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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>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
72 (bug #9973)</para>
73 </listitem>
74
75 <listitem>
76 <para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
77 </listitem>
78
79 <listitem>
80 <para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
81 </listitem>
82
83 <listitem>
84 <para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
85 VirtualBox update</para>
86 </listitem>
87
88 </itemizedlist>
89 </sect1>
90
91 <sect1>
92 <title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
93
94 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
95 added:</para>
96
97 <itemizedlist>
98
99 <listitem>
100 <para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
101 PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
102 (bug #3783)</para>
103 </listitem>
104
105 <listitem>
106 <para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
107 </listitem>
108
109 <listitem>
110 <para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
111 (bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
112 </listitem>
113
114 <listitem>
115 <para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
116 </listitem>
117
118 </itemizedlist>
119
120 </sect1>
121
122 <sect1>
123 <title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
124
125 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
126 added:</para>
127
128 <itemizedlist>
129
130 <listitem>
131 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
132 <emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
133 due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
134 </listitem>
135
136 <listitem>
137 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
138 under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
139 </listitem>
140
141 <listitem>
142 <para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
143 legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
144 </listitem>
145
146 <listitem>
147 <para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
148 </listitem>
149
150 <listitem>
151 <para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
152 </listitem>
153
154 <listitem>
155 <para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
156 4.1.10 regression)</para>
157 </listitem>
158
159 <listitem>
160 <para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
161 </listitem>
162
163 <listitem>
164 <para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
165 RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
166 </listitem>
167
168 <listitem>
169 <para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
170 </listitem>
171
172 <listitem>
173 <para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
174 <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
175 </listitem>
176
177 <listitem>
178 <para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
179 4.1.10 regression)</para>
180 </listitem>
181
182 <listitem>
183 <para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
184 closed (bug #6473)</para>
185 </listitem>
186
187 <listitem>
188 <para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
189 properly installed</para>
190 </listitem>
191
192 <listitem>
193 <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
194 </listitem>
195
196 </itemizedlist>
197 </sect1>
198
199 <sect1>
200 <title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
201
202 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
203 added:</para>
204
205 <itemizedlist>
206
207 <listitem>
208 <para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
209 do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
210 </listitem>
211
212 <listitem>
213 <para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
214 <emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
215 </listitem>
216
217 <listitem>
218 <para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
219 fusion</para>
220 </listitem>
221
222 <listitem>
223 <para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
224 little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
225 </listitem>
226
227 <listitem>
228 <para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
229 and network mask attributes</para>
230 </listitem>
231
232 <listitem>
233 <para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
234 (bug #10030)</para>
235 </listitem>
236
237 <listitem>
238 <para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
239 bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
240 </listitem>
241
242 <listitem>
243 <para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
244 </listitem>
245
246 <listitem>
247 <para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
248 </listitem>
249
250 <listitem>
251 <para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
252 make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
253 </listitem>
254
255 <listitem>
256 <para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
257 </listitem>
258
259 <listitem>
260 <para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
261 images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
262 </listitem>
263
264 <listitem>
265 <para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
266 when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
267 </listitem>
268
269 <listitem>
270 <para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
271 (non-Windows hosts only)</para>
272 </listitem>
273
274 <listitem>
275 <para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
276 </listitem>
277
278 <listitem>
279 <para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
280 </listitem>
281
282 <listitem>
283 <para>SDK: added Python example</para>
284 </listitem>
285
286 <listitem>
287 <para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
288 </listitem>
289
290 <listitem>
291 <para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
292 </listitem>
293
294 <listitem>
295 <para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
296 </listitem>
297
298 <listitem>
299 <para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
300 in a zone</para>
301 </listitem>
302
303 <listitem>
304 <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
305 </listitem>
306
307 <listitem>
308 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
309 (bug #9651)</para>
310 </listitem>
311
312 <listitem>
313 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
314 </listitem>
315
316 <listitem>
317 <para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
318 #10010)</para>
319 </listitem>
320
321 <listitem>
322 <para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
323 folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
324 </listitem>
325
326 <listitem>
327 <para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
328 memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
329 </listitem>
330
331 <listitem>
332 <para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
333 </listitem>
334
335 <listitem>
336 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
337 on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
338 </listitem>
339
340 <listitem>
341 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
342 (bug #10151)</para>
343 </listitem>
344
345 <listitem>
346 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
347 guests.</para>
348 </listitem>
349
350 <listitem>
351 <para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
352 </listitem>
353
354 <listitem>
355 <para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
356 </listitem>
357
358 <listitem>
359 <para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
360 </listitem>
361
362 </itemizedlist>
363 </sect1>
364
365 <sect1>
366 <title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
367
368 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
369 added:</para>
370
371 <itemizedlist>
372
373 <listitem>
374 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
375 under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
376 </listitem>
377
378 <listitem>
379 <para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
380 </listitem>
381
382 <listitem>
383 <para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
384 (bug #9642)</para>
385 </listitem>
386
387 <listitem>
388 <para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
389 Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
390 </para>
391 </listitem>
392
393 <listitem>
394 <para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
395 </listitem>
396
397 <listitem>
398 <para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
399 connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
400 </listitem>
401
402 <listitem>
403 <para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
404 metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
405 </listitem>
406
407 <listitem>
408 <para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
409 </listitem>
410
411 <listitem>
412 <para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
413 </listitem>
414
415 <listitem>
416 <para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
417 </listitem>
418
419 <listitem>
420 <para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
421 circumstances</para>
422 </listitem>
423
424 <listitem>
425 <para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
426 </listitem>
427
428 <listitem>
429 <para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
430 when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
431 </listitem>
432
433 <listitem>
434 <para>3D Support: Fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
435 Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
436 Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
437 and for 3D support in general</para>
438 </listitem>
439
440 <listitem>
441 <para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
442 </listitem>
443
444 <listitem>
445 <para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
446 </listitem>
447
448 <listitem>
449 <para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
450 </listitem>
451
452 <listitem>
453 <para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
454 detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
455 </listitem>
456
457 </itemizedlist>
458 </sect1>
459
460 <sect1>
461 <title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
462
463 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
464 added:</para>
465
466 <itemizedlist>
467
468 <listitem>
469 <para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
470 </listitem>
471
472 <listitem>
473 <para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
474 ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
475 </listitem>
476
477 <listitem>
478 <para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
479 or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
480 </listitem>
481
482 <listitem>
483 <para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
484 certain guests</para>
485 </listitem>
486
487 <listitem>
488 <para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
489 </listitem>
490
491 <listitem>
492 <para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
493 the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
494 preview window in the GUI for example</para>
495 </listitem>
496
497 <listitem>
498 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
499 bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
500 </listitem>
501
502 <listitem>
503 <para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
504 </listitem>
505
506 <listitem>
507 <para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
508 from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
509 </listitem>
510
511 <listitem>
512 <para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
513 </listitem>
514
515 <listitem>
516 <para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
517 Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
518 </listitem>
519
520 <listitem>
521 <para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
522 guests</para>
523 </listitem>
524
525 <listitem>
526 <para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
527 folders</para>
528 </listitem>
529
530 <listitem>
531 <para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
532 shared folders</para>
533 </listitem>
534
535 <listitem>
536 <para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
537 users and stale sessions</para>
538 </listitem>
539
540 <listitem>
541 <para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
542 virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
543 </listitem>
544
545 </itemizedlist>
546 </sect1>
547
548 <sect1>
549 <title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
550
551 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
552 added:</para>
553
554 <itemizedlist>
555
556 <listitem>
557 <para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
558 bug #9458)</para>
559 </listitem>
560
561 <listitem>
562 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
563 caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
564 </listitem>
565
566 <listitem>
567 <para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
568 emulation under rare circumstances</para>
569 </listitem>
570
571 <listitem>
572 <para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
573 </listitem>
574
575 <listitem>
576 <para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
577 to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
578 </listitem>
579
580 <listitem>
581 <para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
582 (4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
583 </listitem>
584
585 <listitem>
586 <para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
587 (bug #9308)</para>
588 </listitem>
589
590 <listitem>
591 <para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
592 <emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
593 </listitem>
594
595 <listitem>
596 <para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
597 (bug #9503)</para>
598 </listitem>
599
600 <listitem>
601 <para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
602 (bug #9242)</para>
603 </listitem>
604
605 <listitem>
606 <para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
607 usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
608 bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
609 </listitem>
610
611 <listitem>
612 <para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
613 </listitem>
614
615 <listitem>
616 <para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
617 images</para>
618 </listitem>
619
620 <listitem>
621 <para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
622 (Windows hosts only)</para>
623 </listitem>
624
625 <listitem>
626 <para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
627 not exist (bug #7941)</para>
628 </listitem>
629
630 <listitem>
631 <para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
632 resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
633 </listitem>
634
635 <listitem>
636 <para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
637 restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
638 </listitem>
639
640 <listitem>
641 <para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
642 #9387)</para>
643 </listitem>
644
645 <listitem>
646 <para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
647 snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
648 </listitem>
649
650 <listitem>
651 <para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
652 headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
653 </listitem>
654
655 <listitem>
656 <para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
657 MTU (bug #9370)</para>
658 </listitem>
659
660 <listitem>
661 <para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
662 to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
663 </listitem>
664
665 <listitem>
666 <para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
667 </listitem>
668
669 <listitem>
670 <para>Guest control: Miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
671 </listitem>
672
673 <listitem>
674 <para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
675 (4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
676 </listitem>
677
678 <listitem>
679 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
680 (bug #1578)</para>
681 </listitem>
682
683 <listitem>
684 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
685 interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
686 </listitem>
687
688 <listitem>
689 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
690 bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
691 </listitem>
692
693 <listitem>
694 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
695 (bug #9535)</para>
696 </listitem>
697
698 <listitem>
699 <para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
700 on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
701 </listitem>
702
703 <listitem>
704 <para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
705 help file (bug #9646)</para>
706 </listitem>
707
708 <listitem>
709 <para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
710 appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
711 </listitem>
712
713 <listitem>
714 <para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
715 console window (bug #3549)</para>
716 </listitem>
717
718 <listitem>
719 <para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
720 output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
721 </listitem>
722
723 <listitem>
724 <para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
725 </para>
726 </listitem>
727
728 <listitem>
729 <para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
730 a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
731 </para>
732 </listitem>
733
734 <listitem>
735 <para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
736 (bug #6229)
737 </para>
738 </listitem>
739
740 <listitem>
741 <para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
742 compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
743 </listitem>
744
745 <listitem>
746 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
747 (from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
748 </listitem>
749
750 <listitem>
751 <para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
752 (4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
753 </listitem>
754
755 <listitem>
756 <para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
757 BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
758 </listitem>
759
760 <listitem>
761 <para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
762 with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
763 </listitem>
764
765 <listitem>
766 <para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
767 with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
768 </listitem>
769
770 <listitem>
771 <para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
772 outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
773 </listitem>
774
775 <listitem>
776 <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
777 text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
778 </listitem>
779
780 </itemizedlist>
781 </sect1>
782
783 <sect1>
784 <title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
785
786 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
787 added:</para>
788
789 <itemizedlist>
790
791 <listitem>
792 <para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
793 </listitem>
794
795 <listitem>
796 <para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
797 machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
798 </listitem>
799
800 <listitem>
801 <para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
802 </listitem>
803
804 <listitem>
805 <para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
806 (4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
807 </listitem>
808
809 <listitem>
810 <para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
811 vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
812 </listitem>
813
814 <listitem>
815 <para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
816 a live snapshot</para>
817 </listitem>
818
819 <listitem>
820 <para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
821 due to a library version conflict</para>
822 </listitem>
823
824 <listitem>
825 <para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
826 guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
827 </listitem>
828
829 <listitem>
830 <para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
831 at a time by default</para>
832 </listitem>
833
834 <listitem>
835 <para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
836 warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
837 #9368)</para>
838 </listitem>
839
840 <listitem>
841 <para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
842 registered (bug #9303)</para>
843 </listitem>
844
845 <listitem>
846 <para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
847 VMs</para>
848 </listitem>
849
850 <listitem>
851 <para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
852 creation (bug #9379)</para>
853 </listitem>
854
855 <listitem>
856 <para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
857 <emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
858 to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
859 </listitem>
860
861 <listitem>
862 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
863 (bug #9308)</para>
864 </listitem>
865
866 <listitem>
867 <para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
868 <emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
869 </listitem>
870
871 <listitem>
872 <para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
873 </listitem>
874
875 <listitem>
876 <para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
877 affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
878 </listitem>
879
880 <listitem>
881 <para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
882 (bug #9242)</para>
883 </listitem>
884
885 <listitem>
886 <para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
887 requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
888 </listitem>
889
890 <listitem>
891 <para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
892 fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
893 </listitem>
894
895 <listitem>
896 <para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
897 USB devices</para>
898 </listitem>
899
900 <listitem>
901 <para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
902 and warn about it</para>
903 </listitem>
904
905 <listitem>
906 <para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
907 </listitem>
908
909 <listitem>
910 <para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
911 </listitem>
912
913 <listitem>
914 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
915 with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
916 </listitem>
917
918 <listitem>
919 <para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
920 (4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
921 </listitem>
922
923 <listitem>
924 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
925 module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
926 </listitem>
927
928 <listitem>
929 <para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
930 some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
931 </listitem>
932
933 <listitem>
934 <para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
935 and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
936 </listitem>
937
938 <listitem>
939 <para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
940 fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
941 </listitem>
942
943 <listitem>
944 <para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
945 2.6.37 and above</para>
946 </listitem>
947
948 </itemizedlist>
949 </sect1>
950
951 <sect1>
952 <title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
953
954 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
955 were added:</para>
956
957 <itemizedlist>
958
959 <listitem>
960 <para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
961 <xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
962 and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
963 </listitem>
964
965 <listitem>
966 <para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
967 </listitem>
968
969 <listitem>
970 <para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
971 </listitem>
972
973 <listitem>
974 <para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
975 bug #7822)</para>
976 </listitem>
977
978 <listitem>
979 <para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
980 </listitem>
981
982 <listitem>
983 <para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
984 <xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
985 </listitem>
986
987 <listitem>
988 <para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
989 Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
990 cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
991 anymore)</para>
992 </listitem>
993
994 <listitem>
995 <para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
996 queried separately by the frontends</para>
997 </listitem>
998
999 <listitem>
1000 <para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1001 offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1002 distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1003 </listitem>
1004
1005 <listitem>
1006 <para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1007 </para>
1008 </listitem>
1009
1010 <listitem>
1011 <para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1012 interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1013 see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1014 </listitem>
1015
1016 <listitem>
1017 <para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1018 with VBoxManage</para>
1019 </listitem>
1020
1021 <listitem>
1022 <para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1023 Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1024 </listitem>
1025
1026
1027 </itemizedlist>
1028
1029 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1030
1031 <itemizedlist>
1032
1033 <listitem>
1034 <para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1035 </listitem>
1036
1037 <listitem>
1038 <para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1039 </listitem>
1040
1041 <listitem>
1042 <para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1043 </listitem>
1044
1045 <listitem>
1046 <para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1047 of the current state</para>
1048 </listitem>
1049
1050 <listitem>
1051 <para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1052 </listitem>
1053
1054 <listitem>
1055 <para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1056 internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1057 </listitem>
1058
1059 <listitem>
1060 <para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1061 limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1062 see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1063 </listitem>
1064
1065 <listitem>
1066 <para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1067 a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1068 </listitem>
1069
1070 <listitem>
1071 <para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1072 </listitem>
1073
1074 <listitem>
1075 <para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1076 </listitem>
1077
1078 <listitem>
1079 <para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1080 dialog</para>
1081 </listitem>
1082
1083 <listitem>
1084 <para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1085 attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1086 when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1087 </listitem>
1088
1089 <listitem>
1090 <para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1091 command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1092 </listitem>
1093
1094 <listitem>
1095 <para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1096 of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1097 </listitem>
1098
1099 <listitem>
1100 <para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1101 be a valid UUID</para>
1102 </listitem>
1103
1104 <listitem>
1105 <para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1106 twice in a VM configuration</para>
1107 </listitem>
1108
1109 <listitem>
1110 <para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1111 create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1112 cases</para>
1113 </listitem>
1114
1115 <listitem>
1116 <para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1117 the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1118 improve performance</para>
1119 </listitem>
1120
1121 <listitem>
1122 <para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1123 ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1124 on a temporary basis</para>
1125 </listitem>
1126
1127 <listitem>
1128 <para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1129 a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1130 exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1131 </listitem>
1132
1133 <listitem>
1134 <para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1135 with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1136 </listitem>
1137
1138 <listitem>
1139 <para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1140 images in VDI format</para>
1141 </listitem>
1142
1143 <listitem>
1144 <para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1145 VMDK format</para>
1146 </listitem>
1147
1148 <listitem>
1149 <para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1150 controller (bug #8592)</para>
1151 </listitem>
1152
1153 <listitem>
1154 <para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1155 </listitem>
1156
1157 <listitem>
1158 <para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1159 </listitem>
1160
1161 <listitem>
1162 <para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1163 </listitem>
1164
1165 <listitem>
1166 <para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1167 </listitem>
1168
1169 <listitem>
1170 <para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1171 </listitem>
1172
1173 <listitem>
1174 <para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1175 when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1176 </listitem>
1177
1178 <listitem>
1179 <para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1180 directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1181 </listitem>
1182
1183 <listitem>
1184 <para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1185 Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1186 </listitem>
1187
1188 <listitem>
1189 <para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1190 <xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1191 </listitem>
1192
1193 <listitem>
1194 <para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1195 RDP clients</para>
1196 </listitem>
1197
1198 <listitem>
1199 <para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1200 </listitem>
1201
1202 <listitem>
1203 <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1204 different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1205 </listitem>
1206
1207 <listitem>
1208 <para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1209 be more robust when connections fail</para>
1210 </listitem>
1211
1212 <listitem>
1213 <para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1214 simultaneously</para>
1215 </listitem>
1216
1217 <listitem>
1218 <para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1219 which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1220 location values in many places</para>
1221 </listitem>
1222
1223 <listitem>
1224 <para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1225 </listitem>
1226
1227 <listitem>
1228 <para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1229 builds</para>
1230 </listitem>
1231
1232 <listitem>
1233 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1234 </listitem>
1235
1236 <listitem>
1237 <para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1238 window (bug #4491)</para>
1239 </listitem>
1240
1241 <listitem>
1242 <para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1243 removing a VM</para>
1244 </listitem>
1245
1246 <listitem>
1247 <para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1248 </listitem>
1249
1250 <listitem>
1251 <para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1252 </listitem>
1253
1254 <listitem>
1255 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1256 166 and above)</para>
1257 </listitem>
1258
1259 <listitem>
1260 <para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1261 hosts</para>
1262 </listitem>
1263
1264 <listitem>
1265 <para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1266 </listitem>
1267
1268 <listitem>
1269 <para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1270 from the host</para>
1271 </listitem>
1272
1273 <listitem>
1274 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1275 </listitem>
1276
1277 </itemizedlist>
1278
1279 </sect1>
1280
1281 <sect1>
1282 <title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1283
1284 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1285 added:</para>
1286
1287 <itemizedlist>
1288
1289 <listitem>
1290 <para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1291 </listitem>
1292
1293 <listitem>
1294 <para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1295 machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1296 </listitem>
1297
1298 <listitem>
1299 <para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1300 vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1301 </listitem>
1302
1303 <listitem>
1304 <para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1305 a live snapshot</para>
1306 </listitem>
1307
1308 <listitem>
1309 <para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1310 (4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1311 </listitem>
1312
1313 <listitem>
1314 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1315 </listitem>
1316
1317 <listitem>
1318 <para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1319 </listitem>
1320
1321 <listitem>
1322 <para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1323 or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1324 </listitem>
1325
1326 <listitem>
1327 <para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1328 affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1329 </listitem>
1330
1331 <listitem>
1332 <para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1333 requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1334 </listitem>
1335
1336 <listitem>
1337 <para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1338 </listitem>
1339
1340 <listitem>
1341 <para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1342 images</para>
1343 </listitem>
1344
1345 <listitem>
1346 <para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1347 (Windows hosts only)</para>
1348 </listitem>
1349 <listitem>
1350 <para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1351 registered (bug #9303)</para>
1352 </listitem>
1353
1354 <listitem>
1355 <para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1356 warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1357 </listitem>
1358
1359 <listitem>
1360 <para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1361 </listitem>
1362
1363 <listitem>
1364 <para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1365 headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1366 </listitem>
1367
1368 <listitem>
1369 <para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1370 the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1371 </listitem>
1372
1373 <listitem>
1374 <para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1375 </listitem>
1376
1377 <listitem>
1378 <para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1379 (bug #9370)</para>
1380 </listitem>
1381
1382 <listitem>
1383 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1384 (bug #9535)</para>
1385 </listitem>
1386
1387 <listitem>
1388 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1389 (bug #1578)</para>
1390 </listitem>
1391
1392 <listitem>
1393 <para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1394 some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1395 </listitem>
1396
1397 <listitem>
1398 <para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1399 a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1400 </para>
1401 </listitem>
1402
1403 <listitem>
1404 <para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1405 </para>
1406 </listitem>
1407
1408 <listitem>
1409 <para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1410 2.6.37 and above</para>
1411 </listitem>
1412
1413 <listitem>
1414 <para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1415 (bug #6229)</para>
1416 </listitem>
1417
1418 <listitem>
1419 <para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1420 compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1421 </listitem>
1422
1423 </itemizedlist>
1424 </sect1>
1425
1426 <sect1>
1427 <title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1428
1429 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1430 added:</para>
1431
1432 <itemizedlist>
1433
1434 <listitem>
1435 <para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1436 </listitem>
1437
1438 <listitem>
1439 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1440 166 and above)</para>
1441 </listitem>
1442
1443 <listitem>
1444 <para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1445 attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1446 when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1447 </listitem>
1448
1449 <listitem>
1450 <para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1451 with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1452 </listitem>
1453
1454 <listitem>
1455 <para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1456 controller (bug #8592)</para>
1457 </listitem>
1458
1459 <listitem>
1460 <para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1461 </listitem>
1462
1463 <listitem>
1464 <para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1465 when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1466 </listitem>
1467
1468 <listitem>
1469 <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1470 different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1471 </listitem>
1472
1473 <listitem>
1474 <para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1475 builds</para>
1476 </listitem>
1477
1478 <listitem>
1479 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1480 </listitem>
1481
1482 </itemizedlist>
1483 </sect1>
1484 <sect1>
1485 <title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1486
1487 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1488 added:</para>
1489
1490 <itemizedlist>
1491
1492 <listitem>
1493 <para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1494 </listitem>
1495
1496 <listitem>
1497 <para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1498 </listitem>
1499
1500 <listitem>
1501 <para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1502 after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1503 </listitem>
1504
1505 <listitem>
1506 <para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1507 (for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1508 </listitem>
1509
1510 <listitem>
1511 <para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1512 </listitem>
1513
1514 <listitem>
1515 <para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1516 another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1517 </listitem>
1518
1519 <listitem>
1520 <para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1521 </listitem>
1522
1523 <listitem>
1524 <para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1525 (partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1526 </listitem>
1527
1528 <listitem>
1529 <para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1530 with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1531 </listitem>
1532
1533 <listitem>
1534 <para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1535 </listitem>
1536
1537 <listitem>
1538 <para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1539 </listitem>
1540
1541 <listitem>
1542 <para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1543 file was not written during export</para>
1544 </listitem>
1545
1546 <listitem>
1547 <para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1548 </listitem>
1549
1550 <listitem>
1551 <para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1552 </listitem>
1553
1554 <listitem>
1555 <para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1556 </listitem>
1557
1558 <listitem>
1559 <para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1560 binaries</para>
1561 </listitem>
1562
1563 <listitem>
1564 <para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1565 </listitem>
1566
1567 <listitem>
1568 <para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1569 of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1570 </listitem>
1571
1572 <listitem>
1573 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1574 (4.0.8 regression)</para>
1575 </listitem>
1576
1577 <listitem>
1578 <para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1579 </listitem>
1580
1581 <listitem>
1582 <para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1583 guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1584 </listitem>
1585
1586 </itemizedlist>
1587 </sect1>
1588
1589 <sect1>
1590 <title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1591
1592 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1593 added:</para>
1594
1595 <itemizedlist>
1596
1597 <listitem>
1598 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1599 versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1600 </listitem>
1601
1602 <listitem>
1603 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1604 than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1605 </listitem>
1606
1607 <listitem>
1608 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1609 64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1610 </listitem>
1611
1612 <listitem>
1613 <para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1614 host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1615 </listitem>
1616
1617 <listitem>
1618 <para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
1619 problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
1620 </listitem>
1621
1622 <listitem>
1623 <para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
1624 subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
1625 </listitem>
1626
1627 <listitem>
1628 <para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
1629 (Windows hosts only)</para>
1630 </listitem>
1631
1632 <listitem>
1633 <para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
1634 Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
1635 </listitem>
1636
1637 <listitem>
1638 <para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
1639 </listitem>
1640
1641 <listitem>
1642 <para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
1643 </listitem>
1644
1645 <listitem>
1646 <para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
1647 (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
1648 </listitem>
1649
1650 <listitem>
1651 <para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
1652 asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
1653 </listitem>
1654
1655 <listitem>
1656 <para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
1657 </listitem>
1658
1659 <listitem>
1660 <para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
1661 </listitem>
1662
1663 <listitem>
1664 <para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
1665 (Linux hosts only)</para>
1666 </listitem>
1667
1668 <listitem>
1669 <para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
1670 (Windows hosts only)</para>
1671 </listitem>
1672
1673 <listitem>
1674 <para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
1675 window</para>
1676 </listitem>
1677
1678 <listitem>
1679 <para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
1680 Fedora 15</para>
1681 </listitem>
1682
1683 <listitem>
1684 <para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
1685 registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1686 </listitem>
1687
1688 <listitem>
1689 <para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
1690 host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
1691 </listitem>
1692
1693 <listitem>
1694 <para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
1695 building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
1696 </listitem>
1697
1698 <listitem>
1699 <para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
1700 </listitem>
1701
1702 <listitem>
1703 <para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
1704 notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
1705 </listitem>
1706
1707 </itemizedlist>
1708 </sect1>
1709
1710 <sect1>
1711 <title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
1712
1713 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1714 added:</para>
1715
1716 <itemizedlist>
1717
1718 <listitem>
1719 <para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
1720 a VMM from a saved state</para>
1721 </listitem>
1722
1723 <listitem>
1724 <para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
1725 implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
1726 </listitem>
1727
1728 <listitem>
1729 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
1730 (bug #8006)</para>
1731 </listitem>
1732
1733 <listitem>
1734 <para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
1735 (bug #8726)</para>
1736 </listitem>
1737
1738 <listitem>
1739 <para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
1740 </listitem>
1741
1742 <listitem>
1743 <para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
1744 </listitem>
1745
1746 <listitem>
1747 <para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
1748 tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
1749 </listitem>
1750
1751 <listitem>
1752 <para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
1753 (bug #8469)</para>
1754 </listitem>
1755
1756 <listitem>
1757 <para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
1758 selectors</para>
1759 </listitem>
1760
1761 <listitem>
1762 <para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
1763 proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
1764 </listitem>
1765
1766 <listitem>
1767 <para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
1768 folder (bug #8673)</para>
1769 </listitem>
1770
1771 <listitem>
1772 <para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
1773 registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1774 </listitem>
1775
1776 <listitem>
1777 <para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
1778 </listitem>
1779
1780 <listitem>
1781 <para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
1782 (Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
1783 </listitem>
1784
1785 <listitem>
1786 <para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
1787 </listitem>
1788
1789 <listitem>
1790 <para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
1791 </listitem>
1792
1793 <listitem>
1794 <para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
1795 VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
1796 </listitem>
1797
1798 <listitem>
1799 <para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
1800 I/O error occurred</para>
1801 </listitem>
1802
1803 <listitem>
1804 <para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
1805 (bug #8276, #8294)</para>
1806 </listitem>
1807
1808 <listitem>
1809 <para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
1810 streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
1811 </listitem>
1812
1813 <listitem>
1814 <para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
1815 Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
1816 if no medium is present</para>
1817 </listitem>
1818
1819 <listitem>
1820 <para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
1821 </listitem>
1822
1823 <listitem>
1824 <para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
1825 hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
1826 </listitem>
1827
1828 <listitem>
1829 <para>Host-Only &amp; Bridged &amp; Internal Networking: fix for processing
1830 promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
1831 </listitem>
1832
1833 <listitem>
1834 <para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
1835 host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
1836 </listitem>
1837
1838 <listitem>
1839 <para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
1840 </listitem>
1841
1842 <listitem>
1843 <para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
1844 assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
1845 </listitem>
1846
1847 <listitem>
1848 <para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
1849 library (bug #8063)</para>
1850 </listitem>
1851
1852 <listitem>
1853 <para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
1854 for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
1855 </listitem>
1856
1857 <listitem>
1858 <para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
1859 </listitem>
1860
1861 <listitem>
1862 <para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
1863 </listitem>
1864
1865 <listitem>
1866 <para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
1867 </listitem>
1868
1869 <listitem>
1870 <para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
1871 changed on import</para>
1872 </listitem>
1873
1874 <listitem>
1875 <para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
1876 </listitem>
1877
1878 <listitem>
1879 <para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
1880 multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
1881 </listitem>
1882
1883 <listitem>
1884 <para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
1885 (bug #8593)</para>
1886 </listitem>
1887
1888 <listitem>
1889 <para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
1890 sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
1891 </listitem>
1892
1893 <listitem>
1894 <para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
1895 captured</para>
1896 </listitem>
1897
1898 <listitem>
1899 <para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
1900 (shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
1901 </listitem>
1902
1903 <listitem>
1904 <para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
1905 </para>
1906 </listitem>
1907
1908 <listitem>
1909 <para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
1910 help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
1911 </listitem>
1912
1913 <listitem>
1914 <para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
1915 VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
1916 </listitem>
1917
1918 <listitem>
1919 <para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
1920 version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
1921 problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
1922 </listitem>
1923
1924 <listitem>
1925 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
1926 to unkillable VM processes</para>
1927 </listitem>
1928
1929 <listitem>
1930 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
1931 </listitem>
1932
1933 <listitem>
1934 <para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
1935 circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
1936 </listitem>
1937
1938 <listitem>
1939 <para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
1940 on legacy Windows versions</para>
1941 </listitem>
1942
1943 <listitem>
1944 <para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
1945 messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
1946 </listitem>
1947
1948 <listitem>
1949 <para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
1950 </listitem>
1951
1952 <listitem>
1953 <para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
1954 </listitem>
1955
1956 <listitem>
1957 <para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
1958 </listitem>
1959
1960 <listitem>
1961 <para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
1962 </listitem>
1963
1964 <listitem>
1965 <para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
1966 (bug #7946)</para>
1967 </listitem>
1968
1969 <listitem>
1970 <para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
1971 </listitem>
1972
1973 <listitem>
1974 <para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
1975 </listitem>
1976
1977 <listitem>
1978 <para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
1979 </listitem>
1980
1981 </itemizedlist>
1982
1983 </sect1>
1984
1985 <sect1>
1986 <title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
1987
1988 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1989 added:</para>
1990
1991 <itemizedlist>
1992
1993 <listitem>
1994 <para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
1995 (bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
1996 </listitem>
1997
1998 <listitem>
1999 <para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2000 enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2001 </listitem>
2002
2003 <listitem>
2004 <para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2005 programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2006 </listitem>
2007
2008 <listitem>
2009 <para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2010 (bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2011 </listitem>
2012
2013 <listitem>
2014 <para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2015 number of host network interfaces</para>
2016 </listitem>
2017
2018 <listitem>
2019 <para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2020 snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2021 </listitem>
2022
2023 <listitem>
2024 <para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2025 </listitem>
2026
2027 <listitem>
2028 <para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2029 the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2030 </listitem>
2031
2032 <listitem>
2033 <para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2034 by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2035 </listitem>
2036
2037 <listitem>
2038 <para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2039 (4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2040 </listitem>
2041
2042 <listitem>
2043 <para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2044 </listitem>
2045
2046 <listitem>
2047 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2048 (bug #6577)</para>
2049 </listitem>
2050
2051 <listitem>
2052 <para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2053 --wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2054 (bug #8235)</para>
2055 </listitem>
2056
2057 <listitem>
2058 <para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2059 --wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2060 to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2061 </listitem>
2062
2063 <listitem>
2064 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2065 </listitem>
2066
2067 <listitem>
2068 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2069 DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2070 </listitem>
2071
2072 <listitem>
2073 <para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2074 </listitem>
2075
2076 <listitem>
2077 <para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2078 (bug #7966)</para>
2079 </listitem>
2080
2081 <listitem>
2082 <para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2083 </listitem>
2084
2085 <listitem>
2086 <para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2087 </listitem>
2088
2089 <listitem>
2090 <para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2091 </listitem>
2092
2093 <listitem>
2094 <para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2095 attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2096 </listitem>
2097
2098 <listitem>
2099 <para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2100 </listitem>
2101
2102 <listitem>
2103 <para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2104 </listitem>
2105
2106 <listitem>
2107 <para>Host-Only &amp; Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2108 for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2109 </listitem>
2110
2111 <listitem>
2112 <para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2113 vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2114 </listitem>
2115
2116 <listitem>
2117 <para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2118 </listitem>
2119
2120 <listitem>
2121 <para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2122 announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2123 </listitem>
2124
2125 <listitem>
2126 <para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2127 to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2128 (bug #8122)</para>
2129 </listitem>
2130
2131 <listitem>
2132 <para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2133 disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2134 </listitem>
2135
2136 <listitem>
2137 <para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2138 </listitem>
2139
2140 <listitem>
2141 <para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2142 </listitem>
2143
2144 <listitem>
2145 <para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2146 (bug #1548)</para>
2147 </listitem>
2148
2149 <listitem>
2150 <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2151 </listitem>
2152
2153 <listitem>
2154 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2155 without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2156 </listitem>
2157
2158 <listitem>
2159 <para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2160 </listitem>
2161
2162 <listitem>
2163 <para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2164 (bug #8231)</para>
2165 </listitem>
2166
2167 <listitem>
2168 <para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2169 11.04 Alpha</para>
2170 </listitem>
2171
2172 <listitem>
2173 <para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2174 prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2175 </listitem>
2176
2177 <listitem>
2178 <para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2179 VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2180 </listitem>
2181
2182 <listitem>
2183 <para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2184 a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2185 </listitem>
2186
2187 <listitem>
2188 <para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2189 with VBoxGINA</para>
2190 </listitem>
2191
2192 </itemizedlist>
2193
2194 </sect1>
2195
2196 <sect1>
2197 <title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2198
2199 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2200 added:</para>
2201
2202 <itemizedlist>
2203
2204 <listitem>
2205 <para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2206 settings vanished</para>
2207 </listitem>
2208
2209 <listitem>
2210 <para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2211 on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2212 </listitem>
2213
2214 <listitem>
2215 <para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2216 created (bug #8031)</para>
2217 </listitem>
2218
2219 <listitem>
2220 <para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2221 </listitem>
2222
2223 <listitem>
2224 <para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2225 (Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2226 </listitem>
2227
2228 <listitem>
2229 <para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2230 an extension pack</para>
2231 </listitem>
2232
2233 <listitem>
2234 <para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2235 during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2236 </listitem>
2237
2238 <listitem>
2239 <para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2240 </listitem>
2241
2242 <listitem>
2243 <para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2244 supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2245 </listitem>
2246
2247 <listitem>
