diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/default.nix
index d65f101b3774..fc3303baf339 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/default.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 , libpng, glib, lvm2, libXrandr, libXinerama, libopus, qtbase, qtx11extras
 , qttools, qtsvg, qtwayland, pkg-config, which, docbook_xsl, docbook_xml_dtd_43
 , alsa-lib, curl, libvpx, nettools, dbus, substituteAll, gsoap, zlib
+, yasm, glslang
 # If open-watcom-bin is not passed, VirtualBox will fall back to use
 # the shipped alternative sources (assembly).
 , open-watcom-bin
@@ -23,19 +24,19 @@ 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.
-  version = "6.1.40";
+  version = "7.0.6";
 in stdenv.mkDerivation {
   pname = "virtualbox";
   inherit version;
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${version}/VirtualBox-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "bc857555d3e836ad9350a8f7b03bb54d2fdc04dddb2043d09813f4634bca4814";
+    sha256 = "f146d9a86a35af0abb010e628636fd800cb476cc2ce82f95b0c0ca876e1756ff";
   };
 
   outputs = [ "out" "modsrc" ];
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config which docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_43 ]
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config which docbook_xsl docbook_xml_dtd_43 yasm glslang ]
     ++ optional (!headless) wrapQtAppsHook;
 
   # Wrap manually because we wrap just a small number of executables.
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
       qtPluginPath = "${qtbase.bin}/${qtbase.qtPluginPrefix}:${qtsvg.bin}/${qtbase.qtPluginPrefix}:${qtwayland.bin}/${qtbase.qtPluginPrefix}";
     })
   ++ [
-    ./qtx11extras.patch
+    ./qt-dependency-paths.patch
     # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/123851
     ./fix-audio-driver-loading.patch
   ];
@@ -130,14 +131,17 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
     VBOX_JAVA_HOME                 := ${jdk}
     ''}
     ${optionalString (!headless) ''
+    VBOX_WITH_VBOXSDL              := 1
     PATH_QT5_X11_EXTRAS_LIB        := ${getLib qtx11extras}/lib
     PATH_QT5_X11_EXTRAS_INC        := ${getDev qtx11extras}/include
-    TOOL_QT5_LRC                   := ${getDev qttools}/bin/lrelease
+    PATH_QT5_TOOLS_LIB             := ${getLib qttools}/lib
+    PATH_QT5_TOOLS_INC             := ${getDev qttools}/include
     ''}
     ${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
     LOCAL_CONFIG
 
     ./configure \
@@ -174,7 +178,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
       -name src -o -exec cp -avt "$libexec" {} +
 
     mkdir -p $out/bin
-    for file in ${optionalString (!headless) "VirtualBox VBoxSDL rdesktop-vrdp"} ${optionalString enableWebService "vboxwebsrv"} VBoxManage VBoxBalloonCtrl VBoxHeadless; do
+    for file in ${optionalString (!headless) "VirtualBox VBoxSDL"} ${optionalString enableWebService "vboxwebsrv"} VBoxManage VBoxBalloonCtrl VBoxHeadless; do
         echo "Linking $file to /bin"
         test -x "$libexec/$file"
         ln -s "$libexec/$file" $out/bin/$file
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/extpack.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/extpack.nix
index 7092ffb33dee..7e27e79d5dd7 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/extpack.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/extpack.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ fetchurl rec {
     # 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 = "29cf8410e2514ea4393f63f5e955b8311787873679fc23ae9a897fb70ef3f84a";
+    let value = "292961aa8723b54f96f89f6d8abf7d8e29259d94b7de831dbffb9ae15d346434";
     in assert (builtins.stringLength value) == 64; value;
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/default.nix
index 1ff7f0abebaa..0601aa3e44a2 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/default.nix
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${version}/VBoxGuestAdditions_${version}.iso";
-    sha256 = "d456c559926f1a8fdd7259056e0a50f12339fd494122cf30db7736e2032970c6";
+    sha256 = "21e0f407d2a4f5c286084a70718aa20235ea75969eca0cab6cfab43a3499a010";
   };
 
   KERN_DIR = "${kernel.dev}/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/build";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/qtx11extras.patch b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/qt-dependency-paths.patch
similarity index 78%
rename from pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/qtx11extras.patch
rename to pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/qt-dependency-paths.patch
index a3aa98b081d1..ae5493a327d6 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/qtx11extras.patch
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/qt-dependency-paths.patch
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ index 71b96a3..73391f0 100644
    endif
   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 $(filter X11Extras,$(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), $(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)) )
   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 )
++ $(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))
  endif
  $(eval $(target)_DEFS      += $(foreach module,$(toupper $(qt_modules)), QT_$(module)_LIB) )