Oracle has released a new version of their operating system virtualization software, VirtualBox. This release comes with a host of new features and bug fixes as:
- Support for Microsoft windows 8
- Expert mode for wizards
- Support for up to 36 network cards.
- Network bandwidth limiting in virtual machines.
- Support for starting VMs during system boot.
- Experimental drag and drop support from host to Linux guests.
- Allow to alter some settings during runtime
- Support recent VIA CPUs
- Allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content
- Allow automatically sorting of the VM list
- Allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI
- GUI: network operations manager
- Improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using nested paging
- Added support for FlushByASID features of AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)
- Added readonly support for VHDX images, QED images and for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly support for v2) images
- Bug fixes
The release notes are available here. You can download this version from here.
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