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2	<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3	"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd">
4	<para>
5	<sect1>
6	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-xx-xx)</title>
7
8	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
9	were added:</para>
10
11	<itemizedlist>
12
13	<listitem>
14	<para>New settings/disk file layout; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" />.</para>
15	</listitem>
16
17	<listitem>
18	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support; see <xref linkend="ovf" />.</para>
19	</listitem>
20
21	<listitem>
22	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
23	</listitem>
24
25	<listitem>
26	<para>Windows Additions: support for automatically updating the Guest Additions
27	(requires installed Windows Guest Additions 4.0 or later)</para>
28	</listitem>
29
30	<listitem>
31	<para>Guest Additions: support for copying files into the guest file system</para>
32	</listitem>
33
34	<listitem>
35	<para>Language bindings: implemented uniform Java bindings for both local
36	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
37	</listitem>
38
39	<listitem>
40	<para>Audio: Intel HD Audio is now available as guest hardware, for better support
41	with modern guest operating systems (e.g. 64-bit Windows).</para>
42	</listitem>
43
44	<listitem>
45	<para>GUI: new mode for scaling the VM window content with preserved
46	interactivity</para>
47	</listitem>
48
49	</itemizedlist>
50
51	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
52
53	<itemizedlist>
54
55	<listitem>
56	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
57	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
58	</listitem>
59
60	<listitem>
61	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
62	</listitem>
63
64	<listitem>
65	<para>Settings: Deleting a machine now automatically deletes all
66	snapshots and saved states as well, it is no longer necessary
67	to manually delete snapshots first; VBoxManage unregistervm --delete
68	can do the same now</para>
69	</listitem>
70
71	<listitem>
72	<para>Snapshots: Implement deleting the last remaining snapshot while
73	the VM is running.</para>
74	</listitem>
75
76	<listitem>
77	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
78	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
79	</listitem>
80
81	<listitem>
82	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
83	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
84	</listitem>
85
86	<listitem>
87	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
88	again (bug #6864)</para>
89	</listitem>
90
91	<listitem>
92	<para>3D support: fix host assertion for some mt guest apps (bug #5236)</para>
93	</listitem>
94
95	<listitem>
96	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nvidia drivers on wddm startup</para>
97	</listitem>
98
99	<listitem>
100	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit apps under 64bit Windows guests</para>
101	</listitem>
102
103	<listitem>
104	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
105	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
106	</listitem>
107
108	<listitem>
109	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
110	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
111	</listitem>
112
113	<listitem>
114	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
115	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
116	</listitem>
117
118	<listitem>
119	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
120	</listitem>
121
122	<listitem>
123	<para>3D support: added missing glx 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
128	(bug #7058)</para>
129	</listitem>
130
131	<listitem>
132	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
133	(bug #6832)</para>
134	</listitem>
135
136	<listitem>
137	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
138	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
139	</listitem>
140
141	<listitem>
142	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
143	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
144	#5578)
145	</para>
146	</listitem>
147
148	<listitem>
149	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
150	</listitem>
151
152	<listitem>
153	<para>OVF/OVA: creation of the manifest file on export is optional
154	now</para>
155	</listitem>
156
157	<listitem>
158	<para>OVF/OVA: allow overwriting the target disk format on
159	import</para>
160	</listitem>
161
162	<listitem>
163	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VM's with iSCSI disks</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>GUI: new detail view with guest window preview</para>
168	</listitem>
169
170	<listitem>
171	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode</para>
172	</listitem>
173
174	<listitem>
175	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
176	</listitem>
177
178	</itemizedlist>
179
180	</sect1>
181
182	<sect1>
183	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
184
185	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
186	added:</para>
187
188	<itemizedlist>
189
190	<listitem>
191	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
196	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
201	</listitem>
202
203	<listitem>
204	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
205	state</para>
206	</listitem>
207
208	<listitem>
209	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
210	</listitem>
211
212	<listitem>
213	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
214	</listitem>
215
216	<listitem>
217	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
218	</listitem>
219
220	<listitem>
221	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
226	</listitem>
227
228	<listitem>
229	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
230	</listitem>
231
232	<listitem>
233	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
234	</listitem>
235
236	<listitem>
237	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
238	</listitem>
239
240	<listitem>
241	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
242	</listitem>
243
244	<listitem>
245	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
246	</listitem>
247
248	<listitem>
249	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
250	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
251	</listitem>
252
253	<listitem>
254	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
255	(bug #6784)</para>
256	</listitem>
257
258	<listitem>
259	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
260	</listitem>
261
262	<listitem>
263	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
264	</listitem>
265
266	<listitem>
267	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
268	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
269	</listitem>
270
271	<listitem>
272	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
273	</listitem>
274
275	<listitem>
276	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
277	</listitem>
278
279	<listitem>
280	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
281	host only</para>
282	</listitem>
283
284	<listitem>
285	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
286	probability for lossing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
287	</listitem>
288
289	<listitem>
290	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
291	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
292	</listitem>
293
294	<listitem>
295	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
296	</listitem>
297
298	<listitem>
299	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
300	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
301	</listitem>
302
303	<listitem>
304	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction id mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
305	</listitem>
306
307	<listitem>
308	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
309	</listitem>
310
311	<listitem>
312	<para>Bridged Networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
313	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
314	</listitem>
315
316	<listitem>
317	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
318	</listitem>
319
320	<listitem>
321	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
322	</listitem>
323
324	<listitem>
325	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
326	</listitem>
327
328	<listitem>
329	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
330	(bug #6714)</para>
331	</listitem>
332
333	<listitem>
334	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice.</para>
335	</listitem>
336
337	<listitem>
338	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
339	</listitem>
340
341	<listitem>
342	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
343	</listitem>
344
345	<listitem>
346	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit apps on windows guests</para>
347	</listitem>
348
349	<listitem>
350	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (#2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
351	</listitem>
352
353	</itemizedlist>
354
355	</sect1>
356
357	<sect1>
358	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
359
360	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
361	were added:</para>
362
363	<itemizedlist>
364
365	<listitem>
366	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
367	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
368	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
369	</listitem>
370
371	<listitem>
372	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
373	</listitem>
374
375	<listitem>
376	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
377	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
382	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
383	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
384	</listitem>
385
386	<listitem>
387	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
388	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
389	</listitem>
390
391	<listitem>
392	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
393	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
394	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
395	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
396	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
397	</listitem>
398
399	<listitem>
400	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
401	</listitem>
402
403	<listitem>
404	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
405	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
406	</listitem>
407
408	<listitem>
409	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
410	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
411	</listitem>
412
413	<listitem>
414	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
415	</listitem>
416
417	<listitem>
418	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrdp-videochannel"/>)</para>
419	</listitem>
420
421	<listitem>
422	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
423	</listitem>
424
425	<listitem>
426	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
427	</listitem>
428
429	<listitem>
430	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
431	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
432	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
433	</listitem>
434
435	<listitem>
436	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
437	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
438	</listitem>
439
440	</itemizedlist>
441
442	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
443
444	<itemizedlist>
445
446	<listitem>
447	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
448	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
449	</listitem>
450
451	<listitem>
452	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
453	</listitem>
454
455	<listitem>
456	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
457	VM</para>
458	</listitem>
459
460	<listitem>
461	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
462	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
463	</listitem>
464
465	<listitem>
466	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
467	#1669)</para>
468	</listitem>
469
470	<listitem>
471	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
472	#6442)</para>
473	</listitem>
474
475	<listitem>
476	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
477	combination (bug #684)</para>
478	</listitem>
479
480	<listitem>
481	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
482	the VM from the GUI</para>
483	</listitem>
484
485	<listitem>
486	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
487	medium is not accessible</para>
488	</listitem>
489
490	<listitem>
491	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
492	</listitem>
493
494	<listitem>
495	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
496	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
497	</listitem>
498
499	<listitem>
500	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
501	#3106)</para>
502	</listitem>
503
504	<listitem>
505	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
506	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
507	it</para>
508	</listitem>
509
510	<listitem>
511	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
512	</listitem>
513
514	<listitem>
515	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
516	</listitem>
517
518	<listitem>
519	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
520	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
521	</listitem>
522
523	<listitem>
524	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
525	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
526	</listitem>
527
528	<listitem>
529	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
530	</listitem>
531
532	<listitem>
533	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
534	</listitem>
535
536	<listitem>
537	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
538	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
539	</listitem>
540
541	<listitem>
542	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
547	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	<listitem>
551	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
552	</listitem>
553
554	<listitem>
555	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
556	in VirtualBox</para>
557	</listitem>
558
559	<listitem>
560	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
561	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
562	</listitem>
563
564	<listitem>
565	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
566	VirtualBox</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
571	</listitem>
572
573	<listitem>
574	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
575	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	</itemizedlist>
579	</sect1>
580
581	<sect1>
582	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
583
584	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
585	added:</para>
586
587	<itemizedlist>
588
589	<listitem>
590	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
591	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
596	</listitem>
597
598	<listitem>
599	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
600	</listitem>
601
602	<listitem>
603	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
604	only) </para>
605	</listitem>
606
607	<listitem>
608	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
609	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
610	</listitem>
611
612	<listitem>
613	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
614	interface version</para>
615	</listitem>
616
617	<listitem>
618	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
619	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
620	slot empty</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
625	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
626	(bug #4220)</para>
627	</listitem>
628
629	<listitem>
630	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
635	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
636	</listitem>
637
638	<listitem>
639	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
640	using the drivers from LSI</para>
641	</listitem>
642
643	<listitem>
644	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
645	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
646	</listitem>
647
648	<listitem>
649	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
650	attached</para>
651	</listitem>
652
653	<listitem>
654	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
655	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
656	</listitem>
657
658	<listitem>
659	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
660	</listitem>
661
662	<listitem>
663	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
664	booting from SCSI devices</para>
665	</listitem>
666
667	<listitem>
668	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
669	is bug #6408)</para>
670	</listitem>
671
672	<listitem>
673	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
674	</listitem>
675
676	<listitem>
677	<para>Solaris Hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
678	fail to initialize</para>
679	</listitem>
680
681	<listitem>
682	<para>Solaris Hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
683	</listitem>
684
685	<listitem>
686	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
687	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
688	</listitem>
689
690	<listitem>
691	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
692	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
693	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
694	</listitem>
695
696	<listitem>
697	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
698	</listitem>
699
700	<listitem>
701	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
702	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
703	</listitem>
704
705	<listitem>
706	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
707	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
708	</listitem>
709
710	<listitem>
711	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
712	(bug #6435)</para>
713	</listitem>
714
715	<listitem>
716	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
717	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
718	</listitem>
719
720	<listitem>
721	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
722	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
723	(bug #6488)</para>
724	</listitem>
725
726	<listitem>
727	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
728	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
729	</listitem>
730
731	<listitem>
732	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
733	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
734	</listitem>
735
736	<listitem>
737	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
738	#5227)</para>
739	</listitem>
740
741	<listitem>
742	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
743	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
744	</listitem>
745
746	<listitem>
747	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
748	</listitem>
749
750	<listitem>
751	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
752	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	</itemizedlist>
756	</sect1>
757
758	<sect1>
759	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
760
761	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
762	added:</para>
763
764	<itemizedlist>
765
766	<listitem>
767	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
768	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
769	</listitem>
770
771	<listitem>
772	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
773	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
774	</listitem>
775
776	<listitem>
777	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
778	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
779	</listitem>
780
781	<listitem>
782	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
783	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
784	</listitem>
785
786	<listitem>
787	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
788	</listitem>
789
790	<listitem>
791	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
792	</listitem>
793
794	<listitem>
795	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
800	</listitem>
801
802	<listitem>
803	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
804	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
805	</listitem>
806
807	<listitem>
808	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
809	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
810	</listitem>
811
812	<listitem>
813	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
814	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
815	</listitem>
816
817	<listitem>
818	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	<listitem>
822	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
823	</listitem>
824
825	<listitem>
826	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
827	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
828	</listitem>
829
830	<listitem>
831	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
832	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
833	calls (bug #6165)</para>
834	</listitem>
835
836	<listitem>
837	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
838	(bug #5297)</para>
839	</listitem>
840
841	<listitem>
842	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
843	(bug #4962)</para>
844	</listitem>
845
846	<listitem>
847	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
848	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
853	(bug #6176)</para>
854	</listitem>
855
856	<listitem>
857	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
858	certain circumstances</para>
859	</listitem>
860
861	<listitem>
862	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
863	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
864	</listitem>
865
866	<listitem>
867	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
868	</listitem>
869
870	<listitem>
871	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
872	</listitem>
873
874	<listitem>
875	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
876	(bug #3571)</para>
877	</listitem>
878
879	<listitem>
880	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
881	devices</para>
882	</listitem>
883
884	<listitem>
885	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
886	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
887	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
892	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
893	</listitem>
894
895	<listitem>
896	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
897	</listitem>
898
899	<listitem>
900	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
901	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
902	</listitem>
903
904	<listitem>
905	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
906	response</para>
907	</listitem>
908
909	<listitem>
910	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
911	</listitem>
912
913	<listitem>
914	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
915	</listitem>
916
917	<listitem>
918	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
919	</listitem>
920
921	<listitem>
922	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
923	</listitem>
924
925	<listitem>
926	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
927	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
928	</listitem>
929
930	<listitem>
931	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
932	</listitem>
933
934	<listitem>
935	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
936	</listitem>
937
938	<listitem>
939	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
940	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
941	</listitem>
942
943	<listitem>
944	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
949	</listitem>
950
951	<listitem>
952	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
953	</listitem>
954
955	<listitem>
956	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
957	</listitem>
958
959	</itemizedlist>
960	</sect1>
961
962	<sect1>
963	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
964
965	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
966	added:</para>
967
968	<itemizedlist>
969
970	<listitem>
971	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
972	</listitem>
973
974	<listitem>
975	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
976	</listitem>
977
978	<listitem>
979	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
980	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
981	</listitem>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
985	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
986	</listitem>
987
988	<listitem>
989	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
990	(bug #3945)</para>
991	</listitem>
992
993	<listitem>
994	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
995	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
996	</listitem>
997
998	<listitem>
999	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
1000	and AMD-V only) </para>
1001	</listitem>
1002
1003	<listitem>
1004	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
1005	</listitem>
1006
1007	<listitem>
1008	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
1009	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
1010	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
1011	</listitem>
1012
1013	<listitem>
1014	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
1015	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
1016	</listitem>
1017
1018	<listitem>
1019	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
1020	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
1021	</listitem>
1022
1023	<listitem>
1024	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
1025	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
1026	</listitem>
1027
1028	<listitem>
1029	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
1030	snapshots command</para>
1031	</listitem>
1032
1033	<listitem>
1034	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
1035	</listitem>
1036
1037	<listitem>
1038	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
1039	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
1040	</listitem>
1041
1042	<listitem>
1043	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
1044	</listitem>
1045
1046	<listitem>
1047	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
1048	</listitem>
1049
1050	<listitem>
1051	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
1052	</listitem>
1053
1054	<listitem>
1055	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
1056	(KWin bug)</para>
1057	</listitem>
1058
1059	<listitem>
1060	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
1061	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
1062	</listitem>
1063
1064	<listitem>
1065	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1066	</listitem>
1067
1068	<listitem>
1069	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
1070	</listitem>
1071
1072	<listitem>
1073	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
1074	</listitem>
1075
1076	<listitem>
1077	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
1078	</listitem>
1079
1080	<listitem>
1081	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
1082	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
1083	</listitem>
1084
1085	<listitem>
1086	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
1087	bug #5787)</para>
1088	</listitem>
1089
1090	<listitem>
1091	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
1092	DHCP requests</para>
1093	</listitem>
1094
1095	<listitem>
1096	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
1097	(bug #3217)</para>
1098	</listitem>
1099
1100	<listitem>
1101	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
1102	range (bug #5923)</para>
1103	</listitem>
1104
1105	<listitem>
1106	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
1111	</listitem>
1112
1113	<listitem>
1114	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
1115	</listitem>
1116
1117	<listitem>
1118	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
1119	</listitem>
1120
1121	<listitem>
1122	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
1123	file (bug #5681)</para>
1124	</listitem>
1125
1126	<listitem>
1127	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
1128	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
1129	</listitem>
1130
1131	<listitem>
1132	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
1133	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
1134	</listitem>
1135
1136	<listitem>
1137	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
1138	regression)</para>
1139	</listitem>
1140
1141	<listitem>
1142	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
1143	</listitem>
1144
1145	<listitem>
1146	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
1147	</listitem>
1148
1149	<listitem>
1150	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
1151	</listitem>
1152
1153	<listitem>
1154	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
1155	</listitem>
1156
1157	<listitem>
1158	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
1159	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
1160	</listitem>
1161
1162	<listitem>
1163	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
1168	</listitem>
1169
1170	<listitem>
1171	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
1172	</listitem>
1173
1174	<listitem>
1175	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
1176	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
1177	</listitem>
1178
1179	<listitem>
1180	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
1181	</listitem>
1182
1183	<listitem>
1184	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
1185	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
1186	</listitem>
1187
1188	<listitem>
1189	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
1190	</listitem>
1191
1192	<listitem>
1193	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
1194	</listitem>
1195
1196	<listitem>
1197	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
1198	</listitem>
1199
1200	<listitem>
1201	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
1202	(bug #5731)</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
1207	again</para>
1208	</listitem>
1209
1210	</itemizedlist>
1211
1212	</sect1>
1213
1214	<sect1>
1215	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
1216
1217	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1218	added:</para>
1219
1220	<itemizedlist>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
1224	</listitem>
1225
1226	<listitem>
1227	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
1228	</listitem>
1229
1230	<listitem>
1231	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
1232	</listitem>
1233
1234	<listitem>
1235	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
1236	</listitem>
1237
1238	<listitem>
1239	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
1240	</listitem>
1241
1242	<listitem>
1243	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
1244	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
1245	</listitem>
1246
1247	<listitem>
1248	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
1249	</listitem>
1250
1251	<listitem>
1252	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
1253	</listitem>
1254
1255	<listitem>
1256	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
1257	</listitem>
1258
1259	<listitem>
1260	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
1261	</listitem>
1262
1263	<listitem>
1264	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	<listitem>
1268	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
1269	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
1270	</listitem>
1271
1272	<listitem>
1273	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
1274	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
1275	</listitem>
1276
1277	<listitem>
1278	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
1279	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
1280	#1762)</para>
1281	</listitem>
1282
1283	<listitem>
1284	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
1285	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
1286	</listitem>
1287
1288	<listitem>
1289	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
1290	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
1291	</listitem>
1292
1293	<listitem>
1294	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
1295	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
1300	</listitem>
1301
1302	<listitem>
1303	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
1304	</listitem>
1305
1306	<listitem>
1307	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
1308	several virtual CPU cores.</para>
1309	</listitem>
1310
1311	<listitem>
1312	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
1313	</listitem>
1314
1315	<listitem>
1316	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
1317	</listitem>
1318
1319	<listitem>
1320	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
1321	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
1322	</listitem>
1323
1324	<listitem>
1325	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
1326	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
1327	</listitem>
1328
1329	<listitem>
1330	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
1331	</listitem>
1332
1333	<listitem>
1334	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
1335	guests</para>
1336	</listitem>
1337
1338	<listitem>
1339	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
1340	and on some 64bit guests</para>
1341	</listitem>
1342
1343	<listitem>
1344	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
1345	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
1346	</listitem>
1347
1348	<listitem>
1349	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
1350	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
1351	</listitem>
1352
1353	<listitem>
1354	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
1355	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
1356	</listitem>
1357
1358	<listitem>
1359	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
1360	</listitem>
1361
1362	<listitem>
1363	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
1364	</listitem>
1365
1366	<listitem>
1367	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
1368	</listitem>
1369
1370	<listitem>
1371	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
1372	</listitem>
1373
1374	<listitem>
1375	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
1376	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
1377	</listitem>
1378
1379	<listitem>
1380	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
1381	</listitem>
1382
1383	</itemizedlist>
1384
1385	</sect1>
1386
1387	<sect1>
1388	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
1389
1390	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1391	were added:</para>
1392
1393	<itemizedlist>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
1397	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
1398	</listitem>
1399
1400	<listitem>
1401	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
1402	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
1403	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
1404	</listitem>
1405
1406	<listitem>
1407	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
1408	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
1409	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
1414	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
1415	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
1416	</listitem>
1417
1418	<listitem>
1419	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
1420	running</para>
1421	</listitem>
1422
1423	<listitem>
1424	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
1425	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
1426	</listitem>
1427
1428	<listitem>
1429	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
1430	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
1431	</listitem>
1432
1433	<listitem>
1434	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
1435	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
1436	</listitem>
1437
1438	<listitem>
1439	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
1440	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
1441	</listitem>
1442
1443	</itemizedlist>
1444
1445	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1446
1447	<itemizedlist>
1448
1449	<listitem>
1450	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
1451	</listitem>
1452
1453	<listitem>
1454	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
1455	</listitem>
1456
1457	<listitem>
1458	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
1459	</listitem>
1460
1461	<listitem>
1462	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
1463	(bug #5291)</para>
1464	</listitem>
1465
1466	<listitem>
1467	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
1468	</listitem>
1469
1470	<listitem>
1471	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
1472	</listitem>
1473
1474	<listitem>
1475	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
1476	</listitem>
1477
1478	<listitem>
1479	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
1480	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
1485	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
1486	</listitem>
1487
1488	<listitem>
1489	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
1490	</listitem>
1491
1492	<listitem>
1493	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
1494	</listitem>
1495
1496	<listitem>
1497	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
1502	</listitem>
1503
1504	<listitem>
1505	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
1506	</listitem>
1507
1508	<listitem>
1509	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
1510	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
1511	</listitem>
1512
1513	<listitem>
1514	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
1515	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
1516	</listitem>
1517
1518	<listitem>
1519	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
1520	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
1521	</listitem>
1522
1523	<listitem>
1524	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
1525	(bug #2723)</para>
1526	</listitem>
1527
1528	<listitem>
1529	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
1530	</listitem>
1531
1532	<listitem>
1533	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
1534	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
1535	</listitem>
1536
1537	<listitem>
1538	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
1539	optional manifest file on import</para>
1540	</listitem>
1541
1542	<listitem>
1543	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
1544	</listitem>
1545
1546	<listitem>
1547	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
1548	(bug #3773)</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
1553	</listitem>
1554
1555	<listitem>
1556	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
1557	</listitem>
1558
1559	<listitem>
1560	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
1561	layout (bug #2302)</para>
1562	</listitem>
1563
1564	<listitem>
1565	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
1566	(bug #4866)</para>
1567	</listitem>
1568
1569	<listitem>
1570	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
1571	left click (bug #5049)</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
1576	certain conditions</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
1581	</listitem>
1582
1583	<listitem>
1584	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend).</para>
1585	</listitem>
1586
1587	<listitem>
1588	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
1589	</listitem>
1590
1591	<listitem>
1592	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
1593	</listitem>
1594
1595	<listitem>
1596	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
1597	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
1598	</listitem>
1599
1600	<listitem>
1601	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
1602	</listitem>
1603
1604	<listitem>
1605	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
1606	properties (bug #5337)</para>
1607	</listitem>
1608
1609	<listitem>
1610	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
1611	</listitem>
1612
1613	<listitem>
1614	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
1615	</listitem>
1616
1617	<listitem>
1618	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
1619	</listitem>
1620
1621	<listitem>
1622	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
1623	</listitem>
1624
1625	<listitem>
1626	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
1627	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
1628	</listitem>
1629
1630	<listitem>
1631	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
1632	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
1633	(bug #928)</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
1638	</listitem>
1639
1640	</itemizedlist>
1641
1642	</sect1>
1643
1644	<sect1>
1645	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
1646
1647	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1648	added:</para>
1649
1650	<itemizedlist>
1651
1652	<listitem>
1653	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
1654	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
1655	</listitem>
1656
1657	<listitem>
1658	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
1659	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
1660	</listitem>
1661
1662	<listitem>
1663	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
1664	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
1665	</listitem>
1666
1667	<listitem>
1668	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
1669	enabled</para>
1670	</listitem>
1671
1672	<listitem>
1673	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
1674	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
1675	</listitem>
1676
1677	<listitem>
1678	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
1679	(bug #2676)</para>
1680	</listitem>
1681
1682	<listitem>
1683	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
1684	is connected to a raw file</para>
1685	</listitem>
1686
1687	<listitem>
1688	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
1689	(bug #5355)</para>
1690	</listitem>
1691
1692	<listitem>
1693	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
1694	</listitem>
1695
1696	<listitem>
1697	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
1698	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
1699	</listitem>
1700
1701	<listitem>
1702	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
1703	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
1704	guest (bug #4496)</para>
1705	</listitem>
1706
1707	<listitem>
1708	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
1709	</listitem>
1710
1711	<listitem>
1712	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
1713	</listitem>
1714
1715	<listitem>
1716	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
1717	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
1718	</listitem>
1719
1720	<listitem>
1721	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
1722	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
1723	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	</itemizedlist>
1727
1728	</sect1>
1729
1730	<sect1>
1731	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
1732
1733	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1734	added:</para>
1735
1736	<itemizedlist>
1737
1738	<listitem>
1739	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
1740	</listitem>
1741
1742	<listitem>
1743	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
1744	</listitem>
1745
1746	<listitem>
1747	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
1748	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
1749	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
1750	</listitem>
1751
1752	<listitem>
1753	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
1754	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
1755	</listitem>
1756
1757	<listitem>
1758	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
1759	</listitem>
1760
1761	<listitem>
1762	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
1763	</listitem>
1764
1765	<listitem>
1766	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
1767	</listitem>
1768
1769	<listitem>
1770	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
1771	</listitem>
1772
1773	<listitem>
1774	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
1775	</listitem>
1776
1777	<listitem>
1778	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
1779	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
1780	</listitem>
1781
1782	<listitem>
1783	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
1784	</listitem>
1785
1786	<listitem>
1787	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
1788	</listitem>
1789
1790	<listitem>
1791	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
1792	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
1793	</listitem>
1794
1795	<listitem>
1796	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
1801	exhaustion</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
1806	</listitem>
1807
1808	<listitem>
1809	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
1810	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
1815	folders (bug #4106)</para>
1816	</listitem>
1817
1818	<listitem>
1819	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
1820	folders (bug #4299)</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
1825	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
1826	(bug #2921)</para>
1827	</listitem>
1828
1829	<listitem>
1830	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
1831	hosts only)</para>
1832	</listitem>
1833
1834	<listitem>
1835	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
1836	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
1837	</listitem>
1838
1839	<listitem>
1840	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
1841	</listitem>
1842
1843	<listitem>
1844	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
1845	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
1846	</listitem>
1847
1848	<listitem>
1849	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
1854	image inconsistency </para>
1855	</listitem>
1856
1857	<listitem>
1858	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
1859	</listitem>
1860
1861	<listitem>
1862	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
1863	</listitem>
1864
1865	<listitem>
1866	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
1867	(bug #2025)</para>
1868	</listitem>
1869
1870	<listitem>
1871	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
1872	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
1873	</listitem>
1874
1875	</itemizedlist>
1876
1877	</sect1>
1878
1879	<sect1>
1880	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
1881
1882	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1883	added:</para>
1884
1885	<itemizedlist>
1886
1887	<listitem>
1888	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
1889	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
1890	</listitem>
1891
1892	<listitem>
1893	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
1894	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
1895	</listitem>
1896
1897	<listitem>
1898	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
1899	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
1900	</listitem>
1901
1902	<listitem>
1903	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
1904	</listitem>
1905
1906	<listitem>
1907	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
1908	software virtualization only) </para>
1909	</listitem>
1910
1911	<listitem>
1912	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
1913	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
1914	</listitem>
1915
1916	<listitem>
1917	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
1918	with root privileges</para>
1919	</listitem>
1920
1921	<listitem>
1922	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
1923	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
1924	</listitem>
1925
1926	<listitem>
1927	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
1928	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	<listitem>
1932	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
1933	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
1934	</listitem>
1935
1936	<listitem>
1937	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
1938	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
1939	selector (bug #5063)</para>
1940	</listitem>
1941
1942	<listitem>
1943	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
1944	available</para>
1945	</listitem>
1946
1947	<listitem>
1948	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
1949	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
1950	</listitem>
1951
1952	<listitem>
1953	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
1954	networking (bug #4775)</para>
1955	</listitem>
1956
1957	<listitem>
1958	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
1959	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
1960	</listitem>
1961
1962	<listitem>
1963	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
1964	(bug #4907)</para>
1965	</listitem>
1966
1967	<listitem>
1968	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
1969	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
1974	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
1975	</listitem>
1976
1977	<listitem>
1978	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
1979	</listitem>
1980
1981	<listitem>
1982	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
1983	</listitem>
1984
1985	<listitem>
1986	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
1987	</listitem>
1988
1989	<listitem>
1990	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
1991	</listitem>
1992
1993	<listitem>
1994	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
1995	are installed</para>
1996	</listitem>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
2000	(bug #4771)</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
2005	</listitem>
2006
2007	<listitem>
2008	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
2009	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
2010	</listitem>
2011
2012	<listitem>
2013	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
2014	command</para>
2015	</listitem>
2016
2017	<listitem>
2018	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
2019	</listitem>
2020
2021	<listitem>
2022	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
2023	</listitem>
2024
2025	<listitem>
2026	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
2027	(bug #5089)</para>
2028	</listitem>
2029
2030	<listitem>
2031	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
2032	</listitem>
2033
2034	</itemizedlist>
2035
2036	</sect1>
2037
2038	<sect1>
2039	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
2040
2041	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2042	added:</para>
2043
2044	<itemizedlist>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
2048	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
2053	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
2058	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
2059	</listitem>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
2063	guests (bug #2258)</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
2068	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
2069	</listitem>
2070
2071	<listitem>
2072	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
2073	</listitem>
2074
2075	<listitem>
2076	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU id in Linux </para>
2077	</listitem>
2078
2079	<listitem>
2080	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
2081	</listitem>
2082
2083	<listitem>
2084	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
2085	</listitem>
2086
2087	<listitem>
2088	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
2089	</listitem>
2090
2091	<listitem>
2092	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
2093	onlined or offlined</para>
2094	</listitem>
2095
2096	<listitem>
2097	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
2098	</listitem>
2099
2100	<listitem>
2101	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
2102	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
2107	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
2116	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
2125	</listitem>
2126
2127	<listitem>
2128	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
2129	</listitem>
2130
2131	<listitem>
2132	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
2133	</listitem>
2134
2135	<listitem>
2136	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
2137	</listitem>
2138
2139	<listitem>
2140	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
2141	filters in machine settings XML</para>
2142	</listitem>
2143
2144	<listitem>
2145	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
2146	</listitem>
2147
2148	<listitem>
2149	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
2154	</listitem>
2155
2156	<listitem>
2157	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
2158	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
2159	</listitem>
2160
2161	<listitem>
2162	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
2163	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
2164	</listitem>
2165
2166	<listitem>
2167	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
2168	</listitem>
2169
2170	<listitem>
2171	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
2172	</listitem>
2173
2174	<listitem>
2175	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
2176	</listitem>
2177
2178	<listitem>
2179	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
2180	</listitem>
2181
2182	<listitem>
2183	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
2184	</listitem>
2185
2186	<listitem>
2187	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
2188	</listitem>
2189
2190	<listitem>
2191	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
2196	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
2197	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
2198	phase collapse</para>
2199	</listitem>
2200
2201	<listitem>
2202	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
2203	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
2204	</listitem>
2205
2206	<listitem>
2207	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
2208	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
2209	</listitem>
2210
2211	<listitem>
2212	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
2213	</listitem>
2214
2215	<listitem>
2216	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
2217	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
2218	</listitem>
2219
2220	<listitem>
2221	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
2222	interface bringup on Linux</para>
2223	</listitem>
2224
2225	<listitem>
2226	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
2231	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
2232	#4698, #4790)</para>
2233	</listitem>
2234
2235	<listitem>
2236	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
2237	less than the configured range</para>
2238	</listitem>
2239
2240	<listitem>
2241	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
2242	</listitem>
2243
2244	<listitem>
2245	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
2246	</listitem>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
2250	</listitem>
2251
2252	<listitem>
2253	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
2254	</listitem>
2255
2256	<listitem>
2257	<para>Bridged Network: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
2258	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
2259	</listitem>
2260
2261	<listitem>
2262	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
2263	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
2264	</listitem>
2265
2266	<listitem>
2267	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
2268	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
2269	</listitem>
2270
2271	<listitem>
2272	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
2273	</listitem>
2274
2275	<listitem>
2276	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
2277	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
2278	</listitem>
2279
2280	<listitem>
2281	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
2282	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
2283	</listitem>
2284
2285	<listitem>
2286	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
2287	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
2288	</listitem>
2289
2290	<listitem>
2291	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
2292	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
2293	</listitem>
2294
2295	<listitem>
2296	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
2297	</listitem>
2298
2299	<listitem>
2300	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
2301	</listitem>
2302
2303	</itemizedlist>
2304
2305	</sect1>
2306
2307	<sect1>
2308	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
2309
2310	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2311	added:</para>
2312
2313	<itemizedlist>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
2317	</listitem>
2318
2319	<listitem>
2320	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
2321	</listitem>
2322
2323	<listitem>
2324	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
2325	</listitem>
2326
2327	<listitem>
2328	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
2329	</listitem>
2330
2331	<listitem>
2332	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
2333	</listitem>
2334
2335	<listitem>
2336	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
2341	</listitem>
2342
2343	<listitem>
2344	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
2345	</listitem>
2346
2347	<listitem>
2348	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
2349	</listitem>
2350
2351	<listitem>
2352	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
2353	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
2354	</listitem>
2355
2356	<listitem>
2357	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
2358	</listitem>
2359
2360	<listitem>
2361	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
2362	</listitem>
2363
2364	<listitem>
2365	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
2366	</listitem>
2367
2368	<listitem>
2369	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
2374	</listitem>
2375
2376	<listitem>
2377	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
2378	</listitem>
2379
2380	<listitem>
2381	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
2382	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
2383	</listitem>
2384
2385	<listitem>
2386	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
2387	(bug #4654)</para>
2388	</listitem>
2389
2390	<listitem>
2391	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
2392	</listitem>
2393
2394	<listitem>
2395	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
2396	interfaces</para>
2397	</listitem>
2398
2399	<listitem>
2400	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
2401	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
2402	</listitem>
2403
2404	<listitem>
2405	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
2406	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
2407	</listitem>
2408
2409	<listitem>
2410	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
2411	properties (bug #3415)</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
2416	(bug #1461)</para>
2417	</listitem>
2418
2419	<listitem>
2420	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
2425	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
2426	</listitem>
2427
2428	<listitem>
2429	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
2430	fails to find any DVD drives.</para>
2431	</listitem>
2432
2433	<listitem>
2434	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
2435	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
2440	</listitem>
2441
2442	<listitem>
2443	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
2444	</listitem>
2445
2446	<listitem>
2447	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
2448	</listitem>
2449
2450	<listitem>
2451	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
2452	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
2453	</listitem>
2454
2455	<listitem>
2456	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
2457	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
2458	</listitem>
2459
2460	<listitem>
2461	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
2462	guest-drawn mouse pointers.</para>
2463	</listitem>
2464
2465	<listitem>
2466	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
2467	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238).</para>
2468	</listitem>
2469
2470	</itemizedlist>
2471
2472	</sect1>
2473	<sect1>
2474	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
2475
2476	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2477	added:</para>
2478
2479	<itemizedlist>
2480
2481	<listitem>
2482	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
2483	</listitem>
2484
2485	<listitem>
2486	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
2487	</listitem>
2488
2489	<listitem>
2490	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
2491	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
2492	</listitem>
2493
2494	<listitem>
2495	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
2496	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
2497	</listitem>
2498
2499	<listitem>
2500	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
2501	</listitem>
2502
2503	<listitem>
2504	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
2505	</listitem>
2506
2507	<listitem>
2508	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
2509	</listitem>
2510
2511	<listitem>
2512	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
2513	</listitem>
2514
2515	<listitem>
2516	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
2517	</listitem>
2518
2519	<listitem>
2520	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
2521	</listitem>
2522
2523	<listitem>
2524	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
2525	</listitem>
2526
2527	<listitem>
2528	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
2529	</listitem>
2530
2531	<listitem>
2532	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
2533	</listitem>
2534
2535	<listitem>
2536	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
2537	</listitem>
2538
2539	<listitem>
2540	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
2541	</listitem>
2542
2543	<listitem>
2544	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
2545	guest (bug #4381)</para>
2546	</listitem>
2547
2548	<listitem>
2549	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
2550	</listitem>
2551
2552	<listitem>
2553	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
2554	</listitem>
2555
2556	<listitem>
2557	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
2558	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
2559	</listitem>
2560
2561	<listitem>
2562	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
2563	</listitem>
2564
2565	<listitem>
2566	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
2567	</listitem>
2568
2569	<listitem>
2570	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
2571	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
2572	</listitem>
2573
2574	<listitem>
2575	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
2576	</listitem>
2577
2578	<listitem>
2579	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
2580	</listitem>
2581
2582	<listitem>
2583	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328).</para>
2584	</listitem>
2585
2586	<listitem>
2587	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
2588	</listitem>
2589
2590	<listitem>
2591	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
2592	</listitem>
2593
2594	<listitem>
2595	<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>
2596	</listitem>
2597
2598	</itemizedlist>
2599
2600	</sect1>
2601
2602	<sect1>
2603	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
2604
2605	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2606	were added:</para>
2607
2608	<itemizedlist>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
2616	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2621	</listitem>
2622
2623	</itemizedlist>
2624
2625	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2626
2627	<itemizedlist>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
2631	</listitem>
2632
2633	<listitem>
2634	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
2635	certain conditions</para>
2636	</listitem>
2637
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
2640	</listitem>
2641
2642	<listitem>
2643	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
2644	</listitem>
2645
2646	<listitem>
2647	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
2648	</listitem>
2649
2650	<listitem>
2651	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
2652	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
2653	</listitem>
2654
2655	<listitem>
2656	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
2657	</listitem>
2658
2659	<listitem>
2660	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
2665	</listitem>
2666
2667	<listitem>
2668	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
2669	</listitem>
2670
2671	<listitem>
2672	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
2673	</listitem>
2674
2675	<listitem>
2676	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
2677	</listitem>
2678
2679	<listitem>
2680	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
2681	</listitem>
2682
2683	<listitem>
2684	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
2685	</listitem>
2686
2687	<listitem>
2688	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
2689	(non Windows hosts)</para>
2690	</listitem>
2691
2692	<listitem>
2693	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
2694	</listitem>
2695
2696	<listitem>
2697	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
2698	</listitem>
2699
2700	<listitem>
2701	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
2702	</listitem>
2703
2704	<listitem>
2705	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
2706	</listitem>
2707
2708	<listitem>
2709	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
2710	</listitem>
2711
2712	<listitem>
2713	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
2714	</listitem>
2715
2716	<listitem>
2717	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
2718	</listitem>
2719
2720	<listitem>
2721	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
2726	</listitem>
2727
2728	<listitem>
2729	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
2730	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
2731	</listitem>
2732
2733	<listitem>
2734	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
2735	</listitem>
2736
2737	<listitem>
2738	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
2739	</listitem>
2740
2741	<listitem>
2742	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
2743	</listitem>
2744
2745	<listitem>
2746	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
2747	</listitem>
2748
2749	<listitem>
2750	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
2751	</listitem>
2752
2753	<listitem>
2754	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
2755	</listitem>
2756
2757	<listitem>
2758	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
2759	</listitem>
2760
2761	<listitem>
2762	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
2763	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
2764	</listitem>
2765
2766	<listitem>
2767	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
2768	</listitem>
2769
2770	<listitem>
2771	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
2772	</listitem>
2773
2774	<listitem>
2775	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
2776	</listitem>
2777
2778	<listitem>
2779	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
2780	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
2781	</listitem>
2782
2783	<listitem>
2784	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
2785	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
2786	</listitem>
2787
2788	<listitem>
2789	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
2790	correct file mode when creating files</para>
2791	</listitem>
2792
2793	<listitem>
2794	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
2795	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
2796	</listitem>
2797
2798	<listitem>
2799	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
2800	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
2801	</listitem>
2802
2803	<listitem>
2804	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
2805	</listitem>
2806
2807	<listitem>
2808	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
2809	</listitem>
2810
2811	<listitem>
2812	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
2813	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
2814	</listitem>
2815
2816	<listitem>
2817	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
2818	guest property lookup</para>
2819	</listitem>
2820
2821	<listitem>
2822	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
2823	basic network information)</para>
2824	</listitem>
2825
2826	<listitem>
2827	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
2828	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
2829	</listitem>
2830
2831	<listitem>
2832	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
2833	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
2834	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
2835	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242).</para>
2836	</listitem>
2837
2838	<listitem>
2839	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
2840	</listitem>
2841
2842	<listitem>
2843	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
2844	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
2845	web service.</para>
2846	</listitem>
2847
2848	<listitem>
2849	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
2850	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
2851	</listitem>
2852
2853	<listitem>
2854	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
2855	unavailable</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	</itemizedlist>
2863	</sect1>
2864
2865	<sect1>
2866	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
2867
2868	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2869	added:</para>
2870
2871	<itemizedlist>
2872
2873	<listitem>
2874	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
2875	installation</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
2880	</listitem>
2881
2882	<listitem>
2883	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
2884	later (bug #3981)</para>
2885	</listitem>
2886
2887	<listitem>
2888	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
2889	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
2890	</listitem>
2891
2892	<listitem>
2893	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
2894	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
2895	(bug #4034)
2896	</para>
2897	</listitem>
2898
2899	<listitem>
2900	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
2901	networking</para>
2902	</listitem>
2903
2904	<listitem>
2905	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
2906	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
2907	</listitem>
2908
2909	<listitem>
2910	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
2911	clicks</para>
2912	</listitem>
2913
2914	<listitem>
2915	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
2916	Windows 7 guests</para>
2917	</listitem>
2918
2919	<listitem>
2920	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
2921	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
2922	</listitem>
2923
2924	<listitem>
2925	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
2926	</listitem>
2927
2928	<listitem>
2929	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
2930	</listitem>
2931
2932	<listitem>
2933	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
2934	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
2935	</listitem>
2936
2937	<listitem>
2938	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
2939	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
2940	</listitem>
2941
2942	<listitem>
2943	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
2944	</listitem>
2945
2946	<listitem>
2947	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
2948	</listitem>
2949
2950	<listitem>
2951	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
2952	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
2953	(bug #3864)</para>
2954	</listitem>
2955
2956	<listitem>
2957	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
2958	now flushes the output stream</para>
2959	</listitem>
2960
2961	<listitem>
2962	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
2963	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
2964	</listitem>
2965
2966	<listitem>
2967	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
2968	</listitem>
2969
2970	<listitem>
2971	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
2972	</listitem>
2973
2974	<listitem>
2975	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
2976	</listitem>
2977
2978	<listitem>
2979	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
2980	</listitem>
2981
2982	<listitem>
2983	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
2984	(bug #3964)</para>
2985	</listitem>
2986
2987	<listitem>
2988	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
2989	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
2990	</listitem>
2991
2992	<listitem>
2993	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
2994	hosts</para>
2995	</listitem>
2996
2997	<listitem>
2998	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
2999	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
3000	e1000 adapter</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
3005	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
3006	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
