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Förändringar v5.0.0 Beta 3 -> v5.0.0 Beta 4

• VMM: some XSAVE fixes (e.g. here)
• GUI: hot-plugging support for USB storage controller.
• GUI: fixed icons for savestate/restorestate and some of icons for HiDPI aware Win/X11 hosts.
• NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors (bug #13475)
• Drag and drop: various bugfixes for Linux hosts and guests
• Encryption: fixed cloning VMs
• Audio: Fixed volume control for mono streams
• Audio/SB16: Fixed loss of output after loading saved state.
• USB3: fixed attaching multiple emulated disks to the xHCI controller
• 3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state (bug #12737)
• Snapshots: fixed Beta 3 regression
• VBoxManage: fixed reading the partition table on Windows
• iSCSI: fixed a hang during power off if the initiator connects to the target over the internal network

Förändringar v4.3.24 -> v4.3.26

• This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against wrong host time (bug #13955)
• NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network (4.3.24 regression; bugs #13915, #13918)
• NAT Network: don't delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on Windows hosts
• Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare conditions if no Guest Additions are installed (4.3.24 regression; bug #13935)
• Storage: if the guest ejects a virtual CD/DVD medium, make the change permanent (bugs #9858, #12885)
• VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests
• SDK: fixed the VirtualBox.tlb file (4.3.20 regression; bug #13943)
• rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again (4.3.14 regression; bug #13901)
• USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions
• iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628)
• Mac OS X hosts: don't panic on hosts with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later; bug #13951)
• Linux hosts: don't crash Linux 4.0 hosts (bug #13835)

Förändringar v4.3.22 -> v4.3.24

• This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: emulation fix for the ENTER instruction under certain conditions; fixes Solaris 10 guests (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution)
• VMM: fix for handling NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled
• NAT/NAT Network: fix connection drops when the host's DHCP lease was renewed (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13839)
• NAT: don't crash on an empty domain list when switching the DNS host configuration (4.3.22 regression; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #13874)
• PXE: re-enable it on Windows hosts (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13842)
• Shared Folders: fixed a problem with Windows guests (4.3.22 regression; bug #13786)
• Audio: improved record quality when using the DirectSound audio backend
• VBoxManage: when executing the controlvm command take care that the corresponding VM runtime changes are saved permanently (bug #13892)
• Windows Installer: properly install the 32-bit version of VBoxRes.dll on 32-bit hosts (bug #13876)
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.0 fixes (bug #13835)
• OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse integration (4.3.22 regression; bug #13825)
• X11 Additions: fixed a sporadic failure to deactivate virtual screens (bug #13845)

Förändringar v4.3.20 -> v4.3.22

• VMM: refined measurement of TSC frequency on the host, improves timekeeping for guests
• VMM: decreased CPU load resulting from guest MMIO writes to the virtual APIC
• VMM: fixed interception of debug exceptions, observed while using the dbx debugger on Solaris guests (VT-x only)
• GUI: 3D overlay window positioning code improved, fixed potential misplacement of 3D accelerated guest graphics content
• GUI: fixed accident SSL authentication failures during update check on Windows hosts (bug #12969)
• GUI: never send the "ACPI power" keyboard scancode to the guest, we have the ACPI power button for that
• GUI: was unable to properly restore seamless mode VM from snapshot/saved-state under some circumstances
• VBoxHeadless: don't crash if 3D is enabled in the VM settings (bug #10250)
• ATA: fixed several passthrough issues (bugs #12310, #1360)
• Audio: fixed DirectSound failure when the the host has no audio input device (Windows hosts only; bug #9205)
• SB16: fixed compatibility issue (bug #13769)
• Storage: fixed broken CD/DVD passthrough when using the IDE controller (bug #12310)
• NAT: new ping proxy for Windows hosts (bug #11871)
• NAT: Properly report outbound connect(2) failures to guest with TCP RST or ICMP (bug #10525)
• NAT Network: no need for frequent wakeups in VBoxNetDHCP and VBoxNetNAT (bug #11681)
• Host-only adapter: prevent Windows from creating an "Unidentified network" (bug #9688)
• Bridged Networking: don't leak host-to-guest traffic to the wireless network when bridging to a wireless interface (bug #13714)
• Main: fixed a possible race when changing the medium leading to a deadlock under rare conditions (bug #13722)
• VBoxManage: fixed return code if starting a VM failed (bug #13773)
• API: fixed 2 deadlock opportunities related to medium handling (bugs #13789, #13801, thank you Alexander Urakov)
• API: fixed bug in XPCOM which created too few worker threads, sporadically resulting in a deadlock (bug #13802, thank you Alexander Urakov)
• SDK: fixed a garbage collection leak in the Python VirtualBox webservice API binding (bug #13817)
• Linux hosts: fixes for activated SMAP (Broadwell and later, bug #13820)
• X11 guests: prevent unwanted hiding of guest screens on multi-monitor guests (bug #13287)
• X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.17
• X11 Additions: fixed a memory leak in VBoxService if libdbus is available but dbus-daemon isn't running (bug #13770)
• Windows Additions: prevent VBox WDDM driver from loading if host reports weak OpenGL capabilities. 3D content now can be shown over Remote Desktop connection.
• Winodws Additions: some fixes for recent Windows 10 Previews
• Linux Additions: fixed a compatibility issue with 64-bit Linux 2.4 kernels
• Linux Additions: fixed a potential use-after-free when unloading the VBoxGuest module
• Linux Additions: Linux 3.19 fixes (bug #13741)

Förändringar v4.3.18 -> v4.3.20

• VMM: fixed reboot hang of 32-bit Windows SMP guests (bug #13319, #13462)
• VMM: proper Math Fault handling with certain legacy guests (bug #9042, AMD hosts)
• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT on older CPUs that don't support MSR-bitmaps (VT-x only; bugs #13034, #13125, #13311, #13425, #13426, #13463, #13585)
• GUI: fix 3D overlay window re-parenting issue when VM goes to full screen mode on X11 hosts.
• GUI: fix occasional loss of focus in full-screen mode on X11 host systems (4.3.16 regression)
• GUI: Mac OS X: wizards should have Cancel button (bug #12541)
• GUI: added a global option to prevent automatic raising of the new window by mouse move with multi-screen guests (bug #8878)
• API: accept remote display port 0 as the default RDP port (bug #8534)
• VBoxManage: fixed crash when executing showvminfo command under certain circumstances (bug #13190)
• ACPI: fixed occasional Guru Meditations in ACPI timer code (4.3.18 regression; bug #13521)
• EFI: improved performance of IDE disk access
• EFI: fixed a bug in the EFI video driver which prevented Windows to boot in UEFI mode (bug #12022)
• EFI: properly announce the amount of RAM for big VMs (bugs #11103 and #13211)
• Storage: fixed a crash under certain circumstances when a medium was ejected from a drive attached to the SATA controller without inserting a new medium before pausing or closing the VM (4.3.16 regression)
• Storage: fixed an interrupt acknowledge issue causing hanging guests or slower I/O (4.3.18 regression)
• Storage: fixed broken resume after the VM was suspended due to a full disk if host I/O caching is used
• Storage: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions when using the DevLsiLogic controller with VMs running in raw mode (4.3 regression; bugs #12254, #12655, #12709, #12774, #12886)
• Guest Control: fixed a bug which might lead to a crash during recursive copy
• SDK: Java COM bindings fixes
• iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol (bug #13628)
• Runtime: do not use a fixed stack size creating temporary threads during initialization (bug #13038)
• Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)
• Windows hosts: fixed DirectSound host audio failure under certain conditions (bug #13418)
• Windows hosts: fixed additional cases of 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)
• Windows Additions: preserve guest monitor layout when resizing Windows 7 or newer guests
• Linux Additions: Linux 3.18 compile fixes (bug #13515)

