On 18/07/2014 14:42, Cliff wrote:
Well, specifically it is the following advice, taken from: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch14.htmlPardon me for jumping in here, but I question why you say that the Guest Additions must be installed in Safe Mode with XP. I am running XP in VBox on OSx and never have needed to use Safe Mode. They install just fine in normal mode.Cliff
"For *basic Direct3D support in Windows guests* to work, the Guest Additions must be installed in Windows "safe mode". Press F8 when the Windows guest is booting and select "Safe mode", then install the Guest Additions. Otherwise Windows' file protection mechanism will interfere with the replacement DLLs installed by VirtualBox and keep restoring the original Windows system DLLs. "
If you are not using 3D support, then I suppose it doesn't apply, but to be safe, use safe mode, unless you want to get into a discussion whether they have Direct3D support enabled or not, and whether they had it enabled before they migrated or not.
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