Download VirtualBox 5.0.10

Oracle has released an update for VirtualBox version 5.0. 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 XP and above, OS X, Linux, and Solaris, and is capable of many guest operating systems to turn.

Version 5.0 of VirtualBox includes support for para-virtualization under Windows and Linux, which should bring performance improvements. Furthermore, more instruction sets from modern processors are supported, there is drag&drop to and from virtual machines and disk images can now be encrypted. In version 5.0.10, the following changes and improvements have also been made:

VirtualBox 5.0.10
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: improved support for certain Intel Atom CPUs (bug #14773)
• VMM: system registry emulation fix (5.0 regression; bug #14515)
• GUI: fixed immediate screenshot issue (bug #14108)
• GUI: fixed another 3D overlay window reparenting issue when the VM is switched to fullscreen mode on X11 hosts
• GUI: fixed help index (bug #14722)
• GUI: fixed state synchronization issue in the VM manager window when VM was paused from its runtime window
• Audio: fixed suspending/resuming audio streams on VM pause/unpause (bug #14784)
• Audio: properly reset AC97 audio streams, otherwise there is silence until a non-48 kHz stream is played
• Audio: fixed a small emulation quirk of the AD1980 codec of the HDA device to make recent linux guests work (bug #14653)
• USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller
• USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions on hosts with Linux kernels older than version 3.3
• USB: better identification of certain USB devices
• NAT: support TCP in DNS proxy (bug #14736)
• NAT Network: fixed sporadic crashes on Windows hosts (bug #13899)
• API: when creating differencing images (eg as part of a snapshot or cloning a VM) use the same disk image variant as the parent image if possible, which means that eg a diff image for a VMDK image split into 2 GB files will also be split (bug #14764)
• API: event queue handling fixes preventing loss of certain events at runtime (eg new webcam attached), particularly important on Mac OS X hosts
• Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Windows hosts only)
• VBoxManage: don’t crash on snapshot restorecurrent / edit if the VM has no snapshots
• VBoxManage: don’t crash on controlvm addencpassword (bug #14729)
• Mac OS X hosts: use the correct kernel on certain hosts
• Windows hosts: fixed VRDP external authentication
• Windows hosts: allow to use a shared folder path with extended-length path prefix (5.0 regression; bug #14651)
• Windows hosts: fix a crash in the netfilter host driver under certain conditions (bug #14799)
• Windows host installer: documented and fixed public properties which can be used to control the installation to some extent
• Windows host installer: fixed not starting the actual installation when showing the version information or help dialogs
• X11 Additions: added basic support for X.Org Server 1.18 (3D requires additional fixes)