Thu Aug 18 18:29:35 UTC 2016 - Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
- Version bump to 5.1.4 (released 2016-08-16 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: show actual VM uptime in the session information window
Audio: re-enabled speakers for Mac OS X guests (5.1.0 regression; bug #15611)
Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions
USB: fixed a hang under certain conditions
USB: fixed a hanging guest under certain conditions (bug #15747)
PIIX4: implemented dummy SMBus controller to prevent annoying Linux kernel warnings about uninitialized SMBus base address (bug #9517)
NVMe: several fixes to improve stability, fixed a crash while saving a VM state
VMDK: Fixed an issue creating fixed size images with certain sizes and the Split2G option enabled (bug #15748)
VHDX: fixed cloning images with VBoxManage clonehd (bug #14288)
Storage: Fixed broken bandwidth limitation when the limit is very low (bug #14982)
EFI: fixed sending debug messages in the EFI firmware if a serial port is enabled (bug #12161)
OVF: when importing appliances, make sure that the version of the embedded VirtualBox-specific settings is processed, to get the default settings handling right
VBoxManage: Don't try to set the medium type if there is no change (bug #13850)
Linux installer: fixed some scripting issues (bugs #15701 and #15702)
Linux installer: fixed a path issue on certain Linux distributions (bug #15717)
Windows hosts: fixed corrupted mouse pointers with some Linux and Solaris guests (bug #15665)
Linux Additions: made the video driver work on 32-bit guests with large video memory sizes (bug #15621)
Linux Additions: made the video driver work on kernel 4.7 and later (bug #15769)
Linux Additions: converted a failure message to an informational one when drivers could not be stopped during upgrade (bug #15692)
Linux Additions: made the video driver work around an X server bug which cause screen refresh to stop (bug #15511)
Windows Additions: auto-resizing fixes for Windows 10 guests (bug #15257)
Windows Additions: fixed VBoxTray problems with Windows 2000 (bug #15661)
- Other local changes:
"changeset_60565.diff" is removed - fixed in upstream.
"vbox-kernel47-cpu_has_pge.diff" -s removed - also fixed in upstream.
Fri Jul 22 00:49:00 UTC 2016 - luizluca@tre-sc.jus.br
- Version bump to 5.1.2 (released 2016-07-21 by Oracle)
New main capabilities in Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1 are:
Improved Performance: Significantly improved performance for multi-CPU virtual machines and networking.
Bug Reporting Tool: New utility able to collect all the information and logs related to the host and guest operating system, for debug or analysis purposes.
Improved Logging Window: New logging functionalities to highlight and filter information related to guest Virtual Machines.
Improved multimedia availability: Improved support for different USB devices and multi-channel audio availability.
Flash storage emulation: New NVMHCI storage controller emulation available, able to emulate NVME devices - Flash storage - on guest Virtual Machine.
Improved Linux integration: Automatic modules deployment in case of a Linux Kernel upgrade and improved systemd integration for the latest releases of popular Linux distributions.
- Drop drm-vboxvideo-Add-delayed-update-to-support-fbdev.patch, fixed upstream.
- Drop drm-vboxvideo-Initialize-data-needed-to-map-fbdev-memory.patch, fixed upstream.
- Drop vbox-4.7.patch, fixed upstream.
