Sharing the clipboard between your machine and a virtual one is the kind of thing you only notice when it breaks. If you run Plasma on Wayland inside VirtualBox, copying and pasting text between host and guest had been unreliable. The Linux Guest Additions in version 7.2.10, released by Oracle on 16 June 2026, take a first step toward fixing it.
Clipboard with Plasma on Wayland
The exact entry in the official changelog reads: the Guest Additions add “initial support for Extended Data Control Protocol for clipboard sharing with Plasma on Wayland guests”. The key word is “initial”. This isn’t a finished feature that covers every case. It’s the groundwork that lets copy and paste start behaving correctly under the Plasma compositor.
Context helps here. Distributions that ship KDE Plasma on Wayland by default have been moving away from X11 for a while, and the older clipboard mechanisms VirtualBox relied on were tied largely to that display server. The Extended Data Control Protocol is how an external client can read from and write to the clipboard of a Wayland compositor that supports it, and Plasma exposes it. Once the Guest Additions speak that protocol, the clipboard integration has something to work with again.
If your work involves modern Linux guests on Wayland, this is the change you’ll feel day to day. If you still lean on X11, it’s worth understanding why Wayland became the default path. We cover that in X11 vs Wayland.
vboxvideo and kernel 7.0 and later
The 7.2.10 release also adds, per the changelog, “extra fixes for preventing vboxvideo kernel module build with kernel version 7.0 and newer”. The vboxvideo module is the old graphics driver from the Guest Additions. On recent kernels it no longer matches the kernel’s graphics API, and forcing it to compile only throws errors when installing the Additions. The effect of the fix is simple: on kernel 7.0 or newer, the module is no longer built, so installation stops tripping over it.
OS/2 regains clipboard and automount
The other front in this release is far from Linux. The Guest Additions for OS/2 guests fix, in the changelog’s words, the “issue when Shared Folders automount and clipboard sharing stopped working”. For anyone keeping OS/2 machines inside VirtualBox for compatibility or to preserve old software, that’s a regression restored without touching anything else.
Who this is for
This release targets people who use VirtualBox for desktop virtualization and depend on host-to-guest integration: copy and paste, shared folders, graphics drivers. If your guest is a Plasma-on-Wayland distro, updating the Guest Additions to 7.2.10 gives you the first real clipboard fix. If you install the Additions on very new kernels, you avoid the vboxvideo build failure. And if you maintain OS/2 guests, you get broken features back.
7.2.10 is part of the 7.2 branch, the current one as of June 2026. Keep in mind the Guest Additions should match the version installed on the host for these changes to take effect. Alongside this release, Oracle also widened host-side compatibility, which we cover in VirtualBox 7.2.10 and initial Linux 7.1 kernel support.