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CTOnews.com, Oct. 16, VirtualBox, developed by Oracle, is a popular free and open source virtual machine software that supports running virtual machines on Windows, macOS and Linux. This week, Oracle released VirtualBox 7.0, which not only brings a variety of new features and enhancements, but also adds Beta testing support for Apple Silicon Mac for the first time.

Running virtual machines on these devices will not be easy when the first Apple Silicon Mac is announced in 2020-especially when it comes to Windows virtual machines. Fortunately, the major macOS virtual machine programs have been updated to accommodate the latest Mac, and now VirtualBox has joined the ranks.

With VirtualBox 7, users can finally create and run virtual machines on Mac with Apple Silicon chips, including Apple's M1 and M2 chips. However, as Oracle pointed out in its updated official release notes, this is still a Beta feature under development. It may not work as expected.

CTOnews.com has learned that the latest VirtualBox update brings a number of other important enhancements. For example, virtual machines can now be fully encrypted, and cloud virtual machines can be managed as local devices. It also added support for DirectX 11 to get better 3D graphics on Windows, and abandoned support for older kernel extensions on macOS in favor of more modern API.

The update to VirtualBox version 7. 0 also fixes a large number of bug Bug. Oracle says the new version also makes the cloud networking capabilities of local virtual machines more reliable. Users can download VirtualBox 7.0on the official website of the platform. If you use a Mac with M1 or M2 chips, be sure to download the Arm64 Mac developer preview.

It is worth noting that there are other alternatives to running virtual machines on macOS, such as Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion.

"VirtualBox 7.0 release: support for full virtual machine encryption, new 3D graphics stack, etc."

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