338	</listitem>
5339
5340	<listitem>
5341	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5342	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5343	</listitem>
5344
5345	<listitem>
5346	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5347	</listitem>
5348
5349	<listitem>
5350	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5351	</listitem>
5352
5353	<listitem>
5354	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5355	</listitem>
5356
5357	<listitem>
5358	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5359	</listitem>
5360
5361	<listitem>
5362	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5363	are installed</para>
5364	</listitem>
5365
5366	<listitem>
5367	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5368	(bug #4771)</para>
5369	</listitem>
5370
5371	<listitem>
5372	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5373	</listitem>
5374
5375	<listitem>
5376	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5377	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5378	</listitem>
5379
5380	<listitem>
5381	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5382	command</para>
5383	</listitem>
5384
5385	<listitem>
5386	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5387	</listitem>
5388
5389	<listitem>
5390	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5391	</listitem>
5392
5393	<listitem>
5394	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5395	(bug #5089)</para>
5396	</listitem>
5397
5398	<listitem>
5399	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5400	</listitem>
5401
5402	</itemizedlist>
5403
5404	</sect1>
5405
5406	<sect1>
5407	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5408
5409	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5410	added:</para>
5411
5412	<itemizedlist>
5413
5414	<listitem>
5415	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5416	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5417	</listitem>
5418
5419	<listitem>
5420	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5421	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5422	</listitem>
5423
5424	<listitem>
5425	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5426	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5427	</listitem>
5428
5429	<listitem>
5430	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5431	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5432	</listitem>
5433
5434	<listitem>
5435	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5436	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5437	</listitem>
5438
5439	<listitem>
5440	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5441	</listitem>
5442
5443	<listitem>
5444	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5445	</listitem>
5446
5447	<listitem>
5448	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5449	</listitem>
5450
5451	<listitem>
5452	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5453	</listitem>
5454
5455	<listitem>
5456	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5457	</listitem>
5458
5459	<listitem>
5460	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5461	onlined or offlined</para>
5462	</listitem>
5463
5464	<listitem>
5465	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5466	</listitem>
5467
5468	<listitem>
5469	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5470	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5471	</listitem>
5472
5473	<listitem>
5474	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5475	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5476	</listitem>
5477
5478	<listitem>
5479	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5480	</listitem>
5481
5482	<listitem>
5483	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5484	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5485	</listitem>
5486
5487	<listitem>
5488	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5489	</listitem>
5490
5491	<listitem>
5492	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5493	</listitem>
5494
5495	<listitem>
5496	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5497	</listitem>
5498
5499	<listitem>
5500	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5501	</listitem>
5502
5503	<listitem>
5504	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5505	</listitem>
5506
5507	<listitem>
5508	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5509	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5510	</listitem>
5511
5512	<listitem>
5513	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5514	</listitem>
5515
5516	<listitem>
5517	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5518	</listitem>
5519
5520	<listitem>
5521	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5522	</listitem>
5523
5524	<listitem>
5525	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5526	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5527	</listitem>
5528
5529	<listitem>
5530	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5531	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5532	</listitem>
5533
5534	<listitem>
5535	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5536	</listitem>
5537
5538	<listitem>
5539	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5540	</listitem>
5541
5542	<listitem>
5543	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5544	</listitem>
5545
5546	<listitem>
5547	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5548	</listitem>
5549
5550	<listitem>
5551	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5552	</listitem>
5553
5554	<listitem>
5555	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5556	</listitem>
5557
5558	<listitem>
5559	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5560	</listitem>
5561
5562	<listitem>
5563	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5564	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5565	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5566	phase collapse</para>
5567	</listitem>
5568
5569	<listitem>
5570	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5571	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5572	</listitem>
5573
5574	<listitem>
5575	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5576	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5581	</listitem>
5582
5583	<listitem>
5584	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5585	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5586	</listitem>
5587
5588	<listitem>
5589	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5590	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5591	</listitem>
5592
5593	<listitem>
5594	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5595	</listitem>
5596
5597	<listitem>
5598	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5599	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5600	#4698, #4790)</para>
5601	</listitem>
5602
5603	<listitem>
5604	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5605	less than the configured range</para>
5606	</listitem>
5607
5608	<listitem>
5609	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
5610	</listitem>
5611
5612	<listitem>
5613	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
5614	</listitem>
5615
5616	<listitem>
5617	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
5618	</listitem>
5619
5620	<listitem>
5621	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
5622	</listitem>
5623
5624	<listitem>
5625	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
5626	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
5627	</listitem>
5628
5629	<listitem>
5630	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
5631	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
5636	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
5637	</listitem>
5638
5639	<listitem>
5640	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
5645	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
5646	</listitem>
5647
5648	<listitem>
5649	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
5650	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
5651	</listitem>
5652
5653	<listitem>
5654	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
5655	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
5656	</listitem>
5657
5658	<listitem>
5659	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
5660	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
5661	</listitem>
5662
5663	<listitem>
5664	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
5665	</listitem>
5666
5667	<listitem>
5668	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
5669	</listitem>
5670
5671	</itemizedlist>
5672
5673	</sect1>
5674
5675	<sect1>
5676	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
5677
5678	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5679	added:</para>
5680
5681	<itemizedlist>
5682
5683	<listitem>
5684	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	<listitem>
5688	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
5689	</listitem>
5690
5691	<listitem>
5692	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
5693	</listitem>
5694
5695	<listitem>
5696	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
5697	</listitem>
5698
5699	<listitem>
5700	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
5701	</listitem>
5702
5703	<listitem>
5704	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
5705	</listitem>
5706
5707	<listitem>
5708	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
5709	</listitem>
5710
5711	<listitem>
5712	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
5713	</listitem>
5714
5715	<listitem>
5716	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
5717	</listitem>
5718
5719	<listitem>
5720	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
5721	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
5722	</listitem>
5723
5724	<listitem>
5725	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
5726	</listitem>
5727
5728	<listitem>
5729	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
5730	</listitem>
5731
5732	<listitem>
5733	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
5734	</listitem>
5735
5736	<listitem>
5737	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
5738	</listitem>
5739
5740	<listitem>
5741	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
5742	</listitem>
5743
5744	<listitem>
5745	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
5746	</listitem>
5747
5748	<listitem>
5749	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
5750	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
5751	</listitem>
5752
5753	<listitem>
5754	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
5755	(bug #4654)</para>
5756	</listitem>
5757
5758	<listitem>
5759	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
5760	</listitem>
5761
5762	<listitem>
5763	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
5764	interfaces</para>
5765	</listitem>
5766
5767	<listitem>
5768	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
5769	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
5770	</listitem>
5771
5772	<listitem>
5773	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
5774	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
5779	properties (bug #3415)</para>
5780	</listitem>
5781
5782	<listitem>
5783	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
5784	(bug #1461)</para>
5785	</listitem>
5786
5787	<listitem>
5788	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
5793	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
5798	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	<listitem>
5802	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
5803	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
5804	</listitem>
5805
5806	<listitem>
5807	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
5808	</listitem>
5809
5810	<listitem>
5811	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
5812	</listitem>
5813
5814	<listitem>
5815	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
5816	</listitem>
5817
5818	<listitem>
5819	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
5820	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
5821	</listitem>
5822
5823	<listitem>
5824	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
5825	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
5826	</listitem>
5827
5828	<listitem>
5829	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
5830	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
5831	</listitem>
5832
5833	<listitem>
5834	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
5835	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
5836	</listitem>
5837
5838	</itemizedlist>
5839
5840	</sect1>
5841	<sect1>
5842	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
5843
5844	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5845	added:</para>
5846
5847	<itemizedlist>
5848
5849	<listitem>
5850	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
5851	</listitem>
5852
5853	<listitem>
5854	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
5855	</listitem>
5856
5857	<listitem>
5858	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
5859	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
5860	</listitem>
5861
5862	<listitem>
5863	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
5864	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
5865	</listitem>
5866
5867	<listitem>
5868	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
5869	</listitem>
5870
5871	<listitem>
5872	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
5873	</listitem>
5874
5875	<listitem>
5876	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
5877	</listitem>
5878
5879	<listitem>
5880	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
5881	</listitem>
5882
5883	<listitem>
5884	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
5885	</listitem>
5886
5887	<listitem>
5888	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
5889	</listitem>
5890
5891	<listitem>
5892	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
5893	</listitem>
5894
5895	<listitem>
5896	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
5897	</listitem>
5898
5899	<listitem>
5900	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
5901	</listitem>
5902
5903	<listitem>
5904	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
5905	</listitem>
5906
5907	<listitem>
5908	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
5909	</listitem>
5910
5911	<listitem>
5912	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
5913	guest (bug #4381)</para>
5914	</listitem>
5915
5916	<listitem>
5917	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
5918	</listitem>
5919
5920	<listitem>
5921	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
5922	</listitem>
5923
5924	<listitem>
5925	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
5926	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
5927	</listitem>
5928
5929	<listitem>
5930	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
5931	</listitem>
5932
5933	<listitem>
5934	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
5935	</listitem>
5936
5937	<listitem>
5938	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
5939	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
5940	</listitem>
5941
5942	<listitem>
5943	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
5944	</listitem>
5945
5946	<listitem>
5947	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
5948	</listitem>
5949
5950	<listitem>
5951	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
5952	</listitem>
5953
5954	<listitem>
5955	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
5956	</listitem>
5957
5958	<listitem>
5959	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
5960	</listitem>
5961
5962	<listitem>
5963	<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>
5964	</listitem>
5965
5966	</itemizedlist>
5967
5968	</sect1>
5969
5970	<sect1>
5971	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
5972
5973	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5974	were added:</para>
5975
5976	<itemizedlist>
5977
5978	<listitem>
5979	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
5980	</listitem>
5981
5982	<listitem>
5983	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
5984	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5985	</listitem>
5986
5987	<listitem>
5988	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
5989	</listitem>
5990
5991	</itemizedlist>
5992
5993	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5994
5995	<itemizedlist>
5996
5997	<listitem>
5998	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
5999	</listitem>
6000
6001	<listitem>
6002	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6003	certain conditions</para>
6004	</listitem>
6005
6006	<listitem>
6007	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6008	</listitem>
6009
6010	<listitem>
6011	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6012	</listitem>
6013
6014	<listitem>
6015	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6016	</listitem>
6017
6018	<listitem>
6019	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6020	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6021	</listitem>
6022
6023	<listitem>
6024	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6025	</listitem>
6026
6027	<listitem>
6028	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6029	</listitem>
6030
6031	<listitem>
6032	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6033	</listitem>
6034
6035	<listitem>
6036	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6037	</listitem>
6038
6039	<listitem>
6040	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6041	</listitem>
6042
6043	<listitem>
6044	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6045	</listitem>
6046
6047	<listitem>
6048	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6049	</listitem>
6050
6051	<listitem>
6052	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6053	</listitem>
6054
6055	<listitem>
6056	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6057	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6058	</listitem>
6059
6060	<listitem>
6061	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6062	</listitem>
6063
6064	<listitem>
6065	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6066	</listitem>
6067
6068	<listitem>
6069	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6070	</listitem>
6071
6072	<listitem>
6073	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6074	</listitem>
6075
6076	<listitem>
6077	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6078	</listitem>
6079
6080	<listitem>
6081	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6082	</listitem>
6083
6084	<listitem>
6085	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6086	</listitem>
6087