3007	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
3008	</listitem>
3009
3010	<listitem>
3011	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
3012	</listitem>
3013
3014	<listitem>
3015	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
3020	</listitem>
3021
3022	<listitem>
3023	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
3024	file (bug #1023)</para>
3025	</listitem>
3026
3027	<listitem>
3028	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
3029	</listitem>
3030
3031	<listitem>
3032	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
3033	</listitem>
3034
3035	</itemizedlist>
3036	</sect1>
3037
3038	<sect1>
3039	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
3040
3041	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3042	added:</para>
3043
3044	<itemizedlist>
3045
3046	<listitem>
3047	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
3048	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
3049	</listitem>
3050
3051	<listitem>
3052	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
3053	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
3054	and later</para>
3055	</listitem>
3056
3057	<listitem>
3058	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
3059	running services</para>
3060	</listitem>
3061
3062	<listitem>
3063	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
3064	terminates</para>
3065	</listitem>
3066
3067	<listitem>
3068	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
3069	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
3070	</listitem>
3071
3072	<listitem>
3073	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
3074	installed on the guest</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
3079	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
3084	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
3085	</listitem>
3086
3087	<listitem>
3088	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
3089	(bug #2628)</para>
3090	</listitem>
3091
3092	<listitem>
3093	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
3094	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
3095	</listitem>
3096
3097	<listitem>
3098	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
3099	(bug #3657)</para>
3100	</listitem>
3101
3102	<listitem>
3103	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
3104	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
3105	</listitem>
3106
3107	<listitem>
3108	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
3109	virtualization only)
3110	</para>
3111	</listitem>
3112
3113	<listitem>
3114	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
3115	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
3116	</listitem>
3117
3118	<listitem>
3119	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
3120	</listitem>
3121
3122	<listitem>
3123	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
3124	networks (bug #3702)</para>
3125	</listitem>
3126
3127	<listitem>
3128	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
3129	bug #3689)</para>
3130	</listitem>
3131
3132	<listitem>
3133	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
3134	bug #3679)</para>
3135	</listitem>
3136
3137	<listitem>
3138	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
3139	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
3140	</listitem>
3141
3142	<listitem>
3143	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
3144	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
3145	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
3146	</listitem>
3147
3148	<listitem>
3149	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
3150	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
3151	</listitem>
3152
3153	<listitem>
3154	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
3155	lease (bug #3655)</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
3160	(bug #3667)</para>
3161	</listitem>
3162
3163	<listitem>
3164	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
3165	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
3170	</listitem>
3171
3172	<listitem>
3173	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
3178	</listitem>
3179
3180	<listitem>
3181	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
3182	</listitem>
3183
3184	<listitem>
3185	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
3190	</listitem>
3191
3192	<listitem>
3193	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
3194	</listitem>
3195
3196	</itemizedlist>
3197	</sect1>
3198
3199	<sect1>
3200	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
3201
3202	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3203	were added:</para>
3204
3205	<itemizedlist>
3206
3207	<listitem>
3208	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
3209	</listitem>
3210
3211	<listitem>
3212	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
3213	</listitem>
3214
3215	<listitem>
3216	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
3217	</listitem>
3218
3219	<listitem>
3220	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
3221	</listitem>
3222
3223	<listitem>
3224	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
3225	</listitem>
3226
3227	<listitem>
3228	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
3229	</listitem>
3230
3231	<listitem>
3232	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
3233	</listitem>
3234
3235	<listitem>
3236	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3241	</listitem>
3242
3243	<listitem>
3244	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
3245	</listitem>
3246
3247	</itemizedlist>
3248
3249	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3250
3251	<itemizedlist>
3252
3253	<listitem>
3254	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
3255	</listitem>
3256
3257	<listitem>
3258	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
3259	</listitem>
3260
3261	<listitem>
3262	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
3263	</listitem>
3264
3265	<listitem>
3266	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
3267	</listitem>
3268
3269	<listitem>
3270	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
3271	</listitem>
3272
3273	<listitem>
3274	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
3275	</listitem>
3276
3277	<listitem>
3278	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
3279	</listitem>
3280
3281	<listitem>
3282	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
3283	</listitem>
3284
3285	<listitem>
3286	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
3287	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
3288	</listitem>
3289
3290	<listitem>
3291	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
3292	</listitem>
3293
3294	<listitem>
3295	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
3296	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	<listitem>
3300	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
3301	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
3302	</listitem>
3303
3304	<listitem>
3305	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
3306	</listitem>
3307
3308	<listitem>
3309	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
3310	</listitem>
3311
3312	<listitem>
3313	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
3314	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
3315	</listitem>
3316
3317	<listitem>
3318	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
3319	</listitem>
3320
3321	<listitem>
3322	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
3323	ESX server images)</para>
3324	</listitem>
3325
3326	<listitem>
3327	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
3328	writable</para>
3329	</listitem>
3330
3331	<listitem>
3332	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
3333	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
3334	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
3339	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
3344	</listitem>
3345
3346	<listitem>
3347	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
3348	</listitem>
3349
3350	<listitem>
3351	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
3352	hosts when creating files</para>
3353	</listitem>
3354
3355	<listitem>
3356	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
3357	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
3358	</listitem>
3359
3360	<listitem>
3361	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
3362	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
3363	#2306)</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
3368	(bug #3555)</para>
3369	</listitem>
3370
3371	<listitem>
3372	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
3373	installer (bug #3524)</para>
3374	</listitem>
3375
3376	<listitem>
3377	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
3378	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
3379	</listitem>
3380
3381	<listitem>
3382	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
3383	interface (bug #3414)</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
3388	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
3393	(bug #3586)</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
3398	from Scratch systems</para>
3399	</listitem>
3400
3401	<listitem>
3402	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
3403	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
3404	</listitem>
3405
3406	<listitem>
3407	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
3408	</listitem>
3409
3410	<listitem>
3411	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
3412	default to compact format</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
3417	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
3426	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
3427	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
3428	</listitem>
3429
3430	<listitem>
3431	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
3432	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
3433	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
3434	</listitem>
3435
3436	<listitem>
3437	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
3438	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
3439	</listitem>
3440
3441	<listitem>
3442	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
3443	</listitem>
3444
3445	<listitem>
3446	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
3447	</listitem>
3448
3449	<listitem>
3450	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
3451	</listitem>
3452
3453	<listitem>
3454	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
3455	</listitem>
3456
3457	<listitem>
3458	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
3459	</listitem>
3460
3461	<listitem>
3462	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
3467	</listitem>
3468
3469	<listitem>
3470	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
3471	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
3472	</listitem>
3473
3474	<listitem>
3475	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
3476	</listitem>
3477
3478	<listitem>
3479	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
3480	regression; bug #2065)</para>
3481	</listitem>
3482
3483	<listitem>
3484	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
3485	</listitem>
3486
3487	<listitem>
3488	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
3489	</listitem>
3490
3491	<listitem>
3492	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
3493	</listitem>
3494
3495	<listitem>
3496	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
3497	#2536)</para>
3498	</listitem>
3499
3500	<listitem>
3501	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
3502	</listitem>
3503
3504	<listitem>
3505	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
3506	(bug #3548)</para>
3507	</listitem>
3508
3509	</itemizedlist>
3510	</sect1>
3511
3512	<sect1>
3513	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
3514
3515	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3516	added:</para>
3517
3518	<itemizedlist>
3519
3520	<listitem>
3521	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
3522	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
3523	</listitem>
3524
3525	<listitem>
3526	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
3527	</listitem>
3528
3529	<listitem>
3530	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
3531	</listitem>
3532
3533	<listitem>
3534	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
3535	</listitem>
3536
3537	<listitem>
3538	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
3539	(bug #3115)</para>
3540	</listitem>
3541
3542	<listitem>
3543	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
3544	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
3545	</listitem>
3546
3547	<listitem>
3548	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
3549	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
3550	(bug #3215)</para>
3551	</listitem>
3552
3553	<listitem>
3554	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
3555	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
3556	</listitem>
3557
3558	<listitem>
3559	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
3560	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
3561	</listitem>
3562
3563	<listitem>
3564	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
3565	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
3566	</listitem>
3567
3568	<listitem>
3569	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
3570	in parallel</para>
3571	</listitem>
3572
3573	<listitem>
3574	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
3575	</listitem>
3576
3577	<listitem>
3578	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
3579	</listitem>
3580
3581	<listitem>
3582	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
3587	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
3588	</listitem>
3589
3590	<listitem>
3591	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
3592	</listitem>
3593
3594	<listitem>
3595	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
3596	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
3597	</listitem>
3598
3599	<listitem>
3600	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
3601	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	<listitem>
3605	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
3610	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	<listitem>
3614	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
3615	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
3616	</listitem>
3617
3618	<listitem>
3619	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
3620	</listitem>
3621
3622	<listitem>
3623	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
3624	</listitem>
3625
3626	<listitem>
3627	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
3628	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
3629	</listitem>
3630
3631	<listitem>
3632	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
3633	</listitem>
