VirtualBox

source: vbox/trunk/doc/manual/user_ChangeLogImpl.xml@ 44553

Last change on this file since 44553 was 44553, checked in by vboxsync, 12 years ago

Main/doc: prefer <HOME>/.config/VirtualBox over <HOME>/.VirtualBox for new users on platforms where XDG is relevant, user manual and change log changes.
File size: 258.9 KB
Line 
1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3 <sect1>
4 <title>Version xx.xx.0 (xxxx-xx-xx)</title>
5
6 <para>This is a major update. The following major new features
7 were added:</para>
8
9 <itemizedlist>
10
11 <listitem>
12 <para>dummy</para>
13 </listitem>
14
15 </itemizedlist>
16
17 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
18
19 <itemizedlist>
20
21 <listitem>
22 <para>dummy</para>
23 </listitem>
24
25 <listitem>
26 <para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
27 .VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
28 </listitem>
29
30 <listitem>
31 <para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
32 media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
33 option to show really all available details.</para>
34 </listitem>
35
36 <listitem>
37 <para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
38 by François Revol.</para>
39 </listitem>
40
41 </itemizedlist>
42
43 </sect1>
44
45 <sect1>
46
47 <title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
48
49 <para>This is a major update. The following major new features
50 were added:</para>
51
52 <itemizedlist>
53
54 <listitem>
55 <para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
56 </listitem>
57
58 <listitem>
59 <para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
60 </listitem>
61
62 <listitem>
63 <para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
64 </listitem>
65
66 <listitem>
67 <para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
68 </listitem>
69
70 <listitem>
71 <para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
72 ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
73 </listitem>
74
75 <listitem>
76 <para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
77 bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
78 </listitem>
79
80 <listitem>
81 <para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
82 OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
83 </listitem>
84
85 <listitem>
86 <para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
87 Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
88 planned. (bug #81)</para>
89 </listitem>
90
91 <listitem>
92 <para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
93 </listitem>
94
95 <listitem>
96 <para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
97 documentation for more information</para>
98 </listitem>
99
100 </itemizedlist>
101
102 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
103
104 <itemizedlist>
105
106 <listitem>
107 <para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
108 on Mountain Lion</para>
109 </listitem>
110
111 <listitem>
112 <para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
113 when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
114 4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
115 </listitem>
116
117 <listitem>
118 <para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
119 (seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
120 </listitem>
121
122 <listitem>
123 <para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
124 nested paging</para>
125 </listitem>
126
127 <listitem>
128 <para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
129 AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
130 </listitem>
131
132 <listitem>
133 <para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
134 (gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
135 </listitem>
136
137 <listitem>
138 <para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
139 for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
140 </listitem>
141
142 <listitem>
143 <para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
144 </listitem>
145
146 <listitem>
147 <para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
148 </listitem>
149
150 <listitem>
151 <para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
152 </listitem>
153
154 <listitem>
155 <para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
156 </listitem>
157
158 <listitem>
159 <para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
160 </listitem>
161
162 <listitem>
163 <para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
164 </listitem>
165
166 <listitem>
167 <para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
168 </listitem>
169
170 <listitem>
171 <para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
172 </listitem>
173
174 <listitem>
175 <para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
176 guests</para>
177 </listitem>
178
179 <listitem>
180 <para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
181 used ISO images</para>
182 </listitem>
183
184 <listitem>
185 <para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
186 separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
187 </listitem>
188
189 <listitem>
190 <para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
191 (bug #9973)</para>
192 </listitem>
193
194 <listitem>
195 <para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
196 (bug #9864)</para>
197 </listitem>
198
199 <listitem>
200 <para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
201 refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
202 immediately</para>
203 </listitem>
204
205 <listitem>
206 <para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
207 snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
208 </listitem>
209
210 <listitem>
211 <para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
212 (see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
213 any time using the VM menu.</para>
214 </listitem>
215
216 <listitem>
217 <para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
218 </listitem>
219
220 <listitem>
221 <para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
222 </listitem>
223
224 <listitem>
225 <para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
226 </listitem>
227
228 <listitem>
229 <para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
230 </listitem>
231
232 <listitem>
233 <para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
234 </listitem>
235
236 <listitem>
237 <para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
238 </listitem>
239
240 <listitem>
241 <para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
242 </listitem>
243
244 <listitem>
245 <para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
246 through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
247 </listitem>
248
249 <listitem>
250 <para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
251 </listitem>
252
253 <listitem>
254 <para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
255 support for v2 images)</para>
256 </listitem>
257
258 <listitem>
259 <para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
260 </listitem>
261
262 <listitem>
263 <para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
264 saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
265 </listitem>
266
267 <listitem>
268 <para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
269 </listitem>
270
271 <listitem>
272 <para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
273 </listitem>
274
275 <listitem>
276 <para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
277 VirtualBox update</para>
278 </listitem>
279
280 <listitem>
281 <para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
282 to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
283 </listitem>
284
285 <listitem>
286 <para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
287 </listitem>
288
289 </itemizedlist>
290 </sect1>
291
292 <sect1>
293 <title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
294
295 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
296 added:</para>
297
298 <itemizedlist>
299
300 <listitem>
301 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
302 under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
303 and others)</para>
304 </listitem>
305
306 <listitem>
307 <para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
308 hosts (bug #10528)</para>
309 </listitem>
310
311 <listitem>
312 <para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
313 updating the screen size when minimized</para>
314 </listitem>
315
316 <listitem>
317 <para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
318 after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
319 </listitem>
320
321 <listitem>
322 <para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
323 (Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
324 </listitem>
325
326 <listitem>
327 <para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
328 (bug #10631)</para>
329 </listitem>
330
331 <listitem>
332 <para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
333 unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
334 (bug #10624)</para>
335 </listitem>
336
337 <listitem>
338 <para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
339 </listitem>
340
341 <listitem>
342 <para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
343 updated (bug #9887)</para>
344 </listitem>
345
346 <listitem>
347 <para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
348 </listitem>
349
350 </itemizedlist>
351 </sect1>
352
353 <sect1>
354 <title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
355
356 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
357 added:</para>
358
359 <itemizedlist>
360
361 <listitem>
362 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
363 with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
364 </listitem>
365
366 <listitem>
367 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
368 with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
369 </listitem>
370
371 <listitem>
372 <para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
373 required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
374 execution only; bug #9941)</para>
375 </listitem>
376
377 <listitem>
378 <para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
379 guests in rare cases</para>
380 </listitem>
381
382 <listitem>
383 <para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
384 </listitem>
385
386 <listitem>
387 <para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
388 circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
389 </listitem>
390
391 <listitem>
392 <para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
393 128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
394 Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
395 </listitem>
396
397 <listitem>
398 <para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
399 </listitem>
400
401 <listitem>
402 <para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
403 </listitem>
404
405 <listitem>
406 <para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
407 reason (bug #6189)</para>
408 </listitem>
409
410 <listitem>
411 <para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
412 </listitem>
413
414 <listitem>
415 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
416 paused</para>
417 </listitem>
418
419 <listitem>
420 <para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
421 (bug #10267)</para>
422 </listitem>
423
424 <listitem>
425 <para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
426 </listitem>
427
428 <listitem>
429 <para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
430 (bug #10418)</para>
431 </listitem>
432
433 <listitem>
434 <para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
435 during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
436 (bug #10581)</para>
437 </listitem>
438
439 <listitem>
440 <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
441 cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
442 </listitem>
443
444 <listitem>
445 <para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
446 for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
447 to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
448 </listitem>
449
450 <listitem>
451 <para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
452 </listitem>
453
454 </itemizedlist>
455
456 </sect1>
457
458 <sect1>
459 <title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
460
461 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
462 added:</para>
463
464 <itemizedlist>
465
466 <listitem>
467 <para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
468 PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
469 (bug #3783)</para>
470 </listitem>
471
472 <listitem>
473 <para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
474 </listitem>
475
476 <listitem>
477 <para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
478 (bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
479 </listitem>
480
481 <listitem>
482 <para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
483 </listitem>
484
485 </itemizedlist>
486
487 </sect1>
488
489 <sect1>
490 <title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
491
492 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
493 added:</para>
494
495 <itemizedlist>
496
497 <listitem>
498 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
499 <emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
500 due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
501 </listitem>
502
503 <listitem>
504 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
505 under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
506 </listitem>
507
508 <listitem>
509 <para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
510 legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
511 </listitem>
512
513 <listitem>
514 <para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
515 </listitem>
516
517 <listitem>
518 <para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
519 </listitem>
520
521 <listitem>
522 <para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
523 4.1.10 regression)</para>
524 </listitem>
525
526 <listitem>
527 <para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
528 </listitem>
529
530 <listitem>
531 <para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
532 RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
533 </listitem>
534
535 <listitem>
536 <para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
537 </listitem>
538
539 <listitem>
540 <para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
541 <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
542 </listitem>
543
544 <listitem>
545 <para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
546 4.1.10 regression)</para>
547 </listitem>
548
549 <listitem>
550 <para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
551 closed (bug #6473)</para>
552 </listitem>
553
554 <listitem>
555 <para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
556 properly installed</para>
557 </listitem>
558
559 <listitem>
560 <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
561 </listitem>
562
563 </itemizedlist>
564 </sect1>
565
566 <sect1>
567 <title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
568
569 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
570 added:</para>
571
572 <itemizedlist>
573
574 <listitem>
575 <para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
576 do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
577 </listitem>
578
579 <listitem>
580 <para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
581 <emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
582 </listitem>
583
584 <listitem>
585 <para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
586 fusion</para>
587 </listitem>
588
589 <listitem>
590 <para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
591 little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
592 </listitem>
593
594 <listitem>
595 <para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
596 and network mask attributes</para>
597 </listitem>
598
599 <listitem>
600 <para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
601 (bug #10030)</para>
602 </listitem>
603
604 <listitem>
605 <para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
606 bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
607 </listitem>
608
609 <listitem>
610 <para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
611 </listitem>
612
613 <listitem>
614 <para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
615 </listitem>
616
617 <listitem>
618 <para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
619 make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
620 </listitem>
621
622 <listitem>
623 <para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
624 </listitem>
625
626 <listitem>
627 <para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
628 images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
629 </listitem>
630
631 <listitem>
632 <para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
633 when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
634 </listitem>
635
636 <listitem>
637 <para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
638 (non-Windows hosts only)</para>
639 </listitem>
640
641 <listitem>
642 <para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
643 </listitem>
644
645 <listitem>
646 <para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
647 </listitem>
648
649 <listitem>
650 <para>SDK: added Python example</para>
651 </listitem>
652
653 <listitem>
654 <para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
655 </listitem>
656
657 <listitem>
658 <para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
659 </listitem>
660
661 <listitem>
662 <para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
663 </listitem>
664
665 <listitem>
666 <para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
667 in a zone</para>
668 </listitem>
669
670 <listitem>
671 <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
672 </listitem>
673
674 <listitem>
675 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
676 (bug #9651)</para>
677 </listitem>
678
679 <listitem>
680 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
681 </listitem>
682
683 <listitem>
684 <para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
685 #10010)</para>
686 </listitem>
687
688 <listitem>
689 <para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
690 folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
691 </listitem>
692
693 <listitem>
694 <para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
695 memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
696 </listitem>
697
698 <listitem>
699 <para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
700 </listitem>
701
702 <listitem>
703 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
704 on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
705 </listitem>
706
707 <listitem>
708 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
709 (bug #10151)</para>
710 </listitem>
711
712 <listitem>
713 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
714 guests.</para>
715 </listitem>
716
717 <listitem>
718 <para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
719 </listitem>
720
721 <listitem>
722 <para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
723 </listitem>
724
725 <listitem>
726 <para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
727 </listitem>
728
729 </itemizedlist>
730 </sect1>
731
732 <sect1>
733 <title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
734
735 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
736 added:</para>
737
738 <itemizedlist>
739
740 <listitem>
741 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
742 under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
743 </listitem>
744
745 <listitem>
746 <para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
747 </listitem>
748
749 <listitem>
750 <para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
751 (bug #9642)</para>
752 </listitem>
753
754 <listitem>
755 <para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
756 Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
757 </para>
758 </listitem>
759
760 <listitem>
761 <para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
762 </listitem>
763
764 <listitem>
765 <para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
766 connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
767 </listitem>
768
769 <listitem>
770 <para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
771 metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
772 </listitem>
773
774 <listitem>
775 <para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
776 </listitem>
777
778 <listitem>
779 <para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
780 </listitem>
781
782 <listitem>
783 <para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
784 </listitem>
785
786 <listitem>
787 <para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
788 circumstances</para>
789 </listitem>
790
791 <listitem>
792 <para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
793 </listitem>
794
795 <listitem>
796 <para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
797 when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
798 </listitem>
799
800 <listitem>
801 <para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
802 Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
803 Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
804 and for 3D support in general</para>
805 </listitem>
806
807 <listitem>
808 <para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
809 </listitem>
810
811 <listitem>
812 <para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
813 </listitem>
814
815 <listitem>
816 <para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
817 </listitem>
818
819 <listitem>
820 <para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
821 detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
822 </listitem>
823
824 </itemizedlist>
825 </sect1>
826
827 <sect1>
828 <title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
829
830 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
831 added:</para>
832
833 <itemizedlist>
834
835 <listitem>
836 <para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
837 </listitem>
838
839 <listitem>
840 <para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
841 ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
842 </listitem>
843
844 <listitem>
845 <para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
846 or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
847 </listitem>
848
849 <listitem>
850 <para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
851 certain guests</para>
852 </listitem>
853
854 <listitem>
855 <para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
856 </listitem>
857
858 <listitem>
859 <para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
860 the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
861 preview window in the GUI for example</para>
862 </listitem>
863
864 <listitem>
865 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
866 bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
867 </listitem>
868
869 <listitem>
870 <para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
871 </listitem>
872
873 <listitem>
874 <para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
875 from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
876 </listitem>
877
878 <listitem>
879 <para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
880 </listitem>
881
882 <listitem>
883 <para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
884 Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
885 </listitem>
886
887 <listitem>
888 <para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
889 guests</para>
890 </listitem>
891
892 <listitem>
893 <para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
894 folders</para>
895 </listitem>
896
897 <listitem>
898 <para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
899 shared folders</para>
900 </listitem>
901
902 <listitem>
903 <para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
904 users and stale sessions</para>
905 </listitem>
906
907 <listitem>
908 <para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
909 virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
910 </listitem>
911
912 </itemizedlist>
913 </sect1>
914
915 <sect1>
916 <title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
917
918 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
919 added:</para>
920
921 <itemizedlist>
922
923 <listitem>
924 <para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
925 bug #9458)</para>
926 </listitem>
927
928 <listitem>
929 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
930 caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
931 </listitem>
932
933 <listitem>
934 <para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
935 emulation under rare circumstances</para>
936 </listitem>
937
938 <listitem>
939 <para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
940 </listitem>
941
942 <listitem>
943 <para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
944 to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
945 </listitem>
946
947 <listitem>
948 <para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
949 (4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
950 </listitem>
951
952 <listitem>
953 <para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
954 (bug #9308)</para>
955 </listitem>
956
957 <listitem>
958 <para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
959 <emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
960 </listitem>
961
962 <listitem>
963 <para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
964 (bug #9503)</para>
965 </listitem>
966
967 <listitem>
968 <para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
969 (bug #9242)</para>
970 </listitem>
971
972 <listitem>
973 <para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
974 usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
975 bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
976 </listitem>
977
978 <listitem>
979 <para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
980 </listitem>
981
982 <listitem>
983 <para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
984 images</para>
985 </listitem>
986
987 <listitem>
988 <para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
989 (Windows hosts only)</para>
990 </listitem>
991
992 <listitem>
993 <para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
994 not exist (bug #7941)</para>
995 </listitem>
996
997 <listitem>
998 <para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
999 resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1000 </listitem>
1001
1002 <listitem>
1003 <para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
1004 restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
1005 </listitem>
1006
1007 <listitem>
1008 <para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
1009 #9387)</para>
1010 </listitem>
1011
1012 <listitem>
1013 <para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
1014 snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
1015 </listitem>
1016
1017 <listitem>
1018 <para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1019 headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1020 </listitem>
1021
1022 <listitem>
1023 <para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
1024 MTU (bug #9370)</para>
1025 </listitem>
1026
1027 <listitem>
1028 <para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
1029 to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
1030 </listitem>
1031
1032 <listitem>
1033 <para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
1034 </listitem>
1035
1036 <listitem>
1037 <para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
1038 </listitem>
1039
1040 <listitem>
1041 <para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
1042 (4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
1043 </listitem>
1044
1045 <listitem>
1046 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1047 (bug #1578)</para>
1048 </listitem>
1049
1050 <listitem>
1051 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
1052 interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
1053 </listitem>
1054
1055 <listitem>
1056 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
1057 bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
1058 </listitem>
1059
1060 <listitem>
1061 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1062 (bug #9535)</para>
1063 </listitem>
1064
1065 <listitem>
1066 <para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
1067 on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
1068 </listitem>
1069
1070 <listitem>
1071 <para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
1072 help file (bug #9646)</para>
1073 </listitem>
1074
1075 <listitem>
1076 <para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
1077 appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
1078 </listitem>
1079
1080 <listitem>
1081 <para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
1082 console window (bug #3549)</para>
1083 </listitem>
1084
1085 <listitem>
1086 <para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1087 output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1088 </listitem>
1089
1090 <listitem>
1091 <para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1092 </para>
1093 </listitem>
1094
1095 <listitem>
1096 <para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1097 a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1098 </para>
1099 </listitem>
1100
1101 <listitem>
