openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for virtualbox ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2016:1780-1 Rating: moderate References: Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has 0 recommended fixes can now be installed. Description: This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues: - Update from version 5.0.22 to 5.0.24 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: + VMM: Reverted to the old I/O-APIC code for now to fix certain regressions with 5.0.22. This means that the networking performance with certain guests will drop to the 5.0.20 level. One workaround is to disable GRO for Linux guests. + Main: When taking a screenshot, don't save garbage for blanked screens. + NAT: Correctly parse resolv.conf file with multiple separators. (5.0.22 regression) + Storage: Fixed a possible corruption of stream optimized VMDK images from VMware when opened in read/write mode for the first time. + Audio: Imlemented dynamic re-attaching of input/output devices on Mac OS X hosts. + ACPI: Notify the guest when the battery / AC state changes instead of relying on guest polling. + Linux hosts: Fixed VERR_VMM_SET_JMP_ABORTED_RESUME Guru Meditations on hosts with Linux 4.6 or later. 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-2016-855=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64): python-virtualbox-5.0.24-22.1 python-virtualbox-debuginfo-5.0.24-22.1 virtualbox-5.0.24-22.1 virtualbox-debuginfo-5.0.24-22.1 virtualbox-debugsource-5.0.24-22.1 virtualbox-devel-5.0.24-22.1 virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-5.0.24_k4.1.26_21-22.1 virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.0.24_k4.1.26_21-22.1 virtualbox-guest-tools-5.0.24-22.1 virtualbox-guest-tools-debuginfo-5.0.24-22.1 virtualbox-guest-x11-5.0.24-22.1 virtualbox-guest-x11-debuginfo-5.0.24-22.1 virtualbox-host-kmp-default-5.0.24_k4.1.26_21-22.1 virtualbox-host-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.0.24_k4.1.26_21-22.1 virtualbox-qt-5.0.24-22.1 virtualbox-qt-debuginfo-5.0.24-22.1 virtualbox-websrv-5.0.24-22.1 virtualbox-websrv-debuginfo-5.0.24-22.1 - openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch): virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons-5.0.24-22.1 virtualbox-host-source-5.0.24-22.1 References: