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Has anyone tried any of the 7.x releases? It sounded buggy according to this 9 month old thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualbox/comments/y56gpv/anything_

Has anyone tried any of the 7.x releases? It sounded buggy according to this 9 month old thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualbox/comments/y56gpv/anything_i_should_know_before_upgrading_from/ https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualbox/comments/y56gpv/anything...

deaddodo 3y ago
I use 7.0.x for an old Debian install (3.1), FreeBSD and Windows (all guests, the host is Windows 11 or Fedora 37). All seem to work fine, at least none of the major issues that thread brings up (3daccel on windows, broken efi, etc).
cshokie 3y ago
Compatibility with Windows seems a lot better in 7 compared to 6, both as host and as guest. They also seem to have added a number of features such as secure boot. It seems that there was quite a time gap between 6 and 7 so a whole lot of changes built up. Whether those things matter to you, or not, is in the eye of the beholder.
- rincebrain 3y ago
  I mean, Secure Boot went in in a furious rush because otherwise Windows 11 wouldn't boot stock, heh.
  - cshokie 3y ago
    VirtualBox 7 came out almost exactly one year after the initial release of Windows 11. The bypass of the Secure Boot requirement was needed for quite a while. October 2022 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0 October 2021 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11
    - rincebrain 3y ago
      Sure, I know it was required for a while, but ISTR there being a very visible burst of work toward it and TPM support right after that requirement change became public.
TheRoque 3y ago
I tried it last week, and it was a terrible experience. I used one of the official windows eval VMs, it was crashing all the time, and when it ran, it was laggy, with a lot of visual bugs. My guest is a Fedora laptop with AMD CPU and GPU, and running the same VM with VMWare worked like a charm.
- londons_explore 3y ago
  Virtual box seems to have a lot of issues with amd GPU's. Whatever host or guest OS I use, I always find graphical bugs inside the guest VM. Some programs like Chrome seem to fall back to some software rendering compatibility mode, despite 3d acceleration being enabled, and things that don't fall back have issues with some things being overly transparent, like the windows start menu.
treve 3y ago
I've had issues with 7.x. Can't boot anything on my Fedora host.
stephenr 3y ago
I lost about a day trying to debug packer builds of vagrant boxes for vbox last week. The vbox builds were glacially slow and would reliably fail at rebuilding the tools dkms components. That was on 7.0.8 I think. "Lucky" me 7.0.10 was released that same day, but didn't show up in an update check. I just happened to see the reference on their site to 7.0.10 and it resolved both issues from the previous day. I don't have much day to day use to report with it though, I don't use the vbox images much myself.
bayindirh 3y ago
I'm running 7.0.8 both directly and via Vagrant. Everything is working as it should in my case. P.S.: I'm using Debian's packages via unstable.
jgaa 3y ago
I tried it when I re-installed my workstation with Kubuntu 23.04. It was a shit-show of invalid links and errors when I tried to get the extensions and runtime modules for the VM's. After about 45 minutes I purged it and installed libvirt and Virtual Machine Manager.
squarefoot 3y ago
I'm using it now and appears to work well on Manjaro, but I had to roll back from a rt kernel I was trying because it couldn't build the necessary modules. I would migrate to virt-manager in a second if directory and clipboard sharing wasn't that convoluted requiring multiple reads/watches of manuals and videos to do what on Virtualbox has been a lot more intuitive for ages. (solution: never ever let developers design user interfaces :^)
progx 3y ago
I had to reinstall all machines from V6 in V7. None (Linux and Windows) worked really good, crashes all the time. Fresh new install works good. Only Windows-Guest under Linux-Host had some graphical issues.
shaicoleman 3y ago
Installing the older 6.1.x guest additions and disabling GPU acceleration fixed all the bugs for me guests
daneel_w 3y ago
I've been using 7.0.x for over half a year, currently on 7.0.8, on a Windows host. Most of my guests were installed during 6.x and have continued to run fine on 7.0.x, and new guests made in 7.0.x run and behave normally. No problems on my end.

deaddodo 3y ago

I use 7.0.x for an old Debian install (3.1), FreeBSD and Windows (all guests, the host is Windows 11 or Fedora 37). All seem to work fine, at least none of the major issues that thread brings up (3daccel on windows, broken efi, etc).

cshokie 3y ago

Compatibility with Windows seems a lot better in 7 compared to 6, both as host and as guest. They also seem to have added a number of features such as secure boot. It seems that there was quite a time gap between 6 and 7 so a whole lot of changes built up. Whether those things matter to you, or not, is in the eye of the beholder.

rincebrain 3y ago
I mean, Secure Boot went in in a furious rush because otherwise Windows 11 wouldn't boot stock, heh.
- cshokie 3y ago
  VirtualBox 7 came out almost exactly one year after the initial release of Windows 11. The bypass of the Secure Boot requirement was needed for quite a while. October 2022 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0 October 2021 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11
  - rincebrain 3y ago
    Sure, I know it was required for a while, but ISTR there being a very visible burst of work toward it and TPM support right after that requirement change became public.

TheRoque 3y ago

I tried it last week, and it was a terrible experience. I used one of the official windows eval VMs, it was crashing all the time, and when it ran, it was laggy, with a lot of visual bugs. My guest is a Fedora laptop with AMD CPU and GPU, and running the same VM with VMWare worked like a charm.

londons_explore 3y ago
Virtual box seems to have a lot of issues with amd GPU's. Whatever host or guest OS I use, I always find graphical bugs inside the guest VM. Some programs like Chrome seem to fall back to some software rendering compatibility mode, despite 3d acceleration being enabled, and things that don't fall back have issues with some things being overly transparent, like the windows start menu.

treve 3y ago

I've had issues with 7.x. Can't boot anything on my Fedora host.

stephenr 3y ago

I lost about a day trying to debug packer builds of vagrant boxes for vbox last week. The vbox builds were glacially slow and would reliably fail at rebuilding the tools dkms components. That was on 7.0.8 I think. "Lucky" me 7.0.10 was released that same day, but didn't show up in an update check. I just happened to see the reference on their site to 7.0.10 and it resolved both issues from the previous day. I don't have much day to day use to report with it though, I don't use the vbox images much myself.

bayindirh 3y ago

I'm running 7.0.8 both directly and via Vagrant. Everything is working as it should in my case. P.S.: I'm using Debian's packages via unstable.

jgaa 3y ago

I tried it when I re-installed my workstation with Kubuntu 23.04. It was a shit-show of invalid links and errors when I tried to get the extensions and runtime modules for the VM's. After about 45 minutes I purged it and installed libvirt and Virtual Machine Manager.

squarefoot 3y ago

I'm using it now and appears to work well on Manjaro, but I had to roll back from a rt kernel I was trying because it couldn't build the necessary modules. I would migrate to virt-manager in a second if directory and clipboard sharing wasn't that convoluted requiring multiple reads/watches of manuals and videos to do what on Virtualbox has been a lot more intuitive for ages. (solution: never ever let developers design user interfaces :^)

progx 3y ago

I had to reinstall all machines from V6 in V7. None (Linux and Windows) worked really good, crashes all the time. Fresh new install works good. Only Windows-Guest under Linux-Host had some graphical issues.

shaicoleman 3y ago

Installing the older 6.1.x guest additions and disabling GPU acceleration fixed all the bugs for me guests

daneel_w 3y ago

I've been using 7.0.x for over half a year, currently on 7.0.8, on a Windows host. Most of my guests were installed during 6.x and have continued to run fine on 7.0.x, and new guests made in 7.0.x run and behave normally. No problems on my end.