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2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-xx-xx)</title>
5
6	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7	added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	<listitem>
16	<para>E1000: Fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
17	</listitem>
18
19	<listitem>
20	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
21	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
22	</listitem>
23
24	<listitem>
25	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
26	host-only interface</para>
27	</listitem>
28
29	<listitem>
30	<para>Storage: Fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots and async I/O</para>
31	</listitem>
32
33	<listitem>
34	<para>Parallels: Fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or power off</para>
35	</listitem>
36
37	<listitem>
38	<para>Bridged networking: Fixed host kernel panic when bridging
39	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
40	</listitem>
41
42	<listitem>
43	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
44	guests</para>
45	</listitem>
46
47	<listitem>
48	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
49	</listitem>
50
51	<listitem>
52	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
53	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
54	</listitem>
55
56	<listitem>
57	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
58	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
59	</listitem>
60
61	<listitem>
62	<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented
63	(bug #6067)</para>
64	</listitem>
65
66	<listitem>
67	<para>Settings: fixed loading of removeable drives to which a host drive
68	was attached (4.0 regression)</para>
69	</listitem>
70
71	<listitem>
72	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
73	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
74	</listitem>
75
76	<listitem>
77	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
78	on the settings button (bug #7875)</para>
79	</listitem>
80
81	</itemizedlist>
82
83	</sect1>
84
85	<sect1>
86	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
87
88	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
89	were added:</para>
90
91	<itemizedlist>
92
93	<listitem>
94	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
95	</listitem>
96
97	<listitem>
98	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
99	</listitem>
100
101	<listitem>
102	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
103	<itemizedlist>
104	<listitem>
105	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
106	</listitem>
107
108	<listitem>
109	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
110	</listitem>
111
112	<listitem>
113	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
114	</listitem>
115
116	<listitem>
117	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
118	</listitem>
119
120	<listitem>
121	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
122	states, and optionally including attached
123	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
124	can do the same now)</para>
125	</listitem>
126
127	<listitem>
128	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
129	</listitem>
130
131	</itemizedlist>
132	</para>
133	</listitem>
134
135	<listitem>
136	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
137	</listitem>
138
139	<listitem>
140	<para>New virtual hardware:
141	<itemizedlist>
142	<listitem>
143	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
144	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
145	</listitem>
146
147	<listitem>
148	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
149	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
150	</listitem>
151	</itemizedlist>
152	</para>
153	</listitem>
154
155	<listitem>
156	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
157	<itemizedlist>
158	<listitem>
159	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
160	</listitem>
161
162	<listitem>
163	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
164	</para>
165	</listitem>
166
167	<listitem>
168	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
169	now</para>
170	</listitem>
171
172	<listitem>
173	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
174	</listitem>
175
176	</itemizedlist>
177	</para>
178	</listitem>
179
180	<listitem>
181	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
182	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
187	Parallels images</para>
188	</listitem>
189
190	<listitem>
191	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
196	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
201	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
202	</listitem>
203
204	</itemizedlist>
205
206	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
207
208	<itemizedlist>
209
210	<listitem>
211	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
212	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
213	</listitem>
214
215	<listitem>
216	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	<listitem>
220	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
221	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
226	(bug #1657)</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
231	</listitem>
232
233	<listitem>
234	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
235	</listitem>
236
237	<listitem>
238	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
239	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
240	</listitem>
241
242	<listitem>
243	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
244	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
245	</listitem>
246
247	<listitem>
248	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
249	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
250	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
251	</listitem>
252
253	<listitem>
254	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
255	again (bug #6864)</para>
256	</listitem>
257
258	<listitem>
259	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
260	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
261	</listitem>
262
263	<listitem>
264	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
265	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
266	</listitem>
267
268	<listitem>
269	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
270	</listitem>
271
272	<listitem>
273	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
274	</listitem>
275
276	<listitem>
277	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
278	</listitem>
279
280	<listitem>
281	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
282	</listitem>
283
284	<listitem>
285	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
286	</listitem>
287
288	<listitem>
289	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
290	</listitem>
291
292	<listitem>
293	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
294	</listitem>
295
296	<listitem>
297	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
298	(bug #7058)</para>
299	</listitem>
300
301	<listitem>
302	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
303	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
304	</listitem>
305
306	<listitem>
307	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
308	circumstances</para>
309	</listitem>
310
311	<listitem>
312	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
313	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
314	#5578)
315	</para>
316	</listitem>
317
318	<listitem>
319	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
320	</listitem>
321
322	<listitem>
323	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
324	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
325	</listitem>
326
327	<listitem>
328	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
329	</listitem>
330
331	<listitem>
332	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
333	#6760)</para>
334	</listitem>
335
336	<listitem>
337	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
338	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
339	</listitem>
340
341	<listitem>
342	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
343	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
344	</listitem>
345
346	<listitem>
347	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
348	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
349	</listitem>
350
351	<listitem>
352	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
357	file</para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
362	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
363	</listitem>
364
365	</itemizedlist>
366
367	</sect1>
368
369	<sect1>
370	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
371
372	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
373	added:</para>
374
375	<itemizedlist>
376
377	<listitem>
378	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
379	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
380	</listitem>
381
382	<listitem>
383	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
384	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
385	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
386	</listitem>
387
388	<listitem>
389	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
390	</listitem>
391
392	<listitem>
393	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
394	</listitem>
395
396	<listitem>
397	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
398	</listitem>
399
400	<listitem>
401	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
402	the VM is running</para>
403	</listitem>
404
405	<listitem>
406	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
407	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
408	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
409	starting from a saved state</para>
410	</listitem>
411
412	<listitem>
413	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
414	</listitem>
415
416	<listitem>
417	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
418	</listitem>
419
420	<listitem>
421	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
422	</listitem>
423
424	<listitem>
425	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
426	</listitem>
427
428	<listitem>
429	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
430	</listitem>
431
432	<listitem>
433	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
434	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
435	</listitem>
436
437	<listitem>
438	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
439	fixes for Koran keyboards</para>
440	</listitem>
441
442	<listitem>
443	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
444	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
445	</listitem>
446
447	<listitem>
448	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
449	</listitem>
450
451	<listitem>
452	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
453	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
454	</para>
455	</listitem>
456
457	<listitem>
458	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
459	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
460	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
461	</listitem>
462
463	<listitem>
464	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
465	only)</para>
466	</listitem>
467
468	<listitem>
469	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
470	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
471	</listitem>
472
473	<listitem>
474	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
475	</listitem>
476
477	<listitem>
478	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
479	</listitem>
480
481	<listitem>
482	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
483	</listitem>
484
485	<listitem>
486	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
487	state (bug #4124)</para>
488	</listitem>
489
490	<listitem>
491	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
492	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
493	</listitem>
494
495	<listitem>
496	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
497	</listitem>
498
499	<listitem>
500	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
501	(bug #2996)</para>
502	</listitem>
503
504	<listitem>
505	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
506	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
507	</listitem>
508
509	<listitem>
510	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
511	</listitem>
512
513	<listitem>
514	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
515	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
516	</listitem>
517
518	<listitem>
519	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
520	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
521	</listitem>
522
523	<listitem>
524	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
525	user accounts for VM information</para>
526	</listitem>
527
528	</itemizedlist>
529
530	</sect1>
531
532	<sect1>
533	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
534
535	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
536	added:</para>
537
538	<itemizedlist>
539
540	<listitem>
541	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
542	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
547	</listitem>
548
549	<listitem>
550	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
551	</listitem>
552
553	<listitem>
554	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
555	</listitem>
556
557	<listitem>
558	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
559	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
560	</listitem>
561
562	<listitem>
563	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
564	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
565	</listitem>
566
567	<listitem>
568	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
569	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
570	</listitem>
571
572	<listitem>
573	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
574	(bug #4952)</para>
575	</listitem>
576
577	<listitem>
578	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
579	bug #6122)</para>
580	</listitem>
581
582	<listitem>
583	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
584	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
585	</listitem>
586
587	<listitem>
588	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
589	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
590	(Linux hosts only)</para>
591	</listitem>
592
593	<listitem>
594	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
595	</listitem>
596
597	<listitem>
598	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
599	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
600	</listitem>
601
602	<listitem>
603	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
604	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
605	</listitem>
606
607	<listitem>
608	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
609	canceled</para>
610	</listitem>
611
612	<listitem>
613	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
614	</listitem>
615
616	<listitem>
617	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
618	</listitem>
619
620	<listitem>
621	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
622	</listitem>
623
624	<listitem>
625	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
630	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
635	</listitem>
636
637	<listitem>
638	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
639	(Linux hosts only)</para>
640	</listitem>
641
642	<listitem>
643	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
644	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
645	</listitem>
646
647	<listitem>
648	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
649	</listitem>
650
651	<listitem>
652	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
653	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
654	</listitem>
655
656	<listitem>
657	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
658	</listitem>
659
660	<listitem>
661	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
662	circumstances</para>
663	</listitem>
664
665	<listitem>
666	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
667	printers</para>
668	</listitem>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
672	</listitem>
673
674	<listitem>
675	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
676	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
677	</listitem>
678
679	<listitem>
680	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
681	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
682	</listitem>
683
684	<listitem>
685	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
686	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
687	circumstances</para>
688	</listitem>
689
690	<listitem>
691	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
692	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
693	</listitem>
694
695	<listitem>
696	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
697	as supported extension</para>
698	</listitem>
699
700	<listitem>
701	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
702	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
703	</listitem>
704
705	<listitem>
706	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
707	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
708	</listitem>
709
710	<listitem>
711	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
712	</listitem>
713
714	<listitem>
715	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
716	(bug #7366)</para>
717	</listitem>
718
719	<listitem>
720	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
721	</listitem>
722
723	<listitem>
724	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
725	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
726	</listitem>
727
728	<listitem>
729	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
730	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
731	</listitem>
732
733	<listitem>
734	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
735	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
736	</listitem>
737
738	<listitem>
739	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
740	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
741	</listitem>
742
743	<listitem>
744	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
745	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
