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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3 <sect1>
4 <title>Version 4.2.0 (2011-xx-xx)</title>
5
6 <para>This is a major update. The following major new features
7 were added:</para>
8
9 <itemizedlist>
10
11 <listitem>
12 <para>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: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
32 nested paging</para>
33 </listitem>
34
35 <listitem>
36 <para>VMM: added support for FlushByASID features of AMD CPUs (Bulldozer
37 and newer)</para>
38 </listitem>
39
40 <listitem>
41 <para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
42 (gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
43 </listitem>
44
45 <listitem>
46 <para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
47 for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
48 </listitem>
49
50 <listitem>
51 <para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support</para>
52 </listitem>
53
54 <listitem>
55 <para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content</para>
56 </listitem>
57
58 <listitem>
59 <para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
60 </listitem>
61
62 <listitem>
63 <para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
64 </listitem>
65
66 <listitem>
67 <para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
68 </listitem>
69
70 <listitem>
71 <para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
72 guests</para>
73 </listitem>
74
75 <listitem>
76 <para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
77 separator character in its name (bug 6541#)</para>
78 </listitem>
79
80 <listitem>
81 <para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
82 (bug #9973)</para>
83 </listitem>
84
85 <listitem>
86 <para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
87 </listitem>
88
89 <listitem>
90 <para>Main: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
91 </listitem>
92
93 <listitem>
94 <para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
95 </listitem>
96
97 <listitem>
98 <para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
99 VirtualBox update</para>
100 </listitem>
101
102 </itemizedlist>
103 </sect1>
104
105 <sect1>
106 <title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
107
108 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
109 added:</para>
110
111 <itemizedlist>
112
113 <listitem>
114 <para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
115 PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
116 (bug #3783)</para>
117 </listitem>
118
119 <listitem>
120 <para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
121 </listitem>
122
123 <listitem>
124 <para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
125 (bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
126 </listitem>
127
128 <listitem>
129 <para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
130 </listitem>
131
132 </itemizedlist>
133
134 </sect1>
135
136 <sect1>
137 <title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
138
139 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
140 added:</para>
141
142 <itemizedlist>
143
144 <listitem>
145 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
146 <emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
147 due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
148 </listitem>
149
150 <listitem>
151 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
152 under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
153 </listitem>
154
155 <listitem>
156 <para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
157 legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
158 </listitem>
159
160 <listitem>
161 <para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
162 </listitem>
163
164 <listitem>
165 <para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
166 </listitem>
167
168 <listitem>
169 <para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
170 4.1.10 regression)</para>
171 </listitem>
172
173 <listitem>
174 <para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
175 </listitem>
176
177 <listitem>
178 <para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
179 RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
180 </listitem>
181
182 <listitem>
183 <para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
184 </listitem>
185
186 <listitem>
187 <para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
188 <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
189 </listitem>
190
191 <listitem>
192 <para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
193 4.1.10 regression)</para>
194 </listitem>
195
196 <listitem>
197 <para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
198 closed (bug #6473)</para>
199 </listitem>
200
201 <listitem>
202 <para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
203 properly installed</para>
204 </listitem>
205
206 <listitem>
207 <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
208 </listitem>
209
210 </itemizedlist>
211 </sect1>
212
213 <sect1>
214 <title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
215
216 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
217 added:</para>
218
219 <itemizedlist>
220
221 <listitem>
222 <para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
223 do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
224 </listitem>
225
226 <listitem>
227 <para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
228 <emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
229 </listitem>
230
231 <listitem>
232 <para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
233 fusion</para>
234 </listitem>
235
236 <listitem>
237 <para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
238 little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
239 </listitem>
240
241 <listitem>
242 <para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
243 and network mask attributes</para>
244 </listitem>
245
246 <listitem>
247 <para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
248 (bug #10030)</para>
249 </listitem>
250
251 <listitem>
252 <para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
253 bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
254 </listitem>
255
256 <listitem>
257 <para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
258 </listitem>
259
260 <listitem>
261 <para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
262 </listitem>
263
264 <listitem>
265 <para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
266 make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
267 </listitem>
268
269 <listitem>
270 <para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
271 </listitem>
272
273 <listitem>
274 <para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
275 images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
276 </listitem>
277
278 <listitem>
279 <para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
280 when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
281 </listitem>
282
283 <listitem>
284 <para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
285 (non-Windows hosts only)</para>
286 </listitem>
287
288 <listitem>
289 <para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
290 </listitem>
291
292 <listitem>
293 <para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
294 </listitem>
295
296 <listitem>
297 <para>SDK: added Python example</para>
298 </listitem>
299
300 <listitem>
301 <para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
302 </listitem>
303
304 <listitem>
305 <para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
306 </listitem>
307
308 <listitem>
309 <para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
310 </listitem>
311
312 <listitem>
313 <para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
314 in a zone</para>
315 </listitem>
316
317 <listitem>
318 <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
319 </listitem>
320
321 <listitem>
322 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
323 (bug #9651)</para>
324 </listitem>
325
326 <listitem>
327 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
328 </listitem>
329
330 <listitem>
331 <para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
332 #10010)</para>
333 </listitem>
334
335 <listitem>
336 <para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
337 folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
338 </listitem>
339
340 <listitem>
341 <para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
342 memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
343 </listitem>
344
345 <listitem>
346 <para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
347 </listitem>
348
349 <listitem>
350 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
351 on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
352 </listitem>
353
354 <listitem>
355 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
356 (bug #10151)</para>
357 </listitem>
358
359 <listitem>
360 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
361 guests.</para>
362 </listitem>
363
364 <listitem>
365 <para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
366 </listitem>
367
368 <listitem>
369 <para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
370 </listitem>
371
372 <listitem>
373 <para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
374 </listitem>
375
376 </itemizedlist>
377 </sect1>
378
379 <sect1>
380 <title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
381
382 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
383 added:</para>
384
385 <itemizedlist>
386
387 <listitem>
388 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
389 under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
390 </listitem>
391
392 <listitem>
393 <para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
394 </listitem>
395
396 <listitem>
397 <para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
398 (bug #9642)</para>
399 </listitem>
400
401 <listitem>
402 <para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
403 Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
404 </para>
405 </listitem>
406
407 <listitem>
408 <para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
409 </listitem>
410
411 <listitem>
412 <para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
413 connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
414 </listitem>
415
416 <listitem>
417 <para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
418 metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
419 </listitem>
420
421 <listitem>
422 <para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
423 </listitem>
424
425 <listitem>
426 <para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
427 </listitem>
428
429 <listitem>
430 <para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
431 </listitem>
432
433 <listitem>
434 <para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
435 circumstances</para>
436 </listitem>
437
438 <listitem>
439 <para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
440 </listitem>
441
442 <listitem>
443 <para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
444 when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
445 </listitem>
446
447 <listitem>
448 <para>3D Support: Fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
449 Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
450 Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
451 and for 3D support in general</para>
452 </listitem>
453
454 <listitem>
455 <para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
456 </listitem>
457
458 <listitem>
459 <para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
460 </listitem>
461
462 <listitem>
463 <para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
464 </listitem>
465
466 <listitem>
467 <para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
468 detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
469 </listitem>
470
471 </itemizedlist>
472 </sect1>
473
474 <sect1>
475 <title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
476
477 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
478 added:</para>
479
480 <itemizedlist>
481
482 <listitem>
483 <para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
484 </listitem>
485
486 <listitem>
487 <para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
488 ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
489 </listitem>
490
491 <listitem>
492 <para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
493 or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
494 </listitem>
495
496 <listitem>
497 <para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
498 certain guests</para>
499 </listitem>
500
501 <listitem>
502 <para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
503 </listitem>
504
505 <listitem>
506 <para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
507 the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
508 preview window in the GUI for example</para>
509 </listitem>
510
511 <listitem>
512 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
513 bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
514 </listitem>
515
516 <listitem>
517 <para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
518 </listitem>
519
520 <listitem>
521 <para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
522 from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
523 </listitem>
524
525 <listitem>
526 <para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
527 </listitem>
528
529 <listitem>
530 <para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
531 Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
532 </listitem>
533
534 <listitem>
535 <para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
536 guests</para>
537 </listitem>
538
539 <listitem>
540 <para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
541 folders</para>
542 </listitem>
543
544 <listitem>
545 <para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
546 shared folders</para>
547 </listitem>
548
549 <listitem>
550 <para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
551 users and stale sessions</para>
552 </listitem>
553
554 <listitem>
555 <para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
556 virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
557 </listitem>
558
559 </itemizedlist>
560 </sect1>
561
562 <sect1>
563 <title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
564
565 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
566 added:</para>
567
568 <itemizedlist>
569
570 <listitem>
571 <para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
572 bug #9458)</para>
573 </listitem>
574
575 <listitem>
576 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
577 caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
578 </listitem>
579
580 <listitem>
581 <para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
582 emulation under rare circumstances</para>
583 </listitem>
584
585 <listitem>
586 <para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
587 </listitem>
588
589 <listitem>
590 <para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
591 to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
592 </listitem>
593
594 <listitem>
595 <para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
596 (4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
597 </listitem>
598
599 <listitem>
600 <para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
601 (bug #9308)</para>
602 </listitem>
603
604 <listitem>
605 <para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
606 <emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
607 </listitem>
608
609 <listitem>
610 <para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
611 (bug #9503)</para>
612 </listitem>
613
614 <listitem>
615 <para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
616 (bug #9242)</para>
617 </listitem>
618
619 <listitem>
620 <para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
621 usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
622 bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
623 </listitem>
624
625 <listitem>
626 <para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
627 </listitem>
628
629 <listitem>
630 <para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
631 images</para>
632 </listitem>
633
634 <listitem>
635 <para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
636 (Windows hosts only)</para>
637 </listitem>
638
639 <listitem>
640 <para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
641 not exist (bug #7941)</para>
642 </listitem>
643
644 <listitem>
645 <para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
646 resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
647 </listitem>
648
649 <listitem>
650 <para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
651 restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
652 </listitem>
653
654 <listitem>
655 <para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
656 #9387)</para>
657 </listitem>
658
659 <listitem>
660 <para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
661 snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
662 </listitem>
663
664 <listitem>
665 <para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
666 headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
667 </listitem>
668
669 <listitem>
670 <para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
671 MTU (bug #9370)</para>
672 </listitem>
673
674 <listitem>
675 <para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
676 to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
677 </listitem>
678
679 <listitem>
680 <para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
681 </listitem>
682
683 <listitem>
684 <para>Guest control: Miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
685 </listitem>
686
687 <listitem>
688 <para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
689 (4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
690 </listitem>
691
692 <listitem>
693 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
694 (bug #1578)</para>
695 </listitem>
696
697 <listitem>
698 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
699 interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
700 </listitem>
701
702 <listitem>
703 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
704 bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
705 </listitem>
706
707 <listitem>
708 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
709 (bug #9535)</para>
710 </listitem>
711
712 <listitem>
713 <para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
714 on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
715 </listitem>
716
717 <listitem>
718 <para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
719 help file (bug #9646)</para>
720 </listitem>
721
722 <listitem>
723 <para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
724 appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
725 </listitem>
726
727 <listitem>
728 <para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
729 console window (bug #3549)</para>
730 </listitem>
731
732 <listitem>
733 <para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
734 output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
735 </listitem>
736
737 <listitem>
738 <para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
739 </para>
740 </listitem>
741
742 <listitem>
743 <para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
744 a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
745 </para>
746 </listitem>
747
748 <listitem>
749 <para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
750 (bug #6229)
751 </para>
752 </listitem>
753
754 <listitem>
755 <para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
756 compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
757 </listitem>
758
759 <listitem>
760 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
761 (from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
762 </listitem>
763
764 <listitem>
765 <para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
766 (4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
767 </listitem>
768
769 <listitem>
770 <para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
771 BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
772 </listitem>
773
774 <listitem>
775 <para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
776 with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
777 </listitem>
778
779 <listitem>
780 <para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
781 with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
782 </listitem>
783
784 <listitem>
785 <para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
786 outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
787 </listitem>
788
789 <listitem>
790 <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
791 text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
792 </listitem>
793
794 </itemizedlist>
795 </sect1>
796
797 <sect1>
798 <title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
799
800 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
801 added:</para>
802
803 <itemizedlist>
804
805 <listitem>
806 <para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
807 </listitem>
808
809 <listitem>
810 <para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
811 machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
812 </listitem>
813
814 <listitem>
815 <para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
816 </listitem>
817
818 <listitem>
819 <para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
820 (4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
821 </listitem>
822
823 <listitem>
824 <para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
825 vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
826 </listitem>
827
828 <listitem>
829 <para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
830 a live snapshot</para>
831 </listitem>
832
833 <listitem>
834 <para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
835 due to a library version conflict</para>
836 </listitem>
837
838 <listitem>
839 <para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
840 guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
841 </listitem>
842
843 <listitem>
844 <para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
845 at a time by default</para>
846 </listitem>
847
848 <listitem>
849 <para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
850 warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
851 #9368)</para>
852 </listitem>
853
854 <listitem>
855 <para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
856 registered (bug #9303)</para>
857 </listitem>
858
859 <listitem>
860 <para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
861 VMs</para>
862 </listitem>
863
864 <listitem>
865 <para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
866 creation (bug #9379)</para>
867 </listitem>
868
869 <listitem>
870 <para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
871 <emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
872 to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
873 </listitem>
874
875 <listitem>
876 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
877 (bug #9308)</para>
878 </listitem>
879
880 <listitem>
881 <para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
882 <emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
883 </listitem>
884
885 <listitem>
886 <para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
887 </listitem>
888
889 <listitem>
890 <para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
891 affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
892 </listitem>
893
894 <listitem>
895 <para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
896 (bug #9242)</para>
897 </listitem>
898
899 <listitem>
900 <para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
901 requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
902 </listitem>
903
904 <listitem>
905 <para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
906 fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
907 </listitem>
908
909 <listitem>
910 <para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
911 USB devices</para>
912 </listitem>
913
914 <listitem>
915 <para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
916 and warn about it</para>
917 </listitem>
918
919 <listitem>
920 <para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
921 </listitem>
922
923 <listitem>
924 <para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
925 </listitem>
926
927 <listitem>
928 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
929 with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
930 </listitem>
931
932 <listitem>
933 <para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
934 (4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
935 </listitem>
936
937 <listitem>
938 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
939 module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
940 </listitem>
941
942 <listitem>
943 <para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
944 some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
945 </listitem>
946
947 <listitem>
948 <para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
949 and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
950 </listitem>
951
952 <listitem>
953 <para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
954 fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
955 </listitem>
956
957 <listitem>
958 <para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
959 2.6.37 and above</para>
960 </listitem>
961
962 </itemizedlist>
963 </sect1>
964
965 <sect1>
966 <title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
967
968 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
969 were added:</para>
970
971 <itemizedlist>
972
973 <listitem>
974 <para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
975 <xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
976 and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
977 </listitem>
978
979 <listitem>
980 <para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
981 </listitem>
982
983 <listitem>
984 <para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
985 </listitem>
986
987 <listitem>
988 <para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
989 bug #7822)</para>
990 </listitem>
991
992 <listitem>
993 <para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
994 </listitem>
995
996 <listitem>
997 <para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
998 <xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
999 </listitem>
1000
1001 <listitem>
1002 <para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1003 Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1004 cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1005 anymore)</para>
1006 </listitem>
1007
1008 <listitem>
1009 <para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1010 queried separately by the frontends</para>
1011 </listitem>
1012
1013 <listitem>
1014 <para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1015 offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1016 distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1017 </listitem>
1018
1019 <listitem>
1020 <para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1021 </para>
1022 </listitem>
1023
1024 <listitem>
1025 <para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1026 interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1027 see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1028 </listitem>
1029
1030 <listitem>
1031 <para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1032 with VBoxManage</para>
1033 </listitem>
1034
1035 <listitem>
1036 <para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1037 Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1038 </listitem>
1039
1040
1041 </itemizedlist>
1042
1043 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1044
1045 <itemizedlist>
1046
1047 <listitem>
1048 <para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1049 </listitem>
1050
1051 <listitem>
1052 <para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1053 </listitem>
1054
1055 <listitem>
1056 <para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1057 </listitem>
1058
1059 <listitem>
1060 <para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1061 of the current state</para>
1062 </listitem>
1063
1064 <listitem>
1065 <para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1066 </listitem>
1067
1068 <listitem>
1069 <para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1070 internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1071 </listitem>
1072
1073 <listitem>
1074 <para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1075 limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1076 see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1077 </listitem>
1078
1079 <listitem>
1080 <para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1081 a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1082 </listitem>
1083
1084 <listitem>
1085 <para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1086 </listitem>
1087
1088 <listitem>
1089 <para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1090 </listitem>
1091
1092 <listitem>
1093 <para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1094 dialog</para>
1095 </listitem>
1096
1097 <listitem>
1098 <para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1099 attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1100 when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1101 </listitem>
1102
1103 <listitem>
1104 <para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1105 command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1106 </listitem>
1107
1108 <listitem>
1109 <para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1110 of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1111 </listitem>
1112
1113 <listitem>
1114 <para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1115 be a valid UUID</para>
1116 </listitem>
1117
1118 <listitem>
1119 <para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1120 twice in a VM configuration</para>
1121 </listitem>
1122
1123 <listitem>
1124 <para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1125 create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1126 cases</para>
1127 </listitem>
1128
1129 <listitem>
1130 <para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1131 the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1132 improve performance</para>
1133 </listitem>
1134
1135 <listitem>
1136 <para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1137 ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1138 on a temporary basis</para>
1139 </listitem>
1140
1141 <listitem>
