14 DAY TRIAL // Oracle released VirtualBox 6.0.8, a new monthly maintenance for its open-source and cross-platform virtualization software with more stability and reliability improvements, as well as fixes for critical bugs.
VirtualBox 6.0.8 is a small update, but it addresses some important problems to make your VirtualBox experience better. For starters, it fixes the saved state resume failures, as well as mouse click pass-through issues that users experienced in multi-screen virtual machines, and a crash that occurred when shutting down a virtual machine without graphics controller.
This release also adds some important improvements for Linux platforms, such as support for shared folders on systems powered by Linux kernel 3.16.35 LTS, support for correctly handling the read-only flag of shared folders, and support for successfully building the VirtualBox kernel module in both non-default and debug build setups.
User interface improvements, Windows fixes
VirtualBox 6.0.8 improves the UI by displaying the full file location in the New Medium window. For Windows guests, VirtualBox will now notice increases in file size for files inside shared folders, and for Windows hosts the new update adds support for file paths in shared folders that longer than 4096 characters.
Other than that, VirtualBox 6.0.8 partially fixes an issue that made virtual machine configurations to conflict with other virtual machines related to medium UUIDs. As such, VirtualBox will now correctly flag virtual machines as inaccessible when a conflict is detected.
A complete changelog is available here if you're interested in more details about the changes implemented in VirtualBox 6.0.8. We recommend all users to update their installations as soon as possible, including the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack. You can download VirtualBox 6.0.8 for GNU/Linux, Windows, and macOS right now from our free software portal.