The First Beta Version of VirtualBox 7 Has Been Released!

VirtualBox is one application virtual machine popular, not only for Windows users, but for Mac and Linux as well. This is because VirtualBox is an application cross platform which is available in almost all desktop operating systems.

Now regarding VirtualBox, recently the first Beta version of VirtualBox 7 has been released, where in this new version there are a number of interesting improvements.

Based on the changelog, there are several things that have changed in VirtualBox 7, the first is now Vorbis is now used as the default audio format for WebM containers, which Opus has been deprecated.

In addition there are a number of other experimental features that have been added, such as experimental support for running auto-started VMs in session 0, he added default host driver type. And many more, for more details you can see the following changelog:

• Audio recording: Vorbis is now used as the default audio format for WebM containers. Opus is no longer used.
• Audio: Added a “default” host driver type to allow moving VMs (appliances) between different platforms without having to explicitly change the audio driver. When the “Standard” driver is selected, the best audio backend option for a platform is used. This is the default setting for newly created VMs.
• Guest Control: Added initial support for automatically updating guest accounts for Linux guests
• Guest Control: Implemented the ability to wait for the guest and/or restart it when guest accounts are updated via VBoxManage
• VBoxManage: Guest Control added “waitrunlevel” sub-command to make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain runlevel
• Windows Hosts: Added experimental support for running auto-started VMs in session 0 to allow running VMs even if no user is logged in (disabled by default, please read the manual)
• Audio: Added a “default” host driver type to allow moving VMs (appliances) between different platforms without having to explicitly change the audio driver. When the “Standard” driver is selected, the best audio backend option for a platform is used. This is the default setting for newly created VMs.
• Guest Control: Added initial support for automatically updating guest accounts for Linux guests
• Guest Control: Implemented the ability to wait for the guest and/or restart it when guest accounts are updated via VBoxManage
• VBoxManage: Guest Control added “waitrunlevel” sub-command to make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain runlevel
• Windows Hosts: Added experimental support for running auto-started VMs in Session 0 to allow running VMs even when a user is not logged in (disabled by default, please read the manual)

For now the version presented is the Beta version 7.0.0 where if you are interested in trying it, you can download it via the VirtualBox page following.

Of course, because it is still a First Beta version, there may still be some problems and bugs in this version, so for mainstream use, it is not recommended to use this version.

Via : DeskModder, VirtualBox