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VirtualBox 5.1.4
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VirtualBox is a cross-platform virtualization application. What does that mean?
For one thing, it installs on your existing Intel or AMD-based computers, whether they are running Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems. Secondly, it extends the capabilities of your existing computer
so that it can run multiple operating systems (inside multiple virtual machines) at the same time.
So, for example, you can run Windows and Linux on your Mac, run Windows Server 2008 on your
Linux server, run Linux on your Windows PC, and so on, all alongside your existing applications. You can install and run as many virtual machines as you like -- the only practical limits are disk space and memory.
VirtualBox is deceptively simple yet also very powerful. It can run everywhere from small embedded systems or desktop class machines all the way up to datacenter deployments and even Cloud environments.


VirtualBox 5.1.4 (released 2016-08-16)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
  • GUI: show actual VM uptime in the session information window
  • Audio: re-enabled speakers for Mac OS X guests (5.1.0 regression; bug #15611)
  • Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions
  • USB: fixed a hang under certain conditions
  • USB: fixed a hanging guest under certain conditions (bug #15747)
  • PIIX4: implemented dummy SMBus controller to prevent annoying Linux kernel warnings about uninitialized SMBus base address (bug #9517)
  • NVMe: several fixes to improve stability, fixed a crash while saving a VM state
  • VMDK: Fixed an issue creating fixed size images with certain sizes and the Split2G option enabled (bug #15748)
  • VHDX: fixed cloning images with VBoxManage clonehd (bug #14288)
  • Storage: Fixed broken bandwidth limitation when the limit is very low (bug #14982)
  • EFI: fixed sending debug messages in the EFI firmware if a serial port is enabled (bug #12161)
  • OVF: when importing appliances, make sure that the version of the embedded VirtualBox-specific settings is processed, to get the default settings handling right
  • VBoxManage: Don't try to set the medium type if there is no change (bug #13850)
  • Linux installer: fixed some scripting issues (bugs #15701 and #15702)
  • Linux installer: fixed a path issue on certain Linux distributions (bug #15717)
  • Windows hosts: fixed corrupted mouse pointers with some Linux and Solaris guests (bug #15665)
  • Linux Additions: made the video driver work on 32-bit guests with large video memory sizes (bug #15621)
  • Linux Additions: made the video driver work on kernel 4.7 and later (bug #15769)
  • Linux Additions: converted a failure message to an informational one when drivers could not be stopped during upgrade (bug #15692)
  • Linux Additions: made the video driver work around an X server bug which cause screen refresh to stop (bug #15511)
  • Windows Additions: auto-resizing fixes for Windows 10 guests (bug #15257)
  • Windows Additions: fixed VBoxTray problems with Windows 2000 (bug #15661)
Homepage:https://www.virtualbox.org/
Download:https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
change log:https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
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VirtualBox 5.1.6 (released 2016-09-12)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
  • GUI: fixed issue with opening '.vbox' files and it's aliases
  • GUI: keyboard grabbing fixes (bugs #15771 and #15745)
  • GUI: fix for passing through Ctrl + mouse-click (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15714)
  • GUI: fixed automatic deletion of extension pack files (bugs #11352 and #14742)
  • USB: fixed showing unknown device instead of the manufacturer or product description under certain circumstances (5.1.0 regression; bug #15764)
  • XHCI: another fix for a hanging guest under certain conditions as result of the fix for bug #15747, this time for Windows 7 guests
  • Serial: fixed high CPU usage with certain USB to serial converters on Linux hosts (bug #7796)
  • Storage: fixed attaching stream optimized VMDK images (bug #14764)
  • Storage: reject image variants which are unsupported by the backend (bug #7227)
  • Storage: fixed loading saved states created with VirtualBox 5.0.10 and older when using a SCSI controller (bug #15865)
  • Storage: fixed broken NVMe emulation if the host I/O cache setting is enabled
  • Storage: fixed using multiple NVMe controllers if ICH9 is used
  • NVMe: fixed a crash during reset which could happen under certain circumstances