746	</listitem>
747
748	<listitem>
749	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
750	</listitem>
751
752	<listitem>
753	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
754	</listitem>
755
756	<listitem>
757	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
758	more than one environment variable</para>
759	</listitem>
760
761	<listitem>
762	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
763	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
764	</listitem>
765
766	<listitem>
767	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
768	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
769	</listitem>
770
771	<listitem>
772	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
773	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
774	</listitem>
775
776	<listitem>
777	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
778	enumerating logged in users</para>
779	</listitem>
780
781	<listitem>
782	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
783	</listitem>
784
785	<listitem>
786	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
787	</listitem>
788
789	<listitem>
790	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
795	in the event of a VM crash</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
800	</listitem>
801
802	<listitem>
803	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
804	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
805	</listitem>
806
807	<listitem>
808	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
809	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
810	</listitem>
811
812	<listitem>
813	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
814	(bug #7448)</para>
815	</listitem>
816
817	<listitem>
818	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	<listitem>
822	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
823	</listitem>
824
825	<listitem>
826	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
827	</listitem>
828
829	</itemizedlist>
830
831	</sect1>
832
833	<sect1>
834	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
835
836	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
837	added:</para>
838
839	<itemizedlist>
840
841	<listitem>
842	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
843	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
844	</listitem>
845
846	<listitem>
847	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
848	</listitem>
849
850	<listitem>
851	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
852	bug #6809)</para>
853	</listitem>
854
855	<listitem>
856	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
857	</listitem>
858
859	<listitem>
860	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
861	</listitem>
862
863	<listitem>
864	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
865	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
866	</listitem>
867
868	<listitem>
869	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
870	changes</para>
871	</listitem>
872
873	<listitem>
874	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
875	</listitem>
876
877	<listitem>
878	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
879	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
880	</listitem>
881
882	<listitem>
883	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
884	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
885	</listitem>
886
887	<listitem>
888	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
889	</listitem>
890
891	<listitem>
892	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
893	</listitem>
894
895	<listitem>
896	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
897	</listitem>
898
899	<listitem>
900	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
901	</listitem>
902
903	<listitem>
904	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
905	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
906	</listitem>
907
908	<listitem>
909	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
910	</listitem>
911
912	<listitem>
913	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
914	(bug #6832)</para>
915	</listitem>
916
917	<listitem>
918	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
919	guests</para>
920	</listitem>
921
922	<listitem>
923	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
924	</listitem>
925
926	<listitem>
927	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
928	without external tools and tricks</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	<listitem>
932	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
933	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
938	</listitem>
939
940	<listitem>
941	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
942	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
943	</listitem>
944
945	<listitem>
946	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
947	shutdown</para>
948	</listitem>
949
950	<listitem>
951	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
952	fixes</para>
953	</listitem>
954
955	<listitem>
956	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
957	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
958	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
959	</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
964	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
969	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	<listitem>
973	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
974	</para>
975	</listitem>
976
977	<listitem>
978	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
979	</listitem>
980
981	<listitem>
982	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
983	</listitem>
984
985	<listitem>
986	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
987	</listitem>
988
989	</itemizedlist>
990
991	</sect1>
992
993	<sect1>
994	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
995
996	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
997	added:</para>
998
999	<itemizedlist>
1000
1001	<listitem>
1002	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
1003	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
1004	</listitem>
1005
1006	<listitem>
1007	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
1008	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
1009	</listitem>
1010
1011	<listitem>
1012	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
1013	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
1014	</listitem>
1015
1016	<listitem>
1017	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
1018	</listitem>
1019
1020	<listitem>
1021	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
1022	</listitem>
1023
1024	<listitem>
1025	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
1026	</listitem>
1027
1028	<listitem>
1029	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
1030	</listitem>
1031
1032	<listitem>
1033	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
1034	assigned</para>
1035	</listitem>
1036
1037	<listitem>
1038	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
1039	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
1040	</listitem>
1041
1042	<listitem>
1043	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
1044	multiple screens are enabled</para>
1045	</listitem>
1046
1047	<listitem>
1048	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1049	</listitem>
1050
1051	<listitem>
1052	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
1053	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
1054	</listitem>
1055
1056	<listitem>
1057	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
1058	again (bug #7022).
1059	</para>
1060	</listitem>
1061
1062	<listitem>
1063	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
1064	(bug #6768)</para>
1065	</listitem>
1066
1067	<listitem>
1068	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
1069	(bug #6927)</para>
1070	</listitem>
1071
1072	<listitem>
1073	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
1074	bug #7031)</para>
1075	</listitem>
1076
1077	<listitem>
1078	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
1079	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
1080	</listitem>
1081
1082	<listitem>
1083	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1084	bug #6987)</para>
1085	</listitem>
1086
1087	<listitem>
1088	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
1089	</listitem>
1090
1091	<listitem>
1092	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
1093	</listitem>
1094
1095	<listitem>
1096	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
1097	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
1098	</listitem>
1099
1100	<listitem>
1101	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103
1104	<listitem>
1105	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
1106	installation (bug #5101)</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
1111	</listitem>
1112
1113	<listitem>
1114	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1115	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1116	bug #6872)</para>
1117	</listitem>
1118
1119	<listitem>
1120	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1121	</listitem>
1122
1123	<listitem>
1124	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1125	(performance tweak)</para>
1126	</listitem>
1127
1128	<listitem>
1129	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1130	is currently paused</para>
1131	</listitem>
1132
1133	<listitem>
1134	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1135	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1136	</listitem>
1137
1138	<listitem>
1139	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1140	</listitem>
1141
1142	<listitem>
1143	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1144	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1149	not properly saved</para>
1150	</listitem>
1151
1152	<listitem>
1153	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1154	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1155	</listitem>
1156
1157	<listitem>
1158	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	<listitem>
1162	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1163	</listitem>
1164
1165	<listitem>
1166	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1167	</listitem>
1168
1169	<listitem>
1170	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1171	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1172	</listitem>
1173
1174	<listitem>
1175	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1176	</listitem>
1177
1178	<listitem>
1179	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1180	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1181	</listitem>
1182
1183	<listitem>
1184	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1185	(bug #5251)</para>
1186	</listitem>
1187
1188	<listitem>
1189	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1190	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1191	</listitem>
1192
1193	<listitem>
1194	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1195	</listitem>
1196
1197	<listitem>
1198	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1199	</listitem>
1200
1201	<listitem>
1202	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1203	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1204	</listitem>
1205
1206	<listitem>
1207	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1208	</listitem>
1209
1210	<listitem>
1211	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1212	</listitem>
1213
1214	<listitem>
1215	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1216	</listitem>
1217
1218	</itemizedlist>
1219	</sect1>
1220
1221	<sect1>
1222	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1223
1224	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1225	added:</para>
1226
1227	<itemizedlist>
1228
1229	<listitem>
1230	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1231	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1232	</listitem>
1233
1234	<listitem>
1235	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1236	</listitem>
1237
1238	<listitem>
1239	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1240	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1241	</listitem>
1242
1243	<listitem>
1244	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1245	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1246	</listitem>
1247
1248	<listitem>
1249	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1254	again (bug #6864)</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1259	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1264	</listitem>
1265
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1268	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1273	</listitem>
1274
1275	</itemizedlist>
1276
1277	</sect1>
1278
1279	<sect1>
1280	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1281
1282	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1283	added:</para>
1284
1285	<itemizedlist>
1286
1287	<listitem>
1288	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1289	</listitem>
1290
1291	<listitem>
1292	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1293	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1294	</listitem>
1295
1296	<listitem>
1297	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1298	</listitem>
1299
1300	<listitem>
1301	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1302	state</para>
1303	</listitem>
1304
1305	<listitem>
1306	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1307	</listitem>
1308
1309	<listitem>
1310	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1311	</listitem>
1312
1313	<listitem>
1314	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1315	</listitem>
1316
1317	<listitem>
1318	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1319	</listitem>
1320
1321	<listitem>
1322	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1323	</listitem>
1324
1325	<listitem>
1326	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1327	</listitem>
1328
1329	<listitem>
1330	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1331	</listitem>
1332
1333	<listitem>
1334	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1335	</listitem>
1336
1337	<listitem>
1338	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1339	</listitem>
1340
1341	<listitem>
1342	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1343	</listitem>
1344
1345	<listitem>
1346	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1347	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1352	(bug #6784)</para>
1353	</listitem>
1354
1355	<listitem>
1356	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1357	</listitem>
1358
1359	<listitem>
1360	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1361	</listitem>
1362
1363	<listitem>
1364	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1365	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1366	</listitem>
1367
1368	<listitem>
1369	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1370	</listitem>
1371
1372	<listitem>
1373	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1374	</listitem>
1375
1376	<listitem>
1377	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1378	host only</para>
1379	</listitem>
1380
1381	<listitem>
1382	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1383	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1384	</listitem>
1385
1386	<listitem>
1387	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1388	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1389	</listitem>
1390
1391	<listitem>
1392	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1393	</listitem>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1397	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1398	</listitem>
1399
1400	<listitem>
1401	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1402	</listitem>
1403
1404	<listitem>
1405	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1406	</listitem>
1407
1408	<listitem>
1409	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1410	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1411	</listitem>
1412
1413	<listitem>
1414	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417	<listitem>
1418	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1419	</listitem>
1420
1421	<listitem>
1422	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1423	</listitem>
1424
1425	<listitem>
1426	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1427	(bug #6714)</para>
1428	</listitem>
1429
1430	<listitem>
1431	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1432	</listitem>
1433
1434	<listitem>
1435	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1436	</listitem>
1437
1438	<listitem>
1439	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1440	</listitem>
1441
1442	<listitem>
1443	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1444	</listitem>
1445
1446	<listitem>
1447	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1448	</listitem>
1449
1450	</itemizedlist>
1451
1452	</sect1>
1453
1454	<sect1>
1455	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1456
1457	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1458	were added:</para>
1459
1460	<itemizedlist>
1461
1462	<listitem>
1463	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1464	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1465	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1466	</listitem>
1467
1468	<listitem>
1469	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1470	</listitem>
1471
1472	<listitem>
1473	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1474	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1475	</listitem>
1476
1477	<listitem>
1478	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1479	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1480	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1485	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1486	</listitem>
1487
1488	<listitem>
1489	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1490	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1491	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1492	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1493	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1494	</listitem>
1495
1496	<listitem>
1497	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1502	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1507	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1512	</listitem>
