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Changelog for virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-4.0.12_3.0.74_34-0.58.1.i586.rpm :
Sat Jul 30 14:00:00 2011 msebenAATTgmail.com
- update to VirtualBox 4.0.12 ( bnc#708271 fix CVE-2011-2300 and CVE-2011-2305)
- see changelog for more info http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-4.0

Thu Mar 24 13:00:00 2011 lnusselAATTsuse.de
- fix build on 11.4

Thu Mar 17 13:00:00 2011 msebenAATTgmail.com
- fix missing permissions handling of VBoxNetDHCP (bnc#679785)
- fix permissions handling for virtualbox-qt subpackage

Wed Mar 9 13:00:00 2011 crrodriguezAATTopensuse.org
- fix requires sysvinit(syslog)

Fri Feb 18 13:00:00 2011 msebenAATTgmail.com
- update to VirtualBox 4.0.4 (maintenance release)

* VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions (bugs #8255, #8319 and further)

* VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)

* VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)

* VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots (bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)

* GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum number of host network interfaces

* GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing snapshot (bug #8145)

* GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)

* GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in the users home directory (bug #8017)

* ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)

* VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID (4.0 regression; bug #8342)

* VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused

* VBoxManage: fixed modifyvm --synthcpu (bug #6577)

* VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit and displaying process status on exit (bug #8235)

* VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during guestcontrol execute –wait-for exit/stdout while waiting for the guest process to terminate (bug #7872)

* VBoxManage: fixed list hostdvds/hostfloppies

* VBoxManage: fixed storageattach for host DVD drives and host floppy drives

* Metrics: introduced RAM/VMM base metric.

* Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot (bug #7966)

* Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start

* Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)

* Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)

* Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium attachments (bug #8129)

* Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)

* Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)

* Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)

* Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)

* NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)

* ACPI: don’t allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don’t announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)

* Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode (bug #8122)

* Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)

* ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume

* BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs

* Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission (bug #1548)

* Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes

* Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)

* Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap

* X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart (bug #8231)

* X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha.

* X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login.

* X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older VirtualBox versions can’t handle.

* Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if a host link is not readable (bug #8185)

* Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS) with VBoxGINA
- droppped deprecated vbox-2.6.38.patch

Tue Feb 8 13:00:00 2011 cshorlerAATTgooglemail.com
- The python package isn\'t installed correctly, and contains an
unnecessary shared library due to a build / config bug. It is
also missing pre-compiled python (pyc).
- added vbox-python-detection.diff and vbox-xpcom-kmk.diff

Mon Jan 31 13:00:00 2011 cshorlerAATTgooglemail.com
- Minor packaging fixes

* ExtPack: add missing host helper util (VBoxExtPackHelper)

* Config.kmk: patch for VNC (removed from spec), documentation path (fixes GUI), combine with existing rpath diff

* spec: migrate VNC echo to patch, fix desktop file overwrite issue / bug

Thu Jan 27 13:00:00 2011 cristian.rodriguezAATTopensuse.org
- Fix build in 2.6.38 kernels.

Wed Jan 26 13:00:00 2011 cristian.rodriguezAATTopensuse.org
- Fix one more build date in binaries that causes unneeded
republish of binaries.

Wed Jan 19 13:00:00 2011 msebenAATTgmail.com
- disable setup parameter for init scripts

Wed Jan 19 13:00:00 2011 msebenAATTgmail.com
- updated to VirtualBox 4.0.2

* GUI: don\'t crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM settings vanished

* GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)

* GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be created (bug #8031)

* GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests

* ExtPack: don’t make the installer helper application suid root (Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)

* ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing an extension pack

* ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name during installing an extension pack (bug #7917)

* ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts

* VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)

* VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent host-only interface

* Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots and async I/O (4.0 regression)

* Storage: don’t eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is detached from a VM (bug #5825)

* Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an ATAPI device (bug #6597)

* Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or power off (4.0 regression)

* Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging to devices with no TX queue

* NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)

* E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)

* Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux guests

* ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)

* VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)

* Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)

* Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid logging string (4.0 regression)

* Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing a VM start

* Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in machine paths (bug #8024)

* Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented (bug #6067)

* Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment

* Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was not saved to machine XML

* OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug #7983)

* rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug #7981)

* Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration.

* Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0 regression)

* Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)

* Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports unlocking previously locked workstations

Fri Jan 14 13:00:00 2011 msebenAATTgmail.com
- reworked vbox-disable-updates.diff for virtualbox 4.0.0
- modified virtualbox-60-vboxdrv.rules : added comment with udev
rules inside for assign full usb access to vboxusers - don\'t
uncomment these lines if you don\'t understand possible security
risk (bnc#664520)

Wed Jan 12 13:00:00 2011 msebenAATTgmail.com
- fix typo in spec file, which breaks loading of vboxsf kernel
module on guest

Wed Jan 5 13:00:00 2011 msebenAATTgmail.com
- fix rcvboxdrv setup - we disallow building of kernel modules from sources
- added rcvboxdrv, rcvboxadd files
- fix build fail: \"Out of memory: Kill process\" : use \"-j1\" for kmk to disable parallel build
- fix build for older distros

Fri Dec 31 13:00:00 2010 msebenAATTgmail.com
- added vbox-smc-napa.diff to fix build

Thu Dec 30 13:00:00 2010 tejas.guruswamyAATTopensuse.org
- Use xserver 1.9 additions on Factory

Thu Dec 23 13:00:00 2010 msebenAATTgmail.com
- update to VirtualBox 4.0.0
New Features:

* Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs

* New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see chapter 10.1, Where VirtualBox stores its files

* Major rework of the GUI (now called “VirtualBox Manager”):
- Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)
- New “scale” display mode with scaled guest display
- Support for creating and starting .vbox desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)
- The VM list is now sortable
- Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved states,
and optionally including attached disk images (bug #5511; also, VBoxManage unregistervm --delete can do the same now)

* Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)

* VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts

* New virtual hardware:
- Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI)
- Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems (e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)

* Improvements to OVF support :
- Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support
- Significant performance improvements during export and import
- Creation of the manifest file on export is optional now
- Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK

* 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

Mon Dec 20 13:00:00 2010 msebenAATTgmail.com
- rename to virtualbox - drop ose postfix, Oracle team dosn\'t build
puel version - we have now extension packs
- rename xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose subpackage to virtualbox-guest-x11
- use Provides: virtualbox-gui for virtualbox-qt subpackage and
Recommends: virtualbox-gui for virtualbox package, so user could
install another type of gui easily

Fri Dec 17 13:00:00 2010 msebenAATTgmail.com
- update to VirtualBox 4.0.0 BETA4

* see announcement with changelog http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=37177
- set propper path for link to pdf in .desktop file

Tue Dec 14 13:00:00 2010 msebenAATTgmail.com
- update to VirtualBox 4.0.0 BETA2

* see announcement with changelog http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=36893

Sat Dec 11 13:00:00 2010 cooloAATTnovell.com
- cleanup 32bit buildrequires

Tue Dec 7 13:00:00 2010 msebenAATTgmail.com
- update to VirtualBox 4.0.0 BETA1

* see announcement with changelog http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=36748

Thu Dec 2 13:00:00 2010 msebenAATTgmail.com
- updated to VirtualBox-ose 3.2.12

* 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 performance counters

* 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

* NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)

* Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000

* VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration

* 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

* USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings

* 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 disconnected 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

* 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
- deprecated vbox-kernel-2637.diff
- added rpath.diff to fix build
- modify vboxdrv init script with proper macros in install section

Thu Dec 2 13:00:00 2010 dmuellerAATTsuse.de
- remove runlevel 4 from start scripts

Fri Nov 19 13:00:00 2010 cooloAATTnovell.com
- take patch from upstream to fix build with 2.6.37

Wed Nov 10 13:00:00 2010 javierAATTopensuse.org
- Added vbox-default-os-type.diff

* Changes the default Linux guest OS to openSUSE

Wed Oct 13 14:00:00 2010 crrodriguezAATTnovell.com
- Update to VirtualBox 3.2.10

* Fix build with newer kernels

* support X.Org Server 1.9

* don\'t crash VBoxClient during reboot

* Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown

* fixed memory leak under certain circumstances

* under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load

Tue Sep 21 14:00:00 2010 puzelAATTnovell.com
- install mount.vboxsf into /sbin, not /usr/sbin (bnc#636347)

Wed Sep 15 14:00:00 2010 jeffmAATTnovell.com
- added a patch that converts vbox shared folders to use 2.6-style
embedded inodes but i haven\'t tested it. I don\'t use virtualbox and don\'t
intend to start.