  • Audio: fixed microphone input (5.1.2 regression; bugs #14386 and #15802)
  • Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions (5.1.0 regression; bug #15887 and others)
  • Audio: fixed recording with the ALSA backend (5.1 regression)
  • Audio: fixed stream access mode with OSS backend (5.1 regression, thanks to Jung-uk Kim)
  • E1000: do also return masked bits when reading the ICR register, this fixes booting from iPXE (5.1.2 regression; bug #15846)
  • BIOS: fixed 4bpp scanline calculation (bug #15787)
  • API: relax the check for the version attribute in OVF/OVA appliances (bug #15856)
  • Windows hosts: fixed crashes when terminating the VM selector or other VBox COM clients (bug #15726 and others)
  • Linux Installer: fixed path to the documentation in .rpm packages (5.1.0 regression)
  • Linux Installer: fixed the vboxdrv.sh script to prevent an SELinux complaint (bug #15816)
  • Linux hosts: don't use 32-bit legacy capabilities
  • Linux Additions: Linux 4.8 fix for the kernel display driver (bugs #15890 and #15896)
  • Linux Additions: don't load the kernel modules provided by the Linux distribution but load the kernel modules from the official Guest Additions package instead (bug #15324)
  • Linux Additions: fix dynamic resizing problems in recent Linux guests (bug #15875)
  • User Manual: fixed error in the VBoxManage chapter for the getextradata enumerate example (bug #15862)
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VirtualBox 5.1.12 (released 2016-12-20)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
  • VMM: fixed VERR_IEM_ASPECT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED Guru Meditations with certain Linux guests if KVM paravirtualization is enabled (5.1 regression; bugs #15613 and #16251)
  • VMM: fixed VERR_VMX_UNABLE_TO_START_VM Guru Meditations under rare conditions
  • GUI: prevent a crash under certain conditions if the VM is terminated very early
  • GUI: fixed certain keyboard capture issues (5.1.10 regression; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #16150)
  • GUI: fixed dragging guest windows in seamless mode with the keyboard captured (X11 hosts only; bug #15837)
  • GUI: fixed a problem where the new version detected dialog was covered by the appliance import dialog (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #16238)
  • Storage: fixed NVMe reset processing when doing rmmod nvme; modprobe nvme in a Linux guest (bug #16080)
  • Storage: fixed creating a snapshot when the VM is running and an NVMe controller is present
  • Storage: fixed a problem with the LsiLogic SCSI controller where requests could be lost with SMP guests
  • E1000: fixed "cable disconnected" issue (Mac OS X guests only; 5.1.10 regression; bug #16260)
  • E1000: fixed "TX unit hang" issue (Linux guests only; 5.1.10 regression; bug #16221)
  • Parallel ports: fixed port enumeration on Windows host (bugs #15872 and #16127)
  • API: don't crash when sanitizing certain VM names (bug #16299)
  • Linux hosts: automatically disable asynchronous I/O on Linux 2.6.18 kernels as high I/O load may trigger kernel oopses on these kernels if this feature is enabled
  • Linux hosts / guests: Linux 2.6.28 compile fix (bug #16267)
  • Linux hosts: compile Linux 4.9 compile fix (bug #16286)
  • Linux Additions: warn the user about a known bug with older Linux guests (e.g. Debian 7) requiring manual work to get 3D working (bug #15319)
  • Linux Additions: fix the graphics driver build with Linux 4.10 and later (bug #16298)
  • Windows Additions: fixed a crash in the WDDM driver under certain conditions
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VirtualBox 5.1.14 (released 2017-01-17)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
  • VMM: fixed emulation of certain instructions for 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
  • VMM: properly handle certain MSRs for 64-bit guests on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps (bug #13886)
  • GUI: fixed a crash with multimonitor setups under certain conditions
  • GUI: allow cloning of snapshots when the VM is running
  • NVMe: fixed compatibility with the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK, bug #16368)
  • VBoxSVC: fixed a crash under rare circumstances
  • VBoxManage: added a sanity check to modifymedium --resize to prevent users from resizing their hard disk from 1GB to 1PB (bug #16311)
  • Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 hosts
  • Linux hosts: Linux 4.10 fixes
  • Linux Additions: fixed protocol error during certain operations on shared folders (bug #8463)
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