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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

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