Oracle has published a corrective release of the VirtualBox 6.1.36 virtualization system, which notes 27 fixes.
Major changes:
- Fixed a potential guest kernel crash with Linux when enabling the "Speculative Store Bypass" protection mode for one vCPU VM.
- Fixed a GUI issue with using the mouse in the VM setup dialog when using KDE.
- Improved screen refresh performance when using VBE (VESA BIOS Extensions) mode.
- Fixed a crash that occurs when USB devices are disconnected.
- vboximg-mount has fixed write issues.
- The API offers initial support for Python 3.10.
- In host environments with Linux and Solaris allows mounting shared directories that are symbolic links on the host side.
- For hosts and guest systems based on Linux initial kernel support has been implemented Linux 5.18 and 5.19, as well as the development branch of the RHEL 9.1 distribution. Improved kernel support Linux, compiled using Clang.
- The Solaris Guest Additions improved the installer and resolved issues with screen size in VMSVGA settings.
- In guest environments with Linux Issues with handling multi-monitor configurations for the VBoxVGA and VBoxSVGA drivers have been resolved for Solaris. The ability to set the primary display via VBoxManage has been implemented. X11 resource leaks have been eliminated when resizing screens and file descriptors when launching processes using guestcontrol commands. An issue with launching processes with root privileges using guestcontrol has been resolved.
- In additions for guest systems with Linux Reduced loading time by stopping rebuilding unused modules.
Source: opennet.ru
