- 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
