VirtualBox 6.1.8 release

Oracle has published a corrective release of the virtualization system VirtualBox 6.1.8, in which it is noted 10 fixes.

Main changes in release 6.1.8:

  • Guest Additions fixed build issues in
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, CentOS 8.2, and Oracle Linux 8.2 (when using the RHEL kernel);

  • Fixed problems with the positioning of the mouse cursor and the layout of interface elements in the GUI when using the virtual keyboard;
  • Fixed a GUI crash that occurred when the last virtual machine in the list was deleted;
  • The ability to rename stateful virtual machines has been added to the GUI and API;
  • Serial driver fixes issue with slow output when using TCP server mode with no active connections;
  • Returned command 'VBoxClient --checkhostversion';
  • In guests with an X11-based graphics subsystem, issues with screen resizing and handling of multi-monitor configurations have been resolved.
  • When executing the command 'VBoxManage guestcontrol VM run'
    solved problems with passing several environment variables;

  • In VBoxManage guestcontrol, the command line size limit has been extended and changes have been made to improve stability.

Source: opennet.ru

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