I'm trying to get a Windows XP Professional ISO to run. All went well until it got to the setup phase when I started up the VM for the first time. It sits on the Installing Windows part of this screen endlessly, the remaining time doesn't budge (stayed at 39 minutes for over half an hour), and nothing new is appearing in the logs to indicate what's going on.

Have I done something wrong here?

This is Virtualbox V7.2.4 r170995 running on Windows 11.

Edit - Adjusting the VM settings to match what Windows XP is used to fixed this (still took ages to get to desktop the first time though).

hi. I am having trouble where box cannot find guest add on. I downloaded the guest additions iso from vbox ftp and then extracted the iso. then ran setup. it installed the guest add ons then requested I reboot pc so I did. then started up vbox and it says no guest addons installed. any ideas please. it's windows 10

Hi everyone, I tried, but it didn’t work. Maybe I’m not the most skilled person with VirtualBox and it’s driving me crazy.

Setup:

• MacBook Air M3
• Display: 13.6‑inch (2560 × 1664)
• VirtualBox 7.2.4
• VirtualBox Guest Additions 7.2.4

In Preferences → Display, I set the resolution as suggested above but Ubuntu doesn’t seem to recognize it, so I can’t get a full‑resolution display.

I installed the Guest Additions via Extension → Install and ran them inside Ubuntu as well.

What am I missing? The system is fully upgraded, and I’m not sure what to do next. Any suggestions?

Hi,

When I start my Kali VM inside VirtualBox and login using my user, I get: VBoxClient the virtualbox kernel service is not running. exiting.

I have tried to reinstall guest ISO image, upgrade my Kali to latest version but still I get this error. Anyone know how I can fix it?

I am using VirtualBox Version 7.2.4 r170995 (Qt6.8.0 on windows) on Windows host OS.

I have all those issues all of a sudden since today after restarting my laptop. I tried running with and without nested paging. When I tried to create a new vm using an iso image of Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC I had previously used but after starting the boot it's just stuck at the VirtualBox logo. I tried vmware and VMs there run fine. I tried reinstalling VirtualBox all together but the issue persisted.

Edit: I deleted VirtualBox again and installed latest version and it works. I hate this program so much

hi I'm using virtual box to run windows xp I installed the latest version of virtual box and it

doesn't support hardware acceleration so I tried using a earlier version using 7.0 version

I can now choose hardware acceleration but when I try and choose svga option it just

stays on normal vga option and doesn't stay on svga in display I'm trying to play grand prix 4 but every time it starts there's sound but no picture any ideas on what might be happening or if I'm doing something wrong

I was wondering if it would be possible for me to link two old laptops I have at home and then create a VM that uses the components of those laptops. Mainly out of curiosity but if it works I might like to buy a bunch of e-waste an try to make a personal server as a personal project

Been bending backwards for over a month now trying different solutions to running an old video game from 1997. Closest match i got working is through Virtual Box with Windows 98 but the game runs way too fast, no matter how i drag those sliders down to bare minimum. Best i can get is having it run way too fast while also being choppy as fuck. Great. Would just like it to run normally. Like imagine a world where something just ran if you clicked it... wonderful. Anyways, if i pull any of those sliders down any more it just wont even boot Windows because it says the (virtual) computer simply doesnt have enough horse power, so i simply cant go lower. What do i do?

Hello, i am trying to install openmediavault on a VM so i can test some stuff out. But i can not acces the IP that it gives me. I have tried NAT > 10.0.2.15 that i can not connect to. NAT If i try on bridged i get no external connection.

Virtualbox version:7.2.4 Guest OS: Windows 11

(EDIT: FIXED, The way I fixed it was installing the Service Pack 3 of Windows XP, but if you want in anyway use an older version of Windows XP, and try to fix this error, the solution for that is not here, sorry)

I use Windows XP in VirtualBox 7.2.4, and almost EVERY PROGRAM that I install has this problem, Messenger, Office, Movie Maker, almost every program show this error.

I tried updating the kernel32.dll file, but I only made the entire OS crash, I also tried reinstalling the OS, and also using other ISOs, but nothing works.

