Software Update: VirtualBox 6.1.18

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Oracle has released the ninth 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 at the same time. VirtualBox is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris, and is able to guest operating systems to turn. The changes made in version 6.1.18 are listed below for you:

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

  • Nested VM: Fixed hangs when executing SMP nested-guests under certain conditions on Intel hosts (bug #19315, #19561)
  • OCI integration: Cloud Instance parameters parsing is improved on import (bug #19156)
  • Network: UDP checksum offloading in e1000 no longer produces zero checksums (bug #19930)
  • Network: Fixed Host-Only Ethernet Adapter DHCP, guest os can not get IP on host resume (bug #19620)
  • NAT: Fixed mss parameter handing (bug #15256)
  • macOS host: Multiple optimizations for BigSur
  • Audio: Fixed issues with audio playback after host goes to sleep (bug #18594)
  • Documentation: Some content touch-up and table formatting fixes
  • Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.10 (bug #20055)
  • Solaris host: Fix regression breaking VGA text mode since version 6.1.0
  • Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting CentOS 8.2-2004 and later (bug #20091)
  • Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting Linux kernels 3.2.0 through 3.2.50 (bug #20006)
  • Guest Additions: Fixed a VM segfault on copy with shared clipboard with X11 (bug #19226)
  • Shared Folder: Fixed error with remounting on Linux guests

Version number 6.1.18
Release status Final
Operating systems Windows 7, Linux, macOS, Solaris, Windows 8, Windows 10
Website Oracle
Download https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
File size

103.24MB

License type GPL
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