1142 <para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1143 a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1144 exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1145 </listitem>
1146
1147 <listitem>
1148 <para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1149 with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1150 </listitem>
1151
1152 <listitem>
1153 <para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1154 images in VDI format</para>
1155 </listitem>
1156
1157 <listitem>
1158 <para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1159 VMDK format</para>
1160 </listitem>
1161
1162 <listitem>
1163 <para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1164 controller (bug #8592)</para>
1165 </listitem>
1166
1167 <listitem>
1168 <para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1169 </listitem>
1170
1171 <listitem>
1172 <para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1173 </listitem>
1174
1175 <listitem>
1176 <para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1177 </listitem>
1178
1179 <listitem>
1180 <para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1181 </listitem>
1182
1183 <listitem>
1184 <para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1185 </listitem>
1186
1187 <listitem>
1188 <para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1189 when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1190 </listitem>
1191
1192 <listitem>
1193 <para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1194 directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1195 </listitem>
1196
1197 <listitem>
1198 <para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1199 Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1200 </listitem>
1201
1202 <listitem>
1203 <para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1204 <xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1205 </listitem>
1206
1207 <listitem>
1208 <para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1209 RDP clients</para>
1210 </listitem>
1211
1212 <listitem>
1213 <para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1214 </listitem>
1215
1216 <listitem>
1217 <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1218 different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1219 </listitem>
1220
1221 <listitem>
1222 <para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1223 be more robust when connections fail</para>
1224 </listitem>
1225
1226 <listitem>
1227 <para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1228 simultaneously</para>
1229 </listitem>
1230
1231 <listitem>
1232 <para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1233 which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1234 location values in many places</para>
1235 </listitem>
1236
1237 <listitem>
1238 <para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1239 </listitem>
1240
1241 <listitem>
1242 <para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1243 builds</para>
1244 </listitem>
1245
1246 <listitem>
1247 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1248 </listitem>
1249
1250 <listitem>
1251 <para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1252 window (bug #4491)</para>
1253 </listitem>
1254
1255 <listitem>
1256 <para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1257 removing a VM</para>
1258 </listitem>
1259
1260 <listitem>
1261 <para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1262 </listitem>
1263
1264 <listitem>
1265 <para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1266 </listitem>
1267
1268 <listitem>
1269 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1270 166 and above)</para>
1271 </listitem>
1272
1273 <listitem>
1274 <para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1275 hosts</para>
1276 </listitem>
1277
1278 <listitem>
1279 <para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1280 </listitem>
1281
1282 <listitem>
1283 <para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1284 from the host</para>
1285 </listitem>
1286
1287 <listitem>
1288 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1289 </listitem>
1290
1291 </itemizedlist>
1292
1293 </sect1>
1294
1295 <sect1>
1296 <title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1297
1298 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1299 added:</para>
1300
1301 <itemizedlist>
1302
1303 <listitem>
1304 <para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1305 </listitem>
1306
1307 <listitem>
1308 <para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1309 machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1310 </listitem>
1311
1312 <listitem>
1313 <para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1314 vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1315 </listitem>
1316
1317 <listitem>
1318 <para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1319 a live snapshot</para>
1320 </listitem>
1321
1322 <listitem>
1323 <para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1324 (4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1325 </listitem>
1326
1327 <listitem>
1328 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1329 </listitem>
1330
1331 <listitem>
1332 <para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1333 </listitem>
1334
1335 <listitem>
1336 <para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1337 or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1338 </listitem>
1339
1340 <listitem>
1341 <para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1342 affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1343 </listitem>
1344
1345 <listitem>
1346 <para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1347 requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1348 </listitem>
1349
1350 <listitem>
1351 <para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1352 </listitem>
1353
1354 <listitem>
1355 <para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1356 images</para>
1357 </listitem>
1358
1359 <listitem>
1360 <para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1361 (Windows hosts only)</para>
1362 </listitem>
1363 <listitem>
1364 <para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1365 registered (bug #9303)</para>
1366 </listitem>
1367
1368 <listitem>
1369 <para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1370 warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1371 </listitem>
1372
1373 <listitem>
1374 <para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1375 </listitem>
1376
1377 <listitem>
1378 <para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1379 headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1380 </listitem>
1381
1382 <listitem>
1383 <para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1384 the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1385 </listitem>
1386
1387 <listitem>
1388 <para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1389 </listitem>
1390
1391 <listitem>
1392 <para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1393 (bug #9370)</para>
1394 </listitem>
1395
1396 <listitem>
1397 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1398 (bug #9535)</para>
1399 </listitem>
1400
1401 <listitem>
1402 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1403 (bug #1578)</para>
1404 </listitem>
1405
1406 <listitem>
1407 <para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1408 some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1409 </listitem>
1410
1411 <listitem>
1412 <para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1413 a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1414 </para>
1415 </listitem>
1416
1417 <listitem>
1418 <para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1419 </para>
1420 </listitem>
1421
1422 <listitem>
1423 <para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1424 2.6.37 and above</para>
1425 </listitem>
1426
1427 <listitem>
1428 <para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1429 (bug #6229)</para>
1430 </listitem>
1431
1432 <listitem>
1433 <para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1434 compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1435 </listitem>
1436
1437 </itemizedlist>
1438 </sect1>
1439
1440 <sect1>
1441 <title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1442
1443 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1444 added:</para>
1445
1446 <itemizedlist>
1447
1448 <listitem>
1449 <para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1450 </listitem>
1451
1452 <listitem>
1453 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1454 166 and above)</para>
1455 </listitem>
1456
1457 <listitem>
1458 <para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1459 attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1460 when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1461 </listitem>
1462
1463 <listitem>
1464 <para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1465 with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1466 </listitem>
1467
1468 <listitem>
1469 <para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1470 controller (bug #8592)</para>
1471 </listitem>
1472
1473 <listitem>
1474 <para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1475 </listitem>
1476
1477 <listitem>
1478 <para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1479 when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1480 </listitem>
1481
1482 <listitem>
1483 <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1484 different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1485 </listitem>
1486
1487 <listitem>
1488 <para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1489 builds</para>
1490 </listitem>
1491
1492 <listitem>
1493 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1494 </listitem>
1495
1496 </itemizedlist>
1497 </sect1>
1498 <sect1>
1499 <title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1500
1501 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1502 added:</para>
1503
1504 <itemizedlist>
1505
1506 <listitem>
1507 <para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1508 </listitem>
1509
1510 <listitem>
1511 <para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1512 </listitem>
1513
1514 <listitem>
1515 <para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1516 after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1517 </listitem>
1518
1519 <listitem>
1520 <para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1521 (for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1522 </listitem>
1523
1524 <listitem>
1525 <para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1526 </listitem>
1527
1528 <listitem>
1529 <para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1530 another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1531 </listitem>
1532
1533 <listitem>
1534 <para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1535 </listitem>
1536
1537 <listitem>
1538 <para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1539 (partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1540 </listitem>
1541
1542 <listitem>
1543 <para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1544 with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1545 </listitem>
1546
1547 <listitem>
1548 <para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1549 </listitem>
1550
1551 <listitem>
1552 <para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1553 </listitem>
1554
1555 <listitem>
1556 <para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1557 file was not written during export</para>
1558 </listitem>
1559
1560 <listitem>
1561 <para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1562 </listitem>
1563
1564 <listitem>
1565 <para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1566 </listitem>
1567
1568 <listitem>
1569 <para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1570 </listitem>
1571
1572 <listitem>
1573 <para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1574 binaries</para>
1575 </listitem>
1576
1577 <listitem>
1578 <para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1579 </listitem>
1580
1581 <listitem>
1582 <para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1583 of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1584 </listitem>
1585
1586 <listitem>
1587 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1588 (4.0.8 regression)</para>
1589 </listitem>
1590
1591 <listitem>
1592 <para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1593 </listitem>
1594
1595 <listitem>
1596 <para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1597 guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1598 </listitem>
1599
1600 </itemizedlist>
1601 </sect1>
1602
1603 <sect1>
1604 <title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1605
1606 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1607 added:</para>
1608
1609 <itemizedlist>
1610
1611 <listitem>
1612 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1613 versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1614 </listitem>
1615
1616 <listitem>
1617 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1618 than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1619 </listitem>
1620
1621 <listitem>
1622 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1623 64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1624 </listitem>
1625
1626 <listitem>
1627 <para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1628 host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1629 </listitem>
1630
1631 <listitem>
1632 <para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
1633 problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
1634 </listitem>
1635
1636 <listitem>
1637 <para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
1638 subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
1639 </listitem>
1640
1641 <listitem>
1642 <para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
1643 (Windows hosts only)</para>
1644 </listitem>
1645
1646 <listitem>
1647 <para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
1648 Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
1649 </listitem>
1650
1651 <listitem>
1652 <para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
1653 </listitem>
1654
1655 <listitem>
1656 <para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
1657 </listitem>
1658
1659 <listitem>
1660 <para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
1661 (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
1662 </listitem>
1663
1664 <listitem>
1665 <para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
1666 asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
1667 </listitem>
1668
1669 <listitem>
1670 <para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
1671 </listitem>
1672
1673 <listitem>
1674 <para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
1675 </listitem>
1676
1677 <listitem>
1678 <para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
1679 (Linux hosts only)</para>
1680 </listitem>
1681
1682 <listitem>
1683 <para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
1684 (Windows hosts only)</para>
1685 </listitem>
1686
1687 <listitem>
1688 <para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
1689 window</para>
1690 </listitem>
1691
1692 <listitem>
1693 <para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
1694 Fedora 15</para>
1695 </listitem>
1696
1697 <listitem>
1698 <para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
1699 registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1700 </listitem>
1701
1702 <listitem>
1703 <para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
1704 host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
1705 </listitem>
1706
1707 <listitem>
1708 <para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
1709 building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
1710 </listitem>
1711
1712 <listitem>
1713 <para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
1714 </listitem>
1715
1716 <listitem>
1717 <para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
1718 notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
1719 </listitem>
1720
1721 </itemizedlist>
1722 </sect1>
1723
1724 <sect1>
1725 <title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
1726
1727 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1728 added:</para>
1729
1730 <itemizedlist>
1731
1732 <listitem>
1733 <para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
1734 a VMM from a saved state</para>
1735 </listitem>
1736
1737 <listitem>
1738 <para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
1739 implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
1740 </listitem>
1741
1742 <listitem>
1743 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
1744 (bug #8006)</para>
1745 </listitem>
1746
1747 <listitem>
1748 <para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
1749 (bug #8726)</para>
1750 </listitem>
1751
1752 <listitem>
1753 <para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
1754 </listitem>
1755
1756 <listitem>
1757 <para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
1758 </listitem>
1759
1760 <listitem>
1761 <para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
1762 tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
1763 </listitem>
1764
1765 <listitem>
1766 <para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
1767 (bug #8469)</para>
1768 </listitem>
1769
1770 <listitem>
1771 <para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
1772 selectors</para>
1773 </listitem>
1774
1775 <listitem>
1776 <para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
1777 proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
1778 </listitem>
1779
1780 <listitem>
1781 <para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
1782 folder (bug #8673)</para>
1783 </listitem>
1784
1785 <listitem>
1786 <para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
1787 registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1788 </listitem>
1789
1790 <listitem>
1791 <para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
1792 </listitem>
1793
1794 <listitem>
1795 <para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
1796 (Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
1797 </listitem>
1798
1799 <listitem>
1800 <para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
1801 </listitem>
1802
1803 <listitem>
1804 <para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
1805 </listitem>
1806
1807 <listitem>
1808 <para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
1809 VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
1810 </listitem>
1811
1812 <listitem>
1813 <para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
1814 I/O error occurred</para>
1815 </listitem>
1816
1817 <listitem>
1818 <para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
1819 (bug #8276, #8294)</para>
1820 </listitem>
1821
1822 <listitem>
1823 <para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
1824 streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
1825 </listitem>
1826
1827 <listitem>
1828 <para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
1829 Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
1830 if no medium is present</para>
1831 </listitem>
1832
1833 <listitem>
1834 <para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
1835 </listitem>
1836
1837 <listitem>
1838 <para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
1839 hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
1840 </listitem>
1841
1842 <listitem>
1843 <para>Host-Only &amp; Bridged &amp; Internal Networking: fix for processing
1844 promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
1845 </listitem>
1846
1847 <listitem>
1848 <para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
1849 host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
1850 </listitem>
1851
1852 <listitem>
1853 <para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
1854 </listitem>
1855
1856 <listitem>
1857 <para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
1858 assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
1859 </listitem>
1860
1861 <listitem>
1862 <para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
1863 library (bug #8063)</para>
1864 </listitem>
1865
1866 <listitem>
1867 <para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
1868 for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
1869 </listitem>
1870
1871 <listitem>
1872 <para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
1873 </listitem>
1874
1875 <listitem>
1876 <para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
1877 </listitem>
1878
1879 <listitem>
1880 <para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
1881 </listitem>
1882
1883 <listitem>
1884 <para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
1885 changed on import</para>
1886 </listitem>
1887
1888 <listitem>
1889 <para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
1890 </listitem>
1891
1892 <listitem>
1893 <para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
1894 multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
1895 </listitem>
1896
1897 <listitem>
1898 <para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
1899 (bug #8593)</para>
1900 </listitem>
1901
1902 <listitem>
1903 <para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
1904 sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
1905 </listitem>
1906
1907 <listitem>
1908 <para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
1909 captured</para>
1910 </listitem>
1911
1912 <listitem>
1913 <para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
1914 (shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
1915 </listitem>
1916
1917 <listitem>
1918 <para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
1919 </para>
1920 </listitem>
1921
1922 <listitem>
1923 <para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
1924 help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
1925 </listitem>
1926
1927 <listitem>
1928 <para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
1929 VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
1930 </listitem>
1931
1932 <listitem>
1933 <para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
1934 version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
1935 problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
1936 </listitem>
1937
1938 <listitem>
1939 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
1940 to unkillable VM processes</para>
1941 </listitem>
1942
1943 <listitem>
1944 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
1945 </listitem>
1946
1947 <listitem>
1948 <para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
1949 circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
1950 </listitem>
1951
1952 <listitem>
1953 <para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
1954 on legacy Windows versions</para>
1955 </listitem>
1956
1957 <listitem>
1958 <para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
1959 messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
1960 </listitem>
1961
1962 <listitem>
1963 <para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
1964 </listitem>
1965
1966 <listitem>
1967 <para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
1968 </listitem>
1969
1970 <listitem>
1971 <para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
1972 </listitem>
1973
1974 <listitem>
1975 <para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
1976 </listitem>
1977
1978 <listitem>
1979 <para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
1980 (bug #7946)</para>
1981 </listitem>
1982
1983 <listitem>
1984 <para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
1985 </listitem>
1986
1987 <listitem>
1988 <para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
1989 </listitem>
1990
1991 <listitem>
1992 <para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
1993 </listitem>
1994
1995 </itemizedlist>
1996
1997 </sect1>
1998
1999 <sect1>
2000 <title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2001
2002 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2003 added:</para>
2004
2005 <itemizedlist>
2006
2007 <listitem>
2008 <para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2009 (bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2010 </listitem>
2011
2012 <listitem>
2013 <para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2014 enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2015 </listitem>
2016
2017 <listitem>
2018 <para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2019 programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2020 </listitem>
2021
2022 <listitem>
2023 <para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2024 (bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2025 </listitem>
2026
2027 <listitem>
2028 <para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2029 number of host network interfaces</para>
2030 </listitem>
2031
2032 <listitem>
2033 <para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2034 snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2035 </listitem>
2036
2037 <listitem>
2038 <para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2039 </listitem>
2040
2041 <listitem>
2042 <para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2043 the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2044 </listitem>
2045
2046 <listitem>
2047 <para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2048 by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2049 </listitem>
2050
2051 <listitem>
2052 <para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2053 (4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2054 </listitem>
2055
2056 <listitem>
2057 <para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2058 </listitem>
2059
2060 <listitem>
2061 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2062 (bug #6577)</para>
2063 </listitem>
2064
2065 <listitem>
2066 <para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2067 --wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2068 (bug #8235)</para>
2069 </listitem>
2070
2071 <listitem>
2072 <para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2073 --wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2074 to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2075 </listitem>
2076
2077 <listitem>
2078 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2079 </listitem>
2080
2081 <listitem>
2082 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2083 DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2084 </listitem>
2085
2086 <listitem>
2087 <para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2088 </listitem>
2089
2090 <listitem>
2091 <para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2092 (bug #7966)</para>
2093 </listitem>
2094
2095 <listitem>
2096 <para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2097 </listitem>
2098
2099 <listitem>
2100 <para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2101 </listitem>
2102
2103 <listitem>
2104 <para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2105 </listitem>
2106
2107 <listitem>
2108 <para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2109 attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2110 </listitem>
2111
2112 <listitem>
2113 <para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2114 </listitem>
2115
2116 <listitem>
2117 <para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2118 </listitem>
2119
2120 <listitem>
2121 <para>Host-Only &amp; Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2122 for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2123 </listitem>
2124
2125 <listitem>
2126 <para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2127 vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2128 </listitem>
2129
2130 <listitem>
2131 <para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2132 </listitem>
2133
2134 <listitem>
2135 <para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2136 announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2137 </listitem>
2138
2139 <listitem>
2140 <para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2141 to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2142 (bug #8122)</para>
2143 </listitem>
2144
2145 <listitem>
2146 <para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2147 disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2148 </listitem>
2149
2150 <listitem>
2151 <para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2152 </listitem>
2153
2154 <listitem>
2155 <para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2156 </listitem>
2157
2158 <listitem>
2159 <para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2160 (bug #1548)</para>
2161 </listitem>
2162
2163 <listitem>
2164 <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2165 </listitem>
2166
2167 <listitem>
2168 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2169 without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2170 </listitem>
2171
2172 <listitem>
2173 <para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2174 </listitem>
2175
2176 <listitem>
2177 <para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2178 (bug #8231)</para>
2179 </listitem>
2180
2181 <listitem>
2182 <para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2183 11.04 Alpha</para>
2184 </listitem>
2185
2186 <listitem>
2187 <para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2188 prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2189 </listitem>
2190
2191 <listitem>
2192 <para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2193 VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2194 </listitem>
2195
2196 <listitem>
2197 <para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2198 a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2199 </listitem>
2200
2201 <listitem>
2202 <para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2203 with VBoxGINA</para>
2204 </listitem>
2205
2206 </itemizedlist>
2207
2208 </sect1>
2209
2210 <sect1>
2211 <title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2212
2213 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2214 added:</para>
2215
2216 <itemizedlist>
2217
2218 <listitem>
2219 <para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2220 settings vanished</para>
2221 </listitem>
2222
2223 <listitem>
2224 <para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2225 on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2226 </listitem>
2227
2228 <listitem>
2229 <para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2230 created (bug #8031)</para>
2231 </listitem>
2232
2233 <listitem>
2234 <para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2235 </listitem>
2236
2237 <listitem>
2238 <para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2239 (Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2240 </listitem>
2241
2242 <listitem>
