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2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-xx-xx)</title>
5
6	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7	were added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>Guest Additions: modules and features now are represented as facilities
13	to have a common interface for frontends.</para>
14	</listitem>
15
16	</itemizedlist>
17
18	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
19
20	<itemizedlist>
21
22	<listitem>
23	<para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
24	of the current state</para>
25	</listitem>
26
27	<listitem>
28	<para>GUI: added <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>GUI: added setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
33	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
34	</listitem>
35
36	<listitem>
37	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
38	command group, fixed various bugs</para>
39	</listitem>
40
41	<listitem>
42	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
43	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
44	</listitem>
45
46	<listitem>
47	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
48	be a valid UUID</para>
49	</listitem>
50
51	<listitem>
52	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
53	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
54	</listitem>
55
56	<listitem>
57	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
58	</listitem>
59
60	<listitem>
61	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
62	from the host</para>
63	</listitem>
64
65	<listitem>
66	<para>3D support: fixed Gnome3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04</para>
67	</listitem>
68
69	<listitem>
70	<para>Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
71	</listitem>
72
73	</itemizedlist>
74
75	</sect1>
76
77	<sect1>
78	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
79
80	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
81	added:</para>
82
83	<itemizedlist>
84
85	<listitem>
86	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
87	settings vanished</para>
88	</listitem>
89
90	<listitem>
91	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
92	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
93	</listitem>
94
95	<listitem>
96	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
97	created (bug #8031)</para>
98	</listitem>
99
100	<listitem>
101	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
102	</listitem>
103
104	<listitem>
105	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
106	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
107	</listitem>
108
109	<listitem>
110	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
111	an extension pack</para>
112	</listitem>
113
114	<listitem>
115	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
116	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
117	</listitem>
118
119	<listitem>
120	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
121	</listitem>
122
123	<listitem>
124	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
125	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
126	</listitem>
127
128	<listitem>
129	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
130	host-only interface</para>
131	</listitem>
132
133	<listitem>
134	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
135	and async I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
136	</listitem>
137
138	<listitem>
139	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
140	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
141	</listitem>
142
143	<listitem>
144	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
145	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
146	</listitem>
147
148	<listitem>
149	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
150	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
151	</listitem>
152
153	<listitem>
154	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
155	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
156	</listitem>
157
158	<listitem>
159	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
160	</listitem>
161
162	<listitem>
163	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
168	guests</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
173	</listitem>
174
175	<listitem>
176	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
177	</listitem>
178
179	<listitem>
180	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
181	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
182	</listitem>
183
184	<listitem>
185	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
186	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
191	a VM start</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
196	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented
201	(bug #6067)</para>
202	</listitem>
203
204	<listitem>
205	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
206	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
207	</listitem>
208
209	<listitem>
210	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
211	not saved to machine XML</para>
212	</listitem>
213
214	<listitem>
215	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
216	#7983)</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	<listitem>
220	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
221	#7981)</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.</para>
226	</listitem>
227
228	<listitem>
229	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
230	regression)</para>
231	</listitem>
232
233	<listitem>
234	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
235	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
236	</listitem>
237
238	<listitem>
239	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
240	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
241	</listitem>
242
243	</itemizedlist>
244
245	</sect1>
246
247	<sect1>
248	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
249
250	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
251	were added:</para>
252
253	<itemizedlist>
254
255	<listitem>
256	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
257	</listitem>
258
259	<listitem>
260	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
261	</listitem>
262
263	<listitem>
264	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
265	<itemizedlist>
266	<listitem>
267	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
268	</listitem>
269
270	<listitem>
271	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
272	</listitem>
273
274	<listitem>
275	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
276	</listitem>
277
278	<listitem>
279	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
280	</listitem>
281
282	<listitem>
283	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
284	states, and optionally including attached
285	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
286	can do the same now)</para>
287	</listitem>
288
289	<listitem>
290	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
291	</listitem>
292
293	</itemizedlist>
294	</para>
295	</listitem>
296
297	<listitem>
298	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
299	</listitem>
300
301	<listitem>
302	<para>New virtual hardware:
303	<itemizedlist>
304	<listitem>
305	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
306	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
307	</listitem>
308
309	<listitem>
310	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
311	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
312	</listitem>
313	</itemizedlist>
314	</para>
315	</listitem>
316
317	<listitem>
318	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
319	<itemizedlist>
320	<listitem>
321	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
322	</listitem>
323
324	<listitem>
325	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
326	</para>
327	</listitem>
328
329	<listitem>
330	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
331	now</para>
332	</listitem>
333
334	<listitem>
335	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
336	</listitem>
337
338	</itemizedlist>
339	</para>
340	</listitem>
341
342	<listitem>
343	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
344	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
345	</listitem>
346
347	<listitem>
348	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
349	Parallels images</para>
350	</listitem>
351
352	<listitem>
353	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
354	</listitem>
355
356	<listitem>
357	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
358	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
359	</listitem>
360
361	<listitem>
362	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
363	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
364	</listitem>
365
366	</itemizedlist>
367
368	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
369
370	<itemizedlist>
371
372	<listitem>
373	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
374	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
375	</listitem>
376
377	<listitem>
378	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
379	</listitem>
380
381	<listitem>
382	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
383	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
384	</listitem>
385
386	<listitem>
387	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
388	(bug #1657)</para>
389	</listitem>
390
391	<listitem>
392	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
393	</listitem>
394
395	<listitem>
396	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
397	</listitem>
398
399	<listitem>
400	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
401	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
402	</listitem>
403
404	<listitem>
405	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
406	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
407	</listitem>
408
409	<listitem>
410	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
411	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
412	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
413	</listitem>
414
415	<listitem>
416	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
417	again (bug #6864)</para>
418	</listitem>
419
420	<listitem>
421	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
422	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
423	</listitem>
424
425	<listitem>
426	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
427	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
428	</listitem>
429
430	<listitem>
431	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
436	</listitem>
437
438	<listitem>
439	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
440	</listitem>
441
442	<listitem>
443	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
444	</listitem>
445
446	<listitem>
447	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
448	</listitem>
449
450	<listitem>
451	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
452	</listitem>
453
454	<listitem>
455	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
456	</listitem>
457
458	<listitem>
459	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
460	(bug #7058)</para>
461	</listitem>
462
463	<listitem>
464	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
465	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
466	</listitem>
467
468	<listitem>
469	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
470	circumstances</para>
471	</listitem>
472
473	<listitem>
474	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
475	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
476	#5578)
477	</para>
478	</listitem>
479
480	<listitem>
481	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
482	</listitem>
483
484	<listitem>
485	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
486	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
487	</listitem>
488
489	<listitem>
490	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	<listitem>
494	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
495	#6760)</para>
496	</listitem>
497
498	<listitem>
499	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
500	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
501	</listitem>
502
503	<listitem>
504	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
505	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
506	</listitem>
507
508	<listitem>
509	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
510	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
511	</listitem>
512
513	<listitem>
514	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
515	</listitem>
516
517	<listitem>
518	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
519	file</para>
520	</listitem>
521
522	<listitem>
523	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
524	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
525	</listitem>
526
527	</itemizedlist>
528
529	</sect1>
530
531	<sect1>
532	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
533
534	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
535	added:</para>
536
537	<itemizedlist>
538
539	<listitem>
540	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
541	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
542	</listitem>
543
544	<listitem>
545	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
546	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
547	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	<listitem>
551	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
552	</listitem>
553
554	<listitem>
555	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
556	</listitem>
557
558	<listitem>
559	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
560	</listitem>
561
562	<listitem>
563	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
564	the VM is running</para>
565	</listitem>
566
567	<listitem>
568	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
569	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
570	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
571	starting from a saved state</para>
572	</listitem>
573
574	<listitem>
575	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	<listitem>
579	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
580	</listitem>
581
582	<listitem>
583	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
584	</listitem>
585
586	<listitem>
587	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
588	</listitem>
589
590	<listitem>
591	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
596	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
601	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
602	</listitem>
603
604	<listitem>
605	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
606	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
607	</listitem>
608
609	<listitem>
610	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
615	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
616	</para>
617	</listitem>
618
619	<listitem>
620	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
621	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
622	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
623	</listitem>
624
625	<listitem>
626	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
627	only)</para>
628	</listitem>
629
630	<listitem>
631	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
632	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
633	</listitem>
634
635	<listitem>
636	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
637	</listitem>
638
639	<listitem>
640	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
641	</listitem>
642
643	<listitem>
644	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
645	</listitem>
646
647	<listitem>
648	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
649	state (bug #4124)</para>
650	</listitem>
651
652	<listitem>
653	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
654	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
655	</listitem>
656
657	<listitem>
658	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
659	</listitem>
660
661	<listitem>
662	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
663	(bug #2996)</para>
664	</listitem>
665
666	<listitem>
667	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
668	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
669	</listitem>
670
671	<listitem>
672	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
673	</listitem>
674
675	<listitem>
676	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
677	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
678	</listitem>
679
680	<listitem>
681	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
682	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
683	</listitem>
684
685	<listitem>
686	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
687	user accounts for VM information</para>
688	</listitem>
689
690	</itemizedlist>
691
692	</sect1>
693
694	<sect1>
695	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
696
697	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
698	added:</para>
699
700	<itemizedlist>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
704	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
709	</listitem>
710
711	<listitem>
712	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
713	</listitem>
714
715	<listitem>
716	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
717	</listitem>
718
719	<listitem>
720	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
721	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
722	</listitem>
723
724	<listitem>
725	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
726	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
727	</listitem>
728
729	<listitem>
730	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
731	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
732	</listitem>
733
734	<listitem>
735	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
736	(bug #4952)</para>
737	</listitem>
738
739	<listitem>
740	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
741	bug #6122)</para>
742	</listitem>
743
744	<listitem>
745	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
746	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
747	</listitem>
748
749	<listitem>
750	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
751	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
752	(Linux hosts only)</para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
757	</listitem>
758
759	<listitem>
760	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
761	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
766	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
767	</listitem>
768
769	<listitem>
770	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
771	canceled</para>
772	</listitem>
773
774	<listitem>
775	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
776	</listitem>
777
778	<listitem>
779	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
780	</listitem>
781
782	<listitem>
783	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
784	</listitem>
785
786	<listitem>
787	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
788	</listitem>
789
790	<listitem>
791	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
792	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
793	</listitem>
794
795	<listitem>
796	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
797	</listitem>
798
799	<listitem>
800	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
801	(Linux hosts only)</para>
802	</listitem>
803
804	<listitem>
805	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
806	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
807	</listitem>
808
809	<listitem>
810	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
811	</listitem>
812
813	<listitem>
814	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
815	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
816	</listitem>
817
818	<listitem>
819	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
820	</listitem>
821
822	<listitem>
823	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
824	circumstances</para>
825	</listitem>
826
827	<listitem>
828	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
829	printers</para>
830	</listitem>
831
832	<listitem>
833	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
834	</listitem>
835
836	<listitem>
837	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
838	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
839	</listitem>
840
841	<listitem>
842	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
843	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
844	</listitem>
845
846	<listitem>
847	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
848	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
849	circumstances</para>
850	</listitem>
851
852	<listitem>
853	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
854	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
855	</listitem>
856
857	<listitem>
858	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
859	as supported extension</para>
860	</listitem>
861
862	<listitem>
863	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
864	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
865	</listitem>
866
867	<listitem>
868	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
869	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
870	</listitem>
871
872	<listitem>
873	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
874	</listitem>
875
876	<listitem>
877	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
878	(bug #7366)</para>
879	</listitem>
880
881	<listitem>
882	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
887	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
892	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
893	</listitem>
894
895	<listitem>
896	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
897	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
898	</listitem>
899
900	<listitem>
901	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
902	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
903	</listitem>
904
905	<listitem>
906	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
907	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
908	</listitem>
909
910	<listitem>
911	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
912	</listitem>
913
914	<listitem>
915	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
916	</listitem>
917
918	<listitem>
919	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
920	more than one environment variable</para>
921	</listitem>
922
923	<listitem>
924	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
925	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
926	</listitem>
927
928	<listitem>
929	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
930	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
935	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
936	</listitem>
937
938	<listitem>
939	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
940	enumerating logged in users</para>
941	</listitem>
942
943	<listitem>
944	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
949	</listitem>
950
951	<listitem>
952	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
953	</listitem>
954
955	<listitem>
956	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
957	in the event of a VM crash</para>
958	</listitem>
959
960	<listitem>
961	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
962	</listitem>
963
964	<listitem>
965	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
966	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
967	</listitem>
968
969	<listitem>
970	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
971	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
972	</listitem>
973
974	<listitem>
975	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
976	(bug #7448)</para>
977	</listitem>
978
979	<listitem>
980	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
981	</listitem>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
989	</listitem>
990
991	</itemizedlist>
992
993	</sect1>
994
995	<sect1>
996	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
997
998	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
999	added:</para>
1000
1001	<itemizedlist>
1002
1003	<listitem>
1004	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
1005	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
1006	</listitem>
1007
1008	<listitem>
1009	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
1010	</listitem>
1011
1012	<listitem>
1013	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
1014	bug #6809)</para>
1015	</listitem>
1016
1017	<listitem>
1018	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
1023	</listitem>
1024
1025	<listitem>
1026	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
1027	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
1028	</listitem>
1029
1030	<listitem>
1031	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
1032	changes</para>
1033	</listitem>
1034
1035	<listitem>
1036	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
1037	</listitem>
1038
1039	<listitem>
1040	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
1041	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
1042	</listitem>
1043
1044	<listitem>
1045	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
1046	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
1047	</listitem>
1048
1049	<listitem>
1050	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
1051	</listitem>
1052
1053	<listitem>
1054	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
1055	</listitem>
1056
1057	<listitem>
1058	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
1059	</listitem>
1060
1061	<listitem>
1062	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
1063	</listitem>
1064
1065	<listitem>
1066	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
1067	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
1068	</listitem>
1069
1070	<listitem>
1071	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
1076	(bug #6832)</para>
1077	</listitem>
1078
1079	<listitem>
1080	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
1081	guests</para>
1082	</listitem>
1083
1084	<listitem>
1085	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
1086	</listitem>
1087
1088	<listitem>
1089	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
1090	without external tools and tricks</para>
1091	</listitem>
1092
1093	<listitem>
1094	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
1095	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
1096	</listitem>
1097
1098	<listitem>
1099	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
1100	</listitem>
1101
1102	<listitem>
1103	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
1104	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
1105	</listitem>
1106
1107	<listitem>
1108	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
1109	shutdown</para>
1110	</listitem>
1111
1112	<listitem>
1113	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
1114	fixes</para>
1115	</listitem>
1116
1117	<listitem>
1118	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
1119	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
1120	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
1121	</para>
1122	</listitem>
1123
1124	<listitem>
1125	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
1126	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
1127	</listitem>
1128
1129	<listitem>
1130	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
1131	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
1132	</listitem>
1133
1134	<listitem>
1135	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
1136	</para>
1137	</listitem>
1138
1139	<listitem>
1140	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
1141	</listitem>
1142
1143	<listitem>
1144	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	</itemizedlist>
1152
1153	</sect1>
1154
1155	<sect1>
1156	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
1157
1158	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1159	added:</para>
1160
1161	<itemizedlist>
1162
1163	<listitem>
1164	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
1165	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
1166	</listitem>
1167
1168	<listitem>
1169	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
1170	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
1171	</listitem>
1172
1173	<listitem>
1174	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
1175	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
1176	</listitem>
1177
1178	<listitem>
1179	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
1180	</listitem>
1181
1182	<listitem>
1183	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
1188	</listitem>
1189
1190	<listitem>
1191	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
1192	</listitem>
1193
1194	<listitem>
1195	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
1196	assigned</para>
1197	</listitem>
1198
1199	<listitem>
1200	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
1201	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
1202	</listitem>
1203
1204	<listitem>
1205	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
1206	multiple screens are enabled</para>
1207	</listitem>
1208
1209	<listitem>
1210	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1211	</listitem>
1212
1213	<listitem>
1214	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
1215	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
1216	</listitem>
1217
1218	<listitem>
1219	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
1220	again (bug #7022).
1221	</para>
1222	</listitem>
1223
1224	<listitem>
1225	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
1226	(bug #6768)</para>
1227	</listitem>
1228
1229	<listitem>
1230	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
1231	(bug #6927)</para>
1232	</listitem>
1233
1234	<listitem>
1235	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
1236	bug #7031)</para>
1237	</listitem>
1238
1239	<listitem>
1240	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
1241	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
1242	</listitem>
1243
1244	<listitem>
1245	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1246	bug #6987)</para>
1247	</listitem>
1248
1249	<listitem>
1250	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
1251	</listitem>
1252
1253	<listitem>
1254	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
1259	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
1264	</listitem>
1265
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
1268	installation (bug #5101)</para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
1273	</listitem>
1274
1275	<listitem>
1276	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1277	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1278	bug #6872)</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1287	(performance tweak)</para>
1288	</listitem>
1289
1290	<listitem>
1291	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1292	is currently paused</para>
1293	</listitem>
1294
1295	<listitem>
1296	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1297	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1298	</listitem>
1299
1300	<listitem>
1301	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1302	</listitem>
1303
1304	<listitem>
1305	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1306	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1307	</listitem>
1308
1309	<listitem>
1310	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1311	not properly saved</para>
1312	</listitem>
1313
1314	<listitem>
1315	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1316	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1317	</listitem>
1318
1319	<listitem>
1320	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1321	</listitem>
1322
1323	<listitem>
1324	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1325	</listitem>
1326
1327	<listitem>
1328	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1329	</listitem>
1330
1331	<listitem>
1332	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1333	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1334	</listitem>
1335
1336	<listitem>
1337	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1338	</listitem>
1339
1340	<listitem>
1341	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1342	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1343	</listitem>
1344
1345	<listitem>
1346	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1347	(bug #5251)</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1352	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1353	</listitem>
1354
1355	<listitem>
1356	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1357	</listitem>
1358
1359	<listitem>
1360	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1361	</listitem>
1362
1363	<listitem>
1364	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1365	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1366	</listitem>
1367
1368	<listitem>
1369	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1370	</listitem>
1371
1372	<listitem>
1373	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1374	</listitem>
1375
1376	<listitem>
1377	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1378	</listitem>
1379
1380	</itemizedlist>
1381	</sect1>
1382
1383	<sect1>
1384	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1385
1386	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1387	added:</para>
1388
1389	<itemizedlist>
1390
1391	<listitem>
1392	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1393	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1394	</listitem>
1395
1396	<listitem>
1397	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1398	</listitem>
1399
1400	<listitem>
1401	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1402	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1403	</listitem>
1404
1405	<listitem>
1406	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1407	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1408	</listitem>
1409
1410	<listitem>
1411	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1412	</listitem>
1413
1414	<listitem>
1415	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1416	again (bug #6864)</para>
1417	</listitem>
1418
1419	<listitem>
1420	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1421	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1422	</listitem>
1423
1424	<listitem>
1425	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1426	</listitem>
1427
1428	<listitem>
1429	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1430	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1431	</listitem>
1432
1433	<listitem>
1434	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	</itemizedlist>
1438
1439	</sect1>
1440
1441	<sect1>
1442	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1443
1444	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1445	added:</para>
1446
1447	<itemizedlist>
1448
1449	<listitem>
1450	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1451	</listitem>
1452
1453	<listitem>
1454	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1455	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1456	</listitem>
1457
1458	<listitem>
1459	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1460	</listitem>
1461
1462	<listitem>
1463	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1464	state</para>
1465	</listitem>
1466
1467	<listitem>
1468	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1469	</listitem>
1470
1471	<listitem>
1472	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1473	</listitem>
1474
1475	<listitem>
1476	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1477	</listitem>
1478
1479	<listitem>
1480	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1485	</listitem>
1486
1487	<listitem>
1488	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1489	</listitem>
1490
1491	<listitem>
1492	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1497	</listitem>
1498
1499	<listitem>
1500	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1501	</listitem>
1502
1503	<listitem>
1504	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1505	</listitem>
1506
1507	<listitem>
1508	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1509	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1510	</listitem>
1511
1512	<listitem>
1513	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1514	(bug #6784)</para>
1515	</listitem>
1516
1517	<listitem>
1518	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1519	</listitem>
1520
1521	<listitem>
1522	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1523	</listitem>
1524
1525	<listitem>
1526	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1527	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1528	</listitem>
1529
1530	<listitem>
1531	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1536	</listitem>
1537
1538	<listitem>
1539	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1540	host only</para>
1541	</listitem>
1542
1543	<listitem>
1544	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1545	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1546	</listitem>
1547
1548	<listitem>
1549	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1550	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1551	</listitem>
1552
1553	<listitem>
1554	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1555	</listitem>
1556
1557	<listitem>
1558	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1559	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1560	</listitem>
1561
1562	<listitem>
