{"id":16292,"date":"2024-11-12T14:27:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?p=16292"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:52:57","slug":"virtualbox-visual-cplusplus-redis-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2024\/virtualbox-visual-cplusplus-redis-error\/","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox Visual C++ Redistributable Error"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        VirtualBox Visual C++ Redistributable Error\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Windows version<\/strong> of the early <strong>VirtualBox 7.x.x installers<\/strong> no longer include the <strong><em>Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 Redistributable Package<\/em><\/strong> as part of the installer.  This is due to a license change by Microsoft that changes how this can be packaged with other software.  It is expected that Oracle will release an updated Windows VirtualBox installer soon that provides the package again in the format required by the license.  Until then, if you get this error (see image below), you can manually download and install the Microsoft package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"359\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/virtualbox-ms-visual-cplusplus-error.png\" alt=\"Visual C++ Redistributable Error\" class=\"wp-image-16294\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/virtualbox-ms-visual-cplusplus-error.png 359w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/virtualbox-ms-visual-cplusplus-error-160x102.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/virtualbox-ms-visual-cplusplus-error-240x153.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 Redistributable Package<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/cpp\/windows\/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170\" title=\"MS Visual C++ 2019 Redistributable Package Download\">Click here for download page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the above page, make sure to download the 64-bit version as indicated in the image below:<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/visual-cplusplus-download.png\" alt=\"Visual C++ Redistributable Download\" width=\"873\" height=\"231\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/visual-cplusplus-download.png 873w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/visual-cplusplus-download-160x42.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/visual-cplusplus-download-240x64.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/visual-cplusplus-download-768x203.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/visual-cplusplus-download-400x106.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/visual-cplusplus-download-360x95.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><br>\n<strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Some students have reported that they had to restart their computer after installing the <em>Visual C++ Redistributable package<\/em>, and THEN perform the VirtualBox installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows version of the early VirtualBox 7.x.x installers no longer include the Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 Redistributable Package as part of the installer. This is due to a license change by Microsoft that changes how this can be packaged with other software. It is expected that Oracle will release an updated Windows VirtualBox installer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualmachines-support"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24789,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292\/revisions\/24789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}