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VirtualBox 7.0.16​

Released April 16 2024

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

• VMM: Fixed a guru meditation executing nested-guests using the KVM hypervisor in the guest on Intel hosts (bug #21805)
  
• VMM: Fixed Linux VM crash on some recent AMD models
  
• USB: Fixed issue when EHCI controller was mishandling short packets (bug #20726)
  
• Audio: Introduced general improvements
  
• VBoxManage and vboximg-mount: Updated usage information and documentation (bugs #21895, #21992 and #21993)
  
• Guest Control: Fixed starting Windows guest processes in the correct Windows session (7.0 regression)
  
• Linux Host: Fixed issue when VBox.sh was deleting wrong VBoxSVC IPC socket when VM was started using sudo (bug #20928)
  
• Linux Host: Fixed kernel modules build failure when using GCC 13.2
  
• macOS Host: Fixed issue when App Nap was affecting VM performance (bug #18678)
  
• Linux Host and Guest: Added fixes related to UBSAN warnings discovered on recent Linux distributions (bug #21877)
  
• Linux Host and Guest: Added possibility to prevent kernel module from automatic loading during system boot by adding mod_name.disabled=1 into kernel command line
  
• Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for kernel 6.9 (bug #22033)
  
• Linux Host and Guest: Fixed mk_pte warning introduced in kernel 6.6 (bug #21898)
  
• Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.8
  
• Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics area
  

VirtualBox 7.0.16 platform packages​

• Windows hosts
  
• macOS / Intel hosts
  
• Linux distributions
  
• Solaris hosts
  
• Solaris 11 IPS hosts
  

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