[SRU] Virtualbox new release 6.1.26

[Eduardo Gutierrez]

Related to question: hhttps://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+question/696833

Would be great to update to virtualbox 6.1.26 as you are stuck on 6.1.16...in ubuntu 20.04.02.

Thanks

pd: changelog

VirtualBox 6.1.26 (released July 28 2021)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

VMSVGA: fixed VM screen artifacts after restoring from saved state (bug #20067)
Storage: Fixed audio endianness for certain CUE sheet CD/DVD images.
VBoxHeadless: Running VM will save its state on host shutdown
VBoxManage: Fix OS detection for Ubuntu 20.10 ISO with unattended install
Linux Additions: Fixed mouse pointer offsetting issue for VMSVGA graphics adapter in multi-monitor VM setup (6.1.24 regression)

VirtualBox 6.1.24 (released July 20 2021)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Storage: Fixed starting a VM if a device is attached to a VirtIO SCSI port higher than 30 (bug #20213)
Storage: Improvement to DVD medium change signaling
Serial: Fixed a the guest missing interrupts under certain circumstances (6.0 regression, bug #18668)
Audio: Multiple fixes and enhancements
Network: Fixed connectivity issue with virtio-net after resuming VM with disconnected link
Network: Fixed UDP GSO fragmentation issue with missing 8 bytes of payload at the end of the first fragment
API: Fixed VM configuration for recent Windows Server versions
Extension Pack: Fixed issues with USB webcam pass-through on Linux
Host and guest driver: Fix small memory leak (bug #20280)
Linux host: Support Split Lock Detection feature of recent Intel CPUs (bug #20180)
Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.13 (bug #20456)
Linux host and guest: Introduce support for SUSE SLES/SLED 15 SP3 kernels (bug #20396)
Linux host: Installer will not attempt to build kernel modules if system already has them installed and modules versions match current version
Windows host: Fix DLL signature validation to work better with an invalid certificate
Guest Additions: Fixed crash on using shared clipboard (bug #19165)
Linux Guest Additions: Introduce support for Ubuntu specific kernels (bug #20325)
Solaris guest: Increased default memory and disk sizes
EFI: Support network booting with the E1000 network controller emulation
EFI: Stability improvements (bug #20090)

VirtualBox 6.1.22 (released April 29 2021)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    VMM: Improved performance of 64-bit Windows and Solaris guests when Hyper-V is used on recent Windows 10 hosts
    VMM: Fixed frequent crashes of 64-bit Windows Vista and Server 2003 guests when Hyper-V is used
    GUI: Fixed regression where user was not able to save unset default shortcuts (bug #20305)
    Storage: Fixed regression in LsiLogic SAS controller emulation caused VM crash (bug #20323)
    Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when it was not possible to run executables from mounted share (bug #20320)

VirtualBox 6.1.20 (released April 20 2021)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    VMM: Fixed extremely poor VM performance depending on the timing of various actions (regression in 6.1.0)
    VMM: Fixed guest OS hanging under certain circumstances when Hyper-V is present (bug #20141)
    VMM: Fixed Guru Meditation error when using a nested hypervisor under certain circumstances (bug #20175)
    VMM: Fixed a SMAP related host panic affecting Solaris 11.4 systems with Intel Haswell CPUs or later (bug #16068)
    OCI: Add cloud-init support for export to OCI and for OCI instance creation
    GUI: Fixed "Delete all files" leaving behind Logs/VBoxUI.log (bug #20235)
    Audio: Multiple fixes and enhancements
    Audio: Fixed detection of duplex audio devices on macOS (5.0 regression; bug #20171)
    Network: Fixed link status reporting for "not attached" adapters
    Network: Fixed connectivity issues with e1000 in OS/2 guests (6.1.18 regression; bug #20148)
    Network: Fixed VxWorks e1000 driver compatibility issue (bug #20182)
    Network: Fixed GUI checks for port forwarding rules rejecting IPv6 with "Nat Network" (bug #14847)
    DHCP: Don't crash in the presence of fixed address assignments (bug #20128)
    Serial: Fixed possible VM hang when using the a serial port in disconnected mode (bug #19854)
    Webcam: Fixed interoperability with v4l2loopback and fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #20176)
    NVMe: Fixed sporadic Windows VM hang or reboot on high CPU load
    VBoxManage: Allow changing network adapter attachment of a saved VM with "modifyvm"
    vboximg-mount: Fix for argument processing to honor the '--root' option (6.0 regression; bug #20073)
    Linux host and guest: Support kernel versions 5.11 (bug #20198) and 5.12
    Linux host: Maximum MTU size increased to 16110 for host-only adapters on Linux kernels 4.10+ (bug #19122)
    Linux Guest Additions: Fix vboxvideo module compilation for kernel version 5.10.x
    Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel module build for RHEL 8.4 beta and CentOS Stream (bug #20289)

