Download VirtualBox 6.1.8

Oracle has released the fourth update for VirtualBox version 6.1. 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 simultaneously. VirtualBox is available for Windows, macOS, Linux and Solaris, and is able to guest operating systems to turn. The changes made in version 6.1.8 are listed below for you:

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

• GUI: Fix several layout and mouse position handling bugs with soft keyboard
• GUI: Fixed crash on last VM removed (6.1.4 regression; bug #19568, #19525, #19506, #19490, #19481, #19397)
• GUI and API: Allow renaming VMs which are in saved state
• Serial: Fixed slow guest output when using the TCP server mode without anyone being connected
• Guest Additions: Restored ‘VBoxClient–checkhostversion’ functionality (6.1.0 regression; bug #19470)
• Guest Additions: Fixed resizing and multi monitor handling for X11 guests. (6.1.0 regression; bug #19496)
• Guest Additions: Build problems fix with Oracle Linux 8.2 (Red Hat compatible kernel) / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 / CentOS 8.2 (bug #19391)
• Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed handling of multiple environment variables supplied to ‘VBoxManage guestcontrol VM run’ (6.1.6/6.0.20 regression; bug #19518)
• Guest Control: Implemented support for long(er) command lines
• Guest Control: Various stability improvements