Changelog for VirtualBox 7.1

This page lists all changes of the VirtualBox 7.0 Downloads.
All branches: 7.1 · 7.0 · 6.1 · 6.0 · 5.2 · 5.1 · 5.0 · 4.3 · 4.2 · 4.1 · 4.0

VirtualBox 7.1.6 (released January 21 2025)

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

• VMM: Fixed issue when Windows 11 24H2 guest was experiencing BSOD in rare conditions
• GUI: Improved representation of disabled preferences contents (mask+font) when it is shown with certain Linux themes
• GUI: Fixed issue when seamless mode was not properly enabled or disabled in appropriate time according to GA status events
• GUI: Fixed rare crash on macOS hosts on application exit
• GUI: Fixed small 7.1.4 regression in preferences windows when filter editor was not in focus
• GUI: Introduced improvements in Advanced properties/settings dialog area
• GUI: Restored missing functionality to change bridged adapter at VM startup if current one wasn't found
• GUI: Fixed issue when Show action duplicates were created on macOS host in attempt to switch between running and powered off VMs
• GUI: Fixed regression when 3D acceleration check-box was not available for certain guest OS and graphical controller types
• GUI: Restored lost Help button for preferences windows on macOS
• GUI: Restored lost Help button shortcuts for certain windows
• GUI: Fixed issue when error message was shown when VM was starting in full-screen mode
• VirtioNet: Fixed issue with re-negotiation of features after reset
• Graphics: Fixed issue with Linux guest screen flickering when guest was using VMSVGA graphics adapter
• VBoxManage: Added the ability to export and import VMs which contain an NVMe storage controller
• VBoxManage: Fixed issue when it was not possible to set graphics controller to "QemuRamFB" using modifyvm command (bug #22232)
• Main: Fixed issue when specifying custom proxy server in GUI settings had no effect
• Network: Added changes which replaced NAT engines with libslirp
• Guest OSes: Added OS type for Windows Server 2025
• Linux guest and host: Added more fixes for UBSAN related warnings (bug #21877)
• Linux guest and host: Added initial support for RHEL 9.6 kernel
• Windows guests and host: Re-implemented driver installation
• Solaris host: Removed the VirtualBox GUI shared objects libqgtk2styleVBox.so and libqgtk2VBox.so from the Solaris installation packages as they depend on GTK2 which is EOL and no longer supported
• Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.13
• Linux Guest Additions: vboxvideo: Added improvement for kernel 6.4 support and fixed issue when graphics could be frozen when using VBoxVGA adapter
• Linux Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for kernel 6.12 in vboxvideo

VirtualBox 7.1.4 (released October 15 2024)

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

• GUI: Added latest NLS update for Turkish, Indonesian and Italian languages
• VMSVGA: Improved flickering, black screen and other screen update issues with recent Linux kernels (bug #21955)
• NAT: Fixed issue with restoring 7.0.X saved state
• VBoxManage: Fixed breakage of "list vms" and "showvminfo" for inaccessible VMs
• Windows host: Fixed system DLL size checking which failed with Windows 11 24H2 and recent Insider Preview builds (bug #22162)
• Linux Guest Additions: Introduce initial support for kernel 6.12 (NOTE: In kernel 6.12, KVM initializes virtualization on module loading by default. This prevents VirtualBox VMs from starting. In order to avoid this, either add "kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0" parameter into kernel command line or unload corresponding kvm_XXX module)
• Linux/Arm Guest Additions: Added possibility to automatically upgrade Guest Additions via Devices menu
• EFI: Added missing LsiLogic MPT SCSI driver again to fix booting from devices attached to this device if the EFI firmware is used (7.1.0 regression)
• EFI: Restored broken network boot support (7.1.0 regression)

VirtualBox 7.1.2 (released September 26 2024)

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

• GUI: Added multiple window layout and translation related fixes
• GUI: Fixed an issue that meant VMs created using Unattended Install were not removed cleanly
• GUI: Added an option to change the remote display security method
• GUI: Removed the BETA label from the macOS/Arm UI
• NAT: Fixed slow performance on Windows host (bugs #22164 and #22180)
• NAT: Fixed DHCP problems with certain guests when domain is empty
• 3D: Fixed enabling 3D acceleration in the VM settings
• 3D: Fixed black screen with Windows VMs
• 3D: Fixed rendering issues caused by incorrect view handling
• 3D: Added possibility to enable 3D acceleration function for Arm platform VMs
• GCM: Fixed problem with loading saved state created by 7.0.x
• API: Fixed an issue with incorrect handling of NVRAM state with legacy BIOS and its removal on VM deletion
• API: Fixed UEFI Secure Boot state querying when the VM was never started
• Guest Additions: Fixed error message on automatic upgrading
• SDK: Fixed building code using the XPCOM bindings (bug #22174)

VirtualBox 7.1.0 (released September 09 2024)

This is a major update. The following new features were added:

• GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality
• OCI Integration: Performance dashboard now shows resource usage for cloud VMs
• OCI Integration: Clone compute instances
• OCI Integration: Reset compute instances
• Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Update to the PUEL license, removing the evaluation option. For evaluation use of the Extension Pack, please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
• VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires
• NAT: New engine with IPv6 support
• macOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs
• Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808)
• Shared Clipboard: Added initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts / guests. This requires the 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed. See User Guide for known limitations
• Screen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is being used (bug #17961)
• virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)
• EFI: Ability to add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs
• Oracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption
• GUI: Improved overall accessibility
• GUI: Update the version of Qt used
• Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers; this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode
• Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for the user and admin / root accounts
• VBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress of a VM
• VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount" Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions
• Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3
• VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility