Completely removed the use of GTKBuilder and Glade. The GUI code has now been
entirely re-written. While there may not be too many visible changes to GUI
there might be some regressions and other bugs due to the massive amount of
code-change. This needed to happen before any significant feature changes
could take place.
Added support for running RemoteBox in a web browser by running the command
remotebox-web
Added button to clear the message log
Added ability to reset the secure boot keys to the defaults for a guest
Added OS icon for Windows 2025
Added an info button in the RemoteBox preferences to show detected RDP and
VNC clients located in your command path
Various GUI tweaks
Updated the default RDP preset for mstsc to look for mstsc.exe isntead. This
should allow installations in WSL to use the native Microsoft Windows RDP
client as an option
Fixed coverting a virtual machine from BIOS to EFI firmware. NVRAM and
Platform keys are now created as needed
Fixed a 'Settings' tab caching issue. The wrong tab would sometimes be cached
leading to stale contents in the widgets
Fixed the initial GUI state for Disk Encryption in the Settings
Fixed HostOnly and HostOnly Named options being swapped around when setting
guest network settings
Fixed GTK3 initialisation happening too late in code execution
Fixed many problems with the Host-Only network dialog. Several of these were
likely regressions
Fixed the Reset menu item not working (regression)
Fixed the GUI not starting with appropriate widgets ghosted etc (regression)
Fixed handling of the internal network option in guest settings (regression)
Fixed importing appliance images (regression)
IMPORTANT: If you have a guest that won't open it's display, please see the Troubleshooting page
IMPORTANT: The perl modules File::Which and Regexp::Common are now required. Packagers should especially take note.
2024-11-17 : RemoteBox 3.4 released
This release is really to address a major RDP display issue
Set RDP auth method to negotiate when creating new guests (quick fix for the remote display not opening on newly created guests)
Changes to the xfreerdp, rdesktop and remmina presets to increase compatibility
IMPORTANT: If you have a guest that won't open it's display, please see the Troubleshooting page
2024-09-14 : RemoteBox 3.3 released
RemoteBox now requires VirtualBox 7.1.x
Updated OS icons
Added support for VirtioSound Audio Controller
Implemented refresh function for guest logs, the button was available but actually did nothing
Changed the default freerdp client preset. VirtualBox now issues self-signed certs on RDP connections, the new default ignores certificate verification
as RemoteBox cannot prompt you.
Added Remmina as a VNC/RDP client preset
Significant work on removing dependence on Glade and GTKBuilder.
IMPORTANT: VirtualBox now uses self-signed certs on RDP connections. You will need to reset your RDP settings in the RemoteBox Preferences -> Guest Display Tab, by selecting a preset
IMPORTANT: RemoteBox 3.3 requires the Perl module Time-HiRes to be installed if not already
IMPORTANT: RemoteBox 3.3 should run on ARM based Macs fine, but using ARM based Macs as the server is NOT supported
2024-05-05 : FreeRDP behaviour change
Newer versions of FreeRDP (xfreerdp) may prompt for the Domain and Password, preventing the display from automatically opening in RemoteBox.
The work around is to go into the RemoteBox preferences and add the following options /d: /p: onto the xfreerdp RDP client line. For example:
Started the process of moving away from Glade and implementing GUI code
natively. This is significant effort and involves a large amount of code
churn which will span many releases.
Added option to attach an ISO when creating a new guest
Added support for setting the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) types
TPM v1.2
TPM v2.0
Added support for setting Secure Boot (where supported)
Added support for the following network cards:
Novell NE2000
Novell NE1000
WD/SMC EtherCard Plus 16
WD/SMC EtherCard Plus
3Com EtherLink II
3Com EtherLink
Added support for the Windows Audio System (WAS)
Added support for USB Multi-Touch screen and pad
Added ability to edit an IPv4 Port Forwarding rule
Added ability to edit an IPv6 Port Forwarding rule
Added 'Devices' menu with items orignally in the 'Machine' menu
Added 'Actions' menu with items orignally in the 'Machine' menu
Added 'New Floppy Disk Image' to the 'Change Floppy' menu
Added 'Add Floppy Disk Image' to the 'Change Floppy' menu
Added 'Add Floppy Disk Image' to the menus when editing storage
menu when attaching storage in
Added 'Add Optical Disc Image' to the 'Change Optical Disc' menu
Added 'Add Optical Disc Image' to the menus when editing storage
The 'Devices' menu now pops up instead of the 'Machine' menu on an RMB event
on the guest list
The 'Change Floppy' and 'Change Optical Disc' menus are now usable with
guests that are powered off
Updated many operating system icons
Added several new dialog motifs
Various minor GUI tweaks
2022-01-16 : RemoteBox 3.1 released
Changed the RemoteBox logo
Various minor GUI tweaks
Added button to save the message log to a text file. Might be useful for
debugging purposes.
Fixed: Regression introduced in 3.0 caused Connection Profiles dialog to
essentially stop working correctly, potentially losing existing profiles in
the process.
Fixed: Regression introduced in 3.0 meant that NAT rules were not shown for
IPv4 and IPv6 networks
Fixed column sorting in the VMM (Virtual Media Manager)
Fixed various list selection bugs. The get_selected() method under GTK3
returns both the model and the iterator, not just the iterator as with GTK2
RemoteBox is no longer bundled with a PDF manual. Documentation is now
exclusively maintained on the RemoteBox web site.
2021-11-14 : RemoteBox 3.0 released
RemoteBox has been ported to Gtk3. Review the requirements before updating
to ensure your operating system is compatible.
2021-11-09 : RemoteBox 2.8 released
The changes don't really justify a release however this is likely to be the
last release of RemoteBox based on Gtk2 as RemoteBox is being ported to
Gtk3.
Removed hearbeat option as it's no longer required
Server memory bar updates changed to 58 seconds
Added option to bind the RDP/VNC server for a guest to a specific IP or
hostname.
Fixed copy and clone of disks. Regression caused by passsing incorrect
datatype to the API
Added OS icon for Windows 11
2020-10-24 : Added macOS Catalina Installation Video
A video has been added showing RemoteBox being installed under macOS Catalina.
2019-12-18 : RemoteBox 2.7 released
RemoteBox now requires VirtualBox 6.1.x
VirtualBox now requires hardware virtualization and no longer supports
software virtualization. Removed associated options from RemoteBox.
Removed option of setting the video side-channel quality for an RDP
connection. This option is largely unsupported by RDP clients and not
particularly useful.
Added support for the Virtio-SCSI controller
Added support for the AMD PCNet-ISA/NE2100 network card
Added support for nested hardware virtualization (VT-x/AMD-V) for supported
processors
Added toolbar buttons in the VMM to create new hard disk images, new floppy
disk images (from 360K to 2.88MB) and move media to new locations
Newly created floppy disk images can be optionally pre-formatted with FAT12
Added a menu option when attached storage for creating a new floppy disk
image and automatically attaching it
Added option to specify MAC address policy when importing an appliance
Added options to specify MAC address policy and include ISO files when
exporting an appliance
Added options to Keep disk UUIDs, specify MAC policy and keep disk names when
cloning a guest
Added OS icon for Windows 2019 64bit
Rewrote the copy and disk conversion code, should be cleaner and faster
Creating a new guest, now uses the ApplyDefaults API call which was broken
in previous versions of VirtualBox. This allows a lot of code cleanups and
faster guest creation