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f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync were added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Language bindings: implemented uniform Java bindings for both local
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: Support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Settings: Deleting a machine now automatically deletes all
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync snapshots and saved states as well, it is no longer necessary
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync to manually delete snapshots first; VBoxManage unregistervm --delete
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync can do the same now</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync again (bug #6864)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fix host assertion for some mt guest apps (bug #5236)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nvidia drivers on wddm startup</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit apps under 64bit Windows guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync #5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
1b5c0cf2c481eac74a8e534020f8d597e1243dfevboxsync <para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #6832)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync state</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #6784)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync host only</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync probability for lossing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction id mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Bridged Networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #6714)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice.</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit apps on windows guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (#2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync were added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrdp-videochannel"/>)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync #1669)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync #6442)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync combination (bug #684)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync the VM from the GUI</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync medium is not accessible</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync audio input (bug #5869)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync #3106)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync in VirtualBox</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync VirtualBox</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync interface version</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync slot empty</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #4220)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync using the drivers from LSI</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync attached</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync adapters (bug #6519)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync booting from SCSI devices</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync is bug #6408)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris Hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync fail to initialize</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris Hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
1b5c0cf2c481eac74a8e534020f8d597e1243dfevboxsync <para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
1b5c0cf2c481eac74a8e534020f8d597e1243dfevboxsync <para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
1b5c0cf2c481eac74a8e534020f8d597e1243dfevboxsync <para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
1b5c0cf2c481eac74a8e534020f8d597e1243dfevboxsync <para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #6435)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #6488)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync #5227)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync 2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync calls (bug #6165)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #5297)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #4962)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #6176)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync certain circumstances</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3571)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync devices</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync response</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3945)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync and AMD-V only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync teleporting; to get the old behavior set
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync snapshots command</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (KWin bug)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync relocation (bug #5690)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync resolution (bug #5655)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync bug #5787)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync DHCP requests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3217)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync range (bug #5923)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync file (bug #5681)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
1b5c0cf2c481eac74a8e534020f8d597e1243dfevboxsync <para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (3.1.2 regression)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync regression)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #5731)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync again</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync #1762)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync several virtual CPU cores.</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync and on some 64bit guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (openSUSE 11.0)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
1b5c0cf2c481eac74a8e534020f8d597e1243dfevboxsync <para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync were added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync ("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync running</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #5291)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #5523, #2787)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2723)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync optional manifest file on import</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3773)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync layout (bug #2302)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #4866)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync left click (bug #5049)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync certain conditions</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend).</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
1b5c0cf2c481eac74a8e534020f8d597e1243dfevboxsync <para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
1b5c0cf2c481eac74a8e534020f8d597e1243dfevboxsync <para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync properties (bug #5337)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Additions (bug #4039)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #928)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync enabled</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync meditation (bug #5389)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2676)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync is connected to a raw file</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #5355)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync guest (bug #4496)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
1b5c0cf2c481eac74a8e534020f8d597e1243dfevboxsync <para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync among other things caused lost guest property updates and
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync exhaustion</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync folders (bug #4106)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync folders (bug #4299)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2921)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync hosts only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync image inconsistency </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2025)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync software virtualization only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync with root privileges</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync selector (bug #5063)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync available</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync networking (bug #4775)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync changing them (bug #5077)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #4907)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync are installed</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #4771)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync command</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #5089)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync guests (bug #2258)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU id in Linux </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync onlined or offlined</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync than usual (bug #4799)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync filters in machine settings XML</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync phase collapse</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync interface bringup on Linux</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync #4698, #4790)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync less than the configured range</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Bridged Network: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Windows (bug #4354)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #4654)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync interfaces</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync properties (bug #3415)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #1461)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync fails to find any DVD drives.</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Qt (bug #4353)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync guest-drawn mouse pointers.</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238).</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync guest (bug #4381)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328).</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <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>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync were added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync certain conditions</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (non Windows hosts)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync correct file mode when creating files</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync conditions (bug #1187)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync guest property lookup</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync basic network information)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242).</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync web service.</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync unavailable</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync installation</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync later (bug #3981)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync loopback (bug #3120)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #4034)
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync networking</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync disabled (bug #4077)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync clicks</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Windows 7 guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3864)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync now flushes the output stream</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3964)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync hosts (bug #4090)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync hosts</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync e1000 adapter</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync file (bug #1023)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync and later</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync running services</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync terminates</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync installed on the guest</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2628)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3657)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync virtualization only)
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync networks (bug #3702)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync bug #3689)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync bug #3679)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2180, #2833)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync lease (bug #3655)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3667)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync were added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync ESX server images)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync writable</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync hosts when creating files</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync #2306)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3555)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync installer (bug #3524)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync interface (bug #3414)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3586)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync from Scratch systems</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync default to compact format</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync did not work if the image was attached before</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync regression; bug #2065)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync #2536)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3548)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3115)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3215)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync are not available (bug #3136)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync disabled (bug #3098)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync in parallel</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync 3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3213)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync configured for fixed resolutions</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #3067)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync on Mac OS X hosts</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync formatting a drive</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2768)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync single, unified package</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync anymore (bug #2859)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync doing 3D</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2938)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Linux guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #1776)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #1612)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync were added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync the compiz window manager</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync of two (bug #2724)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync for direct device access</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync collisions</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync reliably</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync 3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync a reboot</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync in parallel</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync correctly</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2220)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2624)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2024)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync bugs #470 & #491)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync applications when updating the installation</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync 64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync connected to a host device</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync when using native RDP connections</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2591)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync guests (bug #2550)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync equal to the client resolution</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync networking (bug #2474)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync the virtual disk manager</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync bug #2067)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2184)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (Windows guests only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync a VM reboot</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync buggy X servers</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync (bug #2128)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync installing under the wrong architecture</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync installer into a single package</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync port to the guest
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync were added:<itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync restored</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <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>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </listitem>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync </itemizedlist>
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync <para>In VirtualBox 3.2, changelog information for versions before 2.0 were removed in order to save space.
f73d4f622845cf2471e94e6d1676a3e6ee1b9e68vboxsync To access this information, please consult the user manual of VirtualBox 3.1 or earlier.</para>