I just installed the latest version of Virtual Box and GuestAdditions (4.2.0). What I am trying to do is to run some automation tests on a Windows 8 Guest machine. The host is Windows 7.
How can I autologon to the the guest machine? For a Windows 7 guest machine, I used the command: vboxmanage startvm. But it seems to me that this does not work for Windows 8.
The other issue I am experiencing is with file copying to the guest machine. Again, the command vboxmanage guestcontrl <machine name> copyto <file host location> <guest file location> <credentials> works perfectly for Windows 7, but an error message is thrown for Windows 8. This is the error message:
Any ideas how could I have the autologon and file copying working?VBoxManage.exe: error: File copy failed
VBoxManage.exe: error: Copying file <filename> failed with status 500, exit code 1
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005), component GuestSession, interface IGuestSession
VBoxManage.exe: error: Context: "int __cdecl ctrlCopyFileToDest(struct COPYCONTEXT *,const char *,const char *,unsigned int)" at line 1335 of file VBoxManageGuestCtrl.cpp