VirtualBox 6.1.18 (released January 19 2021)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    Nested VM: Fixed hangs when executing SMP nested-guests under certain conditions on Intel hosts (bug #19315, #19561)
    OCI integration: Cloud Instance parameters parsing is improved on import (bug #19156)
    Network: UDP checksum offloading in e1000 no longer produces zero checksums (bug #19930)
    Network: Fixed Host-Only Ethernet Adapter DHCP, guest os can not get IP on host resume (bug #19620)
    NAT: Fixed mss parameter handing (bug #15256)
    macOS host: Multiple optimizations for BigSur
    Audio: Fixed issues with audio playback after host goes to sleep (bug #18594)
    Documentation: Some content touch-up and table formatting fixes
    Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.10 (bug #20055)
    Solaris host: Fix regression breaking VGA text mode since version 6.1.0
    Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting CentOS 8.2-2004 and later (bug #20091)
    Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting Linux kernels 3.2.0 through 3.2.50 (bug #20006)
    Guest Additions: Fixed a VM segfault on copy with shared clipboard with X11 (bug #19226)
    Shared Folder: Fixed error with remounting on Linux guests

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

Sorry for the question ? but why its not updated this package ?

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-hwe/+bug/1932171
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1927270
Are duplicated bugs of this one

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.21.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-hwe into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-hwe/6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.21.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-ext-pack into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ext-pack/6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.21.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-guest-additions-iso into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.21.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-hwe into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-hwe/6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-ext-pack into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ext-pack/6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.20.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-guest-additions-iso into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.20.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-hwe into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-hwe/6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-ext-pack into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ext-pack/6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-guest-additions-iso into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted virtualbox-hwe (6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1) for focal have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

virtualbox-hwe/6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1 (armhf, ppc64el, s390x, arm64)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/focal/update_excuses.html#virtualbox-hwe

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted virtualbox-hwe (6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.10.1) for groovy have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

virtualbox-hwe/6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.10.1 (armhf, arm64, s390x, ppc64el)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/groovy/update_excuses.html#virtualbox-hwe

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza (kleber-souza)]

For what's worth, virtualbox-guest-dkms (6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1) can now be built successfully with focal/linux-hwe-5.11 5.11.0-24-generic:

https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-focal/focal/amd64/v/virtualbox/20210705_160622_41557@/log.gz

As well as virtualbox-guest-dkms-hwe (6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1):

https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-focal/focal/amd64/v/virtualbox-hwe/20210705_160518_7a165@/log.gz

While still being built successfully with focal/linux LTS kernel (5.4.0-79-generic):

https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-focal/focal/amd64/v/virtualbox/20210705_160239_358c6@/log.gz
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-focal/focal/amd64/v/virtualbox-hwe/20210705_161206_04f0a@/log.gz

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

VirtualBox 6.1.24 (released July 20 2021)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    Storage: Fixed starting a VM if a device is attached to a VirtIO SCSI port higher than 30 (bug #20213)
    Storage: Improvement to DVD medium change signaling
    Serial: Fixed a the guest missing interrupts under certain circumstances (6.0 regression, bug #18668)
    Audio: Multiple fixes and enhancements
    Network: Fixed connectivity issue with virtio-net after resuming VM with disconnected link
    Network: Fixed UDP GSO fragmentation issue with missing 8 bytes of payload at the end of the first fragment
    API: Fixed VM configuration for recent Windows Server versions
    Extension Pack: Fixed issues with USB webcam pass-through on Linux
    Host and guest driver: Fix small memory leak (bug #20280)
    Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.13 (bug #20456)
    Linux host and guest: Introduce support for SUSE SLES/SLED 15 SP3 kernels (bug #20396)
    Linux host: Installer will not attempt to build kernel modules if system already has them installed and modules versions match current version
    Windows host: Fix DLL signature validation to work better with an invalid certificate
    Guest Additions: Fixed crash on using shared clipboard (bug #19165)
    Linux Guest Additions: Introduce support for Ubuntu specific kernels (bug #20325)
    Solaris guest: Increased default memory and disk sizes
    EFI: Support network booting with the E1000 network controller emulation
    EFI: Stability improvements (bug #20090)

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

Is there any reason why the newer version still not released in updates o whatever repository ?
Thanks

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

For groovy I did install all the suite with no issues at all.

I installed the current virtualbox, upgraded to 6.1.22, installation of host and guest and guest-hwe tools was fine, guest-additions was fine too, and ext-pack was downloaded and installed successfully.

