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Virtualbox - 3.1.2

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Documentation: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Documentation.

Changelog - This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog.

Requirements:
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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VirtualBox - 3.1.4

What's new in this version:
VMM: SMP stability fixes
VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases [bug #5968]
VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests [VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits hosts only; bug #3578]
VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)
VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state (bug #3945)
VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels (software virtualization only; bug #6100)
VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x and AMD-V only)
VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only)
VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when teleporting; to get the old behavior set "VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0
VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software virtualization only; bug #5399)
Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)
Saved state: fixed VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH error when loading DisplayScreenshot(bug #6162)
VBoxManage: add restorecurrent operation to snapshots command
VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070
GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine XML when a machine is inaccessible
GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)
GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)
GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices
GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts (KWin bug)
3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text relocation (bug #5690)
3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)
3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)
3D support: fixed ubigraph_server crashes (#4674)
3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests
Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen resolution (bug #5655)
NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only; bug #5787)
NAT: fixed handling of the broadcast flag in DHCP requests
NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code (bug #3217)
Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid range (bug #5923)
LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests
ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)
VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)
VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)
Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from config file (bug #5681)
Shared folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux (3.1.2 regression)
VRDP: fixed VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)
VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1 regression)
PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)
USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)
BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)
OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors
OVF: do not require write access the the .ovf file during import (3.1 regression; bug #5762)
iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (#5849)
Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)
Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility
Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)
Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)
Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)
Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning !VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)
Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests
Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues
X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid (bug #5731)
XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode again.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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VirtualBox - 3.1.6

What's new in this version:
Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels 2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)
Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)
Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network interfaces under certain circumstances
Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain circumstances (bug #6023)
Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE
VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)
VMM: improved guest SMP stability
VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)
VMM: fixed PGMDynMapHCPage guru meditation (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)
VMM: fixed pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt guru meditations (Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)
VMM: Fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771).
GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)
GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188 )
3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598 )
3D support: fixed host crashes when using GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array and array element calls (bug #6165)
3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs (bug #5297)
3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup (bug #4962)
NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful connection termination was broken (bug #6237)
NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent (bug #6176)
NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under certain circumstances
Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal network while a VM is running (bug #5781)
VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB
USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)
USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances (bug #3571)
VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB devices
ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter (Linux hosts only; bug #2836)
PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions (3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)
BIOS: increased space for DMI strings
BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations (I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098 )
iSCSI: be more robust when handling the INQUIRY response
iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data
BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests
webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded
Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for Host-only interface (bug #4590)
Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)
Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)
Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12 guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198 )
Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)
Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)
Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)
Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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VirtualBox - 3.1.8

Changelog: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog.

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during early boot (software virtualization only; bug #5457)
VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation
VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled
VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging only)
GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates to the guest (3.1.6 regression)
GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the interface version
GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the slot empty
GUI: added --seamless and --fullscreen command line switches (bug #4220)
GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances
2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208 )
LsiLogic: Fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when using the drivers from LSI
ATA: Fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)
Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are attached
Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and simparavirtualized adapters (bug #6519)
NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)
SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when booting from SCSI devices
VBoxManage: fixed modifyvm --natnet default
Solaris Hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might fail to initialize
Solaris Hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking
Shared folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files (Linux guests only; bug #4890)
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
Shared folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only).
Shared folders: fixed deleting directories recursively (Solaris guests only; bug #6513)
Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain older X11 guests (bug #5840)
Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies (bug #6435)
Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)
Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver (bug #6488 )
SDK: fixed memory leak in IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow() (bug #6549)
3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)
VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug #5227)
Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)
webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings (bug #5657)
Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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VirtualBox - 3.2.0

Changelog: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, the product is now called Oracle VM VirtualBox and all references were changed without impacting compatibility
Experimental support for Mac OS X guests (see the manual for more information)
Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the manual for more information)
Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts (see the manual for more information)
CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see the manual for more information)
New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance (see the manual for more information); also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster, which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)
Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running
Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows guests (see the manual for more information)
USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no Guest Additions are available (see the manual for more information).
LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see the manual for more information)
RDP video acceleration (see the manual for more information)
NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage
Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see the manual for more information)
Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications from the host system (replaces the automatic system presimparation feature; see the manual for more information)
OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings that are not part of the base OVF standard
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large amount of RAM (bug #5800)
Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added
GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new VM
GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)
GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and #1669)
GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug #6442)
Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy medium is not accessible
Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files
Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for audio input (bug #5869)
Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug #3106)
Mac OS X: Moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure it.
Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu
3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)
3D support: fixed VM crashes when using ARB_IMAGING (bug #6014)
3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598 )
3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support
3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support
3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)
3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz
Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)
OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller in VirtualBox
OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace alphabetically as prescribed by standard
VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for VirtualBox
Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)
VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition VMDK (bugs #688, #4438 )

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VirtualBox - 3.2.2

Changelog:http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)
VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)
VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728 )
GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual state
GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration
GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)
GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open
GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings
GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu
GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs
VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)
SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances
SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken
Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O
Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM (bug #6784)
Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests
Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing
HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were accessing a non-existing HGCM service
Teleportation: several fixes
Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default
USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows host only
Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the probability for loosing bytes during transmission (bug #1548 )
NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)
NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)
NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four (non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098 )
NAT: fixed DNS transaction id mismatch (bug #6833)
VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime
Bridged Networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)
Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748 )
Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature
Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default
Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration (bug #6714)
Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice.
OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)
OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files
3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit apps on windows guests
3D support: fixed various host crashes (#2954, #5713, #6443)

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VirtualBox - 3.2.4

Changelog: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: fixed a superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11 (improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)
Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)
Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with growing images (3.2.0 regression)
Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests
3D support: allow use of CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH again (bug #6864)
3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest applications (bug #5236)
3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup
OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation) (3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)
VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759).