Software update: VirtualBox 7.0.10

Oracle has released the fifth update for VirtualBox version 7.0. VirtualBox can be used to install other operating systems in a virtual environment on a computer. This makes it possible to use different operating systems on the same hardware side by side and at the same time. VirtualBox is available for Windows, macOS, Linux and Solaris, and is capable of various guest operating systems to turn. New in version 7.0 is that Windows 11 is now officially supported. The changes made in version 7.0.10 are listed below:

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• OCI: Introduced general improvements
• VMM: Fixed sluggish performance starting with macOS Ventura 13.3 (bug #21563bug#21596)
• VMM: Fixed a bug while walking page tables while executing nested VMs causing flooding of the release log as a consequence (Intel hosts only, bug #21551)
• GUI: Added general improvements
• TPM: Fixed a crash when a VM has a TPM version 1.2 configured (bug #21622)
• 3D: Initial support for OpenGL 4.1
• 3D: Fixed various graphics issues with Windows 11 guests (bugs #21136, #21515)
• Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed parameter “–ignore-orphaned-processes”
• Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed behavior of how handling argument 0 for a started guest process works: One can now explicitly specify it with the newly added option “–arg0”. This will effectively restore the behavior of former VirtualBox versions
• Audio: Also use the PulseAudio backend when pipewire-pulse is running instead of falling back to ALSA (bug #21575)
• NAT: Adjusted UDP proxy timeout from 18-21 to 21-24 range to respect intended 20 second timeout (bug #21560)
• Linux Host: Added initial support for Indirect Branch Tracking (bug #21435)
• Linux Host: Added initial support for kernel 6.5 (NOTE: Guest Additions do not support kernel 6.5 yet)
• Solaris Host: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
• Linux Host and Guest: Improved condition check when kernel modules need to be signed
• Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 8.8 (bug #21692), 8.9 (bug #21690) and 9.3 (bugs #21598 and #21671) kernels
• MacOS Host and Guest: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
• Windows Host and Guest: Introduced ECDSA support (bug #21621)
• Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when kernel modules were rebuilt on each boot when guest system has no X11 installed
• Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.4
• Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when vboxvideo module reloading caused kernel panic in some guests (bug #21740)
• Linux Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
• Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics drivers area