1563	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1564	</listitem>
1565
1566	<listitem>
1567	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1568	</listitem>
1569
1570	<listitem>
1571	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1572	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1573	</listitem>
1574
1575	<listitem>
1576	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1581	</listitem>
1582
1583	<listitem>
1584	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1585	</listitem>
1586
1587	<listitem>
1588	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1589	(bug #6714)</para>
1590	</listitem>
1591
1592	<listitem>
1593	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1594	</listitem>
1595
1596	<listitem>
1597	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1598	</listitem>
1599
1600	<listitem>
1601	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1602	</listitem>
1603
1604	<listitem>
1605	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1606	</listitem>
1607
1608	<listitem>
1609	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1610	</listitem>
1611
1612	</itemizedlist>
1613
1614	</sect1>
1615
1616	<sect1>
1617	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1618
1619	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1620	were added:</para>
1621
1622	<itemizedlist>
1623
1624	<listitem>
1625	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1626	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1627	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1628	</listitem>
1629
1630	<listitem>
1631	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1632	</listitem>
1633
1634	<listitem>
1635	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1636	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1637	</listitem>
1638
1639	<listitem>
1640	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1641	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1642	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1643	</listitem>
1644
1645	<listitem>
1646	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1647	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1648	</listitem>
1649
1650	<listitem>
1651	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1652	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1653	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1654	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1655	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1656	</listitem>
1657
1658	<listitem>
1659	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1660	</listitem>
1661
1662	<listitem>
1663	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1664	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1665	</listitem>
1666
1667	<listitem>
1668	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1669	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1670	</listitem>
1671
1672	<listitem>
1673	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1674	</listitem>
1675
1676	<listitem>
1677	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
1678	</listitem>
1679
1680	<listitem>
1681	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1682	</listitem>
1683
1684	<listitem>
1685	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1686	</listitem>
1687
1688	<listitem>
1689	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1690	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1691	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1692	</listitem>
1693
1694	<listitem>
1695	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1696	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	</itemizedlist>
1700
1701	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1702
1703	<itemizedlist>
1704
1705	<listitem>
1706	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1707	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1708	</listitem>
1709
1710	<listitem>
1711	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1712	</listitem>
1713
1714	<listitem>
1715	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1716	VM</para>
1717	</listitem>
1718
1719	<listitem>
1720	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1721	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1722	</listitem>
1723
1724	<listitem>
1725	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1726	#1669)</para>
1727	</listitem>
1728
1729	<listitem>
1730	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1731	#6442)</para>
1732	</listitem>
1733
1734	<listitem>
1735	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1736	combination (bug #684)</para>
1737	</listitem>
1738
1739	<listitem>
1740	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1741	the VM from the GUI</para>
1742	</listitem>
1743
1744	<listitem>
1745	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1746	medium is not accessible</para>
1747	</listitem>
1748
1749	<listitem>
1750	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1751	</listitem>
1752
1753	<listitem>
1754	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1755	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1756	</listitem>
1757
1758	<listitem>
1759	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1760	#3106)</para>
1761	</listitem>
1762
1763	<listitem>
1764	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1765	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1766	it</para>
1767	</listitem>
1768
1769	<listitem>
1770	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1771	</listitem>
1772
1773	<listitem>
1774	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1775	</listitem>
1776
1777	<listitem>
1778	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1779	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1780	</listitem>
1781
1782	<listitem>
1783	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1784	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1785	</listitem>
1786
1787	<listitem>
1788	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1789	</listitem>
1790
1791	<listitem>
1792	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1793	</listitem>
1794
1795	<listitem>
1796	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1797	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1806	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1815	in VirtualBox</para>
1816	</listitem>
1817
1818	<listitem>
1819	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1820	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1825	VirtualBox</para>
1826	</listitem>
1827
1828	<listitem>
1829	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1830	</listitem>
1831
1832	<listitem>
1833	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1834	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1835	</listitem>
1836
1837	</itemizedlist>
1838	</sect1>
1839
1840	<sect1>
1841	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1842
1843	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1844	added:</para>
1845
1846	<itemizedlist>
1847
1848	<listitem>
1849	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1850	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1851	</listitem>
1852
1853	<listitem>
1854	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1855	</listitem>
1856
1857	<listitem>
1858	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1859	</listitem>
1860
1861	<listitem>
1862	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1863	only) </para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1868	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1869	</listitem>
1870
1871	<listitem>
1872	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1873	interface version</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1878	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1879	slot empty</para>
1880	</listitem>
1881
1882	<listitem>
1883	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1884	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1885	(bug #4220)</para>
1886	</listitem>
1887
1888	<listitem>
1889	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1890	</listitem>
1891
1892	<listitem>
1893	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1894	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1895	</listitem>
1896
1897	<listitem>
1898	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1899	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1900	</listitem>
1901
1902	<listitem>
1903	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1904	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1905	</listitem>
1906
1907	<listitem>
1908	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1909	attached</para>
1910	</listitem>
1911
1912	<listitem>
1913	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1914	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1915	</listitem>
1916
1917	<listitem>
1918	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1919	</listitem>
1920
1921	<listitem>
1922	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1923	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1924	</listitem>
1925
1926	<listitem>
1927	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1928	is bug #6408)</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	<listitem>
1932	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1933	</listitem>
1934
1935	<listitem>
1936	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1937	fail to initialize</para>
1938	</listitem>
1939
1940	<listitem>
1941	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1946	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1951	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1952	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1953	</listitem>
1954
1955	<listitem>
1956	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1957	</listitem>
1958
1959	<listitem>
1960	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1961	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1962	</listitem>
1963
1964	<listitem>
1965	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1966	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1967	</listitem>
1968
1969	<listitem>
1970	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1971	(bug #6435)</para>
1972	</listitem>
1973
1974	<listitem>
1975	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1976	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
1977	</listitem>
1978
1979	<listitem>
1980	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
1981	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
1982	(bug #6488)</para>
1983	</listitem>
1984
1985	<listitem>
1986	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
1987	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
1988	</listitem>
1989
1990	<listitem>
1991	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1992	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1993	</listitem>
1994
1995	<listitem>
1996	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
1997	#5227)</para>
1998	</listitem>
1999
2000	<listitem>
2001	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
2002	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
2003	</listitem>
2004
2005	<listitem>
2006	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
2007	</listitem>
2008
2009	<listitem>
2010	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
2011	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
2012	</listitem>
2013
2014	</itemizedlist>
2015	</sect1>
2016
2017	<sect1>
2018	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
2019
2020	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2021	added:</para>
2022
2023	<itemizedlist>
2024
2025	<listitem>
2026	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
2027	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
2028	</listitem>
2029
2030	<listitem>
2031	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
2032	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
2033	</listitem>
2034
2035	<listitem>
2036	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
2037	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
2038	</listitem>
2039
2040	<listitem>
2041	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
2042	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
2043	</listitem>
2044
2045	<listitem>
2046	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
2047	</listitem>
2048
2049	<listitem>
2050	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
2051	</listitem>
2052
2053	<listitem>
2054	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
2055	</listitem>
2056
2057	<listitem>
2058	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
2059	</listitem>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
2063	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
2068	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
2069	</listitem>
2070
2071	<listitem>
2072	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
2073	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
2074	</listitem>
2075
2076	<listitem>
2077	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
2078	</listitem>
2079
2080	<listitem>
2081	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
2082	</listitem>
2083
2084	<listitem>
2085	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
2086	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	<listitem>
2090	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
2091	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
2092	calls (bug #6165)</para>
2093	</listitem>
2094
2095	<listitem>
2096	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
2097	(bug #5297)</para>
2098	</listitem>
2099
2100	<listitem>
2101	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
2102	(bug #4962)</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
2107	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
2112	(bug #6176)</para>
2113	</listitem>
2114
2115	<listitem>
2116	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
2117	certain circumstances</para>
2118	</listitem>
2119
2120	<listitem>
2121	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
2122	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
2123	</listitem>
2124
2125	<listitem>
2126	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
2127	</listitem>
2128
2129	<listitem>
2130	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
2131	</listitem>
2132
2133	<listitem>
2134	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
2135	(bug #3571)</para>
2136	</listitem>
2137
2138	<listitem>
2139	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
2140	devices</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	<listitem>
2144	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
2145	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
2146	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
2147	</listitem>
2148
2149	<listitem>
2150	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
2151	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
2152	</listitem>
2153
2154	<listitem>
2155	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
2156	</listitem>
2157
2158	<listitem>
2159	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
2160	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
2161	</listitem>
2162
2163	<listitem>
2164	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
2165	response</para>
2166	</listitem>
2167
2168	<listitem>
2169	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
2170	</listitem>
2171
2172	<listitem>
2173	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
2174	</listitem>
2175
2176	<listitem>
2177	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
2178	</listitem>
2179
2180	<listitem>
2181	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
2182	</listitem>
2183
2184	<listitem>
2185	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
2186	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
2191	</listitem>
2192
2193	<listitem>
2194	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
2195	</listitem>
2196
2197	<listitem>
2198	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
2199	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
2200	</listitem>
2201
2202	<listitem>
2203	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
2204	</listitem>
2205
2206	<listitem>
2207	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
2208	</listitem>
2209
2210	<listitem>
2211	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
2212	</listitem>
2213
2214	<listitem>
2215	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
2216	</listitem>
2217
2218	</itemizedlist>
2219	</sect1>
2220
2221	<sect1>
2222	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
2223
2224	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2225	added:</para>
2226
2227	<itemizedlist>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
2235	</listitem>
2236
2237	<listitem>
2238	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
2239	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
2240	</listitem>
2241
2242	<listitem>
2243	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
2244	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
2245	</listitem>
2246
2247	<listitem>
2248	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
2249	(bug #3945)</para>
2250	</listitem>
2251
2252	<listitem>
2253	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
2254	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
2259	and AMD-V only) </para>
2260	</listitem>
2261
2262	<listitem>
2263	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
2264	</listitem>
2265
2266	<listitem>
2267	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
2268	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
2269	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
2270	</listitem>
2271
2272	<listitem>
2273	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
2274	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
2275	</listitem>
2276
2277	<listitem>
2278	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2279	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2280	</listitem>
2281
2282	<listitem>
2283	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2284	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2285	</listitem>
2286
2287	<listitem>
2288	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2289	snapshots command</para>
2290	</listitem>
2291
2292	<listitem>
2293	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2294	</listitem>
2295
2296	<listitem>
2297	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2298	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2299	</listitem>
2300
2301	<listitem>
2302	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2303	</listitem>
2304
2305	<listitem>
2306	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2307	</listitem>
2308
2309	<listitem>
2310	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2311	</listitem>
2312
2313	<listitem>
