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3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.2.0 Release Candidate 3 (2012-08-29)</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>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	<listitem>
16	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
17	</listitem>
18
19	<listitem>
20	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
21	</listitem>
22
23	<listitem>
24	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
25	</listitem>
26
27	<listitem>
28	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
29	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
30	</listitem>
31
32	<listitem>
33	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
34	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
35	</listitem>
36
37	<listitem>
38	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
39	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
40	</listitem>
41
42	<listitem>
43	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
44	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
45	planned. (bug #81)</para>
46	</listitem>
47
48	<listitem>
49	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	<listitem>
53	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
54	documentation for more information</para>
55	</listitem>
56
57	</itemizedlist>
58
59	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
60
61	<itemizedlist>
62
63	<listitem>
64	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
65	on Mountain Lion</para>
66	</listitem>
67
68	<listitem>
69	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
70	nested paging</para>
71	</listitem>
72
73	<listitem>
74	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
75	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
76	</listitem>
77
78	<listitem>
79	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
80	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
81	</listitem>
82
83	<listitem>
84	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
85	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
86	</listitem>
87
88	<listitem>
89	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
90	</listitem>
91
92	<listitem>
93	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
94	</listitem>
95
96	<listitem>
97	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
98	</listitem>
99
100	<listitem>
101	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
102	</listitem>
103
104	<listitem>
105	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
106	</listitem>
107
108	<listitem>
109	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
110	</listitem>
111
112	<listitem>
113	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
114	</listitem>
115
116	<listitem>
117	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
118	guests</para>
119	</listitem>
120
121	<listitem>
122	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
123	used ISO images</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
128	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
129	</listitem>
130
131	<listitem>
132	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
133	(bug #9973)</para>
134	</listitem>
135
136	<listitem>
137	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
138	(bug #9864)</para>
139	</listitem>
140
141	<listitem>
142	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
143	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
144	immediately (bug )</para>
145	</listitem>
146
147	<listitem>
148	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
149	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
150	</listitem>
151
152	<listitem>
153	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
154	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
155	any time using the VM menu.</para>
156	</listitem>
157
158	<listitem>
159	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
160	</listitem>
161
162	<listitem>
163	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
168	</listitem>
169
170	<listitem>
171	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
172	</listitem>
173
174	<listitem>
175	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
176	</listitem>
177
178	<listitem>
179	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
180	</listitem>
181
182	<listitem>
183	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
184	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
185	</listitem>
186
187	<listitem>
188	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
189	</listitem>
190
191	<listitem>
192	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
193	support for v2 images)</para>
194	</listitem>
195
196	<listitem>
197	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
198	</listitem>
199
200	<listitem>
201	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
202	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
203	</listitem>
204
205	<listitem>
206	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
207	</listitem>
208
209	<listitem>
210	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
211	</listitem>
212
213	<listitem>
214	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
215	VirtualBox update</para>
216	</listitem>
217
218	<listitem>
219	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
220	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
221	</listitem>
222
223	<listitem>
224	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
225	</listitem>
226
227	</itemizedlist>
228	</sect1>
229
230	<sect1>
231	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
232
233	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
234	added:</para>
235
236	<itemizedlist>
237
238	<listitem>
239	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
240	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
241	and others)</para>
242	</listitem>
243
244	<listitem>
245	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
246	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
247	</listitem>
248
249	<listitem>
250	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
251	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
252	</listitem>
253
254	<listitem>
255	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
256	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
257	</listitem>
258
259	<listitem>
260	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
261	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
262	</listitem>
263
264	<listitem>
265	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
266	(bug #10631)</para>
267	</listitem>
268
269	<listitem>
270	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
271	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
272	(bug #10624)</para>
273	</listitem>
274
275	<listitem>
276	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
277	</listitem>
278
279	<listitem>
280	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
281	updated (bug #9887)</para>
282	</listitem>
283
284	<listitem>
285	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
286	</listitem>
287
288	</itemizedlist>
289	</sect1>
290
291	<sect1>
292	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
293
294	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
295	added:</para>
296
297	<itemizedlist>
298
299	<listitem>
300	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
301	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
302	</listitem>
303
304	<listitem>
305	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
306	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
307	</listitem>
308
309	<listitem>
310	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
311	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
312	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
313	</listitem>
314
315	<listitem>
316	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
317	guests in rare cases</para>
318	</listitem>
319
320	<listitem>
321	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
322	</listitem>
323
324	<listitem>
325	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
326	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
327	</listitem>
328
329	<listitem>
330	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
331	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
332	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
333	</listitem>
334
335	<listitem>
336	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
337	</listitem>
338
339	<listitem>
340	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
341	</listitem>
342
343	<listitem>
344	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
345	reason (bug #6189)</para>
346	</listitem>
347
348	<listitem>
349	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
350	</listitem>
351
352	<listitem>
353	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
354	paused</para>
355	</listitem>
356
357	<listitem>
358	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
359	(bug #10267)</para>
360	</listitem>
361
362	<listitem>
363	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
364	</listitem>
365
366	<listitem>
367	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
368	(bug #10418)</para>
369	</listitem>
370
371	<listitem>
372	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
373	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
374	(bug #10581)</para>
375	</listitem>
376
377	<listitem>
378	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
379	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
380	</listitem>
381
382	<listitem>
383	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
384	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
385	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
386	</listitem>
387
388	<listitem>
389	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
390	</listitem>
391
392	</itemizedlist>
393
394	</sect1>
395
396	<sect1>
397	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
398
399	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
400	added:</para>
401
402	<itemizedlist>
403
404	<listitem>
405	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
406	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
407	(bug #3783)</para>
408	</listitem>
409
410	<listitem>
411	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
412	</listitem>
413
414	<listitem>
415	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
416	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
417	</listitem>
418
419	<listitem>
420	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
421	</listitem>
422
423	</itemizedlist>
424
425	</sect1>
426
427	<sect1>
428	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
429
430	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
431	added:</para>
432
433	<itemizedlist>
434
435	<listitem>
436	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
437	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
438	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
439	</listitem>
440
441	<listitem>
442	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
443	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
444	</listitem>
445
446	<listitem>
447	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
448	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
449	</listitem>
450
451	<listitem>
452	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
453	</listitem>
454
455	<listitem>
456	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
457	</listitem>
458
459	<listitem>
460	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
461	4.1.10 regression)</para>
462	</listitem>
463
464	<listitem>
465	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
466	</listitem>
467
468	<listitem>
469	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
470	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
471	</listitem>
472
473	<listitem>
474	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
475	</listitem>
476
477	<listitem>
478	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
479	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
480	</listitem>
481
482	<listitem>
483	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
484	4.1.10 regression)</para>
485	</listitem>
486
487	<listitem>
488	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
489	closed (bug #6473)</para>
490	</listitem>
491
492	<listitem>
493	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
494	properly installed</para>
495	</listitem>
496
497	<listitem>
498	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
499	</listitem>
500
501	</itemizedlist>
502	</sect1>
503
504	<sect1>
505	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
506
507	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
508	added:</para>
509
510	<itemizedlist>
511
512	<listitem>
513	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
514	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
515	</listitem>
516
517	<listitem>
518	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
519	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
520	</listitem>
521
522	<listitem>
523	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
524	fusion</para>
525	</listitem>
526
527	<listitem>
528	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
529	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
530	</listitem>
531
532	<listitem>
533	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
534	and network mask attributes</para>
535	</listitem>
536
537	<listitem>
538	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
539	(bug #10030)</para>
540	</listitem>
541
542	<listitem>
543	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
544	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
545	</listitem>
546
547	<listitem>
548	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
549	</listitem>
550
551	<listitem>
552	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
553	</listitem>
554
555	<listitem>
556	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
557	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
558	</listitem>
559
560	<listitem>
561	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
562	</listitem>
563
564	<listitem>
565	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
566	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
571	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
572	</listitem>
573
574	<listitem>
575	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
576	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
577	</listitem>
578
579	<listitem>
580	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
585	</listitem>
586
587	<listitem>
588	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
589	</listitem>
590
591	<listitem>
592	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
593	</listitem>
594
595	<listitem>
596	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
601	</listitem>
602
603	<listitem>
604	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
605	in a zone</para>
606	</listitem>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
610	</listitem>
611
612	<listitem>
613	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
614	(bug #9651)</para>
615	</listitem>
616
617	<listitem>
618	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
619	</listitem>
620
621	<listitem>
622	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
623	#10010)</para>
624	</listitem>
625
626	<listitem>
627	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
628	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
629	</listitem>
630
631	<listitem>
632	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
633	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
634	</listitem>
635
636	<listitem>
637	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
638	</listitem>
639
640	<listitem>
641	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
642	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
643	</listitem>
644
645	<listitem>
646	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
647	(bug #10151)</para>
648	</listitem>
649
650	<listitem>
651	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
652	guests.</para>
653	</listitem>
654
655	<listitem>
656	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
657	</listitem>
658
659	<listitem>
660	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
661	</listitem>
662
663	<listitem>
664	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
665	</listitem>
666
667	</itemizedlist>
668	</sect1>
669
670	<sect1>
671	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
672
673	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
674	added:</para>
675
676	<itemizedlist>
677
678	<listitem>
679	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
680	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
681	</listitem>
682
683	<listitem>
684	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
685	</listitem>
686
687	<listitem>
688	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
689	(bug #9642)</para>
690	</listitem>
691
692	<listitem>
693	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
694	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
695	</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
700	</listitem>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
704	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
709	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
710	</listitem>
711
712	<listitem>
713	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
718	</listitem>
719
720	<listitem>
721	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
722	</listitem>
723
724	<listitem>
725	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
726	circumstances</para>
727	</listitem>
728
729	<listitem>
730	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
731	</listitem>
732
733	<listitem>
734	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
735	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
736	</listitem>
737
738	<listitem>
739	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
740	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
741	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
742	and for 3D support in general</para>
743	</listitem>
744
745	<listitem>
746	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
747	</listitem>
748
749	<listitem>
750	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
751	</listitem>
752
753	<listitem>
754	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
755	</listitem>
756
757	<listitem>
758	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
759	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
760	</listitem>
761
762	</itemizedlist>
763	</sect1>
764
765	<sect1>
766	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
767
768	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
769	added:</para>
770
771	<itemizedlist>
772
773	<listitem>
774	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
775	</listitem>
776
777	<listitem>
778	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
779	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
780	</listitem>
781
782	<listitem>
783	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
784	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
785	</listitem>
786
787	<listitem>
788	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
789	certain guests</para>
790	</listitem>
791
792	<listitem>
793	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
794	</listitem>
795
796	<listitem>
797	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
798	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
799	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
800	</listitem>
801
802	<listitem>
803	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
804	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
805	</listitem>
806
807	<listitem>
808	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
809	</listitem>
810
811	<listitem>
812	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
813	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
814	</listitem>
815
816	<listitem>
817	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
818	</listitem>
819
820	<listitem>
821	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
822	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
823	</listitem>
824
825	<listitem>
826	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
827	guests</para>
828	</listitem>
829
830	<listitem>
831	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
832	folders</para>
833	</listitem>
834
835	<listitem>
836	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
837	shared folders</para>
838	</listitem>
839
840	<listitem>
841	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
842	users and stale sessions</para>
843	</listitem>
844
845	<listitem>
846	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
847	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
848	</listitem>
849
850	</itemizedlist>
851	</sect1>
852
853	<sect1>
854	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
855
856	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
857	added:</para>
858
859	<itemizedlist>
860
861	<listitem>
862	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
863	bug #9458)</para>
864	</listitem>
865
866	<listitem>
867	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
868	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
869	</listitem>
870
871	<listitem>
872	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
873	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
874	</listitem>
875
876	<listitem>
877	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
878	</listitem>
879
880	<listitem>
881	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
882	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
887	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
892	(bug #9308)</para>
893	</listitem>
894
895	<listitem>
896	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
897	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
898	</listitem>
899
900	<listitem>
901	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
902	(bug #9503)</para>
903	</listitem>
904
905	<listitem>
906	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
907	(bug #9242)</para>
908	</listitem>
909
910	<listitem>
911	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
912	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
913	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
914	</listitem>
915
916	<listitem>
917	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
918	</listitem>
919
920	<listitem>
921	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
922	images</para>
923	</listitem>
924
925	<listitem>
926	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
927	(Windows hosts only)</para>
928	</listitem>
929
930	<listitem>
931	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
932	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
933	</listitem>
934
935	<listitem>
936	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
937	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
938	</listitem>
939
940	<listitem>
941	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
942	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
943	</listitem>
944
945	<listitem>
946	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
947	#9387)</para>
948	</listitem>
949
950	<listitem>
951	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
952	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
953	</listitem>
954
955	<listitem>
956	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
957	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
958	</listitem>
959
960	<listitem>
961	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
962	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
963	</listitem>
964
965	<listitem>
966	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
967	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
968	</listitem>
969
970	<listitem>
971	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
972	</listitem>
973
974	<listitem>
975	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
976	</listitem>
977
978	<listitem>
979	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
980	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
981	</listitem>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
985	(bug #1578)</para>
986	</listitem>
987
988	<listitem>
989	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
990	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
991	</listitem>
992
993	<listitem>
994	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
995	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
996	</listitem>
997
998	<listitem>
999	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1000	(bug #9535)</para>
1001	</listitem>
1002
1003	<listitem>
1004	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
1005	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
1006	</listitem>
1007
1008	<listitem>
1009	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
1010	help file (bug #9646)</para>
1011	</listitem>
1012
1013	<listitem>
1014	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
1015	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
1016	</listitem>
1017
1018	<listitem>
1019	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
1020	console window (bug #3549)</para>
1021	</listitem>
1022
1023	<listitem>
1024	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1025	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1026	</listitem>
1027
1028	<listitem>
1029	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1030	</para>
1031	</listitem>
1032
1033	<listitem>
1034	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1035	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1036	</para>
1037	</listitem>
1038
1039	<listitem>
1040	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1041	(bug #6229)
1042	</para>
1043	</listitem>
1044
1045	<listitem>
1046	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1047	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1048	</listitem>
1049
1050	<listitem>
1051	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1052	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1053	</listitem>
1054
1055	<listitem>
1056	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1057	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1058	</listitem>
1059
1060	<listitem>
1061	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1062	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1063	</listitem>
1064
1065	<listitem>
1066	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1067	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1068	</listitem>
1069
1070	<listitem>
1071	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1072	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1073	</listitem>
1074
1075	<listitem>
1076	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1077	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1078	</listitem>
1079
1080	<listitem>
1081	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1082	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1083	</listitem>
1084
1085	</itemizedlist>
1086	</sect1>
1087
1088	<sect1>
1089	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1090
1091	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1092	added:</para>
1093
1094	<itemizedlist>
1095
1096	<listitem>
1097	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1098	</listitem>
1099
1100	<listitem>
1101	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1102	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1103	</listitem>
1104
1105	<listitem>
1106	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1111	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1112	</listitem>
1113
1114	<listitem>
1115	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1116	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1117	</listitem>
1118
1119	<listitem>
1120	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1121	a live snapshot</para>
1122	</listitem>
1123
1124	<listitem>
1125	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1126	due to a library version conflict</para>
1127	</listitem>
1128
1129	<listitem>
1130	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1131	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1132	</listitem>
1133
1134	<listitem>
1135	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1136	at a time by default</para>
1137	</listitem>
1138
1139	<listitem>
1140	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1141	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1142	#9368)</para>
1143	</listitem>
1144
1145	<listitem>
1146	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1147	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1148	</listitem>
1149
1150	<listitem>
1151	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1152	VMs</para>
1153	</listitem>
1154
1155	<listitem>
1156	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1157	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1158	</listitem>
1159
1160	<listitem>
1161	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1162	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1163	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1168	(bug #9308)</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1173	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1178	</listitem>
1179
1180	<listitem>
1181	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1182	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1183	</listitem>
1184
1185	<listitem>
1186	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1187	(bug #9242)</para>
1188	</listitem>
1189
1190	<listitem>
1191	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1192	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1193	</listitem>
1194
1195	<listitem>
1196	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1197	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1198	</listitem>
1199
1200	<listitem>
1201	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1202	USB devices</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1207	and warn about it</para>
1208	</listitem>
1209
1210	<listitem>
1211	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1212	</listitem>
1213
1214	<listitem>
1215	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1216	</listitem>
1217
1218	<listitem>
1219	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1220	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1221	</listitem>
