VirtualBox, a popular open-source virtualization software, has just released its third maintenance update to the 7.2 series, version 7.2.6, which focuses on stability, crash fixes, and reliability improvements across hosts and guests.

The Virtual Machine Manager received extensive fixes, resolving multiple crash scenarios, including failures during RHEL 5 guest boot, crashes triggered by recent Windows updates, and instability affecting AMD-based systems.

Issues related to nested virtualization, incorrect VM-execution control checks, and Guru Meditation errors on VM startup under Windows hosts were also fixed. In addition, shutdown failures on Windows 11 ARM hosts and boot problems with older Red Hat guests on modern AMD Zen 4 systems were corrected.