Elementary OS 8.1 VM Images Available for VirtualBox and VMware

Elementary team released the latest stable version of their operating system back in December 2025 “We released elementary OS 8 last November with a new Secure Session—powered by Wayland—that ensures applications respect your privacy and consent, a brand new Dock with productive multitasking and window management features, expanded access to cross-platform apps, a revamped updates experience, and new features and settings that empower our diverse community through Inclusive Design. Over the last year we’ve continued to build upon that work to deliver new features and fix issues based on your feedback, plus we’ve improved support for a range of devices including HiDPI and Multi-touch devices. For the initial release of OS 8, we kept the Classic Session as the default session type to make sure that the apps and features you rely on would continue to work as you expect, with the option to try a new Secure Session if it interested you. One of the first updates we made to the Dock was to bring back a few things you told us that you missed from Plank, the previous dock on elementary OS 7 and before. In OS 8 we split updates into two distinct places: app updates which stay in AppCenter and never require a restart to install, and system updates which now appear in System Settings and always require a restart to install…” You can read complete release announcement here.

We are providing you virtual images for latest version of Elementary OS 8.1 for VirtualBox and VMware.

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