| 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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| 2 | <!-- Release change log structure
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| 3 |
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| 4 | Each release has a matching log of changes which were made for that and
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| 5 | earlier releases. Earlier releases means anything with a lower number (e.g.
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| 6 | 5.0.18 is lower than 5.1.2) which was released before this one. The log is
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| 7 | kept in the file doc/manual/user_ChangeLogImpl.xml. Anything worth mentioning,
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| 8 | particularly new features and fixed bugs, with a trac bug number if possible,
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| 9 | should be added to the top of the change log (that is, the section for the
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| 10 | upcoming release) for the branch in which it first appears - stable or
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| 11 | development - before the next release. If you back-port it to older branches
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| 12 | please add an entry there too. When a new major release is made, change log
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| 13 | sections for earlier releases are merged in.
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| 14 |
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| 15 | Change log sections are split into two groups: major new features (normally
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| 16 | only for dot zero releases) and fixes. In addition, the entries in each group
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| 17 | are ordered as follows:
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| 18 |
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| 19 | VMM-related entries (most important)
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| 20 | GUI-related entries (most visible for users)
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| 21 | Device-related entries
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| 22 | VBoxManage/API/Main-related entries
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| 23 | Host-related entries
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| 24 | Guest-related entries
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| 25 | BIOS/EFI/ACPI-related entries
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| 26 |
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| 27 | Please do further ordering as seems appropriate by importance and visibility for
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| 28 | users, e.g. audio before serial ports and generally Windows before Linux. Please
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| 29 | also try to describe the user impact, not the technical details, and only use
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| 30 | technical terms if no non-technical ones are clear enough.
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| 31 | -->
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| 32 | <chapter>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <!-- HACK ALERT! Seems we must have a single top level element for xi:include to work.
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| 35 | So, we use chapter and xpointer="xpointer(/chapter/)" with xi:include. -->
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <sect1>
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| 38 | <title>Version 6.0.3 (2019-xx-xx)</title>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
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| 41 | added:</para>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <itemizedlist>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <listitem>
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| 46 | <para>User interface: parsing command line arguments to VirtualBox correctly
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| 47 | (bugs #18206 and #18197)</para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <listitem>
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| 51 | <para>Audio: implemented time scheduling for the AC'97 device emulation
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| 52 | to keep audio and video in sync</para>
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| 53 | </listitem>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <listitem>
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| 56 | <para>Serial: fixed connecting to pseudo terminals on POSIX hosts
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| 57 | (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)</para>
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| 58 | </listitem>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <listitem>
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| 61 | <para>Windows Guest Additions installer: upgraded to NSIS 3</para>
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| 62 | </listitem>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | </itemizedlist>
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| 65 | </sect1>
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| 66 |
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| 67 | <sect1>
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| 68 |
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| 69 | <title>Version 6.0.2 (2019-01-15)</title>
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| 70 |
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| 71 | <para>
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| 72 | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed
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| 73 | and/or added:
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| 74 | </para>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <itemizedlist>
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| 77 |
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| 78 | <listitem>
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| 79 | <para>
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| 80 | User interface: fixed creation of desktop shortcuts for
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| 81 | starting virtual machines (bug #18207)
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| 82 | </para>
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| 83 | </listitem>
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| 84 |
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| 85 | <listitem>
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| 86 | <para>
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| 87 | User interface: allow the first run window to selecting host drives
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| 88 | (bug #18230)
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| 89 | </para>
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| 90 | </listitem>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | <listitem>
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| 93 | <para>
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| 94 | User interface: fixed attaching empty host optical drives (bug #18223)
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| 95 | </para>
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| 96 | </listitem>
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| 97 |
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| 98 | <listitem>
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| 99 | <para>
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| 100 | User interface: implemented a new virtual optical disk creation
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| 101 | window
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| 102 | </para>
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| 103 | </listitem>
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| 104 |
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| 105 | <listitem>
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| 106 | <para>
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| 107 | USB: modified Linux backends to reset USB devices (previously, most
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| 108 | guest attempts to reset USB devices were ignored)
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| 109 | </para>
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| 110 | </listitem>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <listitem>
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| 113 | <para>
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| 114 | PCnet: fixed a regression which caused some PCnet PCI guest
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| 115 | drivers to not detect the emulated hardware (bug #18286)
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| 116 | </para>
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| 117 | </listitem>
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| 118 |
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| 119 | <listitem>
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| 120 | <para>
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| 121 | Linux hosts: fixed conflict between Debian and Oracle build desktop
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| 122 | files (bug #18264)
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| 123 | </para>
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| 124 | </listitem>
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| 125 |
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| 126 | <listitem>
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| 127 | <para>
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| 128 | Linux and MacOS hosts: VirtualBoxVM command not accessible (bug #18257)
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| 129 | </para>
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| 130 | </listitem>
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| 131 |
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| 132 | <listitem>
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| 133 | <para>
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| 134 | Windows guests: multiple monitor fixes with VBoxSVGA graphics
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| 135 | </para>
