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Hi,
VM VirutalBox 6.1.34 setup offers "VirtualBox Python 2.x Support" for VirtualBox on my Windows 11 host.
In case "Pyhton 3.x" is used: Is there a plan to update the feature accordingly? Has this old feature "Python 2.x " any impact later on?

Virtualbox has an API which allows other programming languages to run Virtualbox from their scripts. Python is one of the supported languages.

The manual, https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02. ... performing, says:

Python version at least 2.6 is required. Python 3 is also supported.

QED.

The API can be there and never be used. Nothing will go wrong, unless you get a malware Python script running on your host. And you'd require a Windows Python interpreter, which requires a separate download & install from Python.

Personally, if you keep malware off your host, I foresee no problems with an open Python 2 API on Virtualbox.

FWIW, commercial and government users of software often take a very long time to upgrade their computers and software:

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/us-govt ... eport.html

The [United States] Defense Department’s Strategic Automated Command and Control System, which is used to send and receive emergency action messages to U.S. nuclear forces. The system is running on a 1970s IBM computing platform, and still uses 8-inch floppy disks to store data.

Python 2 ain't going nowhere anytime soon.