= Changelog = '''!VirtualBox 1.5.4''' (released 2007-12-29) * GUI: fixed accelerators in German translation * GUI: fixed registration dialog crashes * GUI: allow to enter unicode characters to the name of the registration dialog * GUI: pre-select attached media in the disk manager when opened from the VM settings dialog * GUI: remember the last active VM * GUI: don’t accept empty paths for serial/parallel ports in XML * GUI: fixed NumLock / CapsLock synchronizazion on Windows hosts * GUI: don’t start the kernel timer if no VM is active (Linux host) * VMM: improved compatibility with FreeBSD guests * VMM: properly restore CR4 after leaving VT-x mode * VMM: patch code and disassembler updates * VMM: with VT-x a pending interrupt could be cleared behind our back * VMM: workaround for missed cpuid patch (some Linux guests refuse to boot on multi-core CPUs) * VMM: fixed code for overriding CPUID values * API: don’t crash when trying to create a VM with a duplicate name * API: don’t crash when trying to access the settings of a VM when some other VMs are not accessible * API: fixed several memory leaks * ATA/IDE: fixed SuSE 9.1 CD read installer regression * Floppy: fixed inverted write protect flag * USB: virtualize an EHCI controller * USB: several minor fixes * Network: fixed MAC address check * Network: host interface fixes for Solaris guests * Network: guest networking stopped completely after taking a snapshot * Network: don’t crash if a network card is enabled but not attached * PXE: fix for PXE-EC8 error on soft reboot * NAT: update the DNS server IP address on every DNS packet sent by the guest * VGA: reset VRAM access handers after a fullscreen update * VGA: don’t overwrite guest’s VRAM when displaying a blank screen * ACPI: implemented the sleep button event * VRDP: fixed crash when querying VRDP properties * VRDP: netAddress fixes * VRDP: fixed the Pause/Break keys over VRDP * VRDP: sync NumLock / CapsLock sync over VRDP * VRDP: workaround for scrambled icons with a guest video mode of 16bpp * VRDP: reset modifer keys on RDP_INPUT_SYNCHRONIZE * VRDP: reset RDP updates after resize to prevent obsolete updates * Clipboard: Windows host/guest fixes * Clipboard: fixed a SEGFAULT on VM exit (Linux host) * Clipboard: fixed a buffer overflow (Linux host) * Shared Folders: fixed memory leaks * Linux installer: remove the old kernel module before compiling a new one * Linux host: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.24 * Linux host: script fixes for ArchLinux * Linux host: load correct HAL library to determine DVD/floppy (libhal.so.1 not libhal.so) * Linux host: make sure the tun kernel module is loaded before initializing static TAP interfaces * Windows additions: fixed hang during HGCM communication * Windows additions: fixed delay when shutting down the guest * Linux additions: added sendfile support to allow HTTP servers to send files on shared folders * Linux additions: make additions work with Fedora 8 (SELinux policy added) * Linux additions: sometimes ARGB pointers were display incorrectly * Linux additions: several small script fixes '''!VirtualBox 1.5.2''' (released 2007-10-18) * Windows Installer: fixed installation on Windows 2000 hosts * Windows Installer: proper warning when installing a 32-bit !VirtualBox version on 64-bit Windows and vice versa * Linux Installer: no longer require license acceptance during install, instead at first GUI startup (addresses issues with hanging installer on Debian based distributions) * GUI: added user registration dialog * GUI: fixed crashes on 64-bit Linux hosts * GUI: several fixes and improvements to seamless mode * GUI: fixed !DirectDraw mode with certain video cards (e.g. Intel i915) * GUI: fixed incorrect guest resolution after leaving fullscreen mode * GUI: improved keyboard handling on Linux host * GUI: show fatal VM aborts (aka "Guru Meditation") * GUI: fixed crashes due to a display update race condition on some systems * GUI: added ACPI shutdown option to the VM close dialog * GUI: NLS improvements * BIOS: fixed floppy boot menu * BIOS: expose the VM UUID in the DMI/SMBIOS area * VGA: fixed CGA video modes * VGA: fixed 8-bit DAC handling (Solaris setup) * VMM: fixed issue with VT-x on Windows 64-bit hosts * VMM: improved compatibility with Linux KVM * VMM: fixed issues with Fedora 8 guests * VMM: fixed fatal errors while installing Windows guests when using AMD-V * VMM: fixed sporadic hangs when minimizing VM window and using VT-x/AMD-V * VMM: fixed high load of ksoftirq on tickless Linux hosts * VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guests hangs related to IRQ sharing * VMM: fixed sporadic errors during openSUSE 10.3 installation * VMM: fixed issue with Linux 2.6.23 guests * VMM: fixed issues with Solaris guests * VMM: fixed stability issue related to incorrect relocations * Serial: significantly reduced CPU utilization * Network: fixed issues with FreeBSD guests * Network: added MII support (100MBit detection fix) * Network: improved MAC address handling * Network: added PXE release logging * IDE: large reads from CD could exceed the I/O buffer size * Audio: load ALSA dynamically on Linux (i.e. do not fail when ALSA is not present) * VRDP: support additional RDP clients (!SunRay, !WinConnect, Mac OS X) * VRDP: fixed issues when client color depth is higher than server color depth * VRDP: make PAM authentication service name configurable * VRDP: increased stack size to deal with stack consuming PAM library calls * Additions: various fixes and enhancements to clipboard handling * Windows Additions: fixed issues with Additions on NT 4 guests * Windows Additions: added support for 8-bit video modes * Windows Additions: allow specifying custom resolutions for secondary screens * Windows Additions: several fixes and improvements for !DirectDraw * Windows Additions: improved the mouse filter driver compatibility with other mouse drivers * Linux Additions: several fixes and enhancements to Shared Folders * Linux Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.4 * Shared folders: fixed MS Powerpoint access issues (Linux host) * API: fixed RPC_E_CHANGED_MODE startup error on Windows hosts * API: fixed SMP race condition on Linux hosts * API: fixed stability issues on Windows hosts in low memory conditions '''!VirtualBox 1.5.0''' (released 2007-09-03) * Major: Seamless windows * Major: Virtual serial ports * Major: Support for 64-bit Windows hosts * Major: Intel PXE 2.1 network boot * Major: Guest Additions for IBM OS/2 Warp * GUI: sometimes two mouse cursors were visible when Windows guest additions became active * GUI: added VT-x/AMD-V settings * GUI: disable 'Show log...' menu entry to prevent crash if VM list is empty * GUI: the log window grabbed the keyboard * GUI: fixed error handling if Linux host clipboard initialization fails * GUI: pass the Pause key and the !PrtScrn key to the guest (Linux hosts) * GUI: increased maximum guest RAM to 2 GB (Windows host) * GUI: improved rendering performance (Windows host) * GUI: status lights for USB and shared folders * GUI: properly respect the DISPLAY environment variable * GUI: download Guest Additions from virtualbox.org in case they are not present locally * VRDP: support for multimonitor configurations in Windows guests * VRDP: support for MS RDP6 and MS RDP Mac clients * VRDP: added support for !WinConnect RDP client * VRDP: performance improvements * VRDP: fixed sporadic client disconnects * VBoxManage: never delete existing target during clonevdi * VBoxManage: properly print the size of currently used hard disks * VMM: fixed Xandros Desktop 4.1 hang * VMM: fixed VT-x/AMD-V hang with newer versions of gcc (Linux hosts) * VMM: improved stability of VT-x * VMM: check for disabled AMD-V when detecting support * VMM: fixed AMD-V issue when running OS/2 guests * VMM: fixed application startup regressions (e.g. !VideoReDo) * VMM: fixed regression that broke disk access in OS/2 and OpenBSD guests (possibly much more) * VMM: fixed crashes if memory allocation failed (Linux) * VMM: fixed enabling of Local