Oracle has released the virtualization system VirtualBox 7.2. Installation packages are available for RHEL 8/9/10, Fedora 36-42, openSUSE 15.6, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04/24.10, Debian 11/12, macOS, and Windows.
Key Changes:
- In the graphical interface, global operations have been moved from the dropdown menu to the sidebar located on the left, while tools for of virtual machines have been moved to separate tabs displayed above the area with the right panel.
- The graphical interface has improved settings pages. Keyboard LED management has been enhanced. The IO-APIC setting has been removed from the ARM VM settings.
- Support for hardware-accelerated video decoding has been added for Linux-based host systems.
- For macOS host systems and ARM architecture, support for 3D acceleration using DXMT has been added.
- The code for emulating NVMe controllers has been integrated into the open source code base.
- The features for Nested Virtualization on Intel CPUs have been optimized.
- Support for virtualization on host systems with Windows using ARM architecture processors has been added.
- Support for running guest systems with Windows 11 for ARM architecture has been added. A new OS type 'Windows 11/Arm' has been implemented in the guest additions.
- Compatibility with the state of virtual machines on ARM architecture saved in VirtualBox 7.1, as well as saved snapshots of ARM VMs, has been broken. Before switching to the VirtualBox 7.2 branch, it is necessary to finish these virtual machines.
- The web service vboxwebsrv for management through the web interface has been included in the components for host systems based on ARM architecture.
- In virtual machines Support for ACPI has been implemented for ARM architecture.
- libIDL and IASL have been removed from the dependencies.
- On systems using Windows Hyper-V as the virtualization engine, the virtual machine manager has improved the display of CPU x86_64 and ARM capabilities. Support for xsave/xrestore instructions has been added, and x86_64-v3 command set extensions such as AVX and AVX2 have been utilized.
- The address translator has been improved, enhancing the preservation of virtual machine settings and interaction with DNS servers, as well as streamlining the NAT-related code across various subsystems.
- In the guest and host additions for Linux, support for Linux kernel 6.16 and initial support for 6.17 has been added.
- For guest systems using Windows on ARM, the WDDM graphics driver has been added and Shared Folder support has been implemented.
Source: opennet.ru
