- Version bump to 6.1.36 released by Oracle July 19 2022
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed possible Linux guest kernel crash when configuring Speculative Store Bypass for a single vCPU VM
GUI: In the storage page of the virtual machine settings dialog, fixed a bug which disrupted mouse interaction with the native file selector on KDE
NAT: Prevent issue when host resolver incorrectly returned NXDOMAIN for unsupported queries (bug #20977)
Audio: General improvements in saved state area
Recording: Various fixes for settings handling
VGA: Performance improvements for screen updates when VBE banking is used
USB: Fixed rare crashes when detaching a USB device
ATA: Fixed NT4 guests taking a minute to eject CDs
vboximg-mount: Fixed broken write support (bug #20896)
SDK: Fixed Python bindings incorrectly trying to convert arbitrary byte data into unicode objects with Python 3, causing exceptions (bug #19740)
API: Fixed an issue when virtual USB mass storage devices or virtual USB DVD drives are added while the VM is not running are by default not marked as hot-pluggable
API: Initial support for Python 3.10
API: Solaris OS types cleanup
Linux and Solaris hosts: Allow to mount shared folder if it is represented as a symlink on a host side (bug #17491)
Linux Host and Guest drivers: Introduced initial support for kernels 5.18, 5.19 and RHEL 9.1 (bugs #20914, #20941)
Linux Host and Guest drivers: Better support for kernels built with clang compiler (bugs #20425 and #20998)
Solaris Guest Additions: General improvements in installer area
Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize in VMSVGA graphics configuration
Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed multi-screen handling in VBoxVGA and VBoxSVGA graphics configuration
Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Added support for setting primary screen via VBoxManage
Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed X11 resources leak when resizing guest screens
Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed file descriptor leak when starting a process using guest control (bug #20902)
Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed guest control executing processes as root
Linux Guest Additions: Improved guests booting time by preventing kernel modules from being rebuilt when it is not necessary (bug #20502)
Windows Guest Additions: Fixed VBoxTray crash on startup in NT4 guests on rare circumstances
deleted file "fixes_for_kernel_5.18.patch" - fixed upstream.
Fixes CVE-2022-21571) VUL-0: CVE-2022-21571,CVE-2022-21554 - boo#1201720
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/990809
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=648
- Version bump to 6.1.34 (released March 22 2022) by Oracle
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fix instruction emulation for "cmpxchg16b"
GUI: Improved GUI behavior on macOS Big Sur and later when kernel extensions are not loaded
EHCI: Addressed an issue with handling short packets (bug #20726)
Storage: Fixed a potential hang during disk I/O when the host I/O cache is disabled (bug #20875)
NVMe: Fixed loading saved state when nothing is attached to it (bug #20791)
DevPcBios: Addressed an issue which resulted in rejecting the detected LCHS geometry when the head count was above 16
virtio-scsi: Improvements
E1000: Improve descriptor handling
VBoxManage: Fixed handling of command line arguments with incomplete quotes (bug #20740)
VBoxManage: Improved 'natnetwork list' output
VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (--ipv6-prefix) to set IPv6 prefix
VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (--ipv6-default) to advertise default IPv6 route (bug #20714)
VBoxManage: Fix documentation of "usbdevsource add" (bug #20849)
Networking: General improvements in IPv4 and IPv6 area (bug #20714)
OVF Import: Allow users to specify a different storage controller and/or controller port for hard disks when importing a VM
Unattended install: Improvements
Shared Clipboard: Improved HTML clipboard handling for Windows host
Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 5.17
Solaris package: Fixes for API access from Python
Solaris IPS package: Suppress dependency on libpython2.7.so.*
Linux host and guest: Fixes for Linux kernel 5.14
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize for older guests which are running libXrandr older than version 1.4
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.6 kernels (bug #20877)
Windows guest: Make driver install smarter
Solaris guest: Addressed an issue which prevented VBox GAs 6.1.30 or 6.1.32 from being removed in Solaris 10 guests (bug #20780)
EFI: Fixed booting from FreeBSD ISO images (bug #19910)
Removed file "fixes_for_kernel_5.17.patch" - fixed upstream.
Fixes CVE-2022-21465 (boo#1198676), CVE-2022-21471 (boo#1198677), CVE-2022-21491 (boo#1198680), CVE-2022-21487 (boo#1198678), and CVE-2022-21488 (boo#1198679).
Fixed boo#1198703 - package virtualbox-websrv needs sysvinit-tools
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/975263
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=631
- Version bump to 6.1.32 (released January 18 2022 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Fix for CVE-2022-21394 (boo#1194924)
VMM: Changed the guest RAM management when using Hyper-V to be more compatible with HVCI (bug #20627 and #20694)
VMM: Workaround for OS/2 guest unstability on newer AMD CPUs due to a missing TLB flush in OS/2 (bug #20625)
GUI: Fixed keyboard focus loss in rare circumstances when using the mini toolbar in fullscreen mode
Audio: Fixed accidental creation of empty debug log file when the OSS audio backend was configured
E1000: Fix link status reporting for certain Linux kernels (some Oracle Linux ones, probably more)
Unattended installation: Fixed regression introduced in 6.1.28, causing partitioning failure for Windows XP to 10 (bug #20769)
Linux host: Fix access to some USB devices, device class was not correctly handled (bug #20721)
Guest: Fixed wrong mouse position if guest is in text mode
Guest Control: Fixed folders copying from host to guest and from guest to host
Guest Control: Fixes for UNICODE handling
Shared Clipboard: Improved HTML content exchange between X11 and Windows guests and hosts
OS/2 Additions: Fixed some issues with extended attributes in the shared folders (bug #19453)
File "vboxclient-clipboard.service" was removed while the shared clipboard problem with Wayland is further investigated.
- Add libnotify-tools to build requirements for virtualbox-guest-x11 (boo#1194128)
Add service to start shared clipboard in Wayland sessions (boo#1194126). File "vboxclient-clipboard.service"
is added. Thanks to Andrei Borzenkov for providing this file.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/947763
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=627
- Version bump to 6.1.30 (released November 22 2021 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed 6.1.28 regression preventing VMs starting when using Hyper-V mode on Windows 10
GUI: Fixed inability to complete First Run wizard after browsing for an external image
GUI: Fixed crash on macOS Big Sur while browsing for an external image from First Run wizard
GUI: Fixed bug on Windows with inability to save taken screenshot under a folder with native name (bug #15561)
GUI: Fixed bug on X11 with drag and drop initiated on single mouse click in VM storage settings
GUI: Fixed settings check on machines not supporting hardware virtualization
GUI: Non critical media related errors should not cause modal pop-up error messages
Host-only networking: Fixed crash parsing /etc/vbox/networks.conf
DVD: Fixed drive lock handling across VM reset
VBoxHeadless: Fixed crash when running on macOS Monterey (bug #20636)
VBoxManage: Fixed incorrect help text for "hostonlyif"
vboximg-mount: Error message if no image is specified
Linux host: For all distribution specific packages (deb/rpm format) fix the packaging so that the feature for unattended installation of guest OSes works
Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 5.16
Shared Clipboard: Improved communication between guest and host when guest has no clipboard data to report
Linux Guest Additions: Allow running only one VBoxDRMClient instance (bug #19373)
File "fixes_for_5.14.patch" deleted - fixed upstream.