6088	<listitem>
6089	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6090	</listitem>
6091
6092	<listitem>
6093	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6094	</listitem>
6095
6096	<listitem>
6097	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6098	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6099	</listitem>
6100
6101	<listitem>
6102	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6103	</listitem>
6104
6105	<listitem>
6106	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6107	</listitem>
6108
6109	<listitem>
6110	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6111	</listitem>
6112
6113	<listitem>
6114	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6115	</listitem>
6116
6117	<listitem>
6118	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6119	</listitem>
6120
6121	<listitem>
6122	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6123	</listitem>
6124
6125	<listitem>
6126	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6127	</listitem>
6128
6129	<listitem>
6130	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6131	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6132	</listitem>
6133
6134	<listitem>
6135	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6136	</listitem>
6137
6138	<listitem>
6139	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6140	</listitem>
6141
6142	<listitem>
6143	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6144	</listitem>
6145
6146	<listitem>
6147	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6148	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6149	</listitem>
6150
6151	<listitem>
6152	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6153	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6154	</listitem>
6155
6156	<listitem>
6157	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6158	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6159	</listitem>
6160
6161	<listitem>
6162	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6163	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6164	</listitem>
6165
6166	<listitem>
6167	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6168	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6169	</listitem>
6170
6171	<listitem>
6172	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6173	</listitem>
6174
6175	<listitem>
6176	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6177	</listitem>
6178
6179	<listitem>
6180	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6181	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6182	</listitem>
6183
6184	<listitem>
6185	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6186	guest property lookup</para>
6187	</listitem>
6188
6189	<listitem>
6190	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6191	basic network information)</para>
6192	</listitem>
6193
6194	<listitem>
6195	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6196	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6197	</listitem>
6198
6199	<listitem>
6200	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6201	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6202	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6203	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6204	</listitem>
6205
6206	<listitem>
6207	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6208	</listitem>
6209
6210	<listitem>
6211	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6212	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6213	web service</para>
6214	</listitem>
6215
6216	<listitem>
6217	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6218	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6219	</listitem>
6220
6221	<listitem>
6222	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6223	unavailable</para>
6224	</listitem>
6225
6226	<listitem>
6227	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6228	</listitem>
6229
6230	</itemizedlist>
6231	</sect1>
6232
6233	<sect1>
6234	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6235
6236	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6237	added:</para>
6238
6239	<itemizedlist>
6240
6241	<listitem>
6242	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6243	installation</para>
6244	</listitem>
6245
6246	<listitem>
6247	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6248	</listitem>
6249
6250	<listitem>
6251	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6252	later (bug #3981)</para>
6253	</listitem>
6254
6255	<listitem>
6256	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6257	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6258	</listitem>
6259
6260	<listitem>
6261	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6262	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6263	(bug #4034)
6264	</para>
6265	</listitem>
6266
6267	<listitem>
6268	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6269	networking</para>
6270	</listitem>
6271
6272	<listitem>
6273	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6274	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6275	</listitem>
6276
6277	<listitem>
6278	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6279	clicks</para>
6280	</listitem>
6281
6282	<listitem>
6283	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6284	Windows 7 guests</para>
6285	</listitem>
6286
6287	<listitem>
6288	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6289	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6290	</listitem>
6291
6292	<listitem>
6293	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6294	</listitem>
6295
6296	<listitem>
6297	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6298	</listitem>
6299
6300	<listitem>
6301	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6302	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6303	</listitem>
6304
6305	<listitem>
6306	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6307	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6308	</listitem>
6309
6310	<listitem>
6311	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6312	</listitem>
6313
6314	<listitem>
6315	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6316	</listitem>
6317
6318	<listitem>
6319	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6320	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6321	(bug #3864)</para>
6322	</listitem>
6323
6324	<listitem>
6325	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6326	now flushes the output stream</para>
6327	</listitem>
6328
6329	<listitem>
6330	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6331	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6332	</listitem>
6333
6334	<listitem>
6335	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6336	</listitem>
6337
6338	<listitem>
6339	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6340	</listitem>
6341
6342	<listitem>
6343	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6344	</listitem>
6345
6346	<listitem>
6347	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6348	</listitem>
6349
6350	<listitem>
6351	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6352	(bug #3964)</para>
6353	</listitem>
6354
6355	<listitem>
6356	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6357	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6358	</listitem>
6359
6360	<listitem>
6361	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6362	hosts</para>
6363	</listitem>
6364
6365	<listitem>
6366	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6367	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6368	e1000 adapter</para>
6369	</listitem>
6370
6371	<listitem>
6372	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6373	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6374	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6375	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6376	</listitem>
6377
6378	<listitem>
6379	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6380	</listitem>
6381
6382	<listitem>
6383	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6384	</listitem>
6385
6386	<listitem>
6387	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6388	</listitem>
6389
6390	<listitem>
6391	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6392	file (bug #1023)</para>
6393	</listitem>
6394
6395	<listitem>
6396	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6397	</listitem>
6398
6399	<listitem>
6400	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6401	</listitem>
6402
6403	</itemizedlist>
6404	</sect1>
6405
6406	<sect1>
6407	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6408
6409	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6410	added:</para>
6411
6412	<itemizedlist>
6413
6414	<listitem>
6415	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6416	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6417	</listitem>
6418
6419	<listitem>
6420	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6421	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6422	and later</para>
6423	</listitem>
6424
6425	<listitem>
6426	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6427	running services</para>
6428	</listitem>
6429
6430	<listitem>
6431	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6432	terminates</para>
6433	</listitem>
6434
6435	<listitem>
6436	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6437	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6438	</listitem>
6439
6440	<listitem>
6441	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6442	installed on the guest</para>
6443	</listitem>
6444
6445	<listitem>
6446	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6447	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6448	</listitem>
6449
6450	<listitem>
6451	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6452	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6453	</listitem>
6454
6455	<listitem>
6456	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6457	(bug #2628)</para>
6458	</listitem>
6459
6460	<listitem>
6461	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6462	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6463	</listitem>
6464
6465	<listitem>
6466	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6467	(bug #3657)</para>
6468	</listitem>
6469
6470	<listitem>
6471	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6472	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6473	</listitem>
6474
6475	<listitem>
6476	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6477	virtualization only)
6478	</para>
6479	</listitem>
6480
6481	<listitem>
6482	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6483	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6484	</listitem>
6485
6486	<listitem>
6487	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6488	</listitem>
6489
6490	<listitem>
6491	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6492	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6493	</listitem>
6494
6495	<listitem>
6496	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6497	bug #3689)</para>
6498	</listitem>
6499
6500	<listitem>
6501	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6502	bug #3679)</para>
6503	</listitem>
6504
6505	<listitem>
6506	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6507	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6508	</listitem>
6509
6510	<listitem>
6511	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6512	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6513	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6514	</listitem>
6515
6516	<listitem>
6517	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6518	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6519	</listitem>
6520
6521	<listitem>
6522	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6523	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6524	</listitem>
6525
6526	<listitem>
6527	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6528	(bug #3667)</para>
6529	</listitem>
6530
6531	<listitem>
6532	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6533	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6534	</listitem>
6535
6536	<listitem>
6537	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6538	</listitem>
6539
6540	<listitem>
6541	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6542	</listitem>
6543
6544	<listitem>
6545	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6546	</listitem>
6547
6548	<listitem>
6549	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6550	</listitem>
6551
6552	<listitem>
6553	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6554	</listitem>
6555
6556	<listitem>
6557	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6558	</listitem>
6559
6560	<listitem>
6561	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6562	</listitem>
6563
6564	</itemizedlist>
6565	</sect1>
6566
6567	<sect1>
6568	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6569
6570	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6571	were added:</para>
6572
6573	<itemizedlist>
6574
6575	<listitem>
6576	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6577	</listitem>
6578
6579	<listitem>
6580	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6581	</listitem>
6582
6583	<listitem>
6584	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6585	</listitem>
6586
6587	<listitem>
6588	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6589	</listitem>
6590
6591	<listitem>
6592	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6593	</listitem>
6594
6595	<listitem>
6596	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6597	</listitem>
6598
6599	<listitem>
6600	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6601	</listitem>
6602
6603	<listitem>
6604	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6605	</listitem>
6606
6607	<listitem>
6608	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6609	</listitem>
6610
6611	<listitem>
6612	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
6613	</listitem>
6614
6615	</itemizedlist>
6616
6617	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6618
6619	<itemizedlist>
6620
6621	<listitem>
6622	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
6623	</listitem>
6624
6625	<listitem>
6626	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
6627	</listitem>
6628
6629	<listitem>
6630	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
6631	</listitem>
6632
6633	<listitem>
6634	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
6635	</listitem>
6636
6637	<listitem>
6638	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
6639	</listitem>
6640
6641	<listitem>
6642	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6643	</listitem>
6644
6645	<listitem>
6646	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6647	</listitem>
6648
6649	<listitem>
6650	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
6651	</listitem>
6652
6653	<listitem>
6654	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
6655	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
6656	</listitem>
6657
6658	<listitem>
6659	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
6660	</listitem>
6661
6662	<listitem>
6663	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
6664	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
6665	</listitem>
6666
6667	<listitem>
6668	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
6669	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
6670	</listitem>
6671
6672	<listitem>
6673	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
6674	</listitem>
6675
6676	<listitem>
6677	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
6678	</listitem>
6679
6680	<listitem>
6681	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
6682	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
6683	</listitem>
6684
6685	<listitem>
6686	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
6687	</listitem>
6688
6689	<listitem>
6690	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
6691	ESX server images)</para>
6692	</listitem>
6693
6694	<listitem>
6695	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
6696	writable</para>
6697	</listitem>
6698
6699	<listitem>
6700	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
6701	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
6702	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
6703	</listitem>
6704
6705	<listitem>
6706	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
6707	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
6708	</listitem>
6709
6710	<listitem>
6711	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
6712	</listitem>
6713
6714	<listitem>
6715	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
6716	</listitem>
6717
6718	<listitem>
6719	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
6720	hosts when creating files</para>
6721	</listitem>
6722
6723	<listitem>
6724	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
6725	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
6726	</listitem>
6727
6728	<listitem>
6729	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
6730	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
6731	#2306)</para>
6732	</listitem>
6733
6734	<listitem>
6735	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
6736	(bug #3555)</para>
6737	</listitem>
6738
6739	<listitem>
6740	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
6741	installer (bug #3524)</para>
6742	</listitem>
6743
6744	<listitem>
6745	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
6746	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
6747	</listitem>
6748
6749	<listitem>
6750	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
6751	interface (bug #3414)</para>
6752	</listitem>
6753
6754	<listitem>
6755	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
6756	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
6757	</listitem>
6758
6759	<listitem>
6760	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
6761	(bug #3586)</para>
6762	</listitem>
6763
6764	<listitem>
6765	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
6766	from Scratch systems</para>
6767	</listitem>
6768
6769	<listitem>
6770	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
6771	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
6772	</listitem>
6773
6774	<listitem>
6775	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
6776	</listitem>
6777
6778	<listitem>
6779	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
6780	default to compact format</para>
6781	</listitem>
6782
6783	<listitem>
6784	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
6785	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
6786	</listitem>
6787
6788	<listitem>
6789	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
6790	</listitem>
6791
6792	<listitem>
6793	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
6794	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
6795	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
6796	</listitem>
6797
6798	<listitem>
6799	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
6800	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
6801	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
6802	</listitem>
6803
6804	<listitem>
6805	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
6806	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
6807	</listitem>
6808
6809	<listitem>
6810	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
6811	</listitem>
6812
6813	<listitem>
6814	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
6815	</listitem>
6816
6817	<listitem>
6818	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
6819	</listitem>
6820
6821	<listitem>
6822	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
6823	</listitem>
6824
6825	<listitem>
6826	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
6827	</listitem>
6828
6829	<listitem>
6830	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
6831	</listitem>
6832
6833	<listitem>
6834	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
6835	</listitem>
6836
6837	<listitem>
6838	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
6839	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
6840	</listitem>
6841
6842	<listitem>
6843	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
6844	</listitem>
6845
6846	<listitem>
6847	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
6848	regression; bug #2065)</para>
6849	</listitem>
6850
6851	<listitem>
6852	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
6853	</listitem>
6854
6855	<listitem>
6856	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
6857	</listitem>
6858
6859	<listitem>
6860	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
6861	</listitem>
6862
6863	<listitem>
6864	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
6865	#2536)</para>
6866	</listitem>
6867
6868	<listitem>
6869	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
6870	</listitem>
6871
6872	<listitem>
6873	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
6874	(bug #3548)</para>
6875	</listitem>
6876
6877	</itemizedlist>
6878	</sect1>
6879
6880	<sect1>
6881	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
6882
6883	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6884	added:</para>
6885
6886	<itemizedlist>
6887
6888	<listitem>
6889	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
6890	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
6891	</listitem>
6892
6893	<listitem>
6894	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
6895	</listitem>
6896
6897	<listitem>
6898	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
6899	</listitem>
6900
6901	<listitem>
6902	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
6903	</listitem>
6904
6905	<listitem>
6906	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
6907	(bug #3115)</para>
6908	</listitem>
6909
6910	<listitem>
6911	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
6912	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
6913	</listitem>
6914
6915	<listitem>
6916	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
6917	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
6918	(bug #3215)</para>
6919	</listitem>
6920
6921	<listitem>
6922	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
6923	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
6924	</listitem>
6925
6926	<listitem>
6927	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
6928	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
6929	</listitem>
6930
6931	<listitem>
6932	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
6933	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
6934	</listitem>
6935
6936	<listitem>
6937	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
6938	in parallel</para>
6939	</listitem>
6940
6941	<listitem>
6942	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
6943	</listitem>
6944
6945	<listitem>
6946	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
6947	</listitem>
6948
6949	<listitem>
6950	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
6951	</listitem>
6952
6953	<listitem>
6954	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
6955	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
6956	</listitem>
6957
6958	<listitem>
6959	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
6960	</listitem>
6961
6962	<listitem>
6963	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
6964	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
6965	</listitem>
6966
6967	<listitem>
6968	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
6969	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
6970	</listitem>
6971
6972	<listitem>
6973	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
6974	</listitem>
6975
6976	<listitem>
6977	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
6978	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
6979	</listitem>
6980
6981	<listitem>
6982	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
6983	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
6984	</listitem>
6985
6986	<listitem>
6987	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
6988	</listitem>
6989
6990	<listitem>
6991	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
6992	</listitem>
6993
6994	<listitem>
6995	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
6996	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
6997	</listitem>
6998
6999	<listitem>
7000	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7001	</listitem>
7002
7003	<listitem>
7004	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7005	</listitem>
7006
7007	<listitem>
7008	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7009	</listitem>
7010
7011	<listitem>
7012	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7013	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7014	</listitem>
7015
7016	<listitem>
7017	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7018	</listitem>
7019
7020	<listitem>
7021	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7022	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7023	</listitem>
7024
7025	<listitem>
7026	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7027	</listitem>
7028
7029	<listitem>
7030	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7031	</listitem>
7032
7033	<listitem>
7034	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7035	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7036	</listitem>
7037
7038	<listitem>
7039	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7040	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7041	</listitem>
7042
7043	<listitem>
7044	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7045	</listitem>
7046
7047	<listitem>
7048	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7049	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7050	</listitem>
7051
7052	<listitem>
7053	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7054	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7055	</listitem>
7056
7057	<listitem>
7058	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7059	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7060	</listitem>
7061
7062	<listitem>
7063	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7064	(bug #3213)</para>
7065	</listitem>
7066
7067	<listitem>
7068	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7069	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7070	</listitem>
7071
7072	<listitem>
7073	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7074	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7075	</listitem>
7076
7077	</itemizedlist>
7078	</sect1>
7079
7080	<sect1>
7081	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7082
7083	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7084	added:</para>
7085
7086	<itemizedlist>
7087
7088	<listitem>
7089	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7090	</listitem>
7091
7092	<listitem>
7093	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7094	</listitem>
7095
7096	<listitem>
7097	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7098	</listitem>
7099
7100	<listitem>
7101	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7102	</listitem>
7103
7104	<listitem>
7105	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7106	</listitem>
7107
7108	<listitem>
7109	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7110	</listitem>
7111
7112	<listitem>
7113	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7114	</listitem>
7115
7116	<listitem>
7117	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7118	</listitem>
7119
7120	<listitem>
7121	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7122	</listitem>
7123
7124	<listitem>
7125	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7126	</listitem>
7127
7128	<listitem>
7129	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7130	</listitem>
7131
7132	<listitem>
7133	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7134	</listitem>
7135
7136	<listitem>
7137	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7138	</listitem>
7139
7140	<listitem>
7141	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7142	</listitem>
7143
7144	<listitem>
7145	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7146	</listitem>
