免费开源虚拟机 VirtualBox 7.1 更新发布

Oracle VirtualBox 德国 InnoTek 软件公司开放的开源免费虚拟机软件，2010 年甲骨文完成收购。 VirtualBox 支持在 32 位或 64 位的 Windows 、 Solaris 及 Linux 操作系统上虚拟其它 x86 操作系统（如 Windows 系统下虚拟 Ubuntu）。

博主发现 virtualbox 官网首页风格和 logo 都更新了。

与其它同类软件比较，VirtualBox 独到之处包括远程桌面协议（RDP）、 iSCSI 及 USB 的支持。近日甲骨文发布了 VirtualBox 7.1 更新，搭载 Qt 6 图形界面、支持 Wayland 剪贴板共享。

VirtualBox 7.1 更新日志如下：

VirtualBox 7.1.0 (released September 09 2024)

This is a major update. The following new features were added:

GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality
OCI Integration: Performance dashboard now shows resource usage for cloud VMs
OCI Integration: Clone compute instances
OCI Integration: Reset compute instances
Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Update to the PUEL license, removing the evaluation option. For evaluation use of the Extension Pack, please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires
NAT: New engine with IPv6 support
macOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs
Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808)
Shared Clipboard: Added initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts / guests. This requires the 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed. See User Guide for known limitations
Screen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is being used (bug #17961)
virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)
EFI: Ability to add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs
Oracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption
GUI: Improved overall accessibility
GUI: Update the version of Qt used
Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers; this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode
Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for the user and admin / root accounts
VBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress of a VM
VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount" Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions
Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3
VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility

目前已可在官方网站下载 VirtualBox 7.1.0：

• Windows hosts
• macOS / Intel hosts
• macOS / Apple Silicon hosts
• Linux distributions
• Solaris hosts
• Solaris 11 IPS hosts

另外建议下载并安装 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack 以获得更好虚拟化体验。