Download VirtualBox 5.0.12

Oracle has released the fifth 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 5.0.12, the following changes and improvements have also been made:

VirtualBox 5.0.12
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• GUI: fixed wrong scrolling behavior 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
• Windows hosts: fixed hang when using VBoxAuthSimple library for VRDP external authentication (bug #14931)
• Windows hosts: fixed a regression which prevented it to attach to a physical network adapter having TCP/IP disabled (bug #14578)
• Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused multi-port adapters to be shown as a single adapter (bugs #14558, #14622)
• Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused created host-only adapters to not appear in the list (bug #14437)
• Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues related to Windows 10 (bugs #14040, #14545)
• Linux hosts: .desktop file compatibility issue (bug #14808)
• Linux hosts / guests: fixes for RHEL 7.2 (bug #14866)
• 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)
• Solaris hosts: added Python 2.7 bindings
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed a possible crash when the default input or output audio device changes
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed a panic under certain conditions
• Linux Additions: prevent the compiler from doing dead-code elimination 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