История изменений программы VirtualBox

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 7.0.8 (18-04-2023):

• VMM: исправлена обработка EFLAGS.TF для инструкций CPUID при использовании Hyper-V.
• VMM: исправлен сбой MONITOR/MWAIT с гостевыми системами Solaris при использовании Hyper-V в Windows 11.
• VMM: внесены общие улучшения в область вложенной визуализации.
• VMM: исправлены медитации гуру, связанные с тройной ошибкой, для гостей UEFI, начиная с macOS Ventura 13.3.
• Графический интерфейс: возвращен флажок «Восстановить текущий моментальный снимок» в диалоговом окне «Закрыть виртуальную машину».
• Графический интерфейс: Исправления и проверка настроек VM Редактор фильтров USB, значение порта фильтра теперь правильно сохраняется/восстанавливается.
• Графический интерфейс: исправления для встроенных редакторов имени ВМ и типа ОС в области сведений.
• Графический интерфейс: мастера, связанные с облаком, теперь должны предлагать включенные профили перед отключением.
• Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack: исправлена доставка модуля криптографической поддержки для полного шифрования ВМ.
• E1000: исправлена возможная медитация гуру при смене сетевых подключений.
• virtio-net: последующие исправления для FreeBSD 12.3 и pfSense 2.6.0
• 3D: исправлены различные проблемы с графикой в гостевых ОС Windows 7.
• Main/UefiVariableStore: добавлен API для добавления подписей в список MOK (ключ владельца компьютера).
• VBoxManage: введена подкоманда modifynvram enrollmok для регистрации ключа владельца машины в NVRAM, чтобы гостевое ядро Linux могло подобрать его для проверки подписи модулей, подписанных этим ключом.
• Guest Control/Main: исправлено удаление файлов через встроенный набор инструментов.
• Хост Linux: добавлена возможность обхода проверки подписи модулей ядра после указания VBOX_BYPASS_MODULES_SIGNATURE_CHECK="1" в /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg, полезно в случае, если дистрибутив Linux не предоставляет необходимых инструментов для проверки подписи модулей ядра.
• Гостевые дополнения Linux и установщик хоста: улучшено обнаружение, если система запускает systemd в качестве процесса инициализации.
• Гостевые дополнения Linux и драйверы хоста: введение начальной поддержки ядра 6.3.
• Гостевые дополнения Linux: добавлена возможность обойти проверку подписи модулей ядра, если в /etc/virtualbox-guest-additions.conf указано VBOX_BYPASS_MODULES_SIGNATURE_CHECK="1", полезно в случае, если дистрибутив Linux не предоставляет необходимых инструментов для проверки подписи модуля ядра.
• Гостевые дополнения Linux: добавлена экспериментальная поддержка перезагрузки модулей ядра и пользовательских служб в конце процесса установки, поэтому перезагрузка гостевой системы после обновления гостевых дополнений (7.0.8 и новее) в общем случае больше не требуется.
• Гостевые дополнения Linux: исправлена проблема сборки vboxvideo с ядрами RHEL 8.7, 9.1 и 9.2.

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 7.0.6 (17-01-2023):

• VMM: исправлена ошибка, из-за которой гуру запускал загрузчик FreeBSD на старых процессорах Intel без неограниченной гостевой поддержки.
• Графический интерфейс: исправлено группирование виртуальных машин при создании или изменении виртуальной машины в командной строке.
• Графический интерфейс: внесены общие изменения в диалоговые окна настроек.
• VirtioNet: исправлена ошибка сети после загрузки сохраненного состояния.
• Хранилище: добавлена поддержка увеличения размера следующих вариантов образа VMDK: monolithicFlat, monolithicSparse, twoGbMaxExtentSparse, twoGbMaxExtentFlat.
• VBoxManage: добавлен отсутствующий ключ --directory для команды guestcontrol mktemp.
• Интеграция с мышью: гостю было предоставлено расширенное состояние мыши хоста
• Гостевой контроль: исправлена обработка режима создания временных каталогов.
• Linux Host and Guest: добавлена начальная поддержка сборки ядра UEK7 в Oracle Linux 8.
• Linux Host and Guest: добавлена начальная поддержка ядра RHEL 9.1.
• Хост Windows: исправлена поддержка автозапуска ВМ
• Аудио: параметр "--audio" в VBoxManage теперь помечен как устаревший; вместо этого используйте "--audio-driver" и "--audio-enabled". Это обеспечит большую гибкость при смене драйвера и/или управлении функциями аудио.

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 6.1.34 (22-03-2022):

• VMM: исправлена ​​эмуляция инструкций для «cmpxchg16b».
• Графический интерфейс: улучшено поведение графического интерфейса в macOS Big Sur и более поздних версиях, когда расширения ядра не загружены.
• EHCI: устранена проблема с обработкой коротких пакетов.
• Хранилище: исправлено потенциальное зависание во время дискового ввода-вывода, когда кэш ввода-вывода хоста отключен.
• NVMe: исправлена ​​загрузка сохраненного состояния, когда к нему ничего не прикреплено.
• DevPcBios: устранена проблема, из-за которой обнаруженная геометрия LCHS отклонялась, когда количество голов превышало 16.
• virtio-scsi: улучшения
• E1000: улучшить обработку дескрипторов
• VBoxManage: исправлена ​​обработка аргументов командной строки с неполными кавычками.
• VBoxManage: улучшен вывод «списка сетевых сетей».
• VBoxManage: NATNetwork: укажите параметр (--ipv6-prefix) для установки префикса IPv6.
• VBoxManage: NATNetwork: укажите параметр (--ipv6-default) для объявления маршрута IPv6 по умолчанию.
• VBoxManage: исправлена ​​документация «usbdevsource add».
• Сеть: общие улучшения в области IPv4 и IPv6.
• Импорт OVF: разрешить пользователям указывать другой контроллер хранилища и/или порт контроллера для жестких дисков при импорте виртуальной машины.
• Автоматическая установка: улучшения
• Общий буфер обмена: улучшена обработка буфера обмена HTML для хоста Windows.
• Хост MacOS: исправление обработки символов, отличных от ASCII, в функциях гостевого управления.
• Хост и гость Linux: введена начальная поддержка ядра 5.17.
• Пакет Solaris: исправления для доступа к API из Python
• Пакет Solaris IPS: подавление зависимости от libpython2.7.so.*
• Хост и гость Linux: исправления для ядра Linux 5.14
• Дополнения для гостевых систем Linux: исправлено изменение размера гостевого экрана для более старых гостей, использующих libXrandr более ранней версии, чем 1.4.
• Гостевые дополнения Linux: введена начальная поддержка ядер RHEL 8.6.
• Гость Windows: сделайте установку драйвера умнее
• Гость Solaris: устранена проблема, из-за которой VBox GA 6.1.30 или 6.1.32 не удалялись в гостевой системе Solaris 10.
• EFI: исправлена ​​загрузка с ISO-образов FreeBSD.

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 6.1.32 (18-01-2022):

• VMM: изменено управление гостевой оперативной памятью при использовании Hyper-V для большей совместимости с HVCI.
• VMM: обходной путь для нестабильной работы гостевой ОС OS/2 на новых процессорах AMD из-за отсутствия сброса TLB в OS/2
• Графический интерфейс: исправлена ​​потеря фокуса клавиатуры в редких случаях при использовании мини-панели инструментов в полноэкранном режиме.
• Аудио: исправлено случайное создание пустого файла журнала отладки при настройке звукового бэкенда OSS.
• E1000: исправление отчетов о состоянии ссылок для определенных ядер Linux (некоторые ядра Oracle Linux, возможно, больше)
• Автоматическая установка: исправлена ​​регрессия, появившаяся в версии 6.1.28, приводившая к сбою разделения Windows XP на 10.
• Хост Solaris: исправлена ​​регрессия в установщике, сбой в Solaris 10.
• Хост Solaris: исправьте регрессию упаковки, сделайте vboxshell.py исполняемым
• Хост Linux: исправлен доступ к некоторым USB-устройствам, класс устройства обрабатывался неправильно.
• Гость: исправлено неправильное положение мыши, если гость находится в текстовом режиме.
• Гостевой контроль: исправлено копирование папок с хоста на гостя и с гостя на хост.
• Гостевой контроль: исправления для обработки UNICODE
• Общий буфер обмена: улучшен обмен HTML-контентом между гостями и хостами X11 и Windows.
• Дополнения OS/2: исправлены некоторые проблемы с расширенными атрибутами в общих папках.

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 6.1.30 (22-11-2021):

• VMM: исправлена ​​регрессия 6.1.28, препятствующая запуску виртуальных машин при использовании режима Hyper-V в Windows 10.
• Графический интерфейс: исправлена ​​невозможность завершить мастер первого запуска после просмотра внешнего образа.
• Графический интерфейс: исправлен сбой в macOS Big Sur при поиске внешнего образа в мастере первого запуска.
• Графический интерфейс: исправлена ​​ошибка на Windows с невозможностью сохранения сделанного снимка экрана в папке с родным именем
• Графический интерфейс: исправлена ​​ошибка на X11, когда перетаскивание инициировалось одним щелчком мыши в настройках хранилища ВМ.
• Графический интерфейс: Исправлена ​​проверка настроек на машинах, не поддерживающих аппаратную виртуализацию.
• Графический интерфейс: некритические ошибки, связанные с носителем, не должны вызывать модальные всплывающие сообщения об ошибках.
• Сеть только для хоста: исправлен сбой при анализе /etc/vbox/networks.conf.
• DVD: исправлена ​​обработка блокировки диска при сбросе виртуальной машины.
• VBoxHeadless: исправлен сбой при работе на macOS Monterey.
• VBoxManage: исправлен неправильный текст справки для «hostonlyif».
• vboximg-mount: сообщение об ошибке, если образ не указан
• Хост macOS: исправление множества ошибок, характерных для macOS Monterey, в установщике и запуске расширений ядра.
• Хост macOS: показать сообщение о неподдерживаемом ЦП на компьютерах Mac на базе M1 и прервать установку
• Хост Linux: для всех пакетов, специфичных для дистрибутива (формат deb/rpm), исправьте упаковку, чтобы работала функция автоматической установки гостевых ОС.
• Хост и гость Linux: введена начальная поддержка ядра 5.16.
• Общий буфер обмена: улучшена связь между гостем и хостом, когда у гостя нет данных буфера обмена для отчета.
• Гостевые дополнения Linux: разрешить запуск только одного экземпляра VBoxDRMClient.

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 6.1.4 (19-02-2020):

• Ядро виртуализации: исправлена ​​редкая проблема с инструкцией ICEBP, приводившая к медитации гуру на хостах Intel
• Ядро виртуализации: исправлена ​​ошибка, из-за которой гости MacOS Catalina не загружались после обновления до 10.15.2 и более поздних версий
• GUI: недавняя интеграция NLS и исправления ошибок для тегов GUI и перевода Qt
• USB: исправление изохронной передачи на виртуальную машину для xHCI
• Последовательный: Исправлена ​​обработка буфера, избегая получения устаревших данных при очистке очереди приема
• Serial: улучшена обработка сквозного последовательного порта хоста на хосте Windows
• VBoxManage: восстановить старую опцию --clipboard для команды modifyvm
• хост macOS: используйте усиленную среду выполнения и запрашивайте необходимые разрешения, отвечая последним правилам нотариального заверения, которые также требовали перемещения исполняемого файла VirtualBoxVM
• хост macOS: обновите osxfuse до v3.10.4
• Windows host: обновить итальянский перевод установщика
• Хост Windows: улучшена совместимость общих папок с семантическим приложением POSIX
• Хост Windows: восстановление возможности запуска виртуальных машин через Hyper-V за счет производительности
• Linux guest: поддержка Linux 5.5
• Linux guest: исправление общей папки для петлевого монтирования образов
• BIOS: всегда сообщать о том, что диски не ATA готовы
• BIOS: сообщить о поддержке EFI через таблицу DMI
• VGA BIOS: сокращение использования стека для обработчиков INT 10h

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 6.0.12 (03-09-2019):

• Экспорт OCI: правильно обрабатывается пустой образ диска
• API: исправление потенциального сбоя при использовании средней функциональности ввода-вывода
• VBoxManage: исправлена ​​документация по VBoxManage modifyvm uarttype
• Сеть: очистить входящий указатель TCP URG, обойти некорректную обработку OOB
• USB: улучшена идентификация энергосберегающих устройств на хостах Windows
• Аудио: в AC97 работают с ошибочными гостевыми драйверами, которые перепрограммируют частоту дискретизации, прерывая аудио и / или аудио
• Хост Windows: исправлены сбои при запуске программного обеспечения, пытающегося внедрить код в процесс виртуальной машины
• Linux host и guest: исправьте сборку модуля ядра для ядра SLES 12 SP4
• 3D: исправлено сохранение и загрузка состояния при использовании графического адаптера VBoxVGA с включенным 3D
• Гости из Windows: исправлено обновление видимости курсора мыши
• Гости Windows: исправлено повреждение графики в меню поиска Windows 10 с адаптером VBoxSVGA
• Гости из Windows: исправлено падение dwm.exe, связанное с драйвером WDDM для адаптера VBoxSVGA, когда виртуальная машина имеет много ОЗУ
• Гостевые дополнения MacOS не запускаются в 6.0.10
• Гости из Windows: исправлены сбои при использовании общих папок
• Гости Linux: непривилегированные пользователи не могут создавать файлы в общих папках
• Гости из Linux: улучшена совместимость логики сборки модуля ядра vboxvideo.ko

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 6.0.10 (16-07-2019):

• Пользовательский интерфейс: исправлена ​​ошибка ввода имен контроллеров
• Пользовательский интерфейс: исправлены проблемы изменения размера с недавними хостами Linux
• Serial: исправлена ​​медитация гуру, когда включен режим raw
• Serial: исправлено возможное падение VM при определенных обстоятельствах
• USB: исправлены проблемы с «неисправимой ошибкой» в эмуляции OHCI
• USB: улучшить идентификацию захваченного устройства
• VBoxManage: исправлена ​​обратная отчетность по аудио входу и выходу
• VBoxManage: исправлено управление записью для работающей машины
• Служба контроля гостей: различные исправления
• Хосты Windows: исправление ошибок при копировании файлов из общих папок
• Linux hosts: исправления сборки модулей ядра для различных ядер
• Хосты Linux: поддержка подписи драйвера UEFI для безопасной загрузки на хостах Ubuntu и Debian
• Хосты Linux: исправьте проблемы с захватом фокуса с последними версиями Qt
• Гости из Windows: исправлено множество общих папок
• Гости из Windows: исправлена ​​ошибка, из-за которой другие службы не работали.
• Гости из Linux: исправления сборки модулей ядра для различных ядер
• Гости Linux: не пытайтесь загрузить старые версии libcrypt на последних гостей в инструментах Guest Additions
• Гости Linux: правила udev для гостевых модулей ядра не всегда вступают в силу со временем
• Гости Linux / VMSVGA: не забудьте размер экрана гостя после перезагрузки гостя
• Гости OS / 2: различные исправления общих папок

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 6.0.8 (13-05-2019):

• Core: fix saved state resume failures
• User interface: show full file location in New Medium window.
• User interface: fix mouse click pass-through problems in multi-screen virtual machines
• Graphics: fixed a crash when powering off a VM without graphics controller
• API: partial fix for dealing with VM config conflicting with other VMs related to medium UUIDs, now correctly flags VM as inaccessible
• Windows hosts: Support paths longer than 4096 characters on in shared folders
• Linux hosts: fix kernel module build breakage in non-default build set-ups
• Linux hosts: fix kernel module build breakage in debug build set-ups
• Windows guests: notice file size increases in shared folders which were missed in certain cases
• Linux guests: make shared folders work with Linux 3.16.35
• Linux guests: fix incorrectly read-only shared folders

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 6.0.6 (17-04-2019):

• Virtualization core: nested AMD virtualization fixes
• User interface: fixed copying directories in file manager
• User interface: fixed operation progress in file manager when copying content
• User interface: fixed operation progress when deleting snapshots
• User interface: fixed unattended installation of recent Ubuntu guests
• User interface: various additional improvements
• Storage: fixed loading saved states for LsiLogic devices
• Storage: fixed fixed reading certain QCOW2 images and support version 3 of the format readonly
• Storage: Improved IDE PCI emulation to allow NetWare IDE drivers to use bus-mastering
• Graphics: Improved VMSVGA support to work with old X servers which previously showed only a badly scrambled screen
• Graphics: fixed invisible mouse cursor with VMSVGA emulation and without mouse integration
• Graphics: make EFI work with VMSVGA emulation
• Graphics: remember last guest screen size VMSVGA emulation
• Graphics: fix RDP to guests using VMSVGA emulation
• Graphics: various additional VMSVGA emulation fixes
• Audio: implemented audio device enumeration for the DirectSound backend
• Network: fixed unwanted padding bytes in Windows host adaptor network packets
• Serial: fixed possible crash on Windows when using a host device
• Serial: fixed loopback handling in the emulation causing garbage to be sent during boot with Linux guests
• Shared folders: fixed duplicate folders after restoring a saved state
• Drag and drop: fixed copying files from guest host
• Recording: fixed modifying settings via VBoxManage
• VBoxManage: crash fix
• Fixed hangs during failed virtual machine start-up
• Windows host: fix unwanted wake-ups from standby
• Windows host: disallow Pause as a host key
• Linux host and guest: support Linux 5.0 and 5.1, thank you Valdis Kletnieks
• Linux host: support kernel 4.4.169
• Linux host: fix logging when building Linux kernel modules
• Linux host: clarified building Linux host drivers with secure boot
• FreeBSD host: compilation fixes
• Installers: reduced size of packages
• Web services: work with Java 11
• LibreSSL compilation fix, thank you Stefan Strogin
• Windows guests: fixed running applications which use complex display topologies with WDDM driver, fixed Skype for Business hangs
• Windows guests: fixed an occasional guest crash with WDDM driver and VBoxSVGA adapter
• Windows guests: shared folder file creation detection issue
• Linux guests: shared folder performance and reliability improvements and missing features
• OS/2 guests: shared folder fixes

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 6.0.4 (28-01-2019):

• Virtualization core: support Shanghai/Zhaoxin CPUs.
• User interface: handle command line arguments to VirtualBox correctly
• User interface: improvements to machine manager window, virtual optical disk creator, storage selector window and log viewer window
• User interface: various small fixes and improvements
• Audio: implemented time scheduling for the AC`97 device emulation to keep audio and video in sync
• Graphics: basic support for VMSVGA graphics device in virtual machines using EFI
• Network: fix occasional NATNet crashes
• Network: worked around problems in certain PCnet drivers on old operating systems
• Serial: fixed connecting to pseudo terminals on POSIX hosts
• Linux hosts and guests: fix for building kernel modules against Linux 5.0. Thank you Kyle Laker

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 6.0.2 (15-01-2019):

• User interface: fixed creation of desktop shortcuts for starting virtual machines
• User interface: allow the first run window to selecting host drives
• User interface: fixed attaching empty host optical drives
• User interface: implemented a new virtual optical disk creation window
• USB: modified Linux backends to reset USB devices (previously, most guest attempts to reset USB devices were ignored)
• PCnet: fixed a regression which caused some PCnet PCI guest drivers to not detect the emulated hardware
• Linux hosts: fixed conflict between Debian and Oracle build desktop files
• Linux and MacOS hosts: VirtualBoxVM command not accessible
• Windows guests: multiple monitor fixes with VBoxSVGA graphics
• Windows guests: black screen with VBoxSVGA graphics when 3D is disabled
• Linux guests: fixed building drivers on SLES 12.4
• Linux guests: fixed building shared folder driver with older kernels
• OS/2 shared folders: fixed write regression introduced in 6.0.0 GA

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 6.0.0 (18-12-2018):

• Implemented support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• User interface: greatly improved HiDPI and scaling support, including better detection and per-machine configuration
• Major rework of user interface with simpler and more powerful application and virtual machine set-up
• User interface: a new file manager enabling user to control the guest file system and copy files between host and guest.
• Graphics: major update of 3D graphics support for Windows guests, and VMSVGA 3D graphics device emulation on Linux and Solaris guests
• Added support for surround speaker setups (as used by Windows 10 Build 1809)
• Added utility vboximg-mount on Apple hosts to access the content of guest disks on the host
• Added support for using Hyper-V as the fallback execution core on Windows host, to avoid inability to run VMs at the price of reduced performance

• Execution core: fixed single-stepping in certain circumstances
• User interface: video and audio recording can now be separately enabled
• Audio/Video recording fixes and improvements
• Audio: better support for attaching and detaching remote desktop connections
• Serial port emulation fixes
• Serial ports: allow changing the serial port attachment while a machine is running
• Networking: Added a workaround for older guests which do not enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device
• Networking: fixed wrong RCODE from DNS AAAA query with --natdnshostresolver1
• iSCSI: In cases where there is no ambiguity, the LUN of an iSCSI target is automatically determined, for targets with non-zero LUNs
• Transparently resize disk images when merging if possible
• VBoxManage: support for DHCP options
• Fixed VNC/RDP (bug 18153)
• Guest Control: various new interfaces and features (see SDK documentation)
• Linux hosts: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
• Solaris: installer fixes
• Shared folders: performance improvements
• Guest Additions: improved shared folder auto-mounting
• Windows Guest Additions: fix incorrect tablet co-ordinate handling with recent Windows 10 builds
• Linux Additions: fix for building vboxvideo on EL 7.6 standard kernel, contributed by Robert Conde
• Linux guests: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
• Linux guests: support VMSVGA in the Linux and X11 Additions
• MacOS Guest Additions: initial support
• OS/2 Guest Additions: initial shared folder support
• BIOS fixes
• ACPI: Up to four custom ACPI tables can now be configured for a VM

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.2.22 (09-11-2018):

• Audio: fixed a regression in the Core Audio backend causing a hang when returning from host sleep when processing input buffers
• Audio: fixed a potential crash in the HDA emulation if a stream has no valid mixer sink attached
• Windows hosts: fixed an incompatibility with recent versions of Windows 10
• Windows hosts: fixed a number of brigded networking driver crashes
• Linux Additions: disable 3D for recent guests using Wayland
• Linux Additions: fix for rebuilding kernel modules for new kernels on RPM guests
• Linux Additions: further fixes for Linux 4.19
• Linux Additions: fixed errors rebuilding initrd files with dracut on EL 6
• Linux Additions: fixed 5.2.20 regression: guests not remembering the screen size after shutdown and restart

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.2.20 (16-10-2018):

• VMM: fixed task switches triggered by INTn instruction
• Storage: fixed connecting to certain iSCSI targets
• Storage: fixed handling of flush requests when configured to be ignored when the host I/O cache is used)
• Drag and drop: implemented support for UNC paths
• Drag and drop: fixed resuming operation when restoring from a saved state
• Drag and drop: fixed copying files with long file names (> 248 characters) from guests to Windows hosts
• Drag and drop: fixed handling files with Unicode names on Windows guests
• Drag and drop: fixed copying empty (0-byte) files to / from guests
• Drag and drop: fixed copying over files from hosts to Linux guests
• Networking: restore connectivity for guests bridged to host adapters that were unavailable temporarily
• Guest Control: fixed hang when using --wait-stdout and/or --wait-stderr. Needs updating Guest Additions
• Video recording: fixed starting video recording on VM power up
• Linux Additions: various build fixes for kernel modules on recent distributions, and made sure modules end up in initramfs files
• Linux Additions: build fixes for 4.19, thank you Larry Finger
• Linux Additions: various small fixes for video driver

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.2.18 (15-08-2018):

• VMM: See user manual.
• VMM: fix loading with recent binutils and self-built versions of VirtualBox (bug #17851)
• NAT: fix --nataliasmode sameports which is a valid setting (bug #13000)
• VRDP: fixed VM process termination on RDP client disconnect if 3D is enabled for the virtual machine

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.2.16 (17-07-2018):

• OVF: case insensitive comparison of manifest attribute values, to improve compatibility (bug #17357)
• Linux: build for openSUSE 15.0 (bug #17554)
• Linux: various build fixes for distribution builds, thank you Gianfranco Costamagna

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.2.14 (02-07-2018):

• User interface: fixed a segmentation fault when accessing the interface through VNC (bug #16348)
• User interface: X11: handle repeating keys on the host system correctly (bug #1296, previously fixed, 5.1.0 regression)
• VMM: Fixed emulation of the undocumented SALC instruction
• VMM: Fixed emulation of so-called "huge unreal mode" (bug #17744); this in practice only affected Intel CPUs with VT-x without unrestricted execution.
• Keyboard: The PS/2 keyboard emulation has been corrected to not queue partial scan code sequences (bug #17709); this problem was likely only visible on Linux hosts due to losing the fix for bug #1296
• Storage: Fixed CUE file support to correct REM keyword parsing (bug #17783)
• USB: Fixed a problem where the emulated xHCI device under very rare circumstances failed to report an empty isochronous transfer ring error, causing the transfers on the corresponding endpoint to stop.
• Audio: fixed Linux kernel log flooding (bug #17759)
• Apple hosts: make kernel driver load with Mac OS Mojave pre-release (bug #17805).
• Linux guests: made vboxvideo driver build with kernel 4.17 (bug #17801) and with pre-3.14 and EL 7.1 kernels (bug #17771)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.2.12 (09-05-2018):

• Serial: fixed possible data corruption when sending data under certain circumstances
• Video recording: fixed starting / stopping recording under certain circumstances
• Linux hosts: support Linux 4.17 changes. Thank you Larry Finger
• Linux guests: support Linux 4.16 and EL 7.5 kernels (bugs #17676 and #17678)
• Linux guests: 3D fixes for recent guests (bug #17623)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.2.10 (17-04-2018):

• VMM: Fixed missing NULL pointer check in MMIO code
• Storage: fixed having multiple NVMe controllers with ICH9 enabled (5.2.0 regression)
• Network: fixed wireless detection regression when bridging to adapters with unbound IP protocols (bug #17543)
• Network: fixed VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND when bridging to some adapters on Windows hosts (possibly related bugs #15294, #15060, #13481)
• Audio: Fixed interrupt storm in FreeBSD guests with HDA (bug #17219)
• Keyboard: Introduced a small delay to fix old software which expects to be able to read an incoming scan code more than once (bug #17592)
• Windows installer: Removed the "Ignore" action in the case the current VBox installation is still running, as the (successful) update will not work until a host reboot is performed
• NAT: Handle nameserver 0.0.0.0 which is a valid setting (bug #17584)
• BIOS: INT 15h/87h service must disable A20 gate when done
• Linux Guest Additions: fix a hang starting KDE Plasma

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.2.8-121009 (27-02-2018):

• VMM: added support for FSGSBASE, PCID, INVPCID CPU features for guests
• VMM: fixed EMM386 issue with detecting suitable page frame base (bug #10022)
• Front end: Linux: prevent VM window from jumping and auto-resizing to tiny size after resizing it on HiDPI screen
• Front end: Linux: fixed seamless regression caused by wm_class functionality (bugs #12534, #17304)
• Front end: switched to https downloads
• Front end: fixed crash while opening New machine wizard (s.a. forums topic 86592)
• Audio: added support for distinguishing recording sources in the PulseAudio mixer on the host when multiple VMs are running
• Audio: various fixes for the DirectSound backend
• Video recording: added better file seeking support and fixed playback of recorded files with certain players (e.g. Firefox)
• Audio: various fixes for Windows guest surround setups
• Audio: various fixes for HDA emulation
• Serial: fixed an issue where the serial port parameters in the emulation and host serial port got out of sync (bug #17116)
• Storage: fixed overwriting certain INQUIRY data for the DVD/CD drive attached to a AHCI controller
• Storage: fixed handling VMDK images created by Amazon EC2 VM export
• Network: fixed PXE boot regression in e1000
• Network: Added a workaround for older guests which do not enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device
• 3D: add environment variable to configure presenting 3D content on main thread (see bug #13653)
• Windows hosts: fixed indiscriminate binding of NDIS5 bridged driver, that caused PPPOE malfunction (bugs #16407, #17489)
• Windows guests: fixed incorrect function error when using shared folders in certain applications (bug #14118)
• Linux guests: Linux 4.15 support (bugs #17311, #17320, #17282)
• Linux guests: fixed black screen when 3D enabled in guests (bug #17463, 5.2.6 regression)
• Linux guests: suppress setuid and setgid in shared folders

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.2.6-120293 (15-01-2018):

• GUI: fixed occasional screen corruption when host screen resolutio n is changed
• User interface: increase proposed disk size when creating new VMs for Windows 7 and newer
• User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens
• VMM: Fixed problems using 256MB VRAM in raw-mode VMs
• Audio: implemented support for audio playback and recording for macOS guests
• Audio: further timing improvements for Windows 10 guests
• Linux hosts: fixed problem accessing mini-toolbar under XFCE (bug #17280, contributed by Dusan Gallo)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.2.4-119785 (19-12-2017):

• User interface: Adjusting desktop file for X11 window managers (bug #17312)
• User interface: various high resolution display adjustments
• Audio: fixed SB16 volume handling (5.2 regression)
• Audio: various fixes
• USB/OHCI: fixed a problem where OHCI emulation might sporadically drop data transfers
• Linux hosts: fixed screen corruption when the host screen changes and a virtual machine window is maximized
• X11 Guest Additions: fixed a hang at the GNOME Shell login screen with 3D enabled (5.2 regression bugs #17189 and #17190)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.2.2-119230 (24-11-2017):

