VirtualBox 5.1.6 was recently released as a 5.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. Some addressed issues includes fixed issue with opening ‘.vbox’ files and it’s aliases, keyboard grabbing fixes and many others.
VirtualBox 5.1.6 changelog
- GUI: fixed issue with opening ‘.vbox’ files and it’s aliases
- GUI: keyboard grabbing fixes
- GUI: fix for passing through Ctrl + mouse-click
- GUI: fixed automatic deletion of extension pack files
- USB: fixed showing unknown device instead of the manufacturer or product description under certain circumstances
- XHCI: another fix for a hanging guest under certain conditions as result of the fix for bug #15747, this time for Windows 7 guests
- Serial: fixed high CPU usage with certain USB to serial converters on Linux hosts
- Storage: fixed attaching stream optimized VMDK images
- Storage: reject image variants which are unsupported by the backend
- Storage: fixed loading saved states created with VirtualBox 5.0.10 and older when using a SCSI controller
- Storage: fixed broken NVMe emulation if the host I/O cache setting is enabled
- Storage: fixed using multiple NVMe controllers if ICH9 is used
- NVMe: fixed a crash during reset which could happen under certain circumstances
- Audio: fixed microphone input
- Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions
- Audio: fixed recording with the ALSA backend (5.1 regression)
- Audio: fixed stream access mode with OSS backend
- E1000: do also return masked bits when reading the ICR register, this fixes booting from iPXE
- BIOS: fixed 4bpp scanline calculation
- API: relax the check for the version attribute in OVF/OVA appliances
- Windows hosts: fixed crashes when terminating the VM selector or other VBox COM clients
- Linux Installer: fixed path to the documentation in .rpm packages (5.1.0 regression)
- Linux Installer: fixed the vboxdrv.sh script to prevent an SELinux complaint
- Linux hosts: don’t use 32-bit legacy capabilities
- Linux Additions: Linux 4.8 fix for the kernel display driver
- Linux Additions: don’t load the kernel modules provided by the Linux distribution but load the kernel modules from the official Guest Additions package instead
- Linux Additions: fix dynamic resizing problems in recent Linux guests
- User Manual: fixed error in the VBoxManage chapter for the getextradata enumerate example