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Changelog

VirtualBox 1.5.4 (released 2007-12-29)

USB 2.0 support
PulseAudio backend
GUI: ﬁxed accelerators in German translation
GUI: ﬁxed registration dialog crashes
GUI: allow to enter unicode characters to the name of the registration dialog
GUI: pre-select attached media in the disk manager when opened from the VM settings dialog
GUI: remember the last active VM
GUI: don’t accept empty paths for serial/parallel ports in XML
GUI: ﬁxed NumLock / CapsLock synchronizazion on Windows hosts
GUI: don’t start the kernel timer if no VM is active (Linux host)
VMM: improved compatibility with FreeBSD guests
VMM: properly restore CR4 after leaving VT-x mode
VMM: patch code and disassembler updates
VMM: with VT-x a pending interrupt could be cleared behind our back
VMM: workaround for missed cpuid patch (some Linux guests refuse to boot on multi-core CPUs)
VMM: ﬁxed code for overriding CPUID values
API: don’t crash when trying to create a VM with a duplicate name
API: don’t crash when trying to access the settings of a VM when some other VMs are not accessible
API: ﬁxed several memory leaks
ATA/IDE: ﬁxed SuSE 9.1 CD read installer regression
Floppy: ﬁxed inverted write protect ﬂag
USB: virtualize an EHCI controller
USB: several minor ﬁxes
Network: ﬁxed MAC address check
Network: host interface ﬁxes for Solaris guests
Network: guest networking stopped completely after taking a snapshot
Network: don’t crash if a network card is enabled but not attached
PXE: ﬁx for PXE-EC8 error on soft reboot
NAT: update the DNS server IP address on every DNS packet sent by the guest
VGA: reset VRAM access handers after a fullscreen update
VGA: don’t overwrite guest’s VRAM when displaying a blank screen
ACPI: implemented the sleep button event
VRDP: ﬁxed crash when querying VRDP properties
VRDP: netAddress ﬁxes
VRDP: ﬁxed the Pause/Break keys over VRDP
VRDP: sync NumLock / CapsLock sync over VRDP
VRDP: workaround for scrambled icons with a guest video mode of 16bpp
VRDP: reset modifer keys on RDP_INPUT_SYNCHRONIZE
VRDP: reset RDP updates after resize to prevent obsolete updates
Clipboard: Windows host/guest ﬁxes
Clipboard: ﬁxed a SEGFAULT on VM exit (Linux host)
Clipboard: ﬁxed a buffer overﬂow (Linux host)
Shared Folders: ﬁxed memory leaks
Linux installer: remove the old kernel module before compiling a new one
Linux host: compatibility ﬁxes with Linux 2.6.24
Linux host: script ﬁxes for ArchLinux
Linux host: load correct HAL library to determine DVD/ﬂoppy (libhal.so.1 not libhal.so)
Linux host: make sure the tun kernel module is loaded before initializing static TAP interfaces
Windows additions: ﬁxed hang during HGCM communication
Windows additions: ﬁxed delay when shutting down the guest
Linux additions: added sendﬁle support to allow HTTP servers to send ﬁles on shared folders
Linux additions: make additions work with Fedora 8 (SELinux policy added)
Linux additions: sometimes ARGB pointers were display incorrectly
Linux additions: several small script ﬁxes

VirtualBox 1.5.2 (released 2007-10-18)

