VirtualBox 7.0 with macOS M1 M2 support and Windows 11 support

Don't forget to disable the Oracle tracking that phones home when you use vbox.

Larry is a family friend, so I don't worry about Big Red's lawyers banging my door down, but not everyone can count on his goodwill. Oracle has a history of going after vbox users in search of license fees.

This is an interesting reversal on their initial "we are an x86 only virtualization product" stance when people asked about plans around the initial M1 release. :)

Around 6.0 they broke the GUI for dark themes, now grey on white. Been struggling to read it for a couple of years now. Will it ever get fixed?

I think Apple probably got it right with supporting Rosetta 2 on Linux. As long as your x86 apps run properly, you probably don't have much of a reason to care that they're running in translation with an ARM CPU and OS kernel.

The thing I wonder about, which I haven't tried, is: is it possible to run x86 containers (such as docker images) with Rosetta 2 on an ARM kernel?

It seems to me like it should be possible; perhaps it already works?

Download is here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Linux, Windows, and MacOS

how does one invoke rosetta when launching x86 binaries from an arm linux running in a vm ??