Oracle has released a corrective update for the Virtualization System VirtualBox 7.1.8, which includes 27 changes. At the same time, an update for the previous version, VirtualBox 7.0.26, has been created with 21 fixes. Additionally, 3 vulnerabilities have been addressed (with a maximum severity level of 8.1 out of 10), details of which have not yet been disclosed.
- In additions for guest systems with Linux:
- Initial support for Linux kernel 6.14 has been implemented, along with a kernel package from the upcoming RHEL 9.6 release. Support for the kernel from RHEL 9.4 has also been improved.
- A bug that caused VBoxClient to crash when using XWayland has been fixed.
- The issue with the normal display of the cursor when used in virtual machine the VBoxVGA graphics adapter has been resolved.
- A flaw that caused VirtualBox additions to fail during installation on systems without X11 libraries has been corrected.
- The ‘rcvboxadd status-kernel’ check has been improved.
- An installation failure in the Linux host system installer caused by incorrect validation of a previously installed version of VirtualBox has been fixed.
- A bug that resulted in the wireless adapter being undefined in environments based on new Linux distributions has been resolved.
- An issue that caused a countdown timer in the virtual machine has been addressed.
- A problem with incorrect cursor display in the GUI has been fixed.
- In DevVirtioSCSI, an issue with restoring the saved state has been resolved.
- A crash when restoring VM state using the VMSVGA graphics adapter without enabling 3D acceleration has been addressed.
- The ability to set disk bandwidth limits using the command ‘VBoxManage bandwidthctl’ has been established.
- In the NAT address translator implementation, a problem with the network connection disappearing when used on Windows host systems has been fixed.
- Six issues related to the operation of additions for guest systems with Windows (for example, 100% CPU load due to VBoxTray and driver installation problems), and two issues in the Windows installer have been resolved.
Source: opennet.ru
