- VirtualBox 7.0.6 (released January 17 2023)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: [1]
- VMM: Fixed guru running the FreeBSD loader on older Intel CPUs without unrestricted guest support (bug #21332)
- GUI: Fixed virtual machines grouping when VM was created or modified in command line (bugs #11500, #20933)
- GUI: Introduced generic changes in settings dialogs
- VirtioNet: Fixed broken network after loading saved state (bug #21172)
- Storage: Added support for increasing the size of the following VMDK image variants: monolithicFlat, monolithicSparse, twoGbMaxExtentSparse, twoGbMaxExtentFlat
- VBoxManage: Added missing --directory switch for guestcontrol mktemp command
- Mouse Integration: Guest was provided with extended host mouse state (bug #21139)
- DnD: Introduced generic improvements
- Guest Control: Fixed handling creation mode for temporary directories (bug #21394)
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for building UEK7 kernel on Oracle Linux 8
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 9.1 kernel
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.2 for vboxvideo
- Audio: The "--audio" option in VBoxManage is now marked as deprecated; please use "--audio-driver" and "--audio-enabled" instead. This will allow more flexibility when changing the driver and/or controlling the audio functionality
Additionally, it fixes 6 CVE's: [2]
CVE-2023-21886 Oracle VM VirtualBox Core Multiple Yes 8.1 Network High None None Un-
changed High High High Prior to 6.1.42, prior to 7.0.6
CVE-2023-21898 Oracle VM VirtualBox Core None No 5.5 Local Low Low None Un-
changed None None High Prior to 6.1.42, prior to 7.0.6 See Note 1
CVE-2023-21899 Oracle VM VirtualBox Core None No 5.5 Local Low Low None Un-
changed None None High Prior to 6.1.42, prior to 7.0.6 See Note 1
CVE-2023-21884 Oracle VM VirtualBox Core None No 4.4 Local Low High None Un-
changed None None High Prior to 6.1.42, prior to 7.0.6
CVE-2023-21885 Oracle VM VirtualBox Core None No 3.8 Local Low Low None Changed Low None None Prior to 6.1.42, prior to 7.0.6 See Note 2
CVE-2023-21889 Oracle VM VirtualBox Core None No 3.8 Local Low Low None Changed Low None None Prior to 6.1.42, prior to 7.0.6
Note 1: Applies to VirtualBox VMs running Windows 7 and later.
Note 2: Applies to Windows only.
Links:
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1060705
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=673
added file "set_noexec_stack.patch" to remove executable stack in yasm-compiled routines
addwd file "fix_v7_build.patch"
added file "VBoxDDR0.r0"
deleted file "/vb-6.1.16-modal-dialog-parent.patch"
VirtualBox 7.0.2 (released October 20 2022)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Known issue: VMs having more than one vCPU configured will not work properly on macOS Catalina due to an unknown memory corruption issue. Either lower the number of vCPUs to 1 or upgrade to BigSur or later where the issue does not occur
Main: Fixed issue when VBoxSVC could become unresponsive if Extension Pack was not installed (bug #21167)
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.1
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxClient seamless service caused a crash of some X11 applications (bug #21132)
GUI: Fixed a glitch in the log viewer which was causing wrong log file to be saved (bug #21156)
VirtualBox 7.0.0 (released October 10 2022)
This is a major update. The following major new features were added:
Virtual machines can be fully encrypted now, including the VM config logs and saved states (CLI only for now)
OCI: Cloud virtual machines can be added to Virtual Machine Manager and controlled as local VMs
OCI: Cloud networks can now be configured via Network Manager tool same way as it is done for Host-only and NAT networks
GUI: Added a new utility similar to "top" or "resource monitor" which lists peformance statistics (CPU usage, RAM usage, disk I/O rate, etc.) of running guests
GUI: Reworked the new vm wizard to integrate the unattended guest OS installation and to have a more streamlined work flow
GUI: Added a new help viewer widget which enables the user manual to be navigated and searched
GUI: Adding new notification center unifying most of running progresses and error reporting around the GUI
GUI: Improved theme support on all platforms. Linux and macOS use native engine while for Windows host it is separately implemented.
GUI: Large icon update.
Audio recording: Now using Vorbis as the default audio format for WebM containers. Opus is no longer being used.
