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VirtualBox 6.0 Released With Better HiDPI Support, VMSVGA 3D Graphics On Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Oracle on 18 December 2018 at 05:55 PM EST. 23 Comments

Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.0 is now officially available as a big feature release to end out 2018.

VirtualBox 6.0 is a big update with its support for exporting virtual machines to the Oracle Cloud, a file manager for host/guest file copies, OS/2 shared folder support, better audio/video recording support of guest VMs, enables VMSVGA graphics by default for Linux guests as emulation of the VMware SVGA II graphics adapter, user-interface refinements including much better HiDPI support, various audio improvements, support up through the Linux 4.20 kernel, and a variety of other improvements and fixes.

More details on VirtualBox 6.0.0 are available from VirtualBox.org along with the downloads for Linux, macOS, Solaris, and Windows.

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