VirtualBox 7.1 Released With Improved UI, Wayland Clipboard Sharing

Oracle today released version 7.1 of their VirtualBox virtualization software with an improved GUI, Wayland clipboard sharing support, OCI integration improvements, and other enhancements.

Since July VirtualBox 7.1 was publicly available in beta form while today marks the first stable release of Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1. VirtualBox 7.1 brings a "modernized look and feel" with its updated UI and presenting options for both basic and experienced user interfaces to reflect the amount of settings exposed.

VirtualBox 7.1 also enhances its OCI integration, the Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack is now under a PUEL license, a new NAT engine with IPv6 support, Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs from macOS on Apple Silicon, Linux host/guest support for Wayland clipboard sharing, initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts/guests via the clipboard, and much better screen recording performance.

VirtualBox 7.1 also upgrades to using the Qt6 toolkit, the Python 2 bindings have been deprecated, better Python 3 compatibility, and many bug fixes.

Downloads and more details on today's VirtualBox 7.1 stable release via VirtualBox.org.