diff --git a/nixos/tests/virtualbox.nix b/nixos/tests/virtualbox.nix
index 5fce3ba54812..06b66ce4a922 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/virtualbox.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/virtualbox.nix
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ in mapAttrs (mkVBoxTest {} vboxVMs) {
 
     create_vm_simple()
     machine.succeed(ru("VirtualBox >&2 &"))
-    machine.wait_until_succeeds(ru("xprop -name 'Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager'"))
+    machine.wait_until_succeeds(ru("xprop -name 'Oracle VirtualBox Manager'"))
     machine.sleep(5)
     machine.screenshot("gui_manager_started")
     send_vm_startup()
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/default.nix
index 8c2a9f7e6f2c..c5dc4f09fd2c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
   pam,
   libxslt,
   libxml2,
-  wrapQtAppsHook,
   libX11,
   xorgproto,
   libXext,
@@ -28,11 +27,7 @@
   libXinerama,
   libopus,
   libtpms,
-  qtbase,
-  qtx11extras,
-  qttools,
-  qtsvg,
-  qtwayland,
+  qt6,
   pkg-config,
   which,
   docbook_xsl,
@@ -78,8 +73,8 @@ let
   buildType = "release";
   # Use maintainers/scripts/update.nix to update the version and all related hashes or
   # change the hashes in extpack.nix and guest-additions/default.nix as well manually.
-  virtualboxVersion = "7.0.22";
-  virtualboxSha256 = "cf3ddf633ca410f1b087b0722413e83247cda4f14d33323dc122a4a42ff61981";
+  virtualboxVersion = "7.1.4";
+  virtualboxSha256 = "872e7a42b41f8558abbf887f1bdc7aac932bb88b2764d07cbce270cab57e3b5e";
 
   kvmPatchVersion = "20240828";
   kvmPatchHash = "sha256-g0esJbB1IGyLGZMLFJIY8ZYdHWuiM5IZtLMHZvCY6bs=";
@@ -97,6 +92,14 @@ let
     getDev
     getLib
     ;
+  inherit (qt6)
+    qtbase
+    qttools
+    qtsvg
+    qtwayland
+    qtscxml
+    wrapQtAppsHook
+    ;
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "virtualbox";
@@ -164,7 +167,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     ++ optionals headless [ libGL ]
     ++ optionals (!headless) [
       qtbase
-      qtx11extras
+      qttools
+      qtscxml
       libXinerama
       SDL2
       libGLU
@@ -188,7 +192,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
         -e 's@CXX_FLAGS="\(.*\)"@CXX_FLAGS="-std=c++11 \1"@' \
         ${
           optionalString (!headless) ''
-            -e 's@TOOLQT5BIN=.*@TOOLQT5BIN="${getDev qtbase}/bin"@' \
+            -e 's@TOOLQT6BIN=.*@TOOLQT6BIN="${getDev qttools}/bin"@' \
           ''
         } -i configure
     ls kBuild/bin/linux.x86/k* tools/linux.x86/bin/* | xargs -n 1 patchelf --set-interpreter ${stdenv.cc.libc}/lib/ld-linux.so.2
@@ -215,8 +219,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
       # No update patch disables check for update function
       # https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ose/+bug/272212
       (fetchpatch {
-        url = "https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-virtualbox-team/virtualbox/-/raw/debian/7.0.14-dfsg-1/debian/patches/16-no-update.patch";
-        hash = "sha256-UJHpuB6QB/BbxJorlqZXUF12lgq8gbLMRHRMsbyqRpY=";
+        url = "https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-virtualbox-team/virtualbox/-/raw/42a1ca1291fde365bfba140cb21a8a074aaccce2/debian/patches/16-no-update.patch";
+        hash = "sha256-qM2e4DkkpmA18Z76OUsnY1MhcGb1dT2PG68JUy6fZEE=";
       })
     ]
     ++ [ ./extra_symbols.patch ]
@@ -229,7 +233,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     # the user's icon theme can be loaded.
     ++ optional (!headless && enableHardening) (substituteAll {
       src = ./qt-env-vars.patch;
-      qtPluginPath = "${qtbase.bin}/${qtbase.qtPluginPrefix}:${qtsvg.bin}/${qtbase.qtPluginPrefix}:${qtwayland.bin}/${qtbase.qtPluginPrefix}";
+      qtPluginPath = "${qtbase}/bin/${qtbase.qtPluginPrefix}:${qtsvg}/bin/${qtbase.qtPluginPrefix}:${qtwayland}/bin/${qtbase.qtPluginPrefix}";
     })
     # While the KVM patch should not break any other behavior if --with-kvm is not specified,
     # we don't take any chances and only apply it if people actually want to use KVM support.
@@ -282,16 +286,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     ''}
     ${optionalString (!headless) ''
       VBOX_WITH_VBOXSDL              := 1
-      PATH_QT5_X11_EXTRAS_LIB        := ${getLib qtx11extras}/lib
-      PATH_QT5_X11_EXTRAS_INC        := ${getDev qtx11extras}/include
-      PATH_QT5_TOOLS_LIB             := ${getLib qttools}/lib
-      PATH_QT5_TOOLS_INC             := ${getDev qttools}/include
+      PATH_QT6_TOOLS_LIB             := ${getLib qttools}/lib
+      PATH_QT6_TOOLS_INC             := ${getLib qttools}/include
+      PATH_QT6_SCXML_LIB             := ${getLib qtscxml}/lib
+      PATH_QT6_SCXML_INC             := ${getLib qtscxml}/include
+      VBOX_PATH_QT                   := ${getLib qttools}/
     ''}
     ${optionalString enableWebService ''
       # fix gsoap missing zlib include and produce errors with --as-needed
       VBOX_GSOAP_CXX_LIBS := gsoapssl++ z
     ''}
-    TOOL_QT5_LRC                   := ${getDev qttools}/bin/lrelease
+    TOOL_QT6_LRC                   := ${getLib qttools}/bin/lrelease
     LOCAL_CONFIG
 