3634
3635	<listitem>
3636	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
3641	</listitem>
3642
3643	<listitem>
3644	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
3645	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
3646	</listitem>
3647
3648	<listitem>
3649	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
3650	</listitem>
3651
3652	<listitem>
3653	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
3654	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
3655	</listitem>
3656
3657	<listitem>
3658	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
3659	</listitem>
3660
3661	<listitem>
3662	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
3663	</listitem>
3664
3665	<listitem>
3666	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
3667	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
3668	</listitem>
3669
3670	<listitem>
3671	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
3672	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
3673	</listitem>
3674
3675	<listitem>
3676	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
3681	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
3682	</listitem>
3683
3684	<listitem>
3685	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
3686	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
3687	</listitem>
3688
3689	<listitem>
3690	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
3691	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
3692	</listitem>
3693
3694	<listitem>
3695	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
3696	(bug #3213)</para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
3701	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
3706	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	</itemizedlist>
3710	</sect1>
3711
3712	<sect1>
3713	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
3714
3715	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3716	added:</para>
3717
3718	<itemizedlist>
3719
3720	<listitem>
3721	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
3722	</listitem>
3723
3724	<listitem>
3725	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
3726	</listitem>
3727
3728	<listitem>
3729	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
3730	</listitem>
3731
3732	<listitem>
3733	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
3734	</listitem>
3735
3736	<listitem>
3737	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
3738	</listitem>
3739
3740	<listitem>
3741	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
3746	</listitem>
3747
3748	<listitem>
3749	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
3750	</listitem>
3751
3752	<listitem>
3753	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
3754	</listitem>
3755
3756	<listitem>
3757	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
3758	</listitem>
3759
3760	<listitem>
3761	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
3762	</listitem>
3763
3764	<listitem>
3765	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
3766	</listitem>
3767
3768	<listitem>
3769	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
3778	</listitem>
3779
3780	<listitem>
3781	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
3782	</listitem>
3783
3784	<listitem>
3785	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
3786	(bug #3067)</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
3791	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
3792	</listitem>
3793
3794	<listitem>
3795	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
3796	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
3797	</listitem>
3798
3799	<listitem>
3800	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
3801	</listitem>
3802
3803	<listitem>
3804	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
3805	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
3806	</listitem>
3807
3808	<listitem>
3809	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
3810	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
3811	</listitem>
3812
3813	<listitem>
3814	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
3815	</listitem>
3816
3817	<listitem>
3818	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
3819	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
3820	</listitem>
3821
3822	<listitem>
3823	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
3824	</listitem>
3825
3826	<listitem>
3827	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
3828	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
3829	</listitem>
3830
3831	<listitem>
3832	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
3833	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
3834	</listitem>
3835
3836	<listitem>
3837	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
3838	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
3839	</para>
3840	</listitem>
3841
3842	<listitem>
3843	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
3844	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
3845	</para>
3846	</listitem>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
3850	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
3851	</para>
3852	</listitem>
3853
3854	<listitem>
3855	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
3856	</listitem>
3857
3858	<listitem>
3859	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
3860	</listitem>
3861
3862	<listitem>
3863	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
3864	</listitem>
3865
3866	<listitem>
3867	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
3868	</listitem>
3869
3870	<listitem>
3871	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
3872	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
3873	</listitem>
3874
3875	<listitem>
3876	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
3877	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
3878	</listitem>
3879
3880	<listitem>
3881	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
3882	formatting a drive</para>
3883	</listitem>
3884
3885	<listitem>
3886	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
3887	</listitem>
3888
3889	<listitem>
3890	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
3891	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
3892	</listitem>
3893
3894	<listitem>
3895	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
3896	</listitem>
3897
3898	<listitem>
3899	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
3900	</listitem>
3901
3902	<listitem>
3903	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
3904	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
3905	</listitem>
3906
3907	<listitem>
3908	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
3909	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
3910	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
3911	</listitem>
3912
3913	<listitem>
3914	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
3915	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	<listitem>
3919	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
3920	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
3921	</listitem>
3922
3923	<listitem>
3924	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
3925	(bug #2768)</para>
3926	</listitem>
3927
3928	<listitem>
3929	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
3930	</listitem>
3931
3932	<listitem>
3933	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
3934	</listitem>
3935
3936	<listitem>
3937	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
3938	single, unified package</para>
3939	</listitem>
3940
3941	<listitem>
3942	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
3943	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
3944	</listitem>
3945
3946	<listitem>
3947	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
3948	</listitem>
3949
3950	<listitem>
3951	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
3952	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
3957	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
3962	</listitem>
3963
3964	<listitem>
3965	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
3966	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
3967	doing 3D</para>
3968	</listitem>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
3972	</listitem>
3973
3974	<listitem>
3975	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
3976	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
3977	</listitem>
3978
3979	<listitem>
3980	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
3981	</listitem>
3982
3983	<listitem>
3984	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
3985	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
3986	</listitem>
3987
3988	<listitem>
3989	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
3994	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
3995	</listitem>
3996
3997	<listitem>
3998	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
3999	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
4000	(bug #2938)</para>
4001	</listitem>
4002
4003	<listitem>
4004	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
4005	Linux guests</para>
4006	</listitem>
4007
4008	<listitem>
4009	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
4010	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
4011	(bug #1776)</para>
4012	</listitem>
4013
4014	<listitem>
4015	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
4016	(bug #1612)</para>
4017	</listitem>
4018
4019	<listitem>
4020	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
4021	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
4022	</listitem>
4023
4024	<listitem>
4025	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
4026	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
4031	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	</itemizedlist>
4035	</sect1>
4036
4037	<sect1>
4038	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
4039
4040	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4041	were added:</para>
4042
4043	<itemizedlist>
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4046	</listitem>
4047
4048	<listitem>
4049	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
4050	</listitem>
4051
4052	<listitem>
4053	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
4054	</listitem>
4055
4056	<listitem>
4057	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4058	</listitem>
4059
4060	<listitem>
4061	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4062	</listitem>
4063
4064	<listitem>
4065	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
4066	</listitem>
4067
4068	<listitem>
4069	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
4070	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
4071	</listitem>
4072
4073	<listitem>
4074	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
4075	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
4076	</listitem>
4077
4078	</itemizedlist>
4079
4080	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4081
4082	<itemizedlist>
4083	<listitem>
4084	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
4085	</listitem>
4086
4087	<listitem>
4088	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
4089	</listitem>
4090
4091	<listitem>
4092	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
4093	</listitem>
4094
4095	<listitem>
4096	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
4097	</listitem>
4098
4099	<listitem>
4100	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
4101	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
4102	</listitem>
4103
4104	<listitem>
4105	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
4106	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
4107	</listitem>
4108
4109	<listitem>
4110	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
4111	</listitem>
4112
4113	<listitem>
4114	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
4115	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
4116	</listitem>
4117
4118	<listitem>
4119	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
4120	</listitem>
4121
4122	<listitem>
4123	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
4124	</listitem>
4125
4126	<listitem>
4127	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
4128	</listitem>
4129
4130	<listitem>
4131	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
4132	</listitem>
4133
4134	<listitem>
4135	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
4136	</listitem>
4137
4138	<listitem>
4139	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
4140	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
4141	</listitem>
4142
4143	<listitem>
4144	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
4145	the compiz window manager</para>
4146	</listitem>
4147
4148	<listitem>
4149	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
4150	</listitem>
4151
4152	<listitem>
4153	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
4154	</listitem>
4155
4156	<listitem>
4157	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
4158	</listitem>
4159
4160	<listitem>
4161	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
4162	</listitem>
4163
4164	<listitem>
4165	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
4170	</listitem>
4171
4172	<listitem>
4173	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
4174	</listitem>
4175
4176	<listitem>
4177	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
4178	</listitem>
4179
4180	<listitem>
4181	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
4182	</listitem>
4183
4184	<listitem>
4185	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
4186	of two (bug #2724)</para>
4187	</listitem>
4188
4189	<listitem>
4190	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
4191	for direct device access</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
4196	</listitem>
4197
4198	<listitem>
4199	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
4200	</listitem>
4201
4202	<listitem>
4203	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
4204	</listitem>
4205
4206	<listitem>
4207	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
4208	</listitem>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
4212	</listitem>
4213
4214	<listitem>
4215	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
4216	</listitem>
4217
4218	<listitem>
4219	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
4220	</listitem>
4221
4222	<listitem>
4223	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
4224	</listitem>
4225
4226	</itemizedlist>
4227	</sect1>
4228
4229	<sect1>
4230	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
4231
4232	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4233	added:</para>
4234
4235	<itemizedlist>
4236
4237	<listitem>
4238	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
4239	states/snapshots</para>
4240	</listitem>
4241
4242	<listitem>
4243	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
4244	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
4245	</listitem>
4246
4247	<listitem>
