Software Update: VirtualBox 5.1.28

The fourteenth update for VirtualBox version 5.1 has been released. 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, macOS, Linux and Solaris, and is able to guest operating systems to turn.

In version 5.1 of VirtualBox we find, among other things, new apic implementations that provide various performance improvements, there is improved support for Python 3 and the interface has been switched to Qt5. The following improvements have also been made in this update.

The following items were fixed and/or added:

• GUI: mouse events did not reach host windows behind the transparent VM window (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #16246)
• Audio: fixed accidental crashes when using the AC’97 sound emulation (bug #16959)
• Audio: fixed crash when default input or output devices have changed (bugs #16968, #16969, #17004)
• Audio: fixed recording when using the ALSA backend
• Audio: fixed handle leak when using the OSS backend
• E1000: fixed a crash related to VLAN traffic over internal network (5.1.26 regression; bug #16960)
• NAT: apply –natbindip1 to TCP connections (bug #16478)
• OVF: when importing an appliance with XHCI controller, don’t add an OHCI controller.
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed a GUI crash if Spotlight is used from file dialogs (5.1.20 regression; bugs #16935, #16953)
• Linux hosts: fixed creating fixed sized VDI images (bug #17010)
• Linux hosts / guests: fixes for Linux 4.4 or openSUSE Leap 42.3 (bug #16966)
• Bridged networking: align outgoing packet at word boundary, preventing Windows host crash in MsLbfoProvider.
• Linux Additions: kernel drm driver support for custom EL7 Linux 3.10 kernel
• Solaris Additions: hide an informational message on the bootup console