VirtualBox 7.2 Has Arrive
Linux Magazine, Monday, August 18th, 2025
Okay, people, you know the drill: It's time to update. In this case, it's VirtualBox, and this time it's a major update with plenty of new additions, polish, and bug fixes.
The latest iteration of the virtual machine manager not only adds initial support for kernel 6.17, but it also improves the Linux Guest Additions support for both Oracle Linux and RHEL 10 guests, as well as Windows 11/ARM guests.
VirtualBox 7.2 also brings improvement to the vboxvideo kernel module for Linux guests. On top of that, you get the enabling of video decoding acceleration for Linux hosts (when the 3D option is used). It also fixes a swapped scan code issue and a VBoxClient start failure for Linux kernels older than 2.6.