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 : 7.2.2
Windows, macOS et distributions Linux
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:
- VMM: Fixed issue when VM was not able to start on Windows Arm host (issue github:gh-8)
- GUI: Fixed VBox Manager crash when some VM has a lot of snapshots (issue github:gh-119)
- GUI: Fixed issue when error notifications could not be displayed on snapshot deletion (issue github:gh-75)
- GUI: Fixed VBox Manager crash while attempting to show error notifications too early (issues github:gh-135 and github:gh-171)
- GUI: Fixed VBox Manager crash while removing all VMs from VM list
- GUI: Fixed VBox Manager freeze on Linux hosts at startup or while attempting to add a VM (issues github:gh-70 and github:gh-168)
- GUI: Fixed VBox Manager layout bug with too strict size constraints (issue github:gh-87)
- GUI: Updated VBox VM network status-bar indicator tooltip (IP address) on guest additions change (issue github:gh-179)
- GUI: Added possibility for Windows 11 host to use legacy light/dark themes from Windows 10 (issues github:gh-137 and github:gh-151)
- GUI: Forcing xdgdesktopportal platform theme on Linux when org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop DBus service is available (issues github:gh-138 and github:gh-150)
- Network (NAT, DNS): Fixed potential issue where a nameserver in the 127/8 network could have been passed to the guest (issue github:gh-136)
- Network: Added a new experimental type of e1000 adapter (82583V). It requires the ICH9 chipset, since MSIs are not supported by PIIX3
- USB: Fixed passing through USB devices exposed over USB/IP (issue github:gh-192)
- USB Webcam: The virtual USB webcam is now part of the open source base package
- Arm host: Improved high CPU usage for idling VMs (issue github:gh-34)
- Linux host: Use KVM APIs on kernel 6.16.0 and newer for acquiring/releasing VT-x (issue github:gh-81, github:gh-139 and github:gh-141)
- macOS host: Fixed internal networking, including NAT networks on macOS (7.2.0 regression; issue github:gh-140)
- macOS host: Fixed VM crash on Arm host on VM start (issue github:gh-101)
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxClient was reporting it's unable to load shared libraries on start (issue github:gh-165)
- Windows Guest Additions: Fixed issue when installation was failing on Windows XP SP2 64-bit (issue github:gh-142)
- EFI: Fixed TPM device not working with certain guests (issue github:gh-143)