win and vm

Maranna · Aug 16, 2023

I was having difficulty downloading and installing Oracle's virtual machine.

I read an article that said certain virtual machines will not run on some versions of Windows 11. It will download but it won't install. I tried 2 dozen times after adjustments.

Does anyone know anything about this incompatibility or malfunction?

ZERO269 · Aug 16, 2023

Assuming you are referring to the Free version and not the Enterprise version:

From what I can see, they don't have W11 listed as compatible:
Guest_OSes – Oracle VM VirtualBox

However, I was able to install it on a test VM running W11 Pro:

Be sure to rule out OS corruption...

Also look at your BIOS/EUFI settings to ensure you have virtualization enabled...

Maranna · Aug 16, 2023

I did for the research and found out that Windows is no longer allowing Windows 11 pro do use virtual machine by Oracle

pparks1 · Aug 17, 2023

you certainly can install Oracle virtualbox on Windows 11 home or pro and run virtual machines. And virtualbox 7 allows you to run Windows 11 virtual machines without having to bypass any security requirements.

jimbo45 · Aug 17, 2023

ZERO269 said:
Assuming you are referring to the Free version and not the Enterprise version:

From what I can see, they don't have W11 listed as compatible:
Guest_OSes – Oracle VM VirtualBox

View attachment 68044
However, I was able to install it on a test VM running W11 Pro:

View attachment 68045

Be sure to rule out OS corruption...

Also look at your BIOS/EUFI settings to ensure you have virtualization enabled...

the key phrase in the extract you showed is NOT LIMITED TO etc etc.

I don't use it now but VBOX will certainly run on a W11 Host machines and can create W11 Guests too.

Cheers
jimbo

Maranna · Aug 17, 2023

Thanks for the advice. I wiill keep working on it. I do know that the inability for Win 11 Pro, at least, not being able to run Oracle's VM was all over the web and this am the 3 fixes are in their place.
I have run Defender and MBAM then SFC+all seem ok.

Bree · Aug 17, 2023

Maranna said:
Thanks for the advice. I wiill keep working on it. I do know that the inability for Win 11 Pro, at least, not being able to run Oracle's VM was all over the web....

Don't know where you saw that, but it's wrong. I've just installed it successfully.

The only thing that could stop you installing VirtualBox would be if you do not have the Visual C++ redistributables installed.

But that's easily fixed.

Latest supported Visual C++ Redistributable downloads

This article lists the download links for the latest versions of Visual C++ Redistributable packages.

learn.microsoft.com

Maranna · Aug 17, 2023

I appreciate your help. I remember while trying to build the VM mention of TPM and some other initials.
I have secure boot and TPM enabled. Could that be the reason?

Kees · Aug 17, 2023

Maranna said:
I have secure boot and TPM enabled. Could that be the reason?

I have them both enabled, but on my system Win11 Pro 22H2 installing Oracle VirtualBox 7 was no problem at all.
But I have to say that the install was some time ago, when I installed the new system in febr. 2023.
May be something in the Windows system changed in such a way that installing VB is not possible anymore.

Maranna · Aug 17, 2023

Bree usually has it right and finds no problem currently installing Oracle's VirtualBox. I take that for gospel.
Please spend no more time and thank you.

Bree · Aug 17, 2023

Maranna said:
I have secure boot and TPM enabled. Could that be the reason?

No, I have them both enabled too.

Kees said:
May be something in the Windows system changed in such a way that installing VB is not possible anymore.

Not for me, I installed VB for the first time on this machine today.

Maranna · Aug 17, 2023

I beleive you and know it is me.

ZERO269 · Aug 19, 2023

Maranna said:
I did for the research and found out that Windows is no longer allowing Windows 11 pro do use virtual machine by Oracle

Hi Marianna,

Just to clarify, I'm a little confused now based on your original post.
Were you reporting an issue with:

Installing Virtual Box on a Windows 11 system?
Installing Windows 11 Pro as a VM in Virtual Box?

My original test was based on #1 above being your issue/question so I installed Virtual Box in a W11Pro VM using VMware Workstation 17 Pro.
I don't use Virtual Box and I haven't tested #2 above so I don't know for a fact if Virtual Box will support Win 11 or not. It sounds like others have had success - even though Oracle has not declared it officially compatible on their site that I linked originally.