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| 136 | </listitem>
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| 137 |
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| 138 | <listitem>
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| 139 | <para>
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| 140 | Windows guests: black screen with VBoxSVGA graphics when 3D is
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| 141 | disabled (bug #18205)
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| 142 | </para>
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| 143 | </listitem>
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| 144 |
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| 145 | <listitem>
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| 146 | <para>
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| 147 | Linux guests: fixed building drivers on SLES 12.4 (bug #18213)
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| 148 | </para>
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| 149 | </listitem>
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| 150 |
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| 151 | <listitem>
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| 152 | <para>
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| 153 | Linux guests: fixed building shared folder driver with older
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| 154 | kernels (bug #18238)
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| 155 | </para>
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| 156 | </listitem>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <listitem>
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| 159 | <para>
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| 160 | OS/2 shared folders: fixed write regression introduced in 6.0.0 GA
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| 161 | </para>
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| 162 | </listitem>
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| 163 |
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| 164 | </itemizedlist>
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| 165 |
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| 166 | </sect1>
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| 167 |
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| 168 | <sect1>
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| 169 |
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| 170 | <title>Version 6.0.0 (2018-12-18)</title>
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| 171 |
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| 172 | <para>
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| 173 | This is a major update. The following major new features were
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| 174 | added:
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| 175 | </para>
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| 176 |
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| 177 | <itemizedlist>
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| 178 |
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| 179 | <listitem>
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| 180 | <para>
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| 181 | Implemented support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle
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| 182 | Cloud Infrastructure
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| 183 | </para>
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| 184 | </listitem>
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| 185 |
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| 186 | <listitem>
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| 187 | <para>
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| 188 | User interface: greatly improved HiDPI and scaling support,
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| 189 | including better detection and per-machine configuration
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| 190 | </para>
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| 191 | </listitem>
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| 192 |
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| 193 | <listitem>
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| 194 | <para>
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| 195 | Major rework of user interface with simpler and more powerful
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| 196 | application and virtual machine set-up
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| 197 | </para>
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| 198 | </listitem>
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| 199 |
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| 200 | <listitem>
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| 201 | <para>
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| 202 | User interface: a new file manager enabling user to control
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| 203 | the guest file system and copy files between host and guest.
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| 204 | </para>
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| 205 | </listitem>
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| 206 |
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| 207 | <listitem>
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| 208 | <para>
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| 209 | Graphics: major update of 3D graphics support for Windows
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| 210 | guests, and VMSVGA 3D graphics device emulation on Linux and
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| 211 | Solaris guests
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| 212 | </para>
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| 213 | </listitem>
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| 214 |
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| 215 | <listitem>
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| 216 | <para>
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| 217 | Added support for surround speaker setups (as used by Windows
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| 218 | 10 Build 1809)
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| 219 | </para>
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| 220 | </listitem>
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| 221 |
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| 222 | <listitem>
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| 223 | <para>
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| 224 | Added utility <computeroutput>vboximg-mount</computeroutput>
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| 225 | on Apple hosts to access the content of guest disks on the
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| 226 | host
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| 227 | </para>
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| 228 | </listitem>
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| 229 |
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| 230 | <listitem>
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| 231 | <para>
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| 232 | Added support for using Hyper-V as the fallback execution core
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| 233 | on Windows host, to avoid inability to run VMs at the price of
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| 234 | reduced performance
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| 235 | </para>
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| 236 | </listitem>
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| 237 |
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| 238 | </itemizedlist>
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| 239 |
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| 240 | <para>
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| 241 | In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
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| 242 | </para>
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| 243 |
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| 244 | <itemizedlist>
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| 245 |
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| 246 | <listitem>
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| 247 | <para>
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| 248 | Execution core: fixed single-stepping in certain circumstances
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| 249 | (bug #17316)
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| 250 | </para>
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| 251 | </listitem>
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| 252 |
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| 253 | <listitem>
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| 254 | <para>
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| 255 | User interface: video and audio recording can now be
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| 256 | separately enabled
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| 257 | </para>
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| 258 | </listitem>
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| 259 |
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| 260 | <listitem>
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| 261 | <para>
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| 262 | Audio/Video recording fixes and improvements
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| 263 | </para>
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| 264 | </listitem>
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| 265 |
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| 266 | <listitem>
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| 267 | <para>
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| 268 | Audio: better support for attaching and detaching remote
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| 269 | desktop connections
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| 270 | </para>
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| 271 | </listitem>
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| 272 |
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| 273 | <listitem>
