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VirtualBox 7.1.0_BETA1 released​

This is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality
• OCI: Performance dashboard shows resource usage like for local VMs
• OCI: Function to clone compute instances
• OCI: Function to reset compute instances
• Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Ajustment to the PUEL license, removing the duplicated evaluation option, for limited time evaluation use please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
• VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires
• NAT: new engine with IPv6 support
• macOS/ARM host: ARM virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs
• Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808)

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• Screen recording: improve performance
• EFI: Add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs
• GUI: Improved overall accessibility
• GUI: Migration to recent Qt version.

Please discuss the release here.

You can download the release here.

Source: VirtualBox 7.1.0_BETA1 released - virtualbox.org

 

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VirtualBox 7.1.0_BETA2 released​

This is a major update. The following new features were added:

• GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality
• OCI Integration: Performance dashboard now shows resource usage for cloud VMs
• OCI Integration: Clone compute instances
• OCI Integration: Reset compute instances
• Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Update to the PUEL license, removing the evaluation option. For evaluation use of the Extension Pack, please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
• VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires
• NAT: New engine with IPv6 support
• macOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs
• Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808)
• Shared Clipboard: Added initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts / guests. This requires the 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed. See User Guide for known limitations
• Screen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is being used (bug #17961)
• virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)
• EFI: Ability to add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs
• Oracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption
• GUI: Improved overall accessibility
• GUI: Update the version of Qt used
• Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers; this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode
• Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for the user and admin / root accounts
• VBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress of a VM
• VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount" Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions
• Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3
• VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility

Please discuss the release here.

Source: VirtualBox 7.1.0_BETA2 released - virtualbox.org

Download: Index of http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.1.0_BETA2

 

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VirtualBox 7.2.0_BETA1 released​

This is a major update. The following new features were added:

• GUI: Moved global and VM tools from hamburger menus to global tools taskbar (vertically on the left) and the VM tools tabs (horizontally above the right hand panel) to make them easier to reach
• Windows/Arm host: Arm virtualization of VMs added, in the unified Windows installer package
• Arm host: Virtualization of Windows 11/Arm VMs
• Windows/Arm guest: Guest additions for new OS type Windows 11/Arm

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• Arm VMs: Note that the saved state of Arm VMs from VirtualBox 7.1 is incompatible with VirtualBox 7.2, so please shut down such VMs in saved state before upgrading to 7.2 (snapshots with associated saved state created with 7.1 will no longer work with 7.2)
• Arm host: vboxwebsrv is now included in the packages
• Arm VMs: ACPI now available
• 3rd Party Tools: Eliminated dependency on libIDL and IASL

VirtualBox source code now also available on GitHub at GitHub - VirtualBox/virtualbox: Source code for Oracle VirtualBox.

Please discuss the release here. If you want to report issues needing tracking, use Issues · VirtualBox/virtualbox.

Source: VirtualBox 7.2.0_BETA1 released - virtualbox.org

 

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VirtualBox 7.2.0_BETA2 released​

This is a preview release of VirtualBox 7.2. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: Improved x86_64 and Arm CPU feature reporting when using Windows Hyper-V as the virtualization engine
• VMM: Added xsave/xrestor instruction handling when using Windows/x86_64 Hyper-V as the virtualization engine, offering the x86_64-v3 instruction set extensions (including AVX and AVX2) on recent CPUs
• VMM/HM: Fixed Nested Virtualization feature on Intel CPUs
• GUI: Polished Preferences and Settings pages, NLS fixing
• GUI: Improved handling of keyboard LEDs in the Soft Keyboard
• GUI: Removed IO-APIC from Arm VM settings
• Graphics: Avoid assertion when guest tries to use VMSVGA 3D functions when the feature is disabled
• VBoxManage: Document currently unavailable NAT options
• NAT: Multiple fixes and improvements, for example better DNS server handling, saving of the VM settings and genertating a boot file name which stays within the length limit
• NAT Network: Use the (almost) same code as for NAT, unifying behavior and features
• TPM: Fixed save state load failures
• Storage: Fixed corruption of VMDK images when resizing
• Video Recording: Fixed frame synchronization, a small memory leak and other bugs
• Linux host and guest: Initial support for kernel version 6.16
• Linux/Solaris host: Fixed swapped scan code for Pause and Num Lock keys in the table used when relying on Xkb for translation
• Linux guest: Fixed handling of (long optional) vboxvideo kernel module in init script
• Linux guest: Fixed start failure of VBoxClient with kernel from the 2.6 series or older
• Windows host: Removed release assertion causing crash of VBoxUsbMon driver if unloading fails
• Windows/Arm guest: Added WDDM Graphics driver, so far tested in 2D mode only
• Windows/Arm guest: Added Shared Folder feature
• UEFI: Added workaround for Grub bug causing guest OS crashes
• BIOS: Fixed keyboard translation, added and updated several entries and do not report keypresses when scan code and ASCII code are both zero
• BIOS: Fixed error reporting fo single sided floppy disks

VirtualBox source code now also available on GitHub at GitHub - VirtualBox/virtualbox: Source code for Oracle VirtualBox.

Please discuss the release here. If you want to report issues needing tracking, use VirtualBox/virtualbox.

Source: VirtualBox 7.2.0_BETA2 released - virtualbox.org

Download: Index of http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.2.0_BETA2

 

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VirtualBox 7.2.0_RC1 released​

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:

• VMM: Fixed issue when X86_64-v3 features were not passed to the guest (github:gh-36)
• VMM: Fixed issue when VM was not able to start when using Hyper-V on older Intel CPUs (github:gh-85)
• GUI: Fixed a bug in clone VM wizard which made impossible to include snapshots in clone result (github:GH-59)
• Audio: Fixed crash in rare circumstances (github:gh-72)
• NAT: Fixed possible crash in rare circumstances when no nameservers could be detected in the host system
• Main/Unattended: Added explicit unattended installation support for Oracle Linux 10
• Main: Fixed issue when OVF/OVA import resulted in a broken VM on Arm (bug #22370)
• Main: Fixed issue when exporting a VM which had an inaccessible disk resulted in crash
• Windows Host: Added improvements in Windows drivers installation
• Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when autorun installer was not automatically starting on Additions ISO image insert for Oracle Linux 10 and RHEL 10 guests
• EFI: Fixed macOS kernel logging over serial port (github:gh-82)

VirtualBox source code now also available on GitHub at GitHub - VirtualBox/virtualbox: Source code for Oracle VirtualBox.

Please discuss the release here. If you want to report issues needing tracking, use VirtualBox/virtualbox.

VirtualBox 7.2.0_RC1 released - virtualbox.org

Download: Index of http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.2.0_RC1