VirtualBox 3.0.12

VirtualBox v3.0.10 [10-30-09]

VirtualBox 3.0.10 (released 2009-10-29)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: guest SMP stability fixes
• VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222)
• VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors; necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239)
• VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot (VT-x only; bug #5164)
• VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)
• VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)
• VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)
• VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)
• Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual screen setup (bug #4942)
• Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7
• Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)
• Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)
• Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later
• Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory exhaustion
• Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests
• Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts, netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)
• Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared folders (bug #4106)
• Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared folders (bug #4299)
• Linux Additions: sendfile() returned -EOVERFLOW when executed on a shared folder (bug #2921)
• Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows hosts only)
• Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the package provides proper modules for the current running kernel
• 3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)
• Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)
• VMDK: fix handling of split image variants
• VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent image inconsistency
• USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices
• GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file
• GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards (bug #2025)
• Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard initialisation failed (bug #4987)

VirtualBox v3.0.8 [10-07-09]

VirtualBox 3.0.8 (released 2009-10-06)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6 (VT-x only; bug #4947)
• VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x & AMD-V only; bug #5058)
• VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059)
• VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests
• VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression; software virtualization only)
• VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042)
• Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands with root privileges
• Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)
• Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)
• Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)
• Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM selector (bug #5063)
• Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not available
• Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as interrupts were not re-enabled everytime
• Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only networking (bug #4775)
• Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when changing them (bug #5077)
• X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards (bug #4907)
• Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)
• Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)
• Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier
• Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)
• Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)
• Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders are installed
• Linux Additions: implemented ftrunctate (bug #4771)
• VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use
• Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under rare conditions (bug #4870)
• VBoxManage: implemented controlvm vrdpport command
• iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (#5072)
• SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB
• USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices (bug #5089)
• NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)

VirtualBox v3.0.6 [09-10-09]

VirtualBox 3.0.6 (released 2009-09-09)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests (AMD-V only; bug #4392)
• VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling a disabled device (bug #4510)
• VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests (software virtualization only; bug #2149)
• VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris guests (bug #2258)
• VMM: fixed decreasing rdtsc values (AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)
• VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only)
• VMM: cpuid change to correct reported virtual CPU id in Linux
• VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947)
• Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)
• Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking
• Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were onlined or offlined
• Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)
• Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)
• Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys than usual (bug #4799)
• Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard
• Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having wrong values in Python webservices bindings
• Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed
• Python shell: added exportVM command
• Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes
• Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case
• OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors
• Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device filters in machine settings XML
• Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)
• Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)
• GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)
• VBoxManage: fixed guestproperty for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)
• VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with --flags or -flags
• Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM
• Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)
• VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3
• SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)
• SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk
• SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs
• SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update
• iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection, fix negotiation of simparameters, fix command resend when the connection was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use phase collapse
• BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail (2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)
• PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)
• Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)
• HostOnly Network: fixed failure in CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface() on Linux (no GUID)
• HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly interface bringup on Linux
• HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris
• HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs #4698, #4790)
• DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address less than the configured range
• E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets
• E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM
• NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)
• NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)
• Bridged Network: fixed packet queue issue which might cause DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)
• Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting the right domain when logging in the first time
• Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems (like Korean, bug #3707)
• Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space
• Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests and hosts (bug #4712)
• Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)
• Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring a saved state (bug #4700)
• Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)
• SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)
• Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)

VirtualBox v3.0.4 [08-06-09]

VirtualBox 3.0.4 (released 2009-08-04)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: 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).

VirtualBox v3.0.2 [07-12-09]

VirtualBox 3.0.2 (released 2009-07-10)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343) VMM: guest SMP performance improvements VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security (VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778) VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868) ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348) APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression) BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236) OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452) NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330) 3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399) 3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595) Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows guest (bug #4381) X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344 X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727) Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests (for time synchronization and guest properties) Windows Additions: fixed version lookup Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335) Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388) Installer: support Pardus Linux Solaris hosts: several installer fixes Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328). Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978) OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware acceleration to be enabled for virtual machines that had no explicit configuration in the XML. VirtualBox 3.0.0 (released 2009-06-30)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 of the user manual) Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental; see chapter 4.8 of the user manual) Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826) Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under certain conditions Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264) VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only) VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don’t support this feature (most do); bug #638) VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927) VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227) VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040) VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due to XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only) VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only) GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo) GUI: redesigned settings dialogs GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters (non Windows hosts) GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export) GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157) 3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states 3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats 3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements 3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs 3D support: fixed glew library detection 3D support: fixed random textures corruption VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18 NAT: fixed “open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514” (forum) NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only) VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080) VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510) VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782) Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785) Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the correct file mode when creating files Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain conditions (bug #1187) Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on a Linux host (bug #3404) X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270) X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and guest property lookup Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users, basic network information) Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed) USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242). USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented web service. Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface inheritance correctly, fixed Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously unavailable Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now

