Software Update: VirtualBox 6.1.4

Oracle has released the second 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 6.1.4 are listed below for you:

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

• Virtualization core: Fixed a rare issue with ICEBP instruction causing guru meditations on Intel hosts (6.1.0 regression; bug #19171)
• Virtualization core: Fixed macOS Catalina guests failing to boot after upgrading to 10.15.2 onwards (bug #19188)
• GUI: recent NLS integration and bug fixes for GUI and Qt translation tags
• USB: Fix isochronous transfers to the VM for xHCI
• Serial: Fix buffer handling, avoiding receiving stale data when the receive queue is flushed (bug #18671)
• Serial: Improve host serial port passthrough handling on Windows host
• VBoxManage: Restore old –clipboard option for modifyvm command
• macOS host: Use hardened runtime and request the needed entitlements, meeting latest notarization rules which also required moving VirtualBoxVM executable
• macOS host: Update osxfuse to v3.10.4
• Windows host: Update Italian translation of installer
• Windows host: Improve shared folder compatibility with POSIX append semantic (bug #19003)
• Windows host: Restore the ability to run VMs through Hyper-V, at the expense of performance
• Linux guest: Support Linux 5.5 (bug #19145)
• Linux guest: Shared folder fix for loopback mounting of images
• BIOS: Always report non-ATA disks as ready
• BIOS: Report EFI support through DMI table (bug 19144)
• VGA BIOS: Reduce stack space usage for INT 10h handlers