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Changeset 56612 in vbox


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Jun 24, 2015 7:54:08 AM (9 years ago)
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doc/manual: prune the changelog for VBox releases older than 4.3.0. They are still available in the user manual of the respective older major releases and on https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

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    217217    </itemizedlist>
    218218
     219  </sect1>
     220
     221  <sect1>
     222    <title>Version 4.3.28 (2015-05-13)</title>
     223
     224    <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
     225      added:</para>
     226
     227    <itemizedlist>
     228
     229      <listitem>
     230        <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests (for
     231          example Solaris doing fast reboot) by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI</para>
     232      </listitem>
     233
     234      <listitem>
     235        <para>VMM: added some information for diagnosing rare
     236          <emphasis>VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR</emphasis> Guru Meditations (VT-x only)</para>
     237      </listitem>
     238
     239      <listitem>
     240        <para>GUI: HID LEDs sync: prevent synchronization if VM window has no focus
     241          (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
     242      </listitem>
     243
     244      <listitem>
     245        <para>GUI: fixed drag and drop moving the cursor between guest screens on
     246          certain hosts</para>
     247      </listitem>
     248
     249      <listitem>
     250        <para>3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state on X11 hosts (bug #12737)</para>
     251      </listitem>
     252
     253      <listitem>
     254        <para>3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state</para>
     255      </listitem>
     256
     257      <listitem>
     258        <para>3D: fixed a crash on Linux guest shutdown (bug #12772)</para>
     259      </listitem>
     260
     261      <listitem>
     262        <para>VRDP: fixed incompatibility with rdesktop 1.8.3</para>
     263      </listitem>
     264
     265      <listitem>
     266        <para>VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)</para>
     267      </listitem>
     268
     269      <listitem>
     270        <para>Storage: don't crash if creating an asynchronous I/O context
     271          fails (e.g. when starting many VMs) and show a proper error message</para>
     272      </listitem>
     273
     274      <listitem>
     275        <para>Floppy: several fixes</para>
     276      </listitem>
     277
     278      <listitem>
     279        <para>Audio: improved the behavior of the volume control for the
     280          HD audio device emulation</para>
     281      </listitem>
     282
     283      <listitem>
     284        <para>USB: increase the number of supported drivers from 3 to 5
     285          (Windows hosts only)</para>
     286      </listitem>
     287
     288      <listitem>
     289        <para>PS/2 keyboard: synchronize the LED state on VM restore
     290          (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
     291      </listitem>
     292
     293      <listitem>
     294        <para>NAT Network: when running multiple NAT networks with multiple VMs,
     295          only stop the respective services when stopping VMs (bug #14090)</para>
     296      </listitem>
     297
     298      <listitem>
     299        <para>NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors (bug #13475)</para>
     300      </listitem>
     301
     302      <listitem>
     303        <para>NAT: bandwidth limit now works properly with NAT (bug #11485)</para>
     304      </listitem>
     305
     306      <listitem>
     307        <para>BIOS: fixed the returned size value of the VBE 2.0 PMI function 0Ah
     308          (4.2.0 regression; bug #14096)</para>
     309      </listitem>
     310
     311      <listitem>
     312        <para>Guest Control: fixed parameter quoting in Windows guests
     313          (bug #13157)</para>
     314      </listitem>
     315
     316      <listitem>
     317        <para>Webcam passthrough improvements for Linux (V4L2) hosts to support more
     318          webcam models</para>
     319      </listitem>
     320
     321      <listitem>
     322        <para>API: don't fail starting a VM with <emphasis>VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE</emphasis>
     323          under certain conditions (bug #13617)</para>
     324      </listitem>
     325
     326      <listitem>
     327        <para>API: be more verbose on <emphasis>VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE</emphasis>
     328          if a medium is attached to a running VM (bug #13560)</para>
     329      </listitem>
     330
     331      <listitem>
     332        <para>API: fixed a bug which could result in losing certain screen resize
     333          events with multi-monitor guests</para>
     334      </listitem>
     335
     336      <listitem>
     337        <para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed path to the keymaps (bug #12066)</para>
     338      </listitem>
     339
     340      <listitem>
     341        <para>rdesktop-vrdp: switch to version 1.8.3</para>
     342      </listitem>
     343
     344      <listitem>
     345        <para>Windows hosts: more hardening fixes (e.g. bugs #14051, #14052)</para>
     346      </listitem>
     347
     348      <listitem>
     349        <para>Linux hosts: another fix for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19
     350          and newer (Broadwell and later; bug #13961)</para>
     351      </listitem>
     352
     353      <listitem>
     354        <para>Linux hosts: Linux 4.1 compile fix (bug #14081)</para>
     355      </listitem>
     356
     357      <listitem>
     358        <para>Solaris hosts: fixed using of VNIC templates with Crossbow based
     359          bridged networking to be compatible with vanity interface names</para>
     360      </listitem>
     361
     362      <listitem>
     363        <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed crash during VM termination under rare
     364          circumstances</para>
     365      </listitem>
     366
     367      <listitem>
     368        <para>Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow
     369          more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)</para>
     370      </listitem>
     371
     372      <listitem>
     373        <para>X11 Additions: prevent flickering when updating mouse cursor</para>
     374      </listitem>
     375
     376      <listitem>
     377        <para>Solaris Additions: fixed incorrect usage of 'prtconf' while
     378          installing Guest Additions (Solaris 10 only)</para>
     379      </listitem>
     380
     381    </itemizedlist>
    219382  </sect1>
    220383
    … …  
    24452608  </sect1>
    24462609
    2447   <sect1>
    2448     <title>Version 4.2.22 (2014-01-10)</title>
    2449 
    2450     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    2451       added:</para>
    2452 
    2453     <itemizedlist>
    2454 
    2455       <listitem>
    2456         <para>GUI: Mac OS X host: introduced extradata option "GUI/HidLedsSync" aimed to enable
    2457           HID LEDs synchronization (feature disabled by default)</para>
    2458       </listitem>
    2459 
    2460       <listitem>
    2461         <para>GUI: Mac OS X host: fixed issue on MacBook Air/Pro hosts when GUI
    2462           might freeze in attempt to synchronize HID LEDs</para>
    2463       </listitem>
    2464 
    2465       <listitem>
    2466         <para>Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests
    2467           (bug #12017)</para>
    2468       </listitem>
    2469 
    2470       <listitem>
    2471         <para>HGCM: fixed crashes under certain conditions</para>
    2472       </listitem>
    2473 
    2474       <listitem>
    2475         <para>Storage: fix for <emphasis>BLKCACHE_IOERR</emphasis> runtime errors under
    2476           rare circumstances (bug #11030)</para>
    2477       </listitem>
    2478 
    2479       <listitem>
    2480         <para>AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a
    2481           SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)</para>
    2482       </listitem>
    2483 
    2484       <listitem>
    2485         <para>AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions</para>
    2486       </listitem>
    2487 
    2488       <listitem>
    2489         <para>E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized
    2490           the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the
    2491           initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection</para>
    2492       </listitem>
    2493 
    2494       <listitem>
    2495         <para>3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina
    2496           hosts only; bug #11021)</para>
    2497       </listitem>
    2498 
    2499       <listitem>
    2500         <para>3D support: many fixes</para>
    2501       </listitem>
    2502 
    2503       <listitem>
    2504         <para>Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels
    2505            (bug #12505)</para>
    2506       </listitem>
    2507 
    2508       <listitem>
    2509         <para>Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels</para>
    2510       </listitem>
    2511 
    2512       <listitem>
    2513         <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest crashes in in Shared Folders
    2514           service under certain conditions</para>
    2515       </listitem>
    2516 
    2517     </itemizedlist>
    2518 
    2519   </sect1>
    2520 
    2521   <sect1>
    2522     <title>Version 4.2.20 (2013-11-28)</title>
    2523 
    2524     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    2525       added:</para>
    2526 
    2527     <itemizedlist>
    2528 
    2529       <listitem>
    2530         <para>GUI: always report recommended resolutions for all monitors
    2531           (not always done since 4.2.12)</para>
    2532       </listitem>
    2533 
    2534       <listitem>
    2535         <para>GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to
    2536           the exported appliance</para>
    2537       </listitem>
    2538 
    2539       <listitem>
    2540         <para>GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a VirtualBox VM
    2541           is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139)</para>
    2542       </listitem>
    2543 
    2544       <listitem>
    2545         <para>NAT: don't run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot
    2546           access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300)</para>
    2547       </listitem>
    2548 
    2549       <listitem>
    2550         <para>NAT: don't re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes
    2551           and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225)</para>
    2552       </listitem>
    2553 
    2554       <listitem>
    2555         <para>Main: properly save the <emphasis>passthrough</emphasis> flag for DVD
    2556           drives without an attached medium</para>
    2557       </listitem>
    2558 
    2559       <listitem>
    2560         <para>Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state
    2561           where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289)</para>
    2562       </listitem>
    2563 
    2564       <listitem>
    2565         <para>2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches
    2566           (bug #9194)</para>
    2567       </listitem>
    2568 
    2569       <listitem>
    2570         <para>Storage: fixed errors with snapshots when using QCOW or QED disk images
    2571           (bug #12144)</para>
    2572       </listitem>
    2573 
    2574       <listitem>
    2575         <para>Storage: fix for newer Linux kernels not detecting a hard disk as SSD
    2576           when using the IDE or SATA controller (bug #12025)</para>
    2577       </listitem>
    2578 
    2579       <listitem>
    2580         <para>Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty
    2581           to a host drive with passthrough enabled</para>
    2582       </listitem>
    2583 
    2584       <listitem>
    2585         <para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could result in lost medium attachments
    2586           (4.2.18 regression; bug #11750)</para>
    2587       </listitem>
    2588 
    2589       <listitem>
    2590         <para>Shared Clipboard: fixed potential SEGFAULT when
    2591           working with UTF8 and UTF16 content (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
    2592       </listitem>
    2593 
    2594       <listitem>
    2595         <para>OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple
    2596           VMs</para>
    2597       </listitem>
    2598 
    2599       <listitem>
    2600         <para>Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with
    2601           special characters</para>
    2602       </listitem>
    2603 
    2604       <listitem>
    2605         <para>SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings</para>
    2606       </listitem>
    2607 
    2608       <listitem>
    2609         <para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child
    2610            snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks,
    2611            their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM
    2612            config corruption</para>
    2613       </listitem>
    2614 
    2615       <listitem>
    2616         <para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot
    2617            as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para>
    2618       </listitem>
    2619 
    2620       <listitem>
    2621         <para>API: fixed information for some automatically generated events
    2622           (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused
    2623           errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
    2624           (bug #12379)</para>
    2625       </listitem>
    2626 
    2627       <listitem>
    2628         <para>Mac OS X hosts: support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)</para>
    2629       </listitem>
    2630 
    2631       <listitem>
    2632         <para>Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for
    2633           Mavericks hosts (bug #12256)</para>
    2634       </listitem>
    2635 
    2636       <listitem>
    2637         <para>Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated
    2638           StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940)</para>
    2639       </listitem>
    2640 
    2641       <listitem>
    2642         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the VirtualBox dock icon was
    2643           not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing
    2644           Mavericks hosts from shutting (bug #12241)</para>
    2645       </listitem>
    2646 
    2647       <listitem>
    2648         <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.13 compile fix (bug #12358)</para>
    2649       </listitem>
    2650 
    2651       <listitem>
    2652         <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.12 compile fix (bug #12083)</para>
    2653       </listitem>
    2654 
    2655       <listitem>
    2656         <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.11 fix for shared folders (bugs #11946, #12128)</para>
    2657       </listitem>
    2658 
    2659       <listitem>
    2660         <para>Linux Additions: compile fix for SLES11 SP3</para>
    2661       </listitem>
    2662 
    2663       <listitem>
    2664         <para>Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing
    2665            (bug #12166)</para>
    2666       </listitem>
    2667 
    2668       <listitem>
    2669         <para>Linux Additions: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on
    2670            OL/RHEL 6.1 guests (bug #11996)</para>
    2671       </listitem>
    2672 
    2673       <listitem>
    2674         <para>Linux Additions: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1
    2675            (bug #12320 comments 3 and 4)</para>
    2676       </listitem>
    2677 
    2678       <listitem>
    2679         <para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by
    2680           <emphasis>WTSQuerySessionInformation()</emphasis>
    2681           on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072)</para>
    2682       </listitem>
    2683 
    2684       <listitem>
    2685         <para>Windows Additions: multimonitor resize fixes</para>
    2686       </listitem>
    2687 
    2688       <listitem>
    2689         <para>X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503,
    2690            thank you Sam Spilsbury)</para>
    2691       </listitem>
    2692 
    2693       <listitem>
    2694         <para>Guest additions/3D: fix an occasional dead-lock (bug #12319)
    2695            </para>
    2696       </listitem>
    2697 
    2698     </itemizedlist>
    2699   </sect1>
    2700 
    2701   <sect1>
    2702     <title>Version 4.2.18 (2013-09-06)</title>
    2703 
    2704     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    2705       added:</para>
    2706 
    2707     <itemizedlist>
    2708 
    2709       <listitem>
    2710         <para>VMM: properly handle NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC
    2711           enabled</para>
    2712       </listitem>
    2713 
    2714       <listitem>
    2715         <para>VMM: fixed potential crashes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
    2716           (bug #11979)</para>
    2717       </listitem>
    2718 
    2719       <listitem>
    2720         <para>GUI / seamless: properly handle mouse wheel scroll events</para>
    2721       </listitem>
    2722 
    2723       <listitem>
    2724         <para>GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the
    2725           hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)</para>
    2726       </listitem>
    2727 
    2728       <listitem>
    2729         <para>GUI: prevent crashes under certain conditions on X11 hosts</para>
    2730       </listitem>
    2731 
    2732       <listitem>
    2733         <para>3D support: multiscreen fixes (incorrect mouse position, flickets)</para>
    2734       </listitem>
    2735 
    2736       <listitem>
    2737         <para>3D support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver
    2738           (multiscreen, seamless)</para>
    2739       </listitem>
    2740 
    2741       <listitem>
    2742         <para>Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)</para>
    2743       </listitem>
    2744 
    2745       <listitem>
    2746         <para>Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)</para>
    2747       </listitem>
    2748 
    2749       <listitem>
    2750         <para>VBoxManage: on <emphasis>snapshot take</emphasis>, <emphasis>
    2751             --pause</emphasis> is default and <emphasis>--live</emphasis>
    2752           is for doing live snapshots</para>
    2753       </listitem>
    2754 
    2755       <listitem>
    2756         <para>VBoxSVC: don't crash on systems with many VLAN interfaces
    2757           (Solaris hosts only)</para>
    2758       </listitem>
    2759 
    2760       <listitem>
    2761         <para>Network: after the host resumes from suspend, disconnect and
    2762           reconnect the virtual network cables to force renewing the DHCP
    2763           leases for the guests. So far only Mac OS X hosts and Windows hosts
    2764           (bug #10063)</para>
    2765       </listitem>
    2766 
    2767       <listitem>
    2768         <para>NAT: on name server changes force a reconnect of the virtual network
    2769           cable to notify the guest (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
    2770       </listitem>
    2771 
    2772       <listitem>
    2773         <para>Mac OS X installer: keep previously installed Extension Packs on
    2774           VirtualBox upgrade</para>
    2775       </listitem>
    2776 
    2777       <listitem>
    2778         <para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.11 fixes (bug #12001)</para>
    2779       </listitem>
    2780 
    2781       <listitem>
    2782         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential kernel panic caused due to
    2783           unexpected preemption due to logging</para>
    2784       </listitem>
    2785 
    2786       <listitem>
    2787         <para>Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible
    2788           when plugged into USB3 ports</para>
    2789       </listitem>
    2790 
    2791       <listitem>
    2792         <para>Linux Additions: added PCI device identifier to vboxvideo.ko fixing
    2793           DRI initialization under certain conditions (bug #11957)</para>
    2794       </listitem>
    2795 
    2796       <listitem>
    2797         <para>Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script
    2798           with Linux 3.x kernels</para>
    2799       </listitem>
    2800 
    2801     </itemizedlist>
    2802   </sect1>
    2803 
    2804   <sect1>
    2805     <title>Version 4.2.16 (2013-07-04)</title>
    2806 
    2807     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    2808       added:</para>
    2809 
    2810     <itemizedlist>
    2811 
    2812       <listitem>
    2813         <para>OVF/OVA: don't crash on import if no manifest is used (4.2.14 regression;
    2814           bug #11895)</para>
    2815       </listitem>
    2816 
    2817       <listitem>
    2818         <para>GUI: do not restore the current snapshot if we power-off
    2819           after a Guru Mediation</para>
    2820       </listitem>
    2821 
    2822       <listitem>
    2823         <para>Storage: fixed a crash when hotplugging an empty DVD drive to
    2824           the VM</para>
    2825       </listitem>
    2826 
    2827       <listitem>
    2828         <para>Storage: fixed a crash when a guest read from a DVD drive
    2829           attached to the SATA controller under certain circumstances</para>
    2830       </listitem>
    2831 
    2832       <listitem>
    2833         <para>EFI: don't fail with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #11456)</para>
    2834       </listitem>
    2835 
    2836       <listitem>
    2837         <para>Autostart: fixed VM startup on OS X</para>
    2838       </listitem>
    2839 
    2840       <listitem>
    2841         <para>Windows hosts: native Windows 8 controls</para>
    2842       </listitem>
    2843 
    2844       <listitem>
    2845         <para>Windows hosts: restore native style on Vista 32</para>
    2846       </listitem>
    2847 
    2848       <listitem>
    2849         <para>Windows hosts / guests: Windows 8.1 adaptions (bug #11899)</para>
    2850       </listitem>
    2851 
    2852       <listitem>
    2853         <para>Mac OS X hosts: after removing VirtualBox with
    2854           <emphasis>VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool</emphasis>, remove it from the
    2855           <emphasis>pkgutil --pkgs</emphasis> list as well</para>
    2856       </listitem>
    2857 
    2858     </itemizedlist>
    2859   </sect1>
    2860 
    2861   <sect1>
    2862     <title>Version 4.2.14 (2013-06-21)</title>
    2863 
    2864     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    2865       added:</para>
    2866 
    2867     <itemizedlist>
    2868 
    2869       <listitem>
    2870         <para>VMM: another TLB invalidation fix for non-present pages</para>
    2871       </listitem>
    2872 
    2873       <listitem>
    2874         <para>VMM: fixed a performance regression (4.2.8 regression;
    2875           bug #11674)</para>
    2876       </listitem>
    2877 
    2878       <listitem>
    2879         <para>GUI: fixed a crash on shutdown</para>
    2880       </listitem>
    2881 
    2882       <listitem>
    2883         <para>GUI: prevent stuck keys under certain conditions on Windows
    2884           hosts (bugs #2613, #6171)</para>
    2885       </listitem>
    2886 
    2887       <listitem>
    2888         <para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash on the guest screen resize</para>
    2889       </listitem>
    2890 
    2891       <listitem>
    2892         <para>VRDP: allow to change VRDP parameters (including enabling/disabling the
    2893           server) if the VM is paused</para>
    2894       </listitem>
    2895 
    2896       <listitem>
    2897         <para>USB: fixed passing through devices on Mac OS X host to a VM
    2898           with 2 or more virtual CPUs (bug #7462)</para>
    2899       </listitem>
    2900 
    2901       <listitem>
    2902         <para>USB: fixed hang during isochronous transfer with certain
    2903           devices (4.1 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #11839)</para>
    2904       </listitem>
    2905 
    2906       <listitem>
    2907         <para>USB: properly handle orphaned URBs (bug #11207)</para>
    2908       </listitem>
    2909 
    2910       <listitem>
    2911         <para>BIOS: fixed function for returning the PCI interrupt routing table
    2912           (fixes NetWare 6.x guests)</para>
    2913       </listitem>
    2914 
    2915       <listitem>
    2916         <para>BIOS: don't use the <emphasis>ENTER</emphasis> / <emphasis>LEAVE</emphasis>
    2917           instructions in the BIOS as these don't work in the real mode as set up by
    2918           certain guests (e.g. Plan 9 and QNX 4)</para>
    2919       </listitem>
    2920 
    2921       <listitem>
    2922         <para>DMI: allow to configure <emphasis>DmiChassisType</emphasis>
    2923           (bug #11832)</para>
    2924       </listitem>
    2925 
    2926       <listitem>
    2927         <para>Storage: fixed lost writes if iSCSI is used with snapshots and
    2928           asynchronous I/O (bug #11479)</para>
    2929       </listitem>
    2930 
    2931       <listitem>
    2932         <para>Storage: fixed accessing certain VHDX images created by
    2933           Windows 8 (bug #11502)</para>
    2934       </listitem>
    2935 
    2936       <listitem>
    2937         <para>Storage: fixed hang when creating a snapshot using Parallels
    2938           disk images (bug #9617)</para>
    2939       </listitem>
    2940 
    2941       <listitem>
    2942         <para>3D support: seamless + 3D fixes (bug #11723)</para>
    2943       </listitem>
    2944 
    2945       <listitem>
    2946         <para>3D support: version 4.2.12 was not able to read saved states of older
    2947           versions under certain conditions (bug #11718)</para>
    2948       </listitem>
    2949 
    2950       <listitem>
    2951         <para>Main/Properties: don't create a guest property for non-running
    2952           VMs if the property does not exist and is about to be removed
    2953           (bug #11765)</para>
    2954       </listitem>
    2955 
    2956       <listitem>
    2957         <para>Main/Properties: don't forget to make new guest properties
    2958           persistent after the VM was terminated (bug #11719)</para>
    2959       </listitem>
    2960 
    2961       <listitem>
    2962         <para>Main/Display: don't lose seamless regions during screen resize</para>
    2963       </listitem>
    2964 
    2965       <listitem>
    2966         <para>Main/OVF: don't crash during import if the client forgot to call
    2967           <emphasis>Appliance::interpret()</emphasis> (bug #10845)</para>
    2968       </listitem>
    2969 
    2970       <listitem>
    2971         <para>Main/OVF: don't create invalid appliances by stripping the file
    2972           name if the VM name is very long (bug #11814)</para>
    2973       </listitem>
    2974 
    2975       <listitem>
    2976         <para>Main/OVF: don't fail if the appliance contains multiple file references
    2977           (bug #10689)</para>
    2978       </listitem>
    2979 
    2980       <listitem>
    2981         <para>Main/Metrics: fixed Solaris file descriptor leak</para>
    2982       </listitem>
    2983 
    2984       <listitem>
    2985         <para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
    2986           will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
    2987       </listitem>
    2988 
    2989       <listitem>
    2990         <para>VBoxManage: fixed setting the parent UUID on diff images using
    2991           <emphasis>sethdparentuuid</emphasis></para>
    2992       </listitem>
    2993 
    2994       <listitem>
    2995         <para>Linux hosts: work around for not crashing as a result of
    2996           automatic NUMA balancing which was introduced in Linux 3.8
    2997           (bug #11610)</para>
    2998       </listitem>
    2999 
    3000       <listitem>
    3001         <para>Windows installer: force the installation of the public certificate
    3002           in background (i.e. completely prevent user interaction) if the
    3003           <emphasis>--silent</emphasis> command line option is specified</para>
    3004       </listitem>
    3005 
    3006       <listitem>
    3007         <para>Windows Additions: fixed problems with partial install in the
    3008           unattended case</para>
    3009       </listitem>
    3010 
    3011       <listitem>
    3012         <para>Windows Additions: fixed display glitch with the Start button
    3013           in seamless mode for some themes</para>
    3014       </listitem>
    3015 
    3016       <listitem>
    3017         <para>Windows Additions: Seamless mode and auto-resize fixes</para>
    3018       </listitem>
    3019 
    3020       <listitem>
    3021         <para>Windows Additions: fixed trying to to retrieve new auto-logon
    3022           credentials if current ones were not processed yet</para>
    3023       </listitem>
    3024 
    3025       <listitem>
    3026         <para>Windows Additions installer: added the <emphasis>/with_wddm</emphasis>
    3027           switch to select the experimental WDDM driver by default</para>
    3028       </listitem>
    3029 
    3030       <listitem>
    3031         <para>Linux Additions: fixed setting own timed out and aborted texts in
    3032           information label of the lightdm greeter</para>
    3033       </listitem>
    3034 
    3035       <listitem>
    3036         <para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation against Linux 3.2.0 Ubuntu
    3037           kernels (4.2.12 regression as a side effect of the Debian kernel
    3038           build fix; bug #11709)</para>
    3039       </listitem>
    3040 
    3041       <listitem>
    3042         <para>X11 Additions: reduced the CPU load of VBoxClient in
    3043           drag and drop mode</para>
    3044       </listitem>
    3045 
    3046       <listitem>
    3047         <para>OS/2 Additions: made the mouse wheel work (bug #6793)</para>
    3048       </listitem>
    3049 
    3050       <listitem>
    3051         <para>Guest Additions: fixed problems copying and pasting between two
    3052            guests on an X11 host (bug #11792)</para>
    3053       </listitem>
    3054 
    3055       <listitem>
    3056         <para>Guest Additions: fixed guest process timeout / kill handling</para>
    3057       </listitem>
    3058 
    3059     </itemizedlist>
    3060   </sect1>
    3061 
    3062   <sect1>
    3063     <title>Version 4.2.12 (2013-04-12)</title>
    3064 
    3065     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    3066       added:</para>
    3067 
    3068     <itemizedlist>
    3069 
    3070       <listitem>
    3071         <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation on putting Linux guest CPU online if
    3072           nested paging is disabled</para>
    3073       </listitem>
    3074 
    3075       <listitem>
    3076         <para>VMM: invalidate TLB entries even for non-present pages</para>
    3077       </listitem>
    3078 
    3079       <listitem>
    3080         <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: fixed a crash on visual-mode change</para>
    3081       </listitem>
    3082 
    3083       <listitem>
    3084         <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: disabled guest-screens should now remain
    3085           disabled on visual-mode change</para>
    3086       </listitem>
    3087 
    3088       <listitem>
    3089         <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: handle host/guest screen plugging/unplugging
    3090           in different visual-modes</para>
    3091       </listitem>
    3092 
    3093       <listitem>
    3094         <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: seamless mode: fixed a bug when empty seamless
    3095           screens were represented by full screen windows</para>
    3096       </listitem>
    3097 
    3098       <listitem>
    3099         <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: each machine window in multi-screen
    3100           configuration should have correct menu-bar now (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
    3101       </listitem>
    3102 
    3103       <listitem>
    3104         <para>GUI: Multi-screen support: machine window View menu should
    3105           have correct content in seamless / full screen mode now (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
    3106       </listitem>
    3107 
    3108       <listitem>
    3109         <para>GUI: VM manager: vertical scroll-bars should be now updated on
    3110           content/window resize</para>
    3111       </listitem>
    3112 
    3113       <listitem>
    3114         <para>GUI: VM settings: fixed crash on machine state-change event</para>
    3115       </listitem>
    3116 
    3117       <listitem>
    3118         <para>GUI: don't show warnings about enabled or disabled mouse integration
    3119           if the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
    3120       </listitem>
    3121 
    3122       <listitem>
    3123         <para>Virtio-net: properly announce that the guest has to handle
    3124           partial TCP checksums (bug #9380)</para>
    3125       </listitem>
    3126 
    3127       <listitem>
    3128         <para>Storage: Fixed incorrect alignment of VDI images causing disk size
    3129           changes when using snapshots (bug #11597)</para>
    3130       </listitem>
    3131 
    3132       <listitem>
    3133         <para>Audio: fixed broken ALSA &amp; PulseAudio on some Linux hosts
    3134           due to invalid symbol resolution (bug #11615)</para>
    3135       </listitem>
    3136 
    3137       <listitem>
    3138         <para>PS/2 keyboard: re-apply keyboard repeat delay and rate
    3139           after a VM was restored from a saved state (bug #10933)</para>
    3140       </listitem>
    3141 
    3142       <listitem>
    3143         <para>BIOS: updated DMI processor information table (type 4):
    3144           corrected L1 &amp; L2 cache table handles</para>
    3145       </listitem>
    3146 
    3147       <listitem>
    3148         <para>Timekeeping: fix several issues which can lead to incorrect
    3149           time, Solaris guests sporadically showed time going briefly back
    3150           to Jan 1 1970</para>
    3151       </listitem>
    3152 
    3153       <listitem>
    3154         <para>Main/Metrics: disk metrics are collected properly when software
    3155           RAID, symbolic links or rootfs are used on Linux hosts</para>
    3156       </listitem>
    3157 
    3158       <listitem>
    3159         <para>VBoxManage: don't stay paused after a snapshot was created
    3160           and the VM was running before</para>
    3161       </listitem>
    3162 
    3163       <listitem>
    3164         <para>VBoxManage: introduced <emphasis>controlvm nicpromisc</emphasis>
    3165           (bug #11423)</para>
    3166       </listitem>
    3167 
    3168       <listitem>
    3169         <para>VBoxManage: don't crash on <emphasis>controlvm
    3170             guestmemoryballoon</emphasis> of the VM isn't running (bug #11639)</para>
    3171       </listitem>
    3172 
    3173       <listitem>
    3174         <para>VBoxHeadless: don't filter guest property events as this would
    3175           affect all clients (bug #11644)</para>
    3176       </listitem>
    3177 
    3178       <listitem>
    3179         <para>Guest control: prevent double CR in the output generated
    3180           by guest commands and do NLS conversion</para>
    3181       </listitem>
    3182 
    3183       <listitem>
    3184         <para>Linux hosts / guests: fixed build errors on Linux 3.5 and newer
    3185           kernels if the <emphasis>CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS</emphasis>
    3186           config option is enabled (bug #11664)</para>
    3187       </listitem>
    3188 
    3189       <listitem>
    3190         <para>Linux Additions: handle fall-back to VESA driver on RedHat-based
    3191           guests if vboxvideo cannot be loaded</para>
    3192       </listitem>
    3193 
    3194       <listitem>
    3195         <para>Linux Additions: RHEL/OEL/CentOS 6.4 compile fix (bug #11586)</para>
    3196       </listitem>
    3197 
    3198       <listitem>
    3199         <para>Linux Additions: Debian Linux kernel 3.2.0-4 (3.2.39) compile
    3200           fix (bug #11634)</para>
    3201       </listitem>
    3202 
    3203       <listitem>
    3204         <para>Linux Additions: added auto-logon support for Linux guests using
    3205           LightDM as the display manager</para>
    3206       </listitem>
    3207 
    3208       <listitem>
    3209         <para>Windows Additions: Support for multimonitor. Dynamic enable/disable
    3210           of secondary virtual monitors. Support for XPDM/WDDM based guests
    3211           (bug #6118)</para>
    3212       </listitem>
    3213 
    3214       <listitem>
    3215         <para>X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.14 (bug #11609)</para>
    3216       </listitem>
    3217 
    3218      </itemizedlist>
    3219 
    3220   </sect1>
    3221 
    3222   <sect1>
    3223     <title>Version 4.2.10 (2013-03-05)</title>
    3224 
    3225     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    3226       added:</para>
    3227 
    3228     <itemizedlist>
    3229 
    3230       <listitem>
    3231         <para>GUI: fixed keyboard with XQuartz X server (bug #10664)</para>
    3232       </listitem>
    3233 
    3234       <listitem>
    3235         <para>Main/Display: fixed a crash with multi-monitors under certain
    3236           conditions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
    3237       </listitem>
    3238 
    3239       <listitem>
    3240         <para>Main/Properties: fixed a crash under certain conditions, for
    3241           example after wakeup from host hibernate (bug #11444)</para>
    3242       </listitem>
    3243 
    3244       <listitem>
    3245         <para>Settings: don't lose the internal network settings if they are not
    3246           currently active</para>
    3247       </listitem>
    3248 
    3249       <listitem>
    3250         <para>Storage: another incompatibility fix for VHD differencing images with
    3251           Hyper-V (bug #5990)</para>
    3252       </listitem>
    3253 
    3254       <listitem>
    3255         <para>VBoxManage: don't read beyond the end of the file specified
    3256           with <emphasis>export --eulafile (bug #11528)</emphasis></para>
    3257       </listitem>
    3258 
    3259       <listitem>
    3260         <para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.9-rc0 compile fixes</para>
    3261       </listitem>
    3262 
    3263       <listitem>
    3264         <para>Linux Additions: fixed two warnings in the shared folders
    3265           guest kernel module (bug #11390)</para>
    3266       </listitem>
    3267 
    3268       <listitem>
    3269         <para>Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService if libdbus is
    3270           not available (bug #8638)</para>
    3271       </listitem>
    3272 
    3273       <listitem>
    3274         <para>Windows Additions: fixed upgrading MultiMedia Redirection (MMR) support</para>
    3275       </listitem>
    3276 
    3277     </itemizedlist>
    3278   </sect1>
    3279 
    3280   <sect1>
    3281     <title>Version 4.2.8 (2013-02-20)</title>
    3282 
    3283     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    3284       added:</para>
    3285 
    3286     <itemizedlist>
    3287 
    3288       <listitem>
    3289         <para>VMM: fixed a guest crash with a huge amount of guest RAM on
    3290           VT-x hosts (bug #11306)</para>
    3291       </listitem>
    3292 
    3293       <listitem>
    3294         <para>GUI: fixed a layout bug in the Mac OS X clone VM dialog
    3295           (bug #10982)</para>
    3296       </listitem>
    3297 
    3298       <listitem>
    3299         <para>GUI: not all the translation tags were taken into account
    3300           during the language switch (bug #11342)</para>
    3301       </listitem>
    3302 
    3303       <listitem>
    3304         <para>GUI: the <emphasis>take guest screenshot</emphasis> dialog sometimes
    3305           had no keyboard input available on Windows host</para>
    3306       </listitem>
    3307 
    3308       <listitem>
    3309         <para>Main/Machine: fix the generation of a spurious event for inaccessible
    3310           VMs which triggered an endless event generation loop in cooperation
    3311           with the GUI which became unresponsive (4.2.6 regression; bug
    3312           #11323)</para>
    3313       </listitem>
    3314 
    3315       <listitem>
    3316         <para>Main/Display: fix for an access violation under certain
    3317           conditions in multi-monitor configurations (bug #10539)</para>
    3318       </listitem>
    3319 
    3320       <listitem>
    3321         <para>Main/Metrics: network metrics are now collected for
    3322           active (up) interfaces only, the state of an interface being evaluated
    3323           when the associated metric is enabled via <emphasis>setupMetrics</emphasis></para>
    3324       </listitem>
    3325 
    3326       <listitem>
    3327         <para>Snapshots: reduce the time for merging snapshots under
    3328           certain conditions</para>
    3329       </listitem>
    3330 
    3331       <listitem>
    3332         <para>Storage: fixed data corruption after resizing a VDI image under
    3333           certain circumstances (bug #11344)</para>
    3334       </listitem>
    3335 
    3336       <listitem>
    3337         <para>Storage: fixed non working online merging of snapshots
    3338           (4.2.6 regression; bug #11359)</para>
    3339       </listitem>
    3340 
    3341       <listitem>
    3342         <para>Storage: fixed crash when connecting to certain QNAP iSCSI
    3343           targets</para>
    3344       </listitem>
    3345 
    3346       <listitem>
    3347         <para>Storage: fixed incompatibility of VHD differencing images with
    3348           Hyper-V (bug #5990)</para>
    3349       </listitem>
    3350 
    3351       <listitem>
    3352         <para>Bridged Networking: fixed TCP pseudo header checksum computation
    3353           for IPv6 (bug #9380)</para>
    3354       </listitem>
    3355 
    3356       <listitem>
    3357         <para>3D support: fix Battlefield 1942 game crashes (bug #11369)</para>
    3358       </listitem>
    3359 
    3360       <listitem>
    3361         <para>Settings: really sanitise the name of VM folders and settings
    3362           file, the code was disabled before (bug #10549)</para>
    3363       </listitem>
    3364 
    3365       <listitem>
    3366         <para>Settings: allow to change VRDE settings for saved VMs</para>
    3367       </listitem>
    3368 
    3369       <listitem>
    3370         <para>VBoxManage: don't crash during <emphasis>screenshotpng</emphasis>
    3371           if there is no display (bug #11363)</para>
    3372       </listitem>
    3373 
    3374       <listitem>
    3375         <para>Linux hosts: work around gcc bug 55940 which might lead to wrong
    3376           kernel module code if gcc 4.7 is used to compile the 32-bit Linux
    3377           host kernel (bug #11035)</para>
    3378       </listitem>
    3379 
    3380       <listitem>
    3381         <para>Linux hosts: fixed inconsistent lock state and deadlock warnings on module
    3382           load and VM startup when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is enabled (bug #11318)</para>
    3383       </listitem>
    3384 
    3385       <listitem>
    3386         <para>Linux hosts: made "]" key work again on Japanese keyboards</para>
    3387       </listitem>
    3388 
    3389       <listitem>
    3390         <para>Mac OS X hosts: don't crash the kernel during dtrace if the VBox
    3391           kernel extensions are loaded (10.6 hosts only; bug #11273)</para>
    3392       </listitem>
    3393 
    3394       <listitem>
    3395         <para>Solaris / Mac OS X hosts: machine CPU load metrics now report 100%
    3396           when all cores are fully utilized (used to be a single core)</para>
    3397       </listitem>
    3398 
    3399       <listitem>
    3400         <para>Solaris 11 host installer: wait for any services left over from
    3401            a previous installation to be terminated to avoid confusing SMF.
    3402            </para>
    3403       </listitem>
    3404 
    3405       <listitem>
    3406         <para>Guest Additions: don't block signals for processes executed
    3407           via guest control</para>
    3408       </listitem>
    3409 
    3410       <listitem>
    3411         <para>Guest Additions: fixed a small memory leak in VBoxService
    3412           (bug #10970)</para>
    3413       </listitem>
    3414 
    3415       <listitem>
    3416         <para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issue with
    3417           large reads/writes on 64 bit Windows guests (bug #11115)</para>
    3418       </listitem>
    3419 
    3420       <listitem>
    3421         <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.8 compile fixes (bug #11036)</para>
    3422       </listitem>
    3423 
    3424       <listitem>
    3425         <para>X11 Additions: fixed blocked SIGALRM in 3D desktop sessions
    3426           (bug #10987)</para>
    3427       </listitem>
    3428 
    3429       <listitem>
    3430         <para>X11 Additions: fixed an unresolved reference in vboxvideo_drv
    3431           for X.org 6.8 guests and before (e.g. RHEL4; 4.2.0 regression)</para>
    3432       </listitem>
    3433 
    3434       <listitem>
    3435         <para>X11 Additions: fixed screen automatic resizing for guests with
    3436           X.org 1.3 or older (4.2.0 regression)</para>
    3437       </listitem>
    3438 
    3439     </itemizedlist>
    3440 
    3441   </sect1>
    3442 
    3443   <sect1>
    3444     <title>Version 4.2.6 (2012-12-19)</title>
    3445 
    3446     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    3447       added:</para>
    3448 
    3449     <itemizedlist>
    3450 
    3451       <listitem>
    3452         <para>VMM: don't inject stale VT-x events to prevent crashes after VM reset
    3453           (bug #11256)</para>
    3454       </listitem>
    3455 
    3456       <listitem>
    3457         <para>VMM: workaround for buggy BIOSes which enable <emphasis>MONITOR</emphasis>
    3458           only for certain CPUs (bug #9460)</para>
    3459       </listitem>
    3460 
    3461       <listitem>
    3462         <para>GUI: fixed trimming of anti-aliased text in details-view element headers
    3463           (4.2.0 regression)</para>
    3464       </listitem>
    3465 
    3466       <listitem>
    3467         <para>GUI: fixed create-settings-file-alias functionality on Mac hosts
    3468           (4.2.0 regression)</para>
    3469       </listitem>
    3470 
    3471       <listitem>
    3472         <para>GUI: fixed take-guest-screenshot functionality on Windows hosts
    3473           (bug #11095)</para>
    3474       </listitem>
    3475 
    3476       <listitem>
    3477         <para>GUI: several minor fixes, including palette fixes (bug #11191)</para>
    3478       </listitem>
    3479 
    3480       <listitem>
    3481         <para>GUI: fixed Windows 2012 OS type (bug #11206)</para>
    3482       </listitem>
    3483 
    3484       <listitem>
    3485         <para>GUI: allow to terminate the VM even if VBoxSVC crashed</para>
    3486       </listitem>
    3487 
    3488       <listitem>
    3489         <para>API: fixed cancelling of snapshots, previously this could lead
    3490           to inconsistent VM configs (bug #6877)</para>
    3491       </listitem>
    3492 
    3493       <listitem>
    3494         <para>API: fixed identifying disk images by UUID (bug #11209)</para>
    3495       </listitem>
    3496 
    3497       <listitem>
    3498         <para>3D support: several fixes</para>
    3499       </listitem>
    3500 
    3501       <listitem>
    3502         <para>VRDP: fixed occasional crash with external authentication
    3503          (bug #11156)</para>
    3504       </listitem>
    3505 
    3506       <listitem>
    3507         <para>VGA: fix for double scan text modes</para>
    3508       </listitem>
    3509 
    3510       <listitem>
    3511         <para>USB: fixed invalid pending request count at the time of service
    3512           of <emphasis>DEVICE POWER</emphasis> requests (Windows hosts only;
    3513           bugs #10021, #11056)</para>
    3514       </listitem>
    3515 
    3516       <listitem>
    3517         <para>USB keyboard: Korean keyboard workaround (bug #11150)</para>
    3518       </listitem>
    3519 
    3520       <listitem>
    3521         <para>Storage: fixed hang with QCOW images and asynchronous I/O enabled</para>
    3522       </listitem>
    3523 
    3524       <listitem>
    3525         <para>Storage: fixed hang with newer VHD images (bug #11279)</para>
    3526       </listitem>
    3527 
    3528       <listitem>
    3529         <para>Storage: actually write the non-rotational flag to the VM
    3530           settings (4.2.0 regression)</para>
    3531       </listitem>
    3532 
    3533       <listitem>
    3534         <para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with network statistics counters
    3535         in Session Information dialog (GUI)</para>
    3536       </listitem>
    3537 
    3538       <listitem>
    3539         <para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>network rate</emphasis> and
    3540           <emphasis>disk usage</emphasis> metrics</para>
    3541       </listitem>
    3542 
    3543       <listitem>
    3544         <para>Metrics: fixed a crash under certain conditions on Solaris hosts</para>
    3545       </listitem>
    3546 
    3547       <listitem>
    3548         <para>BIOS: fix for El Torito</para>
    3549       </listitem>
    3550 
    3551       <listitem>
    3552         <para>Shared Folders: if the host folder of a shared folder mapping does
    3553           not exist, keep it active but mark it as invalid to prevent
    3554           inconsistent saved states (bug #11147)</para>
    3555       </listitem>
    3556 
    3557       <listitem>
    3558         <para>VBoxManage: fixed converting disks from raw images</para>
    3559       </listitem>
    3560 
    3561       <listitem>
    3562         <para>VBoxManage: show snapshot description in the VM or snapshot
    3563           information</para>
    3564       </listitem>
    3565 
    3566       <listitem>
    3567         <para>VBoxManage: make implicit opening of media consistent in all
    3568           places dealing with media</para>
    3569       </listitem>
    3570 
    3571       <listitem>
    3572         <para>VBoxManage: the iSCSI initiator name was not stored in the settings
    3573           file when doing <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> (bug #11212)</para>
    3574       </listitem>
    3575 
    3576       <listitem>
    3577         <para>VBoxManage: <emphasis>metrics collect</emphasis> now properly handles
    3578           <computeroutput>'CPU/MHz'</computeroutput> and
    3579           <computeroutput>'Net/*/LinkSpeed'</computeroutput> metrics</para>
    3580       </listitem>
    3581 
    3582       <listitem>
    3583         <para>VBoxManage: changing the image UUID or parent UUID as part of
    3584           <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> works now in all safe cases</para>
    3585       </listitem>
    3586 
    3587       <listitem>
    3588         <para>VBoxManage: introduced <emphasis>storageattach --medium additions</emphasis>
    3589           as a shortcut to mount the additions image (bug #11165)</para>
    3590       </listitem>
    3591 
    3592       <listitem>
    3593         <para>OVF: fixed importing OVF files cerated by recent VMware
    3594           products (bug #10905)</para>
    3595       </listitem>
    3596 
    3597       <listitem>
    3598         <para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with leaking
    3599           connections in conntrack (bug #11178)</para>
    3600       </listitem>
    3601 
    3602       <listitem>
    3603         <para>Linux Additions: added support for ConsoleKit sessions in the
    3604           vminfo service of VBoxService</para>
    3605       </listitem>
    3606 
    3607       <listitem>
    3608         <para>Linux Additions: don't crash during remount under certain
    3609           conditions (bug #11291)</para>
    3610       </listitem>
    3611 
    3612       <listitem>
    3613         <para>Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed guest memory metrics collection</para>
    3614       </listitem>
    3615 
    3616       <listitem>
    3617         <para>Solaris hosts: added a dependency to ensure that the user directories
    3618           are reachable when starting VBox services</para>
    3619       </listitem>
    3620 
    3621       <listitem>
    3622         <para>Windows host installer: integrated user-contributed translations,
    3623           thanks to all contributors!</para>
    3624       </listitem>
    3625 
    3626       <listitem>
    3627         <para>Windows Additions: fixed auto-logon installation for Windows 8</para>
    3628       </listitem>
    3629 
    3630       <listitem>
    3631         <para>Windows Additions: don't fail if the shared folders host service is not
    3632           available</para>
    3633       </listitem>
    3634 
    3635       <listitem>
    3636         <para>Windows Additions: fixed Guest Additions startup on Windows 2000
    3637           guests (bug #11253)</para>
    3638       </listitem>
    3639 
    3640       <listitem>
    3641         <para>Windows Additions: auto-resize fixes for Windows 8 guests</para>
    3642       </listitem>
    3643     </itemizedlist>
    3644 
    3645   </sect1>
    3646 
    3647   <sect1>
    3648     <title>Version 4.2.4 (2012-10-26)</title>
    3649 
    3650     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    3651       added:</para>
    3652 
    3653     <itemizedlist>
    3654 
    3655       <listitem>
    3656         <para>GUI: fixed validation warning on global settings / proxy page
    3657           (4.2.2 regression; bug #11089)</para>
    3658       </listitem>
    3659 
    3660       <listitem>
    3661         <para>GUI: fixed crash with multiple guest screens on certain
    3662           conditions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
    3663       </listitem>
    3664 
    3665       <listitem>
    3666         <para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: fixed command line argument handling of
    3667          ballooning module</para>
    3668       </listitem>
    3669 
    3670       <listitem>
    3671         <para>VRDP: fixed occasional crash during a video playback in the
    3672           guest (bug #11082)</para>
    3673       </listitem>
    3674 
    3675       <listitem>
    3676         <para>BIOS: fixed broken DMI information (4.2 regression)</para>
    3677       </listitem>
    3678 
    3679       <listitem>
    3680         <para>BIOS: workaround for booting from Windows 2000 floppy disks</para>
    3681       </listitem>
    3682 
    3683       <listitem>
    3684         <para>EFI: fixed video mode selection loss on VM reboot (bug #10983)</para>
    3685       </listitem>
    3686 
    3687       <listitem>
    3688         <para>Parallel: fixed parallel port printing failure/ paper queue empty
    3689           error (Windows hosts only)</para>
    3690       </listitem>
    3691 
    3692       <listitem>
    3693         <para>NAT: fixed crash on alias-less DNS responses when host-resolver is used</para>
    3694       </listitem>
    3695 
    3696       <listitem>
    3697         <para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances</para>
    3698       </listitem>
    3699 
    3700     </itemizedlist>
    3701   </sect1>
    3702 
    3703   <sect1>
    3704     <title>Version 4.2.2 (2012-10-18)</title>
    3705 
    3706     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    3707       added:</para>
    3708 
    3709     <itemizedlist>
    3710 
    3711       <listitem>
    3712         <para>VMM: adapted to changes in Mac OS X 10.8.2 (bug #10965)</para>
    3713       </listitem>
    3714 
    3715       <listitem>
    3716         <para>GUI: restored VM item tool-tip functionality (4.2 regression)</para>
    3717       </listitem>
    3718 
    3719       <listitem>
    3720         <para>GUI: added group item tool-tip functionality</para>
    3721       </listitem>
    3722 
    3723       <listitem>
    3724         <para>GUI: fixed handling of the .ova/.ovf file name association
    3725           (4.2 regression)</para>
    3726       </listitem>
    3727 
    3728       <listitem>
    3729         <para>GUI: it was not possible to change any setting before the
    3730           first VM was created (bug #10928)</para>
    3731       </listitem>
    3732 
    3733       <listitem>
    3734         <para>GUI: disable grouping action if all the selected items are
    3735           full children list of the same group already</para>
    3736       </listitem>
    3737 
    3738       <listitem>
    3739         <para>GUI: added menu for runtime drag and drop option change</para>
    3740       </listitem>
    3741 
    3742       <listitem>
    3743         <para>GUI: cleanup shared-clipboard menu on visual-mode change</para>
    3744       </listitem>
    3745 
    3746       <listitem>
    3747         <para>GUI: make sure VM receives keyboard focus on entering full screen mode
    3748           on Win host (bug #11051)</para>
    3749       </listitem>
    3750 
    3751       <listitem>
    3752         <para>GUI: disable proxy authentication for security reasons</para>
    3753       </listitem>
    3754 
    3755       <listitem>
    3756         <para>3D support: <emphasis>DrawIndexedPrimitiveUP</emphasis> implementation
    3757           fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver (bug #10929) </para>
    3758       </listitem>
    3759 
    3760       <listitem>
    3761         <para>Storage: fixed a release assertion in the AHCI emulation when requests
    3762           where cancelled with asynchronous I/O disabled</para>
    3763       </listitem>
    3764 
    3765       <listitem>
    3766         <para>Storage: fixed a hang during VM reset under certain circumstances
    3767            (bug #10898)</para>
    3768       </listitem>
    3769 
    3770       <listitem>
    3771         <para>NAT: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (Windows hosts only;
    3772           bug #10128)</para>
    3773       </listitem>
    3774 
    3775       <listitem>
    3776         <para>NAT: automatically use the host resolver if the host name server is
    3777           set to some unusual loopback value (bug #10864)</para>
    3778       </listitem>
    3779 
    3780       <listitem>
    3781         <para>E1000: fixed a VirtualBox crash during intensive network transfers
    3782            (4.2 regression; bugs #10936, #10969, #10980)</para>
    3783       </listitem>
    3784 
    3785       <listitem>
    3786         <para>ICH9: fixed PCI bridge initialization</para>
    3787       </listitem>
    3788 
    3789       <listitem>
    3790         <para>USB mouse: ensure that the last mouse event doesn't get lost if no URBs
    3791           are available</para>
    3792       </listitem>
    3793 
    3794       <listitem>
    3795         <para>BIOS: certain legacy guests (e.g. Windows 95) didn't find the boot
    3796           device after a warm reboot</para>
    3797       </listitem>
    3798 
    3799       <listitem>
    3800         <para>BIOS: don't trash the palette in text modes when setting the border
    3801           color</para>
    3802       </listitem>
    3803 
    3804       <listitem>
    3805         <para>EFI: fixed OS X guest autoboot (4.2 regression)</para>
    3806       </listitem>
    3807 
    3808       <listitem>
    3809         <para>VBoxManage: fixed output of <emphasis>showvminfo --machinereadable</emphasis>
    3810           (bug #10973)</para>
    3811       </listitem>
    3812 
    3813       <listitem>
    3814         <para>VBoxManage: fixed parsing of <emphasis>storageattach --discard</emphasis>
    3815           (bug #11023)</para>
    3816       </listitem>
    3817 
    3818       <listitem>
    3819         <para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of the HPET setting in <emphasis>showvminfo</emphasis>
    3820           (bug #11065)</para>
    3821       </listitem>
    3822 
    3823       <listitem>
    3824         <para>VBoxManage: fixed closing the guest session after executing a
    3825           guest process via guest control</para>
    3826       </listitem>
    3827 
    3828       <listitem>
    3829         <para>VBoxShell: adaptions to interface name changes</para>
    3830       </listitem>
    3831 
    3832       <listitem>
    3833         <para>Guest Additions device: fixed a Guest Additions hang when a
    3834          machine was reset after a crash</para>
    3835       </listitem>
    3836 
    3837       <listitem>
    3838         <para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.7-rc1 fixes</para>
    3839       </listitem>
    3840 
    3841       <listitem>
    3842         <para>Linux Additions: support X.Org Server 1.13</para>
    3843       </listitem>
    3844 
    3845       <listitem>
    3846         <para>Linux Additions: fixed a hang when the X server was restarted with
    3847            old guest kernels</para>
    3848       </listitem>
    3849 
    3850       <listitem>
    3851         <para>Linux Additions: fixed a VBoxService crash during CPU hot remove
    3852            (bug #10964)</para>
    3853       </listitem>
    3854 
    3855       <listitem>
    3856         <para>Windows Additions: fixed automatic screen resize
    3857           issue for NT4 guests</para>
    3858       </listitem>
    3859 
    3860       <listitem>
    3861         <para>OS/2 Additions: fixed shutdown hang</para>
    3862       </listitem>
    3863 
    3864       <listitem>
    3865         <para>OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse driver panic</para>
    3866       </listitem>
    3867 
    3868       <listitem>
    3869         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed autostart service going into maintenance mode after
    3870           all VMs started</para>
    3871       </listitem>
    3872 
    3873       <listitem>
    3874         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed linking the host driver with the dtrace module</para>
    3875       </listitem>
    3876 
    3877     </itemizedlist>
    3878 
    3879   </sect1>
    3880 
    3881   <sect1>
    3882 
    3883     <title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
    3884 
    3885     <para>This is a major update. The following major new features
    3886       were added:</para>
    3887 
    3888     <itemizedlist>
    3889 
    3890       <listitem>
    3891         <para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
    3892       </listitem>
    3893 
    3894       <listitem>
    3895         <para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
    3896       </listitem>
    3897 
    3898       <listitem>
    3899         <para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
    3900       </listitem>
    3901 
    3902       <listitem>
    3903         <para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
    3904       </listitem>
    3905 
    3906       <listitem>
    3907         <para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
    3908           ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
    3909       </listitem>
    3910 
    3911       <listitem>
    3912         <para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
    3913           bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
    3914       </listitem>
    3915 
    3916       <listitem>
    3917         <para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
    3918           OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
    3919       </listitem>
    3920 
    3921       <listitem>
    3922         <para>Added experimental support for drag and drop from the host to
    3923           Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
    3924           planned. (bug #81)</para>
    3925       </listitem>
    3926 
    3927       <listitem>
    3928         <para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
    3929       </listitem>
    3930 
    3931       <listitem>
    3932         <para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
    3933           documentation for more information</para>
    3934       </listitem>
    3935 
    3936     </itemizedlist>
    3937 
    3938     <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
    3939 
    3940     <itemizedlist>
    3941 
    3942       <listitem>
    3943         <para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
    3944         on Mountain Lion</para>
    3945       </listitem>
    3946 
    3947       <listitem>
    3948         <para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
    3949           when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
    3950           4.1 regression; bug #9897)</para>
    3951       </listitem>
    3952 
    3953       <listitem>
    3954         <para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
    3955           (seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
    3956       </listitem>
    3957 
    3958       <listitem>
    3959         <para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
    3960           nested paging</para>
    3961       </listitem>
    3962 
    3963       <listitem>
    3964         <para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
    3965           AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
    3966       </listitem>
    3967 
    3968       <listitem>
    3969         <para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
    3970           (gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
    3971       </listitem>
    3972 
    3973       <listitem>
    3974         <para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
    3975           for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
    3976       </listitem>
    3977 
    3978       <listitem>
    3979         <para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
    3980       </listitem>
    3981 
    3982       <listitem>
    3983         <para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
    3984       </listitem>
    3985 
    3986       <listitem>
    3987         <para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
    3988       </listitem>
    3989 
    3990       <listitem>
    3991         <para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
    3992       </listitem>
    3993 
    3994       <listitem>
    3995         <para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
    3996       </listitem>
    3997 
    3998       <listitem>
    3999         <para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
    4000       </listitem>
    4001 
    4002       <listitem>
    4003         <para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
    4004       </listitem>
    4005 
    4006       <listitem>
    4007         <para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
    4008       </listitem>
    4009 
    4010       <listitem>
    4011         <para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
    4012           guests</para>
    4013       </listitem>
    4014 
    4015       <listitem>
    4016         <para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
    4017           used ISO images</para>
    4018       </listitem>
    4019 
    4020       <listitem>
    4021         <para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
    4022            separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
    4023       </listitem>
    4024 
    4025       <listitem>
    4026         <para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
    4027           (bug #9973)</para>
    4028       </listitem>
    4029 
    4030       <listitem>
    4031         <para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
    4032           (bug #9864)</para>
    4033       </listitem>
    4034 
    4035       <listitem>
    4036         <para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
    4037           refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
    4038           immediately</para>
    4039       </listitem>
    4040 
    4041       <listitem>
    4042         <para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
    4043           snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
    4044       </listitem>
    4045 
    4046       <listitem>
    4047         <para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
    4048           (see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
    4049             any time using the VM menu</para>
    4050       </listitem>
    4051 
    4052       <listitem>
    4053         <para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
    4054       </listitem>
    4055 
    4056       <listitem>
    4057         <para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
    4058       </listitem>
    4059 
    4060       <listitem>
    4061         <para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
    4062       </listitem>
    4063 
    4064       <listitem>
    4065         <para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
    4066       </listitem>
    4067 
    4068       <listitem>
    4069         <para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
    4070       </listitem>
    4071 
    4072       <listitem>
    4073         <para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
    4074       </listitem>
    4075 
    4076       <listitem>
    4077         <para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
    4078       </listitem>
    4079 
    4080       <listitem>
    4081         <para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
    4082           through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
    4083       </listitem>
    4084 
    4085       <listitem>
    4086         <para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
    4087       </listitem>
    4088 
    4089       <listitem>
    4090         <para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
    4091           support for v2 images)</para>
    4092       </listitem>
    4093 
    4094       <listitem>
    4095         <para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
    4096       </listitem>
    4097 
    4098       <listitem>
    4099         <para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
    4100           saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
    4101       </listitem>
    4102 
    4103       <listitem>
    4104         <para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
    4105       </listitem>
    4106 
    4107       <listitem>
    4108         <para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
    4109       </listitem>
    4110 
    4111       <listitem>
    4112         <para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
    4113           VirtualBox update</para>
    4114       </listitem>
    4115 
    4116       <listitem>
    4117         <para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
    4118           to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
    4119       </listitem>
    4120 
    4121       <listitem>
    4122         <para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
    4123       </listitem>
    4124 
    4125     </itemizedlist>
    4126   </sect1>
    4127 
    4128   <sect1>
    4129     <title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
    4130 
    4131     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    4132       added:</para>
    4133 
    4134     <itemizedlist>
    4135 
    4136       <listitem>
    4137         <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
    4138           under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
    4139         and others)</para>
    4140       </listitem>
    4141 
    4142       <listitem>
    4143         <para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
    4144           hosts (bug #10528)</para>
    4145       </listitem>
    4146 
    4147       <listitem>
    4148         <para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
    4149           updating the screen size when minimized</para>
    4150       </listitem>
    4151 
    4152       <listitem>
    4153         <para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
    4154           after the guest storage controller has been reset</para>
    4155       </listitem>
    4156 
    4157       <listitem>
    4158         <para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
    4159           (Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
    4160       </listitem>
    4161 
    4162       <listitem>
    4163         <para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
    4164           (bug #10631)</para>
    4165       </listitem>
    4166 
    4167       <listitem>
    4168         <para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
    4169           unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
    4170           (bug #10624)</para>
    4171       </listitem>
    4172 
    4173       <listitem>
    4174         <para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
    4175       </listitem>
    4176 
    4177       <listitem>
    4178         <para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
    4179           updated (bug #9887)</para>
    4180       </listitem>
    4181 
    4182       <listitem>
    4183         <para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
    4184       </listitem>
    4185 
    4186     </itemizedlist>
    4187   </sect1>
    4188 
    4189   <sect1>
    4190     <title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
    4191 
    4192     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    4193       added:</para>
    4194 
    4195     <itemizedlist>
    4196 
    4197       <listitem>
    4198         <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
    4199           with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
    4200       </listitem>
    4201 
    4202       <listitem>
    4203         <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
    4204           with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
    4205       </listitem>
    4206 
    4207       <listitem>
    4208         <para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
    4209           required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
    4210           execution only; bug #9941)</para>
    4211       </listitem>
    4212 
    4213       <listitem>
    4214         <para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
    4215           guests in rare cases</para>
    4216       </listitem>
    4217 
    4218       <listitem>
    4219         <para>3D support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
    4220       </listitem>
    4221 
    4222       <listitem>
    4223         <para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
    4224           circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
    4225       </listitem>
    4226 
    4227       <listitem>
    4228         <para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
    4229           128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
    4230           Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
    4231       </listitem>
    4232 
    4233       <listitem>
    4234         <para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
    4235       </listitem>
    4236 
    4237       <listitem>
    4238         <para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
    4239       </listitem>
    4240 
    4241       <listitem>
    4242         <para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
    4243           reason (bug #6189)</para>
    4244       </listitem>
    4245 
    4246       <listitem>
    4247         <para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
    4248       </listitem>
    4249 
    4250       <listitem>
    4251         <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
    4252           paused</para>
    4253       </listitem>
    4254 
    4255       <listitem>
    4256         <para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
    4257           (bug #10267)</para>
    4258       </listitem>
    4259 
    4260       <listitem>
    4261         <para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
    4262       </listitem>
    4263 
    4264       <listitem>
    4265         <para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
    4266           (bug #10418)</para>
    4267       </listitem>
    4268 
    4269       <listitem>
    4270         <para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
    4271           during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
    4272           (bug #10581)</para>
    4273       </listitem>
    4274 
    4275       <listitem>
    4276         <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
    4277           cases (4.1.10 regression; bug #10408)</para>
    4278       </listitem>
    4279 
    4280       <listitem>
    4281         <para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
    4282           for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
    4283           to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
    4284       </listitem>
    4285 
    4286       <listitem>
    4287         <para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
    4288       </listitem>
    4289 
    4290     </itemizedlist>
    4291 
    4292   </sect1>
    4293 
    4294   <sect1>
    4295     <title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
    4296 
    4297     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    4298       added:</para>
    4299 
    4300     <itemizedlist>
    4301 
    4302       <listitem>
    4303         <para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
    4304           PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
    4305           (bug #3783)</para>
    4306       </listitem>
    4307 
    4308       <listitem>
    4309         <para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
    4310       </listitem>
    4311 
    4312       <listitem>
    4313         <para>3D support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
    4314           (bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
    4315       </listitem>
    4316 
    4317       <listitem>
    4318         <para>Windows Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
    4319       </listitem>
    4320 
    4321     </itemizedlist>
    4322 
    4323   </sect1>
    4324 
    4325   <sect1>
    4326     <title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
    4327 
    4328     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    4329       added:</para>
    4330 
    4331     <itemizedlist>
    4332 
    4333       <listitem>
    4334         <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
    4335           <emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
    4336           due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
    4337       </listitem>
    4338 
    4339       <listitem>
    4340         <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
    4341           under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
    4342       </listitem>
    4343 
    4344       <listitem>
    4345         <para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
    4346           legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
    4347       </listitem>
    4348 
    4349       <listitem>
    4350         <para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
    4351       </listitem>
    4352 
    4353       <listitem>
    4354         <para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
    4355       </listitem>
    4356 
    4357       <listitem>
    4358         <para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
    4359           4.1.10 regression)</para>
    4360       </listitem>
    4361 
    4362       <listitem>
    4363         <para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
    4364       </listitem>
    4365 
    4366       <listitem>
    4367         <para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
    4368           RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
    4369       </listitem>
    4370 
    4371       <listitem>
    4372         <para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
    4373       </listitem>
    4374 
    4375       <listitem>
    4376         <para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
    4377           <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
    4378       </listitem>
    4379 
    4380       <listitem>
    4381         <para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
    4382           4.1.10 regression)</para>
    4383       </listitem>
    4384 
    4385       <listitem>
    4386         <para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
    4387           closed (bug #6473)</para>
    4388       </listitem>
    4389 
    4390       <listitem>
    4391         <para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
    4392           properly installed</para>
    4393       </listitem>
    4394 
    4395       <listitem>
    4396         <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
    4397       </listitem>
    4398 
    4399     </itemizedlist>
    4400   </sect1>
    4401 
    4402   <sect1>
    4403     <title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
    4404 
    4405     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    4406       added:</para>
    4407 
    4408     <itemizedlist>
    4409 
    4410       <listitem>
    4411         <para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
    4412           do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
    4413       </listitem>
    4414 
    4415       <listitem>
    4416         <para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
    4417           <emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
    4418       </listitem>
    4419 
    4420       <listitem>
    4421         <para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
    4422           fusion</para>
    4423       </listitem>
    4424 
    4425       <listitem>
    4426         <para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
    4427            little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
    4428       </listitem>
    4429 
    4430       <listitem>
    4431         <para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
    4432           and network mask attributes</para>
    4433       </listitem>
    4434 
    4435       <listitem>
    4436         <para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
    4437           (bug #10030)</para>
    4438       </listitem>
    4439 
    4440       <listitem>
    4441         <para>3D support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
    4442           bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
    4443       </listitem>
    4444 
    4445       <listitem>
    4446         <para>3D support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
    4447       </listitem>
    4448 
    4449       <listitem>
    4450         <para>3D support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
    4451       </listitem>
    4452 
    4453       <listitem>
    4454         <para>3D support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
    4455           make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
    4456       </listitem>
    4457 
    4458       <listitem>
    4459         <para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
    4460       </listitem>
    4461 
    4462       <listitem>
    4463         <para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
    4464           images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
    4465       </listitem>
    4466 
    4467       <listitem>
    4468         <para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
    4469           when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
    4470       </listitem>
    4471 
    4472       <listitem>
    4473         <para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
    4474           (non-Windows hosts only)</para>
    4475       </listitem>
    4476 
    4477       <listitem>
    4478         <para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
    4479       </listitem>
    4480 
    4481       <listitem>
    4482         <para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
    4483       </listitem>
    4484 
    4485       <listitem>
    4486         <para>SDK: added Python example</para>
    4487       </listitem>
    4488 
    4489       <listitem>
    4490         <para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
    4491       </listitem>
    4492 
    4493       <listitem>
    4494         <para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
    4495       </listitem>
    4496 
    4497       <listitem>
    4498         <para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
    4499       </listitem>
    4500 
    4501       <listitem>
    4502         <para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
    4503           in a zone</para>
    4504       </listitem>
    4505 
    4506       <listitem>
    4507         <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
    4508       </listitem>
    4509 
    4510       <listitem>
    4511         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
    4512           (bug #9651)</para>
    4513       </listitem>
    4514 
    4515       <listitem>
    4516         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
    4517       </listitem>
    4518 
    4519       <listitem>
    4520         <para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
    4521            #10010)</para>
    4522       </listitem>
    4523 
    4524       <listitem>
    4525         <para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
    4526            folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
    4527       </listitem>
    4528 
    4529       <listitem>
    4530         <para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
    4531           memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
    4532       </listitem>
    4533 
    4534       <listitem>
    4535         <para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
    4536       </listitem>
    4537 
    4538       <listitem>
    4539         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
    4540           on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
    4541       </listitem>
    4542 
    4543       <listitem>
    4544         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
    4545           (bug #10151)</para>
    4546       </listitem>
    4547 
    4548       <listitem>
    4549         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
    4550           guests</para>
    4551       </listitem>
    4552 
    4553       <listitem>
    4554         <para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
    4555       </listitem>
    4556 
    4557       <listitem>
    4558         <para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
    4559       </listitem>
    4560 
    4561       <listitem>
    4562         <para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
    4563       </listitem>
    4564 
    4565     </itemizedlist>
    4566   </sect1>
    4567 
    4568   <sect1>
    4569     <title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
    4570 
    4571     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    4572       added:</para>
    4573 
    4574     <itemizedlist>
    4575 
    4576       <listitem>
    4577         <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
    4578           under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
    4579       </listitem>
    4580 
    4581       <listitem>
    4582         <para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
    4583       </listitem>
    4584 
    4585       <listitem>
    4586         <para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
    4587           (bug #9642)</para>
    4588       </listitem>
    4589 
    4590       <listitem>
    4591         <para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
    4592           Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
    4593         </para>
    4594       </listitem>
    4595 
    4596       <listitem>
    4597         <para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
    4598       </listitem>
    4599 
    4600       <listitem>
    4601         <para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
    4602           connections with port forwarding more robust (bug #8471)</para>
    4603       </listitem>
    4604 
    4605       <listitem>
    4606         <para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
    4607           metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
    4608       </listitem>
    4609 
    4610       <listitem>
    4611         <para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
    4612       </listitem>
    4613 
    4614       <listitem>
    4615         <para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
    4616       </listitem>
    4617 
    4618       <listitem>
    4619         <para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
    4620       </listitem>
    4621 
    4622       <listitem>
    4623         <para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
    4624           circumstances</para>
    4625       </listitem>
    4626 
    4627       <listitem>
    4628         <para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
    4629       </listitem>
    4630 
    4631       <listitem>
    4632         <para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
    4633           when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
    4634       </listitem>
    4635 
    4636       <listitem>
    4637         <para>3D support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
    4638           Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug #8341).
    4639           Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
    4640           and for 3D support in general</para>
    4641       </listitem>
    4642 
    4643       <listitem>
    4644         <para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
    4645       </listitem>
    4646 
    4647       <listitem>
    4648         <para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
    4649       </listitem>
    4650 
    4651       <listitem>
    4652         <para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
    4653       </listitem>
    4654 
    4655       <listitem>
    4656         <para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
    4657           detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
    4658       </listitem>
    4659 
    4660     </itemizedlist>
    4661   </sect1>
    4662 
    4663   <sect1>
    4664     <title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
    4665 
    4666     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    4667       added:</para>
    4668 
    4669     <itemizedlist>
    4670 
    4671       <listitem>
    4672         <para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
    4673       </listitem>
    4674 
    4675       <listitem>
    4676         <para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
    4677           ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
    4678       </listitem>
    4679 
    4680       <listitem>
    4681         <para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
    4682           or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
    4683       </listitem>
    4684 
    4685       <listitem>
    4686         <para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
    4687           certain guests</para>
    4688       </listitem>
    4689 
    4690       <listitem>
    4691         <para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
    4692       </listitem>
    4693 
    4694       <listitem>
    4695         <para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
    4696           the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
    4697           preview window in the GUI for example</para>
    4698       </listitem>
    4699 
    4700       <listitem>
    4701         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
    4702           bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
    4703       </listitem>
    4704 
    4705       <listitem>
    4706         <para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
    4707       </listitem>
    4708 
    4709       <listitem>
    4710         <para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
    4711           from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
    4712       </listitem>
    4713 
    4714       <listitem>
    4715         <para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
    4716       </listitem>
    4717 
    4718       <listitem>
    4719         <para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
    4720            Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
    4721       </listitem>
    4722 
    4723       <listitem>
    4724         <para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
    4725           guests</para>
    4726       </listitem>
    4727 
    4728       <listitem>
    4729         <para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
    4730            folders</para>
    4731       </listitem>
    4732 
    4733       <listitem>
    4734         <para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
    4735           shared folders</para>
    4736       </listitem>
    4737 
    4738       <listitem>
    4739         <para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
    4740           users and stale sessions</para>
    4741       </listitem>
    4742 
    4743       <listitem>
    4744         <para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
    4745            virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
    4746       </listitem>
    4747 
    4748     </itemizedlist>
    4749   </sect1>
    4750 
    4751   <sect1>
    4752     <title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
    4753 
    4754     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    4755       added:</para>
    4756 
    4757     <itemizedlist>
    4758 
    4759       <listitem>
    4760         <para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
    4761           bug #9458)</para>
    4762       </listitem>
    4763 
    4764       <listitem>
    4765         <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
    4766           caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
    4767       </listitem>
    4768 
    4769       <listitem>
    4770         <para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
    4771           emulation under rare circumstances</para>
    4772       </listitem>
    4773 
    4774       <listitem>
    4775         <para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
    4776       </listitem>
    4777 
    4778       <listitem>
    4779         <para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
    4780           to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
    4781       </listitem>
    4782 
    4783       <listitem>
    4784         <para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
    4785           (4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
    4786       </listitem>
    4787 
    4788       <listitem>
    4789         <para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
    4790           (bug #9308)</para>
    4791       </listitem>
    4792 
    4793       <listitem>
    4794         <para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
    4795           <emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
    4796       </listitem>
    4797 
    4798       <listitem>
    4799         <para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
    4800           (bug #9503)</para>
    4801       </listitem>
    4802 
    4803       <listitem>
    4804         <para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
    4805           (bug #9242)</para>
    4806       </listitem>
    4807 
    4808       <listitem>
    4809         <para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
    4810           usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
    4811           bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
    4812       </listitem>
    4813 
    4814       <listitem>
    4815         <para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
    4816       </listitem>
    4817 
    4818       <listitem>
    4819         <para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
    4820           images</para>
    4821       </listitem>
    4822 
    4823       <listitem>
    4824         <para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
    4825           (Windows hosts only)</para>
    4826       </listitem>
    4827 
    4828       <listitem>
    4829         <para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
    4830           not exist (bug #7941)</para>
    4831       </listitem>
    4832 
    4833       <listitem>
    4834         <para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
    4835           resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
    4836       </listitem>
    4837 
    4838       <listitem>
    4839         <para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
    4840           restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
    4841       </listitem>
    4842 
    4843       <listitem>
    4844         <para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
    4845           #9387)</para>
    4846       </listitem>
    4847 
    4848       <listitem>
    4849         <para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
    4850           snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
    4851       </listitem>
    4852 
    4853       <listitem>
    4854         <para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
    4855           headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
    4856       </listitem>
    4857 
    4858       <listitem>
    4859         <para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
    4860           MTU (bug #9370)</para>
    4861       </listitem>
    4862 
    4863       <listitem>
    4864         <para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
    4865           to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
    4866       </listitem>
    4867 
    4868       <listitem>
    4869         <para>3D support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
    4870       </listitem>
    4871 
    4872       <listitem>
    4873         <para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
    4874       </listitem>
    4875 
    4876       <listitem>
    4877         <para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
    4878           (4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
    4879       </listitem>
    4880 
    4881       <listitem>
    4882         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
    4883           (bug #1578)</para>
    4884       </listitem>
    4885 
    4886       <listitem>
    4887         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
    4888           interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
    4889       </listitem>
    4890 
    4891       <listitem>
    4892         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
    4893           bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
    4894       </listitem>
    4895 
    4896       <listitem>
    4897         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
    4898           (bug #9535)</para>
    4899       </listitem>
    4900 
    4901       <listitem>
    4902         <para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
    4903           on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
    4904       </listitem>
    4905 
    4906       <listitem>
    4907         <para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
    4908           help file (bug #9646)</para>
    4909       </listitem>
    4910 
    4911       <listitem>
    4912         <para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
    4913           appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
    4914       </listitem>
    4915 
    4916       <listitem>
    4917         <para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
    4918           console window (bug #3549)</para>
    4919       </listitem>
    4920 
    4921       <listitem>
    4922         <para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
    4923           output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
    4924       </listitem>
    4925 
    4926       <listitem>
    4927         <para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
    4928           </para>
    4929       </listitem>
    4930 
    4931       <listitem>
    4932         <para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
    4933            a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
    4934           </para>
    4935       </listitem>
    4936 
    4937       <listitem>
    4938         <para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
    4939            (bug #6229)
    4940           </para>
    4941       </listitem>
    4942 
    4943       <listitem>
    4944         <para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
    4945           compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
    4946       </listitem>
    4947 
    4948       <listitem>
    4949         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
    4950           (from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
    4951       </listitem>
    4952 
    4953       <listitem>
    4954         <para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
    4955           (4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
    4956       </listitem>
    4957 
    4958       <listitem>
    4959         <para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
    4960           BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
    4961       </listitem>
    4962 
    4963       <listitem>
    4964         <para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
    4965           with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
    4966       </listitem>
    4967 
    4968       <listitem>
    4969         <para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
    4970           with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
    4971       </listitem>
    4972 
    4973       <listitem>
    4974         <para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
    4975           outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
    4976       </listitem>
    4977 
    4978       <listitem>
    4979         <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
    4980           text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
    4981       </listitem>
    4982 
    4983     </itemizedlist>
    4984   </sect1>
    4985 
    4986   <sect1>
    4987     <title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
    4988 
    4989     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    4990       added:</para>
    4991 
    4992     <itemizedlist>
    4993 
    4994       <listitem>
    4995         <para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
    4996       </listitem>
    4997 
    4998       <listitem>
    4999         <para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
    5000           machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
    5001       </listitem>
    5002 
    5003       <listitem>
    5004         <para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
    5005       </listitem>
    5006 
    5007       <listitem>
    5008         <para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
    5009           (4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
    5010       </listitem>
    5011 
    5012       <listitem>
    5013         <para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
    5014           vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
    5015       </listitem>
    5016 
    5017       <listitem>
    5018         <para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
    5019           a live snapshot</para>
    5020       </listitem>
    5021 
    5022       <listitem>
    5023         <para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
    5024           due to a library version conflict</para>
    5025       </listitem>
    5026 
    5027       <listitem>
    5028         <para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
    5029           guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
    5030       </listitem>
    5031 
    5032       <listitem>
    5033         <para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
    5034           at a time by default</para>
    5035       </listitem>
    5036 
    5037       <listitem>
    5038         <para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
    5039           warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
    5040           #9368)</para>
    5041       </listitem>
    5042 
    5043       <listitem>
    5044         <para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
    5045           registered (bug #9303)</para>
    5046       </listitem>
    5047 
    5048       <listitem>
    5049         <para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
    5050           VMs</para>
    5051       </listitem>
    5052 
    5053       <listitem>
    5054         <para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
    5055           creation (bug #9379)</para>
    5056       </listitem>
    5057 
    5058       <listitem>
    5059         <para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
    5060           <emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
    5061           to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
    5062       </listitem>
    5063 
    5064       <listitem>
    5065         <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
    5066           (bug #9308)</para>
    5067       </listitem>
    5068 
    5069       <listitem>
    5070         <para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
    5071           <emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
    5072       </listitem>
    5073 
    5074       <listitem>
    5075         <para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
    5076       </listitem>
    5077 
    5078       <listitem>
    5079         <para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
    5080            affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
    5081        </listitem>
    5082 
    5083       <listitem>
    5084         <para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
    5085           (bug #9242)</para>
    5086       </listitem>
    5087 
    5088       <listitem>
    5089         <para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
    5090           requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
    5091       </listitem>
    5092 
    5093       <listitem>
    5094         <para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
    5095           fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
    5096       </listitem>
    5097 
    5098       <listitem>
    5099         <para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
    5100           USB devices</para>
    5101       </listitem>
    5102 
    5103       <listitem>
    5104         <para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
    5105           and warn about it</para>
    5106       </listitem>
    5107 
    5108       <listitem>
    5109           <para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
    5110       </listitem>
    5111 
    5112       <listitem>
    5113         <para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
    5114       </listitem>
    5115 
    5116       <listitem>
    5117         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
    5118           with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
    5119       </listitem>
    5120 
    5121       <listitem>
    5122         <para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
    5123           (4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
    5124       </listitem>
    5125 
    5126       <listitem>
    5127         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
    5128           module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
    5129       </listitem>
    5130 
    5131       <listitem>
    5132         <para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
    5133           some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
    5134       </listitem>
    5135 
    5136       <listitem>
    5137         <para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
    5138           and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
    5139       </listitem>
    5140 
    5141       <listitem>
    5142         <para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
    5143           fixed WinSAT crashes (bug #9267)</para>
    5144       </listitem>
    5145 
    5146       <listitem>
    5147         <para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
    5148           2.6.37 and above</para>
    5149       </listitem>
    5150 
    5151     </itemizedlist>
    5152   </sect1>
    5153 
    5154   <sect1>
    5155     <title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
    5156 
    5157     <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
    5158       were added:</para>
    5159 
    5160     <itemizedlist>
    5161 
    5162       <listitem>
    5163         <para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
    5164           <xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
    5165           and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
    5166       </listitem>
    5167 
    5168       <listitem>
    5169         <para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
    5170       </listitem>
    5171 
    5172       <listitem>
    5173         <para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
    5174       </listitem>
    5175 
    5176       <listitem>
    5177         <para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and Mac OS X hosts
    5178           only; bug #7822)</para>
    5179       </listitem>
    5180 
    5181       <listitem>
    5182         <para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
    5183       </listitem>
    5184 
    5185       <listitem>
    5186         <para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
    5187           <xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
    5188       </listitem>
    5189 
    5190       <listitem>
    5191         <para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
    5192           Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
    5193           cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
    5194           anymore)</para>
    5195       </listitem>
    5196 
    5197       <listitem>
    5198         <para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
    5199           queried separately by the frontends</para>
    5200       </listitem>
    5201 
    5202       <listitem>
    5203         <para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
    5204           offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
    5205           distributable virtual network implementations</para>
    5206       </listitem>
    5207 
    5208       <listitem>
    5209         <para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
    5210         </para>
    5211       </listitem>
    5212 
    5213       <listitem>
    5214         <para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
    5215         interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
    5216         see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
    5217       </listitem>
    5218 
    5219       <listitem>
    5220         <para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
    5221           with VBoxManage</para>
    5222       </listitem>
    5223 
    5224       <listitem>
    5225         <para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
    5226           Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
    5227       </listitem>
    5228 
    5229 
    5230     </itemizedlist>
    5231 
    5232     <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
    5233 
    5234     <itemizedlist>
    5235 
    5236       <listitem>
    5237         <para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
    5238       </listitem>
    5239 
    5240       <listitem>
    5241         <para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
    5242       </listitem>
    5243 
    5244       <listitem>
    5245         <para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
    5246       </listitem>
    5247 
    5248       <listitem>
    5249         <para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
    5250           of the current state</para>
    5251       </listitem>
    5252 
    5253       <listitem>
    5254         <para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
    5255       </listitem>
    5256 
    5257       <listitem>
    5258         <para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
    5259           internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
    5260       </listitem>
    5261 
    5262       <listitem>
    5263         <para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
    5264           limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
    5265           see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
    5266       </listitem>
    5267 
    5268       <listitem>
    5269         <para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
    5270           a VM (bug #1551)</para>
    5271       </listitem>
    5272 
    5273       <listitem>
    5274         <para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
    5275       </listitem>
    5276 
    5277       <listitem>
    5278         <para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
    5279       </listitem>
    5280 
    5281       <listitem>
    5282         <para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
    5283           dialog</para>
    5284       </listitem>
    5285 
    5286       <listitem>
    5287         <para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
    5288           attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
    5289           when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
    5290       </listitem>
    5291 
    5292       <listitem>
    5293         <para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
    5294           command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
    5295       </listitem>
    5296 
    5297       <listitem>
    5298         <para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
    5299           of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
    5300       </listitem>
    5301 
    5302       <listitem>
    5303         <para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
    5304           be a valid UUID</para>
    5305       </listitem>
    5306 
    5307       <listitem>
    5308         <para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
    5309           twice in a VM configuration</para>
    5310       </listitem>
    5311 
    5312       <listitem>
    5313         <para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
    5314           create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
    5315           cases</para>
    5316       </listitem>
    5317 
    5318       <listitem>
    5319         <para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
    5320           the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
    5321           improve performance</para>
    5322       </listitem>
    5323 
    5324       <listitem>
    5325         <para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
    5326           ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
    5327           on a temporary basis</para>
    5328       </listitem>
    5329 
    5330       <listitem>
    5331         <para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
    5332           a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
    5333           exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
    5334       </listitem>
    5335 
    5336       <listitem>
    5337         <para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
    5338           with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
    5339       </listitem>
    5340 
    5341       <listitem>
    5342         <para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
    5343           images in VDI format</para>
    5344       </listitem>
    5345 
    5346       <listitem>
    5347         <para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
    5348           VMDK format</para>
    5349       </listitem>
    5350 
    5351       <listitem>
    5352         <para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
    5353           controller (bug #8592)</para>
    5354       </listitem>
    5355 
    5356       <listitem>
    5357         <para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
    5358       </listitem>
    5359 
    5360       <listitem>
    5361         <para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
    5362       </listitem>
    5363 
    5364       <listitem>
    5365         <para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
    5366       </listitem>
    5367 
    5368       <listitem>
    5369         <para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
    5370       </listitem>
    5371 
    5372       <listitem>
    5373         <para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
    5374       </listitem>
    5375 
    5376       <listitem>
    5377         <para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
    5378           when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
    5379       </listitem>
    5380 
    5381       <listitem>
    5382         <para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
    5383           directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
    5384       </listitem>
    5385 
    5386       <listitem>
    5387         <para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
    5388           Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
    5389       </listitem>
    5390 
    5391       <listitem>
    5392         <para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
    5393           <xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
    5394       </listitem>
    5395 
    5396       <listitem>
    5397         <para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
    5398           RDP clients</para>
    5399       </listitem>
    5400 
    5401       <listitem>
    5402         <para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
    5403       </listitem>
    5404 
    5405       <listitem>
    5406         <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
    5407           different locales (bug #8916)</para>
    5408       </listitem>
    5409 
    5410       <listitem>
    5411         <para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
    5412           be more robust when connections fail</para>
    5413       </listitem>
    5414 
    5415       <listitem>
    5416         <para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
    5417           simultaneously</para>
    5418       </listitem>
    5419 
    5420       <listitem>
    5421         <para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
    5422           which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
    5423           location values in many places</para>
    5424       </listitem>
    5425 
    5426       <listitem>
    5427         <para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
    5428       </listitem>
    5429 
    5430       <listitem>
    5431         <para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
    5432           builds</para>
    5433       </listitem>
    5434 
    5435       <listitem>
    5436         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
    5437       </listitem>
    5438 
    5439       <listitem>
    5440         <para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
    5441           window (bug #4491)</para>
    5442       </listitem>
    5443 
    5444       <listitem>
    5445         <para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
    5446           removing a VM</para>
    5447       </listitem>
    5448 
    5449       <listitem>
    5450         <para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
    5451       </listitem>
    5452 
    5453       <listitem>
    5454         <para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
    5455       </listitem>
    5456 
    5457       <listitem>
    5458         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
    5459           166 and above)</para>
    5460       </listitem>
    5461 
    5462       <listitem>
    5463         <para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
    5464           hosts</para>
    5465       </listitem>
    5466 
    5467       <listitem>
    5468         <para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
    5469       </listitem>
    5470 
    5471        <listitem>
    5472         <para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
    5473           from the host</para>
    5474       </listitem>
    5475 
    5476       <listitem>
    5477         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
    5478       </listitem>
    5479 
    5480     </itemizedlist>
    5481 
    5482   </sect1>
    5483 
    5484   <sect1>
    5485     <title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
    5486 
    5487     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    5488       added:</para>
    5489 
    5490     <itemizedlist>
    5491 
    5492       <listitem>
    5493         <para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
    5494       </listitem>
    5495 
    5496       <listitem>
    5497         <para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
    5498           machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
    5499       </listitem>
    5500 
    5501       <listitem>
    5502         <para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
    5503           vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
    5504       </listitem>
    5505 
    5506       <listitem>
    5507         <para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
    5508           a live snapshot</para>
    5509       </listitem>
    5510 
    5511       <listitem>
    5512         <para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
    5513           (4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
    5514       </listitem>
    5515 
    5516       <listitem>
    5517         <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
    5518       </listitem>
    5519 
    5520       <listitem>
    5521         <para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
    5522       </listitem>
    5523 
    5524       <listitem>
    5525         <para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
    5526           or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
    5527       </listitem>
    5528 
    5529       <listitem>
    5530         <para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
    5531            affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
    5532       </listitem>
    5533 
    5534       <listitem>
    5535         <para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
    5536           requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
    5537       </listitem>
    5538 
    5539       <listitem>
    5540         <para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
    5541       </listitem>
    5542 
    5543       <listitem>
    5544         <para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
    5545           images</para>
    5546       </listitem>
    5547 
    5548       <listitem>
    5549         <para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
    5550           (Windows hosts only)</para>
    5551       </listitem>
    5552       <listitem>
    5553         <para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
    5554           registered (bug #9303)</para>
    5555       </listitem>
    5556 
    5557       <listitem>
    5558         <para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
    5559           warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
    5560       </listitem>
    5561 
    5562       <listitem>
    5563         <para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
    5564       </listitem>
    5565 
    5566       <listitem>
    5567         <para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
    5568           headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
    5569       </listitem>
    5570 
    5571       <listitem>
    5572         <para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
    5573           the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
    5574       </listitem>
    5575 
    5576       <listitem>
    5577         <para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
    5578       </listitem>
    5579 
    5580       <listitem>
    5581         <para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
    5582           (bug #9370)</para>
    5583       </listitem>
    5584 
    5585       <listitem>
    5586         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
    5587           (bug #9535)</para>
    5588       </listitem>
    5589 
    5590       <listitem>
    5591         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
    5592           (bug #1578)</para>
    5593       </listitem>
    5594 
    5595       <listitem>
    5596         <para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
    5597           some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
    5598       </listitem>
    5599 
    5600       <listitem>
    5601         <para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
    5602            a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
    5603           </para>
    5604       </listitem>
    5605 
    5606       <listitem>
    5607         <para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
    5608           </para>
    5609       </listitem>
    5610 
    5611       <listitem>
    5612         <para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
    5613           2.6.37 and above</para>
    5614       </listitem>
    5615 
    5616       <listitem>
    5617         <para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
    5618            (bug #6229)</para>
    5619       </listitem>
    5620 
    5621       <listitem>
    5622         <para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
    5623           compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
    5624       </listitem>
    5625 
    5626     </itemizedlist>
    5627   </sect1>
    5628 
    5629   <sect1>
    5630     <title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
    5631 
    5632     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    5633       added:</para>
    5634 
    5635     <itemizedlist>
    5636 
    5637       <listitem>
    5638         <para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
    5639       </listitem>
    5640 
    5641       <listitem>
    5642         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
    5643           166 and above)</para>
    5644       </listitem>
    5645 
    5646       <listitem>
    5647         <para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
    5648           attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
    5649           when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
    5650       </listitem>
    5651 
    5652       <listitem>
    5653         <para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
    5654           with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
    5655       </listitem>
    5656 
    5657       <listitem>
    5658         <para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
    5659           controller (bug #8592)</para>
    5660       </listitem>
    5661 
    5662       <listitem>
    5663         <para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
    5664       </listitem>
    5665 
    5666       <listitem>
    5667         <para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
    5668           when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
    5669       </listitem>
    5670 
    5671       <listitem>
    5672         <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
    5673           different locales (bug #8916)</para>
    5674       </listitem>
    5675 
    5676       <listitem>
    5677         <para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
    5678           builds</para>
    5679       </listitem>
    5680 
    5681       <listitem>
    5682         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
    5683       </listitem>
    5684 
    5685     </itemizedlist>
    5686   </sect1>
    5687   <sect1>
    5688     <title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
    5689 
    5690     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    5691       added:</para>
    5692 
    5693     <itemizedlist>
    5694 
    5695       <listitem>
    5696         <para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
    5697       </listitem>
    5698 
    5699       <listitem>
    5700         <para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
    5701       </listitem>
    5702 
    5703       <listitem>
    5704         <para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
    5705           after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
    5706       </listitem>
    5707 
    5708       <listitem>
    5709         <para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
    5710           (for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
    5711       </listitem>
    5712 
    5713       <listitem>
    5714         <para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
    5715       </listitem>
    5716 
    5717       <listitem>
    5718         <para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
    5719           another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
    5720       </listitem>
    5721 
    5722       <listitem>
    5723         <para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
    5724       </listitem>
    5725 
    5726       <listitem>
    5727         <para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
    5728           (partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
    5729       </listitem>
    5730 
    5731       <listitem>
    5732         <para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
    5733           with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
    5734       </listitem>
    5735 
    5736       <listitem>
    5737         <para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
    5738       </listitem>
    5739 
    5740       <listitem>
    5741         <para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
    5742       </listitem>
    5743 
    5744       <listitem>
    5745         <para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
    5746           file was not written during export</para>
    5747       </listitem>
    5748 
    5749       <listitem>
    5750         <para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
    5751       </listitem>
    5752 
    5753       <listitem>
    5754         <para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
    5755       </listitem>
    5756 
    5757       <listitem>
    5758         <para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
    5759       </listitem>
    5760 
    5761       <listitem>
    5762         <para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
    5763           binaries</para>
    5764       </listitem>
    5765 
    5766       <listitem>
    5767         <para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
    5768       </listitem>
    5769 
    5770       <listitem>
    5771         <para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
    5772           of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
    5773       </listitem>
    5774 
    5775       <listitem>
    5776         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
    5777           (4.0.8 regression)</para>
    5778       </listitem>
    5779 
    5780       <listitem>
    5781         <para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
    5782       </listitem>
    5783 
    5784       <listitem>
    5785         <para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
    5786             guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
    5787       </listitem>
    5788 
    5789     </itemizedlist>
    5790   </sect1>
    5791 
    5792   <sect1>
    5793     <title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
    5794 
    5795     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    5796       added:</para>
    5797 
    5798     <itemizedlist>
    5799 
    5800       <listitem>
    5801         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
    5802           versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
    5803       </listitem>
    5804 
    5805       <listitem>
    5806         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
    5807           than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
    5808       </listitem>
    5809 
    5810       <listitem>
    5811         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
    5812           64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
    5813       </listitem>
    5814 
    5815       <listitem>
    5816         <para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
    5817           host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
    5818       </listitem>
    5819 
    5820       <listitem>
    5821         <para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
    5822           problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
    5823       </listitem>
    5824 
    5825       <listitem>
    5826         <para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
    5827           subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
    5828       </listitem>
    5829 
    5830       <listitem>
    5831         <para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
    5832           (Windows hosts only)</para>
    5833       </listitem>
    5834 
    5835       <listitem>
    5836         <para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
    5837           Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
    5838       </listitem>
    5839 
    5840       <listitem>
    5841         <para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
    5842       </listitem>
    5843 
    5844       <listitem>
    5845         <para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
    5846       </listitem>
    5847 
    5848       <listitem>
    5849         <para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
    5850           (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
    5851       </listitem>
    5852 
    5853       <listitem>
    5854         <para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
    5855           asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
    5856       </listitem>
    5857 
    5858       <listitem>
    5859         <para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
    5860       </listitem>
    5861 
    5862       <listitem>
    5863         <para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
    5864       </listitem>
    5865 
    5866       <listitem>
    5867         <para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
    5868           (Linux hosts only)</para>
    5869       </listitem>
    5870 
    5871       <listitem>
    5872         <para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
    5873           (Windows hosts only)</para>
    5874       </listitem>
    5875 
    5876       <listitem>
    5877         <para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
    5878           window</para>
    5879       </listitem>
    5880 
    5881       <listitem>
    5882         <para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
    5883           Fedora 15</para>
    5884       </listitem>
    5885 
    5886       <listitem>
    5887         <para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
    5888           registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
    5889       </listitem>
    5890 
    5891       <listitem>
    5892         <para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
    5893           host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
    5894       </listitem>
    5895 
    5896       <listitem>
    5897         <para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
    5898           building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
    5899       </listitem>
    5900 
    5901       <listitem>
    5902         <para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
    5903       </listitem>
    5904 
    5905       <listitem>
    5906         <para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
    5907           notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
    5908       </listitem>
    5909 
    5910     </itemizedlist>
    5911   </sect1>
    5912 
    5913   <sect1>
    5914     <title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
    5915 
    5916     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    5917       added:</para>
    5918 
    5919     <itemizedlist>
    5920 
    5921       <listitem>
    5922         <para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
    5923           a VMM from a saved state</para>
    5924       </listitem>
    5925 
    5926       <listitem>
    5927         <para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
    5928           implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
    5929       </listitem>
    5930 
    5931       <listitem>
    5932         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
    5933           (bug #8006)</para>
    5934       </listitem>
    5935 
    5936       <listitem>
    5937         <para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
    5938           (bug #8726)</para>
    5939       </listitem>
    5940 
    5941       <listitem>
    5942         <para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
    5943       </listitem>
    5944 
    5945       <listitem>
    5946         <para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
    5947       </listitem>
    5948 
    5949       <listitem>
    5950         <para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
    5951           tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
    5952       </listitem>
    5953 
    5954       <listitem>
    5955         <para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
    5956           (bug #8469)</para>
    5957       </listitem>
    5958 
    5959       <listitem>
    5960         <para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
    5961           selectors</para>
    5962       </listitem>
    5963 
    5964       <listitem>
    5965         <para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
    5966           proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
    5967       </listitem>
    5968 
    5969       <listitem>
