I for one know a very apt general solution: Get rid of W-X. Am 22.04.2018 um 22:42 schrieb Fernando Cassia: > 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 >
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