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Oracle VM VirtualBox is cross-platform virtualization software. It allows users to extend their existing computer to run multiple operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Oracle Solaris, at the same time.
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.1.10
Release Date
6/3/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 7.1.10 (released June 03 2025)$$$$$$This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$VBoxManage: Fixed a crash when running guestcontrol run on Windows hosts (bug #22175)$$$Audio: Fixed device switching on Windows hosts (bug #22267)$$$Windows host installer: Fixed multiple installation entries in the Add or remove programs dialog and upgrade issues$$$Linux host: Fixed issue which caused VM Selector process crash due to missing libdl.so and libpthread.so libraries (bug #22193)$$$Linux host: Removed libIDL as a build time dependency when building VirtualBox from source code (bug #21169)$$$Linux guest and host: Added initial support for kernel 6.15 (bug #22420)$$$Linux guest: Added initial support for kernel 6.16-RC0$$$Linux guest and host: Fixed issue with building modules for UEK8 kernel on Oracle Linux 9 distribution$$$RDP: Fixed issue when it was not possible to paste clipboard buffer into a guest over RDP remote session
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.1.8
Release Date
5/15/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 7.1.8 (released April 15 2025)$$$$$$This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$VMM: Fixed issue when VM clock went backwards in rare circumstances (bug #22334)$$$GUI: Fixed issue when accelerated cursor image was not displayed correctly (bug #22096)$$$DevVirtioSCSI: Fixed issue with restoring saved state$$$Graphics: Fixed issue when assertion was triggered on restoring VM state if VMSVGA graphics adapter was used without 3D acceleration (bug #21955)$$$Main: Fixed issue when VBoxSVC was crashing on saving machine config through VirtualBox web service (bug #22259)$$$Main: Fixed issue when wireless network adapters could not be discovered on modern Linux distributions (bug #22362)$$$Main: Fixed issue when deleting running VM snapshot was leaving the .sav file on disk (bug #21345)$$$NAT: Fixed connectivity loss on Windows host (bug #22364)$$$VBoxManage: Updated User Manual to correct the VBoxManage modifyvm invocation for configuring a VM to use host-only networking (bug #22158)$$$VBoxManage: Fixed issue when it was not possible to set disk bandwidth with VBoxManage bandwidthctl command (bug #22328)$$$Windows installer: Automatically load the support driver after a successful installation (bug #22292)$$$Linux Host Installer: Fixed issue which sometimes resulted in installation failure due to incorrect check whether previous VirtualBox installation is running or not$$$Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxClient could crash in XWayland guest (bug #22345)$$$Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue which resulted in cursor image corruption when VM was using VBoxVGA graphics adapter$$$Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when installation could fail on the system which does not have X11 libraries installed$$$Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.14$$$Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 9.7 kernel$$$Linux Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for RHEL 9.4 kernel; (bug #22277)$$$Linux Guest Additions: Improved rcvboxadd status-kernel check$$$Windows installer: Various bugfixes for the new installation code$$$Windows installer: Implemented a new fatal error dialog with the ability to open the installer log file directly$$$Windows Guest Additions: Fixed mouse driver installation on Vista guests$$$Windows Guest Additions: Fixed uninstallation integrity issues (bug #22290)$$$Windows Guest Additions: Fixed driver installation error ERROR_AUTHENTICODE_TRUST_NOT_ESTABLISHED (bug #22300)$$$Windows Guest Additions: Fixed 100% CPU usage of VBoxTray which happened under certain circumstances (bug #22123)$$$Windows Guest Additions: Now also ships the VBoxAudioTest binary for performing guest audio testing / diagnosis$$$Windows Guest Additions: For older Windows versions (Windows 2000 to Windows 7) install alternative Shared Folder driver which avoids some compatibility glitches of the usual driver
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.1.6
Release Date
