Virtualbox 6.0.12 Released | Install In Ubuntu

Insight: Virtualbox 6.0.12 Released | Install In Ubuntu

VirtualBox is one of the popular virtualization software. VirtualBox 6.0.12 is the latest version of the VirtualBox which is available for the download. This is a maintenance release.

Improvements and features in VirtualBox 6.0.12:

 

• OCI export: handle empty disk image correctly
• API: fix potential crash when using the medium I/O functionality
• VBoxManage: fixed documentation of VBoxManage modifyvm uarttype documentation
• Network: scrub inbound TCP URG pointer, working around incorrect OOB handling
• USB: Improved identification of power-saved devices on Windows hosts
• Audio: in the AC97 work around buggy guest drivers which reprogram the sampling rate, breaking audio in and/or audio out
• Windows host: fixed crashes on startup with software trying to inject code into a VM process
• Linux host and guest: fix kernel module build for SLES 12 SP4 kernel
• 3D: fixed state saving and loading when the VBoxVGA graphics adapter is used with 3D enabled
• Windows guests: fixed mouse cursor visibility updating
• Windows guests: fixed graphics corruption in Windows 10 search menu with VBoxSVGA adapter
• Windows guests: fixed dwm.exe crashes related to the WDDM driver for VBoxSVGA adapter when the VM has lots of RAM
• MacOS Guest Additions fail to start in 6.0.10

 

Virtualbox 6.0.12 Released | Install In Ubuntu

 

Run the following command to install VirtualBox from its official apt repository.

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'

and download and install the repository key via command:

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Update system package:

sudo apt update

Install Virtualbox 6.0.12:

sudo apt install virtualbox-6.0