2243 <para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2244 an extension pack</para>
2245 </listitem>
2246
2247 <listitem>
2248 <para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2249 during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2250 </listitem>
2251
2252 <listitem>
2253 <para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2254 </listitem>
2255
2256 <listitem>
2257 <para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2258 supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2259 </listitem>
2260
2261 <listitem>
2262 <para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2263 host-only interface</para>
2264 </listitem>
2265
2266 <listitem>
2267 <para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2268 and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2269 </listitem>
2270
2271 <listitem>
2272 <para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2273 detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2274 </listitem>
2275
2276 <listitem>
2277 <para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2278 ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2279 </listitem>
2280
2281 <listitem>
2282 <para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2283 power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2284 </listitem>
2285
2286 <listitem>
2287 <para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2288 to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2289 </listitem>
2290
2291 <listitem>
2292 <para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2293 </listitem>
2294
2295 <listitem>
2296 <para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2297 </listitem>
2298
2299 <listitem>
2300 <para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2301 guests</para>
2302 </listitem>
2303
2304 <listitem>
2305 <para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2306 </listitem>
2307
2308 <listitem>
2309 <para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2310 </listitem>
2311
2312 <listitem>
2313 <para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2314 links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2315 </listitem>
2316
2317 <listitem>
2318 <para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2319 logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2320 </listitem>
2321
2322 <listitem>
2323 <para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2324 a VM start</para>
2325 </listitem>
2326
2327 <listitem>
2328 <para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2329 machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2330 </listitem>
2331
2332 <listitem>
2333 <para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2334 (bug #6067)</para>
2335 </listitem>
2336
2337 <listitem>
2338 <para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2339 cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2340 </listitem>
2341
2342 <listitem>
2343 <para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2344 not saved to machine XML</para>
2345 </listitem>
2346
2347 <listitem>
2348 <para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2349 #7983)</para>
2350 </listitem>
2351
2352 <listitem>
2353 <para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2354 #7981)</para>
2355 </listitem>
2356
2357 <listitem>
2358 <para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2359 </listitem>
2360
2361 <listitem>
2362 <para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2363 regression)</para>
2364 </listitem>
2365
2366 <listitem>
2367 <para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2368 VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2369 </listitem>
2370
2371 <listitem>
2372 <para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2373 unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2374 </listitem>
2375
2376 </itemizedlist>
2377
2378 </sect1>
2379
2380 <sect1>
2381 <title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2382
2383 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2384 were added:</para>
2385
2386 <itemizedlist>
2387
2388 <listitem>
2389 <para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2390 </listitem>
2391
2392 <listitem>
2393 <para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2394 </listitem>
2395
2396 <listitem>
2397 <para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2398 <itemizedlist>
2399 <listitem>
2400 <para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2401 </listitem>
2402
2403 <listitem>
2404 <para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2405 </listitem>
2406
2407 <listitem>
2408 <para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2409 </listitem>
2410
2411 <listitem>
2412 <para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2413 </listitem>
2414
2415 <listitem>
2416 <para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2417 states, and optionally including attached
2418 disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2419 can do the same now)</para>
2420 </listitem>
2421
2422 <listitem>
2423 <para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2424 </listitem>
2425
2426 </itemizedlist>
2427 </para>
2428 </listitem>
2429
2430 <listitem>
2431 <para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2432 </listitem>
2433
2434 <listitem>
2435 <para>New virtual hardware:
2436 <itemizedlist>
2437 <listitem>
2438 <para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2439 see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2440 </listitem>
2441
2442 <listitem>
2443 <para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2444 (e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2445 </listitem>
2446 </itemizedlist>
2447 </para>
2448 </listitem>
2449
2450 <listitem>
2451 <para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2452 <itemizedlist>
2453 <listitem>
2454 <para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2455 </listitem>
2456
2457 <listitem>
2458 <para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2459 </para>
2460 </listitem>
2461
2462 <listitem>
2463 <para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2464 now</para>
2465 </listitem>
2466
2467 <listitem>
2468 <para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2469 </listitem>
2470
2471 </itemizedlist>
2472 </para>
2473 </listitem>
2474
2475 <listitem>
2476 <para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2477 bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2478 </listitem>
2479
2480 <listitem>
2481 <para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2482 Parallels images</para>
2483 </listitem>
2484
2485 <listitem>
2486 <para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2487 </listitem>
2488
2489 <listitem>
2490 <para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2491 and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2492 </listitem>
2493
2494 <listitem>
2495 <para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2496 (COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2497 </listitem>
2498
2499 </itemizedlist>
2500
2501 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2502
2503 <itemizedlist>
2504
2505 <listitem>
2506 <para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2507 (applies to nested paging only)</para>
2508 </listitem>
2509
2510 <listitem>
2511 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2512 </listitem>
2513
2514 <listitem>
2515 <para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2516 non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2517 </listitem>
2518
2519 <listitem>
2520 <para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2521 (bug #1657)</para>
2522 </listitem>
2523
2524 <listitem>
2525 <para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2526 </listitem>
2527
2528 <listitem>
2529 <para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2530 </listitem>
2531
2532 <listitem>
2533 <para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2534 (Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2535 </listitem>
2536
2537 <listitem>
2538 <para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2539 guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2540 </listitem>
2541
2542 <listitem>
2543 <para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2544 packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2545 (Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2546 </listitem>
2547
2548 <listitem>
2549 <para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2550 again (bug #6864)</para>
2551 </listitem>
2552
2553 <listitem>
2554 <para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2555 #5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2556 </listitem>
2557
2558 <listitem>
2559 <para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2560 glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2561 </listitem>
2562
2563 <listitem>
2564 <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2565 </listitem>
2566
2567 <listitem>
2568 <para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2569 </listitem>
2570
2571 <listitem>
2572 <para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2573 </listitem>
2574
2575 <listitem>
2576 <para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2577 </listitem>
2578
2579 <listitem>
2580 <para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2581 </listitem>
2582
2583 <listitem>
2584 <para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2585 </listitem>
2586
2587 <listitem>
2588 <para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2589 </listitem>
2590
2591 <listitem>
2592 <para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2593 (bug #7058)</para>
2594 </listitem>
2595
2596 <listitem>
2597 <para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2598 criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2599 </listitem>
2600
2601 <listitem>
2602 <para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2603 circumstances</para>
2604 </listitem>
2605
2606 <listitem>
2607 <para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2608 another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2609 #5578)
2610 </para>
2611 </listitem>
2612
2613 <listitem>
2614 <para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2615 </listitem>
2616
2617 <listitem>
2618 <para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2619 <emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2620 </listitem>
2621
2622 <listitem>
2623 <para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2624 </listitem>
2625
2626 <listitem>
2627 <para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2628 #6760)</para>
2629 </listitem>
2630
2631 <listitem>
2632 <para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
2633 accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
2634 </listitem>
2635
2636 <listitem>
2637 <para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
2638 <emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
2639 </listitem>
2640
2641 <listitem>
2642 <para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
2643 on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2644 </listitem>
2645
2646 <listitem>
2647 <para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
2648 </listitem>
2649
2650 <listitem>
2651 <para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
2652 file</para>
2653 </listitem>
2654
2655 <listitem>
2656 <para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2657 to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2658 </listitem>
2659
2660 </itemizedlist>
2661
2662 </sect1>
2663
2664 <sect1>
2665 <title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
2666
2667 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2668 added:</para>
2669
2670 <itemizedlist>
2671
2672 <listitem>
2673 <para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2674 hosts (bug #7577)</para>
2675 </listitem>
2676
2677 <listitem>
2678 <para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
2679 triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
2680 non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
2681 </listitem>
2682
2683 <listitem>
2684 <para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
2685 </listitem>
2686
2687 <listitem>
2688 <para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
2689 </listitem>
2690
2691 <listitem>
2692 <para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
2693 </listitem>
2694
2695 <listitem>
2696 <para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
2697 the VM is running</para>
2698 </listitem>
2699
2700 <listitem>
2701 <para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
2702 system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
2703 file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
2704 starting from a saved state</para>
2705 </listitem>
2706
2707 <listitem>
2708 <para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
2709 </listitem>
2710
2711 <listitem>
2712 <para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
2713 </listitem>
2714
2715 <listitem>
2716 <para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
2717 </listitem>
2718
2719 <listitem>
2720 <para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2721 </listitem>
2722
2723 <listitem>
2724 <para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2725 </listitem>
2726
2727 <listitem>
2728 <para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
2729 mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
2730 </listitem>
2731
2732 <listitem>
2733 <para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
2734 fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
2735 </listitem>
2736
2737 <listitem>
2738 <para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
2739 open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
2740 </listitem>
2741
2742 <listitem>
2743 <para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
2744 </listitem>
2745
2746 <listitem>
2747 <para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
2748 multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
2749 </para>
2750 </listitem>
2751
2752 <listitem>
2753 <para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
2754 in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
2755 3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
2756 </listitem>
2757
2758 <listitem>
2759 <para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
2760 only)</para>
2761 </listitem>
2762
2763 <listitem>
2764 <para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
2765 being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
2766 </listitem>
2767
2768 <listitem>
2769 <para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
2770 </listitem>
2771
2772 <listitem>
2773 <para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
2774 </listitem>
2775
2776 <listitem>
2777 <para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
2778 </listitem>
2779
2780 <listitem>
2781 <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
2782 state (bug #4124)</para>
2783 </listitem>
2784
2785 <listitem>
2786 <para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
2787 VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
2788 </listitem>
2789
2790 <listitem>
2791 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
2792 </listitem>
2793
2794 <listitem>
2795 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
2796 (bug #2996)</para>
2797 </listitem>
2798
2799 <listitem>
2800 <para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
2801 operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
2802 </listitem>
2803
2804 <listitem>
2805 <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
2806 </listitem>
2807
2808 <listitem>
2809 <para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
2810 is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
2811 </listitem>
2812
2813 <listitem>
2814 <para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
2815 files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
2816 </listitem>
2817
2818 <listitem>
2819 <para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
2820 user accounts for VM information</para>
2821 </listitem>
2822
2823 </itemizedlist>
2824
2825 </sect1>
2826
2827 <sect1>
2828 <title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
2829
2830 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2831 added:</para>
2832
2833 <itemizedlist>
2834
2835 <listitem>
2836 <para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
2837 (3.2.8 regression)</para>
2838 </listitem>
2839
2840 <listitem>
2841 <para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
2842 </listitem>
2843
2844 <listitem>
2845 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
2846 </listitem>
2847
2848 <listitem>
2849 <para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
2850 </listitem>
2851
2852 <listitem>
2853 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2854 hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
2855 </listitem>
2856
2857 <listitem>
2858 <para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
2859 2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
2860 </listitem>
2861
2862 <listitem>
2863 <para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
2864 (Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
2865 </listitem>
2866
2867 <listitem>
2868 <para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
2869 (bug #4952)</para>
2870 </listitem>
2871
2872 <listitem>
2873 <para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
2874 bug #6122)</para>
2875 </listitem>
2876
2877 <listitem>
2878 <para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
2879 for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
2880 </listitem>
2881
2882 <listitem>
2883 <para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
2884 to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
2885 (Linux hosts only)</para>
2886 </listitem>
2887
2888 <listitem>
2889 <para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
2890 </listitem>
2891
2892 <listitem>
2893 <para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
2894 images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
2895 </listitem>
2896
2897 <listitem>
2898 <para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
2899 parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
2900 </listitem>
2901
2902 <listitem>
2903 <para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
2904 canceled</para>
2905 </listitem>
2906
2907 <listitem>
2908 <para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
2909 </listitem>
2910
2911 <listitem>
2912 <para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
2913 </listitem>
2914
2915 <listitem>
2916 <para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
2917 </listitem>
2918
2919 <listitem>
2920 <para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
2921 </listitem>
2922
2923 <listitem>
2924 <para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
2925 circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
2926 </listitem>
2927
2928 <listitem>
2929 <para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
2930 </listitem>
2931
2932 <listitem>
2933 <para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
2934 (Linux hosts only)</para>
2935 </listitem>
2936
2937 <listitem>
2938 <para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
2939 a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
2940 </listitem>
2941
2942 <listitem>
2943 <para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
2944 </listitem>
2945
2946 <listitem>
2947 <para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
2948 (non-Windows hosts only)</para>
2949 </listitem>
2950
2951 <listitem>
2952 <para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
2953 </listitem>
2954
2955 <listitem>
2956 <para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
2957 circumstances</para>
2958 </listitem>
2959
2960 <listitem>
2961 <para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
2962 printers</para>
2963 </listitem>
2964
2965 <listitem>
2966 <para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
2967 </listitem>
2968
2969 <listitem>
2970 <para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
2971 hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
2972 </listitem>
2973
2974 <listitem>
2975 <para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
2976 are passed (bug #7388)</para>
2977 </listitem>
2978
2979 <listitem>
2980 <para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
2981 bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
2982 circumstances</para>
2983 </listitem>
2984
2985 <listitem>
2986 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
2987 for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
2988 </listitem>
2989
2990 <listitem>
2991 <para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
2992 as supported extension</para>
2993 </listitem>
2994
2995 <listitem>
2996 <para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2997 <emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
2998 </listitem>
2999
3000 <listitem>
3001 <para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3002 full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3003 </listitem>
3004
3005 <listitem>
3006 <para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3007 </listitem>
3008
3009 <listitem>
3010 <para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3011 (bug #7366)</para>
3012 </listitem>
3013
3014 <listitem>
3015 <para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3016 </listitem>
3017
3018 <listitem>
3019 <para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3020 longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3021 </listitem>
3022
3023 <listitem>
3024 <para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3025 clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3026 </listitem>
3027
3028 <listitem>
3029 <para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3030 invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3031 </listitem>
3032
3033 <listitem>
3034 <para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3035 to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3036 </listitem>
3037
3038 <listitem>
3039 <para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3040 NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3041 </listitem>
3042
3043 <listitem>
3044 <para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3045 </listitem>
3046
3047 <listitem>
3048 <para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3049 </listitem>
3050
3051 <listitem>
3052 <para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3053 more than one environment variable</para>
3054 </listitem>
3055
3056 <listitem>
3057 <para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3058 after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3059 </listitem>
3060
3061 <listitem>
3062 <para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3063 VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3064 </listitem>
3065
3066 <listitem>
3067 <para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3068 time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3069 </listitem>
3070
3071 <listitem>
3072 <para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3073 enumerating logged in users</para>
3074 </listitem>
3075
3076 <listitem>
3077 <para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3078 </listitem>
3079
3080 <listitem>
3081 <para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3082 </listitem>
3083
3084 <listitem>
3085 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3086 </listitem>
3087
3088 <listitem>
3089 <para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3090 in the event of a VM crash</para>
3091 </listitem>
3092
3093 <listitem>
3094 <para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3095 </listitem>
3096
3097 <listitem>
3098 <para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3099 the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3100 </listitem>
3101
3102 <listitem>
3103 <para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3104 32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3105 </listitem>
3106
3107 <listitem>
3108 <para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3109 (bug #7448)</para>
3110 </listitem>
3111
3112 <listitem>
3113 <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3114 </listitem>
3115
3116 <listitem>
3117 <para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3118 </listitem>
3119
3120 <listitem>
3121 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3122 </listitem>
3123
3124 </itemizedlist>
3125
3126 </sect1>
3127
3128 <sect1>
3129 <title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3130
3131 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3132 added:</para>
3133
3134 <itemizedlist>
3135
3136 <listitem>
3137 <para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3138 to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3139 </listitem>
3140
3141 <listitem>
3142 <para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3143 </listitem>
3144
3145 <listitem>
3146 <para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3147 bug #6809)</para>
3148 </listitem>
3149
3150 <listitem>
3151 <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3152 </listitem>
3153
3154 <listitem>
3155 <para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3156 </listitem>
3157
3158 <listitem>
3159 <para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3160 circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3161 </listitem>
3162
3163 <listitem>
3164 <para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3165 changes</para>
3166 </listitem>
3167
3168 <listitem>
3169 <para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3170 </listitem>
3171
3172 <listitem>
3173 <para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3174 certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3175 </listitem>
3176
3177 <listitem>
3178 <para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3179 in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3180 </listitem>
3181
3182 <listitem>
3183 <para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3184 </listitem>
3185
3186 <listitem>
3187 <para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3188 </listitem>
3189
3190 <listitem>
3191 <para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3192 </listitem>
3193
3194 <listitem>
3195 <para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3196 </listitem>
3197
3198 <listitem>
3199 <para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3200 bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3201 </listitem>
3202
3203 <listitem>
3204 <para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3205 </listitem>
3206
3207 <listitem>
3208 <para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3209 (bug #6832)</para>
3210 </listitem>
3211
3212 <listitem>
3213 <para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3214 guests</para>
3215 </listitem>
3216
3217 <listitem>
3218 <para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3219 </listitem>
3220
3221 <listitem>
3222 <para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3223 without external tools and tricks</para>
3224 </listitem>
3225
3226 <listitem>
3227 <para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3228 for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3229 </listitem>
3230
3231 <listitem>
3232 <para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3233 </listitem>
3234
3235 <listitem>
3236 <para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3237 of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3238 </listitem>
3239
3240 <listitem>
3241 <para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3242 shutdown</para>
3243 </listitem>
3244
3245 <listitem>
3246 <para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3247 fixes</para>
3248 </listitem>
3249
3250 <listitem>
3251 <para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3252 settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3253 example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3254 </para>
3255 </listitem>
3256
3257 <listitem>
3258 <para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3259 settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3260 </listitem>
3261
3262 <listitem>
3263 <para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3264 in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3265 </listitem>
3266
3267 <listitem>
3268 <para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3269 </para>
3270 </listitem>
3271
3272 <listitem>
3273 <para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3274 </listitem>
3275
3276 <listitem>
3277 <para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3278 </listitem>
3279
3280 <listitem>
3281 <para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3282 </listitem>
3283
3284 </itemizedlist>
3285
3286 </sect1>
3287
3288 <sect1>
3289 <title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3290
3291 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3292 added:</para>
3293
3294 <itemizedlist>
3295
3296 <listitem>
3297 <para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3298 with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3299 </listitem>
3300
3301 <listitem>
3302 <para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3303 does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3304 </listitem>
3305
3306 <listitem>
3307 <para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3308 with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3309 </listitem>
3310
3311 <listitem>
3312 <para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3313 </listitem>
3314
3315 <listitem>
3316 <para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3317 </listitem>
3318
3319 <listitem>
3320 <para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3321 </listitem>
3322
3323 <listitem>
3324 <para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3325 </listitem>
3326
3327 <listitem>
3328 <para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3329 assigned</para>
3330 </listitem>
3331
3332 <listitem>
3333 <para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3334 asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3335 </listitem>
3336
3337 <listitem>
3338 <para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3339 multiple screens are enabled</para>
3340 </listitem>
3341
3342 <listitem>
3343 <para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3344 </listitem>
3345
3346 <listitem>
3347 <para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3348 (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3349 </listitem>
3350
3351 <listitem>
3352 <para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3353 again (bug #7022).
