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Hello....My operating system is Windows 10. I have been successful installing Virtual Box and then Windows XP.
Installing single CD programs such as Adobe Photoshop were no problem. I just put the CD in the drive and then
clicked on Device, Optical Drive and then Host Drive D and the install screen would come up, just like a regular
install. but Solid Works 2006 has multiple disks (4) The install screen pops up, but when I click install, the screen
disappears and nothing happens. Can anyone give me some ideas here? I have read that many people are running
Solid Works using Virtual Box on Linux and Macs.
Thank You kindly,
Bruce

Bru wrote:Can anyone give me some ideas here?

Sure thing. IF, you give us some more information that is.

• You do not mention the Solidworks version.
• You do not mention your guest configuration.
• You do not mention your host configuration.
• You do not mention your sources for "people running Solidworks".

So, please read the following: Minimum information needed for assistance. As far as the "VBox.log.zip" goes, here's what you do:

1. Start the VM. Not from a saved or suspended state. Clean start.
2. Take the steps required to generate/observe the error.
3. Record the error message. EXACTLY. Post a screenshot if you have to.
4. Shut down the VM (if it hasn't aborted by itself). Not suspend, not pause. Shut down. If you can't shut it down by normal means, close the VM window and select "Power off".
5. Right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager.
6. Select "Show Log..."
7. Save it, ZIP it and attach it in your response (see the "Upload attachment" at the bottom of the form).

On top of that, I'd like to see the "recipe" of the VM, the ".vbox" file:

1. Right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager.
2. Select "Show in Explorer".
3. ZIP the selected ".vbox" file and attach it in your response.

I confess to being slightly puzzled. A Solidworks license costs a not-so-small fortune, the biggest justification of which is for support. Why would you pay that and then ask for Solidworks support on a VirtualBox forum?

I presume you are trying to install Solidworks 2006 onto the XP virtual machine. I know someone who uses Solidworks 2008 or 2009 (can't remember which) on a XP virtualbox running on a Win 10 host so I would imagine 2006 should run OK.
Have you assigned sufficient resources to the XP virtual machine? I would suggest 2GB RAM and crank the Video RAM slider all the way up to 128MB.
What are the specs of the host PC?

Well, that might affect whether you can run Solidworks itself, but I wouldn't think it'd stop you running the installer. The description of the problem is confusing anyway: the OP mentions that there are four disks, but I'm not sure that matters if it fails on the first disk. Sounds like a bad disk, or a copy protection issue... so before we go chasing our tails on VirtualBox matters, I'd like to know where the Solidworks CDs came from.

mpack wrote:Well, that might affect whether you can run Solidworks itself, but I wouldn't think it'd stop you running the installer. The description of the problem is confusing anyway: the OP mentions that there are four disks, but I'm not sure that matters if it fails on the first disk. Sounds like a bad disk, or a copy protection issue... so before we go chasing our tails on VirtualBox matters, I'd like to know where the Solidworks CDs came from.

I was just wondering if the setup routine checks if there are sufficient resources to run Solidworks before it proceeds with the installation?
You would hope that it would display a message along the lines of "This PC doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements" rather than just bombing out though.

pt58 wrote:You would hope that it would display a message along the lines of "This PC doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements" rather than just bombing out though.

Exactly. Either it doesn't check - in which case the installer proceeds. Or it checks and gives a warning message if not satisfied.

I believe that until the OP answers the (way too many) questions, speculation can run rampant... So, let's give the OP a chance to answer, hmm...???