Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #22181, comment 2

Ticket #22181, comment 2

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1		I'll just note the last VirtualBox series that had support for Windows 7 was 6.0; 6.1 (in 2019) dropped Windows 7 host support. It's just, their meaning of "unsupported" isn't "definitely doesn't work"; rather it's "we aren't testing it, and it's best effort if anything breaks". So apparently there weren't too many kernel-driver changes in 6.1 or 7.0 for it to keep working, but there are in 7.1. I would not count on this being fixed since it's been an unsupported configuration for 5 years.
	1	I'll just note the last VirtualBox series that had support for Windows 7 was 6.0; 6.1 (in 2019) dropped Windows 7 host support as a supported configuration. It's just, their meaning of "unsupported" isn't "definitely doesn't work"; rather it's "we aren't testing it, and it's best effort if anything breaks". So apparently there weren't too many kernel-driver changes in 6.1 or 7.0 for it to keep working, but there are in 7.1. I would not count on this being fixed since it's been an unsupported configuration for 5 years.
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3	3	Honestly, I would run a nice Linux distro on there, run Win7 in VirtualBox if you want to keep using Win7 (since running a Windows 7 guest is supported) along with whatever other VMs you are running in VirtualBox.