The second maintenance release for Virutalbox 5.0 has been released today. The new release brings Linux Kernel 4.2 support and a number of fixes to GUI, Audio, WM, X11, etc.
Here’s the full changelog of Virtualbox 5.0.4:
- VMM:
- fixed an issue with Windows 10 guest kernel debugging over the network for Hyper-V paravirtualized VMs
- fixed a bug which prevented reading the saved state of the ‘PATM’ unit from VirtualBox 4.3.x
- GUI:
- changed default OS type for Windows from Windows XP to Windows 7
- added another pre-defined guest screen resolution
- fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates
- fixed issues with synchronization of Caps lock / Num lock / Scroll lock on Windows hosts
- don’t crash during VM shutdown if 2D video acceleration and 3D support are enabled (Mac OS X hosts only)
- several seamless fixes for certain X11 window managers, also when used in multi-screen setups
- Log window size, position and cursor-position fixes
- Audio:
- fixed playing leftover/deprecated audio samples
- fixed playing audio after suspending the host (5.0 regression; Linux hosts using the ALSA backend)
- fixed playing short audio samples which were chopped off formerly
- 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
- Storage: fixed initial encryption of VDI images after they were compacted
- VGA: fix for certain graphics modes
- 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
- Shared Folders: fixed a path separator issue
- 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)
- VBoxManage: fixed broken guestcontrol 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)
- Mac OS X hosts: fixed broken 3D support (5.0.2 regression)
- Linux hosts: Linux 4.2 fix
- Linux hosts: don’t crash on older Linux distributions if the DBus service isn’t running
- Windows hosts: fixed the VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE error message
- Windows hosts: fix for Windows 10 build 10525 and later
- Windows hosts: fixed network adapter enumeration on Windows 10
- Windows hosts: prevent intermittent host network disconnects during VM start/shutdown with bridged networking
- Windows Additions: fixed the call to the memory allocation function
- Linux Additions: be more forgiving if the compilation of the vboxvideo module fails
- X11 Additions: fixed a number of small issues with dynamic resizing and full-screen and seamless modes.
How to install or upgrade to Virtualbox 5.0.4:
For Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivatives, you can:
1. either download the .deb installer directly from THIS PAGE.
2. or install / upgrade VBox from its official Linux repository. Below is how:
If you have a previous release installed, you may already have its Linux repository added in your system, just run Software Updater and check out the available software list after checking for updates:
If not, added VBox repository via 2 commands:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -cs) contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list' wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Finally upgrade the software via Software Updater, or via apt-get commands:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0
