VirtualBox 7.2.12 Build 174389 by Oracle VM

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional quality virtualization solution. It is also Open Source Software.  The powerful virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.

VirtualBox provides are useful for several scenarios: Running multiple operating systems simultaneously. VirtualBox allows you to run more than one operating system at a time.

This way, you can run software written for one operating system on another (for example, Windows software on Linux or a Mac) without having to reboot to use it.

Since you can configure what kinds of “virtual” hardware should be presented to each such operating system, you can install an old operating system such as DOS or OS/2 even if your real computer’s hardware is no longer supported by that operating system.

Software vendors can use virtual machines to ship entire software configurations. For example, installing a complete mail server solution on a real machine can be a tedious task.

With VirtualBox, such a complex setup (then often called an “appliance”) can be packed into a virtual machine. Installing and running a mail server becomes as easy as importing such an appliance into VirtualBox.

In order to run VirtualBox on your machine, you need:

• Reasonably powerful x86 hardware. Any recent Intel or AMD processor should do.

• Memory. Depending on what guest operating systems you want to run, you will need at least 512 MB of RAM (but probably more, and the more the better). Basically, you will need whatever your host operating system needs to run comfortably. Plus the amount that the guest operating system needs. So, if you want to run Windows 8.1 on Windows 7, you probably won’t enjoy the experience much with less than 2 GB of RAM. Check the minimum RAM requirements of the guest operating system, they often will refuse to install if it is given less. Sometimes it malfunctions instead. So you’ll need that for the guest alone, plus the memory your operating system normally needs.

• Hard disk space. While VirtualBox itself is very lean (a typical installation will only need about 30 MB of hard disk space), the virtual machines will require fairly huge files on disk to represent their own hard disk storage. So, to install Windows 8, for example, you will need a file that will easily grow to several 10 GB in size.

• A supported host operating system. Presently, we support Windows, many Linux distributions, Mac OS X, Solaris and OpenSolaris. Check the user manual of the VirtualBox version you are using which versions are supported.

• A supported guest operating system. Besides the user manual (see below), up-to-date information is available at “Status: Guest OSes“.

Changes in VirtualBox 7.2.12 (2026-06-30):

• Windows Guest: Added DX11 performance improvements and fixes
• Linux Host: Fixed kernel panic
• Linux Host and Guest: Fixed various NASM build issues

Changes in VirtualBox 7.2.10 (2026-06-16):

• VMM: Fixed issue when CentOS 10 VM was not booting due to the message “Fatal glibc error: CPU does not support x86-64-v3”
• Devices/EFI: Fixed booting issue when ARM VM had less than 1024 MiB of RAM assigned
• USB: Fixed issue when it was not possible to attach USB device to headless VM on Apple Silicon/macOS 26.4.1
• Storage: Fixed issue when VIRTIO-SCSI device was not recognized as SSD device by guest system
• Network: Fixed issue in E1000 emulation code which triggered debug log creation
• Network: Fixed issue in E1000 emulation code which prevented OS/2 guest from booting
• Linux Host: Fixed issue when VMs could not be started due to kernel oops
• 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
• Linux Host and Guest: Added possibility to build source code using NASM instead of YASM as the assembler
• Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for Extended Data Control Protocol for clipboard sharing with Plasma on Wayland guests
• Linux Guest Additions: Added extra fixes for preventing vboxvideo kernel module build with kernel version 7.0 and newer (
• OS/2 Guest Additions: Fixed issue when Shared Folders automount and clipboard sharing stopped working

Homepage – https://www.virtualbox.org Currently, Oracle VM VirtualBox runs on the following host operating systems:

• Windows hosts (64-bit):
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 11 21H2
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2022
• Mac OS X hosts (64-bit):
  • 10.15 (Catalina)
  • 11 (Big Sur)
  • 12 (Monterey)

Intel hardware is required.

• Linux hosts (64-bit). Includes the following:
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS and 22.04
  • Debian GNU/Linux 10 (“Buster”) and 11 (“Bullseye”)
  • Oracle Linux 7, 8 and 9
  • CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8 and 9
  • Fedora 35 and 36
  • Gentoo Linux
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise server 12 and 15
  • openSUSE Leap 15.3

Size: 170 MB

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