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<sect1>
<title>Version 5.0.0 Beta 1 (2015-04-01)</title>
<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
were added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve
time-keeping accuracy and performance</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when
running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among
others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AES-NI, <emphasis>POPCNT</emphasis>,
<emphasis>RDRAND</emphasis> and <emphasis>RDSEED</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Drag and drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Disk image encryption</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar,
menu-bar and guest-content scaling</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for
disk images</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI
output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: Hotplugging support for SATA disks</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>New, modular audio architecture for providing a better abstraction of the host
audio backends</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Support for the NDIS6 networking framework on Windows (default on Vista
and later)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: improved HID LEDs synchronization for Mac and Windows hosts.
Phisical LEDs state now restored together with VM state restore</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: improved timing on Solaris hosts with older VT-x hosts
without preemption timers</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression
of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on
import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported
several times</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: added USB traffic capturing</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Made resizing X11 guests work more reliably</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child
snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks,
their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM
config corruption</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot
as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: fix information for some automatically generated events
(only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused
errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
(bug #12379)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding,
happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: a number of settings (e.g. network settings) can now also
be changed when the VM is in saved state</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.26 (2015-03-16)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against
wrong host time (bug #13955)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS
name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network
(4.3.24 regression; bugs #13915, #13918)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: don't delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on
Windows hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare
conditions if no Guest Additions are installed (4.3.24 regression;
bug #13935)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
change permanent (bugs #9858, #12885)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again
(4.3.14 regression; bug #13901)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't panic on hosts with activated SMAP (Broadwell
and later; bug #13951)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: don't crash Linux 4.0 hosts (bug #13835)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.24 (2015-03-02)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: emulation fix for the <emphasis>ENTER</emphasis> instruction
under certain conditions; fixes Solaris 10 guests (VT-x without
unrestricted guest execution)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fix for handling NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
was renewed (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13839)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: don't crash on an empty domain list when switching the
DNS host configuration (4.3.22 regression; Mac OS X hosts only;
bug #13874)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>PXE: re-enable it on Windows hosts (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts
only; bug #13842)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: fixed a problem with Windows guests (4.3.22 regression;
bug #13786)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Audio: improved record quality when using the DirectSound audio
backend</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: when executing the <emphasis>controlvm</emphasis> command
take care that the corresponding VM runtime changes are saved permanently
(bug #13892)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Installer: properly install the 32-bit version of VBoxRes.dll
on 32-bit hosts (bug #13876)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.0 fixes (bug #13835)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse integration (4.3.22 regression;
bug #13825)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.22 (2015-02-12)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: refined measurement of TSC frequency on the host, improves
timekeeping for guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: decreased CPU load resulting from guest MMIO writes to the
virtual APIC</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed interception of debug exceptions, observed while using
the dbx debugger on Solaris guests (VT-x only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: 3D overlay window positioning code improved, fixed potential
misplacement of 3D accelerated guest graphics content</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed accident SSL authentication failures during update
check on Windows hosts (bug #12969)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: never send the "ACPI power" keyboard scancode to the guest,
we have the ACPI power button for that</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: was unable to properly restore seamless mode VM from
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxHeadless: don't crash if 3D is enabled in the VM settings
(bug #10250)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>ATA: fixed several passthrough issues (bugs #12310, #1360)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Audio: fixed DirectSound failure when the the host has no audio
input device (Windows hosts only; bug #9205)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SB16: fixed compatibility issue (bug #13769)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
IDE controller (bug #12310)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: new ping proxy for Windows hosts (bug #11871)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: Properly report outbound connect(2) failures to
guest with TCP RST or ICMP (bug #10525)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: no need for frequent wakeups in VBoxNetDHCP
and VBoxNetNAT (bug #11681)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Host-only adapter: prevent Windows from creating an "Unidentified
network" (bug #9688)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Bridged Networking: don't leak host-to-guest traffic to
the wireless network when bridging to a wireless interface
(bug #13714)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: fixed a possible race when changing the medium leading
to a deadlock under rare conditions (bug #13722)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed return code if starting a VM failed
(bug #13773)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Settings: on Windows host, do not use environment variable HOME
at all, the settings location is derived from the user profile
directory (bug #7689)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: fixed 2 deadlock opportunities related to medium handling
(bugs #13789, #13801, thank you Alexander Urakov)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: fixed bug in XPCOM which created too few worker threads,
sporadically resulting in a deadlock (bug #13802, thank you Alexander
Urakov)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SDK: fixed a garbage collection leak in the Python VirtualBox
webservice API binding (bug #13817)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixes for activated SMAP (Broadwell and later,
bug #13820)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 guests: prevent unwanted hiding of guest screens
on multi-monitor guests (bug #13287)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 Additions: fixed a memory leak in VBoxService if libdbus
is available but dbus-daemon isn't running (bug #13770)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: prevent VBox WDDM driver from loading if host
reports weak OpenGL capabilities. 3D content now can be shown over
Remote Desktop connection.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Winodws Additions: some fixes for recent Windows 10 Previews</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed a compatibility issue with 64-bit
Linux 2.4 kernels</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed a potential use-after-free when unloading
the VBoxGuest module</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.19 fixes (bug #13741)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.20 (2014-11-21)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed reboot hang of 32-bit Windows SMP guests (bugs #13319,
#13462)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
legacy guests (bug #9042, AMD hosts)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis>
on older CPUs that don't support MSR-bitmaps (VT-x only;
bugs #13034, #13125, #13311, #13425, #13426, #13463, #13585)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fix 3D overlay window reparenting issue when VM goes to
fullscreen mode on X11 hosts.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fix occasional loss of focus in full-screen mode on X11
host systems (4.3.16 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: Mac OS X: wizards should have Cancel button
(bug #12541)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: added a global option to prevent automatic raising of the
new window by mouse move with multi-screen guests (bug #8878)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: accept remote display port 0 as the default RDP port
(bug #8534)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash when executing <emphasis>showvminfo</emphasis>
command under certain circumstances (bug #13190)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>ACPI: fixed occassional Guru Meditations in ACPI timer code
(4.3.18 regression; bug #13521)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>EFI: improved performance of IDE disk access</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>EFI: fixed a bug in the EFI video driver which prevented
Windows to boot in UEFI mode (bug #12022)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>EFI: properly announce the amount of RAM for big VMs
(bugs #11103 and #13211)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a crash under certain cicrumstances when a medium
was ejected from a drive attached to the SATA controller without
inserting a new medium before pausing or closing the VM
(4.3.16 regression) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed an interrupt acknowledge issue causing hanging guests
or slower I/O (4.3.18 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed broken resume after the VM was suspended due to
a full disk if host I/O caching is used</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions when
using the DevLsiLogic controller with VMs running in raw mode
(4.3 regression; bugs #12254, #12655, #12709, #12774, #12886)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Control: fixed a bug which might lead to a crash during
