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I haven't used VBox in a while, but I've heard elsewhere that they've made a lot of changes.

Oracle today released version 7.1 of their VirtualBox virtualization software with an improved GUI, Wayland clipboard sharing support, OCI integration improvements, and other enhancements.

Since July VirtualBox 7.1 was publicly available in beta form while today marks the first stable release of Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1. VirtualBox 7.1 brings a "modernized look and feel" with its updated UI and presenting options for both basic and experienced user interfaces to reflect the amount of settings exposed.

VirtualBox 7.1 also enhances its OCI integration, the Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack is now under a PUEL license, a new NAT engine with IPv6 support, Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs from macOS on Apple Silicon, Linux host/guest support for Wayland clipboard sharing, initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts/guests via the clipboard, and much better screen recording performance.

That PUEL license still sounds very restrictive.

VirtualBox 7.1 also upgrades to using the Qt6 toolkit, the Python 2 bindings have been deprecated, better Python 3 compatibility, and many bug fixes.
Downloads and more details on today's VirtualBox 7.1 stable release via VirtualBox.org.

From phoronix.com

Yeah, I haven't looked at VirtualBox in a long time. They pissed me off permanently by not keeping up with current kernels (modules need fixing etc.)

QT6... I've been successfully keeping that off my system by not installing anything that can't compile without it. Once EVERYTHING that uses QT has switched to QT6 I will, but I'm not maintaining both 5 and 6 (and I prefer 5 for applications).

So the whole thing is under PUEL now? It used to be just their extensions with a restrictive license. That's not even close to the open source spirit. Not even "freeware". A personal or educational license for ONE computer with no more than one client connected.

I found this on their website:

This VirtualBox Extension Pack Personal Use and Educational License governs your access to and use of the VirtualBox Extension Pack. It does not apply to the VirtualBox base package and/or its source code, which are licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License “GPL”).

OK, so it is just the extensions licensed like that. (that's actually similar to the way they were licensed before though I don't think it was called the "PUEL")