VirtualBox 5.0.4 Released
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Oracle has released the next patch in their aggressively updated Type 2 virtualization platform VirtualBox bringing the current release to VirtualBox 5.0.4.
The official announcement includes the updates in this release.
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This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed an issue with Windows 10 guest kernel debugging over the network for Hyper-V paravirtualized VMs
VMM: fixed a bug which prevented reading the saved state of the 'PATM' unit from VirtualBox 4.3.x (bug #14512)
GUI: changed default OS type for Windows from Windows XP to Windows 7
GUI: added another pre-defined guest screen resolution (bug #14384)
GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates (bug #13096)
GUI: fixed issues with synchronization of Caps lock / Num lock / Scroll lock on Windows hosts (bug #14302)
GUI: don't crash during VM shutdown if 2D video acceleration and 3D support are enabled (Mac OS X hosts only)
GUI: several seamless fixes for certain X11 window managers, also when used in multi-screen setups
GUI: Log window size, position and cursor-position fixes
Audio: fixed playing leftover/deprecated audio samples
Audio: fixed playing audio after suspending the host (5.0 regression; Linux hosts using the ALSA backend)
Audio: fixed playing short audio samples which were chopped off formerly
Audio: fixed distortions on OS X when the sample rate of the guest stream and host device don't match
Storage: fixed raw disk access and flat VMDK image access which would be always opened readonly (5.0.2 regression; bugs #14425, #14461)
Storage: fixed initial encryption of VDI images after they were compacted (bug #14496)
VGA: fix for certain graphics modes (bug #14516)
NAT: don't freeze while the VM is paused if the network attachment mode is changed from/to NAT with activated port forwarding
OVF: fixed duplicate USB controller entries in exported OVA/OVF (bug #14462)
Shared Folders: fixed a path separator issue (bug #14434)
Drag and drop: fixed crashes on OS X hosts when doing host-to-guest transfers
VBoxManage: another attempt to not deny changing the network adapter type at VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308)
VBoxManage: fixed broken guestcontrol <VM-Name> list command (5.0 regression)
VBoxManage: fixed broken Guest Control stdout/stderr output (5.0 regression)
Mac OS X hosts: fixed remaining problems with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later; bug #14412)
Mac OS X hosts: fixed broken 3D support (5.0.2 regression; bug #14476)
Linux hosts: Linux 4.2 fix
Linux hosts: don't crash on older Linux distributions if the DBus service isn't running (bug #14543)
Windows hosts: fixed the VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE error message (bug #14420)
Windows hosts: fix for Windows 10 build 10525 and later (bug #14502)
Windows hosts: fixed network adapter enumeration on Windows 10 (bug #14437)
Windows hosts: prevent intermittent host network disconnects during VM start/shutdown with bridged networking (bug #14500)
Windows Additions: fixed the call to the memory allocation function (bug #14415)
Linux Additions: be more forgiving if the compilation of the vboxvideo module fails (bug #14547)
X11 Additions: fixed a number of small issues with dynamic resizing and full-screen and seamless modes.
