After nearly two years since the last significant release, Oracle has published the VirtualBox 7.1 virtualization system. The installation packages are available 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 upgraded. Users can now choose between modes for regular and advanced users — in the regular user mode, some advanced interface features are hidden. The GUI has been upgraded to a new version of the Qt library.
- 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 shared clipboard mode has introduced initial support for file transfer via the clipboard on Linux and Windows platforms.
- 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.
- The screen recording feature has seen a significant boost in video encoding performance.
- Fixes have been made to resolve issues when using FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0.
- The unattended installation mode has added support for installers based on subiquity and cloud-init, as well as the ability to specify separate passwords for the created user and administrator accounts.
- A new 'mount' command has been added in VBoxManage for managing guest systems, allowing users to find the mount points of the guest system.
- The API for writing wrappers using Python 2.x has been deprecated.
- Improvements have been made in VBoxShell to enhance compatibility with the Python 3.x branch.
Source: opennet.ru