Windows Installer: fixed installation on Windows 2000 hosts
Windows Installer: proper warning when installing a 32-bit VirtualBox version on 64-bit Windows and vice versa
Linux Installer: no longer require license acceptance during install, instead at first GUI startup (addresses issues with hanging installer on Debian based distributions)
GUI: added user registration dialog
GUI: fixed crashes on 64-bit Linux hosts
GUI: several fixes and improvements to seamless mode
GUI: fixed DirectDraw mode with certain video cards (e.g. Intel i915)
GUI: fixed incorrect guest resolution after leaving fullscreen mode
GUI: improved keyboard handling on Linux host
GUI: show fatal VM aborts (aka "Guru Meditation")
GUI: fixed crashes due to a display update race condition on some systems
GUI: added ACPI shutdown option to the VM close dialog
GUI: NLS improvements
BIOS: fixed floppy boot menu
BIOS: expose the VM UUID in the DMI/SMBIOS area
VGA: fixed CGA video modes
VGA: fixed 8-bit DAC handling (Solaris setup)
VMM: fixed issue with VT-x on Windows 64-bit hosts
VMM: improved compatibility with Linux KVM
VMM: fixed issues with Fedora 8 guests
VMM: fixed fatal errors while installing Windows guests when using AMD-V
VMM: fixed sporadic hangs when minimizing VM window and using VT-x/AMD-V
VMM: fixed high load of ksoftirq on tickless Linux hosts
VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guests hangs related to IRQ sharing
VMM: fixed sporadic errors during openSUSE 10.3 installation
VMM: fixed issue with Linux 2.6.23 guests
VMM: fixed issues with Solaris guests
VMM: fixed stability issue related to incorrect relocations
Serial: significantly reduced CPU utilization
Network: fixed issues with FreeBSD guests
Network: added MII support (100MBit detection fix)
Network: improved MAC address handling
Network: added PXE release logging
IDE: large reads from CD could exceed the I/O buffer size
Audio: load ALSA dynamically on Linux (i.e. do not fail when ALSA is not present)
VRDP: support additional RDP clients (SunRay, WinConnect, Mac OS X)
VRDP: fixed issues when client color depth is higher than server color depth
VRDP: make PAM authentication service name configurable
VRDP: increased stack size to deal with stack consuming PAM library calls
Additions: various fixes and enhancements to clipboard handling
Windows Additions: fixed issues with Additions on NT 4 guests
Windows Additions: added support for 8-bit video modes
Windows Additions: allow specifying custom resolutions for secondary screens
Windows Additions: several fixes and improvements for DirectDraw
Windows Additions: improved the mouse filter driver compatibility with other mouse drivers
Linux Additions: several fixes and enhancements to Shared Folders
Linux Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.4
Shared folders: fixed MS Powerpoint access issues (Linux host)
API: fixed RPC_E_CHANGED_MODE startup error on Windows hosts
API: fixed SMP race condition on Linux hosts
API: fixed stability issues on Windows hosts in low memory conditions

VirtualBox 1.5.0 (released 2007-09-03)

