Opened 13 years ago
Last modified 10 years ago
#8424 closed defect
Windows Vista guest additions breaks login in guest — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Greg Davis | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | guest additions | Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.4 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Windows |
Description
After installing Guest Additions for Windows Vista in safe-mode as administrator, I reboot and try to log in as any user. I then see a spinning wheel of death and the words "Welcome," see attached screenshot. This also happened with 4.0.2 GA and I am pretty sure 4.0.0 as well. This behavior did not happen with 3.x.y GA, it showed up with 4.0. This happens for all of my Vista VMs, and also happens for VMs that I newly create with 4.x, as well as ones created with 3.x.
If start in safe mode, after installing the GA, I can log in no problem, I am just in safe mode and thus can't do anything useful. At that point in safe-mode, as screen resize and mouse capture don't work, I am thinking the VBox GA drivers are not even loaded.
I tried uninstalling VBox 4.0.2, rebooting the host, and installing latest 4.0.4 to see if there was something wrong with the installation, but same behavior after the newer installation.
The VBox log for the VM doesn't complain about anything blatent, so I don't know where to start tracking this down.
welcome text screenshot