Install Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.4 on Linux Mint 18 and Ubuntu 16.04 'Xenial Xerus'
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.4 stable was released, how to update / upgrade on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04
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.
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.
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.
What's new in Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.4
- GUI: show actual VM uptime in the session information window
- Audio: re-enabled speakers for Mac OS X guests (5.1.0 regression; bug #15611)
- Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions
- USB: fixed a hang under certain conditions
- USB: fixed a hanging guest under certain conditions (bug #15747)
- PIIX4: implemented dummy SMBus controller to prevent annoying Linux kernel warnings about uninitialized SMBus base address (bug #9517)
- NVMe: several fixes to improve stability, fixed a crash while saving a VM state
- VMDK: Fixed an issue creating fixed size images with certain sizes and the Split2G option enabled (bug #15748)
- VHDX: fixed cloning images with VBoxManage clonehd (bug #14288)
- Storage: Fixed broken bandwidth limitation when the limit is very low (bug #14982)
- EFI: fixed sending debug messages in the EFI firmware if a serial port is enabled (bug #12161)
- OVF: when importing appliances, make sure that the version of the embedded VirtualBox-specific settings is processed, to get the default settings handling right
- VBoxManage: Don't try to set the medium type if there is no change (bug #13850)
- Linux installer: fixed some scripting issues (bugs #15701 and #15702)
- Linux installer: fixed a path issue on certain Linux distributions (bug #15717)
- Windows hosts: fixed corrupted mouse pointers with some Linux and Solaris guests (bug #15665)
- Linux Additions: made the video driver work on 32-bit guests with large video memory sizes (bug #15621)
- Linux Additions: made the video driver work on kernel 4.7 and later (bug #15769)
- Linux Additions: converted a failure message to an informational one when drivers could not be stopped during upgrade (bug #15692)
- Linux Additions: made the video driver work around an X server bug which cause screen refresh to stop (bug #15511)
- Windows Additions: auto-resizing fixes for Windows 10 guests (bug #15257)
- Windows Additions: fixed VBoxTray problems with Windows 2000 (bug #15661)
For Ubuntu 16.04 'Xenial Xerus' 32 bit ;
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.4/virtualbox-5.1_5.1.4-110228~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.4-110228~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
For Ubuntu 16.04 'Xenial Xerus' 64 bit ;
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.4/virtualbox-5.1_5.1.4-110228~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.4-110228~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
For Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr 32 bit :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.4/virtualbox-5.1_5.1.4-110228~Ubuntu~trusty_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.4-110228~Ubuntu~trusty_i386.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
For Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr 64 bit :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.4/virtualbox-5.1_5.1.4-110228~Ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.4-110228~Ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
After installation is finished, open virtual box on ubuntu dashboard, like this
or, open terminal and follow this command :
virtualbox