    5970         <para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
    5971           folder (bug #8673)</para>
    5972       </listitem>
    5973 
    5974       <listitem>
    5975         <para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
    5976           registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
    5977       </listitem>
    5978 
    5979       <listitem>
    5980         <para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
    5981       </listitem>
    5982 
    5983       <listitem>
    5984         <para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
    5985           (Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
    5986       </listitem>
    5987 
    5988       <listitem>
    5989         <para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
    5990       </listitem>
    5991 
    5992       <listitem>
    5993         <para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
    5994       </listitem>
    5995 
    5996       <listitem>
    5997         <para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
    5998           VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
    5999       </listitem>
    6000 
    6001       <listitem>
    6002         <para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
    6003           I/O error occurred</para>
    6004       </listitem>
    6005 
    6006       <listitem>
    6007         <para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
    6008           (bug #8276, #8294)</para>
    6009       </listitem>
    6010 
    6011       <listitem>
    6012         <para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
    6013           streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
    6014       </listitem>
    6015 
    6016       <listitem>
    6017         <para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
    6018           Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
    6019           if no medium is present</para>
    6020       </listitem>
    6021 
    6022       <listitem>
    6023         <para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
    6024       </listitem>
    6025 
    6026       <listitem>
    6027         <para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
    6028           hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
    6029       </listitem>
    6030 
    6031       <listitem>
    6032         <para>Host-Only &amp; Bridged &amp; Internal Networking: fix for processing
    6033           promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
    6034       </listitem>
    6035 
    6036       <listitem>
    6037         <para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
    6038           host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
    6039       </listitem>
    6040 
    6041       <listitem>
    6042         <para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
    6043       </listitem>
    6044 
    6045       <listitem>
    6046         <para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
    6047           assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
    6048       </listitem>
    6049 
    6050       <listitem>
    6051         <para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
    6052           library (bug #8063)</para>
    6053       </listitem>
    6054 
    6055       <listitem>
    6056         <para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
    6057           for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
    6058       </listitem>
    6059 
    6060       <listitem>
    6061         <para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
    6062       </listitem>
    6063 
    6064       <listitem>
    6065         <para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
    6066       </listitem>
    6067 
    6068       <listitem>
    6069         <para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
    6070       </listitem>
    6071 
    6072       <listitem>
    6073         <para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
    6074           changed on import</para>
    6075       </listitem>
    6076 
    6077       <listitem>
    6078         <para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
    6079       </listitem>
    6080 
    6081       <listitem>
    6082         <para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
    6083           multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
    6084       </listitem>
    6085 
    6086       <listitem>
    6087         <para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
    6088           (bug #8593)</para>
    6089       </listitem>
    6090 
    6091       <listitem>
    6092         <para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
    6093           sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
    6094       </listitem>
    6095 
    6096       <listitem>
    6097         <para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
    6098           captured</para>
    6099       </listitem>
    6100 
    6101       <listitem>
    6102         <para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
    6103           (shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
    6104       </listitem>
    6105 
    6106       <listitem>
    6107         <para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
    6108           </para>
    6109       </listitem>
    6110 
    6111       <listitem>
    6112         <para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
    6113           help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
    6114       </listitem>
    6115 
    6116       <listitem>
    6117         <para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
    6118           VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
    6119       </listitem>
    6120 
    6121       <listitem>
    6122         <para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
    6123           version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
    6124           problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
    6125       </listitem>
    6126 
    6127       <listitem>
    6128         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
    6129           to unkillable VM processes</para>
    6130       </listitem>
    6131 
    6132       <listitem>
    6133         <para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
    6134       </listitem>
    6135 
    6136       <listitem>
    6137         <para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
    6138           circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
    6139       </listitem>
    6140 
    6141       <listitem>
    6142         <para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
    6143           on legacy Windows versions</para>
    6144       </listitem>
    6145 
    6146       <listitem>
    6147         <para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
    6148           messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
    6149       </listitem>
    6150 
    6151       <listitem>
    6152         <para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
    6153       </listitem>
    6154 
    6155       <listitem>
    6156         <para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
    6157       </listitem>
    6158 
    6159       <listitem>
    6160         <para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
    6161       </listitem>
    6162 
    6163       <listitem>
    6164         <para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
    6165       </listitem>
    6166 
    6167       <listitem>
    6168         <para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
    6169           (bug #7946)</para>
    6170       </listitem>
    6171 
    6172       <listitem>
    6173         <para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
    6174       </listitem>
    6175 
    6176       <listitem>
    6177         <para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
    6178       </listitem>
    6179 
    6180       <listitem>
    6181         <para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
    6182       </listitem>
    6183 
    6184     </itemizedlist>
    6185 
    6186   </sect1>
    6187 
    6188   <sect1>
    6189     <title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
    6190 
    6191     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    6192       added:</para>
    6193 
    6194     <itemizedlist>
    6195 
    6196       <listitem>
    6197         <para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
    6198           (bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
    6199       </listitem>
    6200 
    6201       <listitem>
    6202         <para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
    6203           enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
    6204       </listitem>
    6205 
    6206       <listitem>
    6207         <para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
    6208           programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
    6209       </listitem>
    6210 
    6211       <listitem>
    6212         <para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
    6213           (bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
    6214       </listitem>
    6215 
    6216       <listitem>
    6217         <para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
    6218           number of host network interfaces</para>
    6219       </listitem>
    6220 
    6221       <listitem>
    6222         <para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
    6223           snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
    6224       </listitem>
    6225 
    6226       <listitem>
    6227         <para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
    6228       </listitem>
    6229 
    6230       <listitem>
    6231         <para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
    6232           the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
    6233       </listitem>
    6234 
    6235       <listitem>
    6236         <para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
    6237           by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
    6238       </listitem>
    6239 
    6240       <listitem>
    6241         <para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
    6242           (4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
    6243       </listitem>
    6244 
    6245       <listitem>
    6246         <para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
    6247       </listitem>
    6248 
    6249       <listitem>
    6250         <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
    6251           (bug #6577)</para>
    6252       </listitem>
    6253 
    6254       <listitem>
    6255         <para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
    6256             --wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
    6257           (bug #8235)</para>
    6258       </listitem>
    6259 
    6260       <listitem>
    6261         <para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
    6262             --wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
    6263           to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
    6264       </listitem>
    6265 
    6266       <listitem>
    6267         <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
    6268       </listitem>
    6269 
    6270       <listitem>
    6271         <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
    6272           DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
    6273       </listitem>
    6274 
    6275       <listitem>
    6276         <para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
    6277       </listitem>
    6278 
    6279       <listitem>
    6280         <para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
    6281           (bug #7966)</para>
    6282       </listitem>
    6283 
    6284       <listitem>
    6285         <para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
    6286       </listitem>
    6287 
    6288       <listitem>
    6289         <para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
    6290       </listitem>
    6291 
    6292       <listitem>
    6293         <para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
    6294       </listitem>
    6295 
    6296       <listitem>
    6297         <para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
    6298           attachments (bug #8129)</para>
    6299       </listitem>
    6300 
    6301       <listitem>
    6302         <para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
    6303       </listitem>
    6304 
    6305       <listitem>
    6306         <para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
    6307       </listitem>
    6308 
    6309       <listitem>
    6310         <para>Host-Only &amp; Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
    6311           for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
    6312       </listitem>
    6313 
    6314       <listitem>
    6315         <para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
    6316           vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
    6317       </listitem>
    6318 
    6319       <listitem>
    6320         <para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
    6321       </listitem>
    6322 
    6323       <listitem>
    6324         <para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
    6325           announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
    6326       </listitem>
    6327 
    6328       <listitem>
    6329         <para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
    6330            to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
    6331            (bug #8122)</para>
    6332       </listitem>
    6333 
    6334       <listitem>
    6335         <para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
    6336           disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
    6337       </listitem>
    6338 
    6339       <listitem>
    6340         <para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
    6341       </listitem>
    6342 
    6343       <listitem>
    6344         <para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
    6345       </listitem>
    6346 
    6347       <listitem>
    6348         <para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
    6349           (bug #1548)</para>
    6350       </listitem>
    6351 
    6352       <listitem>
    6353         <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
    6354       </listitem>
    6355 
    6356       <listitem>
    6357         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
    6358           without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
    6359       </listitem>
    6360 
    6361       <listitem>
    6362         <para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
    6363       </listitem>
    6364 
    6365       <listitem>
    6366         <para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
    6367            (bug #8231)</para>
    6368       </listitem>
    6369 
    6370       <listitem>
    6371         <para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
    6372            11.04 Alpha</para>
    6373       </listitem>
    6374 
    6375       <listitem>
    6376         <para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
    6377           prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
    6378       </listitem>
    6379 
    6380       <listitem>
    6381         <para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
    6382            VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
    6383       </listitem>
    6384 
    6385       <listitem>
    6386         <para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
    6387           a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
    6388       </listitem>
    6389 
    6390       <listitem>
    6391         <para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
    6392           with VBoxGINA</para>
    6393       </listitem>
    6394 
    6395     </itemizedlist>
    6396 
    6397   </sect1>
    6398 
    6399   <sect1>
    6400     <title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
    6401 
    6402     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    6403       added:</para>
    6404 
    6405     <itemizedlist>
    6406 
    6407       <listitem>
    6408         <para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
    6409           settings vanished</para>
    6410       </listitem>
    6411 
    6412       <listitem>
    6413         <para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
    6414           on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
    6415       </listitem>
    6416 
    6417       <listitem>
    6418         <para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
    6419           created (bug #8031)</para>
    6420       </listitem>
    6421 
    6422       <listitem>
    6423         <para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
    6424       </listitem>
    6425 
    6426       <listitem>
    6427         <para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
    6428           (Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
    6429       </listitem>
    6430 
    6431       <listitem>
    6432         <para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
    6433           an extension pack</para>
    6434       </listitem>
    6435 
    6436       <listitem>
    6437         <para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
    6438           during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
    6439       </listitem>
    6440 
    6441       <listitem>
    6442         <para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
    6443       </listitem>
    6444 
    6445       <listitem>
    6446         <para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
    6447           supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
    6448       </listitem>
    6449 
    6450       <listitem>
    6451         <para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
    6452           host-only interface</para>
    6453       </listitem>
    6454 
    6455       <listitem>
    6456         <para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
    6457           and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
    6458       </listitem>
    6459 
    6460       <listitem>
    6461         <para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
    6462           detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
    6463       </listitem>
    6464 
    6465       <listitem>
    6466         <para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
    6467           ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
    6468       </listitem>
    6469 
    6470       <listitem>
    6471         <para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
    6472           power off (4.0 regression)</para>
    6473       </listitem>
    6474 
    6475       <listitem>
    6476         <para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
    6477           to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
    6478       </listitem>
    6479 
    6480       <listitem>
    6481         <para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
    6482       </listitem>
    6483 
    6484       <listitem>
    6485         <para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
    6486       </listitem>
    6487 
    6488       <listitem>
    6489         <para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
    6490           guests</para>
    6491       </listitem>
    6492 
    6493       <listitem>
    6494         <para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
    6495       </listitem>
    6496 
    6497       <listitem>
    6498         <para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
    6499       </listitem>
    6500 
    6501       <listitem>
    6502         <para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
    6503           links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
    6504       </listitem>
    6505 
    6506       <listitem>
    6507         <para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
    6508           logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
    6509       </listitem>
    6510 
    6511       <listitem>
    6512         <para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
    6513           a VM start</para>
    6514       </listitem>
    6515 
    6516       <listitem>
    6517         <para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
    6518           machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
    6519       </listitem>
    6520 
    6521       <listitem>
    6522         <para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
    6523           (bug #6067)</para>
    6524       </listitem>
    6525 
    6526       <listitem>
    6527         <para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
    6528           cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
    6529       </listitem>
    6530 
    6531       <listitem>
    6532         <para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
    6533           not saved to machine XML</para>
    6534       </listitem>
    6535 
    6536       <listitem>
    6537         <para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
    6538          #7983)</para>
    6539       </listitem>
    6540 
    6541       <listitem>
    6542         <para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
    6543          #7981)</para>
    6544       </listitem>
    6545 
    6546       <listitem>
    6547         <para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
    6548       </listitem>
    6549 
    6550       <listitem>
    6551         <para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
    6552           regression)</para>
    6553       </listitem>
    6554 
    6555       <listitem>
    6556         <para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
    6557           VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
    6558       </listitem>
    6559 
    6560       <listitem>
    6561         <para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
    6562           unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
    6563       </listitem>
    6564 
    6565     </itemizedlist>
    6566 
    6567   </sect1>
    6568 
    6569   <sect1>
    6570     <title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
    6571 
    6572     <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
    6573       were added:</para>
    6574 
    6575     <itemizedlist>
    6576 
    6577       <listitem>
    6578         <para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
    6579       </listitem>
    6580 
    6581       <listitem>
    6582         <para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
    6583       </listitem>
    6584 
    6585       <listitem>
    6586         <para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
    6587           <itemizedlist>
    6588             <listitem>
    6589               <para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
    6590             </listitem>
    6591 
    6592             <listitem>
    6593               <para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
    6594             </listitem>
    6595 
    6596             <listitem>
    6597               <para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
    6598             </listitem>
    6599 
    6600             <listitem>
    6601               <para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
    6602             </listitem>
    6603 
    6604             <listitem>
    6605               <para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
    6606                 states, and optionally including attached
    6607                 disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
    6608                 can do the same now)</para>
    6609             </listitem>
    6610 
    6611             <listitem>
    6612               <para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
    6613             </listitem>
    6614 
    6615           </itemizedlist>
    6616         </para>
    6617       </listitem>
    6618 
    6619       <listitem>
    6620         <para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
    6621       </listitem>
    6622 
    6623       <listitem>
    6624         <para>New virtual hardware:
    6625           <itemizedlist>
    6626             <listitem>
    6627               <para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
    6628                 see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
    6629             </listitem>
    6630 
    6631             <listitem>
    6632               <para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
    6633                 (e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
    6634             </listitem>
    6635           </itemizedlist>
    6636         </para>
    6637       </listitem>
    6638 
    6639       <listitem>
    6640         <para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
    6641           <itemizedlist>
    6642             <listitem>
    6643               <para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
    6644             </listitem>
    6645 
    6646             <listitem>
    6647               <para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
    6648               </para>
    6649             </listitem>
    6650 
    6651             <listitem>
    6652               <para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
    6653                 now</para>
    6654             </listitem>
    6655 
    6656             <listitem>
    6657               <para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
    6658             </listitem>
    6659 
    6660           </itemizedlist>
    6661         </para>
    6662       </listitem>
    6663 
    6664       <listitem>
    6665         <para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
    6666           bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
    6667       </listitem>
    6668 
    6669       <listitem>
    6670         <para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
    6671         Parallels images</para>
    6672       </listitem>
    6673 
    6674       <listitem>
    6675         <para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
    6676       </listitem>
    6677 
    6678      <listitem>
    6679         <para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
    6680            and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
    6681       </listitem>
    6682 
    6683       <listitem>
    6684         <para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
    6685           (COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
    6686       </listitem>
    6687 
    6688     </itemizedlist>
    6689 
    6690     <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
    6691 
    6692     <itemizedlist>
    6693 
    6694       <listitem>
    6695         <para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
    6696               (applies to nested paging only)</para>
    6697       </listitem>
    6698 
    6699       <listitem>
    6700         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
    6701       </listitem>
    6702 
    6703       <listitem>
    6704         <para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
    6705           non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
    6706       </listitem>
    6707 
    6708       <listitem>
    6709         <para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
    6710           (bug #1657)</para>
    6711       </listitem>
    6712 
    6713       <listitem>
    6714         <para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
    6715       </listitem>
    6716 
    6717       <listitem>
    6718         <para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
    6719       </listitem>
    6720 
    6721       <listitem>
    6722         <para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
    6723           (Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
    6724       </listitem>
    6725 
    6726       <listitem>
    6727         <para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
    6728           guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
    6729       </listitem>
    6730 
    6731       <listitem>
    6732         <para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
    6733           packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
    6734           (Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
    6735       </listitem>
    6736 
    6737       <listitem>
    6738         <para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
    6739           again (bug #6864)</para>
    6740       </listitem>
    6741 
    6742       <listitem>
    6743         <para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
    6744           #5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
    6745       </listitem>
    6746 
    6747       <listitem>
    6748         <para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
    6749           glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
    6750       </listitem>
    6751 
    6752       <listitem>
    6753         <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
    6754       </listitem>
    6755 
    6756       <listitem>
    6757         <para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
    6758       </listitem>
    6759 
    6760       <listitem>
    6761         <para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
    6762       </listitem>
    6763 
    6764       <listitem>
    6765         <para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
    6766       </listitem>
    6767 
    6768       <listitem>
    6769         <para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
    6770       </listitem>
    6771 
    6772       <listitem>
    6773         <para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
    6774       </listitem>
    6775 
    6776       <listitem>
    6777         <para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
    6778       </listitem>
    6779 
    6780       <listitem>
    6781         <para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
    6782           (bug #7058)</para>
    6783       </listitem>
    6784 
    6785       <listitem>
    6786         <para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
    6787           criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
    6788       </listitem>
    6789 
    6790       <listitem>
    6791         <para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
    6792           circumstances</para>
    6793       </listitem>
    6794 
    6795       <listitem>
    6796         <para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
    6797             another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
    6798             #5578)
    6799         </para>
    6800       </listitem>
    6801 
    6802       <listitem>
    6803         <para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
    6804       </listitem>
    6805 
    6806       <listitem>
    6807         <para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
    6808           <emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
    6809       </listitem>
    6810 
    6811       <listitem>
    6812         <para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
    6813       </listitem>
    6814 
    6815       <listitem>
    6816         <para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
    6817           #6760)</para>
    6818       </listitem>
    6819 
    6820       <listitem>
    6821         <para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
    6822            accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
    6823        </listitem>
    6824 
    6825        <listitem>
    6826          <para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
    6827            <emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
    6828        </listitem>
    6829 
    6830       <listitem>
    6831         <para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
    6832           on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
    6833       </listitem>
    6834 
    6835       <listitem>
    6836         <para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
    6837       </listitem>
    6838 
    6839       <listitem>
    6840         <para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
    6841           file</para>
    6842       </listitem>
    6843 
    6844       <listitem>
    6845         <para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
    6846           to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
    6847       </listitem>
    6848 
    6849     </itemizedlist>
    6850 
    6851   </sect1>
    6852 
    6853   <sect1>
    6854     <title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
    6855 
    6856     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    6857       added:</para>
    6858 
    6859     <itemizedlist>
    6860 
    6861       <listitem>
    6862         <para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
    6863            hosts (bug #7577)</para>
    6864       </listitem>
    6865 
    6866       <listitem>
    6867         <para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
    6868           triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
    6869           non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
    6870       </listitem>
    6871 
    6872       <listitem>
    6873         <para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
    6874       </listitem>
    6875 
    6876       <listitem>
    6877         <para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
    6878       </listitem>
    6879 
    6880       <listitem>
    6881         <para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
    6882       </listitem>
    6883 
    6884       <listitem>
    6885         <para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
    6886            the VM is running</para>
    6887       </listitem>
    6888 
    6889       <listitem>
    6890         <para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
    6891           system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
    6892           file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
    6893           starting from a saved state</para>
    6894       </listitem>
    6895 
    6896       <listitem>
    6897         <para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
    6898       </listitem>
    6899 
    6900       <listitem>
    6901         <para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
    6902       </listitem>
    6903 
    6904       <listitem>
    6905         <para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
    6906       </listitem>
    6907 
    6908       <listitem>
    6909         <para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
    6910       </listitem>
    6911 
    6912       <listitem>
    6913         <para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
    6914       </listitem>
    6915 
    6916       <listitem>
    6917         <para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
    6918           mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
    6919       </listitem>
    6920 
    6921       <listitem>
    6922         <para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
    6923           fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
    6924       </listitem>
    6925 
    6926       <listitem>
    6927         <para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
    6928           open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
    6929       </listitem>
    6930 
    6931       <listitem>
    6932         <para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
    6933       </listitem>
    6934 
    6935       <listitem>
    6936         <para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
    6937             multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
    6938         </para>
    6939       </listitem>
    6940 
    6941       <listitem>
    6942         <para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
    6943           in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
    6944           3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
    6945       </listitem>
    6946 
    6947       <listitem>
    6948         <para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
    6949           only)</para>
    6950       </listitem>
    6951 
    6952       <listitem>
    6953         <para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
    6954           being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
    6955       </listitem>
    6956 
    6957       <listitem>
    6958         <para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
    6959       </listitem>
    6960 
    6961       <listitem>
    6962         <para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
    6963       </listitem>
    6964 
    6965       <listitem>
    6966         <para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
    6967       </listitem>
    6968 
    6969       <listitem>
    6970         <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
    6971           state (bug #4124)</para>
    6972       </listitem>
    6973 
    6974        <listitem>
    6975          <para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
    6976            VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
    6977        </listitem>
    6978 
    6979       <listitem>
    6980         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
    6981       </listitem>
    6982 
    6983       <listitem>
    6984         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
    6985           (bug #2996)</para>
    6986       </listitem>
    6987 
    6988       <listitem>
    6989         <para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
    6990           operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
    6991       </listitem>
    6992 
    6993       <listitem>
    6994         <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
    6995       </listitem>
    6996 
    6997       <listitem>
    6998         <para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
    6999           is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
    7000       </listitem>
    7001 
    7002       <listitem>
    7003         <para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
    7004           files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
    7005       </listitem>
    7006 
    7007       <listitem>
    7008         <para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
    7009           user accounts for VM information</para>
    7010       </listitem>
    7011 
    7012     </itemizedlist>
    7013 
    7014   </sect1>
    7015 
    7016   <sect1>
    7017     <title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
    7018 
    7019     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    7020       added:</para>
    7021 
    7022     <itemizedlist>
    7023 
    7024       <listitem>
    7025         <para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
    7026           (3.2.8 regression)</para>
    7027       </listitem>
    7028 
    7029       <listitem>
    7030         <para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
    7031       </listitem>
    7032 
    7033       <listitem>
    7034         <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
    7035       </listitem>
    7036 
    7037       <listitem>
    7038         <para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
    7039       </listitem>
    7040 
    7041       <listitem>
    7042         <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
    7043           hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
    7044       </listitem>
    7045 
    7046       <listitem>
    7047         <para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
    7048           2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
    7049       </listitem>
    7050 
    7051       <listitem>
    7052         <para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
    7053           (Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
    7054       </listitem>
    7055 
    7056       <listitem>
    7057         <para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
    7058           (bug #4952)</para>
    7059       </listitem>
    7060 
    7061       <listitem>
    7062         <para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
    7063           bug #6122)</para>
    7064       </listitem>
    7065 
    7066       <listitem>
    7067         <para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
    7068           for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
    7069       </listitem>
    7070 
    7071       <listitem>
    7072         <para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
    7073           to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
    7074           (Linux hosts only)</para>
    7075       </listitem>
    7076 
    7077       <listitem>
    7078         <para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
    7079       </listitem>
    7080 
    7081       <listitem>
    7082         <para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
    7083           images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
    7084       </listitem>
    7085 
    7086       <listitem>
    7087         <para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
    7088           parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
    7089       </listitem>
    7090 
    7091       <listitem>
    7092         <para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
    7093           canceled</para>
    7094       </listitem>
    7095 
    7096       <listitem>
    7097         <para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
    7098       </listitem>
    7099 
    7100       <listitem>
    7101         <para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
    7102       </listitem>
    7103 
    7104       <listitem>
    7105         <para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
    7106       </listitem>
    7107 
    7108       <listitem>
    7109         <para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
    7110       </listitem>
    7111 
    7112       <listitem>
    7113         <para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
    7114           circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
    7115       </listitem>
    7116 
    7117       <listitem>
    7118         <para>VGA: several small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
    7119       </listitem>
    7120 
    7121       <listitem>
    7122         <para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
    7123           (Linux hosts only)</para>
    7124       </listitem>
    7125 
    7126       <listitem>
    7127         <para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
    7128           a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
    7129       </listitem>
    7130 
    7131       <listitem>
    7132         <para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
    7133       </listitem>
    7134 
    7135       <listitem>
    7136         <para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
    7137           (non-Windows hosts only)</para>
    7138       </listitem>
    7139 
    7140       <listitem>
    7141         <para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
    7142       </listitem>
    7143 
    7144       <listitem>
    7145         <para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
    7146           circumstances</para>
    7147       </listitem>
    7148 
    7149       <listitem>
    7150         <para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
    7151           printers</para>
    7152       </listitem>
    7153 
    7154       <listitem>
    7155         <para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
    7156       </listitem>
    7157 
    7158       <listitem>
    7159         <para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
    7160           hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
    7161       </listitem>
    7162 
    7163       <listitem>
    7164         <para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
    7165           are passed (bug #7388)</para>
    7166       </listitem>
    7167 
    7168       <listitem>
    7169         <para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
    7170           bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
    7171           circumstances</para>
    7172       </listitem>
    7173 
    7174       <listitem>
    7175         <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
    7176           for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
    7177       </listitem>
    7178 
    7179       <listitem>
    7180         <para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
    7181           as supported extension</para>
    7182       </listitem>
    7183 
    7184       <listitem>
    7185         <para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
    7186           <emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
    7187       </listitem>
    7188 
    7189       <listitem>
    7190         <para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
    7191           full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
    7192       </listitem>
    7193 
    7194       <listitem>
    7195         <para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
    7196       </listitem>
    7197 
    7198       <listitem>
    7199         <para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
    7200           (bug #7366)</para>
    7201       </listitem>
    7202 
    7203       <listitem>
    7204         <para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
    7205       </listitem>
    7206 
    7207       <listitem>
    7208         <para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
    7209           longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
    7210       </listitem>
    7211 
    7212       <listitem>
    7213         <para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
    7214           clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
    7215       </listitem>
    7216 
    7217       <listitem>
    7218         <para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
    7219           invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
    7220       </listitem>
    7221 
    7222       <listitem>
    7223         <para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
    7224           to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
    7225       </listitem>
    7226 
    7227       <listitem>
    7228         <para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
    7229           NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
    7230       </listitem>
    7231 
    7232       <listitem>
    7233         <para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
    7234       </listitem>
    7235 
    7236       <listitem>
    7237         <para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
    7238       </listitem>
    7239 
    7240       <listitem>
    7241         <para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
    7242           more than one environment variable</para>
    7243       </listitem>
    7244 
    7245       <listitem>
    7246         <para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
