Incorporating the newest innovations from containerization technologies to graphical environments. While starting Virtualbox (5.1.16) it asked to download/update the Guest Additions then cleaning the old ones.The newest Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu is now out. It worked well for me, except the install command line but the package installer worked well directly after downloading. The dkms package can be installed through the following command: The Oracle public key for apt-secure can be downloaded and registered: Sudo apt remove virtualbox virtualbox-5.0 virtualbox-4.*Īdd the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: Supprimer la 5.0 avant d’installer la 5.1 Run the commands below one by one in terminal: sudo sh -c 'echo 'deb xenial contrib' > /etc/apt//virtualbox.list'Īccording to your Ubuntu codename, replace xenial with wily, trusty, or precise. For those who want to install VBox 5.1 from official Linux repository and receive future updates via Software Updater. Download Virtualbox 5.1 for your OS (i386=32bit, amd64=64bit):ģ. The 5.1 release conflicts with the old 5.0 or 4.x releases, so first open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to remove the previous VBox installation: sudo apt remove virtualbox virtualbox-5.0 virtualbox-4.*Ģ. Audio: more fine-grained volume control for the AC’97 emulation, which now also takes the master volume control into accountġ.Audio: added on-demand timers which should improve the overall performance and reduce the CPU consumption.Audio: added HDA (High Definition Audio) support for newer Linux guests.GUI: passive API event listener improving the VM GUI performance and response time.VMM: emulate even more MMIO and shadow pagetable exits without going back to user mode.VMM: added support for Hyper-V paravirtualized debugging of Windows guests.VMM: new APIC and I/O APIC implementations that result in significantly improved performance in certain situations.Virtualbox 5.1 ports its UI to Qt5, brings better Python 3 support, HDA (High Definition Audio) support for newer Linux guests, various VMM and other improvements and fixes. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04. Oracle Virtualbox has just reached a new major 5.1 release.

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