- Version bump to 5.1.14 (released 2017-01-17 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed emulation of certain instructions for 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
VMM: properly handle certain MSRs for 64-bit guests on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps (bug #13886)
GUI: fixed a crash with multimonitor setups under certain conditions
GUI: allow cloning of snapshots when the VM is running
NVMe: fixed compatibility with the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK, bug #16368)
VBoxSVC: fixed a crash under rare circumstances
VBoxManage: added a sanity check to modifymedium --resize to prevent users from resizing their hard disk from 1GB to 1PB (bug #16311)
Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 hosts
Linux hosts: Linux 4.10 fixes
Linux Additions: fixed protocol error during certain operations on shared folders (bug #8463)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=304
the logic has been inverted. Now, the required udev commands to allow passthru are included. The first time that VB is started,
the user will get a screen that points to the bug entry discussing the problem and states what they should do to block the
insecure usage. In any case, that screen will only be printed once. File "virtualbox-60-vboxdrv.rules" has been added
These changes address the issues in bnc #1018340.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=303
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
boo #1005621.
- Add patch file "vbox_remove_smp_mflags.patch" to limit number of simultaneous make jobs.
- Version bump to 5.1.8 (released 2016-10-18 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: fixed keyboard shortcut handling regressions (Mac OS X hosts only; bugs #15937 and #15938)
GUI: fixed keyboard handling regression for separate UI (Windows hosts only; bugs #15928)
NAT: don't exceed the maximum number of "search" suffixes. Patch from bug #15948.
NAT: fixed parsing of port-forwarding rules with a name which contains a slash (bug #16002)
NAT Network: when the host has only loopback nameserver that cannot be mapped to the guests (e.g. dnsmasq running on 127.0.1.1), make DHCP supply NAT Network DNS proxy as nameserver.
Bridged Network: prevent flooding syslog with packet allocation error messages (bug #15569)
Audio: now using Audio Queues on Mac OS X hosts
Audio: fixed recording with the PulseAudio backend (5.1 regression)
Audio: various bugfixes
Snapshots: fixed regression in 5.1.4 for deleting snapshots with several disks (bug #15831)
Snapshots: crash fix and better error reporting when snapshot deletion failed
Storage: some fixes for the NVMe emulation with Windows guests
API: fixed initialization of SAS controllers (bug #15972)
Build system: make it possible to build VBox on systems which default to Python 3
Windows Additions / VGA: if the guest's power management turns a virtual screen off, blank the corresponding VM window rather than hide the window
Windows Additions: fixed a generic bug which could lead to freezing shared folders (bug #15662)
Linux hosts / guests: fix for kernels with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK set (bug #16020)
Linux Additions: don't require all virtual consoles be in text mode. This should fix cases when the guest is booted with a graphical boot screen (bug #15683)
Linux Additions: added depmod overrides for the vboxguest and vboxsf kernel modules to fix conflicts with modules shipped by certain Linux distributions
X11 Additions: disable 3D on the guest if the host does not provide enough capabilities (bug #15860)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=281
Hi Larry,
thanks for the positive response.
Sure, let your fix settle before taking the next.
Here's a small change on top, that avoids a chkstat build verification issue.
- adjust file attributes on SUID helpers to avoid chkstat issues
- remove obsolete libgsoap-devel (again)
- remove /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules
- it is overruled from vboxdrv init script anyway
- vboxdrv generates a /etc/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules file
on _every_ start, note that fact in /etc/default/virtualbox
and describe a strategy to control this behaviour
- relocate VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh to /usr/lib/virtualbox
this is, where vboxdrv, resp. the generated 60-vboxdrv.rules
file is expecting it
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/418790
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=267
- Version bump to 5.0.10 (released 2015-11-10 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: improved support for certain Intel Atom CPUs (bug #14773)
VMM: system register emulation fix (5.0 regression; bug #14515)
GUI: fixed immediate screenshot issue (bug #14108)
GUI: fixed another 3D overlay window reparenting issue when the VM is switched to fullscreen mode on X11 hosts
GUI: fixed help index (bug #14722)
GUI: fixed state synchronization issue in the VM manager window when VM was paused from its runtime window
Audio: fixed suspending/resuming audio streams on VM pause/unpause (bug #14784)
Audio: properly reset AC97 audio streams, otherwise there is silence until a non-48 kHz stream is played
Audio: fixed a small emulation quirk of the AD1980 codec of the HDA device to make recent linux guests work (bug #14653)
USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller
USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions on hosts with Linux kernels older than version 3.3
USB: better identification of certain USB devices
NAT: support TCP in DNS proxy (bug #14736)
NAT Network: fixed sporadic crashes on Windows hosts (bug #13899)
API: when creating differencing images (e.g. as part of a snapshot or cloning a VM) use the same disk image variant as the parent image if possible, which means that e.g. a diff image for a VMDK image split into 2 GB files will also be split (bug #14764)
API: event queue handling fixes preventing loss of certain events at runtime (e.g. new webcam attached), particularly important on Mac OS X hosts
Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Windows hosts only)
VBoxManage: don't crash on snapshot restorecurrent / edit if the VM has no snapshots
VBoxManage: don't crash on controlvm addencpassword (bug #14729)
Mac OS X hosts: use the correct kernel on certain hosts
Windows hosts: fixed VRDP external authentication
Windows hosts: allow to use a shared folder path with extended-length path prefix (5.0 regression; bug #14651)
Windows hosts: fix a crash in the netfilter host driver under certain conditions (bug #14799)
Windows host installer: documented and fixed public properties which can be used to control the installation to some extent
Windows host installer: fixed not starting the actual installation when showing the version information or help dialogs
X11 Additions: added basic support for X.Org Server 1.18 (3D requires additional fixes)
- Refresh vbox-no-build-dates.diff
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/344040
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=234
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: Mac OS X: Restore green zoom button for VM windows (it was hidden in the previous release to avoid native full-screen issues). For Yosemite and El Capitan this button should work accordingly to the Apple HIG: Full-screen by default, maximize if the user holds the Option key.