Tue Sep 14 14:00:00 2010 cooloAATTnovell.com
- add vbox-kernel-2.6.36.diff to support kernel > 2.6.35

Tue Sep 7 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTgmail.com
- created qt subpackage with qt dependency

Mon Sep 6 14:00:00 2010 masterpatrickoAATTgmail.com
- Add vbox-python-2.7-configure to build against Python 2.7

Sun Sep 5 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTgmail.com
- added devel subpackage

Sat Sep 4 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTgmail.com
- added subpackage with python bindings

Sat Aug 28 14:00:00 2010 cristian.rodriguezAATTopensuse.org
- Do not include build dates in binaries, make build-compare
happier

Thu Aug 26 14:00:00 2010 gberAATTopensuse.org
- made the vboxadd init script depend on $remote_fs since it
requires /usr to be mounted

Sun Aug 15 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTgmail.com
- update to 3.2.8

* VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings

* GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)

* GUI: don\'t use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #6809)

* 3D support: fixed GL_EXT_texture_sRGB support

* PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression

* OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)

* USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status changes

* USB: respect the remote-only filter

* USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of certain devices (Windows hosts only)

* USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)

* PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature

* PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs

* PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests

* Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled

* Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on bridged device (bug #7059)

* Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)

* 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)

Mon Jun 28 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- update to 3.2.6:

* VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166)

* VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only; does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it)

* VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)

* VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)

* Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964)

* Teleportation: several fixes and improvements

* Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix

* EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM assigned

* GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)

* GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if multiple screens are enabled

* GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)

* GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)

* GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts again (bug #7022).

* 2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode (bug #6768)

* VBoxManage: fixed storageattach error handling (bug #6927)

* VBoxManage: fixed dhcpserver add (3.2.0 regression; bug #7031)

* Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which don\'t support async I/O (bug #6905)

* Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6987)

* LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests

* BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O

* SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can\'t handle 30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)

* SATA: performance improvement

* SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows installation (bug #5101)

* iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)

* Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6872)

* NAT: fixed potential memory leaks

* NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames (performance tweak)

* NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM is currently paused

* E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC was not yet initialized by the guest

* OVF: export performance optimization

* OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7 and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export

* Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes not properly saved

* Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)

* USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port

* USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)

* POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)

* Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances (IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)

* Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)

* Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host kernel allows for more virtual address space

* Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed (bug #5251)

* Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)

* X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)

* Solaris Additions: fixed guest control execution

Tue Jun 15 14:00:00 2010 dmuellerAATTsuse.de
- update to 3.2.4:

* 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)

Thu Jun 3 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- updated to 3.2.2

* 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)

Thu Jun 3 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- updated to 3.2.0

* Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, the product is now called Oracle VM VirtualBox

* 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)

* Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby increasing capacity

* CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only)

* New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance; 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

* USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no Guest Additions are available

* LsiLogic SAS controller emulation

* RDP video acceleration

* NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage

* Use of host I/O cache is now configurable

* Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications from the host system

* OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings that are not part of the base OVF standard

* 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)
- dropped vbox-system-xorg.patch and vbox-drm-includepath.diff we
use now xorg includes and libs from tarball
- turn on VNC server feature, which allows users to connect
to a virtual machine remotely using any VNC client.

Mon May 31 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- create links to vbox tools in %_bindir - they could be usefull
for controlling vbox from command line

Mon May 24 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- fix vboxguest.rules udev rule for guest : use TAG+=\"udev-acl\"
to grant permissions

Mon May 10 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- updated to 3.1.8

* 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)
- dropped VBoxRandR.sh (from xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose) by
upstream : VBoxClient now handles dynamic resizing using library
calls, not a shell script see http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/27601
- deprecated vbox-fix_PF_storm.diff
- use older version of disable-updates patch
- fix typo in %verify_permissions in spec file
- virtualbox-ose-vboxes init script changes from rbosAATTopensuse.org

Sun Apr 18 14:00:00 2010 roAATTsuse.de
- buildfix with changed include location for recent libdrm
keep old path as well as to not break when building against older distros
(vbox-drm-includepath.diff)
- fix KMP subpackage naming in specfile

Sun Apr 18 14:00:00 2010 roAATTsuse.de
- add -I/usr/include/libdrm to compiler flags

