VirtualBox for Mac
x86 virtualization software.
VirtualBox overview
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products 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 GNU General Public License (GPL).
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Mac hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.
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 innotek ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.
What’s new in version 7.0.16
- VMM: Fixed a guru meditation executing nested-guests using the KVM hypervisor in the guest on Intel hosts (bug #21805)
- VMM: Fixed Linux VM crash on some recent AMD models
- USB: Fixed issue when EHCI controller was mishandling short packets (bug #20726)
- Audio: Introduced general improvements
- VBoxManage and vboximg-mount: Updated usage information and documentation (bugs #21895, #21992 and #21993)
- Guest Control: Fixed starting Windows guest processes in the correct Windows session (7.0 regression)
- Linux Host: Fixed issue when VBox.sh was deleting wrong VBoxSVC IPC socket when VM was started using sudo (bug #20928)
- Linux Host: Fixed kernel modules build failure when using GCC 13.2
- macOS Host: Fixed issue when App Nap was affecting VM performance (bug #18678)
- Linux Host and Guest: Added fixes related to UBSAN warnings discovered on recent Linux distributions (bug #21877)
- Linux Host and Guest: Added possibility to prevent kernel module from automatic loading during system boot by adding mod_name.disabled=1 into kernel command line
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for kernel 6.9 (bug #22033)
- Linux Host and Guest: Fixed mk_pte warning introduced in kernel 6.6 (bug #21898)
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.8
- Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics area
VirtualBox for Mac
Free
In English
Version 7.0.16
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Apr 5 2023
Version: 7.0.6
There is now a Silicon beta. https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.6/VirtualBox-7.0.6_BETA4-155176-macOSArm64.dmg
Nov 24 2021
Version: 6.1.30
6.1.28 and 6.1.30 stopped working with Vagrant for different reasons on my 10.13.6 systems. I'm wondering if Oracle stopped running regression tests against this version of MacOS. I'm stuck with 6.1.26 to run my Vagrant boxes and testing.
Apr 30 2021
Version: 6.1.22
MU> v6.1.22 still works perfectly in macOS 10.11 and I can't see any different requirement on their website. Instead, I see a neat improvement in speed since 6.1.20. I'm using it exclusively with Android-x86 guest, so of course it's a lot slower than a real Android, but it's definitely usable. Last year I've tried it with MacOS guests and it was absolutely pitiful compared to VMware Fusion.
Dec 5 2020
Version: 6.1.16
a fabulous, free, highly professional way of running Windows on a Mac. I've used it for years and can't imagine computing life without it.
