#HOW TO GET MAC OS X FOR VIRTUALBOX 5.0 MAC OS#

#HOW TO GET MAC OS X FOR VIRTUALBOX 5.0 MAC OS#

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.Closing VMs improved – there’s now an option to keep the same hardware UUID when closing a guest VM.

Moving stuff – both disk images and VM metadata can now be moved very easily to a new location.

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.

Nested virtualization – avaialbe only on AMD CPUs for now – this allows you to install a hypervisor like KVM or VirtualBox inside a VirtualBox guest VM.

VirtualBox Changelog with my thoughts VirtualBox 6.0

Storage: Shared folders – seamlessly transfer files between host OS and guest VMs.

Storage: you can use VMware-created disk images (VMDK files).

Networking: Flexible virtual networking (you can even to PXE boot over NAT).

Full hardware virtualization (iVT and AMD-V) support.

Performance: Guest software to optimize the guest VM performance for Linux and Windows.

Solaris, Windows and Linux are supported as both host and guest OSes, Mac OS X is supported as host OS.

All VM configuration is stored in XML files.

Unique design – modular and lightweight.

VirtualBox supports a standard set of features, including the following:

Current beta version is VirtualBox 6.1.18 (January 2021).

Current version is VirtualBox 6.1 (released in December 2019).

VirtualBox is part of the xVM Virtualization suite presented by Sun Microsystems in September 2008 and maintained by Oracle since then. It supports both 32bit and 64bit architectures and runs on Oracle Solaris, major Linux distros, MacOS and Windows.

VirtualBox is a free desktop virtualization product for x86 platform.

How to get mac os x for virtualbox 5.0