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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>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	<listitem>
16	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
17	</listitem>
18
19	<listitem>
20	<para>Guest Additions: modules and features now are represented as facilities
21	to have a common interface for frontends.</para>
22	</listitem>
23
24	</itemizedlist>
25
26	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
27
28	<itemizedlist>
29
30	<listitem>
31	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 2TB</para>
32	</listitem>
33
34	<listitem>
35	<para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
36	of the current state</para>
37	</listitem>
38
39	<listitem>
40	<para>GUI: added <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
41	</listitem>
42
43	<listitem>
44	<para>GUI: added setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
45	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
46	</listitem>
47
48	<listitem>
49	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
50	command group, fixed various bugs</para>
51	</listitem>
52
53	<listitem>
54	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
55	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
56	</listitem>
57
58	<listitem>
59	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
60	be a valid UUID</para>
61	</listitem>
62
63	<listitem>
64	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB driver</para>
65	</listitem>
66
67	<listitem>
68	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
69	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
70	</listitem>
71
72	<listitem>
73	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
74	window (bug #4491)</para>
75	</listitem>
76
77	<listitem>
78	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
79	</listitem>
80
81	<listitem>
82	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
83	from the host</para>
84	</listitem>
85
86	</itemizedlist>
87
88	</sect1>
89
90	<sect1>
91	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
92
93	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
94	added:</para>
95
96	<itemizedlist>
97
98	<listitem>
99	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
100	settings vanished</para>
101	</listitem>
102
103	<listitem>
104	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
105	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
106	</listitem>
107
108	<listitem>
109	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
110	created (bug #8031)</para>
111	</listitem>
112
113	<listitem>
114	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
115	</listitem>
116
117	<listitem>
118	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
119	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
120	</listitem>
121
122	<listitem>
123	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
124	an extension pack</para>
125	</listitem>
126
127	<listitem>
128	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
129	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
130	</listitem>
131
132	<listitem>
133	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
134	</listitem>
135
136	<listitem>
137	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
138	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
139	</listitem>
140
141	<listitem>
142	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
143	host-only interface</para>
144	</listitem>
145
146	<listitem>
147	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
148	and async I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
149	</listitem>
150
151	<listitem>
152	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
153	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
154	</listitem>
155
156	<listitem>
157	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
158	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
159	</listitem>
160
161	<listitem>
162	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
163	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
168	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
173	</listitem>
174
175	<listitem>
176	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
177	</listitem>
178
179	<listitem>
180	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
181	guests</para>
182	</listitem>
183
184	<listitem>
185	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
186	</listitem>
187
188	<listitem>
189	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
190	</listitem>
191
192	<listitem>
193	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
194	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
195	</listitem>
196
197	<listitem>
198	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
199	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
200	</listitem>
201
202	<listitem>
203	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
204	a VM start</para>
205	</listitem>
206
207	<listitem>
208	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
209	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
210	</listitem>
211
212	<listitem>
213	<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented
214	(bug #6067)</para>
215	</listitem>
216
217	<listitem>
218	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
219	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
220	</listitem>
221
222	<listitem>
223	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
224	not saved to machine XML</para>
225	</listitem>
226
227	<listitem>
228	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
229	#7983)</para>
230	</listitem>
231
232	<listitem>
233	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
234	#7981)</para>
235	</listitem>
236
237	<listitem>
238	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.</para>
239	</listitem>
240
241	<listitem>
242	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
243	regression)</para>
244	</listitem>
245
246	<listitem>
247	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
248	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
249	</listitem>
250
251	<listitem>
252	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
253	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
254	</listitem>
255
256	</itemizedlist>
257
258	</sect1>
259
260	<sect1>
261	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
262
263	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
264	were added:</para>
265
266	<itemizedlist>
267
268	<listitem>
269	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
270	</listitem>
271
272	<listitem>
273	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
274	</listitem>
275
276	<listitem>
277	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
278	<itemizedlist>
279	<listitem>
280	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
281	</listitem>
282
283	<listitem>
284	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
285	</listitem>
286
287	<listitem>
288	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
289	</listitem>
290
291	<listitem>
292	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
293	</listitem>
294
295	<listitem>
296	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
297	states, and optionally including attached
298	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
299	can do the same now)</para>
300	</listitem>
301
302	<listitem>
303	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
304	</listitem>
305
306	</itemizedlist>
307	</para>
308	</listitem>
309
310	<listitem>
311	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>New virtual hardware:
316	<itemizedlist>
317	<listitem>
318	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
319	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
320	</listitem>
321
322	<listitem>
323	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
324	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
325	</listitem>
326	</itemizedlist>
327	</para>
328	</listitem>
329
330	<listitem>
331	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
332	<itemizedlist>
333	<listitem>
334	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
335	</listitem>
336
337	<listitem>
338	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
339	</para>
340	</listitem>
341
342	<listitem>
343	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
344	now</para>
345	</listitem>
346
347	<listitem>
348	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
349	</listitem>
350
351	</itemizedlist>
352	</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
357	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
362	Parallels images</para>
363	</listitem>
364
365	<listitem>
366	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>
367	</listitem>
368
369	<listitem>
370	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
371	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
372	</listitem>
373
374	<listitem>
375	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
376	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
377	</listitem>
378
379	</itemizedlist>
380
381	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
382
383	<itemizedlist>
384
385	<listitem>
386	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
387	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
388	</listitem>
389
390	<listitem>
391	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
396	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
397	</listitem>
398
399	<listitem>
400	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
401	(bug #1657)</para>
402	</listitem>
403
404	<listitem>
405	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
406	</listitem>
407
408	<listitem>
409	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
410	</listitem>
411
412	<listitem>
413	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
414	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
415	</listitem>
416
417	<listitem>
418	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
419	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
424	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
425	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
426	</listitem>
427
428	<listitem>
429	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
430	again (bug #6864)</para>
431	</listitem>
432
433	<listitem>
434	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
435	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
436	</listitem>
437
438	<listitem>
439	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
440	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
441	</listitem>
442
443	<listitem>
444	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
445	</listitem>
446
447	<listitem>
448	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
449	</listitem>
450
451	<listitem>
452	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
453	</listitem>
454
455	<listitem>
456	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
457	</listitem>
458
459	<listitem>
460	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
461	</listitem>
462
463	<listitem>
464	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
465	</listitem>
466
467	<listitem>
468	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
469	</listitem>
470
471	<listitem>
472	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
473	(bug #7058)</para>
474	</listitem>
475
476	<listitem>
477	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
478	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
479	</listitem>
480
481	<listitem>
482	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
483	circumstances</para>
484	</listitem>
485
486	<listitem>
487	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
488	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
489	#5578)
490	</para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	<listitem>
494	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
495	</listitem>
496
497	<listitem>
498	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
499	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
500	</listitem>
501
502	<listitem>
503	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
504	</listitem>
505
506	<listitem>
507	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
508	#6760)</para>
509	</listitem>
510
511	<listitem>
512	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
513	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
514	</listitem>
515
516	<listitem>
517	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
518	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
519	</listitem>
520
521	<listitem>
522	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
523	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
524	</listitem>
525
526	<listitem>
527	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
528	</listitem>
529
530	<listitem>
531	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
532	file</para>
533	</listitem>
534
535	<listitem>
536	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
537	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
538	</listitem>
539
540	</itemizedlist>
541
542	</sect1>
543
544	<sect1>
545	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
546
547	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
548	added:</para>
549
550	<itemizedlist>
551
552	<listitem>
553	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
554	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
555	</listitem>
556
557	<listitem>
558	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
559	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
560	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
561	</listitem>
562
563	<listitem>
564	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
565	</listitem>
566
567	<listitem>
568	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
569	</listitem>
570
571	<listitem>
572	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
573	</listitem>
574
575	<listitem>
576	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
577	the VM is running</para>
578	</listitem>
579
580	<listitem>
581	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
582	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
583	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
584	starting from a saved state</para>
585	</listitem>
586
587	<listitem>
588	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
589	</listitem>
590
591	<listitem>
592	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
593	</listitem>
594
595	<listitem>
596	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
601	</listitem>
602
603	<listitem>
604	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
605	</listitem>
606
607	<listitem>
608	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
609	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
610	</listitem>
611
612	<listitem>
613	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
614	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
615	</listitem>
616
617	<listitem>
618	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
619	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
620	</listitem>
621
622	<listitem>
623	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
624	</listitem>
625
626	<listitem>
627	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
628	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
629	</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
634	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
635	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
636	</listitem>
637
638	<listitem>
639	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
640	only)</para>
641	</listitem>
642
643	<listitem>
644	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
645	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
646	</listitem>
647
648	<listitem>
649	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
650	</listitem>
651
652	<listitem>
653	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
654	</listitem>
655
656	<listitem>
657	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
658	</listitem>
659
660	<listitem>
661	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
662	state (bug #4124)</para>
663	</listitem>
664
665	<listitem>
666	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
667	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
668	</listitem>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
672	</listitem>
673
674	<listitem>
675	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
676	(bug #2996)</para>
677	</listitem>
678
679	<listitem>
680	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
681	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
682	</listitem>
683
684	<listitem>
685	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
686	</listitem>
687
688	<listitem>
689	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
690	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
691	</listitem>
692
693	<listitem>
694	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
695	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
700	user accounts for VM information</para>
701	</listitem>
702
703	</itemizedlist>
704
705	</sect1>
706
707	<sect1>
708	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
709
710	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
711	added:</para>
712
713	<itemizedlist>
714
715	<listitem>
716	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
717	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
718	</listitem>
719
720	<listitem>
721	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
722	</listitem>
723
724	<listitem>
725	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
726	</listitem>
727
728	<listitem>
729	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
730	</listitem>
731
732	<listitem>
733	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
734	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
735	</listitem>
736
737	<listitem>
738	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
739	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
740	</listitem>
741
742	<listitem>
743	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
744	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
745	</listitem>
746
747	<listitem>
748	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
749	(bug #4952)</para>
750	</listitem>
751
752	<listitem>
753	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
754	bug #6122)</para>
755	</listitem>
756
757	<listitem>
758	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
759	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
760	</listitem>
761
762	<listitem>
763	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
764	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
765	(Linux hosts only)</para>
766	</listitem>
767
768	<listitem>
769	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
770	</listitem>
771
772	<listitem>
773	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
