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.
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 6.0.6 is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- Virtualization core: nested AMD virtualization fixes
- User interface: fixed copying directories in file manager
- User interface: fixed operation progress in file manager when copying content
- User interface: fixed operation progress when deleting snapshots
- User interface: fixed unattended installation of recent Ubuntu guests
- User interface: various additional improvements
- Storage: fixed loading saved states for LsiLogic devices (6.0.0 regression; bug #18263)
- Storage: fixed fixed reading certain QCOW2 images and support version 3 of the format readonly
- Storage: Improved IDE PCI emulation to allow NetWare IDE drivers to use bus-mastering
- Graphics: Improved VMSVGA support to work with old X servers which previously showed only a badly scrambled screen
- Graphics: fixed invisible mouse cursor with VMSVGA emulation and without mouse integration (bug #18239)
- Graphics: make EFI work with VMSVGA emulation (bug #18282)
- Graphics: remember last guest screen size VMSVGA emulation
- Graphics: fix RDP to guests using VMSVGA emulation
- Graphics: various additional VMSVGA emulation fixes
- Audio: implemented audio device enumeration for the DirectSound backend
- Network: fixed unwanted padding bytes in Windows host adaptor network packets (bug #18202 and bug #18355)
- Serial: fixed possible crash on Windows when using a host device (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)
- Serial: fixed loopback handling in the emulation causing garbage to be sent during boot with Linux guests (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)
- Shared folders: fixed duplicate folders after restoring a saved state (bug #18373 and other)
- Drag and drop: fixed copying files from guest host (bug #18305)
- Recording: fixed modifying settings via VBoxManage (bug #18494)
- VBoxManage: crash fix (bug #18341)
- Fixed hangs during failed virtual machine start-up
- Windows host: fix unwanted wake-ups from standby (bug #18549)
- Windows host: disallow Pause as a host key (bug #18482)
- Linux host and guest: support Linux 5.0 and 5.1, thank you Valdis Kletnieks (see also bug #18515)
- Linux host: support kernel 4.4.169 (bug #18315)
- Linux host: fix logging when building Linux kernel modules (bug #18226)
- Linux host: clarified building Linux host drivers with secure boot (bug #18312)
- FreeBSD host: compilation fixes
- Installers: reduced size of packages
- Web services: work with Java 11
- LibreSSL compilation fix, thank you Stefan Strogin
- Windows guests: fixed running applications which use complex display topologies with WDDM driver, fixed Skype for Business hangs (bug #17092)
- Windows guests: fixed an occasional guest crash with WDDM driver and VBoxSVGA adapter (bug #18369)
- Windows guests: shared folder file creation detection issue (bug #9276)
- Linux guests: shared folder performance and reliability improvements and missing features (bugs #17360, #819)
- OS/2 guests: shared folder fixes (bug #18376 and bug #18379)
VirtualBox 6.0.6 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack:
Support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP, disk encryption, NVMe and PXE boot for Intel cards. See this chapter from the User Manual for an introduction to this Extension Pack. The Extension Pack binaries are released under the VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License (PUEL). Please install the same version extension pack as your installed version of VirtualBox.
Download: VirtualBox 6.0.6 | 167.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: VirtualBox 6.0.6 Extension Pack | 22.2 MB
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