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Oracle Releases Major Version 6.0 of VirtualBox With Many New Features

Posted by EditorDavid on from the free-and-open-source-hosted-hypervisors dept.

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 .

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  1. TAKE THAT WORLD !!! by martiniturbide · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "- OS/2 Guest Additions: initial shared folder support "
    ChangeLog: https://www.virtualbox.org/wik...

    1. Re:TAKE THAT WORLD !!! by jfdavis668 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Team OS/2 forever.

  2. Re:KVM by kbonin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The main reason for me to prefer VirtualBox is that while my primary host is Linux, I also have a MacBook Pro and several Windows laptops I use as occasional hosts - VirtualBox gives me a consistent VM UX across all my host OS's with trivial migration of a machine on the rare occasion I need to.

  3. Android under Windows, OS X, Linux, or Solaris by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How to Install Android in VirtualBox

    May be useful if you want to test Android Apps.

  4. Re: Many new features? by tepples · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What virtual machine would you recommend instead of VirtualBox? Like MySQL, VirtualBox has a GPL version with reduced functionality. One practical complaint I have is that commercial use licenses for the full version (Extension Pack) are sold only in 100-packs. Is it intended that someone who needs one license buy 100 licenses and resell the other 99?

  5. VirtualBox 5 is a gem by jasonharrop · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Windows 10 forced updates motivated me to move my main dev box back to Linux 18 months ago. My Windows machines became vm's under VirtualBox. I have no complaints about it. The Windows VMs are quick, and shared folders, networking and shared clipboard all work great. I can resize a Windows vm as I wish. The only limitation (wish list really) is with 2 virtual displays: with a Windows guest, you can't control which display an app launches in, making the 2nd virtual display pretty much useless. Even though VirtualBox comes from Oracle, it is a nice thing for the World to have. And to me, open source even from Oracle, beats closed source from someone else.