2248 <para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2249 host-only interface</para>
2250 </listitem>
2251
2252 <listitem>
2253 <para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2254 and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2255 </listitem>
2256
2257 <listitem>
2258 <para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2259 detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2260 </listitem>
2261
2262 <listitem>
2263 <para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2264 ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2265 </listitem>
2266
2267 <listitem>
2268 <para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2269 power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2270 </listitem>
2271
2272 <listitem>
2273 <para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2274 to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2275 </listitem>
2276
2277 <listitem>
2278 <para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2279 </listitem>
2280
2281 <listitem>
2282 <para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2283 </listitem>
2284
2285 <listitem>
2286 <para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2287 guests</para>
2288 </listitem>
2289
2290 <listitem>
2291 <para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2292 </listitem>
2293
2294 <listitem>
2295 <para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2296 </listitem>
2297
2298 <listitem>
2299 <para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2300 links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2301 </listitem>
2302
2303 <listitem>
2304 <para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2305 logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2306 </listitem>
2307
2308 <listitem>
2309 <para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2310 a VM start</para>
2311 </listitem>
2312
2313 <listitem>
2314 <para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2315 machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2316 </listitem>
2317
2318 <listitem>
2319 <para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2320 (bug #6067)</para>
2321 </listitem>
2322
2323 <listitem>
2324 <para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2325 cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2326 </listitem>
2327
2328 <listitem>
2329 <para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2330 not saved to machine XML</para>
2331 </listitem>
2332
2333 <listitem>
2334 <para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2335 #7983)</para>
2336 </listitem>
2337
2338 <listitem>
2339 <para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2340 #7981)</para>
2341 </listitem>
2342
2343 <listitem>
2344 <para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2345 </listitem>
2346
2347 <listitem>
2348 <para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2349 regression)</para>
2350 </listitem>
2351
2352 <listitem>
2353 <para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2354 VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2355 </listitem>
2356
2357 <listitem>
2358 <para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2359 unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2360 </listitem>
2361
2362 </itemizedlist>
2363
2364 </sect1>
2365
2366 <sect1>
2367 <title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2368
2369 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2370 were added:</para>
2371
2372 <itemizedlist>
2373
2374 <listitem>
2375 <para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2376 </listitem>
2377
2378 <listitem>
2379 <para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2380 </listitem>
2381
2382 <listitem>
2383 <para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2384 <itemizedlist>
2385 <listitem>
2386 <para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2387 </listitem>
2388
2389 <listitem>
2390 <para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2391 </listitem>
2392
2393 <listitem>
2394 <para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2395 </listitem>
2396
2397 <listitem>
2398 <para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2399 </listitem>
2400
2401 <listitem>
2402 <para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2403 states, and optionally including attached
2404 disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2405 can do the same now)</para>
2406 </listitem>
2407
2408 <listitem>
2409 <para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2410 </listitem>
2411
2412 </itemizedlist>
2413 </para>
2414 </listitem>
2415
2416 <listitem>
2417 <para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2418 </listitem>
2419
2420 <listitem>
2421 <para>New virtual hardware:
2422 <itemizedlist>
2423 <listitem>
2424 <para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2425 see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2426 </listitem>
2427
2428 <listitem>
2429 <para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2430 (e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2431 </listitem>
2432 </itemizedlist>
2433 </para>
2434 </listitem>
2435
2436 <listitem>
2437 <para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2438 <itemizedlist>
2439 <listitem>
2440 <para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2441 </listitem>
2442
2443 <listitem>
2444 <para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2445 </para>
2446 </listitem>
2447
2448 <listitem>
2449 <para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2450 now</para>
2451 </listitem>
2452
2453 <listitem>
2454 <para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2455 </listitem>
2456
2457 </itemizedlist>
2458 </para>
2459 </listitem>
2460
2461 <listitem>
2462 <para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2463 bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2464 </listitem>
2465
2466 <listitem>
2467 <para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2468 Parallels images</para>
2469 </listitem>
2470
2471 <listitem>
2472 <para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2473 </listitem>
2474
2475 <listitem>
2476 <para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2477 and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2478 </listitem>
2479
2480 <listitem>
2481 <para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2482 (COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2483 </listitem>
2484
2485 </itemizedlist>
2486
2487 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2488
2489 <itemizedlist>
2490
2491 <listitem>
2492 <para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2493 (applies to nested paging only)</para>
2494 </listitem>
2495
2496 <listitem>
2497 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2498 </listitem>
2499
2500 <listitem>
2501 <para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2502 non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2503 </listitem>
2504
2505 <listitem>
2506 <para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2507 (bug #1657)</para>
2508 </listitem>
2509
2510 <listitem>
2511 <para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2512 </listitem>
2513
2514 <listitem>
2515 <para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2516 </listitem>
2517
2518 <listitem>
2519 <para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2520 (Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2521 </listitem>
2522
2523 <listitem>
2524 <para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2525 guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2526 </listitem>
2527
2528 <listitem>
2529 <para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2530 packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2531 (Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2532 </listitem>
2533
2534 <listitem>
2535 <para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2536 again (bug #6864)</para>
2537 </listitem>
2538
2539 <listitem>
2540 <para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2541 #5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2542 </listitem>
2543
2544 <listitem>
2545 <para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2546 glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2547 </listitem>
2548
2549 <listitem>
2550 <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2551 </listitem>
2552
2553 <listitem>
2554 <para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2555 </listitem>
2556
2557 <listitem>
2558 <para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2559 </listitem>
2560
2561 <listitem>
2562 <para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2563 </listitem>
2564
2565 <listitem>
2566 <para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2567 </listitem>
2568
2569 <listitem>
2570 <para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2571 </listitem>
2572
2573 <listitem>
2574 <para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2575 </listitem>
2576
2577 <listitem>
2578 <para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2579 (bug #7058)</para>
2580 </listitem>
2581
2582 <listitem>
2583 <para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2584 criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2585 </listitem>
2586
2587 <listitem>
2588 <para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2589 circumstances</para>
2590 </listitem>
2591
2592 <listitem>
2593 <para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2594 another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2595 #5578)
2596 </para>
2597 </listitem>
2598
2599 <listitem>
2600 <para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2601 </listitem>
2602
2603 <listitem>
2604 <para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2605 <emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2606 </listitem>
2607
2608 <listitem>
2609 <para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2610 </listitem>
2611
2612 <listitem>
2613 <para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2614 #6760)</para>
2615 </listitem>
2616
2617 <listitem>
2618 <para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
2619 accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
2620 </listitem>
2621
2622 <listitem>
2623 <para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
2624 <emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
2625 </listitem>
2626
2627 <listitem>
2628 <para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
2629 on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2630 </listitem>
2631
2632 <listitem>
2633 <para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
2634 </listitem>
2635
2636 <listitem>
2637 <para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
2638 file</para>
2639 </listitem>
2640
2641 <listitem>
2642 <para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2643 to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2644 </listitem>
2645
2646 </itemizedlist>
2647
2648 </sect1>
2649
2650 <sect1>
2651 <title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
2652
2653 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2654 added:</para>
2655
2656 <itemizedlist>
2657
2658 <listitem>
2659 <para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2660 hosts (bug #7577)</para>
2661 </listitem>
2662
2663 <listitem>
2664 <para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
2665 triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
2666 non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
2667 </listitem>
2668
2669 <listitem>
2670 <para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
2671 </listitem>
2672
2673 <listitem>
2674 <para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
2675 </listitem>
2676
2677 <listitem>
2678 <para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
2679 </listitem>
2680
2681 <listitem>
2682 <para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
2683 the VM is running</para>
2684 </listitem>
2685
2686 <listitem>
2687 <para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
2688 system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
2689 file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
2690 starting from a saved state</para>
2691 </listitem>
2692
2693 <listitem>
2694 <para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
2695 </listitem>
2696
2697 <listitem>
2698 <para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
2699 </listitem>
2700
2701 <listitem>
2702 <para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
2703 </listitem>
2704
2705 <listitem>
2706 <para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2707 </listitem>
2708
2709 <listitem>
2710 <para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2711 </listitem>
2712
2713 <listitem>
2714 <para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
2715 mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
2716 </listitem>
2717
2718 <listitem>
2719 <para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
2720 fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
2721 </listitem>
2722
2723 <listitem>
2724 <para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
2725 open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
2726 </listitem>
2727
2728 <listitem>
2729 <para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
2730 </listitem>
2731
2732 <listitem>
2733 <para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
2734 multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
2735 </para>
2736 </listitem>
2737
2738 <listitem>
2739 <para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
2740 in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
2741 3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
2742 </listitem>
2743
2744 <listitem>
2745 <para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
2746 only)</para>
2747 </listitem>
2748
2749 <listitem>
2750 <para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
2751 being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
2752 </listitem>
2753
2754 <listitem>
2755 <para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
2756 </listitem>
2757
2758 <listitem>
2759 <para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
2760 </listitem>
2761
2762 <listitem>
2763 <para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
2764 </listitem>
2765
2766 <listitem>
2767 <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
2768 state (bug #4124)</para>
2769 </listitem>
2770
2771 <listitem>
2772 <para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
2773 VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
2774 </listitem>
2775
2776 <listitem>
2777 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
2778 </listitem>
2779
2780 <listitem>
2781 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
2782 (bug #2996)</para>
2783 </listitem>
2784
2785 <listitem>
2786 <para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
2787 operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
2788 </listitem>
2789
2790 <listitem>
2791 <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
2792 </listitem>
2793
2794 <listitem>
2795 <para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
2796 is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
2797 </listitem>
2798
2799 <listitem>
2800 <para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
2801 files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
2802 </listitem>
2803
2804 <listitem>
2805 <para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
2806 user accounts for VM information</para>
2807 </listitem>
2808
2809 </itemizedlist>
2810
2811 </sect1>
2812
2813 <sect1>
2814 <title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
2815
2816 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2817 added:</para>
2818
2819 <itemizedlist>
2820
2821 <listitem>
2822 <para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
2823 (3.2.8 regression)</para>
2824 </listitem>
2825
2826 <listitem>
2827 <para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
2828 </listitem>
2829
2830 <listitem>
2831 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
2832 </listitem>
2833
2834 <listitem>
2835 <para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
2836 </listitem>
2837
2838 <listitem>
2839 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2840 hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
2841 </listitem>
2842
2843 <listitem>
2844 <para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
2845 2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
2846 </listitem>
2847
2848 <listitem>
2849 <para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
2850 (Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
2851 </listitem>
2852
2853 <listitem>
2854 <para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
2855 (bug #4952)</para>
2856 </listitem>
2857
2858 <listitem>
2859 <para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
2860 bug #6122)</para>
2861 </listitem>
2862
2863 <listitem>
2864 <para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
2865 for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
2866 </listitem>
2867
2868 <listitem>
2869 <para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
2870 to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
2871 (Linux hosts only)</para>
2872 </listitem>
2873
2874 <listitem>
2875 <para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
2876 </listitem>
2877
2878 <listitem>
2879 <para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
2880 images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
2881 </listitem>
2882
2883 <listitem>
2884 <para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
2885 parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
2886 </listitem>
2887
2888 <listitem>
2889 <para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
2890 canceled</para>
2891 </listitem>
2892
2893 <listitem>
2894 <para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
2895 </listitem>
2896
2897 <listitem>
2898 <para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
2899 </listitem>
2900
2901 <listitem>
2902 <para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
2903 </listitem>
2904
2905 <listitem>
2906 <para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
2907 </listitem>
2908
2909 <listitem>
2910 <para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
2911 circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
2912 </listitem>
2913
2914 <listitem>
2915 <para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
2916 </listitem>
2917
2918 <listitem>
2919 <para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
2920 (Linux hosts only)</para>
2921 </listitem>
2922
2923 <listitem>
2924 <para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
2925 a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
2926 </listitem>
2927
2928 <listitem>
2929 <para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
2930 </listitem>
2931
2932 <listitem>
2933 <para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
2934 (non-Windows hosts only)</para>
2935 </listitem>
2936
2937 <listitem>
2938 <para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
2939 </listitem>
2940
2941 <listitem>
2942 <para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
2943 circumstances</para>
2944 </listitem>
2945
2946 <listitem>
2947 <para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
2948 printers</para>
2949 </listitem>
2950
2951 <listitem>
2952 <para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
2953 </listitem>
2954
2955 <listitem>
2956 <para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
2957 hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
2958 </listitem>
2959
2960 <listitem>
2961 <para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
2962 are passed (bug #7388)</para>
2963 </listitem>
2964
2965 <listitem>
2966 <para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
2967 bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
2968 circumstances</para>
2969 </listitem>
2970
2971 <listitem>
2972 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
2973 for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
2974 </listitem>
2975
2976 <listitem>
2977 <para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
2978 as supported extension</para>
2979 </listitem>
2980
2981 <listitem>
2982 <para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2983 <emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
2984 </listitem>
2985
2986 <listitem>
2987 <para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
2988 full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
2989 </listitem>
2990
2991 <listitem>
2992 <para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
2993 </listitem>
2994
2995 <listitem>
2996 <para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
2997 (bug #7366)</para>
2998 </listitem>
2999
3000 <listitem>
3001 <para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3002 </listitem>
3003
3004 <listitem>
3005 <para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3006 longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3007 </listitem>
3008
3009 <listitem>
3010 <para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3011 clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3012 </listitem>
3013
3014 <listitem>
3015 <para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3016 invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3017 </listitem>
3018
3019 <listitem>
3020 <para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3021 to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3022 </listitem>
3023
3024 <listitem>
3025 <para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3026 NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3027 </listitem>
3028
3029 <listitem>
3030 <para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3031 </listitem>
3032
3033 <listitem>
3034 <para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3035 </listitem>
3036
3037 <listitem>
3038 <para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3039 more than one environment variable</para>
3040 </listitem>
3041
3042 <listitem>
3043 <para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3044 after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3045 </listitem>
3046
3047 <listitem>
3048 <para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3049 VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3050 </listitem>
3051
3052 <listitem>
3053 <para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3054 time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3055 </listitem>
3056
3057 <listitem>
3058 <para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3059 enumerating logged in users</para>
3060 </listitem>
3061
3062 <listitem>
3063 <para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3064 </listitem>
3065
3066 <listitem>
3067 <para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3068 </listitem>
3069
3070 <listitem>
3071 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3072 </listitem>
3073
3074 <listitem>
3075 <para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3076 in the event of a VM crash</para>
3077 </listitem>
3078
3079 <listitem>
3080 <para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3081 </listitem>
3082
3083 <listitem>
3084 <para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3085 the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3086 </listitem>
3087
3088 <listitem>
3089 <para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3090 32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3091 </listitem>
3092
3093 <listitem>
3094 <para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3095 (bug #7448)</para>
3096 </listitem>
3097
3098 <listitem>
3099 <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3100 </listitem>
3101
3102 <listitem>
3103 <para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3104 </listitem>
3105
3106 <listitem>
3107 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3108 </listitem>
3109
3110 </itemizedlist>
3111
3112 </sect1>
3113
3114 <sect1>
3115 <title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3116
3117 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3118 added:</para>
3119
3120 <itemizedlist>
3121
3122 <listitem>
3123 <para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3124 to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3125 </listitem>
3126
3127 <listitem>
3128 <para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3129 </listitem>
3130
3131 <listitem>
3132 <para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3133 bug #6809)</para>
3134 </listitem>
3135
3136 <listitem>
3137 <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3138 </listitem>
3139
3140 <listitem>
3141 <para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3142 </listitem>
3143
3144 <listitem>
3145 <para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3146 circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3147 </listitem>
3148
3149 <listitem>
3150 <para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3151 changes</para>
3152 </listitem>
3153
3154 <listitem>
3155 <para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3156 </listitem>
3157
3158 <listitem>
3159 <para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3160 certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3161 </listitem>
3162
3163 <listitem>
3164 <para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3165 in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3166 </listitem>
3167
3168 <listitem>
3169 <para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3170 </listitem>
3171
3172 <listitem>
3173 <para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3174 </listitem>
3175
3176 <listitem>
3177 <para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3178 </listitem>
3179
3180 <listitem>
3181 <para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3182 </listitem>
3183
3184 <listitem>
3185 <para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3186 bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3187 </listitem>
3188
3189 <listitem>
3190 <para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3191 </listitem>
3192
3193 <listitem>
3194 <para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3195 (bug #6832)</para>
3196 </listitem>
3197
3198 <listitem>
3199 <para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3200 guests</para>
3201 </listitem>
3202
3203 <listitem>
3204 <para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3205 </listitem>
3206
3207 <listitem>
3208 <para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3209 without external tools and tricks</para>
3210 </listitem>
3211
3212 <listitem>
3213 <para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3214 for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3215 </listitem>
3216
3217 <listitem>
3218 <para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3219 </listitem>
3220
3221 <listitem>
3222 <para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3223 of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3224 </listitem>
3225
3226 <listitem>
3227 <para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3228 shutdown</para>
3229 </listitem>
3230
3231 <listitem>
3232 <para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3233 fixes</para>
3234 </listitem>
3235
3236 <listitem>
3237 <para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3238 settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3239 example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3240 </para>
3241 </listitem>
3242
3243 <listitem>
3244 <para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3245 settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3246 </listitem>
3247
3248 <listitem>
3249 <para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3250 in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3251 </listitem>
3252
3253 <listitem>
3254 <para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3255 </para>
3256 </listitem>
3257
3258 <listitem>
3259 <para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3260 </listitem>
3261
3262 <listitem>
3263 <para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3264 </listitem>
3265
3266 <listitem>
3267 <para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3268 </listitem>
3269
3270 </itemizedlist>
3271
3272 </sect1>
3273
3274 <sect1>
3275 <title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3276
3277 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3278 added:</para>
3279
3280 <itemizedlist>
3281
3282 <listitem>
3283 <para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3284 with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3285 </listitem>
3286
3287 <listitem>
3288 <para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3289 does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3290 </listitem>
3291
3292 <listitem>
3293 <para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3294 with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3295 </listitem>
3296
3297 <listitem>
3298 <para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3299 </listitem>
3300
3301 <listitem>
3302 <para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3303 </listitem>
3304
3305 <listitem>
3306 <para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3307 </listitem>
3308
3309 <listitem>
3310 <para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3311 </listitem>
3312
3313 <listitem>
3314 <para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3315 assigned</para>
3316 </listitem>
3317
3318 <listitem>
3319 <para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3320 asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3321 </listitem>
3322
3323 <listitem>
3324 <para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3325 multiple screens are enabled</para>
3326 </listitem>
3327
3328 <listitem>
3329 <para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3330 </listitem>
3331
3332 <listitem>
3333 <para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3334 (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3335 </listitem>
3336
3337 <listitem>
3338 <para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3339 again (bug #7022).
