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I have Oracle VB installed on a Windows 7 PC, with an Guest OS of Windows XP. Is it possible to pass through the Windows 7 user login details (username/password) automatically to the Guest OS?

Not that I'm aware of but if I remember correctly it is possible to set XP to automatically log in.

VirtualBox has no idea what your host password is, so no. In any case you need to think of the guest as a separate PC.

Or, you don't have to configure a password requirement in the guest at all if you don't need one.

Does anyone know of a third party product that I can use to pass the username and/or password to an XP guest?

None I'm aware of and highly unlikely there is one since in 6 years of being on this forum you are the only person to ask for the capability. Can you explain why you want to do this?

Thanks for the quick update. I have an application that has been developed to run on Windows 7 (the host) on and other application that runs on XP (the guest) and does not run in Windows 7. We would only want the users to log on once to with Windows 7 pc and then have the XP logon with the Win7 users username (which the XP application needs).

Think of the XP guest as a separate computer. Then think how would this happen with one PC running W7 and one running XP.

Consider using Autologon from Microsoft Sysinternals to set the XP guest to automatically log on with a preset username and password.

? My XP PC at home automatically logs onto my normal user account, without asking for username and password. I didn't need a SysInternals widget to configure it that way.

I believe if you only have one user account configured, and the password is blank, then you don't need to see the XP login screen. Since the OPs intention is that the guest login would be superfluous, I don't know why you wouldn't simply do away with it.

mpack is correct… one account + blank password = autologin.

Blank password = no network access where permissions are required and no Microsoft remote desktop into the guest OS, in my experience. Op asked for access with password. We do not know whether he can do without it.

scottgus1 wrote:Blank password = no network access where permissions are required and no Microsoft remote desktop into the guest OS, in my experience. Op asked for access with password. We do not know whether he can do without it.

The first two points I can't comment on since I've never had the need. But what the OP asked was if there is a way to pass the user name and password from a host to a guest, not pre-fill them in and as far as I know there is no such mechanism.