- 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
- Change default display type for openSUSE virtual machines. The default type
has been VMSVGA; however, this display type fails to utilize driver vboxvideo.
thus the display size is fixed. This problem is under investigation, but
until a fix is found, the default is changed to VBoxVGA with file
"add change_default_display.patch".
- Makefile in the kernel-host-source package has a typo bug fixed (boo#1168910)
and a large number of warnings are fixed.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/792829
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=545
- With version 6.1.4 of VB, the bidirectional clipboard part of VBoxClient
for guest systems is failing. A patch is provided at
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19336. These changes have been added
to file "VirtualBox-6.1.4-VBoxClient-vmsvga-x11-crash.patch". This
fixes boo #1167403 "VBoxClient --clipboard dies".
- Update the wrapper that starts the UI for VirtualBox to check the
version of the extpack that is installed. If no pack is installed
or if the license is not current, the new code does nothing. If there
is a current license and the installed pack does not match the
running version of VB, then the script downloads and installs the
new version. File "update-extpack.sh" is added.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/787617
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=540
- 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" to documentation 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/729135
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=503
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
