Changelog for VirtualBox 6.1

This page lists all changes of the VirtualBox 6.1 Downloads.

All branches: 6.0 · 5.2 · 5.1 · 5.0 · 4.3 · 4.2 · 4.1 · 4.0

VirtualBox 6.1.14 (released September 04 2020)



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

GUI: Fixes file name changes in the File location field when creating Virtual Hard Disk (bug #19286)

VMM: Fixed running VMs which failed to start with VERR_NEM_MISSING_KERNEL_API_2 when Hyper-V is used (bug #19779 and #19804)

Audio: fix regression in HDA emulation introduced in 6.1.0

macOS host: Fixed webcam passthrough and audio input on Mojave and newer by requesting authorization from the user (bug #19758)

macOS host: VBoxHeadless no longer able to start VMs (6.1.4/6.0.18 regression; bug #19706)

Windows host: Fixes in serial port implementation

Shared Clipboard: Fixed a potential crash when copying HTML data (6.1.2 regression; bug #19226)

Linux host and guest: Linux kernel version 5.8 support

EFI: Fixed reading ISO9660 filesystems on attached media (6.1.0 regression; bug #19682)

EFI: Support booting from drives attached to the LsiLogic SCSI and SAS controller emulations

VirtualBox 6.1.12 (released July 14 2020)



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

UI: Fixed Log-Viewer search-backward icon

Devices: Fixes and improvements for the BusLogic SCSI controller emulation

Serial Port: Regression fixes in FIFO data handling

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration: Experimental new type of network attachment, allowing local VM to act as if it was run in cloud

API: Improved resource management in the guest control functionality

VBoxManage: Fixed command option parsing for the "snapshot edit" sub-command

VBoxManage: Fixed crash of 'VBoxManage internalcommands repairhd' when processing invalid input (bug #19579)

Guest Additions, 3D: New experimental GLX graphics output

Guest Additions, 3D: Fixed releasing texture objects, which could cause guest crashes

Guest Additions: Fixed writes to a file on a shared folder not being reflected on the host when the file is mmap'ed and the used Linux kernel is between version 4.10.0 and 4.11.x

Guest Additions: Fixed the shared folder driver on 32bit Windows 8 and newer returning an error when flushing writes to a file which is mapped into memory under rare circumstances

Guest Additions: Improved resize coverage for VMSVGA graphics controller

Guest Additions: Fixed issues detecting guest additions ISO at runtime

Guest Additions: Fixed German translation encoding for Windows GA installer

VirtualBox 6.1.10 (released June 05 2020)



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

GUI: Fixed crash when using Qt on Xwayland sessions (bug #19583)

GUI: Fixed mouse pointer doesn't work properly in Windows guests when scaling is on (bug #19597)

VBoxManage: Fixed crash of 'VBoxManage internalcommands repairhd' when processing invalid input (bug #19579)

Settings: disable audio input and audio output by default for new VMs (bug #19527)

Guest Additions: Fixed resizing and multi monitor handling for Wayland guests. (bug #19496)

Guest Additions: Fixed VBoxClient error: The parent session seems to be non-X11. (bug #19590)

Linux host and guest: Linux kernel version 5.7 support. (bug #19516)

VirtualBox 6.1.8 (released May 15 2020)



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

GUI: Fix several layout and mouse position handling bugs with soft keyboard

GUI: Fixed crash on last VM removed (6.1.4 regression; bug #19568, #19525, #19506, #19490, #19481, #19397)

GUI and API: Allow renaming VMs which are in saved state

Serial: Fixed slow guest output when using the TCP server mode without anyone being connected

Guest Additions: Restored 'VBoxClient--checkhostversion' functionality (6.1.0 regression; bug #19470)

Guest Additions: Fixed resizing and multi monitor handling for X11 guests. (6.1.0 regression; bug #19496)

Guest Additions: Build problems fix with Oracle Linux 8.2 (Red Hat compatible kernel) / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 / CentOS 8.2 (bug #19391)

Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed handling of multiple environment variables supplied to 'VBoxManage guestcontrol VM run' (6.1.6/6.0.20 regression; bug #19518)

Guest Control: Implemented support for long(er) command lines

Guest Control: Various stability improvements

VirtualBox 6.1.6 (released April 14 2020)