- vbox-permissions_warning.diff and vbox-usb-warning.diff updated to Qt5
VMM: fixed a bug in the task switching code (ticket #15571)
GUI: allow to overwrite an existing file when saving a log file (bug #8034)
GUI: fixed screenshot if the VM is started in separate mode
Audio: improved recording from USB headsets and other sources which might need conversion of captured data
Audio: fixed regression of not having any audio available on Solaris hosts
VGA: fixed an occasional hang when running Windows guests with 3D enabled
Storage: fixed a possible endless reconnect loop for the iSCSI backend if connecting to the target succeeds but further I/O requests cause a disconnect
Storage: fixed a bug when resizing certain VDI images which resulted in using the whole disk on the host (bug #15582)
EFI: fixed access to devices attached to SATA port 2 and higher (bug #15607)
API: fixed video recording with VBoxHeadless (bug #15443)
API: don't crash if there is no graphics controller configured (bug #15628)
VBoxSVC: fixed several memory leaks when handling .dmg images
Solaris hosts: fixed a crash on hosts with certain CPU configurations
Windows hosts: properly fall back to NDIS5 on pre-Vista hosts on silent installations
- Version bump to 5.0.24 (released 2016-06-28 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: reverted to the old I/O-APIC code for now to fix certain regressions with 5.0.22 (bug #15529). This means that the networking performance with certain guests will drop to the 5.0.20 level (bug #15295). One workaround is to disable GRO for Linux guests.
Main: when taking a screenshot, don't save garbage for blanked screens
NAT: correctly parse resolv.conf file with multiple separators (5.0.22 regression)
Storage: fixed a possible corruption of stream optimized VMDK images from VMware when opened in read/write mode for the first time
Audio: imlemented dynamic re-attaching of input/output devices on Mac OS X hosts
ACPI: notify the guest when the battery / AC state changes instead of relying on guest polling
Linux hosts: fixed VERR_VMM_SET_JMP_ABORTED_RESUME Guru Meditations on hosts with Linux 4.6 or later (bug #15439)
Mon Jun 20 16:18:19 UTC 2016 - Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
- Version bump to 5.0.22 (released 2016-06-16 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixes for certain Intel Atom hosts (bug #14915)
VMM: properly restore the complete FPU state for 32-bit guests on 64-bit hosts on Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs
VMM: new I/O-APIC implementation fixing several bugs and improving the performance under certain conditions (bug #15295 and others)
VMM: fixed a potential Linux guest panic on AMD hosts
VMM: fixed a potential hang with 32-bit EFI guests on Intel CPUs (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution)
GUI: don't allow to start subsequent separate VM instances
GUI: raised upper limit for video capture screen resolution (bug #15432)
GUI: warn if the VM has less than 128MB VRAM configured and 3D enabled
Main: when monitoring DNS configuration changes on Windows hosts avoid false positives from competing DHCP renewals. This should fix NAT link flaps when host has multiple DHCP configured interfaces, in particular when the host uses OpnVPN.
Main: properly display an error message if the VRDE server cannot be enabled at runtime, for example because another service is using the same port
NAT: Initialize guest address guess for wildcard port-forwarding rules with default guest address (bug #15412)
VGA: fix for a problem which made certain legacy guests crash under certain conditions (bug #14811)
ACPI: properly notify the guest if the ACPI battery state changed
OVF: fixed import problems for some appliances using an AHCI controller created by 3rd party applications
SDK: reduced memory usage in the webservice Java bindings
Linux hosts: EL 6.8 fix (bug #15411)
Linux hosts: Linux 4.7 fix (bug #15459)
Linux Additions: Linux 4.7 fixes (bug #15444)
Linux Additions: fix for certain 32-bit guests (5.0.18 regression; bug #15320)
Linux Additions: fixed mouse pointer offset (5.0.18 regression; bug #15324)
Linux Additions: made old X.Org releases work again with kernels 3.11 and later (5.0.18 regression; bug #15319)
Linux Additions: fixed X.Org crash after hard guest reset (5.0.18 regression; bug #15354)
Linux Additions: don't stop the X11 setup if loading the shared folders module fails (5.0.18 regression)
Linux Additions: don't complain if the Drag and Drop service is not available on the host
Solaris Additions: added support for X.org 1.18
Local openSUSE specific changes:
File "changeset_60565.diff" is no longer needced and has been removed.
