Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0.10 Released, Available for Ubuntu and Linux Mint Derivative System [PPA]

Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0.10 Released,  You can Run and Install on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Willy Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Linux Mint 17.1 and Linux Mint Derivative System [PPA]

Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, innotek VirtualBox and Sun xVM VirtualBox) is a free and cross-platform virtualization application that provides a family of powerful x86 virtualization tools designed for desktop, server and embedded use. VirtualBox can be used on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows platforms to run virtual machines of any of the aforementioned operating systems, as well as any BSD distribution, IMB OS/2 flavors, DOS, Netware, L4, QNX, and JRockitVE.

Supports 32-bit and 64-bit architectures

At the moment, the program is capable of running only AMD64/Intel64 and x86 architectures. By default, when creating a new virtual machine, you will be able to select the operating system that you plan on virtualizing. Ever since Oracle acquired the Sun Microsystems company, VirtualBox is actively developed by a team of professional engineers who implement new features and functionality with every release.

It’s portable

Oracle VirtualBox is portable, requires no hardware virtualization, includes guest additions and great hardware support. It also features USB device support, full ACPI support, multiscreen resolutions, and built-in iSCSI support. Support for PXE network boot, multigeneration branched snapshots, remote machine display, extensible RDP authentication, and USB over RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) is also integrated in Oracle VirtualBox.

What New in Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0.10:

• VMM: improved support for certain Intel Atom CPUs (bug #14773)
• VMM: system register emulation fix (5.0 regression; bug #14515)
• GUI: fixed immediate screenshot issue (bug #14108)
• GUI: fixed another 3D overlay window reparenting issue when the VM is switched to fullscreen mode on X11 hosts
• GUI: fixed help index (bug #14722)
• GUI: fixed state synchronization issue in the VM manager window when VM was paused from its runtime window
• Audio: fixed suspending/resuming audio streams on VM pause/unpause (bug #14784)
• Audio: properly reset AC97 audio streams, otherwise there is silence until a non-48 kHz stream is played
• Audio: fixed a small emulation quirk of the AD1980 codec of the HDA device to make recent linux guests work (bug #14653)
• USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller
• USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions on hosts with Linux kernels older than version 3.3
• USB: better identification of certain USB devices
• NAT: support TCP in DNS proxy (bug #14736)
• NAT Network: fixed sporadic crashes on Windows hosts (bug #13899)
• API: when creating differencing images (e.g. as part of a snapshot or cloning a VM) use the same disk image variant as the parent image if possible, which means that e.g. a diff image for a VMDK image split into 2 GB files will also be split (bug #14764)
• API: event queue handling fixes preventing loss of certain events at runtime (e.g. new webcam attached), particularly important on Mac OS X hosts
• Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Windows hosts only)
• VBoxManage: don’t crash on snapshot restorecurrent / edit if the VM has no snapshots
• VBoxManage: don’t crash on controlvm addencpassword (bug #14729)
• Mac OS X hosts: use the correct kernel on certain hosts
• Windows hosts: fixed VRDP external authentication
• Windows hosts: allow to use a shared folder path with extended-length path prefix (5.0 regression; bug #14651)
• Windows hosts: fix a crash in the netfilter host driver under certain conditions (bug #14799)
• Windows host installer: documented and fixed public properties which can be used to control the installation to some extent
• Windows host installer: fixed not starting the actual installation when showing the version information or help dialogs
• X11 Additions: added basic support for X.Org Server 1.18 (3D requires additional fixes)

How to Install Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0.10 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint Derivative System via PPA :

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.10/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.10-104061~Ubuntu~wily_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.10-104061~Ubuntu~wily_i386.deb

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.10/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.10-104061~Ubuntu~wily_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.10-104061~Ubuntu~wily_amd64.deb

For Ubuntu 14.04 (“Trusty”) / 14.10 (“Utopic”) / 15.04 (“Vivid”) 32 bit :

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.10/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.10-104061~Ubuntu~trusty_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.10-104061~Ubuntu~trusty_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 14.04 (“Trusty”) / 14.10 (“Utopic”) / 15.04 (“Vivid”) 64 bit :

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.10/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.10-104061~Ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.10-104061~Ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb

For Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (“Precise”) 32 bit :

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.10/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.10-104061~Ubuntu~precise_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.10-104061~Ubuntu~precise_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (“Precise”) 64 bit :

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.10/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.10-104061~Ubuntu~precise_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.10-104061~Ubuntu~precise_amd64.deb

In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:

sudo apt-get install -f

To run Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0.10, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands :

virtualbox