Wed Apr 14 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- added vbox-system-xorg.patch to build the X.Org server
additions against our system

Fri Apr 9 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- added fix_PF_storm.diff to fix crashing during liveCD boot at early
\"Loading basic drivers\" state (bnc#576681)

Mon Apr 5 14:00:00 2010 rbosAATTopensuse.org
- add script to start virtual boxes during boot, to be configured
via /etc/sysconfig/vbox

Mon Apr 5 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- fix build : install also dir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ for
60-vboxmouse.conf config

Fri Apr 2 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- modified 60-vboxguest.rules and added 60-vboxmouse.conf to fix
lost mouse integration, caused by xorg-server which no longer
use HAL (bnc#592642)

Wed Mar 31 14:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- added Obsoletes: virtualbox-ose-kmp to splitted kmp host and
guest packages

Fri Mar 26 13:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- updated to 3.1.6

* 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
- deprecated vbox-x_crash.diff

Thu Feb 18 13:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- rewritten spec file
- split kmp packages to guest and host parts
- added vbox-x_crash.diff to fix X crash caused by guest additions
see:http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6198

Mon Feb 15 13:00:00 2010 msebenAATTnovell.com
- updated to 3.1.4

* 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
*
- vbox-typecast.diff : deprecated

Mon Dec 21 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- refresh virtualbox-ose-permissions_warning.diff, so it applies on the very
picky Factory (without any fuzz)

Mon Dec 21 13:00:00 2009 poemlAATTcmdline.net
- updated to 3.1.2 (maintenance release)

* VMM: fixed SMP stability regression

* USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (#5237)

* Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)

* Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)

* VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)

* VBoxManage: added missing --cpus and --memory options to OVF --import

* GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages

* GUI: NLS updates

* OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)

* Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)

* Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support

* Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the Host-Key isn\'t CMD (bug #5684)

* Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is used inside the guest (bug #5672)

* Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don\'t disappear in fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug #1762)

* Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling \"Auto show Dock & Menubar in fullscreen\" (bug #5636)

* Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges right after installation (bug #4162)

* Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading while a VM is still active (Windows host only)

* Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)

* Virtio-net: don\'t crash without an attached network

* Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with several virtual CPU cores.

* NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)

* NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)

* NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)

* ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)

* SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)

* Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora guests

* Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests and on some 64bit guests

* Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)

* X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests (openSUSE 11.0)

* X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg releases (openSUSE 11.1)

* Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues

* Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4

* Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4

* Shared folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)

* 2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid GUI crashes on misconfigured systems

* 2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback
- some files have been moved to other places in the source tree, and
virtualbox-ose-disable-updates.diff was adjusted for those changes
- virtualbox-ose-init-scripts.diff was forward ported

Fri Dec 4 13:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- small corrections in guest and host init scripts (bnc#560166)

Tue Dec 1 13:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- updated to 3.1.0
- major new futures :

* Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
from one host to another (see the manual for more information)

* VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead
of only the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other
snapshots as well (\"branched snapshots\"; see the manual for more information)

* 2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion (see the
manual for more information)

* More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached
to an arbitrary IDE controller, and there can be more than one
such drive (the manual for more information)

* The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is running

* Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris
hosts making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher

* Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging)

* Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface)

* Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net)
- the following items were fixed and/or added:

* VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases

* GUI: snapshots include a screenshot

* GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force

* GUI: the a log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows (bug #5291)

* GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)

* GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings

* GUI: the VirtualBox website couldn\'t be opened from the help menu (bug #4559)

* 3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing

* 3D support: added GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array support

* 3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament,
Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)

* 3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (#2816)

* 3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (#4653)

* 3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz

* iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity

* VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)

* Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)

* NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy (see the manual for more information)

* VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces (bug #5523, #2787)

* VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files (bug #2723)

* VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V

* Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files; see the manual for more information

* OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an optional manifest file on import

* OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)

* Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest (bug #3773)

* VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start

* VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)

* X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code layout (bug #2302)

* Mac OS X hosts: don\'t auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen (bug #4866)

* Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don\'t interpret mouse wheel events as left click (bug #5049)

* Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under certain conditions

* Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package

* Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend).

