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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	<listitem>
25	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
26	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /></para>
27	</listitem>
28
29	</itemizedlist>
30
31	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
32
33	<itemizedlist>
34
35	<listitem>
36	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
37	nested paging</para>
38	</listitem>
39
40	<listitem>
41	<para>VMM: added support for FlushByASID features of AMD CPUs (Bulldozer
42	and newer)</para>
43	</listitem>
44
45	<listitem>
46	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
47	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
48	</listitem>
49
50	<listitem>
51	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
52	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
53	</listitem>
54
55	<listitem>
56	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support</para>
57	</listitem>
58
59	<listitem>
60	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content</para>
61	</listitem>
62
63	<listitem>
64	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
65	</listitem>
66
67	<listitem>
68	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
69	</listitem>
70
71	<listitem>
72	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
73	</listitem>
74
75	<listitem>
76	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
77	guests</para>
78	</listitem>
79
80	<listitem>
81	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
82	separator character in its name (bug 6541#)</para>
83	</listitem>
84
85	<listitem>
86	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
87	(bug #9973)</para>
88	</listitem>
89
90	<listitem>
91	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
92	snapshot when powering off a VM (bug #10491)</para>
93	</listitem>
94
95	<listitem>
96	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
97	</listitem>
98
99	<listitem>
100	<para>Main: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
101	</listitem>
102
103	<listitem>
104	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
105	</listitem>
106
107	<listitem>
108	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
109	VirtualBox update</para>
110	</listitem>
111
112	</itemizedlist>
113	</sect1>
114
115	<sect1>
116	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
117
118	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
119	added:</para>
120
121	<itemizedlist>
122
123	<listitem>
124	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
125	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
126	(bug #3783)</para>
127	</listitem>
128
129	<listitem>
130	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
131	</listitem>
132
133	<listitem>
134	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
135	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
136	</listitem>
137
138	<listitem>
139	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
140	</listitem>
141
142	</itemizedlist>
143
144	</sect1>
145
146	<sect1>
147	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
148
149	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
150	added:</para>
151
152	<itemizedlist>
153
154	<listitem>
155	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
156	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
157	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
158	</listitem>
159
160	<listitem>
161	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
162	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
163	</listitem>
164
165	<listitem>
166	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
167	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
168	</listitem>
169
170	<listitem>
171	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
172	</listitem>
173
174	<listitem>
175	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
176	</listitem>
177
178	<listitem>
179	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
180	4.1.10 regression)</para>
181	</listitem>
182
183	<listitem>
184	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
185	</listitem>
186
187	<listitem>
188	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
189	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
190	</listitem>
191
192	<listitem>
193	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
194	</listitem>
195
196	<listitem>
197	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
198	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
199	</listitem>
200
201	<listitem>
202	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
203	4.1.10 regression)</para>
204	</listitem>
205
206	<listitem>
207	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
208	closed (bug #6473)</para>
209	</listitem>
210
211	<listitem>
212	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
213	properly installed</para>
214	</listitem>
215
216	<listitem>
217	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
218	</listitem>
219
220	</itemizedlist>
221	</sect1>
222
223	<sect1>
224	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
225
226	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
227	added:</para>
228
229	<itemizedlist>
230
231	<listitem>
232	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
233	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
234	</listitem>
235
236	<listitem>
237	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
238	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
239	</listitem>
240
241	<listitem>
242	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
243	fusion</para>
244	</listitem>
245
246	<listitem>
247	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
248	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
249	</listitem>
250
251	<listitem>
252	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
253	and network mask attributes</para>
254	</listitem>
255
256	<listitem>
257	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
258	(bug #10030)</para>
259	</listitem>
260
261	<listitem>
262	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
263	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
264	</listitem>
265
266	<listitem>
267	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
268	</listitem>
269
270	<listitem>
271	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
272	</listitem>
273
274	<listitem>
275	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
276	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
277	</listitem>
278
279	<listitem>
280	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
281	</listitem>
282
283	<listitem>
284	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
285	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
286	</listitem>
287
288	<listitem>
289	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
290	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
291	</listitem>
292
293	<listitem>
294	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
295	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
296	</listitem>
297
298	<listitem>
299	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
300	</listitem>
301
302	<listitem>
303	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
304	</listitem>
305
306	<listitem>
307	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
308	</listitem>
309
310	<listitem>
311	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
316	</listitem>
317
318	<listitem>
319	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
320	</listitem>
321
322	<listitem>
323	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
324	in a zone</para>
325	</listitem>
326
327	<listitem>
328	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
329	</listitem>
330
331	<listitem>
332	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
333	(bug #9651)</para>
334	</listitem>
335
336	<listitem>
337	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
338	</listitem>
339
340	<listitem>
341	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
342	#10010)</para>
343	</listitem>
344
345	<listitem>
346	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
347	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
348	</listitem>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
352	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
357	</listitem>
358
359	<listitem>
360	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
361	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
362	</listitem>
363
364	<listitem>
365	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
366	(bug #10151)</para>
367	</listitem>
368
369	<listitem>
370	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
371	guests.</para>
372	</listitem>
373
374	<listitem>
375	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
376	</listitem>
377
378	<listitem>
379	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
380	</listitem>
381
382	<listitem>
383	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
384	</listitem>
385
386	</itemizedlist>
387	</sect1>
388
389	<sect1>
390	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
391
392	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
393	added:</para>
394
395	<itemizedlist>
396
397	<listitem>
398	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
399	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
400	</listitem>
401
402	<listitem>
403	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
404	</listitem>
405
406	<listitem>
407	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
408	(bug #9642)</para>
409	</listitem>
410
411	<listitem>
412	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
413	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
414	</para>
415	</listitem>
416
417	<listitem>
418	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
419	</listitem>
420
421	<listitem>
422	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
423	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
424	</listitem>
425
426	<listitem>
427	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
428	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
429	</listitem>
430
431	<listitem>
432	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
433	</listitem>
434
435	<listitem>
436	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
437	</listitem>
438
439	<listitem>
440	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
441	</listitem>
442
443	<listitem>
444	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
445	circumstances</para>
446	</listitem>
447
448	<listitem>
449	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
450	</listitem>
451
452	<listitem>
453	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
454	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
455	</listitem>
456
457	<listitem>
458	<para>3D Support: Fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
459	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
460	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
461	and for 3D support in general</para>
462	</listitem>
463
464	<listitem>
465	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
466	</listitem>
467
468	<listitem>
469	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
470	</listitem>
471
472	<listitem>
473	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
474	</listitem>
475
476	<listitem>
477	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
478	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
479	</listitem>
480
481	</itemizedlist>
482	</sect1>
483
484	<sect1>
485	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
486
487	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
488	added:</para>
489
490	<itemizedlist>
491
492	<listitem>
493	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
494	</listitem>
495
496	<listitem>
497	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
498	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
499	</listitem>
500
501	<listitem>
502	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
503	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
504	</listitem>
505
506	<listitem>
507	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
508	certain guests</para>
509	</listitem>
510
511	<listitem>
512	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
513	</listitem>
514
515	<listitem>
516	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
517	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
518	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
519	</listitem>
520
521	<listitem>
522	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
523	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
524	</listitem>
525
526	<listitem>
527	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
528	</listitem>
529
530	<listitem>
531	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
532	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
533	</listitem>
534
535	<listitem>
536	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
537	</listitem>
538
539	<listitem>
540	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
541	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
542	</listitem>
543
544	<listitem>
545	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
546	guests</para>
547	</listitem>
548
549	<listitem>
550	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
551	folders</para>
552	</listitem>
553
554	<listitem>
555	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
556	shared folders</para>
557	</listitem>
558
559	<listitem>
560	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
561	users and stale sessions</para>
562	</listitem>
563
564	<listitem>
565	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
566	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	</itemizedlist>
570	</sect1>
571
572	<sect1>
573	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
574
575	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
576	added:</para>
577
578	<itemizedlist>
579
580	<listitem>
581	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
582	bug #9458)</para>
583	</listitem>
584
585	<listitem>
586	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
587	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
588	</listitem>
589
590	<listitem>
591	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
592	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
593	</listitem>
594
595	<listitem>
596	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
601	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
602	</listitem>
603
604	<listitem>
605	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
606	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
607	</listitem>
608
609	<listitem>
610	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
611	(bug #9308)</para>
612	</listitem>
613
614	<listitem>
615	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
616	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
617	</listitem>
618
619	<listitem>
620	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
621	(bug #9503)</para>
622	</listitem>
623
624	<listitem>
625	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
626	(bug #9242)</para>
627	</listitem>
628
629	<listitem>
630	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
631	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
632	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
633	</listitem>
634
635	<listitem>
636	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
637	</listitem>
638
639	<listitem>
640	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
641	images</para>
642	</listitem>
643
644	<listitem>
645	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
646	(Windows hosts only)</para>
647	</listitem>
648
649	<listitem>
650	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
651	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
652	</listitem>
653
654	<listitem>
655	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
656	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
657	</listitem>
658
659	<listitem>
660	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
661	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
662	</listitem>
663
664	<listitem>
665	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
666	#9387)</para>
667	</listitem>
668
669	<listitem>
670	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
671	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
672	</listitem>
673
674	<listitem>
675	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
676	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
677	</listitem>
678
679	<listitem>
680	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
681	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
682	</listitem>
683
684	<listitem>
685	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
686	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
687	</listitem>
688
689	<listitem>
690	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
691	</listitem>
692
693	<listitem>
694	<para>Guest control: Miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
695	</listitem>
696
697	<listitem>
698	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
699	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
700	</listitem>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
704	(bug #1578)</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
709	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
710	</listitem>
711
712	<listitem>
713	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
714	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
715	</listitem>
716
717	<listitem>
718	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
719	(bug #9535)</para>
720	</listitem>
721
722	<listitem>
723	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
724	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
725	</listitem>
726
727	<listitem>
728	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
729	help file (bug #9646)</para>
730	</listitem>
731
732	<listitem>
733	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
734	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
735	</listitem>
736
737	<listitem>
738	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
739	console window (bug #3549)</para>
740	</listitem>
741
742	<listitem>
743	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
744	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
745	</listitem>
746
747	<listitem>
748	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
749	</para>
750	</listitem>
751
752	<listitem>
753	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
754	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
755	</para>
756	</listitem>
757
758	<listitem>
759	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
760	(bug #6229)
761	</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
766	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
767	</listitem>
768
769	<listitem>
770	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
771	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
772	</listitem>
773
774	<listitem>
775	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
776	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
777	</listitem>
778
779	<listitem>
780	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
781	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
782	</listitem>
783
784	<listitem>
785	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
786	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
787	</listitem>
788
789	<listitem>
790	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
791	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
792	</listitem>
793
794	<listitem>
795	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
796	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
797	</listitem>
798
799	<listitem>
800	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
801	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
802	</listitem>
803
804	</itemizedlist>
805	</sect1>
806
807	<sect1>
808	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
809
810	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
811	added:</para>
812
813	<itemizedlist>
814
815	<listitem>
816	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
817	</listitem>
818
819	<listitem>
820	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
821	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
822	</listitem>
823
824	<listitem>
825	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
826	</listitem>
827
828	<listitem>
829	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
830	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
831	</listitem>
832
833	<listitem>
834	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
835	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
836	</listitem>
837
838	<listitem>
839	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
840	a live snapshot</para>
841	</listitem>
842
843	<listitem>
844	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
845	due to a library version conflict</para>
846	</listitem>
847
848	<listitem>
849	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
850	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
851	</listitem>
852
853	<listitem>
854	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
855	at a time by default</para>
856	</listitem>
857
858	<listitem>
859	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
860	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
861	#9368)</para>
862	</listitem>
863
864	<listitem>
865	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
866	registered (bug #9303)</para>
867	</listitem>
868
869	<listitem>
870	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
871	VMs</para>
872	</listitem>
873
874	<listitem>
875	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
876	creation (bug #9379)</para>
877	</listitem>
878
879	<listitem>
880	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
881	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
882	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
887	(bug #9308)</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
892	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
893	</listitem>
894
895	<listitem>
896	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
897	</listitem>
898
899	<listitem>
900	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
901	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
902	</listitem>
903
904	<listitem>
905	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
906	(bug #9242)</para>
907	</listitem>
908
909	<listitem>
910	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
911	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
912	</listitem>
913
914	<listitem>
915	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
916	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
917	</listitem>
918
919	<listitem>
920	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
921	USB devices</para>
922	</listitem>
923
924	<listitem>
925	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
926	and warn about it</para>
927	</listitem>
928
929	<listitem>
930	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
935	</listitem>
936
937	<listitem>
938	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
939	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
940	</listitem>
941
942	<listitem>
943	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
944	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
949	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
950	</listitem>
951
952	<listitem>
953	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
954	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
955	</listitem>
956
957	<listitem>
958	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
959	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
964	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
969	2.6.37 and above</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	</itemizedlist>
973	</sect1>
974
975	<sect1>
976	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
977
978	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
979	were added:</para>
980
981	<itemizedlist>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
985	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
986	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
987	</listitem>
988
989	<listitem>
990	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
991	</listitem>
992
993	<listitem>
994	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
995	</listitem>
996
997	<listitem>
998	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
999	bug #7822)</para>
1000	</listitem>
1001
1002	<listitem>
1003	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1004	</listitem>
1005
1006	<listitem>
1007	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1008	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1009	</listitem>
1010
1011	<listitem>
1012	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1013	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1014	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1015	anymore)</para>
1016	</listitem>
1017
1018	<listitem>
1019	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1020	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1021	</listitem>
1022
1023	<listitem>
1024	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1025	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1026	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1027	</listitem>
1028
1029	<listitem>
1030	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1031	</para>
1032	</listitem>
1033
1034	<listitem>
1035	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1036	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1037	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1038	</listitem>
1039
1040	<listitem>
1041	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1042	with VBoxManage</para>
1043	</listitem>
1044
1045	<listitem>
1046	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1047	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1048	</listitem>
1049
1050
1051	</itemizedlist>
1052
1053	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1054
1055	<itemizedlist>
1056
1057	<listitem>
1058	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1059	</listitem>
1060
1061	<listitem>
1062	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1063	</listitem>
1064
1065	<listitem>
1066	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1067	</listitem>
1068
1069	<listitem>
1070	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1071	of the current state</para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1076	</listitem>
1077
1078	<listitem>
1079	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1080	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1081	</listitem>
1082
1083	<listitem>
1084	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1085	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1086	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1087	</listitem>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1091	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1096	</listitem>
1097
1098	<listitem>
1099	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1100	</listitem>
1101
1102	<listitem>
1103	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1104	dialog</para>
1105	</listitem>
1106
1107	<listitem>
1108	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1109	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1110	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1111	</listitem>
1112
1113	<listitem>
1114	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1115	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1116	</listitem>
1117
1118	<listitem>
1119	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1120	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1121	</listitem>
1122
1123	<listitem>
1124	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1125	be a valid UUID</para>
1126	</listitem>
1127
1128	<listitem>
1129	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1130	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1131	</listitem>
