A year and a half after the last significant branch was formed, Oracle has released the first beta version of the VirtualBox 7.1 virtualization system. The release is expected in the fall. Builds with the VirtualBox 7.1 beta are prepared for RHEL 7/8/9, Fedora 35/36/40, openSUSE 15.3, Ubuntu 20.04/22.04/24.04, Debian 10/11/12, macOS, and Windows.
Key Changes:
- The graphical interface has been modernized. Users can choose between modes for regular and advanced users — in the regular user mode, some advanced interface features are hidden. The transition to a new version of the Qt library has been made.
- A new address translation engine (NAT) that supports IPv6 has been added.
- In additions for guest systems and hosts based on Linux, the ability to use a shared clipboard in graphical environments based on the Wayland protocol has been implemented.
- The performance of screencast creation has been improved.
- New Microsoft DB/KEX certificates have been added for EFI, used in new virtual machines. virtual machines.
- Functions for cloning and resetting instances have been implemented in components for integration with OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). of virtual machinesThe dashboard now includes data on resource consumption by local virtual machines.
- In VRDE (Virtual Remote Desktop Extension), the extension for remote connection to a virtual machine using the RDP protocol, the application and maintenance of self-signed certificates for TLS has been implemented unless the user explicitly added their own certificate.
- In host environments with macOS deployed on ARM-based architecture systems, the available ARM virtualization extensions have been utilized when launching virtual machines with Linux and BSD systems.
Source: opennet.ru
