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42 VMM-related entries (most important)
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71 <sect1>
72
73 <title>Version 7.0.X (date tbd)</title>
74
75 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
76 added:</para>
77
78 <itemizedlist>
79
80 <listitem>
81 <para>VMM: Fixed guru running the FreeBSD loader on older Intel CPUs
82 without unrestricted guest support (bug #21332)</para>
83 </listitem>
84
85 <listitem>
86 <para>VirtioNet: Fixed broken network after loading saved state (bug #21172)</para>
87 </listitem>
88
89 <listitem>
90 <para>Mouse Integration: Provided guest with extended host mouse state</para>
91 </listitem>
92
93 <listitem>
94 <para>Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for building
95 UEK7 kernel on Oracle Linux 8</para>
96 </listitem>
97
98 <listitem>
99 <para>Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 9.1 kernel</para>
100 </listitem>
101
102 </itemizedlist>
103 </sect1>
104
105 <sect1>
106
107 <title>Version 7.0.4 (2022-11-18)</title>
108
109 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
110 added:</para>
111
112 <itemizedlist>
113
114 <listitem>
115 <para>VMM: Added nested paging support for nested virtualization (Intel hosts only)</para>
116 </listitem>
117
118 <listitem>
119 <para>VMM: Fixed rare guru meditations with certain guests on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) (bug #21237)</para>
120 </listitem>
121
122 <listitem>
123 <para>VMM: Fixed possible VM process crash on Windows hosts when Hyper-V is used with certain guests (bug #21174)</para>
124 </listitem>
125
126 <listitem>
127 <para>VMM: Fixed Windows XP guest hang or BSOD on AMD CPUs under certain circumstances (bug #21256)</para>
128 </listitem>
129
130 <listitem>
131 <para>GUI: Various bugfixes for the Guest Control file manager</para>
132 </listitem>
133
134 <listitem>
135 <para>GUI: Added more informative file operations in the Guest Control file manager</para>
136 </listitem>
137
138 <listitem>
139 <para>GUI: Added an option to the global settings (the display page) to resize user interface font</para>
140 </listitem>
141
142 <listitem>
143 <para>GUI: Fixed a regression in new vm wizard. Selected virtual disks are no longer deleted when the wizard
144 is cancelled (bug #21244)</para>
145 </listitem>
146
147 <listitem>
148 <para>GUI: Added a new menu item to the devices menu to optionally upgrade the guest additions.</para>
149 </listitem>
150
151 <listitem>
152 <para>VirtioSCSI: Fixed recognition of the virtio SCSI controller by the EFI firmware (bug #21200)</para>
153 </listitem>
154
155 <listitem>
156 <para>VirtioSCSI: Fixed hang when shutting down the VM if the virtio SCSI controller is used (bug #21144)</para>
157 </listitem>
158
159 <listitem>
160 <para>virtio-net: Workaround a bug in the virtio-net driver included in FreeBSD version up to 12.3
161 which renders the device non functional (bug #21201)</para>
162 </listitem>
163
164 <listitem>
165 <para>Storage: Fixed I/O errors with the VirtioSCSI controller when the host I/O cache is enabled (bug #19717)</para>
166 </listitem>
167
168 <listitem>
169 <para>VBoxManage: Fixed regression when 'createmedium disk --variant RawDisk' command resulted
170 in invalid .vmdk file (bug #21125)</para>
171 </listitem>
172
173 <listitem>
174 <para>Main: Restored input pointing device behavior in multi-monitor
175 VM configuration (bug #21137)</para>
176 </listitem>
177
178 <listitem>
179 <para>Main: Fixed progress indication during automatic Linux
180 Guest Additions installation</para>
181 </listitem>
182
183 <listitem>
184 <para>Guest Control: Fixed path handling issues (bug #21095)</para>
185 </listitem>
186
187 <listitem>
188 <para>3D: Fixed VM process crash on macOS with 3D enabled (bug #21232)</para>
189 </listitem>
190
191 <listitem>
192 <para>Linux Host and Guest: General improvements in startup scripts</para>
193 </listitem>
194
195 <listitem>
196 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for
