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 VM Virtualbox
Version actuelle : 7.0.14
Windows, macOS et distributions Linux
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- Audio: Added more fixes for switching host audio devices on Windows hosts using the WAS backend
- 3D: Added general improvements
- OCI: Fixed wrong guest RAM unit usage in VirtualSystemDescription, memory is provided in bytes, "Byte" is the base unit
- Main: OVF Import/Export: Added support for importing and exporting VMs containing NVMe storage controllers (bug #19320)
- Main: OVF Import/Export: Added support for exporting a VM which contains a medium inserted into a virtual CD/DVD drive which is attached to a Virtio-SCSI controller
- Devices: Fixed a problem where Windows guests "forget" in-progress touch events when the user holds down a finger without moving it for a period of time.
- macOS Host USB: Added support for newer storage devices
- macOS Host: Fixed memory Leak in the VBoxIntNetSwitch process when VM was configured to use 'Internal Networking' (bug #21752)
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 9.4 kernel
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel panic on RHEL 8.9 kernel caused by vboxvideo (bugs #10381 and #21911)
- Solaris Guest Additions: Added support for the Additions to be installed into an alternate root path ('pkgadd -R')
- Solaris Guest Additions: Removed requirement to reboot VM after uninstalling GAs
- RDP: Fix possible crash when connecting with the Apple Silicon variant of the Microsoft Remote Desktop application (bug #21820).
- BIOS: Fixed handle number used for DMI OEM table (bug #19781)