[vbox-dev] VirtualBox Windows build instructions

Huihong Luo huisinro at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 5 03:10:03 GMT 2015


The reason you need to be admin is due to vboxdrv driver, without an installer. If you use an Installer, then no need to be admin.

Make sue you completely uninstall the prev version, to avoid conflicts 

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> On Aug 4, 2015, at 7:09 PM, Maarten Hoes <hoes.maarten at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Athough I have to admit, after having run this as administrator
> 
> 
> (1) set PATH=.;%PATH%    
> (2) comregister.cmd
> (3) loadall.cmd
> 
> 
> Running VirtualBox.exe as Administrator, and only starting the newly created vm, gives me positive results. Failing to start VirtualBox.exe as Administrator gives me *nothing*, and starting any 'old' vms even when running VirtualBox.exe as administrator still gives me the old bug.
> 
> 
> - Maarten




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