VirtualBox 6.1.26

VirtualBox 6.1.26 (released July 28 2021)

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

• VMSVGA: fixed VM screen artifacts after restoring from saved state (bug #20067)
• Storage: Fixed audio endianness for certain CUE sheet CD/DVD images.
• VBoxHeadless: Running VM will save its state on host shutdown
• VBoxManage: Fix OS detection for Ubuntu 20.10 ISO with unattended install
• Linux Additions: Fixed mouse pointer offsetting issue for VMSVGA graphics adapter in multi-monitor VM setup (6.1.24 regression)

VirtualBox 6.1.24 (released July 20 2021)

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

• Storage: Fixed starting a VM if a device is attached to a VirtIO SCSI port higher than 30 (bug #20213)
• Storage: Improvement to DVD medium change signaling
• Serial: Fixed a the guest missing interrupts under certain circumstances (6.0 regression, bug #18668)
• Audio: Multiple fixes and enhancements
• Network: Fixed connectivity issue with virtio-net after resuming VM with disconnected link
• Network: Fixed UDP GSO fragmentation issue with missing 8 bytes of payload at the end of the first fragment
• API: Fixed VM configuration for recent Windows Server versions
• Extension Pack: Fixed issues with USB webcam pass-through on Linux
• Host and guest driver: Fix small memory leak (bug #20280)
• Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.13 (bug #20456)
• Linux host and guest: Introduce support for SUSE SLES/SLED 15 SP3 kernels (bug #20396)
• Linux host: Installer will not attempt to build kernel modules if system already has them installed and modules versions match current version
• Windows host: Fix DLL signature validation to work better with an invalid certificate
• Guest Additions: Fixed crash on using shared clipboard (bug #19165)
• Linux Guest Additions: Introduce support for Ubuntu specific kernels (bug #20325)
• Solaris guest: Increased default memory and disk sizes
• EFI: Support network booting with the E1000 network controller emulation
• EFI: Stability improvements (bug #20090)

VirtualBox 6.1.22 (released April 29 2021)

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

• VMM: Improved performance of 64-bit Windows and Solaris guests when Hyper-V is used on recent Windows 10 hosts
• VMM: Fixed frequent crashes of 64-bit Windows Vista and Server 2003 guests when Hyper-V is used
• GUI: Fixed regression where user was not able to save unset default shortcuts (bug #20305)
• Storage: Fixed regression in LsiLogic SAS controller emulation caused VM crash (bug #20323)
• Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when it was not possible to run executables from mounted share (bug #20320)

VirtualBox 6.1.20 (released April 20 2021)

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

• VMM: Fixed extremely poor VM performance depending on the timing of various actions (regression in 6.1.0)
• VMM: Fixed guest OS hanging under certain circumstances when Hyper-V is present (bug #20141)
• VMM: Fixed Guru Meditation error when using a nested hypervisor under certain circumstances (bug #20175)
• VMM: Fixed a SMAP related host panic affecting Solaris 11.4 systems with Intel Haswell CPUs or later (bug #16068)
• OCI: Add cloud-init support for export to OCI and for OCI instance creation
• GUI: Fixed "Delete all files" leaving behind Logs/VBoxUI.log (bug #20235)
• Audio: Multiple fixes and enhancements
• Audio: Fixed detection of duplex audio devices on macOS (5.0 regression; bug #20171)
• Network: Fixed link status reporting for "not attached" adapters
• Network: Fixed connectivity issues with e1000 in OS/2 guests (6.1.18 regression; bug #20148)
• Network: Fixed VxWorks e1000 driver compatibility issue (bug #20182)
• Network: Fixed GUI checks for port forwarding rules rejecting IPv6 with "Nat Network" (bug #14847)
• DHCP: Don't crash in the presence of fixed address assignments (bug #20128)
• Serial: Fixed possible VM hang when using the a serial port in disconnected mode (bug #19854)
• Webcam: Fixed interoperability with v4l2loopback and fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #20176)
• NVMe: Fixed sporadic Windows VM hang or reboot on high CPU load
• VBoxManage: Allow changing network adapter attachment of a saved VM with "modifyvm"
• vboximg-mount: Fix for argument processing to honor the '--root' option (6.0 regression; bug #20073)
• Linux host and guest: Support kernel versions 5.11 (bug #20198) and 5.12
• Linux host: Maximum MTU size increased to 16110 for host-only adapters on Linux kernels 4.10+ (bug #19122)
• Linux Guest Additions: Fix vboxvideo module compilation for kernel version 5.10.x
• Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel module build for RHEL 8.4 beta and CentOS Stream (bug #20289)

VirtualBox 6.1.18 (released January 19 2021)

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

• Nested VM: Fixed hangs when executing SMP nested-guests under certain conditions on Intel hosts (bug #19315, #19561)
• OCI integration: Cloud Instance parameters parsing is improved on import (bug #19156)
• Network: UDP checksum offloading in e1000 no longer produces zero checksums (bug #19930)
• Network: Fixed Host-Only Ethernet Adapter DHCP, guest os can not get IP on host resume (bug #19620)
• NAT: Fixed mss parameter handing (bug #15256)
• macOS host: Multiple optimizations for BigSur
• Audio: Fixed issues with audio playback after host goes to sleep (bug #18594)
• Documentation: Some content touch-up and table formatting fixes
• Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.10 (bug #20055)
• Solaris host: Fix regression breaking VGA text mode since version 6.1.0
• Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting CentOS 8.2-2004 and later (bug #20091)
• Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting Linux kernels 3.2.0 through 3.2.50 (bug #20006)
• Guest Additions: Fixed a VM segfault on copy with shared clipboard with X11 (bug #19226)
• Shared Folder: Fixed error with remounting on Linux guests