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

The original bug was opened to update virtualbox in focal 20.04.. suppose that it works in groovy are good news....

Still dont know why it takes so long, to test vbox and update the packages.....

thanks

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

@Eduardo If you are interested in seeing virtualbox updated in 20.04 you could participate in the process to get it released by testing that the version of the package in -proposed works well.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.10.1

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virtualbox (6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.10.1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu groovy (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:15:58 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ext-pack - 6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.20.10.1

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virtualbox-ext-pack (6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.20.10.1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu groovy (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:18:04 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-hwe - 6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.10.1

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virtualbox-hwe (6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.10.1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu groovy (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:53:01 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-guest-additions-iso - 6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.20.10.1

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virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.20.10.1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu groovy (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:16:47 +0200

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for virtualbox has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

Now that 6.1.22 works...should be nice to update to VirtualBox 6.1.24 (released July 20 2021).. Hopefully the process can be quicker....
Thanks for your help and effort, we are a vocational education intitute in computer science and we use ubuntu LTS, and having the latest vbox version is important.

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

The packages is not avalaible in updates in focal....

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Nope. There is a packaging bug in virtualbox, setting R^3 to no and loosing "chmod +x" on binaries during build.
This is a non-issue for groovy and focal, but a problem for hirsute.
I plan to upload new virtualbox that fixes the issue soon.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Note that focal's virtualbox is built correctly with correct permissions.

So I wonder if something else is broken in hirsute that breaks permissions. I.e. dh_dwz srip or some such.

We should monitor when the setuid gets dropped and by whom.

However focal is now verified by kernel team, thus ready to release.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1

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virtualbox (6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu focal (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:15:58 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-hwe - 6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1

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virtualbox-hwe (6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu focal (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:53:01 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ext-pack - 6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1

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virtualbox-ext-pack (6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu focal (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:18:04 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-guest-additions-iso - 6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1

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virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (6.1.22-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu focal (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:16:47 +0200

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

Now that 6.1.22 works...should be nice to update to VirtualBox 6.1.24 (released July 20 2021).. Hopefully the process can be quicker....
Thanks for your help and effort, we are a vocational education intitute in computer science and we use ubuntu LTS, and having the latest vbox version is important.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

I will update this bug to track 6.1.26, because the current hirsute binary is missing SUID bits (due to an R^3 bug we hit in Ubuntu but not in Debian).

Focal is good, but better refresh to 6.1.26 focal and hirsute to have less bugs and less testing

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

Perhaps is a bug, or i did something wrong, i updated from 6.1.16 to 6.1.22 from updates repo in Focal, but i had to download manually Extension Pack and Guest Additions ISO. If my memory doesnt fail, i had all the pack ( vbox + extension + guest additions) when updating previous versions of virtualbox in ubuntu.

Thanks.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

The virtualbox issue is tracked at LP: #1938886

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

@Eduardo you need to provide some more information, extension pack should be updated automatically too

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

So thats why i told you, in case other people has the same issue... As i remember updating vbox, updates also extension pack ( launching the first time vbox, once updated, it tolds you that a newer version of extension pack is avalaible and if you want to download it... so this time i didnt have this option, i had to downoad manually from virtualbox) and guest additions ( as i remember i started a vm, for example windows guest, and then a popñ-up message arised once you login, and you have to install the new version of guest additions from dvd/cd, my guest didnt found the new guest additions and i had to download again from virtualbox and create a new media with 6.1.22guestadditions.iso).

Perhaps its only me or i had to reboot,but this time only vbox package was updated. I had to manually update the guest additions and extension pack...

Thanks for your work

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

any news ? when will 6.1.26 avalaible in ubuntu focal ?
Thanks

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hello, I uploaded 6.1.26 into unapproved queue for focal and hirsute, fixing the remaining debhelper regressions.

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

So its supposed that the problems i faced with guest additions and extension pack shoulg be fixed ?

Is there any ETA when would be in the updates of focal ?

Thanks for your effort

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.21.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-hwe into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-hwe/6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.21.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-ext-pack into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ext-pack/6.1.26-2~ubuntu1.21.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-guest-additions-iso into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/6.1.26-1~ubuntu1.21.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

Sorry but im on ubuntu 20.04 not 21.04

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-hwe into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-hwe/6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-ext-pack into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ext-pack/6.1.26-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Eduardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-guest-additions-iso into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/6.1.26-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

How about virtualbox-dkms ??