1/21/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 7.1.6 (released January 21 2025)$$$$$$This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$VMM: Fixed issue when Windows 11 24H2 guest was experiencing BSOD in rare conditions$$$GUI: Improved representation of disabled preferences contents (mask+font) when it is shown with certain Linux themes$$$GUI: Fixed issue when seamless mode was not properly enabled or disabled in appropriate time according to GA status events$$$GUI: Fixed rare crash on macOS hosts on application exit$$$GUI: Fixed small 7.1.4 regression in preferences windows when filter editor was not in focus$$$GUI: Introduced improvements in Advanced properties/settings dialog area$$$GUI: Restored missing functionality to change bridged adapter at VM startup if current one wasnt found$$$GUI: Fixed issue when Show action duplicates were created on macOS host in attempt to switch between running and powered off VMs$$$GUI: Fixed regression when 3D acceleration check-box was not available for certain guest OS and graphical controller types$$$GUI: Restored lost Help button for preferences windows on macOS$$$GUI: Restored lost Help button shortcuts for certain windows$$$GUI: Fixed issue when error message was shown when VM was starting in full-screen mode$$$VirtioNet: Fixed issue with re-negotiation of features after reset$$$Graphics: Fixed issue with Linux guest screen flickering when guest was using VMSVGA graphics adapter$$$VBoxManage: Added the ability to export and import VMs which contain an NVMe storage controller$$$VBoxManage: Fixed issue when it was not possible to set graphics controller to QemuRamFB using modifyvm command (bug #22232)$$$Main: Fixed issue when specifying custom proxy server in GUI settings had no effect$$$Network: Added changes which replaced NAT engines with libslirp$$$Guest OSes: Added OS type for Windows Server 2025$$$Linux guest and host: Added more fixes for UBSAN related warnings (bug #21877)$$$Linux guest and host: Added initial support for RHEL 9.6 kernel$$$Windows guests and host: Re-implemented driver installation$$$Solaris host: Removed the VirtualBox GUI shared objects libqgtk2styleVBox.so and libqgtk2VBox.so from the Solaris installation packages as they depend on GTK2 which is EOL and no longer supported$$$Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.13$$$Linux Guest Additions: vboxvideo: Added improvement for kernel 6.4 support and fixed issue when graphics could be frozen when using VBoxVGA adapter$$$Linux Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for kernel 6.12 in vboxvideo
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.1.4
Release Date
10/15/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 7.1.4 (released October 15 2024)$$$$$$This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$GUI: Added latest NLS update for Turkish; Indonesian and Italian languages$$$VMSVGA: Improved flickering; black screen and other screen update issues with recent Linux kernels (bug #21955)$$$NAT: Fixed issue with restoring 7.0.X saved state$$$VBoxManage: Fixed breakage of list vms and showvminfo for inaccessible VMs$$$Windows host: Fixed system DLL size checking which failed with Windows 11 24H2 and recent Insider Preview builds (bug #22162)$$$Linux Guest Additions: Introduce initial support for kernel 6.12 (NOTE: In kernel 6.12; KVM initializes virtualization on module loading by default. This prevents VirtualBox VMs from starting. In order to avoid this; either add kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0 parameter into kernel command line or unload corresponding kvm_XXX module)$$$Linux/Arm Guest Additions: Added possibility to automatically upgrade Guest Additions via Devices menu$$$EFI: Added missing LsiLogic MPT SCSI driver again to fix booting from devices attached to this device if the EFI firmware is used (7.1.0 regression)$$$EFI: Restored broken network boot support (7.1.0 regression)
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.1.2
Release Date
9/26/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 7.1.2 (released September 26 2024)$$$$$$This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$GUI: Added multiple window layout and translation related fixes$$$GUI: Fixed an issue that meant VMs created using Unattended Install were not removed cleanly$$$GUI: Added an option to change the remote display security method$$$GUI: Removed the BETA label from the macOS/Arm UI$$$NAT: Fixed slow performance on Windows host (bugs #22164 and #22180)$$$NAT: Fixed DHCP problems with certain guests when domain is empty$$$3D: Fixed enabling 3D acceleration in the VM settings$$$3D: Fixed black screen with Windows VMs$$$3D: Fixed rendering issues caused by incorrect view handling$$$3D: Added possibility to enable 3D acceleration function for Arm platform VMs$$$GCM: Fixed problem with loading saved state created by 7.0.x$$$API: Fixed an issue with incorrect handling of NVRAM state with legacy BIOS and its removal on VM deletion$$$API: Fixed UEFI Secure Boot state querying when the VM was never started$$$Guest Additions: Fixed error message on automatic upgrading$$$SDK: Fixed building code using the XPCOM bindings (bug #22174)
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.1.0
Release Date
9/9/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 7.1.0 (released September 09 2024)$$$$$$This is a major update. The following new features were added:$$$$$$GUI: Modernized look and feel; offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality$$$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$$$Screen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding pipeline; resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests$$$In addition; the following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is being used (bug #17961)$$$virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)$$$EFI: Ability to add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs$$$Oracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption$$$GUI: Improved overall accessibility$$$GUI: Update the version of Qt used$$$Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers; this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode$$$Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for the user and admin / root accounts$$$VBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress of a VM$$$VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guests mount points via a new mount Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions$$$Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3$$$VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.0.20
Release Date
7/16/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 7.0.20 (released July 16 2024)$$$$$$This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$TPM: Fixed errors appearing the event viewer with Windows guests$$$macOS Hosts: Fixed passing USB devices to the VM (bug #21218)$$$Audio: Fixed recording with HDA emulation after newer Windows 10 / 11 guests got rebooted$$$USB: Fixed a deadlock in OHCI triggered when saving the current state of a VM or taking a snapshot (bug #22059)$$$Linux Guest and Host: Introduced initial support for OpenSuse 15.6 kernel$$$Linux Guest and Host: Introduced initial support for RHEL 9.5 kernel (bug #22099)$$$Guest Additions: Shared Clipboard: Fixed issue when extra new lines were pasted when copying text between Win and X11 (bug #21716)$$$UEFI Secure Boot: Add new Microsoft certificates to list for new VMs
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.0.16
Release Date
4/16/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 7.0.16 (released April 16 2024)$$$$$$This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$VMM: Fixed a guru meditation executing nested-guests using the KVM hypervisor in the guest on Intel hosts (bug #21805)$$$VMM: Fixed Linux VM crash on some recent AMD models$$$USB: Fixed issue when EHCI controller was mishandling short packets (bug #20726)$$$Audio: Introduced general improvements$$$VBoxManage and vboximg-mount: Updated usage information and documentation (bugs #21895; #21992 and #21993)$$$Guest Control: Fixed starting Windows guest processes in the correct Windows session (7.0 regression)$$$Linux Host: Fixed issue when VBox.sh was deleting wrong VBoxSVC IPC socket when VM was started using sudo (bug #20928)$$$Linux Host: Fixed kernel modules build failure when using GCC 13.2$$$macOS Host: Fixed issue when App Nap was affecting VM performance (bug #18678)$$$Linux Host and Guest: Added fixes related to UBSAN warnings discovered on recent Linux distributions (bug #21877)$$$Linux Host and Guest: Added possibility to prevent kernel module from automatic loading during system boot by adding mod_name.disabled=1 into kernel command line$$$Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for kernel 6.9 (bug #22033)$$$Linux Host and Guest: Fixed mk_pte warning introduced in kernel 6.6 (bug #21898)$$$Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.8$$$Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics area
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.0.14
Release Date
1/15/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 7.0.14 (released January 16 2024)$$$$$$This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$Audio: Added more fixes for switching host audio devices on Windows hosts using the WAS backend$$$3D: Added general improvements$$$OCI: Fixed wrong guest RAM unit usage in VirtualSystemDescription; memory is provided in bytes; Byte is the base unit$$$Main: OVF Import/Export: Added support for importing and exporting VMs containing NVMe storage controllers (bug #19320)$$$Main: OVF Import/Export: Added support for exporting a VM which contains a medium inserted into a virtual CD/DVD drive which is attached to a Virtio-SCSI controller$$$Devices: Fixed a problem where Windows guests forget in-progress touch events when the user holds down a finger without moving it for a period of time.$$$macOS Host USB: Added support for newer storage devices$$$macOS Host: Fixed memory Leak in the VBoxIntNetSwitch process when VM was configured to use Internal Networking (bug #21752)$$$Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 9.4 kernel$$$Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel panic on RHEL 8.9 kernel caused by vboxvideo (bugs #10381 and #21911)$$$Solaris Guest Additions: Added support for the Additions to be installed into an alternate root path (pkgadd -R)$$$Solaris Guest Additions: Removed requirement to reboot VM after uninstalling GAs$$$RDP: Fix possible crash when connecting with the Apple Silicon variant of the Microsoft Remote Desktop application (bug #21820).$$$BIOS: Fixed handle number used for DMI OEM table (bug #19781)
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.0.12
Release Date
10/17/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 7.0.12 (released October 17 2023)$$$$$$This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$VMM: Fixed using a debugger inside the guest under certain circumstances (bugs #21413 and #21546)$$$VMM: Fixed detection of VT-x being used by other hypervisors (bug #21867)$$$VMM: Introduced additional improvements in Split Lock Detection feature of recent Intel CPUs on Linux hosts (bug #20180)$$$GUI: Fixed issue when the nested hardware virtualization setting was not displayed in the VM details panel (bug #21707)$$$GUI: Introduced NLS update for Croatian; Indonesian; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Dutch and Turkish languages as well as added general look-and-feel improvements$$$Devices: Fixed black screen in Windows guests with multiple guest screens when 3D is disabled (7.0.10 regression)$$$Devices: Fixed PCI device identifiers for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21516)$$$Devices: Fixed VLAN support for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21778)$$$Devices: Fixed loading saved states when a TPM is configured (7.0.10 regression; bug #21773)$$$Networking: Fixed memory leaks in the VBoxIntNetSwitch process on macOS (bug #21752)$$$Networking: Fixed TCP connections with IP addresses ending on .2 when the NAT network attachment is used (bug #21513)$$$Audio: Fixed switching host audio devices on Windows hosts using the WAS backend (bugs #20431; #21517; #20630 and #20723)$$$VRDP: Added general improvements$$$VBoxManage: Added improvements for list usbfilters command$$$Unattended: Added kick start file support for Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9.$$$Main: Added more Linux OS subtypes$$$Host Services: Fixed Guest Properties service crash under rare circumstance$$$Linux Host and Guest: Fixed few field-spanning write kernel warnings (bugs #21410 and #21862)$$$Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for RHEL 8.9 and 9.3 kernel$$$Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for kernel 6.4$$$Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for OpenSUSE 15.5 kernel$$$Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernels 6.5 and 6.6$$$Linux Guest Additions: Added version reporting for rcvboxadd status-kernel and rcvboxadd status-user commands$$$BIOS: Restored support for ISA SCSI HBAs in the BIOS (bug #21736)
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.0.10
Release Date
7/18/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 7.0.10 (released July 18 2023)$$$$$$This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$OCI: Introduced general improvements$$$VMM: Fixed sluggish performance starting with macOS Ventura 13.3 (bug #21563; bug#21596)$$$VMM: Fixed a bug while walking page tables while executing nested VMs causing flooding of the release log as a consequence (Intel hosts only; bug #21551)$$$GUI: Added general improvements$$$TPM: Fixed a crash when a VM has a TPM version 1.2 configured (bug #21622)$$$3D: Initial support for OpenGL 4.1$$$3D: Fixed various graphics issues with Windows 11 guests (bugs #21136; #21515)$$$Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed parameter --ignore-orphaned-processes$$$Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed behavior of how handling argument 0 for a started guest process works: One can now explicitly specify it with the newly added option --arg0. This will effectively restore the behavior of former VirtualBox versions$$$Audio: Also use the PulseAudio backend when pipewire-pulse is running instead of falling back to ALSA (bug #21575)$$$NAT: Adjusted UDP proxy timeout from 18-21 to 21-24 range to respect intended 20 second timeout (bug #21560)$$$Linux Host: Added initial support for Indirect Branch Tracking (bug #21435)$$$Linux Host: Added initial support for kernel 6.5 (NOTE: Guest Additions do not support kernel 6.5 yet)$$$Solaris Host: Introduced general improvements in the installer area$$$Linux Host and Guest: Improved condition check when kernel modules need to be signed$$$Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 8.8 (bug #21692); 8.9 (bug #21690) and 9.3 (bugs #21598 and #21671) kernels$$$MacOS Host and Guest: Introduced general improvements in the installer area$$$Windows Host and Guest: Introduced ECDSA support (bug #21621)$$$Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when kernel modules were rebuilt on each boot when guest system has no X11 installed$$$Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.4$$$Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when vboxvideo module reloading caused kernel panic in some guests (bug #21740)$$$Linux Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in the installer area$$$Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics drivers area
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.0.8
Release Date
4/18/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 7.0.8 (released April 18 2023)$$$$$$This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is used (bug #17961)$$$VMM: Fixed MONITOR/MWAIT crash with Solaris guests when Hyper-V is used on Windows 11$$$VMM: Introduced general improvements in nested visualization area$$$VMM: Fixed triple fault related guru meditations for UEFI guests starting with macOS Ventura 13.3 (bug #21563)$$$GUI: Brought back Restore current snapshot checkbox of Close VM dialog (bugs #21189; #21491)$$$GUI: Fixes and validation for VM settings USB filters editor; filter port value is now properly saved/restored$$$GUI: Fixes for VM name and OS type embedded editors of Details pane$$$GUI: Cloud related wizards should now propose enabled profiles before disabled$$$Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption$$$E1000: Fixed possible guru meditation when changing network attachments (bug #21488)$$$virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)$$$3D: Fixed various graphics issues with Windows 7 guests (bugs #21129; #21196; #21208; #21521)$$$Main/UefiVariableStore: Added API to add signatures to the MOK list (Machine Owner Key)$$$VBoxManage: Introduced modifynvram enrollmok sub-command to enroll Machine Owner Key into NVRAM; so Linux guest kernel can pick it up in order to verify signature of modules signed with this key$$$Guest Control/Main: Fixed deleting files via built-in toolbox$$$Linux host: Added possibility to bypass kernel modules signature verification once VBOX_BYPASS_MODULES_SIGNATURE_CHECK=1 is specified in /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg; useful in case if Linux distribution does not provide necessary tools to verify kernel module signature$$$Linux Guest Additions and host Installer: Improved detection if system is running systemd as the init process$$$Linux Guest Additions and host drivers: Introduce initial support for kernel 6.3$$$Linux Guest Additions: Added possibility to bypass kernel modules signature verification once VBOX_BYPASS_MODULES_SIGNATURE_CHECK=1 is specified in /etc/virtualbox-guest-additions.conf; useful in case if Linux distribution does not provide necessary tools to verify kernel module signature$$$Linux Guest Additions: Added experimental support for kernel modules and user services reloading in the end of installation process; thus guest system reboot after Guest Additions (7.0.8 and newer) upgrade is no longer required in general case$$$Linux Guest Additions: Fixed vboxvideo build issue with RHEL 8.7; 9.1 and 9.2 kernels (bugs #21446 and #21450)
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.0.6
Release Date
1/17/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 7.0.6 (released January 17 2023)$$$$$$This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$VMM: Fixed guru running the FreeBSD loader on older Intel CPUs without unrestricted guest support (bug #21332)$$$GUI: Fixed virtual machines grouping when VM was created or modified in command line (bugs #11500; #20933)$$$GUI: Introduced generic changes in settings dialogs$$$VirtioNet: Fixed broken network after loading saved state (bug #21172)$$$Storage: Added support for increasing the size of the following VMDK image variants: monolithicFlat; monolithicSparse; twoGbMaxExtentSparse; twoGbMaxExtentFlat$$$VBoxManage: Added missing --directory switch for guestcontrol mktemp command$$$Mouse Integration: Guest was provided with extended host mouse state (bug #21139)$$$DnD: Introduced generic improvements$$$Guest Control: Fixed handling creation mode for temporary directories (bug #21394)$$$Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for building UEK7 kernel on Oracle Linux 8$$$Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 9.1 kernel$$$Windows Host: Fixed support for VM autostart (bug#21349)$$$Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.2 for vboxvideo$$$Audio: The --audio option in VBoxManage is now marked as deprecated; please use --audio-driver and --audio-enabled instead. This will allow more flexibility when changing the driver and/or controlling the audio functionality
