How to Install Virtualbox on Windows 10 host?

I am trying to install virtual box v4.3.28-100309 on a Windows 10 Host. The windows 10 insider preview installed is build 10130. When I try to install the virtualbox exe I am getting the following error:

Status: Rolling Back action:

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And after this I get a dialog box:

Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.3.28 Setup Wizard ended prematurely

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I am running Windows 10 on a i5-core processor with 8GB Ram machine and not a virtual machine.

Addy

Posted 2015-06-22T06:18:31.860

Reputation: 63

don't you have Hyper-V to use? – juFo – 2015-06-22T06:51:17.077

5.0.1 isn't working, too :-/ – Martin Pfeffer – 2015-08-09T00:11:40.293

15.0.4 still the same issue... have you fond any solution? – Martin Pfeffer – 2015-09-25T04:23:26.170

@MartinPfeffer Have you found an issue in the latest version (ver. 5.0.10) yet? – Kevdog777 – 2015-11-25T10:00:57.490

Nevermind, I have asked a new question, about my comment, here: http://superuser.com/questions/1005264/installing-virtualbox-5-0-10-on-the-latest-version-of-windows-10-ver-1511-105#1005281

– Kevdog777 – 2015-11-25T11:38:49.950

@Kevdog777 I am pissed by windows 10. Right now I use Linux Mint 17.2, rock solid, 100% stable, not a single issue, and its blazing fast. I can only recommend to switch. – Martin Pfeffer – 2015-11-25T16:41:21.980

Answers

You can install VirtualBox 4 on Windows 10 (Note it doesn't work for the new VB 5) by disabling Bridge Networking during the installation. To be more precise I succeeded with VirtualBox-4.3.28-100309-Win.exe installed under Windows 10 x64 Build 10074 with no bridge networking.

Latest version of Windows 10 seems to allow installation of both VirtualBox 4 and VirtualBox 5. Still I found some issues initializing the network adapter through Vagrant.

There is a VB defect ticket here related https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14040 . If the network adapter cannot be properly initialized use the following executable https://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/ticket/14040/VBox-Win10-fix-14040.exe. You have to run it as administrator during the VM startup after which it work properly.

van

Posted 2015-06-22T06:18:31.860

Reputation: 48

Thanks, I was also able to install it by disabling the Bridge networking but what I was looking at was a solution with Bridge networking as my Samba installed on Ubuntu is not accessible by the host on NAT – Addy – 2015-07-11T07:27:51.423

not working for me :-/ but anyway thanks. – Martin Pfeffer – 2015-07-31T10:21:49.643

Copy this to notepad and save as something.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Network]
"MaxNumFilters"="0x20"

Double-click on the file to modify the registry
Open the command prompt with windows key + X
Go to the folder were you downloaded the .exe installer using cd yourfolderpath
Extract the .msi from the .exe

VirtualBox-5.1.8-111374-Win.exe /extract
Go to the folder with the extracted .msi

cd C:/users/replace_here_with_username/appdata/local/temp/virtualbox
Run this to install: (64bit)

msiexec /i VirtualBox-5.1.8-r111374-MultiArch_amd64.msi /L*vx VirtualBox-5.1.8-install.log /QB TARGETDIR="C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox" ADDLOCAL=VBoxNetworkFlt

or (32-bit)

msiexec /i VirtualBox-5.1.8-r111374-MultiArch_x86.msi /L*vx VirtualBox-5.1.8-install.log /QB TARGETDIR="C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox" ADDLOCAL=VBoxNetworkFlt

Go to the folder Oracle in Program files to open virtualbox

It might be possible that you have to run this procedure as administrator.
Based on this link

Ferroao

Posted 2015-06-22T06:18:31.860

Reputation: 123

This worked great for me, thanks for sharing! – Headline – 2019-09-15T10:08:34.807

When ever I execute the command, I've got a Help text open in a GUI but the installer seams to ignore me. Any ideas why ? – aemonge – 2020-01-21T09:57:32.503

did you try as admin – Ferroao – 2020-01-21T14:52:29.420