     ./configure \
@@ -344,7 +349,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
       "$libexec/VBoxExtPackHelperApp" install \
         --base-dir "$share/ExtensionPacks" \
         --cert-dir "$share/ExtPackCertificates" \
-        --name "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack" \
+        --name "Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack" \
         --tarball "${extensionPack}" \
         --sha-256 "${extensionPack.outputHash}"
       EOF
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/extpack.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/extpack.nix
index dfb0bd98142b..134ce6424ce5 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/extpack.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/extpack.nix
@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ let
   inherit (virtualbox) version;
 in
 fetchurl rec {
-  name = "Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-${version}.vbox-extpack";
+  name = "Oracle_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-${version}.vbox-extpack";
   url = "https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${version}/${name}";
   sha256 =
     # Manually sha256sum the extensionPack file, must be hex!
     # Thus do not use `nix-prefetch-url` but instead plain old `sha256sum`.
     # Checksums can also be found at https://www.virtualbox.org/download/hashes/${version}/SHA256SUMS
     let
-      value = "6b0c16074dde1ea273b15e091336034368217ba569e09359a63c4d32af558886";
+      value = "9dd60ef3c52c2a318fbbb6faace5862a299b61f678a579988869865dcf7390b6";
     in
     assert (builtins.stringLength value) == 64;
     value;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions-iso/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions-iso/default.nix
index 0aed33ced10b..70e68879264d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions-iso/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions-iso/default.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ let
 in
 fetchurl {
   url = "http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${version}/VBoxGuestAdditions_${version}.iso";
-  sha256 = "486f90cbfe9ed4bf2b12d726ebf54a839758a237e967aa65fc2c92d90a963021";
+  sha256 = "80c91d35742f68217cf47b13e5b50d53f54c22c485bacce41ad7fdc321649e61";
   meta = {
     description = "Guest additions ISO for VirtualBox";
     longDescription = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/builder.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/builder.nix
index e94206070d16..7219f0f8c58b 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/builder.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/builder.nix
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ let
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "VirtualBox-GuestAdditions-builder-${kernel.version}";
-  version = "7.0.22";
+  version = "7.1.4";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${finalAttrs.version}/VirtualBox-${finalAttrs.version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "cf3ddf633ca410f1b087b0722413e83247cda4f14d33323dc122a4a42ff61981";
+    sha256 = "872e7a42b41f8558abbf887f1bdc7aac932bb88b2764d07cbce270cab57e3b5e";
   };
 
   env.NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration";
@@ -72,11 +72,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     rm -r src/libs/zlib*/
   '';
 