recursive copy</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SDK: Java COM bindings fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol (bug #13628)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Runtime: do not use a fixed stack size creating temporary threads
during initialization (bug #13038)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due
to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting
(4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: fixed DirectSound host audio failure under certain conditions
(bug #13418)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: fixed additional cases of 4.3.14 regression
whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: preserve guest monitor layout when resizing
Windows 7 or newer guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.18 compile fixes (bug #13515)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.18 (2014-10-10)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a potential misbehavior after restoring the A20 state
from a saved state</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed full-screen mode mini-toolbar related regressions
for different platforms and window managers (bug #13369)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: X11: fixed full-screen mode Unity panels quirk caused by
mini-toolbar code changes in last release (bug #13365)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: X11: added possibility to use legacy full-screen mode
as the new one can cause multi-screen issues under Unity, see
<xref linkend="legacy-fullscreen-mode" xreflabel="here"/> (bug #13365)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: Mac OS X: fixed full-screen mode artifact causing black screen
when 3D acceleration was enabled on 10.10 Yosemite hosts (bug #13448)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
VBox in full-screen mode</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: Mac OS X: fixed issue with switching to VBox in full-screen
mode through Alt+Tab and Mission Control</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed data corruption when resizing huge VHD images under
certain circumstances (bug #11960)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a rare hang during startup when the BIOS enumerates the
storage devices attached to the SATA controller</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: follow the spec with AHCI interrupt acknowledge (bug #13474)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed broken iSCSI authentication (4.3.14 regression; bugs #13386,
#13435)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: properly parse port forwarding rules to allow UDP
rules</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: fixed a crash on Linux hosts with older Linux kernels (bug #13400) and
several other fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>ACPI: fixed ACPI timer anomalies (bug #12076)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Control: fixed a memory leak (bug #13434)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: when removing a VM, do also remove the VBoxStartup.log file
which might exist on Windows hosts (bug #13478)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due
to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting
(4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: propagate the process startup information to the child
process (4.3.14 regression; bug #13243)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't force using the discrete GPU (bug #11111)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 10 tweaks</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 guests: fix a bug handling video driver display properties
which prevented GNOME Shell on Fedora 21 from starting</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts / guests: fixed a few remaining warnings in the kernel
log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.16 (2014-09-09)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs
and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs (bug #12646; 4.3 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
3D guest rendering</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: Mac OS X: Native full-screen multi-screen transition
was able to blackout host-screens for nearly minute</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: X11: Modern window managers should now use native full-screen
multi-screen mapping API</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: added extradata item for configuring the mouse capture
behavior, see <xref linkend="mouse-capture" xreflabel="here"/>
(bug #3506)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a VBoxSVC crash when querying an iSCSI target with
authentication configured (4.3.14 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a rare data corruption during reads if another
allocating write is running concurrently and accesses the same range</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a rare crash for certain VHD images from other products</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a rare release assertion when using the AHCI controller</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Floppy: fixed read errors and guest memory corruption when running
under control of QEMM</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D: added experimental support for rendering on offline GPUs for Mac OS X host</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D: fixed white window appearing on entering FullScreen mode on Mac OS X host</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D: fixed video recording support for 3D data regression (bug #13073)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D: fixes for MS Office 2013 support</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D: several fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Bridged Networking: improved IPv6 support when bridging
to a wireless interface</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: prevent internal DNS service from stuck in host-resolver mode
when host was switched from one network to another one while host was
sleeping (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: preserve DF (if possible) and TOS when proxying
outbound UDP datagrams (bugs #9440, #12309)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: don't let multicast datagrams out (bug #7338)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed handling of large incoming UDP datagrams on
Windows hosts (bug #12136)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed handling of the RFC 1533 DHCP PAD option</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Windows hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: preserve IPv4 DF (if possible), TTL, TOS
and IPv6 Hop Limit when proxying outbound UDP
datagrams</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when using remote audio input</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: fixed several regressions from 4.3.14 (bug #13320)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Audio: made the HDA sound emulation work with certain Mac OS X guests
(e.g. Mountain Lion)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: fixed startup problems on certain Windows hosts due
to conflicts with anti-virus software (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: fixed 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped
working for some people (bug #13216)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 hosts: made the extra key on Brazilian Thinkpads work
(bug #8745)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 hosts: fixed a problem of input focus cycles and immediately
released key presses in full screen mode (bug #13238)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed flooding the kernel log with USB related messages
when passing through certain USB devices to a VM (bug #13085)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux guests: stop applications crashing when <emphasis>drm_wait_vblank</emphasis>
is called (bug #13265)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux guests: fix a crash in gnome-session (bug #13335)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 guests: do not start VBoxClient over an SSH connection
(bug #13107)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 guests: fixed a wrong parameter in the video driver which
caused problems with full-screen X11 clients (bug #2748)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
kernel debugging, details see <ulink type=""
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.14 (2014-07-15)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs
#12784, #12949, #13034)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: improve MSI handling under rare circumstances (only
relevant for the ICH9 chipset)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed #UD exception for 64-bit guests with the EFER.SCE bit
and the <emphasis>SYSCALL</emphasis> instruction (VT-x only;
4.3 regression; bug #13008)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed timekeeping after resuming SMP guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed a potential crash</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed stuck AltGr key on Windows hosts (bug #2537)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed a potential error during the version check</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
trigger) to confirm (bugs #12828, #12847, #12937, #13087)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the
location of the root certificates (bug #13096)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed typo in <emphasis>showvminfo --machinereadable</emphasis>
(bug #13176)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed inbound half-close (bug #13116)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed slow upload speed under certain conditions
(bug #10034)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: fixed potential loss of inbound TCP data</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: fixed potential infinite stalls of TCP
connections over IPv6</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: fixed resets of TCP connections on Windows
hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Mac OS X hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: fixed socket leak on Solaris hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: fixed ping of mapped host loopback on Mac OS X
and Solaris hosts, fixed proxying of IMCP errors on Mac OS X</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Host-Only Network: fixed SNMP <emphasis>ifConnectorPresent</emphasis>
value on Windows (bug #13143)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
certain circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a crash when trying to open an inaccessible QED
or QCOW image (bug #12613)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed data corruption or read errors under rare
circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: performance fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>ICH9: properly reset MSI capability on reset</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Keyboard: active modifier keys during suspend were stuck after
resuming the host</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D: fixed misbehavior with huge guests (i.e. guest more than
4GB guest memory</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D: several fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: properly detect the Windows 8.1 guest OS type (bug #13090)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>ExtPack: cleanup of dangling uninstallation directories</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts / guests: compile fix for EL7 (bug #12638)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: made 3D pass-through work with recent versions
of Mesa in the guest (bug #12941)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.16 fixes (bug #13123)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