    7247           after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
    7248       </listitem>
    7249 
    7250       <listitem>
    7251         <para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
    7252           VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
    7253       </listitem>
    7254 
    7255       <listitem>
    7256         <para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
    7257           time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
    7258       </listitem>
    7259 
    7260       <listitem>
    7261         <para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
    7262           enumerating logged in users</para>
    7263        </listitem>
    7264 
    7265       <listitem>
    7266         <para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
    7267       </listitem>
    7268 
    7269       <listitem>
    7270         <para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
    7271       </listitem>
    7272 
    7273       <listitem>
    7274         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
    7275       </listitem>
    7276 
    7277       <listitem>
    7278         <para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
    7279           in the event of a VM crash</para>
    7280       </listitem>
    7281 
    7282       <listitem>
    7283         <para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
    7284       </listitem>
    7285 
    7286       <listitem>
    7287         <para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
    7288           the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
    7289       </listitem>
    7290 
    7291       <listitem>
    7292         <para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
    7293           32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
    7294        </listitem>
    7295 
    7296        <listitem>
    7297          <para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
    7298            (bug #7448)</para>
    7299        </listitem>
    7300 
    7301       <listitem>
    7302         <para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
    7303       </listitem>
    7304 
    7305       <listitem>
    7306         <para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
    7307       </listitem>
    7308 
    7309       <listitem>
    7310         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
    7311       </listitem>
    7312 
    7313     </itemizedlist>
    7314 
    7315   </sect1>
    7316 
    7317   <sect1>
    7318     <title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
    7319 
    7320     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    7321       added:</para>
    7322 
    7323     <itemizedlist>
    7324 
    7325       <listitem>
    7326         <para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
    7327           to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
    7328       </listitem>
    7329 
    7330       <listitem>
    7331         <para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
    7332       </listitem>
    7333 
    7334       <listitem>
    7335         <para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
    7336           bug #6809)</para>
    7337       </listitem>
    7338 
    7339       <listitem>
    7340         <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
    7341       </listitem>
    7342 
    7343       <listitem>
    7344         <para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
    7345       </listitem>
    7346 
    7347       <listitem>
    7348         <para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
    7349           circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
    7350       </listitem>
    7351 
    7352       <listitem>
    7353         <para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
    7354           changes</para>
    7355       </listitem>
    7356 
    7357       <listitem>
    7358         <para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
    7359       </listitem>
    7360 
    7361       <listitem>
    7362         <para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
    7363           certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
    7364       </listitem>
    7365 
    7366       <listitem>
    7367         <para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
    7368           in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
    7369       </listitem>
    7370 
    7371       <listitem>
    7372         <para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
    7373       </listitem>
    7374 
    7375       <listitem>
    7376         <para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
    7377       </listitem>
    7378 
    7379       <listitem>
    7380         <para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
    7381       </listitem>
    7382 
    7383       <listitem>
    7384         <para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
    7385       </listitem>
    7386 
    7387       <listitem>
    7388         <para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
    7389           bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
    7390       </listitem>
    7391 
    7392       <listitem>
    7393         <para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
    7394       </listitem>
    7395 
    7396       <listitem>
    7397         <para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
    7398           (bug #6832)</para>
    7399       </listitem>
    7400 
    7401       <listitem>
    7402         <para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
    7403           guests</para>
    7404       </listitem>
    7405 
    7406       <listitem>
    7407         <para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
    7408       </listitem>
    7409 
    7410       <listitem>
    7411         <para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
    7412           without external tools and tricks</para>
    7413       </listitem>
    7414 
    7415       <listitem>
    7416         <para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
    7417           for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
    7418       </listitem>
    7419 
    7420       <listitem>
    7421         <para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
    7422       </listitem>
    7423 
    7424       <listitem>
    7425         <para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
    7426           of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
    7427       </listitem>
    7428 
    7429       <listitem>
    7430         <para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
    7431           shutdown</para>
    7432       </listitem>
    7433 
    7434       <listitem>
    7435         <para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
    7436           fixes</para>
    7437       </listitem>
    7438 
    7439       <listitem>
    7440         <para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
    7441         settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
    7442         example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
    7443         </para>
    7444       </listitem>
    7445 
    7446       <listitem>
    7447         <para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
    7448           settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
    7449       </listitem>
    7450 
    7451       <listitem>
    7452         <para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
    7453           in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
    7454       </listitem>
    7455 
    7456       <listitem>
    7457         <para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
    7458         </para>
    7459       </listitem>
    7460 
    7461       <listitem>
    7462         <para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
    7463       </listitem>
    7464 
    7465       <listitem>
    7466         <para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
    7467       </listitem>
    7468 
    7469       <listitem>
    7470         <para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
    7471       </listitem>
    7472 
    7473     </itemizedlist>
    7474 
    7475   </sect1>
    7476 
    7477   <sect1>
    7478     <title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
    7479 
    7480     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    7481       added:</para>
    7482 
    7483     <itemizedlist>
    7484 
    7485       <listitem>
    7486         <para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
    7487               with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
    7488       </listitem>
    7489 
    7490       <listitem>
    7491         <para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
    7492               does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
    7493       </listitem>
    7494 
    7495       <listitem>
    7496         <para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
    7497           with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
    7498       </listitem>
    7499 
    7500       <listitem>
    7501         <para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
    7502       </listitem>
    7503 
    7504       <listitem>
    7505         <para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
    7506       </listitem>
    7507 
    7508       <listitem>
    7509         <para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
    7510       </listitem>
    7511 
    7512       <listitem>
    7513         <para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
    7514       </listitem>
    7515 
    7516       <listitem>
    7517         <para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
    7518           assigned</para>
    7519       </listitem>
    7520 
    7521       <listitem>
    7522         <para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
    7523           asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
    7524       </listitem>
    7525 
    7526       <listitem>
    7527         <para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
    7528           multiple screens are enabled</para>
    7529       </listitem>
    7530 
    7531       <listitem>
    7532         <para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
    7533       </listitem>
    7534 
    7535       <listitem>
    7536         <para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
    7537           (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
    7538       </listitem>
    7539 
    7540       <listitem>
    7541         <para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
    7542            again (bug #7022).
    7543         </para>
    7544       </listitem>
    7545 
    7546       <listitem>
    7547         <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
    7548           (bug #6768)</para>
    7549       </listitem>
    7550 
    7551       <listitem>
    7552         <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
    7553           (bug #6927)</para>
    7554       </listitem>
    7555 
    7556       <listitem>
    7557         <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
    7558           bug #7031)</para>
    7559       </listitem>
    7560 
    7561       <listitem>
    7562         <para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
    7563           don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
    7564       </listitem>
    7565 
    7566       <listitem>
    7567         <para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
    7568           bug #6987)</para>
    7569       </listitem>
    7570 
    7571       <listitem>
    7572         <para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
    7573       </listitem>
    7574 
    7575       <listitem>
    7576         <para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
    7577       </listitem>
    7578 
    7579       <listitem>
    7580         <para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
    7581           30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
    7582       </listitem>
    7583 
    7584       <listitem>
    7585         <para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
    7586       </listitem>
    7587 
    7588       <listitem>
    7589         <para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
    7590           installation (bug #5101)</para>
    7591       </listitem>
    7592 
    7593       <listitem>
    7594         <para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
    7595       </listitem>
    7596 
    7597       <listitem>
    7598         <para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
    7599           under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
    7600           bug #6872)</para>
    7601       </listitem>
    7602 
    7603       <listitem>
    7604         <para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
    7605       </listitem>
    7606 
    7607       <listitem>
    7608         <para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
    7609           (performance tweak)</para>
    7610       </listitem>
    7611 
    7612       <listitem>
    7613         <para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
    7614           is currently paused</para>
    7615       </listitem>
    7616 
    7617       <listitem>
    7618         <para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
    7619           was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
    7620       </listitem>
    7621 
    7622       <listitem>
    7623         <para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
    7624       </listitem>
    7625 
    7626       <listitem>
    7627         <para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
    7628           and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
    7629       </listitem>
    7630 
    7631       <listitem>
    7632         <para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
    7633           not properly saved</para>
    7634       </listitem>
    7635 
    7636       <listitem>
    7637         <para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
    7638           folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
    7639       </listitem>
    7640 
    7641       <listitem>
    7642         <para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
    7643       </listitem>
    7644 
    7645       <listitem>
    7646         <para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
    7647       </listitem>
    7648 
    7649       <listitem>
    7650         <para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
    7651       </listitem>
    7652 
    7653       <listitem>
    7654         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
    7655           (IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
    7656       </listitem>
    7657 
    7658       <listitem>
    7659         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
    7660       </listitem>
    7661 
    7662       <listitem>
    7663         <para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
    7664               kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
    7665       </listitem>
    7666 
    7667       <listitem>
    7668         <para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
    7669           (bug #5251)</para>
    7670       </listitem>
    7671 
    7672       <listitem>
    7673         <para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
    7674            ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
    7675       </listitem>
    7676 
    7677       <listitem>
    7678         <para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
    7679       </listitem>
    7680 
    7681       <listitem>
    7682         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
    7683       </listitem>
    7684 
    7685       <listitem>
    7686         <para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
    7687           to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
    7688       </listitem>
    7689 
    7690       <listitem>
    7691         <para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
    7692       </listitem>
    7693 
    7694       <listitem>
    7695         <para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
    7696       </listitem>
    7697 
    7698       <listitem>
    7699         <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
    7700       </listitem>
    7701 
    7702     </itemizedlist>
    7703   </sect1>
    7704 
    7705   <sect1>
    7706     <title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
    7707 
    7708     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    7709       added:</para>
    7710 
    7711     <itemizedlist>
    7712 
    7713       <listitem>
    7714         <para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
    7715           (improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
    7716       </listitem>
    7717 
    7718       <listitem>
    7719         <para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
    7720       </listitem>
    7721 
    7722       <listitem>
    7723         <para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
    7724           over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
    7725       </listitem>
    7726 
    7727       <listitem>
    7728         <para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
    7729           growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
    7730       </listitem>
    7731 
    7732       <listitem>
    7733         <para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
    7734       </listitem>
    7735 
    7736       <listitem>
    7737         <para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
    7738           again (bug #6864)</para>
    7739       </listitem>
    7740 
    7741       <listitem>
    7742         <para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
    7743           applications (bug #5236)</para>
    7744       </listitem>
    7745 
    7746       <listitem>
    7747         <para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
    7748       </listitem>
    7749 
    7750       <listitem>
    7751         <para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
    7752           (3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
    7753       </listitem>
    7754 
    7755       <listitem>
    7756         <para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
    7757       </listitem>
    7758 
    7759     </itemizedlist>
    7760 
    7761   </sect1>
    7762 
    7763   <sect1>
    7764     <title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
    7765 
    7766     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    7767       added:</para>
    7768 
    7769     <itemizedlist>
    7770 
    7771       <listitem>
    7772         <para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
    7773       </listitem>
    7774 
    7775       <listitem>
    7776         <para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
    7777           guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
    7778       </listitem>
    7779 
    7780       <listitem>
    7781         <para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
    7782       </listitem>
    7783 
    7784       <listitem>
    7785         <para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
    7786           state</para>
    7787       </listitem>
    7788 
    7789       <listitem>
    7790         <para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
    7791       </listitem>
    7792 
    7793       <listitem>
    7794         <para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
    7795       </listitem>
    7796 
    7797       <listitem>
    7798         <para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
    7799       </listitem>
    7800 
    7801       <listitem>
    7802         <para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
    7803       </listitem>
    7804 
    7805       <listitem>
    7806         <para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
    7807       </listitem>
    7808 
    7809       <listitem>
    7810         <para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
    7811       </listitem>
    7812 
    7813       <listitem>
    7814         <para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
    7815       </listitem>
    7816 
    7817       <listitem>
    7818         <para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
    7819       </listitem>
    7820 
    7821       <listitem>
    7822         <para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
    7823       </listitem>
    7824 
    7825       <listitem>
    7826         <para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
    7827       </listitem>
    7828 
    7829       <listitem>
    7830         <para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
    7831             LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
    7832       </listitem>
    7833 
    7834       <listitem>
    7835         <para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
    7836           (bug #6784)</para>
    7837       </listitem>
    7838 
    7839       <listitem>
    7840         <para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
    7841       </listitem>
    7842 
    7843       <listitem>
    7844         <para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
    7845       </listitem>
    7846 
    7847       <listitem>
    7848         <para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
    7849           accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
    7850       </listitem>
    7851 
    7852       <listitem>
    7853         <para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
    7854       </listitem>
    7855 
    7856       <listitem>
    7857         <para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
    7858       </listitem>
    7859 
    7860       <listitem>
    7861         <para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
    7862               host only</para>
    7863       </listitem>
    7864 
    7865       <listitem>
    7866         <para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
    7867           probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
    7868       </listitem>
    7869 
    7870       <listitem>
    7871         <para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
    7872           requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
    7873       </listitem>
    7874 
    7875       <listitem>
    7876         <para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
    7877       </listitem>
    7878 
    7879       <listitem>
    7880         <para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
    7881           (non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
    7882       </listitem>
    7883 
    7884       <listitem>
    7885         <para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
    7886       </listitem>
    7887 
    7888       <listitem>
    7889         <para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
    7890       </listitem>
    7891 
    7892       <listitem>
    7893         <para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
    7894             driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
    7895       </listitem>
    7896 
    7897       <listitem>
    7898         <para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
    7899       </listitem>
    7900 
    7901       <listitem>
    7902         <para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
    7903       </listitem>
    7904 
    7905       <listitem>
    7906         <para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
    7907       </listitem>
    7908 
    7909       <listitem>
    7910         <para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
    7911           (bug #6714)</para>
    7912       </listitem>
    7913 
    7914       <listitem>
    7915         <para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
    7916       </listitem>
    7917 
    7918       <listitem>
    7919         <para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
    7920       </listitem>
    7921 
    7922       <listitem>
    7923         <para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
    7924       </listitem>
    7925 
    7926       <listitem>
    7927         <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
    7928       </listitem>
    7929 
    7930       <listitem>
    7931         <para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
    7932       </listitem>
    7933 
    7934     </itemizedlist>
    7935 
    7936   </sect1>
    7937 
    7938   <sect1>
    7939     <title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
    7940 
    7941     <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
    7942       were added:</para>
    7943 
    7944     <itemizedlist>
    7945 
    7946       <listitem>
    7947         <para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
    7948         the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
    7949         were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
    7950       </listitem>
    7951 
    7952       <listitem>
    7953         <para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
    7954       </listitem>
    7955 
    7956       <listitem>
    7957         <para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
    7958           amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
    7959       </listitem>
    7960 
    7961       <listitem>
    7962         <para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
    7963         increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
    7964         (see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
    7965       </listitem>
    7966 
    7967       <listitem>
    7968         <para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
    7969           and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
    7970       </listitem>
    7971 
    7972       <listitem>
    7973         <para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
    7974           (see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
    7975           also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
    7976           is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
    7977           which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
    7978       </listitem>
    7979 
    7980       <listitem>
    7981         <para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
    7982       </listitem>
    7983 
    7984       <listitem>
    7985         <para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
    7986           guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
    7987       </listitem>
    7988 
    7989       <listitem>
    7990         <para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
    7991           if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
    7992       </listitem>
    7993 
    7994       <listitem>
    7995         <para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
    7996       </listitem>
    7997 
    7998       <listitem>
    7999         <para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
    8000       </listitem>
    8001 
    8002       <listitem>
    8003         <para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
    8004       </listitem>
    8005 
    8006       <listitem>
    8007         <para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
    8008       </listitem>
    8009 
    8010       <listitem>
    8011         <para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
    8012         from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
    8013         <xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
    8014       </listitem>
    8015 
    8016       <listitem>
    8017         <para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
    8018         that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
    8019       </listitem>
    8020 
    8021     </itemizedlist>
    8022 
    8023     <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
    8024 
    8025     <itemizedlist>
    8026 
    8027       <listitem>
    8028         <para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
    8029             amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
    8030       </listitem>
    8031 
    8032       <listitem>
    8033         <para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
    8034       </listitem>
    8035 
    8036       <listitem>
    8037         <para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
    8038           VM</para>
    8039       </listitem>
    8040 
    8041       <listitem>
    8042         <para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
    8043           passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
    8044       </listitem>
    8045 
    8046       <listitem>
    8047         <para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
    8048           #1669)</para>
    8049       </listitem>
    8050 
    8051       <listitem>
    8052         <para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
    8053           #6442)</para>
    8054       </listitem>
    8055 
    8056       <listitem>
    8057         <para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
    8058           combination (bug #684)</para>
    8059       </listitem>
    8060 
    8061       <listitem>
    8062         <para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
    8063           the VM from the GUI</para>
    8064       </listitem>
    8065 
    8066       <listitem>
    8067         <para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
    8068           medium is not accessible</para>
    8069       </listitem>
    8070 
    8071       <listitem>
    8072         <para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
    8073       </listitem>
    8074 
    8075       <listitem>
    8076         <para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
    8077           audio input (bug #5869)</para>
    8078       </listitem>
    8079 
    8080       <listitem>
    8081         <para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
    8082           #3106)</para>
    8083       </listitem>
    8084 
    8085       <listitem>
    8086         <para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
    8087           settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
    8088           it</para>
    8089       </listitem>
    8090 
    8091       <listitem>
    8092         <para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
    8093       </listitem>
    8094 
    8095       <listitem>
    8096         <para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
    8097       </listitem>
    8098 
    8099       <listitem>
    8100         <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
    8101           <emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
    8102       </listitem>
    8103 
    8104       <listitem>
    8105         <para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
    8106           windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
    8107       </listitem>
    8108 
    8109       <listitem>
    8110         <para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
    8111       </listitem>
    8112 
    8113       <listitem>
    8114         <para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
    8115       </listitem>
    8116 
    8117       <listitem>
    8118         <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
    8119           screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
    8120       </listitem>
    8121 
    8122       <listitem>
    8123         <para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
    8124       </listitem>
    8125 
    8126       <listitem>
    8127         <para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
    8128           (Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
    8129       </listitem>
    8130 
    8131       <listitem>
    8132         <para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
    8133       </listitem>
    8134 
    8135       <listitem>
    8136         <para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
    8137           in VirtualBox</para>
    8138       </listitem>
    8139 
    8140       <listitem>
    8141         <para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
    8142         alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
    8143       </listitem>
    8144 
    8145       <listitem>
    8146         <para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
    8147           VirtualBox</para>
    8148       </listitem>
    8149 
    8150       <listitem>
    8151         <para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
    8152       </listitem>
    8153 
    8154       <listitem>
    8155         <para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
    8156           VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
    8157       </listitem>
    8158 
    8159     </itemizedlist>
    8160   </sect1>
    8161 
    8162   <sect1>
    8163     <title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
    8164 
    8165     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    8166       added:</para>
    8167 
    8168     <itemizedlist>
    8169 
    8170       <listitem>
    8171         <para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
    8172            early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
    8173       </listitem>
    8174 
    8175       <listitem>
    8176         <para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
    8177       </listitem>
    8178 
    8179       <listitem>
    8180         <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
    8181       </listitem>
    8182 
    8183       <listitem>
    8184         <para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
    8185              only) </para>
    8186       </listitem>
    8187 
    8188       <listitem>
    8189         <para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
    8190           to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
    8191       </listitem>
    8192 
    8193       <listitem>
    8194         <para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
    8195           interface version</para>
    8196       </listitem>
    8197 
    8198       <listitem>
    8199         <para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
    8200           settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
    8201           slot empty</para>
    8202       </listitem>
    8203 
    8204       <listitem>
    8205         <para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
    8206           <computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
    8207           (bug #4220)</para>
    8208       </listitem>
    8209 
    8210       <listitem>
    8211         <para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
    8212       </listitem>
    8213 
    8214       <listitem>
    8215         <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
    8216         non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 &amp; #6208)</para>
    8217       </listitem>
    8218 
    8219       <listitem>
    8220         <para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
    8221           using the drivers from LSI</para>
    8222       </listitem>
    8223 
    8224       <listitem>
    8225         <para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
    8226           disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
    8227       </listitem>
    8228 
    8229       <listitem>
    8230         <para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
    8231         attached</para>
    8232       </listitem>
    8233 
    8234       <listitem>
    8235         <para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
    8236         adapters (bug #6519)</para>
    8237       </listitem>
    8238 
    8239       <listitem>
    8240         <para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
    8241       </listitem>
    8242 
    8243       <listitem>
    8244         <para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
    8245           booting from SCSI devices</para>
    8246       </listitem>
    8247 
    8248       <listitem>
    8249         <para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
    8250           is bug #6408)</para>
    8251       </listitem>
    8252 
    8253       <listitem>
    8254         <para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
    8255       </listitem>
    8256 
    8257       <listitem>
    8258         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
    8259           fail to initialize</para>
    8260       </listitem>
    8261 
    8262       <listitem>
    8263         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
    8264       </listitem>
    8265 
    8266       <listitem>
    8267         <para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
    8268           (Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
    8269       </listitem>
    8270 
    8271       <listitem>
    8272         <para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
    8273           to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
    8274           Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
    8275       </listitem>
    8276 
    8277       <listitem>
    8278         <para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
    8279       </listitem>
    8280 
    8281       <listitem>
    8282         <para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
    8283           (Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
    8284       </listitem>
    8285 
    8286       <listitem>
    8287         <para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
    8288           older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
    8289       </listitem>
    8290 
    8291       <listitem>
    8292         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
    8293           (bug #6435)</para>
    8294       </listitem>
    8295 
    8296       <listitem>
    8297         <para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
    8298           mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
    8299       </listitem>
    8300 
    8301       <listitem>
    8302         <para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
    8303            IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
    8304            (bug #6488)</para>
    8305       </listitem>
    8306 
    8307       <listitem>
    8308         <para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
    8309           <emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
    8310       </listitem>
    8311 
    8312       <listitem>
    8313         <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
    8314           screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
    8315       </listitem>
    8316 
    8317       <listitem>
    8318         <para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
    8319           #5227)</para>
    8320       </listitem>
    8321 
    8322       <listitem>
    8323         <para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
    8324            hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
    8325       </listitem>
    8326 
    8327       <listitem>
    8328         <para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
    8329       </listitem>
    8330 
    8331       <listitem>
    8332         <para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
    8333            be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
    8334       </listitem>
    8335 
    8336     </itemizedlist>
    8337   </sect1>
    8338 
    8339   <sect1>
    8340     <title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
    8341 
    8342     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    8343       added:</para>
    8344 
    8345     <itemizedlist>
    8346 
    8347       <listitem>
    8348         <para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
    8349           2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
    8350       </listitem>
    8351 
    8352       <listitem>
    8353         <para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
    8354           Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
    8355       </listitem>
    8356 
    8357       <listitem>
    8358         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
    8359           interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
    8360       </listitem>
    8361 
    8362       <listitem>
    8363         <para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
    8364           circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
    8365       </listitem>
    8366 
    8367       <listitem>
    8368         <para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
    8369       </listitem>
    8370 
    8371       <listitem>
    8372         <para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
    8373       </listitem>
    8374 
    8375       <listitem>
    8376         <para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
    8377       </listitem>
    8378 
    8379       <listitem>
    8380         <para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 &amp; #5792)</para>
    8381       </listitem>
    8382 
    8383       <listitem>
    8384         <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
    8385           (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
    8386       </listitem>
    8387 
    8388       <listitem>
    8389         <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
    8390           (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 &amp; #6125)</para>
    8391       </listitem>
    8392 
    8393       <listitem>
    8394         <para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
    8395           mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
    8396       </listitem>
    8397 
    8398       <listitem>
    8399         <para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
    8400       </listitem>
    8401 
    8402       <listitem>
    8403         <para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
    8404       </listitem>
    8405 
    8406       <listitem>
    8407         <para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
    8408           windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
    8409       </listitem>
    8410 
    8411       <listitem>
    8412         <para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
    8413           <emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
    8414           calls (bug #6165)</para>
    8415       </listitem>
    8416 
    8417       <listitem>
    8418         <para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
    8419           (bug #5297)</para>
    8420       </listitem>
    8421 
    8422       <listitem>
    8423         <para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
    8424           (bug #4962)</para>
    8425       </listitem>
    8426 
    8427       <listitem>
    8428         <para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
    8429           connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
    8430       </listitem>
    8431 
    8432       <listitem>
    8433         <para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
    8434           (bug #6176)</para>
    8435       </listitem>
    8436 
    8437       <listitem>
    8438         <para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
    8439           certain circumstances</para>
    8440       </listitem>
    8441 
    8442       <listitem>
    8443         <para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
    8444           network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
    8445       </listitem>
    8446 
    8447       <listitem>
    8448         <para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
    8449       </listitem>
    8450 
    8451       <listitem>
    8452         <para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
    8453       </listitem>
    8454 
    8455       <listitem>
    8456         <para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
    8457           (bug #3571)</para>
    8458       </listitem>
    8459 
    8460       <listitem>
    8461         <para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
    8462           devices</para>
    8463       </listitem>
    8464 
    8465       <listitem>
    8466         <para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
    8467           determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
    8468           (Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
    8469       </listitem>
    8470 
    8471       <listitem>
    8472         <para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
    8473           (3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
    8474       </listitem>
    8475 
    8476       <listitem>
    8477         <para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
    8478       </listitem>
    8479 
    8480       <listitem>
    8481         <para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
    8482           (I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
    8483       </listitem>
    8484 
    8485       <listitem>
    8486         <para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
    8487           response</para>
    8488       </listitem>
    8489 
    8490       <listitem>
    8491         <para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
    8492       </listitem>
    8493 
    8494       <listitem>
    8495         <para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
    8496       </listitem>
    8497 
    8498       <listitem>
    8499         <para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
    8500       </listitem>
    8501 
    8502        <listitem>
    8503         <para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
    8504       </listitem>
    8505 
    8506       <listitem>
    8507         <para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
    8508           Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
    8509       </listitem>
    8510 
    8511       <listitem>
    8512         <para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
    8513       </listitem>
    8514 
    8515       <listitem>
    8516         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
    8517       </listitem>
    8518 
    8519       <listitem>
    8520         <para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
    8521           guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
    8522       </listitem>
    8523 
    8524       <listitem>
    8525         <para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
    8526       </listitem>
    8527 
    8528       <listitem>
    8529         <para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
    8530       </listitem>
    8531 
    8532       <listitem>
    8533         <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
    8534       </listitem>
    8535 
    8536       <listitem>
    8537         <para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
    8538       </listitem>
    8539 
    8540     </itemizedlist>
    8541   </sect1>
    8542 
    8543   <sect1>
    8544     <title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
    8545 
    8546     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    8547       added:</para>
    8548 
    8549     <itemizedlist>
    8550 
    8551       <listitem>
    8552         <para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
    8553       </listitem>
    8554 
    8555       <listitem>
    8556         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
    8557       </listitem>
    8558 
    8559       <listitem>
    8560         <para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
    8561            hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
    8562       </listitem>
    8563 
    8564       <listitem>
    8565         <para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
    8566           AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
    8567       </listitem>
    8568 
    8569       <listitem>
    8570         <para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
    8571           (bug #3945)</para>
    8572       </listitem>
    8573 
    8574       <listitem>
    8575         <para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
    8576             (software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
    8577       </listitem>
    8578 
    8579       <listitem>
    8580         <para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
    8581             and AMD-V only) </para>
    8582       </listitem>
    8583 
    8584       <listitem>
    8585         <para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
    8586       </listitem>
    8587 
    8588       <listitem>
    8589         <para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
    8590             teleporting; to get the old behavior set
    8591             "VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
    8592       </listitem>
    8593 
    8594       <listitem>
    8595         <para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
    8596              virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
    8597       </listitem>
    8598 
    8599       <listitem>
    8600        <para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
    8601             a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
    8602       </listitem>
    8603 
    8604       <listitem>
    8605         <para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
    8606           error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
    8607       </listitem>
    8608 
    8609      <listitem>
    8610        <para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
    8611          snapshots command</para>
    8612       </listitem>
    8613 
    8614      <listitem>
    8615        <para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
    8616       </listitem>
    8617 
    8618       <listitem>
    8619         <para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
    8620           XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
    8621       </listitem>
    8622 
    8623       <listitem>
    8624         <para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
    8625       </listitem>
    8626 
    8627       <listitem>
    8628         <para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
    8629       </listitem>
    8630 
    8631       <listitem>
    8632         <para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
    8633       </listitem>
    8634 
    8635       <listitem>
    8636         <para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
    8637           (KWin bug)</para>
    8638       </listitem>
    8639 
    8640       <listitem>
    8641         <para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
    8642           relocation (bug #5690)</para>
    8643       </listitem>
    8644 
    8645       <listitem>
    8646         <para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
    8647       </listitem>
    8648 
    8649       <listitem>
    8650         <para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
    8651       </listitem>
    8652 
    8653       <listitem>
    8654         <para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
    8655       </listitem>
    8656 
    8657       <listitem>
    8658         <para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
    8659       </listitem>
    8660 
    8661       <listitem>
    8662         <para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
    8663           resolution (bug #5655)</para>
    8664       </listitem>
    8665 
    8666       <listitem>
    8667         <para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
    8668           bug #5787)</para>
    8669       </listitem>
    8670 
    8671       <listitem>
    8672         <para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
    8673           DHCP requests</para>
    8674       </listitem>
    8675 
    8676       <listitem>
    8677         <para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
    8678           (bug #3217)</para>
    8679       </listitem>
    8680 
    8681       <listitem>
    8682         <para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
    8683           range (bug #5923)</para>
    8684       </listitem>
    8685 
    8686       <listitem>
    8687         <para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
    8688       </listitem>
    8689 
    8690       <listitem>
    8691         <para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
    8692       </listitem>
    8693 
    8694       <listitem>
    8695         <para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
    8696       </listitem>
    8697 
    8698       <listitem>
    8699         <para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
    8700       </listitem>
    8701 
    8702       <listitem>
    8703         <para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
    8704          file (bug #5681)</para>
    8705       </listitem>
    8706 
    8707       <listitem>
    8708         <para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
    8709           (3.1.2 regression)</para>
    8710       </listitem>
    8711 
    8712       <listitem>
    8713         <para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
    8714           error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
    8715       </listitem>
    8716 
    8717       <listitem>
    8718         <para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
    8719           regression)</para>
    8720       </listitem>
    8721 
    8722       <listitem>
    8723         <para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
    8724       </listitem>
    8725 
    8726       <listitem>
    8727         <para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
    8728       </listitem>
    8729 
    8730       <listitem>
    8731         <para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
    8732       </listitem>
    8733 
    8734       <listitem>
    8735         <para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
    8736       </listitem>
    8737 
    8738       <listitem>
    8739         <para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
    8740           (3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
    8741       </listitem>
    8742 
    8743       <listitem>
    8744         <para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
    8745       </listitem>
    8746 
    8747       <listitem>
    8748         <para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
    8749       </listitem>
    8750 
    8751       <listitem>
    8752         <para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
    8753       </listitem>
    8754 
    8755       <listitem>
    8756         <para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
    8757           clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
    8758       </listitem>
    8759 
    8760       <listitem>
    8761         <para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
    8762       </listitem>
    8763 
    8764       <listitem>
    8765         <para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
    8766            again (3.1.2 regression; bug #5832)</para>
    8767       </listitem>
    8768 
    8769       <listitem>
    8770         <para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
    8771       </listitem>
    8772 
    8773       <listitem>
    8774         <para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
    8775       </listitem>
    8776 
    8777       <listitem>
    8778         <para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
    8779       </listitem>
    8780 
    8781       <listitem>
    8782         <para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
    8783            (bug #5731)</para>
    8784       </listitem>
    8785 
    8786       <listitem>
    8787         <para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
    8788            again</para>
    8789       </listitem>
    8790 
    8791     </itemizedlist>
    8792 
    8793   </sect1>
    8794 
    8795   <sect1>
    8796     <title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
    8797 
    8798     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    8799       added:</para>
    8800 
    8801     <itemizedlist>
    8802 
    8803       <listitem>
    8804         <para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
    8805       </listitem>
    8806 
    8807       <listitem>
    8808         <para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
    8809       </listitem>
    8810 
    8811       <listitem>
    8812         <para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
    8813       </listitem>
    8814 
    8815       <listitem>
    8816         <para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
    8817       </listitem>
    8818 
    8819       <listitem>
    8820         <para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
    8821       </listitem>
    8822 
    8823       <listitem>
    8824         <para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
    8825           <emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
    8826       </listitem>
    8827 
    8828       <listitem>
    8829         <para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
    8830       </listitem>
    8831 
    8832       <listitem>
    8833         <para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
    8834       </listitem>
    8835 
    8836       <listitem>
    8837         <para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
    8838       </listitem>
    8839 
    8840       <listitem>
    8841         <para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
    8842       </listitem>
    8843 
    8844       <listitem>
    8845         <para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
    8846       </listitem>
    8847 
    8848       <listitem>
    8849         <para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
    8850           Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
    8851       </listitem>
    8852 
    8853       <listitem>
    8854         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
    8855           used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
    8856       </listitem>
    8857 
    8858       <listitem>
    8859         <para>Mac OS X hosts: dock &amp; menubar don't disappear in
    8860           full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
    8861           #1762)</para>
    8862       </listitem>
    8863 
    8864       <listitem>
    8865         <para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &amp;
    8866           Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
    8867       </listitem>
    8868 
    8869       <listitem>
    8870         <para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
    8871           right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
    8872       </listitem>
    8873 
    8874       <listitem>
    8875         <para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
    8876             while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
    8877       </listitem>
    8878 
    8879       <listitem>
    8880         <para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
    8881       </listitem>
    8882 
    8883       <listitem>
    8884         <para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
    8885       </listitem>
    8886 
    8887       <listitem>
    8888         <para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
    8889         several virtual CPU cores</para>
    8890       </listitem>
    8891 
    8892       <listitem>
    8893         <para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
    8894       </listitem>
    8895 
    8896       <listitem>
    8897         <para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
    8898       </listitem>
    8899 
    8900       <listitem>
    8901         <para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
    8902           when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
    8903       </listitem>
    8904 
    8905       <listitem>
    8906         <para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
    8907         paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
    8908       </listitem>
    8909 
    8910       <listitem>
    8911         <para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
    8912       </listitem>
    8913 
    8914       <listitem>
    8915         <para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
    8916            guests</para>
    8917       </listitem>
    8918 
    8919       <listitem>
    8920         <para>Linux Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
    8921            and on some 64bit guests</para>
    8922        </listitem>
    8923 
    8924        <listitem>
    8925          <para>Linux Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
    8926            text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
    8927        </listitem>
    8928 
    8929        <listitem>
    8930          <para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
    8931            (openSUSE 11.0)</para>
    8932        </listitem>
    8933 
    8934        <listitem>
    8935          <para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
    8936            releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
    8937        </listitem>
    8938 
    8939       <listitem>
    8940         <para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
    8941       </listitem>
    8942 
    8943       <listitem>
    8944         <para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
    8945       </listitem>
    8946 
    8947       <listitem>
    8948         <para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
    8949       </listitem>
    8950 
    8951       <listitem>
    8952         <para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
    8953       </listitem>
    8954 
    8955       <listitem>
    8956         <para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
    8957             GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
    8958       </listitem>
    8959 
    8960       <listitem>
    8961         <para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
    8962       </listitem>
    8963 
    8964     </itemizedlist>
    8965 
    8966   </sect1>
    8967 
    8968   <sect1>
    8969     <title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
    8970 
    8971     <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
    8972       were added:</para>
    8973 
    8974     <itemizedlist>
    8975 
    8976       <listitem>
    8977         <para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
    8978               from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
    8979       </listitem>
    8980 
    8981       <listitem>
    8982         <para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
    8983           the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
    8984           ("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
    8985       </listitem>
    8986 
    8987       <listitem>
    8988         <para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
    8989               hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
    8990               (see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
    8991       </listitem>
    8992 
    8993       <listitem>
    8994         <para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
    8995         arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
    8996         (<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
    8997       </listitem>
    8998 
    8999       <listitem>
    9000         <para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
    9001           running</para>
    9002       </listitem>
    9003 
    9004       <listitem>
    9005         <para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
    9006           making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
    9007       </listitem>
    9008 
    9009       <listitem>
    9010         <para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
    9011               (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
    9012       </listitem>
    9013 
    9014       <listitem>
    9015         <para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
    9016           see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
    9017       </listitem>
    9018 
    9019       <listitem>
    9020         <para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
    9021           see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
    9022       </listitem>
    9023 
    9024     </itemizedlist>
    9025 
    9026     <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
    9027 
    9028     <itemizedlist>
    9029 
    9030       <listitem>
    9031         <para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
    9032       </listitem>
    9033 
    9034       <listitem>
    9035         <para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
    9036       </listitem>
    9037 
    9038       <listitem>
    9039         <para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
    9040       </listitem>
    9041 
    9042       <listitem>
    9043         <para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
    9044           (bug #5291)</para>
    9045       </listitem>
    9046 
    9047       <listitem>
    9048         <para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
    9049       </listitem>
    9050 
    9051       <listitem>
    9052         <para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
    9053       </listitem>
    9054 
    9055       <listitem>
    9056         <para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
    9057       </listitem>
    9058 
    9059       <listitem>
    9060         <para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
    9061           <emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
    9062       </listitem>
    9063 
    9064       <listitem>
    9065         <para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
    9066           Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
    9067       </listitem>
    9068 
    9069       <listitem>
    9070         <para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
    9071       </listitem>
    9072 
    9073       <listitem>
    9074         <para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
    9075       </listitem>
    9076 
    9077       <listitem>
    9078         <para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
    9079       </listitem>
    9080 
    9081       <listitem>
    9082         <para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
    9083       </listitem>
    9084 
    9085       <listitem>
    9086         <para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
    9087       </listitem>
    9088 
    9089       <listitem>
    9090         <para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
    9091           (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
    9092       </listitem>
    9093 
    9094       <listitem>
    9095         <para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
    9096           (see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
    9097       </listitem>
    9098 
    9099       <listitem>
    9100         <para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
    9101          (bug #5523, #2787)</para>
    9102       </listitem>
    9103 
    9104       <listitem>
    9105         <para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
    9106           (bug #2723)</para>
    9107       </listitem>
    9108 
    9109       <listitem>
    9110         <para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
    9111       </listitem>
    9112 
    9113       <listitem>
    9114         <para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
    9115           see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
    9116       </listitem>
    9117 
    9118       <listitem>
    9119         <para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
    9120           optional manifest file on import</para>
    9121       </listitem>
    9122 
    9123       <listitem>
    9124         <para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
    9125       </listitem>
    9126 
    9127       <listitem>
    9128         <para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
    9129           (bug #3773)</para>
    9130       </listitem>
    9131 
    9132       <listitem>
    9133         <para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
    9134       </listitem>
    9135 
    9136       <listitem>
    9137         <para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
    9138       </listitem>
    9139 
    9140       <listitem>
    9141         <para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
    9142           layout (bug #2302)</para>
    9143       </listitem>
    9144 
    9145       <listitem>
    9146         <para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
    9147           (bug #4866)</para>
    9148       </listitem>
    9149 
    9150       <listitem>
    9151         <para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
    9152           left click (bug #5049)</para>
    9153       </listitem>
    9154 
    9155       <listitem>
    9156         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
    9157           certain conditions</para>
    9158       </listitem>
    9159 
    9160       <listitem>
    9161         <para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
    9162       </listitem>
    9163 
    9164       <listitem>
    9165         <para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
    9166       </listitem>
    9167 
    9168       <listitem>
    9169         <para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
    9170       </listitem>
    9171 
    9172       <listitem>
    9173         <para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
    9174       </listitem>
    9175 
    9176       <listitem>
    9177         <para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
    9178           was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
    9179       </listitem>
    9180 
    9181       <listitem>
    9182         <para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
    9183       </listitem>
    9184 
    9185       <listitem>
    9186         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
    9187           properties (bug #5337)</para>
    9188       </listitem>
    9189 
    9190       <listitem>
    9191         <para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
    9192       </listitem>
    9193 
    9194       <listitem>
    9195         <para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
    9196       </listitem>
    9197 
    9198       <listitem>
    9199         <para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
    9200       </listitem>
    9201 
    9202       <listitem>
    9203         <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
    9204       </listitem>
    9205 
    9206       <listitem>
    9207         <para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
    9208           Additions (bug #4039)</para>
    9209       </listitem>
    9210 
    9211       <listitem>
    9212         <para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
    9213            file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
    9214            (bug #928)</para>
    9215       </listitem>
    9216 
    9217       <listitem>
    9218         <para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
    9219       </listitem>
    9220 
    9221     </itemizedlist>
    9222 
    9223   </sect1>
    9224 
    9225   <sect1>
    9226     <title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
    9227 
    9228     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    9229       added:</para>
    9230 
    9231     <itemizedlist>
    9232 
    9233       <listitem>
    9234         <para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
    9235              guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
    9236       </listitem>
    9237 
    9238       <listitem>
    9239         <para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
    9240           using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
    9241       </listitem>
    9242 
    9243       <listitem>
    9244         <para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
    9245               forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
    9246       </listitem>
    9247 
    9248       <listitem>
    9249         <para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
    9250           enabled</para>
    9251       </listitem>
    9252 
    9253       <listitem>
    9254         <para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
    9255           meditation (bug #5389)</para>
    9256       </listitem>
    9257 
    9258       <listitem>
    9259         <para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
    9260           (bug #2676)</para>
    9261       </listitem>
    9262 
    9263       <listitem>
    9264         <para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
    9265           is connected to a raw file</para>
    9266       </listitem>
    9267 
    9268       <listitem>
    9269         <para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
    9270         (bug #5355)</para>
    9271       </listitem>
    9272 
    9273       <listitem>
    9274         <para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
    9275       </listitem>
    9276 
    9277       <listitem>
    9278         <para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
    9279           guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
    9280       </listitem>
    9281 
    9282       <listitem>
    9283         <para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
    9284           PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
    9285           guest (bug #4496)</para>
    9286       </listitem>
    9287 
    9288       <listitem>
    9289         <para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
    9290       </listitem>
    9291 
    9292       <listitem>
    9293         <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
    9294       </listitem>
    9295 
    9296       <listitem>
    9297         <para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
    9298           <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
    9299       </listitem>
    9300 
    9301       <listitem>
    9302         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
    9303           among other things caused lost guest property updates and
    9304           periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
    9305       </listitem>
    9306 
    9307     </itemizedlist>
    9308 
    9309   </sect1>
    9310 
    9311   <sect1>
    9312     <title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
    9313 
    9314     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    9315       added:</para>
    9316 
    9317     <itemizedlist>
    9318 
    9319       <listitem>
    9320         <para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
    9321       </listitem>
    9322 
    9323       <listitem>
    9324         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
    9325       </listitem>
    9326 
    9327       <listitem>
    9328         <para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
    9329            necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
    9330            (Windows &amp; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
    9331       </listitem>
    9332 
    9333       <listitem>
    9334         <para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
    9335           (VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
    9336       </listitem>
    9337 
    9338       <listitem>
    9339         <para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
    9340       </listitem>
    9341 
    9342       <listitem>
    9343         <para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
    9344       </listitem>
    9345 
    9346       <listitem>
    9347         <para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
    9348       </listitem>
    9349 
    9350       <listitem>
    9351         <para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
    9352       </listitem>
    9353 
    9354       <listitem>
    9355         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
    9356       </listitem>
    9357 
    9358       <listitem>
    9359         <para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
    9360            screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
    9361       </listitem>
    9362 
    9363       <listitem>
    9364         <para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
    9365       </listitem>
    9366 
    9367       <listitem>
    9368         <para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
    9369       </listitem>
    9370 
    9371       <listitem>
    9372         <para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
    9373           on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
    9374       </listitem>
    9375 
    9376       <listitem>
    9377         <para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
    9378       </listitem>
    9379 
    9380       <listitem>
    9381         <para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
    9382           exhaustion</para>
    9383       </listitem>
    9384 
    9385       <listitem>
    9386         <para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
    9387       </listitem>
    9388 
    9389       <listitem>
    9390         <para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
    9391           netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
    9392       </listitem>
    9393 
    9394       <listitem>
    9395         <para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
    9396           folders (bug #4106)</para>
    9397       </listitem>
    9398 
    9399       <listitem>
    9400         <para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
    9401           folders (bug #4299)</para>
    9402       </listitem>
    9403 
    9404       <listitem>
    9405         <para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
    9406           <emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
    9407           (bug #2921)</para>
    9408       </listitem>
    9409 
    9410       <listitem>
    9411         <para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
    9412           hosts only)</para>
    9413       </listitem>
    9414 
    9415       <listitem>
    9416         <para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
    9417           package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
    9418       </listitem>
    9419 
    9420       <listitem>
    9421         <para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
    9422       </listitem>
    9423 
    9424       <listitem>
    9425         <para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
    9426           (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
    9427       </listitem>
    9428 
    9429       <listitem>
    9430         <para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
    9431       </listitem>
    9432 
    9433       <listitem>
    9434         <para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
    9435            image inconsistency </para>
    9436        </listitem>
    9437 
    9438        <listitem>
    9439          <para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
    9440        </listitem>
    9441 
    9442        <listitem>
    9443          <para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
    9444        </listitem>
    9445 
    9446        <listitem>
    9447          <para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
    9448            (bug #2025)</para>
    9449        </listitem>
    9450 
    9451        <listitem>
    9452          <para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
    9453            initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
    9454        </listitem>
    9455 
    9456     </itemizedlist>
    9457 
    9458   </sect1>
    9459 
    9460   <sect1>
    9461     <title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
    9462 
    9463     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    9464       added:</para>
    9465 
    9466     <itemizedlist>
    9467 
    9468       <listitem>
    9469         <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
    9470           (VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
    9471       </listitem>
    9472 
    9473       <listitem>
    9474         <para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &amp;
    9475               AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
    9476       </listitem>
    9477 
    9478       <listitem>
    9479         <para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
    9480               guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
    9481       </listitem>
    9482 
    9483       <listitem>
    9484         <para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
    9485       </listitem>
    9486 
    9487       <listitem>
    9488         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
    9489            software virtualization only) </para>
    9490       </listitem>
    9491 
    9492       <listitem>
    9493         <para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
    9494           Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
    9495       </listitem>
    9496 
    9497       <listitem>
    9498         <para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
    9499           with root privileges</para>
    9500       </listitem>
    9501 
    9502       <listitem>
    9503         <para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
    9504           which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
    9505       </listitem>
    9506 
    9507       <listitem>
    9508         <para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
    9509           distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
    9510       </listitem>
    9511 
    9512       <listitem>
    9513         <para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
    9514           opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
    9515       </listitem>
    9516 
    9517       <listitem>
    9518         <para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
    9519           DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
    9520           selector (bug #5063)</para>
    9521       </listitem>
    9522 
    9523       <listitem>
    9524         <para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
    9525            available</para>
    9526       </listitem>
    9527 
    9528       <listitem>
    9529         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
    9530           interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
    9531       </listitem>
    9532 
    9533       <listitem>
    9534         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
    9535           networking (bug #4775)</para>
    9536       </listitem>
    9537 
    9538       <listitem>
    9539         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
    9540           changing them (bug #5077)</para>
    9541       </listitem>
    9542 
    9543       <listitem>
    9544         <para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
    9545           (bug #4907)</para>
    9546       </listitem>
    9547 
    9548       <listitem>
    9549         <para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
    9550           VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
    9551       </listitem>
    9552 
    9553       <listitem>
    9554         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
    9555           with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
    9556       </listitem>
    9557 
    9558       <listitem>
    9559         <para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
    9560       </listitem>
    9561 
    9562       <listitem>
    9563         <para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
    9564       </listitem>
    9565 
    9566       <listitem>
    9567         <para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
    9568       </listitem>
    9569 
    9570       <listitem>
    9571         <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
    9572       </listitem>
    9573 
    9574       <listitem>
    9575         <para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
    9576           are installed</para>
    9577       </listitem>
    9578 
    9579       <listitem>
    9580         <para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
    9581           (bug #4771)</para>
    9582       </listitem>
    9583 
    9584       <listitem>
    9585         <para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
    9586       </listitem>
    9587 
    9588       <listitem>
    9589         <para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
    9590           rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
    9591       </listitem>
    9592 
    9593       <listitem>
    9594         <para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
    9595           command</para>
    9596       </listitem>
    9597 
    9598       <listitem>
    9599         <para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
    9600       </listitem>
    9601 
    9602       <listitem>
    9603         <para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
    9604       </listitem>
    9605 
    9606       <listitem>
    9607         <para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
    9608           (bug #5089)</para>
    9609       </listitem>
    9610 
    9611       <listitem>
    9612         <para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
    9613       </listitem>
    9614 
    9615     </itemizedlist>
    9616 
    9617   </sect1>
    9618 
    9619   <sect1>
    9620     <title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
    9621 
    9622     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    9623       added:</para>
    9624 
    9625     <itemizedlist>
    9626 
    9627       <listitem>
    9628         <para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
    9629           (AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
    9630       </listitem>
    9631 
    9632       <listitem>
    9633         <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
    9634           a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
    9635       </listitem>
    9636 
    9637       <listitem>
    9638         <para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
    9639                    (software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
    9640       </listitem>
    9641 
    9642       <listitem>
    9643         <para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris &amp; OpenSolaris
    9644           guests (bug #2258)</para>
    9645       </listitem>
    9646 
    9647       <listitem>
    9648         <para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
    9649           (AMD-V &amp; VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
    9650       </listitem>
    9651 
    9652       <listitem>
    9653         <para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
    9654       </listitem>
    9655 
    9656       <listitem>
    9657         <para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
    9658       </listitem>
    9659 
    9660       <listitem>
    9661         <para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
    9662       </listitem>
    9663 
    9664       <listitem>
    9665         <para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
    9666       </listitem>
    9667 
    9668       <listitem>
    9669         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
    9670       </listitem>
    9671 
    9672       <listitem>
    9673         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
    9674           onlined or offlined</para>
    9675       </listitem>
    9676 
    9677       <listitem>
    9678         <para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
    9679       </listitem>
    9680 
    9681       <listitem>
    9682         <para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels &lt; 2.6.11 (in particular
    9683           RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels &lt; 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
    9684       </listitem>
    9685 
    9686       <listitem>
    9687         <para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
    9688           than usual (bug #4799)</para>
    9689       </listitem>
    9690 
    9691       <listitem>
    9692         <para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
    9693       </listitem>
    9694 
    9695       <listitem>
    9696         <para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
    9697           wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
    9698       </listitem>
    9699 
    9700       <listitem>
    9701         <para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
    9702       </listitem>
    9703 
    9704       <listitem>
    9705         <para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
    9706       </listitem>
    9707 
    9708       <listitem>
    9709         <para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
    9710       </listitem>
    9711 
    9712       <listitem>
    9713         <para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
    9714       </listitem>
    9715 
    9716       <listitem>
    9717         <para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
    9718       </listitem>
    9719 
    9720       <listitem>
    9721         <para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
    9722           filters in machine settings XML</para>
    9723       </listitem>
    9724 
    9725       <listitem>
    9726         <para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
    9727       </listitem>
    9728 
    9729       <listitem>
    9730         <para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
    9731       </listitem>
    9732 
    9733       <listitem>
    9734         <para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
    9735       </listitem>
    9736 
    9737       <listitem>
    9738         <para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
    9739           for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
    9740       </listitem>
    9741 
    9742       <listitem>
    9743         <para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
    9744           <emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
    9745       </listitem>
    9746 
    9747       <listitem>
    9748         <para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
    9749       </listitem>
    9750 
    9751       <listitem>
    9752         <para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
    9753       </listitem>
    9754 
    9755       <listitem>
    9756         <para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
    9757       </listitem>
    9758 
    9759       <listitem>
    9760         <para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
    9761       </listitem>
    9762 
    9763       <listitem>
    9764         <para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
    9765       </listitem>
    9766 
    9767       <listitem>
    9768         <para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
    9769       </listitem>
    9770 
    9771       <listitem>
    9772         <para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
    9773       </listitem>
    9774 
    9775       <listitem>
    9776         <para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
    9777           fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
    9778           was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
    9779           phase collapse</para>
    9780       </listitem>
    9781 
    9782       <listitem>
    9783         <para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
    9784           (2.1.0 regression; bug #3911)</para>
    9785       </listitem>
    9786 
    9787       <listitem>
    9788         <para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
    9789           to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
    9790       </listitem>
    9791 
    9792       <listitem>
    9793         <para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
    9794       </listitem>
    9795 
    9796       <listitem>
    9797         <para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
    9798           <emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
    9799       </listitem>
    9800 
    9801       <listitem>
    9802         <para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
    9803           interface bringup on Linux</para>
    9804       </listitem>
    9805 
    9806       <listitem>
    9807         <para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
    9808       </listitem>
    9809 
    9810       <listitem>
    9811         <para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
    9812           interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
    9813           #4698, #4790)</para>
    9814       </listitem>
    9815 
    9816       <listitem>
    9817         <para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
    9818           less than the configured range</para>
    9819       </listitem>
    9820 
    9821       <listitem>
    9822         <para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
    9823       </listitem>
    9824 
    9825       <listitem>
    9826         <para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
    9827       </listitem>
    9828 
    9829       <listitem>
    9830         <para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
    9831       </listitem>
    9832 
    9833       <listitem>
    9834         <para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
    9835       </listitem>
    9836 
    9837       <listitem>
    9838         <para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
    9839           DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
    9840       </listitem>
    9841 
    9842       <listitem>
    9843         <para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
    9844           the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
    9845       </listitem>
    9846 
    9847       <listitem>
    9848         <para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
    9849           (like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
    9850       </listitem>
    9851 
    9852       <listitem>
    9853         <para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
    9854       </listitem>
    9855 
    9856       <listitem>
    9857         <para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
    9858            and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
    9859       </listitem>
    9860 
    9861       <listitem>
    9862         <para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
    9863            new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
    9864       </listitem>
    9865 
    9866       <listitem>
    9867         <para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
    9868           a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
    9869       </listitem>
    9870 
    9871       <listitem>
    9872         <para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
    9873           cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
    9874       </listitem>
    9875 
    9876       <listitem>
    9877         <para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
    9878       </listitem>
    9879 
    9880       <listitem>
    9881         <para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
    9882       </listitem>
    9883 
    9884     </itemizedlist>
    9885 
    9886   </sect1>
    9887 
    9888   <sect1>
    9889     <title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
    9890 
    9891     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    9892       added:</para>
    9893 
    9894     <itemizedlist>
    9895 
    9896       <listitem>
    9897         <para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 &amp; #3666)</para>
    9898       </listitem>
    9899 
    9900       <listitem>
    9901         <para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
    9902       </listitem>
    9903 
    9904       <listitem>
    9905         <para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
    9906       </listitem>
    9907 
    9908       <listitem>
    9909         <para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
    9910       </listitem>
    9911 
    9912       <listitem>
    9913         <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
    9914       </listitem>
    9915 
    9916       <listitem>
    9917         <para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
    9918       </listitem>
    9919 
    9920       <listitem>
    9921         <para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
    9922       </listitem>
    9923 
    9924       <listitem>
    9925         <para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
    9926       </listitem>
    9927 
    9928       <listitem>
    9929         <para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
    9930       </listitem>
    9931 
    9932       <listitem>
    9933         <para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
    9934           multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
    9935       </listitem>
    9936 
    9937       <listitem>
    9938         <para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
    9939       </listitem>
    9940 
    9941       <listitem>
    9942         <para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
    9943       </listitem>
    9944 
    9945       <listitem>
    9946         <para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
    9947       </listitem>
    9948 
    9949       <listitem>
    9950         <para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
    9951       </listitem>
    9952 
    9953       <listitem>
    9954         <para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
    9955       </listitem>
    9956 
    9957       <listitem>
    9958         <para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
    9959       </listitem>
    9960 
    9961       <listitem>
    9962         <para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
    9963           Windows (bug #4354)</para>
    9964       </listitem>
    9965 
    9966       <listitem>
    9967         <para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
    9968           (bug #4654)</para>
    9969       </listitem>
    9970 
    9971       <listitem>
    9972         <para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
    9973       </listitem>
    9974 
    9975       <listitem>
    9976         <para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
    9977           interfaces</para>
    9978       </listitem>
    9979 
    9980       <listitem>
    9981         <para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
    9982           in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
    9983       </listitem>
    9984 
    9985       <listitem>
    9986         <para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
    9987           inactive (3.0.2 regression; bug #4668)</para>
    9988       </listitem>
    9989 
    9990       <listitem>
    9991         <para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
    9992           properties (bug #3415)</para>
    9993       </listitem>
    9994 
    9995       <listitem>
    9996         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
    9997           (bug #1461)</para>
    9998       </listitem>
    9999 
    10000       <listitem>
    10001         <para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
    10002       </listitem>
    10003 
    10004       <listitem>
    10005         <para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
    10006           transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
    10007       </listitem>
    10008 
    10009       <listitem>
    10010         <para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
    10011           fails to find any DVD drives</para>
    10012       </listitem>
    10013 
    10014       <listitem>
    10015         <para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
    10016           Qt (bug #4353)</para>
    10017       </listitem>
    10018 
    10019       <listitem>
    10020         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
    10021       </listitem>
    10022 
    10023       <listitem>
    10024         <para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
    10025       </listitem>
    10026 
    10027       <listitem>
    10028         <para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
    10029       </listitem>
    10030 
    10031       <listitem>
    10032         <para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
    10033           seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
    10034       </listitem>
    10035 
    10036       <listitem>
    10037         <para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
    10038            amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
    10039       </listitem>
    10040 
    10041       <listitem>
    10042         <para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching  between host and
    10043           guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
    10044       </listitem>
    10045 
    10046       <listitem>
    10047         <para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
    10048           working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
    10049       </listitem>
    10050 
    10051     </itemizedlist>
    10052 
    10053   </sect1>
    10054   <sect1>
    10055     <title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
    10056 
    10057     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    10058       added:</para>
    10059 
    10060     <itemizedlist>
    10061 
    10062       <listitem>
    10063         <para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
    10064       </listitem>
    10065 
    10066       <listitem>
    10067         <para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
    10068       </listitem>
    10069 
    10070       <listitem>
    10071         <para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
    10072           (VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
    10073       </listitem>
    10074 
    10075       <listitem>
    10076         <para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
    10077           virtualization only; bugs #2696 &amp; #3868)</para>
    10078       </listitem>
    10079 
    10080       <listitem>
    10081         <para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
    10082       </listitem>
    10083 
    10084       <listitem>
    10085         <para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
    10086       </listitem>
    10087 
    10088       <listitem>
    10089         <para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
    10090       </listitem>
    10091 
    10092       <listitem>
    10093         <para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
    10094       </listitem>
    10095 
    10096       <listitem>
    10097         <para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
    10098       </listitem>
    10099 
    10100       <listitem>
    10101         <para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
    10102       </listitem>
    10103 
    10104       <listitem>
    10105         <para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
    10106       </listitem>
    10107 
    10108       <listitem>
    10109         <para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
    10110       </listitem>
    10111 
    10112       <listitem>
    10113         <para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
    10114       </listitem>
    10115 
    10116       <listitem>
    10117         <para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
    10118       </listitem>
    10119 
    10120       <listitem>
    10121         <para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
    10122       </listitem>
    10123 
    10124       <listitem>
    10125         <para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
    10126           guest (bug #4381)</para>
    10127       </listitem>
    10128 
    10129       <listitem>
    10130         <para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
    10131       </listitem>
    10132 
    10133       <listitem>
    10134         <para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
    10135       </listitem>
    10136 
    10137       <listitem>
    10138         <para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
    10139          (for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
    10140       </listitem>
    10141 
    10142       <listitem>
    10143         <para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
    10144       </listitem>
    10145 
    10146       <listitem>
    10147         <para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
    10148       </listitem>
    10149 
    10150       <listitem>
    10151         <para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
    10152           black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
    10153       </listitem>
    10154 
    10155       <listitem>
    10156         <para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
    10157       </listitem>
    10158 
    10159       <listitem>
    10160         <para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
    10161       </listitem>
    10162 
    10163       <listitem>
    10164         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
    10165       </listitem>
    10166 
    10167       <listitem>
    10168         <para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
    10169       </listitem>
    10170 
    10171       <listitem>
    10172         <para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
    10173       </listitem>
    10174 
    10175       <listitem>
    10176         <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>
    10177       </listitem>
    10178 
    10179     </itemizedlist>
    10180 
    10181   </sect1>
    10182 
    10183   <sect1>
    10184     <title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
    10185 
    10186     <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
    10187       were added:</para>
    10188 
    10189     <itemizedlist>
    10190 
    10191       <listitem>
    10192         <para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
    10193       </listitem>
    10194 
    10195       <listitem>
    10196         <para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
    10197           (experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
    10198       </listitem>
    10199 
    10200       <listitem>
    10201         <para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
    10202       </listitem>
    10203 
    10204     </itemizedlist>
    10205 
    10206     <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
    10207 
    10208     <itemizedlist>
    10209 
    10210       <listitem>
    10211         <para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
    10212       </listitem>
    10213 
    10214       <listitem>
    10215         <para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
    10216           certain conditions</para>
    10217       </listitem>
    10218 
    10219       <listitem>
    10220           <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
    10221       </listitem>
    10222 
    10223       <listitem>
    10224         <para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
    10225       </listitem>
    10226 
    10227       <listitem>
    10228         <para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
    10229       </listitem>
    10230 
    10231       <listitem>
    10232         <para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
    10233               this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
    10234       </listitem>
    10235 
    10236       <listitem>
    10237         <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
    10238       </listitem>
    10239 
    10240       <listitem>
    10241         <para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
    10242       </listitem>
    10243 
    10244       <listitem>
    10245         <para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
    10246       </listitem>
    10247 
    10248       <listitem>
    10249         <para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
    10250       </listitem>
    10251 
    10252       <listitem>
    10253         <para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
    10254       </listitem>
    10255 
    10256       <listitem>
    10257         <para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
    10258       </listitem>
    10259 
    10260       <listitem>
    10261         <para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
    10262       </listitem>
    10263 
    10264       <listitem>
    10265         <para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
    10266       </listitem>
    10267 
    10268       <listitem>
    10269         <para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
    10270           (non Windows hosts)</para>
    10271       </listitem>
    10272 
    10273       <listitem>
    10274         <para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
    10275       </listitem>
    10276 
    10277       <listitem>
    10278         <para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
    10279       </listitem>
    10280 
    10281       <listitem>
    10282           <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
    10283       </listitem>
    10284 
    10285       <listitem>
    10286           <para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
    10287       </listitem>
    10288 
    10289       <listitem>
    10290           <para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
    10291       </listitem>
    10292 
    10293       <listitem>
    10294           <para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
    10295       </listitem>
    10296 
    10297       <listitem>
    10298           <para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
    10299       </listitem>
    10300 
    10301       <listitem>
    10302           <para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
    10303       </listitem>
    10304 
    10305       <listitem>
    10306         <para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
    10307       </listitem>
    10308 
    10309       <listitem>
    10310         <para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
    10311           with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
    10312       </listitem>
    10313 
    10314       <listitem>
    10315         <para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
    10316       </listitem>
    10317 
    10318       <listitem>
    10319         <para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
    10320       </listitem>
    10321 
    10322       <listitem>
    10323         <para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
    10324       </listitem>
    10325 
    10326       <listitem>
    10327         <para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
    10328       </listitem>
    10329 
    10330       <listitem>
    10331         <para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
    10332       </listitem>
    10333 
    10334       <listitem>
    10335         <para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
    10336       </listitem>
    10337 
    10338       <listitem>
    10339         <para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
    10340       </listitem>
    10341 
    10342       <listitem>
    10343         <para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
    10344           creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
    10345       </listitem>
    10346 
    10347       <listitem>
    10348         <para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
    10349       </listitem>
    10350 
    10351       <listitem>
    10352         <para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
    10353       </listitem>
    10354 
    10355       <listitem>
    10356         <para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
    10357       </listitem>
    10358 
    10359       <listitem>
    10360         <para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
    10361           virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
    10362       </listitem>
    10363 
    10364       <listitem>
    10365         <para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
    10366           (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
    10367       </listitem>
    10368 
    10369       <listitem>
    10370         <para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
    10371           correct file mode when creating files</para>
    10372       </listitem>
    10373 
    10374       <listitem>
    10375         <para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
    10376           conditions (bug #1187)</para>
    10377       </listitem>
    10378 
    10379       <listitem>
    10380         <para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
    10381            on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
    10382       </listitem>
    10383 
    10384       <listitem>
    10385         <para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
    10386       </listitem>
    10387 
    10388       <listitem>
    10389         <para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
    10390       </listitem>
    10391 
    10392       <listitem>
    10393         <para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
    10394         Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
    10395       </listitem>
    10396 
    10397       <listitem>
    10398         <para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
    10399          guest property lookup</para>
    10400       </listitem>
    10401 
    10402       <listitem>
    10403         <para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
    10404           basic network information)</para>
    10405       </listitem>
    10406 
    10407       <listitem>
    10408         <para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
    10409           (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
    10410       </listitem>
    10411 
    10412       <listitem>
    10413         <para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
    10414             added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
    10415             endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
    10416             devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
    10417       </listitem>
    10418 
    10419       <listitem>
    10420         <para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
    10421       </listitem>
    10422 
    10423       <listitem>
    10424           <para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
    10425           are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
    10426           web service</para>
    10427       </listitem>
    10428 
    10429        <listitem>
    10430           <para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
    10431           inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
    10432       </listitem>
    10433 
    10434         <listitem>
    10435           <para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
    10436           unavailable</para>
    10437       </listitem>
    10438 
    10439        <listitem>
    10440           <para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
    10441       </listitem>
    10442 
    10443     </itemizedlist>
    10444   </sect1>
    10445 
    10446   <sect1>
    10447     <title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
    10448 
    10449     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    10450       added:</para>
    10451 
    10452     <itemizedlist>
    10453 
    10454       <listitem>
    10455         <para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
    10456           installation</para>
    10457       </listitem>
    10458 
    10459       <listitem>
    10460         <para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
    10461       </listitem>
    10462 
    10463       <listitem>
    10464         <para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
    10465           later (bug #3981)</para>
    10466       </listitem>
    10467 
    10468       <listitem>
    10469         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
    10470           loopback (bug #3120)</para>
    10471       </listitem>
    10472 
    10473       <listitem>
    10474         <para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
    10475           <computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
    10476           (bug #4034)
    10477         </para>
    10478       </listitem>
    10479 
    10480       <listitem>
    10481         <para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
    10482           networking</para>
    10483       </listitem>
    10484 
    10485       <listitem>
    10486         <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
    10487           disabled (bug #4077)</para>
    10488       </listitem>
    10489 
    10490       <listitem>
    10491         <para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
    10492           clicks</para>
    10493       </listitem>
    10494 
    10495       <listitem>
    10496         <para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
    10497           Windows 7 guests</para>
    10498       </listitem>
    10499 
    10500       <listitem>
    10501         <para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
    10502           that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
    10503       </listitem>
    10504 
    10505       <listitem>
    10506         <para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
    10507       </listitem>
    10508 
    10509       <listitem>
    10510         <para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
    10511       </listitem>
    10512 
    10513       <listitem>
    10514         <para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
    10515           (bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
    10516       </listitem>
    10517 
    10518       <listitem>
    10519         <para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
    10520           clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
    10521       </listitem>
    10522 
    10523       <listitem>
    10524         <para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
    10525       </listitem>
    10526 
    10527       <listitem>
    10528         <para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
    10529       </listitem>
    10530 
    10531       <listitem>
    10532         <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
    10533           fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
    10534           (bug #3864)</para>
    10535       </listitem>
    10536 
    10537       <listitem>
    10538         <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
    10539           now flushes the output stream</para>
    10540       </listitem>
    10541 
    10542       <listitem>
    10543         <para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
    10544             sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
    10545       </listitem>
    10546 
    10547       <listitem>
    10548         <para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
    10549       </listitem>
    10550 
    10551       <listitem>
    10552         <para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
    10553       </listitem>
    10554 
    10555       <listitem>
    10556         <para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
    10557       </listitem>
    10558 
    10559       <listitem>
    10560         <para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
    10561       </listitem>
    10562 
    10563       <listitem>
    10564         <para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
    10565           (bug #3964)</para>
    10566       </listitem>
    10567 
    10568       <listitem>
    10569         <para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
    10570           hosts (bug #4090)</para>
    10571       </listitem>
    10572 
    10573       <listitem>
    10574         <para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
    10575           hosts</para>
    10576       </listitem>
    10577 
    10578       <listitem>
    10579         <para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
    10580           a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
    10581           e1000 adapter</para>
    10582       </listitem>
    10583 
    10584       <listitem>
    10585         <para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
    10586           when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
    10587           offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
    10588           offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
    10589       </listitem>
    10590 
    10591       <listitem>
    10592         <para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
    10593       </listitem>
    10594 
    10595       <listitem>
    10596         <para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
    10597       </listitem>
    10598 
    10599       <listitem>
    10600         <para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
    10601       </listitem>
    10602 
    10603       <listitem>
    10604         <para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
    10605           file (bug #1023)</para>
    10606       </listitem>
    10607 
    10608       <listitem>
    10609         <para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
    10610       </listitem>
    10611 
    10612       <listitem>
    10613         <para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
    10614       </listitem>
    10615 
    10616     </itemizedlist>
    10617   </sect1>
    10618 
    10619   <sect1>
    10620     <title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
    10621 
    10622     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    10623       added:</para>
    10624 
    10625     <itemizedlist>
    10626 
    10627       <listitem>
    10628         <para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
    10629           hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
    10630       </listitem>
    10631 
    10632       <listitem>
    10633         <para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
    10634           on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
    10635           and later</para>
    10636       </listitem>
    10637 
    10638       <listitem>
    10639         <para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
    10640           running services</para>
    10641       </listitem>
    10642 
    10643       <listitem>
    10644         <para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
    10645           terminates</para>
    10646       </listitem>
    10647 
    10648       <listitem>
    10649         <para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
    10650           in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
    10651       </listitem>
    10652 
    10653       <listitem>
    10654         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
    10655           installed on the guest</para>
    10656       </listitem>
    10657 
    10658       <listitem>
    10659         <para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
    10660           unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
    10661       </listitem>
    10662 
    10663       <listitem>
    10664         <para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
    10665           Windows guests (2.2.0 regression; bug #3734)</para>
    10666       </listitem>
    10667 
    10668       <listitem>
    10669         <para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
    10670           (bug #2628)</para>
    10671       </listitem>
    10672 
    10673       <listitem>
    10674         <para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
    10675           hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
    10676       </listitem>
    10677 
    10678       <listitem>
    10679         <para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
    10680           (bug #3657)</para>
    10681       </listitem>
    10682 
    10683       <listitem>
    10684         <para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
    10685           devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
    10686       </listitem>
    10687 
    10688       <listitem>
    10689         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
    10690               virtualization only)
    10691         </para>
    10692       </listitem>
    10693 
    10694       <listitem>
    10695         <para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
    10696           images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
    10697       </listitem>
    10698 
    10699       <listitem>
    10700         <para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
    10701       </listitem>
    10702 
    10703       <listitem>
    10704         <para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
    10705           networks (bug #3702)</para>
    10706       </listitem>
    10707 
    10708       <listitem>
    10709         <para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression;
    10710           bug #3689)</para>
    10711       </listitem>
    10712 
    10713       <listitem>
    10714         <para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
    10715           bug #3679)</para>
    10716       </listitem>
    10717 
    10718       <listitem>
    10719         <para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
    10720           bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
    10721       </listitem>
    10722 
    10723       <listitem>
    10724         <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
    10725           implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
    10726           (bug #2180, #2833)</para>
    10727       </listitem>
    10728 
    10729       <listitem>
    10730         <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
    10731           made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
    10732       </listitem>
    10733 
    10734       <listitem>
    10735         <para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
    10736           lease (bug #3655)</para>
    10737       </listitem>
    10738 
    10739       <listitem>
    10740         <para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
    10741           (bug #3667)</para>
    10742       </listitem>
    10743 
    10744       <listitem>
    10745         <para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
    10746           emulation (2.2.0 regression; bug #3676)</para>
    10747       </listitem>
    10748 
    10749       <listitem>
    10750         <para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
    10751       </listitem>
    10752 
    10753       <listitem>
    10754         <para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
    10755       </listitem>
    10756 
    10757       <listitem>
    10758         <para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
    10759       </listitem>
    10760 
    10761       <listitem>
    10762         <para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
    10763       </listitem>
    10764 
    10765       <listitem>
    10766         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
    10767       </listitem>
    10768 
    10769       <listitem>
    10770         <para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
    10771       </listitem>
    10772 
    10773       <listitem>
    10774         <para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
    10775       </listitem>
    10776 
    10777     </itemizedlist>
    10778   </sect1>
    10779 
    10780   <sect1>
    10781     <title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
    10782 
    10783     <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
    10784       were added:</para>
    10785 
    10786     <itemizedlist>
    10787 
    10788       <listitem>
    10789         <para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
    10790       </listitem>
    10791 
    10792       <listitem>
    10793         <para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
    10794       </listitem>
    10795 
    10796       <listitem>
    10797         <para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
    10798       </listitem>
    10799 
    10800       <listitem>
    10801         <para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
    10802       </listitem>
    10803 
    10804       <listitem>
    10805         <para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
    10806       </listitem>
    10807 
    10808       <listitem>
    10809         <para>USB (OHCI &amp; EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
    10810       </listitem>
    10811 
    10812       <listitem>
    10813         <para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
    10814       </listitem>
    10815 
    10816       <listitem>
    10817         <para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
    10818       </listitem>
    10819 
    10820       <listitem>
    10821         <para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
    10822       </listitem>
    10823 
    10824       <listitem>
    10825         <para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
    10826       </listitem>
    10827 
    10828     </itemizedlist>
    10829 
    10830     <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
    10831 
    10832     <itemizedlist>
    10833 
    10834       <listitem>
    10835         <para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
    10836       </listitem>
    10837 
    10838       <listitem>
    10839         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
    10840       </listitem>
    10841 
    10842       <listitem>
    10843         <para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
    10844       </listitem>
    10845 
    10846       <listitem>
    10847         <para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
    10848       </listitem>
    10849 
    10850       <listitem>
    10851         <para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
    10852       </listitem>
    10853 
    10854       <listitem>
    10855         <para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
    10856       </listitem>
    10857 
    10858       <listitem>
    10859         <para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
    10860       </listitem>
    10861 
    10862       <listitem>
    10863         <para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
    10864       </listitem>
    10865 
    10866       <listitem>
    10867         <para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
    10868              but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
    10869       </listitem>
    10870 
    10871       <listitem>
    10872         <para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
    10873       </listitem>
    10874 
    10875       <listitem>
    10876         <para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
    10877            TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
    10878       </listitem>
    10879 
    10880       <listitem>
    10881         <para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
    10882               when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
    10883       </listitem>
    10884 
    10885       <listitem>
    10886         <para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
    10887       </listitem>
    10888 
    10889       <listitem>
    10890         <para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
    10891       </listitem>
    10892 
    10893       <listitem>
    10894         <para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
    10895           and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
    10896       </listitem>
    10897 
    10898       <listitem>
    10899         <para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
    10900       </listitem>
    10901 
    10902       <listitem>
    10903         <para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
    10904         ESX server images)</para>
    10905       </listitem>
    10906 
    10907       <listitem>
    10908         <para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
    10909           writable</para>
    10910       </listitem>
    10911 
    10912       <listitem>
    10913         <para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
    10914             EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
    10915             is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
    10916       </listitem>
    10917 
    10918       <listitem>
    10919         <para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
    10920           (Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
    10921       </listitem>
    10922 
    10923       <listitem>
    10924         <para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
    10925       </listitem>
    10926 
    10927       <listitem>
    10928         <para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
    10929       </listitem>
    10930 
    10931       <listitem>
    10932         <para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris
    10933         hosts when creating files</para>
    10934       </listitem>
    10935 
    10936       <listitem>
    10937         <para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
    10938            this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
    10939       </listitem>
    10940 
    10941       <listitem>
    10942         <para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
    10943           if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
    10944           #2306)</para>
    10945       </listitem>
    10946 
    10947       <listitem>
    10948         <para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
    10949           (bug #3555)</para>
    10950       </listitem>
    10951 
    10952       <listitem>
    10953         <para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
    10954           installer (bug #3524)</para>
    10955       </listitem>
    10956 
    10957       <listitem>
    10958         <para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
    10959           correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
    10960       </listitem>
    10961 
    10962       <listitem>
    10963         <para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
    10964           interface (bug #3414)</para>
    10965       </listitem>
    10966 
    10967       <listitem>
    10968         <para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
    10969           the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
    10970       </listitem>
    10971 
    10972       <listitem>
    10973         <para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
    10974           (bug #3586)</para>
    10975       </listitem>
    10976 
    10977       <listitem>
    10978         <para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
    10979           from Scratch systems</para>
    10980       </listitem>
    10981 
    10982       <listitem>
    10983         <para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
    10984         both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
    10985       </listitem>
    10986 
    10987       <listitem>
    10988         <para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
    10989       </listitem>
    10990 
    10991       <listitem>
    10992         <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
    10993           default to compact format</para>
    10994       </listitem>
    10995 
    10996       <listitem>
    10997         <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
    10998           did not work if the image was attached before</para>
    10999       </listitem>
    11000 
    11001       <listitem>
    11002         <para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
    11003       </listitem>
    11004 
    11005       <listitem>
    11006         <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
    11007           don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
    11008           statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
    11009       </listitem>
    11010 
    11011       <listitem>
    11012         <para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
    11013         single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
    11014         next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
    11015       </listitem>
    11016 
    11017       <listitem>
    11018         <para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
    11019         VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
    11020       </listitem>
    11021 
    11022       <listitem>
    11023         <para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
    11024       </listitem>
    11025 
    11026       <listitem>
    11027         <para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
    11028       </listitem>
    11029 
    11030       <listitem>
    11031         <para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
    11032       </listitem>
    11033 
    11034       <listitem>
    11035         <para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
    11036       </listitem>
    11037 
    11038       <listitem>
    11039         <para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
    11040       </listitem>
    11041 
    11042       <listitem>
    11043         <para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
    11044       </listitem>
    11045 
    11046       <listitem>
    11047         <para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
    11048       </listitem>
    11049 
    11050       <listitem>
    11051         <para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
    11052           a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
    11053       </listitem>
    11054 
    11055       <listitem>
    11056         <para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
    11057       </listitem>
    11058 
    11059       <listitem>
    11060         <para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
    11061           regression; bug #2065)</para>
    11062       </listitem>
    11063 
    11064       <listitem>
    11065         <para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
    11066       </listitem>
    11067 
    11068       <listitem>
    11069         <para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
    11070       </listitem>
    11071 
    11072       <listitem>
    11073         <para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
    11074       </listitem>
    11075 
    11076       <listitem>
    11077         <para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
    11078             #2536)</para>
    11079       </listitem>
    11080 
    11081       <listitem>
    11082         <para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
    11083       </listitem>
    11084 
    11085       <listitem>
    11086         <para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
    11087           (bug #3548)</para>
    11088       </listitem>
    11089 
    11090     </itemizedlist>
    11091   </sect1>
    11092 
    11093   <sect1>
    11094     <title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
    11095 
    11096     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    11097       added:</para>
    11098 
    11099     <itemizedlist>
    11100 
    11101       <listitem>
    11102         <para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
    11103               when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
    11104       </listitem>
    11105 
    11106       <listitem>
    11107         <para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
    11108       </listitem>
    11109 
    11110       <listitem>
    11111         <para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
    11112       </listitem>
    11113 
    11114       <listitem>
    11115         <para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
    11116       </listitem>
    11117 
    11118       <listitem>
    11119         <para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
    11120           (bug #3115)</para>
    11121       </listitem>
    11122 
    11123       <listitem>
    11124         <para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
    11125           don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
    11126       </listitem>
    11127 
    11128       <listitem>
    11129         <para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
    11130           communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
    11131           (bug #3215)</para>
    11132       </listitem>
    11133 
    11134       <listitem>
    11135         <para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
    11136           are not available (bug #3136)</para>
    11137       </listitem>
    11138 
    11139       <listitem>
    11140         <para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
    11141           disabled (bug #3098)</para>
    11142       </listitem>
    11143 
    11144       <listitem>
    11145         <para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
    11146           been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
    11147       </listitem>
    11148 
    11149       <listitem>
    11150         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
    11151           in parallel</para>
    11152       </listitem>
    11153 
    11154       <listitem>
    11155         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
