- 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
File "remove_vbox_video_build.patch" added as current versions of Xorg no longer need this component.
Version update to 5.2.4 (released 2017-12-19 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
User interface: Adjusting desktop file for X11 window managers (bug #17312)
User interface: various high resolution display adjustments
Audio: fixed SB16 volume handling (5.2 regression)
Audio: various fixes
USB/OHCI: fixed a problem where OHCI emulation might sporadically drop data transfers
Linux hosts: fixed screen corruption when the host screen changes and a virtual machine window is maximized
X11 Guest Additions: fixed a hang at the GNOME Shell login screen with 3D enabled (5.2 regression, bugs #17189 and #17190)
Version bump to 5.2.2 (released 2017-11-24 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens
User interface: added functionality to duplicate optical and floppy images
User interface: various improvements for the virtual media manager
VMM: fixed emulation so that Plan 9 guests can start once more (5.1.0 regression)
Storage: fixed regression breaking iSCSI (bug #17196)
Audio: added HDA support for more exotic guests (e.g. Haiku)
Serial: fixed hanging I/O when using named pipes on Windows (5.2.0 regression; bug #17227)
Serial: fixed broken communication with certain devices on Linux hosts
USB/OHCI: improved behavior so that the controller state after a VM reset is closer to the initial state after VM start
EFI: fixed HFS+ driver which in rare cases failed to access most files on a volume
Shared clipboard: fixed hang with OS X host and Linux guest (bug #15782)
Linux hosts: fixed kernel module compilation and start failures with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #17267)
X11 hosts: better handle WM_CLASS setting (bug #12534)
Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #12534)
Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14
Linux guests: fixed various 5.2.0 regressions (bug #17163)
Bridged networking: fixed duplicate EtherType in VLAN/priority tags on Linux (5.2.0 regression; bug #17277)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=393
- Update to version 4.3.6:
+ VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451)
+ VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410)
+ VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481)
+ VMM: fixed a VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC error when trying to load a saved state made with VBox 4.3.4 when VT-x/AMD-V is disabled. Unfortunately, VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard these states (bug #12414)
+ VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests (bug #12245)
+ GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression, bug #12205)
+ GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors (bug #12480)
+ Main: don't automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if VT-x/AMD-V is not available (bug #12424)
+ Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests (bug #12017)
+ Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change (bug #7063)
+ Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp() (bug #12498)
+ API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes due to GUI unavailability
+ Storage: fix for BLKCACHE_IOERR runtime errors under rare circumstances (bug #11030)
+ Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426)
+ E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection
+ 3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina hosts only; bug #11021)
+ Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones (4.3 regression, bug #12271)
- For more changes see https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
- Add source services (refresh_patches ATM)
- Rebased patches:
+ vbox-disable-updates.diff (only offset)
+ vbox-fpie.diff (only offset)
+ vbox-deprec-gsoap-service-proxies.diff (manually)
+ vbox-gsoapssl-deps.diff (manually)
+ vbox-no-build-dates.diff (manually)
+ vbox-permissions_warning.diff (manually)
+ vbox-python-detection.diff (manually)
+ vbox-smc-napa.diff (manually)
+ vbox-vboxdrv-init-script.diff (manually)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/214248
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=150