774	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
775	</listitem>
776
777	<listitem>
778	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
779	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
780	</listitem>
781
782	<listitem>
783	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
784	canceled</para>
785	</listitem>
786
787	<listitem>
788	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
789	</listitem>
790
791	<listitem>
792	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
793	</listitem>
794
795	<listitem>
796	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
797	</listitem>
798
799	<listitem>
800	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
801	</listitem>
802
803	<listitem>
804	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
805	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
806	</listitem>
807
808	<listitem>
809	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
810	</listitem>
811
812	<listitem>
813	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
814	(Linux hosts only)</para>
815	</listitem>
816
817	<listitem>
818	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
819	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
820	</listitem>
821
822	<listitem>
823	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
824	</listitem>
825
826	<listitem>
827	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
828	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
829	</listitem>
830
831	<listitem>
832	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
833	</listitem>
834
835	<listitem>
836	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
837	circumstances</para>
838	</listitem>
839
840	<listitem>
841	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
842	printers</para>
843	</listitem>
844
845	<listitem>
846	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	<listitem>
850	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
851	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
852	</listitem>
853
854	<listitem>
855	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
856	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
857	</listitem>
858
859	<listitem>
860	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
861	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
862	circumstances</para>
863	</listitem>
864
865	<listitem>
866	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
867	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
868	</listitem>
869
870	<listitem>
871	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
872	as supported extension</para>
873	</listitem>
874
875	<listitem>
876	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
877	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
878	</listitem>
879
880	<listitem>
881	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
882	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
887	</listitem>
888
889	<listitem>
890	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
891	(bug #7366)</para>
892	</listitem>
893
894	<listitem>
895	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
896	</listitem>
897
898	<listitem>
899	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
900	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
901	</listitem>
902
903	<listitem>
904	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
905	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
906	</listitem>
907
908	<listitem>
909	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
910	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
911	</listitem>
912
913	<listitem>
914	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
915	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
916	</listitem>
917
918	<listitem>
919	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
920	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
921	</listitem>
922
923	<listitem>
924	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
925	</listitem>
926
927	<listitem>
928	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	<listitem>
932	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
933	more than one environment variable</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
938	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
943	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
944	</listitem>
945
946	<listitem>
947	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
948	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
949	</listitem>
950
951	<listitem>
952	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
953	enumerating logged in users</para>
954	</listitem>
955
956	<listitem>
957	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
958	</listitem>
959
960	<listitem>
961	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
962	</listitem>
963
964	<listitem>
965	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
966	</listitem>
967
968	<listitem>
969	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
970	in the event of a VM crash</para>
971	</listitem>
972
973	<listitem>
974	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
975	</listitem>
976
977	<listitem>
978	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
979	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
980	</listitem>
981
982	<listitem>
983	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
984	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
989	(bug #7448)</para>
990	</listitem>
991
992	<listitem>
993	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
994	</listitem>
995
996	<listitem>
997	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
998	</listitem>
999
1000	<listitem>
1001	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
1002	</listitem>
1003
1004	</itemizedlist>
1005
1006	</sect1>
1007
1008	<sect1>
1009	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
1010
1011	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1012	added:</para>
1013
1014	<itemizedlist>
1015
1016	<listitem>
1017	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
1018	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
1023	</listitem>
1024
1025	<listitem>
1026	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
1027	bug #6809)</para>
1028	</listitem>
1029
1030	<listitem>
1031	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
1032	</listitem>
1033
1034	<listitem>
1035	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
1036	</listitem>
1037
1038	<listitem>
1039	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
1040	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
1041	</listitem>
1042
1043	<listitem>
1044	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
1045	changes</para>
1046	</listitem>
1047
1048	<listitem>
1049	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
1050	</listitem>
1051
1052	<listitem>
1053	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
1054	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
1055	</listitem>
1056
1057	<listitem>
1058	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
1059	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
1060	</listitem>
1061
1062	<listitem>
1063	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
1064	</listitem>
1065
1066	<listitem>
1067	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
1068	</listitem>
1069
1070	<listitem>
1071	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
1076	</listitem>
1077
1078	<listitem>
1079	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
1080	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
1081	</listitem>
1082
1083	<listitem>
1084	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
1085	</listitem>
1086
1087	<listitem>
1088	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
1089	(bug #6832)</para>
1090	</listitem>
1091
1092	<listitem>
1093	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
1094	guests</para>
1095	</listitem>
1096
1097	<listitem>
1098	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
1099	</listitem>
1100
1101	<listitem>
1102	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
1103	without external tools and tricks</para>
1104	</listitem>
1105
1106	<listitem>
1107	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
1108	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
1109	</listitem>
1110
1111	<listitem>
1112	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
1113	</listitem>
1114
1115	<listitem>
1116	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
1117	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
1118	</listitem>
1119
1120	<listitem>
1121	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
1122	shutdown</para>
1123	</listitem>
1124
1125	<listitem>
1126	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
1127	fixes</para>
1128	</listitem>
1129
1130	<listitem>
1131	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
1132	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
1133	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
1134	</para>
1135	</listitem>
1136
1137	<listitem>
1138	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
1139	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
1140	</listitem>
1141
1142	<listitem>
1143	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
1144	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
1149	</para>
1150	</listitem>
1151
1152	<listitem>
1153	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
1158	</listitem>
1159
1160	<listitem>
1161	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
1162	</listitem>
1163
1164	</itemizedlist>
1165
1166	</sect1>
1167
1168	<sect1>
1169	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
1170
1171	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1172	added:</para>
1173
1174	<itemizedlist>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
1178	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
1183	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
1188	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
1189	</listitem>
1190
1191	<listitem>
1192	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
1193	</listitem>
1194
1195	<listitem>
1196	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
1197	</listitem>
1198
1199	<listitem>
1200	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
1201	</listitem>
1202
1203	<listitem>
1204	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
1205	</listitem>
1206
1207	<listitem>
1208	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
1209	assigned</para>
1210	</listitem>
1211
1212	<listitem>
1213	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
1214	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
1215	</listitem>
1216
1217	<listitem>
1218	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
1219	multiple screens are enabled</para>
1220	</listitem>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1224	</listitem>
1225
1226	<listitem>
1227	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
1228	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
1229	</listitem>
1230
1231	<listitem>
1232	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
1233	again (bug #7022).
1234	</para>
1235	</listitem>
1236
1237	<listitem>
1238	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
1239	(bug #6768)</para>
1240	</listitem>
1241
1242	<listitem>
1243	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
1244	(bug #6927)</para>
1245	</listitem>
1246
1247	<listitem>
1248	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
1249	bug #7031)</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
1254	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
1259	bug #6987)</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
1264	</listitem>
1265
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
1268	</listitem>
1269
1270	<listitem>
1271	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
1272	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
1273	</listitem>
1274
1275	<listitem>
1276	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
1277	</listitem>
1278
1279	<listitem>
1280	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
1281	installation (bug #5101)</para>
1282	</listitem>
1283
1284	<listitem>
1285	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
1286	</listitem>
1287
1288	<listitem>
1289	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1290	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1291	bug #6872)</para>
1292	</listitem>
1293
1294	<listitem>
1295	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1300	(performance tweak)</para>
1301	</listitem>
1302
1303	<listitem>
1304	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1305	is currently paused</para>
1306	</listitem>
1307
1308	<listitem>
1309	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1310	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1311	</listitem>
1312
1313	<listitem>
1314	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1315	</listitem>
1316
1317	<listitem>
1318	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1319	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1320	</listitem>
1321
1322	<listitem>
1323	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1324	not properly saved</para>
1325	</listitem>
1326
1327	<listitem>
1328	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1329	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1330	</listitem>
1331
1332	<listitem>
1333	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1334	</listitem>
1335
1336	<listitem>
1337	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1338	</listitem>
1339
1340	<listitem>
1341	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1342	</listitem>
1343
1344	<listitem>
1345	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1346	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1347	</listitem>
1348
1349	<listitem>
1350	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1351	</listitem>
1352
1353	<listitem>
1354	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1355	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1356	</listitem>
1357
1358	<listitem>
1359	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1360	(bug #5251)</para>
1361	</listitem>
1362
1363	<listitem>
1364	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1365	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1366	</listitem>
1367
1368	<listitem>
1369	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1370	</listitem>
1371
1372	<listitem>
1373	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1374	</listitem>
1375
1376	<listitem>
1377	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1378	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1379	</listitem>
1380
1381	<listitem>
1382	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1383	</listitem>
1384
1385	<listitem>
1386	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1387	</listitem>
1388
1389	<listitem>
1390	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1391	</listitem>
1392
1393	</itemizedlist>
1394	</sect1>
1395
1396	<sect1>
1397	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1398
1399	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1400	added:</para>
1401
1402	<itemizedlist>
1403
1404	<listitem>
1405	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1406	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1407	</listitem>
1408
1409	<listitem>
1410	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1411	</listitem>
1412
1413	<listitem>
1414	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1415	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1416	</listitem>
1417
1418	<listitem>
1419	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1420	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1421	</listitem>
1422
1423	<listitem>
1424	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1429	again (bug #6864)</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1434	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	<listitem>
1438	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1439	</listitem>
1440
1441	<listitem>
1442	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1443	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1444	</listitem>
1445
1446	<listitem>
1447	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1448	</listitem>
1449
1450	</itemizedlist>
1451
1452	</sect1>
1453
1454	<sect1>
1455	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1456
1457	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1458	added:</para>
1459
1460	<itemizedlist>
1461
1462	<listitem>
1463	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1464	</listitem>
1465
1466	<listitem>
1467	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1468	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1469	</listitem>
1470
1471	<listitem>
1472	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1473	</listitem>
1474
1475	<listitem>
1476	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1477	state</para>
1478	</listitem>
1479
1480	<listitem>
1481	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1482	</listitem>
1483
1484	<listitem>
1485	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1486	</listitem>
1487
1488	<listitem>
1489	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1490	</listitem>
1491
1492	<listitem>
1493	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1494	</listitem>
1495
1496	<listitem>
1497	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1502	</listitem>
1503
1504	<listitem>
1505	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1506	</listitem>
1507
1508	<listitem>
1509	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1510	</listitem>
1511
1512	<listitem>
1513	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1514	</listitem>
1515
1516	<listitem>
1517	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1518	</listitem>
1519
1520	<listitem>
1521	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1522	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1523	</listitem>
1524
1525	<listitem>
1526	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1527	(bug #6784)</para>
1528	</listitem>
1529
1530	<listitem>
1531	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1536	</listitem>
1537
1538	<listitem>
1539	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1540	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1541	</listitem>
1542
1543	<listitem>
1544	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1545	</listitem>
1546
1547	<listitem>
1548	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1553	host only</para>
1554	</listitem>
1555
1556	<listitem>
1557	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1558	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1559	</listitem>
1560
1561	<listitem>
1562	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1563	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1564	</listitem>
1565
1566	<listitem>
1567	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1568	</listitem>
1569
1570	<listitem>
1571	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1572	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1573	</listitem>
1574
1575	<listitem>
1576	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1581	</listitem>
1582
1583	<listitem>
1584	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1585	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1586	</listitem>
1587
1588	<listitem>
1589	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1590	</listitem>
1591
1592	<listitem>
1593	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1594	</listitem>
1595
1596	<listitem>
1597	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1598	</listitem>
1599
1600	<listitem>
1601	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1602	(bug #6714)</para>
1603	</listitem>
1604
1605	<listitem>
1606	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1607	</listitem>
1608
1609	<listitem>
1610	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1611	</listitem>
1612
1613	<listitem>
1614	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1615	</listitem>
1616
1617	<listitem>
1618	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1619	</listitem>
1620
1621	<listitem>
1622	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1623	</listitem>
1624
1625	</itemizedlist>
1626
1627	</sect1>
1628
1629	<sect1>
1630	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1631
1632	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1633	were added:</para>
1634
1635	<itemizedlist>
1636
1637	<listitem>
1638	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1639	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1640	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1641	</listitem>
1642
1643	<listitem>
1644	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1645	</listitem>
1646
1647	<listitem>
1648	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1649	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1650	</listitem>
1651
1652	<listitem>
1653	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1654	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1655	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1656	</listitem>
1657
1658	<listitem>
1659	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1660	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1661	</listitem>
1662
1663	<listitem>
1664	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1665	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1666	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1667	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1668	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1669	</listitem>
1670
1671	<listitem>
1672	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1677	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1678	</listitem>
1679
1680	<listitem>
1681	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1682	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1683	</listitem>
1684
1685	<listitem>
1686	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1687	</listitem>
1688
1689	<listitem>
1690	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
1691	</listitem>
1692
1693	<listitem>
1694	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1695	</listitem>
1696
1697	<listitem>
1698	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1699	</listitem>
1700
1701	<listitem>
1702	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1703	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1704	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1705	</listitem>
1706
1707	<listitem>
1708	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1709	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711
1712	</itemizedlist>
1713
1714	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1715
1716	<itemizedlist>
1717
1718	<listitem>
1719	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1720	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1721	</listitem>
1722
1723	<listitem>
1724	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1725	</listitem>
1726
1727	<listitem>
1728	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1729	VM</para>
1730	</listitem>
1731
1732	<listitem>
1733	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1734	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1735	</listitem>
1736
1737	<listitem>
1738	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1739	#1669)</para>
1740	</listitem>
1741
1742	<listitem>
1743	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1744	#6442)</para>
1745	</listitem>
1746
1747	<listitem>
1748	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1749	combination (bug #684)</para>
1750	</listitem>
1751
1752	<listitem>
1753	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1754	the VM from the GUI</para>
1755	</listitem>
1756
1757	<listitem>
1758	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1759	medium is not accessible</para>
1760	</listitem>
1761
1762	<listitem>
1763	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1764	</listitem>
1765
1766	<listitem>
1767	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1768	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1769	</listitem>
1770
1771	<listitem>
1772	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1773	#3106)</para>
1774	</listitem>
1775
1776	<listitem>
1777	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1778	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1779	it</para>
1780	</listitem>
1781
1782	<listitem>
1783	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1784	</listitem>
1785
1786	<listitem>
1787	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1788	</listitem>
1789
1790	<listitem>
1791	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1792	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1793	</listitem>
1794
1795	<listitem>
1796	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1797	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1806	</listitem>
1807
1808	<listitem>
1809	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1810	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1815	</listitem>
1816
1817	<listitem>
1818	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1819	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1820	</listitem>
1821
1822	<listitem>
1823	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1824	</listitem>
1825
1826	<listitem>
1827	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1828	in VirtualBox</para>
1829	</listitem>
1830
1831	<listitem>
1832	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1833	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1834	</listitem>
1835
1836	<listitem>
1837	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1838	VirtualBox</para>
1839	</listitem>
1840
1841	<listitem>
1842	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1843	</listitem>
1844
1845	<listitem>
1846	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1847	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1848	</listitem>
1849
1850	</itemizedlist>
1851	</sect1>
1852
1853	<sect1>
1854	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1855
1856	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1857	added:</para>
1858
1859	<itemizedlist>
1860
1861	<listitem>
1862	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1863	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1868	</listitem>
1869
1870	<listitem>
1871	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1872	</listitem>
1873
1874	<listitem>
1875	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1876	only) </para>
1877	</listitem>
1878
1879	<listitem>
1880	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1881	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1882	</listitem>
1883
1884	<listitem>
1885	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1886	interface version</para>
1887	</listitem>
1888
1889	<listitem>
1890	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1891	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1892	slot empty</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	<listitem>
1896	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1897	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1898	(bug #4220)</para>
1899	</listitem>
1900
1901	<listitem>
1902	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1907	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1908	</listitem>
1909
1910	<listitem>
1911	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1912	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1913	</listitem>
1914
1915	<listitem>
1916	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1917	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1918	</listitem>
1919
1920	<listitem>
1921	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1922	attached</para>
1923	</listitem>
1924
1925	<listitem>
1926	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1927	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1928	</listitem>
1929
1930	<listitem>
1931	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1932	</listitem>
1933
1934	<listitem>
1935	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1936	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1937	</listitem>
1938
1939	<listitem>
1940	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1941	is bug #6408)</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1946	</listitem>
1947
1948	<listitem>
1949	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1950	fail to initialize</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1955	</listitem>
1956
1957	<listitem>
1958	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1959	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1960	</listitem>
1961
1962	<listitem>
1963	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1964	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1965	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1966	</listitem>
1967
1968	<listitem>
1969	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1974	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1975	</listitem>
1976
1977	<listitem>
1978	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1979	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1980	</listitem>
1981
1982	<listitem>
1983	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1984	(bug #6435)</para>
1985	</listitem>
1986
1987	<listitem>
1988	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1989	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
1990	</listitem>
1991
1992	<listitem>
1993	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
1994	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
1995	(bug #6488)</para>
1996	</listitem>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
2000	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
2005	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
2006	</listitem>
2007
2008	<listitem>
2009	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
2010	#5227)</para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
2015	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
2020	</listitem>
2021
2022	<listitem>
2023	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
2024	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	</itemizedlist>
2028	</sect1>
2029
2030	<sect1>
2031	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
2032
2033	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2034	added:</para>
2035
2036	<itemizedlist>
2037
2038	<listitem>
2039	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
2040	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
2041	</listitem>
2042
2043	<listitem>
2044	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
2045	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
2046	</listitem>
2047
2048	<listitem>
2049	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
2050	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
2051	</listitem>
2052
2053	<listitem>
2054	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
2055	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
2056	</listitem>
2057
2058	<listitem>
2059	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
2060	</listitem>
2061
2062	<listitem>
2063	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
2068	</listitem>
2069
2070	<listitem>
2071	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
2076	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
2077	</listitem>
2078
2079	<listitem>
2080	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
2081	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
2082	</listitem>
2083
2084	<listitem>
2085	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
2086	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	<listitem>
2090	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
2091	</listitem>
2092
2093	<listitem>
2094	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
2095	</listitem>
2096
2097	<listitem>
2098	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
2099	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
2100	</listitem>
2101
2102	<listitem>
2103	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
2104	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
2105	calls (bug #6165)</para>
2106	</listitem>
2107
2108	<listitem>
2109	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
2110	(bug #5297)</para>
2111	</listitem>
2112
2113	<listitem>
2114	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
2115	(bug #4962)</para>
2116	</listitem>
2117
2118	<listitem>
2119	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
2120	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
2125	(bug #6176)</para>
2126	</listitem>
2127
2128	<listitem>
2129	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
2130	certain circumstances</para>
2131	</listitem>
2132
2133	<listitem>
2134	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
2135	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
2136	</listitem>
2137
2138	<listitem>
2139	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
2140	</listitem>
2141
2142	<listitem>
2143	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
2144	</listitem>
2145
2146	<listitem>
2147	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
2148	(bug #3571)</para>
2149	</listitem>
2150
2151	<listitem>
2152	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
2153	devices</para>
2154	</listitem>
2155
2156	<listitem>
2157	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
2158	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
2159	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
2164	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
2165	</listitem>
2166
2167	<listitem>
2168	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
2169	</listitem>
2170
2171	<listitem>
2172	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
2173	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
2174	</listitem>
2175
2176	<listitem>
2177	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
2178	response</para>
2179	</listitem>
2180
2181	<listitem>
2182	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
2183	</listitem>
2184
2185	<listitem>
2186	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
2191	</listitem>
2192
2193	<listitem>
2194	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
2195	</listitem>
2196
2197	<listitem>
2198	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
2199	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
2200	</listitem>
2201
2202	<listitem>
2203	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
2204	</listitem>
2205
2206	<listitem>
2207	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
2208	</listitem>
2209
2210	<listitem>
2211	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
2212	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
2213	</listitem>
2214
2215	<listitem>
2216	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
2221	</listitem>
2222
2223	<listitem>
2224	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
2225	</listitem>
2226
2227	<listitem>
2228	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
2229	</listitem>
2230
2231	</itemizedlist>
2232	</sect1>
2233
2234	<sect1>
2235	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
2236
2237	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2238	added:</para>
2239
2240	<itemizedlist>
2241
2242	<listitem>
2243	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
2244	</listitem>
2245
2246	<listitem>
2247	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
2248	</listitem>
2249
2250	<listitem>
2251	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
2252	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
2253	</listitem>
2254
2255	<listitem>
2256	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
2257	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
2258	</listitem>
2259
2260	<listitem>
2261	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
2262	(bug #3945)</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
2267	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
2268	</listitem>
2269
2270	<listitem>
2271	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
2272	and AMD-V only) </para>
2273	</listitem>
2274
2275	<listitem>
2276	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
2277	</listitem>
2278
2279	<listitem>
2280	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
2281	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
2282	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
2283	</listitem>
2284
2285	<listitem>
2286	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
2287	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
2288	</listitem>
2289
2290	<listitem>
2291	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2292	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2293	</listitem>
2294
2295	<listitem>
2296	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2297	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2298	</listitem>
2299
2300	<listitem>
2301	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2302	snapshots command</para>
2303	</listitem>
2304
2305	<listitem>
2306	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2307	</listitem>
2308
2309	<listitem>
2310	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2311	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2312	</listitem>
2313
2314	<listitem>
2315	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2316	</listitem>
2317
2318	<listitem>
2319	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2320	</listitem>
2321
2322	<listitem>
2323	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2324	</listitem>
2325
2326	<listitem>
2327	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2328	(KWin bug)</para>
2329	</listitem>
2330
2331	<listitem>
2332	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2333	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2334	</listitem>
