VirtualBox

VirtualBox 7.2.20 (released September 22 2026)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:
Windows Host: Fixed regression causing VMs to fail with VERR_SUP_VP_FOUND_EXEC_MEMORY (​github:gh-870)

VirtualBox 7.2.18 (released September 15 2026)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:
VMM: Fixed Windows 11 on ARM guests crashing with a blue screen after restoring from a saved state
GUI: Fixed German and Traditional Chinese translations (​github:gh-847, ​github:gh-809)
Storage: Fixed data corruption in VDI differencing images after writing full blocks of zeroes and reopening the image (​github:gh-850)
Graphics: Fixed a VM process crash that could occur on Linux hosts with 3D acceleration enabled (​github:gh-829)
Shared Clipboard: Fixed the first character being removed from filenames when copying files located directly in a filesystem root
Linux Host: Fixed builds across the RHEL 9.8 file-open API transition (​github:gh-830)
Linux Host: Fixed builds for AMD systems where FRED is not available (Intel KVM only, ​github:gh-784, ​github:gh-835)
Linux Host: Fixed issues with Kernel 7.3 compilation
Linux Host: Preserved the shared DKMS directory during uninstallation (​github:gh-826)
Linux Host and Guest: Added support for RHEL 10.3 kernel (​github:gh-833)
Linux Guest: Fixed builds for kernel 6.12.103 (​github:gh-845)
12 months ago

VirtualBox 7.2.16 (released August 18 2026)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:
GUI: Updated Catalan translations
GUI: Fixed OVF import warning visibility
GUI: Added graceful handling of inaccessible VMs
Graphics: VMSVGA 3D performance improvements
Video Recording: Fixed a hang when stopping recording after a large number of display updates
Host: OpenSSL 4.0 build fixes (​github:gh-794)
Linux Host: Support for FRED (​github:gh-784)
Linux Host and Guest: Improvements in shared clipboard handling in Wayland
Linux Guest: Fixed support for RHEL 9.8 kernels ​(​github:gh-732, ​​github:gh-771)
11 months ago

VirtualBox 7.2.14 (released July 21 2026)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:
VMM: Avoided querying/setting xcr0 for CPUs without xsave feature when using Windows Hyper-V as the virtualization engine
Windows installer: Added support for detecting the Visual C++ runtime via the servicing infrastructure (​github:gh-723)
Windows Host: Fixed clipboard handling of Unicode formats (​github:gh-677)
Linux Host: Added initial support for kernel 7.2
Linux Guest: Fixed support for updated RHEL 9.8 and 9.9 kernels
UEFI: Fixed possible bug check and reboot of Windows 11 when updating Secure Boot DBX entries
BIOS: Simplified build prerequisites, NASM 2.16 or later is now usable for everything (​github:gh-520)
10 months ago

VirtualBox 7.2.12 (released June 30 2026)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:
Windows Guest: Added DX11 performance improvements and fixes
Linux Host: Fixed kernel panic (​github:gh-711, ​github:gh-712)
Linux Host and Guest: Fixed various NASM build issues (​github:gh-520)

VirtualBox 7.2.10 (released June 16 2026)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:
VMM: Fixed issue when CentOS 10 VM was not booting due to the message "Fatal glibc error: CPU does not support x86-64-v3" (​github:gh-642)
Devices/EFI: Fixed booting issue when ARM VM had less than 1024 MiB of RAM assigned (​github:gh-679)
USB: Fixed issue when it was not possible to attach USB device to headless VM on Apple Silicon/macOS 26.4.1 (​github:gh-631)
Storage: Fixed issue when VIRTIO-SCSI device was not recognized as SSD device by guest system (​github:gh-634)
Network: Fixed issue in E1000 emulation code which triggered debug log creation (​github:gh-645)
Network: Fixed issue in E1000 emulation code which prevented OS/2 guest from booting (​github:gh-683)
Linux Host: Fixed issue when VMs could not be started due to kernel oops (​github:gh-639)
Linux Host and Guest: Fixed issue when kernel modules were failing to build with openSUSE 16.0 kernel
Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for kernel 7.1
Linux Host and Guest: Added extra fixes for RHEL 9.8 kernel (​github:gh-676)
Linux Host and Guest: Added possibility to build source code using NASM instead of YASM as the assembler (​github:gh-520)
Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for Extended Data Control Protocol for clipboard sharing with Plasma on Wayland guests (​github:gh-33)
Linux Guest Additions: Added extra fixes for preventing vboxvideo kernel module build with kernel version 7.0 and newer (​github:gh-655)
OS/2 Guest Additions: Fixed issue when Shared Folders automount and clipboard sharing stopped working (​github:gh-551)
9 months ago