1132
1133	<listitem>
1134	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1135	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1136	cases</para>
1137	</listitem>
1138
1139	<listitem>
1140	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1141	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1142	improve performance</para>
1143	</listitem>
1144
1145	<listitem>
1146	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1147	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1148	on a temporary basis</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1153	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1154	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1155	</listitem>
1156
1157	<listitem>
1158	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1159	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1160	</listitem>
1161
1162	<listitem>
1163	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1164	images in VDI format</para>
1165	</listitem>
1166
1167	<listitem>
1168	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1169	VMDK format</para>
1170	</listitem>
1171
1172	<listitem>
1173	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1174	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1175	</listitem>
1176
1177	<listitem>
1178	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1183	</listitem>
1184
1185	<listitem>
1186	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1187	</listitem>
1188
1189	<listitem>
1190	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1191	</listitem>
1192
1193	<listitem>
1194	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1195	</listitem>
1196
1197	<listitem>
1198	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1199	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1200	</listitem>
1201
1202	<listitem>
1203	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1204	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1205	</listitem>
1206
1207	<listitem>
1208	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1209	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1210	</listitem>
1211
1212	<listitem>
1213	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1214	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1215	</listitem>
1216
1217	<listitem>
1218	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1219	RDP clients</para>
1220	</listitem>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1224	</listitem>
1225
1226	<listitem>
1227	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1228	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1229	</listitem>
1230
1231	<listitem>
1232	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1233	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1238	simultaneously</para>
1239	</listitem>
1240
1241	<listitem>
1242	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1243	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1244	location values in many places</para>
1245	</listitem>
1246
1247	<listitem>
1248	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1249	</listitem>
1250
1251	<listitem>
1252	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1253	builds</para>
1254	</listitem>
1255
1256	<listitem>
1257	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1258	</listitem>
1259
1260	<listitem>
1261	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1262	window (bug #4491)</para>
1263	</listitem>
1264
1265	<listitem>
1266	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1267	removing a VM</para>
1268	</listitem>
1269
1270	<listitem>
1271	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1272	</listitem>
1273
1274	<listitem>
1275	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1276	</listitem>
1277
1278	<listitem>
1279	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1280	166 and above)</para>
1281	</listitem>
1282
1283	<listitem>
1284	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1285	hosts</para>
1286	</listitem>
1287
1288	<listitem>
1289	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1290	</listitem>
1291
1292	<listitem>
1293	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1294	from the host</para>
1295	</listitem>
1296
1297	<listitem>
1298	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1299	</listitem>
1300
1301	</itemizedlist>
1302
1303	</sect1>
1304
1305	<sect1>
1306	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1307
1308	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1309	added:</para>
1310
1311	<itemizedlist>
1312
1313	<listitem>
1314	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1315	</listitem>
1316
1317	<listitem>
1318	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1319	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1320	</listitem>
1321
1322	<listitem>
1323	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1324	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1325	</listitem>
1326
1327	<listitem>
1328	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1329	a live snapshot</para>
1330	</listitem>
1331
1332	<listitem>
1333	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1334	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1335	</listitem>
1336
1337	<listitem>
1338	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1339	</listitem>
1340
1341	<listitem>
1342	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1343	</listitem>
1344
1345	<listitem>
1346	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1347	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1352	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1353	</listitem>
1354
1355	<listitem>
1356	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1357	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1358	</listitem>
1359
1360	<listitem>
1361	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1362	</listitem>
1363
1364	<listitem>
1365	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1366	images</para>
1367	</listitem>
1368
1369	<listitem>
1370	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1371	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1372	</listitem>
1373	<listitem>
1374	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1375	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1376	</listitem>
1377
1378	<listitem>
1379	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1380	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1381	</listitem>
1382
1383	<listitem>
1384	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1385	</listitem>
1386
1387	<listitem>
1388	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1389	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1390	</listitem>
1391
1392	<listitem>
1393	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1394	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1395	</listitem>
1396
1397	<listitem>
1398	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1399	</listitem>
1400
1401	<listitem>
1402	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1403	(bug #9370)</para>
1404	</listitem>
1405
1406	<listitem>
1407	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1408	(bug #9535)</para>
1409	</listitem>
1410
1411	<listitem>
1412	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1413	(bug #1578)</para>
1414	</listitem>
1415
1416	<listitem>
1417	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1418	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1419	</listitem>
1420
1421	<listitem>
1422	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1423	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1424	</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1429	</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1434	2.6.37 and above</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	<listitem>
1438	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1439	(bug #6229)</para>
1440	</listitem>
1441
1442	<listitem>
1443	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1444	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1445	</listitem>
1446
1447	</itemizedlist>
1448	</sect1>
1449
1450	<sect1>
1451	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1452
1453	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1454	added:</para>
1455
1456	<itemizedlist>
1457
1458	<listitem>
1459	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1460	</listitem>
1461
1462	<listitem>
1463	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1464	166 and above)</para>
1465	</listitem>
1466
1467	<listitem>
1468	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1469	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1470	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1471	</listitem>
1472
1473	<listitem>
1474	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1475	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1476	</listitem>
1477
1478	<listitem>
1479	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1480	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1485	</listitem>
1486
1487	<listitem>
1488	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1489	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1490	</listitem>
1491
1492	<listitem>
1493	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1494	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1495	</listitem>
1496
1497	<listitem>
1498	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1499	builds</para>
1500	</listitem>
1501
1502	<listitem>
1503	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1504	</listitem>
1505
1506	</itemizedlist>
1507	</sect1>
1508	<sect1>
1509	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1510
1511	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1512	added:</para>
1513
1514	<itemizedlist>
1515
1516	<listitem>
1517	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1518	</listitem>
1519
1520	<listitem>
1521	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1522	</listitem>
1523
1524	<listitem>
1525	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1526	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1527	</listitem>
1528
1529	<listitem>
1530	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1531	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1536	</listitem>
1537
1538	<listitem>
1539	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1540	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1541	</listitem>
1542
1543	<listitem>
1544	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1545	</listitem>
1546
1547	<listitem>
1548	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1549	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1550	</listitem>
1551
1552	<listitem>
1553	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1554	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1555	</listitem>
1556
1557	<listitem>
1558	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1559	</listitem>
1560
1561	<listitem>
1562	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1563	</listitem>
1564
1565	<listitem>
1566	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1567	file was not written during export</para>
1568	</listitem>
1569
1570	<listitem>
1571	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1576	</listitem>
1577
1578	<listitem>
1579	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1580	</listitem>
1581
1582	<listitem>
1583	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1584	binaries</para>
1585	</listitem>
1586
1587	<listitem>
1588	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1589	</listitem>
1590
1591	<listitem>
1592	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1593	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1594	</listitem>
1595
1596	<listitem>
1597	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1598	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1599	</listitem>
1600
1601	<listitem>
1602	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1603	</listitem>
1604
1605	<listitem>
1606	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1607	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1608	</listitem>
1609
1610	</itemizedlist>
1611	</sect1>
1612
1613	<sect1>
1614	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1615
1616	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1617	added:</para>
1618
1619	<itemizedlist>
1620
1621	<listitem>
1622	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1623	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1624	</listitem>
1625
1626	<listitem>
1627	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1628	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1629	</listitem>
1630
1631	<listitem>
1632	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1633	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1638	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1639	</listitem>
1640
1641	<listitem>
1642	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
1643	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
1644	</listitem>
1645
1646	<listitem>
1647	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
1648	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
1649	</listitem>
1650
1651	<listitem>
1652	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
1653	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1654	</listitem>
1655
1656	<listitem>
1657	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
1658	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
1659	</listitem>
1660
1661	<listitem>
1662	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
1663	</listitem>
1664
1665	<listitem>
1666	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
1667	</listitem>
1668
1669	<listitem>
1670	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
1671	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
1672	</listitem>
1673
1674	<listitem>
1675	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
1676	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
1677	</listitem>
1678
1679	<listitem>
1680	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
1681	</listitem>
1682
1683	<listitem>
1684	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
1685	</listitem>
1686
1687	<listitem>
1688	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
1689	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1690	</listitem>
1691
1692	<listitem>
1693	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
1694	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1695	</listitem>
1696
1697	<listitem>
1698	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
1699	window</para>
1700	</listitem>
1701
1702	<listitem>
1703	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
1704	Fedora 15</para>
1705	</listitem>
1706
1707	<listitem>
1708	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
1709	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711
1712	<listitem>
1713	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
1714	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
1715	</listitem>
1716
1717	<listitem>
1718	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
1719	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
1720	</listitem>
1721
1722	<listitem>
1723	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	<listitem>
1727	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
1728	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
1729	</listitem>
1730
1731	</itemizedlist>
1732	</sect1>
1733
1734	<sect1>
1735	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
1736
1737	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1738	added:</para>
1739
1740	<itemizedlist>
1741
1742	<listitem>
1743	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
1744	a VMM from a saved state</para>
1745	</listitem>
1746
1747	<listitem>
1748	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
1749	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
1750	</listitem>
1751
1752	<listitem>
1753	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
1754	(bug #8006)</para>
1755	</listitem>
1756
1757	<listitem>
1758	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
1759	(bug #8726)</para>
1760	</listitem>
1761
1762	<listitem>
1763	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
1764	</listitem>
1765
1766	<listitem>
1767	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
1768	</listitem>
1769
1770	<listitem>
1771	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
1772	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
1773	</listitem>
1774
1775	<listitem>
1776	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
1777	(bug #8469)</para>
1778	</listitem>
1779
1780	<listitem>
1781	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
1782	selectors</para>
1783	</listitem>
1784
1785	<listitem>
1786	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
1787	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
1788	</listitem>
1789
1790	<listitem>
1791	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
1792	folder (bug #8673)</para>
1793	</listitem>
1794
1795	<listitem>
1796	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
1797	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
1806	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
1815	</listitem>
1816
1817	<listitem>
1818	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
1819	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
1820	</listitem>
1821
1822	<listitem>
1823	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
1824	I/O error occurred</para>
1825	</listitem>
1826
1827	<listitem>
1828	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
1829	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
1830	</listitem>
1831
1832	<listitem>
1833	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
1834	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
1835	</listitem>
1836
1837	<listitem>
1838	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
1839	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
1840	if no medium is present</para>
1841	</listitem>
1842
1843	<listitem>
1844	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
1849	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
1854	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
1855	</listitem>
1856
1857	<listitem>
1858	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
1859	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
1860	</listitem>
1861
1862	<listitem>
1863	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
1868	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
1869	</listitem>
1870
1871	<listitem>
1872	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
1873	library (bug #8063)</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
1878	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
1879	</listitem>
1880
1881	<listitem>
1882	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
1883	</listitem>
1884
1885	<listitem>
1886	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
1887	</listitem>
1888
1889	<listitem>
1890	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
1891	</listitem>
1892
1893	<listitem>
1894	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
1895	changed on import</para>
1896	</listitem>
1897
1898	<listitem>
1899	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
1900	</listitem>
1901
1902	<listitem>
1903	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
1904	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
1905	</listitem>
1906
1907	<listitem>
1908	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
1909	(bug #8593)</para>
1910	</listitem>
1911
1912	<listitem>
1913	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
1914	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
1915	</listitem>
1916
1917	<listitem>
1918	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
1919	captured</para>
1920	</listitem>
1921
1922	<listitem>
1923	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
1924	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
1925	</listitem>
1926
1927	<listitem>
1928	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
1929	</para>
1930	</listitem>
1931
1932	<listitem>
1933	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
1934	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
1935	</listitem>
1936
1937	<listitem>
1938	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
1939	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
1940	</listitem>
1941
1942	<listitem>
1943	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
1944	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
1945	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
1946	</listitem>
1947
1948	<listitem>
1949	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
1950	to unkillable VM processes</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
1955	</listitem>
1956
1957	<listitem>
1958	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
1959	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
1960	</listitem>
1961
1962	<listitem>
1963	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
1964	on legacy Windows versions</para>
1965	</listitem>
1966
1967	<listitem>
1968	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
1969	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
1974	</listitem>
1975
1976	<listitem>
1977	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
1978	</listitem>
1979
1980	<listitem>
1981	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
1982	</listitem>
1983
1984	<listitem>
1985	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
1986	</listitem>
1987
1988	<listitem>
1989	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
1990	(bug #7946)</para>
1991	</listitem>
1992
1993	<listitem>
1994	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
1995	</listitem>
1996
1997	<listitem>
1998	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
1999	</listitem>
2000
2001	<listitem>
2002	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2003	</listitem>
2004
2005	</itemizedlist>
2006
2007	</sect1>
2008
2009	<sect1>
2010	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2011
2012	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2013	added:</para>
2014
2015	<itemizedlist>
2016
2017	<listitem>
2018	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2019	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2020	</listitem>
2021
2022	<listitem>
2023	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2024	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	<listitem>
2028	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2029	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2030	</listitem>
2031
2032	<listitem>
2033	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2034	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2035	</listitem>
2036
2037	<listitem>
2038	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2039	number of host network interfaces</para>
2040	</listitem>
2041
2042	<listitem>
2043	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2044	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2045	</listitem>
2046
2047	<listitem>
2048	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2053	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2058	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2059	</listitem>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2063	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2068	</listitem>
2069
2070	<listitem>
2071	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2072	(bug #6577)</para>
2073	</listitem>
2074
2075	<listitem>
2076	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2077	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2078	(bug #8235)</para>
2079	</listitem>
2080
2081	<listitem>
2082	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2083	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2084	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2085	</listitem>
2086
2087	<listitem>
2088	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2089	</listitem>
2090
2091	<listitem>
2092	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2093	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2094	</listitem>
2095
2096	<listitem>
2097	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2098	</listitem>
2099
2100	<listitem>
2101	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2102	(bug #7966)</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2107	</listitem>
2108
2109	<listitem>
2110	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2111	</listitem>
2112
2113	<listitem>
2114	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2115	</listitem>
2116
2117	<listitem>
2118	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2119	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2120	</listitem>
2121
2122	<listitem>
2123	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2124	</listitem>
2125
2126	<listitem>
2127	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2128	</listitem>
2129
2130	<listitem>
2131	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2132	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2133	</listitem>
2134
2135	<listitem>
2136	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2137	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2138	</listitem>
2139
2140	<listitem>
2141	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2142	</listitem>
2143
2144	<listitem>
2145	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2146	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2147	</listitem>
2148
2149	<listitem>
2150	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2151	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2152	(bug #8122)</para>
2153	</listitem>
2154
2155	<listitem>
2156	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2157	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2158	</listitem>
2159
2160	<listitem>
2161	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2162	</listitem>
2163
2164	<listitem>
2165	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2166	</listitem>
2167
2168	<listitem>
2169	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2170	(bug #1548)</para>
2171	</listitem>
2172
2173	<listitem>
2174	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2175	</listitem>
2176
2177	<listitem>
2178	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2179	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2180	</listitem>
2181
2182	<listitem>
2183	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2184	</listitem>
2185
2186	<listitem>
2187	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2188	(bug #8231)</para>
2189	</listitem>
2190
2191	<listitem>
2192	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2193	11.04 Alpha</para>
2194	</listitem>
2195
2196	<listitem>
2197	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2198	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2199	</listitem>
2200
2201	<listitem>
2202	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2203	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2204	</listitem>
2205
2206	<listitem>
2207	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2208	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2209	</listitem>
2210
2211	<listitem>
2212	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2213	with VBoxGINA</para>
2214	</listitem>
2215
2216	</itemizedlist>
2217
2218	</sect1>
2219
2220	<sect1>
2221	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2222
2223	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2224	added:</para>
2225
2226	<itemizedlist>
2227
2228	<listitem>
2229	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2230	settings vanished</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2235	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2240	created (bug #8031)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2245	</listitem>
2246
2247	<listitem>
2248	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2249	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2250	</listitem>
2251
2252	<listitem>
