Install Virtualbox 7 on Windows 11

Recently, Virtualbox 7 for Windows was released. When installing it, I noticed that the installer alerts of the absence of a Python library. Here I’ll demonstrate how to install Python, the ‘pywin32’ module and finally Virtualbox 7.

Steps:

• Install Python 3
• Install ‘pywin32’
• Install Virtualbox 7

Install Python 3

Start by installing Python 3. You can download Python HERE, on the official website. Open the ‘EXE’ file, select all options including ‘ add Python.exe to PATH’, and follow instructions.

Install Win32API Module

Virtualbox 7 requires the Python 3 ‘pywin32’ module. Once Python its installed correctly, install this module with the following command:

pip install pywin32

Install Virtualbox 7

Now after installing ‘ pywin32’ module, download and install Virtualbox. After ‘pywin32’ it’s installed, Virtualbox installer will not alert of ‘pywin32’ absence as before, and you may work with it without problems.

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