Virtualbox Guest Additions Causing System State Backup Fail
Posted: 1. May 2012, 03:47
Hi,
After spending hours trying to get a system state backup to work on a windows 2008 R2 SP1 DC, I finally discovered an invalid imagepath registry key for the VBoxService.
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VBoxService\ImagePath value = system32\VBoxService.exe
This causes the backup to fail with "the parameter is incorrect" (very informative I know!)
I replaced with c:\windows\system32\VBoxService.exe and now it is working.
I don't know why that path was "invalid". but changing it has fixed the problem. Maybe it is meant to be \system32\VBoxService.exe ? I don't know... it's working so I'm leaving it
After spending hours trying to get a system state backup to work on a windows 2008 R2 SP1 DC, I finally discovered an invalid imagepath registry key for the VBoxService.
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VBoxService\ImagePath value = system32\VBoxService.exe
This causes the backup to fail with "the parameter is incorrect" (very informative I know!)
I replaced with c:\windows\system32\VBoxService.exe and now it is working.
I don't know why that path was "invalid". but changing it has fixed the problem. Maybe it is meant to be \system32\VBoxService.exe ? I don't know... it's working so I'm leaving it