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VirtualBox 5.0 Released July 9!

Posted by essjae on July 14, 2015

VirtualBox 5.0 (released 2015-07-09)

This is a major update. The following major new features were added:

Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve time-keeping accuracy and performance (see the manual for more information)
Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX-2, AES-NI, POPCNT, RDRAND and RDSEED
xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices (see the manual for more information)
Drag and drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
Disk image encryption (see the manual for more information)
VMs can now be started in separate mode. The VM process is started headless while the frontend runs as a separate process which can be terminated without stopping the VM.
GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration)
GUI: New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar, menu-bar and guest-content scaling
GUI: New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for disk images
GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration)
GUI: Hot-plugging support for SATA disks
New, modular audio architecture for providing a better abstraction of the host audio backends
Support for the NDIS6 networking framework on Windows (default on Vista and later)