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VirtualBox 5.1 RC1 Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Virtualization on 7 July 2016 at 06:37 PM EDT. 6 Comments

Oracle has released the first RC development release of the upcoming VirtualBox 5.1.

VirtualBox 5.1 has been migrating the GUI to Qt5, new APIC implementations, more MMIO emulation, improved GUI performance, better Python 3 support, and more.

VirtualBox 5.1 RC1 has a number of VMM fixes, GUI fixes, new audio code, VBoxBugReport is now shipped with the installers, and various OS-specific fixes/improvements. VirtualBox users can learn more about 5.1 RC1 via this VirtualBox.org thread.

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