2314	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2315	(KWin bug)</para>
2316	</listitem>
2317
2318	<listitem>
2319	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2320	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2321	</listitem>
2322
2323	<listitem>
2324	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2325	</listitem>
2326
2327	<listitem>
2328	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2329	</listitem>
2330
2331	<listitem>
2332	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2333	</listitem>
2334
2335	<listitem>
2336	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2341	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2342	</listitem>
2343
2344	<listitem>
2345	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2346	bug #5787)</para>
2347	</listitem>
2348
2349	<listitem>
2350	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2351	DHCP requests</para>
2352	</listitem>
2353
2354	<listitem>
2355	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2356	(bug #3217)</para>
2357	</listitem>
2358
2359	<listitem>
2360	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2361	range (bug #5923)</para>
2362	</listitem>
2363
2364	<listitem>
2365	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2366	</listitem>
2367
2368	<listitem>
2369	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2374	</listitem>
2375
2376	<listitem>
2377	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2378	</listitem>
2379
2380	<listitem>
2381	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2382	file (bug #5681)</para>
2383	</listitem>
2384
2385	<listitem>
2386	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2387	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2388	</listitem>
2389
2390	<listitem>
2391	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2392	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2393	</listitem>
2394
2395	<listitem>
2396	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2397	regression)</para>
2398	</listitem>
2399
2400	<listitem>
2401	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2402	</listitem>
2403
2404	<listitem>
2405	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2406	</listitem>
2407
2408	<listitem>
2409	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2410	</listitem>
2411
2412	<listitem>
2413	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2414	</listitem>
2415
2416	<listitem>
2417	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2418	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2419	</listitem>
2420
2421	<listitem>
2422	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2423	</listitem>
2424
2425	<listitem>
2426	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2427	</listitem>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2431	</listitem>
2432
2433	<listitem>
2434	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2435	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2440	</listitem>
2441
2442	<listitem>
2443	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2444	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2445	</listitem>
2446
2447	<listitem>
2448	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2449	</listitem>
2450
2451	<listitem>
2452	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2453	</listitem>
2454
2455	<listitem>
2456	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2457	</listitem>
2458
2459	<listitem>
2460	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2461	(bug #5731)</para>
2462	</listitem>
2463
2464	<listitem>
2465	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2466	again</para>
2467	</listitem>
2468
2469	</itemizedlist>
2470
2471	</sect1>
2472
2473	<sect1>
2474	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2475
2476	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2477	added:</para>
2478
2479	<itemizedlist>
2480
2481	<listitem>
2482	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2483	</listitem>
2484
2485	<listitem>
2486	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2487	</listitem>
2488
2489	<listitem>
2490	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2491	</listitem>
2492
2493	<listitem>
2494	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2495	</listitem>
2496
2497	<listitem>
2498	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2499	</listitem>
2500
2501	<listitem>
2502	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2503	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2504	</listitem>
2505
2506	<listitem>
2507	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2508	</listitem>
2509
2510	<listitem>
2511	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2516	</listitem>
2517
2518	<listitem>
2519	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2520	</listitem>
2521
2522	<listitem>
2523	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2524	</listitem>
2525
2526	<listitem>
2527	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2528	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2529	</listitem>
2530
2531	<listitem>
2532	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2533	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2534	</listitem>
2535
2536	<listitem>
2537	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2538	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2539	#1762)</para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2544	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2545	</listitem>
2546
2547	<listitem>
2548	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2549	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2550	</listitem>
2551
2552	<listitem>
2553	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2554	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2555	</listitem>
2556
2557	<listitem>
2558	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2559	</listitem>
2560
2561	<listitem>
2562	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2563	</listitem>
2564
2565	<listitem>
2566	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2567	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2568	</listitem>
2569
2570	<listitem>
2571	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2572	</listitem>
2573
2574	<listitem>
2575	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2576	</listitem>
2577
2578	<listitem>
2579	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2580	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2581	</listitem>
2582
2583	<listitem>
2584	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2585	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2586	</listitem>
2587
2588	<listitem>
2589	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2590	</listitem>
2591
2592	<listitem>
2593	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2594	guests</para>
2595	</listitem>
2596
2597	<listitem>
2598	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2599	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2600	</listitem>
2601
2602	<listitem>
2603	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2604	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2605	</listitem>
2606
2607	<listitem>
2608	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2609	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2610	</listitem>
2611
2612	<listitem>
2613	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2614	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2615	</listitem>
2616
2617	<listitem>
2618	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2619	</listitem>
2620
2621	<listitem>
2622	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2623	</listitem>
2624
2625	<listitem>
2626	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2631	</listitem>
2632
2633	<listitem>
2634	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2635	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2636	</listitem>
2637
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2640	</listitem>
2641
2642	</itemizedlist>
2643
2644	</sect1>
2645
2646	<sect1>
2647	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2648
2649	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2650	were added:</para>
2651
2652	<itemizedlist>
2653
2654	<listitem>
2655	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2656	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2657	</listitem>
2658
2659	<listitem>
2660	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2661	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2662	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2663	</listitem>
2664
2665	<listitem>
2666	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2667	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2668	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2669	</listitem>
2670
2671	<listitem>
2672	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2673	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2674	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2675	</listitem>
2676
2677	<listitem>
2678	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2679	running</para>
2680	</listitem>
2681
2682	<listitem>
2683	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2684	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2685	</listitem>
2686
2687	<listitem>
2688	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2689	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2690	</listitem>
2691
2692	<listitem>
2693	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2694	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2695	</listitem>
2696
2697	<listitem>
2698	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2699	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2700	</listitem>
2701
2702	</itemizedlist>
2703
2704	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2705
2706	<itemizedlist>
2707
2708	<listitem>
2709	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2710	</listitem>
2711
2712	<listitem>
2713	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2714	</listitem>
2715
2716	<listitem>
2717	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2718	</listitem>
2719
2720	<listitem>
2721	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2722	(bug #5291)</para>
2723	</listitem>
2724
2725	<listitem>
2726	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2727	</listitem>
2728
2729	<listitem>
2730	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2731	</listitem>
2732
2733	<listitem>
2734	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2735	</listitem>
2736
2737	<listitem>
2738	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2739	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2740	</listitem>
2741
2742	<listitem>
2743	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2744	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2745	</listitem>
2746
2747	<listitem>
2748	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2749	</listitem>
2750
2751	<listitem>
2752	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2753	</listitem>
2754
2755	<listitem>
2756	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2757	</listitem>
2758
2759	<listitem>
2760	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2761	</listitem>
2762
2763	<listitem>
2764	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2765	</listitem>
2766
2767	<listitem>
2768	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2769	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2770	</listitem>
2771
2772	<listitem>
2773	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2774	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2775	</listitem>
2776
2777	<listitem>
2778	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2779	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2780	</listitem>
2781
2782	<listitem>
2783	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2784	(bug #2723)</para>
2785	</listitem>
2786
2787	<listitem>
2788	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2789	</listitem>
2790
2791	<listitem>
2792	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2793	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2794	</listitem>
2795
2796	<listitem>
2797	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2798	optional manifest file on import</para>
2799	</listitem>
2800
2801	<listitem>
2802	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2803	</listitem>
2804
2805	<listitem>
2806	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2807	(bug #3773)</para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2816	</listitem>
2817
2818	<listitem>
2819	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2820	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2821	</listitem>
2822
2823	<listitem>
2824	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2825	(bug #4866)</para>
2826	</listitem>
2827
2828	<listitem>
2829	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2830	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2835	certain conditions</para>
2836	</listitem>
2837
2838	<listitem>
2839	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2840	</listitem>
2841
2842	<listitem>
2843	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2844	</listitem>
2845
2846	<listitem>
2847	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2848	</listitem>
2849
2850	<listitem>
2851	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2856	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2857	</listitem>
2858
2859	<listitem>
2860	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2861	</listitem>
2862
2863	<listitem>
2864	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2865	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2866	</listitem>
2867
2868	<listitem>
2869	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2870	</listitem>
2871
2872	<listitem>
2873	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2874	</listitem>
2875
2876	<listitem>
2877	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2878	</listitem>
2879
2880	<listitem>
2881	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2882	</listitem>
2883
2884	<listitem>
2885	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2886	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2887	</listitem>
2888
2889	<listitem>
2890	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2891	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2892	(bug #928)</para>
2893	</listitem>
2894
2895	<listitem>
2896	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2897	</listitem>
2898
2899	</itemizedlist>
2900
2901	</sect1>
2902
2903	<sect1>
2904	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2905
2906	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2907	added:</para>
2908
2909	<itemizedlist>
2910
2911	<listitem>
2912	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2913	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2914	</listitem>
2915
2916	<listitem>
2917	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2918	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2919	</listitem>
2920
2921	<listitem>
2922	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2923	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2924	</listitem>
2925
2926	<listitem>
2927	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2928	enabled</para>
2929	</listitem>
2930
2931	<listitem>
2932	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2933	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2934	</listitem>
2935
2936	<listitem>
2937	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2938	(bug #2676)</para>
2939	</listitem>
2940
2941	<listitem>
2942	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2943	is connected to a raw file</para>
2944	</listitem>
2945
2946	<listitem>
2947	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2948	(bug #5355)</para>
2949	</listitem>
2950
2951	<listitem>
2952	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2953	</listitem>
2954
2955	<listitem>
2956	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2957	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2958	</listitem>
2959
2960	<listitem>
2961	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2962	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2963	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2964	</listitem>
2965
2966	<listitem>
2967	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2968	</listitem>
2969
2970	<listitem>
2971	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2972	</listitem>
2973
2974	<listitem>
2975	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2976	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
2977	</listitem>
2978
2979	<listitem>
2980	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
2981	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
2982	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	</itemizedlist>
2986
2987	</sect1>
2988
2989	<sect1>
2990	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
2991
2992	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2993	added:</para>
2994
2995	<itemizedlist>
2996
2997	<listitem>
2998	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
2999	</listitem>
3000
3001	<listitem>
3002	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
3003	</listitem>
3004
3005	<listitem>
3006	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
3007	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
3008	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
3009	</listitem>
3010
3011	<listitem>
3012	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
3013	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
3014	</listitem>
3015
3016	<listitem>
3017	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
3018	</listitem>
3019
3020	<listitem>
3021	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
3022	</listitem>
3023
3024	<listitem>
3025	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
3030	</listitem>
3031
3032	<listitem>
3033	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
3034	</listitem>
3035
3036	<listitem>
3037	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
3038	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
3039	</listitem>
3040
3041	<listitem>
3042	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
3043	</listitem>
3044
3045	<listitem>
3046	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
3047	</listitem>
3048
3049	<listitem>
3050	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
3051	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
3052	</listitem>
3053
3054	<listitem>
3055	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
3056	</listitem>
3057
3058	<listitem>
3059	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
3060	exhaustion</para>
3061	</listitem>
3062
3063	<listitem>
3064	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
3065	</listitem>
3066
