Index: /trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit/tests/additions/tdAddGuestCtrl.py
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--- /trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit/tests/additions/tdAddGuestCtrl.py	(revision 84212)
+++ /trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit/tests/additions/tdAddGuestCtrl.py	(revision 84213)
@@ -2257,6 +2257,9 @@
                                         reporter.log2('Process (PID %d) got %d bytes of %s data (type: %s)'
                                                       % (iPid, len(abBuf), sFdNm, type(abBuf)));
-                                        if isinstance(abBuf, memoryview): ## @todo Why is this happening?
-                                            abBuf = abBuf.tobytes();
+                                        if isinstance(abBuf, str):
+                                            pass;
+                                        if sys.version_info >= (2, 7):
+                                            if isinstance(abBuf, memoryview): ## @todo Why is this happening?
+                                                abBuf = abBuf.tobytes();
                                         for sLine in abBuf.decode("utf-8").splitlines():
                                             reporter.log('%s: %s' % (sFdNm, sLine));