2335
2336	<listitem>
2337	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2338	</listitem>
2339
2340	<listitem>
2341	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2342	</listitem>
2343
2344	<listitem>
2345	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2346	</listitem>
2347
2348	<listitem>
2349	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2350	</listitem>
2351
2352	<listitem>
2353	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2354	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2355	</listitem>
2356
2357	<listitem>
2358	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2359	bug #5787)</para>
2360	</listitem>
2361
2362	<listitem>
2363	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2364	DHCP requests</para>
2365	</listitem>
2366
2367	<listitem>
2368	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2369	(bug #3217)</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	<listitem>
2373	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2374	range (bug #5923)</para>
2375	</listitem>
2376
2377	<listitem>
2378	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2379	</listitem>
2380
2381	<listitem>
2382	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2383	</listitem>
2384
2385	<listitem>
2386	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2387	</listitem>
2388
2389	<listitem>
2390	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2391	</listitem>
2392
2393	<listitem>
2394	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2395	file (bug #5681)</para>
2396	</listitem>
2397
2398	<listitem>
2399	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2400	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2401	</listitem>
2402
2403	<listitem>
2404	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2405	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2406	</listitem>
2407
2408	<listitem>
2409	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2410	regression)</para>
2411	</listitem>
2412
2413	<listitem>
2414	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2415	</listitem>
2416
2417	<listitem>
2418	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2419	</listitem>
2420
2421	<listitem>
2422	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2423	</listitem>
2424
2425	<listitem>
2426	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2427	</listitem>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2431	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2432	</listitem>
2433
2434	<listitem>
2435	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2440	</listitem>
2441
2442	<listitem>
2443	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2444	</listitem>
2445
2446	<listitem>
2447	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2448	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2449	</listitem>
2450
2451	<listitem>
2452	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2453	</listitem>
2454
2455	<listitem>
2456	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2457	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2458	</listitem>
2459
2460	<listitem>
2461	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2462	</listitem>
2463
2464	<listitem>
2465	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2466	</listitem>
2467
2468	<listitem>
2469	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2470	</listitem>
2471
2472	<listitem>
2473	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2474	(bug #5731)</para>
2475	</listitem>
2476
2477	<listitem>
2478	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2479	again</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	</itemizedlist>
2483
2484	</sect1>
2485
2486	<sect1>
2487	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2488
2489	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2490	added:</para>
2491
2492	<itemizedlist>
2493
2494	<listitem>
2495	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2500	</listitem>
2501
2502	<listitem>
2503	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2504	</listitem>
2505
2506	<listitem>
2507	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2508	</listitem>
2509
2510	<listitem>
2511	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2516	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2517	</listitem>
2518
2519	<listitem>
2520	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2521	</listitem>
2522
2523	<listitem>
2524	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2525	</listitem>
2526
2527	<listitem>
2528	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2529	</listitem>
2530
2531	<listitem>
2532	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2533	</listitem>
2534
2535	<listitem>
2536	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2537	</listitem>
2538
2539	<listitem>
2540	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2541	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2542	</listitem>
2543
2544	<listitem>
2545	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2546	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2547	</listitem>
2548
2549	<listitem>
2550	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2551	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2552	#1762)</para>
2553	</listitem>
2554
2555	<listitem>
2556	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2557	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2558	</listitem>
2559
2560	<listitem>
2561	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2562	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2563	</listitem>
2564
2565	<listitem>
2566	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2567	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2568	</listitem>
2569
2570	<listitem>
2571	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2572	</listitem>
2573
2574	<listitem>
2575	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2576	</listitem>
2577
2578	<listitem>
2579	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2580	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2581	</listitem>
2582
2583	<listitem>
2584	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2585	</listitem>
2586
2587	<listitem>
2588	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2589	</listitem>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2593	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2594	</listitem>
2595
2596	<listitem>
2597	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2598	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2599	</listitem>
2600
2601	<listitem>
2602	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2607	guests</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2612	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2613	</listitem>
2614
2615	<listitem>
2616	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2617	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2618	</listitem>
2619
2620	<listitem>
2621	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2622	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2623	</listitem>
2624
2625	<listitem>
2626	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2627	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2628	</listitem>
2629
2630	<listitem>
2631	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2632	</listitem>
2633
2634	<listitem>
2635	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2636	</listitem>
2637
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2640	</listitem>
2641
2642	<listitem>
2643	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2644	</listitem>
2645
2646	<listitem>
2647	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2648	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2649	</listitem>
2650
2651	<listitem>
2652	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2653	</listitem>
2654
2655	</itemizedlist>
2656
2657	</sect1>
2658
2659	<sect1>
2660	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2661
2662	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2663	were added:</para>
2664
2665	<itemizedlist>
2666
2667	<listitem>
2668	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2669	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2670	</listitem>
2671
2672	<listitem>
2673	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2674	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2675	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2676	</listitem>
2677
2678	<listitem>
2679	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2680	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2681	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2682	</listitem>
2683
2684	<listitem>
2685	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2686	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2687	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2688	</listitem>
2689
2690	<listitem>
2691	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2692	running</para>
2693	</listitem>
2694
2695	<listitem>
2696	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2697	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2698	</listitem>
2699
2700	<listitem>
2701	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2702	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2703	</listitem>
2704
2705	<listitem>
2706	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2707	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2708	</listitem>
2709
2710	<listitem>
2711	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2712	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2713	</listitem>
2714
2715	</itemizedlist>
2716
2717	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2718
2719	<itemizedlist>
2720
2721	<listitem>
2722	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2723	</listitem>
2724
2725	<listitem>
2726	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2727	</listitem>
2728
2729	<listitem>
2730	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2731	</listitem>
2732
2733	<listitem>
2734	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2735	(bug #5291)</para>
2736	</listitem>
2737
2738	<listitem>
2739	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2740	</listitem>
2741
2742	<listitem>
2743	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2744	</listitem>
2745
2746	<listitem>
2747	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2748	</listitem>
2749
2750	<listitem>
2751	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2752	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2753	</listitem>
2754
2755	<listitem>
2756	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2757	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2758	</listitem>
2759
2760	<listitem>
2761	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2762	</listitem>
2763
2764	<listitem>
2765	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2766	</listitem>
2767
2768	<listitem>
2769	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2770	</listitem>
2771
2772	<listitem>
2773	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2774	</listitem>
2775
2776	<listitem>
2777	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2782	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2783	</listitem>
2784
2785	<listitem>
2786	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2787	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2792	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2793	</listitem>
2794
2795	<listitem>
2796	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2797	(bug #2723)</para>
2798	</listitem>
2799
2800	<listitem>
2801	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2802	</listitem>
2803
2804	<listitem>
2805	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2806	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2807	</listitem>
2808
2809	<listitem>
2810	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2811	optional manifest file on import</para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2816	</listitem>
2817
2818	<listitem>
2819	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2820	(bug #3773)</para>
2821	</listitem>
2822
2823	<listitem>
2824	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2825	</listitem>
2826
2827	<listitem>
2828	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2829	</listitem>
2830
2831	<listitem>
2832	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2833	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2834	</listitem>
2835
2836	<listitem>
2837	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2838	(bug #4866)</para>
2839	</listitem>
2840
2841	<listitem>
2842	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2843	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2844	</listitem>
2845
2846	<listitem>
2847	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2848	certain conditions</para>
2849	</listitem>
2850
2851	<listitem>
2852	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2853	</listitem>
2854
2855	<listitem>
2856	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2857	</listitem>
2858
2859	<listitem>
2860	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2861	</listitem>
2862
2863	<listitem>
2864	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2865	</listitem>
2866
2867	<listitem>
2868	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2869	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2870	</listitem>
2871
2872	<listitem>
2873	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2874	</listitem>
2875
2876	<listitem>
2877	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2878	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2879	</listitem>
2880
2881	<listitem>
2882	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2883	</listitem>
2884
2885	<listitem>
2886	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2887	</listitem>
2888
2889	<listitem>
2890	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2891	</listitem>
2892
2893	<listitem>
2894	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2895	</listitem>
2896
2897	<listitem>
2898	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2899	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2900	</listitem>
2901
2902	<listitem>
2903	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2904	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2905	(bug #928)</para>
2906	</listitem>
2907
2908	<listitem>
2909	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2910	</listitem>
2911
2912	</itemizedlist>
2913
2914	</sect1>
2915
2916	<sect1>
2917	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2918
2919	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2920	added:</para>
2921
2922	<itemizedlist>
2923
2924	<listitem>
2925	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2926	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2927	</listitem>
2928
2929	<listitem>
2930	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2931	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2932	</listitem>
2933
2934	<listitem>
2935	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2936	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2937	</listitem>
2938
2939	<listitem>
2940	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2941	enabled</para>
2942	</listitem>
2943
2944	<listitem>
2945	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2946	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2947	</listitem>
2948
2949	<listitem>
2950	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2951	(bug #2676)</para>
2952	</listitem>
2953
2954	<listitem>
2955	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2956	is connected to a raw file</para>
2957	</listitem>
2958
2959	<listitem>
2960	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2961	(bug #5355)</para>
2962	</listitem>
2963
2964	<listitem>
2965	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2966	</listitem>
2967
2968	<listitem>
2969	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2970	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2971	</listitem>
2972
2973	<listitem>
2974	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2975	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2976	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2977	</listitem>
2978
2979	<listitem>
2980	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2981	</listitem>
2982
2983	<listitem>
2984	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2985	</listitem>
2986
2987	<listitem>
2988	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2989	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
2990	</listitem>
2991
2992	<listitem>
2993	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
2994	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
2995	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
2996	</listitem>
2997
2998	</itemizedlist>
2999
3000	</sect1>
3001
3002	<sect1>
3003	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
3004
3005	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3006	added:</para>
3007
3008	<itemizedlist>
3009
3010	<listitem>
3011	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
3012	</listitem>
3013
3014	<listitem>
3015	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
3020	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
3021	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
3022	</listitem>
3023
3024	<listitem>
3025	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
3026	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
3027	</listitem>
3028
3029	<listitem>
3030	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
3035	</listitem>
3036
3037	<listitem>
3038	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
3039	</listitem>
3040
3041	<listitem>
3042	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
3043	</listitem>
3044
3045	<listitem>
3046	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
3047	</listitem>
3048
3049	<listitem>
3050	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
3051	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
3052	</listitem>
3053
3054	<listitem>
3055	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
3056	</listitem>
3057
3058	<listitem>
3059	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
3060	</listitem>
3061
3062	<listitem>
3063	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
3064	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
3065	</listitem>
3066
3067	<listitem>
3068	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
3069	</listitem>
3070
3071	<listitem>
3072	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
3073	exhaustion</para>
3074	</listitem>
3075
3076	<listitem>
3077	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
3078	</listitem>
3079
3080	<listitem>
3081	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
3082	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
3083	</listitem>
3084
