Released last month was the VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 1 virtualization software release from Oracle. This new version is bringing [1]a modernized GUI, Wayland clipboard sharing, and other improvements . Released yesterday was the second beta of this big VirtualBox update.

VirtualBox 7.1 is a big step forward for this Oracle virtualization software with its "modernized look and feel", upgraded Qt toolkit, OCI improvements, a new NAT engine with IPv6 support, ARM virtualization on macOS ARM hosts for Linux/BSD VMs, Wayland clipboard sharing, better performance for screen recording, and a number of other improvements.

With VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 2 there are various fixes that were collected over the past month of user testing with the prior beta. The 7.1 Beta 2 changes are noted in the [2]VirtualBox.org forums though mostly copying over the changes originally introduced in the prior beta.

The brief VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 2 announcement can be found on the [3]VirtualBox mailing list .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/VirtualBox-7.1-Beta

[2] https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=112169

[3] https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-announce/2024-August/000235.html