• User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens
• User interface: added functionality to duplicate optical and floppy images
• User interface: various improvements for the virtual media manager
• VMM: fixed emulation so that Plan 9 guests can start once more (5.1.0 regression)
• Storage: fixed regression breaking iSCSI (bug #17196)
• Audio: added HDA support for more exotic guests (e.g. Haiku)
• Serial: fixed hanging I/O when using named pipes on Windows (5.2.0 regression; bug #17227)
• Serial: fixed broken communication with certain devices on Linux hosts
• USB/OHCI: improved behavior so that the controller state after a VM reset is closer to the initial state after VM start
• EFI: fixed HFS+ driver which in rare cases failed to access most files on a volume
• Shared clipboard: fixed hang with OS X host and Linux guest (bug #15782)
• Linux hosts: fixed kernel module compilation and start failures with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #17267)
• X11 hosts: better handle WM_CLASS setting (bug #12534)
• Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #12534)
• Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14
• Linux guests: fixed various 5.2.0 regressions (bug #17163)
• Bridged networking: fixed duplicate EtherType in VLAN/priority tags on Linux (5.2.0 regression; bug #17277)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.2.0-118431 (17-10-2017):

• VM export to Oracle Cloud (OPC)
• Unattended guest installation (bug #5810; see the manual for more information)
• Overhauled VM selector GUI (improved tools VM / global tools handling, new icons)
• Added experimental audio support for video recording
• VMM: fixed reason for recent Linux kernels on also recent CPU models warning about "XSAVE consistency problem"
• GUI: Virtual Media Manager rework allowing to manage media attributes, like size, location, type and description
• GUI: Host-only Network Manager implemented to simplify managing corresponding networks and their attributes
• GUI: Snapshot Pane rework allowing to manage snapshot attributes, like name and description; reworked snapshot details which looks more clear, corresponds to VM Details pane and reflects current VM state difference according to last snapshot taken
• GUI: Audio settings extended with possibility to enable/disable audio input/output; corresponding changed were done to Audio and Video Capture settings pages; VM Devices menu and status-bar extended with corresponding actions and indicator as well
• GUI: improvements with accessibility support
• GUI: Fixed double mouse cursor when using mouse integration without Guest Additions, actually a Qt 5.6 bug fixed with QT 5.6.3 (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15610)
• Audio: implemented (optional) device enumeration support for audio backends
• Audio: implemented support for host device callbacks (e.g. when adding or removing an audio device)
• Audio: HDA emulation now uses asynchronous data processing in separate threads
• Audio: implemented ability to enable or disable audio input / output on-the-fly
• Storage: implemented support for CUE/BIN images as CD/DVD media including multiple tracks
• Storage: implemented support for the controller memory buffer feature for NVMe
• Storage: first milestone of the I/O stack redesign landed
• E1000: Fix for Windows XP freeze when booting with unplugged cable
• NAT network: do not skip some port forwarding setup when multiple VMs are active (Windows hosts only; bug #17041)
• Serial: fixed extremely rare misbehavior on VM poweroff
• EFI: better video mode handling, supporting custom video modes and easier configuration (bug #6783)
• BIOS: properly report floppy logical sectors per track for unusual formats
• BIOS: update ATA disk parameter table vectors only if there is actually a corresponding ATA disk attached
• PXE: speed up booting by better handling pending packets when the link is not up yet
• VBoxManage: handle CPUID sub-leaf overrides better
• Windows Additions: fix several 3D related crashes
• Solaris hosts: allow increasing MTU size for host-only adapter to 9706 bytes to support jumbo frames
• Linux Additions: on systems using systemd, make sure that only the Guest Additions timesync service is active many unlisted fixes and improvements

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.28-117968 (13-09-2017):

• GUI: mouse events did not reach host windows behind the transparent VM window (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #16246)
• Audio: fixed accidental crashes when using the AC`97 sound emulation (bug #16959)
• Audio: fixed crash when default input or output devices have changed (bugs #16968, #16969, #17004)
• Audio: fixed recording when using the ALSA backend
• Audio: fixed handle leak when using the OSS backend
• E1000: fixed a crash related to VLAN traffic over internal network (5.1.26 regression; bug #16960)
• NAT: apply --natbindip1 to TCP connections (bug #16478)
• OVF: when importing an appliance with XHCI controller, don`t add an OHCI controller.
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed a GUI crash if Spotlight is used from file dialogs (5.1.20 regression; bugs #16935, #16953)
• Linux hosts: fixed creating fixed sized VDI images (bug #17010)
• Linux hosts / guests: fixes for Linux 4.4 of openSUSE Leap 42.3 (bug #16966)
• Bridged networking: align outgoing packet at word boundary, preventing Windows host crash in MsLbfoProvider.
• Linux Additions: kernel drm driver support for custom EL7 Linux 3.10 kernel
• Solaris Additions: hide an informational message on the bootup console

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.26-117224 (27-07-2017):

• VMM: reset the TSC on VM reset to work around a Windows bug (bug #16643)
• Audio: fixed memory leak when enabled with VRDP connections (5.1.24 regression; bug #16928)
• Audio: fixed creation of too many sound sinks on Linux hosts when using the PulseAudio backend (bug #16938)
• Audio: implemented record gain registers for AC`97 emulation; those are needed for newer Ubuntu guests which rely on those when controlling gain and muting the recording (capturing) levels
• Storage: fixed hang when using the emulated NVMe controller with the SPDK (bug #16945)
• Mouse: double click was not working with a precision touchpad (bug #14632)
• Linux hosts: properly bring up host-only network interfaces with iproute (5.1.24 regression; bug #16911)
• Linux hosts: provide Python 3 libraries for deb/rpm packages
• Windows hosts: make it possible to use host-only networking without having bridged networking installed
• Windows guests: fixed automatic logons for Vista and newer Windows guests (5.1.24 regression; bug #16921)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.24-117012 (18-07-2017):

• VMM: mask the VME CPUID capability on AMD Ryzen processors for now to make certain guests works, for example Windows XP
• VMM: emulate more SSE2 instructions
• VMM: properly clear the TF and AC flags when dispatching real-mode interrupts
• GUI: fixes to make the mini-toolbar work with recent versions of KDE / Plasma (bug #16325)
• GUI: fixed a potential crash when a VM with multiple screens is running in full screen / seamless mode and a host screen is removed, for example when connecting to the host via RDP
• GUI: fixed initial size hints for guests which set intermediate sizes before responding (bug #16593)
• GUI: prevent stopped screen updates or black screen on reboot in a multi-screen setup under certain conditions
• Audio: many improvements for Windows 10 guests (bugs #15189, #15925, #16170, #16682, #16794 and others)
• Storage: fixed possible crash when using Intels SPDK
• API: use the correct file name of the VM machine state if the VM settings directory is renamed, for example during grouping / ungrouping a VM (bugs #16075 and #16745)
• API: return the correct error code if powering up a VM fails
• API: video recording did not automatically start at VM start when enabled in the VM settings (bug #16803)
• API: when relocating a medium, check that the target path is fully qualified
• EFI: fix for VMs with more than 3504MB RAM (bug #11103)
• Host-only adapter: correctly determine IPv4 netmasks on Windows hosts (bug #16826)
• NAT network: properly do the refcounting for starting / stopping the NAT / DHCP services if the NAT network is changed while the adapter network connection type is anything else but NAT network
• VBoxManage: fixed controlvm videocapfile (bug #16779)
• Windows hosts: fixed crashes if driver verifier is enabled (bug #15741)
• Linux / Mac OS X hosts: more fixes for loading shared libraries (5.1.20 regression; bugs #16778, #16693)
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.12 fixes (bugs #16725, #16800)
• Linux hosts / guests: reduce the kernel stack consumption for Linux kernels with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK defined
• Linux hosts / guests: fixes for kernel modules built with gcc-7 (bug #16772)
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.13 fix (bug #16887)
• Linux hosts: don`t depend on net-tools on newer distributions as this package is deprecated in favour of iproute (bug #16764)
• Linux hosts: make 2D video acceleration available for older Linux distributions (5.1 regression; bug #16858)
• Linux Additions: fix for dynamic resizing with Oracle Linux 6 with UEK4
• Linux Additions: make Fedora 25 and 26 Alpha work when 3D pass-through is enabled
• Linux Additions: no longer recommend removing distribution- installed Additions if they are updated to our guidelines

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.22-115126 (28-04-2017):

• VMM: fixed VERR_IEM_INSTR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED Guru Meditation under certain conditions (5.1 regression; mostly Mac
• OS X hosts; bugs #15693, #15801, #16274, #16569, #16663)
• VMM: fixed software virtualization on Solaris hosts (5.1.20 regression)
• Storage: fixed a potential hang under rare circumstances (bug #16677)
• Storage: fixed a potential crash under rare circumstances (asynchronous I/O disabled or during maintenance file operations like merging snapshots)
• Linux hosts: make the ALSA backend work again as well as loading the GL libraries on certain hosts (5.1.20 regression; bugs #16667, #16693)
• Linux Additions: fixed mount.vboxsf symlink problem (5.1.20 regression; bug #16670)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.20-114628 (18-04-2017):

• GUI: don`t check if the Extension Pack is up-to-date if the user is about to install a new Extension Pack (bug #16317)
• GUI: fixed a possible crash when switching a multi-monitor VM into full-screen or seamless mode
• GUI: fixed non-literal shortcuts if the keyboard is not captured (5.1.10 regression; Windows hosts only)
• GUI: several mini-toolbar fixes in full-screen / seamless mode (X11 hosts only)
• GUI: don`t crash on restoring defaults in the appliance import dialog
• Windows Additions: another fix for automatic logins for Windows Vista and newer (bug #15904)
• ICH9: fix for Windows guests with a huge amount (>64G) of guest memory
• BIOS: fixed El Torito hard disk emulation geometry calculation (thanks Dwight Engen)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.18-113841 (15-03-2017):

• Shared Folders: fixed case insensitive filename access (5.1.16 regression; Windows guests only; bug #16549)
• Shared Folders: fixed access to long pathes (5.1.16 regression; Windows guests only; bugs #14651, #16564)
• API: fixed snapshot handling of medium attachments and PCI device attachments (bug #16545)
• API: make 32-bit Windows guests in raw mode boot again if the ICH9 chipset is used (5.1.16 regression)
• VBoxBugReport: fixed VM log collection issue
• Linux hosts: fixed autostart service script (bug #14955)
• Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Windows Vista and newer (5.1.4 regression; bug #15904)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.16-113841 (08-03-2017):

