Anyone here have experience in installing VirtualBox on a Win7
machine?

I went through a successful Python pip install (for some
required dependencies), but a subsequent install of virtualbox
itself fails.

Grabbed the latest VB offering at the Oracle site: version
7.1.4 and 64bit.

My pc is 64bit, and 8GB ram.

Is there an installation log that documents the issues
encountered during install? ..there doesn't seem to be
anything in program directory.


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Hi August.

29 Dec 24 22:50:00, you wrote to All:

Anyone here have experience in installing VirtualBox on a Win7
machine?

I have this one installed in this Win7 computer:

VirtualBox Graphical User Interface
Version 7.0.20 r163906 (Qt5.15.2)
Copyright 2024 Oracle and/or its affiliates.

I went through a successful Python pip install (for some
required dependencies), but a subsequent install of virtualbox
itself fails.

Never did anything like this..

Grabbed the latest VB offering at the Oracle site: version
7.1.4 and 64bit.

Should it run in older Windozes?

My pc is 64bit, and 8GB ram.

64bit, 12GB RAM

Is there an installation log that documents the issues
encountered during install? ..there doesn't seem to be
anything in program directory.

How about something like "C:\Users\tommi\.VirtualBox" ..

'Tommi

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Hi August.

01 Jan 25 09:06:56, I wrote to you:

I have this one installed in this Win7 computer:

VirtualBox Graphical User Interface
Version 7.0.20 r163906 (Qt5.15.2)
Copyright 2024 Oracle and/or its affiliates.

Updated to 7.0.22. Now it says there are no updates.

"You are already running the most recent version of VirtualBox."

Grabbed the latest VB offering at the Oracle site: version
7.1.4 and 64bit.

Should it run in older Windozes?

So I repeat the question. ;)

'Tommi

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Hello Tommi Koivula!

I have this one installed in this Win7 computer:

VirtualBox Graphical User Interface
Version 7.0.20 r163906 (Qt5.15.2)
Copyright 2024 Oracle and/or its affiliates.

Updated to 7.0.22. Now it says there are no updates.

Where are you getting the files/updates? The virtualbox domain
doesn't respond here.

Grabbed the latest VB offering at the Oracle site: version
7.1.4 and 64bit.

Should it run in older Windozes?

So I repeat the question. ;)

I dunno! There is no info on the Oracle site as to which
version is for which OS.

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Hello Tommi Koivula!

I have this one installed in this Win7 computer:

VirtualBox Graphical User Interface
Version 7.0.20 r163906 (Qt5.15.2)
Copyright 2024 Oracle and/or its affiliates.

I'll have to consider that one some time, I guess.

I went through a successful Python pip install (for some
required dependencies), but a subsequent install of
virtualbox itself fails. Grabbed the latest VB offering
at the Oracle site: version 7.1.4 and 64bit.

Never did anything like this..

7.1.4 definitely wanted Python installed. :(

Is there an installation log that documents the issues..

How about something like "C:\Users\tommi\.VirtualBox" ..

Someone else in a blog/usergroup mentioned to try the %temp%/ Roaming/VirtualBox dir, but the log files there did not offer
much.

From someone else's experience, 6.0.20 was considered to be the
last version to support win7, so I tried that. The install
actually finished with that one!

But.. after that, the whole internet connection on the pc
stopped working; the win7 pc could talk to my local network/
router, but there was no connection to the internet beyond
that. I rebooted several times, tried to restart the network
manually several ways - but there was no difference.

That situation was dire. So.. I decided to do a system restore
back to before I started with the Python and VB installs.
That, worked.. and I got internet back.

After this experience, not going to play with VB for at least a
few days.

I would really like the convenience of having a linux OS
operating simultanously on my win7 machine.

Did you need Virtualization enabled in BIOS? My BIOS supports virtualization, but it's reported as disabled.


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Hi August.

01 Jan 25 07:17:00, you wrote to me:

VirtualBox Graphical User Interface
Version 7.0.20 r163906 (Qt5.15.2)
Copyright 2024 Oracle and/or its affiliates.