Audio: Added "default" host driver type to make it possible to move VMs (appliances) between different platforms without the need of changing the audio driver explicitly. When the "default" driver is selected, the best audio backend option for a platform will be used. This is the default for newly created VMs.
Guest Control: Implemented initial support for automatic updating of Guest Additions for Linux guests
Guest Control: Implemented ability to wait for and/or reboot the guest when updating Guest Additions via VBoxManage
VBoxManage: Added Guest Control "waitrunlevel" sub-command to make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain run level
Linux Guest Additions: Reworked guest screen re-size functionality, added basic integration with some of guest Desktop Environments
Devices: Implemented new 3D support based on DirectX 11 (and DXVK on non Windows hosts)
Devices: Added virtual IOMMU devices (Intel and AMD variant)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1036720
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=663
Version Bump to 6.1.40
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: Fixed missed machine-items state translation on language change
USB: Fixed possible crash when the device got detached while the controller is resetting the port
Main: Provide guest's absolute pointing mouse device with buttons state when mouse integration is ON
Linux Host and Guest Additions: Prevented build failure on 5.8+ 32-bit kernels
Linux Host and Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for kernel 6.0
Linux Host and Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for Debian specific kernels
Solaris and Linux Guest Additions: Added better handling of negative screen sizes which some X11 desktop environments are reporting
Windows Guest Additions: Added fixes related to VBoxTray IPC
- Fix boo#1204233 boo#1204331 boo#1202851
- Remove file fix_error_in_USB_header.patch - fixed upstream
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1029812
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=661
- Version bump to 6.1.38r86 released by Oracle September 02 2022
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: Improvements in Native Language Support area
Main: OVF Export: Added support for exporting VMs containing Virtio-SCSI controllers
Recording settings: Fixed a regression which could cause not starting the COM server (VBoxSVC) under certain circumstances (bug #21034)
Recording: More deterministic naming for recorded files (will now overwrite old .webm files if present)
Linux Host and Guest Additions installer: Improved check for systemd presence in the system (bug #19033)
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.0
Linux Guest Additions: Additional fixes for kernel RHEL 9.1 (bug #21065)
Windows Guest Additions: Improvements in Drag and Drop area
Fixes permission problem with /dev/vboxuser (boo#1203370)
Fixes boo#1203306 - 6.1.38 is available
Fixes missing firewall opening (boo#1203086)
Fixes boo#1201720 CVE items for CVE-2022-21571, CVE-2022-21554
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1004165
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=653
- Version bump to 6.1.36 released by Oracle July 19 2022
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed possible Linux guest kernel crash when configuring Speculative Store Bypass for a single vCPU VM
GUI: In the storage page of the virtual machine settings dialog, fixed a bug which disrupted mouse interaction with the native file selector on KDE
NAT: Prevent issue when host resolver incorrectly returned NXDOMAIN for unsupported queries (bug #20977)
Audio: General improvements in saved state area
Recording: Various fixes for settings handling
VGA: Performance improvements for screen updates when VBE banking is used
USB: Fixed rare crashes when detaching a USB device
ATA: Fixed NT4 guests taking a minute to eject CDs
vboximg-mount: Fixed broken write support (bug #20896)
SDK: Fixed Python bindings incorrectly trying to convert arbitrary byte data into unicode objects with Python 3, causing exceptions (bug #19740)
API: Fixed an issue when virtual USB mass storage devices or virtual USB DVD drives are added while the VM is not running are by default not marked as hot-pluggable
API: Initial support for Python 3.10
API: Solaris OS types cleanup
Linux and Solaris hosts: Allow to mount shared folder if it is represented as a symlink on a host side (bug #17491)
Linux Host and Guest drivers: Introduced initial support for kernels 5.18, 5.19 and RHEL 9.1 (bugs #20914, #20941)
Linux Host and Guest drivers: Better support for kernels built with clang compiler (bugs #20425 and #20998)
Solaris Guest Additions: General improvements in installer area
Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize in VMSVGA graphics configuration
Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed multi-screen handling in VBoxVGA and VBoxSVGA graphics configuration
Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Added support for setting primary screen via VBoxManage
Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed X11 resources leak when resizing guest screens
Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed file descriptor leak when starting a process using guest control (bug #20902)
Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed guest control executing processes as root
Linux Guest Additions: Improved guests booting time by preventing kernel modules from being rebuilt when it is not necessary (bug #20502)
Windows Guest Additions: Fixed VBoxTray crash on startup in NT4 guests on rare circumstances
deleted file "fixes_for_kernel_5.18.patch" - fixed upstream.
