Virtualbox 7.1.8 Released With Initial Support For Linux Kernel 6.14
9to5linux, Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Oracle released VirtualBox 7.1.8 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest VirtualBox 7.1 series of this powerful, free, cross-platform, and open-source virtualization software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.
VirtualBox 7.1.8 brings initial support for Linux kernel 6.14 into Linux Guest Additions, allowing users to install and run GNU/Linux distributions powered by Linux 6.14, along with initial support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7 kernel, additional fixes for the RHEL 9.4 kernel, and improvements to the 'rcvboxadd status-kernel' check.
Linux Guest Additions also received a fix for an issue when VBoxClient could crash in a XWayland guest, a fix for an issue when installation could fail on a system that does not have the X11 libraries installed, as well as a fix for an issue that leads to cursor image corruption when a virtual machine was using the VBoxVGA graphics adapter.