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Oracle VM VirtualBox for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    VirtualBox 7.0.16 Build 162802 LATEST

  • Review by

    Daniel Leblanc

  • Operating System

    Mac OS X

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    Oracle / External Link

  • Filename

    VirtualBox-7.0.16-162802-OSX.dmg

The world’s most popular cross-platform virtualization software enables you to run multiple operating systems on your Mac, PC, Linux, or Oracle Solaris machine. Oracle VM VirtualBox for Mac is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 and AMD64/Intel64 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. Not only is the tool 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.

Some of the new features of Oracle VM VirtualBox are:

Paravirtualization support for modern Windows and Linux guests
Oracle VM VirtualBox for macOS is able to expose a paravirtualization interface to facilitate accurate and efficient execution of software. Once the virtual machine platform is defined, the app improves guest OS performances by leveraging built-in virtualization support (KVM on Linux guests and Hyper-V on Windows guests).

xHCI controller to support USB 3.0 devices
Guest operating systems are now able to directly recognize USB 3.0 devices and operate at full 3.0 speeds. Guest can now be configured to use USB 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 devices.

Improved Drag & Drop support
Starting from the app improved the support of a bi-directional drag&drop between guest and host operating system; drag and drop support is available with latest guest-additions installed.

Disk image encryption
The software allows for encrypted virtual disk images by leveraging AES algorithm in XTS mode (128-bit or 256-bit); since the DEK is stored as part of the virtual machine configuration file, encryption introduces a further security feature that will ask for a password while starting the virtual machine.

Headless and Detachable start options
Oracle VM Virtual Box now supports starting virtual machines in the background with a separate front-end process that can be closed while the virtual machine continues to work.

Also Available: Download VirtualBox for Windows

  • VirtualBox 7.0.16 Build 162802 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

- VMM: Fixed a guru meditation executing nested-guests using the KVM hypervisor in the guest on Intel hosts
- VMM: Fixed Linux VM crash on some recent AMD models
- USB: Fixed issue when EHCI controller was mishandling short packets
- Audio: Introduced general improvements
- VBoxManage and vboximg-mount: Updated usage information and documentation
- 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
- Linux Host: Fixed kernel modules build failure when using GCC 13.2
- macOS Host: Fixed issue when App Nap was affecting VM performance
- Linux Host and Guest: Added fixes related to UBSAN warnings discovered on recent Linux distributions
- 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
- Linux Host and Guest: Fixed mk_pte warning introduced in kernel 6.6
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.8
- Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics area

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