1513
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
1516	</listitem>
1517
1518	<listitem>
1519	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1520	</listitem>
1521
1522	<listitem>
1523	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1524	</listitem>
1525
1526	<listitem>
1527	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1528	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1529	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1530	</listitem>
1531
1532	<listitem>
1533	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1534	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1535	</listitem>
1536
1537	</itemizedlist>
1538
1539	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1540
1541	<itemizedlist>
1542
1543	<listitem>
1544	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1545	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1546	</listitem>
1547
1548	<listitem>
1549	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1550	</listitem>
1551
1552	<listitem>
1553	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1554	VM</para>
1555	</listitem>
1556
1557	<listitem>
1558	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1559	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1560	</listitem>
1561
1562	<listitem>
1563	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1564	#1669)</para>
1565	</listitem>
1566
1567	<listitem>
1568	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1569	#6442)</para>
1570	</listitem>
1571
1572	<listitem>
1573	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1574	combination (bug #684)</para>
1575	</listitem>
1576
1577	<listitem>
1578	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1579	the VM from the GUI</para>
1580	</listitem>
1581
1582	<listitem>
1583	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1584	medium is not accessible</para>
1585	</listitem>
1586
1587	<listitem>
1588	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1589	</listitem>
1590
1591	<listitem>
1592	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1593	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1594	</listitem>
1595
1596	<listitem>
1597	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1598	#3106)</para>
1599	</listitem>
1600
1601	<listitem>
1602	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1603	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1604	it</para>
1605	</listitem>
1606
1607	<listitem>
1608	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1609	</listitem>
1610
1611	<listitem>
1612	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1613	</listitem>
1614
1615	<listitem>
1616	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1617	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1618	</listitem>
1619
1620	<listitem>
1621	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1622	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1623	</listitem>
1624
1625	<listitem>
1626	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1627	</listitem>
1628
1629	<listitem>
1630	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1631	</listitem>
1632
1633	<listitem>
1634	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1635	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1636	</listitem>
1637
1638	<listitem>
1639	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1640	</listitem>
1641
1642	<listitem>
1643	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1644	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1645	</listitem>
1646
1647	<listitem>
1648	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1649	</listitem>
1650
1651	<listitem>
1652	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1653	in VirtualBox</para>
1654	</listitem>
1655
1656	<listitem>
1657	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1658	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1659	</listitem>
1660
1661	<listitem>
1662	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1663	VirtualBox</para>
1664	</listitem>
1665
1666	<listitem>
1667	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1668	</listitem>
1669
1670	<listitem>
1671	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1672	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	</itemizedlist>
1676	</sect1>
1677
1678	<sect1>
1679	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1680
1681	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1682	added:</para>
1683
1684	<itemizedlist>
1685
1686	<listitem>
1687	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1688	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1689	</listitem>
1690
1691	<listitem>
1692	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1693	</listitem>
1694
1695	<listitem>
1696	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	<listitem>
1700	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1701	only) </para>
1702	</listitem>
1703
1704	<listitem>
1705	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1706	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1707	</listitem>
1708
1709	<listitem>
1710	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1711	interface version</para>
1712	</listitem>
1713
1714	<listitem>
1715	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1716	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1717	slot empty</para>
1718	</listitem>
1719
1720	<listitem>
1721	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1722	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1723	(bug #4220)</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	<listitem>
1727	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1728	</listitem>
1729
1730	<listitem>
1731	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1732	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1733	</listitem>
1734
1735	<listitem>
1736	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1737	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1738	</listitem>
1739
1740	<listitem>
1741	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1742	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1743	</listitem>
1744
1745	<listitem>
1746	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1747	attached</para>
1748	</listitem>
1749
1750	<listitem>
1751	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1752	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1753	</listitem>
1754
1755	<listitem>
1756	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1757	</listitem>
1758
1759	<listitem>
1760	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1761	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1762	</listitem>
1763
1764	<listitem>
1765	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1766	is bug #6408)</para>
1767	</listitem>
1768
1769	<listitem>
1770	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1771	</listitem>
1772
1773	<listitem>
1774	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1775	fail to initialize</para>
1776	</listitem>
1777
1778	<listitem>
1779	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1780	</listitem>
1781
1782	<listitem>
1783	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1784	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1785	</listitem>
1786
1787	<listitem>
1788	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1789	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1790	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1791	</listitem>
1792
1793	<listitem>
1794	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1795	</listitem>
1796
1797	<listitem>
1798	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1799	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1800	</listitem>
1801
1802	<listitem>
1803	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1804	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1805	</listitem>
1806
1807	<listitem>
1808	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1809	(bug #6435)</para>
1810	</listitem>
1811
1812	<listitem>
1813	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1814	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
1815	</listitem>
1816
1817	<listitem>
1818	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
1819	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
1820	(bug #6488)</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
1825	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
1826	</listitem>
1827
1828	<listitem>
1829	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1830	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1831	</listitem>
1832
1833	<listitem>
1834	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
1835	#5227)</para>
1836	</listitem>
1837
1838	<listitem>
1839	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
1840	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
1841	</listitem>
1842
1843	<listitem>
1844	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
1849	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	</itemizedlist>
1853	</sect1>
1854
1855	<sect1>
1856	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
1857
1858	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1859	added:</para>
1860
1861	<itemizedlist>
1862
1863	<listitem>
1864	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
1865	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
1866	</listitem>
1867
1868	<listitem>
1869	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
1870	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
1871	</listitem>
1872
1873	<listitem>
1874	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
1875	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
1876	</listitem>
1877
1878	<listitem>
1879	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
1880	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
1881	</listitem>
1882
1883	<listitem>
1884	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
1885	</listitem>
1886
1887	<listitem>
1888	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
1889	</listitem>
1890
1891	<listitem>
1892	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	<listitem>
1896	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
1897	</listitem>
1898
1899	<listitem>
1900	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
1901	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
1902	</listitem>
1903
1904	<listitem>
1905	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
1906	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
1907	</listitem>
1908
1909	<listitem>
1910	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
1911	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
1912	</listitem>
1913
1914	<listitem>
1915	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
1916	</listitem>
1917
1918	<listitem>
1919	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
1920	</listitem>
1921
1922	<listitem>
1923	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
1924	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1925	</listitem>
1926
1927	<listitem>
1928	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
1929	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
1930	calls (bug #6165)</para>
1931	</listitem>
1932
1933	<listitem>
1934	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
1935	(bug #5297)</para>
1936	</listitem>
1937
1938	<listitem>
1939	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
1940	(bug #4962)</para>
1941	</listitem>
1942
1943	<listitem>
1944	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
1945	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
1946	</listitem>
1947
1948	<listitem>
1949	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
1950	(bug #6176)</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
1955	certain circumstances</para>
1956	</listitem>
1957
1958	<listitem>
1959	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
1960	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
1965	</listitem>
1966
1967	<listitem>
1968	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
1969	</listitem>
1970
1971	<listitem>
1972	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
1973	(bug #3571)</para>
1974	</listitem>
1975
1976	<listitem>
1977	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
1978	devices</para>
1979	</listitem>
1980
1981	<listitem>
1982	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
1983	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
1984	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
1985	</listitem>
1986
1987	<listitem>
1988	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
1989	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
1990	</listitem>
1991
1992	<listitem>
1993	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
1994	</listitem>
1995
1996	<listitem>
1997	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
1998	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
1999	</listitem>
2000
2001	<listitem>
2002	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
2003	response</para>
2004	</listitem>
2005
2006	<listitem>
2007	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
2008	</listitem>
2009
2010	<listitem>
2011	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
2012	</listitem>
2013
2014	<listitem>
2015	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
2020	</listitem>
2021
2022	<listitem>
2023	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
2024	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	<listitem>
2028	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
2029	</listitem>
2030
2031	<listitem>
2032	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
2033	</listitem>
2034
2035	<listitem>
2036	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
2037	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
2038	</listitem>
2039
2040	<listitem>
2041	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
2042	</listitem>
2043
2044	<listitem>
2045	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
2046	</listitem>
2047
2048	<listitem>
2049	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
2050	</listitem>
2051
2052	<listitem>
2053	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	</itemizedlist>
2057	</sect1>
2058
2059	<sect1>
2060	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
2061
2062	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2063	added:</para>
2064
2065	<itemizedlist>
2066
2067	<listitem>
2068	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
2069	</listitem>
2070
2071	<listitem>
2072	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
2073	</listitem>
2074
2075	<listitem>
2076	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
2077	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
2078	</listitem>
2079
2080	<listitem>
2081	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
2082	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
2083	</listitem>
2084
2085	<listitem>
2086	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
2087	(bug #3945)</para>
2088	</listitem>
2089
2090	<listitem>
2091	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
2092	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
2093	</listitem>
2094
2095	<listitem>
2096	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
2097	and AMD-V only) </para>
2098	</listitem>
2099
2100	<listitem>
2101	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
2102	</listitem>
2103
2104	<listitem>
2105	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
2106	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
2107	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
2112	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
2113	</listitem>
2114
2115	<listitem>
2116	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2117	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2118	</listitem>
2119
2120	<listitem>
2121	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2122	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2123	</listitem>
2124
2125	<listitem>
2126	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2127	snapshots command</para>
2128	</listitem>
2129
2130	<listitem>
2131	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2132	</listitem>
2133
2134	<listitem>
2135	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2136	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2137	</listitem>
2138
2139	<listitem>
2140	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	<listitem>
2144	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2145	</listitem>
2146
2147	<listitem>
2148	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2149	</listitem>
2150
2151	<listitem>
2152	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2153	(KWin bug)</para>
2154	</listitem>
2155
2156	<listitem>
2157	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2158	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2159	</listitem>
2160
2161	<listitem>
2162	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2163	</listitem>
2164
2165	<listitem>
2166	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2167	</listitem>
2168
2169	<listitem>
2170	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2171	</listitem>
2172
2173	<listitem>
2174	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2175	</listitem>
2176
2177	<listitem>
2178	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2179	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2180	</listitem>
2181
2182	<listitem>
2183	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2184	bug #5787)</para>
2185	</listitem>
2186
2187	<listitem>
2188	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2189	DHCP requests</para>
2190	</listitem>
2191
2192	<listitem>
2193	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2194	(bug #3217)</para>
2195	</listitem>
2196
2197	<listitem>
2198	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2199	range (bug #5923)</para>
2200	</listitem>
2201
2202	<listitem>
2203	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2204	</listitem>
2205
2206	<listitem>
2207	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2208	</listitem>
2209
2210	<listitem>
2211	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2212	</listitem>
2213
2214	<listitem>
2215	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2216	</listitem>
2217
2218	<listitem>
2219	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2220	file (bug #5681)</para>
2221	</listitem>
2222
2223	<listitem>
