The new version of VirtualBox 6.0.2 adds bug fixes and more

VirtualBox 6.0.2

If you like to be testing new operating systems, I can tell you about VirtualBox, which is a virtualization tool multiplatform, which gives us the possibility to create virtual disk drives where we can install an operating system within the one we normally use.

VirtualBox us allows running virtual machines remotely, through Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), iSCSI support. Another of the functions it presents is that of mount ISO images as virtual CD or DVD drives, or as a floppy disk.

VirtualBox is a free virtualization solution from Oracle. VirtualBox can virtualize Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS and many other versions of Linux, Solaris, some variants of BSD, etc. Recently, VirtualBox 6.0.2 came out, a major update to VirtualBox.

Before installing VirtualBox 6.0.2, they need to ensure that hardware virtualization is enabled. If they are using an Intel processor, they must enable VT-x or VT-d from their computer's BIOS.

If you are using an AMD processor, you must enable AMD-v from your computer's BIOS. This is very important. Without hardware virtualization enabled, your virtual machines will perform very poorly.

With the we can test different operating systems without the need to compromise the one we have in use.

Thus, it is a fantastic tool that helps us test not only systems, but also applications that run on certain systems and more.

As the Virtual Box development team told you, they announced a new version of the application where several bugs are corrected and some features are added.

Main new features of VirtualBox 6.0.2

In this new version of fixes have been made to the user interface with a new window to create a virtual optical disk. the interface solves problems with creating shortcuts to run virtual machines and attach empty optical disk drives.

Another important point is that issues related to resetting USB devices from the guest have been fixed.

In addition to Linux based guest systems, issues resolved with driver builds on SLES 12.4 environment and driver builds for shared directories were established on systems with older Linux kernels.

It is important to mention that this maintenance release includes »Oracle Critical Patch Updates».

Components for Linux-based hosts eliminate conflict between desktop files offered by Oracle and included in the Debian distribution.

Fixed a bug that caused the VirtualBoxVM command to be inaccessible on Linux and macOS hosts.

In addition to Windows-based guest systems, fixes have been made to resolve issues with the VBoxSVGA driver when using multiple monitors or disabling support to speed up 3D operations.

Fixed issue with writing to shared directories from OS / 2 guest systems.

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Adding the VirtualBox Package Repository

VirtualBox 6.0.2 is not available in the official Ubuntu package repository. But we can easily add VirtualBox package repository in Ubuntu and derivatives and install VirtualBox 6.0.2 from there.

To add the official VirtualBox package repository, they must open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T and run the following command:

echo "deb https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -cs) contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list

Done this now We must add the public PGP key from the official VirtualBox packages repository to the system.

Otherwise, we will not be able to use the official VirtualBox package repository. To add the public PGP key from the official VirtualBox package repository, run the following command:

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Now that the official VirtualBox package repository is ready to use, we can install VirtualBox 6.0.2.

First, we need to update the APT package repository with the following command:

sudo apt-get update

Once this is done, now we are going to proceed to install VirtualBox to the system with:

sudo apt install virtualbox-6.0

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  1.   Mario Zamora Madriz said

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