Virtualbox est un virtualisateur de systèmes d'exploitation (Windows, Linux/Unix, MacOS) initialement créé par la société Innotek pour être le concurrent direct à VMware Workstation. Ayant l’avantage d'être gratuit (et même disponible en version open-source il fût un temps) il a très vite trouvé son public...
Puis Innotek a été racheté par Sun Microsystems qui, lui-même, a été racheté par Oracle. Ce dernier a modifié la licence d'utilisation pour en faire un logiciel un peu plus fermé qu'à son origine.
Oracle Virtualbox
Version actuelle : 7.2.6
Windows, macOS et distributions Linux
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:
- VMM: Fixed issue when VM process was crashing during RHEL5 guest boot
- VMM: Fixed issue when VMX nested-guest VM-entry was checking the wrong VM-execution control bit in the virtual VMCS (github:gh-313)
- VMM: Fixed issue when VM was crashing on start after recent Windows update (KB5066793) (github:gh-360)
- VMM: Fixed issue when guest process was crashing inside Windows guest on AMD system (github:gh-400)
- VMM: Fixed issue when VM process was crashing on Windows host (github:gh-426, github:gh-407, github:gh-404, github:gh-369, github:gh-238, github:gh-207, github:gh-187, github:gh-178)
- VMM: Fixed Guru Meditation issue on VM start on Windows host (github:gh-346)
- VMM: Fixed issue when VM was failing to shut down on Windows 11 ARM host (github:gh-416)
- VMM: Fixed issue when booting Red Hat 6.1 i386 was failing on AMD Zen4 Windows 11 Pro host (github:gh-466)
- GUI: Added fixes for full-screen support in multi-monitor case (github:gh-197, github:gh-243)
- GUI: Fixed issue when downloading update files was failing (github:gh-327, github:gh-372)
- GUI: Fixed issue when list of VMs was not properly displayed in Resource Manager tab (github:gh-364)
- GUI: Fixed issue when with switching between light/dark modes on macOS host (github:gh-457)
- GUI: Fixed issue when storage controller type list was displayed incorrectly (github:gh-413)
- DevACPI: Fixed issue with file path key names for Dsdt/Ssdt (github:gh-381)
- DevACPI: Added change to make OemTabId configurable using AcpiOemTabId option (github:gh-383)
- NAT: Fixed issue with high CPU usage when VM was using NAT (github:gh-356)
- RDP: The VRDP server was moved to the open source base package
- SmartCard: The USB smartcard emulation was moved to the open source base package
- VM encryption: The disk and VM encryption feature was moved to the open source base package
- VBoxManage: Fixed issue when VBoxManage was not displaying interface name for FreeBSD guests (github:gh-403)
- VBoxManage: Fixed issue when VM could not be started from command line in some circumstances (github:gh-418)
- Main: Improved filename check for drag-and-drop operations (github:gh-68)
- Linux Host: Fixed issue when vboxautostart-service did not start corresponding VMs on system boot (github:gh-309)
- Linux Host: Fixed issue when VM was not able to start if host was running realtime kernel configuration (github:gh-332)
- Guest Additions: Fixed installation on Windows XP 64-bit guests (github:gh-142)
- Guest Additions: Fixed issue when guest process was crashing due to low memory in the system (github:gh-410)
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed build issue for kernels 2.5.52 and older
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxService was not started due to abandoned pid file
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when user session services were not started on old Linux distributions
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed check if kernel modules were loaded for old Linux distributions
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when Guest Additions processes were left running on system reboot or shutdown (github:gh-311)
- Linux Guest Additions: Added additional fixes for RHEL 9.8, 10.1 and 10.2 kernels
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.19 (github:gh-467)
- Windows Guest Additions: Fixed installation on WinXP 64-bit (github:gh-142)
- BIOS: Fixed issue with booting VM using IPXE (github:gh-417)