VirtualBox v3.0.0 [07-01-09]

VirtualBox 3.0.0 (released 2009-06-30)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 of the user manual) Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental; see chapter 4.8 of the user manual) Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826) Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under certain conditions Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264) VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only) VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don’t support this feature (most do); bug #638) VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927) VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227) VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040) VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due to XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only) VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only) GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo) GUI: redesigned settings dialogs GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters (non Windows hosts) GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export) GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157) 3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states 3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats 3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements 3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs 3D support: fixed glew library detection 3D support: fixed random textures corruption VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18 NAT: fixed “open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514” (forum) NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only) VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080) VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510) VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782) Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785) Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the correct file mode when creating files Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain conditions (bug #1187) Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on a Linux host (bug #3404) X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270) X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and guest property lookup Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users, basic network information) Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed) USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242). USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented web service. Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface inheritance correctly, fixed Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously unavailable Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now

VirtualBox v2.2.4 [06-13-09]

VirtualBox 2.2.4 (released 2009-05-29)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during installation Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892) Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or later (bug #3981) Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during loopback (bug #3120) Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in VBoxManage list runningvms (bug #4034) Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged networking Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough disabled (bug #4077) Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse clicks Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in Windows 7 guests GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests that require this setting (bug #4055) VMM: fixed occassional crash due to insuffient memory VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests VMM: restore from a saved state occassionally failed (bugs #3984 and #2742) Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020) OVF: fixed potential hang during import OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts VBoxManage modifyhd --compact: fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption (bug #3864) VBoxManage metrics collect: now flushes the output stream. VHD: made VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid work for .vhd files (bug #3443) VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080) VMDK: fixed creating snapshots NAT: improvement of TCP connection establisment (bug #2987) NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091) NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692) NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity (bug #3964) Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows hosts (bug #4090) Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows hosts Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized e1000 adapter. Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes when using bridged mode with host’s interface having RX checksum offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX offloading as well (bug #3870) PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter. Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64 Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw file (bug #1023) VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update VirtualBox 2.2.2 (released 2009-04-27)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting hosts and guests running the X window system. Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5 and later. Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of running services Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server terminates Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693) Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not installed on the guest Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when unmounting a busy shared folder Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734) Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core (bug #2628) Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux hosts only, bug #3732) VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts (bug #3657) VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787) VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software virtualization only) Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff images, incorrect detection of redundant writes GUI: reworked network settings dialog GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT networks (bug #3702) GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression, bug #3689) GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only; bug #3679) GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only; bugs #3694, #3751, #3756) VBoxManage modifyhd --compact: implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths (bug #2180, #2833) VBoxManage snapshot discard: made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714) NAT: on some Windows host, the guest didn’t receive a DHCP lease (bug #3655) NAT: fixed release assertion during poll() (bug #3667) Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676) Clipboard: fixed random crahes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723) Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754) Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710) Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard VirtualBox 2.2.0 (released 2009-04-08)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55) Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.7, Host-only networking, User Manual page 88) Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only) Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), User Manual page 70) Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x, but don’t set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) VMM: properly emulate RDMSR from the TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests VMM: emulate RDPMC; fixes Windows guests crashes when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257) NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426) NAT: allow to configure the next server and the boot file via VBoxManage (bug #2759) IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518) Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size ESX server images) Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not writable USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and EHCI; the “VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate” CFG key is no longer necessary and no longer supported USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices (Windows hosts only; bug #1654) E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421) VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime Shared folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris hosts when creating files X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563) X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug #2306) Linux additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6 (bug #3555) Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the guest additions installer (bug #3524) Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the correct guest pointing device (bug #1324) Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host interface (bug #3414) Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104) Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh (bug #3586) Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux from Scratch systems Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains both (32- and 64-bit) architectures. VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages VBoxManage list vms commands now default to compact format VBoxManage controlvm dvdattach did not work if the image was attached before VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants VBoxManage showvminfo: don’t spam the release log if the additions don’t support statistics information (bug #3457) VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the next major release, so switch to the new options now Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at VM startup (related to bug #2772) GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar GUI: show build revision in about dialog GUI: fixed sticky status bar text GUI: improved error dialogs GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot a read-only disk image (bug #1745) GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0 regression; bug #2065) 3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920) 3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243) 3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437) PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug #2536) LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine (bug #3548)

VirtualBox v2.2.2 [05-04-09]

