Changes between Version 16 and Version 17 of MSI_Logging

Timestamp:

Dec 2, 2010 9:22:15 AM (13 years ago)

Author:

pentagonik

Comment:

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MSI_Logging

@@ -11 +11 @@
 = Installer Log =
 
-The following steps apply for the Windows version of !VirtualBox.
+== Automatic activation ==
+
+To enable logging while installing !VirtualBox for Windows, start the installer executable (e.g. "VirtualBox-3.2.12-68302-Win.exe") with the additional parameter "/l". To do that, open a command line window, navigate to the directory which contains the installer executable and run
+{{{ 
+VirtualBox-<your-version>-Win.exe /l 
+}}}
+Note: Please make sure you substituted {{{ <your-version> }}} with the right version string of your installer executable.
+
+== Manual activation ==
+
+To manually enable logging in a persistent manner, do the following:
 
  1. Go to Start -> "Run ..."
@@ -21 +31 @@
  7. Close regedit.exe
 
-After the above steps the !VirtualBox host installer should produce a log starting with "MSI"
+== How to retrieve the log files ==
+
+After the steps above the !VirtualBox host installer should produce a log starting with "MSI"
 in your temporary directory the next time you're starting the installer. 
 
-On 32-bit Windows XP, the temporary directory is usually located at ''"C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Username>\Local Settings\Temp\"''.[[BR]] 
-On 64-bit Windows XP and on Vista, it can be found at ''"C:\Users\<Your Username>\!AppData\Local\Temp"''.
+On 32-bit Windows XP, the temporary directory is usually located at ''"C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Username>\Local Settings\Temp\"''.[[BR]]
+On 64-bit Windows XP and on Windows Vista / Windows 7 it can be found at ''"C:\Users\<Your Username>\!AppData\Local\Temp"''.
 
 Be sure you're picking the most recent one by sorting the files by date!
@@ -32 +44 @@
 = Driver Installation Log =
 
-Enable logging in the registry: In key ''"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\!CurrentVersion\Setup\"'' set/create a value called "!LogLevel" of the type DWORD and set it to the hexadecimal value 4800FFFF. This will enable the verbose driver logging.
+Enable logging in the registry: In key 
+{{{
+HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\!CurrentVersion\Setup
+}}}
+set/create a value called {{{ LogLevel }}} of the type {{{ DWORD }}} and set it to the hexadecimal value {{{ 4800FFFF }}}. This will enable the verbose driver logging.
 
-Either in "C:\Windows" or in "C:\Windows\Inf" you'll then find some logs called 
+Either in {{{ C:\Windows }}} or in {{{ C:\Windows\Inf }}} you'll then find some logs called 
 
  * setupapi.log