Oracle heeft versie 7.2.2 van VirtualBox uitgebracht. VirtualBox kan worden gebruikt om andere besturingssystemen als een virtuele machine op een computer te installeren. Daardoor is het mogelijk om verschillende besturingssystemen op dezelfde hardware naast elkaar en tegelijkertijd te gebruiken. VirtualBox is beschikbaar voor Windows, macOS, Linux en Solaris, en is in staat om diverse gastbesturingssystemen te draaien. In deze uitgave zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
The following items were fixed or added:
- VMM: Fixed issue when VM was not able to start on Windows Arm host (issue gh-8)
- GUI: Fixed VBox Manager crash when some VM has a lot of snapshots (issue gh-119)
- GUI: Fixed issue when error notifications could not be displayed on snapshot deletion (issue gh-75)
- GUI: Fixed VBox Manager crash while attempting to show error notifications too early (issues gh-135 and gh-171)
- GUI: Fixed VBox Manager crash while removing all VMs from VM list
- GUI: Fixed VBox Manager freeze on Linux hosts at startup or while attempting to add a VM (issues gh-70 and gh-168)
- GUI: Fixed VBox Manager layout bug with too strict size constraints (issue gh-87)
- GUI: Updated VBox VM network status-bar indicator tooltip (IP address) on guest additions change (issue gh-179)
- GUI: Added possibility for Windows 11 host to use legacy light/dark themes from Windows 10 (issues gh-137 and gh-151)
- GUI: Forcing xdgdesktopportal platform theme on Linux when org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop DBus service is available (issues gh-138 and gh-150)
- Network (NAT, DNS): Fixed potential issue where a nameserver in the 127/8 network could have been passed to the guest (issue gh-136)
- Network: Added a new experimental type of e1000 adapter (82583V). It requires the ICH9 chipset, since MSIs are not supported by PIIX3
- USB: Fixed passing through USB devices exposed over USB/IP (issue gh-192)
- USB Webcam: The virtual USB webcam is now part of the open source base package
- Arm host: Improved high CPU usage for idling VMs (issue gh-34)
- Linux host: Use KVM APIs on kernel 6.16.0 and newer for acquiring/releasing VT-x (issue gh-81, gh-139 and gh-141)
- macOS host: Fixed internal networking, including NAT networks on macOS (7.2.0 regression; issue gh-140)
- macOS host: Fixed VM crash on Arm host on VM start (issue gh-101)
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxClient was reporting it's unable to load shared libraries on start (issue gh-165)
- Windows Guest Additions: Fixed issue when installation was failing on Windows XP SP2 64-bit (issue gh-142)
- EFI: Fixed TPM device not working with certain guests (issue gh-143)