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What is new in virtualbox 5.1.6
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
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)
Install VirtualBox 5.1.6 on ubuntu 16.04/15.10/15.04/14.10
Open the terminal and run the following commands
You need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
For Ubuntu 16.04 users add the following line
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib
For Ubuntu 15.10 users add the following line
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wily contrib
For Ubuntu 15.04 users add the following line
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian vivid contrib
For Ubuntu 14.10 users add the following line
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian utopic contrib
Save and exit the file
Now install PGP key using the following commands
Download the keys
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox_2016.asc
Add the keys
sudo apt-key add oracle_vbox_2016.asc
sudo apt-key add oracle_vbox.asc
Update source list
sudo apt-get update
Install virtualbox
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1
If you have problem with the above PPA you can download .deb package from here.Once you have deb package you can double click on it to install this package.
The files oracle_vbox.asc and oracle_vbox_2016.asc first need to be downloaded from: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian
So before the “apt-key add” lines include:
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox_2016.asc
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