3085	<listitem>
3086	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
3087	folders (bug #4106)</para>
3088	</listitem>
3089
3090	<listitem>
3091	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
3092	folders (bug #4299)</para>
3093	</listitem>
3094
3095	<listitem>
3096	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
3097	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
3098	(bug #2921)</para>
3099	</listitem>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
3103	hosts only)</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
3108	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
3109	</listitem>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
3113	</listitem>
3114
3115	<listitem>
3116	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
3117	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
3118	</listitem>
3119
3120	<listitem>
3121	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
3122	</listitem>
3123
3124	<listitem>
3125	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
3126	image inconsistency </para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
3131	</listitem>
3132
3133	<listitem>
3134	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
3135	</listitem>
3136
3137	<listitem>
3138	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
3139	(bug #2025)</para>
3140	</listitem>
3141
3142	<listitem>
3143	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
3144	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
3145	</listitem>
3146
3147	</itemizedlist>
3148
3149	</sect1>
3150
3151	<sect1>
3152	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
3153
3154	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3155	added:</para>
3156
3157	<itemizedlist>
3158
3159	<listitem>
3160	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
3161	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
3162	</listitem>
3163
3164	<listitem>
3165	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
3166	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
3167	</listitem>
3168
3169	<listitem>
3170	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
3171	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
3172	</listitem>
3173
3174	<listitem>
3175	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
3176	</listitem>
3177
3178	<listitem>
3179	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
3180	software virtualization only) </para>
3181	</listitem>
3182
3183	<listitem>
3184	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
3185	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
3190	with root privileges</para>
3191	</listitem>
3192
3193	<listitem>
3194	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
3195	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
3196	</listitem>
3197
3198	<listitem>
3199	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
3200	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
3201	</listitem>
3202
3203	<listitem>
3204	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
3205	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
3206	</listitem>
3207
3208	<listitem>
3209	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
3210	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
3211	selector (bug #5063)</para>
3212	</listitem>
3213
3214	<listitem>
3215	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
3216	available</para>
3217	</listitem>
3218
3219	<listitem>
3220	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
3221	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
3222	</listitem>
3223
3224	<listitem>
3225	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
3226	networking (bug #4775)</para>
3227	</listitem>
3228
3229	<listitem>
3230	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
3231	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
3232	</listitem>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
3236	(bug #4907)</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
3241	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
3246	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
3247	</listitem>
3248
3249	<listitem>
3250	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
3251	</listitem>
3252
3253	<listitem>
3254	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
3255	</listitem>
3256
3257	<listitem>
3258	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
3259	</listitem>
3260
3261	<listitem>
3262	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
3263	</listitem>
3264
3265	<listitem>
3266	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
3267	are installed</para>
3268	</listitem>
3269
3270	<listitem>
3271	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
3272	(bug #4771)</para>
3273	</listitem>
3274
3275	<listitem>
3276	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
3277	</listitem>
3278
3279	<listitem>
3280	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
3281	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
3282	</listitem>
3283
3284	<listitem>
3285	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
3286	command</para>
3287	</listitem>
3288
3289	<listitem>
3290	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3291	</listitem>
3292
3293	<listitem>
3294	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3295	</listitem>
3296
3297	<listitem>
3298	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3299	(bug #5089)</para>
3300	</listitem>
3301
3302	<listitem>
3303	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3304	</listitem>
3305
3306	</itemizedlist>
3307
3308	</sect1>
3309
3310	<sect1>
3311	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3312
3313	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3314	added:</para>
3315
3316	<itemizedlist>
3317
3318	<listitem>
3319	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3320	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3321	</listitem>
3322
3323	<listitem>
3324	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3325	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3326	</listitem>
3327
3328	<listitem>
3329	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3330	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3335	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3336	</listitem>
3337
3338	<listitem>
3339	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3340	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3341	</listitem>
3342
3343	<listitem>
3344	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3345	</listitem>
3346
3347	<listitem>
3348	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3349	</listitem>
3350
3351	<listitem>
3352	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3353	</listitem>
3354
3355	<listitem>
3356	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3357	</listitem>
3358
3359	<listitem>
3360	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3361	</listitem>
3362
3363	<listitem>
3364	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3365	onlined or offlined</para>
3366	</listitem>
3367
3368	<listitem>
3369	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3370	</listitem>
3371
3372	<listitem>
3373	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3374	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3375	</listitem>
3376
3377	<listitem>
3378	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3379	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3388	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3393	</listitem>
3394
3395	<listitem>
3396	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3397	</listitem>
3398
3399	<listitem>
3400	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3401	</listitem>
3402
3403	<listitem>
3404	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3405	</listitem>
3406
3407	<listitem>
3408	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3409	</listitem>
3410
3411	<listitem>
3412	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3413	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3414	</listitem>
3415
3416	<listitem>
3417	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3426	</listitem>
3427
3428	<listitem>
3429	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3430	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3431	</listitem>
3432
3433	<listitem>
3434	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3435	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3436	</listitem>
3437
3438	<listitem>
3439	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3440	</listitem>
3441
3442	<listitem>
3443	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3444	</listitem>
3445
3446	<listitem>
3447	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3448	</listitem>
3449
3450	<listitem>
3451	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3452	</listitem>
3453
3454	<listitem>
3455	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3456	</listitem>
3457
3458	<listitem>
3459	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3460	</listitem>
3461
3462	<listitem>
3463	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3464	</listitem>
3465
3466	<listitem>
3467	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3468	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3469	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3470	phase collapse</para>
3471	</listitem>
3472
3473	<listitem>
3474	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3475	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3476	</listitem>
3477
3478	<listitem>
3479	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3480	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3481	</listitem>
3482
3483	<listitem>
3484	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3485	</listitem>
3486
3487	<listitem>
3488	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3489	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3490	</listitem>
3491
3492	<listitem>
3493	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3494	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3495	</listitem>
3496
3497	<listitem>
3498	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3499	</listitem>
3500
3501	<listitem>
3502	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3503	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3504	#4698, #4790)</para>
3505	</listitem>
3506
3507	<listitem>
3508	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3509	less than the configured range</para>
3510	</listitem>
3511
3512	<listitem>
3513	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3514	</listitem>
3515
3516	<listitem>
3517	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3518	</listitem>
3519
3520	<listitem>
3521	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3522	</listitem>
3523
3524	<listitem>
3525	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3526	</listitem>
3527
3528	<listitem>
3529	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3530	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3531	</listitem>
3532
3533	<listitem>
3534	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3535	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3536	</listitem>
3537
3538	<listitem>
3539	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3540	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3541	</listitem>
3542
3543	<listitem>
3544	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3545	</listitem>
3546
3547	<listitem>
3548	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3549	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3550	</listitem>
3551
3552	<listitem>
3553	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3554	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3555	</listitem>
3556
3557	<listitem>
3558	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3559	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3564	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	</itemizedlist>
3576
3577	</sect1>
3578
3579	<sect1>
3580	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3581
3582	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3583	added:</para>
3584
3585	<itemizedlist>
3586
3587	<listitem>
3588	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3589	</listitem>
3590
3591	<listitem>
3592	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3593	</listitem>
3594
3595	<listitem>
3596	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3597	</listitem>
3598
3599	<listitem>
3600	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3601	</listitem>
3602
3603	<listitem>
3604	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3605	</listitem>
3606
3607	<listitem>
3608	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3609	</listitem>
3610
3611	<listitem>
3612	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3613	</listitem>
3614
3615	<listitem>
3616	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3617	</listitem>
3618
3619	<listitem>
3620	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3621	</listitem>
3622
3623	<listitem>
3624	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3625	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3626	</listitem>
3627
3628	<listitem>
3629	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3630	</listitem>
3631
3632	<listitem>
3633	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3634	</listitem>
3635
3636	<listitem>
3637	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3638	</listitem>
3639
3640	<listitem>
3641	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3646	</listitem>
3647
3648	<listitem>
3649	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3650	</listitem>
3651
3652	<listitem>
3653	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3654	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3655	</listitem>
3656
3657	<listitem>
3658	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3659	(bug #4654)</para>
3660	</listitem>
3661
3662	<listitem>
3663	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3664	</listitem>
3665
3666	<listitem>
3667	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3668	interfaces</para>
3669	</listitem>
3670
3671	<listitem>
3672	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3673	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3674	</listitem>
3675
3676	<listitem>
3677	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3678	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3679	</listitem>
3680
3681	<listitem>
3682	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3683	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3684	</listitem>
3685
3686	<listitem>
3687	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3688	(bug #1461)</para>
3689	</listitem>
3690
3691	<listitem>
3692	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3697	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3698	</listitem>
3699
3700	<listitem>
3701	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3702	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3703	</listitem>
3704
3705	<listitem>
3706	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3707	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3716	</listitem>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3720	</listitem>
3721
3722	<listitem>
3723	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3724	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3725	</listitem>
3726
3727	<listitem>
3728	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3729	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3730	</listitem>
3731
3732	<listitem>
3733	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3734	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3735	</listitem>
3736
3737	<listitem>
3738	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3739	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3740	</listitem>
3741
3742	</itemizedlist>
3743
3744	</sect1>
3745	<sect1>
3746	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3747
3748	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3749	added:</para>
3750
3751	<itemizedlist>
3752
3753	<listitem>
3754	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3755	</listitem>
3756
3757	<listitem>
3758	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3759	</listitem>
3760
3761	<listitem>
3762	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3763	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3764	</listitem>
3765
3766	<listitem>
3767	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3768	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3769	</listitem>
3770
3771	<listitem>
3772	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3773	</listitem>
3774
3775	<listitem>
3776	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3777	</listitem>
3778
3779	<listitem>
3780	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3781	</listitem>
3782
3783	<listitem>
3784	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3785	</listitem>
3786
3787	<listitem>
3788	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3789	</listitem>
3790
3791	<listitem>
3792	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3797	</listitem>
3798
3799	<listitem>
3800	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3801	</listitem>
3802
3803	<listitem>
3804	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3805	</listitem>
3806
3807	<listitem>
3808	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3809	</listitem>
3810
3811	<listitem>
3812	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3813	</listitem>
3814
3815	<listitem>
3816	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3817	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3818	</listitem>
3819
3820	<listitem>
3821	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3822	</listitem>
3823
3824	<listitem>
3825	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3826	</listitem>
3827
3828	<listitem>
3829	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3830	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3831	</listitem>
3832
3833	<listitem>
3834	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3835	</listitem>
3836
3837	<listitem>
3838	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3839	</listitem>
3840
3841	<listitem>
3842	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3843	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3844	</listitem>
3845
3846	<listitem>
3847	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3848	</listitem>
3849
3850	<listitem>
3851	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3852	</listitem>
3853
3854	<listitem>
3855	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3856	</listitem>
3857
3858	<listitem>
3859	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3860	</listitem>
3861
3862	<listitem>
3863	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3864	</listitem>
3865
3866	<listitem>
3867	<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>
3868	</listitem>
3869
