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VirtualBox 5.1 Officially Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Virtualization on 12 July 2016 at 03:36 PM EDT. 14 Comments

Oracle announced the release this afternoon of VM VirtualBox 5.1.

VirtualBox 5.1 ports its user-interface to using Qt5, offers better support for Python 3, boasts various VMM improvements, HDA audio support for newer Linux guests, and a wealth of other improvements and fixes.

If VirtualBox is your preferred means of virtualization with VMs regardless of OS, you can learn more about the VirtualBox 5.1 release via VirtualBox.org.

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