Oracle has released VirtualBox 7.2.4, the second maintenance update to the latest 7.x series of the open source virtualisation software.

Like other maintenance updates it mainly brings bug fixes and minor tweaks includes updated Traditional Chinese, Greek, Swedish, Hungarian and Indonesian translations.

VirtualBox 7.2.4 also includes initial support for Linux kernel 6.18, which is currently in development and due for release in December 2025. Linux 6.18 is supported for both host (the distro VirtualBox is installed on) and guest systems (what runs in the VM).

Other changes of notes:

  • VirtualBox VM Manager crashing when host resumes from sleep
  • Multiple port forwarding rules no longer cause issues in NAT functionality
  • More fixes for RHEL 9.6 and 9.7 kernels in Linux Guest Additions
  • Fix for Windows Guest Additions installation failing in Windows XP SP2 guests

You can read over the the VirtualBox changelog to learn more about some of those issues (click the associated bug reports).

VirtualBox libxml2 Error on Ubuntu 25.10

Currently, if you download the VirtualBox 7.2.4 DEB and try to install it on Ubuntu 25.10, installation fails due to ‘unsatisfied dependencies’. The issue? VirtualBox 7.2.x depends on a package called libxml2 , but the version in Ubuntu 25.10 was renamed.

The xml2 library is now called libxml2-16 and uses a new soname as well (so resolving this is not as simple as installing the renamed package yourself as VirtualBox is coded to look for the old name).

If you try to install the DEB using apt, you’ll see errors, amongst which: “Depends: libxml2 (>= 2.7.4) but it is not installable”.

If you’re on Ubuntu 25.10 and you need to use VirtualBox, you should install VirtualBox 7.2.2 from the questing repos (the previous release, but only missing a few fixes for now) as it still works.

Download VirtualBox 7.2.4

You can download VirtualBox 7.2.4 for Linux, Windows, macOS, and Solaris from the VirtualBox website download page.

Don’t need the latest version? You can install VirtualBox from the Ubuntu repos. Though older builds, you won’t need the download packages from websites. Get it via App Center, or open a terminal and run sudo apt install virtualbox.