3354 </para>
3355 </listitem>
3356
3357 <listitem>
3358 <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3359 (bug #6768)</para>
3360 </listitem>
3361
3362 <listitem>
3363 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3364 (bug #6927)</para>
3365 </listitem>
3366
3367 <listitem>
3368 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3369 bug #7031)</para>
3370 </listitem>
3371
3372 <listitem>
3373 <para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3374 don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3375 </listitem>
3376
3377 <listitem>
3378 <para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3379 bug #6987)</para>
3380 </listitem>
3381
3382 <listitem>
3383 <para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3384 </listitem>
3385
3386 <listitem>
3387 <para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3388 </listitem>
3389
3390 <listitem>
3391 <para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3392 30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3393 </listitem>
3394
3395 <listitem>
3396 <para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3397 </listitem>
3398
3399 <listitem>
3400 <para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3401 installation (bug #5101)</para>
3402 </listitem>
3403
3404 <listitem>
3405 <para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3406 </listitem>
3407
3408 <listitem>
3409 <para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3410 under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3411 bug #6872)</para>
3412 </listitem>
3413
3414 <listitem>
3415 <para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3416 </listitem>
3417
3418 <listitem>
3419 <para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3420 (performance tweak)</para>
3421 </listitem>
3422
3423 <listitem>
3424 <para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3425 is currently paused</para>
3426 </listitem>
3427
3428 <listitem>
3429 <para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3430 was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3431 </listitem>
3432
3433 <listitem>
3434 <para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3435 </listitem>
3436
3437 <listitem>
3438 <para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3439 and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3440 </listitem>
3441
3442 <listitem>
3443 <para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3444 not properly saved</para>
3445 </listitem>
3446
3447 <listitem>
3448 <para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3449 folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3450 </listitem>
3451
3452 <listitem>
3453 <para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3454 </listitem>
3455
3456 <listitem>
3457 <para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3458 </listitem>
3459
3460 <listitem>
3461 <para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3462 </listitem>
3463
3464 <listitem>
3465 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3466 (IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3467 </listitem>
3468
3469 <listitem>
3470 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3471 </listitem>
3472
3473 <listitem>
3474 <para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3475 kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3476 </listitem>
3477
3478 <listitem>
3479 <para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3480 (bug #5251)</para>
3481 </listitem>
3482
3483 <listitem>
3484 <para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3485 ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3486 </listitem>
3487
3488 <listitem>
3489 <para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3490 </listitem>
3491
3492 <listitem>
3493 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3494 </listitem>
3495
3496 <listitem>
3497 <para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3498 to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3499 </listitem>
3500
3501 <listitem>
3502 <para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3503 </listitem>
3504
3505 <listitem>
3506 <para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3507 </listitem>
3508
3509 <listitem>
3510 <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3511 </listitem>
3512
3513 </itemizedlist>
3514 </sect1>
3515
3516 <sect1>
3517 <title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3518
3519 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3520 added:</para>
3521
3522 <itemizedlist>
3523
3524 <listitem>
3525 <para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3526 (improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3527 </listitem>
3528
3529 <listitem>
3530 <para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3531 </listitem>
3532
3533 <listitem>
3534 <para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3535 over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3536 </listitem>
3537
3538 <listitem>
3539 <para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3540 growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3541 </listitem>
3542
3543 <listitem>
3544 <para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3545 </listitem>
3546
3547 <listitem>
3548 <para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3549 again (bug #6864)</para>
3550 </listitem>
3551
3552 <listitem>
3553 <para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3554 applications (bug #5236)</para>
3555 </listitem>
3556
3557 <listitem>
3558 <para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3559 </listitem>
3560
3561 <listitem>
3562 <para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3563 (3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3564 </listitem>
3565
3566 <listitem>
3567 <para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3568 </listitem>
3569
3570 </itemizedlist>
3571
3572 </sect1>
3573
3574 <sect1>
3575 <title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3576
3577 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3578 added:</para>
3579
3580 <itemizedlist>
3581
3582 <listitem>
3583 <para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3584 </listitem>
3585
3586 <listitem>
3587 <para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3588 guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3589 </listitem>
3590
3591 <listitem>
3592 <para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3593 </listitem>
3594
3595 <listitem>
3596 <para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3597 state</para>
3598 </listitem>
3599
3600 <listitem>
3601 <para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3602 </listitem>
3603
3604 <listitem>
3605 <para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3606 </listitem>
3607
3608 <listitem>
3609 <para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3610 </listitem>
3611
3612 <listitem>
3613 <para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3614 </listitem>
3615
3616 <listitem>
3617 <para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3618 </listitem>
3619
3620 <listitem>
3621 <para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3622 </listitem>
3623
3624 <listitem>
3625 <para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3626 </listitem>
3627
3628 <listitem>
3629 <para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3630 </listitem>
3631
3632 <listitem>
3633 <para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
3634 </listitem>
3635
3636 <listitem>
3637 <para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
3638 </listitem>
3639
3640 <listitem>
3641 <para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
3642 LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
3643 </listitem>
3644
3645 <listitem>
3646 <para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
3647 (bug #6784)</para>
3648 </listitem>
3649
3650 <listitem>
3651 <para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
3652 </listitem>
3653
3654 <listitem>
3655 <para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
3656 </listitem>
3657
3658 <listitem>
3659 <para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
3660 accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
3661 </listitem>
3662
3663 <listitem>
3664 <para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
3665 </listitem>
3666
3667 <listitem>
3668 <para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
3669 </listitem>
3670
3671 <listitem>
3672 <para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
3673 host only</para>
3674 </listitem>
3675
3676 <listitem>
3677 <para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
3678 probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
3679 </listitem>
3680
3681 <listitem>
3682 <para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
3683 requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
3684 </listitem>
3685
3686 <listitem>
3687 <para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
3688 </listitem>
3689
3690 <listitem>
3691 <para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
3692 (non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
3693 </listitem>
3694
3695 <listitem>
3696 <para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
3697 </listitem>
3698
3699 <listitem>
3700 <para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
3701 </listitem>
3702
3703 <listitem>
3704 <para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
3705 driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
3706 </listitem>
3707
3708 <listitem>
3709 <para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
3710 </listitem>
3711
3712 <listitem>
3713 <para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
3714 </listitem>
3715
3716 <listitem>
3717 <para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
3718 </listitem>
3719
3720 <listitem>
3721 <para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
3722 (bug #6714)</para>
3723 </listitem>
3724
3725 <listitem>
3726 <para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
3727 </listitem>
3728
3729 <listitem>
3730 <para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
3731 </listitem>
3732
3733 <listitem>
3734 <para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
3735 </listitem>
3736
3737 <listitem>
3738 <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
3739 </listitem>
3740
3741 <listitem>
3742 <para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
3743 </listitem>
3744
3745 </itemizedlist>
3746
3747 </sect1>
3748
3749 <sect1>
3750 <title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
3751
3752 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3753 were added:</para>
3754
3755 <itemizedlist>
3756
3757 <listitem>
3758 <para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
3759 the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
3760 were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
3761 </listitem>
3762
3763 <listitem>
3764 <para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
3765 </listitem>
3766
3767 <listitem>
3768 <para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
3769 amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
3770 </listitem>
3771
3772 <listitem>
3773 <para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
3774 increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
3775 (see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
3776 </listitem>
3777
3778 <listitem>
3779 <para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
3780 and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
3781 </listitem>
3782
3783 <listitem>
3784 <para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
3785 (see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
3786 also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
3787 is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
3788 which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
3789 </listitem>
3790
3791 <listitem>
3792 <para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
3793 </listitem>
3794
3795 <listitem>
3796 <para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
3797 guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
3798 </listitem>
3799
3800 <listitem>
3801 <para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
3802 if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
3803 </listitem>
3804
3805 <listitem>
3806 <para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
3807 </listitem>
3808
3809 <listitem>
3810 <para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
3811 </listitem>
3812
3813 <listitem>
3814 <para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
3815 </listitem>
3816
3817 <listitem>
3818 <para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
3819 </listitem>
3820
3821 <listitem>
3822 <para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
3823 from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
3824 <xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
3825 </listitem>
3826
3827 <listitem>
3828 <para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
3829 that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
3830 </listitem>
3831
3832 </itemizedlist>
3833
3834 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3835
3836 <itemizedlist>
3837
3838 <listitem>
3839 <para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
3840 amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
3841 </listitem>
3842
3843 <listitem>
3844 <para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
3845 </listitem>
3846
3847 <listitem>
3848 <para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
3849 VM</para>
3850 </listitem>
3851
3852 <listitem>
3853 <para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
3854 passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
3855 </listitem>
3856
3857 <listitem>
3858 <para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
3859 #1669)</para>
3860 </listitem>
3861
3862 <listitem>
3863 <para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
3864 #6442)</para>
3865 </listitem>
3866
3867 <listitem>
3868 <para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
3869 combination (bug #684)</para>
3870 </listitem>
3871
3872 <listitem>
3873 <para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
3874 the VM from the GUI</para>
3875 </listitem>
3876
3877 <listitem>
3878 <para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
3879 medium is not accessible</para>
3880 </listitem>
3881
3882 <listitem>
3883 <para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
3884 </listitem>
3885
3886 <listitem>
3887 <para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
3888 audio input (bug #5869)</para>
3889 </listitem>
3890
3891 <listitem>
3892 <para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
3893 #3106)</para>
3894 </listitem>
3895
3896 <listitem>
3897 <para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
3898 settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
3899 it</para>
3900 </listitem>
3901
3902 <listitem>
3903 <para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
3904 </listitem>
3905
3906 <listitem>
3907 <para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
3908 </listitem>
3909
3910 <listitem>
3911 <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
3912 <emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
3913 </listitem>
3914
3915 <listitem>
3916 <para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
3917 windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
3918 </listitem>
3919
3920 <listitem>
3921 <para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
3922 </listitem>
3923
3924 <listitem>
3925 <para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
3926 </listitem>
3927
3928 <listitem>
3929 <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
3930 screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
3931 </listitem>
3932
3933 <listitem>
3934 <para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
3935 </listitem>
3936
3937 <listitem>
3938 <para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
3939 (Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
3940 </listitem>
3941
3942 <listitem>
3943 <para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
3944 </listitem>
3945
3946 <listitem>
3947 <para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
3948 in VirtualBox</para>
3949 </listitem>
3950
3951 <listitem>
3952 <para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
3953 alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
3954 </listitem>
3955
3956 <listitem>
3957 <para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
3958 VirtualBox</para>
3959 </listitem>
3960
3961 <listitem>
3962 <para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
3963 </listitem>
3964
3965 <listitem>
3966 <para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
3967 VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
3968 </listitem>
3969
3970 </itemizedlist>
3971 </sect1>
3972
3973 <sect1>
3974 <title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
3975
3976 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3977 added:</para>
3978
3979 <itemizedlist>
3980
3981 <listitem>
3982 <para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
3983 early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
3984 </listitem>
3985
3986 <listitem>
3987 <para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
3988 </listitem>
3989
3990 <listitem>
3991 <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
3992 </listitem>
3993
3994 <listitem>
3995 <para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
3996 only) </para>
3997 </listitem>
3998
3999 <listitem>
4000 <para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4001 to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4002 </listitem>
4003
4004 <listitem>
4005 <para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4006 interface version</para>
4007 </listitem>
4008
4009 <listitem>
4010 <para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4011 settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4012 slot empty</para>
4013 </listitem>
4014
4015 <listitem>
4016 <para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4017 <computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4018 (bug #4220)</para>
4019 </listitem>
4020
4021 <listitem>
4022 <para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4023 </listitem>
4024
4025 <listitem>
4026 <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4027 non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 &amp; #6208)</para>
4028 </listitem>
4029
4030 <listitem>
4031 <para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4032 using the drivers from LSI</para>
4033 </listitem>
4034
4035 <listitem>
4036 <para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4037 disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4038 </listitem>
4039
4040 <listitem>
4041 <para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4042 attached</para>
4043 </listitem>
4044
4045 <listitem>
4046 <para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4047 adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4048 </listitem>
4049
4050 <listitem>
4051 <para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4052 </listitem>
4053
4054 <listitem>
4055 <para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4056 booting from SCSI devices</para>
4057 </listitem>
4058
4059 <listitem>
4060 <para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4061 is bug #6408)</para>
4062 </listitem>
4063
4064 <listitem>
4065 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4066 </listitem>
4067
4068 <listitem>
4069 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4070 fail to initialize</para>
4071 </listitem>
4072
4073 <listitem>
4074 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4075 </listitem>
4076
4077 <listitem>
4078 <para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4079 (Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4080 </listitem>
4081
4082 <listitem>
4083 <para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4084 to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4085 Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4086 </listitem>
4087
4088 <listitem>
4089 <para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4090 </listitem>
4091
4092 <listitem>
4093 <para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4094 (Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4095 </listitem>
4096
4097 <listitem>
4098 <para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4099 older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4100 </listitem>
4101
4102 <listitem>
4103 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4104 (bug #6435)</para>
4105 </listitem>
4106
4107 <listitem>
4108 <para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4109 mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4110 </listitem>
4111
4112 <listitem>
4113 <para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4114 IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4115 (bug #6488)</para>
4116 </listitem>
4117
4118 <listitem>
4119 <para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4120 <emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4121 </listitem>
4122
4123 <listitem>
4124 <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4125 screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4126 </listitem>
4127
4128 <listitem>
4129 <para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4130 #5227)</para>
4131 </listitem>
4132
4133 <listitem>
4134 <para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4135 hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4136 </listitem>
4137
4138 <listitem>
4139 <para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4140 </listitem>
4141
4142 <listitem>
4143 <para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4144 be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4145 </listitem>
4146
4147 </itemizedlist>
4148 </sect1>
4149
4150 <sect1>
4151 <title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4152
4153 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4154 added:</para>
4155
4156 <itemizedlist>
4157
4158 <listitem>
4159 <para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4160 2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4161 </listitem>
4162
4163 <listitem>
4164 <para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4165 Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4166 </listitem>
4167
4168 <listitem>
4169 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4170 interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4171 </listitem>
4172
4173 <listitem>
4174 <para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4175 circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4176 </listitem>
4177
4178 <listitem>
4179 <para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4180 </listitem>
4181
4182 <listitem>
4183 <para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4184 </listitem>
4185
4186 <listitem>
4187 <para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4188 </listitem>
4189
4190 <listitem>
4191 <para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 &amp; #5792)</para>
4192 </listitem>
4193
4194 <listitem>
4195 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4196 (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4197 </listitem>
4198
4199 <listitem>
4200 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4201 (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 &amp; #6125)</para>
4202 </listitem>
4203
4204 <listitem>
4205 <para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4206 mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4207 </listitem>
4208
4209 <listitem>
4210 <para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4211 </listitem>
4212
4213 <listitem>
4214 <para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4215 </listitem>
4216
4217 <listitem>
4218 <para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4219 windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4220 </listitem>
4221
4222 <listitem>
4223 <para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4224 <emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4225 calls (bug #6165)</para>
4226 </listitem>
4227
4228 <listitem>
4229 <para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4230 (bug #5297)</para>
4231 </listitem>
4232
4233 <listitem>
4234 <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4235 (bug #4962)</para>
4236 </listitem>
4237
4238 <listitem>
4239 <para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4240 connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4241 </listitem>
4242
4243 <listitem>
4244 <para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4245 (bug #6176)</para>
4246 </listitem>
4247
4248 <listitem>
4249 <para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4250 certain circumstances</para>
4251 </listitem>
4252
4253 <listitem>
4254 <para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4255 network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4256 </listitem>
4257
4258 <listitem>
4259 <para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4260 </listitem>
4261
4262 <listitem>
4263 <para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4264 </listitem>
4265
4266 <listitem>
4267 <para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4268 (bug #3571)</para>
4269 </listitem>
4270
4271 <listitem>
4272 <para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4273 devices</para>
4274 </listitem>
4275
4276 <listitem>
4277 <para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4278 determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4279 (Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4280 </listitem>
4281
4282 <listitem>
4283 <para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4284 (3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4285 </listitem>
4286
4287 <listitem>
4288 <para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4289 </listitem>
4290
4291 <listitem>
4292 <para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4293 (I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4294 </listitem>
4295
4296 <listitem>
4297 <para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4298 response</para>
4299 </listitem>
4300
4301 <listitem>
4302 <para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4303 </listitem>
4304
4305 <listitem>
4306 <para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4307 </listitem>
4308
4309 <listitem>
4310 <para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4311 </listitem>
4312
4313 <listitem>
4314 <para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4315 </listitem>
4316
4317 <listitem>
4318 <para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4319 Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4320 </listitem>
