VirtualBox 5.2 to Let Users Export VMs to Oracle Public Cloud, Add GUI Changes

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Oracle’s Director of Product Management Simon Coter recently announced the availability of the first Beta release of the upcoming VirtualBox 5.2 major version of the open-source and cross-platform virtualization software.

VirtualBox 5.2 looks to be a great release that should allow users to export virtual machines to the Oracle Public Cloud so that they can easily use them on other machines without all the hustle of exporting VMs to external drives and then import them to another VirtualBox installation.

Another interesting change coming to VirtualBox 5.2 later this year is automatic, unattended guest OS installation, similar to the “Easy Install” feature found on the commercial VMware Workstation 6.5 and 7 virtualization software. Additionally, VirtualBox 5.2 will improve the Virtual Machine selector GUI.

The handling of Virtual Machine Tools and Global Tools was improve… (read more)

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