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| 2 | <!-- Release change log structure
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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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| 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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| 37 | <sect1>
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| 38 | <title>Version 6.1.0 (2019-12-10)</title>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <para>
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| 41 | This is a major update. The following major new features were
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| 42 | added:
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| 43 | </para>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <itemizedlist>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <listitem>
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| 48 | <para>
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| 49 | Implemented support for importing a virtual machine from Oracle
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| 50 | Cloud Infrastructure
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| 51 | </para>
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| 52 | </listitem>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | <listitem>
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| 55 | <para>
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| 56 | Extended support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle
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| 57 | Cloud Infrastructure, allowing the creation of multiple
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| 58 | virtual machines without re-uploading. Also added option to
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| 59 | export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant
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| 60 | "paravirtialized", and to specify free-form tags for cloud
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| 61 | images
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| 62 | </para>
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| 63 | </listitem>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <listitem>
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| 66 | <para>
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| 67 | Virtualization core: Support for nested hardware-virtualization
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| 68 | on Intel CPUs (starting with 5th generation Core i, codename
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| 69 | Broadwell), so far tested only with guest running VirtualBox
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| 70 | </para>
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| 71 | </listitem>
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| 72 |
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| 73 | <listitem>
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| 74 | <para>
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| 75 | Graphics: New style 3D support (with VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA) remains,
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| 76 | old style 3D support (with VBoxVGA) has been completely removed
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| 77 | </para>
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| 78 | </listitem>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <listitem>
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| 81 | <para>
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| 82 | Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers
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| 83 | (Windows hosts/guests only at the moment). Needs to be enabled via
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| 84 | VBoxManage (disabled by default).
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| 85 | </para>
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| 86 | </listitem>
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| 87 |
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| 88 | </itemizedlist>
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| 89 |
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| 90 | <para>
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| 91 | In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
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| 92 | </para>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <itemizedlist>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <listitem>
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| 97 | <para>
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| 98 | Virtualization core: Drop recompiler, i.e. running VMs now needs
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| 99 | a CPU supporting hardware virtualization
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| 100 | </para>
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| 101 | </listitem>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <listitem>
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| 104 | <para>
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| 105 | Runtime: Works now on hosts with many CPUs (limit now 1024)
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| 106 | </para>
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| 107 | </listitem>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | <listitem>
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| 110 | <para>
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| 111 | Appliance and Cloud Import: Add field for defining firmware type (not
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| 112 | part of OVF spec and thus manual in the Appliance case, for OCI it is
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| 113 | automatically taken from the instance information)
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| 114 | </para>
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| 115 | </listitem>
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| 116 |
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| 117 | <listitem>
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| 118 | <para>
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| 119 | GUI: Improved the VISO creation and file manager dialogs
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| 120 | </para>
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| 121 | </listitem>
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| 122 |
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| 123 | <listitem>
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| 124 | <para>
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| 125 | GUI: Virtual machine list of VirtualBox Manager was improved. Machine
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| 126 | groups are now more obvious visually and VM search functionality
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| 127 | has been improved. Global Tools element can now be pinned in place,
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| 128 | to avoid scrolling it with rest of machine list
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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 | GUI: Virtual machine details pane is now extended with embedded editors
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| 135 | for selected VM attributes, allowing user to edit them on-the-fly byi
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| 136 | clicking corresponding hyper-links without opening VM settings dialog
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| 137 | </para>
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| 138 | </listitem>
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| 139 |
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| 140 | <listitem>
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| 141 | <para>
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| 142 | GUI: Details pane provides more complete information
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| 143 | </para>
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| 144 | </listitem>
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| 145 |
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| 146 | <listitem>
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| 147 | <para>
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| 148 | GUI: Internal medium enumeration routines were optimized to reduce the load
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| 149 | and optimize the performance in cases when user have lots
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| 150 | of media registered. Also, we again allowed to add existing media (and create new)
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| 151 | via Virtual Media Manager
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| 152 | </para>
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| 153 | </listitem>
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| 154 |