VirtualBox 7.2.8 (released April 21 2026)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:
VMM: Fixed issue which caused a Guru Meditation with VERR_IEM_IPE_4 if the guest was trying to execute the wrong hypercall instruction but injected a UD exception instead (​github:gh-616)
NAT Network: Fixed issue when internal DNS server could not be reached
Graphics: Fixed issue when mouse cursor did not change shape by context in Ubuntu 25.10 / Wayland (​github:gh-464)
Main: Fixed crash on FreeBSD 16.0 shutdown with multiple devices attached to LSI Logic SAS controller (​github:gh-538)
IPRT: Merged Github pull request 503 (fix: infinite loop in vsscanf whitespace processing). github-merge-author: lachlanharrisdev
Unattended: General improvements
Linux Host: Added initial support for kernels 6.19 and 7.0 (​github:gh-467, ​github:gh-623)
Linux Host: Added support for guest time accounting (​github:gh-2)
Linux Host and Guest: Introduced additional fixes for RHEL 10.1 and 10.2 kernels (​github:gh-455)
Linux Host and Guest: Added support for UEK9 kernel on Oracle Linux 9
Linux Host and Guest: Added improvements to make 'rcvboxdrv/rcvboxadd setup' and installation process faster
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when clipboard sharing was not possible in combination of Wayland guest and Windows host (​github:gh-33)
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when last character was not pasted into Windows host clipboard when copying from Wayland guest (bug:22339)
Windows Guest: Fixed issue when Windows 11 guest experienced BSOD - DRIVER_OVERRAN_STACK_BUFFER (​github:gh-590)
UEFI: Fixed errors with secure boot certificate updates and Windows 11 guests (​github:gh-133)
DMI: Fixed issue when 0.0 value was provided for the BIOS release and BIOS firmware version numbers so Windows did not populate the registry keys under HKLM\HARDWARE\System\BIOS which some components rely on (bug:21943)
7 months ago