-  patches = [
-    ## https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/100258/vbox
-    ./no-legacy-xorg.patch
-  ];
-
   postPatch = ''
     set -x
     sed -e 's@MKISOFS --version@MKISOFS -version@' \
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/no-legacy-xorg.patch b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/no-legacy-xorg.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 911cf0f0d5f0..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/no-legacy-xorg.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-# https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/100258/vbox
-diff --git a/src/VBox/Additions/linux/Makefile.kmk b/src/VBox/Additions/linux/Makefile.kmk
-index 0921b3fe619..de9e98b4989 100644
---- a/src/VBox/Additions/linux/Makefile.kmk
-+++ b/src/VBox/Additions/linux/Makefile.kmk
-@@ -136,23 +136,29 @@ VBOX_LNX_ADD_STRIP_SBIN += \
- 	$(if $(VBOX_WITH_LIGHTDM_GREETER),vbox-greeter)
- 
- VBOX_LNX_ADD_STRIP_MOD = \
--	vboxmouse_drv_70.so \
--	vboxmouse_drv_71.so \
--	vboxmouse_drv_13.so \
--	vboxmouse_drv_14.so \
--	vboxmouse_drv_15.so \
--	vboxmouse_drv_16.so \
--	$(addsuffix .so,$(filter-out %_32,$(filter vboxvideo_drv_%,$(DLLS)))) \
- 	$(if $(VBOX_WITH_PAM),pam_vbox.so,) \
- 	mount.vboxsf
- 
-+ifndef VBOX_NO_LEGACY_XORG_X11
-+ VBOX_LNX_ADD_STRIP_MOD += \
-+ 	vboxmouse_drv_70.so \
-+ 	vboxmouse_drv_71.so \
-+ 	vboxmouse_drv_13.so \
-+ 	vboxmouse_drv_14.so \
-+ 	vboxmouse_drv_15.so \
-+ 	vboxmouse_drv_16.so \
-+ 	$(addsuffix .so,$(filter-out %_32,$(filter vboxvideo_drv_%,$(DLLS))))
-+endif
-+
- VBOX_LNX_ADD_MOD = \
- 	98vboxadd-xclient \
- 	x11config.sh
- 
--VBOX_LNX_ADD_STRIP_OBJ = \
--	vboxmouse_drv.o \
--	vboxvideo_drv.o
-+ifndef VBOX_NO_LEGACY_XORG_X11
-+ VBOX_LNX_ADD_STRIP_OBJ = \
-+ 	vboxmouse_drv.o \
-+ 	vboxvideo_drv.o
-+endif
- 
- VBOX_LNX_ADD_INIT = \
- 	vboxadd \
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/qt-dependency-paths.patch b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/qt-dependency-paths.patch
index ae5493a327d6..01dd5f9f674a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/qt-dependency-paths.patch
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/qt-dependency-paths.patch
@@ -1,16 +1,26 @@
-diff --git a/kBuild/units/qt5.kmk b/kBuild/units/qt5.kmk
-index 71b96a3..73391f0 100644
---- a/kBuild/units/qt5.kmk
-+++ b/kBuild/units/qt5.kmk
-@@ -1054,9 +1054,9 @@ else
-    $(eval $(target)_LIBS   += $(PATH_SDK_QT5_LIB)/$(qt_prefix)qtmain$(qt_infix)$(SUFF_LIB) )
-   endif
+diff --git a/kBuild/units/qt6.kmk b/kBuild/units/qt6.kmk
+index 28d61005..d65205cf 100644
+--- a/kBuild/units/qt6.kmk
++++ b/kBuild/units/qt6.kmk
+@@ -1131,9 +1131,14 @@ else
+  ifeq ($(bld_trg),win)
+   $(eval $(target)_LIBS    += $(foreach module,$(qt_modules), $(PATH_SDK_QT6_LIB)/$(qt_prefix)Qt6$(module)$(qt_infix)$(SUFF_LIB)) )
   else
--  $(eval $(target)_LIBS    += $(foreach module,$(qt_modules), $(PATH_SDK_QT5_LIB)/lib$(qt_prefix)Qt5$(module)$(qt_infix)$(SUFF_DLL)) )
-+  $(eval $(target)_LIBS    += $(foreach module,$(qt_modules), $(if $(filter Help,$(module)),$(PATH_QT5_TOOLS_LIB),$(if $(filter X11Extras,$(module)),$(PATH_QT5_X11_EXTRAS_LIB),$(PATH_SDK_QT5_LIB)))/lib$(qt_prefix)Qt5$(module)$(qt_infix)$(SUFF_DLL)) )
+-  $(eval $(target)_LIBS    += $(foreach module,$(qt_modules), $(PATH_SDK_QT6_LIB)/lib$(qt_prefix)Qt6$(module)$(qt_infix)$(SUFF_DLL)) )
++  $(eval $(target)_LIBS    += $(foreach module,$(qt_modules), \
++                                $(if $(filter Help,$(module)),$(PATH_QT6_TOOLS_LIB), \
++                                  $(if $(filter StateMachine,$(module)),$(PATH_QT6_SCXML_LIB), \
++                                    $(PATH_SDK_QT6_LIB)))/lib$(qt_prefix)Qt6$(module)$(qt_infix)$(SUFF_DLL)) \
++                               )
   endif
-- $(eval $(target)_INCS     += $(addprefix $(PATH_SDK_QT5_INC)/Qt,$(qt_modules)) $(PATH_SDK_QT5_INC) )
-+ $(eval $(target)_INCS     += $(addprefix $(PATH_SDK_QT5_INC)/Qt,$(qt_modules)) $(PATH_SDK_QT5_INC) $(PATH_QT5_X11_EXTRAS_INC)/QtX11Extras $(PATH_QT5_TOOLS_INC))
+- $(eval $(target)_INCS     += $(addprefix $(PATH_SDK_QT6_INC)/Qt,$(qt_modules)) $(PATH_SDK_QT6_INC) )
++ $(eval $(target)_INCS     += $(addprefix $(PATH_SDK_QT6_INC)/Qt,$(qt_modules)) \
++                                $(PATH_SDK_QT6_INC) $(PATH_QT6_TOOLS_INC) $(PATH_QT6_SCXML_INC)/QtStateMachine )
  endif
  $(eval $(target)_DEFS      += $(foreach module,$(toupper $(qt_modules)), QT_$(module)_LIB) )
-
+ 
+@@ -1238,4 +1243,3 @@ unit-qt6-show-vars:
+ 	@$(ECHO) '  TOOL_QT6_RCC           = "$(TOOL_QT6_RCC)"'
+ 	@$(ECHO) '  TOOL_QT6_LRC           = "$(TOOL_QT6_LRC)"'
+ 	@$(ECHO) '  TOOL_QT6_LUPDATE       = "$(TOOL_QT6_LUPDATE)"'
+-
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/update.sh b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/update.sh
index f1b1d71a355c..5c811bea4882 100755
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/update.sh
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/update.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ oldVersion="$(nix-instantiate --eval -E "with import $nixpkgs {}; $attr.version
 latestVersion="$(curl -sS https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/LATEST.TXT)"
 
 function fileShaSum() {
-  echo "$1" | grep -w $2 | cut -f1 -d' '
+  echo "$1" | grep -w "$2" | cut -f1 -d' '
 }
 function oldHash() {
   nix-instantiate --eval --strict -A "$1.drvAttrs.outputHash" | tr -d '"'
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ function nixFile() {
 }
 
 if [ ! "$oldVersion" = "$latestVersion" ]; then
-  shaSums=$(curl -sS https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/$latestVersion/SHA256SUMS)
+  shaSums=$(curl -sS "https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/$latestVersion/SHA256SUMS")
 
   virtualBoxShaSum=$(fileShaSum "$shaSums" "VirtualBox-$latestVersion.tar.bz2")
-  extpackShaSum=$(fileShaSum "$shaSums" "Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$latestVersion.vbox-extpack")
+  extpackShaSum=$(fileShaSum "$shaSums" "Oracle_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$latestVersion.vbox-extpack")
   guestAdditionsIsoShaSum=$(fileShaSum "$shaSums" "*VBoxGuestAdditions_$latestVersion.iso")
 
   virtualboxNixFile=$(nixFile ${attr})
@@ -36,15 +36,15 @@ if [ ! "$oldVersion" = "$latestVersion" ]; then
 
   sed -e "s/virtualboxVersion =.*;/virtualboxVersion = \"$latestVersion\";/g" \
       -e "s/virtualboxSha256 =.*;/virtualboxSha256 = \"$virtualBoxShaSum\";/g" \
-      -i $virtualboxNixFile
+      -i "$virtualboxNixFile"
   sed -i -e 's|value = "'$extpackOldShaSum'"|value = "'$extpackShaSum'"|' $extpackNixFile
   sed -e "s/sha256 =.*;/sha256 = \"$guestAdditionsIsoShaSum\";/g" \
-      -i $guestAdditionsIsoNixFile
+      -i "$guestAdditionsIsoNixFile"
   sed -e "s/version =.*;/version = \"$latestVersion\";/g" \
       -e "s/sha256 =.*;/sha256 = \"$virtualBoxShaSum\";/g" \
-      -i $virtualboxGuestAdditionsNixFile
+      -i "$virtualboxGuestAdditionsNixFile"
 
-  git add $virtualboxNixFile $extpackNixFile $guestAdditionsIsoNixFile $virtualboxGuestAdditionsNixFile
+  git add "$virtualboxNixFile" "$extpackNixFile" "$guestAdditionsIsoNixFile" "$virtualboxGuestAdditionsNixFile"
   git commit -m "$attr: ${oldVersion} -> ${latestVersion}"
 else
   echo "$attr is already up-to-date"