Error installing VirtualBox on Windows XP

[nofish]

Any help what could be wrong ?
Thanks.

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[mpack]

The only thing that springs to mind is that you must have admin rights to install VirtualBox (i.e. "Run as administrator" if your user account doesn't have admin rights anyway).

[nofish]

Thanks for the reply, but I'm always logged in as admin anyway, so this can't be it.

Any other ideas ?

[nofish]

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anyone ?

Really would like to use VirtualBox on my system.

[mpack]

VirtualBox on a Windows host uses the hosts MSI installer function. You might want to Google for how to diagnose MSI installer problems, including how to get it to create a log file.

[nofish]

Thanks for the info. I've created a bug ticket with the install log attached.

[mpack]

Yes, I see it is bugtracker ticket 11020.

I'm curious. How do you come to have a "C:\Users" folder on an XP host? Also, what is drive E:\ and how is it involved in the installation?

[nofish]

First, a small question about the terminology:

'Host' here means the operating system VirtualBox is run on, is this correct ?
I wasn't sure about this to be honest.

I'll try to answer...

Y
I'm curious. How do you come to have a "C:\Users" folder on an XP host?

I thought that's very common for a Windows OS, isn't it ?
The Users folder contains folders/data for All users and the different user accounts.

Also, what is drive E:\ and how is it involved in the installation?

It's just another partition I have on my HD. I have saved the VirtualBox install file to the E:\ drive and tried to install from there due to low free space on my system partition (C:\)

If I misunderstood your questions, tell me, I'll try to do better than.

[mpack]

'Host' here means the operating system VirtualBox is run on, is this correct ?

Correct.

I'm curious. How do you come to have a "C:\Users" folder on an XP host?

I thought that's very common for a Windows OS, isn't it ?

It's common on Vista and later. In XP the equivalent folder is called "Documents and Settings". The fact that a standard host folder has an unusual name should probably be no problem - in theory - but if I started having problems installing stuff then I would bear this unusual feature in mind.

Also, what is drive E:\ and how is it involved in the installation?

It's just another partition I have on my HD.

Ah good, I wondered if perhaps you were trying to force VBox installation to an unusual target drive too (the install script does say that E:\ is the target, but the MSI service may have different meaning for "target" than I do.

[nofish]

Ah good, I wondered if perhaps you were trying to force VBox installation to an unusual target drive too (the install script does say that E:\ is the target, but the MSI service may have different meaning for "target" than I do.

Well, indeed I tried to install VBox on a non-system partition first because here C:\ is usually reserved for system/OS stuff, but as I know this can sometimes lead to problems I also tried installing to C:\ with the same error message.