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Oracle VirtualBox VirtualBox 5.0.14 Released

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 20, 2016

VirtualBox 5.0.14 (released 2016-01-19)

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

  • GUI: properly limit the number of VCPUs to the number of physical cores on Mac OS X (bug #15018)
  • Audio: fixed a bug which prevented loading a saved state of a saved guests with HDA emulation (5.0.12 regression; bug #14981)
  • Audio: don’t crash if the backend is unable to initialize (bug #14960)
  • Audio: fixed audio capture on Mac OS X (bug #14386)
  • Storage: fixed a possible crash when attaching the same ISO image multiple times to the same VM (bug #14951)
  • BIOS: properly report if two floppy drives are attached
  • USB: fixed a problem with filters which would not capture the device under certain circumstances (5.0.10 regression; bug #15042)
  • ExtPack: black-list Extension Packs older than 4.3.30 due to incompatible changes not being properly handled in the past
  • Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused robocopy to fail (bug #14958)
  • Linux hosts: properly create the /sbin/rcvboxdrv symbolic link (5.0.12 regression; bug #14989)
  • Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for USB on El Capitan (bug #14677)
  • Linux Additions: fixes for Linux 4.5 (bug #15032)
Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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