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VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 3 Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Virtualization on 7 May 2015 at 05:09 PM EDT. 3 Comments

The third beta to VirtualBox 5.0 is now available. VirtualBox 5.0 is a big step forward to Oracle's virtualization software and adds PV support to Windows/Linux guests, XHCI controller support for USB 3.0 devices, bi-directional drag-and-drop to guests, and more.

VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 3 brings more fixes over the earlier beta releases. There's XSAVE/AVX/AVX2 extensions now exposed to the guest when available, GUI improvements for encryption handling, improved volume control, fixed SB16 playback, and a variety of other improvements went in.

Details on VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 3 can be found via the release announcement at VirtualBox.org.

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