Förändringar v4.3.16 -> v4.3.18

• VMM: fixed a potential misbehavior after restoring the A20 state from a saved state
• GUI: fixed full-screen mode mini-toolbar related regressions for different platforms and window managers (bug #13369)
• GUI: X11: fixed full-screen mode Unity panels quirk caused by mini-toolbar code changes in last release (bug #13365)
• GUI: X11: added possibility to use legacy full-screen mode as the new one can cause multi-screen issues under Unity, see the manual for more information (bug #13365)
• GUI: Mac OS X: fixed full-screen mode artifact causing black screen when 3D acceleration was enabled on 10.10 Yosemite hosts (bug #13448)
• GUI: Mac OS X: fixed regression in user-space swiping from/to VBox in full-screen mode
• GUI: Mac OS X: fixed issue with switching to VBox in full-screen mode through Alt+Tab and Mission Control
• Storage: fixed data corruption when resizing huge VHD images under certain circumstances (bug #11960)
• Storage: fixed a rare hang during startup when the BIOS enumerates the storage devices attached to the SATA controller
• Storage: follow the spec with AHCI interrupt acknowledge (bug #13474)
• Storage: fixed broken iSCSI authentication (4.3.14 regression, bugs #13386, #13435)
• NAT Network: properly parse port forwarding rules to allow UDP rules
• USB: fixed a crash on Linux hosts with older Linux kernels (bug #13400) and several other fixes
• ACPI: fixed ACPI timer anomalies (bug #12076)
• Guest Control: fixed a memory leak (bug #13434)
• Main: when removing a VM, do also remove the VBoxStartup.log file which might exist on Windows hosts (bug #13478)
• Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)
• Windows hosts: propagate the process startup information to the child process (4.3.14 regression; bug #13243)
• Mac OS X hosts: don't force using the discrete GPU (bug #11111)
• Windows Additions: some Windows 10 tweaks
• X11 guests: fix a bug handling video driver display properties which prevented GNOME Shell on Fedora 21 from starting
• Linux hosts / guests: fixed a few remaining warnings in the kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)

Förändringar v4.3.14 -> v4.3.16

• VMM: fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs (bug #12646; 4.3 regression)
• GUI: properly restore normal/scale mode guest-screen size after exiting full-screen/seamless mode
• GUI: mini-toolbar should provoke less artifacts/conflicts with 3D guest rendering
• GUI: Mac OS X: Native full-screen multi-screen transition was able to blackout host-screens for nearly minute
• GUI: X11: Modern window managers should now use native full-screen multi-screen mapping API
• GUI: added extradata item for configuring the mouse capture behavior, see the manual for more information (bug #3506)
• Storage: fixed a VBoxSVC crash when querying an iSCSI target with authentication configured (4.3.14 regression)
• Storage: fixed a rare data corruption during reads if another allocating write is running concurrently and accesses the same range
• Storage: fixed a rare crash for certain VHD images from other products
• Storage: fixed a rare release assertion when using the AHCI controller
• Floppy: fixed read errors and guest memory corruption when running under control of QEMM
• 3D: added experimental support for rendering on offline GPUs for Mac OS X host
• 3D: fixed white window appearing on entering FullScreen mode on OSX host
• 3D: fixed video recording support for 3D data regression (bug #13073)
• 3D: fixes for MS Office 2013 support
• 3D: several fixes
• Bridged Networking: improved IPv6 support when bridging to a wireless interface
• NAT: prevent internal DNS service from stuck in host-resolver mode when host was switched from one network to another one while host was sleeping (Mac OS X hosts)
• NAT: preserve DF (if possible) and TOS when proxying outbound UDP datagrams (bugs #9440, #12309)
• NAT: don't let multicast datagrams out (bug #7338)
• NAT: fixed handling of large incoming UDP datagrams on Windows hosts (bug #12136)
• NAT: fixed handling of the RFC 1533 DHCP PAD option
• NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Windows hosts
• NAT Network: preserve IPv4 DF (if possible), TTL, TOS and IPv6 Hop Limit when proxying outbound UDP datagrams
• VRDP: fixed a rare crash when using remote audio input
• USB: fixed several regressions from 4.3.14 (bug #13320)
• Audio: made the HDA sound emulation work with certain OSX guests (e.g. Mountain Lion)
• Windows hosts: fixed startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software (4.3.14 regression, bug #13187)
• Windows hosts: fixed 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)
• X11 hosts: made the extra key on Brazilian Thinkpads work (bug #8745)
• X11 hosts: fixed a problem of input focus cycles and immediately released key presses in full screen mode (bug #13238)
• Linux hosts: fixed flooding the kernel log with USB related messages when passing through certain USB devices to a VM (bug #13085)
• Linux guests: stop applications crashing when drm_wait_vblank is called (bug #13265)
• Linux guests: fix a crash in gnome-session (bug #13335)
• X11 guests: do not start VBoxClient over an SSH connection (bug #13107)
• X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.16 (bug #13207)
• X11 guests: fixed a wrong parameter in the video driver which caused problems with full-screen X11 clients (bug #2748)
• VirtualKD: introduced stub/loader device for speeding up Windows kernel debugging, details see http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/

