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 6.1.4 changelog:
- Virtualization core: Fixed a rare issue with ICEBP instruction causing guru meditations on Intel hosts (6.1.0 regression; bug #19171)
- Virtualization core: Fixed macOS Catalina guests failing to boot after upgrading to 10.15.2 onwards (bug #19188)
- GUI: recent NLS integration and bug fixes for GUI and Qt translation tags
- USB: Fix isochronous transfers to the VM for xHCI
- Serial: Fix buffer handling, avoiding receiving stale data when the receive queue is flushed (bug #18671)
- Serial: Improve host serial port passthrough handling on Windows host
- VBoxManage: Restore old --clipboard option for modifyvm command
- macOS host: Use hardened runtime and request the needed entitlements, meeting latest notarization rules which also required moving VirtualBoxVM executable
- macOS host: Update osxfuse to v3.10.4
- Windows host: Update Italian translation of installer
- Windows host: Improve shared folder compatibility with POSIX append semantic (bug #19003)
- Windows host: Restore the ability to run VMs through Hyper-V, at the expense of performance
- Linux guest: Support Linux 5.5 (bug #19145)
- Linux guest: Shared folder fix for loopback mounting of images
- BIOS: Always report non-ATA disks as ready
- BIOS: Report EFI support through DMI table (bug 19144)
- VGA BIOS: Reduce stack space usage for INT 10h handlers
Download: VirtualBox 6.1.4 | 108.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: VirtualBox 6.1.4 Extension Pack | 10.5 MB
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