Guest Additions 3.1.2 > 4.0.2, XP stops booting

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zynevich
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Joined: 23. Feb 2010, 12:37
Primary OS: Fedora other
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Guest OSses: XP, Fedora

Guest Additions 3.1.2 > 4.0.2, XP stops booting

Post by zynevich »

I experienced the following problem, I upgraded to 4.0.2 and run my virtual machine very well,
and I decided to upgrade Guest Additions to reflect the version of host, it was wrong decision :)
if dies on boot sequence with Blue Screen of Death flashing for somewhat about half a second, and
then it goes to reboot, and loading XP in safe mode helps -- if I remove Guest Additions, everything is OK, interesting fact: in safe mode the Guest Additions operates pretty good -- my cursor goes in and out of virtual machine, the only difference is that there is only VGA screen not a VirutalBox Adapter,
I suspect VirtualBox adapter is guilty in all this situation.
zynevich
Posts: 5
Joined: 23. Feb 2010, 12:37
Primary OS: Fedora other
VBox Version: OSE Fedora
Guest OSses: XP, Fedora

Re: Guest Additions 3.1.2 > 4.0.2, XP stops booting

Post by zynevich »

I cured my XP by installing back GuestAdditions from 3.1.2 (manually copied *.iso from previous distribution, mounted and installed from that)
So I may conclude that problem is somewhere in GA of 4.0.2
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