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I just installed VirtualBox 2.1.4 on Fedora 10. It is running my VMs fine, but when I try to install the latest guest additions on a Windows Guest, I get a brief flash of command window and then nothing. So, I opened a command prompt and ran "D:\VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe" and this error message appears on the command-line:

Program too big to fit in memory

I thought that maybe a bad .iso got packaged in the linux install rpm, so I downloaded the VBoxGuestAdditions_2.1.4.iso, and compared its SHA1SUM to the one installed at /usr/share/virtualbox ... no joy. The SHA1SUM values are the same.

Anyone else seeing this error?

I'm happy to say that after rebooting my Windows Guest, this problem went away.

I'm not sure why this would happen; I guess I should point out that the windows guest that I attempted to install the updated guest additions into was a guest that I had 'saved', and not a VM that I booted 'fresh'.

I had the same issue, and rebooting the Windows guest worked for me as well;

Removed 3.2.6 and then installed Virtualbox 3.2.8 on my Ubuntu 10.04 host. WinXP guest was previously running 3.2.6 guest additions and wouldn't open the guestaddition ISO's installer. I was also getting "Program too big to fit in memory".