Subj : virtual box install on win7
To   : Tommi Koivula
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Jan 01 2025 07:37 am

Hello Tommi Koivula!

 TK> I have this one installed in this Win7 computer:

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

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


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

 TK> Never did anything like this..

7.1.4 definitely wanted Python installed.  :(


 AA>> Is there an installation log that documents the issues..

 TK> 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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