VirtualBox 6.1 Beta 2 Released As Oracle's Next Virtualization Update Approaches

Oracle today released their second public beta of the forthcoming VirtualBox 6.1 virtualization software.

While VirtualBox 6.1 is referred to by Oracle engineers as a "minor release", it is fairly notable with its changes over VirtualBox 6.0:

- Better support for nested hardware virtualization on Intel CPUs.

- The VirtualBox 6.1 run-time now supports up to 1024 CPUs.

- A variety of user-interface improvements.

- Better import/export support to Oracle Cloud.

- Dropping support for running VMs without hardware virtualization support.

- Various Windows host fixes/improvements.

- VirtualBox's EFI code has been updated as well as adding NVRAM support to "improve compatibility with OSes significantly."

More details on VirtualBox 6.1 Beta 2 via VirtualBox.org.