* Shared folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)

* Shared folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)

* Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host
version was updated and Additions are out of date

* Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)

* Solaris Additions: fixed as_pagelock() failed errors affecting guest properties (bug #5337)

* Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7

* Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information

* Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information

* Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)

* Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest Additions (bug #4039)

* Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a file of the same name as
the folder exists in the current directory (bug #928)

* SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5
- dropped deprecated vbox-fix_return.diff
- refresh patches to apply with fuzz=0 (new rpm)
- added fix_return.diff : fix no-return-in-nonvoid-function build issue
- added typecast.diff : typecast of pointer using uintptr_t to fix build error
- removed deprecated : kmp-vboxvfs.diff and gcc43-fixes.diff

Thu Nov 5 13:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- added debug_hash.diff to fix build issue

Thu Nov 5 13:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- updated to 3.0.10

* VMM: guest SMP stability fixes

* VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222)

* VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors; necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239)

* VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot (VT-x only; bug #5164)

* VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)

* VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)

* VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)

* VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)

* 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)

* Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard initialisation failed (bug #4987)

Thu Oct 22 14:00:00 2009 dmuellerAATTsuse.de
- update to 3.0.8:

* VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6 (VT-x only; bug #4947)

* VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x & AMD-V only; bug #5058)

* VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059)

* VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests

* VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression; software virtualization only)

* VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042)

* Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands with root privileges

* Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)

* Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)

* Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)

* Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM selector (bug #5063)

* Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not available

* Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as interrupts were not re-enabled everytime

* Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only networking (bug #4775)

* Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when changing them (bug #5077)

* X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards (bug #4907)

* Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)

* Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names with trailing garbage (attached VMs won\'t start)

* Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)

* Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier

* Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)

* Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)

* Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders are installed

* Linux Additions: implemented ftrunctate (bug #4771)

* VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use

* Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under rare conditions (bug #4870)

* VBoxManage: implemented controlvm vrdpport command

* iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (#5072)

* SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB

* USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices (bug #5089)

* NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)

Thu Oct 15 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- fixed security issue with empty LD_LIBRARY_PATH in wrappers (bnc#448246)

Fri Oct 9 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- fix build (corrected 60-vboxadd.rules)

Thu Oct 8 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- added udev rules file 60-vboxadd.rules for guest system (bnc#541196)

Thu Oct 8 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- added checks for setuid on VBoxNetAdpCtl (bnc#533550)

Mon Oct 5 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- added VBoxNetAdpCtl.diff : use VBoxNetAdpCtl.cpp from upstream svn
which fix security problems with popen and strncpy (see bnc#533550)

Thu Oct 1 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- fix permissions for VBoxRandR and vboxadd-xclient

Tue Sep 29 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- moved hal policy file 90-vboxguest.fdi to hal/fdi/policy instead
of hal/fdi/information

Thu Sep 24 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- added 90-vboxguest.fdi for hal policy, to autodetect the virtualbox
mouse (thanks to Tejas Guruswamy)
- added permissions_warning.diff - implements messagebox, which is
displayed, when user try to start VirtualBox and is not a member
of vboxusers group

Tue Sep 22 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- added VBoxRandR to guest-tools - support for dynamic display changes (autoresize)
- added vboxadd-xclient.sh to guest-tools - allow automatically start
VBoxClient with support for shared clipboard, autoresize and seamless window

Mon Sep 14 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- rewritten init-scripts.diff (bnc#537793) and added
/etc/default/virtualbox config, which allow configure type of
session shutdown (thanks to Dennis Olsson)

Thu Sep 10 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- updated to 3.0.6

* VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests (AMD-V only; bug #4392)

* VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling a disabled device (bug #4510)

* VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests (software virtualization only; bug #2149)

* VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris guests (bug #2258)

* VMM: fixed decreasing rdtsc values (AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)

* VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only)

* VMM: cpuid change to correct reported virtual CPU id in Linux

* VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947)

* Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)

* Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking

* Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were onlined or offlined

* Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)

* Linux hosts: don\'t crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)

* Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys than usual (bug #4799)

* Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard

* Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having wrong values in Python webservices bindings

* Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed

* Python shell: added exportVM command

* Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes

* Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case

* OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors

* Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device filters in machine settings XML

* Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)

* Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)

* GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)

* VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with --flags or -flags

* Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM

* Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)

* VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3

* SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)

* SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk

* SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs

* SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update

* iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection, fix negotiation of simparameters, fix command resend when the connection was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use phase collapse

* BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail (2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)

* PulseAudio: don\'t hang during VM termination if the connection to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)

* Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)

* HostOnly Network: fixed failure in CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface() on Linux (no GUID)

* HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly interface bringup on Linux

* HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris

* HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs #4698, #4790)

* DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address less than the configured range

* E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets

* E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM

* NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)

* NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)

* Bridged Network: fixed packet queue issue which might cause DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)

* Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting the right domain when logging in the first time

* Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests and hosts (bug #4712)

* Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)

* Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring a saved state (bug #4700)

* Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)

* SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)

* Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)
- drop deprecated pa-interface_change.diff

Mon Sep 7 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- added pa-interface_change.diff to fix interface change in PulseAudio

Sun Aug 23 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTnovell.com
- added vboxvideo.ko kernel module to virtualbox-ose-kmp-
*
- added VBoxOGL libraries to xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose

Mon Aug 17 14:00:00 2009 suse-tuxAATTgmx.de
- fixed typo in the vboxadd init script and updated virtualbox-ose-init-scripts.diff
(bnc#530271)

Fri Aug 14 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTsuse.cz
- fix quote symbol (\") in vboxdrv.rules (bnc#528310)

Thu Aug 6 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTsuse.cz
- updated to 3.0.4

* VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)

* VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)

* VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)

* VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot

* VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)

* VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)

* VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)

* SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)

* SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)

* 3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for multithreaded applications (bug #3922)

* 3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications

* 3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty

* NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)

* NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)

* NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)

* iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks

* GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on Windows (bug #4354)

* GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display (bug #4654)

* GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top

* GUI: don’t crash when adding plus configuring host-only network interfaces

* Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path in VirtualBox (Windows host only)

* USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB devicefilter settings inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)

* Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest properties (bug #3415)

* Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)

* Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service fails to find any DVD drives.

* Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in Qt (bug #4353)

* Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)

* Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)

* X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)

* X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)

* X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and guest-drawn mouse pointers.

* X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238).

Mon Aug 3 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTsuse.cz
- drop qt3-devel-tools,libmudflap-32bit from BuildRequires

Thu Jul 30 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTsuse.cz
- enable generated data for SaX
- added mountvboxsf, VBoxControl, VBoxService to guest-tools
- disable chown of device in vboxadd init script in guest-tools subpackage (bnc#507835)

Mon Jul 13 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTsuse.cz
- updated to 3.0.2

* VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)

* VMM: guest SMP performance improvements

* VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security (VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)

* VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)

* ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)

* APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)

* BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode

* iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)

* OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks

* OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)

* NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)

* 3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)

* 3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps

* Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)

* Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows guest (bug #4381)

* X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344

* X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)

* Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)

* Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)

* OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452)

* Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware acceleration to be enabled
- drop vbox-ose-rpmlintrc

Wed Jul 1 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTsuse.cz
- updated to 3.0.0, major new features were added:

* Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only)

* Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental)

* Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
- deprecated : 64issue.diff , validate-op-gcc43.diff and increment.diff
- disabled Makefile-vboxadd,Makefile-vboxnetflt and Makefile-vboxvfs

Fri Jun 19 14:00:00 2009 cooloAATTnovell.com
- disable as-needed for this package as it fails to build with it

Wed Jun 17 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTsuse.cz
- updated to 3.0.0_BETA_2, major new features were added:

* Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only)

* Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental)

* Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
- deprecated : 64issue.diff , validate-op-gcc43.diff and increment.diff
- disabled Makefile-vboxadd,Makefile-vboxnetflt and Makefile-vboxvfs

Tue Jun 9 14:00:00 2009 cooloAATTnovell.com
- Replace pmtools with acpica package required for building.
pmtools package gets split into acpica and dmidecode,
pmtools will be dropped.

Thu Jun 4 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTsuse.cz
- added patch increment.diff : same variable used twiceand post
incremented in the same expression in dnsproxy.c

Mon Jun 1 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTsuse.cz
- updated to 2.2.4

* Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or later (bug #3981)

* Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during loopback (bug #3120)

* Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in VBoxManage list runningvms (bug #4034)

* Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged networking

* Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough disabled (bug #4077)

* Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse clicks

* Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in Windows 7 guests

* GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests that require this setting (bug #4055)

* VMM: fixed occassional crash due to insuffient memory

* VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests

* VMM: restore from a saved state occassionally failed (bugs #3984 and #2742)

* Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)

* OVF: fixed potential hang during import

* OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts

* VBoxManage modifyhd --compact: fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption (bug #3864)

* VBoxManage metrics collect: now flushes the output stream.