4248	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4249	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4250	</listitem>
4251
4252	<listitem>
4253	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
4254	collisions</para>
4255	</listitem>
4256
4257	<listitem>
4258	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4259	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4260	</listitem>
4261
4262	<listitem>
4263	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4264	</listitem>
4265
4266	<listitem>
4267	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
4268	reliably</para>
4269	</listitem>
4270
4271	<listitem>
4272	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4273	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4274	</listitem>
4275
4276	<listitem>
4277	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
4278	a reboot</para>
4279	</listitem>
4280
4281	<listitem>
4282	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4283	</listitem>
4284
4285	<listitem>
4286	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4287	in parallel</para>
4288	</listitem>
4289
4290	<listitem>
4291	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4292	</listitem>
4293
4294	<listitem>
4295	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
4296	correctly</para>
4297	</listitem>
4298
4299	<listitem>
4300	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4301	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4302	</listitem>
4303
4304	</itemizedlist>
4305	</sect1>
4306
4307	<sect1>
4308	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
4309
4310	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4311	added:</para>
4312
4313	<itemizedlist>
4314
4315	<listitem>
4316	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
4317	(bug #2220)</para>
4318	</listitem>
4319
4320	<listitem>
4321	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
4322	</listitem>
4323
4324	<listitem>
4325	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
4326	</listitem>
4327
4328	<listitem>
4329	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
4330	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
4335	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
4336	</listitem>
4337
4338	<listitem>
4339	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
4340	(bug #2624)</para>
4341	</listitem>
4342
4343	<listitem>
4344	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
4345	(bug #2024)</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
4354	</listitem>
4355
4356	<listitem>
4357	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
4358	</listitem>
4359
4360	<listitem>
4361	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
4362	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
4363	</listitem>
4364
4365	<listitem>
4366	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
4367	applications when updating the installation</para>
4368	</listitem>
4369
4370	<listitem>
4371	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
4372	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
4373	</listitem>
4374
4375	<listitem>
4376	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
4377	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
4378	</listitem>
4379
4380	<listitem>
4381	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
4382	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
4383	</listitem>
4384
4385	<listitem>
4386	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
4387	connected to a host device</para>
4388	</listitem>
4389
4390	<listitem>
4391	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
4392	</listitem>
4393
4394	<listitem>
4395	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
4396	</listitem>
4397
4398	<listitem>
4399	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
4400	</listitem>
4401
4402	<listitem>
4403	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
4404	when using native RDP connections</para>
4405	</listitem>
4406
4407	<listitem>
4408	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
4409	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
4414	(bug #2591)</para>
4415	</listitem>
4416
4417	<listitem>
4418	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
4419	guests (bug #2550)</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
4424	</listitem>
4425
4426	</itemizedlist>
4427	</sect1>
4428
4429	<sect1>
4430	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
4431
4432	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4433	added:</para>
4434
4435	<itemizedlist>
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
4438	</listitem>
4439
4440	<listitem>
4441	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
4442	</listitem>
4443
4444	<listitem>
4445	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
4446	</listitem>
4447
4448	<listitem>
4449	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
4450	</listitem>
4451
4452	<listitem>
4453	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
4454	</listitem>
4455
4456	<listitem>
4457	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
4458	</listitem>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
4462	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
4463	</listitem>
4464
4465	<listitem>
4466	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
4467	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	<listitem>
4475	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
4476	equal to the client resolution</para>
4477	</listitem>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
4481	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
4482	</listitem>
4483
4484	<listitem>
4485	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
4486	</listitem>
4487
4488	<listitem>
4489	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
4490	</listitem>
4491
4492	<listitem>
4493	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
4494	</listitem>
4495
4496	<listitem>
4497	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
4498	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
4499	</listitem>
4500
4501	<listitem>
4502	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
4503	networking (bug #2474)</para>
4504	</listitem>
4505
4506	<listitem>
4507	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
4508	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
4509	</listitem>
4510
4511	<listitem>
4512	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
4517	</listitem>
4518
4519	<listitem>
4520	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
4521	</listitem>
4522
4523	<listitem>
4524	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
4525	</listitem>
4526
4527	<listitem>
4528	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
4529	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
4530	</listitem>
4531
4532	<listitem>
4533	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
4534	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
4535	</listitem>
4536
4537	<listitem>
4538	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
4539	</listitem>
4540
4541	<listitem>
4542	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
4543	</listitem>
4544
4545	<listitem>
4546	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
4547	</listitem>
4548
4549	</itemizedlist>
4550
4551	</sect1>
4552
4553	<sect1>
4554	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
4555
4556	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4557	added:</para>
4558
4559	<itemizedlist>
4560
4561	<listitem>
4562	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
4563	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
4564	</listitem>
4565
4566	<listitem>
4567	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
4568	</listitem>
4569
4570	<listitem>
4571	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
4572	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
4573	</listitem>
4574
4575	<listitem>
4576	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
4577	</listitem>
4578
4579	<listitem>
4580	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
4581	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
4582	</listitem>
4583
4584	<listitem>
4585	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
4586	</listitem>
4587
4588	<listitem>
4589	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
4590	the virtual disk manager</para>
4591	</listitem>
4592
4593	<listitem>
4594	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
4595	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
4596	</listitem>
4597
4598	<listitem>
4599	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
4600	</listitem>
4601
4602	<listitem>
4603	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
4604	</listitem>
4605
4606	<listitem>
4607	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
4608	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
4609	</listitem>
4610
4611	<listitem>
4612	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
4613	bug #2067)</para>
4614	</listitem>
4615
4616	<listitem>
4617	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
4618	</listitem>
4619
4620	<listitem>
4621	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
4622	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
4623	</listitem>
4624
4625	<listitem>
4626	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
4627	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
4628	(bug #2184)</para>
4629	</listitem>
4630
4631	<listitem>
4632	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
4633	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
4634	</listitem>
4635
4636	<listitem>
4637	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
4638	(Windows guests only)</para>
4639	</listitem>
4640
4641	<listitem>
4642	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
4643	</listitem>
4644
4645	<listitem>
4646	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
4647	</listitem>
4648
4649	<listitem>
4650	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
4651	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
4652	</listitem>
4653
4654	<listitem>
4655	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
4656	</listitem>
4657
4658	<listitem>
4659	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
4660	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
4661	</para>
4662	</listitem>
4663
4664	<listitem>
4665	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
4666	</listitem>
4667
4668	<listitem>
4669	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
4670	</listitem>
4671
4672	<listitem>
4673	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
4674	a VM reboot</para>
4675	</listitem>
4676
4677	<listitem>
4678	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
4683	buggy X servers</para>
4684	</listitem>
4685
4686	<listitem>
4687	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
4688	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
4689	</listitem>
4690
4691	<listitem>
4692	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
4693	</listitem>
4694
4695	<listitem>
4696	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
4697	(bug #2128)</para>
4698	</listitem>
4699
4700	<listitem>
4701	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
4702	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
4703	</listitem>
4704
4705	<listitem>
4706	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
4707	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
4708	</listitem>
4709
4710	<listitem>
4711	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
4712	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
4713	</listitem>
4714
4715	<listitem>
4716	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
4717	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
4718	</listitem>
4719
4720	<listitem>
4721	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
4722	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
4723	</listitem>
4724
4725	<listitem>
4726	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
4727	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
4728	</listitem>
4729
4730	<listitem>
4731	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
4732	installer into a single package</para>
4733	</listitem>
4734
4735	<listitem>
4736	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
4737	port to the guest
4738	</para>
4739	</listitem>
4740
4741	</itemizedlist>
4742
4743	</sect1>
4744
4745	<sect1>
4746	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
4747
4748	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4749	were added:<itemizedlist>
4750
4751	<listitem>
4752	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
4753	</listitem>
4754
4755	<listitem>
4756	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4757	</listitem>
4758
4759	<listitem>
4760	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
4761	</listitem>
4762
4763	<listitem>
4764	<para>New-version notifier</para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
4769	</listitem>
4770
4771	<listitem>
4772	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4773	</listitem>
4774
4775	<listitem>
4776	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
4777	</listitem>
4778
4779	<listitem>
4780	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
4781	</listitem>
4782
4783	<listitem>
4784	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
4785	</listitem>
4786
4787	<listitem>
4788	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
4789	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
4794	</listitem>
4795
4796	<listitem>
4797	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
4798	</listitem>
4799
4800	<listitem>
4801	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
4802	</listitem>
4803
4804	</itemizedlist></para>
4805
4806	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4807
4808	<itemizedlist>
4809
4810	<listitem>
4811	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
4812	</listitem>
4813
4814	<listitem>
4815	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
4816	</listitem>
4817
4818	<listitem>
4819	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
4820	</listitem>
4821
4822	<listitem>
4823	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
4824	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
4825	</listitem>
4826
4827	<listitem>
4828	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
4829	restored</para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
4834	</listitem>
4835
4836	<listitem>
4837	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<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>
4842	</listitem>
4843
4844	</itemizedlist>
4845
4846	</sect1>
4847
4848	<para>In VirtualBox 3.2, changelog information for versions before 2.0 were removed in order to save space.
4849	To access this information, please consult the user manual of VirtualBox 3.1 or earlier.</para>
4850
4851	</para>

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