File "fixes-for-5.15.patch" deleted - fixed upstream.
File "fixes-for-5.16.patch" deleted - fixed upstream.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/933168
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=624
- Version bump to 6.1.28 (released October 19 2021 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed guru meditation while booting nested-guests accessing debug registers under certain conditions
UI: Bug fixes for touchpad-based scrolling
VMSVGA: Fixed VM black screen issue on first resize after restoring from saved state (bug #20067)
VMSVGA: Fixed display corruption on Linux Mint (bug #20513)
Storage: Fixed a possible write error under certain circumstances when using VHD images (bug #20512)
Network: Multiple updates in virtio-net device support
Network: Disconnecting cable in saved VM state now is handled properly by virtio-net
Network: More administrative control over network ranges, see user manual
NAT: Fixed not rejecting TFTP requests with absolute pathnames (bug #20589)
Audio: Fixed VM session aborting after PC hibernation (bug #20516)
Audio: Fixed setting the line-in volume of the HDA emulation on modern Linux guests
Audio: Fixed resuming playback of the AC'97 emulation while a snapshot has been taken
API: Added bindings support for Python 3.9 (bug #20252)
API: Fixed rare hang of VM when changing settings at runtime
Linux host: Improved kernel modules installation detection which prevents unnecessary modules rebuild
Host Services: Shared Clipboard: Prevent guest clipboard reset when clipboard sharing is disabled (bug #20487)
Host Services: Shared Clipboard over VRDP: Fixed to continue working when guest service reconnects to host (bug #20366)
Host Services: Shared Clipboard over VRDP: Fixed preventing remote RDP client to hang when guest has no clipboard data to report
Linux Host and Guest: Introduced initial support for kernels 5.14 and 5.15
Linux Host and Guest: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.5 kernel
Windows Guest: Introduced Windows 11 guest support, including unattended installation
Deleted file "fix_ordering_of_qt_includes.patch" - fixed upstream.
Fixes CVE-2021-35538, CVE-2021-35545, CVE-2021-35540, CVE-2021-35542, and CVE-2021-2475 (boo#1191869)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/926822
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=621
- Version bump to 6.1.26 (released July 28 2021 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMSVGA: fixed VM screen artifacts after restoring from saved state (bug #20067)
Storage: Fixed audio endianness for certain CUE sheet CD/DVD images.
VBoxHeadless: Running VM will save its state on host shutdown
VBoxManage: Fix OS detection for Ubuntu 20.10 ISO with unattended install
Linux Additions: Fixed mouse pointer offsetting issue for VMSVGA graphics adapter in multi-monitor VM setup (6.1.24 regression)
File "fix_ordering_of_qt_includes.patch" added for Leap and SLR builds.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/909267
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=613
- Version bump to 6.1.24 (released July 20 2021 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Storage: Fixed starting a VM if a device is attached to a VirtIO SCSI port higher than 30 (bug #20213)
Storage: Improvement to DVD medium change signaling
Serial: Fixed a the guest missing interrupts under certain circumstances (6.0 regression, bug #18668)
Audio: Multiple fixes and enhancements
Network: Fixed connectivity issue with virtio-net after resuming VM with disconnected link
Network: Fixed UDP GSO fragmentation issue with missing 8 bytes of payload at the end of the first fragment
API: Fixed VM configuration for recent Windows Server versions
Extension Pack: Fixed issues with USB webcam pass-through on Linux
Host and guest driver: Fix small memory leak (bug #20280)
Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.13 (bug #20456)
Linux host and guest: Introduce support for SUSE SLES/SLED 15 SP3 kernels (bug #20396)
Linux host: Installer will not attempt to build kernel modules if system already has them installed and modules versions match current version
Guest Additions: Fixed crash on using shared clipboard (bug #19165)
Linux Guest Additions: Introduce support for Ubuntu specific kernels (bug #20325)
Solaris guest: Increased default memory and disk sizes
EFI: Support network booting with the E1000 network controller emulation
EFI: Stability improvements (bug #20090)
Delete file "fix_random_stack_failure.patch" - fixed upstream.
- Add vboximg-mount to packaging. boo#1188045.
Fix an error in file "fixes_for_5.14.patch".
problem with kernel 5.13 as shown in boo#1188105.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/907363
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=611
- Version bump to (released April 20 2021 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed extremely poor VM performance depending on the timing of various actions (regression in 6.1.0)
VMM: Fixed guest OS hanging under certain circumstances when Hyper-V is present (bug #20141)
VMM: Fixed Guru Meditation error when using a nested hypervisor under certain circumstances (bug #20175)
VMM: Fixed a SMAP related host panic affecting Solaris 11.4 systems with Intel Haswell CPUs or later (bug #16068)
OCI: Add cloud-init support for export to OCI and for OCI instance creation
GUI: Fixed "Delete all files" leaving behind Logs/VBoxUI.log (bug #20235)
Audio: Multiple fixes and enhancements
Audio: Fixed detection of duplex audio devices on macOS (5.0 regression; bug #20171)
Network: Fixed link status reporting for "not attached" adapters
Network: Fixed connectivity issues with e1000 in OS/2 guests (6.1.18 regression; bug #20148)
Network: Fixed VxWorks e1000 driver compatibility issue (bug #20182)
Network: Fixed GUI checks for port forwarding rules rejecting IPv6 with "Nat Network" (bug #14847)
DHCP: Don't crash in the presence of fixed address assignments (bug #20128)
Serial: Fixed possible VM hang when using the a serial port in disconnected mode (bug #19854)
Webcam: Fixed interoperability with v4l2loopback and fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #20176)
NVMe: Fixed sporadic Windows VM hang or reboot on high CPU load
VBoxManage: Allow changing network adapter attachment of a saved VM with "modifyvm"
vboximg-mount: Fix for argument processing to honor the '--root' option (6.0 regression; bug #20073)
Linux host and guest: Support kernel versions 5.11 (bug #20198) and 5.12
Linux host: Maximum MTU size increased to 16110 for host-only adapters on Linux kernels 4.10+ (bug #19122)
Linux Guest Additions: Fix vboxvideo module compilation for kernel version 5.10.x
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel module build for RHEL 8.4 beta and CentOS Stream (bug #20289)
File "fixes-for-5.11.patch" is deleted. The issue is fixed upstream.