4321
4322 <listitem>
4323 <para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4324 </listitem>
4325
4326 <listitem>
4327 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4328 </listitem>
4329
4330 <listitem>
4331 <para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4332 guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4333 </listitem>
4334
4335 <listitem>
4336 <para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4337 </listitem>
4338
4339 <listitem>
4340 <para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4341 </listitem>
4342
4343 <listitem>
4344 <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4345 </listitem>
4346
4347 <listitem>
4348 <para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4349 </listitem>
4350
4351 </itemizedlist>
4352 </sect1>
4353
4354 <sect1>
4355 <title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4356
4357 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4358 added:</para>
4359
4360 <itemizedlist>
4361
4362 <listitem>
4363 <para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4364 </listitem>
4365
4366 <listitem>
4367 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4368 </listitem>
4369
4370 <listitem>
4371 <para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4372 hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4373 </listitem>
4374
4375 <listitem>
4376 <para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4377 AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4378 </listitem>
4379
4380 <listitem>
4381 <para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4382 (bug #3945)</para>
4383 </listitem>
4384
4385 <listitem>
4386 <para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4387 (software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4388 </listitem>
4389
4390 <listitem>
4391 <para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4392 and AMD-V only) </para>
4393 </listitem>
4394
4395 <listitem>
4396 <para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4397 </listitem>
4398
4399 <listitem>
4400 <para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4401 teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4402 "VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4403 </listitem>
4404
4405 <listitem>
4406 <para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4407 virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4408 </listitem>
4409
4410 <listitem>
4411 <para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4412 a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4413 </listitem>
4414
4415 <listitem>
4416 <para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4417 error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4418 </listitem>
4419
4420 <listitem>
4421 <para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4422 snapshots command</para>
4423 </listitem>
4424
4425 <listitem>
4426 <para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4427 </listitem>
4428
4429 <listitem>
4430 <para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4431 XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4432 </listitem>
4433
4434 <listitem>
4435 <para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4436 </listitem>
4437
4438 <listitem>
4439 <para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4440 </listitem>
4441
4442 <listitem>
4443 <para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4444 </listitem>
4445
4446 <listitem>
4447 <para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4448 (KWin bug)</para>
4449 </listitem>
4450
4451 <listitem>
4452 <para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4453 relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4454 </listitem>
4455
4456 <listitem>
4457 <para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4458 </listitem>
4459
4460 <listitem>
4461 <para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4462 </listitem>
4463
4464 <listitem>
4465 <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4466 </listitem>
4467
4468 <listitem>
4469 <para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4470 </listitem>
4471
4472 <listitem>
4473 <para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4474 resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4475 </listitem>
4476
4477 <listitem>
4478 <para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4479 bug #5787)</para>
4480 </listitem>
4481
4482 <listitem>
4483 <para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4484 DHCP requests</para>
4485 </listitem>
4486
4487 <listitem>
4488 <para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4489 (bug #3217)</para>
4490 </listitem>
4491
4492 <listitem>
4493 <para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4494 range (bug #5923)</para>
4495 </listitem>
4496
4497 <listitem>
4498 <para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4499 </listitem>
4500
4501 <listitem>
4502 <para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4503 </listitem>
4504
4505 <listitem>
4506 <para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4507 </listitem>
4508
4509 <listitem>
4510 <para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4511 </listitem>
4512
4513 <listitem>
4514 <para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4515 file (bug #5681)</para>
4516 </listitem>
4517
4518 <listitem>
4519 <para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4520 (3.1.2 regression)</para>
4521 </listitem>
4522
4523 <listitem>
4524 <para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4525 error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4526 </listitem>
4527
4528 <listitem>
4529 <para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4530 regression)</para>
4531 </listitem>
4532
4533 <listitem>
4534 <para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4535 </listitem>
4536
4537 <listitem>
4538 <para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4539 </listitem>
4540
4541 <listitem>
4542 <para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4543 </listitem>
4544
4545 <listitem>
4546 <para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4547 </listitem>
4548
4549 <listitem>
4550 <para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4551 (3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4552 </listitem>
4553
4554 <listitem>
4555 <para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4556 </listitem>
4557
4558 <listitem>
4559 <para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4560 </listitem>
4561
4562 <listitem>
4563 <para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4564 </listitem>
4565
4566 <listitem>
4567 <para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4568 clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4569 </listitem>
4570
4571 <listitem>
4572 <para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4573 </listitem>
4574
4575 <listitem>
4576 <para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4577 again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4578 </listitem>
4579
4580 <listitem>
4581 <para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4582 </listitem>
4583
4584 <listitem>
4585 <para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4586 </listitem>
4587
4588 <listitem>
4589 <para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4590 </listitem>
4591
4592 <listitem>
4593 <para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4594 (bug #5731)</para>
4595 </listitem>
4596
4597 <listitem>
4598 <para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4599 again</para>
4600 </listitem>
4601
4602 </itemizedlist>
4603
4604 </sect1>
4605
4606 <sect1>
4607 <title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4608
4609 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4610 added:</para>
4611
4612 <itemizedlist>
4613
4614 <listitem>
4615 <para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4616 </listitem>
4617
4618 <listitem>
4619 <para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4620 </listitem>
4621
4622 <listitem>
4623 <para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4624 </listitem>
4625
4626 <listitem>
4627 <para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4628 </listitem>
4629
4630 <listitem>
4631 <para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
4632 </listitem>
4633
4634 <listitem>
4635 <para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
4636 <emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
4637 </listitem>
4638
4639 <listitem>
4640 <para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
4641 </listitem>
4642
4643 <listitem>
4644 <para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
4645 </listitem>
4646
4647 <listitem>
4648 <para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
4649 </listitem>
4650
4651 <listitem>
4652 <para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
4653 </listitem>
4654
4655 <listitem>
4656 <para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
4657 </listitem>
4658
4659 <listitem>
4660 <para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
4661 Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
4662 </listitem>
4663
4664 <listitem>
4665 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
4666 used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
4667 </listitem>
4668
4669 <listitem>
4670 <para>Mac OS X hosts: dock &amp; menubar don't disappear in
4671 full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
4672 #1762)</para>
4673 </listitem>
4674
4675 <listitem>
4676 <para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &amp;
4677 Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
4678 </listitem>
4679
4680 <listitem>
4681 <para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
4682 right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
4683 </listitem>
4684
4685 <listitem>
4686 <para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
4687 while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
4688 </listitem>
4689
4690 <listitem>
4691 <para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
4692 </listitem>
4693
4694 <listitem>
4695 <para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
4696 </listitem>
4697
4698 <listitem>
4699 <para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
4700 several virtual CPU cores</para>
4701 </listitem>
4702
4703 <listitem>
4704 <para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
4705 </listitem>
4706
4707 <listitem>
4708 <para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
4709 </listitem>
4710
4711 <listitem>
4712 <para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
4713 when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
4714 </listitem>
4715
4716 <listitem>
4717 <para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
4718 paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
4719 </listitem>
4720
4721 <listitem>
4722 <para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
4723 </listitem>
4724
4725 <listitem>
4726 <para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
4727 guests</para>
4728 </listitem>
4729
4730 <listitem>
4731 <para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
4732 and on some 64bit guests</para>
4733 </listitem>
4734
4735 <listitem>
4736 <para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
4737 text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
4738 </listitem>
4739
4740 <listitem>
4741 <para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
4742 (openSUSE 11.0)</para>
4743 </listitem>
4744
4745 <listitem>
4746 <para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
4747 releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
4748 </listitem>
4749
4750 <listitem>
4751 <para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
4752 </listitem>
4753
4754 <listitem>
4755 <para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
4756 </listitem>
4757
4758 <listitem>
4759 <para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
4760 </listitem>
4761
4762 <listitem>
4763 <para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
4764 </listitem>
4765
4766 <listitem>
4767 <para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
4768 GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
4769 </listitem>
4770
4771 <listitem>
4772 <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
4773 </listitem>
4774
4775 </itemizedlist>
4776
4777 </sect1>
4778
4779 <sect1>
4780 <title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
4781
4782 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4783 were added:</para>
4784
4785 <itemizedlist>
4786
4787 <listitem>
4788 <para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
4789 from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
4790 </listitem>
4791
4792 <listitem>
4793 <para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
4794 the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
4795 ("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
4796 </listitem>
4797
4798 <listitem>
4799 <para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
4800 hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
4801 (see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
4802 </listitem>
4803
4804 <listitem>
4805 <para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
4806 arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
4807 (<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
4808 </listitem>
4809
4810 <listitem>
4811 <para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
4812 running</para>
4813 </listitem>
4814
4815 <listitem>
4816 <para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
4817 making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
4818 </listitem>
4819
4820 <listitem>
4821 <para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
4822 (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
4823 </listitem>
4824
4825 <listitem>
4826 <para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
4827 see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
4828 </listitem>
4829
4830 <listitem>
4831 <para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
4832 see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
4833 </listitem>
4834
4835 </itemizedlist>
4836
4837 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4838
4839 <itemizedlist>
4840
4841 <listitem>
4842 <para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
4843 </listitem>
4844
4845 <listitem>
4846 <para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
4847 </listitem>
4848
4849 <listitem>
4850 <para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
4851 </listitem>
4852
4853 <listitem>
4854 <para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
4855 (bug #5291)</para>
4856 </listitem>
4857
4858 <listitem>
4859 <para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
4860 </listitem>
4861
4862 <listitem>
4863 <para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
4864 </listitem>
4865
4866 <listitem>
4867 <para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
4868 </listitem>
4869
4870 <listitem>
4871 <para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
4872 <emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
4873 </listitem>
4874
4875 <listitem>
4876 <para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
4877 Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
4878 </listitem>
4879
4880 <listitem>
4881 <para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
4882 </listitem>
4883
4884 <listitem>
4885 <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
4886 </listitem>
4887
4888 <listitem>
4889 <para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
4890 </listitem>
4891
4892 <listitem>
4893 <para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
4894 </listitem>
4895
4896 <listitem>
4897 <para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
4898 </listitem>
4899
4900 <listitem>
4901 <para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
4902 (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
4903 </listitem>
4904
4905 <listitem>
4906 <para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
4907 (see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
4908 </listitem>
4909
4910 <listitem>
4911 <para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
4912 (bug #5523, #2787)</para>
4913 </listitem>
4914
4915 <listitem>
4916 <para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
4917 (bug #2723)</para>
4918 </listitem>
4919
4920 <listitem>
4921 <para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
4922 </listitem>
4923
4924 <listitem>
4925 <para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
4926 see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
4927 </listitem>
4928
4929 <listitem>
4930 <para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
4931 optional manifest file on import</para>
4932 </listitem>
4933
4934 <listitem>
4935 <para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
4936 </listitem>
4937
4938 <listitem>
4939 <para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
4940 (bug #3773)</para>
4941 </listitem>
4942
4943 <listitem>
4944 <para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
4945 </listitem>
4946
4947 <listitem>
4948 <para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
4949 </listitem>
4950
4951 <listitem>
4952 <para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
4953 layout (bug #2302)</para>
4954 </listitem>
4955
4956 <listitem>
4957 <para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
4958 (bug #4866)</para>
4959 </listitem>
4960
4961 <listitem>
4962 <para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
4963 left click (bug #5049)</para>
4964 </listitem>
4965
4966 <listitem>
4967 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
4968 certain conditions</para>
4969 </listitem>
4970
4971 <listitem>
4972 <para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
4973 </listitem>
4974
4975 <listitem>
4976 <para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
4977 </listitem>
4978
4979 <listitem>
4980 <para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
4981 </listitem>
4982
4983 <listitem>
4984 <para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
4985 </listitem>
4986
4987 <listitem>
4988 <para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
4989 was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
4990 </listitem>
4991
4992 <listitem>
4993 <para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
4994 </listitem>
4995
4996 <listitem>
4997 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
4998 properties (bug #5337)</para>
4999 </listitem>
5000
5001 <listitem>
5002 <para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5003 </listitem>
5004
5005 <listitem>
5006 <para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5007 </listitem>
5008
5009 <listitem>
5010 <para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5011 </listitem>
5012
5013 <listitem>
5014 <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5015 </listitem>
5016
5017 <listitem>
5018 <para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5019 Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5020 </listitem>
5021
5022 <listitem>
5023 <para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5024 file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5025 (bug #928)</para>
5026 </listitem>
5027
5028 <listitem>
5029 <para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5030 </listitem>
5031
5032 </itemizedlist>
5033
5034 </sect1>
5035
5036 <sect1>
5037 <title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5038
5039 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5040 added:</para>
5041
5042 <itemizedlist>
5043
5044 <listitem>
5045 <para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5046 guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5047 </listitem>
5048
5049 <listitem>
5050 <para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5051 using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5052 </listitem>
5053
5054 <listitem>
5055 <para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5056 forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5057 </listitem>
5058
5059 <listitem>
5060 <para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5061 enabled</para>
5062 </listitem>
5063
5064 <listitem>
5065 <para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5066 meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5067 </listitem>
5068
5069 <listitem>
5070 <para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5071 (bug #2676)</para>
5072 </listitem>
5073
5074 <listitem>
5075 <para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5076 is connected to a raw file</para>
5077 </listitem>
5078
5079 <listitem>
5080 <para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5081 (bug #5355)</para>
5082 </listitem>
5083
5084 <listitem>
5085 <para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5086 </listitem>
5087
5088 <listitem>
5089 <para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5090 guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5091 </listitem>
5092
5093 <listitem>
5094 <para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5095 PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5096 guest (bug #4496)</para>
5097 </listitem>
5098
5099 <listitem>
5100 <para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5101 </listitem>
5102
5103 <listitem>
5104 <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5105 </listitem>
5106
5107 <listitem>
5108 <para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5109 <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5110 </listitem>
5111
5112 <listitem>
5113 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5114 among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5115 periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5116 </listitem>
5117
5118 </itemizedlist>
5119
5120 </sect1>
5121
5122 <sect1>
5123 <title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5124
5125 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5126 added:</para>
5127
5128 <itemizedlist>
5129
5130 <listitem>
5131 <para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5132 </listitem>
5133
5134 <listitem>
5135 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5136 </listitem>
5137
5138 <listitem>
5139 <para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5140 necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5141 (Windows &amp; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5142 </listitem>
5143
5144 <listitem>
5145 <para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5146 (VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5147 </listitem>
5148
5149 <listitem>
5150 <para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5151 </listitem>
5152
5153 <listitem>
5154 <para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5155 </listitem>
5156
5157 <listitem>
5158 <para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5159 </listitem>
5160
5161 <listitem>
5162 <para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5163 </listitem>
5164
5165 <listitem>
5166 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5167 </listitem>
5168
5169 <listitem>
5170 <para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5171 screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5172 </listitem>
5173
5174 <listitem>
5175 <para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5176 </listitem>
5177
5178 <listitem>
5179 <para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5180 </listitem>
5181
5182 <listitem>
5183 <para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5184 on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5185 </listitem>
5186
5187 <listitem>
5188 <para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5189 </listitem>
5190
5191 <listitem>
5192 <para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5193 exhaustion</para>
5194 </listitem>
5195
5196 <listitem>
5197 <para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5198 </listitem>
5199
5200 <listitem>
5201 <para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5202 netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5203 </listitem>
5204
5205 <listitem>
5206 <para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5207 folders (bug #4106)</para>
5208 </listitem>
5209
5210 <listitem>
5211 <para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5212 folders (bug #4299)</para>
5213 </listitem>
5214
5215 <listitem>
5216 <para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5217 <emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5218 (bug #2921)</para>
5219 </listitem>
5220
5221 <listitem>
5222 <para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5223 hosts only)</para>
5224 </listitem>
5225
5226 <listitem>
5227 <para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5228 package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5229 </listitem>
5230
5231 <listitem>
5232 <para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5233 </listitem>
5234
5235 <listitem>
5236 <para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5237 (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5238 </listitem>
5239
5240 <listitem>
5241 <para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5242 </listitem>
5243
5244 <listitem>
5245 <para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5246 image inconsistency </para>
5247 </listitem>
5248
5249 <listitem>
5250 <para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5251 </listitem>
5252
5253 <listitem>
5254 <para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5255 </listitem>
5256
5257 <listitem>
5258 <para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5259 (bug #2025)</para>
5260 </listitem>
5261
5262 <listitem>
5263 <para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5264 initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5265 </listitem>
5266
5267 </itemizedlist>
5268
5269 </sect1>
5270
5271 <sect1>
5272 <title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5273
5274 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5275 added:</para>
5276
5277 <itemizedlist>
5278
5279 <listitem>
5280 <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5281 (VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5282 </listitem>
5283
5284 <listitem>
5285 <para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &amp;
5286 AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5287 </listitem>
5288
5289 <listitem>
5290 <para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5291 guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5292 </listitem>
5293
5294 <listitem>
5295 <para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5296 </listitem>
5297
5298 <listitem>
5299 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5300 software virtualization only) </para>
5301 </listitem>
5302
5303 <listitem>
