Oracle Virtualbox 6.1.6 was released a few days ago. Linux kernel 5.6 now is supported for Linux hosts and guests.

Virtualbox 6.1.6 is the third maintenance release for the 6.1 main series. Changes in the release include:

• Multiple UI enhancements including visual elements updates
• Fixed monitor resizing and multi-monitor handling bugs on X11 guests with VMSVGA graphics adapter
• Enhancements in 2D and 3D acceleration and rendering
• Multiple enhancements improving USB performance and stability
• Serial port: Improve error handling and fix hang when host port disappears
• Multiple fixes for VBoxManage guest control operations
• Fix for exception handling bug in Python bindings
• Multiple fixes for shared clipboard including possible crash and HTML data support

How to Install Virtualbox 6.16 in Ubuntu:

For 64-bit Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and their derivatives, you can either download the official .deb binary from the link below:

Download Virtualbox for Linux

or install VBox from its official apt repository by running following steps:

1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), paste below command and run to add the repository:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://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 6.1:

sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1

Uninstall:

To remove it, simply run command in terminal:

sudo apt remove --autoremove virtualbox-6.1

And go to Software & Updates -> Other Software to remove apt repositories.

Oracle announced the new major Virtualbox 6.1.0 a few days ago with many great new features.

Virtualbox 6.1.0 includes following changes:

• Implemented support for importing VM from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Extended support for exporting VM to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Support for nested hardware-virtualization on Intel CPUs
• Completely removed old style 3D support (with VBoxVGA).
• Implemented experimental support for file transfers
• Support for horizontal scrolling in the PS/2 mouse device.
• vboximg-mount available on Linux host.
• accelerate video playback on Linux, macOS.
• Experimental support for VirtIO SCSI, to increase performance and improve scalability
• Suport for Linux 5.4
• GUI and many other improvements.

For more details, see the changelog.

How to Install Virtualbox 6.1 in Ubuntu:

For Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and their derivatives, you can either download the official .deb binary from the link below:

Download Virtualbox for Linux

or install VBox from its official apt repository by running following steps:

1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), paste below command and run to add the repository:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://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 6.1:

sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1

Uninstall:

To remove it, simply run command in terminal:

sudo apt remove --autoremove virtualbox-6.1

And go to Software & Updates -> Other Software to remove apt repositories.

Oracle virtualbox 6.0.14 was released a few days ago with stability fixes. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu.

Virtualbox 6.0.14 release highlights:

• Fixed an invalid-guest state guru meditation on Intel hosts.
• Some fixes for systems with lots of processors
• More compatibility for guests running ALSA setups with the AC’97 emulation
• Fixed flicker, redraw issues. app crashes when using VBoxSVGA or VMSVGA graphics adapter
• Support Linux hosts with kernel 5.3
• Fixes to share folder in Linux guests.

How to Install Virtualbox 6.0.14 in Ubuntu:

For all current Ubuntu releases, you can either download the official .deb binary from the link below:

Download Virtualbox for Linux

or install VBox from its official apt repository by running following steps:

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 6.0.14:

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.

Oracle Virtualbox 6.0.12 was released a few days ago as new maintenance release for the 6.0 series. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and higher.

Virtualbox 6.0.12 release highlights:

• OCI export: handle empty disk image correctly
• API: fix potential crash when using the medium I/O functionality
• VBoxManage: fixed documentation of VBoxManage modifyvm uarttype documentation
• Network: scrub inbound TCP URG pointer, working around incorrect OOB handling
• USB: Improved identification of power-saved devices on Windows hosts
• Audio: in the AC97 work around buggy guest drivers which reprogram the sampling rate, breaking audio in and/or audio out
• Windows host: fixed crashes on startup with software trying to inject code into a VM process
• Linux host and guest: fix kernel module build for SLES 12 SP4 kernel
• 3D: fixed state saving and loading when the VBoxVGA graphics adapter is used with 3D enabled
• Windows guests: fixed mouse cursor visibility updating
• Windows guests: fixed graphics corruption in Windows 10 search menu with VBoxSVGA adapter
• Windows guests: fixed dwm.exe crashes related to the WDDM driver for VBoxSVGA adapter when the VM has lots of RAM
• MacOS Guest Additions fail to start in 6.0.10
• Windows guests: fixed crashes when using shared folders
• Linux guests: unprivileged users unable to create files inside shared folders
• Linux guests: improve compatibility of vboxvideo.ko kernel module build logic

How to Install Virtualbox 6.0.12 in Ubuntu:

For all current Ubuntu releases, you can either download the official .deb binary from the link below:

Download Virtualbox for Linux

or install VBox from its official apt repository by running following steps:

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 6.0.12:

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.