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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: In other news, networking still a shitshow by jandrese · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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    I read the internet for the articles.
  5. 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?

  6. 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.