1102 <para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1103 (bug #6229)
1104 </para>
1105 </listitem>
1106
1107 <listitem>
1108 <para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1109 compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1110 </listitem>
1111
1112 <listitem>
1113 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1114 (from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1115 </listitem>
1116
1117 <listitem>
1118 <para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1119 (4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1120 </listitem>
1121
1122 <listitem>
1123 <para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1124 BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1125 </listitem>
1126
1127 <listitem>
1128 <para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1129 with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1130 </listitem>
1131
1132 <listitem>
1133 <para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1134 with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1135 </listitem>
1136
1137 <listitem>
1138 <para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1139 outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1140 </listitem>
1141
1142 <listitem>
1143 <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1144 text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1145 </listitem>
1146
1147 </itemizedlist>
1148 </sect1>
1149
1150 <sect1>
1151 <title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1152
1153 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1154 added:</para>
1155
1156 <itemizedlist>
1157
1158 <listitem>
1159 <para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1160 </listitem>
1161
1162 <listitem>
1163 <para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1164 machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1165 </listitem>
1166
1167 <listitem>
1168 <para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1169 </listitem>
1170
1171 <listitem>
1172 <para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1173 (4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1174 </listitem>
1175
1176 <listitem>
1177 <para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1178 vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1179 </listitem>
1180
1181 <listitem>
1182 <para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1183 a live snapshot</para>
1184 </listitem>
1185
1186 <listitem>
1187 <para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1188 due to a library version conflict</para>
1189 </listitem>
1190
1191 <listitem>
1192 <para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1193 guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1194 </listitem>
1195
1196 <listitem>
1197 <para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1198 at a time by default</para>
1199 </listitem>
1200
1201 <listitem>
1202 <para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1203 warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1204 #9368)</para>
1205 </listitem>
1206
1207 <listitem>
1208 <para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1209 registered (bug #9303)</para>
1210 </listitem>
1211
1212 <listitem>
1213 <para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1214 VMs</para>
1215 </listitem>
1216
1217 <listitem>
1218 <para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1219 creation (bug #9379)</para>
1220 </listitem>
1221
1222 <listitem>
1223 <para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1224 <emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1225 to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1226 </listitem>
1227
1228 <listitem>
1229 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1230 (bug #9308)</para>
1231 </listitem>
1232
1233 <listitem>
1234 <para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1235 <emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1236 </listitem>
1237
1238 <listitem>
1239 <para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1240 </listitem>
1241
1242 <listitem>
1243 <para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1244 affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1245 </listitem>
1246
1247 <listitem>
1248 <para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1249 (bug #9242)</para>
1250 </listitem>
1251
1252 <listitem>
1253 <para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1254 requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1255 </listitem>
1256
1257 <listitem>
1258 <para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1259 fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1260 </listitem>
1261
1262 <listitem>
1263 <para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1264 USB devices</para>
1265 </listitem>
1266
1267 <listitem>
1268 <para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1269 and warn about it</para>
1270 </listitem>
1271
1272 <listitem>
1273 <para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1274 </listitem>
1275
1276 <listitem>
1277 <para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1278 </listitem>
1279
1280 <listitem>
1281 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1282 with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1283 </listitem>
1284
1285 <listitem>
1286 <para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1287 (4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1288 </listitem>
1289
1290 <listitem>
1291 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1292 module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1293 </listitem>
1294
1295 <listitem>
1296 <para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1297 some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1298 </listitem>
1299
1300 <listitem>
1301 <para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1302 and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1303 </listitem>
1304
1305 <listitem>
1306 <para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1307 fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1308 </listitem>
1309
1310 <listitem>
1311 <para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1312 2.6.37 and above</para>
1313 </listitem>
1314
1315 </itemizedlist>
1316 </sect1>
1317
1318 <sect1>
1319 <title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1320
1321 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1322 were added:</para>
1323
1324 <itemizedlist>
1325
1326 <listitem>
1327 <para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1328 <xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1329 and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1330 </listitem>
1331
1332 <listitem>
1333 <para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1334 </listitem>
1335
1336 <listitem>
1337 <para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1338 </listitem>
1339
1340 <listitem>
1341 <para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1342 bug #7822)</para>
1343 </listitem>
1344
1345 <listitem>
1346 <para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1347 </listitem>
1348
1349 <listitem>
1350 <para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1351 <xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1352 </listitem>
1353
1354 <listitem>
1355 <para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1356 Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1357 cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1358 anymore)</para>
1359 </listitem>
1360
1361 <listitem>
1362 <para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1363 queried separately by the frontends</para>
1364 </listitem>
1365
1366 <listitem>
1367 <para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1368 offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1369 distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1370 </listitem>
1371
1372 <listitem>
1373 <para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1374 </para>
1375 </listitem>
1376
1377 <listitem>
1378 <para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1379 interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1380 see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1381 </listitem>
1382
1383 <listitem>
1384 <para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1385 with VBoxManage</para>
1386 </listitem>
1387
1388 <listitem>
1389 <para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1390 Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1391 </listitem>
1392
1393
1394 </itemizedlist>
1395
1396 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1397
1398 <itemizedlist>
1399
1400 <listitem>
1401 <para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1402 </listitem>
1403
1404 <listitem>
1405 <para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1406 </listitem>
1407
1408 <listitem>
1409 <para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1410 </listitem>
1411
1412 <listitem>
1413 <para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1414 of the current state</para>
1415 </listitem>
1416
1417 <listitem>
1418 <para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1419 </listitem>
1420
1421 <listitem>
1422 <para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1423 internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1424 </listitem>
1425
1426 <listitem>
1427 <para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1428 limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1429 see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1430 </listitem>
1431
1432 <listitem>
1433 <para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1434 a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1435 </listitem>
1436
1437 <listitem>
1438 <para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1439 </listitem>
1440
1441 <listitem>
1442 <para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1443 </listitem>
1444
1445 <listitem>
1446 <para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1447 dialog</para>
1448 </listitem>
1449
1450 <listitem>
1451 <para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1452 attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1453 when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1454 </listitem>
1455
1456 <listitem>
1457 <para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1458 command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1459 </listitem>
1460
1461 <listitem>
1462 <para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1463 of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1464 </listitem>
1465
1466 <listitem>
1467 <para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1468 be a valid UUID</para>
1469 </listitem>
1470
1471 <listitem>
1472 <para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1473 twice in a VM configuration</para>
1474 </listitem>
1475
1476 <listitem>
1477 <para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1478 create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1479 cases</para>
1480 </listitem>
1481
1482 <listitem>
1483 <para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1484 the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1485 improve performance</para>
1486 </listitem>
1487
1488 <listitem>
1489 <para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1490 ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1491 on a temporary basis</para>
1492 </listitem>
1493
1494 <listitem>
1495 <para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1496 a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1497 exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1498 </listitem>
1499
1500 <listitem>
1501 <para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1502 with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1503 </listitem>
1504
1505 <listitem>
1506 <para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1507 images in VDI format</para>
1508 </listitem>
1509
1510 <listitem>
1511 <para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1512 VMDK format</para>
1513 </listitem>
1514
1515 <listitem>
1516 <para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1517 controller (bug #8592)</para>
1518 </listitem>
1519
1520 <listitem>
1521 <para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1522 </listitem>
1523
1524 <listitem>
1525 <para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1526 </listitem>
1527
1528 <listitem>
1529 <para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1530 </listitem>
1531
1532 <listitem>
1533 <para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1534 </listitem>
1535
1536 <listitem>
1537 <para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1538 </listitem>
1539
1540 <listitem>
1541 <para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1542 when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1543 </listitem>
1544
1545 <listitem>
1546 <para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1547 directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1548 </listitem>
1549
1550 <listitem>
1551 <para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1552 Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1553 </listitem>
1554
1555 <listitem>
1556 <para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1557 <xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1558 </listitem>
1559
1560 <listitem>
1561 <para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1562 RDP clients</para>
1563 </listitem>
1564
1565 <listitem>
1566 <para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1567 </listitem>
1568
1569 <listitem>
1570 <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1571 different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1572 </listitem>
1573
1574 <listitem>
1575 <para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1576 be more robust when connections fail</para>
1577 </listitem>
1578
1579 <listitem>
1580 <para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1581 simultaneously</para>
1582 </listitem>
1583
1584 <listitem>
1585 <para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1586 which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1587 location values in many places</para>
1588 </listitem>
1589
1590 <listitem>
1591 <para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1592 </listitem>
1593
1594 <listitem>
1595 <para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1596 builds</para>
1597 </listitem>
1598
1599 <listitem>
1600 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1601 </listitem>
1602
1603 <listitem>
1604 <para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1605 window (bug #4491)</para>
1606 </listitem>
1607
1608 <listitem>
1609 <para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1610 removing a VM</para>
1611 </listitem>
1612
1613 <listitem>
1614 <para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1615 </listitem>
1616
1617 <listitem>
1618 <para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1619 </listitem>
1620
1621 <listitem>
1622 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1623 166 and above)</para>
1624 </listitem>
1625
1626 <listitem>
1627 <para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1628 hosts</para>
1629 </listitem>
1630
1631 <listitem>
1632 <para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1633 </listitem>
1634
1635 <listitem>
1636 <para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1637 from the host</para>
1638 </listitem>
1639
1640 <listitem>
1641 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1642 </listitem>
1643
1644 </itemizedlist>
1645
1646 </sect1>
1647
1648 <sect1>
1649 <title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1650
1651 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1652 added:</para>
1653
1654 <itemizedlist>
1655
1656 <listitem>
1657 <para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1658 </listitem>
1659
1660 <listitem>
1661 <para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1662 machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1663 </listitem>
1664
1665 <listitem>
1666 <para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1667 vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1668 </listitem>
1669
1670 <listitem>
1671 <para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1672 a live snapshot</para>
1673 </listitem>
1674
1675 <listitem>
1676 <para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1677 (4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1678 </listitem>
1679
1680 <listitem>
1681 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1682 </listitem>
1683
1684 <listitem>
1685 <para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1686 </listitem>
1687
1688 <listitem>
1689 <para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1690 or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1691 </listitem>
1692
1693 <listitem>
1694 <para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1695 affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1696 </listitem>
1697
1698 <listitem>
1699 <para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1700 requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1701 </listitem>
1702
1703 <listitem>
1704 <para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1705 </listitem>
1706
1707 <listitem>
1708 <para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1709 images</para>
1710 </listitem>
1711
1712 <listitem>
1713 <para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1714 (Windows hosts only)</para>
1715 </listitem>
1716 <listitem>
1717 <para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1718 registered (bug #9303)</para>
1719 </listitem>
1720
1721 <listitem>
1722 <para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1723 warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1724 </listitem>
1725
1726 <listitem>
1727 <para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1728 </listitem>
1729
1730 <listitem>
1731 <para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1732 headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1733 </listitem>
1734
1735 <listitem>
1736 <para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1737 the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1738 </listitem>
1739
1740 <listitem>
1741 <para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1742 </listitem>
1743
1744 <listitem>
1745 <para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1746 (bug #9370)</para>
1747 </listitem>
1748
1749 <listitem>
1750 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1751 (bug #9535)</para>
1752 </listitem>
1753
1754 <listitem>
1755 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1756 (bug #1578)</para>
1757 </listitem>
1758
1759 <listitem>
1760 <para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1761 some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1762 </listitem>
1763
1764 <listitem>
1765 <para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1766 a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1767 </para>
1768 </listitem>
1769
1770 <listitem>
1771 <para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1772 </para>
1773 </listitem>
1774
1775 <listitem>
1776 <para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1777 2.6.37 and above</para>
1778 </listitem>
1779
1780 <listitem>
1781 <para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1782 (bug #6229)</para>
1783 </listitem>
1784
1785 <listitem>
1786 <para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1787 compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1788 </listitem>
1789
1790 </itemizedlist>
1791 </sect1>
1792
1793 <sect1>
1794 <title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1795
1796 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1797 added:</para>
1798
1799 <itemizedlist>
1800
1801 <listitem>
1802 <para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1803 </listitem>
1804
1805 <listitem>
1806 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1807 166 and above)</para>
1808 </listitem>
1809
1810 <listitem>
1811 <para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1812 attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1813 when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1814 </listitem>
1815
1816 <listitem>
1817 <para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1818 with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1819 </listitem>
1820
1821 <listitem>
1822 <para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1823 controller (bug #8592)</para>
1824 </listitem>
1825
1826 <listitem>
1827 <para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1828 </listitem>
1829
1830 <listitem>
1831 <para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1832 when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1833 </listitem>
1834
1835 <listitem>
1836 <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1837 different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1838 </listitem>
1839
1840 <listitem>
1841 <para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1842 builds</para>
1843 </listitem>
1844
1845 <listitem>
1846 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1847 </listitem>
1848
1849 </itemizedlist>
1850 </sect1>
1851 <sect1>
1852 <title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1853
1854 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1855 added:</para>
1856
1857 <itemizedlist>
1858
1859 <listitem>
1860 <para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1861 </listitem>
1862
1863 <listitem>
1864 <para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1865 </listitem>
1866
1867 <listitem>
1868 <para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1869 after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1870 </listitem>
1871
1872 <listitem>
1873 <para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1874 (for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1875 </listitem>
1876
1877 <listitem>
1878 <para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1879 </listitem>
1880
1881 <listitem>
1882 <para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1883 another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1884 </listitem>
1885
1886 <listitem>
1887 <para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1888 </listitem>
1889
1890 <listitem>
1891 <para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1892 (partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1893 </listitem>
1894
1895 <listitem>
1896 <para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1897 with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1898 </listitem>
1899
1900 <listitem>
1901 <para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1902 </listitem>
1903
1904 <listitem>
1905 <para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1906 </listitem>
1907
1908 <listitem>
1909 <para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1910 file was not written during export</para>
1911 </listitem>
1912
1913 <listitem>
1914 <para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1915 </listitem>
1916
1917 <listitem>
1918 <para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1919 </listitem>
1920
1921 <listitem>
1922 <para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1923 </listitem>
1924
1925 <listitem>
1926 <para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1927 binaries</para>
1928 </listitem>
1929
1930 <listitem>
1931 <para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1932 </listitem>
1933
1934 <listitem>
1935 <para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1936 of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1937 </listitem>
1938
1939 <listitem>
1940 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1941 (4.0.8 regression)</para>
1942 </listitem>
1943
1944 <listitem>
1945 <para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1946 </listitem>
1947
1948 <listitem>
1949 <para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1950 guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1951 </listitem>
1952
1953 </itemizedlist>
1954 </sect1>
1955
1956 <sect1>
1957 <title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1958
1959 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1960 added:</para>
1961
1962 <itemizedlist>
1963
1964 <listitem>
1965 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1966 versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1967 </listitem>
1968
1969 <listitem>
1970 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1971 than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1972 </listitem>
1973
1974 <listitem>
1975 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1976 64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1977 </listitem>
1978
1979 <listitem>
1980 <para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1981 host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1982 </listitem>
1983
1984 <listitem>
1985 <para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
1986 problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
1987 </listitem>
1988
1989 <listitem>
1990 <para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
1991 subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
1992 </listitem>
1993
1994 <listitem>
1995 <para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
1996 (Windows hosts only)</para>
1997 </listitem>
1998
1999 <listitem>
2000 <para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
2001 Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
2002 </listitem>
2003
2004 <listitem>
2005 <para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
2006 </listitem>
2007
2008 <listitem>
2009 <para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
2010 </listitem>
2011
2012 <listitem>
2013 <para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
2014 (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
2015 </listitem>
2016
2017 <listitem>
2018 <para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
2019 asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
2020 </listitem>
2021
2022 <listitem>
2023 <para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
2024 </listitem>
2025
2026 <listitem>
2027 <para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
2028 </listitem>
2029
2030 <listitem>
2031 <para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
2032 (Linux hosts only)</para>
2033 </listitem>
2034
2035 <listitem>
2036 <para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
2037 (Windows hosts only)</para>
2038 </listitem>
2039
2040 <listitem>
2041 <para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
2042 window</para>
2043 </listitem>
2044
2045 <listitem>
2046 <para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
2047 Fedora 15</para>
2048 </listitem>
2049
2050 <listitem>
2051 <para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
2052 registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2053 </listitem>
2054
2055 <listitem>
2056 <para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
2057 host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
2058 </listitem>
2059
2060 <listitem>
2061 <para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
2062 building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
2063 </listitem>
2064
2065 <listitem>
2066 <para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
2067 </listitem>
2068
2069 <listitem>
2070 <para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
2071 notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
2072 </listitem>
2073
2074 </itemizedlist>
2075 </sect1>
2076
2077 <sect1>
2078 <title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
2079
2080 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2081 added:</para>
2082
2083 <itemizedlist>
2084
2085 <listitem>
2086 <para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2087 a VMM from a saved state</para>
2088 </listitem>
2089
2090 <listitem>
2091 <para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2092 implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2093 </listitem>
2094
2095 <listitem>
2096 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2097 (bug #8006)</para>
2098 </listitem>
2099
2100 <listitem>
2101 <para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2102 (bug #8726)</para>
2103 </listitem>
2104
2105 <listitem>
2106 <para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2107 </listitem>
2108
2109 <listitem>
2110 <para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2111 </listitem>
2112
2113 <listitem>
2114 <para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2115 tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2116 </listitem>
2117
2118 <listitem>
2119 <para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2120 (bug #8469)</para>
2121 </listitem>
2122
2123 <listitem>
2124 <para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2125 selectors</para>
2126 </listitem>
2127
2128 <listitem>
2129 <para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2130 proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2131 </listitem>
2132
2133 <listitem>
2134 <para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2135 folder (bug #8673)</para>
2136 </listitem>
2137
2138 <listitem>
2139 <para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2140 registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2141 </listitem>
2142
2143 <listitem>
2144 <para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2145 </listitem>
2146
2147 <listitem>
2148 <para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2149 (Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2150 </listitem>
2151
2152 <listitem>
2153 <para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2154 </listitem>
2155
2156 <listitem>
2157 <para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2158 </listitem>
2159
2160 <listitem>
2161 <para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2162 VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2163 </listitem>
2164
2165 <listitem>
2166 <para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2167 I/O error occurred</para>
2168 </listitem>
2169
2170 <listitem>
2171 <para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2172 (bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2173 </listitem>
2174
2175 <listitem>
2176 <para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2177 streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2178 </listitem>
2179
2180 <listitem>
2181 <para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2182 Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2183 if no medium is present</para>
2184 </listitem>
2185
2186 <listitem>
2187 <para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2188 </listitem>
2189
2190 <listitem>
2191 <para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2192 hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2193 </listitem>
2194
2195 <listitem>
2196 <para>Host-Only &amp; Bridged &amp; Internal Networking: fix for processing
2197 promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2198 </listitem>
2199
2200 <listitem>
2201 <para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2202 host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2203 </listitem>
2204
2205 <listitem>
2206 <para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2207 </listitem>
2208
2209 <listitem>
2210 <para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2211 assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2212 </listitem>
2213
2214 <listitem>
2215 <para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2216 library (bug #8063)</para>
2217 </listitem>
2218
2219 <listitem>
2220 <para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2221 for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2222 </listitem>
2223
2224 <listitem>
2225 <para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2226 </listitem>
2227
2228 <listitem>
2229 <para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2230 </listitem>
2231
2232 <listitem>
2233 <para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2234 </listitem>
2235
2236 <listitem>
2237 <para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2238 changed on import</para>
2239 </listitem>
2240
2241 <listitem>
2242 <para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2243 </listitem>
2244
2245 <listitem>
2246 <para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2247 multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2248 </listitem>
2249
2250 <listitem>
2251 <para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2252 (bug #8593)</para>
2253 </listitem>
2254
2255 <listitem>
2256 <para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2257 sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2258 </listitem>
2259
2260 <listitem>
2261 <para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2262 captured</para>
2263 </listitem>
2264
2265 <listitem>
2266 <para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2267 (shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2268 </listitem>
2269
2270 <listitem>
2271 <para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2272 </para>
2273 </listitem>
2274
2275 <listitem>
2276 <para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2277 help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2278 </listitem>
2279
2280 <listitem>
2281 <para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2282 VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2283 </listitem>
2284
2285 <listitem>
2286 <para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2287 version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2288 problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2289 </listitem>
2290
2291 <listitem>
2292 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2293 to unkillable VM processes</para>
2294 </listitem>
2295
2296 <listitem>
2297 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2298 </listitem>
2299
2300 <listitem>
2301 <para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2302 circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2303 </listitem>
2304
2305 <listitem>
2306 <para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2307 on legacy Windows versions</para>
2308 </listitem>
2309
2310 <listitem>
2311 <para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2312 messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2313 </listitem>
2314
2315 <listitem>
2316 <para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2317 </listitem>
2318
2319 <listitem>
2320 <para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2321 </listitem>
2322
2323 <listitem>
2324 <para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2325 </listitem>
2326
2327 <listitem>
2328 <para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2329 </listitem>
2330
2331 <listitem>
2332 <para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2333 (bug #7946)</para>
2334 </listitem>
2335
2336 <listitem>
2337 <para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2338 </listitem>
2339
2340 <listitem>
2341 <para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2342 </listitem>
2343
2344 <listitem>
2345 <para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2346 </listitem>
2347
2348 </itemizedlist>
2349
2350 </sect1>
2351
2352 <sect1>
2353 <title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2354
2355 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2356 added:</para>
2357
2358 <itemizedlist>
2359
2360 <listitem>
2361 <para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2362 (bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2363 </listitem>
2364
2365 <listitem>
2366 <para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2367 enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2368 </listitem>
2369
2370 <listitem>
2371 <para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2372 programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2373 </listitem>
2374
2375 <listitem>
2376 <para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2377 (bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2378 </listitem>
2379
2380 <listitem>
2381 <para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2382 number of host network interfaces</para>
2383 </listitem>
2384
2385 <listitem>
2386 <para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2387 snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2388 </listitem>
2389
2390 <listitem>
2391 <para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2392 </listitem>
2393
2394 <listitem>
2395 <para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2396 the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2397 </listitem>
2398
2399 <listitem>
2400 <para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2401 by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2402 </listitem>
2403
2404 <listitem>
2405 <para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2406 (4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2407 </listitem>
2408
2409 <listitem>
2410 <para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2411 </listitem>
2412
2413 <listitem>
2414 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2415 (bug #6577)</para>
2416 </listitem>
2417
2418 <listitem>
2419 <para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2420 --wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2421 (bug #8235)</para>
2422 </listitem>
2423
2424 <listitem>
2425 <para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2426 --wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2427 to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2428 </listitem>
2429
2430 <listitem>
2431 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2432 </listitem>
2433
2434 <listitem>
2435 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2436 DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2437 </listitem>
2438
2439 <listitem>
2440 <para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2441 </listitem>
2442
2443 <listitem>
2444 <para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2445 (bug #7966)</para>
2446 </listitem>
2447
2448 <listitem>
2449 <para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2450 </listitem>
2451
2452 <listitem>
2453 <para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2454 </listitem>
2455
2456 <listitem>
2457 <para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2458 </listitem>
2459
2460 <listitem>
2461 <para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2462 attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2463 </listitem>
2464
2465 <listitem>
2466 <para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2467 </listitem>
2468
2469 <listitem>
2470 <para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2471 </listitem>
2472
2473 <listitem>
2474 <para>Host-Only &amp; Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2475 for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2476 </listitem>
2477
2478 <listitem>
2479 <para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2480 vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2481 </listitem>
2482
2483 <listitem>
2484 <para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2485 </listitem>
2486
2487 <listitem>
2488 <para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2489 announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2490 </listitem>
2491
2492 <listitem>
2493 <para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2494 to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2495 (bug #8122)</para>
2496 </listitem>
2497
2498 <listitem>
2499 <para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2500 disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2501 </listitem>
2502
2503 <listitem>
2504 <para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2505 </listitem>
2506
2507 <listitem>
2508 <para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2509 </listitem>
2510
2511 <listitem>
2512 <para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2513 (bug #1548)</para>
2514 </listitem>
2515
2516 <listitem>
2517 <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2518 </listitem>
2519
2520 <listitem>
2521 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2522 without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2523 </listitem>
2524
2525 <listitem>
2526 <para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2527 </listitem>
2528
2529 <listitem>
2530 <para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2531 (bug #8231)</para>
2532 </listitem>
2533
2534 <listitem>
2535 <para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2536 11.04 Alpha</para>
2537 </listitem>
2538
2539 <listitem>
2540 <para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2541 prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2542 </listitem>
2543
2544 <listitem>
2545 <para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2546 VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2547 </listitem>
2548
2549 <listitem>
2550 <para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2551 a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2552 </listitem>
2553
2554 <listitem>
2555 <para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2556 with VBoxGINA</para>
2557 </listitem>
2558
2559 </itemizedlist>
2560
2561 </sect1>
2562
2563 <sect1>
2564 <title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2565
2566 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2567 added:</para>
2568
2569 <itemizedlist>
2570
2571 <listitem>
2572 <para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2573 settings vanished</para>
2574 </listitem>
2575
2576 <listitem>
2577 <para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2578 on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2579 </listitem>
2580
2581 <listitem>
2582 <para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2583 created (bug #8031)</para>
2584 </listitem>
2585
2586 <listitem>
2587 <para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2588 </listitem>
2589
2590 <listitem>
2591 <para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2592 (Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2593 </listitem>
2594
2595 <listitem>
2596 <para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2597 an extension pack</para>
2598 </listitem>
2599
2600 <listitem>
2601 <para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2602 during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2603 </listitem>
2604
2605 <listitem>
2606 <para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2607 </listitem>
2608
2609 <listitem>
2610 <para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2611 supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2612 </listitem>
2613
2614 <listitem>
2615 <para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2616 host-only interface</para>
2617 </listitem>
2618
2619 <listitem>
2620 <para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2621 and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2622 </listitem>
2623
2624 <listitem>
2625 <para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2626 detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2627 </listitem>
2628
2629 <listitem>
2630 <para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2631 ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2632 </listitem>
2633
2634 <listitem>
2635 <para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2636 power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2637 </listitem>
2638
2639 <listitem>
2640 <para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2641 to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2642 </listitem>
2643
2644 <listitem>
2645 <para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2646 </listitem>
2647
2648 <listitem>
2649 <para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2650 </listitem>
2651
2652 <listitem>
2653 <para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2654 guests</para>
2655 </listitem>
2656
2657 <listitem>
2658 <para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2659 </listitem>
2660
2661 <listitem>
2662 <para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2663 </listitem>
2664
2665 <listitem>
2666 <para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2667 links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2668 </listitem>
2669
2670 <listitem>
2671 <para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2672 logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2673 </listitem>
2674
2675 <listitem>
2676 <para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2677 a VM start</para>
2678 </listitem>
2679
2680 <listitem>
2681 <para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2682 machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2683 </listitem>
2684
2685 <listitem>
2686 <para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2687 (bug #6067)</para>
2688 </listitem>
2689
2690 <listitem>
2691 <para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2692 cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2693 </listitem>
2694
2695 <listitem>
2696 <para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2697 not saved to machine XML</para>
2698 </listitem>
2699
2700 <listitem>
2701 <para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2702 #7983)</para>
2703 </listitem>
2704
2705 <listitem>
2706 <para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2707 #7981)</para>
2708 </listitem>
2709
2710 <listitem>
2711 <para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2712 </listitem>
2713
2714 <listitem>
2715 <para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2716 regression)</para>
2717 </listitem>
2718
2719 <listitem>
2720 <para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2721 VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2722 </listitem>
2723
2724 <listitem>
2725 <para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2726 unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2727 </listitem>
2728
2729 </itemizedlist>
2730
2731 </sect1>
2732
2733 <sect1>
2734 <title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2735
2736 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2737 were added:</para>
2738
2739 <itemizedlist>
2740
2741 <listitem>
2742 <para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2743 </listitem>
2744
2745 <listitem>
2746 <para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2747 </listitem>
2748
2749 <listitem>
2750 <para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2751 <itemizedlist>
2752 <listitem>
2753 <para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2754 </listitem>
2755
2756 <listitem>
2757 <para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2758 </listitem>
2759
2760 <listitem>
2761 <para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2762 </listitem>
2763
2764 <listitem>
2765 <para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2766 </listitem>
2767
2768 <listitem>
2769 <para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2770 states, and optionally including attached
2771 disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2772 can do the same now)</para>
2773 </listitem>
2774
2775 <listitem>
2776 <para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2777 </listitem>
2778
2779 </itemizedlist>
2780 </para>
2781 </listitem>
2782
2783 <listitem>
2784 <para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2785 </listitem>
2786
2787 <listitem>
2788 <para>New virtual hardware:
2789 <itemizedlist>
2790 <listitem>
2791 <para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2792 see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2793 </listitem>
2794
2795 <listitem>
2796 <para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2797 (e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2798 </listitem>
2799 </itemizedlist>
2800 </para>
2801 </listitem>
2802
2803 <listitem>
2804 <para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2805 <itemizedlist>
2806 <listitem>
2807 <para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2808 </listitem>
2809
2810 <listitem>
2811 <para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2812 </para>
2813 </listitem>
2814
2815 <listitem>
2816 <para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2817 now</para>
2818 </listitem>
2819
2820 <listitem>
2821 <para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2822 </listitem>
2823
2824 </itemizedlist>
2825 </para>
2826 </listitem>
2827
2828 <listitem>
2829 <para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2830 bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2831 </listitem>
2832
2833 <listitem>
2834 <para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2835 Parallels images</para>
2836 </listitem>
2837
2838 <listitem>
2839 <para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2840 </listitem>
2841
2842 <listitem>
2843 <para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2844 and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2845 </listitem>
2846
2847 <listitem>
2848 <para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2849 (COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2850 </listitem>
2851
2852 </itemizedlist>
2853
2854 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2855
2856 <itemizedlist>
2857
2858 <listitem>
2859 <para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2860 (applies to nested paging only)</para>
2861 </listitem>
2862
2863 <listitem>
2864 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2865 </listitem>
2866
2867 <listitem>
2868 <para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2869 non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2870 </listitem>
2871
2872 <listitem>
2873 <para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2874 (bug #1657)</para>
2875 </listitem>
2876
2877 <listitem>
2878 <para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2879 </listitem>
2880
2881 <listitem>
2882 <para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2883 </listitem>
2884
2885 <listitem>
2886 <para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2887 (Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2888 </listitem>
2889
2890 <listitem>
2891 <para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2892 guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2893 </listitem>
2894
2895 <listitem>
2896 <para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2897 packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2898 (Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2899 </listitem>
2900
2901 <listitem>
2902 <para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2903 again (bug #6864)</para>
2904 </listitem>
2905
2906 <listitem>
2907 <para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2908 #5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2909 </listitem>
2910
2911 <listitem>
2912 <para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2913 glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2914 </listitem>
2915
2916 <listitem>
2917 <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2918 </listitem>
2919
2920 <listitem>
2921 <para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2922 </listitem>
2923
2924 <listitem>
2925 <para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2926 </listitem>
2927
2928 <listitem>
2929 <para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2930 </listitem>
2931
2932 <listitem>
2933 <para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2934 </listitem>
2935
2936 <listitem>
2937 <para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2938 </listitem>
2939
2940 <listitem>
2941 <para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2942 </listitem>
2943
2944 <listitem>
2945 <para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2946 (bug #7058)</para>
2947 </listitem>
2948
2949 <listitem>
2950 <para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2951 criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2952 </listitem>
2953
2954 <listitem>
2955 <para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2956 circumstances</para>
2957 </listitem>
2958
2959 <listitem>
2960 <para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2961 another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2962 #5578)
2963 </para>
2964 </listitem>
2965
2966 <listitem>
2967 <para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2968 </listitem>
2969
2970 <listitem>
2971 <para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2972 <emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2973 </listitem>
2974
2975 <listitem>
2976 <para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2977 </listitem>
2978
2979 <listitem>
2980 <para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2981 #6760)</para>
2982 </listitem>
2983
2984 <listitem>
2985 <para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
2986 accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
2987 </listitem>
2988
2989 <listitem>
2990 <para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
2991 <emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
2992 </listitem>
2993
2994 <listitem>
2995 <para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
2996 on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2997 </listitem>
2998
2999 <listitem>
3000 <para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
3001 </listitem>
3002
3003 <listitem>
3004 <para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
3005 file</para>
3006 </listitem>
3007
3008 <listitem>
3009 <para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3010 to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3011 </listitem>
3012
3013 </itemizedlist>
3014
3015 </sect1>
3016
3017 <sect1>
3018 <title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
3019
3020 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3021 added:</para>
3022
3023 <itemizedlist>
3024
3025 <listitem>
3026 <para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3027 hosts (bug #7577)</para>
3028 </listitem>
3029
3030 <listitem>
3031 <para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
3032 triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
3033 non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
3034 </listitem>
3035
3036 <listitem>
3037 <para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
3038 </listitem>
3039
3040 <listitem>
3041 <para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
3042 </listitem>
3043
3044 <listitem>
3045 <para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
3046 </listitem>
3047
3048 <listitem>
3049 <para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
3050 the VM is running</para>
3051 </listitem>
3052
3053 <listitem>
3054 <para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
3055 system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
3056 file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
3057 starting from a saved state</para>
3058 </listitem>
3059
3060 <listitem>
3061 <para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
3062 </listitem>
3063
3064 <listitem>
3065 <para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
3066 </listitem>
3067
3068 <listitem>
3069 <para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
3070 </listitem>
3071
3072 <listitem>
3073 <para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
3074 </listitem>
3075
3076 <listitem>
3077 <para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3078 </listitem>
3079
3080 <listitem>
3081 <para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
3082 mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
3083 </listitem>
3084
3085 <listitem>
3086 <para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3087 fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3088 </listitem>
3089
3090 <listitem>
3091 <para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3092 open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3093 </listitem>
3094
3095 <listitem>
3096 <para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3097 </listitem>
3098
3099 <listitem>
3100 <para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3101 multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3102 </para>
3103 </listitem>
3104
3105 <listitem>
3106 <para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3107 in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3108 3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3109 </listitem>
3110
3111 <listitem>
3112 <para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3113 only)</para>
3114 </listitem>
3115
3116 <listitem>
3117 <para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3118 being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3119 </listitem>
3120
3121 <listitem>
3122 <para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3123 </listitem>
3124
3125 <listitem>
3126 <para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3127 </listitem>
3128
3129 <listitem>
3130 <para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3131 </listitem>
3132
3133 <listitem>
3134 <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3135 state (bug #4124)</para>
3136 </listitem>
3137
3138 <listitem>
3139 <para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3140 VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3141 </listitem>
3142
3143 <listitem>
3144 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3145 </listitem>
3146
3147 <listitem>
3148 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3149 (bug #2996)</para>
3150 </listitem>
3151
3152 <listitem>
3153 <para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3154 operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3155 </listitem>
3156
3157 <listitem>
3158 <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3159 </listitem>
3160
3161 <listitem>
3162 <para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3163 is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3164 </listitem>
3165
3166 <listitem>
3167 <para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3168 files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3169 </listitem>
3170
3171 <listitem>
3172 <para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3173 user accounts for VM information</para>
3174 </listitem>
3175
3176 </itemizedlist>
3177
3178 </sect1>
3179
3180 <sect1>
3181 <title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3182
3183 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3184 added:</para>
3185
3186 <itemizedlist>
3187
3188 <listitem>
3189 <para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3190 (3.2.8 regression)</para>
3191 </listitem>
3192
3193 <listitem>
3194 <para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3195 </listitem>
3196
3197 <listitem>
3198 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3199 </listitem>
3200
3201 <listitem>
3202 <para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3203 </listitem>
3204
3205 <listitem>
3206 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3207 hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3208 </listitem>
3209
3210 <listitem>
3211 <para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3212 2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3213 </listitem>
3214
3215 <listitem>
