VirtualBox 5.1.0 Beta 1 verfügbar

Kurzinfo für die Nutzer von VirtualBox: Denn ab sofort steht die erste Beta von VirtualBox 5.1.0 zum Download bereit. Hierbei handelt es sich um ein später kommendes, größeres Update. Die Beta enthält wieder zahlreiche Fehlerbehebungen, sollte aber wie immer nicht produktiv eingesetzt werden.

Hier einmal der Changelog zu VirtualBox 5.1.0 Beta 1:

• VMM: new APIC and I/O APIC implementations that result in significantly improved performance in certain situations (for example with networking, bug #15295)
• VMM: added support for Hyper-V paravirtualized debugging of Windows guests
• VMM: emulate even more MMIO and shadow pagetable exits without going back to user mode
• GUI: overall migration to Qt5
• GUI: passive API event listener improving the VM GUI performance and response time
• better support for Python 3
• VMM: many fixes
• GUI: the Detach UI action is now a part of the VM Machine menu
• GUI: reworked session information window
• GUI: the new VM wizard now allows to choose the VM location for the VM which is being created
• GUI: various bugfixes and internal cleanup
• Storage: use fallocate or similar if present to speed up creating fixed-sized disk images
• Storage: implemented NVMHCI-compatible storage controller
• EFI: many improvements, for example allow to boot from USB
• OVF: improved handling of signed manifests
• Windows hosts: rework COM proxy (e.g. bug #8298)
• Linux installers: no longer rely on DKMS for module rebuilding

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