• VMM: don`t access the MSR_IA32_SMM_MONITOR_CTL MSR if dual-monitor treatment is not available (KVM workaround, bug #14965)
• VMM: another fix for handling certain MSRs on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps
• VMM: fixed VERR_SSM_LOAD_CPUID_MISMATCH errors when restoring a saved state with SMP guests on hosts without the CPUID/HTT bit set (bug #16428)
• VMM: fixed a bug in call gate emulation
• VMM: FWAIT instruction fix
• VMM: fixed a sporadic guest hang under certain conditions
• GUI: better error handling on the global settings / network / host-only / DHCP server settings
• GUI: fixes for full-screen with multiple screens
• Host-only Network: fixed host-only adapter creation issue preventing VirtualBox installation on Windows 10 hosts (bug #16379)
• NAT network: fixed two potential crashes in the DHCP server
• ICH9: fixed incorrect initialization of the primary bus for PCI bridges (5.1.14 regression)
• Storage: LsiLogic fix for Windows 10
• USB: fixed not being able to attach certain USB devices having invalid characters in the device strings (5.0.18 regression; bug #15956)
• USB: several fixes for the USB/IP support (bug #16462)
• VBoxSVC: fixed another crash during shutdown under rare circumstances
• VBoxSVC: fixed a stack overflow on (Windows debug builds only; bug #16409)
• OVF: when importing an appliance handle more than 10 network adapters if the OVA was created by VirtualBox (bug #16401)
• OVF: fixes for exporting and importing appliances with many disks (bug #16402)
• VBoxManage: fixed regression with modifyhd --resize (bug #16311)
• rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes
• Linux Installers: do not rebuild kernel modules unnecessarily (bug #16408)
• Linux hosts: added an action for opening the VM manager window to the .desktop file
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.11 compile fixes (bug #16506)
• Linux Additions: added vboxsf FS modules alias (bug #16404)
• Linux Additions: fix for the shared folders kernel module to compile on Linux 4.10
• Linux Additions: properly install the Linux kernel module override rule on distributions without /etc/depmod.d
• Windows Additions: fixed a crash with recent Windows 10 builds if 3D is disabled (bug #15973)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.12-112924 (17-01-2017):

• VMM: fixed emulation of certain instructions for 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
• VMM: properly handle certain MSRs for 64-bit guests on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps (bug #13886)
• GUI: fixed a crash with multimonitor setups under certain conditions
• GUI: allow cloning of snapshots when the VM is running
• NVMe: fixed compatibility with the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK, bug #16368)
• VBoxSVC: fixed a crash under rare circumstances
• VBoxManage: added a sanity check to modifymedium --resize to prevent users from resizing their hard disk from 1GB to 1PB (bug #16311)
• Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 hosts
• Linux hosts: Linux 4.10 fixes
• Linux Additions: fixed protocol error during certain operations on shared folders (bug #8463)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.12-112440 (20-12-2016):

• VMM: fixed VERR_IEM_ASPECT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED Guru Meditations with certain Linux guests if KVM paravirtualization is enabled (5.1 regression; bugs #15613 and #16251)
• 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 (5.1.10 regression; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #16150)
• GUI: fixed dragging guest windows in seamless mode with the keyboard captured (X11 hosts only; bug #15837)
• GUI: fixed a problem where the new version detected dialog was covered by the appliance import dialog (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #16238)
• Storage: fixed NVMe reset processing when doing rmmod nvme; modprobe nvme in a Linux guest (bug #16080)
• 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 (Mac OS X guests only; 5.1.10 regression; bug #16260)
• E1000: fixed "TX unit hang" issue (Linux guests only; 5.1.10 regression; bug #16221)
• Parallel ports: fixed port enumeration on Windows host (bugs #15872 and #16127)
• API: don`t crash when sanitizing certain VM names (bug #16299)
• Linux hosts: automatically disable asynchronous I/O on Linux 2.6.18 kernels as high I/O load may trigger kernel oopses on these kernels if this feature is enabled
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 2.6.28 compile fix (bug #16267)
• Linux hosts: compile Linux 4.9 compile fix (bug #16286)
• Linux Additions: warn the user about a known bug with older Linux guests (e.g. Debian 7) requiring manual work to get 3D working (bug #15319)
• Linux Additions: fix the graphics driver build with Linux 4.10 and later (bug #16298)
• Windows Additions: fixed a crash in the WDDM driver under certain conditions

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.10-112026 (21-11-2016):

• GUI: the USB filter settings dialog should allow to specify the USB revision in hexadecimal format (bug #15400)
• GUI: fixed crash on certain hosts when pressing certain key combinations (Windows hosts only; bug #15719)
• GUI: don`t crash / hang on certain environments if accessibility support is enabled
• UI: fixed various issues in Unscaled HiDPI Output mode (bug #15707)
• GUI: extend the VM Input menu with Print Screen-related actions
• GUI: improved handling of inserting the Guest Additions ISO image by trying all available optical drives rather than only the first one and by not asking the user if he wants to force unmounting (which doesn`t work in most cases anyway)
• API: default to RTC using UTC for Solaris 11 guests
• Settings: be less restrictive when reading a VM configuration containing a host-only adapter without an interface name
• Storage: fixed resizing VDI images resulting in an unbootable image under certain circumstances (bug #15983)
• NAT: fixed several 5.1.8 regressions on Mac OS X and Windows hosts (bug #16084)
• Audio: fixed a few 5.1.x regressions by using the audio code from 5.0.x until the audio overhaul is completed
• VBoxManage: fixed documentation of the storagectl command (bug #15971)
• Build system: another fix for building VirtualBox on systems which default to Python 3
• Windows hosts: hardening fix for Windows 10 build 14971 (bug #16202)
• Windows Additions: properly start the VirtualBox guest services even if the guest user name contains special characters (bug #15982)
• Solaris Additions: fixed preemptible mouse notification callback being executed under a spinlock for Solaris guests
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.9 fixes (bugs #16155 and #16064)
• Linux Additions: fixed Linux kernel module override rule (thanks Mark Furneaux)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.8-111374 (18-10-2016):

• GUI: fixed keyboard shortcut handling regressions (Mac OS X hosts only; bugs #15937 and #15938)
• GUI: fixed keyboard handling regression for separate UI (Windows hosts only; bugs #15928)
• NAT: don`t exceed the maximum number of "search" suffixes. Patch from bug #15948.
• NAT: fixed parsing of port-forwarding rules with a name which contains a slash (bug #16002)
• NAT Network: when the host has only loopback nameserver that cannot be mapped to the guests (e.g. dnsmasq running on 127.0.1.1), make DHCP supply NAT Network DNS proxy as nameserver.
• Bridged Network: prevent flooding syslog with packet allocation error messages (bug #15569)
• Audio: now using Audio Queues on Mac OS X hosts
• Audio: fixed recording with the PulseAudio backend (5.1 regression)
• Audio: various bugfixes
• Snapshots: fixed regression in 5.1.4 for deleting snapshots with several disks (bug #15831)
• Snapshots: crash fix and better error reporting when snapshot deletion failed
• Storage: some fixes for the NVMe emulation with Windows guests
• API: fixed initialization of SAS controllers (bug #15972)
• Build system: make it possible to build VBox on systems which default to Python 3
• Windows hosts: detect certain cases of REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG errors and print a helpful error message
• Windows hosts: adapted to changes in Windows 10 build 14901 (bug #15944)
• Windows hosts: better support for processor groups on Windows 7 and later which is required on certain hosts with many CPUs
• Windows installer / Additions: added option to prevent creating of start menu items (bug #15922)
• Windows Additions / VGA: if the guest`s power management turns a virtual screen off, blank the corresponding VM window rather than hide the window
• Windows Additions: fixed a generic bug which could lead to freezing shared folders (bug #15662)
• Linux hosts / guests: fix for kernels with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK set (bug #16020) Linux Additions: don`t require all virtual consoles be in text mode. This should fix cases when the guest is booted with a graphical boot screen (bug #15683)
• Linux Additions: added depmod overrides for the vboxguest and vboxsf kernel modules to fix conflicts with modules shipped by certain Linux distributions
• X11 Additions: disable 3D on the guest if the host does not provide enough capabilities (bug #15860)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.6-110634 (14-09-2016):

• GUI: fixed issue with opening `.vbox` files and it`s aliases
• GUI: keyboard grabbing fixes (bugs #15771 and #15745)
• GUI: fix for passing through Ctrl + mouse-click (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15714)
• GUI: fixed automatic deletion of extension pack files (bugs #11352 and #14742)
• USB: fixed showing unknown device instead of the manufacturer or product description under certain circumstances (5.1.0 regression; bug #15764)
• XHCI: another fix for a hanging guest under certain conditions as result of the fix for bug #15747, this time for Windows 7 guests
• Serial: fixed high CPU usage with certain USB to serial converters on Linux hosts (bug #7796)
• Storage: fixed attaching stream optimized VMDK images (bug #14764)
• Storage: reject image variants which are unsupported by the backend (bug #7227)
• Storage: fixed loading saved states created with VirtualBox 5.0.10 and older when using a SCSI controller (bug #15865)
• Storage: fixed broken NVMe emulation if the host I/O cache setting is enabled
• Storage: fixed using multiple NVMe controllers if ICH9 is used
• NVMe: fixed a crash during reset which could happen under certain circumstances
• Audio: fixed microphone input (5.1.2 regression; bugs #14386 and #15802)
• Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions (5.1.0 regression; bug #15887 and others)
• Audio: fixed recording with the ALSA backend (5.1 regression)
• Audio: fixed stream access mode with OSS backend (5.1 regression, thanks to Jung-uk Kim)
• E1000: do also return masked bits when reading the ICR register, this fixes booting from iPXE (5.1.2 regression; bug #15846)
• BIOS: fixed 4bpp scanline calculation (bug #15787)
• API: relax the check for the version attribute in OVF/OVA appliances (bug #15856)
• Windows hosts: fixed crashes when terminating the VM selector or other VBox COM clients (bug #15726 and others)
• Linux Installer: fixed path to the documentation in .rpm packages (5.1.0 regression)
• Linux Installer: fixed the vboxdrv.sh script to prevent an SELinux complaint (bug #15816)
• Linux hosts: don`t use 32-bit legacy capabilities
• Linux Additions: Linux 4.8 fix for the kernel display driver (bugs #15890 and #15896)
• Linux Additions: don`t load the kernel modules provided by the Linux distribution but load the kernel modules from the official Guest Additions package instead (bug #15324)
• Linux Additions: fix dynamic resizing problems in recent Linux guests (bug #15875)
• User Manual: fixed error in the VBoxManage chapter for the getextradata enumerate example (bug #15862)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.4-110228 (16-08-2016):

