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