VirtualBox 7.0.4 resolves various crashes and includes support for RHEL 9.1

VirtualBox 7.0

VM VirtualBox is virtualization software for x86/amd64 architectures

Recently Oracle announced the release of a corrective version of your virtualization system "Virtual Box 7.0.4", version in which about 22 corrections were 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 7.0.4

In this new version that is presented, the graphical interface, the device menu offers a new submenu to update guest plugins, plus whatand an option has been added to the global configuration to select the font size of the interface. In the tools for guest systems, the work of the file manager was improved, for example, a more informative indication of file operations was provided.

Another of the changes that this new version presents is in the Wizard to create virtual machines, fixed an issue with deleting virtual disks selected after canceling the operation.

In addition to that, in VirtualBox 7.0.4 the package Linux Guest Additions provide initial support for SLES 15.4, RHEL 8.7 and RHEL 9.1 kernels, in addition to cleaning up the handling of rebuilding kernel modules on shutdown.

I also know added support for using nested memory pages when virtualizing nested virtual machines in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) for hosts with Intel processors, and improved progress indication during automatic installation of plugins for Linux guests.

For the part of the solution of errors it is mentioned that in VirtioSCSI fixed a crash when shutting down a virtual machine when using a virtio-based SCSI controller and resolved issues with the recognition of a virtio-based SCSI controller in the EFI firmware.

Of the other changes:

  • Resolved issues causing crashes on macOS and Windows hosts, and freezing of Windows XP guests on AMD processors.
  • Improved startup scripts for Linux hosts and guests.
  • Provided a fix for a bug in the virtio-net driver shipped with FreeBSD prior to version 12.3.
  • Fixed an issue with the ' commandcreatemedium disk –variant RawDisk' which caused incorrect vmdk files to be created.
  • Fixed issues when using USB tablets with virtual machines in multi-monitor setups.

If you are interested in knowing more about it about the release of this version VirtualBox 7.0.4 you can consult the details in the following link.

How to install VirtualBox 7.0.4 on 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-7.0

And ready with it, we can use the new version of VirtualBox in our system.


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