{"id":3047,"date":"2017-12-21T03:18:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T03:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pir8geek.com\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2017-12-21T03:18:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T03:18:23","slug":"virtualbox-5-2-4-fixed-gnome-login-improved-high-resolution-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/?p=3047","title":{"rendered":"Virtualbox 5.2.4 Fixed Gnome Login &#038; Improved High Resolution Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oracle Virtualbox<\/strong> reached 5.2.4, the second maintenance release for the 5.2 series with various high resolution display improvements, Gnome shell login issue fixed, and various audio fixes.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3049\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pir8geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/vmbox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Virtualbox 5.2.4 release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Adjusting desktop file for X11 window managers.<\/li>\n<li>Various high resolution display adjustments<\/li>\n<li>Audio: fixed SB16 volume handling<\/li>\n<li>various audio fixes.fixed a problem where OHCI emulation might sporadically drop data transfers<\/li>\n<li>fixed screen corruption when the Linux host screen changes and a virtual machine window is maximized<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a hang at the GNOME Shell login screen with 3D enabled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to Install Virtualbox 5.2.4 in Ubuntu:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or from application launcher. Remove old Virtualbox via command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get remove virtualbox virtualbox-5.1<\/pre>\n<p>2. Download &amp; install the latest Virtualbox package from the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Linux_Downloads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download VirtualBox for Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. If you\u2019ve added the Oracle VBox repository, you can directly install the 5.2 release from Synaptic Package Manager or via apt command, after removing the old version.<\/p>\n<p>To add the repository, do:<\/p>\n<p>Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add the repository:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo sh -c 'echo \"deb http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org\/virtualbox\/debian xenial contrib\" &gt;&gt; \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/virtualbox.list'\n<\/pre>\n<p>Note:<br \/>\nDepends your Ubuntu edition, replace xenial (for Ubuntu 16.04) with trusty (for 14.04, Mint 17.x, eOS 0.3), or artful (for Ubuntu 17.10).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Setup the keyring so to trust the updates from the repository:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>wget -q https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/download\/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -\n<\/pre>\n<pre>wget -q https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/download\/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -<\/pre>\n<p>Finally install virtualbox 5.2 via commands:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.2\n<\/pre>\n<p>With the repository added, you can simply install the future 5.2 series updates via Software Updater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle Virtualbox reached 5.2.4, the second maintenance release for the 5.2 series with various high resolution display improvements, Gnome shell login issue fixed, and various audio fixes. Virtualbox 5.2.4 release: Adjusting desktop file for X11 window managers. Various high resolution display adjustments Audio: fixed SB16 volume handling various audio fixes.fixed a problem where OHCI emulation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,23,417],"tags":[297,733,734],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gnome","category-linux","category-virtualization","tag-virtualbox","tag-virtualization","tag-vm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}