USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)

VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)

VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x

VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)

VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761)

VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)

VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898)

VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM

VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058)

VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only)

VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only)

VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only)

VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts

VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests

GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory

GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type

VBoxSDL: fixed -fixed fixedmode parameter (bug #3067)

Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only, bug #2675 and #3003)

3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications (bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)

LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)

VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize events were not properly handled (bug #2783)

VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V on Mac OS X hosts

VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)

VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up to correct ones (bug #2895)

IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)

Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)

Networking: fixed intermittend BSODs when using the new host interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)

Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)

Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)

Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).

NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)

NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)

NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)

SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable

SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized (2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)

SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files (Linux host only, bug #2796)

SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like formatting a drive

SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown

VRDP: fixed loading of libpam.so.1 from the host (Solaris hosts only)

VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects

VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection

VBoxManage showvminfo : fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)

VBoxManage convertfromraw : added parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files; fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)

VBoxManage clonehd : fixed garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)

VBoxManage guestproperty : fixed property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)

VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files (bug #2768)

Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)

Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)

Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a single, unified package

Linux hosts: don't depend on libcap1 anymore (bug #2859)

Linux hosts: compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1

Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started by root (2.1.0 regression)

Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's battery reaches critical level

Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window

Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is doing 3D

Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon

Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta

Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)

Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing files on shared folders (bug #2764)

Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA

Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract (not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)

Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions (bug #2938)

Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on Linux guests.

Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set fmode on mapped shared folders (bug #1776)

Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders (bug #1612)

Linux Additions: ignore noauto option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)

Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)

X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)