3067	<listitem>
3068	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
3069	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
3070	</listitem>
3071
3072	<listitem>
3073	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
3074	folders (bug #4106)</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
3079	folders (bug #4299)</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
3084	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
3085	(bug #2921)</para>
3086	</listitem>
3087
3088	<listitem>
3089	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
3090	hosts only)</para>
3091	</listitem>
3092
3093	<listitem>
3094	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
3095	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
3096	</listitem>
3097
3098	<listitem>
3099	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
3100	</listitem>
3101
3102	<listitem>
3103	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
3104	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
3105	</listitem>
3106
3107	<listitem>
3108	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
3109	</listitem>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
3113	image inconsistency </para>
3114	</listitem>
3115
3116	<listitem>
3117	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
3118	</listitem>
3119
3120	<listitem>
3121	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
3122	</listitem>
3123
3124	<listitem>
3125	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
3126	(bug #2025)</para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
3131	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	</itemizedlist>
3135
3136	</sect1>
3137
3138	<sect1>
3139	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
3140
3141	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3142	added:</para>
3143
3144	<itemizedlist>
3145
3146	<listitem>
3147	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
3148	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
3149	</listitem>
3150
3151	<listitem>
3152	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
3153	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
3154	</listitem>
3155
3156	<listitem>
3157	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
3158	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
3159	</listitem>
3160
3161	<listitem>
3162	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
3163	</listitem>
3164
3165	<listitem>
3166	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
3167	software virtualization only) </para>
3168	</listitem>
3169
3170	<listitem>
3171	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
3172	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
3173	</listitem>
3174
3175	<listitem>
3176	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
3177	with root privileges</para>
3178	</listitem>
3179
3180	<listitem>
3181	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
3182	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
3183	</listitem>
3184
3185	<listitem>
3186	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
3187	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
3188	</listitem>
3189
3190	<listitem>
3191	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
3192	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
3193	</listitem>
3194
3195	<listitem>
3196	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
3197	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
3198	selector (bug #5063)</para>
3199	</listitem>
3200
3201	<listitem>
3202	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
3203	available</para>
3204	</listitem>
3205
3206	<listitem>
3207	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
3208	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
3209	</listitem>
3210
3211	<listitem>
3212	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
3213	networking (bug #4775)</para>
3214	</listitem>
3215
3216	<listitem>
3217	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
3218	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
3219	</listitem>
3220
3221	<listitem>
3222	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
3223	(bug #4907)</para>
3224	</listitem>
3225
3226	<listitem>
3227	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
3228	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
3229	</listitem>
3230
3231	<listitem>
3232	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
3233	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
3234	</listitem>
3235
3236	<listitem>
3237	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
3238	</listitem>
3239
3240	<listitem>
3241	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
3246	</listitem>
3247
3248	<listitem>
3249	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
3250	</listitem>
3251
3252	<listitem>
3253	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
3254	are installed</para>
3255	</listitem>
3256
3257	<listitem>
3258	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
3259	(bug #4771)</para>
3260	</listitem>
3261
3262	<listitem>
3263	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
3264	</listitem>
3265
3266	<listitem>
3267	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
3268	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
3269	</listitem>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
3273	command</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3278	</listitem>
3279
3280	<listitem>
3281	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3282	</listitem>
3283
3284	<listitem>
3285	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3286	(bug #5089)</para>
3287	</listitem>
3288
3289	<listitem>
3290	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3291	</listitem>
3292
3293	</itemizedlist>
3294
3295	</sect1>
3296
3297	<sect1>
3298	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3299
3300	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3301	added:</para>
3302
3303	<itemizedlist>
3304
3305	<listitem>
3306	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3307	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3308	</listitem>
3309
3310	<listitem>
3311	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3312	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3313	</listitem>
3314
3315	<listitem>
3316	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3317	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3318	</listitem>
3319
3320	<listitem>
3321	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3322	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3323	</listitem>
3324
3325	<listitem>
3326	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3327	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3328	</listitem>
3329
3330	<listitem>
3331	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3332	</listitem>
3333
3334	<listitem>
3335	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3336	</listitem>
3337
3338	<listitem>
3339	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3344	</listitem>
3345
3346	<listitem>
3347	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3348	</listitem>
3349
3350	<listitem>
3351	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3352	onlined or offlined</para>
3353	</listitem>
3354
3355	<listitem>
3356	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3357	</listitem>
3358
3359	<listitem>
3360	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3361	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3362	</listitem>
3363
3364	<listitem>
3365	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3366	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3367	</listitem>
3368
3369	<listitem>
3370	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3371	</listitem>
3372
3373	<listitem>
3374	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3375	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3388	</listitem>
3389
3390	<listitem>
3391	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3392	</listitem>
3393
3394	<listitem>
3395	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3396	</listitem>
3397
3398	<listitem>
3399	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3400	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3401	</listitem>
3402
3403	<listitem>
3404	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3405	</listitem>
3406
3407	<listitem>
3408	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3409	</listitem>
3410
3411	<listitem>
3412	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3417	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3422	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3423	</listitem>
3424
3425	<listitem>
3426	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3427	</listitem>
3428
3429	<listitem>
3430	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3431	</listitem>
3432
3433	<listitem>
3434	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3435	</listitem>
3436
3437	<listitem>
3438	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3439	</listitem>
3440
3441	<listitem>
3442	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3443	</listitem>
3444
3445	<listitem>
3446	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3447	</listitem>
3448
3449	<listitem>
3450	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3451	</listitem>
3452
3453	<listitem>
3454	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3455	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3456	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3457	phase collapse</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3462	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3467	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3472	</listitem>
3473
3474	<listitem>
3475	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3476	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	<listitem>
3480	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3481	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3486	</listitem>
3487
3488	<listitem>
3489	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3490	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3491	#4698, #4790)</para>
3492	</listitem>
3493
3494	<listitem>
3495	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3496	less than the configured range</para>
3497	</listitem>
3498
3499	<listitem>
3500	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3501	</listitem>
3502
3503	<listitem>
3504	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3505	</listitem>
3506
3507	<listitem>
3508	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	<listitem>
3512	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3513	</listitem>
3514
3515	<listitem>
3516	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3517	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3518	</listitem>
3519
3520	<listitem>
3521	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3522	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3523	</listitem>
3524
3525	<listitem>
3526	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3527	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3528	</listitem>
3529
3530	<listitem>
3531	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3532	</listitem>
3533
3534	<listitem>
3535	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3536	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3537	</listitem>
3538
3539	<listitem>
3540	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3541	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3542	</listitem>
3543
3544	<listitem>
3545	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3546	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3547	</listitem>
3548
3549	<listitem>
3550	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3551	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3552	</listitem>
3553
3554	<listitem>
3555	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3556	</listitem>
3557
3558	<listitem>
3559	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	</itemizedlist>
3563
3564	</sect1>
3565
3566	<sect1>
3567	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3568
3569	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3570	added:</para>
3571
3572	<itemizedlist>
3573
3574	<listitem>
3575	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3576	</listitem>
3577
3578	<listitem>
3579	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3580	</listitem>
3581
3582	<listitem>
3583	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3584	</listitem>
3585
3586	<listitem>
3587	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3588	</listitem>
3589
3590	<listitem>
3591	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3592	</listitem>
3593
3594	<listitem>
3595	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3596	</listitem>
3597
3598	<listitem>
3599	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3600	</listitem>
3601
3602	<listitem>
3603	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3604	</listitem>
3605
3606	<listitem>
3607	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3608	</listitem>
3609
3610	<listitem>
3611	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3612	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3613	</listitem>
3614
3615	<listitem>
3616	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3617	</listitem>
3618
3619	<listitem>
3620	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3621	</listitem>
3622
3623	<listitem>
3624	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3625	</listitem>
3626
3627	<listitem>
3628	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3629	</listitem>
3630
3631	<listitem>
3632	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3633	</listitem>
3634
3635	<listitem>
3636	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3641	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3646	(bug #4654)</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3651	</listitem>
3652
3653	<listitem>
3654	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3655	interfaces</para>
3656	</listitem>
3657
3658	<listitem>
3659	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3660	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3661	</listitem>
3662
3663	<listitem>
3664	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3665	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3666	</listitem>
3667
3668	<listitem>
3669	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3670	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3671	</listitem>
3672
3673	<listitem>
3674	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3675	(bug #1461)</para>
3676	</listitem>
3677
3678	<listitem>
3679	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3680	</listitem>
3681
3682	<listitem>
3683	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3684	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3685	</listitem>
3686
3687	<listitem>
3688	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3689	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3690	</listitem>
3691
3692	<listitem>
3693	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3694	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3695	</listitem>
3696
3697	<listitem>
3698	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3699	</listitem>
3700
3701	<listitem>
3702	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3703	</listitem>
3704
3705	<listitem>
3706	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	<listitem>
3710	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3711	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3716	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3717	</listitem>
3718
3719	<listitem>
3720	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3721	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3722	</listitem>
3723
3724	<listitem>
3725	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3726	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3727	</listitem>
3728
3729	</itemizedlist>
3730
3731	</sect1>
3732	<sect1>
3733	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3734
3735	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3736	added:</para>
3737
3738	<itemizedlist>
3739
3740	<listitem>
3741	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3746	</listitem>
3747
3748	<listitem>
3749	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3750	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3751	</listitem>
3752
3753	<listitem>
3754	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3755	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3756	</listitem>
3757
3758	<listitem>
3759	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3760	</listitem>
3761
3762	<listitem>
3763	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3764	</listitem>
3765
3766	<listitem>
3767	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3768	</listitem>
3769
3770	<listitem>
3771	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3772	</listitem>
3773
3774	<listitem>
3775	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3776	</listitem>
3777
3778	<listitem>
3779	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3780	</listitem>
3781
3782	<listitem>
3783	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3784	</listitem>
3785
3786	<listitem>
3787	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3788	</listitem>
3789
3790	<listitem>
3791	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3792	</listitem>
3793
3794	<listitem>
3795	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3796	</listitem>
3797
3798	<listitem>
3799	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3800	</listitem>
3801
3802	<listitem>
3803	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3804	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3805	</listitem>
3806
3807	<listitem>
3808	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3809	</listitem>
3810
3811	<listitem>
3812	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3813	</listitem>
3814
3815	<listitem>
3816	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3817	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3818	</listitem>
3819
3820	<listitem>
3821	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3822	</listitem>
3823
3824	<listitem>
3825	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3826	</listitem>
3827
3828	<listitem>
3829	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3830	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3831	</listitem>
3832
3833	<listitem>
3834	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3835	</listitem>
3836
3837	<listitem>
3838	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3839	</listitem>
3840
3841	<listitem>
3842	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3843	</listitem>
3844
3845	<listitem>
3846	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3847	</listitem>
