Elementary OS 8 VM Images Available for VirtualBox and VMware

Elementary team announced the latest stable version of their operating system “With OS 8, we’ve focused in on: Creating a new Secure Session that ensures applications respect your privacy and require your consent; A brand new Dock with productive multitasking and window management features; Empowering our diverse community through Inclusive Design. Privacy, Security & Consent: Over the past several years we’ve been building features to improve the trust relationship with your computer by requiring your explicit informed consent and disallowing untrustworthy behavior on a technical level. OS 8 will use the Classic Session by default and apps will work and behave as they always have. Application settings has an all-new design that expands your control over permissions. We now support adjusting the run-time permissions in Flatpak’s Permissions Store—these are set when an app explicitly asks for your permission to access a feature while it’s running. Updates in AppCenter will never require a restart, while updates in System Settings will always require a restart. Multitasking & Window Management: When planning for the Secure Session we realized that our Dock would need to be completely rewritten. Hardware Support: OS 8 includes the latest long-term support Hardware Enablement stack from Ubuntu, including Linux 6.8. We’re also shipping with Pipewire which improves latency and bluetooth audio quality while being architected for the world of sandboxed Flatpak apps running in the Secure Session. This is an especially big deal for folks doing audio production tasks on elementary OS…” You can read complete release announcement here.

We are providing you virtual images for latest version of Elementary OS 8 for VirtualBox and VMware.

You can download VDI and VMDK images for VirtualBox & VMware from here.