VirtualBox 7.1.8
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. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, 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, 7, 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD.
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 7.1.8 changelog:
- VMM: Fixed issue when VM clock went backwards in rare circumstances (bug #22334)
- GUI: Fixed issue when accelerated cursor image was not displayed correctly (bug #22096)
- DevVirtioSCSI: Fixed issue with restoring saved state
- Graphics: Fixed issue when assertion was triggered on restoring VM state if VMSVGA graphics adapter was used without 3D acceleration (bug #21955)
- Main: Fixed issue when VBoxSVC was crashing on saving machine config through VirtualBox web service (bug #22259)
- Main: Fixed issue when wireless network adapters could not be discovered on modern Linux distributions (bug #22362)
- Main: Fixed issue when deleting running VM snapshot was leaving the .sav file on disk (bug #21345)
- NAT: Fixed connectivity loss on Windows host (bug #22364)
- VBoxManage: Updated User Manual to correct the 'VBoxManage modifyvm' invocation for configuring a VM to use host-only networking (bug #22158)
- VBoxManage: Fixed issue when it was not possible to set disk bandwidth with 'VBoxManage bandwidthctl' command (bug #22328)
- Windows installer: Automatically load the support driver after a successful installation (bug #22292)
- Linux Host Installer: Fixed issue which sometimes resulted in installation failure due to incorrect check whether previous VirtualBox installation is running or not
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxClient could crash in XWayland guest (bug #22345)
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue which resulted in cursor image corruption when VM was using VBoxVGA graphics adapter
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when installation could fail on the system which does not have X11 libraries installed
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.14
- Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 9.7 kernel
- Linux Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for RHEL 9.4 kernel, (bug #22277)
- Linux Guest Additions: Improved 'rcvboxadd status-kernel' check
- Windows installer: Various bugfixes for the new installation code
- Windows installer: Implemented a new fatal error dialog with the ability to open the installer log file directly
- Windows Guest Additions: Fixed mouse driver installation on Vista guests
- Windows Guest Additions: Fixed uninstallation integrity issues (bug #22290)
- Windows Guest Additions: Fixed driver installation error ERROR_AUTHENTICODE_TRUST_NOT_ESTABLISHED (bug #22300)
- Windows Guest Additions: Fixed 100% CPU usage of VBoxTray which happened under certain circumstances (bug #22123)
- Windows Guest Additions: Now also ships the VBoxAudioTest binary for performing guest audio testing / diagnosis
- Windows Guest Additions: For older Windows versions (Windows 2000 to Windows 7) install alternative Shared Folder driver which avoids some compatibility glitches of the usual driver