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r82516 r82524 36 36 37 37 <sect1> 38 <title>Version 6.1.x (2019-xx-xx)</title> 38 <title>Version 6.1.0 (2019-xx-xx)</title> 39 40 <para> 41 This is a major update. The following major new features were 42 added: 43 </para> 44 45 <itemizedlist> 46 47 <listitem> 48 <para> 49 Implemented support for importing a virtual machine from Oracle 50 Cloud Infrastructure 51 </para> 52 </listitem> 53 54 <listitem> 55 <para> 56 Extended support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle 57 Cloud Infrastructure, allowing the creation of multiple 58 virtual machines without re-uploading. Also added option to 59 export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant 60 "paravirtialized", and to specify free-form tags for cloud 61 images 62 </para> 63 </listitem> 64 65 <listitem> 66 <para> 67 Virtualization core: Support for nested hardware-virtualization 68 on Intel CPUs (starting with 5th generation Core i, codename 69 Broadwell), so far tested only with guest running VirtualBox 70 </para> 71 </listitem> 72 73 <listitem> 74 <para> 75 Graphics: New style 3D support (with VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA) remains, 76 old style 3D support (with VBoxVGA) has been completely removed 77 </para> 78 </listitem> 79 80 <listitem> 81 <para> 82 Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers 83 (Windows hosts/guests only at the moment). Needs to be enabled via 84 VBoxManage (disabled by default). 85 </para> 86 </listitem> 87 88 </itemizedlist> 39 89 40 90 <para> … … 46 96 <listitem> 47 97 <para> 48 Storage: Experimental support for virtio-scsi, for both hard disks and 49 optical drives (including boot support in BIOS) 50 </para> 51 </listitem> 52 53 <listitem> 54 <para> 55 Storage: For optical drive emulation fix empty host drive case 56 </para> 57 </listitem> 58 59 <listitem> 60 <para> 61 ACPI: Report NVMe controller 62 </para> 63 </listitem> 64 65 <listitem> 66 <para> 67 VGA: Improve hardware and BIOS compatibility 68 </para> 69 </listitem> 70 71 <listitem> 72 <para> 73 VMSVGA 3D: Fixed OpenGL compressed textures 98 Virtualization core: Drop recompiler, i.e. running VMs now needs 99 a CPU supporting hardware virtualization 100 </para> 101 </listitem> 102 103 <listitem> 104 <para> 105 Runtime: Works now on hosts with many CPUs (limit now 1024) 74 106 </para> 75 107 </listitem> … … 85 117 <listitem> 86 118 <para> 87 Linux host: Improve vboxweb systemd service dependency information 88 </para> 89 </listitem> 90 91 <listitem> 92 <para> 93 Linux host: Drop PCI passthrough, the current code is too incomplete 94 (cannot handle PCIe devices at all), i.e. not useful enough 95 </para> 96 </listitem> 97 98 <listitem> 99 <para> 100 Windows host: When possible, distinguish devices by port number; helps 101 when multiple otherwise identical devices are connected 102 </para> 103 </listitem> 104 105 <listitem> 106 <para> 107 EFI: Added support for booting from APFS 108 </para> 109 </listitem> 110 111 <listitem> 112 <para> 113 EFI: Added support for non-standard SATA and NVMe boot device paths 114 created by OS X 115 </para> 116 </listitem> 117 118 <listitem> 119 <para> 120 EFI: Modified updated EFI code base to support older OS X guests again 121 </para> 122 </listitem> 123 124 <listitem> 125 <para> 126 Windows guest: DXVA implementation for WDDM driver 127 </para> 128 </listitem> 129 130 </itemizedlist> 131 </sect1> 132 133 <sect1> 134 <title>Version 6.1.0_RC1 (2019-11-22)</title> 135 136 <para> 137 In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: 138 </para> 139 140 <itemizedlist> 119 GUI: Improved the VISO creation and file manager dialogs 120 </para> 121 </listitem> 122 123 <listitem> 124 <para> 125 GUI: Virtual machine list of VirtualBox Manager was improved. Machine 126 groups are now more obvious visually and VM search functionality 127 has been improved. Global Tools element can now be pinned in place, 128 to