VirtualBox 7.2.6 released

galitsyn · Post by **galitsyn** » 28. Jan 2026, 19:49

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)
VMM: Fixed Guru Meditation issue on VM start on Windows host (github:gh-346)
VMM: Fixed issue when VM was failing to shut down on Windows 11 ARM host (github:gh-416)
VMM: Fixed issue when booting Red Hat 6.1 i386 was failing on AMD Zen4 Windows 11 Pro host (github:gh-466)
GUI: Added fixes for full-screen support in multi-monitor case (github:gh-197, github:gh-243)
GUI: Fixed issue when downloading update files was failing (github:gh-327, github:gh-372)
GUI: Fixed issue when list of VMs was not properly displayed in Resource Manager tab (github:gh-364)
GUI: Fixed issue when with switching between light/dark modes on macOS host (github:gh-457)
GUI: Fixed issue when storage controller type list was displayed incorrectly (github:gh-413)
DevACPI: Fixed issue with file path key names for Dsdt/Ssdt (github:gh-381)
DevACPI: Added change to make OemTabId configurable using AcpiOemTabId option (github:gh-383)
NAT: Fixed issue with high CPU usage when VM was using NAT (github:gh-356)
RDP: The VRDP server was moved to the open source base package
SmartCard: The USB smartcard emulation was moved to the open source base package
VM encryption: The disk and VM encryption feature was moved to the open source base package
VBoxManage: Fixed issue when VBoxManage was not displaying interface name for FreeBSD guests (github:gh-403)
VBoxManage: Fixed issue when VM could not be started from command line in some circumstances (github:gh-418)
Main: Improved filename check for drag-and-drop operations (github:gh-68)
Linux Host: Fixed issue when vboxautostart-service did not start corresponding VMs on system boot (github:gh-309)
Linux Host: Fixed issue when VM was not able to start if host was running realtime kernel configuration (github:gh-332)
Guest Additions: Fixed installation on Windows XP 64-bit guests (github:gh-142)
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)
Windows Guest Additions: Fixed installation on WinXP 64-bit (github:gh-142)
BIOS: Fixed issue with booting VM using IPXE (github:gh-417)

Please discuss this release here.