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VirtualBox 7.1.8​

VirtualBox 7.1.8 (released April 15 2025)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: Fixed issue when VM clock went backwards in rare circumstances (bug #22334)
  
• GUI: Fixed issue when accelerated cursor image was not displayed correctly (bug #22096)
  
• DevVirtioSCSI: Fixed issue with restoring saved state
  
• Graphics: Fixed issue when assertion was triggered on restoring VM state if VMSVGA graphics adapter was used without 3D acceleration (bug #21955)
  
• Main: Fixed issue when VBoxSVC was crashing on saving machine config through VirtualBox web service (bug #22259)
  
• Main: Fixed issue when wireless network adapters could not be discovered on modern Linux distributions (bug #22362)
  
• Main: Fixed issue when deleting running VM snapshot was leaving the .sav file on disk (bug #21345)
  
• NAT: Fixed connectivity loss on Windows host (bug #22364)
  
• VBoxManage: Updated User Manual to correct the 'VBoxManage modifyvm' invocation for configuring a VM to use host-only networking (bug #22158)
  
• VBoxManage: Fixed issue when it was not possible to set disk bandwidth with 'VBoxManage bandwidthctl' command (bug #22328)
  
• Windows installer: Automatically load the support driver after a successful installation (bug #22292)
  
• Linux Host Installer: Fixed issue which sometimes resulted in installation failure due to incorrect check whether previous VirtualBox installation is running or not
  
• Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when VBoxClient could crash in XWayland guest (bug #22345)
  
• Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue which resulted in cursor image corruption when VM was using VBoxVGA graphics adapter
  
• Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when installation could fail on the system which does not have X11 libraries installed
  
• Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.14
  
• Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 9.7 kernel
  
• Linux Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for RHEL 9.4 kernel, (bug #22277)
  
• Linux Guest Additions: Improved 'rcvboxadd status-kernel' check
  
• Windows installer: Various bugfixes for the new installation code
  
• Windows installer: Implemented a new fatal error dialog with the ability to open the installer log file directly
  
• Windows Guest Additions: Fixed mouse driver installation on Vista guests
  
• Windows Guest Additions: Fixed uninstallation integrity issues (bug #22290)
  
• Windows Guest Additions: Fixed driver installation error ERROR_AUTHENTICODE_TRUST_NOT_ESTABLISHED (bug #22300)
  
• Windows Guest Additions: Fixed 100% CPU usage of VBoxTray which happened under certain circumstances (bug #22123)
  
• Windows Guest Additions: Now also ships the VBoxAudioTest binary for performing guest audio testing / diagnosis
  
• Windows Guest Additions: For older Windows versions (Windows 2000 to Windows 7) install alternative Shared Folder driver which avoids some compatibility glitches of the usual driver
  

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