avoid scrolling it with rest of machine list 129 </para> 130 </listitem> 131 132 <listitem> 133 <para> 134 GUI: Virtual machine details pane is now extended with embedded editors 135 for selected VM attributes, allowing user to edit them on-the-fly byi 136 clicking corresponding hyper-links without opening VM settings dialog 137 </para> 138 </listitem> 139 140 <listitem> 141 <para> 142 GUI: Details pane provides more complete information 143 </para> 144 </listitem> 145 146 <listitem> 147 <para> 148 GUI: Internal medium enumeration routines were optimized to reduce the load 149 and optimize the performance in cases when user have lots 150 of media registered. Also, we again allowed to add existing media (and create new) 151 via Virtual Media Manager 152 </para> 153 </listitem> 154 155 <listitem> 156 <para> 157 GUI: More consistent medium selection (both showing known images 158 and allowing to select using the file picker) 159 </para> 160 </listitem> 161 162 <listitem> 163 <para> 164 GUI: VM storage settings page was adjusted a bit in usability regard. User is now 165 allowed to change controller bus type and can move attachments between the controllers 166 by using drag and drop 167 </para> 168 </listitem> 169 170 <listitem> 171 <para> 172 GUI: Storage and Network settings pages bug-fixes and usability optimization 173 </para> 174 </listitem> 175 176 <listitem> 177 <para> 178 GUI: Added a new soft (virtual) keyboard enabling arbitrary keyboard input to guests, 179 including multimedia keys 180 </para> 181 </listitem> 182 183 <listitem> 184 <para> 185 GUI: Fixed crash in cloud related wizards when accessibility 186 functionality was enabled 187 </para> 188 </listitem> 189 190 <listitem> 191 <para> 192 GUI: Show VM CPU load as part of status bar CPU indicator 193 </para> 194 </listitem> 195 196 <listitem> 197 <para> 198 GUI: Improved and extended the Session Information dialog 199 </para> 200 </listitem> 201 202 <listitem> 203 <para> 204 GUI: Fixed/improved mouse pointer scaling 205 </para> 206 </listitem> 141 207 142 208 <listitem> … … 149 215 <listitem> 150 216 <para> 151 GUI: Few usability related fixes for export appliance wizard 152 </para> 153 </listitem> 154 155 <listitem> 156 <para> 157 GUI: Fixed/improved mouse pointer scaling 158 </para> 159 </listitem> 160 161 <listitem> 162 <para> 163 GUI: Fixed crash in cloud related wizards when accessibility 164 functionality was enabled 165 </para> 166 </listitem> 167 168 <listitem> 169 <para> 170 GUI: Soft keyboard visual improvements, and fix crash for first use 217 GUI: Fix and unify geometry save/restore in various dialogs 171 218 </para> 172 219 </listitem> … … 181 228 <listitem> 182 229 <para> 183 GUI: More consistent medium selection (both showing known images 184 and allowing to select using the file picker) 185 </para> 186 </listitem> 187 188 <listitem> 189 <para> 190 Documentation: Updated supported host operating systems, added few 191 new manual pages (more to come later) 192 </para> 193 </listitem> 194 195 <listitem> 196 <para> 197 Virtualization core: Improvements for nested hardware-virtualization 198 on Intel CPUs 230 GUI: Popup messages mouse click fix 231 </para> 232 </listitem> 233 234 <listitem> 235 <para> 236 Graphics: Remove 3D support for VBoxVGA (old one deprecated with 6.0) 237 </para> 238 </listitem> 239 240 <listitem> 241 <para> 242 Graphics: Additional texture format support on Windows host 243 </para> 244 </listitem> 245 246 <listitem> 247 <para> 248 Graphics: Improved fix for flickering on Windows host 249 </para> 250 </listitem> 251 252 <listitem> 253 <para>Input: Added support for horizontal scrolling in the PS/2 mouse 254 device using the IntelliMouse Explorer protocol. Note that this support 255 is automatically used by Linux guests but not by Windows guests 256 </para> 257 </listitem> 258 259 <listitem> 260 <para>vboximg-mount: Experimental support for direct read-only access 261 to NTFS, FAT and ext2/3/4 