File "vboxautostart.sh" is replaced by "vboxautostart-service.sh"
File "vboxautostart.service" is replaced by "vboxautostart-service.service"
Fixes boo#1183329 "virtualbox 6.1.18 crashes when it runs nested VM"
Fixes boo#1183125 "Leap 15.3 installation in Virtualbox without VBox integration"
Fixes CVE-2021-2264 and boo#1184542. The directory for the <user>.start files for
autostarting VMs is moved from /etc/vbox to /etc/vbox/autostart.d. In addition, the autostart
service is hardened (by Oracle).
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/888128
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=597
- Version update to 6.1.18 (released January 19 2021)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Nested VM: Fixed hangs when executing SMP nested-guests under certain conditions on Intel hosts (bug #19315, #19561)
OCI integration: Cloud Instance parameters parsing is improved on import (bug #19156)
Network: UDP checksum offloading in e1000 no longer produces zero checksums (bug #19930)
Network: Fixed Host-Only Ethernet Adapter DHCP, guest os can not get IP on host resume (bug #19620)
NAT: Fixed mss parameter handing (bug #15256)
macOS host: Multiple optimizations for BigSur
Audio: Fixed issues with audio playback after host goes to sleep (bug #18594)
Documentation: Some content touch-up and table formatting fixes
Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.10 (bug #20055)
Solaris host: Fix regression breaking VGA text mode since version 6.1.0
Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting CentOS 8.2-2004 and later (bug #20091)
Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting Linux kernels 3.2.0 through 3.2.50 (bug #20006)
Guest Additions: Fixed a VM segfault on copy with shared clipboard with X11 (bug #19226)
Shared Folder: Fixed error with remounting on Linux guests
File "debug_mountsf.patch" is deleted - fixed upstream.
File "linux-5.10-address-space-fixes.patch" is deleted - fixed upstream.
File "linux-5.10-framebuffer-fixes.patch" is deleted - fixed upstream.
File "linux-5.10-r0drv-memobj-fix-r0.patch" is deleted - fixed upstream.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/865491
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=586
- Remove symbols that forced rebuild of initrd
- Version update to 6.1.14 (released September 04 2020 by Oracle)
File "fix_virtio_build.patch" is added to fix a build problem.
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: Fixes file name changes in the File location field when creating Virtual Hard Disk (bug #19286)
VMM: Fixed running VMs which failed to start with VERR_NEM_MISSING_KERNEL_API_2 when Hyper-V is used (bug #19779 and #19804)
Audio: fix regression in HDA emulation introduced in 6.1.0
Shared Clipboard: Fixed a potential crash when copying HTML data (6.1.2 regression; bug #19226)
Linux host and guest: Linux kernel version 5.8 support
EFI: Fixed reading ISO9660 filesystems on attached media (6.1.0 regression; bug #19682)
EFI: Support booting from drives attached to the LsiLogic SCSI and SAS controller emulations
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/833132
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=570
- Version bump to 6.1.12 (released July 14 2020 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
File "turn_off_cloud_net.patch" added.
Fixes for CVE-2020-14628, CVE-2020-14646, CVE-2020-14647, CVE-2020-14649
CVE-2020-14713, CVE-2020-14674, CVE-2020-14675, CVE-2020-14676
CVE-2020-14677, CVE-2020-14699, CVE-2020-14711, CVE-2020-14629
CVE-2020-14703, CVE-2020-14704, CVE-2020-14648, CVE-2020-14650
CVE-2020-14673, CVE-2020-14694, CVE-2020-14695, CVE-2020-14698
CVE-2020-14700, CVE-2020-14712, CVE-2020-14707, CVE-2020-14714
CVE-2020-14715 bsc#1174159.
UI: Fixes for Log-Viewer search-backward icon
Devices: Fixes and improvements for the BusLogic SCSI controller emulation
Serial Port: Regression fixes in FIFO data handling
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration: Experimental new type of network attachment, allowing local VM to act as if it was run in cloud
API: improved resource management in the guest control functionality
VBoxManage: fixed command option parsing for the "snapshot edit" sub-command
VBoxManage: Fix crash of 'VBoxManage internalcommands repairhd' when processing invalid input (bug #19579)
Guest Additions, 3D: New experimental GLX graphics output
Guest Additions, 3D: Fixed releasing texture objects, which could cause guest crashes
Guest Additions: Fixed writes to a file on a shared folder not being reflected on the host when the file is mmap'ed and the used Linux kernel is between version 4.10.0 and 4.11.x
Guest Additions: Fixed the shared folder driver on 32bit Windows 8 and newer returning an error when flushing writes to a file which is mapped into memory under rare circumstances
Guest Additions: Improve resize coverage for VMSVGA graphics controller
Guest Additions: Fix issues detecting guest additions ISO at runtime
Guest Additions: Fixed German translation encoding for Windows GA installer
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/821171
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=563
- Version bump to 6.1.10 (released June 05 2020 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: Fixed crash when using Qt on Xwayland sessions (bug #19583)
GUI: Fixed mouse pointer doesn't work properly in Windows guests when scaling is on (bug #19597)
VBoxManage: Fixed crash of 'VBoxManage internalcommands repairhd' when processing invalid input (bug #19579)
Settings: disable audio input and audio output by default for new VMs (bug #19527)
Guest Additions: Fixed resizing and multi monitor handling for Wayland guests. (bug #19496)
Guest Additions: Fixed VBoxClient error: The parent session seems to be non-X11. (bug #19590)
Linux host and guest: Linux kernel version 5.7 support. (bug #19516
File "fix_wayland_crash.patch" is removed - fixed upstream.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/811976
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=553
- Version bump to 6.1.8 (released May 15 2020 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
File "fixes_for_5.7.patch" is removed as the issue was fixed upstream.
GUI: Fix several layout and mouse position handling bugs with soft keyboard
GUI: Fixed crash on last VM removed (6.1.4 regression; bug #19568, #19525, #19506, #19490, #19481, #19397)
GUI and API: Allow renaming VMs which are in saved state
Serial: Fixed slow guest output when using the TCP server mode without anyone being connected
Guest Additions: Restored 'VBoxClient--checkhostversion' functionality (6.1.0 regression; bug #19470)
Guest Additions: Fixed resizing and multi monitor handling for X11 guests. (6.1.0 regression; bug #19496)
Guest Additions: Build problems fix with Oracle Linux 8.2 (Red Hat compatible kernel) / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 / CentOS 8.2 (bug #19391)
Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed handling of multiple environment variables supplied to 'VBoxManage guestcontrol VM run' (6.1.6/6.0.20 regression; bug #19518)
Guest Control: Implemented support for long(er) command lines
Guest Control: Various stability improvements
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/805962
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=550
- Version bump to 6.1.6 (released April 14 2020 by Oracle)
This version fixes bsc#1169249, bsc#1169202, and bsc#1166782.
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: Multiple enhancements including visual elements updates
Graphics: Fixed monitor resizing and multi-monitor handling bugs on X11 guests with VMSVGA graphics adapter
Graphics: Enhancements in 2D and 3D acceleration and rendering
USB: Multiple enhancements improving prformance and stability
Serial port: Improve error handling and fix hang when host port disappears
VBoxManage: Multiple fixes for guestcontrol operations
API: Fix for exception handling bug in Python bindings
Shared clipboard: Multiple fixes including possible crash and HTML data support
Linux host and guest: Support Linux kernel 5.6 (bug #19312)
File "VirtualBox-6.1.4-VBoxClient-vmsvga-x11-crash.patch" removed - fixed upstream.
File "fixes_for_5.6.patch" removed - fixed upstream.
File "change_default_display.patch" removed - fixed upstream.
- Fix bug that deletes everything in ~/.vbox/
- Fix builds for kernel 5.7. File "fixes_for_5.7.patch" is added.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/794392
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=548
- Version bump to 6.1.4 (released February 19 2020 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Virtualization core: Fixed a rare issue with ICEBP instruction causing guru meditations on Intel hosts (6.1.0 regression; bug #19171)
Virtualization core: Fixed macOS Catalina guests failing to boot after upgrading to 10.15.2 onwards (bug #19188)
GUI: recent NLS integration and bug fixes for GUI and Qt translation tags
USB: Fix isochronous transfers to the VM for xHCI
Serial: Fix buffer handling, avoiding receiving stale data when the receive queue is flushed (bug #18671)
Serial: Improve host serial port passthrough handling on Windows host
VBoxManage: Restore old --clipboard option for modifyvm command
Linux guest: Support Linux 5.5 (bug #19145)
Linux guest: Shared folder fix for loopback mounting of images
BIOS: Always report non-ATA disks as ready
BIOS: Report EFI support through DMI table (bug 19144)
VGA BIOS: Reduce stack space usage for INT 10h handlers
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/784690
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=536
- Version update to 6.1.2 (released January 14 2020i by Oracle)
18 Vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2020-2674 CVE-2020-2682 CVE-2020-2698 CVE-2020-2701 CVE-2020-2702 CVE-2020-2726
CVE-2020-2681 CVE-2020-2689 CVE-2020-2690 CVE-2020-2691 CVE-2020-2692 CVE-2020-2703
CVE-2020-2704 CVE-2020-2705 CVE-2020-2725 CVE-2020-2678 CVE-2020-2727 CVE-2020-2693
See bsc#1161050
File "fixes_for_leap15.2.patch" added to fix build for Leap 15.2.
As announced earlier by Oracle, 32-bit builds are no longer supported.
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Virtualization core: fixed performance issue observed with Windows XP guests on AMD hosts (6.0.0 regression; bug #19152)
Virtualization core: consistent IBRS/IBPB CPUID feature reporting, avoids crash of NetBSD 9.0 RC1 installer (bug #19146)
GUI: fixed updating of runtime info
GUI: in Display settings, do not show "2D video acceleration" checkbox if it is meaningless for the selected graphics adapter
Audio: fixed audio input handling when VRDE is enabled
Audio: fixed crash in the HDA emulation when using multi-speaker configurations
Storage: fixed use of encrypted disks with snapshots involved (6.1.0 regression; bug #19160)
Storage: improve performance of virtio-scsi
Storage: read-only support for compressed clusters in QCOW2 images
Linux host: Support Linux 5.5 (guest additions not yet)
Windows guest: accelerate 2D video decoding (scaling and color space conversion) if the VM is configured to use VBoxSVGA with 3D enabled
Windows guest: fix guest additions installer to upgrade the mouse filter driver reliably
Windows guest: when uninstalling older Guest Additions with old 3D support enabled try restoring original Direct3D files
Linux guest: improve resize and multi-monitor handling for VMs using VMSVGA (known remaining issue: do not disable a monitor "in the middle", causes confusion)
- Version update to 6.1.0 (released December 10 2019 by Oracle)
- Fixes bsc#1132102.
- Removed file "set_graphics_type.patch" as the problem is fixed upstream.
This is a major update. The following major new features were added:
- Implemented support for importing a virtual machine from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Extended support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, allowing the creation
of multiple virtual machines without re-uploading. Also added option to export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/765913
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=526
- Add directory %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/metainfo for metafile "virtualbox.appdata.xml
- Version bumk to 6.0.14 (released October 15 2019 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Virtualization core: fixed an invalid-guest state guru meditation in some rare circumstances on Intel hosts
Virtualization core: some fixes for systems with lots of processors
Audio: relaxed VRM / VRA (variable rate audio) bit checks to provide more compatibility for guests running ALSA setups with the AC'97 emulation
USB: made device capturing for passthrough more accurate and reliable on Windows host
Network: fixed potential issue with interrupt signalling for network adapters in UEFI guests
3D: fixed flicker and redraw issues when using VBoxSVGA or VMSVGA graphics adapter (bugs #18562, #18956)
3D: fixed crash with some applications when using VBoxSVGA or VMSVGA graphics adapter (bug #18638)
macOS host: fix crash of GUI VM process which showed up frequently with 10.15 Catalina (bug #18990)
Linux host: support Linux 5.3, thank you Larry Finger (see also bug #18911)
Linux host: improve python version detection during rpm package creation, can change package dependencies and fix some installation problems
Linux guests: calls to aio_read(3) and aio_write(3) may fail inside shared folders (bug #18805)
Linux guests: fix problem with shared folder unmounting in service script, thank you Denis Ryndine (bug #18853)
Linux guests: VBox 6.0.10 GAs fail to compile on Red Hat/CentOS/Oracle Linux 7.7 and Red Hat 8.1 Beta (bug #18917)
Fix vulnerabilities CVE-2019-3028 CVE-2019-3017 CVE-2019-2944 CVE-2019-3026 CVE-2019-3021
CVE-2019-2984 CVE-2019-3002 CVE-2019-3005 CVE-2019-3031 CVE-2019-1547
CVE-2019-2926 (bsc#1154166)
Removed file "fixes_for_5.3.patch" - fixes included upstream.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/741636
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=514
Added file "README.build" with instructions for me and any eventual successors.
- Version update to 6.0.12 (released September 03 2019 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
OCI export: handle empty disk image correctly
API: fix potential crash when using the medium I/O functionality
VBoxManage: fixed documentation of VBoxManage modifyvm uarttype documentation (bug #18759)
Network: scrub inbound TCP URG pointer, working around incorrect OOB handling
USB: Improved identification of power-saved devices on Windows hosts
Audio: in the AC97 work around buggy guest drivers which reprogram the sampling rate, breaking audio in and/or audio out
Linux host and guest: fix kernel module build for SLES 12 SP4 kernel
3D: fixed state saving and loading when the VBoxVGA graphics adapter is used with 3D enabled (bug #18802, 6.0.10 regression)
Windows guests: fixed mouse cursor visibility updating
Windows guests: fixed graphics corruption in Windows 10 search menu with VBoxSVGA adapter
Windows guests: fixed dwm.exe crashes related to the WDDM driver for VBoxSVGA adapter when the VM has lots of RAM
MacOS Guest Additions fail to start in 6.0.10 (bug #18793)
Windows guests: fixed crashes when using shared folders (bug #18766)
Linux guests: unprivileged users unable to create files inside shared folders (bug #18737)
Linux guests: improve compatibility of vboxvideo.ko kernel module build logic (bug #18869)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/729117
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=502
- Version update to 6.0.10 (released July 16 2019 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Various vulnerabilities are fixed (bsc#1141801) inclding
CVE-2019-2859 CVE-2019-2867 CVE-2019-2866 CVE-2019-2864 CVE-2019-2865 CVE-2019-1543 CVE-2019-2863
CVE-2019-2848 CVE-2019-2877 CVE-2019-2873 CVE-2019-2874 CVE-2019-2875 CVE-2019-2876 CVE-2019-2850
User interface: fix issue inputing controller names (bug #11579)
User interface: fix resize problems with recent Linux hosts (bug #18677)
Serial: fixed guru meditation when raw mode is enabled (bug #18632)
Serial: fixed possible VM crash under certain circumstances
USB: Fixed "unrecoverable error" problems in OHCI emulation (bug #18593, 6.0.6 regression)
USB: improve captured device identification
VBoxManage: fix reversed reporting of audio input and output (thank you Socratis Kalogrianitis)
VBoxManage: fix controlling recording for running machine (bug #18723)
Guest control service: various fixes
Linux hosts: kernel module build fixes for various kernels (bug #18316)
Linux hosts: support UEFI secure boot driver signing on Ubuntu and Debian hosts (bug #11577)
Linux hosts: fix focus grabbing problems with recent Qt versions (builds from source only; thank you Fabian Vogt (SUSE) and Larry Finger; bug #18745)
Windows guests: many shared folders fixes
Windows guests: fix other services failing if seamless mode was not available
Linux guests: kernel module build fixes for various kernels (bugs #18677 and #18697; fixes by Larry Finger and Gianfranco Costamagna)
Linux guests: do not try to load old versions of libcrypt on recent guests in Guest Additions tools (bug #18682)
Linux guests: udev rules for guest kernel modules did not always take effect in time
Linux guests/VMSVGA: do not forget the guest screen size after a guest reboot
OS/2 guests: various shared folder fixes
Revise instructions for case when VirtualBoxVM has the wrong privilege.
File "fixes_for_5.2.patch" is deleted - fixed upstream.
File "fixes_for_5.3.patch" is added to handle API changes in kernel 5.3.
File "fixes_for_SLE15.patch" deleted.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/716635
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=497
- Version bump to 6.0.8 (released May 13 2019 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Core: fix saved state resume failures (bugs #18265 and #18331)
User interface: show full file location in New Medium window.
User interface: fix mouse click pass-through problems in multi-screen virtual machines (6.0.6 regression, bug #18567)
Graphics: fixed a crash when powering off a VM without graphics controller (bug #18570)
API: partial fix for dealing with VM config conflicting with other VMs related to medium UUIDs, now correctly flags VM as inaccessible (bug #17908)
Linux hosts: fix kernel module build breakage in non-default build set-ups (bug #18620, thank you Ambroz Bizjak)
Linux hosts: fix kernel module build breakage in debug build set-ups (bug #18621, thank you Ambroz Bizjak)
Windows guests: notice file size increases in shared folders which were missed in certain cases
Linux guests: make shared folders work with Linux 3.16.35
Linux guests: fix incorrectly read-only shared folders (bug #18345)
- Modify "fixes_for_qt13.1" for i586 builds qith Qt 5.13
- Limit all architectures to a maxium of 2 jobs. Without this restriction, 32-bit builds run
out of memory, and 64-bit builds get strange crashes.
- LTO builds still failing. Reset flag to nil.
- Changed the way that the spec file limits the 32-bit builds to 2 threads. boo#1133492.
If enough memory were allocated so that the full number of workers were allowed, the job would never be scheduled.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/705282
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=488
- Updated file "Fixes_for_Leap15.1.patch" to handle one addition problem due to backporting of kernel APIa.
Remove "BuildRequires: quilt" - that package is not needed.
VirtualBox 6.0.6 fixes the following: CVE-2019-2656, CVE-2019-2680, CVE-2019-2696, CVE-2019-2703, CVE-2019-2721,
CVE-2019-2722, CVE-2019-2723, CVE-2019-2657, CVE-2019-2690, CVE-2019-2679,
CVE-2019-2678, and CVE-2019-2574 boo#1132827.
- Version bump to 6.0.6 (released April 17 2019 by Oracle)
The following files in the openSUSE implemetation are removed: "fix_32_bit_builds.patch", "fixes_for_5.0.patch", and
"fixes_for_5.1.patch". These issues are fixed upstream.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/696073
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=486
Files "fixes_for_5.0" and "fixes_for_gcc9" are deleted - the code was fixed upstream.
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Virtualization core: support Shanghai/Zhaoxin CPUs.
User interface: handle command line arguments to VirtualBox correctly (bugs #18206 and #18197)
User interface: improvements to machine manager window, virtual optical disk creator, storage selector window and log viewer window
User interface: various small fixes and improvements
Audio: implemented time scheduling for the AC'97 device emulation to keep audio and video in sync
Graphics: basic support for VMSVGA graphics device in virtual machines using EFI
Network: fix occasional NATNet crashes (bug #13899)
Network: worked around problems in certain PCnet drivers on old operating systems
Serial: fixed connecting to pseudo terminals on POSIX hosts (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)
Linux hosts and guests: fix for building kernel modules against Linux 5.0. Thank you Kyle Laker
- Converted vboxwebsrv to a systemd service. Previously, this was started through init.d. bsc#1116050
Files "vboxweb-service.service" and "vboxweb-service.sh" are added.
File "vbox-vboxweb-init-script.diff" is removed.
File "fixes_for_4.20.patch" is removed - the code was fixed upstream.
File "fix_lib_search.patch" is added to fix the build of VBox0GL.
File "fixes_for_5.0.patch" is added to compensate for API changes in kernel 5.0.
File "virtualbox-system-x.patch" is removed.
File "fixes_for_Leap15.1.patch" is added to fix build errors on Leap 15<F5>.1.
- Version bump to 6.0.2 (released January 15 2019 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
User interface: fixed creation of desktop shortcuts for starting virtual machines (bug #18207)
User interface: allow the first run window to selecting host drives (bug #18230)
User interface: fixed attaching empty host optical drives (bug #18223)
User interface: implemented a new virtual optical disk creation window
USB: modified Linux backends to reset USB devices (previously, most guest attempts to reset USB devices were ignored)
PCnet: fixed a regression which caused some PCnet PCI guest drivers to not detect the emulated hardware (bug #18286)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=465
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Audio: fixed a regression in the Core Audio backend causing a hang when returning from host sleep when processing input buffers
Audio: fixed a potential crash in the HDA emulation if a stream has no valid mixer sink attached -- thanks to Rink Springer (rink@â¦)
Linux Additions: disable 3D for recent guests using Wayland (bug #18116)
Linux Additions: fix for rebuilding kernel modules for new kernels on RPM guests
Linux Additions: further fixes for Linux 4.19
Linux Additions: fixed errors rebuilding initrd files with dracut on EL 6 (bug 18055#)
Linux Additions: fixed 5.2.20 regression: guests not remembering the screen size after shutdown and restart (bug #18078)
Patch file "gcc8-configure.patch" removed. The issue is fixed upstream.
Patch file "fixes_for_4.19.patch" removed. The issue is fixed upstream.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=454
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed task switches triggered by INTn instruction (bug #17979)
Storage: fixed connecting to certain iSCSI targets (bug #17507)
Storage: fixed handling of flush requests when configured to be ignored when the host I/O cache is used (bug #17573)
Drag and drop: implemented support for UNC paths (bug #17146)
Drag and drop: fixed resuming operation when restoring from a saved state (bug #17649)
Drag and drop: fixed copying files with long file names (> 248 characters) from guests to Windows hosts (bug #17447)
Drag and drop: fixed handling files with Unicode names on Windows guests (bug #15501)
Drag and drop: fixed copying empty (0-byte) files to / from guests (bugs #14863 + #17443)
Drag and drop: fixed copying over files from hosts to Linux guests (bug #16025)
Networking: restore connectivity for guests bridged to host adapters that were unavailable temporarily (Windows hosts, bug #17090)
Guest Control: fixed hang when using --wait-stdout and/or --wait-stderr (bug #17386). Needs updating Guest Additions
Video recording: fixed starting video recording on VM power up (bug #17307)
Linux Additions: various build fixes for kernel modules on recent distributions, and made sure modules end up in initramfs files
Linux Additions: build fixes for 4.19, thank you Larry Finger
Linux Additions: various small fixes for video driver
This version also addresses the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-0732, CVE-2018-2909, CVE-2018-3287
CVE-2018-3288, CVE-2018-3289, CVE-2018-3290, CVE-2018-3291, CVE-2018-3292, CVE-2018-3293,
CVE-2018-3294, CVE-2018-3295, CVE-2018-3296, CVE-2018-3297, and CVE-2018-3298. bsc#1112097
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=446
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: See user manual.
VMM: fix loading with recent binutils and self-built versions of VirtualBox (bug #17851)
NAT: fix --nataliasmode sameports which is a valid setting (bug #13000)
VRDP: fixed VM process termination on RDP client disconnect if 3D is enabled for the virtual machine
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=441
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
OVF: case insensitive comparison of manifest attribute values, to improve compatibility (bug #17357)
Linux: build for openSUSE 15.0 (bug #17554)
Linux: various build fixes for distribution builds, thank you Gianfranco Costamagna
This update fixes CVE-2018-3005, CVE-2018-3055, CVE-2018-3085, CVE-2018-3086,
CVE-2018-3087, CVE-2018-3088, CVE-2018-3089, CVE-2018-3090, and CVE-2018-3091. bsc#1101667.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=439
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
User interface: fixed a segmentation fault when accessing the interface through VNC (bug #16348)
User interface: X11: handle repeating keys on the host system correctly (bug #1296, previously fixed, 5.1.0 regression)
VMM: Fixed emulation of the undocumented SALC instruction
VMM: Fixed emulation of so-called "huge unreal mode" (bug #17744); this in practice only affected Intel CPUs with VT-x without unrestricted execution.
Keyboard: The PS/2 keyboard emulation has been corrected to not queue partial scan code sequences (bug #17709); this problem was likely only visible on Linux hosts due to losing the fix for bug #1296
Storage: Fixed CUE file support to correct REM keyword parsing (bug #17783)
USB: Fixed a problem where the emulated xHCI device under very rare circumstances failed to report an empty isochronous transfer ring error, causing the transfers on the corresponding endpoint to stop.
Audio: fixed Linux kernel log flooding (bug #17759)
Apple hosts: make kernel driver load with Mac OS Mojave pre-release (bug #17805).
Linux guests: made vboxvideo driver build with kernel 4.17 (bug #17801) and with pre-3.14 and EL 7.1 kernels (bug #17771)
Removed "fixes_for_4.17.patch" - fixes merged upstream.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=437
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Serial: fixed possible data corruption when sending data under certain circumstances
Video recording: fixed starting / stopping recording under certain circumstances
Linux hosts: support Linux 4.17 changes. Thank you Larry Finger
Linux guests: support Linux 4.16 and EL 7.5 kernels (bugs #17676 and #17678)
Linux guests: 3D fixes for recent guests (bug #17623)
File "fixes_for_4.16.patch" is removed - fixed upstream.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=425
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Vulnerabilities CVE-2018-0739, CVE-2018-2830, CVE-2018-2831, CVE-2018-2835, CVE-2018-2836, CVE-2018-2837,
CVE-2018-2842, CVE-2018-2843, CVE-2018-2844, CVE-2018-2845, and CVE-2018-2860
VMM: Fixed missing NULL pointer check in MMIO code
Storage: fixed having multiple NVMe controllers with ICH9 enabled (5.2.0 regression)
Network: fixed wireless detection regression when bridging to adapters with unbound IP protocols (bug #17543)
Audio: Fixed interrupt storm in FreeBSD guests with HDA (bug #17219)
Keyboard: Introduced a small delay to fix old software which expects to be able to read an incoming scan code more than once (bug #17592)
NAT: Handle nameserver 0.0.0.0 which is a valid setting (bug #17584)
BIOS: INT 15h/87h service must disable A20 gate when done
Linux Guest Additions: fix a hang starting KDE Plasma
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=417
File "fix_videocapture.patch" removed - fixed upstream.
