Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#18215 new defect
6.0.0 Windows guest addition installation aborted
| Reported by: | Edmund Laugasson | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | guest additions | Version: | VirtualBox 6.0.0 |
| Keywords: | guest additions | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
VirtualBox 6.0.0 r127566
Guest: MS Windows 10 EDU build 1803, 64-bit
Host: Linux Mint 19.1 MATE, 64-bit
When trying to install guest additions, the installation in MS Windows 10 will be aborted with error (log files attached). Tried also uninstall old guest additions in first place and then new one but did not help.
Attachments (2)
Change History (10)
by , 5 years ago
| Attachment: | 6-0-0_guest_add-on_abort.txt added |
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comment:1 by , 5 years ago
This happens if to change display adapter from VBoxVGA to VMSVGA. When to change back to VBoxVGA or VBoxSVGA then installation works.
comment:2 by , 5 years ago
Tried also with clean install of MS Windows 10 EDU build 1809, 64-bit (also all current updates done) - same error with VMSVGA graphics adapter and guest additions. Changing back to VboxSVGA can be also guest additions installed.
comment:3 by , 5 years ago
Same problem here:
VirtualBox 6.0.0 r127566
Guest: MS Windows 10 Pro version 1709, 64-bit
Host: Linux Ubuntu 18.04, 64-bit
follow-up: 8 comment:5 by , 5 years ago
The VMSVGA is meant for Linux guests, not for Windows guests. If you select the wrong settings, things will fail to work as expected...
follow-up: 7 comment:6 by , 5 years ago
This is still happening on Virtualbox 6.0.4 r128413 (Qt5.11.1) Ubuntu host, Windows 10 guest.
@socratis: If VMSVGA is meant for Linux guests, it might be useful to add this to the manual.
comment:7 by , 5 years ago
Replying to galgalesh:
@socratis: If VMSVGA is meant for Linux guests, it might be useful to add this to the manual.
I've already notified the developers about the need to change the manual: https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2019-January/015180.html
comment:8 by , 5 years ago
Replying to socratis:
The VMSVGA is meant for Linux guests, not for Windows guests. If you select the wrong settings, things will fail to work as expected...
Sorry, but if it is possible to select this adapter without a warning, then no one will know that this is a "wrong setting". I changed the adapter from VboxSVGA to VMSVGA in the hope that it will fix my Win10 guest system that shows only a black screen after upgrade of the guest additions, now this choice is even worse....
There are so many critical bugs in VirtualBox that let us users desperately try different settings over here and over there; if there are known hidden eastereggs that will never work for specific target guest os types, then please do something - hide them, or show a warning at least!
messages during installation