VirtualBox 7.1 supports macOS ARM64 hosts

A quick post: the latest VirtualBox adds Apple macOS ARM64 host support !

Back when I had a mac with an Intel chip, I was a heavy VirtualBox user. Being able to run multiple virtual machines let me quickly use & test all sorts of operating systems & configurations. I could clone machines. I could rollback changes. However since moving to a mac with an Apple Silicon chip, I have been using containers emulated under colima. As good as that is, sometimes I missed the full OS GUI experience. Now with Virtualbox 7.1 it’s back!

If you’re new to VirtualBox, just remember the magic hotkey which lets you do things like go to fullscreen with a keystroke. This key is shown at the bottom of every running guest window. On macOS the default hotkey is the left Command key.

Download VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/

The changelog is at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

You can create virtual machines with many different OSs. I mostly use Oracle Linux. The ISOs are at https://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-isos.html