Re: Further experiments with XP/Vbox/8.1

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Paul, as far as I can tell, yes, the Guest Additions are installed
although it is hard to tell. I just tried to re-install and it said
they were already there, do you want to reinstall? So I said yes,
what the heck, and the reinstall failed, but probably because too
much was already running. I'm sure my problems are solvable, but with
my scant level of knowledge, it is not coming easily.

At 20/12/2013 12:21, you wrote:
> Have you installed Guest Additions? On my XP setup, in Linux, they
> have to be installed to find shared folders.
>
> Paul Lagasse
>
> On 12/20/2013 02:40 AM, Bill Troop wrote:
> > I still have my problem that my primary set up, which otherwise
> > seems to work stably and fluidly, will not allow XyWrite to display
> > a directory on the host drive, though it will allow me to CALL
> > files from that drive provided I know their names.
> > So I thought I would install a fresh VM, installing XP from scratch
> > rather than using a pre-canned VM image. My problem now is that XP
> > will not allow me to map the host drive. Normally I would ask it to connect to
> >
> > \\vboxsvr\[share name specified in Vbox settings]
> > but this newly installed, plain vanilla instance of XP simply won't
> > 'find' the VBOX host network.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> > I must say it is all a great deal more trouble than running XP mode
> > on Win 7-64. That's a cinch by comparison.
> > But since many of us will soon be compelled to use Win 8.1 (or,
> > hopefully, some much-improved successor) I do believe these
> > problems have to be solved.