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| 155 | <listitem>
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| 156 | <para>
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| 157 | GUI: More consistent medium selection (both showing known images
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| 158 | and allowing to select using the file picker)
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| 159 | </para>
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| 160 | </listitem>
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| 161 |
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| 162 | <listitem>
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| 163 | <para>
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| 164 | GUI: VM storage settings page was adjusted a bit in usability regard. User is now
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| 165 | allowed to change controller bus type and can move attachments between the controllers
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| 166 | by using drag and drop
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| 167 | </para>
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| 168 | </listitem>
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| 169 |
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| 170 | <listitem>
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| 171 | <para>
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| 172 | GUI: Storage and Network settings pages bug-fixes and usability optimization
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| 173 | </para>
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| 174 | </listitem>
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| 175 |
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| 176 | <listitem>
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| 177 | <para>
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| 178 | GUI: Added a new soft (virtual) keyboard enabling arbitrary keyboard input to guests,
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| 179 | including multimedia keys
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| 180 | </para>
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| 181 | </listitem>
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| 182 |
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| 183 | <listitem>
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| 184 | <para>
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| 185 | GUI: Fixed crash in cloud related wizards when accessibility
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| 186 | functionality was enabled
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| 187 | </para>
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| 188 | </listitem>
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| 189 |
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| 190 | <listitem>
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| 191 | <para>
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| 192 | GUI: Show VM CPU load as part of status bar CPU indicator
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| 193 | </para>
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| 194 | </listitem>
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| 195 |
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| 196 | <listitem>
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| 197 | <para>
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| 198 | GUI: Improved and extended the Session Information dialog
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| 199 | </para>
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| 200 | </listitem>
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| 201 |
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| 202 | <listitem>
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| 203 | <para>
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| 204 | GUI: Fixed/improved mouse pointer scaling
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| 205 | </para>
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| 206 | </listitem>
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| 207 |
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| 208 | <listitem>
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| 209 | <para>
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| 210 | GUI: Some issues related to mouse integration cursor scaling were
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| 211 | addressed (bug #14366), more to go
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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 | GUI: Fix and unify geometry save/restore in various dialogs
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| 218 | </para>
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| 219 | </listitem>
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| 220 |
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| 221 | <listitem>
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| 222 | <para>
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| 223 | GUI: Added the missing restriction options for disabling new
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| 224 | functionality such as the VISO creator
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| 225 | </para>
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| 226 | </listitem>
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| 227 |
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| 228 | <listitem>
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| 229 | <para>
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| 230 | GUI: Popup messages mouse click fix
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| 231 | </para>
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| 232 | </listitem>
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| 233 |
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| 234 | <listitem>
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| 235 | <para>
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| 236 | Graphics: Remove 3D support for VBoxVGA (old one deprecated with 6.0)
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| 237 | </para>
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| 238 | </listitem>
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| 239 |
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| 240 | <listitem>
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| 241 | <para>
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| 242 | Graphics: Additional texture format support on Windows host
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| 243 | </para>
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| 244 | </listitem>
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| 245 |
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| 246 | <listitem>
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| 247 | <para>
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| 248 | Graphics: Improved fix for flickering on Windows host
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| 249 | </para>
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| 250 | </listitem>
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| 251 |
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| 252 | <listitem>
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| 253 | <para>Input: Added support for horizontal scrolling in the PS/2 mouse
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| 254 | device using the IntelliMouse Explorer protocol. Note that this support
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| 255 | is automatically used by Linux guests but not by Windows guests
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| 256 | </para>
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| 257 | </listitem>
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| 258 |
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| 259 | <listitem>
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| 260 | <para>vboximg-mount: Experimental support for direct read-only access
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| 261 | to NTFS, FAT and ext2/3/4 filesystems inside a disk image without
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| 262 | the need for support on the host
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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>vboximg-mount: Now also available on Linux host
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| 268 | </para>
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| 269 | </listitem>
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| 270 |
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| 271 | <listitem>
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| 272 | <para>
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| 273 | Storage: Experimental support for virtio-scsi, for both hard disks and
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| 274 | optical drives (including boot support in BIOS)
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| 275 | </para>
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| 276 | </listitem>
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| 277 |
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| 278 | <listitem>
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| 279 | <para>
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| 280 | Storage: For optical drive emulation fix empty host drive crash
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| 281 | </para>
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| 282 | </listitem>
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| 283 |
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| 284 | <listitem>
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| 285 | <para>
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| 286 | USB: Improvements for EHCI controller implementation
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| 287 | </para>
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| 288 | </listitem>
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| 289 |
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| 290 | <listitem>
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| 291 | <para>
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| 292 | USB: Filter can now specify port path, uniquely identifying a port
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| 293 | in a system
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| 294 | </para>
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| 295 | </listitem>
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| 296 |
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| 297 | <listitem>
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| 298 | <para>
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| 299 | NAT: Fix TFTP OACK response, send only if request has options
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| 300 | </para>
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| 301 | </listitem>
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| 302 |
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| 303 | <listitem>
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| 304 | <para>
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| 305 | NAT Network: Use non-blocking sockets on Linux for accepted
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| 306 | incoming connections (port forwarding)
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| 307 | </para>
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| 308 | </listitem>
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| 309 |
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| 310 | <listitem>
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| 311 | <para>
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| 312 | PCnet-ISA: Added new network adapter type, currently CLI only
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| 313 | </para>
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| 314 | </listitem>
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| 315 |
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| 316 | <listitem>
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| 317 | <para>
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| 318 | Audio: Allow changing the host audio backend while the VM is
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| 319 | in saved state
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| 320 | </para>
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| 321 | </listitem>
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| 322 |
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| 323 | <listitem>
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| 324 | <para>
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| 325 | ACPI: Report NVMe controller
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| 326 | </para>
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| 327 | </listitem>
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| 328 |
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| 329 | <listitem>
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| 330 | <para>
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| 331 | VGA: Improve hardware and BIOS compatibility
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| 332 | </para>
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| 333 | </listitem>
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| 334 |
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| 335 | <listitem>
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| 336 | <para>
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| 337 | VBoxSVGA/VMSVGA: Support YUV2 and related texture formats with hosts
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| 338 | using OpenGL (macOS and Linux), which accelerates video playback
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| 339 | when 3D is enabled by delegating the color space conversion to the
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| 340 | host GPU
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| 341 | </para>
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| 342 | </listitem>
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| 343 |
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| 344 | <listitem>
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| 345 | <para>
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| 346 | VBoxSVGA/VMSVGA: Several drawing fixes for the 3D case
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| 347 | </para>
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| 348 | </listitem>
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| 349 |
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| 350 | <listitem>
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| 351 | <para>
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| 352 | VMSVGA 3D: Fixed OpenGL compressed textures
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| 353 | </para>
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| 354 | </listitem>
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| 355 |
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| 356 | <listitem>
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| 357 | <para>
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| 358 | VBoxManage: More cloud functionality coverage, e.g. starting
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| 359 | a cloud instance
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| 360 | </para>
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| 361 | </listitem>
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| 362 |
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| 363 | <listitem>
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| 364 | <para>
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| 365 | VBoxManage: As part of the guest control feature support moving
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| 366 | multiple source files/directories to a target directory
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| 367 | </para>
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| 368 | </listitem>
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| 369 |
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| 370 | <listitem>
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| 371 | <para>Guest Control/VBoxManage: Added support for specifying multiple sources
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| 372 | when renaming guest files
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| 373 | </para>
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| 374 | </listitem>
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| 375 |
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| 376 | <listitem>
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| 377 | <para>VBoxManage: Show "unrestricted guest" and "nested HW
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| 378 | virtualization" CPU features when listing the host information</para>
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| 379 | </listitem>
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| 380 |
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| 381 | <listitem>
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| 382 | <para>
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| 383 | API: Reduce the amount of leftovers from Move VM function
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| 384 | </para>
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| 385 | </listitem>
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| 386 |
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| 387 | <listitem>
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| 388 | <para>
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| 389 | Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers
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| 390 | for Linux hosts on Windows guests (disabled by default)
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| 391 | </para>
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| 392 | </listitem>