Version bump to 5.0.20 (released 2016-04-28 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Storage: fixed a regression causing write requests from the BIOS to cause a Guru Meditation with the LsiLogic SCSI controller (5.0.18 regression; bug #15317)
Storage: several emulation fixes in the BusLogic SCSI controller emulation
NAT Network: support TCP in DNS proxy (same problem as in bug #14736 for NAT)
NAT: rework handling of port-forwarding rules (bug #13570)
NAT: rewrite host resolver to handle more query types and make it asynchronous so that a stalled lookup doesn't block all NAT traffic
Snapshots: don't crash when restoring a snapshot which has more network adapters than the current state (ie when the snapshot uses ICH9 and the current state uses PIIX3)
Guest Control: various bugfixes for the copyfrom and copyto commands / API (bug #14336)
VBoxManage: list processor features on list hostinfo (bug #15334)
Linux hosts: fix for Linux 4.5 if CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT is enabled (bug #15327)
Windows Additions: fixed performance issues with PowerPoint 2010 and the WDDM graphics drivers if Aero is disabled
Linux hosts: some fixes for PCI passthrough (still highly experimental)
Linux/Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM hang during startup under certain circumstances (bug #14933)
Linux Additions: prevent the compiler from doing dead-code elemination on vital code in guest / host communication (bug #14497)
Linux Additions: when mounting a shared folder, explicitly pass the share name so that /proc/mounts contains this name instead of 'none'
Linux Additions: workaround for a systemd problem in conjunction with SELinux which prevented to properly enable the 'vboxadd' service during while upgrading the Additions
GUI: fixed another 3D overlay window reparenting issue when the VM is switched to fullscreen mode on X11 hosts
GUI: fixed help index (bug #14722)
GUI: fixed state synchronization issue in the VM manager window when VM was paused from its runtime window
Audio: fixed suspending/resuming audio streams on VM pause/unpause (bug #14784)
Audio: properly reset AC97 audio streams, otherwise there is silence until a non-48 kHz stream is played
Audio: fixed a small emulation quirk of the AD1980 codec of the HDA device to make recent linux guests work (bug #14653)
USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller
USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions on hosts with Linux kernels older than version 3.3
USB: better identification of certain USB devices
NAT: support TCP in DNS proxy (bug #14736)
NAT Network: fixed sporadic crashes on Windows hosts (bug #13899)
API: when creating differencing images (e.g. as part of a snapshot or cloning a VM) use the same disk image variant as the parent image if possible, which means that e.g. a diff image for a VMDK image split into 2 GB files will also be split (bug #14764)
API: event queue handling fixes preventing loss of certain events at runtime (e.g. new webcam attached), particularly important on Mac OS X hosts
Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Windows hosts only)
VBoxManage: don't crash on snapshot restorecurrent / edit if the VM has no snapshots
VBoxManage: don't crash on controlvm addencpassword (bug #14729)
Mac OS X hosts: use the correct kernel on certain hosts
Windows hosts: fixed VRDP external authentication
Windows hosts: allow to use a shared folder path with extended-length path prefix (5.0 regression; bug #14651)
Windows hosts: fix a crash in the netfilter host driver under certain conditions (bug #14799)
Windows host installer: documented and fixed public properties which can be used to control the installation to some extent
Windows host installer: fixed not starting the actual installation when showing the version information or help dialogs
- Version bump to 5.0.8 (released 2015-10-20 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: Mac OS X: Restore green zoom button for VM windows (it was hidden in the previous release to avoid native full-screen issues). For Yosemite and El Capitan this button should work accordingly to the Apple HIG: Full-screen by default, maximize if the user holds the Option key.