Serial ports: fixed wrong IRQ number for the first serial port in the ACPI tables (5.0.6 regression; bug #14659)
API: fixed a 5.0 regression in VBoxManage setproperty defaultfrontend (bug #14696)
VBoxManage/vbox-img: conversion to RAW images could result in a disk image containing all zeroes
Linux hosts: several fixes for systemd integration in .deb / .rpm packages (e.g. bug #14665). The command for recompiling the host kernel modules was changed to /sbin/vboxconfig
Linux hosts: make host-only interfaces report operstate UP only when they have VMs attached (bug #14526)
Mac OS X hosts: fix bpf capture and accounting of traffic on bridged and host-only interfaces (bug #14553)
Windows guests: fixed 3D rendering issues on high resolution displays
Windows Additions: fixed problems with 3D acceleration on Windows hosts with Intel HD graphics (bug #14670)
Linux Additions: fix service starting on Debian systems with systemd installed but not in use (bug #14683)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=229
- Version bump to 5.0.6 (released 2015-10-02 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: the update check now uses the HTTP system proxy settings by default
GUI: About dialog improvements. Copyable version text, do not close dialog on mouse-clicks and focus losing, explicit close button at the bottom of dialog and disabled close button fix on OS X. (bugs #9912, #12749)
GUI: fixed bug when re-assigning shortcuts (bug #14565)
GUI: fixed default focus button in message-box dialogs (bug #14486)
GUI: fixed settings dialog which is opened if the network settings need to be changed at VM startup (5.0.0 regression; bug #14601)
GUI: fixed crash during VM start if an early error message needs to be shown, for example Linux kernel modules not present (bug #14646)
Bridged Networking: fixed handling of guest DHCP requests without UDP checksum when bridging to a wireless interface (bug #14615)
Audio: latency fixes (Windows hosts only; bug #4088)
Guest Control: correctly set USERNAME and USERPROFILE environment variables (Windows guests only)
Guest Control: several fixes
API: properly restore NAT port forwarding rules when reverting to a snapshot
Parallel ports: Several fixes allowing to enable two parallel ports for a VM
VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of debugvm show command
VBoxManage: fixed hang when specifying logging groups with debugvm log starting with h, for example hex
Windows hosts: renamed VBoxStartup.log to VBoxHardening.log and provide this log file in the GUI log viewer
Windows hosts: fixed a small memory leak in the Windows host interface driver (VBoxNetAdp) which caused a BSOD if the driver verifier is enabled (bug #14562)
Windows hosts: fixed a failure to start VMs on hosts where dsound.dll is not available (bug #14574)
Windows hosts: another fix for VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE errors (bug #14579)
Windows hosts: fixed host-to-guest communication with bridged networking (bugs #14326, #14457)
Windows hosts: fixed broken data receiving from the serial device with the named pipe backend if Kaspersky AV is installed
Linux hosts: Linux 4.3 compile fixes
Linux hosts: installer fix for certain systems (bug #14627)
Linux hosts / guests: native systemd support for the host/guest installer scripts. The scripts for re-compiling the kernel modules are now located at /sbin/rcvboxdrv (host) and /sbin/rcvboxadd (Guest Additions)
Mac OS X hosts: GUI-related fixes for El Capitan
Mac OS X hosts: fixed a problem with capturing USB devices under El Capitan
Mac OS X hosts: allow colon character on shared folders (bug #14554)
Linux Additions: properly set the VBoxService process ID in the PID file (bug #14571)
Linux Additions: Guest Control fixes (bug #14573)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/336464
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=226
- The code base released by Oracle failed to build on 32-bit systems. They had already fixed the
problem. This update applies their solution.
Version bump to 5.0.4 (released 2015-09-08 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed an issue with Windows 10 guest kernel debugging over the network for Hyper-V paravirtualized VMs
VMM: fixed a bug which prevented reading the saved state of the 'PATM' unit from VirtualBox 4.3.x (bug #14512)
GUI: changed default OS type for Windows from Windows XP to Windows 7
GUI: added another pre-defined guest screen resolution (bug #14384)
GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates (bug #13096)
GUI: fixed issues with synchronization of Caps lock / Num lock / Scroll lock on Windows hosts (bug #14302)
GUI: don't crash during VM shutdown if 2D video acceleration and 3D support are enabled (Mac OS X hosts only)
GUI: several seamless fixes for certain X11 window managers, also when used in multi-screen setups
GUI: Log window size, position and cursor-position fixes
Audio: fixed playing leftover/deprecated audio samples
Audio: fixed playing audio after suspending the host (5.0 regression; Linux hosts using the ALSA backend)
Audio: fixed playing short audio samples which were chopped off formerly
Audio: fixed distortions on OS X when the sample rate of the guest stream and host device don't match
Storage: fixed raw disk access and flat VMDK image access which would be always opened readonly (5.0.2 regression; bugs #14425, #14461)
Storage: fixed initial encryption of VDI images after they were compacted (bug #14496)
VGA: fix for certain graphics modes (bug #14516)
NAT: don't freeze while the VM is paused if the network attachment mode is changed from/to NAT with activated port forwarding
OVF: fixed duplicate USB controller entries in exported OVA/OVF (bug #14462)
Shared Folders: fixed a path separator issue (bug #14434)
Drag and drop: fixed crashes on OS X hosts when doing host-to-guest transfers
VBoxManage: another attempt to not deny changing the network adapter type at VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308)
VBoxManage: fixed broken guestcontrol <VM-Name> list command (5.0 regression)
VBoxManage: fixed broken Guest Control stdout/stderr output (5.0 regression)
Mac OS X hosts: fixed remaining problems with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later; bug #14412)
Mac OS X hosts: fixed broken 3D support (5.0.2 regression; bug #14476)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/330439
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=222
- Install and enable the vboxadd-service init script, to make auto-mounting of shared folders and time synchronization work
- Install VBoxService to /usr/sbin/ instead of /usr/bin/ so that vboxadd-service can find it, it cannot be run as user anyway
- Create the /media folder with appropriate permissions on distributions higher than 13.1, it doesn't exist any more and the one that VBoxService creates automatically cannot be accessed by normal users
- Fixes boo#908669 and boo#936254
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/328398
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=221
Version bump to 5.0.2 (released 2015-08-13 by Oracle)
A number of problems were fixed and/or added. In particular, the artifically high load average
problem reported as bsc#939299 has been fixed. The complete list follows:
VMM: added support for guest crash report MSRs with Hyper-V paravirtualization
VMM: fixed an issue causing artifically high load averages on Linux hosts
VMM: fixed a kernel panic with thread-context hooks caused by incompatible changes made to Linux 4.2 kernels
VMM: fixed a saved state issue with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (5.0 regression; bug #14304)
VMM: fixed VERR_SUPDRV_TSC_DELTA_MEASUREMENT_FAILED Guru Meditations on certain AMD CPUs (5.0 regression; bug #14370)
VMM: fixed a crash while creating a guest core dumps via the VM debug facility (5.0 regression)
VMM: This release has AVX2 passthrough disabled on every host and AVX passthrough disabled for 64-bit VMs on 32-bit hosts.
This will be properly fixed in a future 5.0.x maintenance release (see e.g. bug #14262).
GUI: fixed rare hang and crash on VM shutdown/poweroff
GUI: X11: fixed few crashes caused by the Qt alien widgets feature
GUI: X11: fixed various mini-toolbar geometry quirks like positioning, z-order, transiency issues on certain window managers (bug #14257)
GUI: X11: fixed mini-toolbar minimize button issue under certain window managers (bug #14284)
GUI: VM menu actions availability should now be properly updated on full-screen/seamless/scaled mode switches
GUI: disk encryption password validation should be performed when user confirmed the password, not after each entered symbol
GUI: do not change the VM/group selection in the VM Manager to the newly created VM if it was created by another client (e.g. VBoxManage)
GUI: improve the quality in scaled mode under some circumstances (5.0 regression; bug #14303)
VBoxManage: do not deny changing the network adapter type at VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308)
VRDP: allow Windows 10 RDP clients (bug #14216)
Audio: fix a possible crash on VM process termination (5.0 regression)
Storage: improved raw disk access on OS X by unmounting any accessed volume before first use and prevent any mount attempt by the host (bug #14219)
3D: basic support for saving/restoring display lists
Shared Folders: fixed a problem with accessing CIFS shares (bug #14252)
Shared Folders: improved path conversion between hosts and guests with different path separators (bug #14153)
API: skip resetting of immutable media when the VM in saved state is started (bug #13957)
API: fixed method for setting medium IDs which used zero (invalid) UUIDs instead random (valid) UUIDs if no UUIDs were passed (bug #14350)
API: for Windows host fix detection of API client crashes which have a session open
OVF: properly export all VBox features including the setting for paravirtualization (bug #14390)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/323449
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=217
