VBoxManage: Added improvements for "list usbfilters" command Audio: Fixed switching host audio devices on Windows hosts using the WAS backend (bugs #20431, #21517, #20630 and #20723) 2 when the NAT network attachment is used (bug #21513) Networking: Fixed TCP connections with IP addresses ending on. Networking: Fixed memory leaks in the VBoxIntNetSwitch process on macOS (bug #21752) Devices: Fixed loading saved states when a TPM is configured (7.0.10 regression, bug #21773) Devices: Fixed VLAN support for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21778) PCI device identifiers for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21516) Devices: Fixed black screen in Windows guests with multiple guest screens when 3D is disabled (7.0.10 regression) GUI: Introduced NLS update for Croatian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch and Turkish languages as well as added general look-and-feel improvements GUI: Fixed issue when the nested hardware virtualization setting was not displayed in the VM details panel (bug #21707) VMM: Introduced additional improvements in Split Lock Detection feature of recent Intel CPUs on Linux hosts (bug #20180) VMM: Fixed detection of VT-x being used by other hypervisors (bug #21867) VMM: Fixed using a debugger inside the guest under certain circumstances (bugs #21413 and #21546) What's new in VirtualBox 7.0.14 (see changelog for more)? This professional quality virtualization package must be one of the most powerful open source tools around The ability to limit a VM's CPU and IO time means the program will be less of a drain on your system's resources, and there are a host of other performance optimisations and bug fixes available. VM displays can now be scaled, so you can reduce a window size by half (for instance) and still see everything that's going on. VirtualBox 6 included an interface redesign, making it easier to view and manage your virtual machines. (Of course you'll need to have the system discs to hand.) Right now you can install Google Chrome OS, all the mainstream Linux variants (2.4 and 2.6), OpenBSD, OS/2, ReactOS, SkyOS, DOS, and just about every version of Windows there's ever been. VirtualBox can also be a useful security tool: if you download and test apps in a VM, then any malware you might encounter will be isolated from your main system.Īnd it's the perfect choice if you want to try out another operating system with the minimum of hassle.
Or maybe you've upgraded to Windows 10 and find a favourite old app doesn't work any more? Create a Windows XP VM and you might be able to run it again. If you'd like a closer look at Windows 10 before you upgrade, for instance, then you could install Microsoft's latest in a VM, then access it in a window on your XP or Vista desktop. It's a powerful capability that has many different applications. Note there is a bug in the Visopsys installer, see forum post.Oracle VM VirtualBox is an industrial-strength open source virtualisation tool that makes it easy to create virtual machines (VMs), simulated computers that run on your PC but act as though they were separate systems. PIIX3 IDE needs to be used for good performance. Only limited testing as part of system installation processes has been performed. Requires FreeBSD Guest Additions, available as a port emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions. Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support. Installation has to be booted with the ide-legacy option.įreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. Requires IDE Controller, 4.8+ Recommended if using VirtIO. We recommend you upgrade before installing Guest Additions. These should be updated after installation.įedora 7 and 9 have problems with Additions. Mandriva 2008 has the guest additions for VirtualBox 1.5 installed by default. The openSUSE 10.2 kernel suffers from the race condition mentioned above.
The Ubuntu 6.06 Server and 6.10 kernels suffer from the race condition mentioned above. Kernels 2.6.18 to 2.6.18.2 contain a race condition (which was unfortunately backported to the Ubuntu 6.06 Server and 6.10 kernels) that can cause boot crashes in virtual machines. Generally, all 2.4 and 2.6+ kernels work however, we recommend 2.6.13 or above for better performance. Install a 3rd party VESA graphics driver or disable hardware virtualization. Slow because VirtualBox is not optimized for it. To get a list of commercially supported guest operating systems of VirtualBox, please follow this link. This table reflects operating systems which should work with the most recent version of VirtualBox but without any guarantee. Rows marked with an asterisk (*) contain information reported by users and not verified by the VirtualBox team. The following table gives an overview of how well VirtualBox operating systems work in its virtual machines.