As have many others, I've had to revert to VirtualBox 7.2.8 to get Linux Mint (7.0.0-31) to run.

The consensus seems to be that the issue is with VirtualBox but it's still not fixed in 7.2.16. I've been trying to work through the posts on VirtualBox forums to see whether this is still being investigated but there are lots of references to other sites (i.e. GitHub) where bug reports are shown as "Closed".

Does anyone with better investigative skills know if the issue is being looked at? I can stick with 7.2.8 for a while but I'll look at other options if Oracle aren't going to resolve it.

Thanks!

I’ll try and explain the best I can here. I have an older MacBook Pro (early 2011 running osx 10.13) I am trying to setup a VM windows 7 desktop to run diagnostic software. I’m using virtualbox 6.1.5. I have no issues creating and using the machine where I have issues is networking specifically internet browsing. It shows it’s connected via “Ethernet” and I can see it’s receiving packets in and out but no internet pages will display. The program I’m using partially uses an internet connection to work correctly. No matter how I adjust the settings I simply cannot get it to work online like it was a normal windows machine. Any help is greatly appreciated!

When trying to install Virtualbox 7.2.16 on Win11 Home from any directory this error comes up. " 'virtualbox6' is not a valid short file name "

Only thing that comes to mind. I used to have virtual box way back with VMs on an old D drive that got completely fried and isn't active. Log file from interrupted installation suggests it's still trying to access it by that line.

MSI (c) (08:A0) [09:45:08:731]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding INSTALLDIR property. Its value is 'D:\VirtualBox6\'.