The ninth maintenance release for the Oracle VirtualBox 6.1 was released. Now it works with Linux Kernel 5.10 both in host and guest.
VirtualBox 6.1.18 contains mainly bug-fixes. Here’s the full changelog:
- Nested VM: Fixed hangs when executing SMP nested-guests under certain conditions on Intel hosts
- OCI integration: Cloud Instance parameters parsing is improved on import
- Network: UDP checksum offloading in e1000 no longer produces zero checksums
- Network: Fixed Host-Only Ethernet Adapter DHCP, guest os can not get IP on host resume
- NAT: Fixed mss parameter handing
- Mac OS host: Multiple optimizations for BigSur
- Audio: Fixed issues with audio playback after host goes to sleep
- Documentation: Some content touch-up and table formatting fixes
- Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.10
- 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
- Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting Linux kernels 3.2.0 through 3.2.50
- Guest Additions: Fixed a VM segfault on copy with shared clipboard with X11
- Shared Folder: Fixed error with remounting on Linux guests
How to Get VirtualBox 6.1.18:
Oracle offers official binary packages for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Oracle Linux, as well as .run installer for all Linux distributions, available to download at its website:
For Debian / Ubuntu / Fedora based systems, there are also package repositories (see the link above) allow you to receive updates simply from system’s update manager.