Oracle Adds Linux 6.0 Support in VirtualBox 6.1.38 and Moves to 7.0
Oracle unveiled recently released the new corrective version of your virtualization system "VirtualBox 6.1.38" in which it indicates that 8 corrections have been made.
For those who are unfamiliar with VirtualBox, I can tell you that this is a multiplatform virtualization tool, that gives us the possibility of creating virtual disk drives where we can install an operating system within the one we normally use.
Main new features of VirtualBox 6.1.38
In this new version presented by VirtualBox 6.1.38 the relevant updates have been made so that Linux Guest Additions have the initial support for Linux kernel 6.0 and that in addition to that the support for the kernel package of the distribution branch was improved RHEL 9.1.
Another of the changes that was made in this new version in relation to linux, is that the add-on installer for Linux-based hosts and guests has improved checking for the presence of systemd on the system.
In addition to this, it is also highlighted that compatibility with other languages has been improved in addition to English in the GUI and added the ability to export OVF images of virtual machines that use Virtio-SCSI controllers.
On the other hand, we can find that fixed problems starting VBoxSVC server that appeared under certain circumstances.
And that the naming scheme for saved video files when recording videos with screen content has also been changed, as well as additions for Windows-based guest systems have improved drag and drop mode.
Finally it is also worth mentioning that before the release of this version, it was released the release of the beta version of VirtualBox 7 and one of the main improvements is that it is officially compatible with Windows 11. VirtualBox users who tried to install Windows 11 on previous versions of VirtualBox may have had hardware compatibility check issues, but that changed with the beta release.
For the part of the changes that have been introduced in the VirtualBox 7 beta, we will be sharing it in another article.
If you are interested in knowing more about it About the release of this patch version of VirtualBox 6.1.38, you can check the details in the following link.
How to install the patch version of VirtualBox in Ubuntu and derivatives?
For those who are already VirtualBox users and they have not yet updated to the new version, they should know that they can only update by opening a terminal and typing the following command in it:
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade
Now for those who are not yet users, you should know that before installing, 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.
In the case of Ubuntu and derivatives, we have two methods to install the application or, where appropriate, update to the new version.
The first method is by downloading the "deb" package offered from the official website of the application. The link is this.
The other method is adding the repository to the system. To add the official VirtualBox package repository, they should 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 -
We must 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-6.1
And ready with it, we can use the new version of VirtualBox in our system.