VirtualBox 6.0
Turns out, Virtual Box 6.0 was released on December 18th, 2018.
Looking at the release notes I have found the following interesting features that I’ve yet to try:
VirtualBox 6.0
- Nested virtualization – available only on AMD CPUs for now – this allows you to install a hypervisor like KVM or VirtualBox inside a VirtualBox guest VM – this still needs hw virtualization.
- Hyper-V support – apparently, VirtualBox will detect if it’s running on a Windows server with Hyper-V activated, and will use Hyper-V as virtualization engine – albeit, it might run slower than native VirtualBox or Hyper-V guest VMs
- Moving stuff – both disk images and VM metadata can now be moved very easily to a new location
- Closing VMs improved – there’s now an option to keep the same hardware UUID when closing a guest VM
- FUSE mount for vdisk images – on Mac OS hosts it’s possible to use a vboximg-mount command for raw access to the virtual disks
I’ve updated my VirtualBox software page with the above notes and will be testing features and sharing.
See Also
Turns out, Virtual Box 6.0 was released on December 18th, 2018.
Looking at the release notes I have found the following interesting features that I’ve yet to try:
VirtualBox 6.0
- Nested virtualization – available only on AMD CPUs for now – this allows you to install a hypervisor like KVM or VirtualBox inside a VirtualBox guest VM – this still needs hw virtualization.
- Hyper-V support – apparently, VirtualBox will detect if it’s running on a Windows server with Hyper-V activated, and will use Hyper-V as virtualization engine – albeit, it might run slower than native VirtualBox or Hyper-V guest VMs
- Moving stuff – both disk images and VM metadata can now be moved very easily to a new location
- Closing VMs improved – there’s now an option to keep the same hardware UUID when closing a guest VM
- FUSE mount for vdisk images – on Mac OS hosts it’s possible to use a vboximg-mount command for raw access to the virtual disks
I’ve updated my VirtualBox software page with the above notes and will be testing features and sharing.
See Also
