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:
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
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
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
