Both VirtualBox 6.1.42 and 7.0.6 maintenance releases have been released with various bug fixes. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise and home use.
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.
New in 6.1.42:
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: Fixed reporting POPCNT when Hyper-V is used (bug #21066)
- GUI: Fixed issue when incorrect macOS type was chosen on VM creation (bug #21315)
- VirtioSCSI: Fixed hang when shutting down the VM if the virtio SCSI controller is used (bug #21144)
- NVMe: Fixed VM crashing during startup if there are more than 30 disks attached to an NVMe controller (bug #21084)
- Storage: Fixed I/O errors with the VirtioSCSI controller when the host I/O cache is enabled (bug #19717)
- VBoxManage: Added missing --directory switch for guestcontrol mktemp command
- Mouse Integration: Guest was provided with extended host mouse state (bug #21139)
- DnD: Now shows the current process integrity level for VMs on Windows hosts
- Guest Additions: Introduced generic improvements in Shared Clipboard area
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernels 6.1 and 6.2
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for building UEK7 kernel on Oracle Linux 8
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 8.7, 9.1 and 9.2 kernels
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for SLES 15.4 kernel
- Linux Host and Guest: Fixed build for Fedora 5.17.7-300 kernel
- Windows Additions: Fixed reporting the last user input time via VBoxTray
New in 7.0.6:
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: Fixed guru running the FreeBSD loader on older Intel CPUs without unrestricted guest support (bug #21332)
- GUI: Fixed virtual machines grouping when VM was created or modified in command line (bugs #11500, #20933)
- GUI: Introduced generic changes in settings dialogs
- VirtioNet: Fixed broken network after loading saved state (bug #21172)
- Storage: Added support for increasing the size of the following VMDK image variants: monolithicFlat, monolithicSparse, twoGbMaxExtentSparse, twoGbMaxExtentFlat
- VBoxManage: Added missing --directory switch for guestcontrol mktemp command
- Mouse Integration: Guest was provided with extended host mouse state (bug #21139)
- DnD: Introduced generic improvements
- Guest Control: Fixed handling creation mode for temporary directories (bug #21394)
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for building UEK7 kernel on Oracle Linux 8
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 9.1 kernel
- Windows Host: Fixed support for VM autostart (bug#21349)
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.2 for vboxvideo
- Audio: The "--audio" option in VBoxManage is now marked as deprecated; please use "--audio-driver" and "--audio-enabled" instead. This will allow more flexibility when changing the driver and/or controlling the audio functionality
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