Förändringar v4.3.12 -> v4.3.14

• VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs #12784, #12949, #13034)
• VMM: improve MSI handling under rare circumstances (only relevant for the ICH9 chipset)
• VMM: fixed #UD exception for 64-bit guests with the EFER.SCE bit and the SYSCALL instruction (VT-x only; 4.3 regression; bug #13008)
• VMM: fixed timekeeping after resuming SMP guests
• VMM: properly wake up a halted VCPU on NMI/SMI
• GUI: fixed a potential crash
• GUI: fixed stuck AltGr key on Windows hosts (bug #2537)
• GUI: fixed a potential error during the version check
• GUI: shortcut change should not require Enter/Return (or other trigger) to confirm (bugs #12828, #12847, #12937, #13087)
• GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates (bug #13096)
• VBoxManage: fixed typo in showvminfo --machinereadable (bug #13176)
• NAT: fixed inbound half-close (bug #13116)
• NAT: fixed slow upload speed under certain conditions (bug #10034)
• NAT Network: fixed potential loss of inbound TCP data
• NAT Network: fixed potential infinite stalls of TCP connections over IPv6
• NAT Network: fixed resets of TCP connections on Windows hosts
• NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Mac OS X hosts
• NAT Network: fixed socket leak on Solaris hosts
• NAT Network: fixed ping of mapped host loopback on Mac OS X and Solaris hosts, fixed proxying of IMCP errors on Mac OS X
• Host-Only Network: fixed SNMP ifConnectorPresent value on Windows (bug #13143)
• Storage: fixed a possible crash with CD/DVD passthrough under certain circumstances
• Storage: fixed a crash when trying to open an inaccessible QED or QCOW image (bug #12613)
• Storage: fixed data corruption or read errors under rare circumstances
• AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances
• USB: performance fixes
• ICH9: properly reset MSI capability on reset
• Keyboard: active modifier keys during suspend were stuck after resuming the host
• 3D: fixed misbehavior with huge guests (i.e. guest more than 4GB guest memory
• 3D: several fixes
• API: properly detect the Windows 8.1 guest OS type (bug #13090)
• ExtPack: cleanup of dangling uninstallation directories
• Linux hosts / guests: compile fix for EL7 (bug #12638)
• Linux Additions: made 3D pass-through work with recent versions of Mesa in the guest (bug #12941)
• Linux Additions: Linux 3.16 fixes (bug #13123)
• Mac OS X hosts: when scanning for host CD/DVD devices also consider BlueRay devices
• OS/2 Additions: fixed gengradd.dll library name (bug #12785)
• Solaris Additions: fixed permissions of files and directories located on shared folders
• Windows host installer: fixed the need for rebooting Windows after installation or upgrade, extended logging for NetFlt/NetAdp (un)installation

Förändringar v4.3.10 -> v4.3.12

• VMM: fixed an occasional Guru Meditation (Mac OS X hosts only; bugs #12727, #12954)
• VMM: fixed a rare condition that would fail to invalidate guest TLB entries or would invalidate them when not required (Windows hosts only)
• VMM: fixed a VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED Guru Meditation seen with certain guests, e.g. OpenServer 5.0.7
• VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (tickets #12240, #12875)
• GUI: fixed mouse positioning with mouse integration disabled and multiple guest screens (Windows hosts only; bug #9059)
• GUI: fixed crash in VM manager (bug #12878)
• GUI: fixed crash under rare conditions on entering/exiting fullscreen/seamless mode
• Shared Clipboard: don't stop working after taking a snapshot (bug #12700)
• AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances
• API: fixed a hang during VM shutdown under rare conditions
• NAT: fixed generation of malformed ICMP error datagrams (4.3.10 regression)
• NAT: fixed potential crash in DNS proxy
• NAT Network: don't drop port forwarding rules after some time
• NAT: fixed ARP cache corruption and network loss in Windows guest caused by iSCSI service activity
• USB: improved check if a storage device is currently mounted to the host when the device is about to be attached to the VM (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)
• 3D support: several fixes, including better support for Ubuntu 14.04
• VRDP: fixed a potential crash on client disconnect (bug #12858)
• VBoxSVC: fixed a race when a new client is started a few seconds after the last client terminated (Windows hosts only; bugs #11309, #12509)
• VBoxSVC: fixed VirtualBox.xml registry corruption after VM renaming
• VBoxSVC: fixed a potential crash caused by incorrect USB device filter (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)
• Windows hosts: partly support 32-bit COM on 64-bit systems
• Windows host installer: implemented merge module (msm) support
• Linux hosts: fixed dependency of boot script on older Debian systems (bug #12262)
• Linux guests: fix symbolic link to shared folder helper (bug #12879)
• Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService during guest execute for users without a password (bug #12994)
• Linux Additions: fixed a bug in guest execution where the guest process terminated with VERR_INTERRUPTED to the host

Förändringar v4.3.6 -> v4.3.8

• VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers (e.g. bugs #12224, #12544)
• VMM: fixed a VERR_INVALID_RPL Guru Meditation when booting certain guests (bug #11350)
• VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see the manual for more information how to enable it (bug #8651)
• VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization
• GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see the manual for more information
• GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104)
• GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in fullscreen/seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199)
• GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box replaced with corresponding button
• GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar indicator
• GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types (bug #12533)
• GUI: better error message if appliance import fails (bug #12657)
• GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings / Input page (bug #12730)
• GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot merge (4.3 regression)
• VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times
• AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances
• AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain circumstances
• AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)
• AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions
• AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions
• AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes
• NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used (bug #12441)
• NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with ICMP packets having TTL=1
• NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly
• NAT Network: ping proxy implemented
• OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element (4.3 regression; bug #12345)
• OVF: several fixes
• 3D: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124)
• 3D: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666)
• 3D: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758)
• VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest Additions are active (bug #6649)
• USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare circumstances
• BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives
• API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)
• VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events (see the manual for more information) and added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low event (bug #9925)
• VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups (bug #12569)
• VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in /bin (bug #12713)
• Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network (bug #12241)
• Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining the number of physical CPU cores
• Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)
• Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720)
• Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar environment contents (bug #12596)
• Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)
• Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563)
• Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users
• Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on XPDM -> WDDM upgrade
• Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables
• Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels (bug #12505)
• Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels
• Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already mounted
• X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623)

Förändringar v4.3.4 -> v4.3.6

• This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451)
• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410)
• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481)
• VMM: fixed a VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC error when trying to load a saved state made with VBox 4.3.4 when VT-x/AMD-V is disabled. Unfortunately, VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard these states (bug #12414)
• VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests (bug #12245)
• GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression, bug #12205)
• GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors (bug #12480)
• Main: don't automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if VT-x/AMD-V is not available (bug #12424)
• Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests (bug #12017)
• Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change (bug #7063)
• Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp() (bug #12498)
• API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes due to GUI unavailability
• Storage: fix for BLKCACHE_IOERR runtime errors under rare circumstances (bug #11030)
• Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426)
• E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection
• 3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina hosts only; bug #11021)
• Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones (4.3 regression, bug #12271)

