Hello Arelor!
Anyone here have experience in installing VirtualBox on a Win7
machine?
I suspect your issue is you are trying to instal a modern
Virtualbox on an old unsupported OS. Check your Virtualbox
version supports Windows 7 as a host.
That does seem to be the case, unawares. The Oracle site did
not mention any win7 limitations up front. I will look into
the docs as you mentioned. Meanwhile, I got a tip from someone
else that 6.0.24 would be my best shot.
6.0.24 install went rather smooth, but it killed access to the
internet! I was able to talk to my router and local network
devices, but there was no access to the outside.
I rebooted several times and restarted my usual things like
Tailscale VPN several times, but the internet refused to
recover.
I ended up doing a system Restore back to the point before all
this started. That recovered the internet. But at this point,
I am not too excited to try all that again just yet.
If you just want to use yt-dlp for casual use I would just
get a copy of Tiny Core Linux or a similar compact Live
Linux distribution and boot from it. It is much saner and
leaner on resources than setting a virtualization stack on
an old machine.
yt-dlp is my driving force for all this. Apprently, Win7 is
nolonger supported primarily because the newest yt-dlp needs
Python 3.9, but Win7 cannot use Python 3.9 :(
I just wanted a simple convenient way to pull vid material when
needed. A linux intance via VB sounded ideal. I really don't
want to boot with a live-CD each time I discover a vid that
looks interesting.
Meanwhile.. I learned about coLinux and andLinux. The concept
for those sound like a good alternative. But I have to hope
that they will support python 3.9.
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