    11156       </listitem>
    11157 
    11158       <listitem>
    11159         <para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
    11160       </listitem>
    11161 
    11162       <listitem>
    11163         <para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
    11164       </listitem>
    11165 
    11166       <listitem>
    11167         <para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
    11168            software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
    11169       </listitem>
    11170 
    11171       <listitem>
    11172         <para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
    11173       </listitem>
    11174 
    11175       <listitem>
    11176         <para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
    11177             shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
    11178       </listitem>
    11179 
    11180       <listitem>
    11181         <para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
    11182           when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
    11183       </listitem>
    11184 
    11185       <listitem>
    11186         <para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
    11187       </listitem>
    11188 
    11189       <listitem>
    11190         <para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
    11191           3D acceleration; Solaris &amp; Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
    11192       </listitem>
    11193 
    11194       <listitem>
    11195         <para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
    11196           traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
    11197       </listitem>
    11198 
    11199       <listitem>
    11200         <para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
    11201       </listitem>
    11202 
    11203       <listitem>
    11204         <para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
    11205       </listitem>
    11206 
    11207       <listitem>
    11208         <para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
    11209           different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
    11210       </listitem>
    11211 
    11212       <listitem>
    11213         <para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
    11214       </listitem>
    11215 
    11216       <listitem>
    11217         <para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
    11218       </listitem>
    11219 
    11220       <listitem>
    11221         <para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
    11222       </listitem>
    11223 
    11224       <listitem>
    11225         <para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
    11226           synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
    11227       </listitem>
    11228 
    11229       <listitem>
    11230         <para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
    11231       </listitem>
    11232 
    11233       <listitem>
    11234         <para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
    11235           virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
    11236       </listitem>
    11237 
    11238       <listitem>
    11239         <para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
    11240       </listitem>
    11241 
    11242       <listitem>
    11243         <para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
    11244       </listitem>
    11245 
    11246       <listitem>
    11247         <para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
    11248           error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
    11249       </listitem>
    11250 
    11251       <listitem>
    11252         <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
    11253           with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
    11254       </listitem>
    11255 
    11256       <listitem>
    11257         <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
    11258       </listitem>
    11259 
    11260       <listitem>
    11261         <para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
    11262           message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
    11263       </listitem>
    11264 
    11265       <listitem>
    11266         <para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
    11267           in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
    11268       </listitem>
    11269 
    11270       <listitem>
    11271         <para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
    11272           on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
    11273       </listitem>
    11274 
    11275       <listitem>
    11276         <para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
    11277           (bug #3213)</para>
    11278       </listitem>
    11279 
    11280       <listitem>
    11281         <para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
    11282           configured for fixed resolutions</para>
    11283       </listitem>
    11284 
    11285       <listitem>
    11286         <para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
    11287           larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
    11288       </listitem>
    11289 
    11290     </itemizedlist>
    11291   </sect1>
    11292 
    11293   <sect1>
    11294     <title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
    11295 
    11296     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    11297       added:</para>
    11298 
    11299     <itemizedlist>
    11300 
    11301       <listitem>
    11302         <para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
    11303       </listitem>
    11304 
    11305       <listitem>
    11306         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
    11307       </listitem>
    11308 
    11309       <listitem>
    11310         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
    11311       </listitem>
    11312 
    11313       <listitem>
    11314         <para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
    11315       </listitem>
    11316 
    11317        <listitem>
    11318         <para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
    11319       </listitem>
    11320 
    11321       <listitem>
    11322         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
    11323       </listitem>
    11324 
    11325       <listitem>
    11326         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell NetWare 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
    11327       </listitem>
    11328 
    11329       <listitem>
    11330         <para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
    11331       </listitem>
    11332 
    11333       <listitem>
    11334         <para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
    11335       </listitem>
    11336 
    11337       <listitem>
    11338         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
    11339       </listitem>
    11340 
    11341       <listitem>
    11342         <para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
    11343       </listitem>
    11344 
    11345       <listitem>
    11346         <para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
    11347       </listitem>
    11348 
    11349       <listitem>
    11350         <para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
    11351       </listitem>
    11352 
    11353       <listitem>
    11354         <para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
    11355       </listitem>
    11356 
    11357       <listitem>
    11358         <para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
    11359       </listitem>
    11360 
    11361       <listitem>
    11362         <para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
    11363       </listitem>
    11364 
    11365       <listitem>
    11366         <para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
    11367           (bug #3067)</para>
    11368       </listitem>
    11369 
    11370       <listitem>
    11371         <para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
    11372           bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
    11373       </listitem>
    11374 
    11375       <listitem>
    11376         <para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
    11377           (bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
    11378       </listitem>
    11379 
    11380       <listitem>
    11381         <para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
    11382       </listitem>
    11383 
    11384       <listitem>
    11385         <para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
    11386           events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
    11387       </listitem>
    11388 
    11389       <listitem>
    11390         <para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
    11391         on Mac OS X hosts</para>
    11392       </listitem>
    11393 
    11394       <listitem>
    11395         <para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
    11396       </listitem>
    11397 
    11398       <listitem>
    11399         <para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
    11400           to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
    11401       </listitem>
    11402 
    11403       <listitem>
    11404         <para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
    11405       </listitem>
    11406 
    11407       <listitem>
    11408         <para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
    11409           in Linux kernels &lt; 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
    11410       </listitem>
    11411 
    11412       <listitem>
    11413         <para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
    11414           interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
    11415       </listitem>
    11416 
    11417       <listitem>
    11418         <para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
    11419           in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
    11420         </para>
    11421       </listitem>
    11422 
    11423       <listitem>
    11424         <para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
    11425           without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
    11426         </para>
    11427       </listitem>
    11428 
    11429       <listitem>
    11430         <para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
    11431           internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
    11432         </para>
    11433       </listitem>
    11434 
    11435       <listitem>
    11436         <para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
    11437       </listitem>
    11438 
    11439       <listitem>
    11440         <para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
    11441       </listitem>
    11442 
    11443       <listitem>
    11444         <para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
    11445       </listitem>
    11446 
    11447       <listitem>
    11448         <para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
    11449       </listitem>
    11450 
    11451       <listitem>
    11452         <para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
    11453           (2.1.0 regression; Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
    11454       </listitem>
    11455 
    11456       <listitem>
    11457         <para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
    11458           (Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
    11459       </listitem>
    11460 
    11461       <listitem>
    11462         <para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
    11463           formatting a drive</para>
    11464       </listitem>
    11465 
    11466       <listitem>
    11467         <para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
    11468       </listitem>
    11469 
    11470       <listitem>
    11471         <para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
    11472           from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
    11473       </listitem>
    11474 
    11475       <listitem>
    11476         <para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
    11477       </listitem>
    11478 
    11479       <listitem>
    11480         <para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
    11481       </listitem>
    11482 
    11483       <listitem>
    11484         <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
    11485           fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
    11486       </listitem>
    11487 
    11488       <listitem>
    11489         <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
    11490           parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
    11491           fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
    11492       </listitem>
    11493 
    11494       <listitem>
    11495         <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
    11496           garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
    11497       </listitem>
    11498 
    11499       <listitem>
    11500         <para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
    11501           property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
    11502       </listitem>
    11503 
    11504       <listitem>
    11505         <para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
    11506         (bug #2768)</para>
    11507       </listitem>
    11508 
    11509       <listitem>
    11510         <para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
    11511       </listitem>
    11512 
    11513       <listitem>
    11514         <para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
    11515       </listitem>
    11516 
    11517       <listitem>
    11518         <para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
    11519           single, unified package</para>
    11520       </listitem>
    11521 
    11522       <listitem>
    11523         <para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
    11524           anymore (bug #2859)</para>
    11525       </listitem>
    11526 
    11527       <listitem>
    11528         <para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
    11529       </listitem>
    11530 
    11531       <listitem>
    11532         <para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
    11533           by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
    11534       </listitem>
    11535 
    11536       <listitem>
    11537         <para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
    11538           host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
    11539       </listitem>
    11540 
    11541       <listitem>
    11542         <para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
    11543       </listitem>
    11544 
    11545       <listitem>
    11546         <para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
    11547           preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
    11548           doing 3D</para>
    11549       </listitem>
    11550 
    11551       <listitem>
    11552         <para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
    11553       </listitem>
    11554 
    11555       <listitem>
    11556         <para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
    11557           detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
    11558       </listitem>
    11559 
    11560       <listitem>
    11561         <para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
    11562       </listitem>
    11563 
    11564       <listitem>
    11565         <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
    11566           files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
    11567       </listitem>
    11568 
    11569       <listitem>
    11570         <para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
    11571       </listitem>
    11572 
    11573       <listitem>
    11574         <para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
    11575           (not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
    11576       </listitem>
    11577 
    11578       <listitem>
    11579         <para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
    11580           From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
    11581           (bug #2938)</para>
    11582       </listitem>
    11583 
    11584       <listitem>
    11585         <para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
    11586           Linux guests</para>
    11587       </listitem>
    11588 
    11589       <listitem>
    11590         <para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
    11591           <computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
    11592           (bug #1776)</para>
    11593       </listitem>
    11594 
    11595       <listitem>
    11596         <para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
    11597           (bug #1612)</para>
    11598       </listitem>
    11599 
    11600       <listitem>
    11601         <para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
    11602           option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
    11603       </listitem>
    11604 
    11605       <listitem>
    11606         <para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
    11607           compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
    11608       </listitem>
    11609 
    11610       <listitem>
    11611         <para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
    11612           crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
    11613       </listitem>
    11614 
    11615     </itemizedlist>
    11616   </sect1>
    11617 
    11618   <sect1>
    11619     <title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
    11620 
    11621     <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
    11622       were added:</para>
    11623 
    11624     <itemizedlist>
    11625       <listitem>
    11626          <para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
    11627       </listitem>
    11628 
    11629       <listitem>
    11630         <para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
    11631       </listitem>
    11632 
    11633       <listitem>
    11634        <para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
    11635       </listitem>
    11636 
    11637       <listitem>
    11638         <para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
    11639       </listitem>
    11640 
    11641       <listitem>
    11642         <para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
    11643       </listitem>
    11644 
    11645       <listitem>
    11646         <para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
    11647       </listitem>
    11648 
    11649       <listitem>
    11650         <para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
    11651           (ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
    11652       </listitem>
    11653 
    11654       <listitem>
    11655         <para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
    11656           Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
    11657       </listitem>
    11658 
    11659     </itemizedlist>
    11660 
    11661     <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
    11662 
    11663     <itemizedlist>
    11664       <listitem>
    11665         <para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
    11666       </listitem>
    11667 
    11668       <listitem>
    11669         <para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
    11670       </listitem>
    11671 
    11672       <listitem>
    11673         <para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
    11674       </listitem>
    11675 
    11676       <listitem>
    11677         <para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
    11678       </listitem>
    11679 
    11680       <listitem>
    11681         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
    11682           (software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
    11683       </listitem>
    11684 
    11685       <listitem>
    11686         <para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
    11687           when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X &amp; Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
    11688       </listitem>
    11689 
    11690       <listitem>
    11691         <para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
    11692       </listitem>
    11693 
    11694       <listitem>
    11695         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
    11696           instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
    11697       </listitem>
    11698 
    11699       <listitem>
    11700         <para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
    11701       </listitem>
    11702 
    11703       <listitem>
    11704         <para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
    11705       </listitem>
    11706 
    11707       <listitem>
    11708         <para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
    11709       </listitem>
    11710 
    11711       <listitem>
    11712         <para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows &amp; Mac OS X hosts)</para>
    11713       </listitem>
    11714 
    11715       <listitem>
    11716         <para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows &amp; Mac OS X hosts)</para>
    11717       </listitem>
    11718 
    11719       <listitem>
    11720         <para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
    11721           battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
    11722       </listitem>
    11723 
    11724       <listitem>
    11725         <para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
    11726           the compiz window manager</para>
    11727       </listitem>
    11728 
    11729       <listitem>
    11730         <para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
    11731       </listitem>
    11732 
    11733       <listitem>
    11734         <para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
    11735       </listitem>
    11736 
    11737       <listitem>
    11738         <para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
    11739       </listitem>
    11740 
    11741       <listitem>
    11742         <para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
    11743       </listitem>
    11744 
    11745       <listitem>
    11746         <para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
    11747       </listitem>
    11748 
    11749       <listitem>
    11750         <para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
    11751       </listitem>
    11752 
    11753       <listitem>
    11754         <para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
    11755       </listitem>
    11756 
    11757       <listitem>
    11758         <para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
    11759       </listitem>
    11760 
    11761       <listitem>
    11762         <para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
    11763       </listitem>
    11764 
    11765       <listitem>
    11766         <para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
    11767           of two (bug #2724)</para>
    11768       </listitem>
    11769 
    11770       <listitem>
    11771         <para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
    11772         for direct device access</para>
    11773       </listitem>
    11774 
    11775       <listitem>
    11776         <para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
    11777       </listitem>
    11778 
    11779       <listitem>
    11780         <para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
    11781       </listitem>
    11782 
    11783       <listitem>
    11784         <para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
    11785       </listitem>
    11786 
    11787       <listitem>
    11788         <para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
    11789       </listitem>
    11790 
    11791       <listitem>
    11792         <para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
    11793       </listitem>
    11794 
    11795       <listitem>
    11796         <para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
    11797       </listitem>
    11798 
    11799       <listitem>
    11800         <para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
    11801       </listitem>
    11802 
    11803       <listitem>
    11804         <para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
    11805       </listitem>
    11806 
    11807     </itemizedlist>
    11808   </sect1>
    11809 
    11810   <sect1>
    11811     <title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
    11812 
    11813     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    11814       added:</para>
    11815 
    11816     <itemizedlist>
    11817 
    11818       <listitem>
    11819         <para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
    11820           states/snapshots</para>
    11821       </listitem>
    11822 
    11823       <listitem>
    11824         <para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
    11825           failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
    11826       </listitem>
    11827 
    11828       <listitem>
    11829         <para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
    11830           when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
    11831       </listitem>
    11832 
    11833       <listitem>
    11834         <para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
    11835           collisions</para>
    11836       </listitem>
    11837 
    11838       <listitem>
    11839         <para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
    11840           virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
    11841       </listitem>
    11842 
    11843       <listitem>
    11844         <para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
    11845       </listitem>
    11846 
    11847       <listitem>
    11848         <para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
    11849           reliably</para>
    11850       </listitem>
    11851 
    11852       <listitem>
    11853         <para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
    11854           3D acceleration; Solaris &amp; Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
    11855       </listitem>
    11856 
    11857       <listitem>
    11858         <para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
    11859           a reboot</para>
    11860       </listitem>
    11861 
    11862       <listitem>
    11863         <para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
    11864       </listitem>
    11865 
    11866       <listitem>
    11867         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
    11868           in parallel</para>
    11869       </listitem>
    11870 
    11871       <listitem>
    11872         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
    11873       </listitem>
    11874 
    11875       <listitem>
    11876         <para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
    11877           correctly</para>
    11878       </listitem>
    11879 
    11880       <listitem>
    11881         <para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
    11882           in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
    11883       </listitem>
    11884 
    11885     </itemizedlist>
    11886   </sect1>
    11887 
    11888   <sect1>
    11889     <title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
    11890 
    11891     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    11892       added:</para>
    11893 
    11894     <itemizedlist>
    11895 
    11896       <listitem>
    11897         <para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
    11898           (bug #2220)</para>
    11899       </listitem>
    11900 
    11901       <listitem>
    11902         <para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
    11903       </listitem>
    11904 
    11905       <listitem>
    11906         <para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
    11907       </listitem>
    11908 
    11909       <listitem>
    11910         <para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
    11911           hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
    11912       </listitem>
    11913 
    11914       <listitem>
    11915         <para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
    11916           the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
    11917       </listitem>
    11918 
    11919       <listitem>
    11920         <para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
    11921           (bug #2624)</para>
    11922       </listitem>
    11923 
    11924       <listitem>
    11925         <para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
    11926           (bug #2024)</para>
    11927       </listitem>
    11928 
    11929       <listitem>
    11930         <para>SATA: improved performance</para>
    11931       </listitem>
    11932 
    11933       <listitem>
    11934         <para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports&gt;1 (bug #2510)</para>
    11935       </listitem>
    11936 
    11937       <listitem>
    11938         <para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
    11939       </listitem>
    11940 
    11941       <listitem>
    11942         <para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
    11943           bugs #470 &amp; #491)</para>
    11944       </listitem>
    11945 
    11946       <listitem>
    11947         <para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
    11948           applications when updating the installation</para>
    11949       </listitem>
    11950 
    11951       <listitem>
    11952         <para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
    11953           64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
    11954       </listitem>
    11955 
    11956       <listitem>
    11957         <para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
    11958           in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
    11959       </listitem>
    11960 
    11961       <listitem>
    11962         <para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
    11963           fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
    11964       </listitem>
    11965 
    11966       <listitem>
    11967         <para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
    11968           connected to a host device</para>
    11969       </listitem>
    11970 
    11971       <listitem>
    11972         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
    11973       </listitem>
    11974 
    11975       <listitem>
    11976         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
    11977       </listitem>
    11978 
    11979       <listitem>
    11980         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
    11981       </listitem>
    11982 
    11983       <listitem>
    11984         <para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
    11985           when using native RDP connections</para>
    11986       </listitem>
    11987 
    11988       <listitem>
    11989         <para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
    11990           folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
    11991       </listitem>
    11992 
    11993       <listitem>
    11994         <para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
    11995           (bug #2591)</para>
    11996       </listitem>
    11997 
    11998       <listitem>
    11999         <para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
    12000           guests (bug #2550)</para>
    12001       </listitem>
    12002 
    12003       <listitem>
    12004         <para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
    12005       </listitem>
    12006 
    12007     </itemizedlist>
    12008   </sect1>
    12009 
    12010   <sect1>
    12011     <title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
    12012 
    12013     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    12014       added:</para>
    12015 
    12016     <itemizedlist>
    12017       <listitem>
    12018         <para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
    12019       </listitem>
    12020 
    12021       <listitem>
    12022         <para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
    12023       </listitem>
    12024 
    12025       <listitem>
    12026         <para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
    12027       </listitem>
    12028 
    12029       <listitem>
    12030         <para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
    12031       </listitem>
    12032 
    12033       <listitem>
    12034         <para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
    12035       </listitem>
    12036 
    12037       <listitem>
    12038         <para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
    12039       </listitem>
    12040 
    12041       <listitem>
    12042         <para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
    12043           likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
    12044       </listitem>
    12045 
    12046       <listitem>
    12047         <para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
    12048           host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
    12049       </listitem>
    12050 
    12051       <listitem>
    12052         <para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
    12053       </listitem>
    12054 
    12055       <listitem>
    12056         <para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
    12057           equal to the client resolution</para>
    12058       </listitem>
    12059 
    12060       <listitem>
    12061         <para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
    12062           longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
    12063       </listitem>
    12064 
    12065       <listitem>
    12066         <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
    12067       </listitem>
    12068 
    12069       <listitem>
    12070         <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
    12071       </listitem>
    12072 
    12073       <listitem>
    12074         <para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
    12075       </listitem>
    12076 
    12077       <listitem>
    12078         <para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
    12079           seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
    12080       </listitem>
    12081 
    12082       <listitem>
    12083         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
    12084            networking (bug #2474)</para>
    12085       </listitem>
    12086 
    12087       <listitem>
    12088         <para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
    12089           Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
    12090       </listitem>
    12091 
    12092       <listitem>
    12093         <para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
    12094       </listitem>
    12095 
    12096       <listitem>
    12097         <para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
    12098       </listitem>
    12099 
    12100       <listitem>
    12101         <para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
    12102       </listitem>
    12103 
    12104       <listitem>
    12105         <para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
    12106       </listitem>
    12107 
    12108       <listitem>
    12109         <para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
    12110           <computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
    12111       </listitem>
    12112 
    12113       <listitem>
    12114         <para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
    12115           for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
    12116       </listitem>
    12117 
    12118       <listitem>
    12119         <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
    12120       </listitem>
    12121 
    12122       <listitem>
    12123         <para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
    12124       </listitem>
    12125 
    12126       <listitem>
    12127         <para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
    12128       </listitem>
    12129 
    12130     </itemizedlist>
    12131 
    12132   </sect1>
    12133 
    12134   <sect1>
    12135     <title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
    12136 
    12137     <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    12138       added:</para>
    12139 
    12140     <itemizedlist>
    12141 
    12142       <listitem>
    12143         <para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
    12144               CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
    12145       </listitem>
    12146 
    12147       <listitem>
    12148         <para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
    12149       </listitem>
    12150 
    12151       <listitem>
    12152         <para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
    12153           Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
    12154       </listitem>
    12155 
    12156       <listitem>
    12157         <para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
    12158       </listitem>
    12159 
    12160       <listitem>
    12161         <para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
    12162           NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
    12163       </listitem>
    12164 
    12165       <listitem>
    12166         <para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
    12167       </listitem>
    12168 
    12169       <listitem>
    12170         <para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
    12171           the virtual disk manager</para>
    12172       </listitem>
    12173 
    12174       <listitem>
    12175         <para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
    12176           if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
    12177       </listitem>
    12178 
    12179       <listitem>
    12180         <para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
    12181       </listitem>
    12182 
    12183       <listitem>
    12184         <para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
    12185       </listitem>
    12186 
    12187       <listitem>
    12188         <para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
    12189           QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
    12190       </listitem>
    12191 
    12192       <listitem>
    12193         <para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
    12194           bug #2067)</para>
    12195       </listitem>
    12196 
    12197       <listitem>
    12198         <para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
    12199       </listitem>
    12200 
    12201       <listitem>
    12202         <para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
    12203           the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
    12204       </listitem>
    12205 
    12206       <listitem>
    12207         <para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
    12208           <computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
    12209           (bug #2184)</para>
    12210       </listitem>
    12211 
    12212       <listitem>
    12213         <para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
    12214           <computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
    12215       </listitem>
    12216 
    12217         <listitem>
    12218           <para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
    12219             (Windows guests only)</para>
    12220         </listitem>
    12221 
    12222       <listitem>
    12223         <para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
    12224       </listitem>
    12225 
    12226       <listitem>
    12227         <para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
    12228       </listitem>
    12229 
    12230       <listitem>
    12231         <para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
    12232           (configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
    12233       </listitem>
    12234 
    12235       <listitem>
    12236         <para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
    12237       </listitem>
    12238 
    12239       <listitem>
    12240         <para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
    12241             memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
    12242         </para>
    12243       </listitem>
    12244 
    12245       <listitem>
    12246         <para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
    12247       </listitem>
    12248 
    12249       <listitem>
    12250         <para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
    12251       </listitem>
    12252 
    12253       <listitem>
    12254         <para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
    12255           a VM reboot</para>
    12256       </listitem>
    12257 
    12258       <listitem>
    12259         <para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
    12260       </listitem>
    12261 
    12262       <listitem>
    12263         <para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
    12264         buggy X servers</para>
    12265       </listitem>
    12266 
    12267       <listitem>
    12268         <para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
    12269          (dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
    12270       </listitem>
    12271 
    12272       <listitem>
    12273         <para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
    12274       </listitem>
    12275 
    12276       <listitem>
    12277         <para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
    12278           (bug #2128)</para>
    12279       </listitem>
    12280 
    12281       <listitem>
    12282         <para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
    12283         specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
    12284       </listitem>
    12285 
    12286       <listitem>
    12287         <para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
    12288           the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
    12289       </listitem>
    12290 
    12291       <listitem>
    12292         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
    12293           starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
    12294       </listitem>
    12295 
    12296       <listitem>
    12297         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
    12298           host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
    12299       </listitem>
    12300 
    12301       <listitem>
    12302         <para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
    12303           installing under the wrong architecture</para>
    12304       </listitem>
    12305 
    12306       <listitem>
    12307         <para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
    12308           starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
    12309       </listitem>
    12310 
    12311       <listitem>
    12312         <para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
    12313           installer into a single package</para>
    12314       </listitem>
    12315 
    12316       <listitem>
    12317         <para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
    12318           port to the guest
    12319         </para>
    12320       </listitem>
    12321 
    12322     </itemizedlist>
    12323 
    12324   </sect1>
    12325 
    12326   <sect1>
    12327     <title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
    12328 
    12329     <para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
    12330       were added:<itemizedlist>
    12331 
    12332         <listitem>
    12333           <para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
    12334         </listitem>
    12335 
    12336         <listitem>
    12337           <para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
    12338         </listitem>
    12339 
    12340         <listitem>
    12341           <para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
    12342         </listitem>
    12343 
    12344         <listitem>
    12345           <para>New-version notifier</para>
    12346         </listitem>
    12347 
    12348         <listitem>
    12349           <para>Guest property information interface</para>
    12350         </listitem>
    12351 
    12352         <listitem>
    12353           <para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
    12354         </listitem>
    12355 
    12356         <listitem>
    12357           <para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
    12358         </listitem>
    12359 
    12360         <listitem>
    12361           <para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
    12362         </listitem>
    12363 
    12364         <listitem>
    12365           <para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
    12366         </listitem>
    12367 
    12368         <listitem>
    12369           <para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
    12370           disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
    12371         </listitem>
    12372 
    12373        <listitem>
    12374           <para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
    12375         </listitem>
    12376 
    12377         <listitem>
    12378           <para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
    12379         </listitem>
    12380 
    12381         <listitem>
    12382           <para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
    12383         </listitem>
    12384 
    12385     </itemizedlist></para>
    12386 
    12387     <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
    12388 
    12389     <itemizedlist>
    12390 
    12391       <listitem>
    12392         <para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
    12393       </listitem>
    12394 
    12395       <listitem>
    12396         <para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
    12397       </listitem>
    12398 
    12399       <listitem>
    12400         <para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
    12401       </listitem>
    12402 
    12403       <listitem>
    12404         <para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
    12405           unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
    12406       </listitem>
    12407 
    12408       <listitem>
    12409         <para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
    12410           restored</para>
    12411       </listitem>
    12412 
    12413       <listitem>
    12414         <para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
    12415       </listitem>
    12416 
    12417       <listitem>
    12418         <para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
    12419       </listitem>
    12420 
    12421       <listitem>
    12422         <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>
    12423       </listitem>
    12424 
    12425     </itemizedlist>
    12426 
    12427   </sect1>
    124282610</chapter>
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