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VirtualBox 5.1.6 Brings Many Fixes

Written by Michael Larabel in Virtualization on 13 September 2016 at 09:00 AM EDT. 4 Comments

VirtualBox 5.1.6 was released on Monday with many fixes and minor improvements for this Oracle cross-platform virtualization tech.

VirtualBox 5.1.6 has a fix on Linux 4.8 for kernel display driver issues, various fixes to the Linux installer/additions packages, microphone input support has been fixed, recording was also fixed for the ALSA back-end, many storage and GUI fixes, and various other fixes.

If you rely upon Oracle VM VirtualBox for your virtualization needs, you can learn more about this big maintenance release at VirtualBox.org.

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