If you use Vagrant and the VirtualBox provider you need to make sure to upgrade Vagrant to the latest version (>= 1.7.3) to be able to use VirtualBox 5.0.This is just a friendly reminder in case you missed it. Version 5.0 works seamlessly with current versions of Vagrant. After installing the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack via the VirtualBox Preferences you can enable encryption for your virtual machine by selecting the encryption cipher and entering a password for your VM.

Later, you can attach the UI again.įrom a security standpoint VirtualBox now makes it possible to encrypt disk images, similar to that offered by WMWare. This enables you to detach the UI from your VM at any time without stopping the VM. Additionally the VM process is now started headless while the user interface (UI) runs as a separate process. Drag and drop support works for the Windows, Linux and Solaris guest OSes. You can Drag and drop into a VM or from the VM to your host OS.

Usability is improved through support for Drag and drop between host and guest OS.

Finally the guest OS can now recognize USB 3.0 devices and use them at full speed. Second, a more comprehensive set of CPU instructions are exposed to the guest OS running in the VM which enables applications to make use of more hardware instruction sets. Firstly VirtualBox now support Paravirtualization allowing it to leverage built-in virtualization support on guest OSes such as Windows. The performance improvements come from three main enhancements. Additionally to the new features it contains more than 50 bugfixes. This is the first major upgrade since 4.3.0 was released in 2013, and offers improvements to performance, usability, and security. After three months of beta testing, Oracle released version 5.0 of their Oracle VM VirtualBox on July 9th, 2015.

Virtualbox extension pack 5.0