How to install Virtualbox 5.2.2 Added Improvements for High Resolution Screens on Ubuntu

  VirtualBox  is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

Virtualbox 5.2.2 Changelog:

• User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens
• User interface: added functionality to duplicate optical and floppy images
• User interface: various improvements for the virtual media manager
• VMM: fixed emulation so that Plan 9 guests can start once more (5.1.0 regression)
• Storage: fixed regression breaking iSCSI
• Audio: added HDA support for more exotic guests (e.g. Haiku)
• Serial: fixed hanging I/O when using named pipes on Windows (5.2.0 regression;)
• Serial: fixed broken communication with certain devices on Linux hosts
• USB/OHCI: improved behavior so that the controller state after a VM reset is closer to the initial state after VM start
• EFI: fixed HFS+ driver which in rare cases failed to access most files on a volume
• Shared clipboard: fixed hang with OS X host and Linux guest
• Linux hosts: fixed kernel module compilation and start failures with Linux kernel 4.14
• X11 hosts: better handle WM_CLASS setting
• Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14
• Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14
• Linux guests: fixed various 5.2.0 regressions
• Bridged networking: fixed duplicate EtherType in VLAN/priority tags on Linux (5.2.0 regression;) 

Installation instructions:

1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or from application launcher. Remove old Virtualbox via command:

$ sudo apt-get remove virtualbox virtualbox-5.1

2. Add the repository via command:

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'

Replace xenial (for Ubuntu 16.04) with trusty (for 14.04, Mint 17.x, eOS 0.3), or artful (for Ubuntu 17.10).

3. Download and install the repository key via command:

$ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - $ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

4. Running command update and install:

$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.2

Once installed, open the Virtualbox from Ubuntu Dash.

(Optional) To remove Virtualbox 5.2, use command:

$ sudo apt-get remove virtualbox virtualbox-5.2