Oracle releases VirtualBox 6.0.0 with improved graphics, user interface and more

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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.