Version 6.0.3 (2019-xx-xx)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
added:
Fixed: Parsing command line arguments to VirtualBox correctly (bugs #18206 and #18197)
Version 6.0.2 (2019-01-15)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed
and/or added:
User interface: fixed creation of desktop shortcuts for
starting virtual machines (bug #18207)
User interface: allow the first run window to selecting host drives
(bug #18230)
User interface: fixed attaching empty host optical drives (bug #18223)
User interface: implemented a new virtual optical disk creation
window
USB: modified Linux backends to reset USB devices (previously, most
guest attempts to reset USB devices were ignored)
PCnet: fixed a regression which caused some PCnet PCI guest
drivers to not detect the emulated hardware (bug #18286)
Linux hosts: fixed conflict between Debian and Oracle build desktop
files (bug #18264)
Linux and MacOS hosts: VirtualBoxVM command not accessible (bug #18257)
Windows guests: multiple monitor fixes with VBoxSVGA graphics
Windows guests: black screen with VBoxSVGA graphics when 3D is
disabled (bug #18205)
Linux guests: fixed building drivers on SLES 12.4 (bug #18213)
Linux guests: fixed building shared folder driver with older
kernels (bug #18238)
OS/2 shared folders: fixed write regression introduced in 6.0.0 GA
Version 6.0.0 (2018-12-18)
This is a major update. The following major new features were
added:
Implemented support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure
User interface: greatly improved HiDPI and scaling support,
including better detection and per-machine configuration
Major rework of user interface with simpler and more powerful
application and virtual machine set-up
User interface: a new file manager enabling user to control
the guest file system and copy files between host and guest.
Graphics: major update of 3D graphics support for Windows
guests, and VMSVGA 3D graphics device emulation on Linux and
Solaris guests
Added support for surround speaker setups (as used by Windows
10 Build 1809)
Added utility vboximg-mount
on Apple hosts to access the content of guest disks on the
host
Added support for using Hyper-V as the fallback execution core
on Windows host, to avoid inability to run VMs at the price of
reduced performance
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
Execution core: fixed single-stepping in certain circumstances
(bug #17316)
User interface: video and audio recording can now be
separately enabled
Audio/Video recording fixes and improvements
Audio: better support for attaching and detaching remote
desktop connections
Serial port emulation fixes
Serial ports: allow changing the serial port attachment while
a machine is running (bug #6115)
Networking: Added a workaround for older guests which do not
enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device
Networking: fixed wrong RCODE from DNS AAAA query with
--natdnshostresolver1 (bug #18171)
iSCSI: In cases where there is no ambiguity, the LUN of an
iSCSI target is automatically determined, for targets with
non-zero LUNs
Transparently resize disk images when merging if possible
VBoxManage: support for DHCP options
Fixed VNC/RDP (bug #18153)
Guest Control: various new interfaces and features (see SDK
documentation)
Linux hosts: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
Solaris: installer fixes
Shared folders: performance improvements
Guest Additions: improved shared folder auto-mounting
Windows Guest Additions: fix incorrect tablet co-ordinate
handling with recent Windows 10 builds
Linux Additions: fix for building vboxvideo on EL 7.6 standard
kernel, contributed by Robert Conde (bug #18093)
Linux guests: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
Linux guests: support VMSVGA in the Linux and X11 Additions
MacOS Guest Additions: initial support
OS/2 Guest Additions: initial shared folder support
BIOS fixes
ACPI: Up to four custom ACPI tables can now be configured for
a VM