Förändringar v4.3.0 -> v4.3.2

• MM: fixed restoring of the auxiliary TSC MSR in VT-x that caused host BSODs on Windows 8.1 hosts and unpredictable behavior on other hosts (bug #12237)
• VMM: provide fake values for a couple of MSRs to make more guests happy on certain hosts
• VMM: fixed detection of VT-x on certain machines where the BIOS would not set the VMX LOCK feature bit, which affected the VM settings in the GUI
• VMM: fixed TPR threshold which caused BSODs on Windows XP guests that use the I/O APIC (VT-x only; bug #12227)
• VMM: fixed PATM saved state incompatibility for software virtualized VMs (bug #12222)
• VMM: don't fail if AMD-V isn't available if the VM is configured to use software virtualization
• GUI: fixed guest resize breakage on visual representation mode change (when switching from normal to fullscreen etc)
• GUI: make sure the guest screen is resized after restoring a VM from a saved state if the host screen size changed
• GUI: disabled SCROLL LED sync from HID LEDs synchronization (Mac OS X hosts only)
• Webcam passthrough improvements including GUI support (see the manual for more information)
• Guest Control: implemented more IGuestSession methods
• Guest Control: added support for deleting and renaming guest files + directories in VBoxManage
• Guest Control: various bugfixes
• API: incorrect handling of hardware UUID default value, resulting in an all zero DMI/SMBIOS UUID, which leads to Windows requesting re-activation (4.3 regression; bug #12244)
• 3D support: fixed crash on shutdown if 2D video acceleration is enabled (Mac OS X hosts only)
• 3D support: miscellaneous fixes
• Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty to a host drive with passthrough enabled
• Storage: fixed hang of the VM process when the disk is full under certain circumstances
• NAT: listen for changes of NAT Network setting at runtime
• NAT: NAT Network DHCP server now saves leases to a persistent storage
• Main: monitor changes in host DNS configuration
• Mac OS X host: reworked a mechanism of adding a VM desktop alias from the VM selector
• Mac OS X installer: remove old kernel extensions during upgrade (bug #12258)
• Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing (bug #12166)
• X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503, thank you Sam Spilsbury)
• X11 Additions/3D: fix depth buffer support (bug #11905)
• X11 Additions/3D: fix Age Of Empires 3 rendering (bug #11331)
• Windows Additions/3D: fix Google Earth plugin

Förändringar v4.0.20 -> v4.3.0

• This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
• VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code and the AMD-V code including many bug fixes and performance improvements (for example bug #9659)
• VMM: introduced a lightweight instruction interpreter for situations not handled by hardware virtualization
• GUI: extended messaging mechanism (new non-modal popup overlays used to show non-critical warnings and provide user with additional information)
• GUI: keyboard shortcuts management (input page of global preferences extended with possibility to edit general keyboard shortcuts for VirtualBox Manager and Virtual Machine)
• GUI: video capturing support (bug #4766)
• Added USB touch device emulation
• Added experimental support for webcam passthrough complementing USB passthrough (see the manual for more information)
• Added SCSI CD-ROM emulation, including boot support
• VRDP: support for IPv6
• Guest Control: guest sessions now are running in dedicated, impersonated session processes (needs at least Guest Additions 4.3 installed)
• Guest Control: implemented IGuestFile support
• NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are attached to the same internal network and share one NAT service (see the manual for more information)
• In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: significantly improved performance of NetWare 5.x/6.x guests on host systems without nested paging support
• VMM: fixed losing host NMIs while in VT-x guest-context
• VMM: changed order of actions in emulated task switch (bug #10532)
• VMM: allow to activate VT-x while in SMX mode and provide more information if that is not possible
• GUI: update check uses https
• GUI: numerous minor internal cleanups and bug fixes
• GUI: HID LEDs synchronization when switching between guest window(s) and host (Mac OS X hosts only)
• GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)
• GUI: use the number of physical presented processor cores instead of the number of logical processor cores to check if the users assigned too many virtual CPUs to the guest
• Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)
• Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)
• Storage: implemented AHA-154x compatibility mode in the emulated BusLogic SCSI HBA
• Storage: significantly improved performance of large ATAPI PIO transfers (BeOS, Minix 3 guests affected)
• Storage: added floppy formatting emulation (NB: cannot be used to change existing media geometry)
• Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration, useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends
• Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes
• Settings: the per-VM hwvirtextexcl setting has been replaced by a global hwvirtexclusive property
• Main: new event queue implementation which does not use the host's native event queue for processing VirtualBox events anymore
• Main: eliminate the use of SysV semaphores on all host OSes other than Windows, namely Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, with the consequence that no system reconfiguration is needed to run more than approximately 100 VMs
• Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of .VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)
• Main: extension pack framework can now support loading HGCM modules, contributed by Jeff Westphal
• VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy media, and support the --long option to show really all available details
• VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for the automatic Guest Additions update
• VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest sessions, guest processes and/or guest files via guestcontrol list
• VBoxManage: added support for closing active guest sessions via guestcontrol session close --session-id | --session-name | --all
• VBoxManage: added support for terminating active guest processes via guestcontrol process kill|close|terminate --session-id | --session-name ... or guestcontrol [p[s]]kill --session-id | --session-name ...
• VBoxManage: added support for watching guest sessions via guestcontrol watch
• VBoxManage: added modifyvm --triplefaultreset to make the VM reset on triple fault instead of triggering a Guru Meditation (see the manual for more information)
• 3D support: several fixes
• 3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts
• OVF: several fixes
• Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with special characters
• Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del for the USB keyboard emulation
• Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed by François Revol
• Mac OS X hosts: limited support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
• Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940)
• Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (only on certain hosts; still needs improving; bug #6242)
• Windows hosts: consider symlinks when retrieving volume information (bug #11962)
• Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible when plugged into USB 3.0 ports
• Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)
• Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by WTSQuerySessionInformation() on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072)
• Windows Additions: ability to track guest user idle times through the newly introduced event IGuestUserStateChangedEvent
• Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script with Linux 3.x kernels

Förändringar v4.2.16 -> v4.2.18

• VMM: properly handle NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled
• VMM: fixed potential crashes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #11979)
• GUI / seamless: properly handle mouse wheel scroll events
• GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)
• GUI: prevent crashes under certain conditions on X11 hosts
• 3D: multiscreen fixes (incorrect mouse position, flickers)
• 3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver (multiscreen, seamless)
• Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)
• Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)
• VBoxManage: on snapshot take, --pause is default and --live is for doing live snapshots
• VBoxSVC: don't crash on systems with many VLAN interfaces (Solaris hosts only)
• Network: after the host resumes from suspend, disconnect and reconnect the virtual network cables to force renewing the DHCP leases for the guests. So far only Mac OS X hosts and Windows hosts (bug #10063).
• NAT: on name server changes force a reconnect of the virtual network cable to notify the guest (Mac OS X hosts only)
• •Mac OS X installer: keep previously installed Extension Packs on VirtualBox upgrade
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.11 fixes (bug #12001)
• Solaris hosts: fixed a potential kernel panic caused due to unexpected preemption due to logging.
• Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible when plugged into USB3 ports.
• Linux Additions: added PCI device identifier to vboxvideo.ko fixing DRI initialization under certain conditions (bug #11957)
• Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script with Linux 3.x kernels

