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.