VirtualBox 2.2.2 (released 2009-04-27)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting hosts and guests running the X window system. Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5 and later. Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of running services Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server terminates Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693) Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not installed on the guest Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when unmounting a busy shared folder Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734) Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core (bug #2628) Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux hosts only, bug #3732) VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts (bug #3657) VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787) VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software virtualization only) Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff images, incorrect detection of redundant writes GUI: reworked network settings dialog GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT networks (bug #3702) GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression, bug #3689) GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only; bug #3679) GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only; bugs #3694, #3751, #3756) VBoxManage modifyhd --compact: implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths (bug #2180, #2833) VBoxManage snapshot discard: made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714) NAT: on some Windows host, the guest didn’t receive a DHCP lease (bug #3655) NAT: fixed release assertion during poll() (bug #3667) Clipboard: fixed random crahes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723) Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754) Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710) Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard VirtualBox 2.2.0 (released 2009-04-08)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55) Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.7, Host-only networking, User Manual page 88) Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only) Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), User Manual page 70) Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x, but don’t set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) VMM: properly emulate RDMSR from the TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests VMM: emulate RDPMC; fixes Windows guests crashes when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257) NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426) NAT: allow to configure the next server and the boot file via VBoxManage (bug #2759) IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518) Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size ESX server images) Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not writable USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and EHCI; the “VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate” CFG key is no longer necessary and no longer supported USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices (Windows hosts only; bug #1654) E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421) VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime Shared folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris hosts when creating files X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563) X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug #2306) Linux additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6 (bug #3555) Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the guest additions installer (bug #3524) Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the correct guest pointing device (bug #1324) Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host interface (bug #3414) Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104) Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh (bug #3586) Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux from Scratch systems Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains both (32- and 64-bit) architectures. VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages VBoxManage list vms commands now default to compact format VBoxManage controlvm dvdattach did not work if the image was attached before VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants VBoxManage showvminfo: don’t spam the release log if the additions don’t support statistics information (bug #3457) VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the next major release, so switch to the new options now Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at VM startup (related to bug #2772) GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar GUI: show build revision in about dialog GUI: fixed sticky status bar text GUI: improved error dialogs GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot a read-only disk image (bug #1745) GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0 regression; bug #2065) 3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920) 3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243) 3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437) PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug #2536) LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine (bug #3548)

VirtualBox v2.2.0 [04-13-09]

VirtualBox 2.2.0 (released 2009-04-08)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55) Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.7, Host-only networking, User Manual page 88) Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only) Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), User Manual page 70) Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x, but don’t set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) VMM: properly emulate RDMSR from the TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests VMM: emulate RDPMC; fixes Windows guests crashes when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257) NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426) NAT: allow to configure the next server and the boot file via VBoxManage (bug #2759) IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518) Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size ESX server images) Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not writable USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and EHCI; the “VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate” CFG key is no longer necessary and no longer supported USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices (Windows hosts only; bug #1654) E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421) VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime Shared folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris hosts when creating files X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563) X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug #2306) Linux additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6 (bug #3555) Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the guest additions installer (bug #3524) Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the correct guest pointing device (bug #1324) Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host interface (bug #3414) Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104) Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh (bug #3586) Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux from Scratch systems Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains both (32- and 64-bit) architectures. VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages VBoxManage list vms commands now default to compact format VBoxManage controlvm dvdattach did not work if the image was attached before VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants VBoxManage showvminfo: don’t spam the release log if the additions don’t support statistics information (bug #3457) VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the next major release, so switch to the new options now Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at VM startup (related to bug #2772) GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar GUI: show build revision in about dialog GUI: fixed sticky status bar text GUI: improved error dialogs GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot a read-only disk image (bug #1745) GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0 regression; bug #2065) 3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920) 3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243) 3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437) PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug #2536) LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine (bug #3548)

VirtualBox v2.1.4 [03-09-09]

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763) Windows hosts: Fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916) Windows hosts: Fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130) Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556) Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules (bug #3115) Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they don’t override existing system rules (bug #3143) Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces (bug #3215) Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if dbus or hal are not available (bug #3136) Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was disabled (bug #3098) Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had been started using sudo previously (bug #3270) Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests in parallel Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with software virtualization (bug #3245) GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256) GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action send the shutdown signal if the guest is currently not using ACPI GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296) API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087) VBoxHeadless: really don’t start X11 services (clipboard service, 3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199) NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200) NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110) NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257) NAT: don’t intercept TFTP packages with a destination address different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112) USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989) VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state synchronization (bug #3253) LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174) ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable) iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM 3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246) Windows Additions: fixed ERROR (e0000101) error during installation (bug #1923) Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders with 64 bit guests (bug #2225) Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change Windows Additions: fixed the Network drive not connected message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157) Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files in O_APPEND mode to a shared folder (bug #2844) Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212) Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1 (bug #3213) Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is configured for fixed resolutions Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)