3870	</itemizedlist>
3871
3872	</sect1>
3873
3874	<sect1>
3875	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3876
3877	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3878	were added:</para>
3879
3880	<itemizedlist>
3881
3882	<listitem>
3883	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3884	</listitem>
3885
3886	<listitem>
3887	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3888	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3889	</listitem>
3890
3891	<listitem>
3892	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3893	</listitem>
3894
3895	</itemizedlist>
3896
3897	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3898
3899	<itemizedlist>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3903	</listitem>
3904
3905	<listitem>
3906	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3907	certain conditions</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3912	</listitem>
3913
3914	<listitem>
3915	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	<listitem>
3919	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3920	</listitem>
3921
3922	<listitem>
3923	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3924	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3925	</listitem>
3926
3927	<listitem>
3928	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3929	</listitem>
3930
3931	<listitem>
3932	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3933	</listitem>
3934
3935	<listitem>
3936	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3937	</listitem>
3938
3939	<listitem>
3940	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3941	</listitem>
3942
3943	<listitem>
3944	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3945	</listitem>
3946
3947	<listitem>
3948	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3949	</listitem>
3950
3951	<listitem>
3952	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3957	</listitem>
3958
3959	<listitem>
3960	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3961	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3962	</listitem>
3963
3964	<listitem>
3965	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3966	</listitem>
3967
3968	<listitem>
3969	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3970	</listitem>
3971
3972	<listitem>
3973	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3974	</listitem>
3975
3976	<listitem>
3977	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3978	</listitem>
3979
3980	<listitem>
3981	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3982	</listitem>
3983
3984	<listitem>
3985	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3986	</listitem>
3987
3988	<listitem>
3989	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
3998	</listitem>
3999
4000	<listitem>
4001	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
4002	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
4003	</listitem>
4004
4005	<listitem>
4006	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
4007	</listitem>
4008
4009	<listitem>
4010	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
4011	</listitem>
4012
4013	<listitem>
4014	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
4015	</listitem>
4016
4017	<listitem>
4018	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
4019	</listitem>
4020
4021	<listitem>
4022	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
4023	</listitem>
4024
4025	<listitem>
4026	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
4031	</listitem>
4032
4033	<listitem>
4034	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
4035	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
4036	</listitem>
4037
4038	<listitem>
4039	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
4040	</listitem>
4041
4042	<listitem>
4043	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
4044	</listitem>
4045
4046	<listitem>
4047	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
4048	</listitem>
4049
4050	<listitem>
4051	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
4052	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
4053	</listitem>
4054
4055	<listitem>
4056	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
4057	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
4058	</listitem>
4059
4060	<listitem>
4061	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
4062	correct file mode when creating files</para>
4063	</listitem>
4064
4065	<listitem>
4066	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
4067	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
4068	</listitem>
4069
4070	<listitem>
4071	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
4072	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
4077	</listitem>
4078
4079	<listitem>
4080	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
4081	</listitem>
4082
4083	<listitem>
4084	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
4085	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
4086	</listitem>
4087
4088	<listitem>
4089	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
4090	guest property lookup</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	<listitem>
4094	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
4095	basic network information)</para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	<listitem>
4099	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
4100	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
4101	</listitem>
4102
4103	<listitem>
4104	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
4105	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
4106	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
4107	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
4108	</listitem>
4109
4110	<listitem>
4111	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
4112	</listitem>
4113
4114	<listitem>
4115	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
4116	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
4117	web service</para>
4118	</listitem>
4119
4120	<listitem>
4121	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
4122	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
4123	</listitem>
4124
4125	<listitem>
4126	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
4127	unavailable</para>
4128	</listitem>
4129
4130	<listitem>
4131	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
4132	</listitem>
4133
4134	</itemizedlist>
4135	</sect1>
4136
4137	<sect1>
4138	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
4139
4140	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4141	added:</para>
4142
4143	<itemizedlist>
4144
4145	<listitem>
4146	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
4147	installation</para>
4148	</listitem>
4149
4150	<listitem>
4151	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
4156	later (bug #3981)</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
4161	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
4162	</listitem>
4163
4164	<listitem>
4165	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
4166	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
4167	(bug #4034)
4168	</para>
4169	</listitem>
4170
4171	<listitem>
4172	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
4173	networking</para>
4174	</listitem>
4175
4176	<listitem>
4177	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
4178	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
4179	</listitem>
4180
4181	<listitem>
4182	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
4183	clicks</para>
4184	</listitem>
4185
4186	<listitem>
4187	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
4188	Windows 7 guests</para>
4189	</listitem>
4190
4191	<listitem>
4192	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
4193	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
4194	</listitem>
4195
4196	<listitem>
4197	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
4198	</listitem>
4199
4200	<listitem>
4201	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	<listitem>
4205	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
4206	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
4207	</listitem>
4208
4209	<listitem>
4210	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
4211	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
4212	</listitem>
4213
4214	<listitem>
4215	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
4216	</listitem>
4217
4218	<listitem>
4219	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
4220	</listitem>
4221
4222	<listitem>
4223	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4224	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
4225	(bug #3864)</para>
4226	</listitem>
4227
4228	<listitem>
4229	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
4230	now flushes the output stream</para>
4231	</listitem>
4232
4233	<listitem>
4234	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
4235	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
4236	</listitem>
4237
4238	<listitem>
4239	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
4240	</listitem>
4241
4242	<listitem>
4243	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
4244	</listitem>
4245
4246	<listitem>
4247	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
4248	</listitem>
4249
4250	<listitem>
4251	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
4252	</listitem>
4253
4254	<listitem>
4255	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
4256	(bug #3964)</para>
4257	</listitem>
4258
4259	<listitem>
4260	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
4261	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	<listitem>
4265	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
4266	hosts</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
4271	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
4272	e1000 adapter</para>
4273	</listitem>
4274
4275	<listitem>
4276	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
4277	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
4278	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
4279	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
4280	</listitem>
4281
4282	<listitem>
4283	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
4284	</listitem>
4285
4286	<listitem>
4287	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
4288	</listitem>
4289
4290	<listitem>
4291	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4292	</listitem>
4293
4294	<listitem>
4295	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4296	file (bug #1023)</para>
4297	</listitem>
4298
4299	<listitem>
4300	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4301	</listitem>
4302
4303	<listitem>
4304	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4305	</listitem>
4306
4307	</itemizedlist>
4308	</sect1>
4309
4310	<sect1>
4311	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4312
4313	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4314	added:</para>
4315
4316	<itemizedlist>
4317
4318	<listitem>
4319	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4320	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4321	</listitem>
4322
4323	<listitem>
4324	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4325	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4326	and later</para>
4327	</listitem>
4328
4329	<listitem>
4330	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4331	running services</para>
4332	</listitem>
4333
4334	<listitem>
4335	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4336	terminates</para>
4337	</listitem>
4338
4339	<listitem>
4340	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4341	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	<listitem>
4345	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4346	installed on the guest</para>
4347	</listitem>
4348
4349	<listitem>
4350	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4351	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4352	</listitem>
4353
4354	<listitem>
4355	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4356	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4357	</listitem>
4358
4359	<listitem>
4360	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4361	(bug #2628)</para>
4362	</listitem>
4363
4364	<listitem>
4365	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4366	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4367	</listitem>
4368
4369	<listitem>
4370	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4371	(bug #3657)</para>
4372	</listitem>
4373
4374	<listitem>
4375	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4376	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4377	</listitem>
4378
4379	<listitem>
4380	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4381	virtualization only)
4382	</para>
4383	</listitem>
4384
4385	<listitem>
4386	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4387	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4388	</listitem>
4389
4390	<listitem>
4391	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4392	</listitem>
4393
4394	<listitem>
4395	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4396	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4397	</listitem>
4398
4399	<listitem>
4400	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4401	bug #3689)</para>
4402	</listitem>
4403
4404	<listitem>
4405	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4406	bug #3679)</para>
4407	</listitem>
4408
4409	<listitem>
4410	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4411	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4412	</listitem>
4413
4414	<listitem>
4415	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4416	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4417	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4418	</listitem>
4419
4420	<listitem>
4421	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4422	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4423	</listitem>
4424
4425	<listitem>
4426	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4427	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4432	(bug #3667)</para>
4433	</listitem>
4434
4435	<listitem>
4436	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4437	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4438	</listitem>
4439
4440	<listitem>
4441	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4442	</listitem>
4443
4444	<listitem>
4445	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4446	</listitem>
4447
4448	<listitem>
4449	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4450	</listitem>
4451
4452	<listitem>
4453	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4454	</listitem>
4455
4456	<listitem>
4457	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4458	</listitem>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4462	</listitem>
4463
4464	<listitem>
4465	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4466	</listitem>
4467
4468	</itemizedlist>
4469	</sect1>
4470
4471	<sect1>
4472	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4473
4474	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4475	were added:</para>
4476
4477	<itemizedlist>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4481	</listitem>
4482
4483	<listitem>
4484	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4485	</listitem>
4486
4487	<listitem>
4488	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4489	</listitem>
4490
4491	<listitem>
4492	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4493	</listitem>
4494
4495	<listitem>
4496	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4497	</listitem>
4498
4499	<listitem>
4500	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4501	</listitem>
4502
4503	<listitem>
4504	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4505	</listitem>
4506
4507	<listitem>
4508	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4509	</listitem>
4510
4511	<listitem>
4512	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4517	</listitem>
4518
4519	</itemizedlist>
4520
4521	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4522
4523	<itemizedlist>
4524
4525	<listitem>
4526	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4527	</listitem>
4528
4529	<listitem>
4530	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4531	</listitem>
4532
4533	<listitem>
4534	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4535	</listitem>
4536
4537	<listitem>
4538	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4539	</listitem>
4540
4541	<listitem>
4542	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4543	</listitem>
4544
4545	<listitem>
4546	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4547	</listitem>
4548
4549	<listitem>
4550	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4551	</listitem>
4552
4553	<listitem>
4554	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4555	</listitem>
4556
4557	<listitem>
4558	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4559	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4560	</listitem>
4561
4562	<listitem>
4563	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4564	</listitem>
4565
4566	<listitem>
4567	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4568	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4569	</listitem>
4570
4571	<listitem>
4572	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4573	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4578	</listitem>
4579
4580	<listitem>
4581	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4582	</listitem>
4583
4584	<listitem>
4585	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4586	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4587	</listitem>
4588
4589	<listitem>
4590	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4591	</listitem>
4592
4593	<listitem>
4594	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4595	ESX server images)</para>
4596	</listitem>
4597
4598	<listitem>
4599	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4600	writable</para>
4601	</listitem>
4602
4603	<listitem>
4604	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4605	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4606	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4611	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4612	</listitem>
4613
4614	<listitem>
4615	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4616	</listitem>
4617
4618	<listitem>
4619	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4620	</listitem>
4621
4622	<listitem>
4623	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4624	hosts when creating files</para>
4625	</listitem>
4626
4627	<listitem>
4628	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4629	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4630	</listitem>
4631
4632	<listitem>
4633	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4634	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4635	#2306)</para>
4636	</listitem>
4637
4638	<listitem>
