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Hi all
Am trying to install guest additions for Window XP VM on Mac OSX host
Falling over at the point it installs the XP video driver
Error (0000000d) The data is invalid
Error could not install files for windows 2000/XP/Vista! Installation aborted.
In the device manager on windows xp the video driver has a yellow exclamation mark
Any ideas would be great or I'll have to buy VMware...

Thanks
Amanda

I hear Parallels has some nice features too!

It would be nice if you included more information in your message, like what version of OS X you're running, what version of VB you've installed, how much memory you have on your Mac, what Mac model you're using, what settings you're using for your XP guest (have you updated to SP3?). You know, little things like that give us more to work with, otherwise we'll have to work on someone else's problem.

According to your profile, you're running the Open Source Edition of VB, so it's possible that a problem may have cropped up when you built it from the source code. Did you use the stable source or the current development code?
You may consider using the Personal Use and Evaluation License (PUEL) version.

Guest Additions install aborts

Yes of course sorry.

IMAC with 4GM RAM
OS 10.6.3
Virtual box 3.1.6 r59351
XP SP2

Not really sure if I am running open source or current development code.

Downloaded from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads VirtualBox 3.1.6 for OS X hosts

thanks
Amanda

Have you/are you trying to install with the guest in Safe Mode?

No Windows on the Guest is in normal mode

Amanda wrote:Yes of course sorry.

IMAC with 4GM RAM
OS 10.6.3
Virtual box 3.1.6 r59351
XP SP2

Not really sure if I am running open source or current development code.

Downloaded from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads VirtualBox 3.1.6 for OS X hosts

thanks
Amanda

You're running the PUEL version. You may want to change your profile to show that, so people can give you correct advice tailored to your version of VB.

Like dgrogan said, have you tried starting up the Windows XP guest in Safe Mode and then re-installing the Guest Additions? See the link in my previous message on how to do this if you've never done it before.

If that doesn't work, it would be helpful if you posted the settings file, which would be located on this path:
<Your Hard Drive>/Users/<your account>/Library/VirtualBox/Machines/<Name of your XP guest>/
The file will be an XML file with the name you gave your XP guest and followed by ".xml". Open it in TextEdit and select all the contents and paste in in your reply. Please use Code tags around it.

Thank you for your help - I've updated my profile to puel.

I have also tried reinstalling guest addtions in safe mode but get the same error.

Settings file info below:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings" version="1.9-macosx">
<Machine uuid="{08b5dc1d-8166-4a5f-a968-2ed2e1c14806}" name="XP" OSType="WindowsXP" lastStateChange="2010-04-07T04:22:27Z">
<ExtraData>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/AutoresizeGuest" value="on"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/Fullscreen" value="off"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastWindowPostion" value="960,435,800,622"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/MiniToolBarAutoHide" value="on"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/Seamless" value="off"/>
</ExtraData>
<Hardware version="2">
<CPU count="1">
<HardwareVirtEx enabled="true" exclusive="false"/>
<HardwareVirtExNestedPaging enabled="true"/>
<HardwareVirtExVPID enabled="true"/>
<PAE enabled="true"/>
</CPU>
<Memory RAMSize="2000"/>
<Boot>
<Order position="1" device="Floppy"/>
<Order position="2" device="DVD"/>
<Order position="3" device="HardDisk"/>
<Order position="4" device="None"/>
</Boot>
<Display VRAMSize="32" monitorCount="1" accelerate3D="false" accelerate2DVideo="false"/>
<RemoteDisplay enabled="false" port="3389" authType="Null"/>
<BIOS>
<ACPI enabled="true"/>
<IOAPIC enabled="false"/>
<Logo fadeIn="true" fadeOut="true" displayTime="0"/>
<BootMenu mode="MessageAndMenu"/>
<TimeOffset value="0"/>
<PXEDebug enabled="false"/>
</BIOS>
<USBController enabled="true" enabledEhci="true"/>
<Network>
<Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="080027FE1B18" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
<NAT/>
</Adapter>
<Adapter slot="1" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027C03549" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"/>
<Adapter slot="2" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800271EBE95" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"/>
<Adapter slot="3" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027231C7C" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"/>
<Adapter slot="4" enabled="false" MACAddress="08002716CCE0" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"/>
<Adapter slot="5" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027DD7D4F" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"/>
<Adapter slot="6" enabled="false" MACAddress="08002706765A" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"/>
<Adapter slot="7" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027849DFD" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"/>
</Network>
<UART>
<Port slot="0" enabled="false" IOBase="0x3f8" IRQ="4" hostMode="Disconnected"/>
<Port slot="1" enabled="false" IOBase="0x3f8" IRQ="4" hostMode="Disconnected"/>
</UART>
<LPT>
<Port slot="0" enabled="false" IOBase="0x378" IRQ="4"/>
<Port slot="1" enabled="false" IOBase="0x378" IRQ="4"/>
</LPT>
<AudioAdapter controller="AC97" driver="CoreAudio" enabled="true"/>
<SharedFolders/>
<Clipboard mode="Bidirectional"/>
<Guest memoryBalloonSize="0" statisticsUpdateInterval="0"/>
<GuestProperties>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID" value="en_US" timestamp="1270648398448094000" flags=""/>
</GuestProperties>
</Hardware>
<StorageControllers>
<StorageController name="IDE Controller" type="PIIX4" PortCount="2">
<AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="0" device="0">
<Image uuid="{ed2de63a-b86b-4eb9-ba5e-a8587ff2754a}"/>
</AttachedDevice>
<AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" port="1" device="0">
<Image uuid="{3f663225-9df5-4d62-80d9-d323b65f300a}"/>
</AttachedDevice>
</StorageController>
<StorageController name="Floppy Controller" type="I82078" PortCount="1">
<AttachedDevice type="Floppy" port="0" device="0"/>
</StorageController>
</StorageControllers>
</Machine>
</VirtualBox>

I can't find anything that looks different in your setup as compared to mine except for the VT-x settings. Having VT-x on (the default) sometimes causes problems in the guest. So we could try turning it off to see if it fixes the problem.

Go to Settings > System > Acceleration and uncheck the "Enable VT-x/AMD-V" and then try starting up your guest and installing the Guest Additions again.