* VHD: made VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid work for .vhd files (bug #3443)

* VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)

* VMDK: fixed creating snapshots

* NAT: improvement of TCP connection establisment (bug #2987)

* NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)

* NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)

* NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity (bug #3964)

* Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows hosts (bug #4090)

* Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows hosts

* Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when a broadcast packet arrives too early
to be handled by uninitialized e1000 adapter.

* Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes when using bridged mode with host’s
interface having RX checksum offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX offloading as well (bug #3870)

* PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter.

* Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict

* SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64

* Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw file (bug #1023)

* VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update

Fri May 29 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTsuse.cz
- included proper version of vboxmouse_drv and vboxvideo_drv in
xorg-x11-driver (bnc#507839)

Mon May 25 14:00:00 2009 cooloAATTsuse.de
- fix %endif

Sat May 23 14:00:00 2009 cooloAATTsuse.de
- switch to gcc44

Thu May 7 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTsuse.cz
- fixed ose-init-scripts.diff : don\'t use vboxusers group for
/dev/vboxdrv (bnc#429725)

Thu May 7 14:00:00 2009 dmuellerAATTsuse.de
- make sure that the kmp is also updated at the same time
like the main module, otherwise bad things will happen

Tue May 5 14:00:00 2009 dmuellerAATTsuse.de
- fix build for older distros

Wed Apr 29 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTsuse.cz
- updated to 2.2.2

* Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting hosts and guests running the X window system.

* Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5 and later.

* Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of running services

* Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server terminates

* Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)

* Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not installed on the guest

* Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when unmounting a busy shared folder

* Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)

* Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core (bug #2628)

* Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux hosts only, bug #3732)

* VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts (bug #3657)

* VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)

* VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software virtualization only)

* Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff images, incorrect detection of redundant writes

* GUI: reworked network settings dialog

* GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT networks (bug #3702)

* GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression, bug #3689)

* GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only; bug #3679)

* GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only; bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)

* VBoxManage modifyhd --compact: implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths (bug #2180, #2833)

* VBoxManage snapshot discard: made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)

* NAT: fixed release assertion during poll() (bug #3667)

* Clipboard: fixed random crahes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)

* Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests

* Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests

* CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects

* Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)

Mon Apr 20 14:00:00 2009 msebenAATTsuse.cz
- updated to 2.2.0

* VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342)

* VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342)

* VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431)

* VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only)

* VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization

* VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only)

* VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only)

* VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only)

* VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x, but don’t set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL

* VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794)

* VMM: properly emulate RDMSR from the TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests

* VMM: emulate RDPMC; fixes Windows guests crashes when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778)

* NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)

* NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)

* NAT: allow to configure the next server and the boot file via VBoxManage (bug #2759)

* IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)

* Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size ESX server images)

* Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not writable

* USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and EHCI

* USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices (Windows hosts only; bug #1654)

* E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)

* VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime

* Shared folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris hosts when creating files

* X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)

* X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug #2306)

* Linux additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6 (bug #3555)

* Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the guest additions installer (bug #3524)

* Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)

* Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host interface (bug #3414)

* Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)

* Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh (bug #3586)

* Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux from Scratch systems

* Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains both (32- and 64-bit) architectures.

* VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages

* VBoxManage list vms commands now default to compact format

* VBoxManage controlvm dvdattach did not work if the image was attached before

* VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants

* VBoxManage showvminfo: don’t spam the release log if the additions don’t support statistics information (bug #3457)

* VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup

* Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at VM startup (related to bug #2772)

* GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs

* GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest

* GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V

* GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar

* GUI: show build revision in about dialog

* GUI: fixed sticky status bar text

* GUI: improved error dialogs

* GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot a read-only disk image (bug #1745)

* GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button

* GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0 regression; bug #2065)

* 3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)

* 3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)

* 3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)

* PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug #2536)

* LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests

* Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine (bug #3548)

Wed Apr 15 14:00:00 2009 roAATTsuse.de
- drop xalan/xerces from buildrequires, not used


 
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