Unable to install Nvidia drivers on Windows 8.1 guest

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Marco Sulla
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Joined: 14. Sep 2015, 23:48

Unable to install Nvidia drivers on Windows 8.1 guest

Post by Marco Sulla »

I tried to install the Nvidia drivers on the guest, but without success. The error is:

This NVIDIA graphics driver is not compatible with this version of Windows (not true, I downloaded the Windows 8.1 64bit version)
This graphic driver could not find compatible graphics hardware

I have:

Host Lubuntu 20.04
graphic card GeForce GTX 1050
Virtualbox 6.1.16
Host and guest extensions installed
mpack
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Primary OS: MS Windows 10
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Guest OSses: Mostly XP

Re: Unable to install Nvidia drivers on Windows 8.1 guest

Post by mpack »

The guest doesn't have an NVidia graphics card, hence installing NVidia drivers would be a bit pointless, even if it was allowed.
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