2253	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2254	an extension pack</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2259	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2260	</listitem>
2261
2262	<listitem>
2263	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2264	</listitem>
2265
2266	<listitem>
2267	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2268	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2269	</listitem>
2270
2271	<listitem>
2272	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2273	host-only interface</para>
2274	</listitem>
2275
2276	<listitem>
2277	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2278	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2279	</listitem>
2280
2281	<listitem>
2282	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2283	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2284	</listitem>
2285
2286	<listitem>
2287	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2288	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2289	</listitem>
2290
2291	<listitem>
2292	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2293	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2294	</listitem>
2295
2296	<listitem>
2297	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2298	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2299	</listitem>
2300
2301	<listitem>
2302	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2303	</listitem>
2304
2305	<listitem>
2306	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2307	</listitem>
2308
2309	<listitem>
2310	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2311	guests</para>
2312	</listitem>
2313
2314	<listitem>
2315	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2316	</listitem>
2317
2318	<listitem>
2319	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2320	</listitem>
2321
2322	<listitem>
2323	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2324	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2325	</listitem>
2326
2327	<listitem>
2328	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2329	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2330	</listitem>
2331
2332	<listitem>
2333	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2334	a VM start</para>
2335	</listitem>
2336
2337	<listitem>
2338	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2339	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2344	(bug #6067)</para>
2345	</listitem>
2346
2347	<listitem>
2348	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2349	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2350	</listitem>
2351
2352	<listitem>
2353	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2354	not saved to machine XML</para>
2355	</listitem>
2356
2357	<listitem>
2358	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2359	#7983)</para>
2360	</listitem>
2361
2362	<listitem>
2363	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2364	#7981)</para>
2365	</listitem>
2366
2367	<listitem>
2368	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2369	</listitem>
2370
2371	<listitem>
2372	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2373	regression)</para>
2374	</listitem>
2375
2376	<listitem>
2377	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2378	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2379	</listitem>
2380
2381	<listitem>
2382	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2383	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2384	</listitem>
2385
2386	</itemizedlist>
2387
2388	</sect1>
2389
2390	<sect1>
2391	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2392
2393	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2394	were added:</para>
2395
2396	<itemizedlist>
2397
2398	<listitem>
2399	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2400	</listitem>
2401
2402	<listitem>
2403	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2404	</listitem>
2405
2406	<listitem>
2407	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2408	<itemizedlist>
2409	<listitem>
2410	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2411	</listitem>
2412
2413	<listitem>
2414	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2415	</listitem>
2416
2417	<listitem>
2418	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2419	</listitem>
2420
2421	<listitem>
2422	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2423	</listitem>
2424
2425	<listitem>
2426	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2427	states, and optionally including attached
2428	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2429	can do the same now)</para>
2430	</listitem>
2431
2432	<listitem>
2433	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2434	</listitem>
2435
2436	</itemizedlist>
2437	</para>
2438	</listitem>
2439
2440	<listitem>
2441	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2442	</listitem>
2443
2444	<listitem>
2445	<para>New virtual hardware:
2446	<itemizedlist>
2447	<listitem>
2448	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2449	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2454	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2455	</listitem>
2456	</itemizedlist>
2457	</para>
2458	</listitem>
2459
2460	<listitem>
2461	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2462	<itemizedlist>
2463	<listitem>
2464	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2465	</listitem>
2466
2467	<listitem>
2468	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2469	</para>
2470	</listitem>
2471
2472	<listitem>
2473	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2474	now</para>
2475	</listitem>
2476
2477	<listitem>
2478	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2479	</listitem>
2480
2481	</itemizedlist>
2482	</para>
2483	</listitem>
2484
2485	<listitem>
2486	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2487	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2488	</listitem>
2489
2490	<listitem>
2491	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2492	Parallels images</para>
2493	</listitem>
2494
2495	<listitem>
2496	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2497	</listitem>
2498
2499	<listitem>
2500	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2501	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2502	</listitem>
2503
2504	<listitem>
2505	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2506	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2507	</listitem>
2508
2509	</itemizedlist>
2510
2511	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2512
2513	<itemizedlist>
2514
2515	<listitem>
2516	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2517	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2518	</listitem>
2519
2520	<listitem>
2521	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2522	</listitem>
2523
2524	<listitem>
2525	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2526	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2527	</listitem>
2528
2529	<listitem>
2530	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2531	(bug #1657)</para>
2532	</listitem>
2533
2534	<listitem>
2535	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2536	</listitem>
2537
2538	<listitem>
2539	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2544	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2545	</listitem>
2546
2547	<listitem>
2548	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2549	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2550	</listitem>
2551
2552	<listitem>
2553	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2554	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2555	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2556	</listitem>
2557
2558	<listitem>
2559	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2560	again (bug #6864)</para>
2561	</listitem>
2562
2563	<listitem>
2564	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2565	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2566	</listitem>
2567
2568	<listitem>
2569	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2570	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2571	</listitem>
2572
2573	<listitem>
2574	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2575	</listitem>
2576
2577	<listitem>
2578	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2579	</listitem>
2580
2581	<listitem>
2582	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2583	</listitem>
2584
2585	<listitem>
2586	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2587	</listitem>
2588
2589	<listitem>
2590	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	<listitem>
2594	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2595	</listitem>
2596
2597	<listitem>
2598	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2599	</listitem>
2600
2601	<listitem>
2602	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2603	(bug #7058)</para>
2604	</listitem>
2605
2606	<listitem>
2607	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2608	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2609	</listitem>
2610
2611	<listitem>
2612	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2613	circumstances</para>
2614	</listitem>
2615
2616	<listitem>
2617	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2618	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2619	#5578)
2620	</para>
2621	</listitem>
2622
2623	<listitem>
2624	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2625	</listitem>
2626
2627	<listitem>
2628	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2629	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2630	</listitem>
2631
2632	<listitem>
2633	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2634	</listitem>
2635
2636	<listitem>
2637	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2638	#6760)</para>
2639	</listitem>
2640
2641	<listitem>
2642	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
2643	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
2644	</listitem>
2645
2646	<listitem>
2647	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
2648	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
2649	</listitem>
2650
2651	<listitem>
2652	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
2653	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2654	</listitem>
2655
2656	<listitem>
2657	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
2658	</listitem>
2659
2660	<listitem>
2661	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
2662	file</para>
2663	</listitem>
2664
2665	<listitem>
2666	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2667	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2668	</listitem>
2669
2670	</itemizedlist>
2671
2672	</sect1>
2673
2674	<sect1>
2675	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
2676
2677	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2678	added:</para>
2679
2680	<itemizedlist>
2681
2682	<listitem>
2683	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2684	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
2685	</listitem>
2686
2687	<listitem>
2688	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
2689	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
2690	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
2691	</listitem>
2692
2693	<listitem>
2694	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
2695	</listitem>
2696
2697	<listitem>
2698	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
2699	</listitem>
2700
2701	<listitem>
2702	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
2703	</listitem>
2704
2705	<listitem>
2706	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
2707	the VM is running</para>
2708	</listitem>
2709
2710	<listitem>
2711	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
2712	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
2713	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
2714	starting from a saved state</para>
2715	</listitem>
2716
2717	<listitem>
2718	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
2719	</listitem>
2720
2721	<listitem>
2722	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
2723	</listitem>
2724
2725	<listitem>
2726	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
2727	</listitem>
2728
2729	<listitem>
2730	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2731	</listitem>
2732
2733	<listitem>
2734	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2735	</listitem>
2736
2737	<listitem>
2738	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
2739	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
2740	</listitem>
2741
2742	<listitem>
2743	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
2744	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
2745	</listitem>
2746
2747	<listitem>
2748	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
2749	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
2750	</listitem>
2751
2752	<listitem>
2753	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
2754	</listitem>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
2758	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
2759	</para>
2760	</listitem>
2761
2762	<listitem>
2763	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
2764	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
2765	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
2766	</listitem>
2767
2768	<listitem>
2769	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
2770	only)</para>
2771	</listitem>
2772
2773	<listitem>
2774	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
2775	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
2776	</listitem>
2777
2778	<listitem>
2779	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
2780	</listitem>
2781
2782	<listitem>
2783	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
2784	</listitem>
2785
2786	<listitem>
2787	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
2792	state (bug #4124)</para>
2793	</listitem>
2794
2795	<listitem>
2796	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
2797	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
2798	</listitem>
2799
2800	<listitem>
2801	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
2802	</listitem>
2803
2804	<listitem>
2805	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
2806	(bug #2996)</para>
2807	</listitem>
2808
2809	<listitem>
2810	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
2811	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
2816	</listitem>
2817
2818	<listitem>
2819	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
2820	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
2821	</listitem>
2822
2823	<listitem>
2824	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
2825	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
2826	</listitem>
2827
2828	<listitem>
2829	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
2830	user accounts for VM information</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	</itemizedlist>
2834
2835	</sect1>
2836
2837	<sect1>
2838	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
2839
2840	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2841	added:</para>
2842
2843	<itemizedlist>
2844
2845	<listitem>
2846	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
2847	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
2848	</listitem>
2849
2850	<listitem>
2851	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	<listitem>
2863	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2864	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
2865	</listitem>
2866
2867	<listitem>
2868	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
2869	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
2870	</listitem>
2871
2872	<listitem>
2873	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
2874	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
2875	</listitem>
2876
2877	<listitem>
2878	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
2879	(bug #4952)</para>
2880	</listitem>
2881
2882	<listitem>
2883	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
2884	bug #6122)</para>
2885	</listitem>
2886
2887	<listitem>
2888	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
2889	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
2890	</listitem>
2891
2892	<listitem>
2893	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
2894	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
2895	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2896	</listitem>
2897
2898	<listitem>
2899	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
2900	</listitem>
2901
2902	<listitem>
2903	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
2904	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
2905	</listitem>
2906
2907	<listitem>
2908	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
2909	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
2910	</listitem>
2911
2912	<listitem>
2913	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
2914	canceled</para>
2915	</listitem>
2916
2917	<listitem>
2918	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
2919	</listitem>
2920
2921	<listitem>
2922	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
2923	</listitem>
2924
2925	<listitem>
2926	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
2927	</listitem>
2928
2929	<listitem>
2930	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
2931	</listitem>
2932
2933	<listitem>
2934	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
2935	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
2936	</listitem>
2937
2938	<listitem>
2939	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
2940	</listitem>
2941
2942	<listitem>
2943	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
2944	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2945	</listitem>
2946
2947	<listitem>
2948	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
2949	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
2950	</listitem>
2951
2952	<listitem>
2953	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
2954	</listitem>
2955
2956	<listitem>
2957	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
2958	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
2959	</listitem>
2960
2961	<listitem>
2962	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
2963	</listitem>
2964
2965	<listitem>
2966	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
2967	circumstances</para>
2968	</listitem>
2969
2970	<listitem>
2971	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
2972	printers</para>
2973	</listitem>
2974
2975	<listitem>
2976	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
2977	</listitem>
2978
2979	<listitem>
2980	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
2981	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
2982	</listitem>
2983
2984	<listitem>
2985	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
2986	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
2991	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
2992	circumstances</para>
2993	</listitem>
2994
2995	<listitem>
2996	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
2997	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
2998	</listitem>
2999
3000	<listitem>
3001	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3002	as supported extension</para>
3003	</listitem>
3004
3005	<listitem>
3006	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3007	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3008	</listitem>
3009
3010	<listitem>
3011	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3012	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3013	</listitem>
3014
3015	<listitem>
3016	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3017	</listitem>
3018
3019	<listitem>
3020	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3021	(bug #7366)</para>
3022	</listitem>
3023
3024	<listitem>
3025	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3030	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3035	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3036	</listitem>
3037
3038	<listitem>
3039	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3040	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3041	</listitem>
3042
3043	<listitem>
3044	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3045	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3046	</listitem>
3047
3048	<listitem>
3049	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3050	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3051	</listitem>
3052
3053	<listitem>
3054	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3055	</listitem>
3056
3057	<listitem>
3058	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3059	</listitem>
3060
3061	<listitem>
3062	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3063	more than one environment variable</para>
3064	</listitem>
3065
3066	<listitem>
3067	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3068	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3069	</listitem>
3070
3071	<listitem>
3072	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3073	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3074	</listitem>
3075
3076	<listitem>
3077	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3078	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3079	</listitem>
3080
3081	<listitem>
3082	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3083	enumerating logged in users</para>
3084	</listitem>
3085
3086	<listitem>
3087	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3088	</listitem>
3089
3090	<listitem>
3091	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3092	</listitem>
3093
3094	<listitem>
3095	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3096	</listitem>
3097
3098	<listitem>
3099	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3100	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3101	</listitem>
3102
3103	<listitem>
3104	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3105	</listitem>
3106
3107	<listitem>
3108	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3109	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3110	</listitem>
3111
3112	<listitem>
3113	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3114	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3115	</listitem>
3116
3117	<listitem>
3118	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3119	(bug #7448)</para>
3120	</listitem>
3121
3122	<listitem>
3123	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3124	</listitem>
3125
3126	<listitem>
3127	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3128	</listitem>
3129
3130	<listitem>
3131	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	</itemizedlist>
3135
3136	</sect1>
3137
3138	<sect1>
3139	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3140
3141	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3142	added:</para>
3143
3144	<itemizedlist>
3145
3146	<listitem>
3147	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3148	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3149	</listitem>
3150
3151	<listitem>
3152	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3153	</listitem>
3154
3155	<listitem>
3156	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3157	bug #6809)</para>
3158	</listitem>
3159
3160	<listitem>
3161	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3162	</listitem>
3163
3164	<listitem>
3165	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3170	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3171	</listitem>
3172
3173	<listitem>
3174	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3175	changes</para>
3176	</listitem>
3177
3178	<listitem>
3179	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3180	</listitem>
3181
3182	<listitem>
3183	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3184	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3185	</listitem>
3186
3187	<listitem>
3188	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3189	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3190	</listitem>
3191
3192	<listitem>
3193	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3194	</listitem>
3195
3196	<listitem>
3197	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3198	</listitem>
3199
3200	<listitem>
3201	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3202	</listitem>
3203
3204	<listitem>
3205	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3206	</listitem>
3207
3208	<listitem>
3209	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3210	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3211	</listitem>
3212
3213	<listitem>
3214	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3215	</listitem>
3216
3217	<listitem>
3218	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3219	(bug #6832)</para>
3220	</listitem>
3221
3222	<listitem>
3223	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3224	guests</para>
3225	</listitem>
3226
3227	<listitem>
3228	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3229	</listitem>
3230
3231	<listitem>
3232	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3233	without external tools and tricks</para>
3234	</listitem>
3235
3236	<listitem>
3237	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3238	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3239	</listitem>
3240
3241	<listitem>
3242	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3243	</listitem>
3244
3245	<listitem>
3246	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3247	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3248	</listitem>
3249
3250	<listitem>
3251	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3252	shutdown</para>
3253	</listitem>
3254
3255	<listitem>
3256	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3257	fixes</para>
3258	</listitem>
3259
3260	<listitem>
3261	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3262	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3263	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3264	</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3269	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3270	</listitem>
3271
3272	<listitem>
3273	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3274	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3275	</listitem>
3276
3277	<listitem>
3278	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3279	</para>
3280	</listitem>
3281
3282	<listitem>
3283	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3284	</listitem>
3285
3286	<listitem>
3287	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3288	</listitem>
3289
3290	<listitem>
3291	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3292	</listitem>
3293
3294	</itemizedlist>
3295
3296	</sect1>
3297
3298	<sect1>
3299	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3300
3301	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3302	added:</para>
3303
3304	<itemizedlist>
3305
3306	<listitem>
3307	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3308	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3309	</listitem>
3310
3311	<listitem>
3312	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3313	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3314	</listitem>
3315
3316	<listitem>
3317	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3318	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3319	</listitem>
3320
3321	<listitem>
3322	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3323	</listitem>
3324
3325	<listitem>
3326	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	<listitem>
3330	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3339	assigned</para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3344	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3345	</listitem>
3346
3347	<listitem>
3348	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3349	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3350	</listitem>
3351
3352	<listitem>
3353	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3354	</listitem>
3355
3356	<listitem>
3357	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3358	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3359	</listitem>
3360
3361	<listitem>
3362	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3363	again (bug #7022).
3364	</para>
3365	</listitem>
3366
3367	<listitem>
3368	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3369	(bug #6768)</para>
3370	</listitem>
3371
3372	<listitem>
3373	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3374	(bug #6927)</para>
3375	</listitem>
3376
3377	<listitem>
3378	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3379	bug #7031)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3384	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3389	bug #6987)</para>
3390	</listitem>
3391
3392	<listitem>
3393	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3402	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3407	</listitem>
3408
3409	<listitem>
3410	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3411	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3412	</listitem>
3413
3414	<listitem>
3415	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3416	</listitem>
3417
3418	<listitem>
3419	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3420	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3421	bug #6872)</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3426	</listitem>
3427
3428	<listitem>
3429	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3430	(performance tweak)</para>
3431	</listitem>
3432
3433	<listitem>
3434	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3435	is currently paused</para>
3436	</listitem>
3437
3438	<listitem>
3439	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3440	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3441	</listitem>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3445	</listitem>
3446
3447	<listitem>
3448	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3449	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3450	</listitem>
3451
3452	<listitem>
3453	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3454	not properly saved</para>
3455	</listitem>
3456
3457	<listitem>
3458	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3459	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3460	</listitem>
3461
3462	<listitem>
3463	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3464	</listitem>
3465
3466	<listitem>
3467	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3472	</listitem>
3473
3474	<listitem>
3475	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3476	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	<listitem>
3480	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3481	</listitem>
3482
3483	<listitem>
3484	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3485	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3486	</listitem>
3487
3488	<listitem>
3489	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3490	(bug #5251)</para>
3491	</listitem>
3492
3493	<listitem>
3494	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3495	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3496	</listitem>
3497
3498	<listitem>
3499	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3500	</listitem>
3501
3502	<listitem>
3503	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3504	</listitem>
3505
3506	<listitem>
3507	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3508	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	<listitem>
3512	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3513	</listitem>
3514
3515	<listitem>
3516	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3517	</listitem>
3518
3519	<listitem>
3520	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3521	</listitem>
3522
3523	</itemizedlist>
3524	</sect1>
3525
3526	<sect1>
3527	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3528
3529	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3530	added:</para>
3531
3532	<itemizedlist>
3533
3534	<listitem>
3535	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3536	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3537	</listitem>
3538
3539	<listitem>
3540	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3541	</listitem>
3542
3543	<listitem>
3544	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3545	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3546	</listitem>
3547
3548	<listitem>
3549	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3550	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3551	</listitem>
3552
3553	<listitem>
3554	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3555	</listitem>
3556
3557	<listitem>
3558	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3559	again (bug #6864)</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3564	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3573	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3574	</listitem>
3575
3576	<listitem>
3577	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	</itemizedlist>
3581
3582	</sect1>
3583
3584	<sect1>
3585	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3586
3587	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3588	added:</para>
3589
3590	<itemizedlist>
3591
3592	<listitem>
3593	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3594	</listitem>
3595
3596	<listitem>
3597	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3598	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3599	</listitem>
3600
3601	<listitem>
3602	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3603	</listitem>
3604
3605	<listitem>
3606	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3607	state</para>
3608	</listitem>
3609
3610	<listitem>
3611	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3612	</listitem>
3613
3614	<listitem>
3615	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3616	</listitem>
3617
3618	<listitem>
3619	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3620	</listitem>
3621
3622	<listitem>
3623	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3624	</listitem>
3625
3626	<listitem>
3627	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3628	</listitem>
3629
3630	<listitem>
3631	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3636	</listitem>
3637
3638	<listitem>
3639	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3640	</listitem>
3641
3642	<listitem>
3643	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
3644	</listitem>
3645
3646	<listitem>
3647	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
3648	</listitem>
3649
3650	<listitem>
3651	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
3652	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
3653	</listitem>
3654
3655	<listitem>
3656	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
3657	(bug #6784)</para>
3658	</listitem>
3659
3660	<listitem>
3661	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
3662	</listitem>
3663
3664	<listitem>
3665	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
3666	</listitem>
3667
3668	<listitem>
3669	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
3670	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
3671	</listitem>
3672
3673	<listitem>
3674	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
3675	</listitem>
3676
3677	<listitem>
3678	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
3679	</listitem>
3680
3681	<listitem>
3682	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
3683	host only</para>
3684	</listitem>
3685
3686	<listitem>
3687	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
3688	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
3689	</listitem>
3690
3691	<listitem>
3692	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
3693	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
3694	</listitem>
3695
3696	<listitem>
3697	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
3698	</listitem>
3699
3700	<listitem>
3701	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
3702	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
3703	</listitem>
3704
3705	<listitem>
3706	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	<listitem>
3710	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
3711	</listitem>
3712
3713	<listitem>
3714	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
3715	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
3716	</listitem>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
3720	</listitem>
3721
3722	<listitem>
3723	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
3724	</listitem>
3725
3726	<listitem>
3727	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
3732	(bug #6714)</para>
3733	</listitem>
3734
3735	<listitem>
3736	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
3745	</listitem>
3746
3747	<listitem>
3748	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
3749	</listitem>
3750
3751	<listitem>
3752	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
3753	</listitem>
3754
3755	</itemizedlist>
3756
3757	</sect1>
3758
3759	<sect1>
3760	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
3761
3762	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3763	were added:</para>
3764
3765	<itemizedlist>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
3769	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
3770	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
3771	</listitem>
3772
3773	<listitem>
3774	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
3775	</listitem>
3776
3777	<listitem>
3778	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
3779	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
3780	</listitem>
3781
3782	<listitem>
3783	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
3784	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
3785	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
3786	</listitem>
3787
3788	<listitem>
3789	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
3790	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
3791	</listitem>
3792
3793	<listitem>
3794	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
3795	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
3796	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
3797	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
3798	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
3799	</listitem>
3800
3801	<listitem>
3802	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
3807	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
3808	</listitem>
3809
3810	<listitem>
3811	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
3812	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
3813	</listitem>
3814
3815	<listitem>
3816	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
3817	</listitem>
3818
3819	<listitem>
3820	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
3821	</listitem>
3822
3823	<listitem>
3824	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
3825	</listitem>
3826
3827	<listitem>
3828	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
3829	</listitem>
3830
3831	<listitem>
3832	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
3833	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
3834	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
3835	</listitem>
3836
3837	<listitem>
3838	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
3839	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
3840	</listitem>
3841
3842	</itemizedlist>
3843
3844	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3845
3846	<itemizedlist>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
3850	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
3851	</listitem>
3852
3853	<listitem>
3854	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
3855	</listitem>
3856
3857	<listitem>
3858	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
3859	VM</para>
3860	</listitem>
3861
3862	<listitem>
3863	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
3864	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
3865	</listitem>
3866
3867	<listitem>
3868	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
3869	#1669)</para>
3870	</listitem>
3871
3872	<listitem>
3873	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
3874	#6442)</para>
3875	</listitem>
3876
3877	<listitem>
3878	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
3879	combination (bug #684)</para>
3880	</listitem>
3881
3882	<listitem>
3883	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
3884	the VM from the GUI</para>
3885	</listitem>
3886
3887	<listitem>
3888	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
3889	medium is not accessible</para>
3890	</listitem>
3891
3892	<listitem>
3893	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
3894	</listitem>
3895
3896	<listitem>
3897	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
3898	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
3899	</listitem>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
3903	#3106)</para>
3904	</listitem>
3905
3906	<listitem>
3907	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
3908	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
3909	it</para>
3910	</listitem>
3911
3912	<listitem>
3913	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
3914	</listitem>
3915
3916	<listitem>
3917	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
3922	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
3923	</listitem>
3924
3925	<listitem>
3926	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
3927	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
3928	</listitem>
3929
3930	<listitem>
3931	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
3932	</listitem>
3933
3934	<listitem>
3935	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
3940	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
3941	</listitem>
3942
3943	<listitem>
3944	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
3945	</listitem>
3946
3947	<listitem>
3948	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
3949	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
3950	</listitem>
3951
3952	<listitem>
3953	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
3954	</listitem>
3955
3956	<listitem>
3957	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
3958	in VirtualBox</para>
3959	</listitem>
3960
3961	<listitem>
3962	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
3963	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
3964	</listitem>
3965
3966	<listitem>
3967	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
3968	VirtualBox</para>
3969	</listitem>
3970
3971	<listitem>
3972	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
3973	</listitem>
3974
3975	<listitem>
3976	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
3977	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
3978	</listitem>
3979
3980	</itemizedlist>
3981	</sect1>
3982
3983	<sect1>
3984	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
3985
3986	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3987	added:</para>
3988
3989	<itemizedlist>
3990
3991	<listitem>
3992	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
3993	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
3998	</listitem>
3999
4000	<listitem>
4001	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4002	</listitem>
4003
4004	<listitem>
4005	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4006	only) </para>
4007	</listitem>
4008
4009	<listitem>
4010	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4011	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4012	</listitem>
4013
4014	<listitem>
4015	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4016	interface version</para>
4017	</listitem>
4018
4019	<listitem>
4020	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4021	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4022	slot empty</para>
4023	</listitem>
4024
4025	<listitem>
4026	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4027	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4028	(bug #4220)</para>
4029	</listitem>
4030
4031	<listitem>
4032	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4033	</listitem>
4034
4035	<listitem>
4036	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4037	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4038	</listitem>
4039
4040	<listitem>
4041	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4042	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4043	</listitem>
4044
4045	<listitem>
4046	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4047	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4048	</listitem>
4049
4050	<listitem>
4051	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4052	attached</para>
4053	</listitem>
4054
4055	<listitem>
4056	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4057	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4058	</listitem>
4059
4060	<listitem>
4061	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4062	</listitem>
4063
4064	<listitem>
4065	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4066	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4067	</listitem>
4068
4069	<listitem>
4070	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4071	is bug #6408)</para>
4072	</listitem>
4073
4074	<listitem>
4075	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4076	</listitem>
4077
4078	<listitem>
4079	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4080	fail to initialize</para>
4081	</listitem>
4082
4083	<listitem>
4084	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4085	</listitem>
4086
4087	<listitem>
4088	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4089	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4090	</listitem>
4091
4092	<listitem>
4093	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4094	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4095	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	<listitem>
4099	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4100	</listitem>
4101
4102	<listitem>
4103	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4104	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4105	</listitem>
4106
4107	<listitem>
4108	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4109	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4110	</listitem>
4111
4112	<listitem>
4113	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4114	(bug #6435)</para>
4115	</listitem>
4116
4117	<listitem>
4118	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4119	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4120	</listitem>
4121
4122	<listitem>
4123	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4124	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4125	(bug #6488)</para>
4126	</listitem>
4127
4128	<listitem>
4129	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4130	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4131	</listitem>
4132
4133	<listitem>
4134	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4135	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4136	</listitem>
4137
4138	<listitem>
4139	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4140	#5227)</para>
4141	</listitem>
4142
4143	<listitem>
4144	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4145	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4146	</listitem>
4147
4148	<listitem>
4149	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4150	</listitem>
4151
4152	<listitem>
4153	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4154	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4155	</listitem>
4156
4157	</itemizedlist>
4158	</sect1>
4159
4160	<sect1>
4161	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4162
4163	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4164	added:</para>
4165
4166	<itemizedlist>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4170	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4171	</listitem>
4172
4173	<listitem>
4174	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4175	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4176	</listitem>
4177
4178	<listitem>
4179	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4180	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4181	</listitem>
4182
4183	<listitem>
4184	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4185	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4186	</listitem>
4187
4188	<listitem>
4189	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4190	</listitem>
4191
4192	<listitem>
4193	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4194	</listitem>
4195
4196	<listitem>
4197	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4198	</listitem>
4199
4200	<listitem>
4201	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	<listitem>
4205	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4206	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4207	</listitem>
4208
4209	<listitem>
4210	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4211	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4212	</listitem>
4213
4214	<listitem>
4215	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4216	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4221	</listitem>
4222
4223	<listitem>
4224	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4225	</listitem>
4226
4227	<listitem>
4228	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4229	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4230	</listitem>
4231
4232	<listitem>
4233	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4234	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4235	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4236	</listitem>
4237
4238	<listitem>
4239	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4240	(bug #5297)</para>
4241	</listitem>
4242
4243	<listitem>
4244	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4245	(bug #4962)</para>
4246	</listitem>
4247
4248	<listitem>
4249	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4250	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4251	</listitem>
4252
4253	<listitem>
4254	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4255	(bug #6176)</para>
4256	</listitem>
4257
4258	<listitem>
4259	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4260	certain circumstances</para>
4261	</listitem>
4262
4263	<listitem>
4264	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4265	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4266	</listitem>
4267
4268	<listitem>
4269	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4270	</listitem>
4271
4272	<listitem>
4273	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4274	</listitem>
4275
4276	<listitem>
4277	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4278	(bug #3571)</para>
4279	</listitem>
4280
4281	<listitem>
4282	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4283	devices</para>
4284	</listitem>
4285
4286	<listitem>
4287	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4288	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4289	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4294	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4295	</listitem>
4296
4297	<listitem>
4298	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4299	</listitem>
4300
4301	<listitem>
4302	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4303	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4304	</listitem>
4305
4306	<listitem>
4307	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4308	response</para>
4309	</listitem>
4310
4311	<listitem>
4312	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4313	</listitem>
4314
4315	<listitem>
4316	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4317	</listitem>
4318
4319	<listitem>
4320	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4321	</listitem>
4322
4323	<listitem>
4324	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4325	</listitem>
4326
4327	<listitem>
4328	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4329	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4330	</listitem>
4331
4332	<listitem>
4333	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4334	</listitem>
4335
4336	<listitem>
4337	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4338	</listitem>
4339
4340	<listitem>
4341	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4342	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4343	</listitem>
4344
4345	<listitem>
4346	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4347	</listitem>
4348
4349	<listitem>
4350	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4351	</listitem>
4352
4353	<listitem>
4354	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4355	</listitem>
4356
4357	<listitem>
4358	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4359	</listitem>
4360
4361	</itemizedlist>
4362	</sect1>
4363
4364	<sect1>
4365	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4366
4367	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4368	added:</para>
4369
4370	<itemizedlist>
4371
4372	<listitem>
4373	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4374	</listitem>
4375
4376	<listitem>
4377	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4378	</listitem>
4379
4380	<listitem>
4381	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4382	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4383	</listitem>
4384
4385	<listitem>
4386	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4387	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4388	</listitem>
4389
4390	<listitem>
4391	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4392	(bug #3945)</para>
4393	</listitem>
4394
4395	<listitem>
4396	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4397	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4398	</listitem>
4399
4400	<listitem>
4401	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4402	and AMD-V only) </para>
4403	</listitem>
4404
4405	<listitem>
4406	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4407	</listitem>
4408
4409	<listitem>
4410	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4411	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4412	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4413	</listitem>
4414
4415	<listitem>
4416	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4417	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4418	</listitem>
4419
4420	<listitem>
4421	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4422	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4423	</listitem>
4424
4425	<listitem>
4426	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4427	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4432	snapshots command</para>
4433	</listitem>
4434
4435	<listitem>
4436	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4437	</listitem>
4438
4439	<listitem>
4440	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4441	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4442	</listitem>
4443
4444	<listitem>
4445	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4446	</listitem>
4447
4448	<listitem>
4449	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4450	</listitem>
4451
4452	<listitem>
4453	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4454	</listitem>
4455
4456	<listitem>
4457	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4458	(KWin bug)</para>
4459	</listitem>
4460
4461	<listitem>
4462	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4463	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4464	</listitem>
4465
4466	<listitem>
4467	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	<listitem>
4475	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4476	</listitem>
4477
4478	<listitem>
4479	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4480	</listitem>
4481
4482	<listitem>
4483	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4484	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4485	</listitem>
4486
4487	<listitem>
4488	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4489	bug #5787)</para>
4490	</listitem>
4491
4492	<listitem>
4493	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4494	DHCP requests</para>
4495	</listitem>
4496
4497	<listitem>
4498	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4499	(bug #3217)</para>
4500	</listitem>
4501
4502	<listitem>
4503	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4504	range (bug #5923)</para>
4505	</listitem>
4506
4507	<listitem>
4508	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4509	</listitem>
4510
4511	<listitem>
4512	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4517	</listitem>
4518
4519	<listitem>
4520	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4521	</listitem>
4522
4523	<listitem>
4524	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4525	file (bug #5681)</para>
4526	</listitem>
4527
4528	<listitem>
4529	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4530	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4531	</listitem>
4532
4533	<listitem>
4534	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4535	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4536	</listitem>
4537
4538	<listitem>
4539	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4540	regression)</para>
4541	</listitem>
4542
4543	<listitem>
4544	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4545	</listitem>
4546
4547	<listitem>
4548	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4549	</listitem>
4550
4551	<listitem>
4552	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4557	</listitem>
4558
4559	<listitem>
4560	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4561	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4562	</listitem>
4563
4564	<listitem>
4565	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4566	</listitem>
4567
4568	<listitem>
4569	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4578	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4583	</listitem>
4584
4585	<listitem>
4586	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4587	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4588	</listitem>
4589
4590	<listitem>
4591	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4592	</listitem>
4593
4594	<listitem>
4595	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4596	</listitem>
4597
4598	<listitem>
4599	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4600	</listitem>
4601
4602	<listitem>
4603	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4604	(bug #5731)</para>
4605	</listitem>
4606
4607	<listitem>
4608	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4609	again</para>
4610	</listitem>
4611
4612	</itemizedlist>
4613
4614	</sect1>
4615
4616	<sect1>
4617	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4618
4619	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4620	added:</para>
4621
4622	<itemizedlist>
4623
4624	<listitem>
4625	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4626	</listitem>
4627
4628	<listitem>
4629	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4630	</listitem>
4631
4632	<listitem>
4633	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4634	</listitem>
4635
4636	<listitem>
4637	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4638	</listitem>
4639
4640	<listitem>
4641	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
4642	</listitem>
4643
4644	<listitem>
4645	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
4646	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
4647	</listitem>
4648
4649	<listitem>
4650	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
4651	</listitem>
4652
4653	<listitem>
4654	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
4655	</listitem>
4656
4657	<listitem>
4658	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
4659	</listitem>
4660
4661	<listitem>
4662	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
4663	</listitem>
4664
4665	<listitem>
4666	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
4667	</listitem>
4668
4669	<listitem>
4670	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
4671	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
4672	</listitem>
4673
4674	<listitem>
4675	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
4676	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
4677	</listitem>
4678
4679	<listitem>
4680	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
4681	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
4682	#1762)</para>
4683	</listitem>
4684
4685	<listitem>
4686	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
4687	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
4688	</listitem>
4689
4690	<listitem>
4691	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
4692	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
4693	</listitem>
4694
4695	<listitem>
4696	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
4697	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
4698	</listitem>
4699
4700	<listitem>
4701	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
4702	</listitem>
4703
4704	<listitem>
4705	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
4706	</listitem>
4707
4708	<listitem>
4709	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
4710	several virtual CPU cores</para>
4711	</listitem>
4712
4713	<listitem>
4714	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
4715	</listitem>
4716
4717	<listitem>
4718	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
4719	</listitem>
4720
4721	<listitem>
4722	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
4723	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
4724	</listitem>
4725
4726	<listitem>
4727	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
4728	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
4729	</listitem>
4730
4731	<listitem>
4732	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
4733	</listitem>
4734
4735	<listitem>
4736	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
4737	guests</para>
4738	</listitem>
4739
4740	<listitem>
4741	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
4742	and on some 64bit guests</para>
4743	</listitem>
4744
4745	<listitem>
4746	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
4747	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
4748	</listitem>
4749
4750	<listitem>
4751	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
4752	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
4753	</listitem>
4754
4755	<listitem>
4756	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
4757	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
4758	</listitem>
4759
4760	<listitem>
4761	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
4762	</listitem>
4763
4764	<listitem>
4765	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
4766	</listitem>
4767
4768	<listitem>
4769	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
4774	</listitem>
4775
4776	<listitem>
4777	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
4778	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
4779	</listitem>
4780
4781	<listitem>
4782	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
4783	</listitem>
4784
4785	</itemizedlist>
4786
4787	</sect1>
4788
4789	<sect1>
4790	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
4791
4792	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4793	were added:</para>
4794
4795	<itemizedlist>
4796
4797	<listitem>
4798	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
4799	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
4800	</listitem>
4801
4802	<listitem>
4803	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
4804	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
4805	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
4806	</listitem>
4807
4808	<listitem>
4809	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
4810	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
4811	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
4812	</listitem>
4813
4814	<listitem>
4815	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
4816	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
4817	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
4818	</listitem>
4819
4820	<listitem>
4821	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
4822	running</para>
4823	</listitem>
4824
4825	<listitem>
4826	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
4827	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
4828	</listitem>
4829
4830	<listitem>
4831	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
4832	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
4833	</listitem>
4834
4835	<listitem>
4836	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
4837	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
4842	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
4843	</listitem>
4844
4845	</itemizedlist>
4846
4847	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4848
4849	<itemizedlist>
4850
4851	<listitem>
4852	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
4853	</listitem>
4854
4855	<listitem>
4856	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
4857	</listitem>
4858
4859	<listitem>
4860	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
4861	</listitem>
4862
4863	<listitem>
4864	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
4865	(bug #5291)</para>
4866	</listitem>
4867
4868	<listitem>
4869	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
4870	</listitem>
4871
4872	<listitem>
4873	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
4878	</listitem>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
4882	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	<listitem>
4886	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
4887	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
4892	</listitem>
4893
4894	<listitem>
4895	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
4896	</listitem>
4897
4898	<listitem>
4899	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
4900	</listitem>
4901
4902	<listitem>
4903	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
4904	</listitem>
4905
4906	<listitem>
4907	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
4908	</listitem>
4909
4910	<listitem>
4911	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
4912	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
4913	</listitem>
4914
4915	<listitem>
4916	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
4917	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
4918	</listitem>
4919
4920	<listitem>
4921	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
4922	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
4923	</listitem>
4924
4925	<listitem>
4926	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
4927	(bug #2723)</para>
4928	</listitem>
4929
4930	<listitem>
4931	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
4932	</listitem>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
4936	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
4937	</listitem>
4938
4939	<listitem>
4940	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
4941	optional manifest file on import</para>
4942	</listitem>
4943
4944	<listitem>
4945	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
4946	</listitem>
4947
4948	<listitem>
4949	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
4950	(bug #3773)</para>
4951	</listitem>
4952
4953	<listitem>
4954	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
4955	</listitem>
4956
4957	<listitem>
4958	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
4959	</listitem>
4960
4961	<listitem>
4962	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
4963	layout (bug #2302)</para>
4964	</listitem>
4965
4966	<listitem>
4967	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
4968	(bug #4866)</para>
4969	</listitem>
4970
4971	<listitem>
4972	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
4973	left click (bug #5049)</para>
4974	</listitem>
4975
4976	<listitem>
4977	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
4978	certain conditions</para>
4979	</listitem>
4980
4981	<listitem>
4982	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
4983	</listitem>
4984
4985	<listitem>
4986	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
4987	</listitem>
4988
4989	<listitem>
4990	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
4991	</listitem>
4992
4993	<listitem>
4994	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
4995	</listitem>
4996
4997	<listitem>
4998	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
4999	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5000	</listitem>
5001
5002	<listitem>
5003	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5004	</listitem>
5005
5006	<listitem>
5007	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5008	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5009	</listitem>
5010
5011	<listitem>
5012	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5013	</listitem>
5014
5015	<listitem>
5016	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5017	</listitem>
5018
5019	<listitem>
5020	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5021	</listitem>
5022
5023	<listitem>
5024	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5025	</listitem>
5026
5027	<listitem>
5028	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5029	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5030	</listitem>
5031
5032	<listitem>
5033	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5034	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5035	(bug #928)</para>
5036	</listitem>
5037
5038	<listitem>
5039	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5040	</listitem>
5041
5042	</itemizedlist>
5043
5044	</sect1>
5045
5046	<sect1>
5047	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5048
5049	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5050	added:</para>
5051
5052	<itemizedlist>
5053
5054	<listitem>
5055	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5056	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5057	</listitem>
5058
5059	<listitem>
5060	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5061	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5062	</listitem>
5063
5064	<listitem>
5065	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5066	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5067	</listitem>
5068
5069	<listitem>
5070	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5071	enabled</para>
5072	</listitem>
5073
5074	<listitem>
5075	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5076	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5077	</listitem>
5078
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5081	(bug #2676)</para>
5082	</listitem>
5083
5084	<listitem>
5085	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5086	is connected to a raw file</para>
5087	</listitem>
5088
5089	<listitem>
5090	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5091	(bug #5355)</para>
5092	</listitem>
5093
5094	<listitem>
5095	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5096	</listitem>
5097
5098	<listitem>
5099	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5100	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5101	</listitem>
5102
5103	<listitem>
5104	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5105	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5106	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5107	</listitem>
5108
5109	<listitem>
5110	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5111	</listitem>
5112
5113	<listitem>
5114	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5115	</listitem>
5116
5117	<listitem>
5118	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5119	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5120	</listitem>
5121
5122	<listitem>
5123	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5124	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5125	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5126	</listitem>
5127
5128	</itemizedlist>
5129
5130	</sect1>
5131
5132	<sect1>
5133	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5134
5135	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5136	added:</para>
5137
5138	<itemizedlist>
5139
5140	<listitem>
5141	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5142	</listitem>
5143
5144	<listitem>
5145	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5146	</listitem>
5147
5148	<listitem>
5149	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5150	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5151	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5152	</listitem>
5153
5154	<listitem>
5155	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5156	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5157	</listitem>
5158
5159	<listitem>
5160	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5161	</listitem>
5162
5163	<listitem>
5164	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5165	</listitem>
5166
5167	<listitem>
5168	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5169	</listitem>
5170
5171	<listitem>
5172	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5173	</listitem>
5174
5175	<listitem>
5176	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5177	</listitem>
5178
5179	<listitem>
5180	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5181	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5182	</listitem>
5183
5184	<listitem>
5185	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5186	</listitem>
5187
5188	<listitem>
5189	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5190	</listitem>
5191
5192	<listitem>
5193	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5194	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5195	</listitem>
5196
5197	<listitem>
5198	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5199	</listitem>
5200
5201	<listitem>
5202	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5203	exhaustion</para>
5204	</listitem>
5205
5206	<listitem>
5207	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5208	</listitem>
5209
5210	<listitem>
5211	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5212	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5213	</listitem>
5214
5215	<listitem>
5216	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5217	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5218	</listitem>
5219
5220	<listitem>
5221	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5222	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5223	</listitem>
5224
5225	<listitem>
5226	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5227	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5228	(bug #2921)</para>
5229	</listitem>
5230
5231	<listitem>
5232	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5233	hosts only)</para>
5234	</listitem>
5235
5236	<listitem>
5237	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5238	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5239	</listitem>
5240
5241	<listitem>
5242	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5243	</listitem>
5244
5245	<listitem>
5246	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5247	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5248	</listitem>
5249
5250	<listitem>
5251	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5252	</listitem>
5253
5254	<listitem>
5255	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5256	image inconsistency </para>
5257	</listitem>
5258
5259	<listitem>
5260	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5261	</listitem>
5262
5263	<listitem>
5264	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5265	</listitem>
5266
5267	<listitem>
5268	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5269	(bug #2025)</para>
5270	</listitem>
5271
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5274	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5275	</listitem>
5276
5277	</itemizedlist>
5278
5279	</sect1>
5280
5281	<sect1>
5282	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5283
5284	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5285	added:</para>
5286
5287	<itemizedlist>
5288
5289	<listitem>
5290	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5291	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5292	</listitem>
5293
5294	<listitem>
5295	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5296	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5297	</listitem>
5298
5299	<listitem>
5300	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5301	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5302	</listitem>
5303
5304	<listitem>
5305	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5306	</listitem>
5307
5308	<listitem>
5309	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5310	software virtualization only) </para>
5311	</listitem>
5312
5313	<listitem>
5314	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5315	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5316	</listitem>
5317
5318	<listitem>
5319	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5320	with root privileges</para>
5321	</listitem>
5322
5323	<listitem>
5324	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5325	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5326	</listitem>
5327
5328	<listitem>
5329	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5330	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5331	</listitem>
5332
5333	<listitem>
5334	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5335	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5336	</listitem>
5337
5338	<listitem>
5339	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5340	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5341	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5342	</listitem>
5343
5344	<listitem>
5345	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5346	available</para>
5347	</listitem>
5348
5349	<listitem>
5350	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5351	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5352	</listitem>
5353
5354	<listitem>
5355	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5356	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5357	</listitem>
5358
5359	<listitem>
5360	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5361	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5362	</listitem>
5363
5364	<listitem>
5365	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5366	(bug #4907)</para>
