VirtualBox for Mac
x86 virtualization software.
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VirtualBox overview
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox 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 under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Mac hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.
VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while innotek ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.
What’s new in version 7.1.6
- 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 (bug #22232)
- 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 (bug #21877)
- 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
VirtualBox for Mac
Free
In English
Version 7.1.6
What users say about VirtualBox
Value: 2.0
Only suitbale for testing. I do a few linux OS testings once in a while. But over all it's just Oracle quality: low and not worth a penny. It was such a good software before Oracle took it over.
Other user ratings:
Ease of use | 2.0
Features | 3.0
Reliability | 1.0
Customer support | 1.0
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Apr 5 2023
Version: 7.0.6
There is now a Silicon beta. https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.6/VirtualBox-7.0.6_BETA4-155176-macOSArm64.dmg
Nov 24 2021
Version: 6.1.30
6.1.28 and 6.1.30 stopped working with Vagrant for different reasons on my 10.13.6 systems. I'm wondering if Oracle stopped running regression tests against this version of MacOS. I'm stuck with 6.1.26 to run my Vagrant boxes and testing.
Apr 30 2021
Version: 6.1.22
MU> v6.1.22 still works perfectly in macOS 10.11 and I can't see any different requirement on their website. Instead, I see a neat improvement in speed since 6.1.20. I'm using it exclusively with Android-x86 guest, so of course it's a lot slower than a real Android, but it's definitely usable. Last year I've tried it with MacOS guests and it was absolutely pitiful compared to VMware Fusion.