4639	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4640	(bug #3555)</para>
4641	</listitem>
4642
4643	<listitem>
4644	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4645	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4646	</listitem>
4647
4648	<listitem>
4649	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4650	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4651	</listitem>
4652
4653	<listitem>
4654	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4655	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4656	</listitem>
4657
4658	<listitem>
4659	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4660	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4665	(bug #3586)</para>
4666	</listitem>
4667
4668	<listitem>
4669	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4670	from Scratch systems</para>
4671	</listitem>
4672
4673	<listitem>
4674	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4675	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4676	</listitem>
4677
4678	<listitem>
4679	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4680	</listitem>
4681
4682	<listitem>
4683	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4684	default to compact format</para>
4685	</listitem>
4686
4687	<listitem>
4688	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4689	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4690	</listitem>
4691
4692	<listitem>
4693	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4694	</listitem>
4695
4696	<listitem>
4697	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4698	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4699	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4700	</listitem>
4701
4702	<listitem>
4703	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4704	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4705	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4706	</listitem>
4707
4708	<listitem>
4709	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4710	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4711	</listitem>
4712
4713	<listitem>
4714	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4715	</listitem>
4716
4717	<listitem>
4718	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4719	</listitem>
4720
4721	<listitem>
4722	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4723	</listitem>
4724
4725	<listitem>
4726	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4727	</listitem>
4728
4729	<listitem>
4730	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4731	</listitem>
4732
4733	<listitem>
4734	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4735	</listitem>
4736
4737	<listitem>
4738	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4739	</listitem>
4740
4741	<listitem>
4742	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4743	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4744	</listitem>
4745
4746	<listitem>
4747	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4748	</listitem>
4749
4750	<listitem>
4751	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4752	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4753	</listitem>
4754
4755	<listitem>
4756	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4757	</listitem>
4758
4759	<listitem>
4760	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4761	</listitem>
4762
4763	<listitem>
4764	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4769	#2536)</para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4774	</listitem>
4775
4776	<listitem>
4777	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4778	(bug #3548)</para>
4779	</listitem>
4780
4781	</itemizedlist>
4782	</sect1>
4783
4784	<sect1>
4785	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4786
4787	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4788	added:</para>
4789
4790	<itemizedlist>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4794	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4795	</listitem>
4796
4797	<listitem>
4798	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4799	</listitem>
4800
4801	<listitem>
4802	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4803	</listitem>
4804
4805	<listitem>
4806	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4807	</listitem>
4808
4809	<listitem>
4810	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4811	(bug #3115)</para>
4812	</listitem>
4813
4814	<listitem>
4815	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4816	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4817	</listitem>
4818
4819	<listitem>
4820	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4821	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4822	(bug #3215)</para>
4823	</listitem>
4824
4825	<listitem>
4826	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4827	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4828	</listitem>
4829
4830	<listitem>
4831	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4832	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4833	</listitem>
4834
4835	<listitem>
4836	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4837	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4842	in parallel</para>
4843	</listitem>
4844
4845	<listitem>
4846	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4847	</listitem>
4848
4849	<listitem>
4850	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4851	</listitem>
4852
4853	<listitem>
4854	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4855	</listitem>
4856
4857	<listitem>
4858	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4859	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4860	</listitem>
4861
4862	<listitem>
4863	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4864	</listitem>
4865
4866	<listitem>
4867	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4868	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4869	</listitem>
4870
4871	<listitem>
4872	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4873	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4878	</listitem>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4882	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	<listitem>
4886	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4887	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4892	</listitem>
4893
4894	<listitem>
4895	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4896	</listitem>
4897
4898	<listitem>
4899	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4900	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4901	</listitem>
4902
4903	<listitem>
4904	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4905	</listitem>
4906
4907	<listitem>
4908	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4909	</listitem>
4910
4911	<listitem>
4912	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4913	</listitem>
4914
4915	<listitem>
4916	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4917	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4918	</listitem>
4919
4920	<listitem>
4921	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4922	</listitem>
4923
4924	<listitem>
4925	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4926	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4927	</listitem>
4928
4929	<listitem>
4930	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4931	</listitem>
4932
4933	<listitem>
4934	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4935	</listitem>
4936
4937	<listitem>
4938	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4939	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4944	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4945	</listitem>
4946
4947	<listitem>
4948	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4949	</listitem>
4950
4951	<listitem>
4952	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4953	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4954	</listitem>
4955
4956	<listitem>
4957	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4958	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4959	</listitem>
4960
4961	<listitem>
4962	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4963	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4964	</listitem>
4965
4966	<listitem>
4967	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4968	(bug #3213)</para>
4969	</listitem>
4970
4971	<listitem>
4972	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4973	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4974	</listitem>
4975
4976	<listitem>
4977	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4978	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4979	</listitem>
4980
4981	</itemizedlist>
4982	</sect1>
4983
4984	<sect1>
4985	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4986
4987	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4988	added:</para>
4989
4990	<itemizedlist>
4991
4992	<listitem>
4993	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
4994	</listitem>
4995
4996	<listitem>
4997	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
4998	</listitem>
4999
5000	<listitem>
5001	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
5002	</listitem>
5003
5004	<listitem>
5005	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
5006	</listitem>
5007
5008	<listitem>
5009	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
5010	</listitem>
5011
5012	<listitem>
5013	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
5014	</listitem>
5015
5016	<listitem>
5017	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
5018	</listitem>
5019
5020	<listitem>
5021	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
5022	</listitem>
5023
5024	<listitem>
5025	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
5026	</listitem>
5027
5028	<listitem>
5029	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
5030	</listitem>
5031
5032	<listitem>
5033	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
5034	</listitem>
5035
5036	<listitem>
5037	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
5038	</listitem>
5039
5040	<listitem>
5041	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
5042	</listitem>
5043
5044	<listitem>
5045	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
5046	</listitem>
5047
5048	<listitem>
5049	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
5050	</listitem>
5051
5052	<listitem>
5053	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
5054	</listitem>
5055
5056	<listitem>
5057	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
5058	(bug #3067)</para>
5059	</listitem>
5060
5061	<listitem>
5062	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
5063	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
5064	</listitem>
5065
5066	<listitem>
5067	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
5068	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
5069	</listitem>
5070
5071	<listitem>
5072	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
5073	</listitem>
5074
5075	<listitem>
5076	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
5077	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
5078	</listitem>
5079
5080	<listitem>
5081	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
5082	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5083	</listitem>
5084
5085	<listitem>
5086	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
5087	</listitem>
5088
5089	<listitem>
5090	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
5091	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
5092	</listitem>
5093
5094	<listitem>
5095	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
5096	</listitem>
5097
5098	<listitem>
5099	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
5100	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
5101	</listitem>
5102
5103	<listitem>
5104	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
5105	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
5106	</listitem>
5107
5108	<listitem>
5109	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
5110	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
5111	</para>
5112	</listitem>
5113
5114	<listitem>
5115	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
5116	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
5117	</para>
5118	</listitem>
5119
5120	<listitem>
5121	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
5122	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
5123	</para>
5124	</listitem>
5125
5126	<listitem>
5127	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
5128	</listitem>
5129
5130	<listitem>
5131	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
5132	</listitem>
5133
5134	<listitem>
5135	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
5136	</listitem>
5137
5138	<listitem>
5139	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
5140	</listitem>
5141
5142	<listitem>
5143	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
5144	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
5145	</listitem>
5146
5147	<listitem>
5148	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
5149	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
5150	</listitem>
5151
5152	<listitem>
5153	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
5154	formatting a drive</para>
5155	</listitem>
5156
5157	<listitem>
5158	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
5159	</listitem>
5160
5161	<listitem>
5162	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
5163	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5164	</listitem>
5165
5166	<listitem>
5167	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
5168	</listitem>
5169
5170	<listitem>
5171	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
5172	</listitem>
5173
5174	<listitem>
5175	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
5176	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
5177	</listitem>
5178
5179	<listitem>
5180	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
5181	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
5182	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
5183	</listitem>
5184
5185	<listitem>
5186	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
5187	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
5188	</listitem>
5189
5190	<listitem>
5191	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
5192	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
5193	</listitem>
5194
5195	<listitem>
5196	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
5197	(bug #2768)</para>
5198	</listitem>
5199
5200	<listitem>
5201	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
5202	</listitem>
5203
5204	<listitem>
5205	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
5206	</listitem>
5207
5208	<listitem>
5209	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
5210	single, unified package</para>
5211	</listitem>
5212
5213	<listitem>
5214	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
5215	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
5216	</listitem>
5217
5218	<listitem>
5219	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
5220	</listitem>
5221
5222	<listitem>
5223	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
5224	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
5225	</listitem>
5226
5227	<listitem>
5228	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
5229	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
5230	</listitem>
5231
5232	<listitem>
5233	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
5234	</listitem>
5235
5236	<listitem>
5237	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
5238	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
5239	doing 3D</para>
5240	</listitem>
5241
5242	<listitem>
5243	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
5244	</listitem>
5245
5246	<listitem>
5247	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
5248	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
5249	</listitem>
5250
5251	<listitem>
5252	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
5253	</listitem>
5254
5255	<listitem>
5256	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
5257	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
5258	</listitem>
5259
5260	<listitem>
5261	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
5262	</listitem>
5263
5264	<listitem>
5265	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
5266	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
5267	</listitem>
5268
5269	<listitem>
5270	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
5271	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
5272	(bug #2938)</para>
5273	</listitem>
5274
5275	<listitem>
5276	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
5277	Linux guests</para>
5278	</listitem>
5279
5280	<listitem>
5281	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
5282	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
5283	(bug #1776)</para>
5284	</listitem>
5285
5286	<listitem>
5287	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
5288	(bug #1612)</para>
5289	</listitem>
5290
5291	<listitem>
5292	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5293	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5294	</listitem>
5295
5296	<listitem>
5297	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5298	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5299	</listitem>
5300
5301	<listitem>
5302	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5303	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5304	</listitem>
5305
5306	</itemizedlist>
5307	</sect1>
5308
5309	<sect1>
5310	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5311
5312	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5313	were added:</para>
5314
5315	<itemizedlist>
5316	<listitem>
5317	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5318	</listitem>
5319
5320	<listitem>
5321	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5322	</listitem>
5323
5324	<listitem>
5325	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5326	</listitem>
5327
5328	<listitem>
5329	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5330	</listitem>
5331
5332	<listitem>
5333	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5334	</listitem>
5335
5336	<listitem>
5337	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5338	</listitem>
5339
5340	<listitem>
5341	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5342	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5343	</listitem>
5344
5345	<listitem>
5346	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5347	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5348	</listitem>
5349
5350	</itemizedlist>
5351
5352	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5353
5354	<itemizedlist>
5355	<listitem>
5356	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5357	</listitem>
5358
5359	<listitem>
5360	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5361	</listitem>
5362
5363	<listitem>
5364	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5365	</listitem>
5366
