[SRU] virtualbox 6.1.34
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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virtualbox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Impish |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Jammy |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
virtualbox-ext-pack (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Impish |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Jammy |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Impish |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Jammy |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
virtualbox-hwe (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Impish |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Jammy |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Impact]
* People using vbox
[Test Plan]
* Install virtualbox and play with it
[Where problems could occur]
* No specific problem, except the usual needed bugfixes for newer OSes
[Other Info]
VirtualBox 6.1.34 (released March 22 2022)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fix instruction emulation for "cmpxchg16b"
GUI: Improved GUI behavior on macOS Big Sur and later when kernel extensions are not loaded
EHCI: Addressed an issue with handling short packets (bug #20726)
Storage: Fixed a potential hang during disk I/O when the host I/O cache is disabled (bug #20875)
NVMe: Fixed loading saved state when nothing is attached to it (bug #20791)
DevPcBios: Addressed an issue which resulted in rejecting the detected LCHS geometry when the head count was above 16
virtio-scsi: Improvements
E1000: Improve descriptor handling
VBoxManage: Fixed handling of command line arguments with incomplete quotes (bug #20740)
VBoxManage: Improved 'natnetwork list' output
VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (--ipv6-prefix) to set IPv6 prefix
VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (--ipv6-default) to advertise default IPv6 route (bug #20714)
VBoxManage: Fix documentation of "usbdevsource add" (bug #20849)
Networking: General improvements in IPv4 and IPv6 area (bug #20714)
OVF Import: Allow users to specify a different storage controller and/or controller port for hard disks when importing a VM
Unattended install: Improvements
Shared Clipboard: Improved HTML clipboard handling for Windows host
MacOS host: Fix handling of non-ASCII characters in the guest control functionality (bug #20792)
Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 5.17
Solaris package: Fixes for API access from Python
Solaris IPS package: Suppress dependency on libpython2.7.so.*
Linux host and guest: Fixes for Linux kernel 5.14
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize for older guests which are running libXrandr older than version 1.4
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.6 kernels (bug #20877)
Windows guest: Make driver install smarter
Solaris guest: Addressed an issue which prevented VBox GAs 6.1.30 or 6.1.32 from being removed in Solaris 10 guests (bug #20780)
EFI: Fixed booting from FreeBSD ISO images (bug #19910)
Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in virtualbox-ext-pack (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in virtualbox-hwe (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (Ubuntu Jammy): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
tags: |
added: verification-done verification-done-focal verification-done-impish verification-done-jammy removed: verification-needed verification-needed-focal verification-needed-impish verification-needed-jammy |
Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,
Accepted virtualbox-ext-pack into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https:/ /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ virtualbox- ext-pack/ 6.1.34- 1~ubuntu1. 22.04.1 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- jammy to verification- done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification- failed- jammy. 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/ PerformingSRUVe rification . 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.