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| 393 |
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| 394 | <listitem>
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| 395 | <para>
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| 396 | SMBIOS: Store system UUID in little endian format which is the
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| 397 | default for new VMs, while existing VMs stick to the old VirtualBox
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| 398 | behavior of storing them in big endian format for backwards
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| 399 | compatibility to avoid breaking the activation status of Windows VMs
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| 400 | </para>
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| 401 | </listitem>
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| 402 |
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| 403 | <listitem>
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| 404 | <para>VBoxSDL frontend: Fixed running on Windows hosts</para>
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| 405 | </listitem>
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| 406 |
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| 407 | <listitem>
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| 408 | <para>
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| 409 | macOS host: Fix VM crashes (most visible on macOS Catalina)
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| 410 | </para>
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| 411 | </listitem>
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| 412 |
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| 413 | <listitem>
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| 414 | <para>
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| 415 | Linux host: Improve vboxweb systemd service dependency information
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| 416 | </para>
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| 417 | </listitem>
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| 418 |
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| 419 | <listitem>
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| 420 | <para>
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| 421 | Linux host: Drop PCI passthrough, the current code is too incomplete
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| 422 | (cannot handle PCIe devices at all), i.e. not useful enough
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| 423 | </para>
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| 424 | </listitem>
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| 425 |
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| 426 | <listitem>
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| 427 | <para>Linux host and guest: Support Linux 5.4 (bug #18945)</para>
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| 428 | </listitem>
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| 429 |
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| 430 | <listitem>
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| 431 | <para>Linux host and guest: Force disabling of kernel module signing
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| 432 | during build (user can do it afterwards)</para>
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| 433 | </listitem>
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| 434 |
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| 435 | <listitem>
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| 436 | <para>
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| 437 | Windows host: When possible, distinguish USB devices by port number; helps
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| 438 | with accurate capturing of devices when multiple otherwise identical devices
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| 439 | are connected
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| 440 | </para>
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| 441 | </listitem>
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| 442 |
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| 443 | <listitem>
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| 444 | <para>
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| 445 | Windows Guest Additions: Many fixes for drawing problems in the
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| 446 | driver for VBoxSVGA
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| 447 | </para>
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| 448 | </listitem>
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| 449 |
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| 450 | <listitem>
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| 451 | <para>
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| 452 | Windows Guest Additions: Fixes for legacy VBoxVGA adapter, restore
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| 453 | previously working cases
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| 454 | </para>
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| 455 | </listitem>
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| 456 |
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| 457 | <listitem>
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| 458 | <para>
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| 459 | Windows Guest Additions: Restore VHWA functionality for VBoxSVGA
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| 460 | </para>
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| 461 | </listitem>
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| 462 |
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| 463 | <listitem>
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| 464 | <para>
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| 465 | Windows guest: DXVA implementation for WDDM driver
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| 466 | </para>
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| 467 | </listitem>
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| 468 |
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| 469 | <listitem>
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| 470 | <para>
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| 471 | Documentation: Updated supported host operating systems, added few
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| 472 | new manual pages (more to come later)
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| 473 | </para>
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| 474 | </listitem>
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| 475 |
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| 476 | <listitem>
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| 477 | <para>
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| 478 | EFI: Switch to newer firmware code base and add NVRAM support,
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| 479 | should improve compatibility with OSes significantly
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| 480 | </para>
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| 481 | </listitem>
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| 482 |
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| 483 | <listitem>
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| 484 | <para>
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| 485 | EFI: Added support for booting from APFS
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| 486 | </para>
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| 487 | </listitem>
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| 488 |
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| 489 | <listitem>
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| 490 | <para>
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| 491 | EFI: Added support for non-standard SATA and NVMe boot device paths
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| 492 | created by OS X
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| 493 | </para>
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| 494 | </listitem>
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| 495 |
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| 496 | <listitem>
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| 497 | <para>
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| 498 | EFI: Modified updated EFI code base to support older OS X guests again
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| 499 | </para>
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| 500 | </listitem>
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| 501 |
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| 502 | </itemizedlist>
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| 503 |
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| 504 | </sect1>
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| 505 |
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| 506 | </chapter>
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