Software Update: VirtualBox 5.0.20

Oracle has released the ninth update for VirtualBox version 5.0. VirtualBox can be used to install other operating systems in a virtual environment on a computer. In this way it is possible to use different operating systems on the same hardware side by side and at the same time. VirtualBox is available for Windows XP and above, OS X, Linux, and Solaris, and is capable of several guest operating systems to turn.

Version 5.0 of VirtualBox includes support for para-virtualization under Windows and Linux, which should bring performance improvements. Furthermore, more instruction sets from modern processors are supported, there is drag&drop to and from virtual machines and disk images can now be encrypted. In version 5.0.20, the following changes and improvements have also been made:

VirtualBox 5.0.20
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Storage: fixed a regression causing write requests from the BIOS to cause a Guru Meditation with the LsiLogic SCSI controller (5.0.18 regression; bug #15317)
• Storage: several emulation fixes in the BusLogic SCSI controller emulation
• NAT Network: support TCP in DNS proxy (same problem as in bug #14736 for NAT)
• NAT: rework handling of port-forwarding rules (bug #13570)
• NAT: rewrite host resolver to handle more query types and make it asynchronous so that a stalled lookup doesn’t block all NAT traffic
• Snapshots: don’t crash when restoring a snapshot which has more network adapters than the current state (ie when the snapshot uses ICH9 and the current state uses PIIX3)
• Guest Control: various bugfixes for the copyfrom and copyto commands / API (bug #14336)
• VBoxManage: list processor features on list hostinfo (bug #15334)
• Linux hosts: fix for Linux 4.5 if CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT is enabled (bug #15327)
• Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 insider builds (bug #15337)
• Windows hosts: make it work on Windows XP again (5.0.18 regression)
• Windows Additions: fixed performance issues with PowerPoint 2010 and the WDDM graphics drivers if Aero is disabled