3340 </para>
3341 </listitem>
3342
3343 <listitem>
3344 <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3345 (bug #6768)</para>
3346 </listitem>
3347
3348 <listitem>
3349 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3350 (bug #6927)</para>
3351 </listitem>
3352
3353 <listitem>
3354 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3355 bug #7031)</para>
3356 </listitem>
3357
3358 <listitem>
3359 <para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3360 don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3361 </listitem>
3362
3363 <listitem>
3364 <para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3365 bug #6987)</para>
3366 </listitem>
3367
3368 <listitem>
3369 <para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3370 </listitem>
3371
3372 <listitem>
3373 <para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3374 </listitem>
3375
3376 <listitem>
3377 <para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3378 30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3379 </listitem>
3380
3381 <listitem>
3382 <para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3383 </listitem>
3384
3385 <listitem>
3386 <para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3387 installation (bug #5101)</para>
3388 </listitem>
3389
3390 <listitem>
3391 <para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3392 </listitem>
3393
3394 <listitem>
3395 <para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3396 under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3397 bug #6872)</para>
3398 </listitem>
3399
3400 <listitem>
3401 <para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3402 </listitem>
3403
3404 <listitem>
3405 <para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3406 (performance tweak)</para>
3407 </listitem>
3408
3409 <listitem>
3410 <para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3411 is currently paused</para>
3412 </listitem>
3413
3414 <listitem>
3415 <para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3416 was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3417 </listitem>
3418
3419 <listitem>
3420 <para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3421 </listitem>
3422
3423 <listitem>
3424 <para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3425 and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3426 </listitem>
3427
3428 <listitem>
3429 <para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3430 not properly saved</para>
3431 </listitem>
3432
3433 <listitem>
3434 <para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3435 folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3436 </listitem>
3437
3438 <listitem>
3439 <para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3440 </listitem>
3441
3442 <listitem>
3443 <para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3444 </listitem>
3445
3446 <listitem>
3447 <para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3448 </listitem>
3449
3450 <listitem>
3451 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3452 (IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3453 </listitem>
3454
3455 <listitem>
3456 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3457 </listitem>
3458
3459 <listitem>
3460 <para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3461 kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3462 </listitem>
3463
3464 <listitem>
3465 <para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3466 (bug #5251)</para>
3467 </listitem>
3468
3469 <listitem>
3470 <para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3471 ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3472 </listitem>
3473
3474 <listitem>
3475 <para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3476 </listitem>
3477
3478 <listitem>
3479 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3480 </listitem>
3481
3482 <listitem>
3483 <para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3484 to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3485 </listitem>
3486
3487 <listitem>
3488 <para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3489 </listitem>
3490
3491 <listitem>
3492 <para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3493 </listitem>
3494
3495 <listitem>
3496 <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3497 </listitem>
3498
3499 </itemizedlist>
3500 </sect1>
3501
3502 <sect1>
3503 <title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3504
3505 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3506 added:</para>
3507
3508 <itemizedlist>
3509
3510 <listitem>
3511 <para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3512 (improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3513 </listitem>
3514
3515 <listitem>
3516 <para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3517 </listitem>
3518
3519 <listitem>
3520 <para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3521 over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3522 </listitem>
3523
3524 <listitem>
3525 <para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3526 growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3527 </listitem>
3528
3529 <listitem>
3530 <para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3531 </listitem>
3532
3533 <listitem>
3534 <para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3535 again (bug #6864)</para>
3536 </listitem>
3537
3538 <listitem>
3539 <para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3540 applications (bug #5236)</para>
3541 </listitem>
3542
3543 <listitem>
3544 <para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3545 </listitem>
3546
3547 <listitem>
3548 <para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3549 (3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3550 </listitem>
3551
3552 <listitem>
3553 <para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3554 </listitem>
3555
3556 </itemizedlist>
3557
3558 </sect1>
3559
3560 <sect1>
3561 <title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3562
3563 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3564 added:</para>
3565
3566 <itemizedlist>
3567
3568 <listitem>
3569 <para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3570 </listitem>
3571
3572 <listitem>
3573 <para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3574 guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3575 </listitem>
3576
3577 <listitem>
3578 <para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3579 </listitem>
3580
3581 <listitem>
3582 <para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3583 state</para>
3584 </listitem>
3585
3586 <listitem>
3587 <para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3588 </listitem>
3589
3590 <listitem>
3591 <para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3592 </listitem>
3593
3594 <listitem>
3595 <para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3596 </listitem>
3597
3598 <listitem>
3599 <para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3600 </listitem>
3601
3602 <listitem>
3603 <para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3604 </listitem>
3605
3606 <listitem>
3607 <para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3608 </listitem>
3609
3610 <listitem>
3611 <para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3612 </listitem>
3613
3614 <listitem>
3615 <para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3616 </listitem>
3617
3618 <listitem>
3619 <para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
3620 </listitem>
3621
3622 <listitem>
3623 <para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
3624 </listitem>
3625
3626 <listitem>
3627 <para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
3628 LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
3629 </listitem>
3630
3631 <listitem>
3632 <para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
3633 (bug #6784)</para>
3634 </listitem>
3635
3636 <listitem>
3637 <para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
3638 </listitem>
3639
3640 <listitem>
3641 <para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
3642 </listitem>
3643
3644 <listitem>
3645 <para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
3646 accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
3647 </listitem>
3648
3649 <listitem>
3650 <para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
3651 </listitem>
3652
3653 <listitem>
3654 <para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
3655 </listitem>
3656
3657 <listitem>
3658 <para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
3659 host only</para>
3660 </listitem>
3661
3662 <listitem>
3663 <para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
3664 probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
3665 </listitem>
3666
3667 <listitem>
3668 <para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
3669 requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
3670 </listitem>
3671
3672 <listitem>
3673 <para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
3674 </listitem>
3675
3676 <listitem>
3677 <para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
3678 (non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
3679 </listitem>
3680
3681 <listitem>
3682 <para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
3683 </listitem>
3684
3685 <listitem>
3686 <para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
3687 </listitem>
3688
3689 <listitem>
3690 <para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
3691 driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
3692 </listitem>
3693
3694 <listitem>
3695 <para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
3696 </listitem>
3697
3698 <listitem>
3699 <para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
3700 </listitem>
3701
3702 <listitem>
3703 <para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
3704 </listitem>
3705
3706 <listitem>
3707 <para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
3708 (bug #6714)</para>
3709 </listitem>
3710
3711 <listitem>
3712 <para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
3713 </listitem>
3714
3715 <listitem>
3716 <para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
3717 </listitem>
3718
3719 <listitem>
3720 <para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
3721 </listitem>
3722
3723 <listitem>
3724 <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
3725 </listitem>
3726
3727 <listitem>
3728 <para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
3729 </listitem>
3730
3731 </itemizedlist>
3732
3733 </sect1>
3734
3735 <sect1>
3736 <title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
3737
3738 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3739 were added:</para>
3740
3741 <itemizedlist>
3742
3743 <listitem>
3744 <para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
3745 the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
3746 were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
3747 </listitem>
3748
3749 <listitem>
3750 <para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
3751 </listitem>
3752
3753 <listitem>
3754 <para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
3755 amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
3756 </listitem>
3757
3758 <listitem>
3759 <para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
3760 increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
3761 (see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
3762 </listitem>
3763
3764 <listitem>
3765 <para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
3766 and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
3767 </listitem>
3768
3769 <listitem>
3770 <para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
3771 (see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
3772 also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
3773 is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
3774 which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
3775 </listitem>
3776
3777 <listitem>
3778 <para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
3779 </listitem>
3780
3781 <listitem>
3782 <para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
3783 guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
3784 </listitem>
3785
3786 <listitem>
3787 <para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
3788 if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
3789 </listitem>
3790
3791 <listitem>
3792 <para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
3793 </listitem>
3794
3795 <listitem>
3796 <para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
3797 </listitem>
3798
3799 <listitem>
3800 <para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
3801 </listitem>
3802
3803 <listitem>
3804 <para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
3805 </listitem>
3806
3807 <listitem>
3808 <para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
3809 from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
3810 <xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
3811 </listitem>
3812
3813 <listitem>
3814 <para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
3815 that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
3816 </listitem>
3817
3818 </itemizedlist>
3819
3820 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3821
3822 <itemizedlist>
3823
3824 <listitem>
3825 <para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
3826 amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
3827 </listitem>
3828
3829 <listitem>
3830 <para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
3831 </listitem>
3832
3833 <listitem>
3834 <para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
3835 VM</para>
3836 </listitem>
3837
3838 <listitem>
3839 <para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
3840 passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
3841 </listitem>
3842
3843 <listitem>
3844 <para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
3845 #1669)</para>
3846 </listitem>
3847
3848 <listitem>
3849 <para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
3850 #6442)</para>
3851 </listitem>
3852
3853 <listitem>
3854 <para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
3855 combination (bug #684)</para>
3856 </listitem>
3857
3858 <listitem>
3859 <para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
3860 the VM from the GUI</para>
3861 </listitem>
3862
3863 <listitem>
3864 <para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
3865 medium is not accessible</para>
3866 </listitem>
3867
3868 <listitem>
3869 <para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
3870 </listitem>
3871
3872 <listitem>
3873 <para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
3874 audio input (bug #5869)</para>
3875 </listitem>
3876
3877 <listitem>
3878 <para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
3879 #3106)</para>
3880 </listitem>
3881
3882 <listitem>
3883 <para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
3884 settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
3885 it</para>
3886 </listitem>
3887
3888 <listitem>
3889 <para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
3890 </listitem>
3891
3892 <listitem>
3893 <para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
3894 </listitem>
3895
3896 <listitem>
3897 <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
3898 <emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
3899 </listitem>
3900
3901 <listitem>
3902 <para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
3903 windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
3904 </listitem>
3905
3906 <listitem>
3907 <para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
3908 </listitem>
3909
3910 <listitem>
3911 <para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
3912 </listitem>
3913
3914 <listitem>
3915 <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
3916 screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
3917 </listitem>
3918
3919 <listitem>
3920 <para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
3921 </listitem>
3922
3923 <listitem>
3924 <para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
3925 (Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
3926 </listitem>
3927
3928 <listitem>
3929 <para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
3930 </listitem>
3931
3932 <listitem>
3933 <para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
3934 in VirtualBox</para>
3935 </listitem>
3936
3937 <listitem>
3938 <para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
3939 alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
3940 </listitem>
3941
3942 <listitem>
3943 <para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
3944 VirtualBox</para>
3945 </listitem>
3946
3947 <listitem>
3948 <para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
3949 </listitem>
3950
3951 <listitem>
3952 <para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
3953 VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
3954 </listitem>
3955
3956 </itemizedlist>
3957 </sect1>
3958
3959 <sect1>
3960 <title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
3961
3962 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3963 added:</para>
3964
3965 <itemizedlist>
3966
3967 <listitem>
3968 <para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
3969 early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
3970 </listitem>
3971
3972 <listitem>
3973 <para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
3974 </listitem>
3975
3976 <listitem>
3977 <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
3978 </listitem>
3979
3980 <listitem>
3981 <para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
3982 only) </para>
3983 </listitem>
3984
3985 <listitem>
3986 <para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
3987 to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
3988 </listitem>
3989
3990 <listitem>
3991 <para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
3992 interface version</para>
3993 </listitem>
3994
3995 <listitem>
3996 <para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
3997 settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
3998 slot empty</para>
3999 </listitem>
4000
4001 <listitem>
4002 <para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4003 <computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4004 (bug #4220)</para>
4005 </listitem>
4006
4007 <listitem>
4008 <para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4009 </listitem>
4010
4011 <listitem>
4012 <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4013 non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 &amp; #6208)</para>
4014 </listitem>
4015
4016 <listitem>
4017 <para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4018 using the drivers from LSI</para>
4019 </listitem>
4020
4021 <listitem>
4022 <para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4023 disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4024 </listitem>
4025
4026 <listitem>
4027 <para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4028 attached</para>
4029 </listitem>
4030
4031 <listitem>
4032 <para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4033 adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4034 </listitem>
4035
4036 <listitem>
4037 <para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4038 </listitem>
4039
4040 <listitem>
4041 <para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4042 booting from SCSI devices</para>
4043 </listitem>
4044
4045 <listitem>
4046 <para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4047 is bug #6408)</para>
4048 </listitem>
4049
4050 <listitem>
4051 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4052 </listitem>
4053
4054 <listitem>
4055 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4056 fail to initialize</para>
4057 </listitem>
4058
4059 <listitem>
4060 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4061 </listitem>
4062
4063 <listitem>
4064 <para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4065 (Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4066 </listitem>
4067
4068 <listitem>
4069 <para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4070 to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4071 Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4072 </listitem>
4073
4074 <listitem>
4075 <para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4076 </listitem>
4077
4078 <listitem>
4079 <para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4080 (Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4081 </listitem>
4082
4083 <listitem>
4084 <para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4085 older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4086 </listitem>
4087
4088 <listitem>
4089 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4090 (bug #6435)</para>
4091 </listitem>
4092
4093 <listitem>
4094 <para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4095 mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4096 </listitem>
4097
4098 <listitem>
4099 <para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4100 IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4101 (bug #6488)</para>
4102 </listitem>
4103
4104 <listitem>
4105 <para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4106 <emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4107 </listitem>
4108
4109 <listitem>
4110 <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4111 screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4112 </listitem>
4113
4114 <listitem>
4115 <para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4116 #5227)</para>
4117 </listitem>
4118
4119 <listitem>
4120 <para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4121 hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4122 </listitem>
4123
4124 <listitem>
4125 <para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4126 </listitem>
4127
4128 <listitem>
4129 <para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4130 be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4131 </listitem>
4132
4133 </itemizedlist>
4134 </sect1>
4135
4136 <sect1>
4137 <title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4138
4139 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4140 added:</para>
4141
4142 <itemizedlist>
4143
4144 <listitem>
4145 <para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4146 2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4147 </listitem>
4148
4149 <listitem>
4150 <para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4151 Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4152 </listitem>
4153
4154 <listitem>
4155 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4156 interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4157 </listitem>
4158
4159 <listitem>
4160 <para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4161 circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4162 </listitem>
4163
4164 <listitem>
4165 <para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4166 </listitem>
4167
4168 <listitem>
4169 <para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4170 </listitem>
4171
4172 <listitem>
4173 <para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4174 </listitem>
4175
4176 <listitem>
4177 <para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 &amp; #5792)</para>
4178 </listitem>
4179
4180 <listitem>
4181 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4182 (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4183 </listitem>
4184
4185 <listitem>
4186 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4187 (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 &amp; #6125)</para>
4188 </listitem>
4189
4190 <listitem>
4191 <para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4192 mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4193 </listitem>
4194
4195 <listitem>
4196 <para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4197 </listitem>
4198
4199 <listitem>
4200 <para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4201 </listitem>
4202
4203 <listitem>
4204 <para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4205 windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4206 </listitem>
4207
4208 <listitem>
4209 <para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4210 <emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4211 calls (bug #6165)</para>
4212 </listitem>
4213
4214 <listitem>
4215 <para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4216 (bug #5297)</para>
4217 </listitem>
4218
4219 <listitem>
4220 <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4221 (bug #4962)</para>
4222 </listitem>
4223
4224 <listitem>
4225 <para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4226 connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4227 </listitem>
4228
4229 <listitem>
4230 <para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4231 (bug #6176)</para>
4232 </listitem>
4233
4234 <listitem>
4235 <para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4236 certain circumstances</para>
4237 </listitem>
4238
4239 <listitem>
4240 <para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4241 network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4242 </listitem>
4243
4244 <listitem>
4245 <para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4246 </listitem>
4247
4248 <listitem>
4249 <para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4250 </listitem>
4251
4252 <listitem>
4253 <para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4254 (bug #3571)</para>
4255 </listitem>
4256
4257 <listitem>
4258 <para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4259 devices</para>
4260 </listitem>
4261
4262 <listitem>
4263 <para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4264 determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4265 (Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4266 </listitem>
4267
4268 <listitem>
4269 <para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4270 (3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4271 </listitem>
4272
4273 <listitem>
4274 <para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4275 </listitem>
4276
4277 <listitem>
4278 <para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4279 (I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4280 </listitem>
4281
4282 <listitem>
4283 <para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4284 response</para>
4285 </listitem>
4286
4287 <listitem>
4288 <para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4289 </listitem>
4290
4291 <listitem>
4292 <para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4293 </listitem>
4294
4295 <listitem>
4296 <para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4297 </listitem>
4298
4299 <listitem>
4300 <para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4301 </listitem>
4302
4303 <listitem>
4304 <para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4305 Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4306 </listitem>
