openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for virtualbox ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2016:1694-1 Rating: moderate References: Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has 0 recommended fixes can now be installed. Description: This recommended update provides version 5.0.22 for virtualbox: - Version bump to 5.0.22 (released 2016-06-16 by Oracle) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixes for certain Intel Atom hosts (bug #14915) VMM: properly restore the complete FPU state for 32-bit guests on 64-bit hosts on Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs VMM: new I/O-APIC implementation fixing several bugs and improving the performance under certain conditions (bug #15295 and others) VMM: fixed a potential Linux guest panic on AMD hosts VMM: fixed a potential hang with 32-bit EFI guests on Intel CPUs (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution) GUI: don't allow to start subsequent separate VM instances GUI: raised upper limit for video capture screen resolution (bug #15432) GUI: warn if the VM has less than 128MB VRAM configured and 3D enabled Main: when monitoring DNS configuration changes on Windows hosts avoid false positives from competing DHCP renewals. This should fix NAT link flaps when host has multiple DHCP configured interfaces, in particular when the host uses OpnVPN. Main: properly display an error message if the VRDE server cannot be enabled at runtime, for example because another service is using the same port NAT: Initialize guest address guess for wildcard port-forwarding rules with default guest address (bug #15412) VGA: fix for a problem which made certain legacy guests crash under certain conditions (bug #14811) ACPI: properly notify the guest if the ACPI battery state changed OVF: fixed import problems for some appliances using an AHCI controller created by 3rd party applications SDK: reduced memory usage in the webservice Java bindings Linux hosts: EL 6.8 fix (bug #15411) Linux hosts: Linux 4.7 fix (bug #15459) Linux Additions: Linux 4.7 fixes (bug #15444) Linux Additions: fix for certain 32-bit guests (5.0.18 regression; bug #15320) Linux Additions: fixed mouse pointer offset (5.0.18 regression; bug #15324) Linux Additions: made old X.Org releases work again with kernels 3.11 and later (5.0.18 regression; bug #15319) Linux Additions: fixed X.Org crash after hard guest reset (5.0.18 regression; bug #15354) Linux Additions: don't stop the X11 setup if loading the shared folders module fails (5.0.18 regression) Linux Additions: don't complain if the Drag and Drop service is not available on the host Solaris Additions: added support for X.org 1.18 Local openSUSE specific changes: File "changeset_60565.diff" is no longer needced and has been removed. Version bump to 5.0.20 (released 2016-04-28 by Oracle) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: Storage: fixed a regression causing write requests from the BIOS to cause a Guru Meditation with the LsiLogic SCSI controller (5.0.18 regression; bug #15317) Storage: several emulation fixes in the BusLogic SCSI controller emulation NAT Network: support TCP in DNS proxy (same problem as in bug #14736 for NAT) NAT: rework handling of port-forwarding rules (bug #13570) NAT: rewrite host resolver to handle more query types and make it asynchronous so that a stalled lookup doesn't block all NAT traffic Snapshots: don't crash when restoring a snapshot which has more network adapters than the current state (ie when the snapshot uses ICH9 and the current state uses PIIX3) Guest Control: various bugfixes for the copyfrom and copyto commands / API (bug #14336) VBoxManage: list processor features on list hostinfo (bug #15334) Linux hosts: fix for Linux 4.5 if CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT is enabled (bug #15327) Windows Additions: fixed performance issues with PowerPoint 2010 and the WDDM graphics drivers if Aero is disabled 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-2016-800=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64): python-virtualbox-5.0.22-19.1 python-virtualbox-debuginfo-5.0.22-19.1 virtualbox-5.0.22-19.1 virtualbox-debuginfo-5.0.22-19.1 virtualbox-debugsource-5.0.22-19.1 virtualbox-devel-5.0.22-19.1 virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-5.0.22_k4.1.26_21-19.1 virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.0.22_k4.1.26_21-19.1 virtualbox-guest-tools-5.0.22-19.1 virtualbox-guest-tools-debuginfo-5.0.22-19.1 virtualbox-guest-x11-5.0.22-19.1 virtualbox-guest-x11-debuginfo-5.0.22-19.1 virtualbox-host-kmp-default-5.0.22_k4.1.26_21-19.1 virtualbox-host-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.0.22_k4.1.26_21-19.1 virtualbox-qt-5.0.22-19.1 virtualbox-qt-debuginfo-5.0.22-19.1 virtualbox-websrv-5.0.22-19.1 virtualbox-websrv-debuginfo-5.0.22-19.1 - openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch): virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons-5.0.22-19.1 virtualbox-host-source-5.0.22-19.1 References: