VirtualBox is Tor hostile

After a break I have the need to use Whonix again. I always used the VirtualBox version, so I went to their site to download it. Only to discover that Oracle and VirtualBox by extension became Tor hostile. It is not possible anymore to download VirtualBox over Tor Browser, The website of VirtualBox returns a 502 Gateway Error.

Is this problem known in the Whonix community? Do the Whonix developers acknowledge it as a big problem? Are there any plans to provide FOSS alternatives (maybe qemu?) as backend for Whonix?

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Cannot reproduce this.

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it has always been like this

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An alternative to VirtualBox is KVM and you can download it freely in your Linux distribution’s package manager over Tor