Thursday, June 15, 2023

Installing VirtualBox 7 on Windows

If you try to install Virtualbox 7 you may get this message:


 If you do, click 'No' to cancel the installation and do the following.

Step 1

    Download and install the latest Python from here: https://www.python.org/downloads/

Step 2

    Open a cmd prompt and cd to the location of pip.exe (example:) 

        cd C:\Users\paul\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts

Step 3

    Run this pip command:

        pip install pywin32

Step 4

    Run the Virtualbox installer again.  You shouldn't get the above warning.

 

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