• GUI: show actual VM uptime in the session information window
• Audio: re-enabled speakers for Mac OS X guests (5.1.0 regression; bug #15611)
• Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions
• USB: fixed a hang under certain conditions
• USB: fixed a hanging guest under certain conditions (bug #15747)
• PIIX4: implemented dummy SMBus controller to prevent annoying Linux kernel warnings about uninitialized SMBus base address (bug #9517)
• NVMe: several fixes to improve stability, fixed a crash while saving a VM state
• VMDK: Fixed an issue creating fixed size images with certain sizes and the Split2G option enabled (bug #15748)
• VHDX: fixed cloning images with VBoxManage clonehd (bug #14288)
• Storage: Fixed broken bandwidth limitation when the limit is very low (bug #14982)
• EFI: fixed sending debug messages in the EFI firmware if a serial port is enabled (bug #12161)
• OVF: when importing appliances, make sure that the version of the embedded VirtualBox-specific settings is processed, to get the default settings handling right
• VBoxManage: Don`t try to set the medium type if there is no change (bug #13850)
• Linux installer: fixed some scripting issues (bugs #15701 and #15702)
• Linux installer: fixed a path issue on certain Linux distributions (bug #15717)
• Windows hosts: fixed corrupted mouse pointers with some Linux and Solaris guests (bug #15665)
• Linux Additions: made the video driver work on 32-bit guests with large video memory sizes (bug #15621)
• Linux Additions: made the video driver work on kernel 4.7 and later (bug #15769)
• Linux Additions: converted a failure message to an informational one when drivers could not be stopped during upgrade (bug #15692)
• Linux Additions: made the video driver work around an X server bug which cause screen refresh to stop (bug #15511)
• Windows Additions: auto-resizing fixes for Windows 10 guests (bug #15257)
• Windows Additions: fixed VBoxTray problems with Windows 2000 (bug #15661)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.2-108956 (22-07-2016):

• 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 (bug #15648)
• 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 (5.1.0 regression)
• GUI: fix for Alt-Tab
• Storage: fixed creating fixed size VHD images (bug #15601)
• 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 (5.1.0 regression; bug #15598)
• 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 (bug #15607)
• OVA: fix for checking certain signatures
• OVA: fixed MAC address generation for appliances created by VirtualBox (5.1.0 regression; bug #15623)
• API: fixed audio settings handling for older config files (bug #15626)
• API: fixed truncation of USB product/vendor IDs on Linux hosts (5.1.0 regression; bug #15644)
• API: fixed VRDP with authentication (bug #15653)
• API: don`t crash if there is no graphics controller configured (bug #15628)
• Linux hosts: fixed EL5 builds (bug #15634)
• non-Windows hosts: fixed a crash during shutdown under rare circumstances (bug #15568)
• Linux Additions: fixed SELinux issue which prevented certain Linux guests to work in 3D mode (bug #15574)
• User Manual: updates

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.1.0-108711 (12-07-2016):

• VMM: new APIC and I/O APIC implementations that result in significantly improved performance in certain situations (for example with networking, bug #15295)
• VMM: added support for Hyper-V paravirtualized debugging of Windows guests
• VMM: emulate even more MMIO and shadow pagetable exits without going back to user mode
• GUI: overall migration to Qt5 (bug #11775)
• GUI: passive API event listener improving the VM GUI performance and response time
• Audio: added HDA (High Definition Audio) support for newer Linux guests
• Audio: added on-demand timers which should improve the overall performance and reduce the CPU consumption
• Audio: more fine-grained volume control for the AC`97 emulation, which now also takes the master volume control into account
• better support for Python 3
• VMM: activate the x2APIC by default for Linux guests
• VMM: many more fixes
• GUI: the Detach UI action is now a part of the VM Machine menu
• GUI: reworked session information window
• GUI: the new VM wizard now allows to choose the VM location for the VM which is being created
• GUI: fixed location of touch events in unscaled HiDPI mode (bugs #14366, #14367)
• GUI: various bugfixes and internal cleanup
• Storage: use fallocate() or similar if present to speed up creating fixed-sized disk images (bug #5967)
• Storage: implemented NVMHCI-compatible storage controller
• Audio: various bugfixes and infrastructure improvements
• E1000: implemented interrupt throttling for performance improvements
• EFI: many improvements, for example allow to boot from USB
• OVF: improved handling of signed manifests
• API: Windows XP guests and Windows 2003 server guests now default to the E1000 T Server network card
• VBoxSVC: fixed several memory leaks when handling .dmg images
• Installers: ship VBoxBugReport
• Windows hosts: reworked COM proxy (e.g. bug #8298) vLinux installers: no longer rely on DKMS for module rebuilding
• Linux Additions: fix a problem when updating the initramfs after the guest modules are compiled (bug #15579)
• Linux Additions: try to fix a problem where the OpenGL libraries where loaded by the X server when we only support X clients (bug #15574)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.0.24-108355 (28-06-2016):

• VMM: reverted to the old I/O-APIC code for now to fix certain regressions with 5.0.22 (bug #15529). This means that the networking performance with certain guests will drop to the 5.0.20 level (bug #15295). One workaround is to disable GRO for Linux guests.
• Main: when taking a screenshot, don`t save garbage for blanked screens
• NAT: correctly parse resolv.conf file with multiple separators (5.0.22 regression)
• Storage: fixed a possible corruption of stream optimized VMDK images from VMware when opened in read/write mode for the first time
• Audio: imlemented dynamic re-attaching of input/output devices on Mac OS X hosts
• ACPI: notify the guest when the battery / AC state changes instead of relying on guest polling
• Linux hosts: fixed VERR_VMM_SET_JMP_ABORTED_RESUME Guru Meditations on hosts with Linux 4.6 or later (bug #15439)
• Solaris hosts: make the GUI work on Solaris 10 again (bug #15549)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.0.22-108108 (18-06-2016):

• VMM: fixes for certain Intel Atom hosts (bug #14915)
• VMM: properly restore the complete FPU state for 32-bit guests on 64-bit hosts on Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs
• VMM: new I/O-APIC implementation fixing several bugs and improving the performance under certain conditions (bug #15295 and others)
• VMM: fixed a potential Linux guest panic on AMD hosts
• VMM: fixed a potential hang with 32-bit EFI guests on Intel CPUs (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution)
• GUI: don`t allow to start subsequent separate VM instances
• GUI: raised upper limit for video capture screen resolution (bug #15432)
• GUI: warn if the VM has less than 128MB VRAM configured and 3D enabled
• Main: when monitoring DNS configuration changes on Windows hosts avoid false positives from competing DHCP renewals.
• This should fix NAT link flaps when host has multiple DHCP configured interfaces, in particular when the host uses OpnVPN.
• Main: properly display an error message if the VRDE server cannot be enabled at runtime, for example because another service is using the same port
• NAT: Initialize guest address guess for wildcard port-forwarding rules with default guest address (bug #15412)
• VGA: fix for a problem which made certain legacy guests crash under certain conditions (bug #14811)
• ACPI: properly notify the guest if the ACPI battery state changed
• OVF: fixed import problems for some appliances using an AHCI controller created by 3rd party applications
• SDK: reduced memory usage in the webservice Java bindings
• Windows hosts: fixed performance regresson with SMP guests (5.0 regression)
• Windows hosts: fixes for the shared clipboard
• Windows hosts: Windows hardening fix
• Windows Additions: fixes to retain the guest display layout when resizing or disabling the guest monitors
• Linux hosts: EL 6.8 fix (bug #15411)
• Linux hosts: Linux 4.7 fix (bug #15459)
• Linux Additions: Linux 4.7 fixes (bug #15444)
• Linux Additions: fix for certain 32-bit guests (5.0.18 regression; bug #15320)
• Linux Additions: fixed mouse pointer offset (5.0.18 regression; bug #15324)
• Linux Additions: made old X.Org releases work again with kernels 3.11 and later (5.0.18 regression; bug #15319)
• Linux Additions: fixed X.Org crash after hard guest reset (5.0.18 regression; bug #15354)
• Linux Additions: don`t stop the X11 setup if loading the shared folders module fails (5.0.18 regression)
• Linux Additions: don`t complain if the Drag and Drop service is not available on the host
• Solaris Additions: added support for X.org 1.18

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.0.20-106667 (28-04-2016):

• Storage: fixed a regression causing write requests from the BIOS to cause a Guru Meditation with the LsiLogic
• SCSI controller (5.0.18 regression; bug #15317)
• Storage: several emulation fixes in the BusLogic SCSI controller emulation
• NAT Network: support TCP in DNS proxy (same problem as in bug #14736 for NAT)
• NAT: rework handling of port-forwarding rules (bug #13570)
• NAT: rewrite host resolver to handle more query types and make it asynchronous so that a stalled lookup doesn`t block all NAT traffic
• Snapshots: don`t crash when restoring a snapshot which has more network adapters than the current state (ie when the snapshot uses ICH9 and the current state uses PIIX3)
• Guest Control: various bugfixes for the copyfrom and copyto commands / API (bug #14336)
• VBoxManage: list processor features on list hostinfo (bug #15334)
• Linux hosts: fix for Linux 4.5 if CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT is enabled (bug #15327)
• Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 insider builds (bug #15337)
• Windows hosts: make it work on Windows XP again (5.0.18 regression)
• Windows Additions: fixed performance issues with PowerPoint 2010 and the WDDM graphics drivers if Aero is disabled

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.0.18-106667 (18-04-2016):

• GUI: position off-screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch in consistence with default-behavior (bug #15226)
• GUI: fixed the View menu / Full-screen Mode behavior on Mac OS X El Capitan
• GUI: fixed a test which allowed to encrypt a hard disk with an empty password
• GUI: fixed a crash under certain conditions during VM shutdown
• GUI: fixed the size of the VM list scrollbar in the VM selector when entering a group
• PC speaker passthrough: fixes (Linux hosts only; bug #627)
• Drag and drop: several fixes
• SATA: fixed hotplug flag handling when EFI is used
• Storage: fixed handling of encrypted disk images with SCSI controllers (bug #14812)
• Storage: fixed possible crash with Solaris 7 if the BusLogic SCSI controller is used
• USB: properly purge non-ASCII characters from USB strings (bugs #8801, #15222)
• NAT Network: fixed 100% CPU load in VBoxNetNAT on Mac OS X under certain circumstances (bug #15223)
• ACPI: fixed ACPI tables to make the display color management settings available again for older Windows versions (4.3.22 regression)
• Guest Control: fixed VBoxManage copyfrom command (bug #14336)
• Snapshots: fixed several problems when removing older snapshots (bug #15206)
• VBoxManage: fixed --verbose output of the guestcontrol command
• Windows hosts: hardening fixes required for recent Windows 10 insider builds (bugs #15245, #15296)
• Windows hosts: fixed support of jumbo frames in with bridged networking (5.0.16 regression; bug #15209)
• Windows hosts: don`t prevent receiving multicast traffic if host-only adapters are installed (bug #8698)
• Linux hosts: added support for the new naming scheme of NVME disks when creating raw disks
• Solaris hosts / guests: properly sign the kernel modules (bug #12608)
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.5 fixes (bug #15251)
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.6 fixes (bug #15298)
• Linux Additions: added a kernel graphics driver to support graphics when X.Org does not have root rights (bug #14732)
• Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed several issues causing Linux/Solatis guests using software rendering when 3D acceleration is available
• Windows Additions: fixed a hang with PowerPoint 2010 and the WDDM drivers if Aero is disabled

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.0.16-105871 (04-03-2016):

• VMM: fixed a problem which could lead to a wrong guest behavior on AMD CPUs (tickets #14831 and #15186)
• GUI: don`t try to synchronize the HID LEDs if the VM window is not active or if it`s minimized (Windows / Mac OS X hosts only; bug #14302)
• GUI: prevent a crash during startup under rare conditions
• GUI: sub-menu option to disable the guest-OS type overlay in the application dock icon on Mac OS X
• GUI: position off-screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch
• GUI: hide the VT-x/AMD-V checkbox if raw-mode is not supported (usually Mac OS X hosts; bug #15178)
• PC speaker passthrough: new experimental feature, available on Linux host only
• Audio: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts + guests
• Audio: properly handle default audio device changes (Windows hosts)
• USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller (e.g. for webcam passthrough)
• BIOS: fixed int15/AH=83/AL=00 function (4.2.0 regression)
• iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628)
• Shared folders: fixed a failure to load the saved state under certain circumstances (bug #6314)
• Guest Control: added support for (cached) Active Directory authentication in case the domain controller is not reachable (anymore)
• Serial ports: raised the number of serial ports per VM from 2 to 4 (bug #9109)
• Serial ports: fix for the TCP/IP backend (Windows hosts only; bug #15188)
• SDK: make the Python webservice API binding work again (5.0 regression)
• Seamless mode: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #15106)
• Linux hosts: fixed the /sbin/rcvboxdrv script as well as the missing shebang in two scripts (bugs #15055 and #15057)
• Linux hosts: properly uninstall Python files installed by the .run installer
• Windows hosts: hardening fix required for recent Windows insider builds (bug #14052)
• Windows hosts: fixed Python installation path (bug #13131)
• Windows hosts: support MTU larger than 2 KB with bridged networking (bug #15140)
• Windows hosts / guests: properly sign binaries using a sha-256 certificate (bug #15054)
• Windows Additions: fixed guest property enumeration of logged-in users
• Windows Additions: fixed sporadical failure of the graphics driver in Windows 10 guests (bug #14409)
• Windows Additions: under rare circumstances no mouse movement events were delivered to the guest

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.0.14-105127 (19-01-2016):

• GUI: properly limit the number of VCPUs to the number of physical cores on Mac OS X (bug #15018)
• Audio: fixed a bug which prevented loading a saved state of a saved guests with HDA emulation (5.0.12 regression; bug #14981)
• Audio: don`t crash if the backend is unable to initialize (bug #14960)
• Audio: fixed audio capture on Mac OS X (bug #14386)
• Storage: fixed a possible crash when attaching the same ISO image multiple times to the same VM (bug #14951)
• BIOS: properly report if two floppy drives are attached
• USB: fixed a problem with filters which would not capture the device under certain circumstances (5.0.10 regression; bug #15042)
• ExtPack: black-list Extension Packs older than 4.3.30 due to incompatible changes not being properly handled in the past
• Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused robocopy to fail (bug #14958)
• Linux hosts: properly create the /sbin/rcvboxdrv symbolic link (5.0.12 regression; bug #14989)
• Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for USB on El Capitan (bug #14677)
• Linux Additions: fixes for Linux 4.5 (bug #15032)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.0.12-104515 (18-12-2015):

• GUI: fixed wrong scrolling behaviour in the VM selector window when a VM item is dragged out of the chooser-pane area
• GUI: fixed the validation of IPv6 port-forwarding rules
• GUI: suppress the first-run wizard if a CD/DVD medium is inserted using the selector UI
• GUI: fixed the Ctrl+Break key sequence scan codes (bug #14927)
• GUI: improved handling of text selection mouse pointer (bug #750)
• Host services: fixed a crash during VM shutdown under rare conditions (5.0.6 regression; bug #14841)
• Shared folders: fixed a sharing violation if a file is opened to check the attributes (Windows hosts only; bug #14450)
• Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Mac OS X hosts only)
• XHCI: fixed broken emulation if software virtualization is used
• XHCI: several fixes
• 3D: fixed state handling under certain conditions (bug #13487)
• Audio: several fixes
• BIOS: added LBA64 support for being able to boot from huge hard disks (bug #7415)
• EFI: fix for Windows 10 guests
• ExtPack: before installing an Extension Pack check if there are VMs running to prevent file system locking issues
• rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes
• Windows hosts: fixed hang when using VBoxAuthSimple library for VRDP external authentication (bug #14931)
• Windows hosts: fixed a regression which prevented it to attach to a physical network adapter having TCP/IP disabled (bug #14578)
• Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused multi-port adapters to be shown as a single adapter (bugs #14558, #14622)
• Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused created host-only adapters to not appear in the list (bug #14437)
• Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues related to Windows 10 (bugs #14040, #14545)
• Linux hosts: .desktop file compatibility issue (bug #14808)
• Linux hosts / guests: fixes for RHEL 7.2 (bug #14866)
• The command for recompiling the host kernel modules was changed again, to /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup (bug #14723)
• Linux hosts: some fixes for PCI passthrough (still highly experimental)
• Linux/Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM hang during startup under certain circumstances (bug #14933)
• Solaris hosts: added Python 2.7 bindings
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed a possible crash when the default input or output audio device changes
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed a panic under certain conditions
• Linux Additions: prevent the compiler from doing dead-code elemination on vital code in guest / host communication (bug #14497)
• Linux Additions: when mounting a shared folder, explicitly pass the share name so that /proc/mounts contains this name instead of `none`
• Linux Additions: workaround for a systemd problem in conjunction with SELinux which prevented to properly enable the `vboxadd` service during while upgrading the Additions

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.0.10-104061 (10-11-2015):

• VMM: improved support for certain Intel Atom CPUs (bug #14773)
• VMM: system register emulation fix (5.0 regression; bug #14515)
• GUI: fixed immediate screenshot issue (bug #14108)
• GUI: fixed another 3D overlay window reparenting issue when the VM is switched to fullscreen mode on X11 hosts
• GUI: fixed help index (bug #14722)
• GUI: fixed state synchronization issue in the VM manager window when VM was paused from its runtime window
• Audio: fixed suspending/resuming audio streams on VM pause/unpause (bug #14784)
• Audio: properly reset AC97 audio streams, otherwise there is silence until a non-48 kHz stream is played
• Audio: fixed a small emulation quirk of the AD1980 codec of the HDA device to make recent linux guests work (bug #14653)
• USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller
• USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions on hosts with Linux kernels older than version 3.3
• USB: better identification of certain USB devices
• NAT: support TCP in DNS proxy (bug #14736)
• NAT Network: fixed sporadic crashes on Windows hosts (bug #13899)
• API: when creating differencing images (e.g. as part of a snapshot or cloning a VM) use the same disk image variant as the parent image if possible, which means that e.g. a diff image for a VMDK image split into 2 GB files will also be split (bug #14764)
• API: event queue handling fixes preventing loss of certain events at runtime (e.g. new webcam attached), particularly important on Mac OS X hosts
• Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Windows hosts only)
• VBoxManage: don`t crash on snapshot restorecurrent / edit if the VM has no snapshots
• VBoxManage: don`t crash on controlvm addencpassword (bug #14729)
• Mac OS X hosts: use the correct kernel on certain hosts
• Windows hosts: fixed VRDP external authentication
• Windows hosts: allow to use a shared folder path with extended-length path prefix (5.0 regression; bug #14651)
• Windows hosts: fix a crash in the netfilter host driver under certain conditions (bug #14799)
• Windows host installer: documented and fixed public properties which can be used to control the installation to some extent
• Windows host installer: fixed not starting the actual installation when showing the version information or help dialogs
• X11 Additions: added basic support for X.Org Server 1.18 (3D requires additional fixes)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.0.8-103449 (20-10-2015):