3848
3849	<listitem>
3850	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3851	</listitem>
3852
3853	<listitem>
3854	<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>
3855	</listitem>
3856
3857	</itemizedlist>
3858
3859	</sect1>
3860
3861	<sect1>
3862	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3863
3864	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3865	were added:</para>
3866
3867	<itemizedlist>
3868
3869	<listitem>
3870	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3871	</listitem>
3872
3873	<listitem>
3874	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3875	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3876	</listitem>
3877
3878	<listitem>
3879	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3880	</listitem>
3881
3882	</itemizedlist>
3883
3884	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3885
3886	<itemizedlist>
3887
3888	<listitem>
3889	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3890	</listitem>
3891
3892	<listitem>
3893	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3894	certain conditions</para>
3895	</listitem>
3896
3897	<listitem>
3898	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3899	</listitem>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3903	</listitem>
3904
3905	<listitem>
3906	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3907	</listitem>
3908
3909	<listitem>
3910	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3911	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3912	</listitem>
3913
3914	<listitem>
3915	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	<listitem>
3919	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3920	</listitem>
3921
3922	<listitem>
3923	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3924	</listitem>
3925
3926	<listitem>
3927	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3928	</listitem>
3929
3930	<listitem>
3931	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3932	</listitem>
3933
3934	<listitem>
3935	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3940	</listitem>
3941
3942	<listitem>
3943	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3944	</listitem>
3945
3946	<listitem>
3947	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3948	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3949	</listitem>
3950
3951	<listitem>
3952	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3957	</listitem>
3958
3959	<listitem>
3960	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3961	</listitem>
3962
3963	<listitem>
3964	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3965	</listitem>
3966
3967	<listitem>
3968	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3969	</listitem>
3970
3971	<listitem>
3972	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3973	</listitem>
3974
3975	<listitem>
3976	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
3977	</listitem>
3978
3979	<listitem>
3980	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
3981	</listitem>
3982
3983	<listitem>
3984	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
3985	</listitem>
3986
3987	<listitem>
3988	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
3989	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
3998	</listitem>
3999
4000	<listitem>
4001	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
4002	</listitem>
4003
4004	<listitem>
4005	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
4006	</listitem>
4007
4008	<listitem>
4009	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
4010	</listitem>
4011
4012	<listitem>
4013	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
4014	</listitem>
4015
4016	<listitem>
4017	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
4018	</listitem>
4019
4020	<listitem>
4021	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
4022	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
4023	</listitem>
4024
4025	<listitem>
4026	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
4031	</listitem>
4032
4033	<listitem>
4034	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
4035	</listitem>
4036
4037	<listitem>
4038	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
4039	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
4040	</listitem>
4041
4042	<listitem>
4043	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
4044	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
4045	</listitem>
4046
4047	<listitem>
4048	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
4049	correct file mode when creating files</para>
4050	</listitem>
4051
4052	<listitem>
4053	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
4054	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
4055	</listitem>
4056
4057	<listitem>
4058	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
4059	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
4060	</listitem>
4061
4062	<listitem>
4063	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
4064	</listitem>
4065
4066	<listitem>
4067	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
4068	</listitem>
4069
4070	<listitem>
4071	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
4072	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
4077	guest property lookup</para>
4078	</listitem>
4079
4080	<listitem>
4081	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
4082	basic network information)</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
4087	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
4088	</listitem>
4089
4090	<listitem>
4091	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
4092	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
4093	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
4094	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
4095	</listitem>
4096
4097	<listitem>
4098	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
4099	</listitem>
4100
4101	<listitem>
4102	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
4103	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
4104	web service</para>
4105	</listitem>
4106
4107	<listitem>
4108	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
4109	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
4110	</listitem>
4111
4112	<listitem>
4113	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
4114	unavailable</para>
4115	</listitem>
4116
4117	<listitem>
4118	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
4119	</listitem>
4120
4121	</itemizedlist>
4122	</sect1>
4123
4124	<sect1>
4125	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
4126
4127	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4128	added:</para>
4129
4130	<itemizedlist>
4131
4132	<listitem>
4133	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
4134	installation</para>
4135	</listitem>
4136
4137	<listitem>
4138	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
4139	</listitem>
4140
4141	<listitem>
4142	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
4143	later (bug #3981)</para>
4144	</listitem>
4145
4146	<listitem>
4147	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
4148	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
4149	</listitem>
4150
4151	<listitem>
4152	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
4153	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
4154	(bug #4034)
4155	</para>
4156	</listitem>
4157
4158	<listitem>
4159	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
4160	networking</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
4165	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
4170	clicks</para>
4171	</listitem>
4172
4173	<listitem>
4174	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
4175	Windows 7 guests</para>
4176	</listitem>
4177
4178	<listitem>
4179	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
4180	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
4181	</listitem>
4182
4183	<listitem>
4184	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
4185	</listitem>
4186
4187	<listitem>
4188	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
4189	</listitem>
4190
4191	<listitem>
4192	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
4193	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
4194	</listitem>
4195
4196	<listitem>
4197	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
4198	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
4199	</listitem>
4200
4201	<listitem>
4202	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
4203	</listitem>
4204
4205	<listitem>
4206	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
4207	</listitem>
4208
4209	<listitem>
4210	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4211	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
4212	(bug #3864)</para>
4213	</listitem>
4214
4215	<listitem>
4216	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
4217	now flushes the output stream</para>
4218	</listitem>
4219
4220	<listitem>
4221	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
4222	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
4223	</listitem>
4224
4225	<listitem>
4226	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
4227	</listitem>
4228
4229	<listitem>
4230	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
4231	</listitem>
4232
4233	<listitem>
4234	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
4235	</listitem>
4236
4237	<listitem>
4238	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
4239	</listitem>
4240
4241	<listitem>
4242	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
4243	(bug #3964)</para>
4244	</listitem>
4245
4246	<listitem>
4247	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
4248	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
4249	</listitem>
4250
4251	<listitem>
4252	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
4253	hosts</para>
4254	</listitem>
4255
4256	<listitem>
4257	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
4258	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
4259	e1000 adapter</para>
4260	</listitem>
4261
4262	<listitem>
4263	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
4264	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
4265	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
4266	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
4271	</listitem>
4272
4273	<listitem>
4274	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
4275	</listitem>
4276
4277	<listitem>
4278	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4279	</listitem>
4280
4281	<listitem>
4282	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4283	file (bug #1023)</para>
4284	</listitem>
4285
4286	<listitem>
4287	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4288	</listitem>
4289
4290	<listitem>
4291	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4292	</listitem>
4293
4294	</itemizedlist>
4295	</sect1>
4296
4297	<sect1>
4298	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4299
4300	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4301	added:</para>
4302
4303	<itemizedlist>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4307	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4308	</listitem>
4309
4310	<listitem>
4311	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4312	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4313	and later</para>
4314	</listitem>
4315
4316	<listitem>
4317	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4318	running services</para>
4319	</listitem>
4320
4321	<listitem>
4322	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4323	terminates</para>
4324	</listitem>
4325
4326	<listitem>
4327	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4328	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4329	</listitem>
4330
4331	<listitem>
4332	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4333	installed on the guest</para>
4334	</listitem>
4335
4336	<listitem>
4337	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4338	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4339	</listitem>
4340
4341	<listitem>
4342	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4343	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4344	</listitem>
4345
4346	<listitem>
4347	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4348	(bug #2628)</para>
4349	</listitem>
4350
4351	<listitem>
4352	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4353	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4354	</listitem>
4355
4356	<listitem>
4357	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4358	(bug #3657)</para>
4359	</listitem>
4360
4361	<listitem>
4362	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4363	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4364	</listitem>
4365
4366	<listitem>
4367	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4368	virtualization only)
4369	</para>
4370	</listitem>
4371
4372	<listitem>
4373	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4374	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4375	</listitem>
4376
4377	<listitem>
4378	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4379	</listitem>
4380
4381	<listitem>
4382	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4383	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4384	</listitem>
4385
4386	<listitem>
4387	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4388	bug #3689)</para>
4389	</listitem>
4390
4391	<listitem>
4392	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4393	bug #3679)</para>
4394	</listitem>
4395
4396	<listitem>
4397	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4398	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4399	</listitem>
4400
4401	<listitem>
4402	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4403	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4404	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4405	</listitem>
4406
4407	<listitem>
4408	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4409	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4414	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4415	</listitem>
4416
4417	<listitem>
4418	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4419	(bug #3667)</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4424	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4425	</listitem>
4426
4427	<listitem>
4428	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4429	</listitem>
4430
4431	<listitem>
4432	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4433	</listitem>
4434
4435	<listitem>
4436	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4437	</listitem>
4438
4439	<listitem>
4440	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4441	</listitem>
4442
4443	<listitem>
4444	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4445	</listitem>
4446
4447	<listitem>
4448	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4449	</listitem>
4450
4451	<listitem>
4452	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4453	</listitem>
4454
4455	</itemizedlist>
4456	</sect1>
4457
4458	<sect1>
4459	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4460
4461	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4462	were added:</para>
4463
4464	<itemizedlist>
4465
4466	<listitem>
4467	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	<listitem>
4475	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4476	</listitem>
4477
4478	<listitem>
4479	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4480	</listitem>
4481
4482	<listitem>
4483	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4484	</listitem>
4485
4486	<listitem>
4487	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4488	</listitem>
4489
4490	<listitem>
4491	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4492	</listitem>
4493
4494	<listitem>
4495	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4496	</listitem>
4497
4498	<listitem>
4499	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4500	</listitem>
4501
4502	<listitem>
4503	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4504	</listitem>
4505
4506	</itemizedlist>
4507
4508	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4509
4510	<itemizedlist>
4511
4512	<listitem>
4513	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4514	</listitem>
4515
4516	<listitem>
4517	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4518	</listitem>
4519
4520	<listitem>
4521	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4522	</listitem>
4523
4524	<listitem>
4525	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4526	</listitem>
4527
4528	<listitem>
4529	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4530	</listitem>
4531
4532	<listitem>
4533	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4534	</listitem>
4535
4536	<listitem>
4537	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4538	</listitem>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4542	</listitem>
4543
4544	<listitem>
4545	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4546	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4547	</listitem>
4548
4549	<listitem>
4550	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4551	</listitem>
4552
4553	<listitem>
4554	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4555	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4556	</listitem>
4557
4558	<listitem>
4559	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4560	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4561	</listitem>
4562
4563	<listitem>
4564	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4565	</listitem>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4569	</listitem>
4570
4571	<listitem>
4572	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4573	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4578	</listitem>
4579
4580	<listitem>
4581	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4582	ESX server images)</para>
4583	</listitem>
4584
4585	<listitem>
4586	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4587	writable</para>
4588	</listitem>
4589
4590	<listitem>
4591	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4592	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4593	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4594	</listitem>
4595
4596	<listitem>
4597	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4598	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4599	</listitem>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4611	hosts when creating files</para>
4612	</listitem>
4613
4614	<listitem>
4615	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4616	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4617	</listitem>
4618
4619	<listitem>
4620	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4621	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4622	#2306)</para>
4623	</listitem>
4624
4625	<listitem>