[Simon Iremonger (ubuntu-iremonger)]

virtualbox-dkms binary package comes from the same source package virtualbox.
See https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/focal-updates/virtualbox -- this is a one-to-many mapping.
virtualbox-ext-pack and virtualbox-guest-additions-iso are separate.

In any case, al the 6.1.26 packages for 20.04 LTS have reached focal-proposed and are installable and seem to work, in short, more testing to do! =).

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Basic testing was good, I did install the one in release, updated to proposed pocket.
Installation for both focal and hirsute was good now, and the dkms modules were correctly built and loaded.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.21.04.1

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virtualbox (6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.21.04.1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu hirsute (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:03:23 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-hwe - 6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.21.04.1

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virtualbox-hwe (6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.21.04.1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu hirsute (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:02:19 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ext-pack - 6.1.26-2~ubuntu1.21.04.1

---------------
virtualbox-ext-pack (6.1.26-2~ubuntu1.21.04.1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu hirsute (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:01:07 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-guest-additions-iso - 6.1.26-1~ubuntu1.21.04.1

---------------
virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (6.1.26-1~ubuntu1.21.04.1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu hirsute (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:01:40 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1

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virtualbox (6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu focal (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:03:23 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-hwe - 6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1

---------------
virtualbox-hwe (6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu focal (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:02:19 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ext-pack - 6.1.26-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1

---------------
virtualbox-ext-pack (6.1.26-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu focal (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:01:07 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-guest-additions-iso - 6.1.26-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1

---------------
virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (6.1.26-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu focal (LP: #1926937)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:01:40 +0200

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

AGain with Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, i had to install virtualbox-ext and virtualbox-guest-addtions iso manually from synaptic.
It didnt work at least the package with virtualbox-ext.
Before this bug, the first time you started virtualbox, it automatically shows a message that newer version of extensionpack, is avalaible, and if you want to update... Then it asks for delete the old version. This doesnt appear in this release of vbox.

I had to manually download Ext pack from Virtualbox download page.

Seems that installing the guest-additons package it worked with latest version.

[Tom Robinson (mariner10)]

Hi Eduardo, as pointed out earlier by Simon, the virtualbox-guest-additions-iso and virtualbox-ext-pack packages are separate and are not installed automatically. Did you have these packages installed before?

From the terminal, use "sudo apt list virtualbox*" to check their status on your system.

For my Focal system, after upgrading virtualbox to 6.1.26 from the repo, I checked from the VirtualBox GUI via Tools -> Preferences -> Extensions and found that the "VNC" extension was now on version 6.1.26 but that the "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack" was still on version 6.1.22. Rather than downloading the latest extension pack from the oracle website and updating it in the GUI directly as I did before, this time I (first closed the GUI) installed the package for it via terminal "sudo apt install virtualbox-ext-pack" and when I went back into the GUI to check it was updated there.

Same with installing the virtualbox-guest-additions-iso package, I did not need to download the latest guest additions inside of the Guest OS, which I was prompted to do when the latest ISO could not be found before.

So long as these related packages are updated in line with the main virtualbox packages in future, then I think it will be automatic next time, but you do need to make sure they are installed on your system first.

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

My sudo apt list virtualbox*"

eduardo@MiPcLinux:~$ sudo apt list virtualbox*
[sudo] contraseña para eduardo:
Listando... Hecho
virtualbox-6.0/desconocido 6.0.24-139119~Ubuntu~eoan amd64
virtualbox-6.1/desconocido 6.1.26-145957~Ubuntu~eoan amd64
virtualbox-dkms/focal-updates,now 6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1 amd64 [instalado, automático]
virtualbox-ext-pack/focal-updates,focal-updates,now 6.1.26-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1 all [instalado]
virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/focal-updates,focal-updates,now 6.1.26-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1 all [instalado]
virtualbox-guest-dkms-hwe/focal-updates,focal-updates 6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1 all
virtualbox-guest-dkms/focal-updates,focal-updates 6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1 all
virtualbox-guest-source-hwe/focal-updates,focal-updates 6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1 all
virtualbox-guest-source/focal-updates,focal-updates 6.1.22-dfsg-2~ubuntu1.20.04.1 all
virtualbox-guest-utils-hwe/focal-updates 6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1 amd64
virtualbox-guest-utils/focal-updates 6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1 amd64
virtualbox-guest-x11-hwe/focal-updates 6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1 amd64
virtualbox-guest-x11/focal-updates 6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1 amd64
virtualbox-qt/focal-updates,now 6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1 amd64 [instalado, automático]
virtualbox-source/focal-updates 6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1 amd64
virtualbox/focal-updates,now 6.1.26-dfsg-3~ubuntu1.20.04.1 amd64 [instalado]

In previous versions of vbox, before 6.1.22, i only made update and as said, when i entered the first time in new version, i got a message saying "you have a old version of extension pack. new version is avalaible do you want to install it ?" i said yes and then another message "update of ext pack was succesful. do you want to delete old version ?". And when i enter or started a new virtual machine their told that i got a newer version of guest additions.

