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I am running VB on a Win7 host and have a VM guest of XP. Everything installs well until the CD key entry. Regardless of the key I use, the "CD Key invalid" message is returned. I have tried retail, OEM and VL versions of XPsp1 and sp3, using previously validated keys. I have tried .iso and CD mounting. I might as well be entering gibberish. My next effort would be to try to do an unattended install, though I would have to figure out how to do that.
Any ideas?

-roy

If the CD key you type is being echoed on the screen correctly then it must be reaching the guest correctly. After that, refusal to accept a particular key is between you and the guest OS, nothing to do with VirtualBox. You need to contact whomever sold you the guest OS, for technical support.

You have to make sure the key is for the Windows version you are installing. You can't use a VLK key on an OEM or retail install media and vice versa. Also, some OEM keys won't work on Retail media and vice versa.