[German]In October 2022, Oracle's developers had released VirtualBox version 7.0.0 (VirtualBox 7.0.0 with Secure Boot and virtual TPM support). Now, an update to version 7.0.4 has already been added to 7.0.2. This version is also a maintenance update for bug fixes.
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According to the changelog, the update of version 7.0.4 should fix the following bugs in previous Virtualbox releases.
- VMM: Added nested paging support for nested virtualization (Intel hosts only)
- VMM: Fixed rare guru meditations with certain guests on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) (bug #21237)
- VMM: Fixed possible VM process crash on Windows hosts when Hyper-V is used with certain guests (bug #21174)
- VMM: Fixed Windows XP guest hang or BSOD on AMD CPUs under certain circumstances (bug #21256)
- GUI: Various bugfixes for the Guest Control file manager
- GUI: Added more informative file operations in the Guest Control file manager
- GUI: Added an option to the global settings (the display page) to resize user interface font
- GUI: Fixed a regression in new vm wizard. Selected virtual disks are no longer deleted when the wizard is cancelled (bug #21244)
- GUI: Added a new menu item to the devices menu to optionally upgrade the guest additions.
- VirtioSCSI: Fixed recognition of the virtio SCSI controller by the EFI firmware (bug #21200)
- VirtioSCSI: Fixed hang when shutting down the VM if the virtio SCSI controller is used (bug #21144)
- virtio-net: Workaround a bug in the virtio-net driver included in FreeBSD version up to 12.3 which renders the device non functional (bug #21201)
- Storage: Fixed I/O errors with the VirtioSCSI controller when the host I/O cache is enabled (bug #19717)
- VBoxManage: Fixed regression when 'createmedium disk –variant RawDisk' command resulted in invalid .vmdk file (bug #21125)
- Main: Restored input pointing device behavior in multi-monitor VM configuration (bug #21137)
- Main: Fixed progress indication during automatic Linux Guest Additions installation
- Guest Control: Fixed path handling issues (bug #21095)
- 3D: Fixed VM process crash on macOS with 3D enabled (bug #21232)
- Linux Host and Guest: General improvements in startup scripts
- Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.7 and 9.2 kernels (bug #21272, #21258)
- Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for SLES 15.4 kernels
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel modules rebuild behavior on system shutdown
The new version of the virtualization software can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux from this download page. It should be noted that an updated version of the VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack must also be downloaded and installed. VirtualBox can be used freely, but there are special license conditions for the Extension Pack. (via)