3216 <para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3217 (Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3218 </listitem>
3219
3220 <listitem>
3221 <para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3222 (bug #4952)</para>
3223 </listitem>
3224
3225 <listitem>
3226 <para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3227 bug #6122)</para>
3228 </listitem>
3229
3230 <listitem>
3231 <para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3232 for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3233 </listitem>
3234
3235 <listitem>
3236 <para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3237 to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3238 (Linux hosts only)</para>
3239 </listitem>
3240
3241 <listitem>
3242 <para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3243 </listitem>
3244
3245 <listitem>
3246 <para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3247 images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3248 </listitem>
3249
3250 <listitem>
3251 <para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3252 parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3253 </listitem>
3254
3255 <listitem>
3256 <para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3257 canceled</para>
3258 </listitem>
3259
3260 <listitem>
3261 <para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3262 </listitem>
3263
3264 <listitem>
3265 <para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3266 </listitem>
3267
3268 <listitem>
3269 <para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3270 </listitem>
3271
3272 <listitem>
3273 <para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3274 </listitem>
3275
3276 <listitem>
3277 <para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3278 circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3279 </listitem>
3280
3281 <listitem>
3282 <para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3283 </listitem>
3284
3285 <listitem>
3286 <para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3287 (Linux hosts only)</para>
3288 </listitem>
3289
3290 <listitem>
3291 <para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3292 a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3293 </listitem>
3294
3295 <listitem>
3296 <para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3297 </listitem>
3298
3299 <listitem>
3300 <para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3301 (non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3302 </listitem>
3303
3304 <listitem>
3305 <para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3306 </listitem>
3307
3308 <listitem>
3309 <para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3310 circumstances</para>
3311 </listitem>
3312
3313 <listitem>
3314 <para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3315 printers</para>
3316 </listitem>
3317
3318 <listitem>
3319 <para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3320 </listitem>
3321
3322 <listitem>
3323 <para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3324 hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3325 </listitem>
3326
3327 <listitem>
3328 <para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3329 are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3330 </listitem>
3331
3332 <listitem>
3333 <para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3334 bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3335 circumstances</para>
3336 </listitem>
3337
3338 <listitem>
3339 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3340 for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3341 </listitem>
3342
3343 <listitem>
3344 <para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3345 as supported extension</para>
3346 </listitem>
3347
3348 <listitem>
3349 <para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3350 <emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3351 </listitem>
3352
3353 <listitem>
3354 <para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3355 full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3356 </listitem>
3357
3358 <listitem>
3359 <para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3360 </listitem>
3361
3362 <listitem>
3363 <para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3364 (bug #7366)</para>
3365 </listitem>
3366
3367 <listitem>
3368 <para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3369 </listitem>
3370
3371 <listitem>
3372 <para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3373 longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3374 </listitem>
3375
3376 <listitem>
3377 <para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3378 clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3379 </listitem>
3380
3381 <listitem>
3382 <para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3383 invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3384 </listitem>
3385
3386 <listitem>
3387 <para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3388 to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3389 </listitem>
3390
3391 <listitem>
3392 <para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3393 NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3394 </listitem>
3395
3396 <listitem>
3397 <para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3398 </listitem>
3399
3400 <listitem>
3401 <para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3402 </listitem>
3403
3404 <listitem>
3405 <para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3406 more than one environment variable</para>
3407 </listitem>
3408
3409 <listitem>
3410 <para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3411 after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3412 </listitem>
3413
3414 <listitem>
3415 <para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3416 VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3417 </listitem>
3418
3419 <listitem>
3420 <para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3421 time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3422 </listitem>
3423
3424 <listitem>
3425 <para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3426 enumerating logged in users</para>
3427 </listitem>
3428
3429 <listitem>
3430 <para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3431 </listitem>
3432
3433 <listitem>
3434 <para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3435 </listitem>
3436
3437 <listitem>
3438 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3439 </listitem>
3440
3441 <listitem>
3442 <para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3443 in the event of a VM crash</para>
3444 </listitem>
3445
3446 <listitem>
3447 <para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3448 </listitem>
3449
3450 <listitem>
3451 <para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3452 the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3453 </listitem>
3454
3455 <listitem>
3456 <para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3457 32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3458 </listitem>
3459
3460 <listitem>
3461 <para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3462 (bug #7448)</para>
3463 </listitem>
3464
3465 <listitem>
3466 <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3467 </listitem>
3468
3469 <listitem>
3470 <para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3471 </listitem>
3472
3473 <listitem>
3474 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3475 </listitem>
3476
3477 </itemizedlist>
3478
3479 </sect1>
3480
3481 <sect1>
3482 <title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3483
3484 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3485 added:</para>
3486
3487 <itemizedlist>
3488
3489 <listitem>
3490 <para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3491 to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3492 </listitem>
3493
3494 <listitem>
3495 <para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3496 </listitem>
3497
3498 <listitem>
3499 <para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3500 bug #6809)</para>
3501 </listitem>
3502
3503 <listitem>
3504 <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3505 </listitem>
3506
3507 <listitem>
3508 <para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3509 </listitem>
3510
3511 <listitem>
3512 <para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3513 circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3514 </listitem>
3515
3516 <listitem>
3517 <para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3518 changes</para>
3519 </listitem>
3520
3521 <listitem>
3522 <para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3523 </listitem>
3524
3525 <listitem>
3526 <para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3527 certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3528 </listitem>
3529
3530 <listitem>
3531 <para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3532 in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3533 </listitem>
3534
3535 <listitem>
3536 <para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3537 </listitem>
3538
3539 <listitem>
3540 <para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3541 </listitem>
3542
3543 <listitem>
3544 <para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3545 </listitem>
3546
3547 <listitem>
3548 <para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3549 </listitem>
3550
3551 <listitem>
3552 <para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3553 bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3554 </listitem>
3555
3556 <listitem>
3557 <para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3558 </listitem>
3559
3560 <listitem>
3561 <para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3562 (bug #6832)</para>
3563 </listitem>
3564
3565 <listitem>
3566 <para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3567 guests</para>
3568 </listitem>
3569
3570 <listitem>
3571 <para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3572 </listitem>
3573
3574 <listitem>
3575 <para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3576 without external tools and tricks</para>
3577 </listitem>
3578
3579 <listitem>
3580 <para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3581 for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3582 </listitem>
3583
3584 <listitem>
3585 <para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3586 </listitem>
3587
3588 <listitem>
3589 <para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3590 of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3591 </listitem>
3592
3593 <listitem>
3594 <para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3595 shutdown</para>
3596 </listitem>
3597
3598 <listitem>
3599 <para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3600 fixes</para>
3601 </listitem>
3602
3603 <listitem>
3604 <para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3605 settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3606 example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3607 </para>
3608 </listitem>
3609
3610 <listitem>
3611 <para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3612 settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3613 </listitem>
3614
3615 <listitem>
3616 <para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3617 in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3618 </listitem>
3619
3620 <listitem>
3621 <para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3622 </para>
3623 </listitem>
3624
3625 <listitem>
3626 <para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3627 </listitem>
3628
3629 <listitem>
3630 <para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3631 </listitem>
3632
3633 <listitem>
3634 <para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3635 </listitem>
3636
3637 </itemizedlist>
3638
3639 </sect1>
3640
3641 <sect1>
3642 <title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3643
3644 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3645 added:</para>
3646
3647 <itemizedlist>
3648
3649 <listitem>
3650 <para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3651 with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3652 </listitem>
3653
3654 <listitem>
3655 <para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3656 does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3657 </listitem>
3658
3659 <listitem>
3660 <para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3661 with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3662 </listitem>
3663
3664 <listitem>
3665 <para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3666 </listitem>
3667
3668 <listitem>
3669 <para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3670 </listitem>
3671
3672 <listitem>
3673 <para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3674 </listitem>
3675
3676 <listitem>
3677 <para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3678 </listitem>
3679
3680 <listitem>
3681 <para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3682 assigned</para>
3683 </listitem>
3684
3685 <listitem>
3686 <para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3687 asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3688 </listitem>
3689
3690 <listitem>
3691 <para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3692 multiple screens are enabled</para>
3693 </listitem>
3694
3695 <listitem>
3696 <para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3697 </listitem>
3698
3699 <listitem>
3700 <para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3701 (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3702 </listitem>
3703
3704 <listitem>
3705 <para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3706 again (bug #7022).
3707 </para>
3708 </listitem>
3709
3710 <listitem>
3711 <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3712 (bug #6768)</para>
3713 </listitem>
3714
3715 <listitem>
3716 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3717 (bug #6927)</para>
3718 </listitem>
3719
3720 <listitem>
3721 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3722 bug #7031)</para>
3723 </listitem>
3724
3725 <listitem>
3726 <para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3727 don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3728 </listitem>
3729
3730 <listitem>
3731 <para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3732 bug #6987)</para>
3733 </listitem>
3734
3735 <listitem>
3736 <para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3737 </listitem>
3738
3739 <listitem>
3740 <para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3741 </listitem>
3742
3743 <listitem>
3744 <para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3745 30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3746 </listitem>
3747
3748 <listitem>
3749 <para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3750 </listitem>
3751
3752 <listitem>
3753 <para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3754 installation (bug #5101)</para>
3755 </listitem>
3756
3757 <listitem>
3758 <para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3759 </listitem>
3760
3761 <listitem>
3762 <para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3763 under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3764 bug #6872)</para>
3765 </listitem>
3766
3767 <listitem>
3768 <para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3769 </listitem>
3770
3771 <listitem>
3772 <para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3773 (performance tweak)</para>
3774 </listitem>
3775
3776 <listitem>
3777 <para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3778 is currently paused</para>
3779 </listitem>
3780
3781 <listitem>
3782 <para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3783 was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3784 </listitem>
3785
3786 <listitem>
3787 <para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3788 </listitem>
3789
3790 <listitem>
3791 <para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3792 and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3793 </listitem>
3794
3795 <listitem>
3796 <para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3797 not properly saved</para>
3798 </listitem>
3799
3800 <listitem>
3801 <para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3802 folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3803 </listitem>
3804
3805 <listitem>
3806 <para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3807 </listitem>
3808
3809 <listitem>
3810 <para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3811 </listitem>
3812
3813 <listitem>
3814 <para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3815 </listitem>
3816
3817 <listitem>
3818 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3819 (IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3820 </listitem>
3821
3822 <listitem>
3823 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3824 </listitem>
3825
3826 <listitem>
3827 <para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3828 kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3829 </listitem>
3830
3831 <listitem>
3832 <para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3833 (bug #5251)</para>
3834 </listitem>
3835
3836 <listitem>
3837 <para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3838 ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3839 </listitem>
3840
3841 <listitem>
3842 <para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3843 </listitem>
3844
3845 <listitem>
3846 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3847 </listitem>
3848
3849 <listitem>
3850 <para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3851 to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3852 </listitem>
3853
3854 <listitem>
3855 <para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3856 </listitem>
3857
3858 <listitem>
3859 <para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3860 </listitem>
3861
3862 <listitem>
3863 <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3864 </listitem>
3865
3866 </itemizedlist>
3867 </sect1>
3868
3869 <sect1>
3870 <title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3871
3872 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3873 added:</para>
3874
3875 <itemizedlist>
3876
3877 <listitem>
3878 <para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3879 (improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3880 </listitem>
3881
3882 <listitem>
3883 <para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3884 </listitem>
3885
3886 <listitem>
3887 <para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3888 over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3889 </listitem>
3890
3891 <listitem>
3892 <para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3893 growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3894 </listitem>
3895
3896 <listitem>
3897 <para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3898 </listitem>
3899
3900 <listitem>
3901 <para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3902 again (bug #6864)</para>
3903 </listitem>
3904
3905 <listitem>
3906 <para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3907 applications (bug #5236)</para>
3908 </listitem>
3909
3910 <listitem>
3911 <para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3912 </listitem>
3913
3914 <listitem>
3915 <para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3916 (3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3917 </listitem>
3918
3919 <listitem>
3920 <para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3921 </listitem>
3922
3923 </itemizedlist>
3924
3925 </sect1>
3926
3927 <sect1>
3928 <title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3929
3930 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3931 added:</para>
3932
3933 <itemizedlist>
3934
3935 <listitem>
3936 <para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3937 </listitem>
3938
3939 <listitem>
3940 <para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3941 guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3942 </listitem>
3943
3944 <listitem>
3945 <para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3946 </listitem>
3947
3948 <listitem>
3949 <para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3950 state</para>
3951 </listitem>
3952
3953 <listitem>
3954 <para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3955 </listitem>
3956
3957 <listitem>
3958 <para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3959 </listitem>
3960
3961 <listitem>
3962 <para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3963 </listitem>
3964
3965 <listitem>
3966 <para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3967 </listitem>
3968
3969 <listitem>
3970 <para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3971 </listitem>
3972
3973 <listitem>
3974 <para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3975 </listitem>
3976
3977 <listitem>
3978 <para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3979 </listitem>
3980
3981 <listitem>
3982 <para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3983 </listitem>
3984
3985 <listitem>
3986 <para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
3987 </listitem>
3988
3989 <listitem>
3990 <para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
3991 </listitem>
3992
3993 <listitem>
3994 <para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
3995 LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
3996 </listitem>
3997
3998 <listitem>
3999 <para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
4000 (bug #6784)</para>
4001 </listitem>
4002
4003 <listitem>
4004 <para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
4005 </listitem>
4006
4007 <listitem>
4008 <para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
4009 </listitem>
4010
4011 <listitem>
4012 <para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
4013 accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
4014 </listitem>
4015
4016 <listitem>
4017 <para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
4018 </listitem>
4019
4020 <listitem>
4021 <para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
4022 </listitem>
4023
4024 <listitem>
4025 <para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
4026 host only</para>
4027 </listitem>
4028
4029 <listitem>
4030 <para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
4031 probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
4032 </listitem>
4033
4034 <listitem>
4035 <para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
4036 requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
4037 </listitem>
4038
4039 <listitem>
4040 <para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
4041 </listitem>
4042
4043 <listitem>
4044 <para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
4045 (non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
4046 </listitem>
4047
4048 <listitem>
4049 <para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
4050 </listitem>
4051
4052 <listitem>
4053 <para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
4054 </listitem>
4055
4056 <listitem>
4057 <para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
4058 driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
4059 </listitem>
4060
4061 <listitem>
4062 <para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
4063 </listitem>
4064
4065 <listitem>
4066 <para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
4067 </listitem>
4068
4069 <listitem>
4070 <para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
4071 </listitem>
4072
4073 <listitem>
4074 <para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
4075 (bug #6714)</para>
4076 </listitem>
4077
4078 <listitem>
4079 <para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
4080 </listitem>
4081
4082 <listitem>
4083 <para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
4084 </listitem>
4085
4086 <listitem>
4087 <para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4088 </listitem>
4089
4090 <listitem>
4091 <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4092 </listitem>
4093
4094 <listitem>
4095 <para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4096 </listitem>
4097
4098 </itemizedlist>
4099
4100 </sect1>
4101
4102 <sect1>
4103 <title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4104
4105 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4106 were added:</para>
4107
4108 <itemizedlist>
4109
4110 <listitem>
4111 <para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4112 the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4113 were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4114 </listitem>
4115
4116 <listitem>
4117 <para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4118 </listitem>
4119
4120 <listitem>
4121 <para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4122 amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4123 </listitem>
4124
4125 <listitem>
4126 <para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4127 increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4128 (see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4129 </listitem>
4130
4131 <listitem>
4132 <para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4133 and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4134 </listitem>
4135
4136 <listitem>
4137 <para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4138 (see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4139 also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4140 is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4141 which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4142 </listitem>
4143
4144 <listitem>
4145 <para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4146 </listitem>
4147
4148 <listitem>
4149 <para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4150 guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4151 </listitem>
4152
4153 <listitem>
4154 <para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4155 if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4156 </listitem>
4157
4158 <listitem>
4159 <para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4160 </listitem>
4161
4162 <listitem>
4163 <para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4164 </listitem>
4165
4166 <listitem>
4167 <para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4168 </listitem>
4169
4170 <listitem>
4171 <para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4172 </listitem>
4173
4174 <listitem>
4175 <para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4176 from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4177 <xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4178 </listitem>
4179
4180 <listitem>
4181 <para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4182 that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4183 </listitem>
4184
4185 </itemizedlist>
4186
4187 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4188
4189 <itemizedlist>
4190
4191 <listitem>
4192 <para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4193 amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4194 </listitem>
4195
4196 <listitem>
4197 <para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4198 </listitem>
4199
4200 <listitem>
4201 <para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4202 VM</para>
4203 </listitem>
4204
4205 <listitem>
4206 <para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4207 passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4208 </listitem>
4209
4210 <listitem>
4211 <para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4212 #1669)</para>
4213 </listitem>
4214
4215 <listitem>
4216 <para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4217 #6442)</para>
4218 </listitem>
4219
4220 <listitem>
4221 <para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4222 combination (bug #684)</para>
4223 </listitem>
4224
4225 <listitem>
4226 <para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4227 the VM from the GUI</para>
4228 </listitem>
4229
4230 <listitem>
4231 <para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4232 medium is not accessible</para>
4233 </listitem>
4234
4235 <listitem>
4236 <para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4237 </listitem>
4238
4239 <listitem>
4240 <para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4241 audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4242 </listitem>
4243
4244 <listitem>
4245 <para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4246 #3106)</para>
4247 </listitem>
4248
4249 <listitem>
4250 <para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4251 settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4252 it</para>
4253 </listitem>
4254
4255 <listitem>
4256 <para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4257 </listitem>
4258
4259 <listitem>
4260 <para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4261 </listitem>
4262
4263 <listitem>
4264 <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4265 <emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4266 </listitem>
4267
4268 <listitem>
4269 <para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4270 windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4271 </listitem>
4272
4273 <listitem>
4274 <para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4275 </listitem>
4276
4277 <listitem>
4278 <para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4279 </listitem>
4280
4281 <listitem>
4282 <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4283 screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4284 </listitem>
4285
4286 <listitem>
4287 <para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4288 </listitem>
4289
4290 <listitem>