Serial ports: fixed wrong IRQ number for the first serial port in the ACPI tables (5.0.6 regression; bug #14659)
API: fixed a 5.0 regression in VBoxManage setproperty defaultfrontend (bug #14696)
VBoxManage/vbox-img: conversion to RAW images could result in a disk image containing all zeroes
Linux hosts: several fixes for systemd integration in .deb / .rpm packages (e.g. bug #14665). The command for recompiling the host kernel modules was changed to /sbin/vboxconfig
Linux hosts: make host-only interfaces report operstate UP only when they have VMs attached (bug #14526)
Mac OS X hosts: fix bpf capture and accounting of traffic on bridged and host-only interfaces (bug #14553)
Windows guests: fixed 3D rendering issues on high resolution displays
Windows Additions: fixed problems with 3D acceleration on Windows hosts with Intel HD graphics (bug #14670)
Linux Additions: fix service starting on Debian systems with systemd installed but not in use (bug #14683)
- Version bump to 5.0.6 (released 2015-10-02 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: the update check now uses the HTTP system proxy settings by default
GUI: About dialog improvements. Copyable version text, do not close dialog on mouse-clicks and focus losing, explicit close button at the bottom of dialog and disabled close button fix on OS X. (bugs #9912, #12749)
GUI: fixed bug when re-assigning shortcuts (bug #14565)
GUI: fixed default focus button in message-box dialogs (bug #14486)
GUI: fixed settings dialog which is opened if the network settings need to be changed at VM startup (5.0.0 regression; bug #14601)
GUI: fixed crash during VM start if an early error message needs to be shown, for example Linux kernel modules not present (bug #14646)
Bridged Networking: fixed handling of guest DHCP requests without UDP checksum when bridging to a wireless interface (bug #14615)
Guest Control: correctly set USERNAME and USERPROFILE environment variables (Windows guests only)
Guest Control: several fixes
API: properly restore NAT port forwarding rules when reverting to a snapshot
Parallel ports: Several fixes allowing to enable two parallel ports for a VM
VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of debugvm show command
VBoxManage: fixed hang when specifying logging groups with debugvm log starting with h, for example hex
Windows hosts: renamed VBoxStartup.log to VBoxHardening.log and provide this log file in the GUI log viewer
Windows hosts: fixed a small memory leak in the Windows host interface driver (VBoxNetAdp) which caused a BSOD if the driver verifier is enabled (bug #14562)
Windows hosts: fixed a failure to start VMs on hosts where dsound.dll is not available (bug #14574)
Windows hosts: another fix for VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE errors (bug #14579)
Windows hosts: fixed host-to-guest communication with bridged networking (bugs #14326, #14457)
Windows hosts: fixed broken data receiving from the serial device with the named pipe backend if Kaspersky AV is installed
Linux hosts: Linux 4.3 compile fixes
Linux hosts: installer fix for certain systems (bug #14627)
Linux hosts / guests: native systemd support for the host/guest installer scripts. The scripts for re-compiling the kernel modules are now located at /sbin/rcvboxdrv (host) and /sbin/rcvboxadd (Guest Additions)
Mac OS X hosts: GUI-related fixes for El Capitan
Mac OS X hosts: fixed a problem with capturing USB devices under El Capitan
Mac OS X hosts: allow colon character on shared folders (bug #14554)
Linux Additions: properly set the VBoxService process ID in the PID file (bug #14571)
Linux Additions: Guest Control fixes (bug #14573)
Windows Additions: fixed shutting down VBoxTray when running with older VirtualBox host versions
Windows Additions: fixed video playback with VLC and Windows Media Player when the WDDM driver is used and 3D is not used
Windows Additions: prevent a possible VLC crash when the WDDM driver is used and 3D is enabled by implementing YV12 surfaces
- Drop vbox-32bit-build-error.diff, fixed upstream
Sun Feb 15 20:40:46 UTC 2015 - zaitor@opensuse.org
- Update to version 4.3.22:
+ 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.