2224	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2225	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2226	</listitem>
2227
2228	<listitem>
2229	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2230	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2235	regression)</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2240	</listitem>
2241
2242	<listitem>
2243	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2244	</listitem>
2245
2246	<listitem>
2247	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2248	</listitem>
2249
2250	<listitem>
2251	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2252	</listitem>
2253
2254	<listitem>
2255	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2256	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2257	</listitem>
2258
2259	<listitem>
2260	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2261	</listitem>
2262
2263	<listitem>
2264	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2265	</listitem>
2266
2267	<listitem>
2268	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2269	</listitem>
2270
2271	<listitem>
2272	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2273	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2274	</listitem>
2275
2276	<listitem>
2277	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2278	</listitem>
2279
2280	<listitem>
2281	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2282	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2283	</listitem>
2284
2285	<listitem>
2286	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2291	</listitem>
2292
2293	<listitem>
2294	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2295	</listitem>
2296
2297	<listitem>
2298	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2299	(bug #5731)</para>
2300	</listitem>
2301
2302	<listitem>
2303	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2304	again</para>
2305	</listitem>
2306
2307	</itemizedlist>
2308
2309	</sect1>
2310
2311	<sect1>
2312	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2313
2314	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2315	added:</para>
2316
2317	<itemizedlist>
2318
2319	<listitem>
2320	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2321	</listitem>
2322
2323	<listitem>
2324	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2325	</listitem>
2326
2327	<listitem>
2328	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2329	</listitem>
2330
2331	<listitem>
2332	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2333	</listitem>
2334
2335	<listitem>
2336	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2341	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2342	</listitem>
2343
2344	<listitem>
2345	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2346	</listitem>
2347
2348	<listitem>
2349	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2350	</listitem>
2351
2352	<listitem>
2353	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2354	</listitem>
2355
2356	<listitem>
2357	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2358	</listitem>
2359
2360	<listitem>
2361	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2362	</listitem>
2363
2364	<listitem>
2365	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2366	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2367	</listitem>
2368
2369	<listitem>
2370	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2371	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2372	</listitem>
2373
2374	<listitem>
2375	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2376	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2377	#1762)</para>
2378	</listitem>
2379
2380	<listitem>
2381	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2382	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2383	</listitem>
2384
2385	<listitem>
2386	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2387	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2388	</listitem>
2389
2390	<listitem>
2391	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2392	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2393	</listitem>
2394
2395	<listitem>
2396	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2397	</listitem>
2398
2399	<listitem>
2400	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2401	</listitem>
2402
2403	<listitem>
2404	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2405	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2406	</listitem>
2407
2408	<listitem>
2409	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2410	</listitem>
2411
2412	<listitem>
2413	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2414	</listitem>
2415
2416	<listitem>
2417	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2418	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2419	</listitem>
2420
2421	<listitem>
2422	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2423	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2424	</listitem>
2425
2426	<listitem>
2427	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2428	</listitem>
2429
2430	<listitem>
2431	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2432	guests</para>
2433	</listitem>
2434
2435	<listitem>
2436	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2437	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2438	</listitem>
2439
2440	<listitem>
2441	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2442	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2443	</listitem>
2444
2445	<listitem>
2446	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2447	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2448	</listitem>
2449
2450	<listitem>
2451	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2452	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2453	</listitem>
2454
2455	<listitem>
2456	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2457	</listitem>
2458
2459	<listitem>
2460	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2461	</listitem>
2462
2463	<listitem>
2464	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2465	</listitem>
2466
2467	<listitem>
2468	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2469	</listitem>
2470
2471	<listitem>
2472	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2473	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2474	</listitem>
2475
2476	<listitem>
2477	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2478	</listitem>
2479
2480	</itemizedlist>
2481
2482	</sect1>
2483
2484	<sect1>
2485	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2486
2487	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2488	were added:</para>
2489
2490	<itemizedlist>
2491
2492	<listitem>
2493	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2494	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2495	</listitem>
2496
2497	<listitem>
2498	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2499	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2500	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2501	</listitem>
2502
2503	<listitem>
2504	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2505	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2506	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2507	</listitem>
2508
2509	<listitem>
2510	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2511	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2512	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2513	</listitem>
2514
2515	<listitem>
2516	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2517	running</para>
2518	</listitem>
2519
2520	<listitem>
2521	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2522	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2523	</listitem>
2524
2525	<listitem>
2526	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2527	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2528	</listitem>
2529
2530	<listitem>
2531	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2532	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2533	</listitem>
2534
2535	<listitem>
2536	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2537	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2538	</listitem>
2539
2540	</itemizedlist>
2541
2542	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2543
2544	<itemizedlist>
2545
2546	<listitem>
2547	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2548	</listitem>
2549
2550	<listitem>
2551	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2552	</listitem>
2553
2554	<listitem>
2555	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2556	</listitem>
2557
2558	<listitem>
2559	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2560	(bug #5291)</para>
2561	</listitem>
2562
2563	<listitem>
2564	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2565	</listitem>
2566
2567	<listitem>
2568	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2569	</listitem>
2570
2571	<listitem>
2572	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2573	</listitem>
2574
2575	<listitem>
2576	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2577	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2578	</listitem>
2579
2580	<listitem>
2581	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2582	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2583	</listitem>
2584
2585	<listitem>
2586	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2587	</listitem>
2588
2589	<listitem>
2590	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	<listitem>
2594	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2595	</listitem>
2596
2597	<listitem>
2598	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2599	</listitem>
2600
2601	<listitem>
2602	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2607	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2612	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2613	</listitem>
2614
2615	<listitem>
2616	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2617	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2618	</listitem>
2619
2620	<listitem>
2621	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2622	(bug #2723)</para>
2623	</listitem>
2624
2625	<listitem>
2626	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2631	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2632	</listitem>
2633
2634	<listitem>
2635	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2636	optional manifest file on import</para>
2637	</listitem>
2638
2639	<listitem>
2640	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2641	</listitem>
2642
2643	<listitem>
2644	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2645	(bug #3773)</para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2650	</listitem>
2651
2652	<listitem>
2653	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2654	</listitem>
2655
2656	<listitem>
2657	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2658	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2659	</listitem>
2660
2661	<listitem>
2662	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2663	(bug #4866)</para>
2664	</listitem>
2665
2666	<listitem>
2667	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2668	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2669	</listitem>
2670
2671	<listitem>
2672	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2673	certain conditions</para>
2674	</listitem>
2675
2676	<listitem>
2677	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2678	</listitem>
2679
2680	<listitem>
2681	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2682	</listitem>
2683
2684	<listitem>
2685	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2686	</listitem>
2687
2688	<listitem>
2689	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2690	</listitem>
2691
2692	<listitem>
2693	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2694	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2695	</listitem>
2696
2697	<listitem>
2698	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2699	</listitem>
2700
2701	<listitem>
2702	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2703	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2704	</listitem>
2705
2706	<listitem>
2707	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2708	</listitem>
2709
2710	<listitem>
2711	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2712	</listitem>
2713
2714	<listitem>
2715	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2716	</listitem>
2717
2718	<listitem>
2719	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2720	</listitem>
2721
2722	<listitem>
2723	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2724	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2725	</listitem>
2726
2727	<listitem>
2728	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2729	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2730	(bug #928)</para>
2731	</listitem>
2732
2733	<listitem>
2734	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2735	</listitem>
2736
2737	</itemizedlist>
2738
2739	</sect1>
2740
2741	<sect1>
2742	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2743
2744	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2745	added:</para>
2746
2747	<itemizedlist>
2748
2749	<listitem>
2750	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2751	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2752	</listitem>
2753
2754	<listitem>
2755	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2756	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2757	</listitem>
2758
2759	<listitem>
2760	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2761	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2762	</listitem>
2763
2764	<listitem>
2765	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2766	enabled</para>
2767	</listitem>
2768
2769	<listitem>
2770	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2771	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2772	</listitem>
2773
2774	<listitem>
2775	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2776	(bug #2676)</para>
2777	</listitem>
2778
2779	<listitem>
2780	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2781	is connected to a raw file</para>
2782	</listitem>
2783
2784	<listitem>
2785	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2786	(bug #5355)</para>
2787	</listitem>
2788
2789	<listitem>
2790	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2791	</listitem>
2792
2793	<listitem>
2794	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2795	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2796	</listitem>
2797
2798	<listitem>
2799	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2800	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2801	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2802	</listitem>
2803
2804	<listitem>
2805	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2806	</listitem>
2807
2808	<listitem>
2809	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2810	</listitem>
2811
2812	<listitem>
2813	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2814	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
2815	</listitem>
2816
2817	<listitem>
2818	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
2819	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
2820	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
2821	</listitem>
2822
2823	</itemizedlist>
2824
2825	</sect1>
2826
2827	<sect1>
2828	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
2829
2830	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2831	added:</para>
2832
2833	<itemizedlist>
2834
2835	<listitem>
2836	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
2841	</listitem>
2842
2843	<listitem>
2844	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
2845	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
2846	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
2851	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	<listitem>
2863	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
2864	</listitem>
2865
2866	<listitem>
2867	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
2868	</listitem>
2869
2870	<listitem>
2871	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
2872	</listitem>
2873
2874	<listitem>
2875	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
2876	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
2877	</listitem>
2878
2879	<listitem>
2880	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
2881	</listitem>
2882
2883	<listitem>
2884	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
2885	</listitem>
2886
2887	<listitem>
2888	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
2889	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
2890	</listitem>
2891
2892	<listitem>
2893	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
2894	</listitem>
2895
2896	<listitem>
2897	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
2898	exhaustion</para>
2899	</listitem>
2900
2901	<listitem>
2902	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
2903	</listitem>
2904
2905	<listitem>
2906	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
2907	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
2908	</listitem>
2909
2910	<listitem>
2911	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
2912	folders (bug #4106)</para>
2913	</listitem>
2914
2915	<listitem>
2916	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
2917	folders (bug #4299)</para>
2918	</listitem>
2919
2920	<listitem>
2921	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
2922	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
2923	(bug #2921)</para>
2924	</listitem>
2925
2926	<listitem>
2927	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
2928	hosts only)</para>
2929	</listitem>
2930
2931	<listitem>
2932	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
2933	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
2934	</listitem>
2935
2936	<listitem>
2937	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
2938	</listitem>
2939
2940	<listitem>
2941	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
2942	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2943	</listitem>
2944
2945	<listitem>
2946	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
2947	</listitem>
2948
2949	<listitem>
2950	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
2951	image inconsistency </para>
2952	</listitem>
2953
2954	<listitem>
2955	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
2956	</listitem>
2957
2958	<listitem>
