VirtualBox v7.1.0 is released. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86/x64 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
VirtualBox Changelog:
This is a major update. The following new features were added:
GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality
OCI Integration: Performance dashboard now shows resource usage for cloud VMs
OCI Integration: Clone compute instances
OCI Integration: Reset compute instances
Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Update to the PUEL license, removing the evaluation option. For evaluation use of the Extension Pack, please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires
NAT: New engine with IPv6 support
macOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs
Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808)
Shared Clipboard: Added initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts / guests. This requires the 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed. See User Guide for known limitations
Screen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is being used (bug #17961)
virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)
EFI: Ability to add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs
Oracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption
GUI: Improved overall accessibility
GUI: Update the version of Qt used
Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers; this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode
Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for the user and admin / root accounts
VBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress of a VM
VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount" Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions
Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3
VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility
Download: VirtualBox v7.1.0
Source: Here
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