- 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/323675
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=104
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
- Version bump to 4.3.28:
* VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests (for example Solaris
doing fast reboot) by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI
* VMM: added some information for diagnosing rare VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR Guru
Meditations (VT-x only)
* GUI: HID LEDs sync: prevent synchronization if VM window has no focus (Windows
and Mac OS X hosts only)
* GUI: fixed drag and drop moving the cursor between guest screens on certain
hosts
* 3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state on X11 hosts (bug #12737)
* 3D: fixed a crash on Linux guest shutdown (bug #12772)
* VRDP: fixed incompatibility with rdesktop 1.8.3
* VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)
* Storage: don't crash if creating an asynchronous I/O context fails (e.g. when
starting many VMs) and show a proper error message
* Floppy: several fixes
* Audio: improved the behavior of the volume control for the HD audio device
emulation
* USB: increase the number of supported drivers from 3 to 5 (Windows hosts only)
* PS/2 keyboard: synchronize the LED state on VM restore (Windows and Mac OS X
hosts only)
* NAT Network: when running multiple NAT networks with multiple VMs, only stop
the respective services when stopping VMs (bug #14090)
* NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors (bug #13475)
* NAT: bandwidth limit now works properly with NAT (bug #11485)
* BIOS: fixed the returned size value of the VBE 2.0 PMI function 0Ah (4.2.0
regression; bug #14096)
* Guest Control: fixed parameter quoting in Windows guests (bug #13157)
* Webcam passthrough improvements for Linux (V4L2) hosts to support more webcam
models
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/307370
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=98
* VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests (for example Solaris
doing fast reboot) by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI
* VMM: added some information for diagnosing rare VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR Guru
Meditations (VT-x only)
* GUI: HID LEDs sync: prevent synchronization if VM window has no focus (Windows
and Mac OS X hosts only)
* GUI: fixed drag and drop moving the cursor between guest screens on certain
hosts
* 3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state on X11 hosts (bug #12737)
* 3D: fixed a crash on Linux guest shutdown (bug #12772)
* VRDP: fixed incompatibility with rdesktop 1.8.3
* VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)
* Storage: don't crash if creating an asynchronous I/O context fails (e.g. when
starting many VMs) and show a proper error message
* Floppy: several fixes
* Audio: improved the behavior of the volume control for the HD audio device
emulation
* USB: increase the number of supported drivers from 3 to 5 (Windows hosts only)
* PS/2 keyboard: synchronize the LED state on VM restore (Windows and Mac OS X
hosts only)
* NAT Network: when running multiple NAT networks with multiple VMs, only stop
the respective services when stopping VMs (bug #14090)
* NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors (bug #13475)
* NAT: bandwidth limit now works properly with NAT (bug #11485)
* BIOS: fixed the returned size value of the VBE 2.0 PMI function 0Ah (4.2.0
regression; bug #14096)
* Guest Control: fixed parameter quoting in Windows guests (bug #13157)
* Webcam passthrough improvements for Linux (V4L2) hosts to support more webcam
models
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=190
