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VirtualBox for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    VirtualBox 7.1.6 Build 167084 LATEST

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    Daniel Leblanc

  • Operating System

    Mac OS X

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  • Author / Product

    Oracle / External Link

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    VirtualBox-7.1.6-167084-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.

How to Use
  • Install VirtualBox on your Mac
  • Download the desired guest OS ISO file
  • Create a new virtual machine in VirtualBox
  • Assign memory and virtual hard disk size
  • Select and mount the guest OS ISO
  • Start the virtual machine and install OS
  • Install VirtualBox Guest Additions
  • Adjust settings like display, network, etc.
  • Start using your virtual OS environment
System Requirements
  • macOS 12 (Monterey) or later
  • 64-bit Intel or Apple Silicon with Rosetta 2
  • At least 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended)
  • Minimum 10GB free disk space
  • Administrative access to install software
PROS
  • Free and open-source virtualization tool
  • Supports wide range of guest OS
  • Snapshot feature for easy backups
  • Cross-platform compatibility
  • Active community and regular updates
CONS
  • Lower performance vs native apps
  • Limited 3D graphics support
  • May require manual setup tweaks
  • USB device passthrough can be tricky
  • Interface not as polished as rivals
Also Available: Download VirtualBox for Windows

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What's new in this version:

- VMM: Fixed issue when Windows 11 24H2 guest was experiencing BSOD in rare conditions
- GUI: Improved representation of disabled preferences contents (mask+font) when it is shown with certain Linux themes
- GUI: Fixed issue when seamless mode was not properly enabled or disabled in appropriate time according to GA status events
- GUI: Fixed rare crash on macOS hosts on application exit
- GUI: Fixed small 7.1.4 regression in preferences windows when filter editor was not in focus
- GUI: Introduced improvements in Advanced properties/settings dialog area
- GUI: Restored missing functionality to change bridged adapter at VM startup if current one wasn't found
- GUI: Fixed issue when Show action duplicates were created on macOS host in attempt to switch between running and powered off VMs
- GUI: Fixed regression when 3D acceleration check-box was not available for certain guest OS and graphical controller types
- GUI: Restored lost Help button for preferences windows on macOS
- GUI: Restored lost Help button shortcuts for certain windows
- GUI: Fixed issue when error message was shown when VM was starting in full-screen mode
- VirtioNet: Fixed issue with re-negotiation of features after reset
- Graphics: Fixed issue with Linux guest screen flickering when guest was using VMSVGA graphics adapter
- VBoxManage: Added the ability to export and import VMs which contain an NVMe storage controller
- VBoxManage: Fixed issue when it was not possible to set graphics controller to "QemuRamFB" using modifyvm command
- Main: Fixed issue when specifying custom proxy server in GUI settings had no effect
- Network: Added changes which replaced NAT engines with libslirp
- Guest OSes: Added OS type for Windows Server 2025
- Linux guest and host: Added more fixes for UBSAN related warnings
- Linux guest and host: Added initial support for RHEL 9.6 kernel
- Windows guests and host: Re-implemented driver installation
- Solaris host: Removed the VirtualBox GUI shared objects libqgtk2styleVBox.so and libqgtk2VBox.so from the Solaris installation packages as they depend on GTK2 which is EOL and no longer supported
- Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.13
- Linux Guest Additions: vboxvideo: Added improvement for kernel 6.4 support and fixed issue when graphics could be frozen when using VBoxVGA adapter
- Linux Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for kernel 6.12 in vboxvideo

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