5367	</listitem>
5368
5369	<listitem>
5370	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5371	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5372	</listitem>
5373
5374	<listitem>
5375	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5376	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5377	</listitem>
5378
5379	<listitem>
5380	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5381	</listitem>
5382
5383	<listitem>
5384	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5385	</listitem>
5386
5387	<listitem>
5388	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5389	</listitem>
5390
5391	<listitem>
5392	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5393	</listitem>
5394
5395	<listitem>
5396	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5397	are installed</para>
5398	</listitem>
5399
5400	<listitem>
5401	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5402	(bug #4771)</para>
5403	</listitem>
5404
5405	<listitem>
5406	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5407	</listitem>
5408
5409	<listitem>
5410	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5411	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5412	</listitem>
5413
5414	<listitem>
5415	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5416	command</para>
5417	</listitem>
5418
5419	<listitem>
5420	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5421	</listitem>
5422
5423	<listitem>
5424	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5429	(bug #5089)</para>
5430	</listitem>
5431
5432	<listitem>
5433	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	</itemizedlist>
5437
5438	</sect1>
5439
5440	<sect1>
5441	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5442
5443	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5444	added:</para>
5445
5446	<itemizedlist>
5447
5448	<listitem>
5449	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5450	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5451	</listitem>
5452
5453	<listitem>
5454	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5455	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5456	</listitem>
5457
5458	<listitem>
5459	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5460	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5461	</listitem>
5462
5463	<listitem>
5464	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5465	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5466	</listitem>
5467
5468	<listitem>
5469	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5470	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5471	</listitem>
5472
5473	<listitem>
5474	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5475	</listitem>
5476
5477	<listitem>
5478	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5479	</listitem>
5480
5481	<listitem>
5482	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5483	</listitem>
5484
5485	<listitem>
5486	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5487	</listitem>
5488
5489	<listitem>
5490	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5491	</listitem>
5492
5493	<listitem>
5494	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5495	onlined or offlined</para>
5496	</listitem>
5497
5498	<listitem>
5499	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5500	</listitem>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5504	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5505	</listitem>
5506
5507	<listitem>
5508	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5509	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5510	</listitem>
5511
5512	<listitem>
5513	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5514	</listitem>
5515
5516	<listitem>
5517	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5518	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5519	</listitem>
5520
5521	<listitem>
5522	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5523	</listitem>
5524
5525	<listitem>
5526	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5527	</listitem>
5528
5529	<listitem>
5530	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5535	</listitem>
5536
5537	<listitem>
5538	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5539	</listitem>
5540
5541	<listitem>
5542	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5543	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5544	</listitem>
5545
5546	<listitem>
5547	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5548	</listitem>
5549
5550	<listitem>
5551	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5552	</listitem>
5553
5554	<listitem>
5555	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5556	</listitem>
5557
5558	<listitem>
5559	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5560	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5561	</listitem>
5562
5563	<listitem>
5564	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5565	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5566	</listitem>
5567
5568	<listitem>
5569	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5570	</listitem>
5571
5572	<listitem>
5573	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5574	</listitem>
5575
5576	<listitem>
5577	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5578	</listitem>
5579
5580	<listitem>
5581	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5582	</listitem>
5583
5584	<listitem>
5585	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5586	</listitem>
5587
5588	<listitem>
5589	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5590	</listitem>
5591
5592	<listitem>
5593	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5594	</listitem>
5595
5596	<listitem>
5597	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5598	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5599	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5600	phase collapse</para>
5601	</listitem>
5602
5603	<listitem>
5604	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5605	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5606	</listitem>
5607
5608	<listitem>
5609	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5610	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5611	</listitem>
5612
5613	<listitem>
5614	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5615	</listitem>
5616
5617	<listitem>
5618	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5619	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5620	</listitem>
5621
5622	<listitem>
5623	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5624	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5625	</listitem>
5626
5627	<listitem>
5628	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5629	</listitem>
5630
5631	<listitem>
5632	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5633	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5634	#4698, #4790)</para>
5635	</listitem>
5636
5637	<listitem>
5638	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5639	less than the configured range</para>
5640	</listitem>
5641
5642	<listitem>
5643	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
5644	</listitem>
5645
5646	<listitem>
5647	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
5648	</listitem>
5649
5650	<listitem>
5651	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
5652	</listitem>
5653
5654	<listitem>
5655	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
5656	</listitem>
5657
5658	<listitem>
5659	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
5660	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
5661	</listitem>
5662
5663	<listitem>
5664	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
5665	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
5666	</listitem>
5667
5668	<listitem>
5669	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
5670	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
5671	</listitem>
5672
5673	<listitem>
5674	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
5675	</listitem>
5676
5677	<listitem>
5678	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
5679	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
5680	</listitem>
5681
5682	<listitem>
5683	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
5684	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	<listitem>
5688	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
5689	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
5690	</listitem>
5691
5692	<listitem>
5693	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
5694	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
5695	</listitem>
5696
5697	<listitem>
5698	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
5699	</listitem>
5700
5701	<listitem>
5702	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
5703	</listitem>
5704
5705	</itemizedlist>
5706
5707	</sect1>
5708
5709	<sect1>
5710	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
5711
5712	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5713	added:</para>
5714
5715	<itemizedlist>
5716
5717	<listitem>
5718	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
5719	</listitem>
5720
5721	<listitem>
5722	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
5723	</listitem>
5724
5725	<listitem>
5726	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
5727	</listitem>
5728
5729	<listitem>
5730	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
5731	</listitem>
5732
5733	<listitem>
5734	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
5735	</listitem>
5736
5737	<listitem>
5738	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
5743	</listitem>
5744
5745	<listitem>
5746	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
5747	</listitem>
5748
5749	<listitem>
5750	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
5751	</listitem>
5752
5753	<listitem>
5754	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
5755	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
5756	</listitem>
5757
5758	<listitem>
5759	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
5760	</listitem>
5761
5762	<listitem>
5763	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
5764	</listitem>
5765
5766	<listitem>
5767	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
5768	</listitem>
5769
5770	<listitem>
5771	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
5772	</listitem>
5773
5774	<listitem>
5775	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
5776	</listitem>
5777
5778	<listitem>
5779	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
5780	</listitem>
5781
5782	<listitem>
5783	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
5784	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
5785	</listitem>
5786
5787	<listitem>
5788	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
5789	(bug #4654)</para>
5790	</listitem>
5791
5792	<listitem>
5793	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
5798	interfaces</para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	<listitem>
5802	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
5803	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
5804	</listitem>
5805
5806	<listitem>
5807	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
5808	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
5809	</listitem>
5810
5811	<listitem>
5812	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
5813	properties (bug #3415)</para>
5814	</listitem>
5815
5816	<listitem>
5817	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
5818	(bug #1461)</para>
5819	</listitem>
5820
5821	<listitem>
5822	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
5827	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
5828	</listitem>
5829
5830	<listitem>
5831	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
5832	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
5833	</listitem>
5834
5835	<listitem>
5836	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
5837	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
5842	</listitem>
5843
5844	<listitem>
5845	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
5846	</listitem>
5847
5848	<listitem>
5849	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
5850	</listitem>
5851
5852	<listitem>
5853	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
5854	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
5855	</listitem>
5856
5857	<listitem>
5858	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
5859	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
5860	</listitem>
5861
5862	<listitem>
5863	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
5864	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
5865	</listitem>
5866
5867	<listitem>
5868	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
5869	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
5870	</listitem>
5871
5872	</itemizedlist>
5873
5874	</sect1>
5875	<sect1>
5876	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
5877
5878	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5879	added:</para>
5880
5881	<itemizedlist>
5882
5883	<listitem>
5884	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
5885	</listitem>
5886
5887	<listitem>
5888	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
5889	</listitem>
5890
5891	<listitem>
5892	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
5893	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
5894	</listitem>
5895
5896	<listitem>
5897	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
5898	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
5899	</listitem>
5900
5901	<listitem>
5902	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
5903	</listitem>
5904
5905	<listitem>
5906	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
5907	</listitem>
5908
5909	<listitem>
5910	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
5911	</listitem>
5912
5913	<listitem>
5914	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
5915	</listitem>
5916
5917	<listitem>
5918	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
5919	</listitem>
5920
5921	<listitem>
5922	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
5923	</listitem>
5924
5925	<listitem>
5926	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
5927	</listitem>
5928
5929	<listitem>
5930	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
5931	</listitem>
5932
5933	<listitem>
5934	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
5935	</listitem>
5936
5937	<listitem>
5938	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
5939	</listitem>
5940
5941	<listitem>
5942	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
5943	</listitem>
5944
5945	<listitem>
5946	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
5947	guest (bug #4381)</para>
5948	</listitem>
5949
5950	<listitem>
5951	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
5952	</listitem>
5953
5954	<listitem>
5955	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
5956	</listitem>
5957
5958	<listitem>
5959	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
5960	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
5961	</listitem>
5962
5963	<listitem>
5964	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
5965	</listitem>
5966
5967	<listitem>
5968	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
5969	</listitem>
5970
5971	<listitem>
5972	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
5973	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
5974	</listitem>
5975
5976	<listitem>
5977	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
5978	</listitem>
5979
5980	<listitem>
5981	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
5982	</listitem>
5983
5984	<listitem>
5985	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
5986	</listitem>
5987
5988	<listitem>
5989	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
5990	</listitem>
5991
5992	<listitem>
5993	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
5994	</listitem>
5995
5996	<listitem>
5997	<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>
5998	</listitem>
5999
6000	</itemizedlist>
6001
6002	</sect1>
6003
6004	<sect1>
6005	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6006
6007	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6008	were added:</para>
6009
6010	<itemizedlist>
6011
6012	<listitem>
6013	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6014	</listitem>
6015
6016	<listitem>
6017	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6018	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6019	</listitem>
6020
6021	<listitem>
6022	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6023	</listitem>
6024
6025	</itemizedlist>
6026
6027	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6028
6029	<itemizedlist>
6030
6031	<listitem>
6032	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6033	</listitem>
6034
6035	<listitem>
6036	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6037	certain conditions</para>
6038	</listitem>
6039
6040	<listitem>
6041	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6042	</listitem>
6043
6044	<listitem>
6045	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6046	</listitem>
6047
6048	<listitem>
6049	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6050	</listitem>
6051
6052	<listitem>
6053	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6054	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6055	</listitem>
6056
6057	<listitem>
6058	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6059	</listitem>
6060
6061	<listitem>
6062	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6063	</listitem>
6064
6065	<listitem>
6066	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6067	</listitem>
6068
6069	<listitem>
6070	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6071	</listitem>
6072
6073	<listitem>
6074	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6075	</listitem>
6076
6077	<listitem>
6078	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6079	</listitem>
6080
6081	<listitem>
6082	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6083	</listitem>
6084
6085	<listitem>
6086	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6087	</listitem>
6088
6089	<listitem>
6090	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6091	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6092	</listitem>
6093
6094	<listitem>
6095	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6096	</listitem>
6097
6098	<listitem>
6099	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6100	</listitem>
6101
6102	<listitem>
6103	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6104	</listitem>
6105
6106	<listitem>
6107	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6108	</listitem>
6109
6110	<listitem>
6111	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6112	</listitem>
6113
6114	<listitem>
6115	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6116	</listitem>
6117
6118	<listitem>
6119	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6120	</listitem>
6121
6122	<listitem>
6123	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6124	</listitem>
6125
6126	<listitem>
6127	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6128	</listitem>
6129
6130	<listitem>
6131	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6132	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6133	</listitem>
6134
6135	<listitem>
6136	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6137	</listitem>
6138
6139	<listitem>
6140	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6141	</listitem>
6142
6143	<listitem>
6144	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6145	</listitem>
6146
6147	<listitem>
6148	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6149	</listitem>
6150
6151	<listitem>
6152	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6153	</listitem>
6154
6155	<listitem>
6156	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6157	</listitem>
6158
6159	<listitem>
6160	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6161	</listitem>
6162
6163	<listitem>
6164	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6165	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6166	</listitem>
6167
6168	<listitem>
6169	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6170	</listitem>
6171
6172	<listitem>
6173	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6174	</listitem>
6175
6176	<listitem>
6177	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6178	</listitem>
6179
6180	<listitem>
6181	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6182	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6183	</listitem>
6184
6185	<listitem>
6186	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6187	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6188	</listitem>
6189
6190	<listitem>
6191	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6192	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6193	</listitem>
6194
6195	<listitem>
6196	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6197	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6198	</listitem>
6199
6200	<listitem>
6201	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6202	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6203	</listitem>
6204
6205	<listitem>
6206	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6207	</listitem>
6208
6209	<listitem>
6210	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6211	</listitem>
6212
6213	<listitem>
6214	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6215	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6216	</listitem>
6217
6218	<listitem>
6219	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6220	guest property lookup</para>
6221	</listitem>
6222
6223	<listitem>
6224	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6225	basic network information)</para>
6226	</listitem>
6227
6228	<listitem>
6229	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6230	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6231	</listitem>
6232
6233	<listitem>
6234	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6235	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6236	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6237	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6238	</listitem>
6239
6240	<listitem>
6241	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6242	</listitem>
6243
6244	<listitem>
6245	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6246	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6247	web service</para>
6248	</listitem>
6249
6250	<listitem>
6251	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6252	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6253	</listitem>
6254
6255	<listitem>
6256	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6257	unavailable</para>
6258	</listitem>
6259
6260	<listitem>
6261	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6262	</listitem>
6263
6264	</itemizedlist>
6265	</sect1>
6266
6267	<sect1>
6268	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6269
6270	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6271	added:</para>
6272
6273	<itemizedlist>
6274
6275	<listitem>
6276	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6277	installation</para>
6278	</listitem>
6279
6280	<listitem>
6281	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6282	</listitem>
6283
6284	<listitem>
6285	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6286	later (bug #3981)</para>
6287	</listitem>
6288
6289	<listitem>
6290	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6291	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6292	</listitem>
6293
6294	<listitem>
6295	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6296	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6297	(bug #4034)
6298	</para>
6299	</listitem>
6300
6301	<listitem>
6302	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6303	networking</para>
6304	</listitem>
6305
6306	<listitem>
6307	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6308	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6309	</listitem>
6310
6311	<listitem>
6312	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6313	clicks</para>
6314	</listitem>
6315
6316	<listitem>
6317	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6318	Windows 7 guests</para>
6319	</listitem>
6320
6321	<listitem>
6322	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6323	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6324	</listitem>
6325
6326	<listitem>
6327	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6328	</listitem>
6329
6330	<listitem>
6331	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6332	</listitem>
6333
6334	<listitem>
6335	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6336	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6337	</listitem>
6338
6339	<listitem>
6340	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6341	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6342	</listitem>
6343
6344	<listitem>
6345	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6346	</listitem>
6347
6348	<listitem>
6349	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6350	</listitem>
