{"id":7322,"date":"2017-11-24T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7322"},"modified":"2017-11-24T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T15:30:12","slug":"virtualbox-5-2-2-high-resolution-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/11\/virtualbox-5-2-2-high-resolution-screens\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtualbox 5.2.2 Added Improvements to High Resolution Screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/virtualbox-icon245.png\" alt=\"Virtualbox\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6036\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Virtualbox 5.2.2, the first maintenance release for VBox 5.2 series, was released earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Changes in Virtualbox 5.2.2 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Various improvements for high resolution screens<\/li>\n<li>Added functionality to duplicate optical and floppy images<\/li>\n<li>Various improvements for the virtual media manager<\/li>\n<li>VMM: fixed emulation so that Plan 9 guests can start once more<\/li>\n<li>Storage: fixed regression breaking iSCSI<\/li>\n<li>Audio: added HDA support for more exotic guests (e.g. Haiku)<\/li>\n<li>Serial: fixed hanging I\/O when using named pipes on Windows<\/li>\n<li>Serial: fixed broken communication with certain devices on Linux hosts<\/li>\n<li>USB\/OHCI: improved behavior so that the controller state after a VM reset is closer to the initial state after VM start<\/li>\n<li>EFI: fixed HFS+ driver which in rare cases failed to access most files on a volume<\/li>\n<li>Shared clipboard: fixed hang with OS X host and Linux guest<\/li>\n<li>Linux hosts\/guests: fixed kernel module compilation and start failures with Linux kernel 4.14.<\/li>\n<li>X11 hosts: better handle WM_CLASS setting<\/li>\n<li>Linux guests: fixed various 5.2.0 regressions<\/li>\n<li>Bridged networking: fixed duplicate EtherType in VLAN\/priority tags on Linux.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install Virtualbox 5.2.2 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>1. If you&#8217;re still running with VirtualBox 5.1.x, open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or from application launcher. Remove old Virtualbox via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove virtualbox virtualbox-5.1<\/pre>\n<p>2. Download &#038; install the latest Virtualbox package from the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Linux_Downloads' class='arconix-button arconix-button-medium arconix-button-gray' target=\"_blank\" >Download VirtualBox for Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. If you&#8217;ve added the Oracle VBox repository, you can directly install the 5.2 release from Synaptic Package Manager or via apt command, after removing the old version.<\/p>\n<p>To add the repository, do:<\/p>\n<p>Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add the repository:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo sh -c 'echo \"deb http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/debian xenial contrib\" >> \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/virtualbox.list'<\/pre>\n<p><i>Depends your Ubuntu edition, replace <code>xenial<\/code> (for Ubuntu 16.04) with <code>trusty<\/code> (for 14.04, Mint 17.x, eOS 0.3), or <code>artful<\/code> (for Ubuntu 17.10).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/virtualbox-repository-600x94.jpg\" alt=\"Virtualbox Official Linux repository\" width=\"600\" height=\"94\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/virtualbox-repository-600x94.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/virtualbox-repository-450x70.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/virtualbox-repository.jpg 857w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Setup the keyring so to trust the updates from the repository:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">wget -q https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/download\/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -\r\n\r\nwget -q https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/download\/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -<\/pre>\n<p>Finally install virtualbox 5.2 via commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.2<\/pre>\n<p>With the repository added, you can simply install the future 5.2 series updates via <b>Software Updater<\/b>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtualbox 5.2.2, the first maintenance release for VBox 5.2 series, was released earlier today. Changes in Virtualbox 5.2.2 include: Various improvements for high resolution screens Added functionality to duplicate optical and floppy images Various improvements for the virtual media manager VMM: fixed emulation so that Plan 9 guests can start once more Storage: fixed regression [&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-7322","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\/7322","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=7322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}