5304 <para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5305 Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5306 </listitem>
5307
5308 <listitem>
5309 <para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5310 with root privileges</para>
5311 </listitem>
5312
5313 <listitem>
5314 <para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5315 which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5316 </listitem>
5317
5318 <listitem>
5319 <para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5320 distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5321 </listitem>
5322
5323 <listitem>
5324 <para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5325 opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5326 </listitem>
5327
5328 <listitem>
5329 <para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5330 DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5331 selector (bug #5063)</para>
5332 </listitem>
5333
5334 <listitem>
5335 <para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5336 available</para>
5337 </listitem>
5338
5339 <listitem>
5340 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5341 interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5342 </listitem>
5343
5344 <listitem>
5345 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5346 networking (bug #4775)</para>
5347 </listitem>
5348
5349 <listitem>
5350 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5351 changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5352 </listitem>
5353
5354 <listitem>
5355 <para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5356 (bug #4907)</para>
5357 </listitem>
5358
5359 <listitem>
5360 <para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5361 VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5362 </listitem>
5363
5364 <listitem>
5365 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5366 with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5367 </listitem>
5368
5369 <listitem>
5370 <para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5371 </listitem>
5372
5373 <listitem>
5374 <para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5375 </listitem>
5376
5377 <listitem>
5378 <para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5379 </listitem>
5380
5381 <listitem>
5382 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5383 </listitem>
5384
5385 <listitem>
5386 <para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5387 are installed</para>
5388 </listitem>
5389
5390 <listitem>
5391 <para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5392 (bug #4771)</para>
5393 </listitem>
5394
5395 <listitem>
5396 <para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5397 </listitem>
5398
5399 <listitem>
5400 <para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5401 rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5402 </listitem>
5403
5404 <listitem>
5405 <para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5406 command</para>
5407 </listitem>
5408
5409 <listitem>
5410 <para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5411 </listitem>
5412
5413 <listitem>
5414 <para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5415 </listitem>
5416
5417 <listitem>
5418 <para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5419 (bug #5089)</para>
5420 </listitem>
5421
5422 <listitem>
5423 <para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5424 </listitem>
5425
5426 </itemizedlist>
5427
5428 </sect1>
5429
5430 <sect1>
5431 <title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5432
5433 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5434 added:</para>
5435
5436 <itemizedlist>
5437
5438 <listitem>
5439 <para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5440 (AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5441 </listitem>
5442
5443 <listitem>
5444 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5445 a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5446 </listitem>
5447
5448 <listitem>
5449 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5450 (software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5451 </listitem>
5452
5453 <listitem>
5454 <para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris &amp; OpenSolaris
5455 guests (bug #2258)</para>
5456 </listitem>
5457
5458 <listitem>
5459 <para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5460 (AMD-V &amp; VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5461 </listitem>
5462
5463 <listitem>
5464 <para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5465 </listitem>
5466
5467 <listitem>
5468 <para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5469 </listitem>
5470
5471 <listitem>
5472 <para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5473 </listitem>
5474
5475 <listitem>
5476 <para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5477 </listitem>
5478
5479 <listitem>
5480 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5481 </listitem>
5482
5483 <listitem>
5484 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5485 onlined or offlined</para>
5486 </listitem>
5487
5488 <listitem>
5489 <para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5490 </listitem>
5491
5492 <listitem>
5493 <para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels &lt; 2.6.11 (in particular
5494 RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels &lt; 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5495 </listitem>
5496
5497 <listitem>
5498 <para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5499 than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5500 </listitem>
5501
5502 <listitem>
5503 <para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5504 </listitem>
5505
5506 <listitem>
5507 <para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5508 wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5509 </listitem>
5510
5511 <listitem>
5512 <para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5513 </listitem>
5514
5515 <listitem>
5516 <para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5517 </listitem>
5518
5519 <listitem>
5520 <para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5521 </listitem>
5522
5523 <listitem>
5524 <para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5525 </listitem>
5526
5527 <listitem>
5528 <para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5529 </listitem>
5530
5531 <listitem>
5532 <para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5533 filters in machine settings XML</para>
5534 </listitem>
5535
5536 <listitem>
5537 <para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5538 </listitem>
5539
5540 <listitem>
5541 <para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5542 </listitem>
5543
5544 <listitem>
5545 <para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5546 </listitem>
5547
5548 <listitem>
5549 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5550 for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5551 </listitem>
5552
5553 <listitem>
5554 <para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5555 <emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5556 </listitem>
5557
5558 <listitem>
5559 <para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5560 </listitem>
5561
5562 <listitem>
5563 <para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5564 </listitem>
5565
5566 <listitem>
5567 <para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5568 </listitem>
5569
5570 <listitem>
5571 <para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5572 </listitem>
5573
5574 <listitem>
5575 <para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5576 </listitem>
5577
5578 <listitem>
5579 <para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5580 </listitem>
5581
5582 <listitem>
5583 <para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5584 </listitem>
5585
5586 <listitem>
5587 <para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5588 fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5589 was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5590 phase collapse</para>
5591 </listitem>
5592
5593 <listitem>
5594 <para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5595 (2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5596 </listitem>
5597
5598 <listitem>
5599 <para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5600 to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5601 </listitem>
5602
5603 <listitem>
5604 <para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5605 </listitem>
5606
5607 <listitem>
5608 <para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5609 <emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5610 </listitem>
5611
5612 <listitem>
5613 <para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5614 interface bringup on Linux</para>
5615 </listitem>
5616
5617 <listitem>
5618 <para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5619 </listitem>
5620
5621 <listitem>
5622 <para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5623 interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5624 #4698, #4790)</para>
5625 </listitem>
5626
5627 <listitem>
5628 <para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5629 less than the configured range</para>
5630 </listitem>
5631
5632 <listitem>
5633 <para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
5634 </listitem>
5635
5636 <listitem>
5637 <para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
5638 </listitem>
5639
5640 <listitem>
5641 <para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
5642 </listitem>
5643
5644 <listitem>
5645 <para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
5646 </listitem>
5647
5648 <listitem>
5649 <para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
5650 DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
5651 </listitem>
5652
5653 <listitem>
5654 <para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
5655 the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
5656 </listitem>
5657
5658 <listitem>
5659 <para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
5660 (like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
5661 </listitem>
5662
5663 <listitem>
5664 <para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
5665 </listitem>
5666
5667 <listitem>
5668 <para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
5669 and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
5670 </listitem>
5671
5672 <listitem>
5673 <para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
5674 new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
5675 </listitem>
5676
5677 <listitem>
5678 <para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
5679 a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
5680 </listitem>
5681
5682 <listitem>
5683 <para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
5684 cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
5685 </listitem>
5686
5687 <listitem>
5688 <para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
5689 </listitem>
5690
5691 <listitem>
5692 <para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
5693 </listitem>
5694
5695 </itemizedlist>
5696
5697 </sect1>
5698
5699 <sect1>
5700 <title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
5701
5702 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5703 added:</para>
5704
5705 <itemizedlist>
5706
5707 <listitem>
5708 <para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 &amp; #3666)</para>
5709 </listitem>
5710
5711 <listitem>
5712 <para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
5713 </listitem>
5714
5715 <listitem>
5716 <para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
5717 </listitem>
5718
5719 <listitem>
5720 <para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
5721 </listitem>
5722
5723 <listitem>
5724 <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
5725 </listitem>
5726
5727 <listitem>
5728 <para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
5729 </listitem>
5730
5731 <listitem>
5732 <para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
5733 </listitem>
5734
5735 <listitem>
5736 <para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
5737 </listitem>
5738
5739 <listitem>
5740 <para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
5741 </listitem>
5742
5743 <listitem>
5744 <para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
5745 multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
5746 </listitem>
5747
5748 <listitem>
5749 <para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
5750 </listitem>
5751
5752 <listitem>
5753 <para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
5754 </listitem>
5755
5756 <listitem>
5757 <para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
5758 </listitem>
5759
5760 <listitem>
5761 <para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
5762 </listitem>
5763
5764 <listitem>
5765 <para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
5766 </listitem>
5767
5768 <listitem>
5769 <para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
5770 </listitem>
5771
5772 <listitem>
5773 <para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
5774 Windows (bug #4354)</para>
5775 </listitem>
5776
5777 <listitem>
5778 <para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
5779 (bug #4654)</para>
5780 </listitem>
5781
5782 <listitem>
5783 <para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
5784 </listitem>
5785
5786 <listitem>
5787 <para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
5788 interfaces</para>
5789 </listitem>
5790
5791 <listitem>
5792 <para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
5793 in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
5794 </listitem>
5795
5796 <listitem>
5797 <para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
5798 inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
5799 </listitem>
5800
5801 <listitem>
5802 <para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
5803 properties (bug #3415)</para>
5804 </listitem>
5805
5806 <listitem>
5807 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
5808 (bug #1461)</para>
5809 </listitem>
5810
5811 <listitem>
5812 <para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
5813 </listitem>
5814
5815 <listitem>
5816 <para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
5817 transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
5818 </listitem>
5819
5820 <listitem>
5821 <para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
5822 fails to find any DVD drives</para>
5823 </listitem>
5824
5825 <listitem>
5826 <para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
5827 Qt (bug #4353)</para>
5828 </listitem>
5829
5830 <listitem>
5831 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
5832 </listitem>
5833
5834 <listitem>
5835 <para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
5836 </listitem>
5837
5838 <listitem>
5839 <para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
5840 </listitem>
5841
5842 <listitem>
5843 <para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
5844 seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
5845 </listitem>
5846
5847 <listitem>
5848 <para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
5849 amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
5850 </listitem>
5851
5852 <listitem>
5853 <para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
5854 guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
5855 </listitem>
5856
5857 <listitem>
5858 <para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
5859 working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
5860 </listitem>
5861
5862 </itemizedlist>
5863
5864 </sect1>
5865 <sect1>
5866 <title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
5867
5868 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5869 added:</para>
5870
5871 <itemizedlist>
5872
5873 <listitem>
5874 <para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
5875 </listitem>
5876
5877 <listitem>
5878 <para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
5879 </listitem>
5880
5881 <listitem>
5882 <para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
5883 (VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
5884 </listitem>
5885
5886 <listitem>
5887 <para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
5888 virtualization only; bugs #2696 &amp; #3868)</para>
5889 </listitem>
5890
5891 <listitem>
5892 <para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
5893 </listitem>
5894
5895 <listitem>
5896 <para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
5897 </listitem>
5898
5899 <listitem>
5900 <para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
5901 </listitem>
5902
5903 <listitem>
5904 <para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
5905 </listitem>
5906
5907 <listitem>
5908 <para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
5909 </listitem>
5910
5911 <listitem>
5912 <para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
5913 </listitem>
5914
5915 <listitem>
5916 <para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
5917 </listitem>
5918
5919 <listitem>
5920 <para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
5921 </listitem>
5922
5923 <listitem>
5924 <para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
5925 </listitem>
5926
5927 <listitem>
5928 <para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
5929 </listitem>
5930
5931 <listitem>
5932 <para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
5933 </listitem>
5934
5935 <listitem>
5936 <para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
5937 guest (bug #4381)</para>
5938 </listitem>
5939
5940 <listitem>
5941 <para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
5942 </listitem>
5943
5944 <listitem>
5945 <para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
5946 </listitem>
5947
5948 <listitem>
5949 <para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
5950 (for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
5951 </listitem>
5952
5953 <listitem>
5954 <para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
5955 </listitem>
5956
5957 <listitem>
5958 <para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
5959 </listitem>
5960
5961 <listitem>
5962 <para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
5963 black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
5964 </listitem>
5965
5966 <listitem>
5967 <para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
5968 </listitem>
5969
5970 <listitem>
5971 <para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
5972 </listitem>
5973
5974 <listitem>
5975 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
5976 </listitem>
5977
5978 <listitem>
5979 <para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
5980 </listitem>
5981
5982 <listitem>
5983 <para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
5984 </listitem>
5985
5986 <listitem>
5987 <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>
5988 </listitem>
5989
5990 </itemizedlist>
5991
5992 </sect1>
5993
5994 <sect1>
5995 <title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
5996
5997 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5998 were added:</para>
5999
6000 <itemizedlist>
6001
6002 <listitem>
6003 <para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6004 </listitem>
6005
6006 <listitem>
6007 <para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6008 (experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6009 </listitem>
6010
6011 <listitem>
6012 <para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6013 </listitem>
6014
6015 </itemizedlist>
6016
6017 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6018
6019 <itemizedlist>
6020
6021 <listitem>
6022 <para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6023 </listitem>
6024
6025 <listitem>
6026 <para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6027 certain conditions</para>
6028 </listitem>
6029
6030 <listitem>
6031 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6032 </listitem>
6033
6034 <listitem>
6035 <para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6036 </listitem>
6037
6038 <listitem>
6039 <para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6040 </listitem>
6041
6042 <listitem>
6043 <para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6044 this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6045 </listitem>
6046
6047 <listitem>
6048 <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6049 </listitem>
6050
6051 <listitem>
6052 <para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6053 </listitem>
6054
6055 <listitem>
6056 <para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6057 </listitem>
6058
6059 <listitem>
6060 <para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6061 </listitem>
6062
6063 <listitem>
6064 <para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6065 </listitem>
6066
6067 <listitem>
6068 <para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6069 </listitem>
6070
6071 <listitem>
6072 <para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6073 </listitem>
6074
6075 <listitem>
6076 <para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6077 </listitem>
6078
6079 <listitem>
6080 <para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6081 (non Windows hosts)</para>
6082 </listitem>
6083
6084 <listitem>
6085 <para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6086 </listitem>
6087
6088 <listitem>
6089 <para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6090 </listitem>
6091
6092 <listitem>
6093 <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6094 </listitem>
6095
6096 <listitem>
6097 <para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6098 </listitem>
6099
6100 <listitem>
6101 <para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6102 </listitem>
6103
6104 <listitem>
6105 <para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6106 </listitem>
6107
6108 <listitem>
6109 <para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6110 </listitem>
6111
6112 <listitem>
6113 <para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6114 </listitem>
6115
6116 <listitem>
6117 <para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6118 </listitem>
6119
6120 <listitem>
6121 <para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6122 with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6123 </listitem>
6124
6125 <listitem>
6126 <para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6127 </listitem>
6128
6129 <listitem>
6130 <para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6131 </listitem>
6132
6133 <listitem>
6134 <para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6135 </listitem>
6136
6137 <listitem>
6138 <para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6139 </listitem>
6140
6141 <listitem>
6142 <para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6143 </listitem>
6144
6145 <listitem>
6146 <para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6147 </listitem>
6148
6149 <listitem>
6150 <para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6151 </listitem>
6152
6153 <listitem>
6154 <para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6155 creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6156 </listitem>
6157
6158 <listitem>
6159 <para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6160 </listitem>
6161
6162 <listitem>
6163 <para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6164 </listitem>
6165
6166 <listitem>
6167 <para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6168 </listitem>
6169
6170 <listitem>
6171 <para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6172 virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6173 </listitem>
6174
6175 <listitem>
6176 <para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6177 (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6178 </listitem>
6179
6180 <listitem>
6181 <para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6182 correct file mode when creating files</para>
6183 </listitem>
6184
6185 <listitem>
6186 <para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6187 conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6188 </listitem>
6189
6190 <listitem>
6191 <para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6192 on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6193 </listitem>
6194
6195 <listitem>
6196 <para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6197 </listitem>
6198
6199 <listitem>
6200 <para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6201 </listitem>
6202
6203 <listitem>
6204 <para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6205 Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6206 </listitem>
6207
6208 <listitem>
6209 <para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6210 guest property lookup</para>
6211 </listitem>
6212
6213 <listitem>
6214 <para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6215 basic network information)</para>
6216 </listitem>
6217
6218 <listitem>
6219 <para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6220 (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6221 </listitem>
6222
6223 <listitem>
6224 <para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6225 added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6226 endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6227 devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6228 </listitem>
6229
6230 <listitem>
6231 <para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6232 </listitem>
6233
6234 <listitem>
6235 <para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6236 are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6237 web service</para>
6238 </listitem>
6239
6240 <listitem>
6241 <para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6242 inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6243 </listitem>
6244
6245 <listitem>
6246 <para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6247 unavailable</para>
6248 </listitem>
6249
6250 <listitem>
6251 <para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6252 </listitem>
6253
6254 </itemizedlist>
6255 </sect1>
6256
6257 <sect1>
6258 <title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6259
6260 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6261 added:</para>
6262
6263 <itemizedlist>
6264
6265 <listitem>
6266 <para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6267 installation</para>
6268 </listitem>
6269
6270 <listitem>
6271 <para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6272 </listitem>
6273
6274 <listitem>
6275 <para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6276 later (bug #3981)</para>
6277 </listitem>
6278
6279 <listitem>
6280 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6281 loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6282 </listitem>
6283
6284 <listitem>
6285 <para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6286 <computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6287 (bug #4034)