1222
1223	<listitem>
1224	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1225	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1230	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1231	</listitem>
1232
1233	<listitem>
1234	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1235	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1236	</listitem>
1237
1238	<listitem>
1239	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1240	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1241	</listitem>
1242
1243	<listitem>
1244	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1245	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1246	</listitem>
1247
1248	<listitem>
1249	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1250	2.6.37 and above</para>
1251	</listitem>
1252
1253	</itemizedlist>
1254	</sect1>
1255
1256	<sect1>
1257	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1258
1259	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1260	were added:</para>
1261
1262	<itemizedlist>
1263
1264	<listitem>
1265	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1266	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1267	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1268	</listitem>
1269
1270	<listitem>
1271	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1272	</listitem>
1273
1274	<listitem>
1275	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1276	</listitem>
1277
1278	<listitem>
1279	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1280	bug #7822)</para>
1281	</listitem>
1282
1283	<listitem>
1284	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1285	</listitem>
1286
1287	<listitem>
1288	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1289	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1290	</listitem>
1291
1292	<listitem>
1293	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1294	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1295	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1296	anymore)</para>
1297	</listitem>
1298
1299	<listitem>
1300	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1301	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1302	</listitem>
1303
1304	<listitem>
1305	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1306	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1307	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1308	</listitem>
1309
1310	<listitem>
1311	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1312	</para>
1313	</listitem>
1314
1315	<listitem>
1316	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1317	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1318	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1319	</listitem>
1320
1321	<listitem>
1322	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1323	with VBoxManage</para>
1324	</listitem>
1325
1326	<listitem>
1327	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1328	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1329	</listitem>
1330
1331
1332	</itemizedlist>
1333
1334	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1335
1336	<itemizedlist>
1337
1338	<listitem>
1339	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1340	</listitem>
1341
1342	<listitem>
1343	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1344	</listitem>
1345
1346	<listitem>
1347	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1352	of the current state</para>
1353	</listitem>
1354
1355	<listitem>
1356	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1357	</listitem>
1358
1359	<listitem>
1360	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1361	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1362	</listitem>
1363
1364	<listitem>
1365	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1366	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1367	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1368	</listitem>
1369
1370	<listitem>
1371	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1372	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1373	</listitem>
1374
1375	<listitem>
1376	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1377	</listitem>
1378
1379	<listitem>
1380	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1381	</listitem>
1382
1383	<listitem>
1384	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1385	dialog</para>
1386	</listitem>
1387
1388	<listitem>
1389	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1390	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1391	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1392	</listitem>
1393
1394	<listitem>
1395	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1396	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1397	</listitem>
1398
1399	<listitem>
1400	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1401	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1402	</listitem>
1403
1404	<listitem>
1405	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1406	be a valid UUID</para>
1407	</listitem>
1408
1409	<listitem>
1410	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1411	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1412	</listitem>
1413
1414	<listitem>
1415	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1416	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1417	cases</para>
1418	</listitem>
1419
1420	<listitem>
1421	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1422	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1423	improve performance</para>
1424	</listitem>
1425
1426	<listitem>
1427	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1428	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1429	on a temporary basis</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1434	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1435	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1436	</listitem>
1437
1438	<listitem>
1439	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1440	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1441	</listitem>
1442
1443	<listitem>
1444	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1445	images in VDI format</para>
1446	</listitem>
1447
1448	<listitem>
1449	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1450	VMDK format</para>
1451	</listitem>
1452
1453	<listitem>
1454	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1455	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1456	</listitem>
1457
1458	<listitem>
1459	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1460	</listitem>
1461
1462	<listitem>
1463	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1464	</listitem>
1465
1466	<listitem>
1467	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1468	</listitem>
1469
1470	<listitem>
1471	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1472	</listitem>
1473
1474	<listitem>
1475	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1476	</listitem>
1477
1478	<listitem>
1479	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1480	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1485	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1486	</listitem>
1487
1488	<listitem>
1489	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1490	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1491	</listitem>
1492
1493	<listitem>
1494	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1495	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1496	</listitem>
1497
1498	<listitem>
1499	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1500	RDP clients</para>
1501	</listitem>
1502
1503	<listitem>
1504	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1505	</listitem>
1506
1507	<listitem>
1508	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1509	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1510	</listitem>
1511
1512	<listitem>
1513	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1514	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1515	</listitem>
1516
1517	<listitem>
1518	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1519	simultaneously</para>
1520	</listitem>
1521
1522	<listitem>
1523	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1524	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1525	location values in many places</para>
1526	</listitem>
1527
1528	<listitem>
1529	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1530	</listitem>
1531
1532	<listitem>
1533	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1534	builds</para>
1535	</listitem>
1536
1537	<listitem>
1538	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1539	</listitem>
1540
1541	<listitem>
1542	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1543	window (bug #4491)</para>
1544	</listitem>
1545
1546	<listitem>
1547	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1548	removing a VM</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1553	</listitem>
1554
1555	<listitem>
1556	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1557	</listitem>
1558
1559	<listitem>
1560	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1561	166 and above)</para>
1562	</listitem>
1563
1564	<listitem>
1565	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1566	hosts</para>
1567	</listitem>
1568
1569	<listitem>
1570	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1571	</listitem>
1572
1573	<listitem>
1574	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1575	from the host</para>
1576	</listitem>
1577
1578	<listitem>
1579	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1580	</listitem>
1581
1582	</itemizedlist>
1583
1584	</sect1>
1585
1586	<sect1>
1587	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1588
1589	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1590	added:</para>
1591
1592	<itemizedlist>
1593
1594	<listitem>
1595	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1596	</listitem>
1597
1598	<listitem>
1599	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1600	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1601	</listitem>
1602
1603	<listitem>
1604	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1605	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1606	</listitem>
1607
1608	<listitem>
1609	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1610	a live snapshot</para>
1611	</listitem>
1612
1613	<listitem>
1614	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1615	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1616	</listitem>
1617
1618	<listitem>
1619	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1620	</listitem>
1621
1622	<listitem>
1623	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1624	</listitem>
1625
1626	<listitem>
1627	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1628	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1629	</listitem>
1630
1631	<listitem>
1632	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1633	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1638	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1639	</listitem>
1640
1641	<listitem>
1642	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1643	</listitem>
1644
1645	<listitem>
1646	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1647	images</para>
1648	</listitem>
1649
1650	<listitem>
1651	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1652	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1653	</listitem>
1654	<listitem>
1655	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1656	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1657	</listitem>
1658
1659	<listitem>
1660	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1661	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1662	</listitem>
1663
1664	<listitem>
1665	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1666	</listitem>
1667
1668	<listitem>
1669	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1670	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1671	</listitem>
1672
1673	<listitem>
1674	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1675	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1676	</listitem>
1677
1678	<listitem>
1679	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1680	</listitem>
1681
1682	<listitem>
1683	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1684	(bug #9370)</para>
1685	</listitem>
1686
1687	<listitem>
1688	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1689	(bug #9535)</para>
1690	</listitem>
1691
1692	<listitem>
1693	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1694	(bug #1578)</para>
1695	</listitem>
1696
1697	<listitem>
1698	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1699	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1700	</listitem>
1701
1702	<listitem>
1703	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1704	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1705	</para>
1706	</listitem>
1707
1708	<listitem>
1709	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1710	</para>
1711	</listitem>
1712
1713	<listitem>
1714	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1715	2.6.37 and above</para>
1716	</listitem>
1717
1718	<listitem>
1719	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1720	(bug #6229)</para>
1721	</listitem>
1722
1723	<listitem>
1724	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1725	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1726	</listitem>
1727
1728	</itemizedlist>
1729	</sect1>
1730
1731	<sect1>
1732	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1733
1734	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1735	added:</para>
1736
1737	<itemizedlist>
1738
1739	<listitem>
1740	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1741	</listitem>
1742
1743	<listitem>
1744	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1745	166 and above)</para>
1746	</listitem>
1747
1748	<listitem>
1749	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1750	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1751	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1752	</listitem>
1753
1754	<listitem>
1755	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1756	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1757	</listitem>
1758
1759	<listitem>
1760	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1761	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1762	</listitem>
1763
1764	<listitem>
1765	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1766	</listitem>
1767
1768	<listitem>
1769	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1770	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1771	</listitem>
1772
1773	<listitem>
1774	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1775	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1776	</listitem>
1777
1778	<listitem>
1779	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1780	builds</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1785	</listitem>
1786
1787	</itemizedlist>
1788	</sect1>
1789	<sect1>
1790	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1791
1792	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1793	added:</para>
1794
1795	<itemizedlist>
1796
1797	<listitem>
1798	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1799	</listitem>
1800
1801	<listitem>
1802	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1803	</listitem>
1804
1805	<listitem>
1806	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1807	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1808	</listitem>
1809
1810	<listitem>
1811	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1812	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1813	</listitem>
1814
1815	<listitem>
1816	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1821	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1822	</listitem>
1823
1824	<listitem>
1825	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1826	</listitem>
1827
1828	<listitem>
1829	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1830	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1831	</listitem>
1832
1833	<listitem>
1834	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1835	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1836	</listitem>
1837
1838	<listitem>
1839	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1840	</listitem>
1841
1842	<listitem>
1843	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1844	</listitem>
1845
1846	<listitem>
1847	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1848	file was not written during export</para>
1849	</listitem>
1850
1851	<listitem>
1852	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1853	</listitem>
1854
1855	<listitem>
1856	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1857	</listitem>
1858
1859	<listitem>
1860	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1861	</listitem>
1862
1863	<listitem>
1864	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1865	binaries</para>
1866	</listitem>
1867
1868	<listitem>
1869	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1870	</listitem>
1871
1872	<listitem>
1873	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1874	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1875	</listitem>
1876
1877	<listitem>
1878	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1879	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1880	</listitem>
1881
1882	<listitem>
1883	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1884	</listitem>
1885
1886	<listitem>
1887	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1888	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1889	</listitem>
1890
1891	</itemizedlist>
1892	</sect1>
1893
1894	<sect1>
1895	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1896
1897	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1898	added:</para>
1899
1900	<itemizedlist>
1901
1902	<listitem>
1903	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1904	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1905	</listitem>
1906
1907	<listitem>
1908	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1909	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1910	</listitem>
1911
1912	<listitem>
1913	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1914	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1915	</listitem>
1916
1917	<listitem>
1918	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1919	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1920	</listitem>
1921
1922	<listitem>
1923	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
1924	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
1925	</listitem>
1926
1927	<listitem>
1928	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
1929	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
1930	</listitem>
1931
1932	<listitem>
1933	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
1934	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1935	</listitem>
1936
1937	<listitem>
1938	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
1939	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
1940	</listitem>
1941
1942	<listitem>
1943	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
1944	</listitem>
1945
1946	<listitem>
1947	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
1948	</listitem>
1949
1950	<listitem>
1951	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
1952	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
1953	</listitem>
1954
1955	<listitem>
1956	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
1957	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
1958	</listitem>
1959
1960	<listitem>
1961	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
1962	</listitem>
1963
1964	<listitem>
1965	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
1966	</listitem>
1967
1968	<listitem>
1969	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
1970	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1971	</listitem>
1972
1973	<listitem>
1974	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
1975	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1976	</listitem>
1977
1978	<listitem>
1979	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
1980	window</para>
1981	</listitem>
1982
1983	<listitem>
1984	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
1985	Fedora 15</para>
1986	</listitem>
1987
1988	<listitem>
1989	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
1990	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1991	</listitem>
1992
1993	<listitem>
1994	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
1995	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
1996	</listitem>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
2000	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
2005	</listitem>
2006
2007	<listitem>
2008	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
2009	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
2010	</listitem>
2011
2012	</itemizedlist>
2013	</sect1>
2014
2015	<sect1>
2016	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
2017
2018	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2019	added:</para>
2020
2021	<itemizedlist>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2025	a VMM from a saved state</para>
2026	</listitem>
2027
2028	<listitem>
2029	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2030	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2031	</listitem>
2032
2033	<listitem>
2034	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2035	(bug #8006)</para>
2036	</listitem>
2037
2038	<listitem>
2039	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2040	(bug #8726)</para>
2041	</listitem>
2042
2043	<listitem>
2044	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2045	</listitem>
2046
2047	<listitem>
2048	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2053	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2058	(bug #8469)</para>
2059	</listitem>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2063	selectors</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2068	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2069	</listitem>
2070
2071	<listitem>
2072	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2073	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2074	</listitem>
2075
2076	<listitem>
2077	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2078	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2079	</listitem>
2080
2081	<listitem>
2082	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2083	</listitem>
2084
2085	<listitem>
2086	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2087	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2088	</listitem>
2089
2090	<listitem>
2091	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2092	</listitem>
2093
2094	<listitem>
2095	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2096	</listitem>
2097
2098	<listitem>
2099	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2100	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2101	</listitem>
2102
2103	<listitem>
2104	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2105	I/O error occurred</para>
2106	</listitem>
2107
2108	<listitem>
2109	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2110	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2111	</listitem>
2112
2113	<listitem>
2114	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2115	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2116	</listitem>
2117
2118	<listitem>
2119	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2120	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2121	if no medium is present</para>
2122	</listitem>
2123
2124	<listitem>
2125	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2126	</listitem>
2127
2128	<listitem>
2129	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2130	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2131	</listitem>
2132
2133	<listitem>
2134	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2135	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2136	</listitem>
2137
2138	<listitem>
2139	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2140	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	<listitem>
2144	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2145	</listitem>
2146
2147	<listitem>
2148	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2149	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2154	library (bug #8063)</para>
2155	</listitem>
2156
2157	<listitem>
2158	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2159	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2164	</listitem>
2165
2166	<listitem>
2167	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2168	</listitem>
2169
2170	<listitem>
2171	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2172	</listitem>
2173
2174	<listitem>
2175	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2176	changed on import</para>
2177	</listitem>
2178
2179	<listitem>
2180	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2181	</listitem>
2182
2183	<listitem>
2184	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2185	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2186	</listitem>
2187
2188	<listitem>
2189	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2190	(bug #8593)</para>
2191	</listitem>
2192
2193	<listitem>
2194	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2195	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2196	</listitem>
2197
2198	<listitem>
2199	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2200	captured</para>
2201	</listitem>
2202
2203	<listitem>
2204	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2205	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2206	</listitem>
2207
2208	<listitem>
2209	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2210	</para>
2211	</listitem>
2212
2213	<listitem>
2214	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2215	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2216	</listitem>
2217
2218	<listitem>
2219	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2220	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2221	</listitem>
2222
2223	<listitem>
2224	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2225	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2226	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2231	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2232	</listitem>
2233
2234	<listitem>
2235	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2240	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2245	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2246	</listitem>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2250	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2251	</listitem>
2252
2253	<listitem>
2254	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2259	</listitem>
2260
2261	<listitem>
2262	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2267	</listitem>
2268
2269	<listitem>
2270	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2271	(bug #7946)</para>
2272	</listitem>
2273
2274	<listitem>
2275	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2276	</listitem>
2277
2278	<listitem>
2279	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2280	</listitem>
2281
2282	<listitem>
2283	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2284	</listitem>
2285
2286	</itemizedlist>
2287
2288	</sect1>
2289
2290	<sect1>
2291	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2292
2293	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2294	added:</para>
2295
2296	<itemizedlist>
2297
2298	<listitem>
2299	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2300	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2301	</listitem>
2302
2303	<listitem>
2304	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2305	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2306	</listitem>
2307
2308	<listitem>
2309	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2310	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2311	</listitem>
2312
2313	<listitem>
2314	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2315	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2316	</listitem>
2317
2318	<listitem>
2319	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2320	number of host network interfaces</para>
2321	</listitem>
2322
2323	<listitem>
2324	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2325	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2326	</listitem>
2327
2328	<listitem>
2329	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2330	</listitem>
2331
2332	<listitem>
2333	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2334	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2335	</listitem>
2336
2337	<listitem>
2338	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2339	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2344	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2345	</listitem>
2346
2347	<listitem>
2348	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2349	</listitem>
2350
2351	<listitem>
2352	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2353	(bug #6577)</para>
2354	</listitem>
2355
2356	<listitem>
2357	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2358	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2359	(bug #8235)</para>
2360	</listitem>
2361
2362	<listitem>
2363	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2364	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2365	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2366	</listitem>
2367
2368	<listitem>
2369	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2374	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2375	</listitem>
2376
2377	<listitem>
2378	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2379	</listitem>
2380
2381	<listitem>
2382	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2383	(bug #7966)</para>
2384	</listitem>
2385
2386	<listitem>
2387	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2388	</listitem>
2389
2390	<listitem>
2391	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2392	</listitem>
2393
2394	<listitem>
2395	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2396	</listitem>
2397
2398	<listitem>
2399	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2400	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2401	</listitem>
2402
2403	<listitem>
2404	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2405	</listitem>
2406
2407	<listitem>
2408	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2409	</listitem>
2410
2411	<listitem>
2412	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2413	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2414	</listitem>
2415
2416	<listitem>
2417	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2418	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2419	</listitem>
2420
2421	<listitem>
2422	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2423	</listitem>
2424
2425	<listitem>
2426	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2427	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2428	</listitem>
2429
2430	<listitem>
2431	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2432	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2433	(bug #8122)</para>
2434	</listitem>
2435
2436	<listitem>
2437	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2438	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2439	</listitem>
2440
2441	<listitem>
2442	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2443	</listitem>
2444
2445	<listitem>
2446	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2447	</listitem>
2448
2449	<listitem>
2450	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2451	(bug #1548)</para>
2452	</listitem>
2453
2454	<listitem>
2455	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2456	</listitem>
2457
2458	<listitem>
2459	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2460	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2461	</listitem>
2462
2463	<listitem>
2464	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2465	</listitem>
2466
2467	<listitem>
2468	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2469	(bug #8231)</para>
2470	</listitem>
2471
2472	<listitem>
2473	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2474	11.04 Alpha</para>
2475	</listitem>
2476
2477	<listitem>
2478	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2479	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	<listitem>
2483	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2484	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2485	</listitem>
2486
2487	<listitem>
2488	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2489	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2490	</listitem>
2491
2492	<listitem>
2493	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2494	with VBoxGINA</para>
2495	</listitem>
2496
2497	</itemizedlist>
2498
2499	</sect1>
2500
2501	<sect1>
2502	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2503
2504	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2505	added:</para>
2506
2507	<itemizedlist>
2508
2509	<listitem>
2510	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2511	settings vanished</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2516	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2517	</listitem>
2518
2519	<listitem>
2520	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2521	created (bug #8031)</para>
2522	</listitem>
2523
2524	<listitem>
2525	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2526	</listitem>
2527
2528	<listitem>
2529	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2530	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2531	</listitem>
2532
2533	<listitem>
2534	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2535	an extension pack</para>
2536	</listitem>
2537
2538	<listitem>
2539	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2540	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2541	</listitem>
2542
2543	<listitem>
2544	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2545	</listitem>
2546
2547	<listitem>
2548	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2549	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2550	</listitem>
2551
2552	<listitem>
2553	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2554	host-only interface</para>
2555	</listitem>
2556
2557	<listitem>
2558	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2559	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2560	</listitem>
2561
2562	<listitem>
2563	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2564	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2565	</listitem>
2566
2567	<listitem>
2568	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2569	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2570	</listitem>
2571
2572	<listitem>
2573	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2574	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2575	</listitem>
2576
2577	<listitem>
2578	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2579	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2580	</listitem>
2581
2582	<listitem>
2583	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2584	</listitem>
2585
2586	<listitem>
2587	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2588	</listitem>
2589
2590	<listitem>
2591	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2592	guests</para>
2593	</listitem>
2594
2595	<listitem>
2596	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2597	</listitem>
2598
2599	<listitem>
2600	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2601	</listitem>
2602
2603	<listitem>
2604	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2605	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2606	</listitem>
2607
2608	<listitem>
2609	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2610	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2611	</listitem>
2612
2613	<listitem>
2614	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2615	a VM start</para>
2616	</listitem>
2617
2618	<listitem>
2619	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2620	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2621	</listitem>
2622
2623	<listitem>
2624	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2625	(bug #6067)</para>
2626	</listitem>
2627
2628	<listitem>
2629	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2630	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2631	</listitem>
2632
2633	<listitem>
2634	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2635	not saved to machine XML</para>
2636	</listitem>
2637
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2640	#7983)</para>
2641	</listitem>
2642
2643	<listitem>
2644	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2645	#7981)</para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2650	</listitem>
2651
2652	<listitem>
2653	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2654	regression)</para>
2655	</listitem>
2656
2657	<listitem>
2658	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2659	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2660	</listitem>
2661
2662	<listitem>
2663	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2664	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2665	</listitem>
2666
2667	</itemizedlist>
2668
2669	</sect1>
2670
2671	<sect1>
2672	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2673
2674	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2675	were added:</para>
2676
2677	<itemizedlist>
2678
2679	<listitem>
2680	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2681	</listitem>
2682
2683	<listitem>
2684	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2685	</listitem>
2686
2687	<listitem>
2688	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2689	<itemizedlist>
2690	<listitem>
2691	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2692	</listitem>
2693
2694	<listitem>
2695	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2696	</listitem>
2697
2698	<listitem>
2699	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2700	</listitem>
2701
2702	<listitem>
2703	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2704	</listitem>
2705
2706	<listitem>
2707	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2708	states, and optionally including attached
2709	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2710	can do the same now)</para>
2711	</listitem>
2712
2713	<listitem>
2714	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2715	</listitem>
2716
2717	</itemizedlist>
2718	</para>
2719	</listitem>
2720
2721	<listitem>
2722	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2723	</listitem>
2724
2725	<listitem>
2726	<para>New virtual hardware:
2727	<itemizedlist>
2728	<listitem>
2729	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2730	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2731	</listitem>
2732
2733	<listitem>
2734	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2735	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2736	</listitem>
2737	</itemizedlist>
2738	</para>
2739	</listitem>
2740
2741	<listitem>
2742	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2743	<itemizedlist>
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2746	</listitem>
2747
2748	<listitem>
2749	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2750	</para>
2751	</listitem>
2752
2753	<listitem>
2754	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2755	now</para>
2756	</listitem>
2757
2758	<listitem>
2759	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2760	</listitem>
2761
2762	</itemizedlist>
2763	</para>
2764	</listitem>
2765
2766	<listitem>
2767	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2768	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2769	</listitem>
2770
2771	<listitem>
2772	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2773	Parallels images</para>
2774	</listitem>
2775
2776	<listitem>
2777	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2782	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2783	</listitem>
2784
2785	<listitem>
2786	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2787	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	</itemizedlist>
2791
2792	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2793
2794	<itemizedlist>
2795
2796	<listitem>
2797	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2798	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2799	</listitem>
2800
2801	<listitem>
2802	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2803	</listitem>
2804
2805	<listitem>
2806	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2807	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2812	(bug #1657)</para>
2813	</listitem>
2814
2815	<listitem>
2816	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2817	</listitem>
2818
2819	<listitem>
2820	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2821	</listitem>
2822
2823	<listitem>
2824	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2825	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2826	</listitem>
2827
2828	<listitem>
2829	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2830	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2835	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2836	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2841	again (bug #6864)</para>
2842	</listitem>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2846	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2851	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	<listitem>
2863	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2864	</listitem>
2865
2866	<listitem>
2867	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2868	</listitem>
2869
2870	<listitem>
2871	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2872	</listitem>
2873
2874	<listitem>
2875	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2880	</listitem>
2881
2882	<listitem>
2883	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2884	(bug #7058)</para>
2885	</listitem>
2886
2887	<listitem>
2888	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2889	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2890	</listitem>
2891
2892	<listitem>
2893	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2894	circumstances</para>
2895	</listitem>
2896
2897	<listitem>
2898	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2899	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2900	#5578)
2901	</para>
2902	</listitem>
2903
2904	<listitem>
2905	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2906	</listitem>
2907
2908	<listitem>
2909	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2910	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2911	</listitem>
2912
2913	<listitem>
2914	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2915	</listitem>
2916
2917	<listitem>
2918	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2919	#6760)</para>
2920	</listitem>
2921
2922	<listitem>
2923	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
2924	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
2925	</listitem>
2926
2927	<listitem>
2928	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
2929	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
2930	</listitem>
2931
2932	<listitem>
2933	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
2934	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2935	</listitem>
2936
2937	<listitem>
2938	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
2939	</listitem>
2940
2941	<listitem>
2942	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
2943	file</para>
2944	</listitem>
2945
2946	<listitem>
2947	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2948	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2949	</listitem>
2950
2951	</itemizedlist>
2952
2953	</sect1>
2954
2955	<sect1>
2956	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
2957
2958	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2959	added:</para>
2960
2961	<itemizedlist>
2962
2963	<listitem>
2964	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2965	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
2966	</listitem>
2967
2968	<listitem>
2969	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
2970	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
2971	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
2972	</listitem>
2973
2974	<listitem>
2975	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
2976	</listitem>
2977
2978	<listitem>
2979	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
2980	</listitem>
2981
2982	<listitem>
2983	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
2984	</listitem>
2985
2986	<listitem>
2987	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
2988	the VM is running</para>
2989	</listitem>
2990
2991	<listitem>
2992	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
2993	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
2994	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
2995	starting from a saved state</para>
2996	</listitem>
2997
2998	<listitem>
2999	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
3000	</listitem>
3001
3002	<listitem>
3003	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
3004	</listitem>
3005
3006	<listitem>
3007	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
3008	</listitem>
3009
3010	<listitem>
3011	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
3012	</listitem>
3013
3014	<listitem>
3015	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
3020	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3025	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3030	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3035	</listitem>
3036
3037	<listitem>
3038	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3039	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3040	</para>
3041	</listitem>
3042
3043	<listitem>
3044	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3045	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3046	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3047	</listitem>
3048
3049	<listitem>
3050	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3051	only)</para>
3052	</listitem>
3053
3054	<listitem>
3055	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3056	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3057	</listitem>
3058
3059	<listitem>
3060	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3061	</listitem>
3062
3063	<listitem>
3064	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3065	</listitem>
3066
3067	<listitem>
3068	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3069	</listitem>
3070
3071	<listitem>
3072	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3073	state (bug #4124)</para>
3074	</listitem>
3075
3076	<listitem>
3077	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3078	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3079	</listitem>
3080
3081	<listitem>
3082	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3083	</listitem>
3084
3085	<listitem>
3086	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3087	(bug #2996)</para>
3088	</listitem>
3089
3090	<listitem>
3091	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3092	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3093	</listitem>
3094
3095	<listitem>
3096	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3097	</listitem>
3098
3099	<listitem>
3100	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3101	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3102	</listitem>
3103
3104	<listitem>
3105	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3106	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3107	</listitem>
3108
3109	<listitem>
3110	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3111	user accounts for VM information</para>
3112	</listitem>
3113
3114	</itemizedlist>
3115
3116	</sect1>
3117
3118	<sect1>
3119	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3120
3121	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3122	added:</para>
3123
3124	<itemizedlist>
3125
3126	<listitem>
3127	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3128	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3129	</listitem>
3130
3131	<listitem>
3132	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3133	</listitem>
3134
3135	<listitem>
3136	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3137	</listitem>
3138
3139	<listitem>
3140	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3145	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3146	</listitem>
3147
3148	<listitem>
3149	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3150	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3151	</listitem>
3152
3153	<listitem>
3154	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3155	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3160	(bug #4952)</para>
3161	</listitem>
3162
3163	<listitem>
3164	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3165	bug #6122)</para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3170	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3171	</listitem>
3172
3173	<listitem>
3174	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3175	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3176	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3177	</listitem>
3178
3179	<listitem>
3180	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3181	</listitem>
3182
3183	<listitem>
3184	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3185	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3190	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3191	</listitem>
3192
3193	<listitem>
3194	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3195	canceled</para>
3196	</listitem>
3197
3198	<listitem>
3199	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3200	</listitem>
3201
3202	<listitem>
3203	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3204	</listitem>
3205
3206	<listitem>
3207	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3208	</listitem>
3209
3210	<listitem>
3211	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3212	</listitem>
3213
3214	<listitem>
3215	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3216	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3217	</listitem>
3218
3219	<listitem>
3220	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3221	</listitem>
3222
3223	<listitem>
3224	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3225	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3226	</listitem>
3227
3228	<listitem>
3229	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3230	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3231	</listitem>
3232
3233	<listitem>
3234	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3235	</listitem>
3236
3237	<listitem>
3238	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3239	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3240	</listitem>
3241
3242	<listitem>
3243	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3244	</listitem>
3245
3246	<listitem>
3247	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3248	circumstances</para>
3249	</listitem>
3250
3251	<listitem>
3252	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3253	printers</para>
3254	</listitem>
3255
3256	<listitem>
3257	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3258	</listitem>
3259
3260	<listitem>
3261	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3262	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3263	</listitem>
3264
3265	<listitem>
3266	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3267	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3268	</listitem>
3269
3270	<listitem>
3271	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3272	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3273	circumstances</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3278	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3279	</listitem>
3280
3281	<listitem>
3282	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3283	as supported extension</para>
3284	</listitem>
3285
3286	<listitem>
3287	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3288	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3289	</listitem>
3290
3291	<listitem>
3292	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3293	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3294	</listitem>
3295
3296	<listitem>
3297	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3302	(bug #7366)</para>
3303	</listitem>
3304
3305	<listitem>
3306	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3307	</listitem>
3308
3309	<listitem>
3310	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3311	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3312	</listitem>
3313
3314	<listitem>
3315	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3316	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3317	</listitem>
3318
3319	<listitem>
3320	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3321	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3322	</listitem>
3323
3324	<listitem>
3325	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3326	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	<listitem>
3330	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3331	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3332	</listitem>
3333
3334	<listitem>
3335	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3336	</listitem>
3337
3338	<listitem>
3339	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3344	more than one environment variable</para>
3345	</listitem>
3346
3347	<listitem>
3348	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3349	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3350	</listitem>
3351
3352	<listitem>
3353	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3354	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3355	</listitem>
3356
3357	<listitem>
3358	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3359	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3360	</listitem>
3361
3362	<listitem>
3363	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3364	enumerating logged in users</para>
3365	</listitem>
3366
3367	<listitem>
3368	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3369	</listitem>
3370
3371	<listitem>
3372	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3373	</listitem>
3374
3375	<listitem>
3376	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3377	</listitem>
3378
3379	<listitem>
3380	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3381	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3382	</listitem>
3383
3384	<listitem>
3385	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3386	</listitem>
3387
3388	<listitem>
3389	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3390	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3391	</listitem>
3392
3393	<listitem>
3394	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3395	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3396	</listitem>
3397
3398	<listitem>
3399	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3400	(bug #7448)</para>
3401	</listitem>
3402
3403	<listitem>
3404	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3405	</listitem>
3406
3407	<listitem>
3408	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3409	</listitem>
3410
3411	<listitem>
3412	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	</itemizedlist>
3416
3417	</sect1>
3418
3419	<sect1>
3420	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3421
3422	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3423	added:</para>
3424
3425	<itemizedlist>
3426
3427	<listitem>
3428	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3429	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3430	</listitem>
3431
3432	<listitem>
3433	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3434	</listitem>
3435
3436	<listitem>
3437	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3438	bug #6809)</para>
3439	</listitem>
3440
3441	<listitem>
3442	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3443	</listitem>
3444
3445	<listitem>
3446	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3447	</listitem>
3448
3449	<listitem>
3450	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3451	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3452	</listitem>
3453
3454	<listitem>
3455	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3456	changes</para>
3457	</listitem>
3458
3459	<listitem>
3460	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3461	</listitem>
3462
3463	<listitem>
3464	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3465	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3466	</listitem>
3467
3468	<listitem>
3469	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3470	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3471	</listitem>
3472
3473	<listitem>
3474	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3475	</listitem>
3476
3477	<listitem>
3478	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3479	</listitem>
3480
3481	<listitem>
3482	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3483	</listitem>
3484
3485	<listitem>
3486	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3491	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3492	</listitem>
3493
3494	<listitem>
3495	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3496	</listitem>
3497
3498	<listitem>
3499	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3500	(bug #6832)</para>
3501	</listitem>
3502
3503	<listitem>
3504	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3505	guests</para>
3506	</listitem>
3507
3508	<listitem>
3509	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3510	</listitem>
3511
3512	<listitem>
3513	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3514	without external tools and tricks</para>
3515	</listitem>
3516
3517	<listitem>
3518	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3519	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3520	</listitem>
3521
3522	<listitem>
3523	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3524	</listitem>
3525
3526	<listitem>
3527	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3528	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3529	</listitem>
3530
3531	<listitem>
3532	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3533	shutdown</para>
3534	</listitem>
3535
3536	<listitem>
3537	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3538	fixes</para>
3539	</listitem>
3540
3541	<listitem>
3542	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3543	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3544	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3545	</para>
3546	</listitem>
3547
3548	<listitem>
3549	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3550	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3551	</listitem>
3552
3553	<listitem>
3554	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3555	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3556	</listitem>
3557
3558	<listitem>
3559	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3560	</para>
3561	</listitem>
3562
3563	<listitem>
3564	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	</itemizedlist>
3576
3577	</sect1>
3578
3579	<sect1>
3580	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3581
3582	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3583	added:</para>
3584
3585	<itemizedlist>
3586
3587	<listitem>
3588	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3589	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3590	</listitem>
3591
3592	<listitem>
3593	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3594	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3595	</listitem>
3596
3597	<listitem>
3598	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3599	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3600	</listitem>
3601
3602	<listitem>
3603	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3604	</listitem>
3605
3606	<listitem>
3607	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3608	</listitem>
3609
3610	<listitem>
3611	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3612	</listitem>
3613
3614	<listitem>
3615	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3616	</listitem>
3617
3618	<listitem>
3619	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3620	assigned</para>
3621	</listitem>
3622
3623	<listitem>
3624	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3625	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3626	</listitem>
3627
3628	<listitem>
3629	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3630	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3631	</listitem>
3632
3633	<listitem>
3634	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3635	</listitem>
3636
3637	<listitem>
3638	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3639	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3640	</listitem>
3641
3642	<listitem>
3643	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3644	again (bug #7022).
3645	</para>
3646	</listitem>
3647
3648	<listitem>
3649	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3650	(bug #6768)</para>
3651	</listitem>
3652
3653	<listitem>
3654	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3655	(bug #6927)</para>
3656	</listitem>
3657
3658	<listitem>
3659	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3660	bug #7031)</para>
3661	</listitem>
3662
3663	<listitem>
3664	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3665	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3666	</listitem>
3667
3668	<listitem>
3669	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3670	bug #6987)</para>
3671	</listitem>
3672
3673	<listitem>
3674	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3675	</listitem>
3676
3677	<listitem>
3678	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3679	</listitem>
3680
3681	<listitem>
3682	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3683	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3684	</listitem>
3685
3686	<listitem>
3687	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3688	</listitem>
3689
3690	<listitem>
3691	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3692	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3701	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3702	bug #6872)</para>
3703	</listitem>
3704
3705	<listitem>
3706	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	<listitem>
3710	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3711	(performance tweak)</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3716	is currently paused</para>
3717	</listitem>
3718
3719	<listitem>
3720	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3721	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3722	</listitem>
3723
3724	<listitem>
3725	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3726	</listitem>
3727
3728	<listitem>
3729	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3730	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3731	</listitem>
3732
3733	<listitem>
3734	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3735	not properly saved</para>
3736	</listitem>
3737
3738	<listitem>
3739	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3740	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3745	</listitem>
3746
3747	<listitem>
3748	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3749	</listitem>
3750
3751	<listitem>
3752	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3753	</listitem>
3754
3755	<listitem>
3756	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3757	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3758	</listitem>
3759
3760	<listitem>
3761	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3762	</listitem>
3763
3764	<listitem>
3765	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3766	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3767	</listitem>
3768
3769	<listitem>
3770	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3771	(bug #5251)</para>
3772	</listitem>
3773
3774	<listitem>
3775	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3776	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3777	</listitem>
3778
3779	<listitem>
3780	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3781	</listitem>
3782
3783	<listitem>
3784	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3785	</listitem>
3786
3787	<listitem>
3788	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3789	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3790	</listitem>
3791
3792	<listitem>
3793	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3794	</listitem>
3795
3796	<listitem>
3797	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3798	</listitem>
3799
3800	<listitem>
3801	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3802	</listitem>
3803
3804	</itemizedlist>
3805	</sect1>
3806
3807	<sect1>
3808	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3809
3810	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3811	added:</para>
3812
3813	<itemizedlist>
3814
3815	<listitem>
3816	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3817	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3818	</listitem>
3819
3820	<listitem>
3821	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3822	</listitem>
3823
3824	<listitem>
3825	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3826	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3827	</listitem>
3828
3829	<listitem>
3830	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3831	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3832	</listitem>
3833
3834	<listitem>
3835	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3836	</listitem>
3837
3838	<listitem>
3839	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3840	again (bug #6864)</para>
3841	</listitem>
3842
3843	<listitem>
3844	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3845	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3846	</listitem>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3850	</listitem>
3851
3852	<listitem>
3853	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3854	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3855	</listitem>
3856
3857	<listitem>
3858	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3859	</listitem>
3860
3861	</itemizedlist>
3862
3863	</sect1>
3864
3865	<sect1>
3866	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3867
3868	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3869	added:</para>
3870
3871	<itemizedlist>
3872
3873	<listitem>
3874	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3875	</listitem>
3876
3877	<listitem>
3878	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3879	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3880	</listitem>
3881
3882	<listitem>
3883	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3884	</listitem>
3885
3886	<listitem>
3887	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3888	state</para>
3889	</listitem>
3890
3891	<listitem>
3892	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3893	</listitem>
3894
3895	<listitem>
3896	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3897	</listitem>
3898
3899	<listitem>
3900	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3901	</listitem>
3902
3903	<listitem>
3904	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3905	</listitem>
3906
3907	<listitem>
3908	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3909	</listitem>
3910
3911	<listitem>
3912	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3913	</listitem>
3914
3915	<listitem>
3916	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3917	</listitem>
3918
3919	<listitem>
3920	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3921	</listitem>
3922
3923	<listitem>
3924	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
3925	</listitem>
3926
3927	<listitem>
3928	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
3929	</listitem>
3930
3931	<listitem>
3932	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
3933	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
3934	</listitem>
3935
3936	<listitem>
3937	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
3938	(bug #6784)</para>
3939	</listitem>
3940
3941	<listitem>
3942	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
3943	</listitem>
3944
3945	<listitem>
3946	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
3947	</listitem>
3948
3949	<listitem>
3950	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
3951	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
3952	</listitem>
3953
3954	<listitem>
3955	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
3956	</listitem>
3957
3958	<listitem>
3959	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
3960	</listitem>
3961
3962	<listitem>
3963	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
3964	host only</para>
3965	</listitem>
3966
3967	<listitem>
3968	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
3969	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
3970	</listitem>
3971
3972	<listitem>
3973	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
3974	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
3975	</listitem>
3976
3977	<listitem>
3978	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
3979	</listitem>
3980
3981	<listitem>
3982	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
3983	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
3984	</listitem>
3985
3986	<listitem>
3987	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
3988	</listitem>
3989
3990	<listitem>
3991	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
3992	</listitem>
3993
3994	<listitem>
3995	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
3996	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
3997	</listitem>
3998
3999	<listitem>
4000	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
4001	</listitem>
4002
4003	<listitem>
4004	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
4005	</listitem>
4006
4007	<listitem>
4008	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
4009	</listitem>
4010
4011	<listitem>
4012	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
4013	(bug #6714)</para>
4014	</listitem>
4015
4016	<listitem>
4017	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
4018	</listitem>
4019
4020	<listitem>
4021	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
4022	</listitem>
4023
4024	<listitem>
4025	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4026	</listitem>
4027
4028	<listitem>
4029	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4030	</listitem>
4031
4032	<listitem>
4033	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4034	</listitem>
4035
4036	</itemizedlist>
4037
4038	</sect1>
4039
4040	<sect1>
4041	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4042
4043	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4044	were added:</para>
4045
4046	<itemizedlist>
4047
4048	<listitem>
4049	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4050	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4051	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4052	</listitem>
4053
4054	<listitem>
4055	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4056	</listitem>
4057
4058	<listitem>
4059	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4060	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4061	</listitem>
4062
4063	<listitem>
4064	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4065	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4066	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4067	</listitem>
4068
4069	<listitem>
4070	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4071	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4072	</listitem>
4073
4074	<listitem>
4075	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4076	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4077	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4078	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4079	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4080	</listitem>
4081
4082	<listitem>
4083	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4084	</listitem>
4085
4086	<listitem>
4087	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4088	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4089	</listitem>
4090
4091	<listitem>
4092	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4093	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4094	</listitem>
4095
4096	<listitem>
4097	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4098	</listitem>
4099
4100	<listitem>
4101	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4102	</listitem>
4103
4104	<listitem>
4105	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4106	</listitem>
4107
4108	<listitem>
4109	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4110	</listitem>
4111
4112	<listitem>
4113	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4114	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4115	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4116	</listitem>
4117
4118	<listitem>
4119	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4120	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4121	</listitem>
4122
4123	</itemizedlist>
4124
4125	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4126
4127	<itemizedlist>
4128
4129	<listitem>
4130	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4131	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4132	</listitem>
4133
4134	<listitem>
4135	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4136	</listitem>
4137
4138	<listitem>
4139	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4140	VM</para>
4141	</listitem>
4142
4143	<listitem>
4144	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4145	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4146	</listitem>
4147
4148	<listitem>
4149	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4150	#1669)</para>
4151	</listitem>
4152
4153	<listitem>
4154	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4155	#6442)</para>
4156	</listitem>
4157
4158	<listitem>
4159	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4160	combination (bug #684)</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4165	the VM from the GUI</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4170	medium is not accessible</para>
4171	</listitem>
4172
4173	<listitem>
4174	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4175	</listitem>
4176
4177	<listitem>
4178	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4179	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4180	</listitem>
4181
4182	<listitem>
4183	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4184	#3106)</para>
4185	</listitem>
4186
4187	<listitem>
4188	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4189	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4190	it</para>
4191	</listitem>
4192
4193	<listitem>
4194	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4195	</listitem>
4196
4197	<listitem>
4198	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4199	</listitem>
4200
4201	<listitem>
4202	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4203	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4204	</listitem>
4205
4206	<listitem>
4207	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4208	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4209	</listitem>
4210
4211	<listitem>
4212	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4213	</listitem>
4214
4215	<listitem>
4216	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4221	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4222	</listitem>
4223
4224	<listitem>
4225	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4226	</listitem>
4227
4228	<listitem>
4229	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4230	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4231	</listitem>
4232
4233	<listitem>
4234	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4235	</listitem>
4236
4237	<listitem>
4238	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4239	in VirtualBox</para>
4240	</listitem>
4241
4242	<listitem>
4243	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4244	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4245	</listitem>
4246
4247	<listitem>
4248	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4249	VirtualBox</para>
4250	</listitem>
4251
4252	<listitem>
4253	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4254	</listitem>
4255
4256	<listitem>
4257	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4258	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4259	</listitem>
4260
4261	</itemizedlist>
4262	</sect1>
4263
4264	<sect1>
4265	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4266
4267	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4268	added:</para>
4269
4270	<itemizedlist>
4271
4272	<listitem>
4273	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4274	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4275	</listitem>
4276
4277	<listitem>
4278	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4279	</listitem>
4280
4281	<listitem>
4282	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4283	</listitem>
4284
4285	<listitem>
4286	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4287	only) </para>
4288	</listitem>
4289
4290	<listitem>
4291	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4292	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4293	</listitem>
4294
4295	<listitem>
4296	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4297	interface version</para>
4298	</listitem>
4299
4300	<listitem>
4301	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4302	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4303	slot empty</para>
4304	</listitem>
4305
4306	<listitem>
4307	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4308	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4309	(bug #4220)</para>
4310	</listitem>
4311
4312	<listitem>
4313	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4314	</listitem>
4315
4316	<listitem>
4317	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4318	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4319	</listitem>
4320
4321	<listitem>
4322	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4323	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4324	</listitem>
4325
4326	<listitem>
4327	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4328	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4329	</listitem>
4330
4331	<listitem>
4332	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4333	attached</para>
4334	</listitem>
4335
4336	<listitem>
4337	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4338	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4339	</listitem>
4340
4341	<listitem>
4342	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4343	</listitem>
4344
4345	<listitem>
4346	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4347	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4348	</listitem>
4349
4350	<listitem>
4351	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4352	is bug #6408)</para>
4353	</listitem>
4354
4355	<listitem>
4356	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4357	</listitem>
4358
4359	<listitem>
4360	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4361	fail to initialize</para>
4362	</listitem>
4363
4364	<listitem>
4365	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4366	</listitem>
4367
4368	<listitem>
4369	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4370	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4371	</listitem>
4372
4373	<listitem>
4374	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4375	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4376	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4377	</listitem>
4378
4379	<listitem>
4380	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4381	</listitem>
4382
4383	<listitem>
4384	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4385	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4386	</listitem>
4387
4388	<listitem>
4389	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4390	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4391	</listitem>
4392
4393	<listitem>
4394	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4395	(bug #6435)</para>
4396	</listitem>
4397
4398	<listitem>
4399	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4400	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4401	</listitem>
4402
4403	<listitem>
4404	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4405	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4406	(bug #6488)</para>
4407	</listitem>
4408
4409	<listitem>
4410	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4411	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4412	</listitem>
4413
4414	<listitem>
4415	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4416	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4417	</listitem>
4418
4419	<listitem>
4420	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4421	#5227)</para>
4422	</listitem>
4423
4424	<listitem>
4425	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4426	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4427	</listitem>
4428
4429	<listitem>
4430	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4431	</listitem>
4432
4433	<listitem>
4434	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4435	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4436	</listitem>
4437
4438	</itemizedlist>
4439	</sect1>
4440
4441	<sect1>
4442	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4443
4444	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4445	added:</para>
4446
4447	<itemizedlist>
4448
4449	<listitem>
4450	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4451	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4452	</listitem>
4453
4454	<listitem>
4455	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4456	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4457	</listitem>
4458
4459	<listitem>
4460	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4461	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4462	</listitem>
4463
4464	<listitem>
4465	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4466	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4467	</listitem>
4468
4469	<listitem>
4470	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4471	</listitem>
4472
4473	<listitem>
4474	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4475	</listitem>
4476
4477	<listitem>
4478	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4479	</listitem>
4480
4481	<listitem>
4482	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4483	</listitem>
4484
4485	<listitem>
4486	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4487	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4488	</listitem>
4489
4490	<listitem>
4491	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4492	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4493	</listitem>
4494
4495	<listitem>
4496	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4497	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4498	</listitem>
4499
4500	<listitem>
4501	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4502	</listitem>
4503
4504	<listitem>
4505	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4506	</listitem>
4507
4508	<listitem>
4509	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4510	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4511	</listitem>
4512
4513	<listitem>
4514	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4515	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4516	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4517	</listitem>
4518
4519	<listitem>
4520	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4521	(bug #5297)</para>
4522	</listitem>
4523
4524	<listitem>
4525	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4526	(bug #4962)</para>
4527	</listitem>
4528
4529	<listitem>
4530	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4531	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4532	</listitem>
4533
4534	<listitem>
4535	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4536	(bug #6176)</para>
4537	</listitem>
4538
4539	<listitem>
4540	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4541	certain circumstances</para>
4542	</listitem>
4543
4544	<listitem>
4545	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4546	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4547	</listitem>
4548
4549	<listitem>
4550	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4551	</listitem>
4552
4553	<listitem>
4554	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4555	</listitem>
4556
4557	<listitem>
4558	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4559	(bug #3571)</para>
4560	</listitem>
4561
4562	<listitem>
4563	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4564	devices</para>
4565	</listitem>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4569	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4570	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4571	</listitem>
4572
4573	<listitem>
4574	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4575	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4576	</listitem>
4577
4578	<listitem>
4579	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4580	</listitem>
4581
4582	<listitem>
4583	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4584	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4585	</listitem>
4586
4587	<listitem>
4588	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4589	response</para>
4590	</listitem>
4591
4592	<listitem>
4593	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4594	</listitem>
4595
4596	<listitem>
4597	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4598	</listitem>
4599
4600	<listitem>
4601	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4602	</listitem>
4603
4604	<listitem>
4605	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4606	</listitem>
4607
4608	<listitem>
4609	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4610	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4611	</listitem>
4612
4613	<listitem>
4614	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4615	</listitem>
4616
4617	<listitem>
4618	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4619	</listitem>
4620
4621	<listitem>
4622	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4623	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4624	</listitem>
4625
4626	<listitem>
4627	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4632	</listitem>
4633
4634	<listitem>
4635	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4636	</listitem>
4637
4638	<listitem>
4639	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4640	</listitem>
4641
4642	</itemizedlist>
4643	</sect1>
4644
4645	<sect1>
4646	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4647
4648	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4649	added:</para>
4650
4651	<itemizedlist>
4652
4653	<listitem>
4654	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4655	</listitem>
4656
4657	<listitem>
4658	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4659	</listitem>
4660
4661	<listitem>
4662	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4663	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4664	</listitem>
4665
4666	<listitem>
4667	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4668	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4669	</listitem>
4670
4671	<listitem>
4672	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4673	(bug #3945)</para>
4674	</listitem>
4675
4676	<listitem>
4677	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4678	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4683	and AMD-V only) </para>
4684	</listitem>
4685
4686	<listitem>
4687	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4688	</listitem>
4689
4690	<listitem>
4691	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4692	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4693	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4694	</listitem>
4695
4696	<listitem>
4697	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4698	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4699	</listitem>
4700
4701	<listitem>
4702	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4703	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4704	</listitem>
4705
4706	<listitem>
4707	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4708	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4709	</listitem>
4710
4711	<listitem>
4712	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4713	snapshots command</para>
4714	</listitem>
4715
4716	<listitem>
4717	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4718	</listitem>
4719
4720	<listitem>
4721	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4722	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4723	</listitem>
4724
4725	<listitem>
4726	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4727	</listitem>
4728
4729	<listitem>
4730	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4731	</listitem>
4732
4733	<listitem>
4734	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4735	</listitem>
4736
4737	<listitem>
4738	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4739	(KWin bug)</para>
4740	</listitem>
4741
4742	<listitem>
4743	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4744	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4745	</listitem>
4746
4747	<listitem>
4748	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4749	</listitem>
4750
4751	<listitem>
4752	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4753	</listitem>
4754
4755	<listitem>
4756	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4757	</listitem>
4758
4759	<listitem>
4760	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4761	</listitem>
4762
4763	<listitem>
4764	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4765	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4766	</listitem>
4767
4768	<listitem>
4769	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4770	bug #5787)</para>
4771	</listitem>
4772
4773	<listitem>
4774	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4775	DHCP requests</para>
4776	</listitem>
4777
4778	<listitem>
4779	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4780	(bug #3217)</para>
4781	</listitem>
4782
4783	<listitem>
4784	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4785	range (bug #5923)</para>
4786	</listitem>
4787
4788	<listitem>
4789	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4794	</listitem>
4795
4796	<listitem>
4797	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4798	</listitem>
4799
4800	<listitem>
4801	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4802	</listitem>
4803
4804	<listitem>
4805	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4806	file (bug #5681)</para>
4807	</listitem>
4808
4809	<listitem>
4810	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4811	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4812	</listitem>
4813
4814	<listitem>
4815	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4816	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4817	</listitem>
4818
4819	<listitem>
4820	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4821	regression)</para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4834	</listitem>
4835
4836	<listitem>
4837	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4842	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4843	</listitem>
4844
4845	<listitem>
4846	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4847	</listitem>
4848
4849	<listitem>
4850	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4851	</listitem>
4852
4853	<listitem>
4854	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4855	</listitem>
4856
4857	<listitem>
4858	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4859	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4860	</listitem>
4861
4862	<listitem>
4863	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4864	</listitem>
4865
4866	<listitem>
4867	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4868	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4869	</listitem>
4870
4871	<listitem>
4872	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4873	</listitem>
4874
4875	<listitem>
4876	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4877	</listitem>
4878
4879	<listitem>
4880	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4881	</listitem>
4882
4883	<listitem>
4884	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4885	(bug #5731)</para>
4886	</listitem>
4887
4888	<listitem>
4889	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4890	again</para>
4891	</listitem>
4892
4893	</itemizedlist>
4894
4895	</sect1>
4896
4897	<sect1>
4898	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4899
4900	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4901	added:</para>
4902
4903	<itemizedlist>
4904
4905	<listitem>
4906	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4907	</listitem>
4908
4909	<listitem>
4910	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4911	</listitem>
4912
4913	<listitem>
4914	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4915	</listitem>
4916
4917	<listitem>
4918	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4919	</listitem>
4920
4921	<listitem>
4922	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
4923	</listitem>
4924
4925	<listitem>
4926	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
4927	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
4928	</listitem>
4929
4930	<listitem>
4931	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
4932	</listitem>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
4936	</listitem>
4937
4938	<listitem>
4939	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
4944	</listitem>
4945
4946	<listitem>
4947	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
4948	</listitem>
4949
4950	<listitem>
4951	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
4952	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
4953	</listitem>
4954
4955	<listitem>
4956	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
4957	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
4962	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
4963	#1762)</para>
4964	</listitem>
4965
4966	<listitem>
4967	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
4968	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
4969	</listitem>
4970
4971	<listitem>
4972	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
4973	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
4974	</listitem>
4975
4976	<listitem>
4977	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
4978	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
4979	</listitem>
4980
4981	<listitem>
4982	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
4983	</listitem>
4984
4985	<listitem>
4986	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
4987	</listitem>
4988
4989	<listitem>
4990	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
4991	several virtual CPU cores</para>
4992	</listitem>
4993
4994	<listitem>
4995	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
4996	</listitem>
4997
4998	<listitem>
4999	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
5000	</listitem>
5001
5002	<listitem>
5003	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
5004	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
5005	</listitem>
5006
5007	<listitem>
5008	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
5009	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
5010	</listitem>
5011
5012	<listitem>
5013	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
5014	</listitem>
5015
5016	<listitem>
5017	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
5018	guests</para>
5019	</listitem>
5020
5021	<listitem>
5022	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
5023	and on some 64bit guests</para>
5024	</listitem>
5025
5026	<listitem>
5027	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5028	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5029	</listitem>
5030
5031	<listitem>
5032	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5033	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5034	</listitem>
5035
5036	<listitem>
5037	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5038	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5039	</listitem>
5040
5041	<listitem>
5042	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5043	</listitem>
5044
5045	<listitem>
5046	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5047	</listitem>
5048
5049	<listitem>
5050	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5051	</listitem>
5052
5053	<listitem>
5054	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5055	</listitem>
5056
5057	<listitem>
5058	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5059	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5060	</listitem>
5061
5062	<listitem>
5063	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5064	</listitem>
5065
5066	</itemizedlist>
5067
5068	</sect1>
5069
5070	<sect1>
5071	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5072
5073	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5074	were added:</para>
5075
5076	<itemizedlist>
5077
5078	<listitem>
5079	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5080	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5081	</listitem>
5082
5083	<listitem>
5084	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5085	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5086	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5087	</listitem>
5088
5089	<listitem>
5090	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5091	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5092	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5093	</listitem>
5094
5095	<listitem>
5096	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5097	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5098	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5099	</listitem>
5100
5101	<listitem>
5102	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5103	running</para>
5104	</listitem>
5105
5106	<listitem>
5107	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5108	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5109	</listitem>
5110
5111	<listitem>
5112	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5113	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5114	</listitem>
5115
5116	<listitem>
5117	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5118	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5119	</listitem>
5120
5121	<listitem>
5122	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5123	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5124	</listitem>
5125
5126	</itemizedlist>
5127
5128	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5129
5130	<itemizedlist>
5131
5132	<listitem>
5133	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5134	</listitem>
5135
5136	<listitem>
5137	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5138	</listitem>
5139
5140	<listitem>
5141	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5142	</listitem>
5143
5144	<listitem>
5145	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5146	(bug #5291)</para>
5147	</listitem>
5148
5149	<listitem>
5150	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5151	</listitem>
5152
5153	<listitem>
5154	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5155	</listitem>
5156
5157	<listitem>
5158	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5159	</listitem>
5160
5161	<listitem>
5162	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5163	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5164	</listitem>
5165
5166	<listitem>
5167	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5168	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5169	</listitem>
5170
5171	<listitem>
5172	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5173	</listitem>
5174
5175	<listitem>
5176	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5177	</listitem>
5178
5179	<listitem>
5180	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5181	</listitem>
5182
5183	<listitem>
5184	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5185	</listitem>
5186
5187	<listitem>
5188	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5189	</listitem>
5190
5191	<listitem>
5192	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5193	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5194	</listitem>
5195
5196	<listitem>
5197	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5198	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5199	</listitem>
5200
5201	<listitem>
5202	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5203	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5204	</listitem>
5205
5206	<listitem>
5207	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5208	(bug #2723)</para>
5209	</listitem>
5210
5211	<listitem>
5212	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5213	</listitem>
5214
5215	<listitem>
5216	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5217	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5218	</listitem>
5219
5220	<listitem>
5221	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5222	optional manifest file on import</para>
5223	</listitem>
5224
5225	<listitem>
5226	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5227	</listitem>
5228
5229	<listitem>
5230	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5231	(bug #3773)</para>
5232	</listitem>
5233
5234	<listitem>
5235	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5236	</listitem>
5237
5238	<listitem>
5239	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5240	</listitem>
5241
5242	<listitem>
5243	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5244	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5245	</listitem>
5246
5247	<listitem>
5248	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5249	(bug #4866)</para>
5250	</listitem>
5251
5252	<listitem>
5253	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5254	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5255	</listitem>
5256
5257	<listitem>
5258	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5259	certain conditions</para>
5260	</listitem>
5261
5262	<listitem>
5263	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5264	</listitem>
5265
5266	<listitem>
5267	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5268	</listitem>
5269
5270	<listitem>
5271	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5272	</listitem>
5273
5274	<listitem>
5275	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5276	</listitem>
5277
5278	<listitem>
5279	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5280	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5281	</listitem>
5282
5283	<listitem>
5284	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5285	</listitem>
5286
5287	<listitem>
5288	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5289	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5294	</listitem>
5295
5296	<listitem>
5297	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5298	</listitem>
5299
5300	<listitem>
5301	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5302	</listitem>
5303
5304	<listitem>
5305	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5306	</listitem>
5307
5308	<listitem>
5309	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5310	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5311	</listitem>
5312
5313	<listitem>
5314	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5315	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5316	(bug #928)</para>
5317	</listitem>
5318
5319	<listitem>
5320	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5321	</listitem>
5322
5323	</itemizedlist>
5324
5325	</sect1>
5326
5327	<sect1>
5328	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5329
5330	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5331	added:</para>
5332
5333	<itemizedlist>
5334
5335	<listitem>
5336	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5337	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5338	</listitem>
5339
5340	<listitem>
5341	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5342	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5343	</listitem>
5344
5345	<listitem>
5346	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5347	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5348	</listitem>
5349
5350	<listitem>
5351	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5352	enabled</para>
5353	</listitem>
5354
5355	<listitem>
5356	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5357	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5358	</listitem>
5359
5360	<listitem>
5361	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5362	(bug #2676)</para>
5363	</listitem>
5364
5365	<listitem>
5366	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5367	is connected to a raw file</para>
5368	</listitem>
5369
5370	<listitem>
5371	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5372	(bug #5355)</para>
5373	</listitem>
5374
5375	<listitem>
5376	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5377	</listitem>
5378
5379	<listitem>
5380	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5381	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5382	</listitem>
5383
5384	<listitem>
5385	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5386	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5387	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5388	</listitem>
5389
5390	<listitem>
5391	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5392	</listitem>
5393
5394	<listitem>
5395	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5396	</listitem>
5397
5398	<listitem>
5399	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5400	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5401	</listitem>
5402
5403	<listitem>
5404	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5405	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5406	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5407	</listitem>
5408
5409	</itemizedlist>
5410
5411	</sect1>
5412
5413	<sect1>
5414	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5415
5416	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5417	added:</para>
5418
5419	<itemizedlist>
5420
5421	<listitem>
5422	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5423	</listitem>
5424
5425	<listitem>
5426	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5427	</listitem>
5428
5429	<listitem>
5430	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5431	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5432	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5433	</listitem>
5434
5435	<listitem>
5436	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5437	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5438	</listitem>
5439
5440	<listitem>
5441	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5442	</listitem>
5443
5444	<listitem>
5445	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5446	</listitem>
5447
5448	<listitem>
5449	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5450	</listitem>
5451
5452	<listitem>
5453	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5454	</listitem>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5458	</listitem>
5459
5460	<listitem>
5461	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5462	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5463	</listitem>
5464
5465	<listitem>
5466	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5467	</listitem>
5468
5469	<listitem>
5470	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5471	</listitem>
5472
5473	<listitem>
5474	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5475	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5476	</listitem>
5477
5478	<listitem>
5479	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5480	</listitem>
5481
5482	<listitem>
5483	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5484	exhaustion</para>
5485	</listitem>
5486
5487	<listitem>
5488	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5489	</listitem>
5490
5491	<listitem>
5492	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5493	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5494	</listitem>
5495
5496	<listitem>
5497	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5498	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5499	</listitem>
5500
5501	<listitem>
5502	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5503	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	<listitem>
5507	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5508	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5509	(bug #2921)</para>
5510	</listitem>
5511
5512	<listitem>
5513	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5514	hosts only)</para>
5515	</listitem>
5516
5517	<listitem>
5518	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5519	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5520	</listitem>
5521
5522	<listitem>
5523	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5524	</listitem>
5525
5526	<listitem>
5527	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5528	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5529	</listitem>
5530
5531	<listitem>
5532	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5533	</listitem>
5534
5535	<listitem>
5536	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5537	image inconsistency </para>
5538	</listitem>
5539
5540	<listitem>
5541	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5542	</listitem>
5543
5544	<listitem>
5545	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5546	</listitem>
5547
5548	<listitem>
5549	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5550	(bug #2025)</para>
5551	</listitem>
5552
5553	<listitem>
5554	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5555	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5556	</listitem>
5557
5558	</itemizedlist>
5559
5560	</sect1>
5561
5562	<sect1>
5563	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5564
5565	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5566	added:</para>
5567
5568	<itemizedlist>
5569
5570	<listitem>
5571	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5572	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5573	</listitem>
5574
5575	<listitem>
5576	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5577	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5578	</listitem>
5579
5580	<listitem>
5581	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5582	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5583	</listitem>
5584
5585	<listitem>
5586	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5587	</listitem>
5588
5589	<listitem>
5590	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5591	software virtualization only) </para>
5592	</listitem>
5593
5594	<listitem>
5595	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5596	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5597	</listitem>
5598
5599	<listitem>
5600	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5601	with root privileges</para>
5602	</listitem>
5603
5604	<listitem>
5605	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5606	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5607	</listitem>
5608
5609	<listitem>
5610	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5611	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5612	</listitem>
5613
5614	<listitem>
5615	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5616	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5617	</listitem>
5618
5619	<listitem>
