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Host: Linux/Ubuntu 9.04

Guest: Windows XP HE SP2

xVM Version: 3.0.2

I am a Linux/Ubuntu refugee from Windows. But I'm still tethered to Windows (grub loader dual boot) because I do my on line banking with Quicken (and there is no Ubuntu version, nor is there any substitute that I can use for my on line banking). Consequently, I installed VirtualBox to run a Windows guest so that I could install Quicken and thus transition to Ubuntu completely, plus not have to tediously bounce back and forth between OS's.

I copied the Quicken install CD to a folder I can read with the Windows guest.

But when I try to execute the install.exe from that copied CD, I get the first few install screens and then it stops with an "Exit code 1619" message.

I Googled that message, and the nearest I could come up with was an MSI issue. Am still reading up on that, but I don't think that is the problem. I think the problem is that I can't install except from the physical CD.

I'd like to transition completely to Ubuntu, but unless I can resolve this issue, I will have to remain tethered to the Windows OS partition.

I posted this question on the Ubuntu forum also.

Any solutions for the virtual machine?

BTW, is there a difference between "xVM" and "VirtualBox"? I'm using the terms to mean the same thing.

Did you copy the cd to a local folder on the Guest ?

OK . . . I got it to work.

Apparently, the "secret" is/was to allow Ubuntu to read the CD first, rather than go to VirtualBox and insert the CD from there (I did in fact mount the machine CD drive, but at first that didn't seem to solve the problem either because I was still getting the message that the CD was "corrupt or unreadable").

I discovered this "secret" when I 'sperimented by running a VM in Windows, where I had XP as host and also XP as guest. I mounted the CD drive and it read it just fine.

So from that I deduced that it was an Ubuntu issue, but I couldn't figure out what it was.

As it happened, I left the CD in the drive, so that when I booted into Ubuntu, it read it right away. Figuring that I'd mess around with it some more, I started up the VM, which was still configured to read the CD drive, but I still didn't have a clue about what was going on.

I saw that the CD title showed, so I ran the executable, and . . . WOW, was I a happy camper!

So, mods, you can mark this thread solved.