Oracle launched today third maintenance update for its latest VirtualBox 6.0 series to fix many bugs and add support for new technologies.
VirtualBox 6.0.6 is available for all supported platforms with many notable changes and new features including the support for Linux Kernel 5.0 and Linux Kernel 5.1 that will hit the public sometime next month.
In addition, it includes the April 2019 Oracle Critical Updates patch, improves legacy virtualization of AMD processors, adds support for QCOW2 version 3, improves IDE PCI emulation, improves VMSVGA emulation and 3D support, and fixes in VBoxSVGA drivers. and WDDM.
Improvements in the user's interface
VirtualBox 6.0.6 also has UI changes and various fixes reported by users when trying to copy a folder or other content, when deleting captures, as well as with unattended Ubuntu installations. Other small tweaks were added to the user interface.
For Linux users, in addition to support for Linux Kernel 5.0 and Linux Kernel 5.1, this release improves the performance and reliability of the shared folders feature, improves support for Linux Kernel 4.4.169 which has long-term support, builds drivers for Linux host for Secure Boot and login mechanism when making Linux Kernel modules.
Of course, there are many more changes regarding graphics and storage. We recommend you update your VirtualBox installation as soon as possible, you can download VirtualBox 6.0.6 from this link.