Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.6 is Released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 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.


What's new in Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.6 :

• GUI: fixed issue with opening '.vbox' files and it's aliases
• GUI: keyboard grabbing fixes (bugs #15771 and #15745)
• GUI: fix for passing through Ctrl + mouse-click (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15714)
• GUI: fixed automatic deletion of extension pack files (bugs #11352 and #14742)
• USB: fixed showing unknown device instead of the manufacturer or product description under certain circumstances (5.1.0 regression; bug #15764)
• 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 (bug #7796)
• Storage: fixed attaching stream optimized VMDK images (bug #14764)
• Storage: reject image variants which are unsupported by the backend (bug #7227)
• Storage: fixed loading saved states created with VirtualBox 5.0.10 and older when using a SCSI controller (bug #15865)
• Storage: fixed broken NVMe emulation if the host I/O cache setting is enabled
• Storage: fixed using multiple NVMe controllers if ICH9 is used
• NVMe: fixed a crash during reset which could happen under certain circumstances
• Audio: fixed microphone input (5.1.2 regression; bugs #14386 and #15802)
• Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions (5.1.0 regression; bug #15887 and others)
• Audio: fixed recording with the ALSA backend (5.1 regression)
• Audio: fixed stream access mode with OSS backend (5.1 regression, thanks to Jung-uk Kim)
• E1000: do also return masked bits when reading the ICR register, this fixes booting from iPXE (5.1.2 regression; bug #15846)
• BIOS: fixed 4bpp scanline calculation (bug #15787)
• API: relax the check for the version attribute in OVF/OVA appliances (bug #15856)
• Windows hosts: fixed crashes when terminating the VM selector or other VBox COM clients (bug #15726 and others)
• Linux Installer: fixed path to the documentation in .rpm packages (5.1.0 regression)
• Linux Installer: fixed the vboxdrv.sh script to prevent an SELinux complaint (bug #15816)
• Linux hosts: don't use 32-bit legacy capabilities
• Linux Additions: Linux 4.8 fix for the kernel display driver (bugs #15890 and #15896)
• Linux Additions: don't load the kernel modules provided by the Linux distribution but load the kernel modules from the official Guest Additions package instead (bug #15324)
• Linux Additions: fix dynamic resizing problems in recent Linux guests (bug #15875)
• User Manual: fixed error in the VBoxManage chapter for the getextradata enumerate example (bug #15862)

How to Install Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.6  on Ubuntu Derivative System :

To Install/Update Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.6  via PPA 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, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Ubuntu 16.04 'Xenial Xerus' 32 bit :

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.6/virtualbox-5.1_5.1.6-110634~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.6-110634~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64.deb

Ubuntu 16.04 'Xenial Xerus' 32 bit : 

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.6/virtualbox-5.1_5.1.6-110634~Ubuntu~xenial_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.6-110634~Ubuntu~xenial_i386.deb

Ubuntu 15.10 'Willy Werewolf' 32 bit :

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.6/virtualbox-5.1_5.1.6-110634~Ubuntu~wily_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.6-110634~Ubuntu~wily_amd64.deb

Ubuntu 15.10 'Willy Werewolf' 64 bit :

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.6/virtualbox-5.1_5.1.6-110634~Ubuntu~wily_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.6-110634~Ubuntu~wily_i386.deb

Ubuntu 14.04 'Trasty Tahr' 32 bit :

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.6/virtualbox-5.1_5.1.6-110634~Ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.6-110634~Ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb

Ubuntu 14.04 'Trasty Tahr' 32 bit :

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.6/virtualbox-5.1_5.1.6-110634~Ubuntu~trusty_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.6-110634~Ubuntu~trusty_i386.deb