197 RHEL 8.7 and 9.2 kernels (bug #21272, #21258)</para>
198 </listitem>
199
200 <listitem>
201 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for SLES 15.4 kernels</para>
202 </listitem>
203
204 <listitem>
205 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel modules rebuild behavior on
206 system shutdown</para>
207 </listitem>
208
209 </itemizedlist>
210 </sect1>
211
212 <sect1>
213
214 <title>Version 7.0.2 (2022-10-20)</title>
215
216 <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
217 added:</para>
218
219 <itemizedlist>
220
221 <listitem>
222 <para>Known issue: VMs having more than one vCPU configured will not work properly on macOS
223 Catalina due to an unknown memory corruption issue. Either lower the number of vCPUs to 1
224 or upgrade to BigSur or later where the issue does not occur</para>
225 </listitem>
226
227 <listitem>
228 <para>Main: Fixed issue when VBoxSVC could become unresponsive if Extension Pack
229 was not installed (bug #21167)</para>
230 </listitem>
231
232 <listitem>
233 <para>macOS hosts: Added workaround for a bug in the Hypervisor framework on Catalina causing
234 VERR_NEM_MAP_PAGES_FAILED errors when starting a VM. (bug #21128)</para>
235 </listitem>
236
237 <listitem>
238 <para>macOS hosts: Re-introduced support for internal networking, this is considered a bit
239 experimental still</para>
240 </listitem>
241
242 <listitem>
243 <para>macOS hosts: Fixed VM crash when the guest tries to access a microphone or webcam</para>
244 </listitem>
245
246 <listitem>
247 <para>Windows host: Shared Clipboard: Fixed issue when only 4Kb of host
248 clipboard buffer was accessible to guest (bug #21149)</para>
249 </listitem>
250
251 <listitem>
252 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.1</para>
253 </listitem>
254
255 <listitem>
256 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxClient seamless service
257 caused a crash of some X11 applications (bug #21132)</para>
258 </listitem>
259
260 <listitem>
261 <para>Windows hosts: GUI: Fixed missing Qt libraries for vista style and sql driver (bug #21155)</para>
262 </listitem>
263
264 <listitem>
265 <para>GUI: Fixed a glitch in the log viewer which was causing wrong log file to be saved (bug #21156)</para>
266 </listitem>
267
268 </itemizedlist>
269 </sect1>
270
271 <sect1>
272
273 <title>Version 7.0.0 (2022-10-10)</title>
274
275 <para>This is a major update. The following major new features were added:</para>
276
277 <itemizedlist>
278
279 <listitem>
280 <para>Virtual machines can be fully encrypted now, including the VM config logs
281 and saved states (CLI only for now)</para>
282 </listitem>
283
284 <listitem>
285 <para>OCI: Cloud virtual machines can be added to Virtual Machine Manager and controlled
286 as local VMs</para>
287 </listitem>
288
289 <listitem>
290 <para>OCI: Cloud networks can now be configured via Network Manager tool same way as
291 it is done for Host-only and NAT networks</para>
292 </listitem>
293
294 <listitem>
295 <para>GUI: Added a new utility similar to "top" or "resource monitor" which lists peformance statistics
296 (CPU usage, RAM usage, disk I/O rate, etc.) of running guests</para>
297 </listitem>
298
299 <listitem>
300 <para>GUI: Reworked the new vm wizard to integrate the unattended
301 guest OS installation and to have a more streamlined work flow</para>
302 </listitem>
303
304 <listitem>
305 <para>GUI: Added a new help viewer widget which enables the user manual to be navigated
306 and searched</para>
307 </listitem>
308
309 <listitem>
310 <para>GUI: Adding new notification center unifying most of running progresses and error
311 reporting around the GUI</para>
312 </listitem>
313
314 <listitem>
315 <para>GUI: Improved theme support on all platforms. Linux and macOS
316 use native engine while for Windows host it is separately implemented.</para>
317 </listitem>
318
319 <listitem>
320 <para>GUI: Large icon update.</para>
321 </listitem>
322
323 <listitem>
324 <para>Audio recording: Now using Vorbis as the default audio format for WebM containers.
