[vbox-dev] on Windows installation fails if TEMP environment variable is mapped to the imdisk ram drive

Rich McAllister rfm at pensfa.org
Sat Nov 19 01:53:56 GMT 2022


imdisk ramdisks seem to cause lots of trouble for all sorts of
software, especially at installation:

https://sourceforge.net/p/imdisk-toolkit/discussion/general/thread/1564405b93/

Rich


On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 11:28 AM Илья Пащук via vbox-dev
<vbox-dev at virtualbox.org> wrote:
>
> hello
>
>
> steps to reproduce:
>
> 1. create imdisk virtual ram disk and map TEMP environment variable to it
>
> 2. launch VBox installation
>
>
> when installation starts (right after pressing the "install" button) it
> fails.
>
>
> if I revert %TEMP% to system default, all works fine.
>
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