2959	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
2960	</listitem>
2961
2962	<listitem>
2963	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
2964	(bug #2025)</para>
2965	</listitem>
2966
2967	<listitem>
2968	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
2969	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
2970	</listitem>
2971
2972	</itemizedlist>
2973
2974	</sect1>
2975
2976	<sect1>
2977	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
2978
2979	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2980	added:</para>
2981
2982	<itemizedlist>
2983
2984	<listitem>
2985	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
2986	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
2991	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
2992	</listitem>
2993
2994	<listitem>
2995	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
2996	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
3005	software virtualization only) </para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	<listitem>
3009	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
3010	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
3011	</listitem>
3012
3013	<listitem>
3014	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
3015	with root privileges</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
3020	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
3025	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
3030	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
3035	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
3036	selector (bug #5063)</para>
3037	</listitem>
3038
3039	<listitem>
3040	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
3041	available</para>
3042	</listitem>
3043
3044	<listitem>
3045	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
3046	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
3047	</listitem>
3048
3049	<listitem>
3050	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
3051	networking (bug #4775)</para>
3052	</listitem>
3053
3054	<listitem>
3055	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
3056	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
3057	</listitem>
3058
3059	<listitem>
3060	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
3061	(bug #4907)</para>
3062	</listitem>
3063
3064	<listitem>
3065	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
3066	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
3067	</listitem>
3068
3069	<listitem>
3070	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
3071	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
3072	</listitem>
3073
3074	<listitem>
3075	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
3076	</listitem>
3077
3078	<listitem>
3079	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
3084	</listitem>
3085
3086	<listitem>
3087	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
3088	</listitem>
3089
3090	<listitem>
3091	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
3092	are installed</para>
3093	</listitem>
3094
3095	<listitem>
3096	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
3097	(bug #4771)</para>
3098	</listitem>
3099
3100	<listitem>
3101	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
3102	</listitem>
3103
3104	<listitem>
3105	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
3106	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
3107	</listitem>
3108
3109	<listitem>
3110	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
3111	command</para>
3112	</listitem>
3113
3114	<listitem>
3115	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3116	</listitem>
3117
3118	<listitem>
3119	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3120	</listitem>
3121
3122	<listitem>
3123	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3124	(bug #5089)</para>
3125	</listitem>
3126
3127	<listitem>
3128	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3129	</listitem>
3130
3131	</itemizedlist>
3132
3133	</sect1>
3134
3135	<sect1>
3136	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3137
3138	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3139	added:</para>
3140
3141	<itemizedlist>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3145	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3146	</listitem>
3147
3148	<listitem>
3149	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3150	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3151	</listitem>
3152
3153	<listitem>
3154	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3155	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3160	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3161	</listitem>
3162
3163	<listitem>
3164	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3165	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3170	</listitem>
3171
3172	<listitem>
3173	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3178	</listitem>
3179
3180	<listitem>
3181	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3182	</listitem>
3183
3184	<listitem>
3185	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3190	onlined or offlined</para>
3191	</listitem>
3192
3193	<listitem>
3194	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3195	</listitem>
3196
3197	<listitem>
3198	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3199	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3200	</listitem>
3201
3202	<listitem>
3203	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3204	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3205	</listitem>
3206
3207	<listitem>
3208	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3209	</listitem>
3210
3211	<listitem>
3212	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3213	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3214	</listitem>
3215
3216	<listitem>
3217	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3218	</listitem>
3219
3220	<listitem>
3221	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3222	</listitem>
3223
3224	<listitem>
3225	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3226	</listitem>
3227
3228	<listitem>
3229	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3230	</listitem>
3231
3232	<listitem>
3233	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3234	</listitem>
3235
3236	<listitem>
3237	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3238	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3239	</listitem>
3240
3241	<listitem>
3242	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3243	</listitem>
3244
3245	<listitem>
3246	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3247	</listitem>
3248
3249	<listitem>
3250	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3251	</listitem>
3252
3253	<listitem>
3254	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3255	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3256	</listitem>
3257
3258	<listitem>
3259	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3260	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3261	</listitem>
3262
3263	<listitem>
3264	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3269	</listitem>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3273	</listitem>
3274
3275	<listitem>
3276	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3277	</listitem>
3278
3279	<listitem>
3280	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3281	</listitem>
3282
3283	<listitem>
3284	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3285	</listitem>
3286
3287	<listitem>
3288	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3289	</listitem>
3290
3291	<listitem>
3292	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3293	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3294	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3295	phase collapse</para>
3296	</listitem>
3297
3298	<listitem>
3299	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3300	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3301	</listitem>
3302
3303	<listitem>
3304	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3305	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3306	</listitem>
3307
3308	<listitem>
3309	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3310	</listitem>
3311
3312	<listitem>
3313	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3314	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3315	</listitem>
3316
3317	<listitem>
3318	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3319	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3320	</listitem>
3321
3322	<listitem>
3323	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3324	</listitem>
3325
3326	<listitem>
3327	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3328	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3329	#4698, #4790)</para>
3330	</listitem>
3331
3332	<listitem>
3333	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3334	less than the configured range</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3339	</listitem>
3340
3341	<listitem>
3342	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3343	</listitem>
3344
3345	<listitem>
3346	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3347	</listitem>
3348
3349	<listitem>
3350	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3351	</listitem>
3352
3353	<listitem>
3354	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3355	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3356	</listitem>
3357
3358	<listitem>
3359	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3360	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3361	</listitem>
3362
3363	<listitem>
3364	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3365	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3366	</listitem>
3367
3368	<listitem>
3369	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3370	</listitem>
3371
3372	<listitem>
3373	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3374	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3375	</listitem>
3376
3377	<listitem>
3378	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3379	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3384	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3389	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3390	</listitem>
3391
3392	<listitem>
3393	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	</itemizedlist>
3401
3402	</sect1>
3403
3404	<sect1>
3405	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3406
3407	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3408	added:</para>
3409
3410	<itemizedlist>
3411
3412	<listitem>
3413	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3414	</listitem>
3415
3416	<listitem>
3417	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3426	</listitem>
3427
3428	<listitem>
3429	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3430	</listitem>
3431
3432	<listitem>
3433	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3434	</listitem>
3435
3436	<listitem>
3437	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3438	</listitem>
3439
3440	<listitem>
3441	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3442	</listitem>
3443
3444	<listitem>
3445	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3450	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3451	</listitem>
3452
3453	<listitem>
3454	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3455	</listitem>
3456
3457	<listitem>
3458	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3459	</listitem>
3460
3461	<listitem>
3462	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3467	</listitem>
3468
3469	<listitem>
3470	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3471	</listitem>
3472
3473	<listitem>
3474	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3475	</listitem>
3476
3477	<listitem>
3478	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3479	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3480	</listitem>
3481
3482	<listitem>
3483	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3484	(bug #4654)</para>
3485	</listitem>
3486
3487	<listitem>
3488	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3489	</listitem>
3490
3491	<listitem>
3492	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3493	interfaces</para>
3494	</listitem>
3495
3496	<listitem>
3497	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3498	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3499	</listitem>
3500
3501	<listitem>
3502	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3503	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3504	</listitem>
3505
3506	<listitem>
3507	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3508	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	<listitem>
3512	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3513	(bug #1461)</para>
3514	</listitem>
3515
3516	<listitem>
3517	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3518	</listitem>
3519
3520	<listitem>
3521	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3522	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3523	</listitem>
3524
3525	<listitem>
3526	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3527	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3528	</listitem>
3529
3530	<listitem>
3531	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3532	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3533	</listitem>
3534
3535	<listitem>
3536	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3537	</listitem>
3538
3539	<listitem>
3540	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3541	</listitem>
3542
3543	<listitem>
3544	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3545	</listitem>
3546
3547	<listitem>
3548	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3549	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3550	</listitem>
3551
3552	<listitem>
3553	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3554	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3555	</listitem>
3556
3557	<listitem>
3558	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3559	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3564	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	</itemizedlist>
3568
3569	</sect1>
3570	<sect1>
3571	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3572
3573	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3574	added:</para>
3575
3576	<itemizedlist>
3577
3578	<listitem>
3579	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3580	</listitem>
3581
3582	<listitem>
3583	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3584	</listitem>
3585
3586	<listitem>
3587	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3588	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3589	</listitem>
3590
3591	<listitem>
3592	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3593	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3594	</listitem>
3595
3596	<listitem>
3597	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3598	</listitem>
3599
3600	<listitem>
3601	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	<listitem>
3605	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3610	</listitem>
3611
3612	<listitem>
3613	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3614	</listitem>
3615
3616	<listitem>
3617	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3618	</listitem>
3619
3620	<listitem>
3621	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3622	</listitem>
3623
3624	<listitem>
3625	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3626	</listitem>
3627
3628	<listitem>
3629	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3630	</listitem>
3631
3632	<listitem>
3633	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3634	</listitem>
3635
3636	<listitem>
3637	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3638	</listitem>
3639
3640	<listitem>
3641	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3642	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3643	</listitem>
3644
3645	<listitem>
3646	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3651	</listitem>
3652
3653	<listitem>
3654	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3655	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3656	</listitem>
3657
3658	<listitem>
3659	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3660	</listitem>
3661
3662	<listitem>
3663	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3664	</listitem>
3665
3666	<listitem>
3667	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3668	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3669	</listitem>
3670
3671	<listitem>
3672	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3673	</listitem>
3674
3675	<listitem>
3676	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3681	</listitem>
3682
3683	<listitem>
3684	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3685	</listitem>
3686
3687	<listitem>
3688	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3689	</listitem>
3690
3691	<listitem>
3692	<para>Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware acceleration to be enabled for virtual machines that had no explicit configuration in the XML</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	</itemizedlist>
3696
3697	</sect1>
3698
3699	<sect1>
3700	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3701
3702	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3703	were added:</para>
3704
3705	<itemizedlist>
3706
3707	<listitem>
3708	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3709	</listitem>
3710
3711	<listitem>
3712	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3713	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3714	</listitem>
3715
3716	<listitem>
3717	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3718	</listitem>
3719
3720	</itemizedlist>
3721
3722	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3723
3724	<itemizedlist>
3725
3726	<listitem>
3727	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3732	certain conditions</para>
3733	</listitem>
3734
3735	<listitem>
3736	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3745	</listitem>
3746
3747	<listitem>
3748	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3749	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3750	</listitem>
3751
3752	<listitem>
3753	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3754	</listitem>
3755
3756	<listitem>
3757	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3758	</listitem>
3759
3760	<listitem>
