WinXP Guest, Win10 Host - Shared Folder - No Response

[jaa17]

I have a Windows 10 host and a Windows XP Guest.

I have installed the operating system. I have clicked 'Insert Guest Additions CD Image ...'. It looks like it installed it.

(How do I tell for certain that the Guest Additions have installed?)

I then did Devices|Shared Folder|Click Machine Folders|Clicked + thing on right

When I tried to select Folder path it just hangs. What am I doing wrong?

[socratis]

It looks like it installed it.

How? Did any program run actually inside the Guest? You'd have an icon in the WinXP tray showing the VirtualBox Guest Additions (GAs). If you were not prompted by WinXP to run the GAs installer, navigate to the WinXP CD and run VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe.

When I tried to select Folder path it just hangs.

We're talking about your host, right? Your host hangs? Or VirtualBox hangs?

[jaa17]

How? Did any program run actually inside the Guest? You'd have an icon in the WinXP tray showing the VirtualBox Guest Additions (GAs). If you were not prompted by WinXP to run the GAs installer, navigate to the WinXP CD and run VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe.

Yes it ran inside the Guest. I cannot see the icon though. I do not know what the icon looks like though.
I installed Guest Additions in the normal way. It comes up with that list type thing that looks like it is installing stuff.

We're talking about your host, right? Your host hangs? Or VirtualBox hangs?

The dialog asking for the info about the Shared Folder has one of those round circle waiting things. It has not responding as well. The Host is fine one Virtual Machine is turned off.

[socratis]

The icon looks like the VirtualBox icon on the host, but you may not see it if your guest is not setup to show all the tray icons.

Follow a "start the VM from cold-boot" / "login" / "shutdown the VM" cycle. With the VM completely shut down (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log". Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response (see the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form).

As for the selection of the Shared Folder getting stuck, do you have any Explorer namespaces involved? These are "add-ons" to the Windows Explorer, like a Bluetooth extra, or OneDrive, or DropBox, or anything that doesn't come default with the system. Do you have anything like that?

What about antivirus? Any 3rd party antivirus installed?