BlueRay devices</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed host shutdown and reboot delay caused by running VBoxSVC
process in some cases.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Additions: fixed permissions of files and directories
located on shared folders</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows host installer: fixed the need for rebooting Windows after
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.12 (2014-05-16)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed an occasional Guru Meditation (Mac OS X hosts only;
bugs #12727, #12954)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a rare condition that would fail to invalidate guest TLB
entries or would invalidate them when not required (Windows hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> Guru Meditation
seen with certain guests, e.g. OpenServer 5.0.7</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs #12240,
#12875)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed mouse positioning with mouse integration disabled and
multiple guest screens (Windows hosts only; bug #9059)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed crash in VM manager (bug #12878)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Clipboard: don't stop working after taking a snapshot
(bug #12700)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: fixed a hang during VM shutdown under rare conditions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed generation of malformed ICMP error datagrams (4.3.10 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed potential crash in DNS proxy</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: don't drop port forwarding rules after some time</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed ARP cache corruption and network loss in Windows guest caused
by iSCSI service activity</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: improved check if a storage device is currently mounted to the host
when the device is about to be attached to the VM (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: several fixes, including better support for Ubuntu 14.04</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed a potential crash on client disconnect (bug #12858)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a race when a new client is started a few seconds after
the last client terminated (Windows hosts only; bugs #11309, #12509)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a potential crash caused by incorrect USB device filter
(Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: partly support 32-bit COM on 64-bit systems</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows host installer: implemented merge module (msm) support</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed dependency of boot script on older Debian systems
(bug #12262)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux guests: fix symbolic link to shared folder helper
(bug #12879)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService during guest execute for
users without a password (bug #12994)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed a bug in guest execution where the guest process
terminated with <emphasis>VERR_INTERRUPTED</emphasis> to the host</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.10 (2014-03-26)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers
on certain host CPUs (e.g. bugs #12734, #12736, #12744, #12748, #12686,
#12770)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed single-stepping for real-mode guests (VT-x without
unrestricted guest execution) and some I/O instructions (bug #12636)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem with COW pages if nested paging is
not available</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: Mac OS X: experimental native full screen support for
Mountain Lion and Mavericks (bug #12292)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: Mac OS X: removed the mini-toolbar minimize button which
doesn't work under Mac OS X full screen mode anyway</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows and Mac OS X hosts:
fixed keyboard re-synchronization if the feature is disabled (as done by default;
bug #12758)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed a potential crash when opening the preferences menu
(bug #12862)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: fixed a crash of the VirtualBox Manager when re-starting guest
export (bug #12586)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: several fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>HGCM: fixed a problem with saved states which could cause several
guest misbehavior after a VM was started from a saved state</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a bug preventing to compact differential snapshots
under certain conditions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a segmentation fault on Linux hosts if a very long path
exists under /dev (bug #12760)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: fixed guest misbehavior under certain conditions if a storage
medium was attached or removed at VM runtime</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows installer: make the <emphasis>--silent</emphasis>
parameter work again (bug #12764)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
leaking to wire (bug #12750)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed the environment for guest processes
(4.3.8 regression; bug #12782)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
multiple guest screens under certain conditions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
acceleration enabled (4.3.8 regression; bug #12745)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: install correctly on Ubuntu guest systems
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 Additions: fix for the VBoxClient process not exiting
correctly (bug #12348) and consuming too much processor time</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.8 (2014-02-25)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers
(e.g. bugs #12224, #12544)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_INVALID_RPL</emphasis> Guru Meditation
when booting certain guests (bug #11350)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see
the user manual how to enable it (bug #8651)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see
<xref linkend="hidledssync" xreflabel="here"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and
the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in
full screen / seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box
replaced with corresponding button</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar
indicator</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts
by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types
(bug #12533)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: better error message if appliance import fails
(bug #12657)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings
/ Input page (bug #12730)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot
merge (4.3 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression
of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on
import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported
several times</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain
circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a
SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used
(bug #12441)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with
ICMP packets having TTL=1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT Network: ping proxy implemented</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element
(4.3 regression; bug #12345)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: several fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest
Additions are active (bug #6649)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare
circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding,
happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events
(see <xref linkend="hostpowertweaks" xreflabel="here"/>) and
added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low
event (bug #9925)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot
was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups
(bug #12569)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in <emphasis>/bin</emphasis>
(bug #12713)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders
when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in
the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network
(bug #12241)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining
the number of physical CPU cores</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation
fails (bug #11171)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar
environment contents (bug #12596)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process
environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on
XPDM -> WDDM upgrade</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process
environment variables</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels
(bug #12505)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already
mounted</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.6 (2013-12-18)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis>
caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE</emphasis>
while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT</emphasis>
while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC</emphasis> error when trying
VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard
these states (bug #12414)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests
(bug #12245)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression; bug
#12205)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors
(bug #12480)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: don't automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests
(bug #12017)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change
(bug #7063)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling
<emphasis>IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp()</emphasis> (bug #12498)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes
due to GUI unavailability</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fix for <emphasis>BLKCACHE_IOERR</emphasis> runtime errors under
rare circumstances (bug #11030)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized
the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the
initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina
hosts only; bug #11021)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones
(4.3 regression; bug #12271)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.4 (2013-11-29)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fix for a bug in the Local APIC emulation causing a BSOD when
booting certain guests (4.3.0 regression; bug #12240)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
(4.3.2 regression; bug #12291)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed single-stepping inside the guest for certain
instructions (VT-x only; bug #10947)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a performance issue involving APIC accesses after rebooting
a VM (4.3.0 regression; VT-x only; bug #12296)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed TPR patching to be enabled for 32-bit guests even when
the chosen guest type is 64-bit (4.3.0 regression; AMD-V only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed occasional <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis> errors on
hosts without the unrestricted guest execution feature (bug #12198)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: don't bother the user with the BPP warning if no
Guest Additions are installed</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed machine-window paint artifacts on VM reboot / guest-screen
resize</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to
