This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed VERR_IEM_ASPECT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED Guru Meditations with certain Linux guests if KVM paravirtualization is enabled (5.1 regression; bugs #15613 and #16251) VMM: fixed VERR_VMX_UNABLE_TO_START_VM Guru Meditations under rare conditions GUI: prevent a crash under certain conditions if the VM is terminated very early GUI: fixed certain keyboard capture issues (5.1.10 regression; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #16150) GUI: fixed dragging guest windows in seamless mode with the keyboard captured (X11 hosts only; bug #15837) GUI: fixed a problem where the new version detected dialog was covered by the appliance import dialog (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #16238) Storage: fixed NVMe reset processing when doing rmmod nvme; modprobe nvme in a Linux guest (bug #16080) Storage: fixed creating a snapshot when the VM is running and an NVMe controller is present Storage: fixed a problem with the LsiLogic SCSI controller where requests could be lost with SMP guests E1000: fixed "cable disconnected" issue (Mac OS X guests only; 5.1.10 regression; bug #16260) E1000: fixed "TX unit hang" issue (Linux guests only; 5.1.10 regression; bug #16221) Parallel ports: fixed port enumeration on Windows host (bugs #15872 and #16127) API: don't crash when sanitizing certain VM names (bug #16299) Linux hosts: automatically disable asynchronous I/O on Linux 2.6.18 kernels as high I/O load may trigger kernel oopses on these kernels if this feature is enabled Linux hosts / guests: Linux 2.6.28 compile fix (bug #16267) Linux hosts: compile Linux 4.9 compile fix (bug #16286) Linux Additions: warn the user about a known bug with older Linux guests (e.g. Debian 7) requiring manual work to get 3D working (bug #15319) Linux Additions: fix the graphics driver build with Linux 4.10 and later (bug #16298) Windows Additions: fixed a crash in the WDDM driver under certain conditions
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed emulation of certain instructions for 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts VMM: properly handle certain MSRs for 64-bit guests on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps (bug #13886) GUI: fixed a crash with multimonitor setups under certain conditions GUI: allow cloning of snapshots when the VM is running NVMe: fixed compatibility with the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK, bug #16368) VBoxSVC: fixed a crash under rare circumstances VBoxManage: added a sanity check to modifymedium --resize to prevent users from resizing their hard disk from 1GB to 1PB (bug #16311) Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 hosts Linux hosts: Linux 4.10 fixes Linux Additions: fixed protocol error during certain operations on shared folders (bug #8463)
Oracle VM VirtualBox SDK 5.1.14 r112924 for Windows
What's new in Oracle VM VirtualBox SDK 5.1.14 r112924 January 17th, 2017 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed emulation of certain instructions for 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts VMM: properly handle certain MSRs for 64-bit guests on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps (bug #13886) GUI: fixed a crash with multimonitor setups under certain conditions GUI: allow cloning of snapshots when the VM is running NVMe: fixed compatibility with the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK, bug #16368) VBoxSVC: fixed a crash under rare circumstances VBoxManage: added a sanity check to modifymedium --resize to prevent users from resizing their hard disk from 1GB to 1PB (bug #16311) Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 hosts
