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Thanks for the explanation, I just had the same error. I stumbled upon vkalenic's fork and compiled it. VirtualBox now works again. You can find it here:

https://github.com/vkalenic/Portable-VirtualBox

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Any idea if this fix allows version 7 to run?

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I'm using this fork which works fine with VirtualBox 7:

https://github.com/zongou/portable-vbox

But it would be nice if someone could merge the improvements from all the forks.

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none of these forks are able to let you use the bridged network..only nat...so they are not really full working...since 2015 with the came of windows 10 runar buvik abandoned the project... :(

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@p060477
I don't know if this works:

https://zotovp.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/portable-virtualbox-network-support-windows-10/

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thxs so much...no in my case do not work..anyway thxs so much indeed

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virtualbox already have an option to make it semi-portable: the manual says:
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html

You can specify an alternate configuration directory by either setting the VBOX_USER_HOME environment variable, or on Linux or Oracle Solaris by using the standard XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable. Since the global VirtualBox.xml settings file points to all other configuration files, this enables switching between several Oracle VM VirtualBox configurations.

In this configuration directory, Oracle VM VirtualBox stores its global settings file, an XML file called VirtualBox.xml. This file includes global configuration options and a list of registered virtual machines with pointers to their XML settings files.

so setting that variable solve the problem of portabilizing the machines, now i can format my pc , then put that variable and everything will work as before.

a simple command will portabilize virtualbox: say for example that you want to always save your machines to E:\VBOX, then open a command line window (cmd) and run this:
setx VBOX_USER_HOME E:\VBOX
that s all.

if you want virtualbox to be fully portable (in the sense of removing all files and registry entries...etc ), then a simple script to install virtualbox and uninstall it will solve it.

now we can install the latest virtualbox and have it working without errors.

if you think that those forks work fine with virtualbox v7 then you are wrong
https://github.com/zongou/portable-vbox
https://github.com/vkalenic/Portable-VirtualBox
https://github.com/timsky/Portable-VirtualBox

they did simple changes and left a lot of things that should be done, for example the drivers and services are not fully cleaned, use for example https://github.com/zongou/portable-vbox fork , compile it, install it, run virtualbox and stop it, see services , you will find a service of virtualbox there (VBoxSDS)... and other errors will happen too of services and drivers not starting..etc. so use the official installer it will work better

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@badrelmers
If it's that simple, can you provide this "simple script" to install and uninstall VirtualBox?

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@d4k0
here it is: https://gist.github.com/badrelmers/20990cd518fed05e5f171961c63e85ba

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