Förändringar v4.2.10 -> v4.2.12

• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation on putting Linux guest CPU online if nested paging is disabled
• VMM: invalidate TLB entries even for non-present pages
• GUI: Multi-screen support: fixed a crash on visual-mode change
• GUI: Multi-screen support: disabled guest-screens should now remain disabled on visual-mode change
• GUI: Multi-screen support: handle host/guest screen plugging/unplugging in different visual-modes
• GUI: Multi-screen support: seamless mode: fixed a bug when empty seamless screens were represented by fullscreen windows
• GUI: Multi-screen support: each machine window in multi-screen configuration should have correct menu-bar now (Mac OS X hosts)
• GUI: Multi-screen support: machine window View menu should have correct content in seamless/fullscreen mode now (Mac OS X hosts)
• GUI: VM manager: vertical scroll-bars should be now updated on content/window resize
• GUI: VM settings: fixed crash on machine state-change event
• GUI: don't show warnings about enabled or disabled mouse integration if the VM was restored from a saved state
• Virtio-net: properly announce that the guest has to handle partial TCP checksums (bug #9380)
• Storage: Fixed incorrect alignment of VDI images causing disk size changes when using snapshots (bug #11597)
• Audio: fixed broken ALSA & PulseAudio on some Linux hosts due to invalid symbol resolution (bug #11615)
• PS/2 keyboard: re-apply keyboard repeat delay and rate after a VM was restored from a saved state (bug #10933)
• BIOS: updated DMI processor information table (type 4): corrected L1 & L2 cache table handles
• Timekeeping: fix several issues which can lead to incorrect time, Solaris guests sporadically showed time going briefly back to Jan 1 1970
• Main/Metrics: disk metrics are collected properly when software RAID, symbolic links or rootfs are used on Linux hosts
• VBoxManage: don't stay paused after a snapshot was created and the VM was running before
• VBoxManage: introduced controlvm nicpromisc (bug #11423)
• VBoxManage: don't crash on controlvm guestmemoryballoon if the VM isn't running (bug #11639)
• VBoxHeadless: don't filter guest property events as this would affect all clients (bug #11644)
• Guest control: prevent double CR in the output generated by guest commands and do NLS conversion
• Linux hosts / guests: fixed build errors on Linux 3.5 and newer kernels if the CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS config option is enabled (bug #11664)
• Linux Additions: handle fall-back to VESA driver on RedHat-based guests if vboxvideo cannot be loaded
• Linux Additions: RHEL/OEL/CentOS 6.4 compile fix (bug #11586)
• Linux Additions: Debian Linux kernel 3.2.0-4 (3.2.39) compile fix (bug #11634)
• Linux Additions: added auto-logon support for Linux guests using LightDM as the display manager
• Windows Additions: Support for multimonitor. Dynamic enable/disable of secondary virtual monitors. Support for XPDM/WDDM based guests
• X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.14 (bug #11609)

Förändringar v4.2.4 -> v4.2.6

• VMM: don't inject stale VT-x events to prevent crashes after VM reset (bug #11256)
• VMM: workaround for buggy BIOSes which enable MONITOR only for certain CPUs (bugs #9460, #10686)
• GUI: fixed trimming of anti-aliased text in details-view element headers (4.2.0 regression)
• GUI: fixed create-settings-file-alias functionality on Mac hosts (4.2.0 regression)
• GUI: fixed take-guest-screenshot functionality on Windows hosts (bug #11095)
• GUI: several minor fixes, including palette fixes (bug #11191)
• GUI: fixed Windows 2012 OS type (bug #11206)
• GUI: allow to terminate the VM even if VBoxSVC crashed
• API: fixed cancelling of snapshots, previously this could lead to inconsistent VM configs (bug #6877)
• API: fixed identifying disk images by UUID (bug #11209)
• 3D Support: several fixes
• VRDP: fixed occasional crash with external authentication (bug #11156)
• VGA: fix for double scan text modes
• USB: fixed invalid pending request count at the time of service of DEVICE POWER requests (Windows hosts only; bugs #10021, #11056)
• USB keyboard: Korean keyboard workaround (bug #11150)
• Storage: fixed hang with QCOW images and asynchronous I/O enabled
• Storage: fixed hang with newer VHD images (bug #11279)
• Storage: actually write the non-rotational flag to the VM settings (4.2.0 regression)
• Virtio-net: fixed the problem with network statistics counters in Session Information dialog (GUI)
• Metrics: introduced network rate and disk usage metrics
• Metrics: fixed a crash under certain conditions on Solaris hosts
• BIOS: fix for El Torito
• Shared Folders: if the host folder of a shared folder mapping does not exist, keep it active but mark it as invalid to prevent inconsitent saved states (bug #11147)
• VBoxManage: fixed converting disks from raw images
• VBoxManage: show snapshot description in the VM or snapshot information
• VBoxManage: make implicit opening of media consistent in all places dealing with media
• VBoxManage: the iSCSI initiator name was not stored in the settings file when doing storageattach (bug #11212)
• VBoxManage: metrics collect now properly handles 'CPU/MHz' and 'Net/*/LinkSpeed' metrics
• VBoxManage: changing the image UUID or parent UUID as part of storageattach works now in all safe cases
• VBoxManage: introduced storageattach --medium additions as a shortcut to mount the additions image (bug #11165)
• OVF: fixed importing OVF files cerated by recent VMware products (bug #10905)
• Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with leaking connections in conntrack (bug #11178)
• Linux Additions: added support for ConsoleKit sessions in the vminfo service of VBoxService
• Linux Additions: don't crash during remount under certain conditions (bug #11291)
• Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed guest memory metrics collection
• Solaris hosts: added a dependency to ensure that the user directories are reachable when starting VBox services
• Windows host installer: integrated user-contributed translations, thanks to all contributors!
• Windows Additions: fixed auto-logon installation for Windows 8
• Windows Additions: don't fail if the shared folders host service is not available
• Windows Additions: fixed Guest Additions startup on Windows 2000 guests (bug #11253)
• Windows Additions: auto-resize fixes for Windows 8 guests

Förändringar v4.2.2 -> v4.2.4

• GUI: fixed validation warning on global settings / proxy page (4.2.2 regression, bug #11089)
• GUI: fixed crash with multiple guest screens on certain conditions (OS X hosts only)
• VBoxBalloonCtrl: fixed command line argument handling of ballooning module
• VRDP: fixed occasional crash during a video playback in the guest (bug #11082)
• BIOS: fixed broken DMI information (4.2 regression)
• BIOS: workaround for booting from Windows 2000 floppy disks
• EFI: fixed video mode selection loss on VM reboot (#10983)
• Parallel: fixed parallel port printing failure/ paper queue empty error (Windows hosts only; bug #2226)
• NAT: fixed crash on alias-less DNS responses when host-resolver is used
• Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances

Förändringar v4.1.22 -> v4.2.0 RC 4

• VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts, 4.1 regression, bug #9897)
• VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure (seen with Windows 8 guests)
• GUI: a couple of VM group related fixes
• 3D Support: WDDM: fixed fullscreen without Aero
• NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine
• OS X host: installer fixes
• Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)