filesystems inside a disk image without 262 the need for support on the host 263 </para> 264 </listitem> 265 266 <listitem> 267 <para>vboximg-mount: Now also available on Linux host 268 </para> 269 </listitem> 270 271 <listitem> 272 <para> 273 Storage: Experimental support for virtio-scsi, for both hard disks and 274 optical drives (including boot support in BIOS) 275 </para> 276 </listitem> 277 278 <listitem> 279 <para> 280 Storage: For optical drive emulation fix empty host drive crash 281 </para> 282 </listitem> 283 284 <listitem> 285 <para> 286 USB: Improvements for EHCI controller implementation 287 </para> 288 </listitem> 289 290 <listitem> 291 <para> 292 USB: Filter can now specify port path, uniquely identifying a port 293 in a system 294 </para> 295 </listitem> 296 297 <listitem> 298 <para> 299 NAT: Fix TFTP OACK response, send only if request has options 300 </para> 301 </listitem> 302 303 <listitem> 304 <para> 305 NAT Network: Use non-blocking sockets on Linux for accepted 306 incoming connections (port forwarding) 307 </para> 308 </listitem> 309 310 <listitem> 311 <para> 312 PCnet-ISA: Added new network adapter type, currently CLI only 313 </para> 314 </listitem> 315 316 <listitem> 317 <para> 318 Audio: Allow changing the host audio backend while the VM is 319 in saved state 320 </para> 321 </listitem> 322 323 <listitem> 324 <para> 325 ACPI: Report NVMe controller 326 </para> 327 </listitem> 328 329 <listitem> 330 <para> 331 VGA: Improve hardware and BIOS compatibility 199 332 </para> 200 333 </listitem> … … 217 350 <listitem> 218 351 <para> 219 USB: Improvements for EHCI controller implementation 220 </para> 221 </listitem> 222 223 <listitem> 224 <para> 225 USB: Filter can now specify port path, uniquely identifying a port 226 in a system 227 </para> 228 </listitem> 229 230 <listitem> 231 <para> 232 NAT Network: Use non-blocking sockets on Linux for accepted 233 incoming connections (port forwarding) 234 </para> 235 </listitem> 236 237 <listitem> 238 <para> 239 PCnet-ISA: Added new network adapter type, currently CLI only 352 VMSVGA 3D: Fixed OpenGL compressed textures 353 </para> 354 </listitem> 355 356 <listitem> 357 <para> 358 VBoxManage: More cloud functionality coverage, e.g. starting 359 a cloud instance 360 </para> 361 </listitem> 362 363 <listitem> 364 <para> 365 VBoxManage: As part of the guest control feature support moving 366 multiple source files/directories to a target directory 367 </para> 368 </listitem> 369 370 <listitem> 371 <para>Guest Control/VBoxManage: Added support for specifying multiple sources 372 when renaming guest files 373 </para> 374 </listitem> 375 376 <listitem> 377 <para>VBoxManage: Show "unrestricted guest" and "nested HW 378 virtualization" CPU features when listing the host information</para> 379 </listitem> 380 381 <listitem> 382 <para> 383 API: Reduce the amount of leftovers from Move VM function 384 </para> 385 </listitem> 386 387 <listitem> 388 <para> 389 Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers 390 for Linux hosts on Windows guests (disabled by default) 240 391 </para> 241 392 </listitem> … … 255 406 256 407 <listitem> 257 <para>VBoxManage: Show "unrestricted guest" and "nested HW 258 virtualization" CPU features when listing the host information</para> 259 </listitem> 260 261 <listitem> 262 <para> 263 Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers 264 for Linux hosts on Windows guests (disabled by default) 408 <para> 409 macOS host: Fix VM crashes (most visible on macOS Catalina) 410 </para> 411 </listitem> 412 413 <listitem> 414 <para> 415 Linux host: Improve vboxweb systemd service dependency information 416 </para> 417 </listitem> 418 419 <listitem> 420 <para> 421 Linux host: Drop PCI passthrough, the current code is too incomplete 422 (cannot handle PCIe devices at all), i.e. not useful enough 265 423 </para> 266 424 </listitem> … … 277 435 <listitem> 278 436 <para> 437 Windows host: When possible, distinguish