Solved Windows 7 VirtualBox

[WyattWhiteEagle]

This is my first time using a VM.
Would the batch files still work?
Does there need to be some kind of specifics within the batch file to work in my VM?

Viewing the help pages seem to mention some difference's from Windows 11/10/8 and other editions.

Such as "rem" and "::" pretty much does the same thing in Windows 11/10 but somehow here in 7 "rem" seem's to record something somewhere and I don't know if "::" is even a thing here in 7.

 

[townsbg]

I don't understand what you're asking. But I use virtualbox. Version 6 is the last version officially supporting windows however I've read here that another member got virtual box 7 to work on Windows 7 something I haven't tested.

 

[WyattWhiteEagle]

For general rule's of thumb, I did find Brink's batch tutorial (there's about 4 or 6 different one's).
Those use a single colon ":" at the beginning of specific line's.
I didn't check for thing's too extensively though.

I'm asking if the batch file inside a VM uses the same "language" as if it isn't a VM.

For example...
Rem help
:help diskpart
:: help wmic

 

[WyattWhiteEagle]

Paul Black and Brink, their "bat file helps" collectively here on the forums have turned out to contain an answer to my question here.
The look's of it are the same on a regular "clean install" and for a windows guest VM.
For very specific example's for your system and setup, check the help pages.

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[Alejandro85]

Bat files (and pretty much everything else) works exactly the same as in a real machine, they're interpreted by the guest OS (and not the host OS) so you'll have the very same feature set as in Win7, VM or not

In either case, REM is the way to add comments to a bat file. A double colon is NOT a comment, and it never was, it's a dirty trick.
A colon represents a label you can jump to, while everything after it is the label name. By using a double colon you're actually creating a jump label whose name is colon plus everything after it, and if not referenced it's effectively a no-op. A dirty trick, but not really a comment. VM has no relation in this.

 

[WyattWhiteEagle]

Awesome answer.
So a regular colon, ie ":" (not a semicolon, ie ";") does the same thing as "Rem"?

 

[Alejandro85]

Awesome answer.
So a regular colon, ie ":" (not a semicolon, ie ";") does the same thing as "Rem"?

My bad, I meant "colon" instead of "semicolon", just edited my post.
In short, and for some cases, yes, it can be the same. It's highly recommended however that you use REM for comments instead, which are real comments and not just unused labels.