Discuss the 6.0.6 release

[michael]

Discuss the 6.0.6 release here.
You can download the release here.
VirtualBox 6.0.6 is a new maintenance release.

VirtualBox 6.0.14 has been released. Please try that before continuing the discussion in this thread.

Known new issues/regressions
These are new and confirmed tickets about issues with 6.0.6:

• #18567 mouse is eratic in Windows 10 after update 6.04 >>> 6.06 - Fixed with 6.0.7 r130207 or later.
• #18569 Operation Not Permitted Copying Files from Linux Guest to Windows Host via Shared Folder - Fixed with 6.0.9 r131183 or later.
• #18593 USB Printer not work (ver. 5.2.28 or 6.0.6) - Fixed with 6.0.9 r130571 or later.
• #18658 Copy/Paste is broken for OSX guests after 6.0.4 - Fixed with 6.0.11 r132749 or later.
• #18632 Guru meditation with SW virtualization and serial port (VirtualBox 5->6 regression) - Fixed with 6.0.10.
• #18667 Kernel panic in Debian 9 guest at shut down when shared folders are enabled - Fixed with 6.0.9 r131008 or later.
• #18697 Guest additions 6.0.6+ build error, Debian Jessie - Fixed with 6.0.9 r131953 or later.
• #18737 Linux guests: open(filename, O_CREAT|..., mode) fails inside shared folder - Fixed with 6.0.11 r132861 or later.
• #18793 Guest Additions doesn't start on macOS - Fixed with 6.0.11 r132749 or later.
• #18805 Cannot write more than 1023 bytes on shared drive using ofstream --> Linux guests: calls to aio_{read,write}(3) may fail inside shared folder - Fixed with 6.0.13 r133104 or later.

See also:

• "Known Issues" with 6.0.0
• "Known Issues" with 6.0.2
• "Known Issues" with 6.0.4

[Etepetete]

A huge thanks to the developers!

VBox 6.0.6 installed flawlessly, and works like a charm.
GuestAdditions compiled as expected.
No issues with shared folder
No issues with audio or video playback.
No complaints whatsoever.
Great job!

[michael]

Thank you!

[mpack]

Found a bug within 30 seconds, perhaps a new record for me... I'm not sure if this is a new one or not.

Win7 64bit guest, v6.0.6 GAs installed in safe mode so that OpenGL will work, VBoxVGA graphics.

I ran an OpenGL 3D viewer in the guest, worked fine. Closed it.

Win7 guest.png (70.23 KiB) Viewed 12596 times

I then tested whether the VM fullscreen window size restore bug had been fixed (it had), but while in fullscreen mode I ran the 3D viewer app again. The entire screen went black except for the contents of the viewer window - which had no window frame or caption bar. I had to guess where the close (X) button was to restore my guest desktop.

I tried to capture a screenshot to show you what I meant, but the screenshot captured the opposite: a visible desktop and an empty (black) OpenGL viewer window frame. While trying to get the screenshot the screen suddenly fixed itself, but broke again when I moved the viewer window.

I can't test other graphics chipsets since AFAIK none yet support OpenGL in a Windows guest.

[isgdre]

I recommend trying 6.0.6 for any user that was having performance problems on their Windows 10 Guest.

Just updated from 6.0.4 to 6.0.6 and there is a huge difference. Close to native speeds now.

[socratis]

@isgdre
Merged your post with the "Discuss the 6.0.6 release".
I'm sure the devs will be glad to hear your assessment!

[misvin]

VirtualBox 6.0.6 Bugs (Windows 10 1809 64-bit Host):
1. Deleting a snapshot doesn't show estimated time and operation progress bar always starts from 99%.

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
[...]
User interface: fixed operation progress when deleting snapshots

2. The Search function of the .chm help does not work.

[mcp]

I lose the mouse when I switch to seamless mode. And yes I did install the extensions.
How can I solve this problem?

MCP

UPDATE: I found the setting that needed to be changed. All is good now.

[socratis]

@mcp, you should know what the "Minimum information needed for assistance" is. And we need to see a complete VBox.log, from a complete VM run, where the problem occurs:

• Start the VM from cold-boot (not from a paused or saved state) / Observe problem / Shutdown the VM (force close it if you have to).
• With the VM completely shut down (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log".
• Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response. See the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form.

[arQon]

I'm seeing kernel panics 100% of the time on shutdown. W7x64 host, ubuntu 16.04 guest with 4.4.0-145-generic.
An 18.04 guest with kernel 4.15.0-47 that's still on the 6.04 GAs doesn't have this problem.

On startup i'm sometimes seeing this as an xmessage:
VBoxClient: VBoxClient (seamless): failed to start. Stage: Setting guest IRQ filter mask Error: VERR_INTERNAL_ERROR
and shared folders aren't present. (mounted in rc.local rather than as vbox auto-mounts).

Have reinstalled the GAs a couple of times, no change.

The 4.4.0-142 kernel (the last one with working GAs in 6.04 following a signature change) exhibits the same problem with the 6.06 GAs.

add> The same VM works fine if updated to 4.15, so the problem is specific to 6.06 and 4.4 kernels. (well, probably several other old kernel versions as well, but meh)

[markos2680]

Left mouse button works like right mouse button on desktop while "Input/Mouse Integration" is checked
Uncheck the "Input/Mouse Integration" solves the problem

Host : Ubuntu 18.04.2 x64, Kernel 4.18.0-16-generic
Guests tested : Windows 2003 Server, Windows 7 Pro x64
Environment : VBox 6.0.6 r130049 ( Qt 5.6.1 )

[socratis]

UPDATE: I found the setting that needed to be changed. All is good now.

@mcp,
Please don't leave the solutions hidden. Please make yourself clear and post the solution. What setting did you find?

[ciamaulex]

Thanks for the awesome release!
This is not only more stable, but also blazing fast.

One note though: the "restore frozen at 97%" seemed completely gone.
Only once I got it again on my WinXP guest. Then I discarded the saved state and did a fresh boot, and the machine paused because it could not lock the required amount of memory.

May there be a remaining case when the "saved state restore" crashes instead of gracefully pausing the machine in low-memory conditions?

I will try to test again, in case I will send you the logs.

Best regards

[socratis]

@ciamaulex
Take a look at the corresponding ticket "Win7 in VB 6.0.0 fails on resume on 97%". See comment #9 from "bird" (emphasis mine):

Seems some device is raising interrupts while restoring saved state, which it is absolutely not supposed to do, thus the release assertion later in the restore process. However, to move on with this I've degraded the release assertion to a scary log entry (in VBox.log) and we'll try hunt down the real culprit internally.

The fix will appear in 6.0.8, 5.2.30 and any test build with revision 130145 or higher. (No, we did not knowingly fix this in 6.0.6.)

[vesa]

I had some problems with 6.0.6 so I could not upgrade.
* could not move around windows
* could not click on menu item in Idea
I have Windows 10 host and Ubuntu 18 guest.