{"id":6035,"date":"2016-07-13T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2016-07-13T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T16:16:00","slug":"virtualbox-5-1-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/virtualbox-5-1-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtualbox 5.1 Released, How to Install in Ubuntu 16.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/virtualbox-icon245.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/virtualbox-icon245.png\" alt=\"virtualbox-icon245\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6036\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oracle Virtualbox has just reached a new major 5.1 release. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04.<\/p>\n<p>Virtualbox 5.1 ports its UI to Qt5, brings better Python 3 support, HDA (High Definition Audio) support for newer Linux guests, various VMM and other improvements and fixes.<\/p>\n<p>Virtualbox release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VMM: new APIC and I\/O APIC implementations that result in significantly improved performance in certain situations<\/li>\n<li>VMM: added support for Hyper-V paravirtualized debugging of Windows guests<\/li>\n<li>VMM: emulate even more MMIO and shadow pagetable exits without going back to user mode<\/li>\n<li>GUI: overall migration to Qt5<\/li>\n<li>GUI: passive API event listener improving the VM GUI performance and response time<\/li>\n<li>Audio: added HDA (High Definition Audio) support for newer Linux guests<\/li>\n<li>Audio: added on-demand timers which should improve the overall performance and reduce the CPU consumption<\/li>\n<li>Audio: more fine-grained volume control for the AC&#8217;97 emulation, which now also takes the master volume control into account<\/li>\n<li>better support for Python 3<\/li>\n<li>For more details, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Changelog\" target=\"_blank\">ChangeLog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/virtualbox51.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/virtualbox51-450x266.jpg\" alt=\"Virtualbox 5.1\" width=\"450\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/virtualbox51-450x266.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/virtualbox51-600x355.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/virtualbox51.jpg 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>How to install Virtualbox 5.1 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1. The 5.1 release conflicts with the old 5.0 or 4.x releases, so first open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to remove the previous VBox installation:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove virtualbox virtualbox-5.0 virtualbox-4.*<\/pre>\n<p>2. Download Virtualbox 5.1 for your OS (i386=32bit, amd64=64bit):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Linux_Downloads\" target=\"_blank\">Download Virtualbox for Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then click install via Ubuntu Software.<\/p>\n<p>3. For those who want to install VBox 5.1 from official Linux repository and receive future updates via Software Updater. Run the commands below one by one in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo sh -c 'echo \"deb http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/debian <b>xenial<\/b> contrib\" >> \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/virtualbox.list'\n\nwget -q https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/download\/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -\n\nsudo apt update\n\nsudo apt install virtualbox-5.1<\/pre>\n<p>According to your Ubuntu codename, replace <b>xenial<\/b> with <b>wily<\/b>, <b>trusty<\/b>, or <b>precise<\/b>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle Virtualbox has just reached a new major 5.1 release. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04. Virtualbox 5.1 ports its UI to Qt5, brings better Python 3 support, HDA (High Definition Audio) support for newer Linux guests, various VMM and other improvements and fixes. Virtualbox release highlights: VMM: new APIC and I\/O APIC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-6035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-virtualbox"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}