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