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Message 52931 - Posted: 29 Jan 2026, 5:06:06 UTC

VirtualBox 7.2.6 (released January 20 2026)
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.2#v6

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
VMM: Fixed issue when VM was crashing on start after recent Windows update (KB5066793)
VMM: Fixed issue when guest process was crashing inside Windows guest on AMD system
VMM: Fixed issue when VM process was crashing on Windows host
VMM: Fixed Guru Meditation issue on VM start on Windows host
VMM: Fixed issue when VM was failing to shut down on Windows 11 ARM host
VMM: Fixed issue when booting Red Hat 6.1 i386 was failing on AMD Zen4 Windows 11 Pro host
GUI: Added fixes for full-screen support in multi-monitor case
GUI: Fixed issue when downloading update files was failing
GUI: Fixed issue when list of VMs was not properly displayed in Resource Manager tab
GUI: Fixed issue when with switching between light/dark modes on macOS host
GUI: Fixed issue when storage controller type list was displayed incorrectly
DevACPI: Fixed issue with file path key names for Dsdt/Ssdt
DevACPI: Added change to make OemTabId configurable using AcpiOemTabId option
NAT: Fixed issue with high CPU usage when VM was using NAT
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
VBoxManage: Fixed issue when VM could not be started from command line in some circumstances
Main: Improved filename check for drag-and-drop operations
Linux Host: Fixed issue when vboxautostart-service did not start corresponding VMs on system boot
Linux Host: Fixed issue when VM was not able to start if host was running realtime kernel configuration
Guest Additions: Fixed installation on Windows XP 64-bit guests
Guest Additions: Fixed issue when guest process was crashing due to low memory in the system
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
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
Windows Guest Additions: Fixed installation on WinXP 64-bit
BIOS: Fixed issue with booting VM using IPXE
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