3761	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3762	</listitem>
3763
3764	<listitem>
3765	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3766	</listitem>
3767
3768	<listitem>
3769	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3778	</listitem>
3779
3780	<listitem>
3781	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3782	</listitem>
3783
3784	<listitem>
3785	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3786	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3791	</listitem>
3792
3793	<listitem>
3794	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3795	</listitem>
3796
3797	<listitem>
3798	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3799	</listitem>
3800
3801	<listitem>
3802	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3807	</listitem>
3808
3809	<listitem>
3810	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3811	</listitem>
3812
3813	<listitem>
3814	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
3815	</listitem>
3816
3817	<listitem>
3818	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
3819	</listitem>
3820
3821	<listitem>
3822	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
3823	</listitem>
3824
3825	<listitem>
3826	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
3827	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
3828	</listitem>
3829
3830	<listitem>
3831	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
3832	</listitem>
3833
3834	<listitem>
3835	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
3836	</listitem>
3837
3838	<listitem>
3839	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
3840	</listitem>
3841
3842	<listitem>
3843	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3844	</listitem>
3845
3846	<listitem>
3847	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
3848	</listitem>
3849
3850	<listitem>
3851	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
3852	</listitem>
3853
3854	<listitem>
3855	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
3856	</listitem>
3857
3858	<listitem>
3859	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
3860	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
3861	</listitem>
3862
3863	<listitem>
3864	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
3865	</listitem>
3866
3867	<listitem>
3868	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
3869	</listitem>
3870
3871	<listitem>
3872	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
3873	</listitem>
3874
3875	<listitem>
3876	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
3877	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
3878	</listitem>
3879
3880	<listitem>
3881	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
3882	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
3883	</listitem>
3884
3885	<listitem>
3886	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
3887	correct file mode when creating files</para>
3888	</listitem>
3889
3890	<listitem>
3891	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
3892	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
3893	</listitem>
3894
3895	<listitem>
3896	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
3897	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
3898	</listitem>
3899
3900	<listitem>
3901	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
3902	</listitem>
3903
3904	<listitem>
3905	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
3906	</listitem>
3907
3908	<listitem>
3909	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
3910	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
3911	</listitem>
3912
3913	<listitem>
3914	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
3915	guest property lookup</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	<listitem>
3919	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
3920	basic network information)</para>
3921	</listitem>
3922
3923	<listitem>
3924	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
3925	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
3926	</listitem>
3927
3928	<listitem>
3929	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
3930	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
3931	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
3932	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
3933	</listitem>
3934
3935	<listitem>
3936	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
3937	</listitem>
3938
3939	<listitem>
3940	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
3941	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
3942	web service</para>
3943	</listitem>
3944
3945	<listitem>
3946	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
3947	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
3948	</listitem>
3949
3950	<listitem>
3951	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
3952	unavailable</para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
3957	</listitem>
3958
3959	</itemizedlist>
3960	</sect1>
3961
3962	<sect1>
3963	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
3964
3965	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3966	added:</para>
3967
3968	<itemizedlist>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
3972	installation</para>
3973	</listitem>
3974
3975	<listitem>
3976	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
3977	</listitem>
3978
3979	<listitem>
3980	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
3981	later (bug #3981)</para>
3982	</listitem>
3983
3984	<listitem>
3985	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
3986	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
3987	</listitem>
3988
3989	<listitem>
3990	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
3991	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
3992	(bug #4034)
3993	</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
3998	networking</para>
3999	</listitem>
4000
4001	<listitem>
4002	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
4003	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
4004	</listitem>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
4008	clicks</para>
4009	</listitem>
4010
4011	<listitem>
4012	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
4013	Windows 7 guests</para>
4014	</listitem>
4015
4016	<listitem>
4017	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
4018	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
4019	</listitem>
4020
4021	<listitem>
4022	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
4023	</listitem>
4024
4025	<listitem>
4026	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
4031	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
4036	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
4041	</listitem>
4042
4043	<listitem>
4044	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
4045	</listitem>
4046
4047	<listitem>
4048	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4049	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
4050	(bug #3864)</para>
4051	</listitem>
4052
4053	<listitem>
4054	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
4055	now flushes the output stream</para>
4056	</listitem>
4057
4058	<listitem>
4059	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
4060	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
4061	</listitem>
4062
4063	<listitem>
4064	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
4065	</listitem>
4066
4067	<listitem>
4068	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
4069	</listitem>
4070
4071	<listitem>
4072	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
4077	</listitem>
4078
4079	<listitem>
4080	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
4081	(bug #3964)</para>
4082	</listitem>
4083
4084	<listitem>
4085	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
4086	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	<listitem>
4090	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
4091	hosts</para>
4092	</listitem>
4093
4094	<listitem>
4095	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
4096	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
4097	e1000 adapter</para>
4098	</listitem>
4099
4100	<listitem>
4101	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
4102	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
4103	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
4104	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
4105	</listitem>
4106
4107	<listitem>
4108	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
4109	</listitem>
4110
4111	<listitem>
4112	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
4113	</listitem>
4114
4115	<listitem>
4116	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4117	</listitem>
4118
4119	<listitem>
4120	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4121	file (bug #1023)</para>
4122	</listitem>
4123
4124	<listitem>
4125	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4126	</listitem>
4127
4128	<listitem>
4129	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4130	</listitem>
4131
4132	</itemizedlist>
4133	</sect1>
4134
4135	<sect1>
4136	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4137
4138	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4139	added:</para>
4140
4141	<itemizedlist>
4142
4143	<listitem>
4144	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4145	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4146	</listitem>
4147
4148	<listitem>
4149	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4150	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4151	and later</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4156	running services</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4161	terminates</para>
4162	</listitem>
4163
4164	<listitem>
4165	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4166	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4167	</listitem>
4168
4169	<listitem>
4170	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4171	installed on the guest</para>
4172	</listitem>
4173
4174	<listitem>
4175	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4176	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4177	</listitem>
4178
4179	<listitem>
4180	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4181	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4182	</listitem>
4183
4184	<listitem>
4185	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4186	(bug #2628)</para>
4187	</listitem>
4188
4189	<listitem>
4190	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4191	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4196	(bug #3657)</para>
4197	</listitem>
4198
4199	<listitem>
4200	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4201	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	<listitem>
4205	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4206	virtualization only)
4207	</para>
4208	</listitem>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4212	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4213	</listitem>
4214
4215	<listitem>
4216	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4221	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4222	</listitem>
4223
4224	<listitem>
4225	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4226	bug #3689)</para>
4227	</listitem>
4228
4229	<listitem>
4230	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4231	bug #3679)</para>
4232	</listitem>
4233
4234	<listitem>
4235	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4236	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4241	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4242	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4243	</listitem>
4244
4245	<listitem>
4246	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4247	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4248	</listitem>
4249
4250	<listitem>
4251	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4252	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4253	</listitem>
4254
4255	<listitem>
4256	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4257	(bug #3667)</para>
4258	</listitem>
4259
4260	<listitem>
4261	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4262	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4263	</listitem>
4264
4265	<listitem>
4266	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4271	</listitem>
4272
4273	<listitem>
4274	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4275	</listitem>
4276
4277	<listitem>
4278	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4279	</listitem>
4280
4281	<listitem>
4282	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4283	</listitem>
4284
4285	<listitem>
4286	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4287	</listitem>
4288
4289	<listitem>
4290	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4291	</listitem>
4292
4293	</itemizedlist>
4294	</sect1>
4295
4296	<sect1>
4297	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4298
4299	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4300	were added:</para>
4301
4302	<itemizedlist>
4303
4304	<listitem>
4305	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4306	</listitem>
4307
4308	<listitem>
4309	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4310	</listitem>
4311
4312	<listitem>
4313	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4314	</listitem>
4315
4316	<listitem>
4317	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4318	</listitem>
4319
4320	<listitem>
4321	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4322	</listitem>
4323
4324	<listitem>
4325	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4326	</listitem>
4327
4328	<listitem>
4329	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4330	</listitem>
4331
4332	<listitem>
4333	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4334	</listitem>
4335
4336	<listitem>
4337	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4338	</listitem>
4339
4340	<listitem>
4341	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	</itemizedlist>
4345
4346	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4347
4348	<itemizedlist>
4349
4350	<listitem>
4351	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4352	</listitem>
4353
4354	<listitem>
4355	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4356	</listitem>
4357
4358	<listitem>
4359	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4360	</listitem>
4361
4362	<listitem>
4363	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4364	</listitem>
4365
4366	<listitem>
4367	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4368	</listitem>
4369
4370	<listitem>
4371	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4372	</listitem>
4373
4374	<listitem>
4375	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4376	</listitem>
4377
4378	<listitem>
4379	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4380	</listitem>
4381
4382	<listitem>
4383	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4384	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4385	</listitem>
4386
4387	<listitem>
4388	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4389	</listitem>
4390
4391	<listitem>
4392	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4393	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4394	</listitem>
4395
4396	<listitem>
4397	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4398	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4399	</listitem>
4400
4401	<listitem>
4402	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4403	</listitem>
4404
4405	<listitem>
4406	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4407	</listitem>
4408
4409	<listitem>
4410	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4411	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4412	</listitem>
4413
4414	<listitem>
4415	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4416	</listitem>
4417
4418	<listitem>
4419	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4420	ESX server images)</para>
4421	</listitem>
4422
4423	<listitem>
4424	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4425	writable</para>
4426	</listitem>
4427
4428	<listitem>
4429	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4430	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4431	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4432	</listitem>
4433
4434	<listitem>
4435	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4436	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4437	</listitem>
4438
4439	<listitem>
4440	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4441	</listitem>
4442
4443	<listitem>
4444	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4445	</listitem>
4446
4447	<listitem>
4448	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4449	hosts when creating files</para>
4450	</listitem>
4451
4452	<listitem>
4453	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4454	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4455	</listitem>
4456
4457	<listitem>
4458	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4459	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4460	#2306)</para>
4461	</listitem>
4462
4463	<listitem>
4464	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4465	(bug #3555)</para>
4466	</listitem>
4467
4468	<listitem>
4469	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4470	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4471	</listitem>
4472
4473	<listitem>
4474	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4475	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4476	</listitem>
4477
4478	<listitem>
4479	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4480	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4481	</listitem>
4482
4483	<listitem>
4484	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4485	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4486	</listitem>
4487
4488	<listitem>
4489	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4490	(bug #3586)</para>
4491	</listitem>
4492
4493	<listitem>
4494	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4495	from Scratch systems</para>
4496	</listitem>
4497
4498	<listitem>
4499	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4500	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4501	</listitem>
4502
4503	<listitem>
4504	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4505	</listitem>
4506
4507	<listitem>
4508	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4509	default to compact format</para>