Updated to 7.0.22. Now it says there are no updates.

Where are you getting the files/updates? The virtualbox domain
doesn't respond here.

Using the "check updates" in VB. :)

Grabbed the latest VB offering at the Oracle site: version
7.1.4 and 64bit.

Should it run in older Windozes?

So I repeat the question. ;)

I dunno! There is no info on the Oracle site as to which
version is for which OS.

Yeah..

'Tommi

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Hello Tommi Koivula!

Where are you getting the files/updates? The virtualbox domain
doesn't respond here.

Using the "check updates" in VB. :)

The domain still remains unresponsive. Clearly a loser.

I dunno! There is no info on the Oracle site as to which
version is for which OS.

Yeah..

Yeah what? Yeah that that the Oracle site does not have the
info.. or, that it does? Someone else suggested that the
manual has some version info in it. Fine. But that is not
obvious to look there when visiting the site!
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Hi August.

04 Jan 25 23:45:00, you wrote to me:

Where are you getting the files/updates? The virtualbox domain
doesn't respond here.

Using the "check updates" in VB. :)

The domain still remains unresponsive. Clearly a loser.

I don't know about that. For me the "Check for Updates..." in file menu offered the update from 7.0.20 to 7.0.22. And now it says:

"You are already running the most recent version of VirtualBox."

7.0.22 works here.

I dunno! There is no info on the Oracle site as to which
version is for which OS.

Yeah..

Yeah what? Yeah that that the Oracle site does not have the
info.. or, that it does? Someone else suggested that the
manual has some version info in it. Fine. But that is not
obvious to look there when visiting the site!

It is not the only application that installs fine to Win7, but doesn't run.. Bad installer. :)

'Tommi

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Hello Tommi!

The domain still remains unresponsive. Clearly a loser.

I don't know about that. For me the "Check for Updates..."
in file menu offered the update from 7.0.20 to 7.0.22. And
now it says:

"You are already running the most recent version of VirtualBox."

7.0.22 works here.

Ah.. but that's AFTER the fact. After I installed it, it caused
network issues and killed the internet. So, exploring the
"file menu" for things was not a priority at that moment. ;)

After several attempts to get the internet going without
success, I uninstalled VB. But the internet was still broken,
so I ended up going back to a Restore point.

It is not the only application that installs fine to Win7,
but doesn't run.. Bad installer. :)

Gonna pass on VB, at least for a little while longer.

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Hi August.

01 Jan 25 07:37:00, you wrote to me:

I would really like the convenience of having a linux OS
operating simultanously on my win7 machine.

Why not install native linux and run Win7 in Virtualbox. :)

Did you need Virtualization enabled in BIOS? My BIOS supports virtualization, but it's reported as disabled.

I have it enabled. I think you should do do that too.

'Tommi

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Re: virtual box install on win7
By: August Abolins to Tommi Koivula on Sun Jan 05 2025 10:23:00

After I installed it, it caused network issues and killed the internet. success, I uninstalled VB. But the internet was still broken,

I thought Wreck-it Ralph broke the Internet? :)

To be accurate, you didn't kill or break the Internet. You lost your connection to the Internet. Big difference.
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Hello Mortar M.!

To be accurate, you didn't kill or break the Internet. You lost your connection to the Internet. Big difference. -+- SBBSecho 3.23-Linux
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Correct, I worded it wrong. I was frustrated about the sudden
lack of internet. To me, that meant that VB broke it.

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On 06 Jan 2025, August Abolins said the following...

Hello Mortar M.!

To be accurate, you didn't kill or break the Internet. You lost your connection to the Internet. Big difference. -+- SBBSecho 3.23-Linux
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Correct, I worded it wrong. I was frustrated about the sudden
lack of internet. To me, that meant that VB broke it.

I suppose how serious you take it, some people are way too technical, but hey, we're all different and take things differently. Glad you've got things situated regardless.

-Jon

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