APIC on AMD hosts (fixed Ubuntu Feisty installation kernel hang during boot) * VMM: fixed XFree86 4.3 (Debian/Sarge) segfaults when switching to text mode * VMM: refuse to start when KVM is active (Linux Host) * VMM: fixed bootup hangs with ReactOS * VMM: fixed out-of-memory errors under certain environments with enough appropriate memory available * API: fixed occassional crashes of the VBoxSVC server during VM shutdown (Linux host) * API: some components were not notified when mounting a CD/DVD * VMDK: improve geometry compatibility with existing VDMK images * IDE/Floppy: optionally make non-available host device non-fatal * IDE: improve emulation accuracy of the IRQ line between master and slave drive * IDE: guest could freeze when unmounting the CD/DVD drive * VGA: several text mode fixes in particular with Windows DOS boxes * USB: fixed some issues with Windows hosts * USB: fixed race condition between udev and USB filters (Linux host) * Shared Folders: reversed network provider order to increase mapping performance (Windows guest) * Shared Folders: browsable from Windows Explorer (Windows guests) * Shared Folders: stability fixes (Windows guest) * Shared Folders: case sensitivity fixes (Windows guest and Linux host) * Audio: fall back to the NULL audio driver if no voice could be opened * NAT: fixed crash * Guest Additions: reworked the shared clipboard for Linux hosts and guests based on user feedback about problems with individual applications * Guest Additions: don't allow to disable mouse pointer integration for Linux guests as an Xorg hardware mouse cursor cannot be turned into a software mouse cursor * Guest Additions: Linux guests shipping Xorg 1.3 (e.g. Fedora 7, Ubuntu Gutsy) are now supported * Guest Additions: added !DirectDraw support to the Windows display driver '''!VirtualBox 1.4.0''' (released 2007-06-06) * General: added support for OS X hosts * General: added support for AMD64 hosts * General: signed all executables and device drivers on Windows * GUI: added user interface for Shared Folders * GUI: added context menu for network adapters * GUI: added VM description field for taking notes * GUI: always restore guest mouse pointer when entering VM window (Windowss host) * GUI: added configuration options for clipboard synchronization * GUI: improved keyboard handling on Linux hosts * GUI: added first run wizard * GUI: improved boot device order dialog * GUI: auto-resize did not work after save/restore * GUI: restore original window size when returning from fullscreen mode * GUI: fixed screen update when switching to fullscreen mode * GUI: the size of the VM window was sometimes resetted to 640x480 * GUI: added localizationss * GUI: various minor improvements * VBoxManage: added convertdd command * API: automatically start and terminate VBoxSVC on Linux and OS X hosts * VMM: increased startup performance due to lazy memory allocation * VMM: significantly increased maximum guest memory size * VMM: fixed issues with V86 mode * VMM: support V86 extensions (VME) * VMM: support guests with a full GDT * VMM: fixed boot hangs for some Linux kernels * VMM: improved FreeBSD and OpenBSD support * VMM: improved performance of guests that aggressively patch kernel code (very recent Linux 2.6 kernels) * VMM: added workaround for a design flaw in AMD AM2 CPUs where the timestamp counter shows large differences among CPU cores * VMM: fixed Linux guests with grsecurity * VMM: fixed issue on 2G/2G Linux kernels (even 1G/3G kernels should work) * VMM: fixed Linux detection of Local APIC on non-Intel and non-AMD CPUs * VMM: timing improvements with high host system loads (VM starvation) * VMM: experimental AMD SVM hardware virtualization support now also handles real and protected mode without paging * VMM: added system time offset parameter to allow for VMs to run in the past or future * VMM: provide an MPS 1.4 table if the IOAPIC is enabled * RDP: allow binding the RDP server to a specific interface * RDP: added support for clipboard synchronization * RDP: fixed