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I was just wondering if anyone has tried installing the boot camp drivers on their VirtualBox partition of Windows. I was trying to do so last night with my Windows XP copy running on VirtualBox, but all that came up when I put in the disk was for remote installing Snow Leopard.

I am trying to install the drivers in order to be able to right click without using a separate mouse (I'm using a Macbook). Some friends of mine recommended I try this, hence why I am asking.

Don't install software that's not made for this. Bootcamp is for Bootcamp, not for VB, physical install on a different system, VMW, or whatever you have that you can install Windows on.

You can do this by mounting the MacOSX Install disk. Windows will auto run the utility that allows the MacBook Air to use a PC's CD/DVD drive, but won't run the Boot Camp utilities automatically. In windows explorer, go to My computer, click on the MacOSX install disk, and choose explore to see the contents. Open the Boot Camp folder, and inside click on setup. This will allow the Boot Camp drivers to install.

I did this and the install went OK except for the MacHAL service couldn't start (I have no idea what that is) so I told the installer to ignore this, and the install said it competed. I can't see any difference in the behavior of my Virtual Box XP after doing this.

I was having problems with a program Pcviewer used by Lorex surveillance video systems to playback video from their hard drives. It gives me "NO Overlay Support-VIneyard Technologies Inc.-Fatal Error Occurred. Your graphic device does not support overlay. Class: CJHDirectDrawSurface7Primary" dialog box. I was hoping installing the Boot Camp drives would allow more complete access to the video hardware in my MBP i7, but it didnt'. I get the same error. BTW, it does run just fine under a real Boot Camp partition, so the hardware does exist and work, but isn't implemented through Virtual Box's emulation.

I don't know how Windows will chose which drivers to use for what purpose, but I was able to get my bluetooth mighty mouse and pretty much everything else to eventually work before installing the Boot Camp drivers. It did take some tinkering with the device settings for the Virtual Box Machine to create generic USB device profiles to get thumb drives to work properly. I didn't have to do anything to get the wireless mouse to work other than install the guest additions.

whidbeyben, please don't post offtopic and faulty information. This forum is all about VirtualBox. Explaining how to install support software that is NOT for this product will only lead to broken systems, instability and more questions for us that we can't solve when this step is not mentioned. It also confuses people, causing more problems for those trying to help them.

This is an important question to VirtualBox. The Apple bluetooth magic trackpad is very very useful (some efforts are currently done to have opensource drivers for Linux). But the Apple drivers are available for Windows via bootcamp. There is no legal reason to not use them on Apple hardware. The question is how to do it? Also a simple question like using an Apple non English keyboard is not solved (or I did not find the solution) by VirtualBox. This post is really in the topic, sorry.

Only way to get the keyboard as you want in Windows in VB, is to get the BT adapter inside the VM and pair the keyboard with the BT adapter. That way, Windows will see it as the keyboard it is and will ask you for drivers. Do keep in mind that doing this will detach the BT adapter from the Host and everything attached to that (keyboard, mouse, whatever) will be disconnected from the Host. So if you only have this keyboard and the mouse is also connected through BT, then capturing the BT adapter is the last thing you want to do.