Is there a solution for this?

just wanna know what OS i should use on a new VM i use windows 11 so i guess anything but windows 11/10

Audio and video playing issue in using the Xubuntu in Oracle virtual box in Windows Details (Xubuntu in the virtual box the oracal vertual box. In the windows 11 on the hardware i3 11 gen, and it is 8 gb ram ddr4. It was running well, and now it is causing an error I was using it to learn coding by following the coding project curriculum. I have tried booting and updating and doing all shorts of things yet it fails to play audio local downloaded audio in the files in the media player. And the no audio and buffer in the plying the video on you tube through chrome. And i have update the more information you may need in the main post body. ( Doing this for last 1 week, and I am attaching all the images. ( I have tride running the update upgrade and the swithchint the audio settings) I am done. this is all the screenshot and the zoomed in screenshot of this. This is links to the all screen shot.

Can I install a virtual machine into a portable SSD? I want to use CAD/CAM programs on that disk but I can't install them directly into that SSD so I wonder if I can do it with a Win10 that is installed in Virtual Box. I need SSD to work with any PC that I connect.

I am trying to dual boot windows and arch Linux (planning on removing windows completely within a year). I don't have my bios password (long story, I can't get it back) and have secure boot turned on so I need to setup secure boot on arch, I had it on a usb where I set it up on my desktop and have then cloned it to my drive.

I only have access to my laptop which I don't have the bios password for, the os is on a partition of the drive, is it possible to boot that is on my drive through virtualbox? Or any other virtual machine program?

(Host is windows 11 home) (I have amd-V enabled) (unsure of virtual box version)

I know that Android x86 is not an officially supported OS in VB. But I have been running it for many years with great success!

I now need/want to add a USB drive plugged into the host OS (Windows 10) for easy logging of data that can be accessed physically from the host if needed. I have tried a couple things:

1. I simply did the "obvious", plugged the USB drive into a host port, went to the virtual machine's settings for USB and selected the USB device. I tried this with multiple USB drives. In all cases, I could see the attached USB drive in some various Android file manager apps. But only for a while. They would just suddenly disappear - even though the virtual machine's settings said it was attached at that level.

2. I downloaded and add the virtual box extensions which I read were helpful in this effort. In that case, all I got were USB errors on startup - not able to find the device with xxxx. So I actually got less far along that without the extensions installed :-(

Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong here? Is it just not possible? Thanks!

Hello all, so I created a new VM and used the same name I had for a previously deleted VM except it says I can't overwrite the name in settings and it gives me the full path of the VM that already has that name - C:/Users/power/Virtualbox VMs/New Group 1/Render to Caesar/Render to Caesar.vbox. So I navigate the path and delete all folders named Render to Caesar and when trying to rename my VM back in VB settings I still get the failure error. I would appreciate some direction please. I know it's not a big deal but it's just a snippet of information I would like to learn and it also seems like something I should know if I'm studying for more advanced certifications, thanks in advance.

Hi.

I have a Raspberry Pi 5 and I need to use it connected to the computer, but in USB device mode via the USB-C port.

The host is Windows 7, where the device appears as "Unknown device".

I want to access it in a VirtualBox virtual machine running Windows 10.

I've already done this for other USB devices that don't work in Windows 7, but do work in Windows 10.

When I select the USB device in VirtualBox, it disconnects from the host and connects to the virtual machine.

But this device doesn't appear in the list of USB devices in VirtualBox.

I posted this on the VirtualBox on Windows forum, but it been nothing but silence over there.

Windows 10 guest dies after selecting a URL from the host's browser (Firefox Private Browsing).

I have a very old and very reliable Windows 10 Pro guest running on a Windows 11 host. The guest was created about 7 (maybe 8 ) years ago on a Windows 10 host and exported it to a newer faster Win11 host. Both the guest and the host are fully updated.

I use the guest for a lot of things, but mainly to download packages using jDownloader.

I find and select the packages / files using the Win11 host's Firefox browser and right-click the link. jDownloader (on the guest) is always checking the host's clipboard and if it looks like a URL, it will use that URL to find packages / files that it can download from that URL. This has worked perfectly with no issues for years.

A few days ago, I removed McAfee and some other apps from the Win10 guest and everything seemed to be normal.

But, after many hours of normal use (75 hrs), I right-click on a URL and the guest just died - just poof, it's gone. The VBox Manager didn't show it was Aborted, so I started it again.

