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 7.0.16 changelog:
- VMM: Fixed a guru meditation executing nested-guests using the KVM hypervisor in the guest on Intel hosts (bug #21805)
- VMM: Fixed Linux VM crash on some recent AMD models
- USB: Fixed issue when EHCI controller was mishandling short packets (bug #20726)
- Audio: Introduced general improvements
- VBoxManage and vboximg-mount: Updated usage information and documentation (bugs #21895, #21992 and #21993)
- Guest Control: Fixed starting Windows guest processes in the correct Windows session (7.0 regression)
- Linux Host: Fixed issue when VBox.sh was deleting wrong VBoxSVC IPC socket when VM was started using sudo (bug #20928)
- Linux Host: Fixed kernel modules build failure when using GCC 13.2
- macOS Host: Fixed issue when App Nap was affecting VM performance (bug #18678)
- Linux Host and Guest: Added fixes related to UBSAN warnings discovered on recent Linux distributions (bug #21877)
- Linux Host and Guest: Added possibility to prevent kernel module from automatic loading during system boot by adding mod_name.disabled=1 into kernel command line
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for kernel 6.9 (bug #22033)
- Linux Host and Guest: Fixed mk_pte warning introduced in kernel 6.6 (bug #21898)
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.8
- Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics area
Download: VirtualBox 7.0.16 | 106.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: VirtualBox 7.0.16 Extension Pack | 17.5 MB
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