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Oracle Releases Major Version 6.0 of VirtualBox With Many New Features
What's new with Oracle's free and open-source hosted hypervisor? Long-time Slashdot reader Freshly Exhumed writes: Oracle has released major version 6.0 of VirtualBox with a variety of new features, including support for exporting a virtual machine to the Oracle Cloud; improved HiDPI and scaling (with better detection and per-machine configuration); a UI rework with simpler application and virtual machine set-up; a new file manager that allows control of the guest file system; a 3D graphics support update for Windows guests; VMSVGA 3D graphics device emulation on Linux and Solaris guests; surround speaker setups used by Windows 10 Build 1809; a new 'vboximg-mount' utility on Apple hosts to access the content of guest disks on the host; Hyper-V as the fallback execution core on Windows hosts to avoid inability to run VMs at reduced performance; and support for Linux Kernel 4.20 .
None I can think of it. The big advantage of Virtualbox over KVM is if you want to run a guest on multiple OS hosts. VMPlayer offers that too but at the cost of relying upon some closed source project that may drop support eventually. As much as I don't trust Oracle nor think Oracle's agenda is heavily behind supporting Virtualbox long term, they aren't really stepping away from working on it. So, that's the main reason I still stick with Virtualbox--I like knowing I can run a guest on a Windows machine if it comes down to that instead of trying to convert it and hope it still keeps working. It literally is the case that you can run a VM off a high enough random IO (A1 or A2) SD card even over USB2 and still get a pretty decent experience.
This is a big documentation failure on their part. On the Linux host you need to add yourself to the 'vboxsf' group (you may need to create it) or shared folders will fail silently.
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