VirtualBox

Opened 15 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#3865 closed defect (obsolete)

64-bit Vista Home Premium additions problems/fixed in 3.0.8

Reported by: bqbauer Owned by:
Component: guest additions Version: VirtualBox 3.0.0
Keywords: 64-bit Vista Home Premium guest Cc:
Guest type: Windows Host type: Solaris

Description (last modified by aeichner)

I first noticed this with 2.1.4, and it still exists with 2.2.2. 64-bit Vista Ultimate is NOT affected. Everything below applies to a 64-bit Home Premium guest on a 64-bit OpenSolaris 2008.11 host unless otherwise mentioned.

With guest additions installed, the guest display won't resize or properly enter seamless or full screen mode. "Auto Resize Guest Display" is enabled. The mouse pointer shows the Vista pointer below my OpenSolaris pointer. 32-bit Vista is not affected, nor are other 32 or 64-bit guests, such as XP (32-bit), Ubuntu 8.x and 9.x, OpenSolaris, or Solaris 10u6. I've recreated the problem on multiple hosts. I've also installed a Vista 64-bit Home Premium guest from scratch with no success. 64-bit Ultimate works perfectly.

With 2.2.2 on Home Premium, I noticed that the additions are installing a secondary, inactive, graphics adapter called "(Default Monitor) on VirtualBox Graphics Adapter", but when I enable it, it just flickers endlessly until I shut down the guest.

Attachments (3)

VBox.log (50.1 KB ) - added by bqbauer 15 years ago.
Log file from most recent session after disabling UAE in Vista and reinstalling additions for 2.2.2.
install_ui.log (3.6 KB ) - added by bqbauer 15 years ago.
install.log (58.2 KB ) - added by bqbauer 15 years ago.

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Change History (22)

by bqbauer, 15 years ago

Attachment: VBox.log added

Log file from most recent session after disabling UAE in Vista and reinstalling additions for 2.2.2.

comment:1 by bqbauer, 15 years ago

I just installed 64-bit Vista Business and guest additions work perfectly as well. I then installed 64-bit Vista Home (not Premium), and had the same problems, so it appears the problem is with only 64-bit Vista Home and Home Premium.

In hindsight, I had never installed less than Vista Business, so this problem may have existed far earlier than 2.1.4.

I'll gladly test any version of additions to help resolve this quickly. I can reinstall the OS any number of times.

comment:2 by bqbauer, 15 years ago

Problem is not fixed in 2.2.4. See also another report with the same problem on a Linux host as reported in this thread:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17067

comment:3 by bqbauer, 15 years ago

Tested 2.2.5 and 3.0.0 Beta1 on OpenSolaris, and additions still don't work for 64-bit Vista Home Premium guest display driver. No change I can detect to its behavior or lack thereof.

comment:4 by pentagonik, 15 years ago

Please start the Guest Additions installer with the "/l" switch. After installation (or failure) you should get a "install_ui.log" in the installation directory. Attach this file to this defect then. Thanks!

by bqbauer, 15 years ago

Attachment: install_ui.log added

by bqbauer, 15 years ago

Attachment: install.log added

comment:5 by bqbauer, 15 years ago

Done! Just to be safe, I attached two logs (install.log, install_ui.log), both of which were created.

The logs are from a fresh, never before used installation of 64-bit Vista Home Premium that I created just for these logs.

in reply to:  description comment:6 by bqbauer, 15 years ago

Replying to bqbauer:

I first noticed this with 2.1.4, and it still exists with 2.2.2.

Can ticket info be updated so that it includes versions 2.2.4 and 3.0.0? I posted it for 2.2.2, but the problem persists and I don't want the version in the original report to cause this to be neglected.

comment:7 by Sander van Leeuwen, 15 years ago

Version: VirtualBox 2.2.2VirtualBox 3.0.0

comment:8 by Sander van Leeuwen, 15 years ago

I wonder what's so different about Vista Home Premium then. Works just fine on Vista Ultimate.

comment:9 by bqbauer, 15 years ago

It's odd, but 100% reproducible. It's the only version of Vista that has this problem, and only the 64-bit version as mentioned. Unfortunately, 64-bit Home Premium is what ships with a LOT of computers, so if you want to use that license on the same computer as a guest instead of host, this problem arises.

comment:10 by Joseph Burnett, 15 years ago

I have this exact same problem with VirtualBox 3.0.4 and Vista Home Premium 64-Bit.

comment:11 by Joseph Burnett, 15 years ago

Host: Ubuntu 8.04, Virtual Box 3.0.4 Guest: Vista Home Premium 64-Bit

comment:12 by JF Lalande, 15 years ago

I confirm this bug report. I just tried to install a Vista Home Premium (French Vista Family basic) using the 64 bit version. When installing the guest addition in Safe mode or normal mode, a second monitor is detected. Setting the "virtualbox monitor" as the main monitor tries to adapt the display to the window size but it seems Vista tries an re-tries to adapt the screen infinitely.

Tested with Virtualbox 3.0.6.

comment:13 by pentagonik, 15 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

We just fixed the problem using the Guest Additions in combination with Vista Home 64; the fix will be available with the next upcoming version of VBox (or check out latest sources on SVN). Closing this defect for now.

comment:14 by Sander van Leeuwen, 14 years ago

Summary: 64-bit Vista Home Premium additions problems64-bit Vista Home Premium additions problems/fixed in 3.0.8

comment:15 by bqbauer, 14 years ago

As an end user and the person who submitted the bug, I can confirm this is resolved. Thanks!!

comment:16 by Frank Mehnert, 14 years ago

Thanks for the feedback!

comment:17 by Rashid, 10 years ago

I Installed VM Virtual box but the issue it X64 bit is still not available in the list i want to create 64bit machine instead of 32

comment:18 by Romain, 9 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: closedreopened

I have the same behaviour:

Host: Ubuntu (Gnome) 14.10 64 bits
Guest: Windows Vista Home 64 bits
Virtualbox: 4.3.18_ubuntu

I will update with the installation log of the guest additions on the guest soon

EDIT

Well the installation with /I worked without any problem and the fullscreen will resize the guest as expected. (although the restart of the Guest restarted the host as well, I will check if it is a configuration failure or if there is any other bug opened about this point)

If you want to investigate further: I had to use the /S option as well otherwise, a screen poped up with the available command options (as if I tried a badly formated command)

Therefore I could not do exactly the same installation (I selected the Direct3D support during the graphical installation process).

CONCLUSION

Since it works now, the bug could be closed again. Since there might be something hidden here (Manual resize worked but not fullscreen or seemless modes for an installation with direct3D support), I let you decide the future of this bug :D

Last edited 9 years ago by Romain (previous) (diff)

comment:19 by aeichner, 8 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Resolution: obsolete
Status: reopenedclosed

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.

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