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| 274 | <para>
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| 275 | Serial port emulation fixes
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| 276 | </para>
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| 277 | </listitem>
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| 278 |
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| 279 | <listitem>
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| 280 | <para>
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| 281 | Serial ports: allow changing the serial port attachment while
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| 282 | a machine is running (bug #6115)
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| 283 | </para>
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| 284 | </listitem>
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| 285 |
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| 286 | <listitem>
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| 287 | <para>
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| 288 | Networking: Added a workaround for older guests which do not
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| 289 | enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device
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| 290 | </para>
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| 291 | </listitem>
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| 292 |
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| 293 | <listitem>
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| 294 | <para>
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| 295 | Networking: fixed wrong RCODE from DNS AAAA query with
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| 296 | --natdnshostresolver1 (bug #18171)
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| 297 | </para>
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| 298 | </listitem>
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| 299 |
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| 300 | <listitem>
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| 301 | <para>
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| 302 | iSCSI: In cases where there is no ambiguity, the LUN of an
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| 303 | iSCSI target is automatically determined, for targets with
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| 304 | non-zero LUNs
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| 305 | </para>
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| 306 | </listitem>
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| 307 |
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| 308 | <listitem>
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| 309 | <para>
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| 310 | Transparently resize disk images when merging if possible
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| 311 | </para>
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| 312 | </listitem>
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| 313 |
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| 314 | <listitem>
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| 315 | <para>
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| 316 | VBoxManage: support for DHCP options
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| 317 | </para>
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| 318 | </listitem>
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| 319 |
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| 320 | <listitem>
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| 321 | <para>
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| 322 | Fixed VNC/RDP (bug #18153)
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| 323 | </para>
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| 324 | </listitem>
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| 325 |
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| 326 | <listitem>
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| 327 | <para>
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| 328 | Guest Control: various new interfaces and features (see SDK
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| 329 | documentation)
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| 330 | </para>
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| 331 | </listitem>
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| 332 |
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| 333 | <listitem>
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| 334 | <para>
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| 335 | Linux hosts: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
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| 336 | </para>
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| 337 | </listitem>
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| 338 |
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| 339 | <listitem>
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| 340 | <para>
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| 341 | Solaris: installer fixes
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| 342 | </para>
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| 343 | </listitem>
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| 344 |
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| 345 | <listitem>
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| 346 | <para>
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| 347 | Shared folders: performance improvements
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| 348 | </para>
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| 349 | </listitem>
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| 350 |
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| 351 | <listitem>
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| 352 | <para>
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| 353 | Guest Additions: improved shared folder auto-mounting
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| 354 | </para>
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| 355 | </listitem>
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| 356 |
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| 357 | <listitem>
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| 358 | <para>
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| 359 | Windows Guest Additions: fix incorrect tablet co-ordinate
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| 360 | handling with recent Windows 10 builds
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| 361 | </para>
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| 362 | </listitem>
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| 363 |
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| 364 | <listitem>
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| 365 | <para>
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| 366 | Linux Additions: fix for building vboxvideo on EL 7.6 standard
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| 367 | kernel, contributed by Robert Conde (bug #18093)
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| 368 | </para>
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| 369 | </listitem>
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| 370 |
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| 371 | <listitem>
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| 372 | <para>
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| 373 | Linux guests: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
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| 374 | </para>
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| 375 | </listitem>
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| 376 |
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| 377 | <listitem>
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| 378 | <para>
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| 379 | Linux guests: support VMSVGA in the Linux and X11 Additions
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| 380 | </para>
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| 381 | </listitem>
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| 382 |
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| 383 | <listitem>
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| 384 | <para>
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| 385 | MacOS Guest Additions: initial support
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| 386 | </para>
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| 387 | </listitem>
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| 388 |
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| 389 | <listitem>
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| 390 | <para>
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| 391 | OS/2 Guest Additions: initial shared folder support
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| 392 | </para>
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| 393 | </listitem>
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| 394 |
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| 395 | <listitem>
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| 396 | <para>
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| 397 | BIOS fixes
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| 398 | </para>
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| 399 | </listitem>
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| 400 |
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| 401 | <listitem>
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| 402 | <para>
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| 403 | ACPI: Up to four custom ACPI tables can now be configured for
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| 404 | a VM
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| 405 | </para>
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| 406 | </listitem>
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| 407 |
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| 408 | </itemizedlist>
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| 409 |
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| 410 | </sect1>
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| 411 |
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| 412 | </chapter>
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