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Hi,
I am new to VirtualBox. I seemed to have a clean install of VB, made a win7 32 machine hosted on my new win7 64 bit host laptop. All went well.

However, I installed some of my development tools (RadPHP) and when I try to work with those, they can't seem to see files on the VB own internal CDrive.
I am not sharing any drives or anything (yet). I noticed that on one install of a program, it said it could not find a certain file path to a folder it needed to find, for the install to work. I can see these various folders,paths and files from the VB own windows explorer. They appear to me, the user, to be on the internal C drive of the VB.

Is there any advice on how to proceed. I googled searched this but could not manage to find anything. Its all about shared folder problems.

I really wanted to be able to install and run RadPHP and other development environments in a virtual machine, as different projects require setting and security. It does not appear to be a RadPHP problem spcifically, as other programs have similar issues.

Thanks,
Jamie

Usually turning on passthrough for the CD (look in storage of the guest settings) fixes this.

Thanks. It is not using a CD that I have a problem. I have downloaded all the programs, so am doing installs from those files.

All went well with the RadPHP IDE, and it starts up fine. Its when I am in it and try to do thing, it doesn't seem to see the files in it own install folders. I verified those folders and files are there. Could it be a permission type thing? I have only one windows user and installed everything under that user. It is weird.

Oh you meant C drive.
Sorry I have no idea what the problem would be then. It must be specific to the guest and the app since you are running in your own user space and the app should not know it is in a virtual guest. Have you asked the app provider?

I seem to recall Windows 7's UAC may interfere with running programs that try to access the "Program Files" folders. Is your program installed in the "Program Files" folder? Try running as administrator or turning down/off UAC. Or maybe install in a non-default folder, like "C:\RadPHP\".