VirtualBox 7.2.6 (released January 20 2026)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:
VMM: Fixed issue when VM process was crashing during RHEL5 guest boot
VMM: Fixed issue when VMX nested-guest VM-entry was checking the wrong VM-execution control bit in the virtual VMCS (​github:gh-313)
VMM: Fixed issue when VM was crashing on start after recent Windows update (KB5066793) (​github:gh-360)
VMM: Fixed issue when guest process was crashing inside Windows guest on AMD system (​github:gh-400)
VMM: Fixed issue when VM process was crashing on Windows host (​github:gh-426, ​github:gh-407, ​github:gh-404, ​github:gh-369, ​github:gh-238, ​github:gh-207, ​github:gh-187, ​github:gh-178)
VMM: Fixed Guru Meditation issue on VM start on Windows host (​github:gh-346)
VMM: Fixed issue when VM was failing to shut down on Windows 11 ARM host (​github:gh-416)
VMM: Fixed issue when booting Red Hat 6.1 i386 was failing on AMD Zen4 Windows 11 Pro host (​github:gh-466)
GUI: Added fixes for full-screen support in multi-monitor case (​github:gh-197, ​github:gh-243)
GUI: Fixed issue when downloading update files was failing (​github:gh-327, ​github:gh-372)
GUI: Fixed issue when list of VMs was not properly displayed in Resource Manager tab (​github:gh-364)
GUI: Fixed issue when with switching between light/dark modes on macOS host (​github:gh-457)
GUI: Fixed issue when storage controller type list was displayed incorrectly (​github:gh-413)
DevACPI: Fixed issue with file path key names for Dsdt/Ssdt (​github:gh-381)
DevACPI: Added change to make OemTabId configurable using AcpiOemTabId option (​github:gh-383)
NAT: Fixed issue with high CPU usage when VM was using NAT (​github:gh-356)
RDP: The VRDP server was moved to the open source base package
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This page lists all changes of the VirtualBox 7.2 Downloads.
VirtualBox 7.2.4 (released October 21 2025)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:
GUI: Fixed VirtualBox VM Manager crash when host was resuming from sleep (​github:gh-121, ​github:gh-170)
GUI: Updated native language support for Traditional Chinese, Greek, Swedish, Hungarian and Indonesian translations
NAT: Fixed issue when multiple port forwarding rules affected NAT functionality (​github:gh-232)
Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.18
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for RHEL 9.6 and 9.7 kernels (​github:GH-12)
Windows Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for issue when installation was failing in Windows XP SP2 guest (​github:GH-142)
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VirtualBox 7.2.2 (released September 10 2025)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:
VMM: Fixed issue when VM was not able to start on Windows Arm host (issue ​github:gh-8)
GUI: Fixed VBox Manager crash when some VM has a lot of snapshots (issue ​github:gh-119)
GUI: Fixed issue when error notifications could not be displayed on snapshot deletion (issue ​github:gh-75)
GUI: Fixed VBox Manager crash while attempting to show error notifications too early (issues ​github:gh-135 and ​github:gh-171)
GUI: Fixed VBox Manager crash while removing all VMs from VM list
GUI: Fixed VBox Manager freeze on Linux hosts at startup or while attempting to add a VM (issues ​github:gh-70 and ​github:gh-168)
GUI: Fixed VBox Manager layout bug with too strict size constraints (issue ​github:gh-87)
GUI: Updated VBox VM network status-bar indicator tooltip (IP address) on guest additions change (issue ​github:gh-179)
GUI: Added possibility for Windows 11 host to use legacy light/dark themes from Windows 10 (issues ​github:gh-137 and ​github:gh-151)
GUI: Forcing xdgdesktopportal platform theme on Linux when org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop DBus service is available (issues ​github:gh-138 and ​github:gh-150)
Network (NAT, DNS): Fixed potential issue where a nameserver in the 127/8 network could have been passed to the guest (issue ​github:gh-136)
Network: Added a new experimental type of e1000 adapter (82583V). It requires the ICH9 chipset, since MSIs are not supported by PIIX3
USB: Fixed passing through USB devices exposed over USB/IP (issue ​github:gh-192)
USB Webcam: The virtual USB webcam is now part of the open source base package
Arm host: Improved high CPU usage for idling VMs (issue ​github:gh-34)
Linux host: Use KVM APIs on kernel 6.16.0 and newer for acquiring/releasing VT-x (issue ​github:gh-81, ​github:gh-139 and ​github:gh-141)
macOS host: Fixed internal networking, including NAT networks on macOS (7.2.0 regression; issue ​github:gh-140)
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Changelog for VirtualBox 7.2
All branches: 7.2 · 7.1 · 7.0 · 6.1 · 6.0 · 5.2 · 5.1 · 5.0 · 4.3 · 4.2 · 4.1 · 4.0
VirtualBox 7.2.0 (released August 14 2025)
GUI: Moved global and VM tools from hamburger menus to global tools taskbar (vertically on the left) and the VM tools tabs (horizontally above the right hand panel) to make them easier to reach
Windows/Arm host: Arm virtualization of VMs added, in the unified Windows installer package
Arm host: Virtualization of Windows 11/Arm VMs
Linux host: Video decoding acceleration when 3D is enabled
Windows/Arm guest: Guest additions for new OS type Windows 11/Arm
macOS Arm host: Experimental 3D acceleration support using DXMT, removing the previous non working solution using DXVK on top of MoltenVK. 3D acceleration is not supported on macOS hosts using Intel CPUs anymore.
Storage: The NVMe storage controller emulation is now part of the open source base package
In addition, the following items were fixed or added:
Arm VMs: Note that the saved state of Arm VMs from VirtualBox 7.1 is incompatible with VirtualBox 7.2, so please shut down such VMs in saved state before upgrading to 7.2 (snapshots with associated saved state created with 7.1 will no longer work with 7.2)
VMM: Improved x86_64 and Arm CPU feature reporting when using Windows Hyper-V as the virtualization engine
VMM: Added xsave/xrestor instruction handling when using Windows/x86_64 Hyper-V as the virtualization engine, offering the x86_64-v3 instruction set extensions (including AVX and AVX2) on recent CPUs
VMM: Fixed issue when X86_64-v3 features were not passed to the guest (​github:gh-36)
VMM/HM: Fixed Nested Virtualization feature on Intel CPUs
GUI: Fixed a bug in clone VM wizard which made impossible to include snapshots in clone result (​github:GH-59)
GUI: Polished Preferences and Settings pages, NLS fixing
GUI: Improved handling of keyboard LEDs in the Soft Keyboard
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