openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for virtualbox ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2016:1075-1 Rating: moderate References: #964765 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Description: This recommended update provides version 5.0.16 for virtualbox: - Version bump to 5.0.16 (released 2016-03-04 by Oracle) This change should fix b.o.o #964765. This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed a problem which could lead to a wrong guest behavior on AMD CPUs (tickets #14831 and #15186) GUI: don't try to synchronize the HID LEDs if the VM window is not active or if it's minimized (Windows / Mac OS X hosts only; bug #14302) GUI: prevent a crash during startup under rare conditions GUI: sub-menu option to disable the guest-OS type overlay in the application dock icon on Mac OS X GUI: position off-screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch GUI: hide the VT-x/AMD-V checkbox if raw-mode is not supported (usually Mac OS X hosts; bug #15178) PC speaker passthrough: new experimental feature, available on Linux host only Audio: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts + guests Audio: properly handle default audio device changes (Windows hosts) USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller (e.g. for webcam passthrough) BIOS: fixed int15/AH=83/AL=00 function (4.2.0 regression) iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628) Shared folders: fixed a failure to load the saved state under certain circumstances (bug #6314) Guest Control: added support for (cached) Active Directory authentication in case the domain controller is not reachable (anymore) Serial ports: raised the number of serial ports per VM from 2 to 4 (bug #9109) Serial ports: fix for the TCP/IP backend (Windows hosts only; bug #15188) SDK: make the Python webservice API binding work again (5.0 regression) Seamless mode: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #15106) Linux hosts: fixed the /sbin/rcvboxdrv script as well as the missing shebang in two scripts (bugs #15055 and #15057) Linux hosts: properly uninstall Python files installed by the .run installer Windows Additions: fixed guest property enumeration of logged-in users Windows Additions: fixed sporadical failure of the graphics driver in Windows 10 guests (bug #14409) Windows Additions: under rare circumstances no mouse movement events were delivered to the guest VirtualBox 5.0.14 (released 2016-01-19) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: properly limit the number of VCPUs to the number of physical cores on Mac OS X (bug #15018) Audio: fixed a bug which prevented loading a saved state of a saved guests with HDA emulation (5.0.12 regression; bug #14981) Audio: don't crash if the backend is unable to initialize (bug #14960) Audio: fixed audio capture on Mac OS X (bug #14386) Storage: fixed a possible crash when attaching the same ISO image multiple times to the same VM (bug #14951) BIOS: properly report if two floppy drives are attached USB: fixed a problem with filters which would not capture the device under certain circumstances (5.0.10 regression; bug #15042) ExtPack: black-list Extension Packs older than 4.3.30 due to incompatible changes not being properly handled in the past Linux hosts: properly create the /sbin/rcvboxdrv symbolic link (5.0.12 regression; bug #14989) Linux Additions: fixes for Linux 4.5 (bug #15032) VirtualBox 5.0.12 (released 2015-12-18) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: fixed wrong scrolling behaviour in the VM selector window when a VM item is dragged out of the chooser-pane area GUI: fixed the validation of IPv6 port-forwarding rules GUI: suppress the first-run wizard if a CD/DVD medium is inserted using the selector UI GUI: fixed the Ctrl+Break key sequence scan codes (bug #14927) GUI: improved handling of text selection mouse pointer (bug #750) Host services: fixed a crash during VM shutdown under rare conditions (5.0.6 regression; bug #14841) Shared folders: fixed a sharing violation if a file is opened to check the attributes (Windows hosts only; bug #14450) Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Mac OS X hosts only) XHCI: fixed broken emulation if software virtualization is used XHCI: several fixes 3D: fixed state handling under certain conditions (bug #13487) Audio: several fixes BIOS: added LBA64 support for being able to boot from huge hard disks (bug #7415) EFI: fix for Windows 10 guests ExtPack: before installing an Extension Pack check if there are VMs running to prevent file system locking issues rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes Linux hosts: .desktop file compatibility issue (bug #14808) Linux hosts / guests: fixes for RHEL 7.2 (bug #14866) Linux hosts: The command for recompiling the host kernel modules was changed again, to /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup (bug #14723) Linux hosts: some fixes for PCI passthrough (still highly experimental) Linux/Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM hang during startup under certain circumstances (bug #14933) Linux Additions: prevent the compiler from doing dead-code elemination on vital code in guest / host communication (bug #14497) Linux Additions: when mounting a shared folder, explicitly pass the share name so that /proc/mounts contains this name instead of 'none' Linux Additions: workaround for a systemd problem in conjunction with SELinux which prevented to properly enable the 'vboxadd' service during while upgrading the Additions Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-466=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64): python-virtualbox-5.0.16-13.1 python-virtualbox-debuginfo-5.0.16-13.1 virtualbox-5.0.16-13.1 virtualbox-debuginfo-5.0.16-13.1 virtualbox-debugsource-5.0.16-13.1 virtualbox-devel-5.0.16-13.1 virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-5.0.16_k4.1.15_8-13.1 virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.0.16_k4.1.15_8-13.1 virtualbox-guest-tools-5.0.16-13.1 virtualbox-guest-tools-debuginfo-5.0.16-13.1 virtualbox-guest-x11-5.0.16-13.1 virtualbox-guest-x11-debuginfo-5.0.16-13.1 virtualbox-host-kmp-default-5.0.16_k4.1.15_8-13.1 virtualbox-host-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.0.16_k4.1.15_8-13.1 virtualbox-qt-5.0.16-13.1 virtualbox-qt-debuginfo-5.0.16-13.1 virtualbox-websrv-5.0.16-13.1 virtualbox-websrv-debuginfo-5.0.16-13.1 - openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch): virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons-5.0.16-13.1 virtualbox-host-source-5.0.16-13.1 References: https://bugzilla.suse.com/964765