4307
4308 <listitem>
4309 <para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4310 </listitem>
4311
4312 <listitem>
4313 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4314 </listitem>
4315
4316 <listitem>
4317 <para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4318 guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4319 </listitem>
4320
4321 <listitem>
4322 <para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4323 </listitem>
4324
4325 <listitem>
4326 <para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4327 </listitem>
4328
4329 <listitem>
4330 <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4331 </listitem>
4332
4333 <listitem>
4334 <para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4335 </listitem>
4336
4337 </itemizedlist>
4338 </sect1>
4339
4340 <sect1>
4341 <title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4342
4343 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4344 added:</para>
4345
4346 <itemizedlist>
4347
4348 <listitem>
4349 <para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4350 </listitem>
4351
4352 <listitem>
4353 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4354 </listitem>
4355
4356 <listitem>
4357 <para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4358 hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4359 </listitem>
4360
4361 <listitem>
4362 <para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4363 AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4364 </listitem>
4365
4366 <listitem>
4367 <para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4368 (bug #3945)</para>
4369 </listitem>
4370
4371 <listitem>
4372 <para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4373 (software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4374 </listitem>
4375
4376 <listitem>
4377 <para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4378 and AMD-V only) </para>
4379 </listitem>
4380
4381 <listitem>
4382 <para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4383 </listitem>
4384
4385 <listitem>
4386 <para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4387 teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4388 "VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4389 </listitem>
4390
4391 <listitem>
4392 <para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4393 virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4394 </listitem>
4395
4396 <listitem>
4397 <para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4398 a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4399 </listitem>
4400
4401 <listitem>
4402 <para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4403 error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4404 </listitem>
4405
4406 <listitem>
4407 <para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4408 snapshots command</para>
4409 </listitem>
4410
4411 <listitem>
4412 <para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4413 </listitem>
4414
4415 <listitem>
4416 <para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4417 XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4418 </listitem>
4419
4420 <listitem>
4421 <para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4422 </listitem>
4423
4424 <listitem>
4425 <para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4426 </listitem>
4427
4428 <listitem>
4429 <para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4430 </listitem>
4431
4432 <listitem>
4433 <para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4434 (KWin bug)</para>
4435 </listitem>
4436
4437 <listitem>
4438 <para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4439 relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4440 </listitem>
4441
4442 <listitem>
4443 <para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4444 </listitem>
4445
4446 <listitem>
4447 <para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4448 </listitem>
4449
4450 <listitem>
4451 <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4452 </listitem>
4453
4454 <listitem>
4455 <para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4456 </listitem>
4457
4458 <listitem>
4459 <para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4460 resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4461 </listitem>
4462
4463 <listitem>
4464 <para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4465 bug #5787)</para>
4466 </listitem>
4467
4468 <listitem>
4469 <para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4470 DHCP requests</para>
4471 </listitem>
4472
4473 <listitem>
4474 <para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4475 (bug #3217)</para>
4476 </listitem>
4477
4478 <listitem>
4479 <para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4480 range (bug #5923)</para>
4481 </listitem>
4482
4483 <listitem>
4484 <para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4485 </listitem>
4486
4487 <listitem>
4488 <para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4489 </listitem>
4490
4491 <listitem>
4492 <para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4493 </listitem>
4494
4495 <listitem>
4496 <para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4497 </listitem>
4498
4499 <listitem>
4500 <para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4501 file (bug #5681)</para>
4502 </listitem>
4503
4504 <listitem>
4505 <para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4506 (3.1.2 regression)</para>
4507 </listitem>
4508
4509 <listitem>
4510 <para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4511 error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4512 </listitem>
4513
4514 <listitem>
4515 <para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4516 regression)</para>
4517 </listitem>
4518
4519 <listitem>
4520 <para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4521 </listitem>
4522
4523 <listitem>
4524 <para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4525 </listitem>
4526
4527 <listitem>
4528 <para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4529 </listitem>
4530
4531 <listitem>
4532 <para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4533 </listitem>
4534
4535 <listitem>
4536 <para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4537 (3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4538 </listitem>
4539
4540 <listitem>
4541 <para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4542 </listitem>
4543
4544 <listitem>
4545 <para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4546 </listitem>
4547
4548 <listitem>
4549 <para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4550 </listitem>
4551
4552 <listitem>
4553 <para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4554 clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4555 </listitem>
4556
4557 <listitem>
4558 <para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4559 </listitem>
4560
4561 <listitem>
4562 <para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4563 again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4564 </listitem>
4565
4566 <listitem>
4567 <para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4568 </listitem>
4569
4570 <listitem>
4571 <para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4572 </listitem>
4573
4574 <listitem>
4575 <para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4576 </listitem>
4577
4578 <listitem>
4579 <para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4580 (bug #5731)</para>
4581 </listitem>
4582
4583 <listitem>
4584 <para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4585 again</para>
4586 </listitem>
4587
4588 </itemizedlist>
4589
4590 </sect1>
4591
4592 <sect1>
4593 <title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4594
4595 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4596 added:</para>
4597
4598 <itemizedlist>
4599
4600 <listitem>
4601 <para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4602 </listitem>
4603
4604 <listitem>
4605 <para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4606 </listitem>
4607
4608 <listitem>
4609 <para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4610 </listitem>
4611
4612 <listitem>
4613 <para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4614 </listitem>
4615
4616 <listitem>
4617 <para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
4618 </listitem>
4619
4620 <listitem>
4621 <para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
4622 <emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
4623 </listitem>
4624
4625 <listitem>
4626 <para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
4627 </listitem>
4628
4629 <listitem>
4630 <para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
4631 </listitem>
4632
4633 <listitem>
4634 <para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
4635 </listitem>
4636
4637 <listitem>
4638 <para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
4639 </listitem>
4640
4641 <listitem>
4642 <para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
4643 </listitem>
4644
4645 <listitem>
4646 <para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
4647 Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
4648 </listitem>
4649
4650 <listitem>
4651 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
4652 used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
4653 </listitem>
4654
4655 <listitem>
4656 <para>Mac OS X hosts: dock &amp; menubar don't disappear in
4657 full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
4658 #1762)</para>
4659 </listitem>
4660
4661 <listitem>
4662 <para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &amp;
4663 Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
4664 </listitem>
4665
4666 <listitem>
4667 <para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
4668 right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
4669 </listitem>
4670
4671 <listitem>
4672 <para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
4673 while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
4674 </listitem>
4675
4676 <listitem>
4677 <para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
4678 </listitem>
4679
4680 <listitem>
4681 <para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
4682 </listitem>
4683
4684 <listitem>
4685 <para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
4686 several virtual CPU cores</para>
4687 </listitem>
4688
4689 <listitem>
4690 <para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
4691 </listitem>
4692
4693 <listitem>
4694 <para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
4695 </listitem>
4696
4697 <listitem>
4698 <para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
4699 when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
4700 </listitem>
4701
4702 <listitem>
4703 <para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
4704 paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
4705 </listitem>
4706
4707 <listitem>
4708 <para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
4709 </listitem>
4710
4711 <listitem>
4712 <para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
4713 guests</para>
4714 </listitem>
4715
4716 <listitem>
4717 <para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
4718 and on some 64bit guests</para>
4719 </listitem>
4720
4721 <listitem>
4722 <para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
4723 text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
4724 </listitem>
4725
4726 <listitem>
4727 <para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
4728 (openSUSE 11.0)</para>
4729 </listitem>
4730
4731 <listitem>
4732 <para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
4733 releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
4734 </listitem>
4735
4736 <listitem>
4737 <para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
4738 </listitem>
4739
4740 <listitem>
4741 <para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
4742 </listitem>
4743
4744 <listitem>
4745 <para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
4746 </listitem>
4747
4748 <listitem>
4749 <para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
4750 </listitem>
4751
4752 <listitem>
4753 <para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
4754 GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
4755 </listitem>
4756
4757 <listitem>
4758 <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
4759 </listitem>
4760
4761 </itemizedlist>
4762
4763 </sect1>
4764
4765 <sect1>
4766 <title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
4767
4768 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4769 were added:</para>
4770
4771 <itemizedlist>
4772
4773 <listitem>
4774 <para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
4775 from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
4776 </listitem>
4777
4778 <listitem>
4779 <para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
4780 the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
4781 ("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
4782 </listitem>
4783
4784 <listitem>
4785 <para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
4786 hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
4787 (see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
4788 </listitem>
4789
4790 <listitem>
4791 <para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
4792 arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
4793 (<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
4794 </listitem>
4795
4796 <listitem>
4797 <para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
4798 running</para>
4799 </listitem>
4800
4801 <listitem>
4802 <para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
4803 making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
4804 </listitem>
4805
4806 <listitem>
4807 <para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
4808 (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
4809 </listitem>
4810
4811 <listitem>
4812 <para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
4813 see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
4814 </listitem>
4815
4816 <listitem>
4817 <para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
4818 see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
4819 </listitem>
4820
4821 </itemizedlist>
4822
4823 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4824
4825 <itemizedlist>
4826
4827 <listitem>
4828 <para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
4829 </listitem>
4830
4831 <listitem>
4832 <para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
4833 </listitem>
4834
4835 <listitem>
4836 <para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
4837 </listitem>
4838
4839 <listitem>
4840 <para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
4841 (bug #5291)</para>
4842 </listitem>
4843
4844 <listitem>
4845 <para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
4846 </listitem>
4847
4848 <listitem>
4849 <para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
4850 </listitem>
4851
4852 <listitem>
4853 <para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
4854 </listitem>
4855
4856 <listitem>
4857 <para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
4858 <emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
4859 </listitem>
4860
4861 <listitem>
4862 <para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
4863 Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
4864 </listitem>
4865
4866 <listitem>
4867 <para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
4868 </listitem>
4869
4870 <listitem>
4871 <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
4872 </listitem>
4873
4874 <listitem>
4875 <para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
4876 </listitem>
4877
4878 <listitem>
4879 <para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
4880 </listitem>
4881
4882 <listitem>
4883 <para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
4884 </listitem>
4885
4886 <listitem>
4887 <para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
4888 (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
4889 </listitem>
4890
4891 <listitem>
4892 <para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
4893 (see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
4894 </listitem>
4895
4896 <listitem>
4897 <para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
4898 (bug #5523, #2787)</para>
4899 </listitem>
4900
4901 <listitem>
4902 <para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
4903 (bug #2723)</para>
4904 </listitem>
4905
4906 <listitem>
4907 <para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
4908 </listitem>
4909
4910 <listitem>
4911 <para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
4912 see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
4913 </listitem>
4914
4915 <listitem>
4916 <para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
4917 optional manifest file on import</para>
4918 </listitem>
4919
4920 <listitem>
4921 <para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
4922 </listitem>
4923
4924 <listitem>
4925 <para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
4926 (bug #3773)</para>
4927 </listitem>
4928
4929 <listitem>
4930 <para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
4931 </listitem>
4932
4933 <listitem>
4934 <para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
4935 </listitem>
4936
4937 <listitem>
4938 <para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
4939 layout (bug #2302)</para>
4940 </listitem>
4941
4942 <listitem>
4943 <para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
4944 (bug #4866)</para>
4945 </listitem>
4946
4947 <listitem>
4948 <para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
4949 left click (bug #5049)</para>
4950 </listitem>
4951
4952 <listitem>
4953 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
4954 certain conditions</para>
4955 </listitem>
4956
4957 <listitem>
4958 <para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
4959 </listitem>
4960
4961 <listitem>
4962 <para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
4963 </listitem>
4964
4965 <listitem>
4966 <para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
4967 </listitem>
4968
4969 <listitem>
4970 <para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
4971 </listitem>
4972
4973 <listitem>
4974 <para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
4975 was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
4976 </listitem>
4977
4978 <listitem>
4979 <para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
4980 </listitem>
4981
4982 <listitem>
4983 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
4984 properties (bug #5337)</para>
4985 </listitem>
4986
4987 <listitem>
4988 <para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
4989 </listitem>
4990
4991 <listitem>
4992 <para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
4993 </listitem>
4994
4995 <listitem>
4996 <para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
4997 </listitem>
4998
4999 <listitem>
5000 <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5001 </listitem>
5002
5003 <listitem>
5004 <para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5005 Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5006 </listitem>
5007
5008 <listitem>
5009 <para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5010 file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5011 (bug #928)</para>
5012 </listitem>
5013
5014 <listitem>
5015 <para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5016 </listitem>
5017
5018 </itemizedlist>
5019
5020 </sect1>
5021
5022 <sect1>
5023 <title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5024
5025 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5026 added:</para>
5027
5028 <itemizedlist>
5029
5030 <listitem>
5031 <para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5032 guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5033 </listitem>
5034
5035 <listitem>
5036 <para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5037 using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5038 </listitem>
5039
5040 <listitem>
5041 <para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5042 forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5043 </listitem>
5044
5045 <listitem>
5046 <para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5047 enabled</para>
5048 </listitem>
5049
5050 <listitem>
5051 <para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5052 meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5053 </listitem>
5054
5055 <listitem>
5056 <para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5057 (bug #2676)</para>
5058 </listitem>
5059
5060 <listitem>
5061 <para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5062 is connected to a raw file</para>
5063 </listitem>
5064
5065 <listitem>
5066 <para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5067 (bug #5355)</para>
5068 </listitem>
5069
5070 <listitem>
5071 <para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5072 </listitem>
5073
5074 <listitem>
5075 <para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5076 guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5077 </listitem>
5078
5079 <listitem>
5080 <para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5081 PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5082 guest (bug #4496)</para>
5083 </listitem>
5084
5085 <listitem>
5086 <para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5087 </listitem>
5088
5089 <listitem>
5090 <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5091 </listitem>
5092
5093 <listitem>
5094 <para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5095 <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5096 </listitem>
5097
5098 <listitem>
5099 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5100 among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5101 periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5102 </listitem>
5103
5104 </itemizedlist>
5105
5106 </sect1>
5107
5108 <sect1>
5109 <title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5110
5111 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5112 added:</para>
5113
5114 <itemizedlist>
5115
5116 <listitem>
5117 <para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5118 </listitem>
5119
5120 <listitem>
5121 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5122 </listitem>
5123
5124 <listitem>
5125 <para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5126 necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5127 (Windows &amp; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5128 </listitem>
5129
5130 <listitem>
5131 <para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5132 (VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5133 </listitem>
5134
5135 <listitem>
5136 <para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5137 </listitem>
5138
5139 <listitem>
5140 <para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5141 </listitem>
5142
5143 <listitem>
5144 <para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5145 </listitem>
5146
5147 <listitem>
5148 <para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5149 </listitem>
5150
5151 <listitem>
5152 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5153 </listitem>
5154
5155 <listitem>
5156 <para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5157 screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5158 </listitem>
5159
5160 <listitem>
5161 <para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5162 </listitem>
5163
5164 <listitem>
5165 <para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5166 </listitem>
5167
5168 <listitem>
5169 <para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5170 on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5171 </listitem>
5172
5173 <listitem>
5174 <para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5175 </listitem>
5176
5177 <listitem>
5178 <para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5179 exhaustion</para>
5180 </listitem>
5181
5182 <listitem>
5183 <para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5184 </listitem>
5185
5186 <listitem>
5187 <para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5188 netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5189 </listitem>
5190
5191 <listitem>
5192 <para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5193 folders (bug #4106)</para>
5194 </listitem>
5195
5196 <listitem>
5197 <para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5198 folders (bug #4299)</para>
5199 </listitem>
5200
5201 <listitem>
5202 <para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5203 <emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5204 (bug #2921)</para>
5205 </listitem>
5206
5207 <listitem>
5208 <para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5209 hosts only)</para>
5210 </listitem>
5211
5212 <listitem>
5213 <para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5214 package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5215 </listitem>
5216
5217 <listitem>
5218 <para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5219 </listitem>
5220
5221 <listitem>
5222 <para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5223 (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5224 </listitem>
5225
5226 <listitem>
5227 <para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5228 </listitem>
5229
5230 <listitem>
5231 <para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5232 image inconsistency </para>
5233 </listitem>
5234
5235 <listitem>
5236 <para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5237 </listitem>
5238
5239 <listitem>
5240 <para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5241 </listitem>
5242
5243 <listitem>
5244 <para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5245 (bug #2025)</para>
5246 </listitem>
5247
5248 <listitem>
5249 <para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5250 initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5251 </listitem>
5252
5253 </itemizedlist>
5254
5255 </sect1>
5256
5257 <sect1>
5258 <title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5259
5260 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5261 added:</para>
5262
5263 <itemizedlist>
5264
5265 <listitem>
5266 <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5267 (VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5268 </listitem>
5269
5270 <listitem>
5271 <para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &amp;
5272 AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5273 </listitem>
5274
5275 <listitem>
5276 <para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5277 guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5278 </listitem>
5279
5280 <listitem>
5281 <para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5282 </listitem>
5283
5284 <listitem>
5285 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5286 software virtualization only) </para>
5287 </listitem>
5288
5289 <listitem>
5290 <para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5291 Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5292 </listitem>
5293
5294 <listitem>
5295 <para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5296 with root privileges</para>
5297 </listitem>
5298
5299 <listitem>
5300 <para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5301 which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5302 </listitem>
5303
5304 <listitem>
5305 <para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5306 distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5307 </listitem>
5308
5309 <listitem>
5310 <para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5311 opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5312 </listitem>
5313
5314 <listitem>
5315 <para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5316 DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5317 selector (bug #5063)</para>
5318 </listitem>
5319
5320 <listitem>
5321 <para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5322 available</para>
5323 </listitem>
5324
5325 <listitem>
5326 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5327 interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5328 </listitem>
5329
5330 <listitem>
5331 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5332 networking (bug #4775)</para>
5333 </listitem>
5334
5335 <listitem>
5336 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5337 changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5338 </listitem>
5339
5340 <listitem>
5341 <para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5342 (bug #4907)</para>
5343 </listitem>
5344
5345 <listitem>
5346 <para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5347 VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5348 </listitem>
5349
5350 <listitem>
5351 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5352 with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5353 </listitem>
5354
5355 <listitem>
5356 <para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5357 </listitem>
5358
5359 <listitem>
5360 <para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5361 </listitem>
5362
5363 <listitem>
5364 <para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5365 </listitem>
5366
5367 <listitem>
5368 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5369 </listitem>
5370
5371 <listitem>
5372 <para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5373 are installed</para>
5374 </listitem>
5375
5376 <listitem>
5377 <para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5378 (bug #4771)</para>
5379 </listitem>
5380
5381 <listitem>
5382 <para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5383 </listitem>
5384
5385 <listitem>
5386 <para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5387 rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5388 </listitem>
5389
5390 <listitem>
5391 <para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5392 command</para>
5393 </listitem>
5394
5395 <listitem>
5396 <para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5397 </listitem>
5398
5399 <listitem>
5400 <para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5401 </listitem>
5402
5403 <listitem>
5404 <para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5405 (bug #5089)</para>
5406 </listitem>
5407
5408 <listitem>
5409 <para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5410 </listitem>
5411
5412 </itemizedlist>
5413
5414 </sect1>
5415
5416 <sect1>
5417 <title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5418
5419 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5420 added:</para>
5421
5422 <itemizedlist>
5423
5424 <listitem>
5425 <para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5426 (AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5427 </listitem>
5428
5429 <listitem>
5430 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5431 a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5432 </listitem>
5433
5434 <listitem>
5435 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5436 (software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5437 </listitem>
5438
5439 <listitem>
5440 <para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris &amp; OpenSolaris
5441 guests (bug #2258)</para>
5442 </listitem>
5443
5444 <listitem>
5445 <para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5446 (AMD-V &amp; VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5447 </listitem>
5448
5449 <listitem>
5450 <para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5451 </listitem>
5452
5453 <listitem>
5454 <para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5455 </listitem>
5456
5457 <listitem>
5458 <para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5459 </listitem>
5460
5461 <listitem>
5462 <para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5463 </listitem>
5464
5465 <listitem>
5466 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5467 </listitem>
5468
5469 <listitem>
5470 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5471 onlined or offlined</para>
5472 </listitem>
5473
5474 <listitem>
5475 <para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5476 </listitem>
5477
5478 <listitem>
5479 <para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels &lt; 2.6.11 (in particular
5480 RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels &lt; 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5481 </listitem>
5482
5483 <listitem>
5484 <para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5485 than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5486 </listitem>
5487
5488 <listitem>
5489 <para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5490 </listitem>
5491
5492 <listitem>
5493 <para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5494 wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5495 </listitem>
5496
5497 <listitem>
5498 <para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5499 </listitem>
5500
5501 <listitem>
5502 <para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5503 </listitem>
5504
5505 <listitem>
5506 <para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5507 </listitem>
5508
5509 <listitem>
5510 <para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5511 </listitem>
5512
5513 <listitem>
5514 <para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5515 </listitem>
5516
5517 <listitem>
5518 <para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5519 filters in machine settings XML</para>
5520 </listitem>
5521
5522 <listitem>
5523 <para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5524 </listitem>
5525
5526 <listitem>
5527 <para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5528 </listitem>
5529
5530 <listitem>
5531 <para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5532 </listitem>
5533
5534 <listitem>
5535 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5536 for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5537 </listitem>
5538
5539 <listitem>
5540 <para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5541 <emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5542 </listitem>
5543
5544 <listitem>
5545 <para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5546 </listitem>
5547
5548 <listitem>
5549 <para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5550 </listitem>
5551
5552 <listitem>
5553 <para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5554 </listitem>
5555
5556 <listitem>
5557 <para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5558 </listitem>
5559
5560 <listitem>
5561 <para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5562 </listitem>
5563
5564 <listitem>
5565 <para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5566 </listitem>
5567
5568 <listitem>
5569 <para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5570 </listitem>
5571
5572 <listitem>
5573 <para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5574 fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5575 was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5576 phase collapse</para>
5577 </listitem>
5578
5579 <listitem>
5580 <para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5581 (2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5582 </listitem>
5583
5584 <listitem>
5585 <para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5586 to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5587 </listitem>
5588
5589 <listitem>
5590 <para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5591 </listitem>
5592
5593 <listitem>
5594 <para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5595 <emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5596 </listitem>
5597
5598 <listitem>
5599 <para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5600 interface bringup on Linux</para>
5601 </listitem>
5602
5603 <listitem>
5604 <para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5605 </listitem>
5606
5607 <listitem>
5608 <para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5609 interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5610 #4698, #4790)</para>
5611 </listitem>
5612
5613 <listitem>
5614 <para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5615 less than the configured range</para>
5616 </listitem>
5617
5618 <listitem>
5619 <para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
5620 </listitem>
5621
5622 <listitem>
5623 <para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
5624 </listitem>
5625
5626 <listitem>
5627 <para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
5628 </listitem>
5629
5630 <listitem>
5631 <para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
5632 </listitem>
5633
5634 <listitem>
5635 <para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
5636 DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
5637 </listitem>
5638
5639 <listitem>
5640 <para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
5641 the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
5642 </listitem>
5643
5644 <listitem>
5645 <para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
5646 (like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
5647 </listitem>
5648
5649 <listitem>
5650 <para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
5651 </listitem>
5652
5653 <listitem>
5654 <para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
5655 and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
5656 </listitem>
5657
5658 <listitem>
5659 <para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
5660 new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
5661 </listitem>
5662
5663 <listitem>
5664 <para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
5665 a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
5666 </listitem>
5667
5668 <listitem>
5669 <para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
5670 cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
5671 </listitem>
5672
5673 <listitem>
5674 <para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
5675 </listitem>
5676
5677 <listitem>
5678 <para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
5679 </listitem>
5680
5681 </itemizedlist>
5682
5683 </sect1>
5684
5685 <sect1>
5686 <title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
5687
5688 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5689 added:</para>
5690
5691 <itemizedlist>
5692
5693 <listitem>
5694 <para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 &amp; #3666)</para>
5695 </listitem>
5696
5697 <listitem>
5698 <para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
5699 </listitem>
5700
5701 <listitem>
5702 <para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
5703 </listitem>
5704
5705 <listitem>
5706 <para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
5707 </listitem>
5708
5709 <listitem>
5710 <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
5711 </listitem>
5712
5713 <listitem>
5714 <para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
5715 </listitem>
5716
5717 <listitem>
5718 <para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
5719 </listitem>
5720
5721 <listitem>
5722 <para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
5723 </listitem>
5724
5725 <listitem>
5726 <para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
5727 </listitem>
5728
5729 <listitem>
5730 <para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
5731 multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
5732 </listitem>
5733
5734 <listitem>
5735 <para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
5736 </listitem>
5737
5738 <listitem>
5739 <para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
5740 </listitem>
5741
5742 <listitem>
5743 <para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
5744 </listitem>
5745
5746 <listitem>
5747 <para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
5748 </listitem>
5749
5750 <listitem>
5751 <para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
5752 </listitem>
5753
5754 <listitem>
5755 <para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
5756 </listitem>
5757
5758 <listitem>
5759 <para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
5760 Windows (bug #4354)</para>
5761 </listitem>
5762
5763 <listitem>
5764 <para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
5765 (bug #4654)</para>
5766 </listitem>
5767
5768 <listitem>
5769 <para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
5770 </listitem>
5771
5772 <listitem>
5773 <para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
5774 interfaces</para>
5775 </listitem>
5776
5777 <listitem>
5778 <para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
5779 in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
5780 </listitem>
5781
5782 <listitem>
5783 <para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
5784 inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
5785 </listitem>
5786
5787 <listitem>
5788 <para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
5789 properties (bug #3415)</para>
5790 </listitem>
5791
5792 <listitem>
5793 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
5794 (bug #1461)</para>
5795 </listitem>
5796
5797 <listitem>
5798 <para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
5799 </listitem>
5800
5801 <listitem>
5802 <para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
5803 transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
5804 </listitem>
5805
5806 <listitem>
5807 <para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
5808 fails to find any DVD drives</para>
5809 </listitem>
5810
5811 <listitem>
5812 <para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
5813 Qt (bug #4353)</para>
5814 </listitem>
5815
5816 <listitem>
5817 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
5818 </listitem>
5819
5820 <listitem>
5821 <para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
5822 </listitem>
5823
5824 <listitem>
5825 <para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
5826 </listitem>
5827
5828 <listitem>
5829 <para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
5830 seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
5831 </listitem>
5832
5833 <listitem>
5834 <para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
5835 amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
5836 </listitem>
5837
5838 <listitem>
5839 <para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
5840 guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
5841 </listitem>
5842
5843 <listitem>
5844 <para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
5845 working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
5846 </listitem>
5847
5848 </itemizedlist>
5849
5850 </sect1>
5851 <sect1>
5852 <title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
5853
5854 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5855 added:</para>
5856
5857 <itemizedlist>
5858
5859 <listitem>
5860 <para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
5861 </listitem>
5862
5863 <listitem>
5864 <para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
5865 </listitem>
5866
5867 <listitem>
5868 <para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
5869 (VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
5870 </listitem>
5871
5872 <listitem>
5873 <para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
5874 virtualization only; bugs #2696 &amp; #3868)</para>
5875 </listitem>
5876
5877 <listitem>
5878 <para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
5879 </listitem>
5880
5881 <listitem>
5882 <para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
5883 </listitem>
5884
5885 <listitem>
5886 <para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
5887 </listitem>
5888
5889 <listitem>
5890 <para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
5891 </listitem>
5892
5893 <listitem>
5894 <para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
5895 </listitem>
5896
5897 <listitem>
5898 <para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
5899 </listitem>
5900
5901 <listitem>
5902 <para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
5903 </listitem>
5904
5905 <listitem>
5906 <para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
5907 </listitem>
5908
5909 <listitem>
5910 <para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
5911 </listitem>
5912
5913 <listitem>
5914 <para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
5915 </listitem>
5916
5917 <listitem>
5918 <para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
5919 </listitem>
5920
5921 <listitem>
5922 <para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
5923 guest (bug #4381)</para>
5924 </listitem>
5925
5926 <listitem>
5927 <para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
5928 </listitem>
5929
5930 <listitem>
5931 <para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
5932 </listitem>
5933
5934 <listitem>
5935 <para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
5936 (for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
5937 </listitem>
5938
5939 <listitem>
5940 <para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
5941 </listitem>
5942
5943 <listitem>
5944 <para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
5945 </listitem>
5946
5947 <listitem>
5948 <para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
5949 black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
5950 </listitem>
5951
5952 <listitem>
5953 <para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
5954 </listitem>
5955
5956 <listitem>
5957 <para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
5958 </listitem>
5959
5960 <listitem>
5961 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
5962 </listitem>
5963
5964 <listitem>
5965 <para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
5966 </listitem>
5967
5968 <listitem>
5969 <para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
5970 </listitem>
5971
5972 <listitem>
5973 <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>
5974 </listitem>
5975
5976 </itemizedlist>
5977
5978 </sect1>
5979
5980 <sect1>
5981 <title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
5982
5983 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5984 were added:</para>
5985
5986 <itemizedlist>
5987
5988 <listitem>
5989 <para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
5990 </listitem>
5991
5992 <listitem>
5993 <para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
5994 (experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5995 </listitem>
5996
5997 <listitem>
5998 <para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
5999 </listitem>
6000
6001 </itemizedlist>
6002
6003 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6004
6005 <itemizedlist>
6006
6007 <listitem>
6008 <para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6009 </listitem>
6010
6011 <listitem>
6012 <para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6013 certain conditions</para>
6014 </listitem>
6015
6016 <listitem>
6017 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6018 </listitem>
6019
6020 <listitem>
6021 <para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6022 </listitem>
6023
6024 <listitem>
6025 <para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6026 </listitem>
6027
6028 <listitem>
6029 <para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6030 this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6031 </listitem>
6032
6033 <listitem>
6034 <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6035 </listitem>
6036
6037 <listitem>
6038 <para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6039 </listitem>
6040
6041 <listitem>
6042 <para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6043 </listitem>
6044
6045 <listitem>
6046 <para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6047 </listitem>
6048
6049 <listitem>
6050 <para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6051 </listitem>
6052
6053 <listitem>
6054 <para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6055 </listitem>
6056
6057 <listitem>
6058 <para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6059 </listitem>
6060
6061 <listitem>
6062 <para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6063 </listitem>
6064
6065 <listitem>
6066 <para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6067 (non Windows hosts)</para>
6068 </listitem>
6069
6070 <listitem>
6071 <para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6072 </listitem>
6073
6074 <listitem>
6075 <para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6076 </listitem>
6077
6078 <listitem>
6079 <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6080 </listitem>
6081
6082 <listitem>
6083 <para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6084 </listitem>
6085
6086 <listitem>
6087 <para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6088 </listitem>
6089
6090 <listitem>
6091 <para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6092 </listitem>
6093
6094 <listitem>
6095 <para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6096 </listitem>
6097
6098 <listitem>
6099 <para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6100 </listitem>
6101
6102 <listitem>
6103 <para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6104 </listitem>
6105
6106 <listitem>
6107 <para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6108 with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6109 </listitem>
6110
6111 <listitem>
6112 <para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6113 </listitem>
6114
6115 <listitem>
6116 <para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6117 </listitem>
6118
6119 <listitem>
6120 <para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6121 </listitem>
6122
6123 <listitem>
6124 <para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6125 </listitem>
6126
6127 <listitem>
6128 <para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6129 </listitem>
6130
6131 <listitem>
6132 <para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6133 </listitem>
6134
6135 <listitem>
6136 <para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6137 </listitem>
6138
6139 <listitem>
6140 <para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6141 creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6142 </listitem>
6143
6144 <listitem>
6145 <para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6146 </listitem>
6147
6148 <listitem>
6149 <para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6150 </listitem>
6151
6152 <listitem>
6153 <para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6154 </listitem>
6155
6156 <listitem>
6157 <para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6158 virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6159 </listitem>
6160
6161 <listitem>
6162 <para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6163 (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6164 </listitem>
6165
6166 <listitem>
6167 <para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6168 correct file mode when creating files</para>
6169 </listitem>
6170
6171 <listitem>
6172 <para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6173 conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6174 </listitem>
6175
6176 <listitem>
6177 <para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6178 on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6179 </listitem>
6180
6181 <listitem>
6182 <para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6183 </listitem>
6184
6185 <listitem>
6186 <para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6187 </listitem>
6188
6189 <listitem>
6190 <para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6191 Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6192 </listitem>
6193
6194 <listitem>
6195 <para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6196 guest property lookup</para>
6197 </listitem>
6198
6199 <listitem>
6200 <para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6201 basic network information)</para>
6202 </listitem>
6203
6204 <listitem>
6205 <para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6206 (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6207 </listitem>
6208
6209 <listitem>
6210 <para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6211 added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6212 endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6213 devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6214 </listitem>
6215
6216 <listitem>
6217 <para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6218 </listitem>
6219
6220 <listitem>
6221 <para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6222 are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6223 web service</para>
6224 </listitem>
6225
6226 <listitem>
6227 <para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6228 inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6229 </listitem>
6230
6231 <listitem>
6232 <para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6233 unavailable</para>
6234 </listitem>
6235
6236 <listitem>
6237 <para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6238 </listitem>
6239
6240 </itemizedlist>
6241 </sect1>
6242
6243 <sect1>
6244 <title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6245
6246 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6247 added:</para>
6248
6249 <itemizedlist>
6250
6251 <listitem>
6252 <para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6253 installation</para>
6254 </listitem>
6255
6256 <listitem>
6257 <para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6258 </listitem>
6259
6260 <listitem>
6261 <para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6262 later (bug #3981)</para>
6263 </listitem>
6264
6265 <listitem>
6266 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6267 loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6268 </listitem>
6269
6270 <listitem>
6271 <para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6272 <computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6273 (bug #4034)
