VirtualBox 5.0.16 released and ubuntu installation instructions included

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What is new in virtualbox 5.0.16

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

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

Install VirtualBox 5.0.16 on ubuntu 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 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 command

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

Update source list

sudo apt-get update

Install virtualbox

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0

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.

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