4291 <para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4292 (Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4293 </listitem>
4294
4295 <listitem>
4296 <para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4297 </listitem>
4298
4299 <listitem>
4300 <para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4301 in VirtualBox</para>
4302 </listitem>
4303
4304 <listitem>
4305 <para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4306 alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4307 </listitem>
4308
4309 <listitem>
4310 <para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4311 VirtualBox</para>
4312 </listitem>
4313
4314 <listitem>
4315 <para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4316 </listitem>
4317
4318 <listitem>
4319 <para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4320 VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4321 </listitem>
4322
4323 </itemizedlist>
4324 </sect1>
4325
4326 <sect1>
4327 <title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4328
4329 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4330 added:</para>
4331
4332 <itemizedlist>
4333
4334 <listitem>
4335 <para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4336 early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4337 </listitem>
4338
4339 <listitem>
4340 <para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4341 </listitem>
4342
4343 <listitem>
4344 <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4345 </listitem>
4346
4347 <listitem>
4348 <para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4349 only) </para>
4350 </listitem>
4351
4352 <listitem>
4353 <para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4354 to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4355 </listitem>
4356
4357 <listitem>
4358 <para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4359 interface version</para>
4360 </listitem>
4361
4362 <listitem>
4363 <para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4364 settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4365 slot empty</para>
4366 </listitem>
4367
4368 <listitem>
4369 <para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4370 <computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4371 (bug #4220)</para>
4372 </listitem>
4373
4374 <listitem>
4375 <para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4376 </listitem>
4377
4378 <listitem>
4379 <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4380 non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 &amp; #6208)</para>
4381 </listitem>
4382
4383 <listitem>
4384 <para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4385 using the drivers from LSI</para>
4386 </listitem>
4387
4388 <listitem>
4389 <para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4390 disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4391 </listitem>
4392
4393 <listitem>
4394 <para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4395 attached</para>
4396 </listitem>
4397
4398 <listitem>
4399 <para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4400 adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4401 </listitem>
4402
4403 <listitem>
4404 <para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4405 </listitem>
4406
4407 <listitem>
4408 <para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4409 booting from SCSI devices</para>
4410 </listitem>
4411
4412 <listitem>
4413 <para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4414 is bug #6408)</para>
4415 </listitem>
4416
4417 <listitem>
4418 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4419 </listitem>
4420
4421 <listitem>
4422 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4423 fail to initialize</para>
4424 </listitem>
4425
4426 <listitem>
4427 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4428 </listitem>
4429
4430 <listitem>
4431 <para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4432 (Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4433 </listitem>
4434
4435 <listitem>
4436 <para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4437 to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4438 Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4439 </listitem>
4440
4441 <listitem>
4442 <para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4443 </listitem>
4444
4445 <listitem>
4446 <para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4447 (Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4448 </listitem>
4449
4450 <listitem>
4451 <para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4452 older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4453 </listitem>
4454
4455 <listitem>
4456 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4457 (bug #6435)</para>
4458 </listitem>
4459
4460 <listitem>
4461 <para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4462 mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4463 </listitem>
4464
4465 <listitem>
4466 <para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4467 IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4468 (bug #6488)</para>
4469 </listitem>
4470
4471 <listitem>
4472 <para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4473 <emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4474 </listitem>
4475
4476 <listitem>
4477 <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4478 screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4479 </listitem>
4480
4481 <listitem>
4482 <para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4483 #5227)</para>
4484 </listitem>
4485
4486 <listitem>
4487 <para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4488 hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4489 </listitem>
4490
4491 <listitem>
4492 <para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4493 </listitem>
4494
4495 <listitem>
4496 <para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4497 be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4498 </listitem>
4499
4500 </itemizedlist>
4501 </sect1>
4502
4503 <sect1>
4504 <title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4505
4506 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4507 added:</para>
4508
4509 <itemizedlist>
4510
4511 <listitem>
4512 <para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4513 2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4514 </listitem>
4515
4516 <listitem>
4517 <para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4518 Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4519 </listitem>
4520
4521 <listitem>
4522 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4523 interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4524 </listitem>
4525
4526 <listitem>
4527 <para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4528 circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4529 </listitem>
4530
4531 <listitem>
4532 <para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4533 </listitem>
4534
4535 <listitem>
4536 <para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4537 </listitem>
4538
4539 <listitem>
4540 <para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4541 </listitem>
4542
4543 <listitem>
4544 <para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 &amp; #5792)</para>
4545 </listitem>
4546
4547 <listitem>
4548 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4549 (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4550 </listitem>
4551
4552 <listitem>
4553 <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4554 (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 &amp; #6125)</para>
4555 </listitem>
4556
4557 <listitem>
4558 <para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4559 mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4560 </listitem>
4561
4562 <listitem>
4563 <para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4564 </listitem>
4565
4566 <listitem>
4567 <para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4568 </listitem>
4569
4570 <listitem>
4571 <para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4572 windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4573 </listitem>
4574
4575 <listitem>
4576 <para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4577 <emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4578 calls (bug #6165)</para>
4579 </listitem>
4580
4581 <listitem>
4582 <para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4583 (bug #5297)</para>
4584 </listitem>
4585
4586 <listitem>
4587 <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4588 (bug #4962)</para>
4589 </listitem>
4590
4591 <listitem>
4592 <para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4593 connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4594 </listitem>
4595
4596 <listitem>
4597 <para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4598 (bug #6176)</para>
4599 </listitem>
4600
4601 <listitem>
4602 <para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4603 certain circumstances</para>
4604 </listitem>
4605
4606 <listitem>
4607 <para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4608 network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4609 </listitem>
4610
4611 <listitem>
4612 <para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4613 </listitem>
4614
4615 <listitem>
4616 <para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4617 </listitem>
4618
4619 <listitem>
4620 <para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4621 (bug #3571)</para>
4622 </listitem>
4623
4624 <listitem>
4625 <para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4626 devices</para>
4627 </listitem>
4628
4629 <listitem>
4630 <para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4631 determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4632 (Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4633 </listitem>
4634
4635 <listitem>
4636 <para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4637 (3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4638 </listitem>
4639
4640 <listitem>
4641 <para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4642 </listitem>
4643
4644 <listitem>
4645 <para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4646 (I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4647 </listitem>
4648
4649 <listitem>
4650 <para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4651 response</para>
4652 </listitem>
4653
4654 <listitem>
4655 <para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4656 </listitem>
4657
4658 <listitem>
4659 <para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4660 </listitem>
4661
4662 <listitem>
4663 <para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4664 </listitem>
4665
4666 <listitem>
4667 <para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4668 </listitem>
4669
4670 <listitem>
4671 <para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4672 Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4673 </listitem>
4674
4675 <listitem>
4676 <para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4677 </listitem>
4678
4679 <listitem>
4680 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4681 </listitem>
4682
4683 <listitem>
4684 <para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4685 guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4686 </listitem>
4687
4688 <listitem>
4689 <para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4690 </listitem>
4691
4692 <listitem>
4693 <para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4694 </listitem>
4695
4696 <listitem>
4697 <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4698 </listitem>
4699
4700 <listitem>
4701 <para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4702 </listitem>
4703
4704 </itemizedlist>
4705 </sect1>
4706
4707 <sect1>
4708 <title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4709
4710 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4711 added:</para>
4712
4713 <itemizedlist>
4714
4715 <listitem>
4716 <para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4717 </listitem>
4718
4719 <listitem>
4720 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4721 </listitem>
4722
4723 <listitem>
4724 <para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4725 hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4726 </listitem>
4727
4728 <listitem>
4729 <para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4730 AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4731 </listitem>
4732
4733 <listitem>
4734 <para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4735 (bug #3945)</para>
4736 </listitem>
4737
4738 <listitem>
4739 <para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4740 (software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4741 </listitem>
4742
4743 <listitem>
4744 <para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4745 and AMD-V only) </para>
4746 </listitem>
4747
4748 <listitem>
4749 <para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4750 </listitem>
4751
4752 <listitem>
4753 <para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4754 teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4755 "VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4756 </listitem>
4757
4758 <listitem>
4759 <para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4760 virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4761 </listitem>
4762
4763 <listitem>
4764 <para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4765 a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4766 </listitem>
4767
4768 <listitem>
4769 <para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4770 error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4771 </listitem>
4772
4773 <listitem>
4774 <para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4775 snapshots command</para>
4776 </listitem>
4777
4778 <listitem>
4779 <para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4780 </listitem>
4781
4782 <listitem>
4783 <para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4784 XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4785 </listitem>
4786
4787 <listitem>
4788 <para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4789 </listitem>
4790
4791 <listitem>
4792 <para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4793 </listitem>
4794
4795 <listitem>
4796 <para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4797 </listitem>
4798
4799 <listitem>
4800 <para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4801 (KWin bug)</para>
4802 </listitem>
4803
4804 <listitem>
4805 <para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4806 relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4807 </listitem>
4808
4809 <listitem>
4810 <para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4811 </listitem>
4812
4813 <listitem>
4814 <para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4815 </listitem>
4816
4817 <listitem>
4818 <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4819 </listitem>
4820
4821 <listitem>
4822 <para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4823 </listitem>
4824
4825 <listitem>
4826 <para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4827 resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4828 </listitem>
4829
4830 <listitem>
4831 <para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4832 bug #5787)</para>
4833 </listitem>
4834
4835 <listitem>
4836 <para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4837 DHCP requests</para>
4838 </listitem>
4839
4840 <listitem>
4841 <para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4842 (bug #3217)</para>
4843 </listitem>
4844
4845 <listitem>
4846 <para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4847 range (bug #5923)</para>
4848 </listitem>
4849
4850 <listitem>
4851 <para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4852 </listitem>
4853
4854 <listitem>
4855 <para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4856 </listitem>
4857
4858 <listitem>
4859 <para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4860 </listitem>
4861
4862 <listitem>
4863 <para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4864 </listitem>
4865
4866 <listitem>
4867 <para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4868 file (bug #5681)</para>
4869 </listitem>
4870
4871 <listitem>
4872 <para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4873 (3.1.2 regression)</para>
4874 </listitem>
4875
4876 <listitem>
4877 <para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4878 error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4879 </listitem>
4880
4881 <listitem>
4882 <para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4883 regression)</para>
4884 </listitem>
4885
4886 <listitem>
4887 <para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4888 </listitem>
4889
4890 <listitem>
4891 <para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4892 </listitem>
4893
4894 <listitem>
4895 <para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4896 </listitem>
4897
4898 <listitem>
4899 <para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4900 </listitem>
4901
4902 <listitem>
4903 <para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4904 (3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4905 </listitem>
4906
4907 <listitem>
4908 <para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4909 </listitem>
4910
4911 <listitem>
4912 <para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4913 </listitem>
4914
4915 <listitem>
4916 <para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4917 </listitem>
4918
4919 <listitem>
4920 <para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4921 clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4922 </listitem>
4923
4924 <listitem>
4925 <para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4926 </listitem>
4927
4928 <listitem>
4929 <para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4930 again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4931 </listitem>
4932
4933 <listitem>
4934 <para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4935 </listitem>
4936
4937 <listitem>
4938 <para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4939 </listitem>
4940
4941 <listitem>
4942 <para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4943 </listitem>
4944
4945 <listitem>
4946 <para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4947 (bug #5731)</para>
4948 </listitem>
4949
4950 <listitem>
4951 <para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4952 again</para>
4953 </listitem>
4954
4955 </itemizedlist>
4956
4957 </sect1>
4958
4959 <sect1>
4960 <title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4961
4962 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4963 added:</para>
4964
4965 <itemizedlist>
4966
4967 <listitem>
4968 <para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4969 </listitem>
4970
4971 <listitem>
4972 <para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4973 </listitem>
4974
4975 <listitem>
4976 <para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4977 </listitem>
4978
4979 <listitem>
4980 <para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4981 </listitem>
4982
4983 <listitem>
4984 <para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
4985 </listitem>
4986
4987 <listitem>
4988 <para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
4989 <emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
4990 </listitem>
4991
4992 <listitem>
4993 <para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
4994 </listitem>
4995
4996 <listitem>
4997 <para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
4998 </listitem>
4999
5000 <listitem>
5001 <para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
5002 </listitem>
5003
5004 <listitem>
5005 <para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
5006 </listitem>
5007
5008 <listitem>
5009 <para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
5010 </listitem>
5011
5012 <listitem>
5013 <para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
5014 Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
5015 </listitem>
5016
5017 <listitem>
5018 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
5019 used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
5020 </listitem>
5021
5022 <listitem>
5023 <para>Mac OS X hosts: dock &amp; menubar don't disappear in
5024 full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
5025 #1762)</para>
5026 </listitem>
5027
5028 <listitem>
5029 <para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &amp;
5030 Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
5031 </listitem>
5032
5033 <listitem>
5034 <para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
5035 right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
5036 </listitem>
5037
5038 <listitem>
5039 <para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
5040 while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
5041 </listitem>
5042
5043 <listitem>
5044 <para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
5045 </listitem>
5046
5047 <listitem>
5048 <para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
5049 </listitem>
5050
5051 <listitem>
5052 <para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
5053 several virtual CPU cores</para>
5054 </listitem>
5055
5056 <listitem>
5057 <para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
5058 </listitem>
5059
5060 <listitem>
5061 <para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
5062 </listitem>
5063
5064 <listitem>
5065 <para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
5066 when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
5067 </listitem>
5068
5069 <listitem>
5070 <para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
5071 paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
5072 </listitem>
5073
5074 <listitem>
5075 <para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
5076 </listitem>
5077
5078 <listitem>
5079 <para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
5080 guests</para>
5081 </listitem>
5082
5083 <listitem>
5084 <para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
5085 and on some 64bit guests</para>
5086 </listitem>
5087
5088 <listitem>
5089 <para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5090 text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5091 </listitem>
5092
5093 <listitem>
5094 <para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5095 (openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5096 </listitem>
5097
5098 <listitem>
5099 <para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5100 releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5101 </listitem>
5102
5103 <listitem>
5104 <para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5105 </listitem>
5106
5107 <listitem>
5108 <para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5109 </listitem>
5110
5111 <listitem>
5112 <para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5113 </listitem>
5114
5115 <listitem>
5116 <para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5117 </listitem>
5118
5119 <listitem>
5120 <para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5121 GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5122 </listitem>
5123
5124 <listitem>
5125 <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5126 </listitem>
5127
5128 </itemizedlist>
5129
5130 </sect1>
5131
5132 <sect1>
5133 <title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5134
5135 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5136 were added:</para>
5137
5138 <itemizedlist>
5139
5140 <listitem>
5141 <para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5142 from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5143 </listitem>
5144
5145 <listitem>
5146 <para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5147 the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5148 ("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5149 </listitem>
5150
5151 <listitem>
5152 <para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5153 hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5154 (see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5155 </listitem>
5156
5157 <listitem>
5158 <para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5159 arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5160 (<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5161 </listitem>
5162
5163 <listitem>
5164 <para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5165 running</para>
5166 </listitem>
5167
5168 <listitem>
5169 <para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5170 making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5171 </listitem>
5172
5173 <listitem>
5174 <para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5175 (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5176 </listitem>
5177
5178 <listitem>
5179 <para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5180 see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5181 </listitem>
5182
5183 <listitem>
5184 <para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5185 see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5186 </listitem>
5187
5188 </itemizedlist>
5189
5190 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5191
5192 <itemizedlist>
5193
5194 <listitem>
5195 <para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5196 </listitem>
5197
5198 <listitem>
5199 <para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5200 </listitem>
5201
5202 <listitem>
5203 <para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5204 </listitem>
5205
5206 <listitem>
5207 <para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5208 (bug #5291)</para>
5209 </listitem>
5210
5211 <listitem>
5212 <para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5213 </listitem>
5214
5215 <listitem>
5216 <para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5217 </listitem>
5218
5219 <listitem>
5220 <para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5221 </listitem>
5222
5223 <listitem>
5224 <para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5225 <emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5226 </listitem>
5227
5228 <listitem>
5229 <para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5230 Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5231 </listitem>
5232
5233 <listitem>
5234 <para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5235 </listitem>
5236
5237 <listitem>
5238 <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5239 </listitem>
5240
5241 <listitem>
5242 <para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5243 </listitem>
5244
5245 <listitem>
5246 <para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5247 </listitem>
5248
5249 <listitem>
5250 <para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5251 </listitem>
5252
5253 <listitem>
5254 <para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5255 (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5256 </listitem>
5257
5258 <listitem>
5259 <para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5260 (see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5261 </listitem>
5262
5263 <listitem>
5264 <para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5265 (bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5266 </listitem>
5267
5268 <listitem>
5269 <para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5270 (bug #2723)</para>
5271 </listitem>
5272
5273 <listitem>
5274 <para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5275 </listitem>
5276
5277 <listitem>
5278 <para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5279 see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5280 </listitem>
5281
5282 <listitem>
5283 <para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5284 optional manifest file on import</para>
5285 </listitem>
5286
5287 <listitem>
5288 <para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5289 </listitem>
5290
5291 <listitem>
5292 <para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5293 (bug #3773)</para>
5294 </listitem>
5295
5296 <listitem>
5297 <para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5298 </listitem>
5299
5300 <listitem>
5301 <para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5302 </listitem>
5303
5304 <listitem>
5305 <para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5306 layout (bug #2302)</para>
5307 </listitem>
5308
5309 <listitem>
5310 <para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5311 (bug #4866)</para>
5312 </listitem>
5313
5314 <listitem>
5315 <para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5316 left click (bug #5049)</para>
5317 </listitem>
5318
5319 <listitem>
5320 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5321 certain conditions</para>
5322 </listitem>
5323
5324 <listitem>
5325 <para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5326 </listitem>
5327
5328 <listitem>
5329 <para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5330 </listitem>
5331
5332 <listitem>
5333 <para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5334 </listitem>
5335
5336 <listitem>
5337 <para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5338 </listitem>
5339
5340 <listitem>
5341 <para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5342 was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5343 </listitem>
5344
5345 <listitem>
5346 <para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5347 </listitem>
5348
5349 <listitem>
5350 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5351 properties (bug #5337)</para>
5352 </listitem>
5353
5354 <listitem>
5355 <para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5356 </listitem>
5357
5358 <listitem>
