Oracle Virtualbox 6.0.10 was released today with many improvements and fixes to Linux hosts and guests.
Virtualbox 6.0.10 release highlights:
- Fix guest display resolution resize issue with recent Linux hosts.
- Fixed guru meditation when raw mode is enabled
- Fixed possible VM crash under certain circumstances
- Fixed “unrecoverable error” problems in OHCI emulation.
- USB: improve captured device identification
- Support UEFI secure boot driver signing on Ubuntu and Debian hosts
- Fix focus grabbing problems with recent Qt versions.
- Share folder fixes for Windows hosts and guests.
- Linux kernel module build fixes for various kernels
- Remember Linux guest screen size after a guest reboot
How to Install Virtualbox 6.0.10 in Ubuntu:
For all current Ubuntu releases, you can either download the official .deb binary from the link below:
or install VBox from its official apt repository:
1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), paste below command and run to add the repository:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
For Linux Mint, you HAVE to replace $(lsb_release -sc) in the command with bionic for Mint 19.x, or xenial for Mint 18.x.
2. Then download and install the repository key via command:
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
3. Refresh system package cache via command:
sudo apt update
4. Finally install Virtualbox 6.0:
sudo apt install virtualbox-6.0
Uninstall:
To remove it, simply run command in terminal:
sudo apt remove --autoremove virtualbox-6.0
And go to Software & Updates -> Other Software to remove apt repositories.
