Oracle today released the first public beta of their VirtualBox 7.1 virtualization software.

Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1 is shaping up to be a big update to this virtualization offering and now features a "modernized look and feel" to its GUI. There is also the ability to switch between "basic" and "experienced" user levels that control the amount of UI functionality offered.

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VirtualBox 7.1 also brings various OCI improvements, new NAT engine with IPv6 support, ARM virtualization on macOS ARM hosts for Linux and BSD VMs, and Wayland support for clipboard sharing.

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VirtualBox 7.1 also boasts better performance for screen recording, new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates for newly-created VMs with EFI, improved GUI accessibility, and Qt toolkit upgrades for its UI.

Downloads and more details on this first beta release of VirtualBox 7.1 via the [3]vbox-announce list .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2024&image=virtualbox_71_1_lrg

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2024&image=virtualbox_71_2_lrg

[3] https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-announce/2024-July/000234.html