LHC@home

VirtualBox 7.1.0 (released September 09 2024)
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.1#v00

This is a major update. The following new features were added:

GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality
OCI Integration: Performance dashboard now shows resource usage for cloud VMs
OCI Integration: Clone compute instances
OCI Integration: Reset compute instances
Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Update to the PUEL license, removing the evaluation option. For evaluation use of the Extension Pack, please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires
NAT: New engine with IPv6 support
macOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs
Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808)
Shared Clipboard: Added initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts / guests. This requires the 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed. See User Guide for known limitations
Screen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests

See https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=6211&postid=50621

Just an FYI: I have auto-updates for VirtualBox disabled, as I don't want to run the latest version because of potential disruption to tasks, I'm also running on Windows 10.
However this morning I noticed I have a few failed LHC tasks, twelve in total, and three more failed ones awaiting upload, because a VirtualBox instance couldn't be created. Seems that some process updated VB to 7.1.0 overnight and the machine required a reboot to allow the update to complete.
I haven't been able to track down what application installed the update, Windows event log not offering any clues.
I also haven't had any new tasks, since the update, to see if I experience the potential issues listed in the linked thread.

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