Anyone here have experience in installing VirtualBox on a Win7
machine?

I went through a successful Python pip install (for some
required dependencies), but a subsequent install of virtualbox
itself fails.

Grabbed the latest VB offering at the Oracle site: version
7.1.4 and 64bit.

My pc is 64bit, and 8GB ram.

Is there an installation log that documents the issues
encountered during install? ..there doesn't seem to be
anything in program directory.


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Re: virtual box install on win7
By: August Abolins to All on Sun Dec 29 2024 10:50 pm

Anyone here have experience in installing VirtualBox on a Win7
machine?

I suspect your issue is you are trying to instal a modern Virtualbox on an old unsupported OS. Check your Virtualbox version supports Windows 7 as a host.

If you just want to use yt-dlp for casual use I would just get a copy of Tiny Core Linux or a similar compact Live Linux distribution and boot from it. It is much saner and leaner on resources than setting a virtualization stack on an old machine.


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Hello Arelor!

Anyone here have experience in installing VirtualBox on a Win7
machine?

I suspect your issue is you are trying to instal a modern
Virtualbox on an old unsupported OS. Check your Virtualbox
version supports Windows 7 as a host.

That does seem to be the case, unawares. The Oracle site did
not mention any win7 limitations up front. I will look into
the docs as you mentioned. Meanwhile, I got a tip from someone
else that 6.0.24 would be my best shot.

6.0.24 install went rather smooth, but it killed access to the
internet! I was able to talk to my router and local network
devices, but there was no access to the outside.

I rebooted several times and restarted my usual things like
Tailscale VPN several times, but the internet refused to
recover.

I ended up doing a system Restore back to the point before all
this started. That recovered the internet. But at this point,
I am not too excited to try all that again just yet.

If you just want to use yt-dlp for casual use I would just
get a copy of Tiny Core Linux or a similar compact Live
Linux distribution and boot from it. It is much saner and
leaner on resources than setting a virtualization stack on
an old machine.

yt-dlp is my driving force for all this. Apprently, Win7 is
nolonger supported primarily because the newest yt-dlp needs
Python 3.9, but Win7 cannot use Python 3.9 :(

I just wanted a simple convenient way to pull vid material when
needed. A linux intance via VB sounded ideal. I really don't
want to boot with a live-CD each time I discover a vid that
looks interesting.

Meanwhile.. I learned about coLinux and andLinux. The concept
for those sound like a good alternative. But I have to hope
that they will support python 3.9.
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Hello August!

02 Jan 25 09:03, you wrote to Arelor:

I just wanted a simple convenient way to pull vid material when
needed. A linux intance via VB sounded ideal. I really don't
want to boot with a live-CD each time I discover a vid that
looks interesting.

Have you tried ClipGrab?

https://clipgrab.org/

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August Abolins wrote in a message to Arelor:

yt-dlp is my driving force for all this. Apprently, Win7 is
nolonger supported primarily because the newest yt-dlp needs
Python 3.9, but Win7 cannot use Python 3.9 :(

Could you dual boot? While I personally don't like opensuse I run it on my mediacentre (long story I don't feel like going into right now) and it installed great and even partitioned my HDD so I can boot windows again if I want / need to.

I just wanted a simple convenient way to pull vid material when
needed. A linux intance via VB sounded ideal. I really don't
want to boot with a live-CD each time I discover a vid that looks interesting.

I've been using "4k Video Downloader" for many many years and while it required a license, it was cheap and I have not had to update said license in years while always getting the new version.

Works great with Youtube anyway as I download crap for viewing offline when I'm in the woods.

Shawn

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Hello Sean!

** On Thursday 02.01.25 - 14:14, Sean Dennis wrote to August Abolins:

Have you tried ClipGrab?

https://clipgrab.org/

Never heard of it. I'll give it a spin. Thx.

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Hello Shawn!

** On Thursday 02.01.25 - 16:09, you wrote:

yt-dlp is my driving force for all this. Apprently, Win7
is nolonger supported primarily because the newest yt-dlp
needs Python 3.9, but Win7 cannot use Python 3.9 :(

Could you dual boot? While I personally don't like
opensuse I run it on my mediacentre (long story I don't
feel like going into right now) and it installed great and
even partitioned my HDD so I can boot windows again if I
want / need to.

I really liked the sound of a concurrent OS such as what a VB
install would provide. I think dual boot is overkill for my
occassional linux use right now - I may as well just LIVE-CD
boot to linux, and install yt-dlp, after tagging a pile of vids
to download and get them all done during one session.

Or.. I am now considering a separate refurbished W10 laptop
that I might like to try WSL with.

But before I go that route, the andlinux and colinux route
looks appealing, especially for my XP machine.

I just wanted a simple convenient way to pull vid material when
needed..

I've been using "4k Video Downloader" for many many years
and while it required a license, it was cheap and I have
not had to update said license in years while always
getting the new version.

I have use 4k VD in the past. For some reason I stopped using
it - when the ads on the pages seemed to be more aggressive
before allowing the actual download. I was/am not interested
it paying for it.

Works great with Youtube anyway as I download crap for
viewing offline when I'm in the woods.

Yep.. that's the idea. But generally I avoid "crap" and prefer
quality stuff. ;)

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** On Sunday 05.01.25 - 11:38, August Abolins wrote to Sean Dennis:

Have you tried ClipGrab?
https://clipgrab.org/

Never heard of it. I'll give it a spin. Thx.

Doesn't work:

"python.exe - System Error: The program can't start because api ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try
reinstalling the prrogram to fix it."

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Doesn't work:

"python.exe - System Error: The program can't start because api ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the prrogram to fix it."

After closing the several duplicate error pop-ups, there is one
final pop-up: "GlipGrab uses youtube-dlp in order to download
videos from the internet.." SO.. this won't work for my win7
system since youtube-dlp is nolonger supported for Win7.


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August Abolins wrote in a message to Shawn Highfield:

I have use 4k VD in the past. For some reason I stopped using it -
when the ads on the pages seemed to be more aggressive before
allowing the actual download. I was/am not interested it paying
for it.

Gotcha. I don't mind paying for software that makes my life easy. Just a different way of looking at life I suppose. I don't care to fight with a bunch of BS when I just want to download and watch some videos offline when I'm not on my fast home connection.

Yep.. that's the idea. But generally I avoid "crap" and prefer
quality stuff. ;)

Except when finding a tool to do it. ;)

Shawn

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August Abolins wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

"python.exe - System Error: The program can't start because api ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the prrogram to fix it."

Too old of a Python install, most likely.

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