VirtualBox
6.0.
20 Nov 2020
VirtualBox is a full x86 hardware virtualizer, suitable for server, desktop and embedded usage. It's extremely feature-rich, emulates lots of individual and alternative hardware and devices, supports different virtual machine disk formats, it's cross-platform and supports ancient and current Windows versions, DOS systems, BSD, Solaris and OS/2 as guest operating system.
minor feature: VMM: random memory corruption and XMM register state corruption inside the VM when Hyper-V is used VMM: VMSVGA 3D support with Linux guests when Hyper-V is used. GUI: some Qt related crashes on macOS Big Sur. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration: network integration not working behind some proxies. USB: Mask out remote wake capability to avoid unresponsive devices. Audio: with audio playback after host goes to sleep. Serial: Keep transferring data if the status line monitoring fails. Serial: blocking a re-connect when TCP mode is used. HPET: inability of guests to use the last timer. VBoxManage: detection of system locale when running 'VBoxManage unattended install' without --locale. macOS host: Installer on Big Sur is now reminding user that system has to be rebooted to load the installed KEXTs. Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.9. Linux guest: Workaround to improve resizing of 32-bit VMs with VMSVGA graphics controller, and do not try to use RandR version 1.3 due to causing the X server to hang. Linux guest: VBoxService crashing in the CPU hot-plug service under certain circumstances during a CPU hot-unplug event. Linux guest: Guest additions build for RHEL 8.3 beta.
GNU GPL c c++ virtual-machine operating-system virtualization emulation