6351
6352	<listitem>
6353	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6354	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6355	(bug #3864)</para>
6356	</listitem>
6357
6358	<listitem>
6359	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6360	now flushes the output stream</para>
6361	</listitem>
6362
6363	<listitem>
6364	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6365	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6366	</listitem>
6367
6368	<listitem>
6369	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6370	</listitem>
6371
6372	<listitem>
6373	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6374	</listitem>
6375
6376	<listitem>
6377	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6378	</listitem>
6379
6380	<listitem>
6381	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6382	</listitem>
6383
6384	<listitem>
6385	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6386	(bug #3964)</para>
6387	</listitem>
6388
6389	<listitem>
6390	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6391	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6392	</listitem>
6393
6394	<listitem>
6395	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6396	hosts</para>
6397	</listitem>
6398
6399	<listitem>
6400	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6401	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6402	e1000 adapter</para>
6403	</listitem>
6404
6405	<listitem>
6406	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6407	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6408	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6409	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6410	</listitem>
6411
6412	<listitem>
6413	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6414	</listitem>
6415
6416	<listitem>
6417	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6418	</listitem>
6419
6420	<listitem>
6421	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6422	</listitem>
6423
6424	<listitem>
6425	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6426	file (bug #1023)</para>
6427	</listitem>
6428
6429	<listitem>
6430	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6431	</listitem>
6432
6433	<listitem>
6434	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6435	</listitem>
6436
6437	</itemizedlist>
6438	</sect1>
6439
6440	<sect1>
6441	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6442
6443	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6444	added:</para>
6445
6446	<itemizedlist>
6447
6448	<listitem>
6449	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6450	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6451	</listitem>
6452
6453	<listitem>
6454	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6455	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6456	and later</para>
6457	</listitem>
6458
6459	<listitem>
6460	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6461	running services</para>
6462	</listitem>
6463
6464	<listitem>
6465	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6466	terminates</para>
6467	</listitem>
6468
6469	<listitem>
6470	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6471	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6472	</listitem>
6473
6474	<listitem>
6475	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6476	installed on the guest</para>
6477	</listitem>
6478
6479	<listitem>
6480	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6481	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6482	</listitem>
6483
6484	<listitem>
6485	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6486	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6487	</listitem>
6488
6489	<listitem>
6490	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6491	(bug #2628)</para>
6492	</listitem>
6493
6494	<listitem>
6495	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6496	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6497	</listitem>
6498
6499	<listitem>
6500	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6501	(bug #3657)</para>
6502	</listitem>
6503
6504	<listitem>
6505	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6506	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6507	</listitem>
6508
6509	<listitem>
6510	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6511	virtualization only)
6512	</para>
6513	</listitem>
6514
6515	<listitem>
6516	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6517	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6518	</listitem>
6519
6520	<listitem>
6521	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6522	</listitem>
6523
6524	<listitem>
6525	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6526	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6527	</listitem>
6528
6529	<listitem>
6530	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6531	bug #3689)</para>
6532	</listitem>
6533
6534	<listitem>
6535	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6536	bug #3679)</para>
6537	</listitem>
6538
6539	<listitem>
6540	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6541	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6542	</listitem>
6543
6544	<listitem>
6545	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6546	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6547	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6548	</listitem>
6549
6550	<listitem>
6551	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6552	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6553	</listitem>
6554
6555	<listitem>
6556	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6557	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6558	</listitem>
6559
6560	<listitem>
6561	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6562	(bug #3667)</para>
6563	</listitem>
6564
6565	<listitem>
6566	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6567	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6568	</listitem>
6569
6570	<listitem>
6571	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6572	</listitem>
6573
6574	<listitem>
6575	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6576	</listitem>
6577
6578	<listitem>
6579	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6580	</listitem>
6581
6582	<listitem>
6583	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6584	</listitem>
6585
6586	<listitem>
6587	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6588	</listitem>
6589
6590	<listitem>
6591	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6592	</listitem>
6593
6594	<listitem>
6595	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6596	</listitem>
6597
6598	</itemizedlist>
6599	</sect1>
6600
6601	<sect1>
6602	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6603
6604	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6605	were added:</para>
6606
6607	<itemizedlist>
6608
6609	<listitem>
6610	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6611	</listitem>
6612
6613	<listitem>
6614	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6615	</listitem>
6616
6617	<listitem>
6618	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6619	</listitem>
6620
6621	<listitem>
6622	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6623	</listitem>
6624
6625	<listitem>
6626	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6627	</listitem>
6628
6629	<listitem>
6630	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6631	</listitem>
6632
6633	<listitem>
6634	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6635	</listitem>
6636
6637	<listitem>
6638	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6639	</listitem>
6640
6641	<listitem>
6642	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6643	</listitem>
6644
6645	<listitem>
6646	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
6647	</listitem>
6648
6649	</itemizedlist>
6650
6651	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6652
6653	<itemizedlist>
6654
6655	<listitem>
6656	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
6657	</listitem>
6658
6659	<listitem>
6660	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
6661	</listitem>
6662
6663	<listitem>
6664	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
6665	</listitem>
6666
6667	<listitem>
6668	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
6669	</listitem>
6670
6671	<listitem>
6672	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
6673	</listitem>
6674
6675	<listitem>
6676	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6677	</listitem>
6678
6679	<listitem>
6680	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6681	</listitem>
6682
6683	<listitem>
6684	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
6685	</listitem>
6686
6687	<listitem>
6688	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
6689	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
6690	</listitem>
6691
6692	<listitem>
6693	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
6694	</listitem>
6695
6696	<listitem>
6697	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
6698	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
6699	</listitem>
6700
6701	<listitem>
6702	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
6703	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
6704	</listitem>
6705
6706	<listitem>
6707	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
6708	</listitem>
6709
6710	<listitem>
6711	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
6712	</listitem>
6713
6714	<listitem>
6715	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
6716	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
6717	</listitem>
6718
6719	<listitem>
6720	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
6721	</listitem>
6722
6723	<listitem>
6724	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
6725	ESX server images)</para>
6726	</listitem>
6727
6728	<listitem>
6729	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
6730	writable</para>
6731	</listitem>
6732
6733	<listitem>
6734	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
6735	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
6736	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
6737	</listitem>
6738
6739	<listitem>
6740	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
6741	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
6742	</listitem>
6743
6744	<listitem>
6745	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
6746	</listitem>
6747
6748	<listitem>
6749	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
6750	</listitem>
6751
6752	<listitem>
6753	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
6754	hosts when creating files</para>
6755	</listitem>
6756
6757	<listitem>
6758	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
6759	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
6760	</listitem>
6761
6762	<listitem>
6763	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
6764	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
6765	#2306)</para>
6766	</listitem>
6767
6768	<listitem>
6769	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
6770	(bug #3555)</para>
6771	</listitem>
6772
6773	<listitem>
6774	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
6775	installer (bug #3524)</para>
6776	</listitem>
6777
6778	<listitem>
6779	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
6780	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
6781	</listitem>
6782
6783	<listitem>
6784	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
6785	interface (bug #3414)</para>
6786	</listitem>
6787
6788	<listitem>
6789	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
6790	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
6791	</listitem>
6792
6793	<listitem>
6794	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
6795	(bug #3586)</para>
6796	</listitem>
6797
6798	<listitem>
6799	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
6800	from Scratch systems</para>
6801	</listitem>
6802
6803	<listitem>
6804	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
6805	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
6806	</listitem>
6807
6808	<listitem>
6809	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
6810	</listitem>
6811
6812	<listitem>
6813	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
6814	default to compact format</para>
6815	</listitem>
6816
6817	<listitem>
6818	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
6819	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
6820	</listitem>
6821
6822	<listitem>
6823	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
6824	</listitem>
6825
6826	<listitem>
6827	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
6828	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
6829	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
6830	</listitem>
6831
6832	<listitem>
6833	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
6834	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
6835	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
6836	</listitem>
6837
6838	<listitem>
6839	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
6840	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
6841	</listitem>
6842
6843	<listitem>
6844	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
6845	</listitem>
6846
6847	<listitem>
6848	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
6849	</listitem>
6850
6851	<listitem>
6852	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
6853	</listitem>
6854
6855	<listitem>
6856	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
6857	</listitem>
6858
6859	<listitem>
6860	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
6861	</listitem>
6862
6863	<listitem>
6864	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
6865	</listitem>
6866
6867	<listitem>
6868	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
6869	</listitem>
6870
6871	<listitem>
6872	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
6873	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
6874	</listitem>
6875
6876	<listitem>
6877	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
6878	</listitem>
6879
6880	<listitem>
6881	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
6882	regression; bug #2065)</para>
6883	</listitem>
6884
6885	<listitem>
6886	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
6887	</listitem>
6888
6889	<listitem>
6890	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
6891	</listitem>
6892
6893	<listitem>
6894	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
6895	</listitem>
6896
6897	<listitem>
6898	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
6899	#2536)</para>
6900	</listitem>
6901
6902	<listitem>
6903	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
6904	</listitem>
6905
6906	<listitem>
6907	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
6908	(bug #3548)</para>
6909	</listitem>
6910
6911	</itemizedlist>
6912	</sect1>
6913
6914	<sect1>
6915	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
6916
6917	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6918	added:</para>
6919
6920	<itemizedlist>
6921
6922	<listitem>
6923	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
6924	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
6925	</listitem>
6926
6927	<listitem>
6928	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
6929	</listitem>
6930
6931	<listitem>
6932	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
6933	</listitem>
6934
6935	<listitem>
6936	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
6937	</listitem>
6938
6939	<listitem>
6940	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
6941	(bug #3115)</para>
6942	</listitem>
6943
6944	<listitem>
6945	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
6946	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
6947	</listitem>
6948
6949	<listitem>
6950	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
6951	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
6952	(bug #3215)</para>
6953	</listitem>
6954
6955	<listitem>
6956	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
6957	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
6958	</listitem>
6959
6960	<listitem>
6961	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
6962	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
6963	</listitem>
6964
6965	<listitem>
6966	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
6967	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
6968	</listitem>
6969
6970	<listitem>
6971	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
6972	in parallel</para>
6973	</listitem>
6974
6975	<listitem>
6976	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
6977	</listitem>
6978
6979	<listitem>
6980	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
6981	</listitem>
6982
6983	<listitem>
6984	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
6985	</listitem>
6986
6987	<listitem>
6988	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
6989	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
6990	</listitem>
6991
6992	<listitem>
6993	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
6994	</listitem>
6995
6996	<listitem>
6997	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
6998	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
6999	</listitem>
7000
7001	<listitem>
7002	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7003	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7004	</listitem>
7005
7006	<listitem>
7007	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7008	</listitem>
7009
7010	<listitem>
7011	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7012	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7013	</listitem>
7014
7015	<listitem>
7016	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7017	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7018	</listitem>
7019
7020	<listitem>
7021	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7022	</listitem>
7023
7024	<listitem>
7025	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7026	</listitem>
7027
7028	<listitem>
7029	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7030	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7031	</listitem>
7032
7033	<listitem>
7034	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7035	</listitem>
7036
7037	<listitem>
7038	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7039	</listitem>
7040
7041	<listitem>
7042	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7043	</listitem>
7044
7045	<listitem>
7046	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7047	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7048	</listitem>
7049
7050	<listitem>
7051	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7052	</listitem>
7053
7054	<listitem>
7055	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7056	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7057	</listitem>
7058
7059	<listitem>
7060	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7061	</listitem>
7062
7063	<listitem>
7064	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7065	</listitem>
7066
7067	<listitem>
7068	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7069	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7070	</listitem>
7071
7072	<listitem>
7073	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7074	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7075	</listitem>
7076
7077	<listitem>
7078	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7079	</listitem>
7080
7081	<listitem>
7082	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7083	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7084	</listitem>
7085
7086	<listitem>
7087	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7088	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7089	</listitem>
7090
7091	<listitem>
7092	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7093	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7094	</listitem>
7095
7096	<listitem>
7097	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7098	(bug #3213)</para>
7099	</listitem>
7100
7101	<listitem>
7102	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7103	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7104	</listitem>
7105
7106	<listitem>
7107	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7108	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7109	</listitem>
7110
7111	</itemizedlist>
7112	</sect1>
7113
7114	<sect1>
7115	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7116
7117	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7118	added:</para>
7119
7120	<itemizedlist>
7121
7122	<listitem>
7123	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7124	</listitem>
7125
7126	<listitem>
7127	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7128	</listitem>
7129
7130	<listitem>
7131	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7132	</listitem>
7133
7134	<listitem>
7135	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7136	</listitem>
7137
7138	<listitem>
7139	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7140	</listitem>
7141
7142	<listitem>
7143	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7144	</listitem>
7145
7146	<listitem>
7147	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7148	</listitem>
7149
7150	<listitem>
7151	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7152	</listitem>
7153
7154	<listitem>
7155	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7156	</listitem>
7157
7158	<listitem>
7159	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7160	</listitem>
7161
7162	<listitem>
7163	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7164	</listitem>
7165
7166	<listitem>
7167	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7168	</listitem>
7169
7170	<listitem>
7171	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7172	</listitem>
7173
7174	<listitem>
7175	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7176	</listitem>
7177
7178	<listitem>
7179	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7180	</listitem>
7181
7182	<listitem>
7183	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7184	</listitem>
7185
7186	<listitem>
7187	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7188	(bug #3067)</para>
7189	</listitem>
7190
7191	<listitem>
7192	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7193	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7194	</listitem>
7195
7196	<listitem>
7197	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7198	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7199	</listitem>
7200
7201	<listitem>
7202	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7203	</listitem>
7204
7205	<listitem>
7206	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7207	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7208	</listitem>
7209
7210	<listitem>
7211	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7212	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7213	</listitem>
7214
7215	<listitem>
7216	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7217	</listitem>
7218
7219	<listitem>
7220	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7221	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7222	</listitem>
7223
7224	<listitem>
7225	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7226	</listitem>
7227
7228	<listitem>
7229	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7230	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7231	</listitem>
7232
7233	<listitem>
7234	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7235	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7236	</listitem>
7237
7238	<listitem>
7239	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7240	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7241	</para>
7242	</listitem>
7243
7244	<listitem>
7245	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7246	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7247	</para>
7248	</listitem>
7249
7250	<listitem>
7251	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7252	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7253	</para>
7254	</listitem>
7255
7256	<listitem>
7257	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7258	</listitem>
7259
7260	<listitem>
7261	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7262	</listitem>
7263
7264	<listitem>
7265	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7266	</listitem>
7267
7268	<listitem>
7269	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7270	</listitem>
7271
7272	<listitem>
7273	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7274	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7275	</listitem>
7276
7277	<listitem>
7278	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7279	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7280	</listitem>
7281
7282	<listitem>
7283	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7284	formatting a drive</para>
7285	</listitem>
7286
7287	<listitem>
7288	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7289	</listitem>
7290
7291	<listitem>
7292	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7293	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7294	</listitem>
7295
7296	<listitem>
7297	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7298	</listitem>
7299
7300	<listitem>
7301	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7302	</listitem>
7303
7304	<listitem>
7305	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7306	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7307	</listitem>
7308
7309	<listitem>
7310	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7311	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7312	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7313	</listitem>
7314
7315	<listitem>
7316	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7317	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7318	</listitem>
7319
7320	<listitem>
7321	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7322	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7323	</listitem>
7324
7325	<listitem>
7326	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7327	(bug #2768)</para>
7328	</listitem>
7329
7330	<listitem>
7331	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7332	</listitem>
7333
7334	<listitem>
7335	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7336	</listitem>
7337
7338	<listitem>
7339	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7340	single, unified package</para>
7341	</listitem>
7342
7343	<listitem>
7344	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7345	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7346	</listitem>
7347
7348	<listitem>
7349	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7350	</listitem>
7351
7352	<listitem>
7353	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7354	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7355	</listitem>
7356
7357	<listitem>
7358	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7359	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7360	</listitem>
7361
7362	<listitem>
7363	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7364	</listitem>
7365
7366	<listitem>
7367	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7368	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7369	doing 3D</para>
7370	</listitem>
7371
7372	<listitem>
7373	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7374	</listitem>
7375
7376	<listitem>
7377	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7378	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7379	</listitem>
7380
7381	<listitem>
7382	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7383	</listitem>
7384
7385	<listitem>
7386	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7387	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7388	</listitem>
7389
7390	<listitem>
7391	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7392	</listitem>
7393
7394	<listitem>
7395	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7396	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7397	</listitem>
7398
7399	<listitem>
7400	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7401	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7402	(bug #2938)</para>
7403	</listitem>
7404
7405	<listitem>
7406	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7407	Linux guests</para>
7408	</listitem>
7409
7410	<listitem>
7411	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7412	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7413	(bug #1776)</para>
7414	</listitem>
7415
7416	<listitem>
7417	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7418	(bug #1612)</para>
7419	</listitem>
7420
7421	<listitem>
7422	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7423	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7424	</listitem>
7425
7426	<listitem>
7427	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7428	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7429	</listitem>
7430
7431	<listitem>
7432	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7433	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7434	</listitem>
7435
7436	</itemizedlist>
7437	</sect1>
7438
7439	<sect1>
7440	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7441
7442	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7443	were added:</para>
7444
7445	<itemizedlist>
7446	<listitem>
7447	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7448	</listitem>
7449
7450	<listitem>
7451	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7452	</listitem>
7453
7454	<listitem>
7455	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7456	</listitem>
7457
7458	<listitem>
7459	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7460	</listitem>
7461
7462	<listitem>
7463	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7464	</listitem>
7465
7466	<listitem>
7467	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7468	</listitem>
7469
7470	<listitem>
7471	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7472	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7473	</listitem>
7474
7475	<listitem>
7476	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7477	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7478	</listitem>
7479
7480	</itemizedlist>
7481
7482	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7483
7484	<itemizedlist>
7485	<listitem>
7486	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7487	</listitem>
7488
7489	<listitem>
7490	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7491	</listitem>
7492
7493	<listitem>
7494	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7495	</listitem>
7496
7497	<listitem>
7498	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7499	</listitem>
7500
7501	<listitem>
7502	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7503	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7504	</listitem>
7505
7506	<listitem>
7507	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7508	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7509	</listitem>
7510
7511	<listitem>
7512	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7513	</listitem>
7514
7515	<listitem>
7516	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7517	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7518	</listitem>
7519
7520	<listitem>
7521	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7522	</listitem>
7523
7524	<listitem>
7525	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7526	</listitem>
7527
7528	<listitem>
7529	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7530	</listitem>
7531
7532	<listitem>
7533	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7534	</listitem>
7535
7536	<listitem>
7537	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7538	</listitem>
7539
7540	<listitem>
7541	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7542	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7543	</listitem>
7544
7545	<listitem>
7546	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7547	the compiz window manager</para>
7548	</listitem>
7549
7550	<listitem>
7551	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7552	</listitem>
7553
7554	<listitem>
7555	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7556	</listitem>
7557
7558	<listitem>
7559	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7560	</listitem>
7561
7562	<listitem>
7563	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7564	</listitem>
7565
7566	<listitem>
7567	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7568	</listitem>
7569
7570	<listitem>
7571	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7572	</listitem>
7573
7574	<listitem>
7575	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7576	</listitem>
7577
7578	<listitem>
7579	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7580	</listitem>
7581
7582	<listitem>
7583	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7584	</listitem>
7585
7586	<listitem>
7587	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7588	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7589	</listitem>
7590
7591	<listitem>
7592	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7593	for direct device access</para>
7594	</listitem>
7595
7596	<listitem>
7597	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7598	</listitem>
7599
7600	<listitem>
7601	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7602	</listitem>
7603
7604	<listitem>
7605	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7606	</listitem>
7607
7608	<listitem>
7609	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7610	</listitem>
7611
7612	<listitem>
7613	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7614	</listitem>
7615
7616	<listitem>
7617	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7618	</listitem>
7619
7620	<listitem>
7621	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7622	</listitem>
7623
7624	<listitem>
7625	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7626	</listitem>
7627
7628	</itemizedlist>
7629	</sect1>
7630
7631	<sect1>
7632	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7633
7634	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7635	added:</para>
7636
7637	<itemizedlist>
7638
7639	<listitem>
7640	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7641	states/snapshots</para>
7642	</listitem>
7643
7644	<listitem>
7645	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
7646	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
7647	</listitem>
7648
7649	<listitem>
7650	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7651	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7652	</listitem>
7653
7654	<listitem>
7655	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
7656	collisions</para>
7657	</listitem>
7658
7659	<listitem>
7660	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7661	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7662	</listitem>
7663
7664	<listitem>
7665	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7666	</listitem>
7667
7668	<listitem>
7669	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
7670	reliably</para>
7671	</listitem>
7672
7673	<listitem>
7674	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7675	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7676	</listitem>
7677
7678	<listitem>
7679	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
7680	a reboot</para>
7681	</listitem>
7682
7683	<listitem>
7684	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7685	</listitem>
7686
7687	<listitem>
7688	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7689	in parallel</para>
7690	</listitem>
7691
7692	<listitem>
7693	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7694	</listitem>
7695
7696	<listitem>
7697	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
7698	correctly</para>
7699	</listitem>
7700
7701	<listitem>
7702	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7703	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7704	</listitem>
7705
7706	</itemizedlist>
7707	</sect1>
7708
7709	<sect1>
7710	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
7711
7712	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7713	added:</para>
7714
7715	<itemizedlist>
7716
7717	<listitem>
7718	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
7719	(bug #2220)</para>
7720	</listitem>
7721
7722	<listitem>
7723	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
7724	</listitem>
7725
7726	<listitem>
7727	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
7728	</listitem>
7729
7730	<listitem>
7731	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
7732	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
7733	</listitem>
7734
7735	<listitem>
7736	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
7737	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
7738	</listitem>
7739
7740	<listitem>
7741	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
7742	(bug #2624)</para>
7743	</listitem>
7744
7745	<listitem>
7746	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
7747	(bug #2024)</para>
7748	</listitem>
7749
7750	<listitem>
7751	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
7752	</listitem>
7753
7754	<listitem>
7755	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
7756	</listitem>
7757
7758	<listitem>
7759	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
7760	</listitem>
7761
7762	<listitem>
7763	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
7764	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
7765	</listitem>
7766
7767	<listitem>
7768	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
7769	applications when updating the installation</para>
7770	</listitem>
7771
7772	<listitem>
7773	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
7774	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
7775	</listitem>
7776
7777	<listitem>
7778	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
7779	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
7780	</listitem>
7781
7782	<listitem>
7783	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
7784	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
7785	</listitem>
7786
7787	<listitem>
7788	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
7789	connected to a host device</para>
7790	</listitem>
7791
7792	<listitem>
7793	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
7794	</listitem>
7795
7796	<listitem>
7797	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
7798	</listitem>
7799
7800	<listitem>
7801	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
7802	</listitem>
7803
7804	<listitem>
7805	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
7806	when using native RDP connections</para>
7807	</listitem>
7808
7809	<listitem>
7810	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
7811	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
7812	</listitem>
7813
7814	<listitem>
7815	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
7816	(bug #2591)</para>
7817	</listitem>
7818
7819	<listitem>
7820	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
7821	guests (bug #2550)</para>
7822	</listitem>
7823
7824	<listitem>
7825	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
7826	</listitem>
7827
7828	</itemizedlist>
7829	</sect1>
7830
7831	<sect1>
7832	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
7833
7834	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7835	added:</para>
7836
7837	<itemizedlist>
7838	<listitem>
7839	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
7840	</listitem>
7841
7842	<listitem>
7843	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
7844	</listitem>
7845
7846	<listitem>
7847	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
7848	</listitem>
7849
7850	<listitem>
7851	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
7852	</listitem>
7853
7854	<listitem>
7855	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
7856	</listitem>
7857
7858	<listitem>
7859	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
7860	</listitem>
7861
7862	<listitem>
7863	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
7864	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
7865	</listitem>
7866
7867	<listitem>
7868	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
7869	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
7870	</listitem>
7871
7872	<listitem>
7873	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
7874	</listitem>
7875
7876	<listitem>
7877	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
7878	equal to the client resolution</para>
7879	</listitem>
7880
7881	<listitem>
7882	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
7883	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
7884	</listitem>
7885
7886	<listitem>
7887	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
7888	</listitem>
7889
7890	<listitem>
7891	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
7892	</listitem>
7893
7894	<listitem>
7895	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
7896	</listitem>
7897
7898	<listitem>
7899	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
7900	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
7901	</listitem>
7902
7903	<listitem>
7904	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
7905	networking (bug #2474)</para>
7906	</listitem>
7907
7908	<listitem>
7909	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
7910	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
7911	</listitem>
7912
7913	<listitem>
7914	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
7915	</listitem>
7916
7917	<listitem>
7918	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
7919	</listitem>
7920
7921	<listitem>
7922	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
7923	</listitem>
7924
7925	<listitem>
7926	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
7927	</listitem>
7928
7929	<listitem>
7930	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
7931	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
7932	</listitem>
7933
7934	<listitem>
7935	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
7936	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
7937	</listitem>
7938
7939	<listitem>
7940	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
7941	</listitem>
7942
7943	<listitem>
7944	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
7945	</listitem>
7946
7947	<listitem>
7948	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
7949	</listitem>
7950
7951	</itemizedlist>
7952
7953	</sect1>
7954
7955	<sect1>
7956	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
7957
7958	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7959	added:</para>
7960
7961	<itemizedlist>
7962
7963	<listitem>
7964	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
7965	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
7966	</listitem>
7967
7968	<listitem>
7969	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
7970	</listitem>
7971
7972	<listitem>
7973	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
7974	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
7975	</listitem>
7976
7977	<listitem>
7978	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
7979	</listitem>
7980
7981	<listitem>
7982	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
7983	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
7984	</listitem>
7985
7986	<listitem>
7987	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
7988	</listitem>
7989
7990	<listitem>
7991	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
7992	the virtual disk manager</para>
7993	</listitem>
7994
7995	<listitem>
7996	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
7997	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
7998	</listitem>
7999
8000	<listitem>
8001	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8002	</listitem>
8003
8004	<listitem>
8005	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8006	</listitem>
8007
8008	<listitem>
8009	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8010	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8011	</listitem>
8012
8013	<listitem>
8014	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8015	bug #2067)</para>
8016	</listitem>
8017
8018	<listitem>
8019	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8020	</listitem>
8021
8022	<listitem>
8023	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8024	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8025	</listitem>
8026
8027	<listitem>
8028	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8029	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8030	(bug #2184)</para>
8031	</listitem>
8032
8033	<listitem>
8034	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8035	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8036	</listitem>
8037
8038	<listitem>
8039	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8040	(Windows guests only)</para>
8041	</listitem>
8042
8043	<listitem>
8044	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8045	</listitem>
8046
8047	<listitem>
8048	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8049	</listitem>
8050
8051	<listitem>
8052	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8053	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8054	</listitem>
8055
8056	<listitem>
8057	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8058	</listitem>
8059
8060	<listitem>
8061	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8062	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8063	</para>
8064	</listitem>
8065
8066	<listitem>
8067	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8068	</listitem>
8069
8070	<listitem>
8071	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8072	</listitem>
8073
8074	<listitem>
8075	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8076	a VM reboot</para>
8077	</listitem>
8078
8079	<listitem>
8080	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8081	</listitem>
8082
8083	<listitem>
8084	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8085	buggy X servers</para>
8086	</listitem>
8087
8088	<listitem>
8089	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8090	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8091	</listitem>
8092
8093	<listitem>
8094	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8095	</listitem>
8096
8097	<listitem>
8098	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8099	(bug #2128)</para>
8100	</listitem>
8101
8102	<listitem>
8103	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8104	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8105	</listitem>
8106
8107	<listitem>
8108	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8109	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8110	</listitem>
8111
8112	<listitem>
8113	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8114	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8115	</listitem>
8116
8117	<listitem>
8118	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8119	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8120	</listitem>
8121
8122	<listitem>
8123	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8124	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8125	</listitem>
8126
8127	<listitem>
8128	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8129	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8130	</listitem>
8131
8132	<listitem>
8133	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8134	installer into a single package</para>
8135	</listitem>
8136
8137	<listitem>
8138	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8139	port to the guest
8140	</para>
8141	</listitem>
8142
8143	</itemizedlist>
8144
8145	</sect1>
8146
8147	<sect1>
8148	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8149
8150	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8151	were added:<itemizedlist>
8152
8153	<listitem>
8154	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8155	</listitem>
8156
8157	<listitem>
8158	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8159	</listitem>
8160
8161	<listitem>
8162	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8163	</listitem>
8164
8165	<listitem>
8166	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8167	</listitem>
8168
8169	<listitem>
8170	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8171	</listitem>
8172
8173	<listitem>
8174	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8175	</listitem>
8176
8177	<listitem>
8178	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8179	</listitem>
8180
8181	<listitem>
8182	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8183	</listitem>
8184
8185	<listitem>
8186	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8187	</listitem>
8188
8189	<listitem>
8190	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8191	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8192	</listitem>
8193
8194	<listitem>
8195	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8196	</listitem>
8197
8198	<listitem>
8199	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8200	</listitem>
8201
8202	<listitem>
8203	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8204	</listitem>
8205
8206	</itemizedlist></para>
8207
8208	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8209
8210	<itemizedlist>
8211
8212	<listitem>
8213	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8214	</listitem>
8215
8216	<listitem>
8217	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8218	</listitem>
8219
8220	<listitem>
8221	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8222	</listitem>
8223
8224	<listitem>
8225	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8226	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8227	</listitem>
8228
8229	<listitem>
8230	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8231	restored</para>
8232	</listitem>
8233
8234	<listitem>
8235	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8236	</listitem>
8237
8238	<listitem>
8239	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8240	</listitem>
8241
8242	<listitem>
8243	<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>
8244	</listitem>
8245
8246	</itemizedlist>
8247
8248	</sect1>
8249

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