Thursday, December 22, 2016

Virtualbox 5.1.12 Released, Install on Ubuntu 16.10, 16.04

    VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.


Virtualbox 5.1.12 Changelog:
  •     VMM: fixed VERR_IEM_ASPECT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED Guru Meditations with certain Linux guests if KVM paravirtualization is enabled
  •     VMM: fixed VERR_VMX_UNABLE_TO_START_VM Guru Meditations under rare conditions
  •     GUI: prevent a crash under certain conditions if the VM is terminated very early
  •     GUI: fixed certain keyboard capture issues for OS X hosts.
  •     GUI: fixed dragging guest windows in seamless mode with the keyboard captured (X11 hosts only)
  •     GUI: fixed a problem where the new version detected dialog was covered by the appliance import dialog (Mac OS X hosts only
  •     Storage: fixed NVMe reset processing when doing rmmod nvme; modprobe nvme in a Linux guest
  •     Storage: fixed creating a snapshot when the VM is running and an NVMe controller is present
  •     Storage: fixed a problem with the LsiLogic SCSI controller where requests could be lost with SMP guests
  •     E1000: fixed “cable disconnected” issue for Mac OS X guests
  •     E1000: fixed “TX unit hang” issue for Linux guests only
  •     Parallel ports: fixed port enumeration on Windows host
  •     API: don’t crash when sanitizing certain VM names
  •     Linux hosts: automatically disable asynchronous I/O on Linux 2.6.18 kernels
  •     Linux hosts / guests: Linux 2.6.28 compile fix
  •     Linux hosts: compile Linux 4.9 compile fix
  •     Linux Additions: warn the user about a known bug with older Linux guests (e.g. Debian 7) requiring manual work to get 3D working
  •     Linux Additions: fix the graphics driver build with Linux 4.10 and later
  •     Windows Additions: fixed a crash in the WDDM driver under certain conditions

Install VirtualBox 5.1.10 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus and Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety

Open terminal and insert command line...

Install on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian yakkety contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'

$ wget -q -O - http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox_2016.asc | sudo apt-key add -

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1

Install on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'

$ wget -q -O - http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox_2016.asc | sudo apt-key add -

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1


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