4510	</listitem>
4511
4512	<listitem>
4513	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4514	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4515	</listitem>
4516
4517	<listitem>
4518	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4519	</listitem>
4520
4521	<listitem>
4522	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4523	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4524	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4525	</listitem>
4526
4527	<listitem>
4528	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4529	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4530	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4531	</listitem>
4532
4533	<listitem>
4534	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4535	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4536	</listitem>
4537
4538	<listitem>
4539	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4540	</listitem>
4541
4542	<listitem>
4543	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4544	</listitem>
4545
4546	<listitem>
4547	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4548	</listitem>
4549
4550	<listitem>
4551	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4552	</listitem>
4553
4554	<listitem>
4555	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4556	</listitem>
4557
4558	<listitem>
4559	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4560	</listitem>
4561
4562	<listitem>
4563	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4564	</listitem>
4565
4566	<listitem>
4567	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4568	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4569	</listitem>
4570
4571	<listitem>
4572	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4573	</listitem>
4574
4575	<listitem>
4576	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4577	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4578	</listitem>
4579
4580	<listitem>
4581	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4582	</listitem>
4583
4584	<listitem>
4585	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4586	</listitem>
4587
4588	<listitem>
4589	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4590	</listitem>
4591
4592	<listitem>
4593	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4594	#2536)</para>
4595	</listitem>
4596
4597	<listitem>
4598	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4599	</listitem>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4603	(bug #3548)</para>
4604	</listitem>
4605
4606	</itemizedlist>
4607	</sect1>
4608
4609	<sect1>
4610	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4611
4612	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4613	added:</para>
4614
4615	<itemizedlist>
4616
4617	<listitem>
4618	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4619	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4620	</listitem>
4621
4622	<listitem>
4623	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4624	</listitem>
4625
4626	<listitem>
4627	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4632	</listitem>
4633
4634	<listitem>
4635	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4636	(bug #3115)</para>
4637	</listitem>
4638
4639	<listitem>
4640	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4641	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4642	</listitem>
4643
4644	<listitem>
4645	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4646	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4647	(bug #3215)</para>
4648	</listitem>
4649
4650	<listitem>
4651	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4652	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4653	</listitem>
4654
4655	<listitem>
4656	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4657	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4658	</listitem>
4659
4660	<listitem>
4661	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4662	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4663	</listitem>
4664
4665	<listitem>
4666	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4667	in parallel</para>
4668	</listitem>
4669
4670	<listitem>
4671	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4672	</listitem>
4673
4674	<listitem>
4675	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4676	</listitem>
4677
4678	<listitem>
4679	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4680	</listitem>
4681
4682	<listitem>
4683	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4684	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4685	</listitem>
4686
4687	<listitem>
4688	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4689	</listitem>
4690
4691	<listitem>
4692	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4693	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4694	</listitem>
4695
4696	<listitem>
4697	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4698	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4699	</listitem>
4700
4701	<listitem>
4702	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4703	</listitem>
4704
4705	<listitem>
4706	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4707	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4708	</listitem>
4709
4710	<listitem>
4711	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4712	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4713	</listitem>
4714
4715	<listitem>
4716	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4717	</listitem>
4718
4719	<listitem>
4720	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4721	</listitem>
4722
4723	<listitem>
4724	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4725	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4726	</listitem>
4727
4728	<listitem>
4729	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4730	</listitem>
4731
4732	<listitem>
4733	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4734	</listitem>
4735
4736	<listitem>
4737	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4738	</listitem>
4739
4740	<listitem>
4741	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4742	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4743	</listitem>
4744
4745	<listitem>
4746	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4747	</listitem>
4748
4749	<listitem>
4750	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4751	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4752	</listitem>
4753
4754	<listitem>
4755	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4756	</listitem>
4757
4758	<listitem>
4759	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4764	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4769	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4774	</listitem>
4775
4776	<listitem>
4777	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4778	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4779	</listitem>
4780
4781	<listitem>
4782	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4783	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4784	</listitem>
4785
4786	<listitem>
4787	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4788	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4789	</listitem>
4790
4791	<listitem>
4792	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4793	(bug #3213)</para>
4794	</listitem>
4795
4796	<listitem>
4797	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4798	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4799	</listitem>
4800
4801	<listitem>
4802	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4803	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4804	</listitem>
4805
4806	</itemizedlist>
4807	</sect1>
4808
4809	<sect1>
4810	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4811
4812	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4813	added:</para>
4814
4815	<itemizedlist>
4816
4817	<listitem>
4818	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
4819	</listitem>
4820
4821	<listitem>
4822	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
4823	</listitem>
4824
4825	<listitem>
4826	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
4827	</listitem>
4828
4829	<listitem>
4830	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
4831	</listitem>
4832
4833	<listitem>
4834	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
4839	</listitem>
4840
4841	<listitem>
4842	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
4843	</listitem>
4844
4845	<listitem>
4846	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
4847	</listitem>
4848
4849	<listitem>
4850	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
4851	</listitem>
4852
4853	<listitem>
4854	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
4855	</listitem>
4856
4857	<listitem>
4858	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
4859	</listitem>
4860
4861	<listitem>
4862	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
4863	</listitem>
4864
4865	<listitem>
4866	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
4867	</listitem>
4868
4869	<listitem>
4870	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
4871	</listitem>
4872
4873	<listitem>
4874	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
4875	</listitem>
4876
4877	<listitem>
4878	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
4883	(bug #3067)</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
4888	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
4889	</listitem>
4890
4891	<listitem>
4892	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
4893	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
4894	</listitem>
4895
4896	<listitem>
4897	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
4902	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
4903	</listitem>
4904
4905	<listitem>
4906	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
4907	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4908	</listitem>
4909
4910	<listitem>
4911	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
4912	</listitem>
4913
4914	<listitem>
4915	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
4916	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
4917	</listitem>
4918
4919	<listitem>
4920	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
4921	</listitem>
4922
4923	<listitem>
4924	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
4925	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
4926	</listitem>
4927
4928	<listitem>
4929	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
4930	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
4931	</listitem>
4932
4933	<listitem>
4934	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
4935	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
4936	</para>
4937	</listitem>
4938
4939	<listitem>
4940	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
4941	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
4942	</para>
4943	</listitem>
4944
4945	<listitem>
4946	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
4947	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
4948	</para>
4949	</listitem>
4950
4951	<listitem>
4952	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
4953	</listitem>
4954
4955	<listitem>
4956	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
4957	</listitem>
4958
4959	<listitem>
4960	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
4961	</listitem>
4962
4963	<listitem>
4964	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
4965	</listitem>
4966
4967	<listitem>
4968	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
4969	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
4970	</listitem>
4971
4972	<listitem>
4973	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
4974	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
4975	</listitem>
4976
4977	<listitem>
4978	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
4979	formatting a drive</para>
4980	</listitem>
4981
4982	<listitem>
4983	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
4984	</listitem>
4985
4986	<listitem>
4987	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
4988	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
4989	</listitem>
4990
4991	<listitem>
4992	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
4993	</listitem>
4994
4995	<listitem>
4996	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
4997	</listitem>
4998
4999	<listitem>
5000	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5001	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
5002	</listitem>
5003
5004	<listitem>
5005	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
5006	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
5007	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
5008	</listitem>
5009
5010	<listitem>
5011	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
5012	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
5013	</listitem>
5014
5015	<listitem>
5016	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
5017	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
5018	</listitem>
5019
5020	<listitem>
5021	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
5022	(bug #2768)</para>
5023	</listitem>
5024
5025	<listitem>
5026	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
5027	</listitem>
5028
5029	<listitem>
5030	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
5031	</listitem>
5032
5033	<listitem>
5034	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
5035	single, unified package</para>
5036	</listitem>
5037
5038	<listitem>
5039	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
5040	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
5041	</listitem>
5042
5043	<listitem>
5044	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
5045	</listitem>
5046
5047	<listitem>
5048	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
5049	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
5050	</listitem>
5051
5052	<listitem>
5053	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
5054	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
5055	</listitem>
5056
5057	<listitem>
5058	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
5059	</listitem>
5060
5061	<listitem>
5062	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
5063	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
5064	doing 3D</para>
5065	</listitem>
5066
5067	<listitem>
5068	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
5069	</listitem>
5070
5071	<listitem>
5072	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
5073	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
5074	</listitem>
5075
5076	<listitem>
5077	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
5078	</listitem>
5079
5080	<listitem>
5081	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
5082	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
5083	</listitem>
5084
5085	<listitem>
5086	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
5087	</listitem>
5088
5089	<listitem>
5090	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
5091	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
5092	</listitem>
5093
5094	<listitem>
5095	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
5096	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
5097	(bug #2938)</para>
5098	</listitem>
5099
5100	<listitem>
5101	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
5102	Linux guests</para>
5103	</listitem>
5104
5105	<listitem>
5106	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
5107	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
5108	(bug #1776)</para>
5109	</listitem>
5110
5111	<listitem>
5112	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
5113	(bug #1612)</para>
5114	</listitem>
5115
5116	<listitem>
5117	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5118	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5119	</listitem>
5120
5121	<listitem>
5122	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5123	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5124	</listitem>
5125
5126	<listitem>
5127	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5128	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5129	</listitem>
5130
5131	</itemizedlist>
5132	</sect1>
5133
5134	<sect1>
5135	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5136
5137	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5138	were added:</para>
5139
5140	<itemizedlist>
5141	<listitem>
5142	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5143	</listitem>
5144
5145	<listitem>
5146	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5147	</listitem>
5148
5149	<listitem>
5150	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5151	</listitem>
5152
5153	<listitem>
5154	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5155	</listitem>
5156
5157	<listitem>
5158	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5159	</listitem>
5160
5161	<listitem>
5162	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5163	</listitem>
5164
5165	<listitem>
5166	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5167	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5168	</listitem>
5169
5170	<listitem>
5171	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5172	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5173	</listitem>
5174
5175	</itemizedlist>
5176
5177	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5178
5179	<itemizedlist>
5180	<listitem>
5181	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5182	</listitem>
5183
5184	<listitem>
5185	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5186	</listitem>
5187
5188	<listitem>
5189	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5190	</listitem>
5191
5192	<listitem>
5193	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5194	</listitem>
5195
5196	<listitem>
5197	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5198	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5199	</listitem>
5200
5201	<listitem>
5202	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5203	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5204	</listitem>
5205
5206	<listitem>
5207	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5208	</listitem>
5209
5210	<listitem>
5211	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5212	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5213	</listitem>
5214
5215	<listitem>
5216	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5217	</listitem>
5218
5219	<listitem>
