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15 Change log • Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash • Mouse: don’t send relative mouse events together with absolute mouse events (3.2.10 regression bug #7571) • Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation fixes for Koran keyboards • Serial: don’t hang if the host device would block during open (bugs #5756, #5380) • Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only bug #812) • Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047 requires Guest Additions update). • USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only bug #6983, #7158, #7733 version 3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix) • USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409 Windows hosts only) • “iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid being discon- nected if the guest is idle • 3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659) • 3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848) • 3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195) • 2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM state (bug #4124) • Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601) • Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection • Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types (bug #2996) • Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649) • Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes • Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS is not installed (bug #7572) • Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705) • Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating user accounts for VM information 15.5 Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: • VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386 (3.2.8 regression) • VMM: stability fix (bug #7342) • VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300) 189

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15 Change log • Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash • Mouse: don’t send relative mouse events together with absolute mouse events (3.2.10 regression bug #7571) • Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation fixes for Koran keyboards • Serial: don’t hang if the host device would block during open (bugs #5756, #5380) • Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only bug #812) • Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047 requires Guest Additions update). • USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only bug #6983, #7158, #7733 version 3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix) • USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409 Windows hosts only) • “iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid being discon- nected if the guest is idle • 3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659) • 3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848) • 3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195) • 2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM state (bug #4124) • Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601) • Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection • Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types (bug #2996) • Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649) • Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes • Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS is not installed (bug #7572) • Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705) • Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating user accounts for VM information 15.5 Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: • VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386 (3.2.8 regression) • VMM: stability fix (bug #7342) • VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300) 189

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15 Change log • 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 15.4 Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: • VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #7577) • VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs triggered by active perfor- mance counters (Linux hosts in non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only bug #4529) • VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586) • VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages • VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU • Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while the VM is running • GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when starting from a saved state • NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression bugs #6918, #7353) • NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299) • Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000 • VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration 188

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15 Change log • 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 15.4 Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: • VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #7577) • VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs triggered by active perfor- mance counters (Linux hosts in non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only bug #4529) • VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586) • VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages • VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU • Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while the VM is running • GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when starting from a saved state • NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression bugs #6918, #7353) • NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299) • Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000 • VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration 188

15 Change log • VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts • VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with nested paging (bug #7544) • VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than 2GB RAM (bug #6928) • GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt (Linux/Solaris hosts only 3.2.0 regression bug #6758) • GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar (bug #4952) • GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression bug #6122) • GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard • GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known to have the asyn- chronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed (Linux hosts only) • OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default • Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI images (3.2.6 regression bug #7294) • Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289) • Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was canceled • IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs • SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests • SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better • iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection • VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain circumstances (bug #7291) • VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes • Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown (Linux hosts only) • NAT: don’t check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering a file via bootp (bug #7384) • NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138) • NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load (non-Windows hosts only) • VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966) • VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain circumstances • USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some printers • USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465) • VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to hangs if the VM could not be started successfully 190

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15 Change log • VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts • VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with nested paging (bug #7544) • VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than 2GB RAM (bug #6928) • GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt (Linux/Solaris hosts only 3.2.0 regression bug #6758) • GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar (bug #4952) • GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression bug #6122) • GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard • GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known to have the asyn- chronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed (Linux hosts only) • OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default • Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI images (3.2.6 regression bug #7294) • Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289) • Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was canceled • IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs • SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests • SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better • iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection • VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain circumstances (bug #7291) • VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes • Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown (Linux hosts only) • NAT: don’t check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering a file via bootp (bug #7384) • NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138) • NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load (non-Windows hosts only) • VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966) • VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain circumstances • USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some printers • USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465) • VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to hangs if the VM could not be started successfully 190

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