Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 Final now available for download

Oracle has released the final version of VirtualBox 5.0 (5.0.0 Build 101573) for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. This version contains significant improvements, with a large number of enhancement and bug fixes.

Overview
Oracle VM VirtualBox (aka 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.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris 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, Windows 8/8.1), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

Download VirtualBox 5.0.0 Build 101573
VirtualBox is available for download from VirtualBox Download Center. Download the files appropriate for you.

VirtualBox 5.0.0 r101573

What's new in VirtualBox 5.0?
VirtualBox 5.0 is a new major update. Here are highlight features of VirtualBox 5.0:

Paravirtualization support for modern Windows and Linux guests
Oracle VM VirtualBox is able to expose a paravirtualization interface to facilitate accurate and efficient execution of software. Once the virtual machine platform is defined, Oracle VM VirtualBox improves guest OS performances by leveraging built-in virtualization support (KVM on Linux guests and Hyper-V on Windows guests).

xHCI controller to support USB 3.0 devices
Guest operating systems are now able to directly recognize USB 3.0 devices and operate at full 3.0 speeds. Guest can now be configured to use USB 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 devices.

Improved Drag & Drop support
Starting from Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 we improved the support of a bi-directional drag&drop between guest and host operating system; drag and drop support is available with latest guest-additions installed.

Disk image encryption
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 allows for encrypted virtual disk images by leveraging AES algorithm in XTS mode (128-bit or 256-bit); since the DEK is stored as part of the virtual machine configuration file, encryption introduces a further security feature that will ask for a password while starting the virtual machine.

Disk Encryption

This virtual machine is password protected

Headless and Detachable start options
Oracle VM VirtualBox now supports starting virtual machines in the background with a separate front-end process that can be closed while the virtual machine continues to work.

 Start options

Further GUI improvements:

• VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration)
• New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar, menu-bar and guest-content scaling
• New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for disk images
• HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration)
• Hotplugging support for SATA disks
• Improved HID LEDs synchronization for Mac and Windows hosts
• Take the guest screen aspect ratio into account for the preview window
• Provide direct access to storage media in the VM selector

New User Interface Settings

For further information about changes that are in this version of VirtualBox are available in the Changelog for VirtualBox 5.0.

Reference:
Oracle's Virtualization Blog