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, and Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6 and 3.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
What's new in VirtualBox 6.0?
VirtualBox 6.0 is the next new major release of the world’s most popular free and open source, cross-platform virtualization software. This release supports the latest guest or host operating systems including: Mac OS X Yosemite, Windows 10, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, other Linux operating systems, and legacy operating systems.
The following major new features were added:
- OCI Itegration: implemented support for exporting a VM to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Improvents in GUI design
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
- Audio: implemented support for attaching / detaching VRDE audio drivers at runtime.
- Guest Control: various new APIs and features were implemented. (see SDK documentation for more)
- Networking: Added a workaround for older guests which do not enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device.
- Many unlisted fixes and improvements.
Download VirtualBox 6.0 Beta 1
VirtualBox is available for download from VirtualBox Download Center. Download the files appropriate for you.
Note: Please do NOT use this VirtualBox Beta release on production machines.
References:
Changelog for VirtualBox 6.0 Beta 1
Oracle's Virtualization Blog
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