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To set up a new Windows 7 VM, follow these simple steps:

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Before you can install Windows, create and configure a VM for it. You’re now ready to launch VirtualBox and install Windows.Ĭonfiguring a Virtual Machine and Installing WindowsĮach OS you run under VirtualBox has its own VM for which you can set various settings, such as the amount of disk space dedicated to that machine, where the machine is stored, and so on.

When the installation finishes, click Close to quit the installer.

You should not need to change any of the default settings during the install.

Double-click the VirtualBox.mpkg package and follow the onscreen instructions to install VirtualBox.

Devices: Added virtual TPM 1.2 and 2.Figure 25.6 Double-click the VirtualBox.mpkg package to install.

Devices: Added virtual IOMMU devices (Intel and AMD variant).

Devices: Implemented new 3D support based on DirectX 11 (and DXVK on non Windows hosts).

Linux Guest Additions: Reworked guest screen re-size functionality, added basic integration with some of guest Desktop Environments.

This is unsupported work in progress, and is known to have very modest performance.

macOS host: Providing a Developer Preview package for systems with an Apple silicon CPU.

At the moment the implementation lacks 'Internal Networking' functionality. VirtualBox relies fully on the hypervisor and vmnet frameworks provided by Apple now.

macOS host: Dropped all kernel extensions.

Windows hosts: Added experimental support of running autostarted VMs in session 0, to allow running VMS even when a usser is not being logged in (disabled by default, please consult the manual).

VBoxManage: Added Guest Control 'waitrunlevel' sub-command to make it possible to wait for a guest to reach a certain run level.

Guest Control: Implemented ability to wait for and/or reboot the guest when updating Guest Additions via VBoxManage.

Guest Control: Implemented initial support for automatic updating of Guest Additions for Linux guests.

This is the default for newly created VMs.

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When the 'default' driver is selected, the best audio backend option for a platform will be used.

Audio: Added 'default' host driver type to make it possible to move VMs (appliances) between different platforms without the need of changing the audio driver explicitly.

Audio recording: Now using Vorbis as the default audio format for WebM containers.

Linux and macOS use native engine while for Windows host it is separately implemented.

GUI: Improved theme support on all platforms.

GUI: Adding new notification center unifying most of running progresses and error reporting around the GUI.

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GUI: Added a new help viewer widget which enables the user manual to be navigated and searched.GUI: Reworked the new vm wizard to integrate the unattended guest OS installation and to have a more streamlined work flow.

GUI: Added a new utility similar to 'top' or 'resource monitor' which lists peformance statistics (CPU usage, RAM usage, disk I/O rate, etc.) of running guests.OCI: Cloud networks can now be configured via Network Manager tool same way as it is done for Host-only and NAT networks.OCI: Cloud virtual machines can be added to Virtual Machine Manager and controlled as local VMs.Virtual machines can be fully encrypted now, including the VM config logs and saved states (CLI only for now).The following major new features were added: