Yesterday, the team at Oracle released VirtualBox 6.0.0, a free and open-source hosted hypervisor for x86 computers. VirtualBox was initially developed by Innotek GmbH, which was then acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and then by Oracle in 2010. VirtualBox is a virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. It is an extremely feature rich, high-performance product for enterprise customers.
Features of VirtualBox 6.0.0
User interface
- Virtual 6.0.0 comes with a greatly improved HiDPI and scaling support which includes better detection and per-machine configuration.
- User interface is simpler and more powerful.
- It also comes with a new file manager that enables users to control the guest file system and copy files between host and guest.
Graphics
- VirtualBox 6.0.0 features 3D graphics support for Windows guests, and VMSVGA 3D graphics device emulation on Linux and Solaris guests.
- It comes with an added support for surround speaker setups.
- It also comes with added utility vboximg-mount on Apple hosts for accessing the content of guest disks on the host.
- In VirtualBox 6.0.0, there is an added support for Hyper-V to avoid the inability to run VMs at low performance.
- VirtualBox 6.0.0 comes with support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle cloud infrastructure
- This release comes with a better application and virtual machine set-up
Linux guests
- This release now supports Linux 4.20 and VMSVGA.
- The process of building vboxvideo on EL 7.6 standard kernel has been improved with this release.
Other features
- Support for DHCP options.
- MacOS Guest initial support.
- Now it is possible to configure upto four custom ACPI tables for a VM.
- With this release, video and audio recordings can be separately enabled.
- Better support for attaching and detaching remote desktop connections.
Major bug fixes
- The previous release used to throw wrong instruction after single-step exception with rdtsc. This issue has been resolved with this release.
- This release comes with improved audio/video recording.
- This issues with serial port emulation have been fixed.
- The resizing issue with disk images has been resolved.
- This release comes with an improved shared folder for auto-mounting.
- Issues with BIOS has been fixed.
Read more about this news on VirtualBox’s changelog.
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