Hi, just a quick follow-up: We found and fixed the issue. The bugfix will be available in the next upcoming maintenance version.
Thanks again for the report, Andreas On 27.02.2014 09:49, Magnus Madsen wrote: > Hi! > I have discovered a problem regarding the new handling of environment > variables for creating GuestProcesses using Guest Additions 4.3.8. The > problem does not occur when using VirtualBox 4.3.8 with an older version > of the Guest Additions. > > The issue is that processes are started with no environment variables at > all - not even the ones that are specified for standard processes. This > causes a lot of things to fail on Windows, because a lot of built-in > functions depend on certain environment variables being set. > > For instance, trying to call the Windows Script Host fails with the > non-descriptive message "Execution of the Windows Script Host failed. > (Not enough storage is available to complete this operation. )" > I discovered this particular message is related to the SystemRoot > variable not being set for the WSH process. > > I assume this behavior is not by design, as I would expect the > environment arguments given to a GuestProcess simply to overwrite the > specified ones. If this behavior is intended, I believe we do need a way > to start a process while keeping the standard environment variables. > > Please let me know if you need any further information, thanks! > > Magnus > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev > -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen ****************************************************************** Andreas Löffler | VirtualBox Engineering Senior Software Engineer | Oracle Virtualization ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Schiffbauergasse 14 D-14467 Potsdam, Germany Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