5620	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5621	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5622	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5623	</listitem>
5624
5625	<listitem>
5626	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5627	available</para>
5628	</listitem>
5629
5630	<listitem>
5631	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5632	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5633	</listitem>
5634
5635	<listitem>
5636	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5637	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5638	</listitem>
5639
5640	<listitem>
5641	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5642	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5643	</listitem>
5644
5645	<listitem>
5646	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5647	(bug #4907)</para>
5648	</listitem>
5649
5650	<listitem>
5651	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5652	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5653	</listitem>
5654
5655	<listitem>
5656	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5657	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5658	</listitem>
5659
5660	<listitem>
5661	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5662	</listitem>
5663
5664	<listitem>
5665	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5666	</listitem>
5667
5668	<listitem>
5669	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5670	</listitem>
5671
5672	<listitem>
5673	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5678	are installed</para>
5679	</listitem>
5680
5681	<listitem>
5682	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5683	(bug #4771)</para>
5684	</listitem>
5685
5686	<listitem>
5687	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5688	</listitem>
5689
5690	<listitem>
5691	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5692	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5693	</listitem>
5694
5695	<listitem>
5696	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5697	command</para>
5698	</listitem>
5699
5700	<listitem>
5701	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5702	</listitem>
5703
5704	<listitem>
5705	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5706	</listitem>
5707
5708	<listitem>
5709	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5710	(bug #5089)</para>
5711	</listitem>
5712
5713	<listitem>
5714	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5715	</listitem>
5716
5717	</itemizedlist>
5718
5719	</sect1>
5720
5721	<sect1>
5722	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5723
5724	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5725	added:</para>
5726
5727	<itemizedlist>
5728
5729	<listitem>
5730	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5731	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5732	</listitem>
5733
5734	<listitem>
5735	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5736	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5737	</listitem>
5738
5739	<listitem>
5740	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5741	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5742	</listitem>
5743
5744	<listitem>
5745	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5746	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5747	</listitem>
5748
5749	<listitem>
5750	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5751	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5752	</listitem>
5753
5754	<listitem>
5755	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5756	</listitem>
5757
5758	<listitem>
5759	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5760	</listitem>
5761
5762	<listitem>
5763	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5764	</listitem>
5765
5766	<listitem>
5767	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5768	</listitem>
5769
5770	<listitem>
5771	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5772	</listitem>
5773
5774	<listitem>
5775	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5776	onlined or offlined</para>
5777	</listitem>
5778
5779	<listitem>
5780	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5781	</listitem>
5782
5783	<listitem>
5784	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5785	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5786	</listitem>
5787
5788	<listitem>
5789	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5790	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5791	</listitem>
5792
5793	<listitem>
5794	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5795	</listitem>
5796
5797	<listitem>
5798	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5799	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5800	</listitem>
5801
5802	<listitem>
5803	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5804	</listitem>
5805
5806	<listitem>
5807	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5808	</listitem>
5809
5810	<listitem>
5811	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5812	</listitem>
5813
5814	<listitem>
5815	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5816	</listitem>
5817
5818	<listitem>
5819	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5820	</listitem>
5821
5822	<listitem>
5823	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5824	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5825	</listitem>
5826
5827	<listitem>
5828	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5829	</listitem>
5830
5831	<listitem>
5832	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5833	</listitem>
5834
5835	<listitem>
5836	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5837	</listitem>
5838
5839	<listitem>
5840	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5841	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5842	</listitem>
5843
5844	<listitem>
5845	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5846	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5847	</listitem>
5848
5849	<listitem>
5850	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5851	</listitem>
5852
5853	<listitem>
5854	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5855	</listitem>
5856
5857	<listitem>
5858	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5859	</listitem>
5860
5861	<listitem>
5862	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5863	</listitem>
5864
5865	<listitem>
5866	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5867	</listitem>
5868
5869	<listitem>
5870	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5871	</listitem>
5872
5873	<listitem>
5874	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5875	</listitem>
5876
5877	<listitem>
5878	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5879	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5880	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5881	phase collapse</para>
5882	</listitem>
5883
5884	<listitem>
5885	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5886	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5887	</listitem>
5888
5889	<listitem>
5890	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5891	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5892	</listitem>
5893
5894	<listitem>
5895	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5896	</listitem>
5897
5898	<listitem>
5899	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5900	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5901	</listitem>
5902
5903	<listitem>
5904	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5905	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5906	</listitem>
5907
5908	<listitem>
5909	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5910	</listitem>
5911
5912	<listitem>
5913	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5914	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5915	#4698, #4790)</para>
5916	</listitem>
5917
5918	<listitem>
5919	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5920	less than the configured range</para>
5921	</listitem>
5922
5923	<listitem>
5924	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
5925	</listitem>
5926
5927	<listitem>
5928	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
5929	</listitem>
5930
5931	<listitem>
5932	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
5933	</listitem>
5934
5935	<listitem>
5936	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
5937	</listitem>
5938
5939	<listitem>
5940	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
5941	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
5942	</listitem>
5943
5944	<listitem>
5945	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
5946	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
5947	</listitem>
5948
5949	<listitem>
5950	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
5951	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
5952	</listitem>
5953
5954	<listitem>
5955	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
5956	</listitem>
5957
5958	<listitem>
5959	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
5960	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
5961	</listitem>
5962
5963	<listitem>
5964	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
5965	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
5966	</listitem>
5967
5968	<listitem>
5969	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
5970	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
5971	</listitem>
5972
5973	<listitem>
5974	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
5975	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
5976	</listitem>
5977
5978	<listitem>
5979	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
5980	</listitem>
5981
5982	<listitem>
5983	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
5984	</listitem>
5985
5986	</itemizedlist>
5987
5988	</sect1>
5989
5990	<sect1>
5991	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
5992
5993	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5994	added:</para>
5995
5996	<itemizedlist>
5997
5998	<listitem>
5999	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
6000	</listitem>
6001
6002	<listitem>
6003	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
6004	</listitem>
6005
6006	<listitem>
6007	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
6008	</listitem>
6009
6010	<listitem>
6011	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
6012	</listitem>
6013
6014	<listitem>
6015	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
6016	</listitem>
6017
6018	<listitem>
6019	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
6020	</listitem>
6021
6022	<listitem>
6023	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
6024	</listitem>
6025
6026	<listitem>
6027	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6028	</listitem>
6029
6030	<listitem>
6031	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6032	</listitem>
6033
6034	<listitem>
6035	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6036	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6037	</listitem>
6038
6039	<listitem>
6040	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6041	</listitem>
6042
6043	<listitem>
6044	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6045	</listitem>
6046
6047	<listitem>
6048	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6049	</listitem>
6050
6051	<listitem>
6052	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6053	</listitem>
6054
6055	<listitem>
6056	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6057	</listitem>
6058
6059	<listitem>
6060	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6061	</listitem>
6062
6063	<listitem>
6064	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6065	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6066	</listitem>
6067
6068	<listitem>
6069	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6070	(bug #4654)</para>
6071	</listitem>
6072
6073	<listitem>
6074	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6075	</listitem>
6076
6077	<listitem>
6078	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6079	interfaces</para>
6080	</listitem>
6081
6082	<listitem>
6083	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6084	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6085	</listitem>
6086
6087	<listitem>
6088	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6089	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6090	</listitem>
6091
6092	<listitem>
6093	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6094	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6095	</listitem>
6096
6097	<listitem>
6098	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6099	(bug #1461)</para>
6100	</listitem>
6101
6102	<listitem>
6103	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6104	</listitem>
6105
6106	<listitem>
6107	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6108	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6109	</listitem>
6110
6111	<listitem>
6112	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6113	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6114	</listitem>
6115
6116	<listitem>
6117	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6118	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6119	</listitem>
6120
6121	<listitem>
6122	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6123	</listitem>
6124
6125	<listitem>
6126	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6127	</listitem>
6128
6129	<listitem>
6130	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6131	</listitem>
6132
6133	<listitem>
6134	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6135	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6136	</listitem>
6137
6138	<listitem>
6139	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6140	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6141	</listitem>
6142
6143	<listitem>
6144	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6145	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6146	</listitem>
6147
6148	<listitem>
6149	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6150	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6151	</listitem>
6152
6153	</itemizedlist>
6154
6155	</sect1>
6156	<sect1>
6157	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6158
6159	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6160	added:</para>
6161
6162	<itemizedlist>
6163
6164	<listitem>
6165	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6166	</listitem>
6167
6168	<listitem>
6169	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6170	</listitem>
6171
6172	<listitem>
6173	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6174	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6175	</listitem>
6176
6177	<listitem>
6178	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6179	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6180	</listitem>
6181
6182	<listitem>
6183	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6184	</listitem>
6185
6186	<listitem>
6187	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6188	</listitem>
6189
6190	<listitem>
6191	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6192	</listitem>
6193
6194	<listitem>
6195	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6196	</listitem>
6197
6198	<listitem>
6199	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6200	</listitem>
6201
6202	<listitem>
6203	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6204	</listitem>
6205
6206	<listitem>
6207	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6208	</listitem>
6209
6210	<listitem>
6211	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6212	</listitem>
6213
6214	<listitem>
6215	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6216	</listitem>
6217
6218	<listitem>
6219	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6220	</listitem>
6221
6222	<listitem>
6223	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6224	</listitem>
6225
6226	<listitem>
6227	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6228	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6229	</listitem>
6230
6231	<listitem>
6232	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6233	</listitem>
6234
6235	<listitem>
6236	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6237	</listitem>
6238
6239	<listitem>
6240	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6241	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6242	</listitem>
6243
6244	<listitem>
6245	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6246	</listitem>
6247
6248	<listitem>
6249	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6250	</listitem>
6251
6252	<listitem>
6253	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6254	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6255	</listitem>
6256
6257	<listitem>
6258	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6259	</listitem>
6260
6261	<listitem>
6262	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6263	</listitem>
6264
6265	<listitem>
6266	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6267	</listitem>
6268
6269	<listitem>
6270	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6271	</listitem>
6272
6273	<listitem>
6274	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6275	</listitem>
6276
6277	<listitem>
6278	<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>
6279	</listitem>
6280
6281	</itemizedlist>
6282
6283	</sect1>
6284
6285	<sect1>
6286	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6287
6288	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6289	were added:</para>
6290
6291	<itemizedlist>
6292
6293	<listitem>
6294	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6295	</listitem>
6296
6297	<listitem>
6298	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6299	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6300	</listitem>
6301
6302	<listitem>
6303	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6304	</listitem>
6305
6306	</itemizedlist>
6307
6308	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6309
6310	<itemizedlist>
6311
6312	<listitem>
6313	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6314	</listitem>
6315
6316	<listitem>
6317	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6318	certain conditions</para>
6319	</listitem>
6320
6321	<listitem>
6322	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6323	</listitem>
6324
6325	<listitem>
6326	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6327	</listitem>
6328
6329	<listitem>
6330	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6331	</listitem>
6332
6333	<listitem>
6334	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6335	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6336	</listitem>
6337
6338	<listitem>
6339	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6340	</listitem>
6341
6342	<listitem>
6343	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6344	</listitem>
6345
6346	<listitem>
6347	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6348	</listitem>
6349
6350	<listitem>
6351	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6352	</listitem>
6353
6354	<listitem>
6355	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6356	</listitem>
6357
6358	<listitem>
6359	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6360	</listitem>
6361
6362	<listitem>
6363	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6364	</listitem>
6365
6366	<listitem>
6367	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6368	</listitem>
6369
6370	<listitem>
6371	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6372	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6373	</listitem>
6374
6375	<listitem>
6376	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6377	</listitem>
6378
6379	<listitem>
6380	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6381	</listitem>
6382
6383	<listitem>
6384	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6385	</listitem>
6386
6387	<listitem>
6388	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6389	</listitem>
6390
6391	<listitem>
6392	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6393	</listitem>
6394
6395	<listitem>
6396	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6397	</listitem>
6398
6399	<listitem>
6400	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6401	</listitem>
6402
6403	<listitem>
6404	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6405	</listitem>
6406
6407	<listitem>
6408	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6409	</listitem>
6410
6411	<listitem>
6412	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6413	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6414	</listitem>
6415
6416	<listitem>
6417	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6418	</listitem>
6419
6420	<listitem>
6421	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6422	</listitem>
6423
6424	<listitem>
6425	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6426	</listitem>
6427
6428	<listitem>
6429	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6430	</listitem>
6431
6432	<listitem>
6433	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6434	</listitem>
6435
6436	<listitem>
6437	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6438	</listitem>
6439
6440	<listitem>
6441	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6442	</listitem>
6443
6444	<listitem>
6445	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6446	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6447	</listitem>
6448
6449	<listitem>
6450	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6451	</listitem>
6452
6453	<listitem>
6454	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6455	</listitem>
6456
6457	<listitem>
6458	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6459	</listitem>
6460
6461	<listitem>
6462	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6463	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6464	</listitem>
6465
6466	<listitem>
6467	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6468	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6469	</listitem>
6470
6471	<listitem>
6472	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6473	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6474	</listitem>
6475
6476	<listitem>
6477	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6478	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6479	</listitem>
6480
6481	<listitem>
6482	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6483	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6484	</listitem>
6485
6486	<listitem>
6487	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6488	</listitem>
6489
6490	<listitem>
6491	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6492	</listitem>
6493
6494	<listitem>
6495	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6496	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6497	</listitem>
6498
6499	<listitem>
6500	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6501	guest property lookup</para>
6502	</listitem>
6503
6504	<listitem>
6505	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6506	basic network information)</para>
6507	</listitem>
6508
6509	<listitem>
6510	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6511	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6512	</listitem>
6513
6514	<listitem>
6515	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6516	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6517	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6518	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6519	</listitem>
6520
6521	<listitem>
6522	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6523	</listitem>
6524
6525	<listitem>
6526	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6527	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6528	web service</para>
6529	</listitem>
6530
6531	<listitem>
6532	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6533	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6534	</listitem>
6535
6536	<listitem>
6537	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6538	unavailable</para>
6539	</listitem>
6540
6541	<listitem>
6542	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6543	</listitem>
6544
6545	</itemizedlist>
6546	</sect1>
6547
6548	<sect1>
6549	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6550
6551	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6552	added:</para>
6553
6554	<itemizedlist>
6555
6556	<listitem>
6557	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6558	installation</para>
6559	</listitem>
6560
6561	<listitem>
6562	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6563	</listitem>
6564
6565	<listitem>
6566	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6567	later (bug #3981)</para>
6568	</listitem>
6569
6570	<listitem>
6571	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6572	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6573	</listitem>
6574
6575	<listitem>
6576	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6577	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6578	(bug #4034)
6579	</para>
6580	</listitem>
6581
6582	<listitem>
6583	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6584	networking</para>
6585	</listitem>
6586
6587	<listitem>
6588	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6589	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6590	</listitem>
6591
6592	<listitem>
6593	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6594	clicks</para>
6595	</listitem>
6596
6597	<listitem>
6598	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6599	Windows 7 guests</para>