Major: Seamless windows
Major: Virtual serial ports
Major: Support for 64-bit Windows hosts
Major: Intel PXE 2.1 network boot
Major: Guest Additions for IBM OS/2 Warp
GUI: sometimes two mouse cursors were visible when Windows guest additions became active
GUI: added VT-x/AMD-V settings
GUI: disable 'Show log...' menu entry to prevent crash if VM list is empty
GUI: the log window grabbed the keyboard
GUI: fixed error handling if Linux host clipboard initialization fails
GUI: pass the Pause key and the PrtScrn key to the guest (Linux hosts)
GUI: increased maximum guest RAM to 2 GB (Windows host)
GUI: improved rendering performance (Windows host)
GUI: status lights for USB and shared folders
GUI: properly respect the DISPLAY environment variable
GUI: download Guest Additions from virtualbox.org in case they are not present locally
VRDP: support for multimonitor configurations in Windows guests
VRDP: support for MS RDP6 and MS RDP Mac clients
VRDP: added support for WinConnect RDP client
VRDP: performance improvements
VRDP: fixed sporadic client disconnects
VBoxManage: never delete existing target during clonevdi
VBoxManage: properly print the size of currently used hard disks
VMM: fixed Xandros Desktop 4.1 hang
VMM: fixed VT-x/AMD-V hang with newer versions of gcc (Linux hosts)
VMM: improved stability of VT-x
VMM: check for disabled AMD-V when detecting support
VMM: fixed AMD-V issue when running OS/2 guests
VMM: fixed application startup regressions (e.g. VideoReDo)
VMM: fixed regression that broke disk access in OS/2 and OpenBSD guests (possibly much more)
VMM: fixed crashes if memory allocation failed (Linux)
VMM: fixed enabling of Local APIC on AMD hosts (fixed Ubuntu Feisty installation kernel hang during boot)
VMM: fixed XFree86 4.3 (Debian/Sarge) segfaults when switching to text mode
VMM: refuse to start when KVM is active (Linux Host)
VMM: fixed bootup hangs with ReactOS
VMM: fixed out-of-memory errors under certain environments with enough appropriate memory available
API: fixed occassional crashes of the VBoxSVC server during VM shutdown (Linux host)
API: some components were not notified when mounting a CD/DVD
VMDK: improve geometry compatibility with existing VDMK images
IDE/Floppy: optionally make non-available host device non-fatal
IDE: improve emulation accuracy of the IRQ line between master and slave drive
IDE: guest could freeze when unmounting the CD/DVD drive
VGA: several text mode fixes in particular with Windows DOS boxes
USB: fixed some issues with Windows hosts
USB: fixed race condition between udev and USB filters (Linux host)
Shared Folders: reversed network provider order to increase mapping performance (Windows guest)
Shared Folders: browsable from Windows Explorer (Windows guests)
Shared Folders: stability fixes (Windows guest)
Shared Folders: case sensitivity fixes (Windows guest and Linux host)
Audio: fall back to the NULL audio driver if no voice could be opened
NAT: fixed crash
Guest Additions: reworked the shared clipboard for Linux hosts and guests based on user feedback about problems with individual applications
Guest Additions: don't allow to disable mouse pointer integration for Linux guests as an Xorg hardware mouse cursor cannot be turned into a software mouse cursor
Guest Additions: Linux guests shipping Xorg 1.3 (e.g. Fedora 7, Ubuntu Gutsy) are now supported
Guest Additions: added DirectDraw support to the Windows display driver

VirtualBox 1.4.0 (released 2007-06-06)

General: added support for OS X hosts
General: added support for AMD64 hosts
General: signed all executables and device drivers on Windows
GUI: added user interface for Shared Folders
GUI: added context menu for network adapters
GUI: added VM description field for taking notes
GUI: always restore guest mouse pointer when entering VM window (Windowss host)
GUI: added configuration options for clipboard synchronization
GUI: improved keyboard handling on Linux hosts
GUI: added first run wizard
GUI: improved boot device order dialog
GUI: auto-resize did not work after save/restore
GUI: restore original window size when returning from fullscreen mode
GUI: fixed screen update when switching to fullscreen mode
GUI: the size of the VM window was sometimes resetted to 640x480
GUI: added localizationss
GUI: various minor improvements
VBoxManage: added convertdd command
API: automatically start and terminate VBoxSVC on Linux and OS X hosts
VMM: increased startup performance due to lazy memory allocation
VMM: significantly increased maximum guest memory size
VMM: fixed issues with V86 mode
VMM: support V86 extensions (VME)
VMM: support guests with a full GDT
VMM: fixed boot hangs for some Linux kernels
VMM: improved FreeBSD and OpenBSD support
VMM: improved performance of guests that aggressively patch kernel code (very recent Linux 2.6 kernels)
VMM: added workaround for a design flaw in AMD AM2 CPUs where the timestamp counter shows large differences among CPU cores
VMM: fixed Linux guests with grsecurity
VMM: fixed issue on 2G/2G Linux kernels (even 1G/3G kernels should work)
VMM: fixed Linux detection of Local APIC on non-Intel and non-AMD CPUs
VMM: timing improvements with high host system loads (VM starvation)
VMM: experimental AMD SVM hardware virtualization support now also handles real and protected mode without paging
VMM: added system time offset parameter to allow for VMs to run in the past or future
VMM: provide an MPS 1.4 table if the IOAPIC is enabled
RDP: allow binding the RDP server to a specific interface
RDP: added support for clipboard synchronization
RDP: fixed problems with OS X RDP client
RDP: added support for multiple simultaneous connections to one VM
RDP: added support for MS RDP6 clients (Vista)
Storage: experimental support for VMDK images (writethrough mode only, no snapshots yet)
Storage: raw host disk support, including individual partitions
IDE: improve CHS geometry detection
IDE: fixed problem that only one VM could open an immutable image
NAT: allow more than one card configured for NAT networking
NAT: pass first entry in DNS search list (Linux host) or primary DNS suffix (Windows host) as domain name in DHCP
NAT: support UDP broadcasts, which enables using Windows shares
NAT: only warn if the name server could not be determined, no fatal error anymore
NAT: fix a potential problem with incorrect memory allocation
Internal Networking: fixed issue on Windows hosts
Host Interface Networking: fixed sporadic crashes on interface creation/destruction (Windows host)
Host Interface Networking: reworked TAP handling for Linux 2.6.18+ compatibility
PXE: show error for unsupported V86 case
PXE: small fix for parsing PXE menu entry without boot server IP
Network: fixed network card hang after save/restore
USB: Rewrote Windows USB handling without the need for a filter driver
USB: Possible to steal arbitrary devices in Windows
Serial: added serial ports with support for named pipes (local domain sockets) on the host
Audio: fixed problem with ALSA on Linux before 2.6.18 blocking other ALSA clients on the system
Audio: fixed problem with ALSA on AMD64 hosts
Input: fixed PS/2 mouse detection in Win 3.x guests
Shared Folders: fixed VM save/restore behaviour
Shared Folders: functionality and stability fixes
Shared Folders: allow non admin users to map folders
Additions: added clipboard synchronization
Windows Additions: fixed dynamic resolution changes after save/restore
Windows Additions: added AMD PCNet driver for Windows Vista guests (with kind permission from AMD)
Linux Additions: fixed a dependency problem which caused the vboxadd kernel module sometimes start after the X server
Linux Additions: make VBox version visible in Linux modules with modinfo
Linux Additions: make X11 guest video driver accept arbitrary X resolutions
Linux Additions: make X11 setup work if /tmp uses a separate file system
Linux Additions: better support unknown distributions
Linux Installer: force a non-executable stack for all binaries and shared libraries
Linux Installer: make it work on SELinux-enabled systems
Linux Installer: ship VBoxTunctl

VirtualBox 1.3.8 (released 2007-03-14)

Windows installer: fixed installation problem if UAC is active
Linux installer: added RPM for rhel4 and Mandriva 2007.1
Linux installer: remove any old vboxdrv modules in /lib/modules/*/misc
Linux installer: many small improvements for .deb and .rpm packages
Linux installer: improved setup of kernel module
GUI: Host-Fn sends Ctrl-Alt-Fn to the guest (Linux guest VT switch)
GUI: fixed setting for Internal Networking
GUI: show correct audio backend on Windows (dsound)
GUI: improved error messages if the kernel module is not accessible
GUI: never fail to start the GUI if the kernel module is not accessible
VMM: fixed occasional crashes when shutting down Windows TAP device
VMM: fixed issues with IBM's 1.4.2 JVM in Linux guests
RDP: fixed color encoding with 24bpp
BIOS: zero main memory on reboot
BIOS: added release logging
USB: fixed parsing of certain devices to prevent VBoxSVC crashes
USB: properly wakeup suspended ports
USB: fixed a problem with unplugged USB devices during suspend
Audio: fixed crashes on Vista hosts
NAT: allow configuration of incoming connections (aka port mapping)
Network: hard reset network device on reboot
iSCSI: fixed a hang of unpaused VMs accessing unresponsive iSCSI disks
Linux Additions: support Xorg 7.2.x
Linux Additions: fixed default video mode if all other modes are invalid
Linux Additions: set default DPI to 100,100
Linux Additions: fixed initialization of video driver on X server reset

