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I have been trying for about 6 hours to get the Guest Additions to install in an XP Guest. I have gotten past several errors -but now I just get a box that says Error and installation failed. There is nothing in the install.log. Of course I cannot use shared folders so the whole thing is basically dead. Is there any way to get past this? Can I go back to a previous version?

Adrienne

It would help if you provided the exact error. I have installed the GAs in my XPpro machine and it worked fine.
Are you trying to do this in safe mode to get the 3D effects or are you simply doing this from within the guest in normal mode?

I have tried in Safe mode both with the 3D option and without. I had the 3.01 version on previously. I uninstalled this. The error I was getting first was this:

Updating driver for plug'n play devices....
ERROR: File not found!
ERROR: Count not install files for Windows 2000/SP/Vista! Installation aborted.

To get past this I removed the VirtualBox Display Adapter and the VirtualBox Device from the hardware list. I was able to re-run the installer. After the installer gets to the mouse filters it tries to copy some files. All that pops up is a box that says Error -Installation Failed. If I say okay it will finish the install but the Virtual Box Guest Addition Service will not start and if I try to install the drivers for the Video it says it cannot install because it cannot find the file. I ran this with the /l option but there is nothing in the log so I am at a loss as to how to move on. Are there any other logs I could look at?

Very strange.

First thing I would do is to remove the guest additions and get the guest stable. You do this in a Windows guest by clicking uninstall in the Sun folder group or from the control panel. add/remove.
Then close down the guest. Maybe a reboot of the host here. Then start the guest, click on the devices tab at the top left and then unmount CD/DVD and then install guest additions.
Reboot the guest and see if it works.
After that then try to start in safe mode and install the guest additions for 3D effects in you need/want them.

This approach gets me back to the first error:
Updating driver for plug'n play devices....
ERROR: File not found!
ERROR: Count not install files for Windows 2000/SP/Vista! Installation aborted.

So I am back to this - any ideas on how to get around this?

I unsintalled. Shut down the guest. Restarted Host. Unmounted CD. Installed Guest Additions.

Your Host is Linux, that's good. Install the package cfv and compare it with my results. If they don't match mine, then you got a corrupt ISO and explains the errors.

They are the same. I also downloaded a different ISO from the download site with the same errors. I am happy to try anything at this point. Or should I try to go back to 3.0.12?

Check if your Guest OS is up to date, I really think there is something wrong on the system itself than that it's a VB problem.

Okay that totally fixed it. I ran windows update. It installed a bunch of stuff. I uninstalled VB Guest Additions. Reboot. Reinstall Guest Additions. Reboot. Restart in Safe Mode - install 3D. Reboot again (gotta love windows) and all seems to be well!

Thanks so much for your help!

Adrienne

Had the same issue. Seems like this is a more general problem with only slightly broken registry states.
The link below helped:

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-xp/23 ... uring.html

In short:
* Run regedit
* Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
* Recreate a missing RunOnce key: New > Key > "RunOnce". Leave everything else as is.