Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0.12 now available!

Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0.12 now available!

By Simon Coter-Oracle on Dec 18, 2015

Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.0 Maintenance Release 12.

This release is a major improvement which include a large number of improvements and bug fixes.

See all the details with a complete list of bug fixes; here you can find all the links to download the software.

The Oracle VirtualBox Team

VirtualBox 5.0.12 (released 2015-12-18)

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

• 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