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.
VirtualBox 5.0.12recently released, is a cross-platform virtualization application that installs on your Intel or AMD-based computers, and runs on Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems. It extends the capabilities of your computer so that it can run multiple operating systems (inside multiple virtual machines) at the same time.
VirtualBox 5.0.12 changelog Fixed the validation of IPv6 port-forwarding rules Improved handling of text selection mouse pointer added LBA64 support for being able to boot from huge hard disks Fixed .
If you fancy trying out StemOS without the need to invest on expensive hardware’s, then this post would guide you on how to install SteamOS on a Virtual Machine using Oracle VirtualBox. I am testing this on VirtualBox version 4.3.10. The performance on a Virtual Machine cannot be compared to installing on an actual physical machine but using a VM would suffice for test purposes.
Heads Up: You must exercise patience if you are to successfully install SteamOS on VirtualBox 🙂Step 1: Download latest VirtualBox and Install[button link=”https://www.
If you have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr on Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, you may notice that your screen isn’t re-sizing and you are unable to copy and paste into the terminal even after you had set both ‘Shared Clipboard’ and ‘Dran’n’Drop’ to Bidirectional. You need to install the VirtulaBox Guest Additions to resolve this. Below is recommended steps to accomplish that:
Install Steps– Install DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) Package
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.
[code lang=”js”]sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib” » /etc/apt/sources.list'[/code]
[code lang=”js”]wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -[/code]
[code lang=”js”]sudo apt-get update[/code]
[code lang=”js”]sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3[/code]
[code lang=”js”]virtualbox[/code]
[code language=”js”]# cd /media//VBOXADDITIONS_# sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run[/code]
[code language=”js”]# sudo su -[/code]
[code language=”js”]# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
# apt-get install dkms[/code]
– This is how the new Windows 8.1 Operating System looks like with the Start menu
Why not comment on what you think about this Operating System
– Lets quickly configure the networking by clicking on Configure Network, highlight appropriate network if you have more than one adapter enabled and click on Edit…