Förändringar v4.1.16 -> v4.1.18

• This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: fixed VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164 and others)
• VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux hosts (bug #10528)
• VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly updating the screen size when minimized
• AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption after the guest storage controler has been reset
• NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions (Windows hosts only; bug #10513)
• Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard (bug #10631)
• Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter (bug #10624)
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes
• Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly updated (bug #9887)
• Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12

Förändringar v4.1.4 -> v4.1.6

• VRDP: fixed screen corruption
• NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed ICMP requests (bug #9371)
• E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)
• ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with certain guests
• ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels
• Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving the fullscreen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled preview window in the GUI for example
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)
• Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)
• Linux hosts: don't call del_timer_sync from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)
• Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes
• Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)
• Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10 guests
• Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared folders
• Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for shared folders
• Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest users and stale sessions
• X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a virtual terminal (bug #9490)

Förändringar v4.1.2 -> v4.1.4

• VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression; bug #9458)
• VMM: fixed INVALID_PARAMETER guru meditation caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)
• VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during stos/lods/ins/outs emulation under rare circumstances
• VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs
• GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)
• GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts (4.0.6 regression; bug #373)
• VBoxManage: another fix for extpack install --replace (bug #9308)
• VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in convertfromraw
• VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server (bug #9503)
• VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly (bug #9242)
• USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298); bugfixes for Windows host USB support
• VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)
• VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK images
• Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums (Windows hosts only)
• Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)
• Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)
• Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot restore operation (bug #8296)
• Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug #9387)
• Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using snapshots (bug #8932)
• Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active
• Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU (bug #9370)
• 3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching to/from fullscreen with enabled 2D acceleration
• 3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10
• Guest control: Miscellaneous small bugfixes
• Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages (4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)
• Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root (bug #1578)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only interfaces (bug #8076)
• Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based bridged networking (bug #9532)
• Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files (bug #9535)
• Windows hosts installer: fixed ADDLOCAL usage on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)
• Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm help file (bug #9646)
• Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)
• Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate console window (bug #3549)
• Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)
• Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
• Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
• Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1 (bug #6229)
• Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)
• Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting (from console) and unmounting shared folders.
• Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates (4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)
• Windows Additions: fixed PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)
• Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)
• Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)
• Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)
• Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from fullscreen text mode apps (bug #9636)

Förändringar v4.1.0 -> v4.1.2

• VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)
• VMM: fixed handling of the sysenter/sysexit machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts
• GUI: added linked clone support
• GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings (4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)
• GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license, vendor, ...) on OVF export
• GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do a live snapshot
• GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments due to a library version conflict
• Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)
• Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes at a time by default
• Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)
• VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are registered (bug #9303)
• VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of VMs
• Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot creation (bug #9379)
• VBoxManage: implemented copyfrom and stat guest control tools to copy files from guest to host and to check for existence of files on the guest
• VBoxManage: fixed extpack install --replace (bug #9308)
• VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with startvm
• VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging
• Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)
• VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly (bug #9242)
• NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)
• USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)
• USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local USB devices
• OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)
• Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)
• Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs with Crossbow based bridged networking
• Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown (4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)
• Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations and warn about it
• Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)
• Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)
• Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)
• Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements, fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)
• Linux Additions: fixed llseek() for Linux kernels 2.6.37 and above

Förändringar v4.0.12 -> v4.1.0

• This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
• Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see the manual for more information): full clones can be created through the GUI and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage
• GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks
• GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks
• GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only; bug #7822)
• VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB
• Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see the manual for more information
• Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode anymore)
• Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be queried separately by the frontends
• Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately distributable virtual network implementations
• Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
• New Networking Mode UDP Tunnel: allows to interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently, see the manual for more information
• Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available with VBoxManage
• Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for Solaris 11 build 159 and above
• In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: more SMP timer fixes
• VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests
• VMM: many small fixes
• GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot of the current state
• GUI: added a View menu
• GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks
• GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest, see the manual for more information.
• GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of a VM (bug #1551)
• GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)
• GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable
• GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration dialog
• VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter when a storage controller has only one port or device per port
• VBoxManage: changed syntax of the guestcontrol command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options
• VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment of the balloon size for running VMs
• Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to be a valid UUID
• Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used twice in a VM configuration
• Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error cases
• Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e. the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can improve performance
• Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only on a temporary basis
• Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are exact duplicates including the UUID
• Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)
• Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential images in VDI format
• Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and VMDK format
• Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA controller (bug #8592)
• Floppy: several bugs have been fixed
• Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)
• BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)
• USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver
• NAT: reduced memory footprint
• Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading when several VMs are transmitting in parallel
• Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox
• Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)
• VRDP: support for TLS connections (see the manual for more information)
• VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS RDP clients
• VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption
• 3D support: fixed GL_VERSION string for different locales (bug #8916)
• Webservice: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and be more robust when connections fail
• VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart simultaneously
• Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing location values in many places
• JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak
• Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official builds
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts
• Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM window (bug #4491)
• Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when removing a VM
• Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion
• Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)
• Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds 166 and above)
• Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11 hosts
• Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests
• Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs from the host
• Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)

Förändringar v4.0.10 -> v4.0.12

• This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes
• Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds 166 and above)
• VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)
• Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances whith VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)
• Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA controller (bug #8592)
• Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)
• Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading when several VMs were transmitting at once
• 3D support: fixed GL_VERSION string for different locales (bug #8916)
• Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official builds
• Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)

Förändringar v4.0.8 -> v4.0.10

• This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)
• Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images
• Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)
• Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant (for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)
• Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot
• USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)
• USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests (partial fix for bug #8978)
• ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)
• RDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)
• rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0
• OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK file was not written during export
• Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes (bug #8903)
• Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix
• Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)
• Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux binaries
• Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles
• Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)
• Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests (4.0.8 regression)
• Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix
• Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during VBoxManage guestcontrol execute (bug #9068)

Förändringar v4.0.4 -> v4.0.6

• VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring a VMM from a saved state
• VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads; implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE (bug #8006)
• VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels (bug #8726)
• GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)
• GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)
• GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)
• GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM (bug #8469)
• GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy selectors
• GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)
• GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing folder (bug #8673)
• Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)
• Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory
• 3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate (Windows hosts only; bug #7133)
• Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)
• Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network
• Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)
• Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an I/O error occurred
• Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset (bug #8276, #8294)
• Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM
• ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none' if no medium is present
• Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)
• Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)
• Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour
• Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the host from sleep (bug #3625)
• Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)
• NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static assigned IPs (bug #8609)
• VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication library (bug #8063)
• Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute, for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)
• Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)
• USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)
• HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)
• OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is changed on import
• OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias
• OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with multiple disks (bug #8253)
• rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions (bug #8593)
• Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized
• Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while captured
• Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode (shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)
• X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
• X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1
• Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)
• Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)
• Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead to unkillable VM processes
• Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling
• Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)
• Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations on legacy Windows versions
• Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)
• Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo
• X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final
• Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes
• Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)
• Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests (bug #7946)
• Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9
• Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution
• Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size