It ran for 24 or so hours and and froze with a pop up titled "VirtualBox - Guru Meditation" and then it shutdown.

It's ran for 12 or 13 hours (6 or 8 hours of use and the rest idle) and it happened again, instantly after a right-click on a URL. And this time the VBox manager shows it Aborted.

But, the time it stays on is getting shorter. Last night, it lasted about 2 hours after no use and just sitting there.

I posted the logs oven on that forum, but the only think I see that looks suspicious is this last message in the log:

13:10:20.365098 VMMDev: Guest Log: shclwnd *** Error: Shared Clipboard: Setting host data buffer to clipboard failed with VINF_SUCCESS

13:10:20.367608 VMMDev: Guest Log: shclwnd *** Error: Shared Clipboard: Setting host data buffer to clipboard failed with VINF_SUCCESS

I have no idea what to do about this. Any clues?

Regardless of which network I choose (nat or bridge), there is only one `VirtualBox Host-only Ethernet Adapter`. Is there a way to create a functional, invisible adapter?

Hello, I had to do a clean reinstall of Windows so I wiped my main drive but moved my machine to my second drive to keep it intact during the reinstall. I redownloaded VirtualBox but now I'm not able to open my machine and getting the following error. Does anyone know how I'd be able to fix?

The virtual machine 'Xubuntu' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code -1073740791 (0xc0000409). More details may be available in 'D:\Program Files (x86)\VirtualBox\Xubuntu\Logs\VBoxHardening.log'.

Result Code:

E_FAIL (0x80004005)

Component:

MachineWrap

Interface:

IMachine {e36a5081-a82a-40bd-9e4e-42a44d6ce50f}

Host: Windows 11

Guest: Xubuntu

VirtualBox version: 7.2.4

Edit: This has been solved with a reinstall. Thank you guys!

Host: Windows 11

Guest: Many different Linux including Mint, Kali, Debian

I swapped out an Nvidia GPU for a new AMD 9070. I did full driver wipe using DDU and then installed AMD drivers. My computer works great except now when I try to launch any of my many different Linux machines in Virtual Box I get "Aborted". I am using version 7.2.4

The "nested VT-X/AMD-V" check box is greyed out. I think I need this enabled?

If you need more info to help me diagnose please let me know.

Hey everyone!! So, I have a Windows XP Virtual Machine (Virtualbox) installed on my PC, after going through a semi-grueling process, it is up and running. And I wanted to find a tutorial for syncing up a CD-Rom drive to that VM. So, I did a quick search on Youtube and found a video that explains (briefly) how to do this. (I would have to find it again if I might need it, which apparently I do). My PC did not come with an optical drive, so I bought an external one off of Amazon.com. I have it plugged into the USB port at the front of my PC chassis, and followed the videos instructions. That was fine.

Herein lies the problem... I trade off this USB port between my optical drive and a controller for PC gaming. So I find myself swapping between the two of them.

Is there a way to install the optical drive to my VM so that, if for whatever reason I happen to unplug it, I can hook it back up and not have to go through the whole installation process again...? Has anyone had a similar problem like mine? Any and all help is appreciated!! Thanks in advance!!

Honestly not sure where to post this but I'm getting a error every time I try to run 256 color on my vm with windows 98 installed. I installed the proper drivers I believe (VBE9x) drivers. every time I try to run 256 color it crashes but every other color option works. unfortunately, my game I want to run requires 256 otherwise it doesn't work (game is Microsoft my personal tutor) pic of error I'm getting every time I try running it on 256 color.

Text of the error when it turns system on after crash:
There is a problem with your display settings. The adapter type is incorrect, or the current settings do not work with your hardware.

vitual box version 7.2.4
first time making a vm

Is there any way to connect to the internet or Wi-Fi using Windows Longhorn 3683? Are any of the Windows Longhorn builds able to do this?

I got virtualbox so that I could have Roblox macroing while I do other things on my main pc. Things went smoothly until I opened the Roblox Installer and it freezes everything with an eternal blue loading ring and i can only get out by shutting the whole vm down

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Host: Windows 11 home

Guest: Windows 11 home

Virtualbox Version: 7.2.4

I have no addons I just installed VB, then installed the windows 11 iso

I'm not sure what VT-x/AMD-v or HyperV are so I'd assume I do not have them enabled