VirtualBox 5.2.22 is a maintenance release. Install VirtualBox 5.2.22 on Linux Ubuntu Systems. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x106 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. Note that VirtualBox 5.2.X series was released with support for the latest Linux Kernel few days ago.
VirtualBox 5.2.22 (released November 09 2018)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- Audio: fixed a regression in the Core Audio backend causing a hang when returning from host sleep when processing input buffers
- Audio: fixed a potential crash in the HDA emulation if a stream has no valid mixer sink attached — thanks to Rink Springer (rink@…) (bug #17664)
- Windows hosts: fixed an incompatibility with recent versions of Windows 10 (bug #17977)
- Windows hosts: fixed a number of bridged networking driver crashes (bug #18046)
- Linux Additions: disable 3D for recent guests using Wayland (bug #18116)
- Linux Additions: fix for rebuilding kernel modules for new kernels on RPM guests
- Linux Additions: further fixes for Linux 4.19
- Linux Additions: fixed errors rebuilding initrd files with dracut on EL 6 (bug #18055)
- Linux Additions: fixed 5.2.20 regression: guests not remembering the screen size after shutdown and restart (bug #18078)
Install VirtualBox 5.2.22
Run the following commands in terminal to install Virtualbox 5.2.22 in Ubuntu Linux:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian
xenial 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-5.2
Please note that in the line “sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list’” you will have to replace the version name depending on your Ubuntu version. For example, replace xenial (Ubuntu 16.04) with trusty (14.04) and so on.