6600	</listitem>
6601
6602	<listitem>
6603	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6604	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6605	</listitem>
6606
6607	<listitem>
6608	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6609	</listitem>
6610
6611	<listitem>
6612	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6613	</listitem>
6614
6615	<listitem>
6616	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6617	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6618	</listitem>
6619
6620	<listitem>
6621	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6622	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6623	</listitem>
6624
6625	<listitem>
6626	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6627	</listitem>
6628
6629	<listitem>
6630	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6631	</listitem>
6632
6633	<listitem>
6634	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6635	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6636	(bug #3864)</para>
6637	</listitem>
6638
6639	<listitem>
6640	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6641	now flushes the output stream</para>
6642	</listitem>
6643
6644	<listitem>
6645	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6646	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6647	</listitem>
6648
6649	<listitem>
6650	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6651	</listitem>
6652
6653	<listitem>
6654	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6655	</listitem>
6656
6657	<listitem>
6658	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6659	</listitem>
6660
6661	<listitem>
6662	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6663	</listitem>
6664
6665	<listitem>
6666	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6667	(bug #3964)</para>
6668	</listitem>
6669
6670	<listitem>
6671	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6672	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6673	</listitem>
6674
6675	<listitem>
6676	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6677	hosts</para>
6678	</listitem>
6679
6680	<listitem>
6681	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6682	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6683	e1000 adapter</para>
6684	</listitem>
6685
6686	<listitem>
6687	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6688	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6689	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6690	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6691	</listitem>
6692
6693	<listitem>
6694	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6695	</listitem>
6696
6697	<listitem>
6698	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6699	</listitem>
6700
6701	<listitem>
6702	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6703	</listitem>
6704
6705	<listitem>
6706	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6707	file (bug #1023)</para>
6708	</listitem>
6709
6710	<listitem>
6711	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6712	</listitem>
6713
6714	<listitem>
6715	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6716	</listitem>
6717
6718	</itemizedlist>
6719	</sect1>
6720
6721	<sect1>
6722	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6723
6724	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6725	added:</para>
6726
6727	<itemizedlist>
6728
6729	<listitem>
6730	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6731	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6732	</listitem>
6733
6734	<listitem>
6735	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6736	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6737	and later</para>
6738	</listitem>
6739
6740	<listitem>
6741	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6742	running services</para>
6743	</listitem>
6744
6745	<listitem>
6746	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6747	terminates</para>
6748	</listitem>
6749
6750	<listitem>
6751	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6752	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6753	</listitem>
6754
6755	<listitem>
6756	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6757	installed on the guest</para>
6758	</listitem>
6759
6760	<listitem>
6761	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6762	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6763	</listitem>
6764
6765	<listitem>
6766	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6767	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6768	</listitem>
6769
6770	<listitem>
6771	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6772	(bug #2628)</para>
6773	</listitem>
6774
6775	<listitem>
6776	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6777	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6778	</listitem>
6779
6780	<listitem>
6781	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6782	(bug #3657)</para>
6783	</listitem>
6784
6785	<listitem>
6786	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6787	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6788	</listitem>
6789
6790	<listitem>
6791	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6792	virtualization only)
6793	</para>
6794	</listitem>
6795
6796	<listitem>
6797	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6798	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6799	</listitem>
6800
6801	<listitem>
6802	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6803	</listitem>
6804
6805	<listitem>
6806	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6807	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6808	</listitem>
6809
6810	<listitem>
6811	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6812	bug #3689)</para>
6813	</listitem>
6814
6815	<listitem>
6816	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6817	bug #3679)</para>
6818	</listitem>
6819
6820	<listitem>
6821	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6822	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6823	</listitem>
6824
6825	<listitem>
6826	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6827	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6828	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6829	</listitem>
6830
6831	<listitem>
6832	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6833	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6834	</listitem>
6835
6836	<listitem>
6837	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6838	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6839	</listitem>
6840
6841	<listitem>
6842	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6843	(bug #3667)</para>
6844	</listitem>
6845
6846	<listitem>
6847	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6848	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6849	</listitem>
6850
6851	<listitem>
6852	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6853	</listitem>
6854
6855	<listitem>
6856	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6857	</listitem>
6858
6859	<listitem>
6860	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6861	</listitem>
6862
6863	<listitem>
6864	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6865	</listitem>
6866
6867	<listitem>
6868	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6869	</listitem>
6870
6871	<listitem>
6872	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6873	</listitem>
6874
6875	<listitem>
6876	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6877	</listitem>
6878
6879	</itemizedlist>
6880	</sect1>
6881
6882	<sect1>
6883	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6884
6885	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6886	were added:</para>
6887
6888	<itemizedlist>
6889
6890	<listitem>
6891	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6892	</listitem>
6893
6894	<listitem>
6895	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6896	</listitem>
6897
6898	<listitem>
6899	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6900	</listitem>
6901
6902	<listitem>
6903	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6904	</listitem>
6905
6906	<listitem>
6907	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6908	</listitem>
6909
6910	<listitem>
6911	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6912	</listitem>
6913
6914	<listitem>
6915	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6916	</listitem>
6917
6918	<listitem>
6919	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6920	</listitem>
6921
6922	<listitem>
6923	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6924	</listitem>
6925
6926	<listitem>
6927	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
6928	</listitem>
6929
6930	</itemizedlist>
6931
6932	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6933
6934	<itemizedlist>
6935
6936	<listitem>
6937	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
6938	</listitem>
6939
6940	<listitem>
6941	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
6942	</listitem>
6943
6944	<listitem>
6945	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
6946	</listitem>
6947
6948	<listitem>
6949	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
6950	</listitem>
6951
6952	<listitem>
6953	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
6954	</listitem>
6955
6956	<listitem>
6957	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6958	</listitem>
6959
6960	<listitem>
6961	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6962	</listitem>
6963
6964	<listitem>
6965	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
6966	</listitem>
6967
6968	<listitem>
6969	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
6970	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
6971	</listitem>
6972
6973	<listitem>
6974	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
6975	</listitem>
6976
6977	<listitem>
6978	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
6979	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
6980	</listitem>
6981
6982	<listitem>
6983	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
6984	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
6985	</listitem>
6986
6987	<listitem>
6988	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
6989	</listitem>
6990
6991	<listitem>
6992	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
6993	</listitem>
6994
6995	<listitem>
6996	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
6997	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
6998	</listitem>
6999
7000	<listitem>
7001	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
7002	</listitem>
7003
7004	<listitem>
7005	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
7006	ESX server images)</para>
7007	</listitem>
7008
7009	<listitem>
7010	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
7011	writable</para>
7012	</listitem>
7013
7014	<listitem>
7015	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
7016	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
7017	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
7018	</listitem>
7019
7020	<listitem>
7021	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
7022	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
7023	</listitem>
7024
7025	<listitem>
7026	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7027	</listitem>
7028
7029	<listitem>
7030	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7031	</listitem>
7032
7033	<listitem>
7034	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7035	hosts when creating files</para>
7036	</listitem>
7037
7038	<listitem>
7039	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7040	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7041	</listitem>
7042
7043	<listitem>
7044	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7045	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7046	#2306)</para>
7047	</listitem>
7048
7049	<listitem>
7050	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7051	(bug #3555)</para>
7052	</listitem>
7053
7054	<listitem>
7055	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7056	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7057	</listitem>
7058
7059	<listitem>
7060	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7061	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7062	</listitem>
7063
7064	<listitem>
7065	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7066	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7067	</listitem>
7068
7069	<listitem>
7070	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7071	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7072	</listitem>
7073
7074	<listitem>
7075	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7076	(bug #3586)</para>
7077	</listitem>
7078
7079	<listitem>
7080	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7081	from Scratch systems</para>
7082	</listitem>
7083
7084	<listitem>
7085	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7086	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7087	</listitem>
7088
7089	<listitem>
7090	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7091	</listitem>
7092
7093	<listitem>
7094	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7095	default to compact format</para>
7096	</listitem>
7097
7098	<listitem>
7099	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7100	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7101	</listitem>
7102
7103	<listitem>
7104	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7105	</listitem>
7106
7107	<listitem>
7108	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7109	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7110	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7111	</listitem>
7112
7113	<listitem>
7114	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7115	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7116	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7117	</listitem>
7118
7119	<listitem>
7120	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7121	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7122	</listitem>
7123
7124	<listitem>
7125	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7126	</listitem>
7127
7128	<listitem>
7129	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7130	</listitem>
7131
7132	<listitem>
7133	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7134	</listitem>
7135
7136	<listitem>
7137	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7138	</listitem>
7139
7140	<listitem>
7141	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7142	</listitem>
7143
7144	<listitem>
7145	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7146	</listitem>
7147
7148	<listitem>
7149	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7150	</listitem>
7151
7152	<listitem>
7153	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7154	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7155	</listitem>
7156
7157	<listitem>
7158	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7159	</listitem>
7160
7161	<listitem>
7162	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7163	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7164	</listitem>
7165
7166	<listitem>
7167	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7168	</listitem>
7169
7170	<listitem>
7171	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7172	</listitem>
7173
7174	<listitem>
7175	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7176	</listitem>
7177
7178	<listitem>
7179	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7180	#2536)</para>
7181	</listitem>
7182
7183	<listitem>
7184	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7185	</listitem>
7186
7187	<listitem>
7188	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7189	(bug #3548)</para>
7190	</listitem>
7191
7192	</itemizedlist>
7193	</sect1>
7194
7195	<sect1>
7196	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7197
7198	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7199	added:</para>
7200
7201	<itemizedlist>
7202
7203	<listitem>
7204	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7205	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7206	</listitem>
7207
7208	<listitem>
7209	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7210	</listitem>
7211
7212	<listitem>
7213	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7214	</listitem>
7215
7216	<listitem>
7217	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7218	</listitem>
7219
7220	<listitem>
7221	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7222	(bug #3115)</para>
7223	</listitem>
7224
7225	<listitem>
7226	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7227	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7228	</listitem>
7229
7230	<listitem>
7231	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7232	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7233	(bug #3215)</para>
7234	</listitem>
7235
7236	<listitem>
7237	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7238	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7239	</listitem>
7240
7241	<listitem>
7242	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7243	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7244	</listitem>
7245
7246	<listitem>
7247	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7248	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7249	</listitem>
7250
7251	<listitem>
7252	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7253	in parallel</para>
7254	</listitem>
7255
7256	<listitem>
7257	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7258	</listitem>
7259
7260	<listitem>
7261	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7262	</listitem>
7263
7264	<listitem>
7265	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7266	</listitem>
7267
7268	<listitem>
7269	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7270	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7271	</listitem>
7272
7273	<listitem>
7274	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7275	</listitem>
7276
7277	<listitem>
7278	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7279	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7280	</listitem>
7281
7282	<listitem>
7283	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7284	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7285	</listitem>
7286
7287	<listitem>
7288	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7289	</listitem>
7290
7291	<listitem>
7292	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7293	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7294	</listitem>
7295
7296	<listitem>
7297	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7298	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7299	</listitem>
7300
7301	<listitem>
7302	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7303	</listitem>
7304
7305	<listitem>
7306	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7307	</listitem>
7308
7309	<listitem>
7310	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7311	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7312	</listitem>
7313
7314	<listitem>
7315	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7316	</listitem>
7317
7318	<listitem>
7319	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7320	</listitem>
7321
7322	<listitem>
7323	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7324	</listitem>
7325
7326	<listitem>
7327	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7328	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7329	</listitem>
7330
7331	<listitem>
7332	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7333	</listitem>
7334
7335	<listitem>
7336	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7337	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7338	</listitem>
7339
7340	<listitem>
7341	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7342	</listitem>
7343
7344	<listitem>
7345	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7346	</listitem>
7347
7348	<listitem>
7349	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7350	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7351	</listitem>
7352
7353	<listitem>
7354	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7355	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7356	</listitem>
7357
7358	<listitem>
7359	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7360	</listitem>
7361
7362	<listitem>
7363	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7364	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7365	</listitem>
7366
7367	<listitem>
7368	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7369	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7370	</listitem>
7371
7372	<listitem>
7373	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7374	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7375	</listitem>
7376
7377	<listitem>
7378	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7379	(bug #3213)</para>
7380	</listitem>
7381
7382	<listitem>
7383	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7384	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7385	</listitem>
7386
7387	<listitem>
7388	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7389	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7390	</listitem>
7391
7392	</itemizedlist>
7393	</sect1>
7394
7395	<sect1>
7396	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7397
7398	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7399	added:</para>
7400
7401	<itemizedlist>
7402
7403	<listitem>
7404	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7405	</listitem>
7406
7407	<listitem>
7408	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7409	</listitem>
7410
7411	<listitem>
7412	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7413	</listitem>
7414
7415	<listitem>
7416	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7417	</listitem>
7418
7419	<listitem>
7420	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7421	</listitem>
7422
7423	<listitem>
7424	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7425	</listitem>
7426
7427	<listitem>
7428	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7429	</listitem>
7430
7431	<listitem>
7432	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7433	</listitem>
7434
7435	<listitem>
7436	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7437	</listitem>
7438
7439	<listitem>
7440	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7441	</listitem>
7442
7443	<listitem>
7444	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7445	</listitem>
7446
7447	<listitem>
7448	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7449	</listitem>
7450
7451	<listitem>
7452	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7453	</listitem>
7454
7455	<listitem>
7456	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7457	</listitem>
7458
7459	<listitem>
7460	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7461	</listitem>
7462
7463	<listitem>
7464	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7465	</listitem>
7466
7467	<listitem>
7468	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7469	(bug #3067)</para>
7470	</listitem>
7471
7472	<listitem>
7473	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7474	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7475	</listitem>
7476
7477	<listitem>
7478	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7479	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7480	</listitem>
7481
7482	<listitem>
7483	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7484	</listitem>
7485
7486	<listitem>
7487	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7488	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7489	</listitem>
7490
7491	<listitem>
7492	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7493	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7494	</listitem>
7495
7496	<listitem>
7497	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7498	</listitem>
7499
7500	<listitem>
7501	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7502	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7503	</listitem>
7504
7505	<listitem>
7506	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7507	</listitem>
7508
7509	<listitem>
7510	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7511	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7512	</listitem>
7513
7514	<listitem>
7515	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7516	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7517	</listitem>
7518
7519	<listitem>
7520	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7521	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7522	</para>
7523	</listitem>
7524
7525	<listitem>
7526	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7527	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7528	</para>
7529	</listitem>
7530
7531	<listitem>
7532	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7533	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7534	</para>
7535	</listitem>
7536
7537	<listitem>
7538	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7539	</listitem>
7540
7541	<listitem>
7542	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7543	</listitem>
7544
7545	<listitem>
7546	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7547	</listitem>
7548
7549	<listitem>
7550	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7551	</listitem>
7552
7553	<listitem>
7554	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7555	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7556	</listitem>
