{"id":9319,"date":"2019-09-06T14:17:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9319"},"modified":"2019-09-06T14:17:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:17:16","slug":"virtualbox-6-0-12-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/09\/virtualbox-6-0-12-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtualbox 6.0.12 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu"},"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 6.0.12 was released a few days ago as new maintenance release for the 6.0 series. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and higher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Changelog\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virtualbox 6.0.12<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OCI export: handle empty disk image correctly<\/li>\n<li>API: fix potential crash when using the medium I\/O functionality<\/li>\n<li>VBoxManage: fixed documentation of VBoxManage modifyvm uarttype documentation<\/li>\n<li>Network: scrub inbound TCP URG pointer, working around incorrect OOB handling<\/li>\n<li>USB: Improved identification of power-saved devices on Windows hosts<\/li>\n<li>Audio: in the AC97 work around buggy guest drivers which reprogram the sampling rate, breaking audio in and\/or audio out<\/li>\n<li>Windows host: fixed crashes on startup with software trying to inject code into a VM process<\/li>\n<li>Linux host and guest: fix kernel module build for SLES 12 SP4 kernel<\/li>\n<li>3D: fixed state saving and loading when the VBoxVGA graphics adapter is used with 3D enabled<\/li>\n<li>Windows guests: fixed mouse cursor visibility updating<\/li>\n<li>Windows guests: fixed graphics corruption in Windows 10 search menu with VBoxSVGA adapter<\/li>\n<li>Windows guests: fixed dwm.exe crashes related to the WDDM driver for VBoxSVGA adapter when the VM has lots of RAM<\/li>\n<li>MacOS Guest Additions fail to start in 6.0.10<\/li>\n<li>Windows guests: fixed crashes when using shared folders<\/li>\n<li>Linux guests: unprivileged users unable to create files inside shared folders<\/li>\n<li>Linux guests: improve compatibility of vboxvideo.ko kernel module build logic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install Virtualbox 6.0.12 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>For all current Ubuntu releases, you can either download the official <b>.deb<\/b> binary from the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Linux_Downloads' class='arconix-button-flat arconix-button-medium arconix-button-tan' target=\"_blank\" >Download Virtualbox for Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or install VBox from its official apt repository by running following steps:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), paste below command and run to add the repository:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo sh -c 'echo \"deb [arch=amd64] http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib\" >> \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/virtualbox.list'<\/pre>\n<p>For Linux Mint, you HAVE to replace <code>$(lsb_release -sc)<\/code> in the command with <code>bionic<\/code> for Mint 19.x, or <code>xenial<\/code> for Mint 18.x.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vbox-repo-arch64-600x118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"118\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vbox-repo-arch64-600x118.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vbox-repo-arch64-450x88.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vbox-repo-arch64.jpg 763w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then download and install the repository key via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">wget -q https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/download\/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vbox-key2016-600x127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"127\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vbox-key2016-600x127.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vbox-key2016-450x95.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vbox-key2016.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Refresh system package cache via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update<\/pre>\n<p><b>4.<\/b> Finally install Virtualbox 6.0.12:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install virtualbox-6.0<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/install-virtualbox60-600x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"237\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/install-virtualbox60-600x237.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/install-virtualbox60-450x178.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/install-virtualbox60-768x304.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/install-virtualbox60.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove it, simply run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove --autoremove virtualbox-6.0<\/pre>\n<p>And go to <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> -> <b>Other Software<\/b> to remove apt repositories.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle Virtualbox 6.0.12 was released a few days ago as new maintenance release for the 6.0 series. Here&#8217;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 [&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-9319","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\/9319","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=9319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}