- Version bump to 6.1.30 (released November 22 2021 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed 6.1.28 regression preventing VMs starting when using Hyper-V mode on Windows 10
GUI: Fixed inability to complete First Run wizard after browsing for an external image
GUI: Fixed crash on macOS Big Sur while browsing for an external image from First Run wizard
GUI: Fixed bug on Windows with inability to save taken screenshot under a folder with native name (bug #15561)
GUI: Fixed bug on X11 with drag and drop initiated on single mouse click in VM storage settings
GUI: Fixed settings check on machines not supporting hardware virtualization
GUI: Non critical media related errors should not cause modal pop-up error messages
Host-only networking: Fixed crash parsing /etc/vbox/networks.conf
DVD: Fixed drive lock handling across VM reset
VBoxHeadless: Fixed crash when running on macOS Monterey (bug #20636)
VBoxManage: Fixed incorrect help text for "hostonlyif"
vboximg-mount: Error message if no image is specified
Linux host: For all distribution specific packages (deb/rpm format) fix the packaging so that the feature for unattended installation of guest OSes works
Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 5.16
Shared Clipboard: Improved communication between guest and host when guest has no clipboard data to report
Linux Guest Additions: Allow running only one VBoxDRMClient instance (bug #19373)
File "fixes_for_5.14.patch" deleted - fixed upstream.
File "fixes-for-5.15.patch" deleted - fixed upstream.
File "fixes-for-5.16.patch" deleted - fixed upstream.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/933168
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=624
- Version bump to 6.1.24 (released July 20 2021 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Storage: Fixed starting a VM if a device is attached to a VirtIO SCSI port higher than 30 (bug #20213)
Storage: Improvement to DVD medium change signaling
Serial: Fixed a the guest missing interrupts under certain circumstances (6.0 regression, bug #18668)
Audio: Multiple fixes and enhancements
Network: Fixed connectivity issue with virtio-net after resuming VM with disconnected link
Network: Fixed UDP GSO fragmentation issue with missing 8 bytes of payload at the end of the first fragment
API: Fixed VM configuration for recent Windows Server versions
Extension Pack: Fixed issues with USB webcam pass-through on Linux
Host and guest driver: Fix small memory leak (bug #20280)
Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.13 (bug #20456)
Linux host and guest: Introduce support for SUSE SLES/SLED 15 SP3 kernels (bug #20396)
Linux host: Installer will not attempt to build kernel modules if system already has them installed and modules versions match current version
Guest Additions: Fixed crash on using shared clipboard (bug #19165)
Linux Guest Additions: Introduce support for Ubuntu specific kernels (bug #20325)
Solaris guest: Increased default memory and disk sizes
EFI: Support network booting with the E1000 network controller emulation
EFI: Stability improvements (bug #20090)
Delete file "fix_random_stack_failure.patch" - fixed upstream.
- Add vboximg-mount to packaging. boo#1188045.
Fix an error in file "fixes_for_5.14.patch".
problem with kernel 5.13 as shown in boo#1188105.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/907363
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=611
- Version bump to (released April 20 2021 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed extremely poor VM performance depending on the timing of various actions (regression in 6.1.0)
VMM: Fixed guest OS hanging under certain circumstances when Hyper-V is present (bug #20141)
VMM: Fixed Guru Meditation error when using a nested hypervisor under certain circumstances (bug #20175)
VMM: Fixed a SMAP related host panic affecting Solaris 11.4 systems with Intel Haswell CPUs or later (bug #16068)
OCI: Add cloud-init support for export to OCI and for OCI instance creation
GUI: Fixed "Delete all files" leaving behind Logs/VBoxUI.log (bug #20235)
Audio: Multiple fixes and enhancements
Audio: Fixed detection of duplex audio devices on macOS (5.0 regression; bug #20171)
Network: Fixed link status reporting for "not attached" adapters
Network: Fixed connectivity issues with e1000 in OS/2 guests (6.1.18 regression; bug #20148)
Network: Fixed VxWorks e1000 driver compatibility issue (bug #20182)
Network: Fixed GUI checks for port forwarding rules rejecting IPv6 with "Nat Network" (bug #14847)
DHCP: Don't crash in the presence of fixed address assignments (bug #20128)
Serial: Fixed possible VM hang when using the a serial port in disconnected mode (bug #19854)
Webcam: Fixed interoperability with v4l2loopback and fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #20176)
NVMe: Fixed sporadic Windows VM hang or reboot on high CPU load
VBoxManage: Allow changing network adapter attachment of a saved VM with "modifyvm"
vboximg-mount: Fix for argument processing to honor the '--root' option (6.0 regression; bug #20073)
Linux host and guest: Support kernel versions 5.11 (bug #20198) and 5.12
Linux host: Maximum MTU size increased to 16110 for host-only adapters on Linux kernels 4.10+ (bug #19122)
Linux Guest Additions: Fix vboxvideo module compilation for kernel version 5.10.x
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel module build for RHEL 8.4 beta and CentOS Stream (bug #20289)
File "fixes-for-5.11.patch" is deleted. The issue is fixed upstream.
File "vboxautostart.sh" is replaced by "vboxautostart-service.sh"
File "vboxautostart.service" is replaced by "vboxautostart-service.service"
Fixes boo#1183329 "virtualbox 6.1.18 crashes when it runs nested VM"
Fixes boo#1183125 "Leap 15.3 installation in Virtualbox without VBox integration"
Fixes CVE-2021-2264 and boo#1184542. The directory for the <user>.start files for
autostarting VMs is moved from /etc/vbox to /etc/vbox/autostart.d. In addition, the autostart
service is hardened (by Oracle).
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/888128
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=597
- Remove symbols that forced rebuild of initrd
- Version update to 6.1.14 (released September 04 2020 by Oracle)
File "fix_virtio_build.patch" is added to fix a build problem.
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: Fixes file name changes in the File location field when creating Virtual Hard Disk (bug #19286)
VMM: Fixed running VMs which failed to start with VERR_NEM_MISSING_KERNEL_API_2 when Hyper-V is used (bug #19779 and #19804)
Audio: fix regression in HDA emulation introduced in 6.1.0
Shared Clipboard: Fixed a potential crash when copying HTML data (6.1.2 regression; bug #19226)
Linux host and guest: Linux kernel version 5.8 support
EFI: Fixed reading ISO9660 filesystems on attached media (6.1.0 regression; bug #19682)
EFI: Support booting from drives attached to the LsiLogic SCSI and SAS controller emulations
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/833132
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=570
- Pseudo version bump to 6.1.13, which is NOT an Oracle release.
Update VB sources to run under kernel 5.8.0+ with no modifications to the
kernel. These sources are derived from r85883 of the Oracle svn repository.
For operations with USB{2,3}, the extension pack for revision 140056 must
be installed. Once Oracle releases 6.1.14, then the extension pack and
VB itself will have the same revision number.
File "fixes_for_5.8.patch" is removed as that part was fixed upstream.
Fixes boo#1175201.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/830373
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=568
- 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" 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
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
Now it builds for 42.3 as well
- replace switch_to_python3.6.patch with switch_to_python3.4+.patch
- remove fixes_for_leap15.patch, upstream has incorporated it
- add conflict with i4l-vbox due to shared /etc/vbox
- adjust /etc/vbox permissions
- add /etc/vbox/autostart.cfg
- fix vboxdrv.sh: apply new autostart mechanics to stop_vms()
- remove obsolete shutdown section in /etc/default/virtualbox
- add VBOXAUTOSTART_{DB,CONFIG} to /etc/default/virtualbox
- supply README.autostart
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/655353
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=459