+ Windows 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
+ 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)
Mon Oct 13 16:11:00 UTC 2014 - renda.krell@gmail.com
- update to version 4.3.18:
== since 3.4.16 ==
+ 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)
+ 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)
== since 4.3.14 ==
+ 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: 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/
- removed virtualbox-xserver-116.patch, already available upstream
+ 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
+ VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers on certain host CPUs (e.g. bugs #12734, #12736, #12744, #12748, #12686, #12770)
+ VMM: fixed single-stepping for real-mode guests (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution) and some I/O instructions (bug #12636)
+ VMM: fixed a potential problem with COW pages if nested paging is not available
+ GUI: Mac OS X: experimental native full screen support for Mountain Lion and Mavericks (bug #12292)
+ GUI: Mac OS X: removed the mini-toolbar minimize button which doesn't work under Mac OS X full screen mode anyway
+ GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows and Mac OS X hosts: fixed keyboard re-synchronization if the feature is disabled (as done by default; bug #12758)
+ GUI: fixed a potential crash when opening the preferences menu (bug #12862)
+ OVF: fixed a crash of the VirtualBox Manager when re-starting guest export (bug #12586)
+ 3D support: several fixes
+ HGCM: fixed a problem with saved states which could cause several guest misbehavior after a VM was started from a saved state
+ Storage: fixed a bug preventing to compact differential snapshots under certain conditions
+ VBoxSVC: fixed a segmentation fault on Linux hosts if a very long path exists under /dev (bug #12760)
+ API: fixed guest misbehavior under certain conditions if a storage medium was attached or removed at VM runtime
+ Windows installer: make the --silent parameter work again (bug #12764)
+ Linux Additions: install correctly on Ubuntu guest systems with a /usr/lib64 directory (bug #12513)
+ X11 Additions: fix for the VBoxClient process not exiting correctly (bug #12348) and consuming too much processor time
- Refresh virtualbox-xserver-116.patch to xorg-server-1.15.99.902 with
x.org video driver protocol version 17.0
- Set mode of /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox to 4750 to match /etc/permissions.easy
as newly complained by chkstat (due to ro's change)
+ 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: 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)
+ 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)
+ 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)
- For more changes see https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
* 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
* VMM: another TLB invalidation fix for non-present pages
* VMM: fixed a performance regression (4.2.8 regression; bug #11674)
* GUI: fixed a crash on shutdown
* GUI: prevent stuck keys under certain conditions on Windows hosts (bugs #2613, #6171)
* VRDP: fixed a rare crash on the guest screen resize
* VRDP: allow to change VRDP parameters (including enabling/disabling the server) if the VM is paused
* USB: fixed passing through devices on Mac OS X host to a VM with 2 or more virtual CPUs (bug #7462)
* USB: fixed hang during isochronous transfer with certain devices (4.1 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #11839)
* USB: properly handle orphaned URBs (bug #11207)
* BIOS: fixed function for returning the PCI interrupt routing table (fixes NetWare 6.x guests)
* BIOS: don't use the ENTER / LEAVE instructions in the BIOS as these don't work in the real mode as set up by certain guests (e.g. Plan 9 and QNX 4)
* DMI: allow to configure DmiChassisType (bug #11832)
* Storage: fixed lost writes if iSCSI is used with snapshots and asynchronous I/O (bug #11479)
* Storage: fixed accessing certain VHDX images created by Windows 8 (bug #11502)
* Storage: fixed hang when creating a snapshot using Parallels disk images (bug #9617)
* 3D: seamless + 3D fixes (bug #11723)
* 3D: version 4.2.12 was not able to read saved states of older versions under certain conditions (bug #11718)
* Main/Properties: don't create a guest property for non-running VMs if the property does not exist and is about to be removed (bug #11765)
* Main/Properties: don't forget to make new guest properties persistent after the VM was terminated (bug #11719)
* Main/Display: don't lose seamless regions during screen resize
* Main/OVF: don't crash during import if the client forgot to call Appliance::interpret() (bug #10845)
* Main/OVF: don't create invalid appliances by stripping the file name if the VM name is very long (bug #11814)
* Main/OVF: don't fail if the appliance contains multiple file references (bug #10689)
* Main/Metrics: fixed Solaris file descriptor leak
* Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes
* VBoxManage: fixed setting the parent UUID on diff images using sethdparentuuid
* Linux hosts: work around for not crashing as a result of automatic NUMA balancing which was introduced in Linux 3.8 (bug #11610)
* Windows installer: force the installation of the public certificate in background (i.e. completely prevent user interaction) if the --silent command line option is specified
* Windows Additions: fixed problems with partial install in the unattended case
* Windows Additions: fixed display glitch with the Start button in seamless mode for some themes
* Windows Additions: Seamless mode and auto-resize fixes
* Windows Additions: fixed trying to to retrieve new auto-logon credentials if current ones were not processed yet
* Windows Additions installer: added the /with_wddm switch to select the experimental WDDM driver by default
* Linux Additions: fixed setting own timed out and aborted texts in information label of the lightdm greeter
* Linux Additions: fixed compilation against Linux 3.2.0 Ubuntu kernels (4.2.12 regression as a side effect of the Debian kernel build fix; bug #11709)
* X11 Additions: reduced the CPU load of VBoxClient in drag'and'drop mode
* OS/2 Additions: made the mouse wheel work (bug #6793)
* 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
* VMM: fixed guest crash with huge amount of guest RAM on VT-x hosts (bug #11306)
* GUI: fixed a layout bug in the Mac OS X clone VM dialog (bug #10982)
* GUI: not all the translation tags were taken into account during the language switch (bug #11342)
* GUI: take guest screenshot dialog sometimes had no keyboard input available on Windows host
* Main/Machine: fix generation of spurious event for inaccessible VMs which triggered an endless event generation loop in cooperation with the GUI which became unresponsive (4.2.6 regression, bug #11323)
* Main/Display: fix for an access violation under certain conditions in multi-monitor configurations (bug #10539)
* Main/Metrics: network metrics are now collected for active (up) interfaces only, the state of an interface being evaluated when the associated metric is enabled via setupMetrics
* Snapshots: reduce the time for merging snapshots under certain conditions
* Storage: fixed data corruption after resizing a VDI image under certain circumstances (bug #11344)
* Storage: fixed non working online merging of snapshots (4.2.6 regression, bug #11359)
* Storage: fixed crash when connecting to certain QNAP iSCSI targets
* Storage: fixed incompatibility of VHD differencing images with Hyper-V (bug #5990)
* 3D support: fix Battlefield 1942 game crashes (bug #11369)
* Settings: really sanitize the name of VM folders and settings file, the code was disabled before (bug #10549)
* Settings: allow to change VRDE settings for saved VMs
* VBoxManage: don't crash during screenshotpng if there is no display (bug #11363)
* Linux hosts: work around gcc bug 55940 which might lead to wrong kernel module code if gcc 4.7 is used to compile the 32-bit Linux host kernel (bug #11035)
* Linux hosts: fixed inconsistent lock state and deadlock warnings on module load and VM startup when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is enabled (bug #11318)
* Linux hosts: made "]" key work again on Japanese keyboards
* Mac OS X hosts: don't crash the kernel during dtrace if the VBox kernel extensions are loaded (10.6 hosts only; bug #11273)
* Solaris / Mac OS X hosts: machine CPU load metrics now report 100% when all cores are fully utilized (used to be a single core)
* Solaris 11 host installer: wait for any services left over from a previous installation to be terminated to avoid confusing SMF.
* Guest Additions: don't block signals for processes executed via guest control
* Guest Additions: fixed a small memory leak in VBoxService (bug #10970)
* Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issue with large reads/writes on 64 bit Windows guests (bug #11115)
* Linux Additions: Linux 3.8 compile fixes (bug #11036)
* X11 Additions: fixed blocked SIGALRM in 3D desktop sessions (bug #10987)
* X11 Additions: fixed an unresolved reference in vboxvideo_drv for X.org 6.8 guests and before (e.g. RHEL4; 4.2.0 regression)
* 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)
* 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
- update to virtualbox 4.1.16 (This is a maintenance release)
* VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_ACCESS_DENIED with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)
* VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)
* VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution only; bug #9941)
* VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP guests in rare cases
* 3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash
* NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some circumstances (bug #10527)
* Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to 128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for Solaris and Windows hosts)
* VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)
* Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some reason (bug #6189)
* Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible
* VBoxManage: fixed controlvm savestate if the VM is already paused
* Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3 (bug #10267)
* Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes
* Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages (bug #10418)
* Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables during VBoxManage guestcontrol execute (bug #10581)
* Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)
* Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better to miss some features than providing a blank screen)
* Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12
- added vbox-gsoap_ssl.diff to fix building websrv with ssl support
- drop deprecated kernel-3.3.patch
- update to virtualbox 4.1.10 (This is a maintenance release):
* GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason, do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox
* VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during SYSEXIT right after STI
* VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page fusion
* VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages
* Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address and network mask attributes
* Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations (bug #10030)
* 3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression; bugs #10071 and #10088)
* 3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics
* 3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)
* 3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167), make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes
* VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients
* Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)
* iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)
* Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions (non-Windows hosts only)
* SDK: actually ship current C bindings
* SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)
* SDK: added Python example
* Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs
* Web service: added SSL/TLS support
* VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup
* Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox in a zone
* Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes
* Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data (bug #9651)
* Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion
* Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug #10010)
* Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)
* Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a memory mapped file on a shared folder
* Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12
* Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)
- dropped vbox-VBE_DISPI_INDEX_ENABLE.diff and vbox-disable_vboxpci_build.diff
- update to virtualbox 4.1.6
* 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
* Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853): 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
* Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available with VBoxManage
* 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
* 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, 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
* 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)
* 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
* Resource control: added support for limiting a VM’s CPU time and IO bandwidth
* Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and Parallels images
* Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images.
* 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:
Bug Fixes:
* 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
* Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup (bug #6832)
* BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer guests
* LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances
* Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs without external tools and tricks (see here for a short explanation)
* Shared folders: several fixes and performance enhancements for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)
* Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations
* Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)
* Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on shutdown
* RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability fixes
* Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
* Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)
* VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly in subcommand openmedium disk (bug #6751)
* Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
* Web service: added timestamps to logging output
* Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII
* X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)
* Shared folders: renamed the guest kernel module from vboxvfs to vboxsf to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel. Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04
* 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)
* 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
* 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)
* 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)
* 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 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)
* VMM: fixed regression that broke disk access in OS/2 and OpenBSD guests (possibly much more)
* VMM: fixed crashes if memory allocation failed (Linux)
* VMM: fixed enabling of Local APIC on AMD hosts (fixed Ubuntu Feisty installation kernel hang during boot)
* VMM: fixed XFree86 4.3 (Debian/Sarge) segfaults when switching to text mode
* VMM: refuse to start when KVM is active (Linux Host)
* VMM: fixed bootup hangs with ReactOS
* VMM: fixed out-of-memory errors under certain environments with enough appropriate memory available
* API: fixed occassional crashes of the VBoxSVC server during VM shutdown (Linux host)
* API: some components were not notified when mounting a CD/DVD
* VMDK: improve geometry compatibility with existing VDMK images
* IDE/Floppy: optionally make non-available host device non-fatal
* IDE: improve emulation accuracy of the IRQ line between master and slave drive
* IDE: guest could freeze when unmounting the CD/DVD drive
* VGA: several text mode fixes in particular with Windows DOS boxes
* USB: fixed some issues with Windows hosts
* USB: fixed race condition between udev and USB filters (Linux host)
* Shared Folders: reversed network provider order to increase mapping performance (Windows guest)
* Shared Folders: browsable from Windows Explorer (Windows guests)
* Shared Folders: stability fixes (Windows guest)
* Shared Folders: case sensitivity fixes (Windows guest and Linux host)
* Audio: fall back to the NULL audio driver if no voice could be opened
* NAT: fixed crash
* Guest Additions: reworked the shared clipboard for Linux hosts and guests based on user feedback about problems with individual applications
* Guest Additions: don't allow to disable mouse pointer integration for Linux guests as an Xorg hardware mouse cursor cannot be turned into a software mouse cursor
* Guest Additions: Linux guests shipping Xorg 1.3 (e.g. Fedora 7, Ubuntu Gutsy) are now supported
* Guest Additions: added DirectDraw support to the Windows display driver
