VBoxManage guestcontrol updateadditions fails

[billgood]

host solaris 11 express b151a on Sun ultra 40 M2, 3GB memory for guest
win7 64bit enterprise guest with guest additions 4.0.2
Updated VB to 4.0.4
VBoxManage showvminfo vsolw7
Name: vsolw7
Guest OS: Windows 7 (64 bit)
UUID: 8de3bc2a-dc5c-430d-80e1-33ffcbdf6609
Config file: /root/VirtualBox VMs/vsolw7/vsolw7.vbox
Snapshot folder: /root/VirtualBox VMs/vsolw7/Snapshots
Log folder: /root/VirtualBox VMs/vsolw7/Logs
Hardware UUID: 8de3bc2a-dc5c-430d-80e1-33ffcbdf6609
Memory size: 3054MB
Page Fusion: off
VRAM size: 64MB
HPET: off
Chipset: piix3
Firmware: BIOS
Number of CPUs: 1
Synthetic Cpu: off
CPUID overrides: None
Boot menu mode: message and menu
Boot Device (1): HardDisk
Boot Device (2): Not Assigned
Boot Device (3): Not Assigned
Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
ACPI: on
IOAPIC: on
PAE: off
Time offset: 0 ms
RTC: local time
Hardw. virt.ext: on
Hardw. virt.ext exclusive: on
Nested Paging: on
Large Pages: on
VT-x VPID: on
State: running (since 2011-02-18T22:06:52.031000000)
Monitor count: 1
3D Acceleration: off
Teleporter Enabled: off
Teleporter Port: 0
Teleporter Address:
Teleporter Password:
Storage Controller Name (0): IDE Controller
Storage Controller Type (0): PIIX3
Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (0): 2
Storage Controller Port Count (0): 2
Storage Controller Bootable (0): on
IDE Controller (0, 0): /root/VirtualBox VMs/vsolw7/Snapshots/{9dd248cc-68dd-4c46-bffa-85322bdfe6f4}.vdi (UUID: 9dd248cc-68dd-4c46-bffa-85322bdfe6f4)
IDE Controller (0, 1): /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s2 (UUID: 00445644-7364-2f6b-6334-743064307332)
NIC 1: MAC: 00144FE28738, Attachment: Bridged Interface 'nge0 - Nvidia Gigabit Ethernet', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0
NIC 2: disabled
NIC 3: disabled
NIC 4: disabled
NIC 5: disabled
NIC 6: disabled
NIC 7: disabled
NIC 8: disabled
Pointing Device: PS/2 Mouse
Keyboard Device: PS/2 Keyboard
UART 1: disabled
UART 2: disabled
Audio: enabled (Driver: SolAudio, Controller: AC97)
Clipboard Mode: Bidirectional
Video mode: 1280x1024x32
VRDE: disabled
USB: enabled

root@websol29:/root# VBoxManage guestcontrol updateadditions vsolw7 --verbose
Updating Guest Additions of machine "vsolw7" ...
Using source: /opt/VirtualBox/amd64/additions/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...
Progress state: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR
VBoxManage: error: Guest Additions update failed with exit code=1 (status=2, flags=0).

Is this supposed to work ?

Using VirtualBox manually starting the guest and installing guestadditions
requires clicking OK to proceed 3 times

This is a classroom and trying to avoid sitting at each machine and doing the same actions
over and over.


Thanks for any pointers

Bill

[Perryg]

IIRC they pulled (disabled) this feature (temporarily) due to issues.