Version 6.1.x (2019-xx-xx)
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
Version 6.1.0_BETA2 (2019-10-23)
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
Virtualization core: Improvements for nested hardware-virtualization
on Intel CPUs, Windows works now on outer VM (needs beta VirtualBox)
Virtualization core: Drop recompiler, i.e. running VMs now needs
a CPU supporting hardware virtualization
Runtime: Works now on hosts with many CPUs (limit now 1024)
GUI: Storage and Network settings pages bug-fixes and usability optimization
GUI: Show VM CPU load as part of status bar CPU indicator
GUI: Media enumeration fixes
GUI: Popup messages mouse click fix
GUI: Details pane fixes
GUI: Added multimedia keys to soft keyboard and other improvements
GUI: Fix and unify geometry save/restore in various dialogs
Cloud: More flexibility in VM export and import to Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure, add free-form tags to cloud images
Graphics: Remove 3D support for VBoxVGA (old one deprecated with 6.0)
Graphics: Additional texture format supportd on Windows host
Graphics: Improved fix for flickering on Windows host
NAT: Fix TFTP OACK response, send only if request has options
API: Reduce the amount of leftovers from Move VM function
Audio: Allow changing the host audio backend while the VM is
in saved state
vboximg-mount: Now also available on Linux host
VBoxManage: More cloud functionality coverage, e.g. starting
a cloud instance
VBoxManage: As part of the guest control feature support moving
multiple source files/directories to a target directory
macOS host: Fix VM crashes (most visible on macOS Catalina)
Windows host: Improve USB device capturing accuracy
EFI: Switch to newer firmware code base and add NVRAM support,
should improve compatibility with OSes significantly
Version 6.1.0_BETA1 (2019-09-12)
This is a major update. The following major new features were
added:
Implemented support for importing a virtual machine from Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure
Extended support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure, allowing the creation of multiple
virtual machines without re-uploading. Also added option to
export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant
"paravirtialized"
Virtualization core: Support for nested hardware-virtualization
on Intel CPUs (starting with 5th generation Core i, codename
Broadwell)
Graphics: New style 3D support (with VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA) remains,
old style 3D support (with VBoxVGA) has been completely removed
Shared Clipboard: Implemented experimental support for file transfers
(Windows hosts/guests only at the moment). Needs to be enabled via
VBoxManage (disabled by default).
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: Improved the VISO creation and file manager dialogs
GUI: Virtual machine list of VirtualBox Manager was improved. Machine
groups are now more obvious visually and VM search functionality
has been improved. Global Tools element can now be pinned in place,
to avoid scrolling it with rest of machine list
GUI: Virtual machine details pane is now extended with embedded editors
for certain VM attributes which we decided as the most
important, allowing user to edit them on-the-fly by clicking corresponding
hyper-links without opening VM settings dialog
GUI: Internal medium enumeration routines were optimized to reduce the load
and optimize the performance in cases when user have lots
of media registered. Also, we again allowed to add existing media (and create new)
via Virtual Media Manager
GUI: VM storage settings page was adjusted a bit in usability regard. User is now
allowed to change controller bus type and can move attachments between the controllers
by using drag and drop
GUI: Added a new soft (virtual) keyboard enabling keyboard inputs to guests
GUI: Improved and extended the Session Information dialog
Input: Added support for horizontal scrolling in the PS/2 mouse
device using the IntelliMouse Explorer protocol. Note that this support
is automatically used by Linux guests but not by Windows guests
vboximg-mount: Experimental support for direct read-only access
to NTFS, FAT and ext2/3/4 filesystems inside a disk image without
the need for support on the host
Guest Control/VBoxManage: Added support for specifying multiple sources
when renaming guest files