Re: Further experiments with XP/Vbox/8.1

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

I'm afraid that's the extent of my knowledge, Bill; I'm no Vbox guru,
and I don't use Vbox for XyWrite (since that's running in Dosemu on Linux).
You might give it a try again, perhaps booting your WinXP VM in safe
mode first, before you try to install the Guest Additions in the VM;
when I installed Guest Additions in normal mode I got several protests
from the Vbox WinXP about wrecking my installation, and I had to OK
proceeding several times. Needless to say, nothing was wrecked. One
website I looked at said Guest Additions installation would fail if you
attempted to install 3D guest support when the WinXP VM was in normal
mode. (I didn't install 3D support.)
The literature does recommend reinstalling Guest Additions if Virtualbox
is upgraded; I wonder if that might be affecting your old, primary
setup. (It's just a stab in the dark.)

Paul Lagasse

On 12/20/2013 08:34 AM, Bill Troop wrote:
> 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.