Oracle has published a patch release for the VirtualBox virtualization system, version 7.0.12, which includes 24 fixes. At the same time, an update for the previous branch, VirtualBox 6.1.48, has been formed with 9 changes, including support for Linux kernels 6.5 and 6.6-rc, support for kernel packages from OpenSUSE 15.5, enhancements for Linux kernel 6.4, and fixes for kernel packages from RHEL 8.9 and 9.3.
Key changes in VirtualBox 7.0.12:
- The additions for guest systems based on Linux have added support for the Linux 6.5 kernel, currently in development of kernel branch 6.6, and the kernel package from OpenSUSE 15.5 distribution. Fixes have been made to improve performance in systems with the Linux 6.4 kernel and in distributions RHEL 8.9 and 9.3.
- The additions for both host and guest systems based on Linux now provide version information when executing the commands 'rcvboxadd status-kernel' and 'rcvboxadd status-user'. Errors leading to kernel warnings about 'field-spanning writes' have been fixed.
- Support for automated installation using kickstart files has been added in Oracle Linux 8 and 9.
- On Linux hosts, the detection of split locks has been improved using the Split Lock Detection mechanism in Intel CPUs.
- Additional subtypes of Linux operating systems have been added.
- In the manager of virtual machines Issues with the use of debuggers in guest systems have been resolved, and the detection of VT-x extensions being utilized by other hypervisors has been improved.
- General improvements have been made to the user interface. The issue with displaying settings for nested hardware virtualization in the detail information panel has been resolved. virtual machine.
- A regression causing a black screen when disabling 3D in guest systems running Windows with multiple displays has been fixed.
- Support for VLAN has been established for VirtIO network interfaces, and issues with PCI device identification have been resolved.
- A regression causing failure to load saved states when using TPM has been addressed.
- An issue in the address translator that prevented establishing TCP connections with IP addresses ending in '.2' has been resolved.
- The implementation of the VRDP protocol has been improved.
- Improvements have been made to the 'list usbfilters' command in the VBoxManage utility.
- An occasional crash of the Guest Properties service has been fixed.
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