{"id":7555,"date":"2018-02-28T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7555"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:39:07","slug":"virtualbox-5-2-8-released-with-linux-kernel-4-15-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/virtualbox-5-2-8-released-with-linux-kernel-4-15-support\/","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox 5.2.8 Released with Linux Kernel 4.15 Support"},"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=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6036\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oracle VirtualBox 5.2.8 was released a day ago. For Linux guests, Kernel 4.15 now is supported and  black screen issue when 3D enabled is fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Changes in Virtualbox 5.2.8 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added support for FSGSBASE, PCID, INVPCID CPU features for guests<\/li>\n<li>fixed EMM386 issue with detecting suitable page frame base<\/li>\n<li>Linux: prevent VM window from jumping and auto-resizing to tiny size after resizing it on HiDPI screen<\/li>\n<li>Linux: fixed seamless regression caused by wm_class functionality<\/li>\n<li>Front end: switched to https downloads<\/li>\n<li>Fixed crash while opening New machine wizard<\/li>\n<li>Added support for distinguishing recording sources in the PulseAudio mixer on the host when multiple VMs are running<\/li>\n<li>Various fixes for the DirectSound backend<\/li>\n<li>Added better file seeking support and fixed playback of recorded files with certain players (e.g. Firefox)<\/li>\n<li>Various fixes for Windows guest surround setups and HDA emulation<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an issue where the serial port parameters in the emulation and host serial port got out of sync<\/li>\n<li>Fixed overwriting certain INQUIRY data for the DVD\/CD drive attached to a AHCI controller<\/li>\n<li>Fixed handling VMDK images created by Amazon EC2 VM export<\/li>\n<li>Fixed PXE boot regression in e1000<\/li>\n<li>Added a workaround for older guests which do not enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device<\/li>\n<li>3D: add environment variable to configure presenting 3D content on main thread<\/li>\n<li>Windows hosts: fixed indiscriminate binding of NDIS5 bridged driver, that caused PPPOE malfunction <\/li>\n<li>Windows guests: fixed incorrect function error when using shared folders in certain applications<\/li>\n<li>Linux 4.15 support, fixed black screen when 3D enabled in Linux guests<\/li>\n<li>Linux guests: suppress setuid and setgid in shared folders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install Virtualbox 5.2.8 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 $(lsb_release -sc) contrib\" >> \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/virtualbox.list'<\/pre>\n<p><i>for Linux Mint 18.x, replace <code>$(lsb_release -sc)<\/code> with <code>xenial<\/code> in the code.<\/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>Oracle VirtualBox 5.2.8 was released a day ago. For Linux guests, Kernel 4.15 now is supported and black screen issue when 3D enabled is fixed. Changes in Virtualbox 5.2.8 include: Added support for FSGSBASE, PCID, INVPCID CPU features for guests fixed EMM386 issue with detecting suitable page frame base Linux: prevent VM window from jumping [&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-7555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-virtualbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555","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=7555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}