5359 <para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5360 </listitem>
5361
5362 <listitem>
5363 <para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5364 </listitem>
5365
5366 <listitem>
5367 <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5368 </listitem>
5369
5370 <listitem>
5371 <para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5372 Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5373 </listitem>
5374
5375 <listitem>
5376 <para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5377 file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5378 (bug #928)</para>
5379 </listitem>
5380
5381 <listitem>
5382 <para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5383 </listitem>
5384
5385 </itemizedlist>
5386
5387 </sect1>
5388
5389 <sect1>
5390 <title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5391
5392 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5393 added:</para>
5394
5395 <itemizedlist>
5396
5397 <listitem>
5398 <para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5399 guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5400 </listitem>
5401
5402 <listitem>
5403 <para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5404 using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5405 </listitem>
5406
5407 <listitem>
5408 <para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5409 forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5410 </listitem>
5411
5412 <listitem>
5413 <para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5414 enabled</para>
5415 </listitem>
5416
5417 <listitem>
5418 <para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5419 meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5420 </listitem>
5421
5422 <listitem>
5423 <para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5424 (bug #2676)</para>
5425 </listitem>
5426
5427 <listitem>
5428 <para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5429 is connected to a raw file</para>
5430 </listitem>
5431
5432 <listitem>
5433 <para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5434 (bug #5355)</para>
5435 </listitem>
5436
5437 <listitem>
5438 <para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5439 </listitem>
5440
5441 <listitem>
5442 <para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5443 guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5444 </listitem>
5445
5446 <listitem>
5447 <para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5448 PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5449 guest (bug #4496)</para>
5450 </listitem>
5451
5452 <listitem>
5453 <para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5454 </listitem>
5455
5456 <listitem>
5457 <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5458 </listitem>
5459
5460 <listitem>
5461 <para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5462 <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5463 </listitem>
5464
5465 <listitem>
5466 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5467 among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5468 periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5469 </listitem>
5470
5471 </itemizedlist>
5472
5473 </sect1>
5474
5475 <sect1>
5476 <title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5477
5478 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5479 added:</para>
5480
5481 <itemizedlist>
5482
5483 <listitem>
5484 <para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5485 </listitem>
5486
5487 <listitem>
5488 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5489 </listitem>
5490
5491 <listitem>
5492 <para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5493 necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5494 (Windows &amp; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5495 </listitem>
5496
5497 <listitem>
5498 <para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5499 (VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5500 </listitem>
5501
5502 <listitem>
5503 <para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5504 </listitem>
5505
5506 <listitem>
5507 <para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5508 </listitem>
5509
5510 <listitem>
5511 <para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5512 </listitem>
5513
5514 <listitem>
5515 <para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5516 </listitem>
5517
5518 <listitem>
5519 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5520 </listitem>
5521
5522 <listitem>
5523 <para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5524 screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5525 </listitem>
5526
5527 <listitem>
5528 <para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5529 </listitem>
5530
5531 <listitem>
5532 <para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5533 </listitem>
5534
5535 <listitem>
5536 <para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5537 on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5538 </listitem>
5539
5540 <listitem>
5541 <para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5542 </listitem>
5543
5544 <listitem>
5545 <para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5546 exhaustion</para>
5547 </listitem>
5548
5549 <listitem>
5550 <para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5551 </listitem>
5552
5553 <listitem>
5554 <para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5555 netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5556 </listitem>
5557
5558 <listitem>
5559 <para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5560 folders (bug #4106)</para>
5561 </listitem>
5562
5563 <listitem>
5564 <para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5565 folders (bug #4299)</para>
5566 </listitem>
5567
5568 <listitem>
5569 <para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5570 <emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5571 (bug #2921)</para>
5572 </listitem>
5573
5574 <listitem>
5575 <para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5576 hosts only)</para>
5577 </listitem>
5578
5579 <listitem>
5580 <para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5581 package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5582 </listitem>
5583
5584 <listitem>
5585 <para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5586 </listitem>
5587
5588 <listitem>
5589 <para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5590 (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5591 </listitem>
5592
5593 <listitem>
5594 <para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5595 </listitem>
5596
5597 <listitem>
5598 <para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5599 image inconsistency </para>
5600 </listitem>
5601
5602 <listitem>
5603 <para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5604 </listitem>
5605
5606 <listitem>
5607 <para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5608 </listitem>
5609
5610 <listitem>
5611 <para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5612 (bug #2025)</para>
5613 </listitem>
5614
5615 <listitem>
5616 <para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5617 initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5618 </listitem>
5619
5620 </itemizedlist>
5621
5622 </sect1>
5623
5624 <sect1>
5625 <title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5626
5627 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5628 added:</para>
5629
5630 <itemizedlist>
5631
5632 <listitem>
5633 <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5634 (VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5635 </listitem>
5636
5637 <listitem>
5638 <para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &amp;
5639 AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5640 </listitem>
5641
5642 <listitem>
5643 <para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5644 guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5645 </listitem>
5646
5647 <listitem>
5648 <para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5649 </listitem>
5650
5651 <listitem>
5652 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5653 software virtualization only) </para>
5654 </listitem>
5655
5656 <listitem>
5657 <para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5658 Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5659 </listitem>
5660
5661 <listitem>
5662 <para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5663 with root privileges</para>
5664 </listitem>
5665
5666 <listitem>
5667 <para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5668 which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5669 </listitem>
5670
5671 <listitem>
5672 <para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5673 distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5674 </listitem>
5675
5676 <listitem>
5677 <para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5678 opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5679 </listitem>
5680
5681 <listitem>
5682 <para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5683 DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5684 selector (bug #5063)</para>
5685 </listitem>
5686
5687 <listitem>
5688 <para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5689 available</para>
5690 </listitem>
5691
5692 <listitem>
5693 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5694 interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5695 </listitem>
5696
5697 <listitem>
5698 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5699 networking (bug #4775)</para>
5700 </listitem>
5701
5702 <listitem>
5703 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5704 changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5705 </listitem>
5706
5707 <listitem>
5708 <para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5709 (bug #4907)</para>
5710 </listitem>
5711
5712 <listitem>
5713 <para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5714 VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5715 </listitem>
5716
5717 <listitem>
5718 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5719 with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5720 </listitem>
5721
5722 <listitem>
5723 <para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5724 </listitem>
5725
5726 <listitem>
5727 <para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5728 </listitem>
5729
5730 <listitem>
5731 <para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5732 </listitem>
5733
5734 <listitem>
5735 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5736 </listitem>
5737
5738 <listitem>
5739 <para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5740 are installed</para>
5741 </listitem>
5742
5743 <listitem>
5744 <para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5745 (bug #4771)</para>
5746 </listitem>
5747
5748 <listitem>
5749 <para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5750 </listitem>
5751
5752 <listitem>
5753 <para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5754 rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5755 </listitem>
5756
5757 <listitem>
5758 <para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5759 command</para>
5760 </listitem>
5761
5762 <listitem>
5763 <para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5764 </listitem>
5765
5766 <listitem>
5767 <para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5768 </listitem>
5769
5770 <listitem>
5771 <para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5772 (bug #5089)</para>
5773 </listitem>
5774
5775 <listitem>
5776 <para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5777 </listitem>
5778
5779 </itemizedlist>
5780
5781 </sect1>
5782
5783 <sect1>
5784 <title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5785
5786 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5787 added:</para>
5788
5789 <itemizedlist>
5790
5791 <listitem>
5792 <para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5793 (AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5794 </listitem>
5795
5796 <listitem>
5797 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5798 a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5799 </listitem>
5800
5801 <listitem>
5802 <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5803 (software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5804 </listitem>
5805
5806 <listitem>
5807 <para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris &amp; OpenSolaris
5808 guests (bug #2258)</para>
5809 </listitem>
5810
5811 <listitem>
5812 <para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5813 (AMD-V &amp; VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5814 </listitem>
5815
5816 <listitem>
5817 <para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5818 </listitem>
5819
5820 <listitem>
5821 <para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5822 </listitem>
5823
5824 <listitem>
5825 <para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5826 </listitem>
5827
5828 <listitem>
5829 <para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5830 </listitem>
5831
5832 <listitem>
5833 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5834 </listitem>
5835
5836 <listitem>
5837 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5838 onlined or offlined</para>
5839 </listitem>
5840
5841 <listitem>
5842 <para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5843 </listitem>
5844
5845 <listitem>
5846 <para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels &lt; 2.6.11 (in particular
5847 RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels &lt; 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5848 </listitem>
5849
5850 <listitem>
5851 <para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5852 than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5853 </listitem>
5854
5855 <listitem>
5856 <para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5857 </listitem>
5858
5859 <listitem>
5860 <para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5861 wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5862 </listitem>
5863
5864 <listitem>
5865 <para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5866 </listitem>
5867
5868 <listitem>
5869 <para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5870 </listitem>
5871
5872 <listitem>
5873 <para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5874 </listitem>
5875
5876 <listitem>
5877 <para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5878 </listitem>
5879
5880 <listitem>
5881 <para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5882 </listitem>
5883
5884 <listitem>
5885 <para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5886 filters in machine settings XML</para>
5887 </listitem>
5888
5889 <listitem>
5890 <para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5891 </listitem>
5892
5893 <listitem>
5894 <para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5895 </listitem>
5896
5897 <listitem>
5898 <para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5899 </listitem>
5900
5901 <listitem>
5902 <para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5903 for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5904 </listitem>
5905
5906 <listitem>
5907 <para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5908 <emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5909 </listitem>
5910
5911 <listitem>
5912 <para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5913 </listitem>
5914
5915 <listitem>
5916 <para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5917 </listitem>
5918
5919 <listitem>
5920 <para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5921 </listitem>
5922
5923 <listitem>
5924 <para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5925 </listitem>
5926
5927 <listitem>
5928 <para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5929 </listitem>
5930
5931 <listitem>
5932 <para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5933 </listitem>
5934
5935 <listitem>
5936 <para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5937 </listitem>
5938
5939 <listitem>
5940 <para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5941 fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5942 was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5943 phase collapse</para>
5944 </listitem>
5945
5946 <listitem>
5947 <para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5948 (2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5949 </listitem>
5950
5951 <listitem>
5952 <para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5953 to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5954 </listitem>
5955
5956 <listitem>
5957 <para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5958 </listitem>
5959
5960 <listitem>
5961 <para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5962 <emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5963 </listitem>
5964
5965 <listitem>
5966 <para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5967 interface bringup on Linux</para>
5968 </listitem>
5969
5970 <listitem>
5971 <para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5972 </listitem>
5973
5974 <listitem>
5975 <para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5976 interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5977 #4698, #4790)</para>
5978 </listitem>
5979
5980 <listitem>
5981 <para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5982 less than the configured range</para>
5983 </listitem>
5984
5985 <listitem>
5986 <para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
5987 </listitem>
5988
5989 <listitem>
5990 <para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
5991 </listitem>
5992
5993 <listitem>
5994 <para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
5995 </listitem>
5996
5997 <listitem>
5998 <para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
5999 </listitem>
6000
6001 <listitem>
6002 <para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
6003 DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
6004 </listitem>
6005
6006 <listitem>
6007 <para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
6008 the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
6009 </listitem>
6010
6011 <listitem>
6012 <para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
6013 (like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
6014 </listitem>
6015
6016 <listitem>
6017 <para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
6018 </listitem>
6019
6020 <listitem>
6021 <para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
6022 and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
6023 </listitem>
6024
6025 <listitem>
6026 <para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
6027 new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
6028 </listitem>
6029
6030 <listitem>
6031 <para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
6032 a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
6033 </listitem>
6034
6035 <listitem>
6036 <para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
6037 cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
6038 </listitem>
6039
6040 <listitem>
6041 <para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
6042 </listitem>
6043
6044 <listitem>
6045 <para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
6046 </listitem>
6047
6048 </itemizedlist>
6049
6050 </sect1>
6051
6052 <sect1>
6053 <title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
6054
6055 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6056 added:</para>
6057
6058 <itemizedlist>
6059
6060 <listitem>
6061 <para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 &amp; #3666)</para>
6062 </listitem>
6063
6064 <listitem>
6065 <para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
6066 </listitem>
6067
6068 <listitem>
6069 <para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
6070 </listitem>
6071
6072 <listitem>
6073 <para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
6074 </listitem>
6075
6076 <listitem>
6077 <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
6078 </listitem>
6079
6080 <listitem>
6081 <para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
6082 </listitem>
6083
6084 <listitem>
6085 <para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
6086 </listitem>
6087
6088 <listitem>
6089 <para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6090 </listitem>
6091
6092 <listitem>
6093 <para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6094 </listitem>
6095
6096 <listitem>
6097 <para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6098 multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6099 </listitem>
6100
6101 <listitem>
6102 <para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6103 </listitem>
6104
6105 <listitem>
6106 <para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6107 </listitem>
6108
6109 <listitem>
6110 <para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6111 </listitem>
6112
6113 <listitem>
6114 <para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6115 </listitem>
6116
6117 <listitem>
6118 <para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6119 </listitem>
6120
6121 <listitem>
6122 <para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6123 </listitem>
6124
6125 <listitem>
6126 <para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6127 Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6128 </listitem>
6129
6130 <listitem>
6131 <para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6132 (bug #4654)</para>
6133 </listitem>
6134
6135 <listitem>
6136 <para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6137 </listitem>
6138
6139 <listitem>
6140 <para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6141 interfaces</para>
6142 </listitem>
6143
6144 <listitem>
6145 <para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6146 in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6147 </listitem>
6148
6149 <listitem>
6150 <para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6151 inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6152 </listitem>
6153
6154 <listitem>
6155 <para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6156 properties (bug #3415)</para>
6157 </listitem>
6158
6159 <listitem>
6160 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6161 (bug #1461)</para>
6162 </listitem>
6163
6164 <listitem>
6165 <para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6166 </listitem>
6167
6168 <listitem>
6169 <para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6170 transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6171 </listitem>
6172
6173 <listitem>
6174 <para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6175 fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6176 </listitem>
6177
6178 <listitem>
6179 <para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6180 Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6181 </listitem>
6182
6183 <listitem>
6184 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6185 </listitem>
6186
6187 <listitem>
6188 <para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6189 </listitem>
6190
6191 <listitem>
6192 <para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6193 </listitem>
6194
6195 <listitem>
6196 <para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6197 seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6198 </listitem>
6199
6200 <listitem>
6201 <para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6202 amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6203 </listitem>
6204
6205 <listitem>
6206 <para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6207 guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6208 </listitem>
6209
6210 <listitem>
6211 <para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6212 working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6213 </listitem>
6214
6215 </itemizedlist>
6216
6217 </sect1>
6218 <sect1>
6219 <title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6220
6221 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6222 added:</para>
6223
6224 <itemizedlist>
6225
6226 <listitem>
6227 <para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6228 </listitem>
6229
6230 <listitem>
6231 <para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6232 </listitem>
6233
6234 <listitem>
6235 <para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6236 (VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6237 </listitem>
6238
6239 <listitem>
6240 <para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6241 virtualization only; bugs #2696 &amp; #3868)</para>
6242 </listitem>
6243
6244 <listitem>
6245 <para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6246 </listitem>
6247
6248 <listitem>
6249 <para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6250 </listitem>
6251
6252 <listitem>
6253 <para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6254 </listitem>
6255
6256 <listitem>
6257 <para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6258 </listitem>
6259
6260 <listitem>
6261 <para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6262 </listitem>
6263
6264 <listitem>
6265 <para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6266 </listitem>
6267
6268 <listitem>
6269 <para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6270 </listitem>
6271
6272 <listitem>
6273 <para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6274 </listitem>
6275
6276 <listitem>
6277 <para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6278 </listitem>
6279
6280 <listitem>
6281 <para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6282 </listitem>
6283
6284 <listitem>
6285 <para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6286 </listitem>
6287
6288 <listitem>
6289 <para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6290 guest (bug #4381)</para>
6291 </listitem>
6292
6293 <listitem>
6294 <para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6295 </listitem>
6296
6297 <listitem>
6298 <para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6299 </listitem>
6300
6301 <listitem>
6302 <para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6303 (for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6304 </listitem>
6305
6306 <listitem>
6307 <para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6308 </listitem>
6309
6310 <listitem>
6311 <para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6312 </listitem>
6313
6314 <listitem>
6315 <para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6316 black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6317 </listitem>
6318
6319 <listitem>
6320 <para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6321 </listitem>
6322
6323 <listitem>
6324 <para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6325 </listitem>
6326
6327 <listitem>
6328 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6329 </listitem>
6330
6331 <listitem>
6332 <para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6333 </listitem>
6334
6335 <listitem>
6336 <para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6337 </listitem>
6338
6339 <listitem>
6340 <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>
6341 </listitem>
6342
6343 </itemizedlist>
6344
6345 </sect1>
6346
6347 <sect1>
6348 <title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6349
6350 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6351 were added:</para>
6352
6353 <itemizedlist>
6354
6355 <listitem>
6356 <para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6357 </listitem>
6358
6359 <listitem>
6360 <para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6361 (experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6362 </listitem>
6363
6364 <listitem>
6365 <para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6366 </listitem>
6367
6368 </itemizedlist>
6369
6370 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6371
6372 <itemizedlist>
6373
6374 <listitem>
6375 <para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6376 </listitem>
6377
6378 <listitem>
6379 <para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6380 certain conditions</para>
6381 </listitem>
6382
6383 <listitem>
6384 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6385 </listitem>
6386
6387 <listitem>
6388 <para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6389 </listitem>
6390
6391 <listitem>
6392 <para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6393 </listitem>
6394
6395 <listitem>
6396 <para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6397 this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6398 </listitem>
6399
6400 <listitem>
6401 <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6402 </listitem>
6403
6404 <listitem>
6405 <para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6406 </listitem>
6407
6408 <listitem>
6409 <para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6410 </listitem>
6411
6412 <listitem>
6413 <para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6414 </listitem>
6415
6416 <listitem>
6417 <para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6418 </listitem>
6419
6420 <listitem>
6421 <para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6422 </listitem>
6423
6424 <listitem>
6425 <para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6426 </listitem>
6427
6428 <listitem>
6429 <para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6430 </listitem>
6431
6432 <listitem>
6433 <para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6434 (non Windows hosts)</para>
6435 </listitem>
6436
6437 <listitem>
6438 <para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6439 </listitem>
6440
6441 <listitem>
6442 <para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6443 </listitem>
6444
6445 <listitem>
