What's 100% for installing VirtualBox additions?
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What's 100% for installing VirtualBox additions?
To be honest I don't understand why this button has 100% on it, it's clickable, it folds when you click it and unfolds when you click it again.
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Re: What's 100% for installing VirtualBox additions?
What's wrong with the message? Pretty clearly says what happened.
For newer Windows versions you'll only need to install Guest Additions manually once, and after that it'll be automatically updated when you use Devices -> Insert Guest Additions CD Image...
No need to click around any more.
If this update automatism fails then the message you saw is produced and you need to do the GA install yourself, as before.
For newer Windows versions you'll only need to install Guest Additions manually once, and after that it'll be automatically updated when you use Devices -> Insert Guest Additions CD Image...
No need to click around any more.
If this update automatism fails then the message you saw is produced and you need to do the GA install yourself, as before.
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Re: What's 100% for installing VirtualBox additions?
This is kinda illogical. If something has finished it should indicate so. I read "100%" as something stuck.klaus wrote:What's wrong with the message? Pretty clearly says what happened.
For newer Windows versions you'll only need to install Guest Additions manually once, and after that it'll be automatically updated when you use Devices -> Insert Guest Additions CD Image...
No need to click around any more.
If this update automatism fails then the message you saw is produced and you need to do the GA install yourself, as before.
Maybe replace 100% with "OK". There's no [need for a] progress indicator in the first place anyways. It's either Completed or Not.
Re: What's 100% for installing VirtualBox additions?
In our book 100% always means complete. A pending operation is always between 0 and 99%.
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Re: What's 100% for installing VirtualBox additions?
When was the last time you used Windows?klaus wrote:In our book 100% always means complete. A pending operation is always between 0 and 99%.
Even Windows Updates get stuck in 100% far too often.
Again, guest additions are either installed or not, you have no means to show anything in between 0 and 100%, so this progress indicator is 100% ( ) useless.
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Re: What's 100% for installing VirtualBox additions?
Virtualbox != Windows. Different devs, different programs, different paradigms, etc. QEDbirdie wrote:When was the last time you used Windows?
This means that when 100% is showing in Virtualbox, the process is complete. Seems simple enough to understand to me.klaus wrote:In our book 100% always means complete.
If it seems hard to grasp, an enhancement request may be in order. Politely expressed, of course...
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Re: What's 100% for installing VirtualBox additions?
I have to agree that 100% doesn't always mean really complete, it just means that it's more than 99.5% there. Usually there would be some explicit indication, e.g. a completion dialog pops up, or a progress bar turns green etc. Still, it's hardly an earth shattering problem - you would soon get used to how this particular feature works.
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Re: What's 100% for installing VirtualBox additions?
Another point for this "confusion" could be the progress indicator inside the butten.
I too am used to a seperate "ok/continue"exit/whatever" button which appears or gets enabled whten the progress reaches 100%.
I too am used to a seperate "ok/continue"exit/whatever" button which appears or gets enabled whten the progress reaches 100%.