6274 </para>
6275 </listitem>
6276
6277 <listitem>
6278 <para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6279 networking</para>
6280 </listitem>
6281
6282 <listitem>
6283 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6284 disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6285 </listitem>
6286
6287 <listitem>
6288 <para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6289 clicks</para>
6290 </listitem>
6291
6292 <listitem>
6293 <para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6294 Windows 7 guests</para>
6295 </listitem>
6296
6297 <listitem>
6298 <para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6299 that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6300 </listitem>
6301
6302 <listitem>
6303 <para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6304 </listitem>
6305
6306 <listitem>
6307 <para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6308 </listitem>
6309
6310 <listitem>
6311 <para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6312 (bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6313 </listitem>
6314
6315 <listitem>
6316 <para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6317 clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6318 </listitem>
6319
6320 <listitem>
6321 <para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6322 </listitem>
6323
6324 <listitem>
6325 <para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6326 </listitem>
6327
6328 <listitem>
6329 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6330 fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6331 (bug #3864)</para>
6332 </listitem>
6333
6334 <listitem>
6335 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6336 now flushes the output stream</para>
6337 </listitem>
6338
6339 <listitem>
6340 <para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6341 sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6342 </listitem>
6343
6344 <listitem>
6345 <para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6346 </listitem>
6347
6348 <listitem>
6349 <para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6350 </listitem>
6351
6352 <listitem>
6353 <para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6354 </listitem>
6355
6356 <listitem>
6357 <para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6358 </listitem>
6359
6360 <listitem>
6361 <para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6362 (bug #3964)</para>
6363 </listitem>
6364
6365 <listitem>
6366 <para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6367 hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6368 </listitem>
6369
6370 <listitem>
6371 <para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6372 hosts</para>
6373 </listitem>
6374
6375 <listitem>
6376 <para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6377 a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6378 e1000 adapter</para>
6379 </listitem>
6380
6381 <listitem>
6382 <para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6383 when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6384 offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6385 offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6386 </listitem>
6387
6388 <listitem>
6389 <para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6390 </listitem>
6391
6392 <listitem>
6393 <para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6394 </listitem>
6395
6396 <listitem>
6397 <para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6398 </listitem>
6399
6400 <listitem>
6401 <para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6402 file (bug #1023)</para>
6403 </listitem>
6404
6405 <listitem>
6406 <para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6407 </listitem>
6408
6409 <listitem>
6410 <para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6411 </listitem>
6412
6413 </itemizedlist>
6414 </sect1>
6415
6416 <sect1>
6417 <title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6418
6419 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6420 added:</para>
6421
6422 <itemizedlist>
6423
6424 <listitem>
6425 <para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6426 hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6427 </listitem>
6428
6429 <listitem>
6430 <para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6431 on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6432 and later</para>
6433 </listitem>
6434
6435 <listitem>
6436 <para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6437 running services</para>
6438 </listitem>
6439
6440 <listitem>
6441 <para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6442 terminates</para>
6443 </listitem>
6444
6445 <listitem>
6446 <para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6447 in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6448 </listitem>
6449
6450 <listitem>
6451 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6452 installed on the guest</para>
6453 </listitem>
6454
6455 <listitem>
6456 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6457 unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6458 </listitem>
6459
6460 <listitem>
6461 <para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6462 Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6463 </listitem>
6464
6465 <listitem>
6466 <para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6467 (bug #2628)</para>
6468 </listitem>
6469
6470 <listitem>
6471 <para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6472 hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6473 </listitem>
6474
6475 <listitem>
6476 <para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6477 (bug #3657)</para>
6478 </listitem>
6479
6480 <listitem>
6481 <para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6482 devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6483 </listitem>
6484
6485 <listitem>
6486 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6487 virtualization only)
6488 </para>
6489 </listitem>
6490
6491 <listitem>
6492 <para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6493 images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6494 </listitem>
6495
6496 <listitem>
6497 <para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6498 </listitem>
6499
6500 <listitem>
6501 <para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6502 networks (bug #3702)</para>
6503 </listitem>
6504
6505 <listitem>
6506 <para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6507 bug #3689)</para>
6508 </listitem>
6509
6510 <listitem>
6511 <para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6512 bug #3679)</para>
6513 </listitem>
6514
6515 <listitem>
6516 <para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6517 bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6518 </listitem>
6519
6520 <listitem>
6521 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6522 implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6523 (bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6524 </listitem>
6525
6526 <listitem>
6527 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6528 made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6529 </listitem>
6530
6531 <listitem>
6532 <para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6533 lease (bug #3655)</para>
6534 </listitem>
6535
6536 <listitem>
6537 <para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6538 (bug #3667)</para>
6539 </listitem>
6540
6541 <listitem>
6542 <para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6543 emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6544 </listitem>
6545
6546 <listitem>
6547 <para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6548 </listitem>
6549
6550 <listitem>
6551 <para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6552 </listitem>
6553
6554 <listitem>
6555 <para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6556 </listitem>
6557
6558 <listitem>
6559 <para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6560 </listitem>
6561
6562 <listitem>
6563 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6564 </listitem>
6565
6566 <listitem>
6567 <para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6568 </listitem>
6569
6570 <listitem>
6571 <para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6572 </listitem>
6573
6574 </itemizedlist>
6575 </sect1>
6576
6577 <sect1>
6578 <title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6579
6580 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6581 were added:</para>
6582
6583 <itemizedlist>
6584
6585 <listitem>
6586 <para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6587 </listitem>
6588
6589 <listitem>
6590 <para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6591 </listitem>
6592
6593 <listitem>
6594 <para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6595 </listitem>
6596
6597 <listitem>
6598 <para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6599 </listitem>
6600
6601 <listitem>
6602 <para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6603 </listitem>
6604
6605 <listitem>
6606 <para>USB (OHCI &amp; EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6607 </listitem>
6608
6609 <listitem>
6610 <para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6611 </listitem>
6612
6613 <listitem>
6614 <para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6615 </listitem>
6616
6617 <listitem>
6618 <para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6619 </listitem>
6620
6621 <listitem>
6622 <para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
6623 </listitem>
6624
6625 </itemizedlist>
6626
6627 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6628
6629 <itemizedlist>
6630
6631 <listitem>
6632 <para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
6633 </listitem>
6634
6635 <listitem>
6636 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
6637 </listitem>
6638
6639 <listitem>
6640 <para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
6641 </listitem>
6642
6643 <listitem>
6644 <para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
6645 </listitem>
6646
6647 <listitem>
6648 <para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
6649 </listitem>
6650
6651 <listitem>
6652 <para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6653 </listitem>
6654
6655 <listitem>
6656 <para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6657 </listitem>
6658
6659 <listitem>
6660 <para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
6661 </listitem>
6662
6663 <listitem>
6664 <para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
6665 but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
6666 </listitem>
6667
6668 <listitem>
6669 <para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
6670 </listitem>
6671
6672 <listitem>
6673 <para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
6674 TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
6675 </listitem>
6676
6677 <listitem>
6678 <para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
6679 when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
6680 </listitem>
6681
6682 <listitem>
6683 <para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
6684 </listitem>
6685
6686 <listitem>
6687 <para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
6688 </listitem>
6689
6690 <listitem>
6691 <para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
6692 and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
6693 </listitem>
6694
6695 <listitem>
6696 <para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
6697 </listitem>
6698
6699 <listitem>
6700 <para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
6701 ESX server images)</para>
6702 </listitem>
6703
6704 <listitem>
6705 <para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
6706 writable</para>
6707 </listitem>
6708
6709 <listitem>
6710 <para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
6711 EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
6712 is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
6713 </listitem>
6714
6715 <listitem>
6716 <para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
6717 (Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
6718 </listitem>
6719
6720 <listitem>
6721 <para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
6722 </listitem>
6723
6724 <listitem>
6725 <para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
6726 </listitem>
6727
6728 <listitem>
6729 <para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
6730 hosts when creating files</para>
6731 </listitem>
6732
6733 <listitem>
6734 <para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
6735 this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
6736 </listitem>
6737
6738 <listitem>
6739 <para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
6740 if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
6741 #2306)</para>
6742 </listitem>
6743
6744 <listitem>
6745 <para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
6746 (bug #3555)</para>
6747 </listitem>
6748
6749 <listitem>
6750 <para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
6751 installer (bug #3524)</para>
6752 </listitem>
6753
6754 <listitem>
6755 <para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
6756 correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
6757 </listitem>
6758
6759 <listitem>
6760 <para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
6761 interface (bug #3414)</para>
6762 </listitem>
6763
6764 <listitem>
6765 <para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
6766 the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
6767 </listitem>
6768
6769 <listitem>
6770 <para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
6771 (bug #3586)</para>
6772 </listitem>
6773
6774 <listitem>
6775 <para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
6776 from Scratch systems</para>
6777 </listitem>
6778
6779 <listitem>
6780 <para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
6781 both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
6782 </listitem>
6783
6784 <listitem>
6785 <para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
6786 </listitem>
6787
6788 <listitem>
6789 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
6790 default to compact format</para>
6791 </listitem>
6792
6793 <listitem>
6794 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
6795 did not work if the image was attached before</para>
6796 </listitem>
6797
6798 <listitem>
6799 <para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
6800 </listitem>
6801
6802 <listitem>
6803 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
6804 don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
6805 statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
6806 </listitem>
6807
6808 <listitem>
6809 <para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
6810 single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
6811 next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
6812 </listitem>
6813
6814 <listitem>
6815 <para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
6816 VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
6817 </listitem>
6818
6819 <listitem>
6820 <para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
6821 </listitem>
6822
6823 <listitem>
6824 <para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
6825 </listitem>
6826
6827 <listitem>
6828 <para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
6829 </listitem>
6830
6831 <listitem>
6832 <para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
6833 </listitem>
6834
6835 <listitem>
6836 <para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
6837 </listitem>
6838
6839 <listitem>
6840 <para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
6841 </listitem>
6842
6843 <listitem>
6844 <para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
6845 </listitem>
6846
6847 <listitem>
6848 <para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
6849 a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
6850 </listitem>
6851
6852 <listitem>
6853 <para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
6854 </listitem>
6855
6856 <listitem>
6857 <para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
6858 regression; bug #2065)</para>
6859 </listitem>
6860
6861 <listitem>
6862 <para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
6863 </listitem>
6864
6865 <listitem>
6866 <para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
6867 </listitem>
6868
6869 <listitem>
6870 <para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
6871 </listitem>
6872
6873 <listitem>
6874 <para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
6875 #2536)</para>
6876 </listitem>
6877
6878 <listitem>
6879 <para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
6880 </listitem>
6881
6882 <listitem>
6883 <para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
6884 (bug #3548)</para>
6885 </listitem>
6886
6887 </itemizedlist>
6888 </sect1>
6889
6890 <sect1>
6891 <title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
6892
6893 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6894 added:</para>
6895
6896 <itemizedlist>
6897
6898 <listitem>
6899 <para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
6900 when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
6901 </listitem>
6902
6903 <listitem>
6904 <para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
6905 </listitem>
6906
6907 <listitem>
6908 <para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
6909 </listitem>
6910
6911 <listitem>
6912 <para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
6913 </listitem>
6914
6915 <listitem>
6916 <para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
6917 (bug #3115)</para>
6918 </listitem>
6919
6920 <listitem>
6921 <para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
6922 don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
6923 </listitem>
6924
6925 <listitem>
6926 <para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
6927 communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
6928 (bug #3215)</para>
6929 </listitem>
6930
6931 <listitem>
6932 <para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
6933 are not available (bug #3136)</para>
6934 </listitem>
6935
6936 <listitem>
6937 <para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
6938 disabled (bug #3098)</para>
6939 </listitem>
6940
6941 <listitem>
6942 <para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
6943 been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
6944 </listitem>
6945
6946 <listitem>
6947 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
6948 in parallel</para>
6949 </listitem>
6950
6951 <listitem>
6952 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
6953 </listitem>
6954
6955 <listitem>
6956 <para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
6957 </listitem>
6958
6959 <listitem>
6960 <para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
6961 </listitem>
6962
6963 <listitem>
6964 <para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
6965 software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
6966 </listitem>
6967
6968 <listitem>
6969 <para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
6970 </listitem>
6971
6972 <listitem>
6973 <para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
6974 shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
6975 </listitem>
6976
6977 <listitem>
6978 <para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
6979 when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
6980 </listitem>
6981
6982 <listitem>
6983 <para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
6984 </listitem>
6985
6986 <listitem>
6987 <para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
6988 3D acceleration; Solaris &amp; Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
6989 </listitem>
6990
6991 <listitem>
6992 <para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
6993 traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
6994 </listitem>
6995
6996 <listitem>
6997 <para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
6998 </listitem>
6999
7000 <listitem>
7001 <para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7002 </listitem>
7003
7004 <listitem>
7005 <para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7006 different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7007 </listitem>
7008
7009 <listitem>
7010 <para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7011 </listitem>
7012
7013 <listitem>
7014 <para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7015 </listitem>
7016
7017 <listitem>
7018 <para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7019 </listitem>
7020
7021 <listitem>
7022 <para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7023 synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7024 </listitem>
7025
7026 <listitem>
7027 <para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7028 </listitem>
7029
7030 <listitem>
7031 <para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7032 virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7033 </listitem>
7034
7035 <listitem>
7036 <para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7037 </listitem>
7038
7039 <listitem>
7040 <para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7041 </listitem>
7042
7043 <listitem>
7044 <para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7045 error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7046 </listitem>
7047
7048 <listitem>
7049 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7050 with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7051 </listitem>
7052
7053 <listitem>
7054 <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7055 </listitem>
7056
7057 <listitem>
7058 <para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7059 message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7060 </listitem>
7061
7062 <listitem>
7063 <para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7064 in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7065 </listitem>
7066
7067 <listitem>
7068 <para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7069 on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7070 </listitem>
7071
7072 <listitem>
7073 <para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7074 (bug #3213)</para>
7075 </listitem>
7076
7077 <listitem>
7078 <para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7079 configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7080 </listitem>
7081
7082 <listitem>
7083 <para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7084 larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7085 </listitem>
7086
7087 </itemizedlist>
7088 </sect1>
7089
7090 <sect1>
7091 <title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7092
7093 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7094 added:</para>
7095
7096 <itemizedlist>
7097
7098 <listitem>
7099 <para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7100 </listitem>
7101
7102 <listitem>
7103 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7104 </listitem>
7105
7106 <listitem>
7107 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7108 </listitem>
7109
7110 <listitem>
7111 <para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7112 </listitem>
7113
7114 <listitem>
7115 <para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7116 </listitem>
7117
7118 <listitem>
7119 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7120 </listitem>
7121
7122 <listitem>
7123 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7124 </listitem>
7125
7126 <listitem>
7127 <para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7128 </listitem>
7129
7130 <listitem>
7131 <para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7132 </listitem>
7133
7134 <listitem>
7135 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7136 </listitem>
7137
7138 <listitem>
7139 <para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7140 </listitem>
7141
7142 <listitem>
7143 <para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7144 </listitem>
7145
7146 <listitem>
7147 <para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7148 </listitem>
7149
7150 <listitem>
7151 <para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7152 </listitem>
7153
7154 <listitem>
7155 <para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7156 </listitem>
7157
7158 <listitem>
7159 <para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7160 </listitem>
7161
7162 <listitem>
7163 <para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7164 (bug #3067)</para>
7165 </listitem>
7166
7167 <listitem>
7168 <para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7169 bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7170 </listitem>
7171
7172 <listitem>
7173 <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7174 (bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7175 </listitem>
7176
7177 <listitem>
7178 <para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7179 </listitem>
7180
7181 <listitem>
7182 <para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7183 events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7184 </listitem>
7185
7186 <listitem>
7187 <para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7188 on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7189 </listitem>
7190
7191 <listitem>
7192 <para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7193 </listitem>
7194
7195 <listitem>
7196 <para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7197 to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7198 </listitem>
7199
7200 <listitem>
7201 <para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7202 </listitem>
7203
7204 <listitem>
7205 <para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7206 in Linux kernels &lt; 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7207 </listitem>
7208
7209 <listitem>
7210 <para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7211 interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7212 </listitem>
7213
7214 <listitem>
7215 <para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7216 in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7217 </para>
7218 </listitem>
7219
7220 <listitem>
7221 <para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7222 without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7223 </para>
7224 </listitem>
7225
7226 <listitem>
7227 <para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7228 internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7229 </para>
7230 </listitem>
7231
7232 <listitem>
7233 <para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7234 </listitem>
7235
7236 <listitem>
7237 <para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7238 </listitem>
7239
7240 <listitem>
7241 <para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7242 </listitem>
7243
7244 <listitem>
7245 <para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7246 </listitem>
7247
7248 <listitem>
7249 <para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7250 (2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7251 </listitem>
7252
7253 <listitem>
7254 <para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7255 (Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7256 </listitem>
7257
7258 <listitem>
7259 <para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7260 formatting a drive</para>
7261 </listitem>
7262
7263 <listitem>
7264 <para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7265 </listitem>
7266
7267 <listitem>
7268 <para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7269 from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7270 </listitem>
7271
7272 <listitem>
7273 <para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7274 </listitem>
7275
7276 <listitem>
7277 <para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7278 </listitem>
7279
7280 <listitem>
7281 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7282 fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7283 </listitem>
7284
7285 <listitem>
7286 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7287 parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7288 fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7289 </listitem>
7290
7291 <listitem>
7292 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7293 garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7294 </listitem>
7295
7296 <listitem>
7297 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7298 property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7299 </listitem>
7300
7301 <listitem>
7302 <para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7303 (bug #2768)</para>
7304 </listitem>
7305
7306 <listitem>
7307 <para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7308 </listitem>
7309
7310 <listitem>
7311 <para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7312 </listitem>
7313
7314 <listitem>
7315 <para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7316 single, unified package</para>
7317 </listitem>
7318
7319 <listitem>
7320 <para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7321 anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7322 </listitem>
7323
7324 <listitem>
7325 <para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7326 </listitem>
7327
7328 <listitem>
7329 <para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7330 by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7331 </listitem>
7332
7333 <listitem>
7334 <para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7335 host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7336 </listitem>
7337
7338 <listitem>
7339 <para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7340 </listitem>
7341
7342 <listitem>
7343 <para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7344 preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7345 doing 3D</para>
7346 </listitem>
7347
7348 <listitem>
7349 <para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7350 </listitem>
7351
7352 <listitem>
7353 <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7354 detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7355 </listitem>
7356
7357 <listitem>
7358 <para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7359 </listitem>
7360
7361 <listitem>
7362 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7363 files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7364 </listitem>
7365
7366 <listitem>
7367 <para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7368 </listitem>
7369
7370 <listitem>
7371 <para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7372 (not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7373 </listitem>
7374
7375 <listitem>
7376 <para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7377 From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7378 (bug #2938)</para>
7379 </listitem>
7380
7381 <listitem>
7382 <para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7383 Linux guests</para>
7384 </listitem>
7385
7386 <listitem>
7387 <para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7388 <computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7389 (bug #1776)</para>
7390 </listitem>
7391
7392 <listitem>
7393 <para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7394 (bug #1612)</para>
7395 </listitem>
7396
7397 <listitem>
7398 <para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7399 option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7400 </listitem>
7401
7402 <listitem>
7403 <para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7404 compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7405 </listitem>
7406
7407 <listitem>
7408 <para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7409 crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7410 </listitem>
7411
7412 </itemizedlist>
7413 </sect1>
7414
7415 <sect1>
7416 <title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7417
7418 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7419 were added:</para>
7420
7421 <itemizedlist>
7422 <listitem>
7423 <para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7424 </listitem>
7425
7426 <listitem>
7427 <para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7428 </listitem>
7429
7430 <listitem>
7431 <para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7432 </listitem>
7433
7434 <listitem>
7435 <para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7436 </listitem>
7437
7438 <listitem>
7439 <para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7440 </listitem>
7441
7442 <listitem>
7443 <para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7444 </listitem>
7445
7446 <listitem>
7447 <para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7448 (ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7449 </listitem>
7450
7451 <listitem>
7452 <para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7453 Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7454 </listitem>
7455
7456 </itemizedlist>
7457
7458 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7459
7460 <itemizedlist>
7461 <listitem>
7462 <para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7463 </listitem>
7464
7465 <listitem>
7466 <para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7467 </listitem>
7468
7469 <listitem>
7470 <para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7471 </listitem>
7472
7473 <listitem>
7474 <para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7475 </listitem>
7476
7477 <listitem>
7478 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7479 (software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7480 </listitem>
7481
7482 <listitem>
7483 <para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7484 when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X &amp; Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7485 </listitem>
7486
7487 <listitem>
7488 <para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7489 </listitem>
7490
7491 <listitem>
7492 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7493 instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7494 </listitem>
7495
7496 <listitem>
7497 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7498 </listitem>
7499
7500 <listitem>
7501 <para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7502 </listitem>
7503
7504 <listitem>
7505 <para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7506 </listitem>
7507
7508 <listitem>
7509 <para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows &amp; Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7510 </listitem>
7511
7512 <listitem>
7513 <para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows &amp; Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7514 </listitem>
7515
7516 <listitem>
7517 <para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7518 battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7519 </listitem>
7520
7521 <listitem>
7522 <para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7523 the compiz window manager</para>
7524 </listitem>
7525
7526 <listitem>
7527 <para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7528 </listitem>
7529
7530 <listitem>
7531 <para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7532 </listitem>
7533
7534 <listitem>
7535 <para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7536 </listitem>
7537
7538 <listitem>
7539 <para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7540 </listitem>
7541
7542 <listitem>
7543 <para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7544 </listitem>
7545
7546 <listitem>
7547 <para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7548 </listitem>
7549
7550 <listitem>
7551 <para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7552 </listitem>
7553
7554 <listitem>
7555 <para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7556 </listitem>
7557
7558 <listitem>
7559 <para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7560 </listitem>
7561
7562 <listitem>
7563 <para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7564 of two (bug #2724)</para>
7565 </listitem>
7566
7567 <listitem>
7568 <para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7569 for direct device access</para>
7570 </listitem>
7571
7572 <listitem>
7573 <para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7574 </listitem>
7575
7576 <listitem>
7577 <para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7578 </listitem>
7579
7580 <listitem>
7581 <para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7582 </listitem>
7583
7584 <listitem>
7585 <para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7586 </listitem>
7587
7588 <listitem>
7589 <para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7590 </listitem>
7591
7592 <listitem>
7593 <para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7594 </listitem>
7595
7596 <listitem>
7597 <para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7598 </listitem>
7599
7600 <listitem>
7601 <para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7602 </listitem>
7603
7604 </itemizedlist>
7605 </sect1>
7606
7607 <sect1>
7608 <title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7609
7610 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7611 added:</para>
7612
7613 <itemizedlist>
7614
7615 <listitem>
7616 <para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7617 states/snapshots</para>
7618 </listitem>
7619
7620 <listitem>
7621 <para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
7622 failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
7623 </listitem>
7624
7625 <listitem>
7626 <para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7627 when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7628 </listitem>
7629
7630 <listitem>
7631 <para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
7632 collisions</para>
7633 </listitem>
7634
7635 <listitem>
7636 <para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7637 virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7638 </listitem>
7639
7640 <listitem>
7641 <para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7642 </listitem>
7643
7644 <listitem>
7645 <para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
7646 reliably</para>
7647 </listitem>
7648
7649 <listitem>
7650 <para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7651 3D acceleration; Solaris &amp; Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7652 </listitem>
7653
7654 <listitem>
7655 <para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
7656 a reboot</para>
7657 </listitem>
7658
7659 <listitem>
7660 <para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7661 </listitem>
7662
7663 <listitem>
7664 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7665 in parallel</para>
7666 </listitem>
7667
7668 <listitem>
7669 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7670 </listitem>
7671
7672 <listitem>
7673 <para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
7674 correctly</para>
7675 </listitem>
7676
7677 <listitem>
7678 <para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7679 in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7680 </listitem>
7681
7682 </itemizedlist>
7683 </sect1>
7684
7685 <sect1>
7686 <title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
7687
7688 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7689 added:</para>
7690
7691 <itemizedlist>
7692
7693 <listitem>
7694 <para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
7695 (bug #2220)</para>
7696 </listitem>
7697
7698 <listitem>
7699 <para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
7700 </listitem>
7701
7702 <listitem>
7703 <para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
7704 </listitem>
7705
7706 <listitem>
7707 <para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
7708 hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
7709 </listitem>
7710
7711 <listitem>
7712 <para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
7713 the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
7714 </listitem>
7715
7716 <listitem>
7717 <para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
7718 (bug #2624)</para>
7719 </listitem>
7720
7721 <listitem>
7722 <para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
7723 (bug #2024)</para>
7724 </listitem>
7725
7726 <listitem>
7727 <para>SATA: improved performance</para>
7728 </listitem>
7729
7730 <listitem>
7731 <para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports&gt;1 (bug #2510)</para>
7732 </listitem>
7733
7734 <listitem>
7735 <para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
7736 </listitem>
7737
7738 <listitem>
7739 <para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
7740 bugs #470 &amp; #491)</para>
7741 </listitem>
7742
7743 <listitem>
7744 <para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
7745 applications when updating the installation</para>
7746 </listitem>
7747
7748 <listitem>
7749 <para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
7750 64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
7751 </listitem>
7752
7753 <listitem>
7754 <para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
7755 in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
7756 </listitem>
7757
7758 <listitem>
7759 <para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
7760 fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
7761 </listitem>
7762
7763 <listitem>
7764 <para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
7765 connected to a host device</para>
7766 </listitem>
7767
7768 <listitem>
7769 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
7770 </listitem>
7771
7772 <listitem>
7773 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
7774 </listitem>
7775
7776 <listitem>
7777 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
7778 </listitem>
7779
7780 <listitem>
7781 <para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
7782 when using native RDP connections</para>
7783 </listitem>
7784
7785 <listitem>
7786 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
7787 folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
7788 </listitem>
7789
7790 <listitem>
7791 <para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
7792 (bug #2591)</para>
7793 </listitem>
7794
7795 <listitem>
7796 <para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
7797 guests (bug #2550)</para>
7798 </listitem>
7799
7800 <listitem>
7801 <para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
7802 </listitem>
7803
7804 </itemizedlist>
7805 </sect1>
7806
7807 <sect1>
7808 <title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
7809
7810 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7811 added:</para>
7812
7813 <itemizedlist>
7814 <listitem>
7815 <para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
7816 </listitem>
7817
7818 <listitem>
7819 <para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
7820 </listitem>
7821
7822 <listitem>
7823 <para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
7824 </listitem>
7825
7826 <listitem>
7827 <para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
7828 </listitem>
7829
7830 <listitem>
7831 <para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
7832 </listitem>
7833
7834 <listitem>
7835 <para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
7836 </listitem>
7837
7838 <listitem>
7839 <para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
7840 likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
7841 </listitem>
7842
7843 <listitem>
7844 <para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
7845 host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
7846 </listitem>
7847
7848 <listitem>
7849 <para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
7850 </listitem>
7851
7852 <listitem>
7853 <para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
7854 equal to the client resolution</para>
7855 </listitem>
7856
7857 <listitem>
7858 <para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
7859 longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
7860 </listitem>
7861
7862 <listitem>
7863 <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
7864 </listitem>
7865
7866 <listitem>
7867 <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
7868 </listitem>
7869
7870 <listitem>
7871 <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
7872 </listitem>
7873
7874 <listitem>
7875 <para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
7876 seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
7877 </listitem>
7878
7879 <listitem>
7880 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
7881 networking (bug #2474)</para>
7882 </listitem>
7883
7884 <listitem>
7885 <para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
7886 Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
7887 </listitem>
7888
7889 <listitem>
7890 <para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
7891 </listitem>
7892
7893 <listitem>
7894 <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
7895 </listitem>
7896
7897 <listitem>
7898 <para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
7899 </listitem>
7900
7901 <listitem>
7902 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
7903 </listitem>
7904
7905 <listitem>
7906 <para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
7907 <computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
7908 </listitem>
7909
7910 <listitem>
7911 <para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
7912 for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
7913 </listitem>
7914
7915 <listitem>
7916 <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
7917 </listitem>
7918
7919 <listitem>
7920 <para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
7921 </listitem>
7922
7923 <listitem>
7924 <para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
7925 </listitem>
7926
7927 </itemizedlist>
7928
7929 </sect1>
7930
7931 <sect1>
7932 <title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
7933
7934 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7935 added:</para>
7936
7937 <itemizedlist>
7938
7939 <listitem>
7940 <para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
7941 CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
7942 </listitem>
7943
7944 <listitem>
7945 <para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
7946 </listitem>
7947
7948 <listitem>
7949 <para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
7950 Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
7951 </listitem>
7952
7953 <listitem>
7954 <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
7955 </listitem>
7956
7957 <listitem>
7958 <para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
7959 NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
7960 </listitem>
7961
7962 <listitem>
7963 <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
7964 </listitem>
7965
7966 <listitem>
7967 <para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
7968 the virtual disk manager</para>
7969 </listitem>
7970
7971 <listitem>
7972 <para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
7973 if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
7974 </listitem>
7975
7976 <listitem>
7977 <para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
7978 </listitem>
7979
7980 <listitem>
7981 <para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
7982 </listitem>
7983
7984 <listitem>
7985 <para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
7986 QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
7987 </listitem>
7988
7989 <listitem>
7990 <para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
7991 bug #2067)</para>
7992 </listitem>
7993
7994 <listitem>
7995 <para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
7996 </listitem>
7997
7998 <listitem>
7999 <para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8000 the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8001 </listitem>
8002
8003 <listitem>
8004 <para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8005 <computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8006 (bug #2184)</para>
8007 </listitem>
8008
8009 <listitem>
8010 <para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8011 <computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8012 </listitem>
8013
8014 <listitem>
8015 <para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8016 (Windows guests only)</para>
8017 </listitem>
8018
8019 <listitem>
8020 <para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8021 </listitem>
8022
8023 <listitem>
8024 <para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8025 </listitem>
8026
8027 <listitem>
8028 <para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8029 (configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8030 </listitem>
8031
8032 <listitem>
8033 <para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8034 </listitem>
8035
8036 <listitem>
8037 <para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8038 memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8039 </para>
8040 </listitem>
8041
8042 <listitem>
8043 <para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8044 </listitem>
8045
8046 <listitem>
8047 <para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8048 </listitem>
8049
8050 <listitem>
8051 <para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8052 a VM reboot</para>
8053 </listitem>
8054
8055 <listitem>
8056 <para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8057 </listitem>
8058
8059 <listitem>
8060 <para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8061 buggy X servers</para>
8062 </listitem>
8063
8064 <listitem>
8065 <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8066 (dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8067 </listitem>
8068
8069 <listitem>
8070 <para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8071 </listitem>
8072
8073 <listitem>
8074 <para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8075 (bug #2128)</para>
8076 </listitem>
8077
8078 <listitem>
8079 <para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8080 specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8081 </listitem>
8082
8083 <listitem>
8084 <para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8085 the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8086 </listitem>
8087
8088 <listitem>
8089 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8090 starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8091 </listitem>
8092
8093 <listitem>
8094 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8095 host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8096 </listitem>
8097
8098 <listitem>
8099 <para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8100 installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8101 </listitem>
8102
8103 <listitem>
8104 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8105 starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8106 </listitem>
8107
8108 <listitem>
8109 <para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8110 installer into a single package</para>
8111 </listitem>
8112
8113 <listitem>
8114 <para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8115 port to the guest
8116 </para>
8117 </listitem>
8118
8119 </itemizedlist>
8120
8121 </sect1>
8122
8123 <sect1>
8124 <title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8125
8126 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8127 were added:<itemizedlist>
8128
8129 <listitem>
8130 <para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8131 </listitem>
8132
8133 <listitem>
8134 <para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8135 </listitem>
8136
8137 <listitem>
8138 <para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8139 </listitem>
8140
8141 <listitem>
8142 <para>New-version notifier</para>
8143 </listitem>
8144
8145 <listitem>
8146 <para>Guest property information interface</para>
8147 </listitem>
8148
8149 <listitem>
8150 <para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8151 </listitem>
8152
8153 <listitem>
8154 <para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8155 </listitem>
8156
8157 <listitem>
8158 <para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8159 </listitem>
8160
8161 <listitem>
8162 <para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8163 </listitem>
8164
8165 <listitem>
8166 <para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8167 disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8168 </listitem>
8169
8170 <listitem>
8171 <para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8172 </listitem>
8173
8174 <listitem>
8175 <para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8176 </listitem>
8177
8178 <listitem>
8179 <para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8180 </listitem>
8181
8182 </itemizedlist></para>
8183
8184 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8185
8186 <itemizedlist>
8187
8188 <listitem>
8189 <para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8190 </listitem>
8191
8192 <listitem>
8193 <para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8194 </listitem>
8195
8196 <listitem>
8197 <para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8198 </listitem>
8199
8200 <listitem>
8201 <para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8202 unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8203 </listitem>
8204
8205 <listitem>
8206 <para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8207 restored</para>
8208 </listitem>
8209
8210 <listitem>
8211 <para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8212 </listitem>
8213
8214 <listitem>
8215 <para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8216 </listitem>
8217
8218 <listitem>
8219 <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>
8220 </listitem>
8221
8222 </itemizedlist>
8223
8224 </sect1>
8225
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