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For macOS El Capitan 10.11.6 was downloaded VirtualBox 7.0.4 as VirtualBox-7.0.4-154605-OSX.dmg. Was checked/verified the sha256 checksum. When is tried to install it (command + arrow down), appears the following message

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Why appears this? How to fix it? The .dmg file was downloaded and verified (checksum) twice and happens the same.

NOTE I use VirtualBox 6.1.x (38 as the latest) in peace.

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    Documentation says both 6.1.38 and 7.0.4 are not compatible with El Capitan. If you have 6.1.38 working with El Capitan, then consider yourself lucky. Evidently with 7.0.4, your luck has run out.
    – David Anderson
    Commented Nov 26, 2022 at 4:13
  • And I just installed 6.1. 40 and works fine
    – Manuel Jordan
    Commented Nov 26, 2022 at 13:57

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Newer DMGs are sometimes not compatible with old versions of macOS. I do not know exactly why or what changed, but as a user of OS X 10.9 Mavericks, I have run into this error before. There is nothing wrong with the DMG, it's just in a format your OS doesn't know how to read.

Try copying the installer out of the DMG in a newer version of macOS, then transferring the files to your El Capitan machine.

VirtualBox may still not work of course, if the app is inherently incompatible with El Capitan. However, it sounds like you're already using a version of VirtualBox which claims to be incompatible, and works anyway, so you might as well keep trying your luck?

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  • Is there an official link of VirtualBox indicating the minimum requirements? I did do a research and seems there is no one available
    – Manuel Jordan
    Commented Nov 26, 2022 at 13:45
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    The "it sounds like" was actually going off what @David Anderson said in the comments above; I don't use VirtualBox, I just knew it was unrelated to the DMG not mounting. Glad to hear it works!
    – Wowfunhappy
    Commented Nov 26, 2022 at 14:55
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    I'll add—in my experience, it's quite common for legacy macOS compatibility information to be flat-out wrong. I've had apps which claim to work but don't, apps which claim not to work but do, apps which work but are shipped in incompatible DMG files, and just about everything in between.
    – Wowfunhappy
    Commented Nov 26, 2022 at 21:02
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    @ManuelJordan You can do even more fun things with a bit of code. ;) apple.stackexchange.com/questions/414688/…
    – Wowfunhappy
    Commented Nov 26, 2022 at 22:56
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    Java is open source and so may merely need to be recompiled, with MacPorts's excellent toolchain for supporting legacy OSs. This is on my long-term todo list.
    – Wowfunhappy
    Commented Nov 27, 2022 at 3:28
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VirtualBox 7 does not list support for OS X 10.11, as per this article:

macOS hosts (64-bit):

10.15 (Catalina)

11 (Big Sur)

12 (Monterey)

Intel hardware is required. See also Chapter 14, Known Limitations.

An installer package is available for macOS/Arm64, for systems using an Apple silicon CPU. With this package, you can run some guest operating systems for Intel x86/x64 CPUs in an emulation.

The macOS/Arm64 installer package for Apple silicon platform is available as a Developer Preview release. This package represents a work in progress project and the performance is very modest.

VirtualBox 6 does not list support for OS X 10.11, as per this article:

Mac OS X hosts (64-bit):

10.12 (Sierra)

10.13 (High Sierra)

10.14 (Mojave)

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  • I don't use 6.0.x series - but according with my own use/experience 6.1.x runs in peace in macOS 10.11 - wondered why in the same VirtualBox its documentation is not split for series, it for 6.0.x 6.1.x and 7.0.x
    – Manuel Jordan
    Commented Nov 26, 2022 at 18:56
  • I updated my answer to indicate that support isn't listed, not that those versions of VB won't work.
    – da4
    Commented Nov 27, 2022 at 17:43

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