Förändringar v4.0.2 -> v4.0.4

• This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions (bugs #8255, #8319 and further)
• VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)
• VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)
• VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots (bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)
• GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum number of host network interfaces
• GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing snapshot (bug #8145)
• GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)
• GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in the users home directory (bug #8017)
• ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)
• VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID (4.0 regression; bug #8342)
• VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused
• VBoxManage: fixed modifyvm --synthcpu (bug #6577)
• VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit and displaying process status on exit (bug #8235)
• VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit/stdout while waiting for the guest process to terminate (bug #7872)
• VBoxManage: fixed list hostdvds/host?oppies
• VBoxManage: fixed storageattach for host DVD drives and host ?oppy drives
• Metrics: introduced RAM/VMM base metric.
• Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot (bug #7966)
• Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start
• Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)
• Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)
• Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium attachments (bug #8129)
• Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)
• Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)
• Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)
• Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)
• NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)
• ACPI: don’t allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don’t announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)
• Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode (bug #8122)
• Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)
• ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume
• BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs
• Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission (bug #1548)
• Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)
• Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap
• X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart (bug #8231)
• X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha.
• X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login.
• X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older VirtualBox versions can’t handle.
• Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if a host link is not readable (bug #8185)
• Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS) with VBoxGINA

Förändringar v4.0 -> v4.0.2

• GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM settings vanished
• GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)
• GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be created (bug #8031)
• GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests
• ExtPack: don’t make the installer helper application suid root (Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)
• ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing an extension pack
• ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name during installing an extension pack (bug #7917)
• ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts
• VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)
• VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent host-only interface
• Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots and async I/O (4.0 regression)
• Storage: don’t eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is detached from a VM (bug #5825)
• Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an ATAPI device (bug #6597)
• Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or power off (4.0 regression)
• Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)
• NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)
• E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)
• Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux guests
• ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)
• VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)
• Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)
• Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid logging string (4.0 regression)
• Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing a VM start
• Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in machine paths (bug #8024)
• Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented (bug #6067)
• Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image) cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another
• Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was not saved to machine XML
• OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug #7983)
• rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug #7981)
• Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.
• Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0 regression)
• Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)
• Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports unlocking previously locked workstations

Förändringar v3.2.12 -> v4.0

• This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
• Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see chapter 1.5, Installing VirtualBox and extension packs, see the manual for more information
• New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see chapter 10.1, Where VirtualBox stores its files, see the manual for more information
• Major rework of the GUI (now called “VirtualBox Manager”):
• Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)
• New “scale” display mode with scaled guest display; see chapter 1.8.5, Resizing the machine’s window, see the manual for more information
• Support for creating and starting .vbox desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)
• The VM list is now sortable
• Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved states, and optionally including attached disk images (bug #5511; also, VBoxManage unregistervm --delete can do the same now)
• Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)
• VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts
• New virtual hardware:
• Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI); see chapter 3.4.1, “Motherboard” tab, see the manual for more information
• Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems (e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)
• Improvements to OVF support (see chapter 1.12, Importing and exporting virtual machines, see the manual for more information):
• Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support
• Significant performance improvements during export and import
• Creation of the manifest file on export is optional now
• Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK
• Resource control: added support for limiting a VM’s CPU time and IO bandwidth; see chapter 5.8, Limiting bandwidth for disk images, see the manual for more information
• Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and Parallels images
• Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see chapter 8.21, VBoxManage modifyhd, see the manual for more information.
• Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later
• Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local (COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs
• In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts (applies to nested paging only)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)
• VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only, non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)
• GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode (bug #1657)
• GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore
• GUI: certain GUI warnings don’t stop the VM output anymore
• GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #5449)
• BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain guests (e.g. Solaris)
• Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network (Linux hosts only; bug #7792)
• 3D support: allow use of CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH again (bug #6864)
• 3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659, #5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)
• 3D support: guest application stack corruption when using glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)
• 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9
• 3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty
• 2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support
• VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration
• VRDP: support for upstream audio
• Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash
• NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime
• SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough (bug #7058)
• Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)
• Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare circumstances
• Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug #5578)
• EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs
• BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function #4F01 (Quake fix)
• OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks
• Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug #6760)
• Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)
• Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX set
• Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
• Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)
• Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one file
• Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes

Förändringar v3.2.10 -> v3.2.12

• VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #7577)
• VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)
• VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)
• VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages
• VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU
• Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while the VM is running
• GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when starting from a saved state
• NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)
• Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000
• VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration
• Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash
• Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)
• Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation; fixes for Koran keyboards
• Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during open (bugs #5756, #5380)
• Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)
• Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
• USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version 3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)
• USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts only)
• iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid being disconnected if the guest is idle
• 3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)
• 3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)
• 3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)
• 2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM state (bug #4124)
• Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)
• Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types (bug #2996)
• Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)
• Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes
• Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS is not installed (bug #7572)
• Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)
• Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating user accounts for VM information

Förändringar v3.1.0 -> v3.1.2

• VMM: fixed SMP stability regression
• USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (#5237)
• Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)
• Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)
• VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)
• VBoxManage: added missing --cpus and --memory options to OVF --import
• GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages
• GUI: NLS updates
• OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)
• Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)
• Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support
• Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is used inside the guest (bug #5672)
• Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug #1762)
• Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock & Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)
• Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges right after installation (bug #4162)
• Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading while a VM is still active (Windows host only)
• Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)
• Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network
• Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with several virtual CPU cores.
• NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)
• NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)
• NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)
• ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)
• SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)
• Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora guests
• Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests and on some 64bit guests
• Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)
• X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests (openSUSE 11.0)
• X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg releases (openSUSE 11.1)
• Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues
• Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4
• Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4
• Shared folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)
• 2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid GUI crashes on misconfigured systems
• 2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback

Förändringar v3.0.0 -> v3.1.0

• This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
• Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session from one host to another (see the manual for more information)
• VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well ("branched snapshots"; see the manual for more information)
• 2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion (see the manual for more information)
• More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to an arbitrary IDE controller, and there can be more than one such drive (the manual for more information)
• The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is running
• Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher
• Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging)
• Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface; see the manual for more information)
• Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net; see the manual for more information)
• In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases
• GUI: snapshots include a screenshot
• GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force
• GUI: the a log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows (bug #5291)
• GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)
• GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings
• GUI: the VirtualBox website couldn't be opened from the help menu (bug #4559)
• 3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing
• 3D support: added GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array support
• 3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)
• 3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (#2816)
• 3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (#4653)
• 3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz
• iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity
• VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)
• Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)
• NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy (see the manual for more information)
• VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces (bug #5523, #2787)
• VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files (bug #2723)
• VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V
• Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files; see the manual for more information
• OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an optional manifest file on import
• OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)
• Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest (bug #3773)
• VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start
• VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)
• X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code layout (bug #2302)
• Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen (bug #4866)
• Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as left click (bug #5049)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under certain conditions
• Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package
• Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend).
• Shared folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)
• Shared folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)
• Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version was updated and Additions are out of date
• Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)
• Solaris Additions: fixed as_pagelock() failed errors affecting guest properties (bug #5337)
• Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7
• Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information
• Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information
• Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)
• Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest Additions (bug #4039)
• Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory (bug #928)
• SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5

