![]() ![]() VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria. VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, 7, 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD. See " About VirtualBox" for an introduction. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. VM VirtualBox, its high performance, cross-platform virtualization software. hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V), page 11). Oracle today released a significant new version of Oracle VirtualBox versions 2.1+ support 64 bit guests inside 32 bit hosts, assuming the following is true: You need a 64-bit processor with hardware virtualization support (see chapter 1.2, Software vs. Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. VBox.zip requested by fth0 (32.Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. Sorry to be so verbose, but I figure giving y'all too much information is better than too little. ![]() Y'all are so good, I may ask a different, but related question in another post. Thanks again for all y'alls help with this problem. Since I'm not using the VM for games, I have the 3D acceleration uncheck marked should that be checked? I checked for an updated video driver, and there isn't work that Windows 7 found. ![]() So, I guess the question has changed from "How to get Windows 7" to work, to "Why did it fail, and how can one prevent a occurrence?Īnother question, if y'all don't mind, is how can the performance be improved? It has a Windows Experience Rating of 1, the lowest, because of the graphics. I fired up the VM this morning, and it worked. I chose to have it repair Windows It started to doing the repairs, and bombed out a few times, and finally started when it started, it installed a driver update for the processor, i5-7400, and said it needed to restart, which I did. ![]() At first, in got to the starting Windows splash screen, and aborted then it got to the point where it had a "text screen" saying "Windows didn't shut down properly do you want to repair Windows or start normally" (or some similar message, but that's the gist of it. Remember the definition of insanity being trying the same thing over and over expecting different results? Well, I went insane. This patch is strictly within the Windows 7 VM. Someone made a patch to bypass the CPU check for the updates to work, and that is what I installed and it worked with no problem, although that is now moot. In one of the updates, Microsoft put in something so that Windows 7 wouldn't update if it was installed on a "new" computer, i.e., one that "should" be running Windows 10 the objective was to not support unplanned hardware/software combinations. It's been over a year, so I don't remember the exact detail. ![]()
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