Bug 295894 - emulators/virtualbox-ose-72: Regression - proliferation of ~/…-VirtualBoxVM-….log files in VirtualBox 7.2.8
Summary: emulators/virtualbox-ose-72: Regression - proliferation of ~/…-VirtualBoxVM-…...
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: Virtualbox Team (Nobody)
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Reported: 2026-06-06 13:50 UTC by Kaminar
Modified: 2026-07-06 09:48 UTC (History)
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Description Kaminar 2026-06-06 13:50:39 UTC 
The issue described in bug #259234 has reappeared in VirtualBox 7.2.8. The behaviour is identical to what was reported in the original bug.
Comment 1 Tom 2026-06-07 10:41:17 UTC 
The issue seems to have been fixed upstream in a 7.2.9-xxx testbuild:

https://github.com/VirtualBox/virtualbox/issues/645#issuecomment-4444394049

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds

Until a stable release becomes available, the following workaround can be applied:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=259234#c5

"Apropos, the creation of those log files can be suppressed by setting VirtualBox env variable "VBOX_LOG_DEST" to "nofile"."
Comment 2 Kaminar 2026-07-06 09:48:36 UTC 
I confirm that in VirtualBox version 7.2.10 the bug has been fixed.