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VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Brings Windows 11 Arm Support, Source Code On GitHub

Written by Michael Larabel in Oracle on 28 May 2025 at 03:40 PM EDT. 14 Comments
Oracle engineers have released the first public beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization software release for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris systems.

Notable with Oracle VirtualBox 7.2 Beta 1 is adding Windows 11 on Arm support both for Arm hosts and then also making VirtualBox VM Guest Additions support now available for Windows 11 Arm. The VirtualBox unified Windows installer package has Arm virtualization support built-in.

VirtualBox 7.2 Beta 1 also brings some GUI refinements, other Arm virtual machine improvements, and other updates.

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More details on the VirtualBox 7.2 Beta 1 changes can be found via the VirtualBox.org release announcement.

In that announcement it's also noted the VirtualBox source code is now officially available via GitHub. All of the open-source VirtualBox code can be fetched via VirtualBox/virtualbox on GitHub.

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