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.0.4
Release Date
11/18/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$VMM: Added nested paging support for nested virtualization (Intel hosts only)$$$VMM: Fixed rare guru meditations with certain guests on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) (bug #21237)$$$VMM: Fixed possible VM process crash on Windows hosts when Hyper-V is used with certain guests (bug #21174)$$$VMM: Fixed Windows XP guest hang or BSOD on AMD CPUs under certain circumstances (bug #21256)$$$GUI: Various bugfixes for the Guest Control file manager$$$GUI: Added more informative file operations in the Guest Control file manager$$$GUI: Added an option to the global settings (the display page) to resize user interface font$$$GUI: Fixed a regression in new vm wizard. Selected virtual disks are no longer deleted when the wizard is cancelled (bug #21244)$$$GUI: Added a new menu item to the devices menu to optionally upgrade the guest additions.$$$VirtioSCSI: Fixed recognition of the virtio SCSI controller by the EFI firmware (bug #21200)$$$VirtioSCSI: Fixed hang when shutting down the VM if the virtio SCSI controller is used (bug #21144)$$$virtio-net: Workaround a bug in the virtio-net driver included in FreeBSD version up to 12.3 which renders the device non functional (bug #21201)$$$Storage: Fixed I/O errors with the VirtioSCSI controller when the host I/O cache is enabled (bug #19717)$$$VBoxManage: Fixed regression when createmedium disk --variant RawDisk command resulted in invalid .vmdk file (bug #21125)$$$Main: Restored input pointing device behavior in multi-monitor VM configuration (bug #21137)$$$Main: Fixed progress indication during automatic Linux Guest Additions installation$$$Guest Control: Fixed path handling issues (bug #21095)$$$3D: Fixed VM process crash on macOS with 3D enabled (bug #21232)$$$Linux Host and Guest: General improvements in startup scripts$$$Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.7 and 9.2 kernels (bug #21272; #21258)$$$Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for SLES 15.4 kernels$$$Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel modules rebuild behavior on system shutdown
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 7.0.2
Release Date
10/20/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$Known issue: VMs having more than one vCPU configured will not work properly on macOS Catalina due to an unknown memory corruption issue. Either lower the number of vCPUs to 1 or upgrade to BigSur or later where the issue does not occur$$$Main: Fixed issue when VBoxSVC could become unresponsive if Extension Pack was not installed (bug #21167)$$$macOS hosts: Added workaround for a bug in the Hypervisor framework on Catalina causing VERR_NEM_MAP_PAGES_FAILED errors when starting a VM. (bug #21128)$$$macOS hosts: Re-introduced support for internal networking; this is considered a bit experimental still$$$macOS hosts: Fixed VM crash when the guest tries to access a microphone or webcam$$$Windows host: Shared Clipboard: Fixed issue when only 4Kb of host clipboard buffer was accessible to guest (bug #21149)$$$Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.1$$$Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxClient seamless service caused a crash of some X11 applications (bug #21132)$$$Windows hosts: GUI: Fixed missing Qt libraries for vista style and sql driver (bug #21155)$$$GUI: Fixed a glitch in the log viewer which was causing wrong log file to be saved (bug #21156)
Oracle VM VirtualBox x64 Version 6.1.38
Release Date
9/2/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

VirtualBox 6.1.38 (released September 02 2022)$$$$$$This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:$$$$$$GUI: Improvements in Native Language Support area$$$Main: OVF Export: Added support for exporting VMs containing Virtio-SCSI controllers$$$Recording settings: Fixed a regression which could cause not starting the COM server (VBoxSVC) under certain circumstances (bug #21034)$$$Recording: More deterministic naming for recorded files (will now overwrite old .webm files if present)$$$Linux Host and Guest Additions installer: Improved check for systemd presence in the system (bug #19033)$$$Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.0$$$Linux Guest Additions: Additional fixes for kernel RHEL 9.1 (bug #21065)$$$Windows Guest Additions: Improvements in Drag and Drop area
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