After almost three years since the last significant release, Oracle has published the release of the VirtualBox 7.0 virtualization system. Ready-made installation packages are available for Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, SLES, RHEL builds for AMD64 architecture), Solaris, macOS, and Windows.
Major changes:
- Added support for full encryption of virtual machines. Encryption is also used for saved state slices and configuration logs.
- Implemented the ability to add virtual machines hosted in cloud environments to Virtual Machine Manager. Management of such virtual machines is carried out by analogy with virtual machines hosted on the local system.
- The graphical interface has a built-in utility for monitoring the resources of running guest systems, implemented in the style of the top program. The utility allows you to track the load on the CPU, memory consumption, I / O intensity, etc.
- The wizard for creating new virtual machines has been redesigned, which now supports automated installation of the operating system in a virtual machine.
- Added a new widget for navigating and searching the VirtualBox User Guide.
- A new notification center has been added, which unifies reports related to the display of information about the progress of operations and error messages.
- Support for themes has been improved in the GUI for all platforms. For Linux and macOS, platform-provided theme engines are used, and a special engine is implemented for Windows.
- Updated icons.
- The graphical interface has been translated to the latest versions of Qt.
- Improved listing of virtual machines in the GUI, added the ability to select multiple VMs at once, added an option to disable the screen saver on the host side, redesigned general settings and wizards, improved mouse handling in multi-monitor configurations on the X11 platform, redesigned media detection code, NAT settings moved to the Network Manager utility.
- Audio recording functionality has been moved to use the default Vorbis format for WebM audio containers instead of the previously used Opus format.
- A new "default" type of host sound driver has been added, making it possible to move virtual machines between different platforms without explicitly changing the sound driver. When you select "default" in the driver settings, the actual sound driver is automatically selected based on the operating system you are using.
- The Guest Control package provides initial support for automatic updating of add-ons for Linux-based guest systems, as well as the ability to wait for a virtual machine reboot when updating guest add-ons through the VBoxManage utility.
- A new "waitrunlevel" command has been added to the VBoxManage utility, which allows you to wait for a certain run level to be activated in the guest system.
- Components for Windows-based host environments now have experimental support for autostarting virtual machines, allowing a VM to start regardless of user logon.
- Components for macOS-based host environments have removed all kernel-specific extensions, and the platform-provided hypervisor and vmnet framework are used to run virtual machines. Added preliminary support for Apple computers with Apple Silicon ARM chips.
- Components for Linux guests have redesigned screen resizing tools and implemented basic integration with some user environments.
- A 3D driver has been provided that uses DirectX 11 on Windows and DXVK on other OSes.
- Added drivers for IOMMU virtual devices (different options for Intel and AMD).
- Implemented virtual devices TPM 1.2 and 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module).
- Drivers for EHCI and XHCI USB controllers have been added to the basic set of open drivers.
- Support for booting in Secure Boot mode has been added to the UEFI implementation.
- Added experimental ability to debug guest systems using GDB and KD/WinDbg debuggers.
- The components for integration with OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) implement the ability to configure cloud networks through the Network Manager interface in the same way as host networks and NAT are configured. Added the ability to connect local VMs to the cloud network.
Source: opennet.ru