"Yoga 520" open source virtual machine VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 3 released

The VirtualBox team of open source virtual machines officially released the third VirtualBox 5.0 beta version in Thursday.

The last major version of VirtualBox 4.0, released in December 2010, has been revamped with a new graphical user interface, new virtualization hardware and a restructured project design. However, the release of major versions of the project was slow, and the last major release (version 4.3) was not released until the end of 2013. Since then, everything has been formally called "Maintenance" release.

After five years of this year, VirtualBox, created by Sun, now managed by Oracle's Open source virtualization system, has been released for the first major release in almost 5 years, or something new added: Windows/linux and other Customer virtual machines support PV, The XHCI controller supports USB 3.0 devices, bidirectional copy and paste.

A number of bug fixes have also been introduced in VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 3, with improvements such as XSAVE/AVX/AVX2 and other extensions, improved GUI encryption, improved volume control, and fixed SB16 playback.

VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 3:HTTP://DOWNLOAD.VIRTUALBOX.ORG/VIRTUALBOX/5.0.0_BETA3

VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 3 Release Notes: https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-announce/2015-May/000122.html

The major changes compared to VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 2 are:

• Vmm:xsave, AVX and AVX-2 is now exposed to the guest (bug #11347)
• Vmm:fixed a Guru meditation when rebooting certain guests (for example Solaris doing fast reboot) by fixing the implement ation for INIT IPI)
• Gui:encryption Progress Reflection (see here)
• Gui:encryption errors handling (see here)
• gui:properly Disable Unavailable menu actions (see here)
• Gui:properly Report Errors when trying to save the VM settings instead instead of dead-locking (Seehere)
• Api:allow to hotplug SATA optical devices
• Vrdp:fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)
• Usb:fixed attaching of high speed USB devices if XHCI are not present (they always ended up on the OHCI controller)
• Audio:improved Volume Control
• audio:fixed SB16 Playback
• Drag and drop:transfers can be canceled properly, bug fixes
• Guest Control:major overhaul, for example fixing wrong parameter quoting (bug #13157)
• Shared folders:fixed a crash when removing (in some cases also when creating) a shared folder when the VM was running (see Here
• ova:fixed importing of appliances without attached hard disks
• Snapshots:fixed a bug in handling a saved if taking an offline snapshot
• Snapshots:fixed a sporadic bug when restoring a snapshot which left unused diff images behind
• virtualkd:re-added device which is omitted by accident
• Windows Hosts:more hardening fixes (e.g. bugs #14051, #14052)
• Additions/x.org:fixed Guest-to-host Mouse Mapping for Solaris and Linux Mint/ubuntu 12.04.0 guests.
• additions/x.org:fixed resizing problem in OpenSUSE 10.3 and guests of a similar generation
• Documented the Guest additions heartbeat service

"Yoga 520" open source virtual machine VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 3 released