problems with OS X RDP client * RDP: added support for multiple simultaneous connections to one VM * RDP: added support for MS RDP6 clients (Vista) * Storage: experimental support for VMDK images (writethrough mode only, no snapshots yet) * Storage: raw host disk support, including individual partitions * IDE: improve CHS geometry detection * IDE: fixed problem that only one VM could open an immutable image * NAT: allow more than one card configured for NAT networking * NAT: pass first entry in DNS search list (Linux host) or primary DNS suffix (Windows host) as domain name in DHCP * NAT: support UDP broadcasts, which enables using Windows shares * NAT: only warn if the name server could not be determined, no fatal error anymore * NAT: fix a potential problem with incorrect memory allocation * Internal Networking: fixed issue on Windows hosts * Host Interface Networking: fixed sporadic crashes on interface creation/destruction (Windows host) * Host Interface Networking: reworked TAP handling for Linux 2.6.18+ compatibility * PXE: show error for unsupported V86 case * PXE: small fix for parsing PXE menu entry without boot server IP * Network: fixed network card hang after save/restore * USB: Rewrote Windows USB handling without the need for a filter driver * USB: Possible to steal arbitrary devices in Windows * Serial: added serial ports with support for named pipes (local domain sockets) on the host * Audio: fixed problem with ALSA on Linux before 2.6.18 blocking other ALSA clients on the system * Audio: fixed problem with ALSA on AMD64 hosts * Input: fixed PS/2 mouse detection in Win 3.x guests * Shared Folders: fixed VM save/restore behaviour * Shared Folders: functionality and stability fixes * Shared Folders: allow non admin users to map folders * Additions: added clipboard synchronization * Windows Additions: fixed dynamic resolution changes after save/restore * Windows Additions: added AMD PCNet driver for Windows Vista guests (with kind permission from AMD) * Linux Additions: fixed a dependency problem which caused the vboxadd kernel module sometimes start after the X server * Linux Additions: make VBox version visible in Linux modules with modinfo * Linux Additions: make X11 guest video driver accept arbitrary X resolutions * Linux Additions: make X11 setup work if /tmp uses a separate file system * Linux Additions: better support unknown distributions * Linux Installer: force a non-executable stack for all binaries and shared libraries * Linux Installer: make it work on SELinux-enabled systems * Linux Installer: ship VBoxTunctl '''!VirtualBox 1.3.8''' (released 2007-03-14) * Windows installer: fixed installation problem if UAC is active * Linux installer: added RPM for rhel4 and Mandriva 2007.1 * Linux installer: remove any old vboxdrv modules in /lib/modules/*/misc * Linux installer: many small improvements for .deb and .rpm packages * Linux installer: improved setup of kernel module * GUI: Host-Fn sends Ctrl-Alt-Fn to the guest (Linux guest VT switch) * GUI: fixed setting for Internal Networking * GUI: show correct audio backend on Windows (dsound) * GUI: improved error messages if the kernel module is not accessible * GUI: never fail to start the GUI if the kernel module is not accessible * VMM: fixed occasional crashes when shutting down Windows TAP device * VMM: fixed issues with IBM's 1.4.2 JVM in Linux guests * RDP: fixed color encoding with 24bpp * BIOS: zero main memory on reboot * BIOS: added release logging * USB: fixed parsing of certain devices to prevent VBoxSVC crashes * USB: properly wakeup suspended ports * USB: fixed a problem with unplugged USB devices during suspend * Audio: fixed crashes on Vista hosts * NAT: allow configuration of incoming connections (aka port mapping) * Network: hard reset network device on reboot * iSCSI: fixed a hang of unpaused VMs accessing unresponsive iSCSI disks * Linux Additions: support Xorg 7.2.x * Linux Additions: fixed default video mode if all other modes are invalid * Linux Additions: set default DPI to 100,100 * Linux Additions: fixed initialization of video driver on X server reset '''!VirtualBox 1.3.6''' (released 2007-02-20) * Windows installer: perform installation for all users instead of just the current user (old behavior still available) * Linux installer: fixed license display to not block installation * Linux installer: added RPM for openSUSE 10.2 * GUI: fixed problems with several keyboard layouts on Linux hosts * GUI: added online help on Linux hosts (using kchmviewer) * GUI: fixed handle leak on Windows hosts * Graphics: increased VRAM limit to 128MB * BIOS: fixed CD/DVD-ROM detection in Windows Vista guests * VMM: fixed incompatibility with OpenBSD 4.0 * VDI: fixed issues with snapshot merging * Network: fixed incompatibility between Vista UAC and Host Interface Networking * Network: fixed issues with Windows NT 4.0 guests * Audio: fixed problem with ALSA on Linux before 2.6.18 causing system reboots * RDP: added support for MS RDP 6.0 clients * RDP: fixed issue with PAM authentication on certain distributions * RDP: fixed sporadic disconnects with MS RDP clients * RDP: fixed memory leak * iSCSI: improved behavior when pausing a VM with iSCSI connections * iSCSI: improved read timeout handling '''!VirtualBox 1.3.4''' (released 2007-02-12) * General: fixed unresolved symbol issue on Windows 2000 hosts * General: added warnings at !VirtualBox startup when there is no valid Linux kernel module * General: fixed problem with unrecognized host CDROM/DVD drives on Linux * General: fixed compatibility issue with SELinux * GUI: improved USB user interface, easier filter definitions, menu to directly attach specific devices * GUI: added VM settings options for VRDP * GUI: fixed GDI handle leak on Windows hosts * GUI: worked around issue in the Metacity window manager (GNOME) leading to unmovable VM windows * GUI: show an information dialog before entering fullscreen mode about how to get back * GUI: several fixes and improvements * VMM: fixed occasional crashes when shutting down a Windows guest * VMM: fixed crash while loading Xorg on openSUSE 10.2 * VMM: fixed problems with OpenBSD 3.9 and 4.0 * VMM: fixed crash while loading XFree86 in SUSE 9.1 * VMM: fixed Debian 3.1 (Sarge) installation problem (network failure) * VMM: fixed crash during SUSE 10.2 installation * VMM: fixed crash during Ubuntu 7.04 RC boot * VMM: fixed crash during ThinClientOS (Linux 2.4.33) bootup * ATA/IDE: pause VM when host disk is full and display message * ATA/IDE: fixed incompatibility with !OpenSolaris 10 * VDI containers: do not allocate blocks when guest only writes zeros to it (size optimization when zeroing freespace prior to compacting) * CDROM/DVD: fixed media recognition by Linux guests * Network: corrected reporting of physical interfaces (fixes Linux guest warnings) * Network: fixed IRQ conflict causing occassional major slowdowns with XP guests * Network: significantly improved send performance * Audio: added mixer support to the AC'97 codec (master volume only) * Audio: added support for ALSA on Linux (native, no OSS emulation) * iSCSI: improved LUN handling * iSCSI: fixed hang due to packet overflow * iSCSI: pause VM on iSCSI connection loss * Linux module: never fail unloading the module (blocks Ubuntu/Debian uninstall) * Linux module: improved compatibility with NMI watchdog enabled * Windows Additions: fixed hardware mouse pointer with Windows 2003 Server guests * Linux Additions: compile everything from sources instead of using precompiled objects * Linux Additions: better compatibility with older glibc versions * Linux Additions: when uninstalling, only delete the files we put there during installation, don't remove the directory recursively to prevent unwanted data loss * Linux Installer: added support for Slackware * Linux Additions: added support for Linux 2.4.28 to 2.4.34 * RDP: fixed sporadic disconnects with MS RDP clients * RDP: fixed race condition during resolution resize leading to rare crashes '''!VirtualBox 1.3.2''' (released 2007-01-15) * first public version