Earlier today, Oracle rolled out new maintenance updates for VirtualBox, addressing both the 7.1 and 7.0 branches with versions 7.1.6 and 7.0.24, respectively.

These updates resolve several issues, including a blue screen of death (BSOD) error for Windows 11 24H2 guests and a full-screen bug. The new versions also introduce preliminary support for Linux 6.13, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 9.6, and Windows Server 2025.

Additionally, there are enhancements related to Windows driver installations, NVMe, and more.

The full changelogs are given below:

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
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VirtualBox 7.0.24 (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: Fixed issue when error message was shown when VM was starting in full-screen mode
Graphics: Fixed issue with Linux guest screen flickering when guest was using VMSVGA graphics adapter
VirtioNet: Fixed issue with re-negotiation of features after reset
VBoxManage: Added the ability to export and import VMs which contain an NVMe storage controller
Main: Fixed issue when specifying custom proxy server in GUI settings had no effect
Guest OSes: Added OS type for Windows Server 2025
Linux guest and host: Added initial support for RHEL 9.6 kernel
Linux guest and host: Added more fixes for UBSAN related warnings (bug #21877)
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
Windows guests and host: Re-implemented driver installation
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
Windows Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize issue which caused random failure of switching modes for virtual displays

Downloads: Virtual Box v7.1.6
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