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VirtualBox for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    VirtualBox 7.2.8 Build 173730 LATEST

  • Review by

    Daniel Leblanc

  • Operating System

    Mac OS X

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  • Author / Product

    Oracle / External Link

  • Filename

    VirtualBox-7.2.8-173730-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 which caused a Guru Meditation with VERR_IEM_IPE_4 if the guest was trying to execute the wrong hypercall instruction but injected a UD exception instead
- NAT Network: Fixed issue when internal DNS server could not be reached
- Graphics: Fixed issue when mouse cursor did not change shape by context in Ubuntu 25.10 / Wayland
- Main: Fixed crash on FreeBSD 16.0 shutdown with multiple devices attached to LSI Logic SAS controller
- IPRT: Merged Github pull request 503 (fix: infinite loop in vsscanf whitespace processing). github-merge-author: lachlanharrisdev
- Unattended: General improvements
- Linux Host: Added initial support for kernels 6.19 and 7.0
- Linux Host: Added support for guest time accounting
- Linux Host and Guest: Introduced additional fixes for RHEL 10.1 and 10.2 kernels
- Linux Host and Guest: Added support for UEK9 kernel on Oracle Linux 9
- Linux Host and Guest: Added improvements to make 'rcvboxdrv/rcvboxadd setup' and installation process faster
- Linux Guest Additions: Deprecated vboxvideo kernel module for kernels 7.0 and newer; please consider using VMSVGA graphics or vboxvideo module which comes with Linux kernel or provided by your Linux distribution if guest running kernel 7.0+; vboxvideo will still be available for older kernels
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when clipboard sharing was not possible in combination of Wayland guest and Windows host
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when last character was not pasted into Windows host clipboard when copying from Wayland guest (bug:22339)
- Windows Guest: Fixed issue when Windows 11 guest experienced BSOD - DRIVER_OVERRAN_STACK_BUFFER
- UEFI: Fixed errors with secure boot certificate updates and Windows 11 guests
- DMI: Fixed issue when 0.0 value was provided for the BIOS release and BIOS firmware version numbers so Windows did not populate the registry keys under HKLM\HARDWARE\System\BIOS which some components rely on

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