VirtualBox 7.2.0 Build 170228 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 7.2.0 (2025-08-14):

• 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
• 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
• GUI: Polished Preferences and Settings pages, NLS fixing
• GUI: Improved handling of keyboard LEDs in the Soft Keyboard
• GUI: Added checkbox for making a Shared Folder global to all VMs
• GUI: Removed IO-APIC from Arm VM settings
• Graphics: Avoid assertion when guest tries to use VMSVGA 3D functions when the feature is disabled
• Audio: Fixed crash in rare circumstances
• NAT: Multiple fixes and improvements, for example better DNS server handling, saving of the VM settings and generating a boot file name which stays within the length limit
• NAT Network: Use the (almost) same code as for NAT, unifying behavior and features
• NAT: Fixed possible crash in rare circumstances when no nameservers could be detected in the host system
• Storage: Fixed corruption of VMDK images when resizing
• Video Recording: Fixed frame synchronization, a small memory leak and other bugs
• TPM: Fixed save state load failures
• Arm VMs: ACPI now available
• API/Unattended: Added explicit unattended installation support for Oracle Linux 10
• API and VBoxManage: Added functionality to define global Shared Folders for all VMs
• API: Fixed issue when OVF/OVA import resulted in a broken VM on Arm
• API: Fixed issue when exporting a VM which had an inaccessible disk resulted in crash
• VBoxManage: Document currently unavailable NAT options
• Linux host and guest: Initial support for kernel version 6.16
• Linux/Solaris host: Fixed swapped scan code for Pause and Num Lock keys in the table used when relying on Xkb for translation
• Windows host: Removed release assertion causing crash of VBoxUsbMon driver if unloading fails
• Arm host: vboxwebsrv is now included in the packages
• Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.17
• Linux guest: Fixed handling of (long optional) vboxvideo kernel module in init script
• Linux guest: Fixed start failure of VBoxClient with kernel from the 2.6 series or older
• Windows/Arm guest: Added WDDM Graphics driver, with 2D and 3D mode
• Windows/Arm guest: Added Shared Folder feature
• Windows Host: Added improvements in Windows drivers installation
• Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when autorun installer was not automatically starting on Additions ISO image insert for Oracle Linux 10 and RHEL 10 guests
• BIOS: Fixed keyboard translation, added and updated several entries and do not report keypresses when scan code and ASCII code are both zero
• BIOS: Fixed error reporting fo single sided floppy disks
• UEFI: Added workaround for Grub bug causing guest OS crashes
• UEFI: Fixed macOS kernel logging over serial port
• 3rd Party Tools: Eliminated build time dependency on libIDL and IASL

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

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