• GUI: Mac OS X: Restore green zoom button for VM windows (it was hidden in the previous release to avoid native full-screen issues). For Yosemite and El Capitan this button should work accordingly to the Apple HIG: Full-screen by default, maximize if the user holds the Option key.
• Serial ports: fixed wrong IRQ number for the first serial port in the ACPI tables (5.0.6 regression; bug #14659)
• API: fixed a 5.0 regression in VBoxManage setproperty defaultfrontend (bug #14696)
• VBoxManage/vbox-img: conversion to RAW images could result in a disk image containing all zeroes
• Linux hosts: several fixes for systemd integration in .deb / .rpm packages (e.g. bug #14665). The command for recompiling the host kernel modules was changed to /sbin/vboxconfig
• Linux hosts: make host-only interfaces report operstate UP only when they have VMs attached (bug #14526)
• Mac OS X hosts: fix bpf capture and accounting of traffic on bridged and host-only interfaces (bug #14553)
• Windows guests: fixed 3D rendering issues on high resolution displays
• Windows Additions: fixed problems with 3D acceleration on Windows hosts with Intel HD graphics (bug #14670)
• Linux Additions: fix service starting on Debian systems with systemd installed but not in use (bug #14683)

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.0.6-103037 (02-10-2015):

• GUI: the update check now uses the HTTP system proxy settings by default
• GUI: About dialog improvements. Copyable version text, do not close dialog on mouse-clicks and focus losing, explicit close button at the bottom of dialog and disabled close button fix on OS X. (bugs #9912, #12749)
• GUI: fixed bug when re-assigning shortcuts (bug #14565)
• GUI: fixed default focus button in message-box dialogs (bug #14486)
• GUI: fixed settings dialog which is opened if the network settings need to be changed at VM startup (5.0.0 regression; bug #14601)
• GUI: fixed crash during VM start if an early error message needs to be shown, for example Linux kernel modules not present (bug #14646)
• Bridged Networking: fixed handling of guest DHCP requests without UDP checksum when bridging to a wireless interface (bug #14615)
• Audio: latency fixes (Windows hosts only; bug #4088)
• Guest Control: correctly set USERNAME and USERPROFILE environment variables (Windows guests only)
• Guest Control: several fixes
• API: properly restore NAT port forwarding rules when reverting to a snapshot
• Parallel ports: Several fixes allowing to enable two parallel ports for a VM
• VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of debugvm show command
• VBoxManage: fixed hang when specifying logging groups with debugvm log starting with h, for example hex
• Windows hosts: renamed VBoxStartup.log to VBoxHardening.log and provide this log file in the GUI log viewer
• Windows hosts: fixed a small memory leak in the Windows host interface driver (VBoxNetAdp) which caused a BSOD if the driver verifier is enabled (bug #14562)
• Windows hosts: fixed a failure to start VMs on hosts where dsound.dll is not available (bug #14574)
• Windows hosts: another fix for VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE errors (bug #14579)
• Windows hosts: fixed host-to-guest communication with bridged networking (bugs #14326, #14457)
• Windows hosts: fixed broken data receiving from the serial device with the named pipe backend if Kaspersky AV is installed
• Linux hosts: Linux 4.3 compile fixes
• Linux hosts: installer fix for certain systems (bug #14627)
• Linux hosts / guests: native systemd support for the host/guest installer scripts. The scripts for re-compiling the kernel modules are now located at /sbin/rcvboxdrv (host) and /sbin/rcvboxadd (Guest Additions)
• Mac OS X hosts: GUI-related fixes for El Capitan
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed a problem with capturing USB devices under El Capitan
• Mac OS X hosts: allow colon character on shared folders (bug #14554)
• Linux Additions: properly set the VBoxService process ID in the PID file (bug #14571)
• Linux Additions: Guest Control fixes (bug #14573)
• Windows Additions: fixed shutting down VBoxTray when running with older VirtualBox host versions
• Windows Additions: fixed video playback with VLC and Windows Media Player when the WDDM driver is used and 3D is not used
• Windows Additions: prevent a possible VLC crash when the WDDM driver is used and 3D is enabled by implementing YV12 surfaces

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.0.4-102546 (08-09-2015):

• VMM: fixed an issue with Windows 10 guest kernel debugging over the network for Hyper-V paravirtualized VMs
• VMM: fixed a bug which prevented reading the saved state of the `PATM` unit from VirtualBox 4.3.x (bug #14512)
• GUI: changed default OS type for Windows from Windows XP to Windows 7
• GUI: added another pre-defined guest screen resolution (bug #14384)
• GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates (bug #13096)
• GUI: fixed issues with synchronization of Caps lock / Num lock / Scroll lock on Windows hosts (bug #14302)
• GUI: don`t crash during VM shutdown if 2D video acceleration and 3D support are enabled (Mac OS X hosts only)
• GUI: several seamless fixes for certain X11 window managers, also when used in multi-screen setups
• GUI: Log window size, position and cursor-position fixes
• Audio: fixed playing leftover/deprecated audio samples
• Audio: fixed playing audio after suspending the host (5.0 regression; Linux hosts using the ALSA backend)
• Audio: fixed playing short audio samples which were chopped off formerly
• Audio: fixed distortions on OS X when the sample rate of the guest stream and host device don`t match
• Storage: fixed raw disk access and flat VMDK image access which would be always opened readonly (5.0.2 regression; bugs #14425, #14461)
• Storage: fixed initial encryption of VDI images after they were compacted (bug #14496)
• VGA: fix for certain graphics modes (bug #14516)
• NAT: don`t freeze while the VM is paused if the network attachment mode is changed from/to NAT with activated port forwarding
• OVF: fixed duplicate USB controller entries in exported OVA/OVF (bug #14462)
• Shared Folders: fixed a path separator issue (bug #14434)
• Drag and drop: fixed crashes on OS X hosts when doing host-to-guest transfers
• VBoxManage: another attempt to not deny changing the network adapter type at VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308)
• VBoxManage: fixed broken guestcontrol list command (5.0 regression)
• VBoxManage: fixed broken Guest Control stdout/stderr output (5.0 regression)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed remaining problems with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later; bug #14412)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed broken 3D support (5.0.2 regression; bug #14476)
• Linux hosts: Linux 4.2 fix
• Linux hosts: don`t crash on older Linux distributions if the DBus service isn`t running (bug #14543)
• Windows hosts: fixed the VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE error message (bug #14420)
• Windows hosts: fix for Windows 10 build 10525 and later (bug #14502)
• Windows hosts: fixed network adapter enumeration on Windows 10 (bug #14437)
• Windows hosts: prevent intermittent host network disconnects during VM start/shutdown with bridged networking (bug #14500)
• Windows Additions: fixed the call to the memory allocation function (bug #14415)
• Linux Additions: be more forgiving if the compilation of the vboxvideo module fails (bug #14547)
• X11 Additions: fixed a number of small issues with dynamic resizing and full-screen and seamless modes.

Изменения в программе VirtualBox 5.0.2-102096 (13-08-2015):

• VMM: added support for guest crash report MSRs with Hyper-V paravirtualization
• VMM: fixed an issue causing artifically high load averages on Linux hosts
• VMM: fixed a kernel panic with thread-context hooks caused by incompatible changes made to Linux 4.2 kernels
• VMM: fixed a saved state issue with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (5.0 regression; bug #14304)
• VMM: fixed VERR_SUPDRV_TSC_DELTA_MEASUREMENT_FAILED Guru Meditations on certain AMD CPUs (5.0 regression; bug #14370)
• VMM: fixed a crash while creating a guest core dumps via the VM debug facility (5.0 regression)
• VMM: This release has AVX2 passthrough disabled on every host and AVX passthrough disabled for 64-bit VMs on 32-bit hosts. This will be properly fixed in a future 5.0.x maintenance release (see e.g. bug #14262).
• GUI: fixed rare hang and crash on VM shutdown/poweroff
• GUI: X11: fixed few crashes caused by the Qt alien widgets feature
• GUI: X11: fixed various mini-toolbar geometry quirks like positioning, z-order, transiency issues on certain window managers (bug #14257)
• GUI: X11: fixed mini-toolbar minimize button issue under certain window managers (bug #14284)
• GUI: VM menu actions availability should now be properly updated on full-screen/seamless/scaled mode switches
• GUI: disk encryption password validation should be performed when user confirmed the password, not after each entered symbol
• GUI: do not change the VM/group selection in the VM Manager to the newly created VM if it was created by another client (e.g. VBoxManage)
• GUI: Mac OS X: do not treat `almost maximized` VM windows as `maximized`, watch for the strict window geometry instead
• GUI: improve the quality in scaled mode under some circumstances (5.0 regression; bug #14303)
• VBoxManage: do not deny changing the network adapter type at VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308)
• VRDP: allow Windows 10 RDP clients (bug #14216)
• Audio: fix a possible crash on VM process termination (5.0 regression)
• Storage: improved raw disk access on OS X by unmounting any accessed volume before first use and prevent any mount attempt by the host (bug #14219)
• 3D: basic support for saving/restoring display lists
• Drag and drop: fixed guest to host transfers on OS X hosts
• Drag and drop: fixed memory leak on Windows guests
• Shared Folders: fixed a problem with accessing CIFS shares (bug #14252)
• Shared Folders: improved path conversion between hosts and guests with different path separators (bug #14153)
• API: skip resetting of immutable media when the VM in saved state is started (bug #13957)
• API: fixed method for setting medium IDs which used zero (invalid) UUIDs instead random (valid) UUIDs if no UUIDs were passed (bug #14350)
• API: for Windows host fix detection of API client crashes which have a session open
• OVF: properly export all VBox features including the setting for paravirtualization (bug #14390)
• Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan USB fixes
• Windows hosts: fixed crash when opening Windows dialogs from the VM process on Windows 10 (bug #14351)
• Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues on Windows 10 (bug #14040)
• Windows hosts: fixed audio on Windows 10 (bug #14432)
• Linux hosts: more fixes for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19 and newer (Broadwell and later; bug #13961)
• Linux hosts: check then name space before attaching to a host network interface (bug #13795)
• Linux Additions: Linux 4.2 fixes (bug #14227)
• Linux Additions: improved the performance of stat() to speed up certain file operations on shared folders
• Windows Additions: fixed a potential crash in the WDDM driver with Windows 10 (bug #14190)
• Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.17
• X11 Additions: various seamless mode fixes, including invisible windows under LXDE.