Förändringar v3.0.2 -> v3.0.4

• VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)
• VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)
• VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)
• VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot
• VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)
• VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)
• VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)
• SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)
• SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)
• 3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for multithreaded applications (bug #3922)
• 3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications
• 3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty
• NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)
• NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)
• NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)
• iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks
• GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on Windows (bug #4354)
• GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display (bug #4654)
• GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top
• GUI: don’t crash when adding plus configuring host-only network interfaces
• Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path in VirtualBox (Windows host only)
• USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB devicefilter settings inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)
• Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest properties (bug #3415)
• Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #1461)
• Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard
• Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)
• Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service fails to find any DVD drives.
• Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in Qt (bug #4353)
• Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking
• Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)
• Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)
• X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)
• X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)
• X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and guest-drawn mouse pointers.
• X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238).

Förändringar v2.1.0 -> v2.1.2

• USB: improved support for recent Linux hosts
• VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x
• VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)
• VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898)
• VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM
• VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only)
• VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only)
• VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only)
• VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts
• VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests
• VMM: speed improvements for real mode and protected mode without paging (software virtualization only)
• GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory
• GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type
• VBoxSDL: fixed -fixed fixedmode parameter (bug #3067)
• Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only, bug #2675 and #3003)
• 3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications (bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)
• LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)
• VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize events were not properly handled (bug #2783)
• VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V on Mac OS X hosts
• VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)
• VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up to correct ones (bug #2895)
• IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)
• Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)
• Networking: fixed intermittend BSODs when using the new host interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)
• Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
• Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
• Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
• NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)
• NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)
• NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)
• SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable
• SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized (2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)
• SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files (Linux host only, bug #2796)
• SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like formatting a drive
• SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown
• VRDP: fixed loading of libpam.so.1 from the host (Solaris hosts only)
• VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects
• VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection
• VBoxManage showvminfo: fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)
• VBoxManage convertfromraw: added parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files; fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)
• VBoxManage clonehd: fixed garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)
• VBoxManage guestproperty: fixed property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)
• VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files (bug #2768)
• Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)
• Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)
• Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a single, unified package
• Linux hosts: don’t depend on libcap1 anymore (bug #2859)
• Linux hosts: compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1
• Linux hosts: don’t drop any capability if the VM was started by root (2.1.0 regression)
• Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine’s battery reaches critical level
• Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window
• Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is doing 3D
• Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon
• Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta
• Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)
• Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing files on shared folders (bug #2764)
• Windows Additions: fixed Ctrl-Alt-Del handling when using VBoxGINA
• Windows Additions Installer: Added /extract switch to only extract (not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)
• Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions (bug #2938)
• Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on Linux guests
• Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set fmode on mapped shared folders (bug #1776)
• Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders (bug #1612)
• Linux Additions: ignore noauto option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)
• Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)
• X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)

Förändringar v2.0.6 -> v2.1.0

• Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts
• Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see user manual, chapter 1.6, 64-bit guests, page 16)
• Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see user manual, chapter 1.2, Software vs. hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V), page 10))
• Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see user manual, chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), page 66)
• Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see user manual, chapter 5.1, Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI, page 70)
• Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see user manual, chapter 5.2, Disk image ?les (VDI, VMDK, VHD), page 72)
• New NAT engine with signi?cantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo (ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)
• New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)
• In addition, the following items were ?xed and/or added:
• VMM: signi?cant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution)
• VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)
• VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V
• VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only)
• VMM: ?xed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner (software virtualization only; bug #1439)
• VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)
• VMM: ?xed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots
• VMM: ?xed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)
• VMM: ?xed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x)
• VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)
• VMM: ?xed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only)
• GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)
• GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)
• GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine’s battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)
• GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on the compiz window manager
• GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)
• GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings
• GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability
• GUI: prede?ned settings for QNX guests
• IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support
• Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM
• Networking: ?xed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot
• iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI ?le
• iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets
• Graphics: ?xed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power of two (bug #2724)
• VBoxManage: ?xed bug which prevented setting up the serial port for direct device access.
• VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation
• VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)
• Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking
• Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting
• API: redesigned storage model with better generalization
• API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time
• API: added methods to return network con?guration information of the host system
• Shared Folders: performance and stability ?xes for Windows guests (Microsoft Of?ce Applications)

Förändringar v2.0.4 -> v2.0.6

• VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests (bug #2220)
• VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)
• VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)
• GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows hosts only, bug #1996)
• GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)
• VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information (bug #2624)
• SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned (bug #2024)
• SATA: improved performance
• SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)
• E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances
• USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host: bugs #470 & #491)
• Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox applications when updating the installation
• Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on 64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)
• Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions in /tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc
• Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts, fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)
• Linux hosts: don’t crash during shutdown with serial ports connected to a host device
• Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking
• Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking
• Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)
• Windows additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties when using native RDP connections
• Windows additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)
• Windows additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office (bug #2591)
• Linux additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit guests (bug #2550)
• SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections

Förändringar v2.0.0 -> v2.0.2

• VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)
• VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)
• VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha, Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875)
• VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian)
• VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only)
• VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132)
• GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in the virtual disk manager
• GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)
• GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)
• GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)
• GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)
• GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #2067)
• GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)
• GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts)
• VBoxManage: fixed crash during internalcommands createrawvmdk (bug #2184)
• VBoxManage: fixed output of snapshot showvminfo (bug #698)
• Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces (Windows guests only)
• Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes (bug #2055)
• API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)
• VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection (configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled)
• VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem
• Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
• Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27
• Mac OS X hosts: added Python support
• Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after a VM reboot
• Windows additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)
• Linux additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with buggy X servers
• Linux additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests (dynamic resizing disabled for the latter) (bug #1854)
• Linux additions: added installer check for the system architecture
• Linux additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions (bug #2128)
• VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)
• VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading the wrong data (bug #2085)
• Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)
• Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the host when host interface networking was enabled
• Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when installing under the wrong architecture
• Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)
• Solaris additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit additions installer into a single package
• Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial port to the guest

Förändringar v1.6.6 -> v2.0.0

• 64 bits guest support (64 bits host only)
• New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts
• The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements
• New-version notifier
• Guest property information interface
• Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts
• New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts
• Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)
• Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)
• Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw disks/partitions (major performance gain)
• Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests
• Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts
• Support for VHD disk images
• In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: VT-x fixes
• AHCI/SATA: improved performance
• GUI: keyboard fixes
• Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if unregistering the DKMS module fails
• Linux additions: the guest screen resolution is properly restored
• Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)
• Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11
• 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

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