Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 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 as a supported configuration. It's just, their meaning of "unsupported" isn't "definitely doesn't work"~~; r~~ather 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", and they don't artificially block it from running (like Slack, Zoom, etc. that block use of their software on any OS that is out of support). 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.