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VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See " About VirtualBox" for an introduction.
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.
VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.
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VirtualBox 5.2.20 (released October 16 2018) https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: - VMM: fixed task switches triggered by INTn instruction (bug #17979)
- Storage: fixed connecting to certain iSCSI targets (bug #17507)
- Storage: fixed handling of flush requests when configured to be ignored when the host I/O cache is used (bug #17573)
- Drag and drop: implemented support for UNC paths (bug #17146)
- Drag and drop: fixed resuming operation when restoring from a saved state (bug #17649)
- Drag and drop: fixed copying files with long file names (> 248 characters) from guests to Windows hosts (bug #17447)
- Drag and drop: fixed handling files with Unicode names on Windows guests (bug #15501)
- Drag and drop: fixed copying empty (0-byte) files to / from guests (bugs #14863 + #17443)
- Drag and drop: fixed copying over files from hosts to Linux guests (bug #16025)
- Networking: restore connectivity for guests bridged to host adapters that were unavailable temporarily (Windows hosts, bug #17090)
- Guest Control: fixed hang when using --wait-stdout and/or --wait-stderr (bug #17386). Needs updating Guest Additions
- Video recording: fixed starting video recording on VM power up (bug #17307)
- Linux Additions: various build fixes for kernel modules on recent distributions, and made sure modules end up in initramfs files
- Linux Additions: build fixes for 4.19, thank you Larry Finger
- Linux Additions: various small fixes for video driver
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VirtualBox 5.2.22 (released November 09 2018) https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog#v22
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: - Audio: fixed a regression in the Core Audio backend causing a hang when returning from host sleep when processing input buffers
- Audio: fixed a potential crash in the HDA emulation if a stream has no valid mixer sink attached -- thanks to Rink Springer (rink@…)
- Windows hosts: fixed an incompatibility with recent versions of Windows 10 (bug #17977)
- Windows hosts: fixed a number of brigded networking driver crashes (bug #18046)
- Linux Additions: disable 3D for recent guests using Wayland (bug #18116)
- Linux Additions: fix for rebuilding kernel modules for new kernels on RPM guests
- Linux Additions: further fixes for Linux 4.19
- Linux Additions: fixed errors rebuilding initrd files with dracut on EL 6 (bug 18055#)
- Linux Additions: fixed 5.2.20 regression: guests not remembering the screen size after shutdown and restart (bug #18078)
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Updating! Thanks for the update!
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VirtualBox 6.0.0 (released December 18 2018)
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
This is a major update. The following major new features were added:
Quote:- Implemented support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- User interface: greatly improved HiDPI and scaling support, including better detection and per-machine configuration
- Major rework of user interface with simpler and more powerful application and virtual machine set-up
- User interface: a new file manager enabling user to control the guest file system and copy files between host and guest.
- Graphics: major update of 3D graphics support for Windows guests, and VMSVGA 3D graphics device emulation on Linux and Solaris guests
- Added support for surround speaker setups (as used by Windows 10 Build 1809)
- Added utility vboximg-mount on Apple hosts to access the content of guest disks on the host
- Added support for using Hyper-V as the fallback execution core on Windows host, to avoid inability to run VMs at the price of reduced performance
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: - Execution core: fixed single-stepping in certain circumstances (bug #17316)
- User interface: video and audio recording can now be separately enabled
- Audio/Video recording fixes and improvements
- Audio: better support for attaching and detaching remote desktop connections
- Serial port emulation fixes
- Serial ports: allow changing the serial port attachment while a machine is running (bug #6115)
- Networking: Added a workaround for older guests which do not enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device
- Networking: fixed wrong RCODE from DNS AAAA query with --natdnshostresolver1 (bug #18171)
- iSCSI: In cases where there is no ambiguity, the LUN of an iSCSI target is automatically determined, for targets with non-zero LUNs
- Transparently resize disk images when merging if possible
- VBoxManage: support for DHCP options
- Fixed VNC/RDP (bug 18153)
- Guest Control: various new interfaces and features (see SDK documentation)
- Linux hosts: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
- Solaris: installer fixes
- Shared folders: performance improvements
- Guest Additions: improved shared folder auto-mounting
- Windows Guest Additions: fix incorrect tablet co-ordinate handling with recent Windows 10 builds
- Linux Additions: fix for building vboxvideo on EL 7.6 standard kernel, contributed by Robert Conde (bug #18093)
- Linux guests: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
- Linux guests: support VMSVGA in the Linux and X11 Additions
- MacOS Guest Additions: initial support
- OS/2 Guest Additions: initial shared folder support
- BIOS fixes
- ACPI: Up to four custom ACPI tables can now be configured for a VM
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28 December 18, 15:27
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VirtualBox is an amazing software which I recommend for testing new software, test and analyze malware samples or simply to use a VM to stay more secure
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VirtualBox 6.0.2 (released January 15 2019)
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- User interface: fixed creation of desktop shortcuts for starting virtual machines (bug #18207)
- User interface: allow the first run window to selecting host drives (bug #18230)
- User interface: fixed attaching empty host optical drives (bug #18223)
- User interface: implemented a new virtual optical disk creation window
- USB: modified Linux backends to reset USB devices (previously, most guest attempts to reset USB devices were ignored)
- PCnet: fixed a regression which caused some PCnet PCI guest drivers to not detect the emulated hardware (bug #18286)
- Linux hosts: fixed conflict between Debian and Oracle build desktop files (bug #18264)
- Linux and MacOS hosts: VirtualBoxVM command not accessible (bug #18257)
- Windows guests: multiple monitor fixes with VBoxSVGA graphics
- Windows guests: black screen with VBoxSVGA graphics when 3D is disabled (bug #18205)
- Linux guests: fixed building drivers on SLES 12.4 (bug #18213)
- Linux guests: fixed building shared folder driver with older kernels (bug #18238)
- OS/2 shared folders: fixed write regression introduced in 6.0.0 GA
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Will download and update when I get home Thanks!
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VirtualBox 6.0.4 (released January 28 2019)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: - Virtualization core: support Shanghai/Zhaoxin CPUs.
- User interface: handle command line arguments to VirtualBox correctly (bugs #18206 and #18197)
- User interface: improvements to machine manager window, virtual optical disk creator, storage selector window and log viewer window
- User interface: various small fixes and improvements
- Audio: implemented time scheduling for the AC'97 device emulation to keep audio and video in sync
- Graphics: basic support for VMSVGA graphics device in virtual machines using EFI
- Network: fix occasional NATNet crashes (bug #13899)
- Network: worked around problems in certain PCnet drivers on old operating systems
- Serial: fixed connecting to pseudo terminals on POSIX hosts (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)
- Linux hosts and guests: fix for building kernel modules against Linux 5.0. Thank you Kyle Laker
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17 April 19, 10:28
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