4626	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4627	(bug #3555)</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4632	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4633	</listitem>
4634
4635	<listitem>
4636	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4637	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4638	</listitem>
4639
4640	<listitem>
4641	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4642	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4643	</listitem>
4644
4645	<listitem>
4646	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4647	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4648	</listitem>
4649
4650	<listitem>
4651	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4652	(bug #3586)</para>
4653	</listitem>
4654
4655	<listitem>
4656	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4657	from Scratch systems</para>
4658	</listitem>
4659
4660	<listitem>
4661	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4662	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4663	</listitem>
4664
4665	<listitem>
4666	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4667	</listitem>
4668
4669	<listitem>
4670	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4671	default to compact format</para>
4672	</listitem>
4673
4674	<listitem>
4675	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4676	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4677	</listitem>
4678
4679	<listitem>
4680	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4681	</listitem>
4682
4683	<listitem>
4684	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4685	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4686	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4687	</listitem>
4688
4689	<listitem>
4690	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4691	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4692	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4693	</listitem>
4694
4695	<listitem>
4696	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4697	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4698	</listitem>
4699
4700	<listitem>
4701	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4702	</listitem>
4703
4704	<listitem>
4705	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4706	</listitem>
4707
4708	<listitem>
4709	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4710	</listitem>
4711
4712	<listitem>
4713	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4714	</listitem>
4715
4716	<listitem>
4717	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4718	</listitem>
4719
4720	<listitem>
4721	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4722	</listitem>
4723
4724	<listitem>
4725	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4726	</listitem>
4727
4728	<listitem>
4729	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4730	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4731	</listitem>
4732
4733	<listitem>
4734	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4735	</listitem>
4736
4737	<listitem>
4738	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4739	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4740	</listitem>
4741
4742	<listitem>
4743	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4744	</listitem>
4745
4746	<listitem>
4747	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4748	</listitem>
4749
4750	<listitem>
4751	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4752	</listitem>
4753
4754	<listitem>
4755	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4756	#2536)</para>
4757	</listitem>
4758
4759	<listitem>
4760	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4761	</listitem>
4762
4763	<listitem>
4764	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4765	(bug #3548)</para>
4766	</listitem>
4767
4768	</itemizedlist>
4769	</sect1>
4770
4771	<sect1>
4772	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4773
4774	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4775	added:</para>
4776
4777	<itemizedlist>
4778
4779	<listitem>
4780	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4781	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4782	</listitem>
4783
4784	<listitem>
4785	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4786	</listitem>
4787
4788	<listitem>
4789	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4794	</listitem>
4795
4796	<listitem>
4797	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4798	(bug #3115)</para>
4799	</listitem>
4800
4801	<listitem>
4802	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4803	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4804	</listitem>
4805
4806	<listitem>
4807	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4808	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4809	(bug #3215)</para>
4810	</listitem>
4811
4812	<listitem>
4813	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4814	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4815	</listitem>
4816
4817	<listitem>
4818	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4819	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4820	</listitem>
4821
4822	<listitem>
4823	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4824	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4825	</listitem>
4826
4827	<listitem>
4828	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4829	in parallel</para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4834	</listitem>
4835
4836	<listitem>
4837	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4842	</listitem>
4843
4844	<listitem>
4845	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4846	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4847	</listitem>
4848
4849	<listitem>
4850	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4851	</listitem>
4852
4853	<listitem>
4854	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4855	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4856	</listitem>
4857
4858	<listitem>
4859	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4860	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4861	</listitem>
4862
4863	<listitem>
4864	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4865	</listitem>
4866
4867	<listitem>
4868	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4869	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4870	</listitem>
4871
4872	<listitem>
4873	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4874	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4875	</listitem>
4876
4877	<listitem>
4878	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	<listitem>
4886	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4887	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4892	</listitem>
4893
4894	<listitem>
4895	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4896	</listitem>
4897
4898	<listitem>
4899	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4900	</listitem>
4901
4902	<listitem>
4903	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4904	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4905	</listitem>
4906
4907	<listitem>
4908	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4909	</listitem>
4910
4911	<listitem>
4912	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4913	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4914	</listitem>
4915
4916	<listitem>
4917	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4918	</listitem>
4919
4920	<listitem>
4921	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4922	</listitem>
4923
4924	<listitem>
4925	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4926	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4927	</listitem>
4928
4929	<listitem>
4930	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4931	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4932	</listitem>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4936	</listitem>
4937
4938	<listitem>
4939	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4940	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4941	</listitem>
4942
4943	<listitem>
4944	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4945	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4946	</listitem>
4947
4948	<listitem>
4949	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4950	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4951	</listitem>
4952
4953	<listitem>
4954	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4955	(bug #3213)</para>
4956	</listitem>
4957
4958	<listitem>
4959	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4960	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4961	</listitem>
4962
4963	<listitem>
4964	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4965	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4966	</listitem>
4967
4968	</itemizedlist>
4969	</sect1>
4970
4971	<sect1>
4972	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4973
4974	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4975	added:</para>
4976
4977	<itemizedlist>
4978
4979	<listitem>
4980	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
4981	</listitem>
4982
4983	<listitem>
4984	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
4985	</listitem>
4986
4987	<listitem>
4988	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
4989	</listitem>
4990
4991	<listitem>
4992	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
4993	</listitem>
4994
4995	<listitem>
4996	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
4997	</listitem>
4998
4999	<listitem>
5000	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
5001	</listitem>
5002
5003	<listitem>
5004	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
5005	</listitem>
5006
5007	<listitem>
5008	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
5009	</listitem>
5010
5011	<listitem>
5012	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
5013	</listitem>
5014
5015	<listitem>
5016	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
5017	</listitem>
5018
5019	<listitem>
5020	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
5021	</listitem>
5022
5023	<listitem>
5024	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
5025	</listitem>
5026
5027	<listitem>
5028	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
5029	</listitem>
5030
5031	<listitem>
5032	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
5033	</listitem>
5034
5035	<listitem>
5036	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
5037	</listitem>
5038
5039	<listitem>
5040	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
5041	</listitem>
5042
5043	<listitem>
5044	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
5045	(bug #3067)</para>
5046	</listitem>
5047
5048	<listitem>
5049	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
5050	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
5051	</listitem>
5052
5053	<listitem>
5054	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
5055	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
5056	</listitem>
5057
5058	<listitem>
5059	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
5060	</listitem>
5061
5062	<listitem>
5063	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
5064	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
5065	</listitem>
5066
5067	<listitem>
5068	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
5069	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5070	</listitem>
5071
5072	<listitem>
5073	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
5074	</listitem>
5075
5076	<listitem>
5077	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
5078	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
5079	</listitem>
5080
5081	<listitem>
5082	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
5083	</listitem>
5084
5085	<listitem>
5086	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
5087	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
5088	</listitem>
5089
5090	<listitem>
5091	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
5092	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
5093	</listitem>
5094
5095	<listitem>
5096	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
5097	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
5098	</para>
5099	</listitem>
5100
5101	<listitem>
5102	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
5103	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
5104	</para>
5105	</listitem>
5106
5107	<listitem>
5108	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
5109	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
5110	</para>
5111	</listitem>
5112
5113	<listitem>
5114	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
5115	</listitem>
5116
5117	<listitem>
5118	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
5119	</listitem>
5120
5121	<listitem>
5122	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
5123	</listitem>
5124
5125	<listitem>
5126	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
5127	</listitem>
5128
5129	<listitem>
5130	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
5131	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
5132	</listitem>
5133
5134	<listitem>
5135	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
5136	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
5137	</listitem>
5138
5139	<listitem>
5140	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
5141	formatting a drive</para>
5142	</listitem>
5143
5144	<listitem>
5145	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
5146	</listitem>
5147
5148	<listitem>
5149	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
5150	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5151	</listitem>
5152
5153	<listitem>
5154	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
5155	</listitem>
5156
5157	<listitem>
5158	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
5159	</listitem>
5160
5161	<listitem>
5162	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5163	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
5164	</listitem>
5165
5166	<listitem>
5167	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
5168	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
5169	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
5170	</listitem>
5171
5172	<listitem>
5173	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
5174	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
5175	</listitem>
5176
5177	<listitem>
5178	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
5179	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
5180	</listitem>
5181
5182	<listitem>
5183	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
5184	(bug #2768)</para>
5185	</listitem>
5186
5187	<listitem>
5188	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
5189	</listitem>
5190
5191	<listitem>
5192	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
5193	</listitem>
5194
5195	<listitem>
5196	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
5197	single, unified package</para>
5198	</listitem>
5199
5200	<listitem>
5201	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
5202	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
5203	</listitem>
5204
5205	<listitem>
5206	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
5207	</listitem>
5208
5209	<listitem>
5210	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
5211	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
5212	</listitem>
5213
5214	<listitem>
5215	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
5216	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
5217	</listitem>
5218
5219	<listitem>
5220	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
5221	</listitem>
5222
5223	<listitem>
5224	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
5225	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
5226	doing 3D</para>
5227	</listitem>
5228
5229	<listitem>
5230	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
5231	</listitem>
5232
5233	<listitem>
5234	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
5235	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
5236	</listitem>
5237
5238	<listitem>
5239	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
5240	</listitem>
5241
5242	<listitem>
5243	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
5244	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
5245	</listitem>
5246
5247	<listitem>
5248	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
5249	</listitem>
5250
5251	<listitem>
5252	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
5253	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
5254	</listitem>
5255
5256	<listitem>
5257	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
5258	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
5259	(bug #2938)</para>
5260	</listitem>
5261
5262	<listitem>
5263	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
5264	Linux guests</para>
5265	</listitem>
5266
5267	<listitem>
5268	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
5269	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
5270	(bug #1776)</para>
5271	</listitem>
5272
5273	<listitem>
5274	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
5275	(bug #1612)</para>
5276	</listitem>
5277
5278	<listitem>
5279	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5280	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5281	</listitem>
5282
5283	<listitem>
5284	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5285	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5286	</listitem>
5287
5288	<listitem>
5289	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5290	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5291	</listitem>
5292
5293	</itemizedlist>
5294	</sect1>
5295
5296	<sect1>
5297	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5298
5299	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5300	were added:</para>
5301
5302	<itemizedlist>
5303	<listitem>
5304	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5305	</listitem>
5306
5307	<listitem>
5308	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5309	</listitem>
5310
5311	<listitem>
5312	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	<listitem>
5316	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5317	</listitem>
5318
5319	<listitem>
5320	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5321	</listitem>
5322
5323	<listitem>
5324	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5325	</listitem>
5326
5327	<listitem>
5328	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5329	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5330	</listitem>
5331
5332	<listitem>
5333	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5334	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5335	</listitem>
5336
5337	</itemizedlist>
5338
5339	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5340
5341	<itemizedlist>
5342	<listitem>
5343	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5344	</listitem>
