VirtualBox 6.1.34 Build 150636

Software vendors can use virtual machines to ship entire software configurations. For example, installing a complete mail server solution on a real machine can be a tedious task. With VirtualBox, such a complex setup (then often called an “appliance”) can be packed into a virtual machine. Installing and running a mail server becomes as easy as importing such an appliance into VirtualBox.

Changes in VirtualBox 6.1.34 What New:

• VMM: Fix instruction emulation for “cmpxchg16b”
• GUI: Improved GUI behavior on macOS Big Sur and later when kernel extensions are not loaded
• EHCI: Addressed an issue with handling short packets
• Storage: Fixed a potential hang during disk I/O when the host I/O cache is disabled
• NVMe: Fixed loading saved state when nothing is attached to it
• DevPcBios: Addressed an issue which resulted in rejecting the detected LCHS geometry when the head count was above 16
• virtio-scsi: Improvements
• E1000: Improve descriptor handling
• VBoxManage: Fixed handling of command line arguments with incomplete quotes
• VBoxManage: Improved ‘natnetwork list’ output
• VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (–ipv6-prefix) to set IPv6 prefix
• VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (–ipv6-default) to advertise default IPv6 route
• VBoxManage: Fix documentation of “usbdevsource add”
• Networking: General improvements in IPv4 and IPv6 area
• OVF Import: Allow users to specify a different storage controller and/or controller port for hard disks when importing a VM
• Unattended install: Improvements
• Shared Clipboard: Improved HTML clipboard handling for Windows host
• MacOS host: Fix handling of non-ASCII characters in the guest control functionality
• Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 5.17
• Solaris package: Fixes for API access from Python
• Solaris IPS package: Suppress dependency on libpython2.7.so.*
• Linux host and guest: Fixes for Linux kernel 5.14
• Linux Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize for older guests which are running libXrandr older than version 1.4
• Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.6 kernels
• Windows guest: Make driver install smarter
• Solaris guest: Addressed an issue which prevented VBox GAs 6.1.30 or 6.1.32 from being removed in Solaris 10 guests
• EFI: Fixed booting from FreeBSD ISO images