7147
7148	<listitem>
7149	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7150	</listitem>
7151
7152	<listitem>
7153	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7154	(bug #3067)</para>
7155	</listitem>
7156
7157	<listitem>
7158	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7159	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7160	</listitem>
7161
7162	<listitem>
7163	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7164	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7165	</listitem>
7166
7167	<listitem>
7168	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7169	</listitem>
7170
7171	<listitem>
7172	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7173	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7174	</listitem>
7175
7176	<listitem>
7177	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7178	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7179	</listitem>
7180
7181	<listitem>
7182	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7183	</listitem>
7184
7185	<listitem>
7186	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7187	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7188	</listitem>
7189
7190	<listitem>
7191	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7192	</listitem>
7193
7194	<listitem>
7195	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7196	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7197	</listitem>
7198
7199	<listitem>
7200	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7201	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7202	</listitem>
7203
7204	<listitem>
7205	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7206	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7207	</para>
7208	</listitem>
7209
7210	<listitem>
7211	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7212	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7213	</para>
7214	</listitem>
7215
7216	<listitem>
7217	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7218	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7219	</para>
7220	</listitem>
7221
7222	<listitem>
7223	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7224	</listitem>
7225
7226	<listitem>
7227	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7228	</listitem>
7229
7230	<listitem>
7231	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7232	</listitem>
7233
7234	<listitem>
7235	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7236	</listitem>
7237
7238	<listitem>
7239	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7240	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7241	</listitem>
7242
7243	<listitem>
7244	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7245	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7246	</listitem>
7247
7248	<listitem>
7249	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7250	formatting a drive</para>
7251	</listitem>
7252
7253	<listitem>
7254	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7255	</listitem>
7256
7257	<listitem>
7258	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7259	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7260	</listitem>
7261
7262	<listitem>
7263	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7264	</listitem>
7265
7266	<listitem>
7267	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7268	</listitem>
7269
7270	<listitem>
7271	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7272	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7273	</listitem>
7274
7275	<listitem>
7276	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7277	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7278	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7279	</listitem>
7280
7281	<listitem>
7282	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7283	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7284	</listitem>
7285
7286	<listitem>
7287	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7288	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7289	</listitem>
7290
7291	<listitem>
7292	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7293	(bug #2768)</para>
7294	</listitem>
7295
7296	<listitem>
7297	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7298	</listitem>
7299
7300	<listitem>
7301	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7302	</listitem>
7303
7304	<listitem>
7305	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7306	single, unified package</para>
7307	</listitem>
7308
7309	<listitem>
7310	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7311	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7312	</listitem>
7313
7314	<listitem>
7315	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7316	</listitem>
7317
7318	<listitem>
7319	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7320	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7321	</listitem>
7322
7323	<listitem>
7324	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7325	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7326	</listitem>
7327
7328	<listitem>
7329	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7330	</listitem>
7331
7332	<listitem>
7333	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7334	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7335	doing 3D</para>
7336	</listitem>
7337
7338	<listitem>
7339	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7340	</listitem>
7341
7342	<listitem>
7343	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7344	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7345	</listitem>
7346
7347	<listitem>
7348	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7349	</listitem>
7350
7351	<listitem>
7352	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7353	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7354	</listitem>
7355
7356	<listitem>
7357	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7358	</listitem>
7359
7360	<listitem>
7361	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7362	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7363	</listitem>
7364
7365	<listitem>
7366	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7367	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7368	(bug #2938)</para>
7369	</listitem>
7370
7371	<listitem>
7372	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7373	Linux guests</para>
7374	</listitem>
7375
7376	<listitem>
7377	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7378	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7379	(bug #1776)</para>
7380	</listitem>
7381
7382	<listitem>
7383	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7384	(bug #1612)</para>
7385	</listitem>
7386
7387	<listitem>
7388	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7389	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7390	</listitem>
7391
7392	<listitem>
7393	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7394	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7395	</listitem>
7396
7397	<listitem>
7398	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7399	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7400	</listitem>
7401
7402	</itemizedlist>
7403	</sect1>
7404
7405	<sect1>
7406	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7407
7408	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7409	were added:</para>
7410
7411	<itemizedlist>
7412	<listitem>
7413	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7414	</listitem>
7415
7416	<listitem>
7417	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7418	</listitem>
7419
7420	<listitem>
7421	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7422	</listitem>
7423
7424	<listitem>
7425	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7426	</listitem>
7427
7428	<listitem>
7429	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7430	</listitem>
7431
7432	<listitem>
7433	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7434	</listitem>
7435
7436	<listitem>
7437	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7438	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7439	</listitem>
7440
7441	<listitem>
7442	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7443	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7444	</listitem>
7445
7446	</itemizedlist>
7447
7448	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7449
7450	<itemizedlist>
7451	<listitem>
7452	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7453	</listitem>
7454
7455	<listitem>
7456	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7457	</listitem>
7458
7459	<listitem>
7460	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7461	</listitem>
7462
7463	<listitem>
7464	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7465	</listitem>
7466
7467	<listitem>
7468	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7469	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7470	</listitem>
7471
7472	<listitem>
7473	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7474	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7475	</listitem>
7476
7477	<listitem>
7478	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7479	</listitem>
7480
7481	<listitem>
7482	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7483	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7484	</listitem>
7485
7486	<listitem>
7487	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7488	</listitem>
7489
7490	<listitem>
7491	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7492	</listitem>
7493
7494	<listitem>
7495	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7496	</listitem>
7497
7498	<listitem>
7499	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7500	</listitem>
7501
7502	<listitem>
7503	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7504	</listitem>
7505
7506	<listitem>
7507	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7508	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7509	</listitem>
7510
7511	<listitem>
7512	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7513	the compiz window manager</para>
7514	</listitem>
7515
7516	<listitem>
7517	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7518	</listitem>
7519
7520	<listitem>
7521	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7522	</listitem>
7523
7524	<listitem>
7525	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7526	</listitem>
7527
7528	<listitem>
7529	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7530	</listitem>
7531
7532	<listitem>
7533	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7534	</listitem>
7535
7536	<listitem>
7537	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7538	</listitem>
7539
7540	<listitem>
7541	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7542	</listitem>
7543
7544	<listitem>
7545	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7546	</listitem>
7547
7548	<listitem>
7549	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7550	</listitem>
7551
7552	<listitem>
7553	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7554	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7555	</listitem>
7556
7557	<listitem>
7558	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7559	for direct device access</para>
7560	</listitem>
7561
7562	<listitem>
7563	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7564	</listitem>
7565
7566	<listitem>
7567	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7568	</listitem>
7569
7570	<listitem>
7571	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7572	</listitem>
7573
7574	<listitem>
7575	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7576	</listitem>
7577
7578	<listitem>
7579	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7580	</listitem>
7581
7582	<listitem>
7583	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7584	</listitem>
7585
7586	<listitem>
7587	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7588	</listitem>
7589
7590	<listitem>
7591	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7592	</listitem>
7593
7594	</itemizedlist>
7595	</sect1>
7596
7597	<sect1>
7598	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7599
7600	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7601	added:</para>
7602
7603	<itemizedlist>
7604
7605	<listitem>
7606	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7607	states/snapshots</para>
7608	</listitem>
7609
7610	<listitem>
7611	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
7612	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
7613	</listitem>
7614
7615	<listitem>
7616	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7617	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7618	</listitem>
7619
7620	<listitem>
7621	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
7622	collisions</para>
7623	</listitem>
7624
7625	<listitem>
7626	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7627	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7628	</listitem>
7629
7630	<listitem>
7631	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7632	</listitem>
7633
7634	<listitem>
7635	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
7636	reliably</para>
7637	</listitem>
7638
7639	<listitem>
7640	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7641	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7642	</listitem>
7643
7644	<listitem>
7645	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
7646	a reboot</para>
7647	</listitem>
7648
7649	<listitem>
7650	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7651	</listitem>
7652
7653	<listitem>
7654	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7655	in parallel</para>
7656	</listitem>
7657
7658	<listitem>
7659	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7660	</listitem>
7661
7662	<listitem>
7663	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
7664	correctly</para>
7665	</listitem>
7666
7667	<listitem>
7668	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7669	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7670	</listitem>
7671
7672	</itemizedlist>
7673	</sect1>
7674
7675	<sect1>
7676	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
7677
7678	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7679	added:</para>
7680
7681	<itemizedlist>
7682
7683	<listitem>
7684	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
7685	(bug #2220)</para>
7686	</listitem>
7687
7688	<listitem>
7689	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
7690	</listitem>
7691
7692	<listitem>
7693	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
7694	</listitem>
7695
7696	<listitem>
7697	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
7698	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
7699	</listitem>
7700
7701	<listitem>
7702	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
7703	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
7704	</listitem>
7705
7706	<listitem>
7707	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
7708	(bug #2624)</para>
7709	</listitem>
7710
7711	<listitem>
7712	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
7713	(bug #2024)</para>
7714	</listitem>
7715
7716	<listitem>
7717	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
7718	</listitem>
7719
7720	<listitem>
7721	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
7722	</listitem>
7723
7724	<listitem>
7725	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
7726	</listitem>
7727
7728	<listitem>
7729	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
7730	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
7731	</listitem>
7732
7733	<listitem>
7734	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
7735	applications when updating the installation</para>
7736	</listitem>
7737
7738	<listitem>
7739	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
7740	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
7741	</listitem>
7742
7743	<listitem>
7744	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
7745	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
7746	</listitem>
7747
7748	<listitem>
7749	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
7750	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
7751	</listitem>
7752
7753	<listitem>
7754	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
7755	connected to a host device</para>
7756	</listitem>
7757
7758	<listitem>
7759	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
7760	</listitem>
7761
7762	<listitem>
7763	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
7764	</listitem>
7765
7766	<listitem>
7767	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
7768	</listitem>
7769
7770	<listitem>
7771	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
7772	when using native RDP connections</para>
7773	</listitem>
7774
7775	<listitem>
7776	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
7777	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
7778	</listitem>
7779
7780	<listitem>
7781	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
7782	(bug #2591)</para>
7783	</listitem>
7784
7785	<listitem>
7786	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
7787	guests (bug #2550)</para>
7788	</listitem>
7789
7790	<listitem>
7791	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
7792	</listitem>
7793
7794	</itemizedlist>
7795	</sect1>
7796
7797	<sect1>
7798	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
7799
7800	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7801	added:</para>
7802
7803	<itemizedlist>
7804	<listitem>
7805	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
7806	</listitem>
7807
7808	<listitem>
7809	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
7810	</listitem>
7811
7812	<listitem>
7813	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
7814	</listitem>
7815
7816	<listitem>
7817	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
7818	</listitem>
7819
7820	<listitem>
7821	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
7822	</listitem>
7823
7824	<listitem>
7825	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
7826	</listitem>
7827
7828	<listitem>
7829	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
7830	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
7831	</listitem>
7832
7833	<listitem>
7834	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
7835	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
7836	</listitem>
7837
7838	<listitem>
7839	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
7840	</listitem>
7841
7842	<listitem>
7843	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
7844	equal to the client resolution</para>
7845	</listitem>
7846
7847	<listitem>
7848	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
7849	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
7850	</listitem>
7851
7852	<listitem>
7853	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
7854	</listitem>
7855
7856	<listitem>
7857	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
7858	</listitem>
7859
7860	<listitem>
7861	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
7862	</listitem>
7863
7864	<listitem>
7865	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
7866	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
7867	</listitem>
7868
7869	<listitem>
7870	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
7871	networking (bug #2474)</para>
7872	</listitem>
7873
7874	<listitem>
7875	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
7876	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
7877	</listitem>
7878
7879	<listitem>
7880	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
7881	</listitem>
7882
7883	<listitem>
7884	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
7885	</listitem>
7886
7887	<listitem>
7888	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
7889	</listitem>
7890
7891	<listitem>
7892	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
7893	</listitem>
7894
7895	<listitem>
7896	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
7897	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
7898	</listitem>
7899
7900	<listitem>
7901	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
7902	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
7903	</listitem>
7904
7905	<listitem>
7906	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
7907	</listitem>
7908
7909	<listitem>
7910	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
7911	</listitem>
7912
7913	<listitem>
7914	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
7915	</listitem>
7916
7917	</itemizedlist>
7918
7919	</sect1>
7920
7921	<sect1>
7922	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
7923
7924	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7925	added:</para>
7926
7927	<itemizedlist>
7928
7929	<listitem>
7930	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
7931	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
7932	</listitem>
7933
7934	<listitem>
7935	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
7936	</listitem>
7937
7938	<listitem>
7939	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
7940	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
7941	</listitem>
7942
7943	<listitem>
7944	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
7945	</listitem>
7946
7947	<listitem>
7948	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
7949	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
7950	</listitem>
7951
7952	<listitem>
7953	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
7954	</listitem>
7955
7956	<listitem>
7957	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
7958	the virtual disk manager</para>
7959	</listitem>
7960
7961	<listitem>
7962	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
7963	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
7964	</listitem>
7965
7966	<listitem>
7967	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
7968	</listitem>
7969
7970	<listitem>
7971	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
7972	</listitem>
7973
7974	<listitem>
7975	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
7976	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
7977	</listitem>
7978
7979	<listitem>
7980	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
7981	bug #2067)</para>
7982	</listitem>
7983
7984	<listitem>
7985	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
7986	</listitem>
7987
7988	<listitem>
7989	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
7990	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
7991	</listitem>
7992
7993	<listitem>
7994	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
7995	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
7996	(bug #2184)</para>
7997	</listitem>
7998
7999	<listitem>
8000	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8001	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8002	</listitem>
8003
8004	<listitem>
8005	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8006	(Windows guests only)</para>
8007	</listitem>
8008
8009	<listitem>
8010	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8011	</listitem>
8012
8013	<listitem>
8014	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8015	</listitem>
8016
8017	<listitem>
8018	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8019	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8020	</listitem>
8021
8022	<listitem>
8023	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8024	</listitem>
8025
8026	<listitem>
8027	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8028	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8029	</para>
8030	</listitem>
8031
8032	<listitem>
8033	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8034	</listitem>
8035
8036	<listitem>
8037	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8038	</listitem>
8039
8040	<listitem>
8041	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8042	a VM reboot</para>
8043	</listitem>
8044
8045	<listitem>
8046	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8047	</listitem>
8048
8049	<listitem>
8050	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8051	buggy X servers</para>
8052	</listitem>
8053
8054	<listitem>
8055	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8056	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8057	</listitem>
8058
8059	<listitem>
8060	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8061	</listitem>
8062
8063	<listitem>
8064	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8065	(bug #2128)</para>
8066	</listitem>
8067
8068	<listitem>
8069	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8070	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8071	</listitem>
8072
8073	<listitem>
8074	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8075	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8076	</listitem>
8077
8078	<listitem>
8079	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8080	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8081	</listitem>
8082
8083	<listitem>
8084	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8085	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8086	</listitem>
8087
8088	<listitem>
8089	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8090	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8091	</listitem>
8092
8093	<listitem>
8094	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8095	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8096	</listitem>
8097
8098	<listitem>
8099	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8100	installer into a single package</para>
8101	</listitem>
8102
8103	<listitem>
8104	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8105	port to the guest
8106	</para>
8107	</listitem>
8108
8109	</itemizedlist>
8110
8111	</sect1>
8112
8113	<sect1>
8114	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8115
8116	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8117	were added:<itemizedlist>
8118
8119	<listitem>
8120	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8121	</listitem>
8122
8123	<listitem>
8124	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8125	</listitem>
8126
8127	<listitem>
8128	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8129	</listitem>
8130
8131	<listitem>
8132	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8133	</listitem>
8134
8135	<listitem>
8136	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8137	</listitem>
8138
8139	<listitem>
8140	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8141	</listitem>
8142
8143	<listitem>
8144	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8145	</listitem>
8146
8147	<listitem>
8148	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8149	</listitem>
8150
8151	<listitem>
8152	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8153	</listitem>
8154
8155	<listitem>
8156	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8157	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8158	</listitem>
8159
8160	<listitem>
8161	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8162	</listitem>
8163
8164	<listitem>
8165	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8166	</listitem>
8167
8168	<listitem>
8169	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8170	</listitem>
8171
8172	</itemizedlist></para>
8173
8174	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8175
8176	<itemizedlist>
8177
8178	<listitem>
8179	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8180	</listitem>
8181
8182	<listitem>
8183	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8184	</listitem>
8185
8186	<listitem>
8187	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8188	</listitem>
8189
8190	<listitem>
8191	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8192	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8193	</listitem>
8194
8195	<listitem>
8196	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8197	restored</para>
8198	</listitem>
8199
8200	<listitem>
8201	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8202	</listitem>
8203
8204	<listitem>
8205	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8206	</listitem>
8207
8208	<listitem>
8209	<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>
8210	</listitem>
8211
8212	</itemizedlist>
8213
8214	</sect1>
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