6446 <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6447 </listitem>
6448
6449 <listitem>
6450 <para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6451 </listitem>
6452
6453 <listitem>
6454 <para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6455 </listitem>
6456
6457 <listitem>
6458 <para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6459 </listitem>
6460
6461 <listitem>
6462 <para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6463 </listitem>
6464
6465 <listitem>
6466 <para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6467 </listitem>
6468
6469 <listitem>
6470 <para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6471 </listitem>
6472
6473 <listitem>
6474 <para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6475 with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6476 </listitem>
6477
6478 <listitem>
6479 <para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6480 </listitem>
6481
6482 <listitem>
6483 <para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6484 </listitem>
6485
6486 <listitem>
6487 <para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6488 </listitem>
6489
6490 <listitem>
6491 <para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6492 </listitem>
6493
6494 <listitem>
6495 <para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6496 </listitem>
6497
6498 <listitem>
6499 <para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6500 </listitem>
6501
6502 <listitem>
6503 <para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6504 </listitem>
6505
6506 <listitem>
6507 <para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6508 creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6509 </listitem>
6510
6511 <listitem>
6512 <para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6513 </listitem>
6514
6515 <listitem>
6516 <para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6517 </listitem>
6518
6519 <listitem>
6520 <para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6521 </listitem>
6522
6523 <listitem>
6524 <para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6525 virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6526 </listitem>
6527
6528 <listitem>
6529 <para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6530 (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6531 </listitem>
6532
6533 <listitem>
6534 <para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6535 correct file mode when creating files</para>
6536 </listitem>
6537
6538 <listitem>
6539 <para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6540 conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6541 </listitem>
6542
6543 <listitem>
6544 <para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6545 on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6546 </listitem>
6547
6548 <listitem>
6549 <para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6550 </listitem>
6551
6552 <listitem>
6553 <para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6554 </listitem>
6555
6556 <listitem>
6557 <para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6558 Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6559 </listitem>
6560
6561 <listitem>
6562 <para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6563 guest property lookup</para>
6564 </listitem>
6565
6566 <listitem>
6567 <para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6568 basic network information)</para>
6569 </listitem>
6570
6571 <listitem>
6572 <para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6573 (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6574 </listitem>
6575
6576 <listitem>
6577 <para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6578 added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6579 endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6580 devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6581 </listitem>
6582
6583 <listitem>
6584 <para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6585 </listitem>
6586
6587 <listitem>
6588 <para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6589 are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6590 web service</para>
6591 </listitem>
6592
6593 <listitem>
6594 <para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6595 inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6596 </listitem>
6597
6598 <listitem>
6599 <para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6600 unavailable</para>
6601 </listitem>
6602
6603 <listitem>
6604 <para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6605 </listitem>
6606
6607 </itemizedlist>
6608 </sect1>
6609
6610 <sect1>
6611 <title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6612
6613 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6614 added:</para>
6615
6616 <itemizedlist>
6617
6618 <listitem>
6619 <para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6620 installation</para>
6621 </listitem>
6622
6623 <listitem>
6624 <para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6625 </listitem>
6626
6627 <listitem>
6628 <para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6629 later (bug #3981)</para>
6630 </listitem>
6631
6632 <listitem>
6633 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6634 loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6635 </listitem>
6636
6637 <listitem>
6638 <para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6639 <computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6640 (bug #4034)
6641 </para>
6642 </listitem>
6643
6644 <listitem>
6645 <para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6646 networking</para>
6647 </listitem>
6648
6649 <listitem>
6650 <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6651 disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6652 </listitem>
6653
6654 <listitem>
6655 <para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6656 clicks</para>
6657 </listitem>
6658
6659 <listitem>
6660 <para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6661 Windows 7 guests</para>
6662 </listitem>
6663
6664 <listitem>
6665 <para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6666 that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6667 </listitem>
6668
6669 <listitem>
6670 <para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6671 </listitem>
6672
6673 <listitem>
6674 <para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6675 </listitem>
6676
6677 <listitem>
6678 <para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6679 (bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6680 </listitem>
6681
6682 <listitem>
6683 <para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6684 clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6685 </listitem>
6686
6687 <listitem>
6688 <para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6689 </listitem>
6690
6691 <listitem>
6692 <para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6693 </listitem>
6694
6695 <listitem>
6696 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6697 fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6698 (bug #3864)</para>
6699 </listitem>
6700
6701 <listitem>
6702 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6703 now flushes the output stream</para>
6704 </listitem>
6705
6706 <listitem>
6707 <para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6708 sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6709 </listitem>
6710
6711 <listitem>
6712 <para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6713 </listitem>
6714
6715 <listitem>
6716 <para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6717 </listitem>
6718
6719 <listitem>
6720 <para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6721 </listitem>
6722
6723 <listitem>
6724 <para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6725 </listitem>
6726
6727 <listitem>
6728 <para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6729 (bug #3964)</para>
6730 </listitem>
6731
6732 <listitem>
6733 <para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6734 hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6735 </listitem>
6736
6737 <listitem>
6738 <para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6739 hosts</para>
6740 </listitem>
6741
6742 <listitem>
6743 <para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6744 a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6745 e1000 adapter</para>
6746 </listitem>
6747
6748 <listitem>
6749 <para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6750 when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6751 offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6752 offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6753 </listitem>
6754
6755 <listitem>
6756 <para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6757 </listitem>
6758
6759 <listitem>
6760 <para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6761 </listitem>
6762
6763 <listitem>
6764 <para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6765 </listitem>
6766
6767 <listitem>
6768 <para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6769 file (bug #1023)</para>
6770 </listitem>
6771
6772 <listitem>
6773 <para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6774 </listitem>
6775
6776 <listitem>
6777 <para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6778 </listitem>
6779
6780 </itemizedlist>
6781 </sect1>
6782
6783 <sect1>
6784 <title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6785
6786 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6787 added:</para>
6788
6789 <itemizedlist>
6790
6791 <listitem>
6792 <para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6793 hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6794 </listitem>
6795
6796 <listitem>
6797 <para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6798 on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6799 and later</para>
6800 </listitem>
6801
6802 <listitem>
6803 <para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6804 running services</para>
6805 </listitem>
6806
6807 <listitem>
6808 <para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6809 terminates</para>
6810 </listitem>
6811
6812 <listitem>
6813 <para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6814 in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6815 </listitem>
6816
6817 <listitem>
6818 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6819 installed on the guest</para>
6820 </listitem>
6821
6822 <listitem>
6823 <para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6824 unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6825 </listitem>
6826
6827 <listitem>
6828 <para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6829 Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6830 </listitem>
6831
6832 <listitem>
6833 <para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6834 (bug #2628)</para>
6835 </listitem>
6836
6837 <listitem>
6838 <para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6839 hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6840 </listitem>
6841
6842 <listitem>
6843 <para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6844 (bug #3657)</para>
6845 </listitem>
6846
6847 <listitem>
6848 <para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6849 devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6850 </listitem>
6851
6852 <listitem>
6853 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6854 virtualization only)
6855 </para>
6856 </listitem>
6857
6858 <listitem>
6859 <para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6860 images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6861 </listitem>
6862
6863 <listitem>
6864 <para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6865 </listitem>
6866
6867 <listitem>
6868 <para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6869 networks (bug #3702)</para>
6870 </listitem>
6871
6872 <listitem>
6873 <para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6874 bug #3689)</para>
6875 </listitem>
6876
6877 <listitem>
6878 <para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6879 bug #3679)</para>
6880 </listitem>
6881
6882 <listitem>
6883 <para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6884 bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6885 </listitem>
6886
6887 <listitem>
6888 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6889 implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6890 (bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6891 </listitem>
6892
6893 <listitem>
6894 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6895 made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6896 </listitem>
6897
6898 <listitem>
6899 <para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6900 lease (bug #3655)</para>
6901 </listitem>
6902
6903 <listitem>
6904 <para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6905 (bug #3667)</para>
6906 </listitem>
6907
6908 <listitem>
6909 <para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6910 emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6911 </listitem>
6912
6913 <listitem>
6914 <para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6915 </listitem>
6916
6917 <listitem>
6918 <para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6919 </listitem>
6920
6921 <listitem>
6922 <para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6923 </listitem>
6924
6925 <listitem>
6926 <para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6927 </listitem>
6928
6929 <listitem>
6930 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6931 </listitem>
6932
6933 <listitem>
6934 <para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6935 </listitem>
6936
6937 <listitem>
6938 <para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6939 </listitem>
6940
6941 </itemizedlist>
6942 </sect1>
6943
6944 <sect1>
6945 <title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6946
6947 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6948 were added:</para>
6949
6950 <itemizedlist>
6951
6952 <listitem>
6953 <para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6954 </listitem>
6955
6956 <listitem>
6957 <para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6958 </listitem>
6959
6960 <listitem>
6961 <para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6962 </listitem>
6963
6964 <listitem>
6965 <para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6966 </listitem>
6967
6968 <listitem>
6969 <para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6970 </listitem>
6971
6972 <listitem>
6973 <para>USB (OHCI &amp; EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6974 </listitem>
6975
6976 <listitem>
6977 <para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6978 </listitem>
6979
6980 <listitem>
6981 <para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6982 </listitem>
6983
6984 <listitem>
6985 <para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6986 </listitem>
6987
6988 <listitem>
6989 <para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
6990 </listitem>
6991
6992 </itemizedlist>
6993
6994 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6995
6996 <itemizedlist>
6997
6998 <listitem>
6999 <para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
7000 </listitem>
7001
7002 <listitem>
7003 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
7004 </listitem>
7005
7006 <listitem>
7007 <para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
7008 </listitem>
7009
7010 <listitem>
7011 <para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
7012 </listitem>
7013
7014 <listitem>
7015 <para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
7016 </listitem>
7017
7018 <listitem>
7019 <para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7020 </listitem>
7021
7022 <listitem>
7023 <para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7024 </listitem>
7025
7026 <listitem>
7027 <para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
7028 </listitem>
7029
7030 <listitem>
7031 <para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
7032 but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
7033 </listitem>
7034
7035 <listitem>
7036 <para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
7037 </listitem>
7038
7039 <listitem>
7040 <para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
7041 TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
7042 </listitem>
7043
7044 <listitem>
7045 <para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
7046 when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
7047 </listitem>
7048
7049 <listitem>
7050 <para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
7051 </listitem>
7052
7053 <listitem>
7054 <para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
7055 </listitem>
7056
7057 <listitem>
7058 <para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
7059 and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
7060 </listitem>
7061
7062 <listitem>
7063 <para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
7064 </listitem>
7065
7066 <listitem>
7067 <para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
7068 ESX server images)</para>
7069 </listitem>
7070
7071 <listitem>
7072 <para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
7073 writable</para>
7074 </listitem>
7075
7076 <listitem>
7077 <para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
7078 EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
7079 is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
7080 </listitem>
7081
7082 <listitem>
7083 <para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
7084 (Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
7085 </listitem>
7086
7087 <listitem>
7088 <para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7089 </listitem>
7090
7091 <listitem>
7092 <para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7093 </listitem>
7094
7095 <listitem>
7096 <para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7097 hosts when creating files</para>
7098 </listitem>
7099
7100 <listitem>
7101 <para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7102 this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7103 </listitem>
7104
7105 <listitem>
7106 <para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7107 if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7108 #2306)</para>
7109 </listitem>
7110
7111 <listitem>
7112 <para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7113 (bug #3555)</para>
7114 </listitem>
7115
7116 <listitem>
7117 <para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7118 installer (bug #3524)</para>
7119 </listitem>
7120
7121 <listitem>
7122 <para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7123 correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7124 </listitem>
7125
7126 <listitem>
7127 <para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7128 interface (bug #3414)</para>
7129 </listitem>
7130
7131 <listitem>
7132 <para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7133 the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7134 </listitem>
7135
7136 <listitem>
7137 <para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7138 (bug #3586)</para>
7139 </listitem>
7140
7141 <listitem>
7142 <para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7143 from Scratch systems</para>
7144 </listitem>
7145
7146 <listitem>
7147 <para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7148 both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7149 </listitem>
7150
7151 <listitem>
7152 <para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7153 </listitem>
7154
7155 <listitem>
7156 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7157 default to compact format</para>
7158 </listitem>
7159
7160 <listitem>
7161 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7162 did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7163 </listitem>
7164
7165 <listitem>
7166 <para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7167 </listitem>
7168
7169 <listitem>
7170 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7171 don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7172 statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7173 </listitem>
7174
7175 <listitem>
7176 <para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7177 single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7178 next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7179 </listitem>
7180
7181 <listitem>
7182 <para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7183 VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7184 </listitem>
7185
7186 <listitem>
7187 <para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7188 </listitem>
7189
7190 <listitem>
7191 <para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7192 </listitem>
7193
7194 <listitem>
7195 <para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7196 </listitem>
7197
7198 <listitem>
7199 <para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7200 </listitem>
7201
7202 <listitem>
7203 <para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7204 </listitem>
7205
7206 <listitem>
7207 <para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7208 </listitem>
7209
7210 <listitem>
7211 <para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7212 </listitem>
7213
7214 <listitem>
7215 <para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7216 a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7217 </listitem>
7218
7219 <listitem>
7220 <para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7221 </listitem>
7222
7223 <listitem>
7224 <para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7225 regression; bug #2065)</para>
7226 </listitem>
7227
7228 <listitem>
7229 <para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7230 </listitem>
7231
7232 <listitem>
7233 <para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7234 </listitem>
7235
7236 <listitem>
7237 <para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7238 </listitem>
7239
7240 <listitem>
7241 <para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7242 #2536)</para>
7243 </listitem>
7244
7245 <listitem>
7246 <para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7247 </listitem>
7248
7249 <listitem>
7250 <para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7251 (bug #3548)</para>
7252 </listitem>
7253
7254 </itemizedlist>
7255 </sect1>
7256
7257 <sect1>
7258 <title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7259
7260 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7261 added:</para>
7262
7263 <itemizedlist>
7264
7265 <listitem>
7266 <para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7267 when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7268 </listitem>
7269
7270 <listitem>
7271 <para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7272 </listitem>
7273
7274 <listitem>
7275 <para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7276 </listitem>
7277
7278 <listitem>
7279 <para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7280 </listitem>
7281
7282 <listitem>
7283 <para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7284 (bug #3115)</para>
7285 </listitem>
7286
7287 <listitem>
7288 <para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7289 don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7290 </listitem>
7291
7292 <listitem>
7293 <para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7294 communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7295 (bug #3215)</para>
7296 </listitem>
7297
7298 <listitem>
7299 <para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7300 are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7301 </listitem>
7302
7303 <listitem>
7304 <para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7305 disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7306 </listitem>
7307
7308 <listitem>
7309 <para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7310 been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7311 </listitem>
7312
7313 <listitem>
7314 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7315 in parallel</para>
7316 </listitem>
7317
7318 <listitem>
7319 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7320 </listitem>
7321
7322 <listitem>
7323 <para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7324 </listitem>
7325
7326 <listitem>
7327 <para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7328 </listitem>
7329
7330 <listitem>
7331 <para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7332 software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7333 </listitem>
7334
7335 <listitem>
7336 <para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7337 </listitem>
7338
7339 <listitem>
7340 <para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7341 shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7342 </listitem>
7343
7344 <listitem>
7345 <para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7346 when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7347 </listitem>
7348
7349 <listitem>
7350 <para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7351 </listitem>
7352
7353 <listitem>
7354 <para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7355 3D acceleration; Solaris &amp; Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7356 </listitem>
7357
7358 <listitem>
7359 <para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7360 traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7361 </listitem>
7362
7363 <listitem>
7364 <para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7365 </listitem>
7366
7367 <listitem>
7368 <para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7369 </listitem>
7370
7371 <listitem>
7372 <para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7373 different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7374 </listitem>
7375
7376 <listitem>
7377 <para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7378 </listitem>
7379
7380 <listitem>
7381 <para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7382 </listitem>
7383
7384 <listitem>
7385 <para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7386 </listitem>
7387
7388 <listitem>
7389 <para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7390 synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7391 </listitem>
7392
7393 <listitem>
7394 <para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7395 </listitem>
7396
7397 <listitem>
7398 <para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7399 virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7400 </listitem>
7401
7402 <listitem>
7403 <para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7404 </listitem>
7405
7406 <listitem>
7407 <para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7408 </listitem>
7409
7410 <listitem>
7411 <para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7412 error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7413 </listitem>
7414
7415 <listitem>
7416 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7417 with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7418 </listitem>
7419
7420 <listitem>
7421 <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7422 </listitem>
7423
7424 <listitem>
7425 <para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7426 message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7427 </listitem>
7428
7429 <listitem>
7430 <para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7431 in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7432 </listitem>
7433
7434 <listitem>
7435 <para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7436 on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7437 </listitem>
7438
7439 <listitem>
7440 <para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7441 (bug #3213)</para>
7442 </listitem>
7443
7444 <listitem>
7445 <para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7446 configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7447 </listitem>
7448
7449 <listitem>
7450 <para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7451 larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7452 </listitem>
7453
7454 </itemizedlist>
7455 </sect1>
7456
7457 <sect1>
7458 <title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7459
7460 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7461 added:</para>
7462
7463 <itemizedlist>
7464
7465 <listitem>
7466 <para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7467 </listitem>
7468
7469 <listitem>
7470 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7471 </listitem>
7472
7473 <listitem>
7474 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7475 </listitem>
7476
7477 <listitem>
7478 <para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7479 </listitem>
7480
7481 <listitem>
7482 <para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7483 </listitem>
7484
7485 <listitem>
7486 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7487 </listitem>
7488
7489 <listitem>
7490 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7491 </listitem>
7492
7493 <listitem>
7494 <para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7495 </listitem>
7496
7497 <listitem>
7498 <para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7499 </listitem>
7500
7501 <listitem>
7502 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7503 </listitem>
7504
7505 <listitem>
7506 <para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7507 </listitem>
7508
7509 <listitem>
7510 <para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7511 </listitem>
7512
7513 <listitem>
7514 <para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7515 </listitem>
7516
7517 <listitem>
7518 <para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7519 </listitem>
7520