the exported appliance</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed bugs in close VM action restrictions handling (bug #12333)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed incorrect wizards text colors for some unusual
look and feel styles (bug #11743)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: should restore seamless mode as soon as possible after
VM reboot or shutdown</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixes for medium enumeration</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a VirtualBox VM
is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed an old bug which bared the host from cleanly shutdown / reboot
if the VM selector window is open (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #8254)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Host-only Networking: fixed creating of host-only network interfaces
(4.3.0 regression; bug #12182)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: don't run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot
access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: don't re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes
and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed several issues with automatically starting /
terminating of NAT networks on VM start / stop and configuration
changes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxNetDHCP: don't block prevent VBoxSVC from terminating
(bug #12264)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches
(bug #9194)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BusLogic: allow to run VMs with more than one BusLogic SCSI
controller enabled</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state
where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a heap corruption under certain conditions (4.3.0
regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a race leading to a hang during initialization
(bug #12349)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple
VMs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: improved logic for finding an appropriate image format
during OVF import</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child
snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks,
their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM
config corruption</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot
as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: fixed information for some automatically generated events
(only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused
errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
(bug #12379)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Control: various bugfixes and improved VBoxManage help
(bugs #8072, #11044, #12336, #12338, #12346, #12371)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: another attempt to fix the massive DPC latency
(bug #6242)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows host installer: make registering file extensions optional,
contributed by Tal Aloni (bug #8009)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for Mavericks
hosts (bug #12256)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the VirtualBox dock icon was
not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing
Mavericks hosts from shutting down (bug #12241)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed minor installer issue (bug #12275)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.13 compile fixes (bug #12358)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux guests: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux guests: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1
(bug #12320 comments 3 and 4)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
modes for each virtual monitor</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Vista and newer Windows
guests (bug #12332)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.2 (2013-11-01)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed restoring of the auxiliary TSC MSR in VT-x that caused host
BSODs on Windows 8.1 hosts and unpredictable behavior on other hosts
(bug #12237)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: provide fake values for a couple of MSRs to make more guests happy on
certain hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed detection of VT-x on certain machines where the BIOS would
not set the VMX LOCK feature bit, which affected the VM settings in the GUI</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed TPR threshold which caused BSODs on Windows XP guests
that use the I/O APIC (VT-x only; bug #12227)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed PATM saved state incompatibility for software virtualized
VMs (bug #12222)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: don't fail if AMD-V isn't available if the VM is configured
to use software virtualization</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed guest resize breakage on visual representation mode change
(when switching from normal to full screen etc)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: make sure the guest screen is resized after restoring a VM from a
saved state if the host screen size changed</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: disabled SCROLL LED sync from HID LEDs synchronization
(Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Webcam passthrough improvements including GUI support (see
<xref linkend="webcam-passthrough" />)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Control: implemented more <computeroutput>IGuestSession</computeroutput>
methods</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Control: added support for deleting and renaming guest files + directories in
VBoxManage</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Control: various bugfixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: incorrect handling of hardware UUID default value, resulting
re-activation (4.3 regression; bug #12244)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed crash on shutdown if 2D video acceleration is enabled
(Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: miscellaneous fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
to a host drive with passthrough enabled</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed hang of the VM process when the disk is full under certain
circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: listen for changes of NAT Network setting at runtime</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: NAT Network DHCP server now saves leases to a persistent
storage</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: monitor changes in host DNS configuration</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X host: reworked a mechanism of adding a VM desktop alias
from the VM selector</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X installer: remove old kernel extensions during upgrade
(bug #12258)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing
(bug #12166)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
thank you Sam Spilsbury)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.3.0 (2013-10-15)</title>
<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
were added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code and the AMD-V code including
many bug fixes and performance improvements (for example bug #9659)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: introduced a lightweight instruction interpreter for
situations not handled by hardware virtualization</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: extended messaging mechanism (new non-modal popup overlays
used to show non-critical warnings and provide user with additional information)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: keyboard shortcuts management (input page of global preferences
extended with possibility to edit general keyboard shortcuts for
VirtualBox Manager and Virtual Machine)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: video capturing support (bug #4766)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added USB touch device emulation</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added experimental support for webcam passthrough
complementing USB passthrough (see <xref linkend="webcam-passthrough" />)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added SCSI CD-ROM emulation, including boot support</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: support for IPv6</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Control: guest sessions now are running in dedicated, impersonated
session processes (needs at least Guest Additions 4.3 installed)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Control: implemented <computeroutput>IGuestFile</computeroutput>
support</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are
attached to the same internal network and share one NAT
service (see <xref linkend="network_nat_service" />)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
guests on host systems without nested paging support</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed losing host NMIs while in VT-x guest-context</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: changed order of actions in emulated task switch
(bug #10532)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: allow to activate VT-x while in SMX mode and provide more
information if that is not possible</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: update check uses https</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: numerous minor internal cleanups and bug fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: HID LEDs synchronization when switching between guest window(s)
and host (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the
hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: use the number of physical presented processor cores instead of
the number of logical processor cores to check if the users assigned
too many virtual CPUs to the guest</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: implemented AHA-154x compatibility mode in the
emulated BusLogic SCSI HBA</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: significantly improved performance of large ATAPI PIO
transfers (BeOS, Minix 3 guests affected)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: added floppy formatting emulation (NB: cannot be used
to change existing media geometry)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Settings: the per-VM hwvirtextexcl setting has been replaced
by a global hwvirtexclusive property</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: new event queue implementation which does not use the host's
native event queue for processing VirtualBox events anymore</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: eliminate the use of SysV semaphores on all host OSes
other than Windows, namely Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, with the
consequence that no system reconfiguration is needed to run more
than approximately 100 VMs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
.VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: extension pack framework can now support loading HGCM
modules, contributed by Jeff Westphal</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
option to show really all available details</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for
the automatic Guest Additions update</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest sessions, guest
<computeroutput>guestcontrol list <all|sessions|processes|files></computeroutput>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: added support for closing active guest sessions via
<computeroutput>guestcontrol session close --session-id <ID>|
--session-name <name or pattern>|--all</computeroutput>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: added support for terminating active guest processes via
<computeroutput>guestcontrol process kill|close|terminate --session-id <ID>|
--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
or
<computeroutput>guestcontrol [p[s]]kill --session-id <ID>|