5220	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5221	</listitem>
5222
5223	<listitem>
5224	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5225	</listitem>
5226
5227	<listitem>
5228	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5229	</listitem>
5230
5231	<listitem>
5232	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5233	</listitem>
5234
5235	<listitem>
5236	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5237	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5238	</listitem>
5239
5240	<listitem>
5241	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5242	the compiz window manager</para>
5243	</listitem>
5244
5245	<listitem>
5246	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5247	</listitem>
5248
5249	<listitem>
5250	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5251	</listitem>
5252
5253	<listitem>
5254	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5255	</listitem>
5256
5257	<listitem>
5258	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5259	</listitem>
5260
5261	<listitem>
5262	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5263	</listitem>
5264
5265	<listitem>
5266	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5267	</listitem>
5268
5269	<listitem>
5270	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5271	</listitem>
5272
5273	<listitem>
5274	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5275	</listitem>
5276
5277	<listitem>
5278	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5279	</listitem>
5280
5281	<listitem>
5282	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5283	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5284	</listitem>
5285
5286	<listitem>
5287	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5288	for direct device access</para>
5289	</listitem>
5290
5291	<listitem>
5292	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5293	</listitem>
5294
5295	<listitem>
5296	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5297	</listitem>
5298
5299	<listitem>
5300	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5301	</listitem>
5302
5303	<listitem>
5304	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5305	</listitem>
5306
5307	<listitem>
5308	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5309	</listitem>
5310
5311	<listitem>
5312	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	<listitem>
5316	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5317	</listitem>
5318
5319	<listitem>
5320	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5321	</listitem>
5322
5323	</itemizedlist>
5324	</sect1>
5325
5326	<sect1>
5327	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5328
5329	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5330	added:</para>
5331
5332	<itemizedlist>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5336	states/snapshots</para>
5337	</listitem>
5338
5339	<listitem>
5340	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5341	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5342	</listitem>
5343
5344	<listitem>
5345	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5346	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5347	</listitem>
5348
5349	<listitem>
5350	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5351	collisions</para>
5352	</listitem>
5353
5354	<listitem>
5355	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5356	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5357	</listitem>
5358
5359	<listitem>
5360	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5361	</listitem>
5362
5363	<listitem>
5364	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5365	reliably</para>
5366	</listitem>
5367
5368	<listitem>
5369	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5370	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5371	</listitem>
5372
5373	<listitem>
5374	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5375	a reboot</para>
5376	</listitem>
5377
5378	<listitem>
5379	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5380	</listitem>
5381
5382	<listitem>
5383	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5384	in parallel</para>
5385	</listitem>
5386
5387	<listitem>
5388	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5389	</listitem>
5390
5391	<listitem>
5392	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5393	correctly</para>
5394	</listitem>
5395
5396	<listitem>
5397	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5398	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5399	</listitem>
5400
5401	</itemizedlist>
5402	</sect1>
5403
5404	<sect1>
5405	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5406
5407	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5408	added:</para>
5409
5410	<itemizedlist>
5411
5412	<listitem>
5413	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5414	(bug #2220)</para>
5415	</listitem>
5416
5417	<listitem>
5418	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5419	</listitem>
5420
5421	<listitem>
5422	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5423	</listitem>
5424
5425	<listitem>
5426	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5427	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5428	</listitem>
5429
5430	<listitem>
5431	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5432	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5433	</listitem>
5434
5435	<listitem>
5436	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5437	(bug #2624)</para>
5438	</listitem>
5439
5440	<listitem>
5441	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5442	(bug #2024)</para>
5443	</listitem>
5444
5445	<listitem>
5446	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5447	</listitem>
5448
5449	<listitem>
5450	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5451	</listitem>
5452
5453	<listitem>
5454	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5455	</listitem>
5456
5457	<listitem>
5458	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5459	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5460	</listitem>
5461
5462	<listitem>
5463	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5464	applications when updating the installation</para>
5465	</listitem>
5466
5467	<listitem>
5468	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5469	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5470	</listitem>
5471
5472	<listitem>
5473	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5474	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5475	</listitem>
5476
5477	<listitem>
5478	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5479	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5480	</listitem>
5481
5482	<listitem>
5483	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5484	connected to a host device</para>
5485	</listitem>
5486
5487	<listitem>
5488	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5489	</listitem>
5490
5491	<listitem>
5492	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5493	</listitem>
5494
5495	<listitem>
5496	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5497	</listitem>
5498
5499	<listitem>
5500	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5501	when using native RDP connections</para>
5502	</listitem>
5503
5504	<listitem>
5505	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5506	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5507	</listitem>
5508
5509	<listitem>
5510	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5511	(bug #2591)</para>
5512	</listitem>
5513
5514	<listitem>
5515	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5516	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5517	</listitem>
5518
5519	<listitem>
5520	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5521	</listitem>
5522
5523	</itemizedlist>
5524	</sect1>
5525
5526	<sect1>
5527	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5528
5529	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5530	added:</para>
5531
5532	<itemizedlist>
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5535	</listitem>
5536
5537	<listitem>
5538	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5539	</listitem>
5540
5541	<listitem>
5542	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5543	</listitem>
5544
5545	<listitem>
5546	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5547	</listitem>
5548
5549	<listitem>
5550	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5551	</listitem>
5552
5553	<listitem>
5554	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5555	</listitem>
5556
5557	<listitem>
5558	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5559	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5560	</listitem>
5561
5562	<listitem>
5563	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5564	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5565	</listitem>
5566
5567	<listitem>
5568	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5569	</listitem>
5570
5571	<listitem>
5572	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5573	equal to the client resolution</para>
5574	</listitem>
5575
5576	<listitem>
5577	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5578	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5579	</listitem>
5580
5581	<listitem>
5582	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5583	</listitem>
5584
5585	<listitem>
5586	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5587	</listitem>
5588
5589	<listitem>
5590	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5591	</listitem>
5592
5593	<listitem>
5594	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5595	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5596	</listitem>
5597
5598	<listitem>
5599	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5600	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5601	</listitem>
5602
5603	<listitem>
5604	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5605	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5606	</listitem>
5607
5608	<listitem>
5609	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5610	</listitem>
5611
5612	<listitem>
5613	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5614	</listitem>
5615
5616	<listitem>
5617	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5618	</listitem>
5619
5620	<listitem>
5621	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5622	</listitem>
5623
5624	<listitem>
5625	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5626	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5627	</listitem>
5628
5629	<listitem>
5630	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5631	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5636	</listitem>
5637
5638	<listitem>
5639	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5640	</listitem>
5641
5642	<listitem>
5643	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5644	</listitem>
5645
5646	</itemizedlist>
5647
5648	</sect1>
5649
5650	<sect1>
5651	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5652
5653	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5654	added:</para>
5655
5656	<itemizedlist>
5657
5658	<listitem>
5659	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5660	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5661	</listitem>
5662
5663	<listitem>
5664	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5665	</listitem>
5666
5667	<listitem>
5668	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5669	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5670	</listitem>
5671
5672	<listitem>
5673	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5678	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5679	</listitem>
5680
5681	<listitem>
5682	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5683	</listitem>
5684
5685	<listitem>
5686	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5687	the virtual disk manager</para>
5688	</listitem>
5689
5690	<listitem>
5691	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5692	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5693	</listitem>
5694
5695	<listitem>
5696	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5697	</listitem>
5698
5699	<listitem>
5700	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5701	</listitem>
5702
5703	<listitem>
5704	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5705	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5706	</listitem>
5707
5708	<listitem>
5709	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5710	bug #2067)</para>
5711	</listitem>
5712
5713	<listitem>
5714	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5715	</listitem>
5716
5717	<listitem>
5718	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5719	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5720	</listitem>
5721
5722	<listitem>
5723	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5724	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5725	(bug #2184)</para>
5726	</listitem>
5727
5728	<listitem>
5729	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5730	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5731	</listitem>
5732
5733	<listitem>
5734	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5735	(Windows guests only)</para>
5736	</listitem>
5737
5738	<listitem>
5739	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5740	</listitem>
5741
5742	<listitem>
5743	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5744	</listitem>
5745
5746	<listitem>
5747	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5748	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5753	</listitem>
5754
5755	<listitem>
5756	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5757	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5758	</para>
5759	</listitem>
5760
5761	<listitem>
5762	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	<listitem>
5766	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5767	</listitem>
5768
5769	<listitem>
5770	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5771	a VM reboot</para>
5772	</listitem>
5773
5774	<listitem>
5775	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5776	</listitem>
5777
5778	<listitem>
5779	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5780	buggy X servers</para>
5781	</listitem>
5782
5783	<listitem>
5784	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5785	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5786	</listitem>
5787
5788	<listitem>
5789	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5790	</listitem>
5791
5792	<listitem>
5793	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5794	(bug #2128)</para>
5795	</listitem>
5796
5797	<listitem>
5798	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5799	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5800	</listitem>
5801
5802	<listitem>
5803	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5804	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5805	</listitem>
5806
5807	<listitem>
5808	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5809	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5810	</listitem>
5811
5812	<listitem>
5813	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5814	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
5815	</listitem>
5816
5817	<listitem>
5818	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
5819	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
5820	</listitem>
5821
5822	<listitem>
5823	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
5824	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
5825	</listitem>
5826
5827	<listitem>
5828	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
5829	installer into a single package</para>
5830	</listitem>
5831
5832	<listitem>
5833	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
5834	port to the guest
5835	</para>
5836	</listitem>
5837
5838	</itemizedlist>
5839
5840	</sect1>
5841
5842	<sect1>
5843	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
5844
5845	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5846	were added:<itemizedlist>
5847
5848	<listitem>
5849	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
5850	</listitem>
5851
5852	<listitem>
5853	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5854	</listitem>
5855
5856	<listitem>
5857	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
5858	</listitem>
5859
5860	<listitem>
5861	<para>New-version notifier</para>
5862	</listitem>
5863
5864	<listitem>
5865	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
5866	</listitem>
5867
5868	<listitem>
5869	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5870	</listitem>
5871
5872	<listitem>
5873	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
5874	</listitem>
5875
5876	<listitem>
5877	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
5878	</listitem>
5879
5880	<listitem>
5881	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
5882	</listitem>
5883
5884	<listitem>
5885	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
5886	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
5887	</listitem>
5888
5889	<listitem>
5890	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
5891	</listitem>
5892
5893	<listitem>
5894	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
5895	</listitem>
5896
5897	<listitem>
5898	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
5899	</listitem>
5900
5901	</itemizedlist></para>
5902
5903	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5904
5905	<itemizedlist>
5906
5907	<listitem>
5908	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
5909	</listitem>
5910
5911	<listitem>
5912	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
5913	</listitem>
5914
5915	<listitem>
5916	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
5917	</listitem>
5918
5919	<listitem>
5920	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
5921	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
5922	</listitem>
5923
5924	<listitem>
5925	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
5926	restored</para>
5927	</listitem>
5928
5929	<listitem>
5930	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
5931	</listitem>
5932
5933	<listitem>
5934	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
5935	</listitem>
5936
5937	<listitem>
5938	<para>Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn't simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)</para>
5939	</listitem>
5940
5941	</itemizedlist>
5942
5943	</sect1>
5944
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