VirtualBox 1.3.6 (released 2007-02-20)

Windows installer: perform installation for all users instead of just the current user (old behavior still available)
Linux installer: fixed license display to not block installation
Linux installer: added RPM for openSUSE 10.2
GUI: fixed problems with several keyboard layouts on Linux hosts
GUI: added online help on Linux hosts (using kchmviewer)
GUI: fixed handle leak on Windows hosts
Graphics: increased VRAM limit to 128MB
BIOS: fixed CD/DVD-ROM detection in Windows Vista guests
VMM: fixed incompatibility with OpenBSD 4.0
VDI: fixed issues with snapshot merging
Network: fixed incompatibility between Vista UAC and Host Interface Networking
Network: fixed issues with Windows NT 4.0 guests
Audio: fixed problem with ALSA on Linux before 2.6.18 causing system reboots
RDP: added support for MS RDP 6.0 clients
RDP: fixed issue with PAM authentication on certain distributions
RDP: fixed sporadic disconnects with MS RDP clients
RDP: fixed memory leak
iSCSI: improved behavior when pausing a VM with iSCSI connections
iSCSI: improved read timeout handling

VirtualBox 1.3.4 (released 2007-02-12)

General: fixed unresolved symbol issue on Windows 2000 hosts
General: added warnings at VirtualBox startup when there is no valid Linux kernel module
General: fixed problem with unrecognized host CDROM/DVD drives on Linux
General: fixed compatibility issue with SELinux
GUI: improved USB user interface, easier filter definitions, menu to directly attach specific devices
GUI: added VM settings options for VRDP
GUI: fixed GDI handle leak on Windows hosts
GUI: worked around issue in the Metacity window manager (GNOME) leading to unmovable VM windows
GUI: show an information dialog before entering fullscreen mode about how to get back
GUI: several fixes and improvements
VMM: fixed occasional crashes when shutting down a Windows guest
VMM: fixed crash while loading Xorg on openSUSE 10.2
VMM: fixed problems with OpenBSD 3.9 and 4.0
VMM: fixed crash while loading XFree86 in SUSE 9.1
VMM: fixed Debian 3.1 (Sarge) installation problem (network failure)
VMM: fixed crash during SUSE 10.2 installation
VMM: fixed crash during Ubuntu 7.04 RC boot
VMM: fixed crash during ThinClientOS (Linux 2.4.33) bootup
ATA/IDE: pause VM when host disk is full and display message
ATA/IDE: fixed incompatibility with OpenSolaris 10
VDI containers: do not allocate blocks when guest only writes zeros to it (size optimization when zeroing freespace prior to compacting)
CDROM/DVD: fixed media recognition by Linux guests
Network: corrected reporting of physical interfaces (fixes Linux guest warnings)
Network: fixed IRQ conflict causing occassional major slowdowns with XP guests
Network: significantly improved send performance
Audio: added mixer support to the AC'97 codec (master volume only)
Audio: added support for ALSA on Linux (native, no OSS emulation)
iSCSI: improved LUN handling
iSCSI: fixed hang due to packet overflow
iSCSI: pause VM on iSCSI connection loss
Linux module: never fail unloading the module (blocks Ubuntu/Debian uninstall)
Linux module: improved compatibility with NMI watchdog enabled
Windows Additions: fixed hardware mouse pointer with Windows 2003 Server guests
Linux Additions: compile everything from sources instead of using precompiled objects
Linux Additions: better compatibility with older glibc versions
Linux Additions: when uninstalling, only delete the files we put there during installation, don't remove the directory recursively to prevent unwanted data loss
Linux Installer: added support for Slackware
Linux Additions: added support for Linux 2.4.28 to 2.4.34
RDP: fixed sporadic disconnects with MS RDP clients
RDP: fixed race condition during resolution resize leading to rare crashes

VirtualBox 1.3.2 (released 2007-01-15)

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