--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: added support for watching guest sessions via
<computeroutput>guestcontrol watch</computeroutput>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>modifyvm --triplefaultreset</computeroutput>
to make the VM reset on triple fault instead of triggering a Guru Meditation
(see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvm"/>)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: several fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: several fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with
special characters</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
by François Revol</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: limited support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated
StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (only on certain
hosts; still needs improving; bug #6242)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: consider symlinks when retrieving volume information
(bug #11962)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible
when plugged into USB 3.0 ports</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by WTSQuerySessionInformation()
on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: ability to track guest user idle times through
the newly introduced event <emphasis>IGuestUserStateChangedEvent</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script
with Linux 3.x kernels</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.2.22 (2014-01-10)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
HID LEDs synchronization (feature disabled by default)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
might freeze in attempt to synchronize HID LEDs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests
(bug #12017)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>HGCM: fixed crashes under certain conditions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fix for <emphasis>BLKCACHE_IOERR</emphasis> runtime errors under
rare circumstances (bug #11030)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a
SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized
the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the
initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina
hosts only; bug #11021)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: many fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels
(bug #12505)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest crashes in in Shared Folders
service under certain conditions</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.2.20 (2013-11-28)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: always report recommended resolutions for all monitors
(not always done since 4.2.12)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to
the exported appliance</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a VirtualBox VM
is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: don't run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot
access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: don't re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes
and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: properly save the <emphasis>passthrough</emphasis> flag for DVD
drives without an attached medium</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state
where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches
(bug #9194)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed errors with snapshots when using QCOW or QED disk images
(bug #12144)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fix for newer Linux kernels not detecting a hard disk as SSD
when using the IDE or SATA controller (bug #12025)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
to a host drive with passthrough enabled</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could result in lost medium attachments
(4.2.18 regression; bug #11750)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Clipboard: fixed potential SEGFAULT when
working with UTF8 and UTF16 content (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple
VMs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with
special characters</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child
snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks,
their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM
config corruption</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot
as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: fixed information for some automatically generated events
(only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused
errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
(bug #12379)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for
Mavericks hosts (bug #12256)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated
StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the VirtualBox dock icon was
not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing
Mavericks hosts from shutting (bug #12241)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.13 compile fix (bug #12358)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.12 compile fix (bug #12083)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.11 fix for shared folders (bugs #11946, #12128)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: compile fix for SLES11 SP3</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing
(bug #12166)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1
(bug #12320 comments 3 and 4)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by
<emphasis>WTSQuerySessionInformation()</emphasis>
on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: multimonitor resize fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
thank you Sam Spilsbury)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.2.18 (2013-09-06)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: properly handle NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC
enabled</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed potential crashes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
(bug #11979)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI / seamless: properly handle mouse wheel scroll events</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the
hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: prevent crashes under certain conditions on X11 hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: multiscreen fixes (incorrect mouse position, flickets)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver
(multiscreen, seamless)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: on <emphasis>snapshot take</emphasis>, <emphasis>
--pause</emphasis> is default and <emphasis>--live</emphasis>
is for doing live snapshots</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxSVC: don't crash on systems with many VLAN interfaces
(Solaris hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Network: after the host resumes from suspend, disconnect and
reconnect the virtual network cables to force renewing the DHCP
leases for the guests. So far only Mac OS X hosts and Windows hosts
(bug #10063)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: on name server changes force a reconnect of the virtual network
cable to notify the guest (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X installer: keep previously installed Extension Packs on
VirtualBox upgrade</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.11 fixes (bug #12001)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential kernel panic caused due to
unexpected preemption due to logging</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible
when plugged into USB3 ports</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: added PCI device identifier to vboxvideo.ko fixing
DRI initialization under certain conditions (bug #11957)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script
with Linux 3.x kernels</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.2.16 (2013-07-04)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
bug #11895)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: do not restore the current snapshot if we power-off
after a Guru Mediation</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a crash when hotplugging an empty DVD drive to
the VM</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a crash when a guest read from a DVD drive
attached to the SATA controller under certain circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>EFI: don't fail with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #11456)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Autostart: fixed VM startup on OS X</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: native Windows 8 controls</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: restore native style on Vista 32</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts / guests: Windows 8.1 adaptions (bug #11899)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: after removing VirtualBox with
<emphasis>pkgutil --pkgs</emphasis> list as well</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.2.14 (2013-06-21)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: another TLB invalidation fix for non-present pages</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a performance regression (4.2.8 regression;
bug #11674)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed a crash on shutdown</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: prevent stuck keys under certain conditions on Windows
hosts (bugs #2613, #6171)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash on the guest screen resize</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
server) if the VM is paused</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: fixed passing through devices on Mac OS X host to a VM
with 2 or more virtual CPUs (bug #7462)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: fixed hang during isochronous transfer with certain
devices (4.1 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #11839)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: properly handle orphaned URBs (bug #11207)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BIOS: fixed function for returning the PCI interrupt routing table
(fixes NetWare 6.x guests)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BIOS: don't use the <emphasis>ENTER</emphasis> / <emphasis>LEAVE</emphasis>
instructions in the BIOS as these don't work in the real mode as set up by
certain guests (e.g. Plan 9 and QNX 4)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>DMI: allow to configure <emphasis>DmiChassisType</emphasis>
(bug #11832)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed lost writes if iSCSI is used with snapshots and
asynchronous I/O (bug #11479)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed accessing certain VHDX images created by
Windows 8 (bug #11502)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed hang when creating a snapshot using Parallels
disk images (bug #9617)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: seamless + 3D fixes (bug #11723)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: version 4.2.12 was not able to read saved states of older
versions under certain conditions (bug #11718)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
VMs if the property does not exist and is about to be removed
(bug #11765)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
persistent after the VM was terminated (bug #11719)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<emphasis>Appliance::interpret()</emphasis> (bug #10845)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
name if the VM name is very long (bug #11814)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
(bug #10689)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting the parent UUID on diff images using
<emphasis>sethdparentuuid</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: work around for not crashing as a result of
automatic NUMA balancing which was introduced in Linux 3.8
(bug #11610)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows installer: force the installation of the public certificate
in background (i.e. completely prevent user interaction) if the
<emphasis>--silent</emphasis> command line option is specified</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed problems with partial install in the
unattended case</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed display glitch with the Start button
in seamless mode for some themes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: Seamless mode and auto-resize fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed trying to to retrieve new auto-logon
credentials if current ones were not processed yet</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions installer: added the <emphasis>/with_wddm</emphasis>
switch to select the experimental WDDM driver by default</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed setting own timed out and aborted texts in
information label of the lightdm greeter</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation against Linux 3.2.0 Ubuntu
kernels (4.2.12 regression as a side effect of the Debian kernel
build fix; bug #11709)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 Additions: reduced the CPU load of VBoxClient in
drag and drop mode</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OS/2 Additions: made the mouse wheel work (bug #6793)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems copying and pasting between two
guests on an X11 host (bug #11792)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: fixed guest process timeout / kill handling</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.2.12 (2013-04-12)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation on putting Linux guest CPU online if
nested paging is disabled</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: invalidate TLB entries even for non-present pages</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: fixed a crash on visual-mode change</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: disabled guest-screens should now remain
disabled on visual-mode change</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
in different visual-modes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: seamless mode: fixed a bug when empty seamless
screens were represented by full screen windows</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: each machine window in multi-screen
configuration should have correct menu-bar now (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: machine window View menu should
have correct content in seamless / full screen mode now (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: VM manager: vertical scroll-bars should be now updated on
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: VM settings: fixed crash on machine state-change event</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: don't show warnings about enabled or disabled mouse integration
if the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Virtio-net: properly announce that the guest has to handle
partial TCP checksums (bug #9380)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: Fixed incorrect alignment of VDI images causing disk size
changes when using snapshots (bug #11597)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Audio: fixed broken ALSA & PulseAudio on some Linux hosts
due to invalid symbol resolution (bug #11615)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>PS/2 keyboard: re-apply keyboard repeat delay and rate
after a VM was restored from a saved state (bug #10933)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BIOS: updated DMI processor information table (type 4):
corrected L1 & L2 cache table handles</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Timekeeping: fix several issues which can lead to incorrect
time, Solaris guests sporadically showed time going briefly back
to Jan 1 1970</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
RAID, symbolic links or rootfs are used on Linux hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: don't stay paused after a snapshot was created
and the VM was running before</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: introduced <emphasis>controlvm nicpromisc</emphasis>
(bug #11423)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: don't crash on <emphasis>controlvm
guestmemoryballoon</emphasis> of the VM isn't running (bug #11639)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxHeadless: don't filter guest property events as this would
affect all clients (bug #11644)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest control: prevent double CR in the output generated
by guest commands and do NLS conversion</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts / guests: fixed build errors on Linux 3.5 and newer
kernels if the <emphasis>CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS</emphasis>
config option is enabled (bug #11664)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: handle fall-back to VESA driver on RedHat-based
guests if vboxvideo cannot be loaded</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: Debian Linux kernel 3.2.0-4 (3.2.39) compile
fix (bug #11634)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: added auto-logon support for Linux guests using
LightDM as the display manager</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
(bug #6118)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.2.10 (2013-03-05)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed keyboard with XQuartz X server (bug #10664)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
conditions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
example after wakeup from host hibernate (bug #11444)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Settings: don't lose the internal network settings if they are not
currently active</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: another incompatibility fix for VHD differencing images with
Hyper-V (bug #5990)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: don't read beyond the end of the file specified
with <emphasis>export --eulafile (bug #11528)</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.9-rc0 compile fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed two warnings in the shared folders
guest kernel module (bug #11390)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService if libdbus is
not available (bug #8638)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed upgrading MultiMedia Redirection (MMR) support</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.2.8 (2013-02-20)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a guest crash with a huge amount of guest RAM on
VT-x hosts (bug #11306)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed a layout bug in the Mac OS X clone VM dialog
(bug #10982)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: not all the translation tags were taken into account
during the language switch (bug #11342)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: the <emphasis>take guest screenshot</emphasis> dialog sometimes
had no keyboard input available on Windows host</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
VMs which triggered an endless event generation loop in cooperation
with the GUI which became unresponsive (4.2.6 regression; bug
#11323)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
conditions in multi-monitor configurations (bug #10539)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
active (up) interfaces only, the state of an interface being evaluated
when the associated metric is enabled via <emphasis>setupMetrics</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Snapshots: reduce the time for merging snapshots under
certain conditions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after resizing a VDI image under
certain circumstances (bug #11344)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed non working online merging of snapshots
(4.2.6 regression; bug #11359)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed crash when connecting to certain QNAP iSCSI
targets</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed incompatibility of VHD differencing images with
Hyper-V (bug #5990)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Bridged Networking: fixed TCP pseudo header checksum computation
for IPv6 (bug #9380)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fix Battlefield 1942 game crashes (bug #11369)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Settings: really sanitise the name of VM folders and settings
file, the code was disabled before (bug #10549)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Settings: allow to change VRDE settings for saved VMs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: don't crash during <emphasis>screenshotpng</emphasis>
if there is no display (bug #11363)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: work around gcc bug 55940 which might lead to wrong
kernel module code if gcc 4.7 is used to compile the 32-bit Linux
host kernel (bug #11035)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed inconsistent lock state and deadlock warnings on module
load and VM startup when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is enabled (bug #11318)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: made "]" key work again on Japanese keyboards</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't crash the kernel during dtrace if the VBox
kernel extensions are loaded (10.6 hosts only; bug #11273)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris / Mac OS X hosts: machine CPU load metrics now report 100%
when all cores are fully utilized (used to be a single core)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris 11 host installer: wait for any services left over from
a previous installation to be terminated to avoid confusing SMF.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: don't block signals for processes executed
via guest control</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: fixed a small memory leak in VBoxService
(bug #10970)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issue with
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.8 compile fixes (bug #11036)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 Additions: fixed blocked SIGALRM in 3D desktop sessions
(bug #10987)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 Additions: fixed an unresolved reference in vboxvideo_drv
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 Additions: fixed screen automatic resizing for guests with
X.org 1.3 or older (4.2.0 regression)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.2.6 (2012-12-19)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: don't inject stale VT-x events to prevent crashes after VM reset
(bug #11256)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: workaround for buggy BIOSes which enable <emphasis>MONITOR</emphasis>
only for certain CPUs (bug #9460)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed trimming of anti-aliased text in details-view element headers
(4.2.0 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed create-settings-file-alias functionality on Mac hosts
(4.2.0 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed take-guest-screenshot functionality on Windows hosts
(bug #11095)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: several minor fixes, including palette fixes (bug #11191)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed Windows 2012 OS type (bug #11206)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: allow to terminate the VM even if VBoxSVC crashed</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: fixed cancelling of snapshots, previously this could lead
to inconsistent VM configs (bug #6877)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: fixed identifying disk images by UUID (bug #11209)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: several fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed occasional crash with external authentication
