VirtualBox 7.2.8 arrives with fixes for Windows 11 BSOD, Secure Boot, and more

The latest update fixes black screens of death on Windows 11 guests, Secure Boot certificate errors, and more.

Oracle's VirtualBox is a popular virtualization software that lets you run virtual machines on different platforms, be it Windows, Linux, or macOS. Today, developers released version 7.2.8, a maintenance release that focuses on fixing various bugs.

In version 7.2.8, the VirtualBox developers fixed the blue (now black, actually) screens of death on Windows 11 virtual machines with error code DRIVER_OVERRAN_STACK_BUFFER. In addition, there are fixes for Secure Boot certificate updates on Windows 11 guest machines. Microsoft is updating the original Secure Boot certificates, and before today's update, VirtualBox could not properly update the DBX. That issue is now fixed.

In addition to Windows 11-specific fixes, VirtualBox 7.2.8 adds initial support for Linux 6.19 and 7.0, fixes bugs with clipboard sharing in Linux Guest Additions, unreachable DNS servers, cursor bugs in Ubuntu 25.10, and more.

Here is the full changelog:

• VMM: Fixed issue which caused a Guru Meditation with VERR_IEM_IPE_4 if the guest was trying to execute the wrong hypercall instruction but injected a UD exception instead (github:gh-616)
• NAT Network: Fixed issue when internal DNS server could not be reached
• Graphics: Fixed issue when mouse cursor did not change shape by context in Ubuntu 25.10 / Wayland
• Main: Fixed crash on FreeBSD 16.0 shutdown with multiple devices attached to LSI Logic SAS controller
• IPRT: Merged Github pull request 503 (fix: infinite loop in vsscanf whitespace processing). github-merge-author: lachlanharrisdev
• Unattended: General improvements
• Linux Host: Added initial support for kernels 6.19 and 7.0
• Linux Host: Added support for guest time accounting
• Linux Host and Guest: Introduced additional fixes for RHEL 10.1 and 10.2 kernels
• Linux Host and Guest: Added support for UEK9 kernel on Oracle Linux 9
• Linux Host and Guest: Added improvements to make 'rcvboxdrv/rcvboxadd setup' and installation process faster
• Linux Guest Additions: Deprecated vboxvideo kernel module for kernels 7.0 and newer; please consider using VMSVGA graphics or vboxvideo module which comes with Linux kernel or provided by your Linux distribution if guest running kernel 7.0+; vboxvideo will still be available for older kernels
• Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when clipboard sharing was not possible in combination of Wayland guest and Windows host
• Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when last character was not pasted into Windows host clipboard when copying from Wayland guest
• Windows Guest: Fixed issue when Windows 11 guest experienced BSOD - DRIVER_OVERRAN_STACK_BUFFER
• UEFI: Fixed errors with secure boot certificate updates and Windows 11 guests
• DMI: Fixed issue when 0.0 value was provided for the BIOS release and BIOS firmware version numbers so Windows did not populate the registry keys under HKLM\HARDWARE\System\BIOS which some components rely on

You can download VirtualBox 7.2.8 from the official website.

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Posted Wednesday 22 April 2026 at 7:17 am AEST (my time).

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