Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.28, a new maintenance release for the 5.1 series, was released recently with various important bug fixes.
Changes in VirtualBox 5.1.28 include:
- Fix accidental crashes when using the AC’97 sound emulation
- Fix crash when default audio input or output devices have changed
- Fix audio recording when using the ALSA backend
- Fix audio handle leak when using the OSS backend
- E1000: fixed a crash related to VLAN traffic over internal network
- OVF: when importing an appliance with XHCI controller, don’t add an OHCI controller.
- NAT: apply
--natbindip1to TCP connections - Fix in Mac OS X a GUI crash if Spotlight is used from file dialogs
- Fix in Mac OS X mouse events did not reach host windows behind the transparent VM window
- Fix creating fixed sized VDI images in Linux host.
- Fix for Linux 4.4 of openSUSE Leap 42.3
- Linux Additions: kernel drm driver support for custom EL7 Linux 3.10 kernel
- A fix to bridged networking to prevent Windows host crash.
Download Install Virtualbox 5.1.28 in Ubuntu:
The official Linux binaries are available for download at the link below:
For those who want to add Oracle Linux repository to receive Virtualbox updates using “Software Updater” utility, open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or from application launcher and do:
1. Add the repository for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, and derivatives:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -cs) contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
For Linux Mint 18.x, replace $(lsb_release -cs) in the code with xenial
2. Install the gpg key via command:
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
3. To install virtualbox 5.1 for the first time, run command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1
Uninstall:
You can remove Virtualbox Linux repository via Software & Updates utility under Other Software tab.
To remove Virtualbox 5.1, either use your system package manager or run command:
sudo apt-get remove --autoremove virtualbox-5.1
