Overview
Oracle VM VirtualBox (aka VirtualBox) is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home 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.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, 7, Windows 8/8.1, and Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6 and 3.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
VirtualBox now officially supported Windows 10 RTM as guest and host platform and MAC OS X 10.11 El-Capitan as host platform.
What's new in VirtualBox 5.1?
VirtualBox 5.1 is the latest release of the world’s most popular free and open source, cross-platform virtualization software. This release supports the latest guest or host operating systems including: Mac OS X Yosemite, Windows 10, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, other Linux operating systems, and legacy operating systems.
Here are highlight new features of VirtualBox 5.1:
- Improved Performance: Significantly improved performance for multi-CPU virtual machines and networking.
- Bug Reporting Tool: New utility able to collect all the information and logs related to the host and guest operating system, for debug or analysis purposes.
- Improved Logging Window: New logging functionalities to highlight and filter information related to guest Virtual Machines.
- Improved multimedia availability: Improved support for different USB devices and multi-channel audio availability.
- Flash storage emulation: New NVMHCI storage controller emulation available, able to emulate NVME devices - Flash storage - on guest Virtual Machine.
- Improved Linux integration: Automatic modules deployment in case of a Linux Kernel upgrade and improved systemd integration for the latest releases of popular Linux distributions.
Download VirtualBox 5.1.2 Build 108956
VirtualBox is available for download from VirtualBox Download Center. Download the files appropriate for you.
What's new in VirtualBox 5.1.2 Build 108956?
This release contains a number of stability improvements and bug fixes. Here are a full of fixes in this release:
- VMM: several fixes.
- GUI: fixed screenshot if the VM is started in separate mode.
- GUI: fixed issue with double-click/opening registered file types (.vbox and .vbox-extpack) on Mac OS X.
- GUI: fixed a bug which made it impossible close some error/warning messages using the close button.
- GUI: weakened the control over the VM window behavior allowing to resize it across multiple screens and to use in Snap Assist techniques.
- GUI: jump to the second tab of the session information window.
- GUI: fix for Alt-Tab.
- Storage: fixed creating fixed size VHD images.
- Storage: fixed a hang during power off if the VM was suspended before and a NVMe controller is configured.
- USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions.
- Audio: make AC'97 volume control work again.
- Audio: fixed rare VM hangs when using AC'97 emulation.
- Audio: SB16 fixes.
- EFI: fixed access to devices attached to SATA port 2 and higher.
- OVA: fix for checking certain signatures.
- OVA: fixed MAC address generation for appliances created by VirtualBox.
- API: fixed audio settings handling for older config files.
- API: fixed truncation of USB product/vendor IDs on Linux hosts.
- API: fixed VRDP with authentication.
- API: don't crash if there is no graphics controller configured.
- Linux hosts: fixed EL5 builds.
- non-Windows hosts: fixed a crash during shutdown under rare circumstances.
- Linux Additions: fixed SELinux issue which prevented certain Linux guests to work in 3D mode.
- User Manual: updates.
References:
Changelog for VirtualBox 5.1.2.
Oracle's Virtualization Blog
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