VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.
Some of the features of VirtualBox are:
- Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don"t have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.
- Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.
VirtualBox 7.0.12 changelog:
- VMM: Fixed using a debugger inside the guest under certain circumstances (bugs #21413 and #21546)
- VMM: Fixed detection of VT-x being used by other hypervisors (bug #21867)
- VMM: Introduced additional improvements in Split Lock Detection feature of recent Intel CPUs on Linux hosts (bug #20180)
- GUI: Fixed issue when the nested hardware virtualization setting was not displayed in the VM details panel (bug #21707)
- GUI: Introduced NLS update for Croatian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch and Turkish languages as well as added general look-and-feel improvements
- Devices: Fixed black screen in Windows guests with multiple guest screens when 3D is disabled (7.0.10 regression)
- Devices: Fixed PCI device identifiers for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21516)
- Devices: Fixed VLAN support for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21778)
- Devices: Fixed loading saved states when a TPM is configured (7.0.10 regression, bug #21773)
- Networking: Fixed memory leaks in the VBoxIntNetSwitch process on macOS (bug #21752)
- Networking: Fixed TCP connections with IP addresses ending on .2 when the NAT network attachment is used (bug #21513)
- Audio: Fixed switching host audio devices on Windows hosts using the WAS backend (bugs #20431, #21517, #20630 and #20723)
- VRDP: Added general improvements
- VBoxManage: Added improvements for "list usbfilters" command
- Unattended: Added kick start file support for Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9.
- Main: Added more Linux OS subtypes
- Host Services: Fixed Guest Properties service crash under rare circumstance
- Linux Host and Guest: Fixed few "field-spanning write" kernel warnings (bugs #21410 and #21862)
- Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for RHEL 8.9 and 9.3 kernel
- Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for kernel 6.4
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for OpenSUSE 15.5 kernel
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernels 6.5 and 6.6
- Linux Guest Additions: Added version reporting for "rcvboxadd status-kernel" and "rcvboxadd status-user" commands
- BIOS: Restored support for ISA SCSI HBAs in the BIOS (bug #21736)
Download: VirtualBox 7.0.12 | 106.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: VirtualBox 7.0.12 Extension Pack | 17.4 MB
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