Install Virtualbox 5.1.12 on Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 Systems. VirtualBox 5.1.12 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack is released with various fixes. It has fixed certain keyboard capture issues, fixed creating a snapshot when the VM is running and an NVMe controller is present and fixed “cable disconnected” issue.
For Linux hosts, the VirtualBox 5.1.12 brings Linux 4.9 compile fix and it automatically disable asynchronous I/O on Linux 2.6.18 kernels as high I/O load may trigger kernel oopses on these kernels if this feature is enabled .
Virtualbox 5.1.12 is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: fixed VERR_IEM_ASPECT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED Guru Meditations with certain Linux guests if KVM paravirtualization is enabled (5.1 regression; bugs #15613 and #16251)
- VMM: fixed VERR_VMX_UNABLE_TO_START_VM Guru Meditations under rare conditions
- GUI: prevent a crash under certain conditions if the VM is terminated very early
- GUI: fixed certain keyboard capture issues (5.1.10 regression; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #16150)
- GUI: fixed dragging guest windows in seamless mode with the keyboard captured (X11 hosts only; bug #15837)
- GUI: fixed a problem where the new version detected dialog was covered by the appliance import dialog (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #16238)
- Storage: fixed NVMe reset processing when doing rmmod nvme; modprobe nvme in a Linux guest (bug #16080)
- Storage: fixed creating a snapshot when the VM is running and an NVMe controller is present
- Storage: fixed a problem with the LsiLogic SCSI controller where requests could be lost with SMP guests
- E1000: fixed “cable disconnected” issue (Mac OS X guests only; 5.1.10 regression; bug #16260)
- E1000: fixed “TX unit hang” issue (Linux guests only; 5.1.10 regression; bug #16221)
- Parallel ports: fixed port enumeration on Windows host (bugs #15872 and #16127)
- API: don’t crash when sanitizing certain VM names (bug #16299)
- Linux hosts: automatically disable asynchronous I/O on Linux 2.6.18 kernels as high I/O load may trigger kernel oopses on these kernels if this feature is enabled
- Linux hosts / guests: Linux 2.6.28 compile fix (bug #16267)
- Linux hosts: compile Linux 4.9 compile fix (bug #16286)
- Linux Additions: warn the user about a known bug with older Linux guests (e.g. Debian 7) requiring manual work to get 3D working (bug #15319)
- Linux Additions: fix the graphics driver build with Linux 4.10 and later (bug #16298)
- Windows Additions: fixed a crash in the WDDM driver under certain conditions
Install Virtualbox 5.1.12 on Ubun5u 16.10
Run the following commands in terminal to install Virtualbox 5.1.12 on Ubuntu 16.10 Systems:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian yakkety contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
$ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1
According to your distribution, replace ‘xenial’ by ‘vivid’, ‘utopic’, ‘trusty’, ‘raring’, ‘quantal’, ‘precise’, ‘lucid’, ‘jessie’, ‘wheezy’, or ‘squeeze’.
To install on other Ubuntu versions, simply change the yakkety with the version name [second line of command that downloads the virtualbox package]. For example to install it on Ubuntu 16.04, the command will be something like this
$ sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list’
Note: Ubuntu/Debian users might want to install the dkms package to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp) are properly updated if the linux kernel version changes during the next apt-get upgrade. The dkms package can be installed through the Synaptic Package manager or through the following command:
sudo apt-get install dkms
What to do when experiencing The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG … when refreshing the packages from the repository?
# sudo -s -H
# apt-get clean
# rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# rm /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*
# apt-get clean
# apt-get update
More Info: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads