After almost three years since the last significant issue, Oracle published Release. virtualization systems virtualbox 6.2 . Ready -made installation packages are available for linux (ubuntu, fedora, opensuse, debian, sles, rheel in the assembly for AMD64 architecture), SOLARIS) , MacOS and Windows.
The main changes :
- Added support for complete encryption of virtual machines. Encryption is also used for preserved sections of the state and configuration logs.
- The possibility of adding virtual machines located in cloud environment to the Virtual Machine Manager. The control of such virtual machines is carried out by analogy with virtual machines located on the local system.
- The graphic interface built a utility for monitoring for the resources of running guest systems, implemented in the style of the TOP program. The utility allows you to monitor the load on CPU, memory consumption, input/output intensity, etc.
- A master of creating new virtual machines was redone, in which support appeared automated installation of the operating system in a virtual machine.
- A new widget has been added for navigation and search for user management VirtualBox.
- A new notification center has been added, which unified reports related to the withdrawal of information on the progress of operations and error reports.
- In the graphic interface for all platforms, support for the filling topics is improved. Linux and MacOS are involved in the engines of the design topics, and a special engine is implemented for Windows.
- Uplated icons.
- The graphic interface is translated to fresh versions of Qt.
- In the graphic interface, the output of the lists of virtual machines has been improved, the possibility of choosing several VMs was added at once, the option was added to turn off the screen of the screen on the host side, the general settings and the macher were processed, and the mouse in multi -monitor configurations on the X11 platform has been improved, the carrier determination code has been redesigned , NAT settings are put into the Network Manager utility.
- Functionality for recording sound is translated to the use of Vorbis format by default for WEBM sound containers instead of the previously used Opus format.
- Added a new type of hosts of “Default” sound drivers, which makes it possible to move virtual machines between different platforms without explicit replacement of a sound driver. When choosing in the settings of the DEFULT driver, the actual sound driver is automatically selected depending on the operating system used.
- The Guest Control package implemented initial support for automatic updating of additions for guest systems based on Linux, as well as the possibility of waiting for rebooting a virtual machine when updating the supplement for guest systems through the Vboxmanage utility.
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