Download VirtualBox 5.0.26

Oracle has released an update to VirtualBox version 5.0, a week after the final version of version 5.1 was released. 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 several 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 5.0.26, the following changes and improvements have also been made:

VirtualBox 5.0.26
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed a bug in the task switching code (ticket #15571)
• GUI: allow to overwrite an existing file when saving a log file (bug #8034)
• GUI: fixed screenshot if the VM is started in separate mode
• Audio: improved recording from USB headsets and other sources which might need conversion of captured data
• Audio: fixed regression of not having any audio available on Solaris hosts
• VGA: fixed an occasional hang when running Windows guests with 3D enabled
• Storage: fixed a possible endless reconnect loop for the iSCSI backend if connecting to the target succeeds but further I/O requests cause a disconnect
• Storage: fixed a bug when resizing certain VDI images which resulted in using the whole disk on the host (bug #15582)
• EFI: fixed access to devices attached to SATA port 2 and higher (bug #15607)
• API: fixed video recording with VBoxHeadless (bug #15443)
• API: don’t crash if there is no graphics controller configured (bug #15628)
• VBoxSVC: fixed several memory leaks when handling .dmg images
• Solaris hosts: fixed a crash on hosts with certain CPU configurations
• Windows hosts: properly fall back to NDIS5 on pre-Vista hosts on silent installations