This time as said before, and it happened the same in 6.1.24, i had to install manually the packages for ext-pack and guest additions. And ext pack didnt work, i had as said before to download and install manually the ext-pack of 6.1.26.

As said ext-pack and guest-additions package should be intalled automatically as always...

The guest addtions seems to work well, but i had to install the package manually.

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

Dont know if its better to open a new bug...

 VirtualBox 6.1.28 (released October 19 2021)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    VMM: Fixed guru meditation while booting nested-guests accessing debug registers under certain conditions
    UI: Bug fixes for touchpad-based scrolling
    VMSVGA: Fixed VM black screen issue on first resize after restoring from saved state (bug #20067)
    VMSVGA: Fixed display corruption on Linux Mint (bug #20513)
    Storage: Fixed a possible write error under certain circumstances when using VHD images (bug #20512)
    Network: Multiple updates in virtio-net device support
    Network: Disconnecting cable in saved VM state now is handled properly by virtio-net
    Network: More administrative control over network ranges, see user manual
    NAT: Fixed not rejecting TFTP requests with absolute pathnames (bug #20589)
    Audio: Fixed VM session aborting after PC hibernation (bug #20516)
    Audio: Fixed setting the line-in volume of the HDA emulation on modern Linux guests
    Audio: Fixed resuming playback of the AC'97 emulation while a snapshot has been taken
    API: Added bindings support for Python 3.9 (bug #20252)
    API: Fixed rare hang of VM when changing settings at runtime
    Linux host: Improved kernel modules installation detection which prevents unnecessary modules rebuild
    Windows Host: Sped up large page allocations on Windows 8 and later
    Windows Host: Fixed VBoxHeadless process sticking around after VM is closed (bug #20574)
    Host Services: Shared Clipboard: Prevent guest clipboard reset when clipboard sharing is disabled (bug #20487)
    Host Services: Shared Clipboard over VRDP: Fixed to continue working when guest service reconnects to host (bug #20366)
    Host Services: Shared Clipboard over VRDP: Fixed preventing remote RDP client to hang when guest has no clipboard data to report
    Linux Host and Guest: Introduced initial support for kernels 5.14 and 5.15
    Linux Host and Guest: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.5 kernel
    Windows Guest: Introduced Windows 11 guest support, including unattended installation

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

????

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

 VirtualBox 6.1.30 (released November 22 2021)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    VMM: Fixed 6.1.28 regression preventing VMs starting when using Hyper-V mode on Windows 10
    GUI: Fixed inability to complete First Run wizard after browsing for an external image
    GUI: Fixed crash on macOS Big Sur while browsing for an external image from First Run wizard
    GUI: Fixed bug on Windows with inability to save taken screenshot under a folder with native name (bug #15561)
    GUI: Fixed bug on X11 with drag and drop initiated on single mouse click in VM storage settings
    GUI: Fixed settings check on machines not supporting hardware virtualization
    GUI: Non critical media related errors should not cause modal pop-up error messages
    Host-only networking: Fixed crash parsing /etc/vbox/networks.conf
    DVD: Fixed drive lock handling across VM reset
    VBoxHeadless: Fixed crash when running on macOS Monterey (bug #20636)
    VBoxManage: Fixed incorrect help text for "hostonlyif"
    vboximg-mount: Error message if no image is specified
    macOS host: fix multiple bugs specific to macOS Monterey in installer and startup of kernel extensions
    macOS host: show message indicating the unsupported CPU on M1 based Macs and abort installation
    Linux host: For all distribution specific packages (deb/rpm format) fix the packaging so that the feature for unattended installation of guest OSes works
    Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 5.16
    Shared Clipboard: Improved communication between guest and host when guest has no clipboard data to report
    Linux Guest Additions: Allow running only one VBoxDRMClient instance (bug #19373)

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

@Janitor https://launchpad.net/~janitor @mariner10 What about this ? Update to 6.1.30 ??

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

What about updating / upgrading to 6.1.30 ??

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

What about updating / upgrading to 6.1.32 ??

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hello, I plan to update virtualbox, but not each release, because the risk of breaking things needs to be pondered with the need of a new version.

[Eduardo Gutierrez (eduardo74)]

Sorry i thought that once you were able to release a new version, to update were relatively easy...Every new version takes about two months more or less....
Hope you can release the new version soon.

Thanks for your work and effort