Oracle Virtualbox 5.1.16 released. Install Oracle Virtualbox on Ubuntu Linux Systems. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.
VirtualBox 5.1.16 (released 2017-03-08) is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: don’t access the MSR_IA32_SMM_MONITOR_CTL MSR if dual-monitor treatment is not available (KVM workaround, bug #14965)
- VMM: another fix for handling certain MSRs on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps
- VMM: fixed VERR_SSM_LOAD_CPUID_MISMATCH errors when restoring a saved state with SMP guests on hosts without the CPUID/HTT bit set (bug #16428)
- VMM: fixed a bug in call gate emulation
- VMM: FWAIT instruction fix
- VMM: fixed a sporadic guest hang under certain conditions
- GUI: hide the mini-toolbar from the taskbar and the pager on certain X11 hosts
- GUI: better error handling on the global settings / network / host-only / DHCP server settings
- GUI: fixes for full-screen with multiple screens
- Host-only Network: fixed host-only adapter creation issue preventing VirtualBox installation on Windows 10 hosts (bug #16379)
- NAT network: fixed two potential crashes in the DHCP server
- ICH9: fixed incorrect initialization of the primary bus for PCI bridges (5.1.14 regression)
- Storage: LsiLogic fix for Windows 10
- USB: fixed not being able to attach certain USB devices having invalid characters in the device strings (5.0.18 regression; bug #15956)
- USB: several fixes for the USB/IP support (bug #16462)
- VBoxSVC: fixed another crash during shutdown under rare circumstances
- VBoxSVC: fixed a stack overflow on (Windows debug builds only; bug #16409)
- OVF: when importing an appliance handle more than 10 network adapters if the OVA was created by VirtualBox (bug #16401)
- OVF: fixes for exporting and importing appliances with many disks (bug #16402)
- VBoxManage: fixed regression with modifyhd –resize (bug #16311)
- rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes
- Linux Installers: do not rebuild kernel modules unnecessarily (bug #16408)
- Linux hosts: added an action for opening the VM manager window to the .desktop file
- Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.11 compile fixes (bug #16506)
- Linux Additions: added vboxsf FS modules alias (bug #16404)
- Linux Additions: fix for the shared folders kernel module to compile on Linux 4.10
- Linux Additions: properly install the Linux kernel module override rule on distributions without /etc/depmod.d
- Windows Additions: fixed a crash with recent Windows 10 builds if 3D is disabled (bug #15973)
Install Virtualbox 5.1.16 on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in terminal to install Virtualbox 5.1.16 on Ubuntu 16.10 Systems:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian yakkety contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
$ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1
Note: According to your distribution, replace ‘xenial’ by ‘vivid’, ‘utopic’, ‘trusty’, ‘raring’, ‘quantal’, ‘precise’, ‘lucid’, ‘jessie’, ‘wheezy’, or ‘squeeze’. To install on other Ubuntu versions, simply change the yakkety with the version name [second line of command that downloads the virtualbox package].
Note: Ubuntu/Debian users might want to install the dkms package to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp) are properly updated if the linux kernel version changes during the next apt-get upgrade. The dkms package can be installed through the Synaptic Package manager or through the following command:
sudo apt-get install dkms
What to do when experiencing The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG … when refreshing the packages from the repository?
# sudo -s -H
# apt-get clean
# rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# rm /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*
# apt-get clean
# apt-get update
More Info: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
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