7557
7558	<listitem>
7559	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7560	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7561	</listitem>
7562
7563	<listitem>
7564	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7565	formatting a drive</para>
7566	</listitem>
7567
7568	<listitem>
7569	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7570	</listitem>
7571
7572	<listitem>
7573	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7574	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7575	</listitem>
7576
7577	<listitem>
7578	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7579	</listitem>
7580
7581	<listitem>
7582	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7583	</listitem>
7584
7585	<listitem>
7586	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7587	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7588	</listitem>
7589
7590	<listitem>
7591	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7592	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7593	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7594	</listitem>
7595
7596	<listitem>
7597	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7598	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7599	</listitem>
7600
7601	<listitem>
7602	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7603	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7604	</listitem>
7605
7606	<listitem>
7607	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7608	(bug #2768)</para>
7609	</listitem>
7610
7611	<listitem>
7612	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7613	</listitem>
7614
7615	<listitem>
7616	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7617	</listitem>
7618
7619	<listitem>
7620	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7621	single, unified package</para>
7622	</listitem>
7623
7624	<listitem>
7625	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7626	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7627	</listitem>
7628
7629	<listitem>
7630	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7631	</listitem>
7632
7633	<listitem>
7634	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7635	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7636	</listitem>
7637
7638	<listitem>
7639	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7640	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7641	</listitem>
7642
7643	<listitem>
7644	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7645	</listitem>
7646
7647	<listitem>
7648	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7649	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7650	doing 3D</para>
7651	</listitem>
7652
7653	<listitem>
7654	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7655	</listitem>
7656
7657	<listitem>
7658	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7659	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7660	</listitem>
7661
7662	<listitem>
7663	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7664	</listitem>
7665
7666	<listitem>
7667	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7668	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7669	</listitem>
7670
7671	<listitem>
7672	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7673	</listitem>
7674
7675	<listitem>
7676	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7677	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7678	</listitem>
7679
7680	<listitem>
7681	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7682	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7683	(bug #2938)</para>
7684	</listitem>
7685
7686	<listitem>
7687	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7688	Linux guests</para>
7689	</listitem>
7690
7691	<listitem>
7692	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7693	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7694	(bug #1776)</para>
7695	</listitem>
7696
7697	<listitem>
7698	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7699	(bug #1612)</para>
7700	</listitem>
7701
7702	<listitem>
7703	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7704	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7705	</listitem>
7706
7707	<listitem>
7708	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7709	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7710	</listitem>
7711
7712	<listitem>
7713	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7714	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7715	</listitem>
7716
7717	</itemizedlist>
7718	</sect1>
7719
7720	<sect1>
7721	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7722
7723	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7724	were added:</para>
7725
7726	<itemizedlist>
7727	<listitem>
7728	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7729	</listitem>
7730
7731	<listitem>
7732	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7733	</listitem>
7734
7735	<listitem>
7736	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7737	</listitem>
7738
7739	<listitem>
7740	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7741	</listitem>
7742
7743	<listitem>
7744	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7745	</listitem>
7746
7747	<listitem>
7748	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7749	</listitem>
7750
7751	<listitem>
7752	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7753	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7754	</listitem>
7755
7756	<listitem>
7757	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7758	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7759	</listitem>
7760
7761	</itemizedlist>
7762
7763	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7764
7765	<itemizedlist>
7766	<listitem>
7767	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7768	</listitem>
7769
7770	<listitem>
7771	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7772	</listitem>
7773
7774	<listitem>
7775	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7776	</listitem>
7777
7778	<listitem>
7779	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7780	</listitem>
7781
7782	<listitem>
7783	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7784	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7785	</listitem>
7786
7787	<listitem>
7788	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7789	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7790	</listitem>
7791
7792	<listitem>
7793	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7794	</listitem>
7795
7796	<listitem>
7797	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7798	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7799	</listitem>
7800
7801	<listitem>
7802	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7803	</listitem>
7804
7805	<listitem>
7806	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7807	</listitem>
7808
7809	<listitem>
7810	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7811	</listitem>
7812
7813	<listitem>
7814	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7815	</listitem>
7816
7817	<listitem>
7818	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7819	</listitem>
7820
7821	<listitem>
7822	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7823	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7824	</listitem>
7825
7826	<listitem>
7827	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7828	the compiz window manager</para>
7829	</listitem>
7830
7831	<listitem>
7832	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7833	</listitem>
7834
7835	<listitem>
7836	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7837	</listitem>
7838
7839	<listitem>
7840	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7841	</listitem>
7842
7843	<listitem>
7844	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7845	</listitem>
7846
7847	<listitem>
7848	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7849	</listitem>
7850
7851	<listitem>
7852	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7853	</listitem>
7854
7855	<listitem>
7856	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7857	</listitem>
7858
7859	<listitem>
7860	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7861	</listitem>
7862
7863	<listitem>
7864	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7865	</listitem>
7866
7867	<listitem>
7868	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7869	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7870	</listitem>
7871
7872	<listitem>
7873	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7874	for direct device access</para>
7875	</listitem>
7876
7877	<listitem>
7878	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7879	</listitem>
7880
7881	<listitem>
7882	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7883	</listitem>
7884
7885	<listitem>
7886	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7887	</listitem>
7888
7889	<listitem>
7890	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7891	</listitem>
7892
7893	<listitem>
7894	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7895	</listitem>
7896
7897	<listitem>
7898	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7899	</listitem>
7900
7901	<listitem>
7902	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7903	</listitem>
7904
7905	<listitem>
7906	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7907	</listitem>
7908
7909	</itemizedlist>
7910	</sect1>
7911
7912	<sect1>
7913	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7914
7915	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7916	added:</para>
7917
7918	<itemizedlist>
7919
7920	<listitem>
7921	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7922	states/snapshots</para>
7923	</listitem>
7924
7925	<listitem>
7926	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
7927	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
7928	</listitem>
7929
7930	<listitem>
7931	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7932	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7933	</listitem>
7934
7935	<listitem>
7936	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
7937	collisions</para>
7938	</listitem>
7939
7940	<listitem>
7941	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7942	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7943	</listitem>
7944
7945	<listitem>
7946	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7947	</listitem>
7948
7949	<listitem>
7950	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
7951	reliably</para>
7952	</listitem>
7953
7954	<listitem>
7955	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7956	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7957	</listitem>
7958
7959	<listitem>
7960	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
7961	a reboot</para>
7962	</listitem>
7963
7964	<listitem>
7965	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7966	</listitem>
7967
7968	<listitem>
7969	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7970	in parallel</para>
7971	</listitem>
7972
7973	<listitem>
7974	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7975	</listitem>
7976
7977	<listitem>
7978	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
7979	correctly</para>
7980	</listitem>
7981
7982	<listitem>
7983	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7984	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7985	</listitem>
7986
7987	</itemizedlist>
7988	</sect1>
7989
7990	<sect1>
7991	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
7992
7993	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7994	added:</para>
7995
7996	<itemizedlist>
7997
7998	<listitem>
7999	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
8000	(bug #2220)</para>
8001	</listitem>
8002
8003	<listitem>
8004	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
8005	</listitem>
8006
8007	<listitem>
8008	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
8009	</listitem>
8010
8011	<listitem>
8012	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
8013	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
8014	</listitem>
8015
8016	<listitem>
8017	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
8018	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
8019	</listitem>
8020
8021	<listitem>
8022	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
8023	(bug #2624)</para>
8024	</listitem>
8025
8026	<listitem>
8027	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8028	(bug #2024)</para>
8029	</listitem>
8030
8031	<listitem>
8032	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8033	</listitem>
8034
8035	<listitem>
8036	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8037	</listitem>
8038
8039	<listitem>
8040	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8041	</listitem>
8042
8043	<listitem>
8044	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8045	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8046	</listitem>
8047
8048	<listitem>
8049	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8050	applications when updating the installation</para>
8051	</listitem>
8052
8053	<listitem>
8054	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8055	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8056	</listitem>
8057
8058	<listitem>
8059	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8060	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8061	</listitem>
8062
8063	<listitem>
8064	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8065	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8066	</listitem>
8067
8068	<listitem>
8069	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8070	connected to a host device</para>
8071	</listitem>
8072
8073	<listitem>
8074	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8075	</listitem>
8076
8077	<listitem>
8078	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8079	</listitem>
8080
8081	<listitem>
8082	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8083	</listitem>
8084
8085	<listitem>
8086	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8087	when using native RDP connections</para>
8088	</listitem>
8089
8090	<listitem>
8091	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8092	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8093	</listitem>
8094
8095	<listitem>
8096	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8097	(bug #2591)</para>
8098	</listitem>
8099
8100	<listitem>
8101	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8102	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8103	</listitem>
8104
8105	<listitem>
8106	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8107	</listitem>
8108
8109	</itemizedlist>
8110	</sect1>
8111
8112	<sect1>
8113	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8114
8115	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8116	added:</para>
8117
8118	<itemizedlist>
8119	<listitem>
8120	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8121	</listitem>
8122
8123	<listitem>
8124	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8125	</listitem>
8126
8127	<listitem>
8128	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8129	</listitem>
8130
8131	<listitem>
8132	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8133	</listitem>
8134
8135	<listitem>
8136	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8137	</listitem>
8138
8139	<listitem>
8140	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8141	</listitem>
8142
8143	<listitem>
8144	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8145	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8146	</listitem>
8147
8148	<listitem>
8149	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8150	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8151	</listitem>
8152
8153	<listitem>
8154	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8155	</listitem>
8156
8157	<listitem>
8158	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8159	equal to the client resolution</para>
8160	</listitem>
8161
8162	<listitem>
8163	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8164	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8165	</listitem>
8166
8167	<listitem>
8168	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8169	</listitem>
8170
8171	<listitem>
8172	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8173	</listitem>
8174
8175	<listitem>
8176	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8177	</listitem>
8178
8179	<listitem>
8180	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8181	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8182	</listitem>
8183
8184	<listitem>
8185	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8186	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8187	</listitem>
8188
8189	<listitem>
8190	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8191	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8192	</listitem>
8193
8194	<listitem>
8195	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8196	</listitem>
8197
8198	<listitem>
8199	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8200	</listitem>
8201
8202	<listitem>
8203	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8204	</listitem>
8205
8206	<listitem>
8207	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8208	</listitem>
8209
8210	<listitem>
8211	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8212	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8213	</listitem>
8214
8215	<listitem>
8216	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8217	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8218	</listitem>
8219
8220	<listitem>
8221	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8222	</listitem>
8223
8224	<listitem>
8225	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8226	</listitem>
8227
8228	<listitem>
8229	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8230	</listitem>
8231
8232	</itemizedlist>
8233
8234	</sect1>
8235
8236	<sect1>
8237	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8238
8239	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8240	added:</para>
8241
8242	<itemizedlist>
8243
8244	<listitem>
8245	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8246	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8247	</listitem>
8248
8249	<listitem>
8250	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8251	</listitem>
8252
8253	<listitem>
8254	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8255	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8256	</listitem>
8257
8258	<listitem>
8259	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8260	</listitem>
8261
8262	<listitem>
8263	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8264	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8265	</listitem>
8266
8267	<listitem>
8268	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8269	</listitem>
8270
8271	<listitem>
8272	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8273	the virtual disk manager</para>
8274	</listitem>
8275
8276	<listitem>
8277	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8278	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8279	</listitem>
8280
8281	<listitem>
8282	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8283	</listitem>
8284
8285	<listitem>
8286	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8287	</listitem>
8288
8289	<listitem>
8290	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8291	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8292	</listitem>
8293
8294	<listitem>
8295	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8296	bug #2067)</para>
8297	</listitem>
8298
8299	<listitem>
8300	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8301	</listitem>
8302
8303	<listitem>
8304	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8305	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8306	</listitem>
8307
8308	<listitem>
8309	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8310	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8311	(bug #2184)</para>
8312	</listitem>
8313
8314	<listitem>
8315	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8316	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8317	</listitem>
8318
8319	<listitem>
8320	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8321	(Windows guests only)</para>
8322	</listitem>
8323
8324	<listitem>
8325	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8326	</listitem>
8327
8328	<listitem>
8329	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8330	</listitem>
8331
8332	<listitem>
8333	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8334	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8335	</listitem>
8336
8337	<listitem>
8338	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8339	</listitem>
8340
8341	<listitem>
8342	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8343	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8344	</para>
8345	</listitem>
8346
8347	<listitem>
8348	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8349	</listitem>
8350
8351	<listitem>
8352	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8353	</listitem>
8354
8355	<listitem>
8356	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8357	a VM reboot</para>
8358	</listitem>
8359
8360	<listitem>
8361	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8362	</listitem>
8363
8364	<listitem>
8365	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8366	buggy X servers</para>
8367	</listitem>
8368
8369	<listitem>
8370	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8371	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8372	</listitem>
8373
8374	<listitem>
8375	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8376	</listitem>
8377
8378	<listitem>
8379	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8380	(bug #2128)</para>
8381	</listitem>
8382
8383	<listitem>
8384	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8385	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8386	</listitem>
8387
8388	<listitem>
8389	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8390	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8391	</listitem>
8392
8393	<listitem>
8394	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8395	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8396	</listitem>
8397
8398	<listitem>
8399	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8400	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8401	</listitem>
8402
8403	<listitem>
8404	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8405	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8406	</listitem>
8407
8408	<listitem>
8409	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8410	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8411	</listitem>
8412
8413	<listitem>
8414	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8415	installer into a single package</para>
8416	</listitem>
8417
8418	<listitem>
8419	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8420	port to the guest
8421	</para>
8422	</listitem>
8423
8424	</itemizedlist>
8425
8426	</sect1>
8427
8428	<sect1>
8429	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8430
8431	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8432	were added:<itemizedlist>
8433
8434	<listitem>
8435	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8436	</listitem>
8437
8438	<listitem>
8439	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8440	</listitem>
8441
8442	<listitem>
8443	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8444	</listitem>
8445
8446	<listitem>
8447	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8448	</listitem>
8449
8450	<listitem>
8451	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8452	</listitem>
8453
8454	<listitem>
8455	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8456	</listitem>
8457
8458	<listitem>
8459	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8460	</listitem>
8461
8462	<listitem>
8463	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8464	</listitem>
8465
8466	<listitem>
8467	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8468	</listitem>
8469
8470	<listitem>
8471	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8472	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8473	</listitem>
8474
8475	<listitem>
8476	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8477	</listitem>
8478
8479	<listitem>
8480	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8481	</listitem>
8482
8483	<listitem>
8484	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8485	</listitem>
8486
8487	</itemizedlist></para>
8488
8489	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8490
8491	<itemizedlist>
8492
8493	<listitem>
8494	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8495	</listitem>
8496
8497	<listitem>
8498	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8499	</listitem>
8500
8501	<listitem>
8502	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8503	</listitem>
8504
8505	<listitem>
8506	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8507	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8508	</listitem>
8509
8510	<listitem>
8511	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8512	restored</para>
8513	</listitem>
8514
8515	<listitem>
8516	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8517	</listitem>
8518
8519	<listitem>
8520	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8521	</listitem>
8522
8523	<listitem>
8524	<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>
8525	</listitem>
8526
8527	</itemizedlist>
8528
8529	</sect1>
8530

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