Changeset 37824 in vbox for trunk/doc

Timestamp:

Jul 7, 2011 3:29:03 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

72711

Message:

Main/Machine+MediumAttachment+Console: add method for marking a 'hard disk' as non-rotational, which optimizes performance in modern guest OSes
Frontends/VBoxManage+VirtualBox: support the new method
ChangeLog: add quite a few forgotten improvements and fixes

File:

• trunk/doc/manual/user_ChangeLogImpl.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

trunk/doc/manual/user_ChangeLogImpl.xml

@@ -36 +36 @@
       <listitem>
         <para>Guest Additions: modules and features now are represented as facilities
-          to have a common interface for frontends.</para>
-      </listitem>
-
-      <listitem>
-        <para>New Networking Mode: <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>. Allows to
+          to have a common interface for frontends</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
+          offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
+          distributable virtual network implementations</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
         interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
         see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
@@ -87 +93 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
+          dialog</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
         <para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
-          command group, fixed various bugs</para>
+          command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
       </listitem>
 
@@ -102 +113 @@
 
       <listitem>
+        <para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
+          twice in a VM config</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
+          create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
+          cases</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
+          the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
+          improve performance</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
         <para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
-          ejects the medium</para>
+          ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
+          on a temporary basis</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
+          a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
+          exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
         <para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
-          whith VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
+          with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
+          images in VDI format</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
+          VMDK format</para>
       </listitem>
 
@@ -129 +174 @@
       <listitem>
         <para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
+          directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
       </listitem>
 
@@ -152 +202 @@
         <para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
           builds</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Webservice: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
+          be more robust when connections fail</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
+          simultaneously</para>
       </listitem>
 
@@ -175 +235 @@
         <para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
           from the host</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
+          which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
+          location values in many places</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
       </listitem>