Comments on: Install Guest Additions for a better VirtualBox experience

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:10:12 +0000

I experienced crashing XP after installing Guest Additions. The culprit was 3d addon, that doesn’t work on my G500 (FitPC2i, Linux Mint 9).

After ticking that off, everything works flawlessly.

By: Wendell Nichols

Wendell Nichols — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:33:56 +0000

I too get the bluescreen. I removed the virtualbox guest additions and then it booted ok again. These things do not appear to work on a windows i386 xp guest running on a 64 bit linux host using muliple processors.
I would really have liked the seamless mode.
wcn

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:03:08 +0000

Merci beaucoup!!!!!!
super

By: Rajiv G

Rajiv G — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:31:17 +0000

I have a similar problem like what @gea is experiencing. My XP Pro crashes when boot up screen comes up and a blue screen of death appears and reboots and crashes…this goes in a loop until i am suggested to remove software i installed recently using safe mode ..(F8 windows options)…i logged in safe mode and uninstalled Guest additions but it doesnt fix the problem ..all this started happening after installing Guest Additions….is there a fix or can someone point me in the right direction

By: gea

gea — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:20:24 +0000

my windows xp crashed when i install guest additions.. after the installation i connect to my windows session but the behaviour of windows is really strange.. i cant use the mouse and windows behaviour as if im right clicking the mouse..

So i use keyboard to access to add/remove programs and i uninstall guest editions and then my windows work properly..

if someone can help me to fix this problem it would be really nice

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:15:01 +0000

What a relief! And it works seamlessly just like you said. Thank you so much for your clear instructions.

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:28:48 +0000

Hi! I have a problem: when i install guest addition windows xp crash when the desktop appear….

I tryed with 2 different version of windows xp, does anyone else have this problem?

Thanks

By: Phil0

Phil0 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:43:35 +0000

Well everything worked up till the mounting image. After I did that nothing popped up in my Virtual Box. Any ideas how to get it to install?

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By: maryn

maryn — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:18:55 +0000

I have used VirtualBox for some time, but no I experience some problems with Guest Additions. Although, they work perfectly in Windows guests (both XP and tested Windows 7), any other OS after installing them becomes cripled. To be more precise: there is now readable display in VM’s window (it was tested with Ubuntu 9.04, 8.04, OpenSolaris (that’s pretty strange – it’s Sun’s OS, and some Debian derivative distros) Anyone with similar problems ?

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By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:00:04 +0000

Had no idea VirtualBox got seamless mode, must try it. :)

By the way installing additions on Windows guest is so much easier. I experienced hell getting them to run on Ubuntu guest for first time.