Guest Additions Break Windows 10

[duncang]

It seems the Guest additions break WIndows 10 in a subtle manner. I can no longer run Visual Studio under Win10 when the guest additions are installed. Anyone else find this to be a problem?

[Mikemk]

You'll have to disable 3D Acceleration for the time being.

Mine is also flickery with 3D acceleration on using Virtualbox 5.0.0-101573

[BillG]

You'll have to disable 3D Acceleration for the time being.

Mine is also flickery with 3D acceleration on using Virtualbox 5.0.0-101573

Really? I have not seen that with a Win 10 guest. What host OS and VB version are you running?

[thegadgetman]

I have just installed VB 5.0.0 r101573 running on Windows 7 SP1 x64 and Windows 10 x64 guest.

After installing Windows 10 into a new guest and installing the guest additions I am getting a black screen after the initial Windows boot logo if I have 3D acceleration turned on (tried playing with other settings e.g. 2D acceleration and no effect).
I tried re-installing from scratch and only turning 3D acceleration after installing guest additions but still the same issue.

Any ideas?

[erdeslawe]

You have'n't said how long you've waited on the Black Screen. It does take some time initially and keep an eye on the disk activity indicator; if that's flashing continuously or intermittently then there's still setup activity taking place. In my experience having 3D Acceleration on isn't an issue.

By the way, you didn't indicate whether your Windows 10 installation is an Upgrade, a new VM using a purchased Product Key, or the Insider Preview. It might help to know.

[schorn]

It seems the Guest additions break WIndows 10 in a subtle manner. I can no longer run Visual Studio under Win10 when the guest additions are installed. Anyone else find this to be a problem?

I can confirm this behavior: I am running VB 5.0.0 r101573 on OS X 10.10.4 and Visual Studio Community 2015 works fine when the guest additions are not installed. After installing them Visual Studio Community 2015 crashes. Fortunately I rolling back the guest addition installation solves the problem. It seems that I have similar issues with Java which works without guest additions installed but does not when guest additions are present (e.g. the Java control panel would not start).

[thegadgetman]

You have'n't said how long you've waited on the Black Screen. It does take some time initially and keep an eye on the disk activity indicator; if that's flashing continuously or intermittently then there's still setup activity taking place. In my experience having 3D Acceleration on isn't an issue.

By the way, you didn't indicate whether your Windows 10 installation is an Upgrade, a new VM using a purchased Product Key, or the Insider Preview. It might help to know.

I've waited a few minutes and the disk activity drops away with intermittent network activity. Inserting Ctrl-Atl-Del has no effect.

It is a new installation of Windows 10 Enterprise which hasn't yet been activated.

It's interesting that others are having the same issue.

Today I had an issue where the VB display drivers were disabled by Windows 10 due to 'an error' (with 2D acceleration only) but fine again after a reboot - but not sure what details to provide? I connected a USB optical drive to the VM around the same time but not sure what impact that could have.