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<sect1>

<title>Version 4.2.0 (2011-xx-xx)</title>

<para>This is a major update. The following major new features

were added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>dummy</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an

ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805).</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time

or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from fullscreen text mode apps (bug #9636)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>

machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings

(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,

vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do

a live snapshot</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments

due to a library version conflict</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from

guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes

at a time by default</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings

warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug

#9368)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are

registered (bug #9303)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of

VMs</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot

creation (bug #9379)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and

<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest

to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>

(bug #9308)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with

<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error

affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly

(bug #9242)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API

requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and

fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local

USB devices</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations

and warn about it</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs

with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown

(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs

module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with

some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software

and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,

fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels

2.6.37 and above</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>

<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features

were added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see

<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI

and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;

bug #7822)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see

<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting

Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a

cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode

anymore)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be

queried separately by the frontends</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which

offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately

distributable virtual network implementations</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to

interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,

see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available

with VBoxManage</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for

Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot

of the current state</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for

internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to

limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,

see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/>.</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of

a VM (bug #1551)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration

dialog</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller

attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter

when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>

command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment

of the balloon size for running VMs</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to

be a valid UUID</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used

twice in a VM configuration</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium

create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error

cases</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.

the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can

improve performance</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest

ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only

on a temporary basis</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching

a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are

exact duplicates including the UUID</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances

with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential

images in VDI format</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and

VMDK format</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA

controller (bug #8592)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading

when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating

directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make

Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see

<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS

RDP clients</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for

different locales (bug #8916)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Webservice: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and

be more robust when connections fail</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart

simultaneously</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media

which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing

location values in many places</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official

builds</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM

window (bug #4491)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when

removing a VM</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds

166 and above)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11

hosts</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs

from the host</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds

166 and above)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller

attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter

when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances

with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA

controller (bug #8592)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading

when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for

different locales (bug #8916)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official

builds</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances

after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant

(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to

another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests

(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior

with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK

file was not written during export</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux

binaries</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version

of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests

(4.0.8 regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage

guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X

versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more

than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in

64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any

host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission

problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>

subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown

(Windows hosts only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in

Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances

(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with

asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb

(Linux hosts only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated

(Windows hosts only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest

window</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and

Fedora 15</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media

registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one

host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before

building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update

notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring

a VMM from a saved state</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;

implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE

(bug #8006)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels

(bug #8726)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB

tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM

(bug #8469)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy

selectors</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the

proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing

folder (bug #8673)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media

registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate

(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for

VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an

I/O error occurred</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset

(bug #8276, #8294)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a

streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent

Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'

if no medium is present</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows

hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Host-Only &amp; Bridged &amp; Internal Networking: fix for processing

promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the

host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static

assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication

library (bug #8063)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,

for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is

changed on import</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with

multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions

(bug #8593)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because

sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while

captured</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode

(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up

help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing

VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than

version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned

problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead

to unkillable VM processes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain

circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations

on legacy Windows versions</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP

messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests

(bug #7946)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions

(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging

enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the

programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots

(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum

number of host network interfaces</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing

snapshot (bug #8145)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in

the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted

by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID

(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>

(bug #6577)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute

--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit

(bug #8235)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute

--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process

to terminate (bug #7872)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host

DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric.</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot

(bug #7966)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium

attachments (bug #8129)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Host-Only &amp; Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue

for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after

vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't

announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly

to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode

(bug #8122)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is

disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission

(bug #1548)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces

without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart

(bug #8231)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu

11.04 Alpha.</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to

prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login.</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older

VirtualBox versions can't handle.</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if

a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)

with VBoxGINA</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM

settings vanished</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked

on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be

created (bug #8031)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root

(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing

an extension pack</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name

during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now

supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent

host-only interface</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots

and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is

detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an

ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or

power off (4.0 regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging

to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux

guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic

links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid

logging string (4.0 regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing

a VM start</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in

machine paths (bug #8024)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented

(bug #6067)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)

cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was

not saved to machine XML</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug

#7983)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug

#7981)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0

regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in

VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports

unlocking previously locked workstations</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>

<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features

were added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved

states, and optionally including attached

disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>

can do the same now)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>New virtual hardware:

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);

see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems

(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional

now</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO

bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and

Parallels images</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" />.</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux

and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local

(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts

(applies to nested paging only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,

non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode

(bug #1657)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts

(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain

guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing

packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network

(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>

again (bug #6864)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,

#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using

glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough

(bug #7058)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the

criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare

circumstances</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when

another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug

#5578)

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function

<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug

#6760)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of

accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with

<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted

on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one

file</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able

to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit

hosts (bug #7577)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs

triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in

non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while

the VM is running</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file

system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs

file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when

starting from a saved state</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute

mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;

fixes for Korean keyboards</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during

open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a

multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters

in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version

3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts

only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid

being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM

state (bug #4124)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in

VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types

(bug #2996)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper

operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS

is not installed (bug #7572)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing

files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating

user accounts for VM information</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386

