VirtualBox 7.0.16

VirtualBox 4.2.16 (released 2013-07-04)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• OVF/OVA: don't crash on import if no manifest is used (4.2.14 regression; bug #11895)
• GUI: do not restore the current snapshot if we power-off after a Guru Mediation
• Storage: fixed a crash when hotplugging an empty DVD drive to the VM
• Storage: fixed a crash when a guest read from a DVD drive attached to the SATA controller under certain circumstances
• EFI: don't fail with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #11456)
• Autostart: fixed VM startup on OS X
• Windows hosts: native Windows 8 controls
• Windows hosts: restore native style on Vista 32
• Windows hosts / guests: Windows 8.1 adaptions (bug #11899)
• Mac OS X hosts: after removing VirtualBox with VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool, remove it from the pkgutil --pkgs list as well

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

VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code and the AMD-V code including many bug fixes and performance improvements (for example bug #9659)
VMM: introduced a lightweight instruction interpreter for situations not handled by hardware virtualization
GUI: extended messaging mechanism (new non-modal popup overlays used to show non-critical warnings and provide user with additional information)
GUI: keyboard shortcuts management (input page of global preferences extended with possibility to edit general keyboard shortcuts for VirtualBox Manager and Virtual Machine)
GUI: video capturing support (bug #4766)
Added USB touch device emulation
Added experimental support for webcam passthrough complementing USB passthrough (see the manual for more information)
Added SCSI CD-ROM emulation, including boot support
VRDP: support for IPv6
Guest Control: guest sessions now are running in dedicated, impersonated session processes (needs at least Guest Additions 4.3 installed)
Guest Control: implemented IGuestFile support
NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are attached to the same internal network and share one NAT service (see the manual for more information)

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

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

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Extension Pack
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This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
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)
Mac OS X Networking: prevent local traffic (VM-to/from-host) from leaking to wire (bug #12750)
Windows Additions: fixed the environment for guest processes (4.3.8 regression; bug #12782)
Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed divide by zero exception with multiple guest screens under certain conditions
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

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

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VirtualBox 4.3.16 (released 2014-09-09)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• VMM: fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs
• GUI: properly restore normal/scale mode guest-screen size after exiting full-screen/seamless mode
• GUI: mini-toolbar should provoke less artifacts/conflicts with 3D guest rendering
• GUI: Mac OS X: Native full-screen multi-screen transition was able to blackout host-screens for nearly minute
• GUI: X11: Modern window managers should now use native full-screen multi-screen mapping API
• GUI: added extradata item for configuring the mouse capture behavior, see the manual for more information
• Storage: fixed a VBoxSVC crash when querying an iSCSI target with authentication configured
• 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
• 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
• NAT: don't let multicast datagrams out
• NAT: fixed handling of large incoming UDP datagrams on Windows hosts
• 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
• 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
• Windows hosts: fixed 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people
• X11 hosts: made the extra key on Brazilian Thinkpads work
• X11 hosts: fixed a problem of input focus cycles and immediately released key presses in full screen mode
• Linux hosts: fixed flooding the kernel log with USB related messages when passing through certain USB devices to a VM
• Linux guests: stop applications crashing when drm_wait_vblank is called
• Linux guests: fix a crash in gnome-session
• X11 guests: do not start VBoxClient over an SSH connection
• X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.16
• X11 guests: fixed a wrong parameter in the video driver which caused problems with full-screen X11 clients
• VirtualKD: introduced stub/loader device for speeding up Windows kernel debugging, details see

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This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• 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
• GUI: X11: fixed full-screen mode Unity panels quirk caused by mini-toolbar code changes in last release
• 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
• GUI: Mac OS X: fixed full-screen mode artifact causing black screen when 3D acceleration was enabled on 10.10 Yosemite hosts
• 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
• 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
• Storage: fixed broken iSCSI authentication
• NAT Network: properly parse port forwarding rules to allow UDP rules
• USB: fixed a crash on Linux hosts with older Linux kernels and several other fixes
• ACPI: fixed ACPI timer anomalies
• Guest Control: fixed a memory leak
• Main: when removing a VM, do also remove the VBoxStartup.log file which might exist on Windows hosts
• Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting
• Windows hosts: propagate the process startup information to the child process
• Mac OS X hosts: don't force using the discrete GPU
• 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

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This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• 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
• 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
• ATA: fixed several passthrough issues
• Audio: fixed DirectSound failure when the the host has no audio input device
• SB16: fixed compatibility issue
• Storage: fixed broken CD/DVD passthrough when using the IDE controller
• NAT: new ping proxy for Windows hosts
• NAT: Properly report outbound connect(2) failures to guest with TCP RST or ICMP
• NAT Network: no need for frequent wakeups in VBoxNetDHCP and VBoxNetNAT
• Host-only adapter: prevent Windows from creating an "Unidentified network"
• Bridged Networking: don't leak host-to-guest traffic to the wireless network when bridging to a wireless interface
• Main: fixed a possible race when changing the medium leading to a deadlock under rare conditions
• VBoxManage: fixed return code if starting a VM failed
• API: fixed 2 deadlock opportunities related to medium handling
• API: fixed bug in XPCOM which created too few worker threads, sporadically resulting in a deadlock
• SDK: fixed a garbage collection leak in the Python VirtualBox webservice API binding
• Linux hosts: fixes for activated SMAP
• X11 guests: prevent unwanted hiding of guest screens on multi-monitor guests
• 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
• 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
• Linux Additions: Linux 3.19 fixes

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