VirtualBox 7.2.8

VirtualBox offers professional-grade virtualization for home and enterprise, supporting diverse guest systems and multi-interface control.

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · Apr 21, 2026 10:00 EDT with 0 comments

VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, 7, 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD.

Some of the features of VirtualBox are:

Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don't have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.
Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.

VirtualBox 7.2.8 changelog:

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: Deprecated vboxvideo kernel module for kernels 7.0 and newer; please consider using VMSVGA graphics or vboxvideo module which comes with Linux kernel or provided by your Linux distribution if guest running kernel 7.0+; vboxvideo will still be available for older kernels
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)