5367	<listitem>
5368	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5369	</listitem>
5370
5371	<listitem>
5372	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5373	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5374	</listitem>
5375
5376	<listitem>
5377	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5378	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5379	</listitem>
5380
5381	<listitem>
5382	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5383	</listitem>
5384
5385	<listitem>
5386	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5387	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5388	</listitem>
5389
5390	<listitem>
5391	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5392	</listitem>
5393
5394	<listitem>
5395	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5396	</listitem>
5397
5398	<listitem>
5399	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5400	</listitem>
5401
5402	<listitem>
5403	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5404	</listitem>
5405
5406	<listitem>
5407	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5408	</listitem>
5409
5410	<listitem>
5411	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5412	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5413	</listitem>
5414
5415	<listitem>
5416	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5417	the compiz window manager</para>
5418	</listitem>
5419
5420	<listitem>
5421	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5422	</listitem>
5423
5424	<listitem>
5425	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5426	</listitem>
5427
5428	<listitem>
5429	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5430	</listitem>
5431
5432	<listitem>
5433	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5438	</listitem>
5439
5440	<listitem>
5441	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5442	</listitem>
5443
5444	<listitem>
5445	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5446	</listitem>
5447
5448	<listitem>
5449	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5450	</listitem>
5451
5452	<listitem>
5453	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5454	</listitem>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5458	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5463	for direct device access</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5472	</listitem>
5473
5474	<listitem>
5475	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5476	</listitem>
5477
5478	<listitem>
5479	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5480	</listitem>
5481
5482	<listitem>
5483	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5484	</listitem>
5485
5486	<listitem>
5487	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5488	</listitem>
5489
5490	<listitem>
5491	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5492	</listitem>
5493
5494	<listitem>
5495	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5496	</listitem>
5497
5498	</itemizedlist>
5499	</sect1>
5500
5501	<sect1>
5502	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5503
5504	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5505	added:</para>
5506
5507	<itemizedlist>
5508
5509	<listitem>
5510	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5511	states/snapshots</para>
5512	</listitem>
5513
5514	<listitem>
5515	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5516	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5517	</listitem>
5518
5519	<listitem>
5520	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5521	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5522	</listitem>
5523
5524	<listitem>
5525	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5526	collisions</para>
5527	</listitem>
5528
5529	<listitem>
5530	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5531	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5532	</listitem>
5533
5534	<listitem>
5535	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5536	</listitem>
5537
5538	<listitem>
5539	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5540	reliably</para>
5541	</listitem>
5542
5543	<listitem>
5544	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5545	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5546	</listitem>
5547
5548	<listitem>
5549	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5550	a reboot</para>
5551	</listitem>
5552
5553	<listitem>
5554	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5555	</listitem>
5556
5557	<listitem>
5558	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5559	in parallel</para>
5560	</listitem>
5561
5562	<listitem>
5563	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5564	</listitem>
5565
5566	<listitem>
5567	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5568	correctly</para>
5569	</listitem>
5570
5571	<listitem>
5572	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5573	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5574	</listitem>
5575
5576	</itemizedlist>
5577	</sect1>
5578
5579	<sect1>
5580	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5581
5582	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5583	added:</para>
5584
5585	<itemizedlist>
5586
5587	<listitem>
5588	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5589	(bug #2220)</para>
5590	</listitem>
5591
5592	<listitem>
5593	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5594	</listitem>
5595
5596	<listitem>
5597	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5598	</listitem>
5599
5600	<listitem>
5601	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5602	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5603	</listitem>
5604
5605	<listitem>
5606	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5607	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5608	</listitem>
5609
5610	<listitem>
5611	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5612	(bug #2624)</para>
5613	</listitem>
5614
5615	<listitem>
5616	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5617	(bug #2024)</para>
5618	</listitem>
5619
5620	<listitem>
5621	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5622	</listitem>
5623
5624	<listitem>
5625	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5626	</listitem>
5627
5628	<listitem>
5629	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5630	</listitem>
5631
5632	<listitem>
5633	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5634	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5635	</listitem>
5636
5637	<listitem>
5638	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5639	applications when updating the installation</para>
5640	</listitem>
5641
5642	<listitem>
5643	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5644	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5645	</listitem>
5646
5647	<listitem>
5648	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5649	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5650	</listitem>
5651
5652	<listitem>
5653	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5654	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5655	</listitem>
5656
5657	<listitem>
5658	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5659	connected to a host device</para>
5660	</listitem>
5661
5662	<listitem>
5663	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5668	</listitem>
5669
5670	<listitem>
5671	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5672	</listitem>
5673
5674	<listitem>
5675	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5676	when using native RDP connections</para>
5677	</listitem>
5678
5679	<listitem>
5680	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5681	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5682	</listitem>
5683
5684	<listitem>
5685	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5686	(bug #2591)</para>
5687	</listitem>
5688
5689	<listitem>
5690	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5691	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5692	</listitem>
5693
5694	<listitem>
5695	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5696	</listitem>
5697
5698	</itemizedlist>
5699	</sect1>
5700
5701	<sect1>
5702	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5703
5704	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5705	added:</para>
5706
5707	<itemizedlist>
5708	<listitem>
5709	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5710	</listitem>
5711
5712	<listitem>
5713	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5714	</listitem>
5715
5716	<listitem>
5717	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5718	</listitem>
5719
5720	<listitem>
5721	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5722	</listitem>
5723
5724	<listitem>
5725	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5726	</listitem>
5727
5728	<listitem>
5729	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5730	</listitem>
5731
5732	<listitem>
5733	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5734	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5735	</listitem>
5736
5737	<listitem>
5738	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5739	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5740	</listitem>
5741
5742	<listitem>
5743	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5744	</listitem>
5745
5746	<listitem>
5747	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5748	equal to the client resolution</para>
5749	</listitem>
5750
5751	<listitem>
5752	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5753	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5754	</listitem>
5755
5756	<listitem>
5757	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5758	</listitem>
5759
5760	<listitem>
5761	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5762	</listitem>
5763
5764	<listitem>
5765	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5766	</listitem>
5767
5768	<listitem>
5769	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5770	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5771	</listitem>
5772
5773	<listitem>
5774	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5775	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5776	</listitem>
5777
5778	<listitem>
5779	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5780	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5781	</listitem>
5782
5783	<listitem>
5784	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5785	</listitem>
5786
5787	<listitem>
5788	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5793	</listitem>
5794
5795	<listitem>
5796	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5797	</listitem>
5798
5799	<listitem>
5800	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5801	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5802	</listitem>
5803
5804	<listitem>
5805	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5806	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5807	</listitem>
5808
5809	<listitem>
5810	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5811	</listitem>
5812
5813	<listitem>
5814	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5815	</listitem>
5816
5817	<listitem>
5818	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5819	</listitem>
5820
5821	</itemizedlist>
5822
5823	</sect1>
5824
5825	<sect1>
5826	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5827
5828	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5829	added:</para>
5830
5831	<itemizedlist>
5832
5833	<listitem>
5834	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5835	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5836	</listitem>
5837
5838	<listitem>
5839	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5840	</listitem>
5841
5842	<listitem>
5843	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5844	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5845	</listitem>
5846
5847	<listitem>
5848	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5849	</listitem>
5850
5851	<listitem>
5852	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5853	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5854	</listitem>
5855
5856	<listitem>
5857	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5858	</listitem>
5859
5860	<listitem>
5861	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5862	the virtual disk manager</para>
5863	</listitem>
5864
5865	<listitem>
5866	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5867	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5868	</listitem>
5869
5870	<listitem>
5871	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5872	</listitem>
5873
5874	<listitem>
5875	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5876	</listitem>
5877
5878	<listitem>
5879	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5880	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5881	</listitem>
5882
5883	<listitem>
5884	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5885	bug #2067)</para>
5886	</listitem>
5887
5888	<listitem>
5889	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5890	</listitem>
5891
5892	<listitem>
5893	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5894	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5895	</listitem>
5896
5897	<listitem>
5898	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5899	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5900	(bug #2184)</para>
5901	</listitem>
5902
5903	<listitem>
5904	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5905	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5906	</listitem>
5907
5908	<listitem>
5909	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5910	(Windows guests only)</para>
5911	</listitem>
5912
5913	<listitem>
5914	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5915	</listitem>
5916
5917	<listitem>
5918	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5919	</listitem>
5920
5921	<listitem>
5922	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5923	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5924	</listitem>
5925
5926	<listitem>
5927	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5928	</listitem>
5929
5930	<listitem>
5931	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5932	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5933	</para>
5934	</listitem>
5935
5936	<listitem>
5937	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5938	</listitem>
5939
5940	<listitem>
5941	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5942	</listitem>
5943
5944	<listitem>
5945	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5946	a VM reboot</para>
5947	</listitem>
5948
5949	<listitem>
5950	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5951	</listitem>
5952
5953	<listitem>
5954	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5955	buggy X servers</para>
5956	</listitem>
5957
5958	<listitem>
5959	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5960	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5961	</listitem>
5962
5963	<listitem>
5964	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5965	</listitem>
5966
5967	<listitem>
5968	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5969	(bug #2128)</para>
5970	</listitem>
5971
5972	<listitem>
5973	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5974	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5975	</listitem>
5976
5977	<listitem>
5978	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5979	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5980	</listitem>
5981
5982	<listitem>
5983	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5984	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5985	</listitem>
5986
5987	<listitem>
5988	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5989	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
5990	</listitem>
5991
5992	<listitem>
5993	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
5994	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
5995	</listitem>
5996
5997	<listitem>
5998	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
5999	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
6000	</listitem>
6001
6002	<listitem>
6003	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
6004	installer into a single package</para>
6005	</listitem>
6006
6007	<listitem>
6008	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
6009	port to the guest
6010	</para>
6011	</listitem>
6012
6013	</itemizedlist>
6014
6015	</sect1>
6016
6017	<sect1>
6018	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
6019
6020	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6021	were added:<itemizedlist>
6022
6023	<listitem>
6024	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
6025	</listitem>
6026
6027	<listitem>
6028	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6029	</listitem>
6030
6031	<listitem>
6032	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
6033	</listitem>
6034
6035	<listitem>
6036	<para>New-version notifier</para>
6037	</listitem>
6038
6039	<listitem>
6040	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
6041	</listitem>
6042
6043	<listitem>
6044	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
6045	</listitem>
6046
6047	<listitem>
6048	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
6049	</listitem>
6050
6051	<listitem>
6052	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
6053	</listitem>
6054
6055	<listitem>
6056	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
6057	</listitem>
6058
6059	<listitem>
6060	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
6061	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
6062	</listitem>
6063
6064	<listitem>
6065	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
6066	</listitem>
6067
6068	<listitem>
6069	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
6070	</listitem>
6071
6072	<listitem>
6073	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
6074	</listitem>
6075
6076	</itemizedlist></para>
6077
6078	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6079
6080	<itemizedlist>
6081
6082	<listitem>
6083	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
6084	</listitem>
6085
6086	<listitem>
6087	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
6088	</listitem>
6089
6090	<listitem>
6091	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
6092	</listitem>
6093
6094	<listitem>
6095	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
6096	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
6097	</listitem>
6098
6099	<listitem>
6100	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
6101	restored</para>
6102	</listitem>
6103
6104	<listitem>
6105	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
6106	</listitem>
6107
6108	<listitem>
6109	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
6110	</listitem>
6111
6112	<listitem>
6113	<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>
6114	</listitem>
6115
6116	</itemizedlist>
6117
6118	</sect1>
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