325 Opus is no longer being used.</para>
326 </listitem>
327
328 <listitem>
329 <para>Audio: Added "default" host driver type to make it possible to move VMs (appliances) between different platforms
330 without the need of changing the audio driver explicitly. When the "default" driver is selected, the best audio backend
331 option for a platform will be used. This is the default for newly created VMs.</para>
332 </listitem>
333
334 <listitem>
335 <para>Guest Control: Implemented initial support for automatic updating
336 of Guest Additions for Linux guests</para>
337 </listitem>
338
339 <listitem>
340 <para>Guest Control: Implemented ability to wait for and/or reboot the
341 guest when updating Guest Additions via VBoxManage</para>
342 </listitem>
343
344 <listitem>
345 <para>VBoxManage: Added Guest Control "waitrunlevel" sub-command to
346 make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain run level</para>
347 </listitem>
348
349 <listitem>
350 <para>Windows hosts: Added experimental support of running autostarted VMs
351 in session 0, to allow running VMS even when a usser is not being logged
352 in (disabled by default, please consult the manual)</para>
353 </listitem>
354
355 <listitem>
356 <para>macOS host: Dropped all kernel extensions. VirtualBox relies fully on
357 the hypervisor and vmnet frameworks provided by Apple now. At the moment
358 the implementation lacks "Internal Networking" functionality. This will be
359 provided at a later date.</para>
360 </listitem>
361
362 <listitem>
363 <para>macOS host: Providing a Developer Preview package for systems with
364 an Apple silicon CPU. This is unsupported work in progress, and is known
365 to have very modest performance.</para>
366 </listitem>
367
368 <listitem>
369 <para>Linux Guest Additions: Reworked guest screen re-size functionality,
370 added basic integration with some of guest Desktop Environments</para>
371 </listitem>
372
373 <listitem>
374 <para>Devices: Implemented new 3D support based on DirectX 11 (and DXVK
375 on non Windows hosts)</para>
376 </listitem>
377
378 <listitem>
379 <para>Devices: Added virtual IOMMU devices (Intel and AMD variant)</para>
380 </listitem>
381
382 <listitem>
383 <para>Devices: Added virtual TPM 1.2 and 2.0 devices</para>
384 </listitem>
385
386 <listitem>
387 <para>Devices: The EHCI and XHCI USB controller devices are now part of the
388 open source base package</para>
389 </listitem>
390
391 <listitem>
392 <para>EFI: Added support for Secure Boot</para>
393 </listitem>
394
395 <listitem>
396 <para>Debugging: Added experimental support for guest debugging through
397 GDB and highly experimental support for guest debugging through KD/WinDbg</para>
398 </listitem>
399
400 </itemizedlist>
401
402 <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
403
404 <itemizedlist>
405
406 <listitem>
407 <para>OCI: Cloud networking functionality is enhanced for local VMs, now local VMs could
408 be connected to cloud networking</para>
409 </listitem>
410
411 <listitem>
412 <para>GUI: Improved behavior of the virtual machine list and various VM related tools in case
413 multiple items are selected</para>
414 </listitem>
415
416 <listitem>
417 <para>GUI: On available platforms, added a new option to disable the host's screensaver</para>
418 </listitem>
419
420 <listitem>
421 <para>GUI: Reworked global preferences, machine settings and the wizards to improve stability
422 and usability</para>
423 </listitem>
424
425 <listitem>
426 <para>GUI: Improving mouse handling in multi-monitor case on X11 platform</para>
427 </listitem>
428
429 <listitem>
430 <para>GUI: Medium enumeration engine was reworked to improve permormance</para>
431 </listitem>
432
433 <listitem>
434 <para>GUI: NAT Network stuff was moved from global preferences to global Network Manager tool</para>
435 </listitem>
436
437 <listitem>
438 <para>GUI: Extension Pack Manager was moved from global preferences to global tools</para>
439 </listitem>
440
441 <listitem>
442 <para>GUI: Improved overall accessibility</para>
443 </listitem>
444
445 <listitem>
446 <para>GUI: Migrating to recent Qt versions.</para>
447 </listitem>
448
449 </itemizedlist>
450 </sect1>
451
452</chapter>
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