hands on VirtualBox 7.2 is here, bringing improved Arm-on-Arm virtualization features and better 3D acceleration support.

The major update came out last week, and The Reg FOSS desk has been putting it through its paces. This version has some worthwhile improvements in its 3D handling, which we're already finding useful, and some others for Arm virtualization that we don't have the kit to try at the moment – but which may be helpful to others.

VBox (as we call it for short) 7.2 follows nearly a year after 7.1 came out in September 2024. We're glad to see it, because VBox 7.1 consistently gave us problems: enabling 3D acceleration tended to cause guests to crash – mainly Linux guests for us, but we also had problems while we were looking at Windows 10 LTSC , the version that's still suppor

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