6288 </para>
6289 </listitem>
6290
6291 <listitem>
6292 <para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6293 networking</para>
6294 </listitem>
6295
6296 <listitem>
6297 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6298 disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6299 </listitem>
6300
6301 <listitem>
6302 <para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6303 clicks</para>
6304 </listitem>
6305
6306 <listitem>
6307 <para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6308 Windows 7 guests</para>
6309 </listitem>
6310
6311 <listitem>
6312 <para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6313 that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6314 </listitem>
6315
6316 <listitem>
6317 <para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6318 </listitem>
6319
6320 <listitem>
6321 <para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6322 </listitem>
6323
6324 <listitem>
6325 <para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6326 (bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6327 </listitem>
6328
6329 <listitem>
6330 <para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6331 clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6332 </listitem>
6333
6334 <listitem>
6335 <para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6336 </listitem>
6337
6338 <listitem>
6339 <para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6340 </listitem>
6341
6342 <listitem>
6343 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6344 fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6345 (bug #3864)</para>
6346 </listitem>
6347
6348 <listitem>
6349 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6350 now flushes the output stream</para>
6351 </listitem>
6352
6353 <listitem>
6354 <para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6355 sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6356 </listitem>
6357
6358 <listitem>
6359 <para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6360 </listitem>
6361
6362 <listitem>
6363 <para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6364 </listitem>
6365
6366 <listitem>
6367 <para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6368 </listitem>
6369
6370 <listitem>
6371 <para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6372 </listitem>
6373
6374 <listitem>
6375 <para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6376 (bug #3964)</para>
6377 </listitem>
6378
6379 <listitem>
6380 <para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6381 hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6382 </listitem>
6383
6384 <listitem>
6385 <para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6386 hosts</para>
6387 </listitem>
6388
6389 <listitem>
6390 <para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6391 a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6392 e1000 adapter</para>
6393 </listitem>
6394
6395 <listitem>
6396 <para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6397 when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6398 offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6399 offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6400 </listitem>
6401
6402 <listitem>
6403 <para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6404 </listitem>
6405
6406 <listitem>
6407 <para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6408 </listitem>
6409
6410 <listitem>
6411 <para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6412 </listitem>
6413
6414 <listitem>
6415 <para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6416 file (bug #1023)</para>
6417 </listitem>
6418
6419 <listitem>
6420 <para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6421 </listitem>
6422
6423 <listitem>
6424 <para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6425 </listitem>
6426
6427 </itemizedlist>
6428 </sect1>
6429
6430 <sect1>
6431 <title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6432
6433 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6434 added:</para>
6435
6436 <itemizedlist>
6437
6438 <listitem>
6439 <para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6440 hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6441 </listitem>
6442
6443 <listitem>
6444 <para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6445 on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6446 and later</para>
6447 </listitem>
6448
6449 <listitem>
6450 <para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6451 running services</para>
6452 </listitem>
6453
6454 <listitem>
6455 <para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6456 terminates</para>
6457 </listitem>
6458
6459 <listitem>
6460 <para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6461 in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6462 </listitem>
6463
6464 <listitem>
6465 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6466 installed on the guest</para>
6467 </listitem>
6468
6469 <listitem>
6470 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6471 unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6472 </listitem>
6473
6474 <listitem>
6475 <para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6476 Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6477 </listitem>
6478
6479 <listitem>
6480 <para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6481 (bug #2628)</para>
6482 </listitem>
6483
6484 <listitem>
6485 <para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6486 hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6487 </listitem>
6488
6489 <listitem>
6490 <para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6491 (bug #3657)</para>
6492 </listitem>
6493
6494 <listitem>
6495 <para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6496 devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6497 </listitem>
6498
6499 <listitem>
6500 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6501 virtualization only)
6502 </para>
6503 </listitem>
6504
6505 <listitem>
6506 <para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6507 images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6508 </listitem>
6509
6510 <listitem>
6511 <para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6512 </listitem>
6513
6514 <listitem>
6515 <para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6516 networks (bug #3702)</para>
6517 </listitem>
6518
6519 <listitem>
6520 <para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6521 bug #3689)</para>
6522 </listitem>
6523
6524 <listitem>
6525 <para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6526 bug #3679)</para>
6527 </listitem>
6528
6529 <listitem>
6530 <para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6531 bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6532 </listitem>
6533
6534 <listitem>
6535 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6536 implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6537 (bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6538 </listitem>
6539
6540 <listitem>
6541 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6542 made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6543 </listitem>
6544
6545 <listitem>
6546 <para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6547 lease (bug #3655)</para>
6548 </listitem>
6549
6550 <listitem>
6551 <para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6552 (bug #3667)</para>
6553 </listitem>
6554
6555 <listitem>
6556 <para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6557 emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6558 </listitem>
6559
6560 <listitem>
6561 <para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6562 </listitem>
6563
6564 <listitem>
6565 <para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6566 </listitem>
6567
6568 <listitem>
6569 <para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6570 </listitem>
6571
6572 <listitem>
6573 <para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6574 </listitem>
6575
6576 <listitem>
6577 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6578 </listitem>
6579
6580 <listitem>
6581 <para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6582 </listitem>
6583
6584 <listitem>
6585 <para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6586 </listitem>
6587
6588 </itemizedlist>
6589 </sect1>
6590
6591 <sect1>
6592 <title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6593
6594 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6595 were added:</para>
6596
6597 <itemizedlist>
6598
6599 <listitem>
6600 <para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6601 </listitem>
6602
6603 <listitem>
6604 <para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6605 </listitem>
6606
6607 <listitem>
6608 <para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6609 </listitem>
6610
6611 <listitem>
6612 <para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6613 </listitem>
6614
6615 <listitem>
6616 <para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6617 </listitem>
6618
6619 <listitem>
6620 <para>USB (OHCI &amp; EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6621 </listitem>
6622
6623 <listitem>
6624 <para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6625 </listitem>
6626
6627 <listitem>
6628 <para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6629 </listitem>
6630
6631 <listitem>
6632 <para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6633 </listitem>
6634
6635 <listitem>
6636 <para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
6637 </listitem>
6638
6639 </itemizedlist>
6640
6641 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6642
6643 <itemizedlist>
6644
6645 <listitem>
6646 <para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
6647 </listitem>
6648
6649 <listitem>
6650 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
6651 </listitem>
6652
6653 <listitem>
6654 <para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
6655 </listitem>
6656
6657 <listitem>
6658 <para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
6659 </listitem>
6660
6661 <listitem>
6662 <para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
6663 </listitem>
6664
6665 <listitem>
6666 <para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6667 </listitem>
6668
6669 <listitem>
6670 <para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6671 </listitem>
6672
6673 <listitem>
6674 <para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
6675 </listitem>
6676
6677 <listitem>
6678 <para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
6679 but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
6680 </listitem>
6681
6682 <listitem>
6683 <para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
6684 </listitem>
6685
6686 <listitem>
6687 <para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
6688 TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
6689 </listitem>
6690
6691 <listitem>
6692 <para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
6693 when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
6694 </listitem>
6695
6696 <listitem>
6697 <para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
6698 </listitem>
6699
6700 <listitem>
6701 <para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
6702 </listitem>
6703
6704 <listitem>
6705 <para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
6706 and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
6707 </listitem>
6708
6709 <listitem>
6710 <para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
6711 </listitem>
6712
6713 <listitem>
6714 <para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
6715 ESX server images)</para>
6716 </listitem>
6717
6718 <listitem>
6719 <para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
6720 writable</para>
6721 </listitem>
6722
6723 <listitem>
6724 <para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
6725 EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
6726 is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
6727 </listitem>
6728
6729 <listitem>
6730 <para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
6731 (Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
6732 </listitem>
6733
6734 <listitem>
6735 <para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
6736 </listitem>
6737
6738 <listitem>
6739 <para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
6740 </listitem>
6741
6742 <listitem>
6743 <para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
6744 hosts when creating files</para>
6745 </listitem>
6746
6747 <listitem>
6748 <para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
6749 this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
6750 </listitem>
6751
6752 <listitem>
6753 <para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
6754 if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
6755 #2306)</para>
6756 </listitem>
6757
6758 <listitem>
6759 <para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
6760 (bug #3555)</para>
6761 </listitem>
6762
6763 <listitem>
6764 <para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
6765 installer (bug #3524)</para>
6766 </listitem>
6767
6768 <listitem>
6769 <para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
6770 correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
6771 </listitem>
6772
6773 <listitem>
6774 <para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
6775 interface (bug #3414)</para>
6776 </listitem>
6777
6778 <listitem>
6779 <para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
6780 the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
6781 </listitem>
6782
6783 <listitem>
6784 <para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
6785 (bug #3586)</para>
6786 </listitem>
6787
6788 <listitem>
6789 <para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
6790 from Scratch systems</para>
6791 </listitem>
6792
6793 <listitem>
6794 <para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
6795 both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
6796 </listitem>
6797
6798 <listitem>
6799 <para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
6800 </listitem>
6801
6802 <listitem>
6803 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
6804 default to compact format</para>
6805 </listitem>
6806
6807 <listitem>
6808 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
6809 did not work if the image was attached before</para>
6810 </listitem>
6811
6812 <listitem>
6813 <para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
6814 </listitem>
6815
6816 <listitem>
6817 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
6818 don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
6819 statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
6820 </listitem>
6821
6822 <listitem>
6823 <para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
6824 single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
6825 next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
6826 </listitem>
6827
6828 <listitem>
6829 <para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
6830 VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
6831 </listitem>
6832
6833 <listitem>
6834 <para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
6835 </listitem>
6836
6837 <listitem>
6838 <para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
6839 </listitem>
6840
6841 <listitem>
6842 <para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
6843 </listitem>
6844
6845 <listitem>
6846 <para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
6847 </listitem>
6848
6849 <listitem>
6850 <para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
6851 </listitem>
6852
6853 <listitem>
6854 <para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
6855 </listitem>
6856
6857 <listitem>
6858 <para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
6859 </listitem>
6860
6861 <listitem>
6862 <para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
6863 a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
6864 </listitem>
6865
6866 <listitem>
6867 <para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
6868 </listitem>
6869
6870 <listitem>
6871 <para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
6872 regression; bug #2065)</para>
6873 </listitem>
6874
6875 <listitem>
6876 <para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
6877 </listitem>
6878
6879 <listitem>
6880 <para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
6881 </listitem>
6882
6883 <listitem>
6884 <para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
6885 </listitem>
6886
6887 <listitem>
6888 <para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
6889 #2536)</para>
6890 </listitem>
6891
6892 <listitem>
6893 <para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
6894 </listitem>
6895
6896 <listitem>
6897 <para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
6898 (bug #3548)</para>
6899 </listitem>
6900
6901 </itemizedlist>
6902 </sect1>
6903
6904 <sect1>
6905 <title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
6906
6907 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6908 added:</para>
6909
6910 <itemizedlist>
6911
6912 <listitem>
6913 <para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
6914 when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
6915 </listitem>
6916
6917 <listitem>
6918 <para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
6919 </listitem>
6920
6921 <listitem>
6922 <para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
6923 </listitem>
6924
6925 <listitem>
6926 <para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
6927 </listitem>
6928
6929 <listitem>
6930 <para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
6931 (bug #3115)</para>
6932 </listitem>
6933
6934 <listitem>
6935 <para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
6936 don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
6937 </listitem>
6938
6939 <listitem>
6940 <para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
6941 communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
6942 (bug #3215)</para>
6943 </listitem>
6944
6945 <listitem>
6946 <para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
6947 are not available (bug #3136)</para>
6948 </listitem>
6949
6950 <listitem>
6951 <para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
6952 disabled (bug #3098)</para>
6953 </listitem>
6954
6955 <listitem>
6956 <para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
6957 been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
6958 </listitem>
6959
6960 <listitem>
6961 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
6962 in parallel</para>
6963 </listitem>
6964
6965 <listitem>
6966 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
6967 </listitem>
6968
6969 <listitem>
6970 <para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
6971 </listitem>
6972
6973 <listitem>
6974 <para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
6975 </listitem>
6976
6977 <listitem>
6978 <para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
6979 software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
6980 </listitem>
6981
6982 <listitem>
6983 <para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
6984 </listitem>
6985
6986 <listitem>
6987 <para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
6988 shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
6989 </listitem>
6990
6991 <listitem>
6992 <para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
6993 when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
6994 </listitem>
6995
6996 <listitem>
6997 <para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
6998 </listitem>
6999
7000 <listitem>
7001 <para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7002 3D acceleration; Solaris &amp; Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7003 </listitem>
7004
7005 <listitem>
7006 <para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7007 traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7008 </listitem>
7009
7010 <listitem>
7011 <para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7012 </listitem>
7013
7014 <listitem>
7015 <para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7016 </listitem>
7017
7018 <listitem>
7019 <para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7020 different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7021 </listitem>
7022
7023 <listitem>
7024 <para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7025 </listitem>
7026
7027 <listitem>
7028 <para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7029 </listitem>
7030
7031 <listitem>
7032 <para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7033 </listitem>
7034
7035 <listitem>
7036 <para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7037 synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7038 </listitem>
7039
7040 <listitem>
7041 <para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7042 </listitem>
7043
7044 <listitem>
7045 <para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7046 virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7047 </listitem>
7048
7049 <listitem>
7050 <para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7051 </listitem>
7052
7053 <listitem>
7054 <para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7055 </listitem>
7056
7057 <listitem>
7058 <para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7059 error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7060 </listitem>
7061
7062 <listitem>
7063 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7064 with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7065 </listitem>
7066
7067 <listitem>
7068 <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7069 </listitem>
7070
7071 <listitem>
7072 <para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7073 message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7074 </listitem>
7075
7076 <listitem>
7077 <para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7078 in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7079 </listitem>
7080
7081 <listitem>
7082 <para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7083 on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7084 </listitem>
7085
7086 <listitem>
7087 <para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7088 (bug #3213)</para>
7089 </listitem>
7090
7091 <listitem>
7092 <para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7093 configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7094 </listitem>
7095
7096 <listitem>
7097 <para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7098 larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7099 </listitem>
7100
7101 </itemizedlist>
7102 </sect1>
7103
7104 <sect1>
7105 <title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7106
7107 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7108 added:</para>
7109
7110 <itemizedlist>
7111
7112 <listitem>
7113 <para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7114 </listitem>
7115
7116 <listitem>
7117 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7118 </listitem>
7119
7120 <listitem>
7121 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7122 </listitem>
7123
7124 <listitem>
7125 <para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7126 </listitem>
7127
7128 <listitem>
7129 <para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7130 </listitem>
7131
7132 <listitem>
7133 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7134 </listitem>
7135
7136 <listitem>
7137 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7138 </listitem>
7139
7140 <listitem>
7141 <para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7142 </listitem>
7143
7144 <listitem>
7145 <para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7146 </listitem>
7147
7148 <listitem>
7149 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7150 </listitem>
7151
7152 <listitem>
7153 <para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7154 </listitem>
7155
7156 <listitem>
7157 <para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7158 </listitem>
7159
7160 <listitem>
7161 <para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7162 </listitem>
7163
7164 <listitem>
7165 <para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7166 </listitem>
7167
7168 <listitem>
7169 <para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7170 </listitem>
7171
7172 <listitem>
7173 <para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7174 </listitem>
7175
7176 <listitem>
7177 <para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7178 (bug #3067)</para>
7179 </listitem>
7180
7181 <listitem>
7182 <para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7183 bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7184 </listitem>
7185
7186 <listitem>
7187 <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7188 (bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7189 </listitem>
7190
7191 <listitem>
7192 <para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7193 </listitem>
7194
7195 <listitem>
7196 <para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7197 events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7198 </listitem>
7199
7200 <listitem>
7201 <para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7202 on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7203 </listitem>
7204
7205 <listitem>
7206 <para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7207 </listitem>
7208
7209 <listitem>
7210 <para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7211 to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7212 </listitem>
7213
7214 <listitem>
7215 <para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7216 </listitem>
7217
7218 <listitem>
7219 <para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7220 in Linux kernels &lt; 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7221 </listitem>
7222
7223 <listitem>
7224 <para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7225 interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7226 </listitem>
7227
7228 <listitem>
7229 <para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7230 in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7231 </para>
7232 </listitem>
7233
7234 <listitem>
7235 <para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7236 without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7237 </para>
7238 </listitem>
7239
7240 <listitem>
7241 <para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7242 internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7243 </para>
7244 </listitem>
7245
7246 <listitem>
7247 <para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7248 </listitem>
7249
7250 <listitem>
7251 <para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7252 </listitem>
7253
7254 <listitem>
7255 <para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7256 </listitem>
7257
7258 <listitem>
7259 <para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7260 </listitem>
7261
7262 <listitem>
7263 <para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7264 (2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7265 </listitem>
7266
7267 <listitem>
7268 <para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7269 (Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7270 </listitem>
7271
7272 <listitem>
7273 <para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7274 formatting a drive</para>
7275 </listitem>
7276
7277 <listitem>
7278 <para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7279 </listitem>
7280
7281 <listitem>
7282 <para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7283 from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7284 </listitem>
7285
7286 <listitem>
7287 <para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7288 </listitem>
7289
7290 <listitem>
7291 <para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7292 </listitem>
7293
7294 <listitem>
7295 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7296 fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7297 </listitem>
7298
7299 <listitem>
7300 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7301 parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7302 fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7303 </listitem>
7304
7305 <listitem>
7306 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7307 garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7308 </listitem>
7309
7310 <listitem>
7311 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7312 property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7313 </listitem>
7314
7315 <listitem>
7316 <para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7317 (bug #2768)</para>
7318 </listitem>
7319
7320 <listitem>
7321 <para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7322 </listitem>
7323
7324 <listitem>
7325 <para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7326 </listitem>
7327
7328 <listitem>
7329 <para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7330 single, unified package</para>
7331 </listitem>
7332
7333 <listitem>
7334 <para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7335 anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7336 </listitem>
7337
7338 <listitem>
7339 <para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7340 </listitem>
7341
7342 <listitem>
7343 <para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7344 by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7345 </listitem>
7346
7347 <listitem>
7348 <para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7349 host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7350 </listitem>
7351
7352 <listitem>
7353 <para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7354 </listitem>
7355
7356 <listitem>
7357 <para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7358 preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7359 doing 3D</para>
7360 </listitem>
7361
7362 <listitem>
7363 <para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7364 </listitem>
7365
7366 <listitem>
7367 <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7368 detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7369 </listitem>
7370
7371 <listitem>
7372 <para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7373 </listitem>
7374
7375 <listitem>
7376 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7377 files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7378 </listitem>
7379
7380 <listitem>
7381 <para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7382 </listitem>
7383
7384 <listitem>
7385 <para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7386 (not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7387 </listitem>
7388
7389 <listitem>
7390 <para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7391 From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7392 (bug #2938)</para>
7393 </listitem>
7394
7395 <listitem>
7396 <para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7397 Linux guests</para>
7398 </listitem>
7399
7400 <listitem>
7401 <para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7402 <computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7403 (bug #1776)</para>
7404 </listitem>
7405
7406 <listitem>
7407 <para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7408 (bug #1612)</para>
7409 </listitem>
7410
7411 <listitem>
7412 <para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7413 option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7414 </listitem>
7415
7416 <listitem>
7417 <para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7418 compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7419 </listitem>
7420
7421 <listitem>
7422 <para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7423 crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7424 </listitem>
7425
7426 </itemizedlist>
7427 </sect1>
7428
7429 <sect1>
7430 <title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7431
7432 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7433 were added:</para>
7434
7435 <itemizedlist>
7436 <listitem>
7437 <para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7438 </listitem>
7439
7440 <listitem>
7441 <para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7442 </listitem>
7443
7444 <listitem>
7445 <para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7446 </listitem>
7447
7448 <listitem>
7449 <para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7450 </listitem>
7451
7452 <listitem>
7453 <para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7454 </listitem>
7455
7456 <listitem>
7457 <para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7458 </listitem>
7459
7460 <listitem>
7461 <para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7462 (ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7463 </listitem>
7464
7465 <listitem>
7466 <para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7467 Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7468 </listitem>
7469
7470 </itemizedlist>
7471
7472 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7473
7474 <itemizedlist>
7475 <listitem>
7476 <para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7477 </listitem>
7478
7479 <listitem>
7480 <para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7481 </listitem>
7482
7483 <listitem>
7484 <para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7485 </listitem>
7486
7487 <listitem>
7488 <para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7489 </listitem>
7490
7491 <listitem>
7492 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7493 (software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7494 </listitem>
7495
7496 <listitem>
7497 <para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7498 when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X &amp; Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7499 </listitem>
7500
7501 <listitem>
7502 <para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7503 </listitem>
7504
7505 <listitem>
7506 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7507 instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7508 </listitem>
7509
7510 <listitem>
7511 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7512 </listitem>
7513
7514 <listitem>
7515 <para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7516 </listitem>
7517
7518 <listitem>
7519 <para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7520 </listitem>
7521
7522 <listitem>
7523 <para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows &amp; Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7524 </listitem>
7525
7526 <listitem>
7527 <para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows &amp; Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7528 </listitem>
7529
7530 <listitem>
7531 <para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7532 battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7533 </listitem>
7534
7535 <listitem>
7536 <para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7537 the compiz window manager</para>
7538 </listitem>
7539
7540 <listitem>
7541 <para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7542 </listitem>
7543
7544 <listitem>
7545 <para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7546 </listitem>
7547
7548 <listitem>
7549 <para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7550 </listitem>
7551
7552 <listitem>
7553 <para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7554 </listitem>
7555
7556 <listitem>
7557 <para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7558 </listitem>
7559
7560 <listitem>
7561 <para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7562 </listitem>
7563
7564 <listitem>
7565 <para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7566 </listitem>
7567
7568 <listitem>
7569 <para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7570 </listitem>
7571
7572 <listitem>
7573 <para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7574 </listitem>
7575
7576 <listitem>
7577 <para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7578 of two (bug #2724)</para>
7579 </listitem>
7580
7581 <listitem>
7582 <para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7583 for direct device access</para>
7584 </listitem>
7585
7586 <listitem>
7587 <para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7588 </listitem>
7589
7590 <listitem>
7591 <para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7592 </listitem>
7593
7594 <listitem>
7595 <para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7596 </listitem>
7597
7598 <listitem>
7599 <para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7600 </listitem>
7601
7602 <listitem>
7603 <para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7604 </listitem>
7605
7606 <listitem>
7607 <para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7608 </listitem>
7609
7610 <listitem>
7611 <para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7612 </listitem>
7613
7614 <listitem>
7615 <para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7616 </listitem>
7617
7618 </itemizedlist>
7619 </sect1>
7620
7621 <sect1>
7622 <title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7623
7624 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7625 added:</para>
7626
7627 <itemizedlist>
7628
7629 <listitem>
7630 <para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7631 states/snapshots</para>
7632 </listitem>
7633
7634 <listitem>
7635 <para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
7636 failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
7637 </listitem>
7638
7639 <listitem>
7640 <para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7641 when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7642 </listitem>
7643
7644 <listitem>
7645 <para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
7646 collisions</para>
7647 </listitem>
7648
7649 <listitem>
7650 <para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7651 virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7652 </listitem>
7653
7654 <listitem>
7655 <para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7656 </listitem>
7657
7658 <listitem>
7659 <para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
7660 reliably</para>
7661 </listitem>
7662
7663 <listitem>
7664 <para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7665 3D acceleration; Solaris &amp; Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7666 </listitem>
7667
7668 <listitem>
7669 <para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
7670 a reboot</para>
7671 </listitem>
7672
7673 <listitem>
7674 <para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7675 </listitem>
7676
7677 <listitem>
7678 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7679 in parallel</para>
7680 </listitem>
7681
7682 <listitem>
7683 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7684 </listitem>
7685
7686 <listitem>
7687 <para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
7688 correctly</para>
7689 </listitem>
7690
7691 <listitem>
7692 <para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7693 in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7694 </listitem>
7695
7696 </itemizedlist>
7697 </sect1>
7698
7699 <sect1>
7700 <title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
7701
7702 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7703 added:</para>
7704
7705 <itemizedlist>
7706
7707 <listitem>
7708 <para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
7709 (bug #2220)</para>
7710 </listitem>
7711
7712 <listitem>
7713 <para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
7714 </listitem>
7715
7716 <listitem>
7717 <para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
7718 </listitem>
7719
7720 <listitem>
7721 <para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
7722 hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
7723 </listitem>
7724
7725 <listitem>
7726 <para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
7727 the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
7728 </listitem>
7729
7730 <listitem>
7731 <para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
7732 (bug #2624)</para>
7733 </listitem>
7734
7735 <listitem>
7736 <para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
7737 (bug #2024)</para>
7738 </listitem>
7739
7740 <listitem>
7741 <para>SATA: improved performance</para>
7742 </listitem>
7743
7744 <listitem>
7745 <para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports&gt;1 (bug #2510)</para>
7746 </listitem>
7747
7748 <listitem>
7749 <para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
7750 </listitem>
7751
7752 <listitem>
7753 <para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
7754 bugs #470 &amp; #491)</para>
7755 </listitem>
7756
7757 <listitem>
7758 <para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
7759 applications when updating the installation</para>
7760 </listitem>
7761
7762 <listitem>
7763 <para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
7764 64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
7765 </listitem>
7766
7767 <listitem>
7768 <para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
7769 in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
7770 </listitem>
7771
7772 <listitem>
7773 <para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
7774 fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
7775 </listitem>
7776
7777 <listitem>
7778 <para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
7779 connected to a host device</para>
7780 </listitem>
7781
7782 <listitem>
7783 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
7784 </listitem>
7785
7786 <listitem>
7787 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
7788 </listitem>
7789
7790 <listitem>
7791 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
7792 </listitem>
7793
7794 <listitem>
7795 <para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
7796 when using native RDP connections</para>
7797 </listitem>
7798
7799 <listitem>
7800 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
7801 folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
7802 </listitem>
7803
7804 <listitem>
7805 <para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
7806 (bug #2591)</para>
7807 </listitem>
7808
7809 <listitem>
7810 <para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
7811 guests (bug #2550)</para>
7812 </listitem>
7813
7814 <listitem>
7815 <para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
7816 </listitem>
7817
7818 </itemizedlist>
7819 </sect1>
7820
7821 <sect1>
7822 <title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
7823
7824 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7825 added:</para>
7826
7827 <itemizedlist>
7828 <listitem>
7829 <para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
7830 </listitem>
7831
7832 <listitem>
7833 <para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
7834 </listitem>
7835
7836 <listitem>
7837 <para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
7838 </listitem>
7839
7840 <listitem>
7841 <para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
7842 </listitem>
7843
7844 <listitem>
7845 <para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
7846 </listitem>
7847
7848 <listitem>
7849 <para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
7850 </listitem>
7851
7852 <listitem>
7853 <para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
7854 likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
7855 </listitem>
7856
7857 <listitem>
7858 <para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
7859 host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
7860 </listitem>
7861
7862 <listitem>
7863 <para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
7864 </listitem>
7865
7866 <listitem>
7867 <para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
7868 equal to the client resolution</para>
7869 </listitem>
7870
7871 <listitem>
7872 <para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
7873 longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
7874 </listitem>
7875
7876 <listitem>
7877 <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
7878 </listitem>
7879
7880 <listitem>
7881 <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
7882 </listitem>
7883
7884 <listitem>
7885 <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
7886 </listitem>
7887
7888 <listitem>
7889 <para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
7890 seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
7891 </listitem>
7892
7893 <listitem>
7894 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
7895 networking (bug #2474)</para>
7896 </listitem>
7897
7898 <listitem>
7899 <para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
7900 Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
7901 </listitem>
7902
7903 <listitem>
7904 <para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
7905 </listitem>
7906
7907 <listitem>
7908 <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
7909 </listitem>
7910
7911 <listitem>
7912 <para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
7913 </listitem>
7914
7915 <listitem>
7916 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
7917 </listitem>
7918
7919 <listitem>
7920 <para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
7921 <computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
7922 </listitem>
7923
7924 <listitem>
7925 <para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
7926 for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
7927 </listitem>
7928
7929 <listitem>
7930 <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
7931 </listitem>
7932
7933 <listitem>
7934 <para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
7935 </listitem>
7936
7937 <listitem>
7938 <para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
7939 </listitem>
7940
7941 </itemizedlist>
7942
7943 </sect1>
7944
7945 <sect1>
7946 <title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
7947
7948 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7949 added:</para>
7950
7951 <itemizedlist>
7952
7953 <listitem>
7954 <para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
7955 CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
7956 </listitem>
7957
7958 <listitem>
7959 <para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
7960 </listitem>
7961
7962 <listitem>
7963 <para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
7964 Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
7965 </listitem>
7966
7967 <listitem>
7968 <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
7969 </listitem>
7970
7971 <listitem>
7972 <para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
7973 NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
7974 </listitem>
7975
7976 <listitem>
7977 <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
7978 </listitem>
7979
7980 <listitem>
7981 <para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
7982 the virtual disk manager</para>
7983 </listitem>
7984
7985 <listitem>
7986 <para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
7987 if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
7988 </listitem>
7989
7990 <listitem>
7991 <para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
7992 </listitem>
7993
7994 <listitem>
7995 <para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
7996 </listitem>
7997
7998 <listitem>
7999 <para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8000 QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8001 </listitem>
8002
8003 <listitem>
8004 <para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8005 bug #2067)</para>
8006 </listitem>
8007
8008 <listitem>
8009 <para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8010 </listitem>
8011
8012 <listitem>
8013 <para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8014 the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8015 </listitem>
8016
8017 <listitem>
8018 <para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8019 <computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8020 (bug #2184)</para>
8021 </listitem>
8022
8023 <listitem>
8024 <para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8025 <computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8026 </listitem>
8027
8028 <listitem>
8029 <para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8030 (Windows guests only)</para>
8031 </listitem>
8032
8033 <listitem>
8034 <para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8035 </listitem>
8036
8037 <listitem>
8038 <para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8039 </listitem>
8040
8041 <listitem>
8042 <para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8043 (configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8044 </listitem>
8045
8046 <listitem>
8047 <para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8048 </listitem>
8049
8050 <listitem>
8051 <para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8052 memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8053 </para>
8054 </listitem>
8055
8056 <listitem>
8057 <para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8058 </listitem>
8059
8060 <listitem>
8061 <para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8062 </listitem>
8063
8064 <listitem>
8065 <para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8066 a VM reboot</para>
8067 </listitem>
8068
8069 <listitem>
8070 <para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8071 </listitem>
8072
8073 <listitem>
8074 <para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8075 buggy X servers</para>
8076 </listitem>
8077
8078 <listitem>
8079 <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8080 (dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8081 </listitem>
8082
8083 <listitem>
8084 <para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8085 </listitem>
8086
8087 <listitem>
8088 <para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8089 (bug #2128)</para>
8090 </listitem>
8091
8092 <listitem>
8093 <para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8094 specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8095 </listitem>
8096
8097 <listitem>
8098 <para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8099 the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8100 </listitem>
8101
8102 <listitem>
8103 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8104 starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8105 </listitem>
8106
8107 <listitem>
8108 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8109 host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8110 </listitem>
8111
8112 <listitem>
8113 <para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8114 installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8115 </listitem>
8116
8117 <listitem>
8118 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8119 starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8120 </listitem>
8121
8122 <listitem>
8123 <para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8124 installer into a single package</para>
8125 </listitem>
8126
8127 <listitem>
8128 <para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8129 port to the guest
8130 </para>
8131 </listitem>
8132
8133 </itemizedlist>
8134
8135 </sect1>
8136
8137 <sect1>
8138 <title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8139
8140 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8141 were added:<itemizedlist>
8142
8143 <listitem>
8144 <para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8145 </listitem>
8146
8147 <listitem>
8148 <para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8149 </listitem>
8150
8151 <listitem>
8152 <para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8153 </listitem>
8154
8155 <listitem>
8156 <para>New-version notifier</para>
8157 </listitem>
8158
8159 <listitem>
8160 <para>Guest property information interface</para>
8161 </listitem>
8162
8163 <listitem>
8164 <para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8165 </listitem>
8166
8167 <listitem>
8168 <para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8169 </listitem>
8170
8171 <listitem>
8172 <para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8173 </listitem>
8174
8175 <listitem>
8176 <para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8177 </listitem>
8178
8179 <listitem>
8180 <para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8181 disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8182 </listitem>
8183
8184 <listitem>
8185 <para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8186 </listitem>
8187
8188 <listitem>
8189 <para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8190 </listitem>
8191
8192 <listitem>
8193 <para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8194 </listitem>
8195
8196 </itemizedlist></para>
8197
8198 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8199
8200 <itemizedlist>
8201
8202 <listitem>
8203 <para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8204 </listitem>
8205
8206 <listitem>
8207 <para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8208 </listitem>
8209
8210 <listitem>
8211 <para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8212 </listitem>
8213
8214 <listitem>
8215 <para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8216 unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8217 </listitem>
8218
8219 <listitem>
8220 <para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8221 restored</para>
8222 </listitem>
8223
8224 <listitem>
8225 <para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8226 </listitem>
8227
8228 <listitem>
8229 <para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8230 </listitem>
8231
8232 <listitem>
8233 <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>
8234 </listitem>
8235
8236 </itemizedlist>
8237
8238 </sect1>
8239
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