VirtualBox

Opened 6 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#18215 new defect

6.0.0 Windows guest addition installation aborted

Reported by: Edmund Laugasson Owned by:
Component: guest additions Version: VirtualBox 6.0.0
Keywords: guest additions Cc:
Guest type: Windows Host type: Linux

Description

VirtualBox 6.0.0 r127566

Guest: MS Windows 10 EDU build 1803, 64-bit

Host: Linux Mint 19.1 MATE, 64-bit

When trying to install guest additions, the installation in MS Windows 10 will be aborted with error (log files attached). Tried also uninstall old guest additions in first place and then new one but did not help.

Attachments (2)

6-0-0_guest_add-on_abort.txt (6.0 KB ) - added by Edmund Laugasson 6 years ago.
messages during installation
6-0-0_install-driver-log.txt (2.9 KB ) - added by Edmund Laugasson 6 years ago.
log file from Virtualbox folder

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Change History (10)

by Edmund Laugasson, 6 years ago

messages during installation

by Edmund Laugasson, 6 years ago

log file from Virtualbox folder

comment:1 by Edmund Laugasson, 6 years ago

This happens if to change display adapter from VBoxVGA to VMSVGA. When to change back to VBoxVGA or VBoxSVGA then installation works.

comment:2 by Edmund Laugasson, 6 years ago

Tried also with clean install of MS Windows 10 EDU build 1809, 64-bit (also all current updates done) - same error with VMSVGA graphics adapter and guest additions. Changing back to VboxSVGA can be also guest additions installed.

Last edited 6 years ago by Edmund Laugasson (previous) (diff)

comment:3 by jcsm, 6 years ago

Same problem here:

VirtualBox 6.0.0 r127566

Guest: MS Windows 10 Pro version 1709, 64-bit

Host: Linux Ubuntu 18.04, 64-bit

in reply to:  description comment:4 by jcsm, 6 years ago

Last edited 6 years ago by jcsm (previous) (diff)

comment:5 by Socratis, 6 years ago

The VMSVGA is meant for Linux guests, not for Windows guests. If you select the wrong settings, things will fail to work as expected...

comment:6 by galgalesh, 6 years ago

This is still happening on Virtualbox 6.0.4 r128413 (Qt5.11.1) Ubuntu host, Windows 10 guest.

@socratis: If VMSVGA is meant for Linux guests, it might be useful to add this to the manual.

in reply to:  6 comment:7 by Socratis, 6 years ago

Replying to galgalesh:

@socratis: If VMSVGA is meant for Linux guests, it might be useful to add this to the manual.

I've already notified the developers about the need to change the manual: https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2019-January/015180.html

in reply to:  5 comment:8 by Nicolas, 5 years ago

Replying to socratis:

The VMSVGA is meant for Linux guests, not for Windows guests. If you select the wrong settings, things will fail to work as expected...

Sorry, but if it is possible to select this adapter without a warning, then no one will know that this is a "wrong setting". I changed the adapter from VboxSVGA to VMSVGA in the hope that it will fix my Win10 guest system that shows only a black screen after upgrade of the guest additions, now this choice is even worse....

There are so many critical bugs in VirtualBox that let us users desperately try different settings over here and over there; if there are known hidden eastereggs that will never work for specific target guest os types, then please do something - hide them, or show a warning at least!

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