Ok. I didn’t realize that restriction, but since I’m not using 3D I’ve never
run into problems.
Cliff
On Jul 18, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Giles Coochey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 18/07/2014 14:42, Cliff wrote:
>> Pardon 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
>>
>>
> Well, specifically it is the following advice, taken from:
> https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch14.html
>
> "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.
> --
> Regards,
>
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