5345
5346	<listitem>
5347	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5348	</listitem>
5349
5350	<listitem>
5351	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5352	</listitem>
5353
5354	<listitem>
5355	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5356	</listitem>
5357
5358	<listitem>
5359	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5360	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5361	</listitem>
5362
5363	<listitem>
5364	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5365	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5366	</listitem>
5367
5368	<listitem>
5369	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5370	</listitem>
5371
5372	<listitem>
5373	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5374	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5375	</listitem>
5376
5377	<listitem>
5378	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5379	</listitem>
5380
5381	<listitem>
5382	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5383	</listitem>
5384
5385	<listitem>
5386	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5387	</listitem>
5388
5389	<listitem>
5390	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5391	</listitem>
5392
5393	<listitem>
5394	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5395	</listitem>
5396
5397	<listitem>
5398	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5399	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5400	</listitem>
5401
5402	<listitem>
5403	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5404	the compiz window manager</para>
5405	</listitem>
5406
5407	<listitem>
5408	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5409	</listitem>
5410
5411	<listitem>
5412	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5413	</listitem>
5414
5415	<listitem>
5416	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5417	</listitem>
5418
5419	<listitem>
5420	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5421	</listitem>
5422
5423	<listitem>
5424	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5429	</listitem>
5430
5431	<listitem>
5432	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5433	</listitem>
5434
5435	<listitem>
5436	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5437	</listitem>
5438
5439	<listitem>
5440	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5441	</listitem>
5442
5443	<listitem>
5444	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5445	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5446	</listitem>
5447
5448	<listitem>
5449	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5450	for direct device access</para>
5451	</listitem>
5452
5453	<listitem>
5454	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5455	</listitem>
5456
5457	<listitem>
5458	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5463	</listitem>
5464
5465	<listitem>
5466	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5467	</listitem>
5468
5469	<listitem>
5470	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5471	</listitem>
5472
5473	<listitem>
5474	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5475	</listitem>
5476
5477	<listitem>
5478	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5479	</listitem>
5480
5481	<listitem>
5482	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5483	</listitem>
5484
5485	</itemizedlist>
5486	</sect1>
5487
5488	<sect1>
5489	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5490
5491	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5492	added:</para>
5493
5494	<itemizedlist>
5495
5496	<listitem>
5497	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5498	states/snapshots</para>
5499	</listitem>
5500
5501	<listitem>
5502	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5503	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	<listitem>
5507	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5508	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5509	</listitem>
5510
5511	<listitem>
5512	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5513	collisions</para>
5514	</listitem>
5515
5516	<listitem>
5517	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5518	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5519	</listitem>
5520
5521	<listitem>
5522	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5523	</listitem>
5524
5525	<listitem>
5526	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5527	reliably</para>
5528	</listitem>
5529
5530	<listitem>
5531	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5532	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5533	</listitem>
5534
5535	<listitem>
5536	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5537	a reboot</para>
5538	</listitem>
5539
5540	<listitem>
5541	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5542	</listitem>
5543
5544	<listitem>
5545	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5546	in parallel</para>
5547	</listitem>
5548
5549	<listitem>
5550	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5551	</listitem>
5552
5553	<listitem>
5554	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5555	correctly</para>
5556	</listitem>
5557
5558	<listitem>
5559	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5560	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5561	</listitem>
5562
5563	</itemizedlist>
5564	</sect1>
5565
5566	<sect1>
5567	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5568
5569	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5570	added:</para>
5571
5572	<itemizedlist>
5573
5574	<listitem>
5575	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5576	(bug #2220)</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5581	</listitem>
5582
5583	<listitem>
5584	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5585	</listitem>
5586
5587	<listitem>
5588	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5589	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5590	</listitem>
5591
5592	<listitem>
5593	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5594	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5595	</listitem>
5596
5597	<listitem>
5598	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5599	(bug #2624)</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	<listitem>
5603	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5604	(bug #2024)</para>
5605	</listitem>
5606
5607	<listitem>
5608	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5609	</listitem>
5610
5611	<listitem>
5612	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5613	</listitem>
5614
5615	<listitem>
5616	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5617	</listitem>
5618
5619	<listitem>
5620	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5621	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5622	</listitem>
5623
5624	<listitem>
5625	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5626	applications when updating the installation</para>
5627	</listitem>
5628
5629	<listitem>
5630	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5631	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5636	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5637	</listitem>
5638
5639	<listitem>
5640	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5641	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5642	</listitem>
5643
5644	<listitem>
5645	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5646	connected to a host device</para>
5647	</listitem>
5648
5649	<listitem>
5650	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5651	</listitem>
5652
5653	<listitem>
5654	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5655	</listitem>
5656
5657	<listitem>
5658	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5659	</listitem>
5660
5661	<listitem>
5662	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5663	when using native RDP connections</para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5668	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5669	</listitem>
5670
5671	<listitem>
5672	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5673	(bug #2591)</para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5678	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5679	</listitem>
5680
5681	<listitem>
5682	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5683	</listitem>
5684
5685	</itemizedlist>
5686	</sect1>
5687
5688	<sect1>
5689	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5690
5691	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5692	added:</para>
5693
5694	<itemizedlist>
5695	<listitem>
5696	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5697	</listitem>
5698
5699	<listitem>
5700	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5701	</listitem>
5702
5703	<listitem>
5704	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5705	</listitem>
5706
5707	<listitem>
5708	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5709	</listitem>
5710
5711	<listitem>
5712	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5713	</listitem>
5714
5715	<listitem>
5716	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5717	</listitem>
5718
5719	<listitem>
5720	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5721	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5722	</listitem>
5723
5724	<listitem>
5725	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5726	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5727	</listitem>
5728
5729	<listitem>
5730	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5731	</listitem>
5732
5733	<listitem>
5734	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5735	equal to the client resolution</para>
5736	</listitem>
5737
5738	<listitem>
5739	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5740	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5741	</listitem>
5742
5743	<listitem>
5744	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5745	</listitem>
5746
5747	<listitem>
5748	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5753	</listitem>
5754
5755	<listitem>
5756	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5757	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5758	</listitem>
5759
5760	<listitem>
5761	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5762	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	<listitem>
5766	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5767	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5768	</listitem>
5769
5770	<listitem>
5771	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5772	</listitem>
5773
5774	<listitem>
5775	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5776	</listitem>
5777
5778	<listitem>
5779	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5780	</listitem>
5781
5782	<listitem>
5783	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5784	</listitem>
5785
5786	<listitem>
5787	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5788	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5793	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5798	</listitem>
5799
5800	<listitem>
5801	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5802	</listitem>
5803
5804	<listitem>
5805	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5806	</listitem>
5807
5808	</itemizedlist>
5809
5810	</sect1>
5811
5812	<sect1>
5813	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5814
5815	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5816	added:</para>
5817
5818	<itemizedlist>
5819
5820	<listitem>
5821	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5822	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5827	</listitem>
5828
5829	<listitem>
5830	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5831	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5832	</listitem>
5833
5834	<listitem>
5835	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5836	</listitem>
5837
5838	<listitem>
5839	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5840	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5841	</listitem>
5842
5843	<listitem>
5844	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5845	</listitem>
5846
5847	<listitem>
5848	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5849	the virtual disk manager</para>
5850	</listitem>
5851
5852	<listitem>
5853	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5854	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5855	</listitem>
5856
5857	<listitem>
5858	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5859	</listitem>
5860
5861	<listitem>
5862	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5863	</listitem>
5864
5865	<listitem>
5866	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5867	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5868	</listitem>
5869
5870	<listitem>
5871	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5872	bug #2067)</para>
5873	</listitem>
5874
5875	<listitem>
5876	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5877	</listitem>
5878
5879	<listitem>
5880	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5881	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5882	</listitem>
5883
5884	<listitem>
5885	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5886	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5887	(bug #2184)</para>
5888	</listitem>
5889
5890	<listitem>
5891	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5892	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5893	</listitem>
5894
5895	<listitem>
5896	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5897	(Windows guests only)</para>
5898	</listitem>
5899
5900	<listitem>
5901	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5902	</listitem>
5903
5904	<listitem>
5905	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5906	</listitem>
5907
5908	<listitem>
5909	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5910	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5911	</listitem>
5912
5913	<listitem>
5914	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5915	</listitem>
5916
5917	<listitem>
5918	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5919	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5920	</para>
5921	</listitem>
5922
5923	<listitem>
5924	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5925	</listitem>
5926
5927	<listitem>
5928	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5929	</listitem>
5930
5931	<listitem>
5932	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5933	a VM reboot</para>
5934	</listitem>
5935
5936	<listitem>
5937	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5938	</listitem>
5939
5940	<listitem>
5941	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5942	buggy X servers</para>
5943	</listitem>
5944
5945	<listitem>
5946	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5947	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5948	</listitem>
5949
5950	<listitem>
5951	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5952	</listitem>
5953
5954	<listitem>
5955	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5956	(bug #2128)</para>
5957	</listitem>
5958
5959	<listitem>
5960	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5961	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5962	</listitem>
5963
5964	<listitem>
5965	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5966	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5967	</listitem>
5968
5969	<listitem>
5970	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5971	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5972	</listitem>
5973
5974	<listitem>
5975	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5976	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
5977	</listitem>
5978
5979	<listitem>
5980	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
5981	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
5982	</listitem>
5983
5984	<listitem>
5985	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
5986	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
5987	</listitem>
5988
5989	<listitem>
5990	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
5991	installer into a single package</para>
5992	</listitem>
5993
5994	<listitem>
5995	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
5996	port to the guest
5997	</para>
5998	</listitem>
5999
6000	</itemizedlist>
6001
6002	</sect1>
6003
6004	<sect1>
6005	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
6006
6007	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6008	were added:<itemizedlist>
6009
6010	<listitem>
6011	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
6012	</listitem>
6013
6014	<listitem>
6015	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6016	</listitem>
6017
6018	<listitem>
6019	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
6020	</listitem>
6021
6022	<listitem>
6023	<para>New-version notifier</para>
6024	</listitem>
6025
6026	<listitem>
6027	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
6028	</listitem>
6029
6030	<listitem>
6031	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6032	</listitem>
6033
6034	<listitem>
6035	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
6036	</listitem>
6037
6038	<listitem>
6039	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
6040	</listitem>
6041
6042	<listitem>
6043	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
6044	</listitem>
6045
6046	<listitem>
6047	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
6048	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
6049	</listitem>
6050
6051	<listitem>
6052	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
6053	</listitem>
6054
6055	<listitem>
6056	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
6057	</listitem>
6058
6059	<listitem>
6060	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
6061	</listitem>
6062
6063	</itemizedlist></para>
6064
6065	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6066
6067	<itemizedlist>
6068
6069	<listitem>
6070	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
6071	</listitem>
6072
6073	<listitem>
6074	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
6075	</listitem>
6076
6077	<listitem>
6078	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
6079	</listitem>
6080
6081	<listitem>
6082	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
6083	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
6084	</listitem>
6085
6086	<listitem>
6087	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
6088	restored</para>
6089	</listitem>
6090
6091	<listitem>
6092	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
6093	</listitem>
6094
6095	<listitem>
6096	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
6097	</listitem>
6098
6099	<listitem>
6100	<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>
6101	</listitem>
6102
6103	</itemizedlist>
6104
6105	</sect1>
6106
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