Software-update: VirtualBox 7.1.0

Oracle heeft versie 7.1.0 van VirtualBox uitgebracht. VirtualBox kan worden gebruikt om andere besturingssystemen als een virtuele machine op een computer te installeren. Daardoor is het mogelijk om verschillende besturingssystemen op dezelfde hardware naast elkaar en tegelijkertijd te gebruiken. VirtualBox is beschikbaar voor Windows, macOS, Linux en Solaris, en is in staat om diverse gastbesturingssystemen te draaien. In deze uitgave zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:

VirtualBox version 7.1.0

This is a major update. The following new features were added:

GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionalityOCI Integration: Performance dashboard now shows resource usage for cloud VMsOCI Integration: Clone compute instancesOCI Integration: Reset compute instancesOracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Update to the PUEL license, removing the evaluation option. For evaluation use of the Extension Pack, please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery CloudVRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expiresNAT: New engine with IPv6 supportmacOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMsLinux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808)Shared Clipboard: Added initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts / guests. This requires the 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed. See User Guide for known limitationsScreen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests

GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality

OCI Integration: Performance dashboard now shows resource usage for cloud VMs

OCI Integration: Clone compute instances

OCI Integration: Reset compute instances

Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Update to the PUEL license, removing the evaluation option. For evaluation use of the Extension Pack, please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud

VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires

NAT: New engine with IPv6 support

macOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs

Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808)

Shared Clipboard: Added initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts / guests. This requires the 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed. See User Guide for known limitations

Screen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is being used (bug #17961)virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)EFI: Ability to add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMsOracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryptionGUI: Improved overall accessibilityGUI: Update the version of Qt usedUnattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers; this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended modeUnattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for the user and admin / root accountsVBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress of a VMVBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount" Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest AdditionsPython: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility

VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is being used (bug #17961)

virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)

EFI: Ability to add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs

Oracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption

GUI: Improved overall accessibility

GUI: Update the version of Qt used

Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers; this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode

Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for the user and admin / root accounts

VBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress of a VM

VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount" Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions

Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3

VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility

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