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Message 29912 - Posted: 12 Apr 2017, 8:29:54 UTC

Some Windows10 versions work fine with VirtualBox 5.0.x, while others have problems.

If you experience failures with VMs not launching, e.g. for ATLAS or CMS on a Windows 10 host, please try to upgrade VirtualBox 5.1.x. The issue seem to affect only some builds of Windows 10, ref: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/1737

Thanks to Toby Broom for the link!
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Message 30414 - Posted: 19 May 2017, 8:55:25 UTC

Microsoft Windows 10 Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.15063.00) - Creator

works with Boinc 7.7.2 and Virtualbox 5.1.22.
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Message 32886 - Posted: 23 Oct 2017, 16:27:04 UTC

In case of problems after the most recent Win10 "Service-Update":
see my posting of today
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=4491
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Message 35787 - Posted: 6 Jul 2018, 13:27:01 UTC

Is it recommended to upgrade to the VirtualBox 5.2 branch? current version released just a few days ago, 5.2.14
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Message 35793 - Posted: 6 Jul 2018, 15:26:35 UTC - in response to Message 35787.  

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_5_2

Yes you should have at least a 5.2.2 version

I have a couple here with that version and they work fine but have updated to 5.2.12 over at the -dev site

They update so often that I wait for when they stop *supporting* the version ......since it seems like they make them not work here when that happens.

Nothing gets updated as much as Oracle VB
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