(3.2.8 regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit

hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than

2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt

(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar

(bug #4952)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;

bug #6122)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector

for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known

to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed

(Linux hosts only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI

images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero

parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was

canceled</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain

circumstances (bug #7291)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown

(Linux hosts only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering

a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load

(non-Windows hosts only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain

circumstances</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some

printers</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to

hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters

are passed (bug #7388)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a

bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare

circumstances</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work

for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>

as supported extension</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using

<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to

fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks

(bug #7366)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no

longer verified on import nor written on export</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared

clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an

invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying

to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the

NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing

more than one environment variable</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService

after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of

VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host

time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when

enumerating logged in users</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data

in the event of a VM crash</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using

the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on

32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys

(bug #7448)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying

to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;

bug #6809)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain

circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status

changes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of

certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters

in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on

bridged device (bug #7059)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup

(bug #6832)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer

guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs

without external tools and tricks</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements

for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties

of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on

shutdown</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability

fixes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML

settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for

example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML

settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly

in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts

with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;

does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted

with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM

assigned</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting

asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if

multiple screens are enabled</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode

(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts

again (bug #7022).

</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode

(bug #6768)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling

(bug #6927)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;

bug #7031)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which

don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;

bug #6987)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle

30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows

installation (bug #5101)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings

under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;

bug #6872)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames

(performance tweak)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM

is currently paused</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC

was not yet initialized by the guest</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7

and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes

not properly saved</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot

folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances

(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host

kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed

(bug #5251)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on

ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able

to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11

(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication

over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with

growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>

again (bug #6864)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest

applications (bug #5236)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)

(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted

guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual

state</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or

LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM

(bug #6784)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were

accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows

host only</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the

probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP

requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four

(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking

driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration

(bug #6714)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>

<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features

were added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,

the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references

were changed without impacting compatibility</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the

amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby

increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts

(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)

and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance

(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);

also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging

is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,

which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows

guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience

if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications

from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see

<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings

that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large

amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new

VM</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of

passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and

#1669)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug

#6442)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key

combination (bug #684)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down

the VM from the GUI</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy

medium is not accessible</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for

audio input (bug #5869)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug

#3106)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM

settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure

it</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using

<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several

windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the

screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)

(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller

in VirtualBox</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace

alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for

VirtualBox</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition

VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during

early boot (software virtualization only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging

only) </para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates

to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the

interface version</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage

settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the

slot empty</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and

<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches

(bug #4220)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with

non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 &amp; #6208)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when

using the drivers from LSI</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard

disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are

attached</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized

adapters (bug #6519)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when

booting from SCSI devices</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them

is bug #6408)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might

fail to initialize</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files

(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>

to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.

Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively

(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain

older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies

(bug #6435)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous

mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to

IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver

(bug #6488)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in

<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the

screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug

#5227)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other

hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll

be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels

2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on

Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network

interfaces under certain circumstances</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain

circumstances (bug #6023)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 &amp; #5792)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation

(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations

(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 &amp; #6125)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X

mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several

windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using

<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element

calls (bug #6165)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs

(bug #5297)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup

(bug #4962)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful

connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent

(bug #6176)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under

certain circumstances</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal

network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances

(bug #3571)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB

devices</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for

determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter

(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions

(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations

(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>

response</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for

Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12

guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits

hosts only; bug #3578)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think

AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state

(bug #3945)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels

(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x

and AMD-V only) </para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when

teleporting; to get the old behavior set

"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software

virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when

a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>

error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to

snapshots command</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine

XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts

(KWin bug)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text

relocation (bug #5690)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen

resolution (bug #5655)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;

bug #5787)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in

DHCP requests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code

(bug #3217)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid

range (bug #5923)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration

file (bug #5681)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux

(3.1.2 regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>

error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1

regression)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import

(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest

clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests

again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid

(bug #5731)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode

again</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>

<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or

added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and

<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the

Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is

used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock &amp; menubar don't disappear in

fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug

#1762)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &amp;

Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges

right after installation (bug #4162)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading

while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with

several virtual CPU cores</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore

when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully

paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora

guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests

and on some 64bit guests</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning

text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests

(openSUSE 11.0)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg

releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid

GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1>

<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>

<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features

were added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session

from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only

the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well

("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video

hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion

(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to

arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive

(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is

running</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts

making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests

(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;

see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;

see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem>

<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows

(bug #5291)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,

<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,

Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX

(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy

(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces

(bug #5523, #2787)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files

(bug #2723)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;

see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an

optional manifest file on import</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest

(bug #3773)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code

layout (bug #2302)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen

(bug #4866)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as

left click (bug #5049)</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under

certain conditions</para>

</listitem>

<listitem>

<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>

</listitem>