USB devices by port number; helps 438 with accurate capturing of devices when multiple otherwise identical devices 439 are connected 440 </para> 441 </listitem> 442 443 <listitem> 444 <para> 279 445 Windows Guest Additions: Many fixes for drawing problems in the 280 446 driver for VBoxSVGA … … 295 461 </listitem> 296 462 297 </itemizedlist> 298 </sect1> 299 300 <sect1> 301 <title>Version 6.1.0_BETA2 (2019-10-23)</title> 302 303 <para> 304 In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: 305 </para> 306 307 <itemizedlist> 308 309 <listitem> 310 <para> 311 Virtualization core: Improvements for nested hardware-virtualization 312 on Intel CPUs, Windows works now on outer VM (needs beta VirtualBox) 313 </para> 314 </listitem> 315 316 <listitem> 317 <para> 318 Virtualization core: Drop recompiler, i.e. running VMs now needs 319 a CPU supporting hardware virtualization 320 </para> 321 </listitem> 322 323 <listitem> 324 <para> 325 Runtime: Works now on hosts with many CPUs (limit now 1024) 326 </para> 327 </listitem> 328 329 <listitem> 330 <para> 331 GUI: Storage and Network settings pages bug-fixes and usability optimization 332 </para> 333 </listitem> 334 335 <listitem> 336 <para> 337 GUI: Show VM CPU load as part of status bar CPU indicator 338 </para> 339 </listitem> 340 341 <listitem> 342 <para> 343 GUI: Media enumeration fixes 344 </para> 345 </listitem> 346 347 <listitem> 348 <para> 349 GUI: Popup messages mouse click fix 350 </para> 351 </listitem> 352 353 <listitem> 354 <para> 355 GUI: Details pane fixes 356 </para> 357 </listitem> 358 359 <listitem> 360 <para> 361 GUI: Added multimedia keys to soft keyboard and other improvements 362 </para> 363 </listitem> 364 365 <listitem> 366 <para> 367 GUI: Fix and unify geometry save/restore in various dialogs 368 </para> 369 </listitem> 370 371 <listitem> 372 <para> 373 Cloud: More flexibility in VM export and import to Oracle Cloud 374 Infrastructure, add free-form tags to cloud images 375 </para> 376 </listitem> 377 378 <listitem> 379 <para> 380 Graphics: Remove 3D support for VBoxVGA (old one deprecated with 6.0) 381 </para> 382 </listitem> 383 384 <listitem> 385 <para> 386 Graphics: Additional texture format supportd on Windows host 387 </para> 388 </listitem> 389 390 <listitem> 391 <para> 392 Graphics: Improved fix for flickering on Windows host 393 </para> 394 </listitem> 395 396 <listitem> 397 <para> 398 NAT: Fix TFTP OACK response, send only if request has options 399 </para> 400 </listitem> 401 402 <listitem> 403 <para> 404 API: Reduce the amount of leftovers from Move VM function 405 </para> 406 </listitem> 407 408 <listitem> 409 <para> 410 Audio: Allow changing the host audio backend while the VM is 411 in saved state 412 </para> 413 </listitem> 414 415 <listitem> 416 <para>vboximg-mount: Now also available on Linux host 417 </para> 418 </listitem> 419 420 <listitem> 421 <para> 422 VBoxManage: More cloud functionality coverage, e.g. starting 423 a cloud instance 424 </para> 425 </listitem> 426 427 <listitem> 428 <para> 429 VBoxManage: As part of the guest control feature support moving 430 multiple source files/directories to a target directory 431 </para> 432 </listitem> 433 434 <listitem> 435 <para> 436 macOS host: Fix VM crashes (most visible on macOS Catalina) 437 </para> 438 </listitem> 439 440 <listitem> 441 <para> 442 Windows host: Improve USB device capturing accuracy 463 <listitem> 464 <para> 465 Windows guest: DXVA implementation for WDDM driver 466 </para> 467 </listitem> 468 469 <listitem> 470 <para> 471 Documentation: Updated supported host operating systems, added few 472 new manual pages (more to come later) 443 473 </para> 444 474 </listitem> … … 451 481 </listitem> 452 482 483 <listitem> 484 <para> 485 EFI: Added support for booting from APFS 486 </para> 487 </listitem> 488 489 <listitem> 490 <para> 491 EFI: Added support for non-standard SATA and NVMe boot device paths 492 created by OS X 493 </para> 494 </listitem> 495 496 <listitem> 497 <para> 498 EFI: Modified updated EFI code base to support older OS X guests again 499 </para> 500 </listitem> 501 453 502 </itemizedlist> 454 503 455 504 </sect1> 456 505 457 <sect1>458 <title>Version 6.1.0_BETA1 (2019-09-12)</title>459 460 <para>461 This is a major update. The following major new features were462 added:463 </para>464 465 <itemizedlist>466 467 <listitem>468 <para>469 Implemented support for importing a virtual machine from Oracle470 Cloud Infrastructure471 </para>472 </listitem>473 474 <listitem>475 <para>476 Extended support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle477 Cloud Infrastructure, allowing the creation of multiple478 virtual machines without re-uploading. Also added option to479 export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant480 "paravirtialized"481 </para>482 </listitem>483 484 <listitem>485 <para>486 Virtualization core: Support for nested hardware-virtualization487 on Intel CPUs (starting with 5th generation Core i, codename488 Broadwell)489 </para>490 </listitem>491 492 <listitem>493 <para>494 Graphics: New style 3D support (with VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA) remains,495 old style 3D support (with VBoxVGA) has been completely removed496 </para>497 </listitem>498 499 <listitem>500 <para>501 Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers502 (Windows hosts/guests only at the moment). Needs to be enabled via503 VBoxManage (disabled by default).504 </para>505 </listitem>506 507 </itemizedlist>508 509 <para>510 In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:511 </para>512 513 <itemizedlist>514 515 <listitem>516 <para>517 GUI: Improved the VISO creation and file manager dialogs518 </para>519 </listitem>520 521 <listitem>522 <para>523 GUI: Virtual machine list of VirtualBox Manager was improved. Machine524 groups are now more obvious visually and VM search functionality525 has been improved. Global Tools element can now be pinned in place,526 to avoid scrolling it with rest of machine list527 </para>528 </listitem>529 530 <listitem>531 <para>532 GUI: Virtual machine details pane is now extended with embedded editors533 for certain VM attributes which we decided as the most534 important, allowing user to edit them on-the-fly by clicking corresponding535 hyper-links without opening VM settings dialog536 </para>537 </listitem>538 539 <listitem>540 <para>541 GUI: Internal medium enumeration routines were optimized to reduce the load542 and optimize the performance in cases when user have lots543 of media registered. Also, we again allowed to add existing media (and create new)544 via Virtual Media Manager545 </para>546 </listitem>547 548 <listitem>549 <para>550 GUI: VM storage settings page was adjusted a bit in usability regard. User is now551 allowed to change controller bus type and can move attachments between the controllers552 by using drag and drop553 </para>554 </listitem>555 556 <listitem>557 <para>558 GUI: Added a new soft (virtual) keyboard enabling keyboard inputs to guests559 </para>560 </listitem>561 562 <listitem>563 <para>564 GUI: Improved and extended the Session Information dialog565 </para>566 </listitem>567 568 <listitem>569 <para>Input: Added support for horizontal scrolling in the PS/2 mouse570 device using the IntelliMouse Explorer protocol. Note that this support571 is automatically used by Linux guests but not by Windows guests572 </para>573 </listitem>574 575 <listitem>576 <para>vboximg-mount: Experimental support for direct read-only access577 to NTFS, FAT and ext2/3/4 filesystems inside a disk image without578 the need for support on the host579 </para>580 </listitem>581 582 <listitem>583 <para>Guest Control/VBoxManage: Added support for specifying multiple sources584 when renaming guest files585 </para>586 </listitem>587 588 </itemizedlist>589 590 </sect1>591 592 506 </chapter>
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