VirtualBox 7.1.16 released

galitsyn · Post by **galitsyn** » 28. Jan 2026, 19:47

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed or added:

VMM: Fixed issue when VM process was crashing during RHEL5 guest boot
VMM: Fixed issue when VMX nested-guest VM-entry was checking the wrong VM-execution control bit in the virtual VMCS (github:gh-313)
VMM: Fixed issue when VM was crashing on start after recent Windows update (KB5066793) (github:gh-360)
VMM: Fixed issue when guest process was crashing inside Windows guest on AMD system (github:gh-400)
VMM: Fixed issue when VM process was crashing on Windows host (github:gh-426, github:gh-407, github:gh-404, github:gh-369, github:gh-238, github:gh-207, github:gh-187, github:gh-178)
GUI: Fixed issue when downloading update files was failing (github:gh-327, github:gh-372)
Main: Improved filename check for drag-and-drop operations (github:gh-68)
VBoxManage: Fixed issue when VM could not be started from command line in some circumstances (github:gh-418)
Linux Host: Fixed issue when vboxautostart-service did not start corresponding VMs on system boot (github:gh-309)
Guest Additions: Fixed issue when guest process was crashing due to low memory in the system (github:gh-410)
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed build issue for kernels 2.5.52 and older
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxService was not started due to abandoned pid file
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when user session services were not started on old Linux distributions
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed check if kernel modules were loaded for old Linux distributions
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when Guest Additions processes were left running on system reboot or shutdown (github:gh-311)
Linux Guest Additions: Added additional fixes for RHEL 9.8, 10.1 and 10.2 kernels
Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.19 (github:gh-467)
BIOS: Fixed issue with booting VM using IPXE (github:gh-417)

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