Virtualbox Virtualization System 7.2 Beta-Release Announcement
A year later, since the form of a last significant branch, Oracle presented the first beta-release of the virtualbox virtualization system 7.2. The release is expected in the summer. Building with the beta version of Virtualbox 7.2 prepared for Rheel 8/9/10, Fedora 36/40, Opensuse 15.6, Ubuntu 20.04/22.04/24.04/24.10, Debian 11/12, MacOS, and Windows. The project code is written in C++ and is distributed under the license GPLv2+.
The main changes:
- In the graphic interface, global operations are transferred from the drop-down menu to the side panel located on the left, and the tools for virtual machines are moved into separate tabs shown over the area with the right panel.
- Added support for virtualization on host systems with Windows using processors based on ARM architecture.
- Added support for launching guest systems with Windows 11 for ARM architecture. In a set of additions for guest systems, a new type of OS is implemented – “Windows 11/ARM”.
- Compatibility with the state of virtual machines based on the ARM architecture, saved in Virtualbox 7.1, as well as saved ARM VM snapshots. Before the transition to the Virtualbox 7.2 branch, it is necessary to complete the implementation of such virtual machines.
- In the components for hosts based on ARM architecture, the VBOXWEBSRV Web Service is included for control through the Web interface.
- Virtual machines based on ARM architecture implemented ACPI.
- Libidl and iasl.
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