VirtualBox 7.2.0_BETA2 released

[galitsyn]

This is a preview release of VirtualBox 7.2. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• 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/HM: Fixed Nested Virtualization feature on Intel CPUs
• GUI: Polished Preferences and Settings pages, NLS fixing
• GUI: Improved handling of keyboard LEDs in the Soft Keyboard
• GUI: Removed IO-APIC from Arm VM settings
• Graphics: Avoid assertion when guest tries to use VMSVGA 3D functions when the feature is disabled
• VBoxManage: Document currently unavailable NAT options
• NAT: Multiple fixes and improvements, for example better DNS server handling, saving of the VM settings and genertating a boot file name which stays within the length limit
• NAT Network: Use the (almost) same code as for NAT, unifying behavior and features
• TPM: Fixed save state load failures
• Storage: Fixed corruption of VMDK images when resizing
• Video Recording: Fixed frame synchronization, a small memory leak and other bugs
• 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
• 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 host: Removed release assertion causing crash of VBoxUsbMon driver if unloading fails
• Windows/Arm guest: Added WDDM Graphics driver, so far tested in 2D mode only
• Windows/Arm guest: Added Shared Folder feature
• UEFI: Added workaround for Grub bug causing guest OS crashes
• 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

VirtualBox source code now also available on GitHub at https://github.com/VirtualBox/virtualbox.

Please discuss the release here. If you want to report issues needing tracking, use https://github.com/VirtualBox/virtualbox/issues.

[Huub]

Installed Beta2 this morning. Could start Vbox. However soon it crashes. Have attached the log from the session.

I run Win11 on X64 hardware with all updates installed on the system.

[klaus]

Installed Beta2 this morning. Could start Vbox. However soon it crashes. Have attached the log from the session.

I run Win11 on X64 hardware with all updates installed on the system.

Known issue for people running with Windows Hypervisor on the host - the fix is already in the latest dev snapshots available at the test build page. Also 7.2.0_BETA2, just with a later revision.

[Air Force One]

See my reported missing translations in the discussion thread.

[Huub]

Thanks. Will wait for Beta3 I guess
Beta1 keeps running satisfactory for me