VirtualBox Installation Warning

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I was about to install Virtual Box to test my NTLite .iso, but it put up a Warning screen about losing my internet connection and network interruption or connection. I do not want to lose my internet connection, or have my system all goofed up.

Is this interruption only for a few seconds? It will not ruin my internet?
 
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But is the interruption only for a few seconds? I'm not going to lose my internet connection for hours or days am I? I will not be doing anything on the internet at all when I install the program.
 
VirtualBox like VMware installs its own host-based driver so multiple VM's can proxy their network traffic into a virtual device. To avoid a reboot, it resets the network stack. A reset tends to break all persistent TCP connections which are active at the time.

It's a few seconds of network outage while the stack re-initializes. Like if you ran "ipconfig /disable" & "ipconfig /enable" by hand.
 
If something goes wrong and I don't get my internet back, I could restore my computer from a backup image which was made before I installed Virtual Box I suppose.

But I've used NTLite before 3 times to make custom install disks, and the re-installation of Windows has always gone smoothly. All I did was:

1. Removed about 24 components. All simple and safe ones to remove.
2. Disabled Windows Defender.
3. Made an unattended install (mostly anyway).
 
If you have never installed VirtualBox, VMware or enabled Hyper-V on a system, then setup rarely fails. Usually when you mix & match two or more different VM products, there's a fair chance the host drivers can conflict with each other.

Your other option is to find another drive, and create a dual-boot setup for testing Windows installs.
 
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