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

GUI: Multiple enhancements including visual elements updates

Graphics: Fixed monitor resizing and multi-monitor handling bugs on X11 guests with VMSVGA graphics adapter

Graphics: Enhancements in 2D and 3D acceleration and rendering

USB: Multiple enhancements improving prformance and stability

Serial port: Improve error handling and fix hang when host port disappears

VBoxManage: Multiple fixes for guestcontrol operations

API: Fix for exception handling bug in Python bindings

Shared clipboard: Multiple fixes including possible crash and HTML data support

Linux host and guest: Support Linux kernel 5.6 (bug #19312)

VirtualBox 6.1.4 (released February 19 2020)



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

Virtualization core: Fixed a rare issue with ICEBP instruction causing guru meditations on Intel hosts (6.1.0 regression; bug #19171)

Virtualization core: Fixed macOS Catalina guests failing to boot after upgrading to 10.15.2 onwards (bug #19188)

GUI: Recent NLS integration and bug fixes for GUI and Qt translation tags

USB: Fixed isochronous transfers to the VM for xHCI

Serial: Fixed buffer handling, avoiding receiving stale data when the receive queue is flushed (bug #18671)

Serial: Improve host serial port passthrough handling on Windows host

VBoxManage: Restore old --clipboard option for modifyvm command

macOS host: Use hardened runtime and request the needed entitlements, meeting latest notarization rules which also required moving VirtualBoxVM executable

macOS host: Update osxfuse to v3.10.4

Windows host: Update Italian translation of installer

Windows host: Improve shared folder compatibility with POSIX append semantic (bug #19003)

Windows host: Restore the ability to run VMs through Hyper-V, at the expense of performance

Linux guest: Support Linux 5.5 (bug #19145)

Linux guest: Shared folder fix for loopback mounting of images

BIOS: Always report non-ATA disks as ready

BIOS: Report EFI support through DMI table (bug 19144)

VGA BIOS: Reduce stack space usage for INT 10h handlers

VirtualBox 6.1.2 (released January 14 2020)



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

Virtualization core: Fixed performance issue observed with Windows XP guests on AMD hosts (6.0.0 regression; bug #19152)

Virtualization core: Consistent IBRS/IBPB CPUID feature reporting, avoids crash of NetBSD 9.0 RC1 installer (bug #19146)

GUI: Fixed updating of runtime info

GUI: In Display settings, do not show "2D video acceleration" checkbox if it is meaningless for the selected graphics adapter

Audio: Fixed audio input handling when VRDE is enabled

Audio: Fixed crash in the HDA emulation when using multi-speaker configurations

Storage: Fixed use of encrypted disks with snapshots involved (6.1.0 regression; bug #19160)

Storage: Improve performance of virtio-scsi

Storage: Read-only support for compressed clusters in QCOW2 images

Windows installer: Include unintentionally dropped vbox-img.exe utility again

Windows host: When installing or removing an extension pack, retry the sometimes failing directory renaming (usually caused by anti-virus software accessing the directory)

Linux host: Support Linux 5.5 (guest additions not yet)

Windows guest: Accelerate 2D video decoding (scaling and color space conversion) if the VM is configured to use VBoxSVGA with 3D enabled

Windows guest: Fix guest additions installer to upgrade the mouse filter driver reliably

Windows guest: When uninstalling older Guest Additions with old 3D support enabled try restoring original Direct3D files

Linux guest: Improve resize and multi-monitor handling for VMs using VMSVGA (known remaining issue: do not disable a monitor "in the middle", causes confusion)

VirtualBox 6.1.0 (released December 10 2019)



This is a major update. The following major new features were added:

Implemented support for importing a virtual machine from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Extended support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, allowing the creation of multiple virtual machines without re-uploading. Also added option to export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant "paravirtialized", and to specify free-form tags for cloud images

Virtualization core: Support for nested hardware-virtualization on Intel CPUs (starting with 5th generation Core i, codename Broadwell), so far tested only with guest running VirtualBox

Graphics: New style 3D support (with VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA) remains, old style 3D support (with VBoxVGA) has been completely removed

Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers (Windows hosts/guests only at the moment). Needs to be enabled via VBoxManage (disabled by default).

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: