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    11= Welcome to !VirtualBox.org! =
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     4<div class="flexboxes_vertical">
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     6    <div class="intro">
     7      Powerful open source virtualization
     8      <p>For personal and enterprise use</p>
     9      <p>VirtualBox is general-purpose full virtualization software for x86_64 hardware (with version 7.1 additionally for macOS/Arm), targeted at laptop, desktop, server and embedded use.</p>
     10    </div>
     11    <div class="flexboxes" style="width: 30%">
     12      <div class="light box">
     13        <li>Get Started</li>
     14        <a href="wiki/Downloads" class="button">Download</a>
     15        <p>Download VirtualBox binaries and platform packages</p>
     16      </div>
     17    </div>
     18  </div>
     19  <div class="flexboxes" id="dark_background">
     20    <a href="wiki/Community" class="dark box">
     21      <li>Community</li>
     22      <p>Become a part of the VirtualBox community. Discuss and solve problems in the forums, access test builds, and more. </p>
     23      <img src="/graphics/community.png" alt="Community icon">
     24    </a>
     25    <a href="wiki/Documentation" class="dark box">
     26      <li>Documentation</li>
     27      <p>Learn from a variety of resources including user manuals, end-user and technical documentation, the source code repository timeline, or the changelog.</p>
     28      <img src="/graphics/user-manual.png" alt="Documentation icon">
     29    </a>
     30    <a href="https://www.oracle.com/goto/virtualboxlearning" target=”_blank” class="dark box">
     31      <li>Training</li>
     32      <p>Access labs, tutorials, and videos to learn how to use VirtualBox. Quizzes are available to test your learning.</p>
     33      <img src="/graphics/training.png" alt="Training icon">
     34    </a>
     35  </div>
     36</div>
     37<div class="flexboxes" id="updates">
     38  <div class="intro">
     39    Join the VirtualBox community
     40    <p>Millions of users actively work on VirtualBox</p>
     41    <p>VirtualBox is a community effort backed by Oracle. Everyone is encouraged to contribute. Oracle helps ensure the product meets professional quality criteria and offers support resources for users.</p>
     42    <div id="contributors">
     43      <div class="contributor">
     44        <a href="wiki/Contributor_information" class="button">How to Contribute</a>
     45      </div>
     46      <div class="contributor">
     47        <a href="wiki/Contributions" class="button">Past Contributions</a>
     48      </div>
     49      <div class="contributor">
     50        <a href="https://shop.oracle.com/apex/f?p=DSTORE:6::::6:P6_LPI,P6_PROD_HIER_ID:114347640102492137513432,4510278280861805728469" class="button" target=”_blank”>Oracle Support</a>
     51      </div>
     52    </div>
     53  </div>
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    456#!html
    557<div class="newsflash">
    6 <h3>News Flash</h3>
     58<h3>Recent releases</h3>
     59
    760<ul>
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    1063<li>
    1164<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    12 September 11th, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.1.0 released!</b><br>
    13 Oracle today released a significant new version of Oracle VM VirtualBox, its high performance, cross-platform virtualization software. See the
     65September 11th, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.1.0</b><br>
     66Oracle today released a significant new version of Oracle VirtualBox, its high performance, cross-platform virtualization software. See the
    1467<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.1#v00">Changelog</a> for details.
    1568</li>
    1669<li>
    1770<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    18 July 16th, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.0.20 released!</b><br>
     71July 16th, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.0.20</b><br>
    1972Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
    2073<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v20">Changelog</a> for details.
     
    2275<li>
    2376<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    24 May 3rd, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.0.18 released!</b><br>
     77May 3rd, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.0.18</b><br>
    2578Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
    2679<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v18">Changelog</a> for details.
     
    2881<li>
    2982<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    30 April 16th, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.0.16 released!</b><br>
     83April 16th, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.0.16</b><br>
    3184Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
    3285<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v16">Changelog</a> for details.
    3386</li>
    34 <li>
    35 <b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">Notice</span>
    36 March 21th, 2024<br>Change of login server.</b><br>
    37 Starting today, Oracle Single Sign On will ask for your account credentials at <em>signon.oracle.com</em> and the username and password are now have to be entered on separate pages.
    38 </li>
    39 <li>
    40 <b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    41 January 16th, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.0.14 released!</b><br>
    42 Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
    43 <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v14">Changelog</a> for details.
    44 </li>
    45 <li>
    46 <b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    47 January 16th, 2024<br>VirtualBox 6.1.50 released!</b><br>
    48 Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
    49 <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v50">Changelog</a> for details.
    50 </li>
    51 <li>
    52 <b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    53 October 17th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 7.0.12 released!</b><br>
    54 Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
    55 <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v12">Changelog</a> for details.
    56 </li>
    57 <li>
    58 <b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    59 October 17th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 6.1.48 released!</b><br>
    60 Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
    61 <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v48">Changelog</a> for details.
    62 </li>
    63 <li>
    64 <b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    65 July 18th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 7.0.10 released!</b><br>
    66 Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
    67 <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v10">Changelog</a> for details.
    68 </li>
    69 <li>
    70 <b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    71 July 18th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 6.1.46 released!</b><br>
    72 Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
    73 <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v46">Changelog</a> for details.
    74 </li>
    75 <li>
    76 <b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    77 April 18th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 7.0.8 released!</b><br>
    78 Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
    79 <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v8">Changelog</a> for details.
    80 </li>
    81 <li>
    82 <b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    83 April 18th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 6.1.44 released!</b><br>
    84 Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
    85 <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v44">Changelog</a> for details.
    86 </li>
    87 <li>
    88 <b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    89 January 17th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 7.0.6 released!</b><br>
    90 Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
    91 <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v6">Changelog</a> for details.
    92 </li>
    93 <li>
    94 <b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
    95 January 17th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 6.1.42 released!</b><br>
    96 Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
    97 <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v42">Changelog</a> for details.
    98 </li>
    9987
    10088</ul>
    101 <b><a href="/wiki/News"> More information...</a></b>
     89<a href="/wiki/News" class="button">Read More</a>
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    105 !VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 [wiki:"Virtualization" virtualization] product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is !VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the [wiki:GPLv3 GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3]. See "[wiki:"VirtualBox" About VirtualBox]" for an introduction.
    106 
    107 Presently, !VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of [wiki:"Guest_OSes" guest operating systems] including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, 7, 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x), Solaris and !OpenSolaris, OS/2, OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD.
    108 
    109 !VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. !VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.
    110 
    111 [[Image(/graphics/button71.png,center,title="Download VirtualBox 7.1",link=wiki:Downloads)]]
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    113 
    114 === Hot picks: ===
    115  * Pre-built virtual machines for developers at [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/developer-vm/index.html Oracle Tech Network]
    116  * '''Hyperbox''' Open-source Virtual Infrastructure Manager [https://github.com/hyperbox/hyperbox project site]
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