install guest additions virtualbox windows xp

mpack Site Moderator Posts: 37240 Joined: 4. So either it's XP looking for servers that no longer exist, or it's VirtualBox somehow prompting XP to look for servers that never existed.Ī bit like Win7 now, XP was no longer a supported host at the time I had these problems, so I never regarded it as an issue for the devs. I would have encountered this last around 2014 - I remember Win10 had been announced but wasn't yet available, so in the meantime I upgraded to Win7: the install problems never happened again, and I forgot about it. Enter D:VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe /withautologon in the Open field, as shown in Figure 6. I'm guessing that XP was searching online for some kind of confirmation of the bona fides of this install, and doesn't make quick progress. In the virtual machine, on the Windows Start menu, type run in the search field and press Return. Back then I had discovered that the solution was to temporarily disable my NIC in Device Manager, which of course is pretty much the same workaround as above.

Once the workaround was found it reminded me that, back when I was one of the last XP host holdouts, I used to suffer those same symptoms every time I updated VirtualBox on the host. Scottgus1 wrote:Just to let you know, 'hello', the slow Guest Additions install in XP is a new thing

Install guest additions virtualbox windows xp