22.10.2024 If you have an old language folder, Delete the data\language folder as the languages have been partially changed.
Disable message center notifications and screen capture messages VirtualBoxVM.exe default settings directory:
Portable-VirtualBox\.VirtualBox\VirtualBox.xml
Change or add before launch <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/SuppressMessages" value="all"/> sample:
<ExtraData>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/GuestControl/FileManagerVisiblePanel" value="LogPanel"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastItemSelected" value="m=2bd3571f-97f7-4297-b779-2b6f3d9c5ae0"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastWindowPosition" value="121,139,848,438"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/SessionInformationDialogGeometry" value="296,140,512,360"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/SuppressMessages" value="all"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/Tools/LastItemsSelected" value="Welcome,Details"/>
</ExtraData>
Save the VirtualBox.xml file
Portable-VirtualBox is a free and open source software tool that lets you run any operating system from a USB stick without separate installation.
More info is available at http://www.vbox.me/
Please see here for information on how to build from source: BUILDING.
VirtualBox 7.0.24 (released January 21 2025)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: Fixed issue when Windows 11 24H2 guest was experiencing BSOD in rare conditions
- GUI: Fixed issue when error message was shown when VM was starting in full-screen mode
- Graphics: Fixed issue with Linux guest screen flickering when guest was using VMSVGA graphics adapter
- VirtioNet: Fixed issue with re-negotiation of features after reset
- VBoxManage: Added the ability to export and import VMs which contain an NVMe storage controller
- Main: Fixed issue when specifying custom proxy server in GUI settings had no effect
- Guest OSes: Added OS type for Windows Server 2025
- Linux guest and host: Added initial support for RHEL 9.6 kernel
- Linux guest and host: Added more fixes for UBSAN related warnings (bug #21877)
- Solaris host: Removed the VirtualBox GUI shared objects libqgtk2styleVBox.so and libqgtk2VBox.so from the Solaris installation packages as they depend on GTK2 which is EOL and no longer supported
- Windows guests and host: Re-implemented driver installation
- Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.13
- Linux Guest Additions: vboxvideo: Added improvement for kernel 6.4 support and fixed issue when graphics could be frozen when using VBoxVGA adapter
- Linux Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for kernel 6.12 in vboxvideo
- Windows Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize issue which caused random failure of switching modes for virtual displays