VirtualBox 7.1.12
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 7.1.12 changelog:
- VMM: Fixed issue when running a nested VM caused Guru Meditation for outer VM
- NAT: Fixed issue when VMs with long names were unable to start (github:GH-16)
- Linux host: Fixed possible kernel panic when using bridged networking with a network interface handled by the ixgbe driver on newer kernels
- Windows Host: Fixed issue resulting in BSOD upon closing VirtualBox GUI after host package uninstall (github:GH-38)
- Windows Host: General improvements in drivers installation
- Windows Host: Implement support for exposing AVX/AVX2 to the guest when Hyper-V is used (github:GH-36)
- Recording: Fixed issue when Windows Guest Machine was unable to start when recording was enabled in Display Settings (bug #22363)
- Linux Host and Guest: Added additional fixes to support kernel 6.16
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when 'rcvboxadd status-kernel' was reporting incorrect status when guest was running kernel 3.10 series and older
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxClient was unable to start if guest was running kernel 2.6 series and older
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue which caused a warning in system log due to incorrect udev rule