VirtualBox 6.0.14 now available to support Eoan Ermine's Linux 5.3

Virtualbox 6.0.14

I'm not sure what Canonical expects to update the package or Oracle to deliver it, but the point is that the version of this virtual machine software that is available in the official repositories is still stuck at v6.0.6. And is that a few hours ago, the company famous for being the owner of Java has released VirtualBox 6.0.14, a version that already includes many improvements that are not present in which we can install from the Ubuntu software center.

What is certain is that the new version does not include very prominent functions. That is, it is another maintenance version, the 14th, but it does include improvements such as kernel support Linux 5.3, the one who uses the Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine which will be released today. In total, Oracle has leveraged this release to make 13 changes.

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Highlights of VirtualBox 6.0.14

  • Linux 5.3 support.
  • Improved compatibility with guest systems using the ALSA sound subsystem in AC'97 emulation mode.
  • Improved the code of the scripts to create RPM packages for Linux hosts to determine Python versions, which solves some installation problems.
  • Fixed problems with creating components for guest systems in RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux 7.7 and RHEL 8.1 Beta.
  • Fixed a crash when calling aio_read y aio_write for shared folders and the problem of unmounting shared folders has been fixed, these two points on Linux-based guest systems.
  • The virtualization code solves problems when working on systems with a large number of processors and fixes a bug that, in rare circumstances, led to an incorrect guest system state on some hosts with Intel processors.
  • Stability of forwarding access to a USB device on Windows hosts has been improved.
  • Fixed potential issue with managing network adapter switches on UEFI guest systems.
  • Fixed crashing of the VM GUI process in macOS Catalina 10.15 host environment.

Users interested in installing the new version can download its DEB package from this link. It is also available in RPM and in binaries from this other link.


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