This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Shared Folders: fixed case insensitive filename access (5.1.16 regression; Windows guests only; bug #16549)
Shared Folders: fixed access to long pathes (5.1.16 regression; Windows guests only; bugs #14651, #16564)
API: fixed snapshot handling of medium attachments and PCI device attachments (bug #16545)
API: make 32-bit Windows guests in raw mode boot again if the ICH9 chipset is used (5.1.16 regression)
VBoxBugReport: fixed VM log collection issue
Linux hosts: fixed autostart service script (bug #14955)
Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Windows Vista and newer (5.1.4 regression; bug #15904)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=320
Removed "vbox_fix_4.11_api_changes.patch" - fixed upstream
- Version bump to 5.1.16 (released 2017-03-08 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: don't access the MSR_IA32_SMM_MONITOR_CTL MSR if dual-monitor treatment is not available (KVM workaround, bug #14965)
VMM: another fix for handling certain MSRs on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps
VMM: fixed VERR_SSM_LOAD_CPUID_MISMATCH errors when restoring a saved state with SMP guests on hosts without the CPUID/HTT bit set (bug #16428)
VMM: fixed a bug in call gate emulation
VMM: FWAIT instruction fix
VMM: fixed a sporadic guest hang under certain conditions
GUI: hide the mini-toolbar from the taskbar and the pager on certain X11 hosts
GUI: better error handling on the global settings / network / host-only / DHCP server settings
GUI: fixes for full-screen with multiple screens
Host-only Network: fixed host-only adapter creation issue preventing VirtualBox installation on Windows 10 hosts (bug #16379)
NAT network: fixed two potential crashes in the DHCP server
ICH9: fixed incorrect initialization of the primary bus for PCI bridges (5.1.14 regression)
Storage: LsiLogic fix for Windows 10
USB: fixed not being able to attach certain USB devices having invalid characters in the device strings (5.0.18 regression; bug #15956)
USB: several fixes for the USB/IP support (bug #16462)
VBoxSVC: fixed another crash during shutdown under rare circumstances
VBoxSVC: fixed a stack overflow on (Windows debug builds only; bug #16409)
OVF: when importing an appliance handle more than 10 network adapters if the OVA was created by VirtualBox (bug #16401)
OVF: fixes for exporting and importing appliances with many disks (bug #16402)
VBoxManage: fixed regression with modifyhd --resize (bug #16311)
rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes
Linux Installers: do not rebuild kernel modules unnecessarily (bug #16408)
Linux hosts: added an action for opening the VM manager window to the .desktop file
Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.11 compile fixes (bug #16506)
Linux Additions: added vboxsf FS modules alias (bug #16404)
Linux Additions: fix for the shared folders kernel module to compile on Linux 4.10
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=317
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
- 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
* 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
* VMM: emulation fix for the ENTER instruction under certain conditions; fixes
Solaris 10 guests (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution)
* VMM: fix for handling NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled
* NAT/NAT Network: fix connection drops when the host's DHCP lease was renewed
(4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13839)
* NAT: don't crash on an empty domain list when switching the DNS host
configuration (4.3.22 regression; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #13874)
* PXE: re-enable it on Windows hosts (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug
#13842)
* Shared Folders: fixed a problem with Windows guests (4.3.22 regression; bug
#13786)
* Audio: improved record quality when using the DirectSound audio backend
* VBoxManage: when executing the controlvm command take care that the
corresponding VM runtime changes are saved permanently (bug #13892)
* Windows Installer: properly install the 32-bit version of VBoxRes.dll on 32-bit
hosts (bug #13876)
* Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.0 fixes (bug #13835)
* OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse integration (4.3.22 regression; bug #13825)
* X11 Additions: fixed a sporadic failure to deactivate virtual screens (bug
#13845)
- Use smp_mflags when building kernel modules
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=175
- update to version 4.3.20:
+ VMM: fixed reboot hang of 32-bit Windows SMP guests (bug #13319, #13462)
+ VMM: proper Math Fault handling with certain legacy guests (bug #9042, AMD hosts)
+ VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT on older CPUs that don't support MSR-bitmaps (VT-x only; bugs #13034, #13125, #13311, #13425, #13426, #13463, #13585)
+ GUI: fix 3D overlay window re-parenting issue when VM goes to full screen mode on X11 hosts.
+ GUI: fix occasional loss of focus in full-screen mode on X11 host systems (4.3.16 regression)
+ GUI: Mac OS X: wizards should have Cancel button (bug #12541)
+ GUI: added a global option to prevent automatic raising of the new window by mouse move with multi-screen guests (bug #8878)
+ API: accept remote display port 0 as the default RDP port (bug #8534)
+ VBoxManage: fixed crash when executing showvminfo command under certain circumstances (bug #13190)
+ ACPI: fixed occasional Guru Meditations in ACPI timer code (4.3.18 regression; bug #13521)
+ EFI: improved performance of IDE disk access
+ EFI: fixed a bug in the EFI video driver which prevented Windows to boot in UEFI mode (bug #12022)
+ EFI: properly announce the amount of RAM for big VMs (bugs #11103 and #13211)
+ Storage: fixed a crash under certain circumstances when a medium was ejected from a drive attached to the SATA controller without inserting a new medium before pausing or closing the VM (4.3.16 regression)
+ Storage: fixed an interrupt acknowledge issue causing hanging guests or slower I/O (4.3.18 regression)
+ Storage: fixed broken resume after the VM was suspended due to a full disk if host I/O caching is used
+ Storage: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions when using the DevLsiLogic controller with VMs running in raw mode (4.3 regression; bugs #12254, #12655, #12709, #12774, #12886)
+ Guest Control: fixed a bug which might lead to a crash during recursive copy
+ SDK: Java COM bindings fixes
+ iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol (bug #13628)
+ Runtime: do not use a fixed stack size creating temporary threads during initialization (bug #13038)
+ Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)
+ Windows hosts: fixed DirectSound host audio failure under certain conditions (bug #13418)
+ Windows hosts: fixed additional cases of 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)
+ Windows Additions: preserve guest monitor layout when resizing Windows 7 or newer guests
+ Linux Additions: Linux 3.18 compile fixes (bug #13515)
- download the Manual directly without rename
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/265616
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=169
