Whonix VirtualBox Integration and Upgrades

[Patrick]

VirtualBox version 6.1.22 is now available from Whonix testers repository.

It will migrate over time to other Whonix repositories as per usual, see Package Upgrade Policy.

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Related:

• Installing VirtualBox on Debian 10 / Debian buster / buster-backports / fasttrack
• Challenges Installing VirtualBox

[Patrick]

Similar to above. VirtualBox version 6.1.26 is now available from Whonix testers repository .

[Patrick]

Similar to above. VirtualBox version 6.1.26 is available from Whonix stable repository for a few days now.

[Patrick]

please upload VirtualBox 6.1.38 to Debian fasttrack (#36) · Issues · Debian...

[Patrick]

• https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/VirtualBox#VirtualBox_Integration
• https://www.kicksecure.com/wiki/Dev/VirtualBox#VirtualBox_Integration

[Patrick]

Tor Browser crashing in Whonix VirtualBox since upgrade to Host Linux Kernel version 5.10.0-15

I have an issue with Tor Browser crashing in Whonix in debian virtualbox. The issue seems to be whonix related as I did the following after it started crashing: I upgraded debian to the latest. (only TZDATA needed upgrading, my system is alaways within a day of latest update) It still crashed I upgraded to the latest virtualbox and extensions pack (from 6.1.30 to 6.1.34) still crashed I downloaded latest tor browser on my workstation. Worked with no issue. I downloaded the same tor-browser wi…

[Patrick]

• new and improved wiki chapters:
  • VirtualBox Guest Additions Installation Sources
  • vbox-guest-installer
  • VirtualBox Guest Additions CD
  • Migration to Oracle Style VirtualBox Guest Additions
  • Migration to Debian Style VirtualBox Guest Additions Packages
  • Install VirtualBox from VirtualBox.org Repository
  • Linux Host Kernel versus Tor Browser and other Crashes
• Downloaded Debian -- Details of package virtualbox-guest-additions-iso in sid 6.1.38-1 and uploaded to Kicksecure and Whonix repository just now.

[Patrick]

extrepo - safely adding repos

sudo extrepo enable virtualbox

None of the license inclusion policies in virtualbox were enabled. Please edit /etc/extrepo/config.yaml and enable the required policies
…propagated at /usr/bin/extrepo line 123.

[Patrick]

enable https for VirtualBox repository (!191) · Merge requests · External...

[Patrick]

VirtualBox 7.0.0 not compatible with Whonix on macOS hosts

From the changelog: macOS host: Dropped all kernel extensions. VirtualBox relies fully on the hypervisor and vmnet frameworks provided by Apple now. At the moment the implementation lacks “Internal Networking” functionality. This will be provided at a later date. Unable to test but “Internal Networking” is what Whonix uses to communicate between VMs. Until the functionality is implemented, the 6.1 branch is still available and will be supported until December 2023. (I wanted to provide link…

VirtualBox 7.0.0 not compatible with Whonix on macOS hosts

That was fast. VirtualBox 7.0.2 is out: macOS hosts: Re-introduced support for internal networking, this is considered a bit experimental still

[Patrick]

miscellaneous development log

Debian linux kernel feature request: please provide linux-image-generic / linux-headers-generic

[Patrick]

VirtualBox 7.0.6 works great with Whonix.