(bug #11156)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VGA: fix for double scan text modes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: fixed invalid pending request count at the time of service
of <emphasis>DEVICE POWER</emphasis> requests (Windows hosts only;
bugs #10021, #11056)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB keyboard: Korean keyboard workaround (bug #11150)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed hang with QCOW images and asynchronous I/O enabled</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed hang with newer VHD images (bug #11279)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: actually write the non-rotational flag to the VM
settings (4.2.0 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with network statistics counters
in Session Information dialog (GUI)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>network rate</emphasis> and
<emphasis>disk usage</emphasis> metrics</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Metrics: fixed a crash under certain conditions on Solaris hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BIOS: fix for El Torito</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: if the host folder of a shared folder mapping does
not exist, keep it active but mark it as invalid to prevent
inconsistent saved states (bug #11147)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed converting disks from raw images</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: show snapshot description in the VM or snapshot
information</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: make implicit opening of media consistent in all
places dealing with media</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: the iSCSI initiator name was not stored in the settings
file when doing <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> (bug #11212)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: <emphasis>metrics collect</emphasis> now properly handles
<computeroutput>'Net/*/LinkSpeed'</computeroutput> metrics</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: changing the image UUID or parent UUID as part of
<emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> works now in all safe cases</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: introduced <emphasis>storageattach --medium additions</emphasis>
as a shortcut to mount the additions image (bug #11165)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: fixed importing OVF files cerated by recent VMware
products (bug #10905)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with leaking
connections in conntrack (bug #11178)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: added support for ConsoleKit sessions in the
vminfo service of VBoxService</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: don't crash during remount under certain
conditions (bug #11291)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: added a dependency to ensure that the user directories
are reachable when starting VBox services</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows host installer: integrated user-contributed translations,
thanks to all contributors!</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed auto-logon installation for Windows 8</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: don't fail if the shared folders host service is not
available</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed Guest Additions startup on Windows 2000
guests (bug #11253)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: auto-resize fixes for Windows 8 guests</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.2.4 (2012-10-26)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed validation warning on global settings / proxy page
(4.2.2 regression; bug #11089)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed crash with multiple guest screens on certain
conditions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: fixed command line argument handling of
ballooning module</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed occasional crash during a video playback in the
guest (bug #11082)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BIOS: fixed broken DMI information (4.2 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BIOS: workaround for booting from Windows 2000 floppy disks</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>EFI: fixed video mode selection loss on VM reboot (bug #10983)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Parallel: fixed parallel port printing failure/ paper queue empty
error (Windows hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed crash on alias-less DNS responses when host-resolver is used</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.2.2 (2012-10-18)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: adapted to changes in Mac OS X 10.8.2 (bug #10965)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: restored VM item tool-tip functionality (4.2 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: added group item tool-tip functionality</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
(4.2 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: it was not possible to change any setting before the
first VM was created (bug #10928)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: disable grouping action if all the selected items are
full children list of the same group already</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: added menu for runtime drag and drop option change</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: cleanup shared-clipboard menu on visual-mode change</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: make sure VM receives keyboard focus on entering full screen mode
on Win host (bug #11051)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: disable proxy authentication for security reasons</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: <emphasis>DrawIndexedPrimitiveUP</emphasis> implementation
fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver (bug #10929) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a release assertion in the AHCI emulation when requests
where cancelled with asynchronous I/O disabled</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a hang during VM reset under certain circumstances
(bug #10898)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (Windows hosts only;
bug #10128)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: automatically use the host resolver if the host name server is
set to some unusual loopback value (bug #10864)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>E1000: fixed a VirtualBox crash during intensive network transfers
(4.2 regression; bugs #10936, #10969, #10980)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>ICH9: fixed PCI bridge initialization</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB mouse: ensure that the last mouse event doesn't get lost if no URBs
are available</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BIOS: certain legacy guests (e.g. Windows 95) didn't find the boot
device after a warm reboot</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BIOS: don't trash the palette in text modes when setting the border
color</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>EFI: fixed OS X guest autoboot (4.2 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of <emphasis>showvminfo --machinereadable</emphasis>
(bug #10973)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed parsing of <emphasis>storageattach --discard</emphasis>
(bug #11023)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of the HPET setting in <emphasis>showvminfo</emphasis>
(bug #11065)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed closing the guest session after executing a
guest process via guest control</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxShell: adaptions to interface name changes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions device: fixed a Guest Additions hang when a
machine was reset after a crash</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.7-rc1 fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed a hang when the X server was restarted with
old guest kernels</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed a VBoxService crash during CPU hot remove
(bug #10964)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed automatic screen resize
issue for NT4 guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OS/2 Additions: fixed shutdown hang</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse driver panic</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed autostart service going into maintenance mode after
all VMs started</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed linking the host driver with the dtrace module</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
were added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added experimental support for drag and drop from the host to
Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
planned. (bug #81)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
documentation for more information</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
on Mountain Lion</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
4.1 regression; bug #9897)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
nested paging</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
used ISO images</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
(bug #9973)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
(bug #9864)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
immediately</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
any time using the VM menu</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
support for v2 images)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
VirtualBox update</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
and others)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
hosts (bug #10528)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
updating the screen size when minimized</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
after the guest storage controller has been reset</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
(bug #10631)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
(bug #10624)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
updated (bug #9887)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
execution only; bug #9941)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
guests in rare cases</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
reason (bug #6189)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
paused</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
(bug #10267)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
(bug #10418)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
(bug #10581)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
cases (4.1.10 regression; bug #10408)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
(bug #3783)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
4.1.10 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
4.1.10 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
closed (bug #6473)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
properly installed</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
fusion</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
and network mask attributes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
(bug #10030)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
in a zone</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
(bug #9651)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
#10010)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
(bug #10151)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
(bug #9642)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
connections with port forwarding more robust (bug #8471)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug #8341).
Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
and for 3D support in general</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
</listitem>
<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>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
certain guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
preview window in the GUI for example</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
folders</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
shared folders</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
users and stale sessions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
bug #9458)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
emulation under rare circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
(bug #9308)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
(bug #9503)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
(bug #9242)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
images</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
(Windows hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
not exist (bug #7941)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
#9387)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
MTU (bug #9370)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
(bug #1578)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
(bug #9535)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
help file (bug #9646)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
console window (bug #3549)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
(bug #6229)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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>
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>
</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 (bug #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 Mac OS X 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>
<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 restoring 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
cases</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
improve performance</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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>
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>Web service: 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 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</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 spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
</listitem>
<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>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
images</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
(Windows hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
registered (bug #9303)</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>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
(bug #9370)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
(bug #9535)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
(bug #1578)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
2.6.37 and above</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
(bug #6229)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
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>
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>
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>
(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>
</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>
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>
(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>
</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>
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>
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>
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>
Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
if no medium is present</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</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 & Bridged & 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>
changed on import</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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
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>
</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>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
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
to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</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 & 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>
</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>
</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>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
(bug #8231)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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>
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
</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>
and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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
</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>Web service: 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>
#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>
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
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<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,
</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 full screen 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>
#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>
</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>
(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>
</listitem>
<listitem>
#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>
to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
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
</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>
</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>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
(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
</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: several 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
full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</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>
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>
enumerating logged in users</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</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>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</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>
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>
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>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
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
</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 full screen 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 full screen 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>
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>
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
</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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
</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>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</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>
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>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</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>
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 & #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.
</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>
</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>Web service: 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>
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>
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 & #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 & #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>
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
</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>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Web service: 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>
</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>
</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>
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
</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 full screen 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>
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 & menubar don't disappear in
full screen 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 &
Menubar in full screen" (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 Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
and on some 64bit guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux 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>
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>
<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 full screen
(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>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
properties (bug #5337)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
Additions (bug #4039)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
(bug #928)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
enabled</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
meditation (bug #5389)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
(bug #2676)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
is connected to a raw file</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
(bug #5355)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
guest (bug #4496)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
among other things caused lost guest property updates and
periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
exhaustion</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
folders (bug #4106)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
folders (bug #4299)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
(bug #2921)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
image inconsistency </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
(bug #2025)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
software virtualization only) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
with root privileges</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
selector (bug #5063)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
available</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
networking (bug #4775)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
changing them (bug #5077)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
(bug #4907)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
are installed</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
(bug #4771)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
command</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
(bug #5089)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
guests (bug #2258)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
onlined or offlined</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
</listitem>
<listitem>
than usual (bug #4799)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
filters in machine settings XML</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
phase collapse</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
(2.1.0 regression; bug #3911)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
interface bringup on Linux</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
#4698, #4790)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
less than the configured range</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
Windows (bug #4354)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
(bug #4654)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
interfaces</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
inactive (3.0.2 regression; bug #4668)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
properties (bug #3415)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
(bug #1461)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
fails to find any DVD drives</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
Qt (bug #4353)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
guest (bug #4381)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware acceleration to be enabled for virtual machines that had no explicit configuration in the XML</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
were added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
certain conditions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
(non Windows hosts)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
correct file mode when creating files</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
conditions (bug #1187)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
guest property lookup</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
basic network information)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
web service</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
unavailable</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
installation</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
later (bug #3981)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
loopback (bug #3120)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
(bug #4034)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
networking</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
disabled (bug #4077)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
clicks</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
Windows 7 guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
(bug #3864)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
now flushes the output stream</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
(bug #3964)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
hosts (bug #4090)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
e1000 adapter</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
file (bug #1023)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
and later</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
running services</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
terminates</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
installed on the guest</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
Windows guests (2.2.0 regression; bug #3734)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
(bug #2628)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
(bug #3657)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
virtualization only)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
networks (bug #3702)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression;
bug #3689)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
bug #3679)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
lease (bug #3655)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
(bug #3667)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
emulation (2.2.0 regression; bug #3676)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
were added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
ESX server images)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
writable</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris
hosts when creating files</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
#2306)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
(bug #3555)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
installer (bug #3524)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
interface (bug #3414)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
(bug #3586)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
from Scratch systems</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
default to compact format</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
did not work if the image was attached before</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
regression; bug #2065)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
#2536)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
(bug #3548)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
(bug #3115)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
(bug #3215)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
are not available (bug #3136)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
disabled (bug #3098)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
in parallel</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
(bug #3213)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
configured for fixed resolutions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell NetWare 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
(bug #3067)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
on Mac OS X hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
(2.1.0 regression; Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
formatting a drive</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
(bug #2768)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
single, unified package</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
anymore (bug #2859)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
doing 3D</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
(bug #2938)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
Linux guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
(bug #1776)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
(bug #1612)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
were added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
the compiz window manager</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
of two (bug #2724)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
for direct device access</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
collisions</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
reliably</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
a reboot</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
in parallel</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
correctly</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
(bug #2220)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
(bug #2624)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
(bug #2024)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
bugs #470 & #491)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
applications when updating the installation</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
connected to a host device</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
when using native RDP connections</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
(bug #2591)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
guests (bug #2550)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
equal to the client resolution</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
networking (bug #2474)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
the virtual disk manager</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
bug #2067)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
(bug #2184)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
(Windows guests only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
a VM reboot</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
buggy X servers</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
(bug #2128)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
installing under the wrong architecture</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
installer into a single package</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
port to the guest
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
were added:<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>New-version notifier</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Guest property information interface</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
restored</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn't simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>