[vbox-dev] how to install Windows Guest Additions from svn

Jason Spiro jasonspiro2 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 22:43:31 GMT 2007


2007/7/5, Alexander Eichner <alexeichi at yahoo.de>:
> Hello,
>
> first thanks for this great software.
>
> I wanted to try the basic OpenGL support in svn (testing my linux
> implementation for the host).
> I compiled the guest additions but now I don't know how to install them
> because there is no installer.
> Maybe someone can give brief instructions where to copy the files and
> how to install the VBoxOGL.dll
> The guest is WindowXP Professional SP2.

Someone wrote 3 days ago on the mailing list that only Windows guests
combined with a Windows host are supported. :(  But hopefully soon
that will be fixed.

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