{"id":8346,"date":"2018-11-10T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8346"},"modified":"2018-11-10T15:17:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:17:15","slug":"virtualbox-5-2-22-released-with-further-linux-4-19-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/11\/virtualbox-5-2-22-released-with-further-linux-4-19-fixes\/","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox 5.2.22 Released with Further Linux 4.19 Fixes"},"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>A new maintenance release for Oracle VirtualBox 5.2 was released a day ago with audio and Linux additions fixes.<\/p>\n<p>VirtualBox 5.2.22 release highlights according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Changelog\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">changelog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed a regression in the Core Audio backend causing a hang when returning from host sleep when processing input buffers<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a potential crash in the HDA emulation if a stream has no valid mixer sink attached<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an incompatibility with recent versions of Windows 10<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a number of brigded networking driver crashes for Windows hosts.<\/li>\n<li>Linux Additions:\n<ul>\n<li>Disable 3D for recent guests using Wayland<\/li>\n<li>Fix for rebuilding kernel modules for new kernels on RPM guests<\/li>\n<li>Further fixes for Linux 4.19<\/li>\n<li>Fixed errors rebuilding initrd files with dracut on EL 6<\/li>\n<li>Fixed 5.2.20 regression: guests not remembering the screen size after shutdown and restart<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install Virtualbox 5.2.22 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p><b>1<\/b>. Remove old Virtualbox if any, by opening terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and running command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove virtualbox virtualbox-5.1<\/pre>\n<p><b>2<\/b>. 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>Finally install the downloaded package via <b>Gdebi<\/b> (install it via Ubuntu Software) package manager.<\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> 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.<\/p>\n<p><b>To add the repository<\/b>, 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 $(lsb_release -sc) contrib\" >> \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/virtualbox.list'<\/pre>\n<p><i>for Linux Mint 19, replace <code>$(lsb_release -sc)<\/code> with <code>bionic<\/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>A new maintenance release for Oracle VirtualBox 5.2 was released a day ago with audio and Linux additions fixes. VirtualBox 5.2.22 release highlights according to the changelog: Fixed a regression in the Core Audio backend causing a hang when returning from host sleep when processing input buffers Fixed a potential crash in the HDA emulation [&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":[],"class_list":["post-8346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346","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=8346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}