Close to the general availability (GA) of Windows 11, Oracle started working on TPM (Trusted Platform Module) passthrough for Windows 11 support. And almost a year later, the hypervisor gained support for Windows 11 hosts. TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot support soon arrived after this, though as recently as July of 2023, TPM-related bugs like crashes have been addressed.
The latest maintenance release today also has fixes related to TPM saved states. Aside from that, a black screen issue has also been fixed. There are other fixes in the release as well. The full changelog is given below:
VirtualBox 7.0.12 (released October 17 2023)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: Fixed using a debugger inside the guest under certain circumstances (bugs #21413 and #21546)
- VMM: Fixed detection of VT-x being used by other hypervisors (bug #21867)
- VMM: Introduced additional improvements in Split Lock Detection feature of recent Intel CPUs on Linux hosts (bug #20180)
- GUI: Fixed issue when the nested hardware virtualization setting was not displayed in the VM details panel (bug #21707)
- GUI: Introduced NLS update for Croatian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch and Turkish languages as well as added general look-and-feel improvements
- Devices: Fixed black screen in Windows guests with multiple guest screens when 3D is disabled (7.0.10 regression)
- Devices: Fixed PCI device identifiers for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21516)
- Devices: Fixed VLAN support for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21778)
- Devices: Fixed loading saved states when a TPM is configured (7.0.10 regression, bug #21773)
- Networking: Fixed memory leaks in the VBoxIntNetSwitch process on macOS (bug #21752)
- Networking: Fixed TCP connections with IP addresses ending on .2 when the NAT network attachment is used (bug #21513)
- Audio: Fixed switching host audio devices on Windows hosts using the WAS backend (bugs #20431, #21517, #20630 and #20723)
- VRDP: Added general improvements
- VBoxManage: Added improvements for "list usbfilters" command
- Unattended: Added kick start file support for Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9.
- Main: Added more Linux OS subtypes
- Host Services: Fixed Guest Properties service crash under rare circumstance
- Linux Host and Guest: Fixed few "field-spanning write" kernel warnings (bugs #21410 and #21862)
- Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for RHEL 8.9 and 9.3 kernel
- Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for kernel 6.4
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for OpenSUSE 15.5 kernel
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernels 6.5 and 6.6
- Linux Guest Additions: Added version reporting for "rcvboxadd status-kernel" and "rcvboxadd status-user" commands
- BIOS: Restored support for ISA SCSI HBAs in the BIOS (bug #21736)
To download the latest VirtualBox update, head over to this software page on Neowin or the official website at this link.