VirtualBox 6.1.20 released

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arudnev
Oracle Corporation
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VirtualBox 6.1.20 released

Post by arudnev »

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
  • VMM: Fixed extremely poor VM performance depending on the timing of various actions (regression in 6.1.0)
  • VMM: Fixed guest OS hanging under certain circumstances when Hyper-V is present (bug #20141)
  • VMM: Fixed Guru Meditation error when using a nested hypervisor under certain circumstances (bug #20175)
  • VMM: Fixed a SMAP related host panic affecting Solaris 11.4 systems with Intel Haswell CPUs or later (bug #16068)
  • OCI: Add cloud-init support for export to OCI and for OCI instance creation
  • GUI: Fixed "Delete all files" leaving behind Logs/VBoxUI.log (bug #20235)
  • Audio: Multiple fixes and enhancements
  • Audio: Fixed detection of duplex audio devices on macOS (5.0 regression; bug #20171)
  • Network: Fixed link status reporting for "not attached" adapters
  • Network: Fixed connectivity issues with e1000 in OS/2 guests (6.1.18 regression; bug #20148)
  • Network: Fixed VxWorks e1000 driver compatibility issue (bug #20182)
  • Network: Fixed GUI checks for port forwarding rules rejecting IPv6 with "Nat Network" (bug #14847)
  • DHCP: Don't crash in the presence of fixed address assignments (bug #20128)
  • Serial: Fixed possible VM hang when using the a serial port in disconnected mode (bug #19854)
  • Webcam: Fixed interoperability with v4l2loopback and fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #20176)
  • NVMe: Fixed sporadic Windows VM hang or reboot on high CPU load
  • VBoxManage: Allow changing network adapter attachment of a saved VM with "modifyvm"
  • vboximg-mount: Fix for argument processing to honor the '--root' option (6.0 regression; bug #20073)
  • Linux host and guest: Support kernel versions 5.11 (bug #20198) and 5.12
  • Linux host: Maximum MTU size increased to 16110 for host-only adapters on Linux kernels 4.10+ (bug #19122)
  • Linux Guest Additions: Fix vboxvideo module compilation for kernel version 5.10.x
  • Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel module build for RHEL 8.4 beta and CentOS Stream (bug #20289)
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