{"id":9814,"date":"2020-02-20T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T12:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9814"},"modified":"2020-02-20T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T12:27:12","slug":"virtualbox-6-1-4-released-with-linux-5-5-guest-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/02\/virtualbox-6-1-4-released-with-linux-5-5-guest-support\/","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox 6.1.4 Released with Linux 5.5 Guest 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 released a new maintenance update for the 6.1 series a day ago. <\/p>\n<p>The new release features Linux guest with Kernel 5.5 support, and a shared folder fix for loopback mounting of images.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Changelog\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VirtualBox 6.1.4<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed a rare issue with ICEBP instruction causing guru meditations on Intel hosts.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed macOS Catalina guests failing to boot after upgrading to 10.15.2 onwards.<\/li>\n<li>Recent NLS integration and bug fixes for GUI and Qt translation tags<\/li>\n<li>Fix isochronous transfers to the VM for xHCI<\/li>\n<li>Fix buffer handling, avoiding receiving stale data when the receive queue is flushed.<\/li>\n<li>Improve host serial port passthrough handling on Windows host<\/li>\n<li>Restore old <code>--clipboard<\/code> option for modifyvm command<\/li>\n<li>macOS host: Use hardened runtime and request the needed entitlements, meeting latest notarization rules which also required moving VirtualBoxVM executable<\/li>\n<li>macOS host: Update osxfuse to v3.10.4<\/li>\n<p>Windows host: Update Italian translation of installer<\/p>\n<li>Windows host: Improve shared folder compatibility with POSIX append semantic<\/li>\n<li>Windows host: Restore the ability to run VMs through Hyper-V, at the expense of performance<\/li>\n<li>BIOS: Always report non-ATA disks as ready<\/li>\n<li>BIOS: Report EFI support through DMI table<\/li>\n<li>VGA BIOS: Reduce stack space usage for INT 10h handlers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install Virtualbox 6.142 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>For <b>64-bit<\/b> Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and their derivatives, 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] https:\/\/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 6.1:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1<\/pre>\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-6.1<\/pre>\n<p>And go to <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> -> <b>Other Software<\/b> to remove apt repositories.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/remove-vboxppa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"259\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/remove-vboxppa.png 480w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/remove-vboxppa-450x243.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle Virtualbox released a new maintenance update for the 6.1 series a day ago. The new release features Linux guest with Kernel 5.5 support, and a shared folder fix for loopback mounting of images. Other changes in the VirtualBox 6.1.4 include: Fixed a rare issue with ICEBP instruction causing guru meditations on Intel hosts. 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