Software Update: VirtualBox 6.0.14

Oracle has released the seventh update for VirtualBox version 6.0. 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, macOS, Linux and Solaris, and is able to guest operating systems to turn. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

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

• Virtualization core: fixed an invalid-guest state guru meditation in some rare circumstances on Intel hosts
• Virtualization core: some fixes for systems with lots of processors
• Audio: relaxed VRM / VRA (variable rate audio) bit checks to provide more compatibility for guests running ALSA setups with the AC’97 emulation
• USB: made device capturing for passthrough more accurate and reliable on Windows host
• Network: fixed potential issue with interrupt signaling for network adapters in UEFI guests
• 3D: fixed flicker and redraw issues when using VBoxSVGA or VMSVGA graphics adapter (bugs #18562, #18956)
• 3D: fixed crash with some applications when using VBoxSVGA or VMSVGA graphics adapter (bug #18638)
• macOS host: fix crash of GUI VM process which showed up frequently with 10.15 Catalina (bug #18990)
• Linux host: support Linux 5.3, thank you Larry Finger (see also bug #18911)
• Linux host: improve python version detection during rpm package creation, can change package dependencies and fix some installation problems
• Linux guests: calls to aio_read(3) and aio_write(3) may fail inside shared folders (bug #18805)
• Linux guests: fix problem with shared folder unmounting in service script, thank you Denis Ryndine (bug #18853)
• Linux guests: VBox 6.0.10 GAs fail to compile on Red Hat/CentOS/Oracle Linux 7.7 and Red Hat 8.1 Beta (bug #18917)