VirtualBox 6.0.6

April 18, 2019

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Mac hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while innotek ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

Note: VirtualBox is a free software. You can download in the official website.

What’s New

Version 6.0.6:

Virtualization core: nested AMD virtualization fixes
User interface: fixed copying directories in file manager
User interface: fixed operation progress in file manager when copying content
User interface: fixed operation progress when deleting snapshots
User interface: fixed unattended installation of recent Ubuntu guests
User interface: various additional improvements
Storage: fixed loading saved states for LsiLogic devices (6.0.0 regression; bug #18263)
Storage: fixed fixed reading certain QCOW2 images and support version 3 of the format readonly
Storage: Improved IDE PCI emulation to allow NetWare IDE drivers to use bus-mastering
Graphics: Improved VMSVGA support to work with old X servers which previously showed only a badly scrambled screen
Graphics: fixed invisible mouse cursor with VMSVGA emulation and without mouse integration (bug #18239)
Graphics: make EFI work with VMSVGA emulation (bug #18282)
Graphics: remember last guest screen size VMSVGA emulation
Graphics: fix RDP to guests using VMSVGA emulation
Graphics: various additional VMSVGA emulation fixes
Audio: implemented audio device enumeration for the DirectSound backend
Network: fixed unwanted padding bytes in Windows host adaptor network packets (bug #18202 and bug #18355)
Serial: fixed possible crash on Windows when using a host device (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)
Serial: fixed loopback handling in the emulation causing garbage to be sent during boot with Linux guests (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)
Shared folders: fixed duplicate folders after restoring a saved state (bug #18373 and other)
Drag and drop: fixed copying files from guest host (bug #18305)
Recording: fixed modifying settings via VBoxManage (bug #18494)
VBoxManage: crash fix (bug #18341)
Fixed hangs during failed virtual machine start-up
Windows host: fix unwanted wake-ups from standby (bug #18549)
Windows host: disallow Pause as a host key (bug #18482)
Linux host and guest: support Linux 5.0 and 5.1, thank you Valdis Kletnieks (see also bug #18515)
Linux host: support kernel 4.4.169 (bug #18315)
Linux host: fix logging when building Linux kernel modules (bug #18226)
Linux host: clarified building Linux host drivers with secure boot (bug #18312)
FreeBSD host: compilation fixes
Installers: reduced size of packages
Web services: work with Java 11
LibreSSL compilation fix, thank you Stefan Strogin
Windows guests: fixed running applications which use complex display topologies with WDDM driver, fixed Skype for Business hangs (bug #17092)
Windows guests: fixed an occasional guest crash with WDDM driver and VBoxSVGA adapter (bug #18369)
Windows guests: shared folder file creation detection issue (bug #9276)
Linux guests: shared folder performance and reliability improvements and missing features (bugs #17360, #819)
OS/2 guests: shared folder fixes (bug #18376 and bug #18379)