VirtualBox 7 Beta 1: Features and Installation
En ubunlog, we usually punctually and accurately comment on or announce the news related to each new stable version of VirtualBox. The last announcement, by the way commented, was the launch of the new maintenance release VirtualBox 6.1.38. However, today we are going to get out of the habit a bit and we will address the announcement of the launch of "VirtualBox 7 Beta 1", the first beta of the future Oracle VM VirtualBox 7 series.
While, for those unfamiliar with the beta versions offered by Oracle, it is worth noting that they aim to allow their customers and partners (users), being able to test the new capabilities before they are included in future stable versions of the tool. Reason why these beta versions should only be used in test environments (experimentation), and not, in development or production environments, no matter how well they work when tested.
And, before starting this post about the current test version of the future 7 series, "VirtualBox 7 Beta 1", we recommend exploring the following related contents, at the end of reading it:
VirtualBox 7 Beta 1: The first prototype of the 7 series
What news does VirtualBox 7 Beta 1 bring?
10 of many news and features new are:
- An updated and more pleasant visual aspect.
- The complete encryption of the MV, via terminal (CLI).
- It will use Vorbis as the default audio format in WebM containers.
- An enhanced 3D experience for VMs, through DirectX 11 and OpenGL support.
- Greater compatibility with IOMMU and EPT enhancements on Microsoft Windows hosts.
- It incorporates a function similar to the Linux "top" app to increase the level of supervision on each VM.
- Implements initial support for automatic updates of host additions for Linux guests.
- Adds discretionary (enable/bypass) support for unattended configurations on Windows operating systems.
- Adds the use of the “waitrunlevel” subcommand to Guest Host Control to make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain runlevel.
- Finally, it adds official support for the Windows 11 operating system, which has made it possible to solve some existing problems related to HW compatibility when using Win11 on VBox.
While, for more information about VirtualBox 7.0 Beta 1 We leave the following links:
Application Installation
To install VirtualBox 7 Beta 1 the following steps must be followed:
- Go directly to download repository from version 7.
- Download the required files, both the .deb and the .vbox-extpack
- Install the downloaded .deb executable
- Run and explore VirtualBox
- Install the extension pack for VirtualBox
- Indicate to VirtualBox the path of our stored MV and to be stored
- Add our existing VMs to the new VirtualBox
Summary
In summary, this new development version from VirtualBox, "VirtualBox 7 Beta 1" promises cool changes, and of course, many timely news. Which will surely be very useful, not only for homemade Linux users who like to try so much GNU / Linux Distros and other Operating Systems, but for a huge number of professional and business users that they currently use VirtualBox for many things within their technology platforms.
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