I was trying to install the extension pack to VBox 5.2.8 in Win10 1703 It failed repeatedly with.
After a lot of googling and banging my head to the walls, I found that the procedure described here http://www.mariopinho.com/en/solution-virtualbox-extension-pack-installer-failed-verr_access_denied/ ...works wonderfully. It is a manual process, you must have WinRAR or similar decompressor, and it's a bit of a pain. But in any case it works. Steps: 1. Right click on .extpack file choose to open with 7zip or similar multi-format decompressor (I used WinRAR in my case-), you will get a single file as output, rename that single file to .rar then decompress again, then copy the subfolder contents to a folder named "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\ExtensionPacks\Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack" ...worked fine. Then restart Virtualbox and go to File->Preferences->extensions and you will see the extpack was correctly "installed" and enabled. This on a system with Kaspersky Total Security 18.0.0.405, which I choose not to disable (there's a chance disabling the AV might have allowed the install to proceed without errors, but it's only a guess). I'm forwarding this to the list and devs in the hope that this helps fix this problem, which seems more like a permissions issue. FC -- ---- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
