Virtualbox in Repositories

Any idea when Virtualbox 7.1 will be available in the repositories. It is available in the AUR but installing from the AUR poses some risks. Thank you.

Virtualbox 7.1 is already in Testing & Unstable branches. If you need it urgently, you could switch to Testing (or Unstable) branch (note: this will also update your system to Plasma 6.1.5):

sudo pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch testing

sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack 5 && sudo pacman -Syu

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Thank you.

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I am only going to add this here, because I find many Linux users just are not aware of the existance of virt-manager, Which can offer better performance in VM’s.

I made a tutorial on how to install it a while back, link here: DeLinuxCoLinux Workstation - Form Following FunctionVirtual Machine Manager w/UEFI support

I am not saying you should not use VirtualBox, it is just good to know there are opensource options to VirtualBox.

-John

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