Version bump to 5.2.8 (released 2018-02-27 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: added support for FSGSBASE, PCID, INVPCID CPU features for guests
VMM: fixed EMM386 issue with detecting suitable page frame base (bug #10022)
Front end: Linux: prevent VM window from jumping and auto-resizing to tiny size after resizing it on HiDPI screen
Front end: Linux: fixed seamless regression caused by wm_class functionality (bugs #12534, #17304)
Front end: switched to https downloads
Front end: fixed crash while opening New machine wizard (s.a. forums topic 86592)
Audio: added support for distinguishing recording sources in the PulseAudio mixer on the host when multiple VMs are running
Audio: various fixes for the DirectSound backend
Video recording: added better file seeking support and fixed playback of recorded files with certain players (e.g. Firefox)
Audio: various fixes for Windows guest surround setups
Audio: various fixes for HDA emulation
Serial: fixed an issue where the serial port parameters in the emulation and host serial port got out of sync (bug #17116)
Storage: fixed overwriting certain INQUIRY data for the DVD/CD drive attached to a AHCI controller
Storage: fixed handling VMDK images created by Amazon EC2 VM export
Network: fixed PXE boot regression in e1000
Network: Added a workaround for older guests which do not enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device
3D: add environment variable to configure presenting 3D content on main thread (see bug #13653)
Windows hosts: fixed indiscriminate binding of NDIS5 bridged driver, that caused PPPOE malfunction (bugs #16407, #17489)
Windows guests: fixed incorrect function error when using shared folders in certain applications (bug #14118)
Linux guests: Linux 4.15 support (bugs #17311, #17320, #17282)
Linux guests: fixed black screen when 3D enabled in guests (bug #17463, 5.2.6 regression)
Linux guests: suppress setuid and setgid in shared folders
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=407
Fixes for the following vulnerabilities (bsc#1076372)
CVE-2018-2694, CVE-2018-2698, CVE-2018-2685, CVE-2018-2686, CVE-2018-2687, CVE-2018-2688
CVE-2018-2689, CVE-2018-2690, CVE-2018-2676, CVE-2018-2693, CVE-2017-5715
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: fixed occasional screen corruption when host screen resolutio n is changed
User interface: increase proposed disk size when creating new VMs for Windows 7 and newer
User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens
VMM: Fixed problems using 256MB VRAM in raw-mode VMs
Audio: implemented support for audio playback and recording for macOS guests
Audio: further timing improvements for Windows 10 guests
Linux hosts: fixed problem accessing mini-toolbar under XFCE (bug #17280, contributed by Dusan Gallo)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=397
File "remove_vbox_video_build.patch" added as current versions of Xorg no longer need this component.
Version update to 5.2.4 (released 2017-12-19 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
User interface: Adjusting desktop file for X11 window managers (bug #17312)
User interface: various high resolution display adjustments
Audio: fixed SB16 volume handling (5.2 regression)
Audio: various fixes
USB/OHCI: fixed a problem where OHCI emulation might sporadically drop data transfers
Linux hosts: fixed screen corruption when the host screen changes and a virtual machine window is maximized
X11 Guest Additions: fixed a hang at the GNOME Shell login screen with 3D enabled (5.2 regression, bugs #17189 and #17190)
Version bump to 5.2.2 (released 2017-11-24 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens
User interface: added functionality to duplicate optical and floppy images
User interface: various improvements for the virtual media manager
VMM: fixed emulation so that Plan 9 guests can start once more (5.1.0 regression)
Storage: fixed regression breaking iSCSI (bug #17196)
Audio: added HDA support for more exotic guests (e.g. Haiku)
Serial: fixed hanging I/O when using named pipes on Windows (5.2.0 regression; bug #17227)
Serial: fixed broken communication with certain devices on Linux hosts
USB/OHCI: improved behavior so that the controller state after a VM reset is closer to the initial state after VM start
EFI: fixed HFS+ driver which in rare cases failed to access most files on a volume
Shared clipboard: fixed hang with OS X host and Linux guest (bug #15782)
Linux hosts: fixed kernel module compilation and start failures with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #17267)
X11 hosts: better handle WM_CLASS setting (bug #12534)
Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #12534)
Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14
Linux guests: fixed various 5.2.0 regressions (bug #17163)
Bridged networking: fixed duplicate EtherType in VLAN/priority tags on Linux (5.2.0 regression; bug #17277)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=393
- Move files /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxKeyboard.so, /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxOGLrenderspu.so, /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSharedClipboard.so, and
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSharedCrOpenGL.so from package virtualbox to virtualbox-qt. With this change, package virtualbox no longer needs libX11.
- Version bump to 5.1.30 (released 2017-10-16 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: translation updates
GUI: Fixed double mouse cursor when using mouse integration without Guest Additions, actually a Qt 5.6 bug fixed with QT 5.6.3 (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15610)
Solaris hosts: allow increasing MTU size for host-only adapter to 9706 bytes to support jumbo frames
Linux hosts: glibc 2.26 compile fix
Windows Additions: 3D related crash fix (bugs #17082, #17092)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=371
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: reset the TSC on VM reset to work around a Windows bug (bug #16643)
Audio: fixed memory leak when enabled with VRDP connections (5.1.24 regression; bug #16928)
Audio: fixed creation of too many sound sinks on Linux hosts when using the PulseAudio backend (bug #16938)
Audio: implemented record gain registers for AC'97 emulation; those are needed for newer Ubuntu guests which rely on those when controlling gain and muting the recording (capturing) levels
Storage: fixed hang when using the emulated NVMe controller with the SPDK (bug #16945)
Mouse: double click was not working with a precision touchpad (bug #14632)
Linux hosts: properly bring up host-only network interfaces with iproute (5.1.24 regression; bug #16911)
Linux hosts: provide Python 3 libraries for deb/rpm packages
Windows guests: fixed automatic logons for Vista and newer Windows guests (5.1.24 regression; bug #16921)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=355
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: mask the VME CPUID capability on AMD Ryzen processors for now to make certain guests works, for example Windows XP
VMM: emulate more SSE2 instructions
VMM: properly clear the TF and AC flags when dispatching real-mode interrupts
GUI: fixes to make the mini-toolbar work with recent versions of KDE / Plasma (bug #16325)
GUI: fixed a potential crash when a VM with multiple screens is running in full screen / seamless mode and a host screen is removed, for example when connecting to the host via RDP
GUI: fixed initial size hints for guests which set intermediate sizes before responding (bug #16593)
GUI: prevent stopped screen updates or black screen on reboot in a multi-screen setup under certain conditions
Audio: many improvements for Windows 10 guests (bugs #15189, #15925, #16170, #16682, #16794 and others)
Storage: fixed possible crash when using Intels SPDK
API: use the correct file name of the VM machine state if the VM settings directory is renamed, for example during grouping / ungrouping a VM (bugs #16075 and #16745)
API: return the correct error code if powering up a VM fails
API: video recording did not automatically start at VM start when enabled in the VM settings (bug #16803)
API: when relocating a medium, check that the target path is fully qualified
EFI: fix for VMs with more than 3504MB RAM (bug #11103)
Host-only adapter: correctly determine IPv4 netmasks on Windows hosts (bug #16826)
NAT network: properly do the refcounting for starting / stopping the NAT / DHCP services if the NAT network is changed while the adapter network connection type is anything else but NAT network
VBoxManage: fixed controlvm videocapfile (bug #16779)
Linux / Mac OS X hosts: more fixes for loading shared libraries (5.1.20 regression; bugs #16778, #16693)
Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.12 fixes (bugs #16725, #16800)
Linux hosts / guests: reduce the kernel stack consumption for Linux kernels with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK defined
Linux hosts / guests: fixes for kernel modules built with gcc-7 (bug #16772)
Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.13 fix (bug #16887)
Linux hosts: don't depend on net-tools on newer distributions as this package is deprecated in favour of iproute (bug #16764)
Linux hosts: make 2D video acceleration available for older Linux distributions (5.1 regression; bug #16858)
Linux Additions: fix for dynamic resizing with Oracle Linux 6 with UEK4
Linux Additions: make Fedora 25 and 26 Alpha work when 3D pass-through is enabled
Linux Additions: no longer recommend removing distribution- installed Additions if they are updated to our guidelines
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=351
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed VERR_IEM_INSTR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED Guru Meditation under certain conditions (5.1 regression; mostly Mac OS X hosts; bugs #15693, #15801, #16274, #16569, #16663)
VMM: fixed software virtualization on Solaris hosts (5.1.20 regression)
Storage: fixed a potential hang under rare circumstances (bug #16677)
Storage: fixed a potential crash under rare circumstances (asynchronous I/O disabled or during maintenance file operations like merging snapshots)
Linux hosts: make the ALSA backend work again as well as loading the GL libraries on certain hosts (5.1.20 regression; bugs #16667, #16693)
Linux Additions: fixed mount.vboxsf symlink problem (5.1.20 regression; bug #16670)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=329
CVE-2017-3559, CVE-2017-3575, CVE-2017-3538, CVE-2017-3513
Version bump to 5.1.20 (released 2017-04-18 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: don't check if the Extension Pack is up-to-date if the user is about to install a new Extension Pack (bug #16317)
GUI: fixed a possible crash when switching a multi-monitor VM into full-screen or seamless mode
GUI: several mini-toolbar fixes in full-screen / seamless mode (X11 hosts only)
GUI: don't crash on restoring defaults in the appliance import dialog
Windows Additions: another fix for automatic logins for Windows Vista and newer (bug #15904)
ICH9: fix for Windows guests with a huge amount (>64G) of guest memory
BIOS: fixed El Torito hard disk emulation geometry calculation (thanks Dwight Engen)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=325
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Shared Folders: fixed case insensitive filename access (5.1.16 regression; Windows guests only; bug #16549)
Shared Folders: fixed access to long pathes (5.1.16 regression; Windows guests only; bugs #14651, #16564)
API: fixed snapshot handling of medium attachments and PCI device attachments (bug #16545)
API: make 32-bit Windows guests in raw mode boot again if the ICH9 chipset is used (5.1.16 regression)
VBoxBugReport: fixed VM log collection issue
Linux hosts: fixed autostart service script (bug #14955)
Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Windows Vista and newer (5.1.4 regression; bug #15904)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=320
Removed "vbox_fix_4.11_api_changes.patch" - fixed upstream
- Version bump to 5.1.16 (released 2017-03-08 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: don't access the MSR_IA32_SMM_MONITOR_CTL MSR if dual-monitor treatment is not available (KVM workaround, bug #14965)
VMM: another fix for handling certain MSRs on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps
VMM: fixed VERR_SSM_LOAD_CPUID_MISMATCH errors when restoring a saved state with SMP guests on hosts without the CPUID/HTT bit set (bug #16428)
VMM: fixed a bug in call gate emulation
VMM: FWAIT instruction fix
VMM: fixed a sporadic guest hang under certain conditions
GUI: hide the mini-toolbar from the taskbar and the pager on certain X11 hosts
GUI: better error handling on the global settings / network / host-only / DHCP server settings
GUI: fixes for full-screen with multiple screens
Host-only Network: fixed host-only adapter creation issue preventing VirtualBox installation on Windows 10 hosts (bug #16379)
NAT network: fixed two potential crashes in the DHCP server
ICH9: fixed incorrect initialization of the primary bus for PCI bridges (5.1.14 regression)
Storage: LsiLogic fix for Windows 10
USB: fixed not being able to attach certain USB devices having invalid characters in the device strings (5.0.18 regression; bug #15956)
USB: several fixes for the USB/IP support (bug #16462)
VBoxSVC: fixed another crash during shutdown under rare circumstances
VBoxSVC: fixed a stack overflow on (Windows debug builds only; bug #16409)
OVF: when importing an appliance handle more than 10 network adapters if the OVA was created by VirtualBox (bug #16401)
OVF: fixes for exporting and importing appliances with many disks (bug #16402)
VBoxManage: fixed regression with modifyhd --resize (bug #16311)
rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes
Linux Installers: do not rebuild kernel modules unnecessarily (bug #16408)
Linux hosts: added an action for opening the VM manager window to the .desktop file
Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.11 compile fixes (bug #16506)
Linux Additions: added vboxsf FS modules alias (bug #16404)
Linux Additions: fix for the shared folders kernel module to compile on Linux 4.10
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=317
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)
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
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=301
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: the USB filter settings dialog should allow to specify the USB revision in hexadecimal format (bug #15400)
GUI: fixed crash on certain hosts when pressing certain key combinations (Windows hosts only; bug #15719)
GUI: fixed issue with updating the available-geometry on host-screen work-area resize
GUI: don't crash / hang on certain environments if accessibility support is enabled
GUI: fixed various issues in Unscaled HiDPI Output mode (bug #15707)
GUI: extend the VM Input menu with Print Screen-related actions
GUI: improved handling of inserting the Guest Additions ISO image by trying all available optical drives rather than only the first one and by not asking the user if he wants to force unmounting (which doesn't work in most cases anyway)
API: default to RTC using UTC for Solaris 11 guests
Settings: be less restrictive when reading a VM configuration containing a host-only adapter without an interface name
Storage: fixed resizing VDI images resulting in an unbootable image under certain circumstances (bug #15983)
NAT: fixed several 5.1.8 regressions on Mac OS X and Windows hosts (bug #16084)
Audio: fixed a few 5.1.x regressions by using the audio code from 5.0.x until the audio overhaul is completed
VBoxManage: fixed documentation of the storagectl command (bug #15971)
Build system: another fix for building VirtualBox on systems which default to Python 3
Windows hosts: hardening fix for Windows 10 build 14971 (bug #16202)
Windows Additions: properly start the VirtualBox guest services even if the guest user name contains special characters (bug #15982)
Solaris Additions: fixed preemptible mouse notification callback being executed under a spinlock for Solaris guests
Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.9 fixes (bugs #16155 and #16064)
Linux Additions: fixed Linux kernel module override rule (thanks Mark Furneaux)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=293
