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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. 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.

  2. 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.