Available VirtualBox 5.1.8 with support for Linux Kernel 4.8

Since yesterday the VirtualBox 5.1.8, which brings support for the Linux Kernel 4.8 and 4.7 respectively, so from this version on we will not have any problem with distro that have these kernels installed.

virtual box 5.1.8

virtual box 5.1.8

What's new in VirtualBox 5.1.8?

There are several corrections and improvements that have been made to the tool, in order to offer greater stability to each of the operating systems in which it can be run today such as GNU / Linux, Windows and OSX. Regarding GNU / Linux we can highlight the solution to the problem that was had when initializing the SAS drivers and the support for Python 3.

Support for Linux Kernel 4.7 is extended and support for Linux Kernel 4.8 is added, in the same way, the problem of high CPU consumption that was activated with certain USB memories is solved. The VirtualBox 5.1.8 release note can be read from here..

Where to download VirtualBox 5.1.8?

You can download the packages corresponding to your GNU / Linux distribution from here.. It should be noted that VirtualBox has installation packages available for Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Centos among others, as well as a package built on EL5 for all distributions.


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  1.   Jacobo Fernandez Romero said

    Also now it is going well in Windows 10 ... xk I did not open the virtualbox and now I update if and everything is perfect