El software de virtualización Virtualbox acaba de liberar su versión 7.0.12 la cual destaca por mejorar ciertas funciones ya integradas en el software, así como correcciones de software.
Por si aún no lo conoces, VirtualBox es un software de virtualización que lleva en activo desde el año 2007 que nos permite virtualizar todo tipo de sistemas operativos (Gnu Linux, Android, Windows, Mac, etc) en un entorno virtual, ya sea para uso cotidiano, pruebas, etc.
En esta versión de VirtualBox nos podemos encontrar los siguientes cambios:
- Arreglos y/o mejoras:
- VMM: Fixed using a debugger inside the guest under certain circumstances
- VMM: Fixed detection of VT-x being used by other hypervisors
- VMM: Introduced additional improvements in Split Lock Detection feature of recent Intel CPUs on Linux hosts
- GUI: Fixed issue when the nested hardware virtualization setting was not displayed in the VM details panel
- GUI: Introduced NLS update for Croatian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch and Turkish languages as well as added general look-and-feel improvements
- Devices: Fixed black screen in Windows guests with multiple guest screens when 3D is disabled (7.0.10 regression)
- Devices: Fixed PCI device identifiers for the VirtIO network interface
- Devices: Fixed VLAN support for the VirtIO network interface
- Devices: Fixed loading saved states when a TPM is configured
- Networking: Fixed memory leaks in the VBoxIntNetSwitch process on macOS
- Networking: Fixed TCP connections with IP addresses ending on .2 when the NAT network attachment is used
- Audio: Fixed switching host audio devices on Windows hosts using the WAS backend
- VRDP: Added general improvements
- VBoxManage: Added improvements for "list usbfilters" command
- Unattended: Added kick start file support for Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9.
- Main: Added more Linux OS subtypes
- Host Services: Fixed Guest Properties service crash under rare circumstance
- Linux Host and Guest: Fixed few "field-spanning write" kernel warnings
- Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for RHEL 8.9 and 9.3 kernel
- Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for kernel 6.4
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for OpenSUSE 15.5 kernel
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernels 6.5 and 6.6
- Linux Guest Additions: Added version reporting for "rcvboxadd status-kernel" and "rcvboxadd status-user" commands
- BIOS: Restored support for ISA SCSI HBAs in the BIOS
Para conocer todos los detalles podemos acceder al registro oficial de cambios de la última versión de VirtualBox.
Para su instalación tan solo debemos de acceder a la sección de descargas de VirtualBox y elegir nuestro sistema operativo, ya sea Windows, Gnu Linux o Mac Os x, acto seguido descargamos el software y lo instalamos.
Para los usuarios de Ubuntu, Linux Mint y derivados dejo un pequeño atajo:
Lo primero será descargar de su repositorio oficial el archivo de instalación, acto seguido confirmamos el repositorio de claves e instalamos:
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sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list' wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt update sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1 |