7521 <listitem>
7522 <para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7523 </listitem>
7524
7525 <listitem>
7526 <para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7527 </listitem>
7528
7529 <listitem>
7530 <para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7531 (bug #3067)</para>
7532 </listitem>
7533
7534 <listitem>
7535 <para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7536 bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7537 </listitem>
7538
7539 <listitem>
7540 <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7541 (bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7542 </listitem>
7543
7544 <listitem>
7545 <para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7546 </listitem>
7547
7548 <listitem>
7549 <para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7550 events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7551 </listitem>
7552
7553 <listitem>
7554 <para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7555 on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7556 </listitem>
7557
7558 <listitem>
7559 <para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7560 </listitem>
7561
7562 <listitem>
7563 <para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7564 to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7565 </listitem>
7566
7567 <listitem>
7568 <para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7569 </listitem>
7570
7571 <listitem>
7572 <para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7573 in Linux kernels &lt; 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7574 </listitem>
7575
7576 <listitem>
7577 <para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7578 interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7579 </listitem>
7580
7581 <listitem>
7582 <para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7583 in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7584 </para>
7585 </listitem>
7586
7587 <listitem>
7588 <para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7589 without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7590 </para>
7591 </listitem>
7592
7593 <listitem>
7594 <para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7595 internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7596 </para>
7597 </listitem>
7598
7599 <listitem>
7600 <para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7601 </listitem>
7602
7603 <listitem>
7604 <para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7605 </listitem>
7606
7607 <listitem>
7608 <para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7609 </listitem>
7610
7611 <listitem>
7612 <para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7613 </listitem>
7614
7615 <listitem>
7616 <para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7617 (2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7618 </listitem>
7619
7620 <listitem>
7621 <para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7622 (Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7623 </listitem>
7624
7625 <listitem>
7626 <para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7627 formatting a drive</para>
7628 </listitem>
7629
7630 <listitem>
7631 <para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7632 </listitem>
7633
7634 <listitem>
7635 <para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7636 from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7637 </listitem>
7638
7639 <listitem>
7640 <para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7641 </listitem>
7642
7643 <listitem>
7644 <para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7645 </listitem>
7646
7647 <listitem>
7648 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7649 fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7650 </listitem>
7651
7652 <listitem>
7653 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7654 parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7655 fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7656 </listitem>
7657
7658 <listitem>
7659 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7660 garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7661 </listitem>
7662
7663 <listitem>
7664 <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7665 property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7666 </listitem>
7667
7668 <listitem>
7669 <para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7670 (bug #2768)</para>
7671 </listitem>
7672
7673 <listitem>
7674 <para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7675 </listitem>
7676
7677 <listitem>
7678 <para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7679 </listitem>
7680
7681 <listitem>
7682 <para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7683 single, unified package</para>
7684 </listitem>
7685
7686 <listitem>
7687 <para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7688 anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7689 </listitem>
7690
7691 <listitem>
7692 <para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7693 </listitem>
7694
7695 <listitem>
7696 <para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7697 by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7698 </listitem>
7699
7700 <listitem>
7701 <para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7702 host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7703 </listitem>
7704
7705 <listitem>
7706 <para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7707 </listitem>
7708
7709 <listitem>
7710 <para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7711 preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7712 doing 3D</para>
7713 </listitem>
7714
7715 <listitem>
7716 <para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7717 </listitem>
7718
7719 <listitem>
7720 <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7721 detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7722 </listitem>
7723
7724 <listitem>
7725 <para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7726 </listitem>
7727
7728 <listitem>
7729 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7730 files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7731 </listitem>
7732
7733 <listitem>
7734 <para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7735 </listitem>
7736
7737 <listitem>
7738 <para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7739 (not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7740 </listitem>
7741
7742 <listitem>
7743 <para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7744 From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7745 (bug #2938)</para>
7746 </listitem>
7747
7748 <listitem>
7749 <para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7750 Linux guests</para>
7751 </listitem>
7752
7753 <listitem>
7754 <para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7755 <computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7756 (bug #1776)</para>
7757 </listitem>
7758
7759 <listitem>
7760 <para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7761 (bug #1612)</para>
7762 </listitem>
7763
7764 <listitem>
7765 <para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7766 option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7767 </listitem>
7768
7769 <listitem>
7770 <para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7771 compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7772 </listitem>
7773
7774 <listitem>
7775 <para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7776 crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7777 </listitem>
7778
7779 </itemizedlist>
7780 </sect1>
7781
7782 <sect1>
7783 <title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7784
7785 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7786 were added:</para>
7787
7788 <itemizedlist>
7789 <listitem>
7790 <para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7791 </listitem>
7792
7793 <listitem>
7794 <para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7795 </listitem>
7796
7797 <listitem>
7798 <para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7799 </listitem>
7800
7801 <listitem>
7802 <para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7803 </listitem>
7804
7805 <listitem>
7806 <para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7807 </listitem>
7808
7809 <listitem>
7810 <para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7811 </listitem>
7812
7813 <listitem>
7814 <para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7815 (ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7816 </listitem>
7817
7818 <listitem>
7819 <para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7820 Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7821 </listitem>
7822
7823 </itemizedlist>
7824
7825 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7826
7827 <itemizedlist>
7828 <listitem>
7829 <para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7830 </listitem>
7831
7832 <listitem>
7833 <para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7834 </listitem>
7835
7836 <listitem>
7837 <para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7838 </listitem>
7839
7840 <listitem>
7841 <para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7842 </listitem>
7843
7844 <listitem>
7845 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7846 (software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7847 </listitem>
7848
7849 <listitem>
7850 <para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7851 when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X &amp; Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7852 </listitem>
7853
7854 <listitem>
7855 <para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7856 </listitem>
7857
7858 <listitem>
7859 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7860 instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7861 </listitem>
7862
7863 <listitem>
7864 <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7865 </listitem>
7866
7867 <listitem>
7868 <para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7869 </listitem>
7870
7871 <listitem>
7872 <para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7873 </listitem>
7874
7875 <listitem>
7876 <para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows &amp; Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7877 </listitem>
7878
7879 <listitem>
7880 <para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows &amp; Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7881 </listitem>
7882
7883 <listitem>
7884 <para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7885 battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7886 </listitem>
7887
7888 <listitem>
7889 <para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7890 the compiz window manager</para>
7891 </listitem>
7892
7893 <listitem>
7894 <para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7895 </listitem>
7896
7897 <listitem>
7898 <para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7899 </listitem>
7900
7901 <listitem>
7902 <para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7903 </listitem>
7904
7905 <listitem>
7906 <para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7907 </listitem>
7908
7909 <listitem>
7910 <para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7911 </listitem>
7912
7913 <listitem>
7914 <para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7915 </listitem>
7916
7917 <listitem>
7918 <para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7919 </listitem>
7920
7921 <listitem>
7922 <para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7923 </listitem>
7924
7925 <listitem>
7926 <para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7927 </listitem>
7928
7929 <listitem>
7930 <para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7931 of two (bug #2724)</para>
7932 </listitem>
7933
7934 <listitem>
7935 <para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7936 for direct device access</para>
7937 </listitem>
7938
7939 <listitem>
7940 <para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7941 </listitem>
7942
7943 <listitem>
7944 <para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7945 </listitem>
7946
7947 <listitem>
7948 <para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7949 </listitem>
7950
7951 <listitem>
7952 <para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7953 </listitem>
7954
7955 <listitem>
7956 <para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7957 </listitem>
7958
7959 <listitem>
7960 <para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7961 </listitem>
7962
7963 <listitem>
7964 <para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7965 </listitem>
7966
7967 <listitem>
7968 <para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7969 </listitem>
7970
7971 </itemizedlist>
7972 </sect1>
7973
7974 <sect1>
7975 <title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7976
7977 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7978 added:</para>
7979
7980 <itemizedlist>
7981
7982 <listitem>
7983 <para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7984 states/snapshots</para>
7985 </listitem>
7986
7987 <listitem>
7988 <para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
7989 failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
7990 </listitem>
7991
7992 <listitem>
7993 <para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7994 when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7995 </listitem>
7996
7997 <listitem>
7998 <para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
7999 collisions</para>
8000 </listitem>
8001
8002 <listitem>
8003 <para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
8004 virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
8005 </listitem>
8006
8007 <listitem>
8008 <para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
8009 </listitem>
8010
8011 <listitem>
8012 <para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
8013 reliably</para>
8014 </listitem>
8015
8016 <listitem>
8017 <para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
8018 3D acceleration; Solaris &amp; Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
8019 </listitem>
8020
8021 <listitem>
8022 <para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
8023 a reboot</para>
8024 </listitem>
8025
8026 <listitem>
8027 <para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
8028 </listitem>
8029
8030 <listitem>
8031 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
8032 in parallel</para>
8033 </listitem>
8034
8035 <listitem>
8036 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
8037 </listitem>
8038
8039 <listitem>
8040 <para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
8041 correctly</para>
8042 </listitem>
8043
8044 <listitem>
8045 <para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
8046 in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
8047 </listitem>
8048
8049 </itemizedlist>
8050 </sect1>
8051
8052 <sect1>
8053 <title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
8054
8055 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8056 added:</para>
8057
8058 <itemizedlist>
8059
8060 <listitem>
8061 <para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
8062 (bug #2220)</para>
8063 </listitem>
8064
8065 <listitem>
8066 <para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
8067 </listitem>
8068
8069 <listitem>
8070 <para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
8071 </listitem>
8072
8073 <listitem>
8074 <para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
8075 hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
8076 </listitem>
8077
8078 <listitem>
8079 <para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
8080 the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
8081 </listitem>
8082
8083 <listitem>
8084 <para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
8085 (bug #2624)</para>
8086 </listitem>
8087
8088 <listitem>
8089 <para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8090 (bug #2024)</para>
8091 </listitem>
8092
8093 <listitem>
8094 <para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8095 </listitem>
8096
8097 <listitem>
8098 <para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports&gt;1 (bug #2510)</para>
8099 </listitem>
8100
8101 <listitem>
8102 <para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8103 </listitem>
8104
8105 <listitem>
8106 <para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8107 bugs #470 &amp; #491)</para>
8108 </listitem>
8109
8110 <listitem>
8111 <para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8112 applications when updating the installation</para>
8113 </listitem>
8114
8115 <listitem>
8116 <para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8117 64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8118 </listitem>
8119
8120 <listitem>
8121 <para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8122 in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8123 </listitem>
8124
8125 <listitem>
8126 <para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8127 fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8128 </listitem>
8129
8130 <listitem>
8131 <para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8132 connected to a host device</para>
8133 </listitem>
8134
8135 <listitem>
8136 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8137 </listitem>
8138
8139 <listitem>
8140 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8141 </listitem>
8142
8143 <listitem>
8144 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8145 </listitem>
8146
8147 <listitem>
8148 <para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8149 when using native RDP connections</para>
8150 </listitem>
8151
8152 <listitem>
8153 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8154 folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8155 </listitem>
8156
8157 <listitem>
8158 <para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8159 (bug #2591)</para>
8160 </listitem>
8161
8162 <listitem>
8163 <para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8164 guests (bug #2550)</para>
8165 </listitem>
8166
8167 <listitem>
8168 <para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8169 </listitem>
8170
8171 </itemizedlist>
8172 </sect1>
8173
8174 <sect1>
8175 <title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8176
8177 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8178 added:</para>
8179
8180 <itemizedlist>
8181 <listitem>
8182 <para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8183 </listitem>
8184
8185 <listitem>
8186 <para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8187 </listitem>
8188
8189 <listitem>
8190 <para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8191 </listitem>
8192
8193 <listitem>
8194 <para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8195 </listitem>
8196
8197 <listitem>
8198 <para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8199 </listitem>
8200
8201 <listitem>
8202 <para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8203 </listitem>
8204
8205 <listitem>
8206 <para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8207 likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8208 </listitem>
8209
8210 <listitem>
8211 <para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8212 host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8213 </listitem>
8214
8215 <listitem>
8216 <para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8217 </listitem>
8218
8219 <listitem>
8220 <para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8221 equal to the client resolution</para>
8222 </listitem>
8223
8224 <listitem>
8225 <para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8226 longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8227 </listitem>
8228
8229 <listitem>
8230 <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8231 </listitem>
8232
8233 <listitem>
8234 <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8235 </listitem>
8236
8237 <listitem>
8238 <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8239 </listitem>
8240
8241 <listitem>
8242 <para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8243 seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8244 </listitem>
8245
8246 <listitem>
8247 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8248 networking (bug #2474)</para>
8249 </listitem>
8250
8251 <listitem>
8252 <para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8253 Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8254 </listitem>
8255
8256 <listitem>
8257 <para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8258 </listitem>
8259
8260 <listitem>
8261 <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8262 </listitem>
8263
8264 <listitem>
8265 <para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8266 </listitem>
8267
8268 <listitem>
8269 <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8270 </listitem>
8271
8272 <listitem>
8273 <para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8274 <computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8275 </listitem>
8276
8277 <listitem>
8278 <para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8279 for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8280 </listitem>
8281
8282 <listitem>
8283 <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8284 </listitem>
8285
8286 <listitem>
8287 <para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8288 </listitem>
8289
8290 <listitem>
8291 <para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8292 </listitem>
8293
8294 </itemizedlist>
8295
8296 </sect1>
8297
8298 <sect1>
8299 <title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8300
8301 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8302 added:</para>
8303
8304 <itemizedlist>
8305
8306 <listitem>
8307 <para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8308 CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8309 </listitem>
8310
8311 <listitem>
8312 <para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8313 </listitem>
8314
8315 <listitem>
8316 <para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8317 Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8318 </listitem>
8319
8320 <listitem>
8321 <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8322 </listitem>
8323
8324 <listitem>
8325 <para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8326 NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8327 </listitem>
8328
8329 <listitem>
8330 <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8331 </listitem>
8332
8333 <listitem>
8334 <para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8335 the virtual disk manager</para>
8336 </listitem>
8337
8338 <listitem>
8339 <para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8340 if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8341 </listitem>
8342
8343 <listitem>
8344 <para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8345 </listitem>
8346
8347 <listitem>
8348 <para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8349 </listitem>
8350
8351 <listitem>
8352 <para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8353 QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8354 </listitem>
8355
8356 <listitem>
8357 <para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8358 bug #2067)</para>
8359 </listitem>
8360
8361 <listitem>
8362 <para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8363 </listitem>
8364
8365 <listitem>
8366 <para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8367 the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8368 </listitem>
8369
8370 <listitem>
8371 <para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8372 <computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8373 (bug #2184)</para>
8374 </listitem>
8375
8376 <listitem>
8377 <para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8378 <computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8379 </listitem>
8380
8381 <listitem>
8382 <para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8383 (Windows guests only)</para>
8384 </listitem>
8385
8386 <listitem>
8387 <para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8388 </listitem>
8389
8390 <listitem>
8391 <para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8392 </listitem>
8393
8394 <listitem>
8395 <para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8396 (configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8397 </listitem>
8398
8399 <listitem>
8400 <para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8401 </listitem>
8402
8403 <listitem>
8404 <para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8405 memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8406 </para>
8407 </listitem>
8408
8409 <listitem>
8410 <para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8411 </listitem>
8412
8413 <listitem>
8414 <para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8415 </listitem>
8416
8417 <listitem>
8418 <para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8419 a VM reboot</para>
8420 </listitem>
8421
8422 <listitem>
8423 <para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8424 </listitem>
8425
8426 <listitem>
8427 <para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8428 buggy X servers</para>
8429 </listitem>
8430
8431 <listitem>
8432 <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8433 (dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8434 </listitem>
8435
8436 <listitem>
8437 <para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8438 </listitem>
8439
8440 <listitem>
8441 <para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8442 (bug #2128)</para>
8443 </listitem>
8444
8445 <listitem>
8446 <para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8447 specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8448 </listitem>
8449
8450 <listitem>
8451 <para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8452 the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8453 </listitem>
8454
8455 <listitem>
8456 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8457 starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8458 </listitem>
8459
8460 <listitem>
8461 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8462 host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8463 </listitem>
8464
8465 <listitem>
8466 <para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8467 installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8468 </listitem>
8469
8470 <listitem>
8471 <para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8472 starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8473 </listitem>
8474
8475 <listitem>
8476 <para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8477 installer into a single package</para>
8478 </listitem>
8479
8480 <listitem>
8481 <para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8482 port to the guest
8483 </para>
8484 </listitem>
8485
8486 </itemizedlist>
8487
8488 </sect1>
8489
8490 <sect1>
8491 <title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8492
8493 <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8494 were added:<itemizedlist>
8495
8496 <listitem>
8497 <para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8498 </listitem>
8499
8500 <listitem>
8501 <para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8502 </listitem>
8503
8504 <listitem>
8505 <para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8506 </listitem>
8507
8508 <listitem>
8509 <para>New-version notifier</para>
8510 </listitem>
8511
8512 <listitem>
8513 <para>Guest property information interface</para>
8514 </listitem>
8515
8516 <listitem>
8517 <para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8518 </listitem>
8519
8520 <listitem>
8521 <para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8522 </listitem>
8523
8524 <listitem>
8525 <para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8526 </listitem>
8527
8528 <listitem>
8529 <para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8530 </listitem>
8531
8532 <listitem>
8533 <para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8534 disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8535 </listitem>
8536
8537 <listitem>
8538 <para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8539 </listitem>
8540
8541 <listitem>
8542 <para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8543 </listitem>
8544
8545 <listitem>
8546 <para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8547 </listitem>
8548
8549 </itemizedlist></para>
8550
8551 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8552
8553 <itemizedlist>
8554
8555 <listitem>
8556 <para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8557 </listitem>
8558
8559 <listitem>
8560 <para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8561 </listitem>
8562
8563 <listitem>
8564 <para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8565 </listitem>
8566
8567 <listitem>
8568 <para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8569 unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8570 </listitem>
8571
8572 <listitem>
8573 <para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8574 restored</para>
8575 </listitem>
8576
8577 <listitem>
8578 <para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8579 </listitem>
8580
8581 <listitem>
8582 <para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8583 </listitem>
8584
8585 <listitem>
8586 <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>
8587 </listitem>
8588
8589 </itemizedlist>
8590
8591 </sect1>
8592
Note: See TracBrowser for help on using the repository browser.

© 2024 Oracle Support Privacy / Do Not Sell My Info Terms of Use Trademark Policy Automated Access Etiquette