Fixes CVE-2022-21571) VUL-0: CVE-2022-21571,CVE-2022-21554 - boo#1201720
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/990809
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=648
- Version bump to 6.1.34 (released March 22 2022) by Oracle
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fix instruction emulation for "cmpxchg16b"
GUI: Improved GUI behavior on macOS Big Sur and later when kernel extensions are not loaded
EHCI: Addressed an issue with handling short packets (bug #20726)
Storage: Fixed a potential hang during disk I/O when the host I/O cache is disabled (bug #20875)
NVMe: Fixed loading saved state when nothing is attached to it (bug #20791)
DevPcBios: Addressed an issue which resulted in rejecting the detected LCHS geometry when the head count was above 16
virtio-scsi: Improvements
E1000: Improve descriptor handling
VBoxManage: Fixed handling of command line arguments with incomplete quotes (bug #20740)
VBoxManage: Improved 'natnetwork list' output
VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (--ipv6-prefix) to set IPv6 prefix
VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (--ipv6-default) to advertise default IPv6 route (bug #20714)
VBoxManage: Fix documentation of "usbdevsource add" (bug #20849)
Networking: General improvements in IPv4 and IPv6 area (bug #20714)
OVF Import: Allow users to specify a different storage controller and/or controller port for hard disks when importing a VM
Unattended install: Improvements
Shared Clipboard: Improved HTML clipboard handling for Windows host
Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 5.17
Solaris package: Fixes for API access from Python
Solaris IPS package: Suppress dependency on libpython2.7.so.*
Linux host and guest: Fixes for Linux kernel 5.14
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize for older guests which are running libXrandr older than version 1.4
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.6 kernels (bug #20877)
Windows guest: Make driver install smarter
Solaris guest: Addressed an issue which prevented VBox GAs 6.1.30 or 6.1.32 from being removed in Solaris 10 guests (bug #20780)
EFI: Fixed booting from FreeBSD ISO images (bug #19910)
Removed file "fixes_for_kernel_5.17.patch" - fixed upstream.
Fixes CVE-2022-21465 (boo#1198676), CVE-2022-21471 (boo#1198677), CVE-2022-21491 (boo#1198680), CVE-2022-21487 (boo#1198678), and CVE-2022-21488 (boo#1198679).
Fixed boo#1198703 - package virtualbox-websrv needs sysvinit-tools
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/975263
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=631
- Version bump to 6.1.32 (released January 18 2022 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Fix for CVE-2022-21394 (boo#1194924)
VMM: Changed the guest RAM management when using Hyper-V to be more compatible with HVCI (bug #20627 and #20694)
VMM: Workaround for OS/2 guest unstability on newer AMD CPUs due to a missing TLB flush in OS/2 (bug #20625)
GUI: Fixed keyboard focus loss in rare circumstances when using the mini toolbar in fullscreen mode
Audio: Fixed accidental creation of empty debug log file when the OSS audio backend was configured
E1000: Fix link status reporting for certain Linux kernels (some Oracle Linux ones, probably more)
Unattended installation: Fixed regression introduced in 6.1.28, causing partitioning failure for Windows XP to 10 (bug #20769)
Linux host: Fix access to some USB devices, device class was not correctly handled (bug #20721)
Guest: Fixed wrong mouse position if guest is in text mode
Guest Control: Fixed folders copying from host to guest and from guest to host
Guest Control: Fixes for UNICODE handling
Shared Clipboard: Improved HTML content exchange between X11 and Windows guests and hosts
OS/2 Additions: Fixed some issues with extended attributes in the shared folders (bug #19453)
File "vboxclient-clipboard.service" was removed while the shared clipboard problem with Wayland is further investigated.
- Add libnotify-tools to build requirements for virtualbox-guest-x11 (boo#1194128)
Add service to start shared clipboard in Wayland sessions (boo#1194126). File "vboxclient-clipboard.service"
is added. Thanks to Andrei Borzenkov for providing this file.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/947763
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=627
