Software Update: VirtualBox 6.1.12

Oracle has released the sixth update for VirtualBox version 6.1. 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 simultaneously. VirtualBox is available for Windows, macOS, Linux and Solaris, and is able to guest operating systems to turn. The changes made in version 6.1.12 are listed below for you:

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

• UI: Fixes for Log-Viewer search-backward icon
• Devices: Fixes and improvements for the BusLogic SCSI controller emulation
• Serial Port: Regression fixes in FIFO data handling
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration: Experimental new type of network attachment, allowing local VM to act as if it was run in cloud
• API: improved resource management in the guest control functionality
• VBoxManage: fixed command option parsing for the “snapshot edit” sub-command
• VBoxManage: Fix crash of ‘VBoxManage internalcommands repairhd’ when processing invalid input (bug #19579)
• Guest Additions, 3D: New experimental GLX graphics output
• Guest Additions, 3D: Fixed releasing texture objects, which could cause guest crashes
• Guest Additions: Fixed writes to a file on a shared folder not being reflected on the host when the file is mmap’ed and the used Linux kernel is between version 4.10.0 and 4.11.x
• Guest Additions: Fixed the shared folder driver on 32bit Windows 8 and newer returning an error when flushing writes to a file which is mapped into memory under rare circumstances
• Guest Additions: Improve resize coverage for VMSVGA graphics controller
• Guest Additions: Fix issues detecting guest additions ISO at runtime
• Guest Additions: Fixed German translation encoding for Windows GA installer