Hello Angelo, for the first time I had chosen "Install the guest additions" from the vbox menu, but it apparently went wrong: 32-bit files installed to C:\Program Files. For the second time I looked for an alternative installer (something like you mentioned) being available on the virtual CD VBoxGuestAdditions.iso and found one. I do not know why but the files installed then seemed to be exactly the same for the first time ... I think I will give it another try and look what's going to happen ...
Thank you for spending your time on my problem. Further hints are welcome ... Kind regards Stephan _____ Am 25.08.2010 um 04:49 schrieb Angelo GIRARDI: > On 23/08/10 16:14, Stephan Richter wrote: >> Hello altogether! >> >> I would like to bother you with a simple question which I could not find an >> answer to. >> Well, I am running virtualbox 3.2.8 under OS X 10.6 (host OS) and recently >> installed win xp pro (64-bit) as one of my host OSes (on different vm's, of >> course!). >> When I started the installation of the guest additions from within the vm, >> the installer tried to put the files into C:\Program Files which (as far as >> I know) is reserved for 64-bit applications. In comparison to my 32-bit >> version of win xp, I cannot find any differences between the files of the >> guest additions. >> Therefore I would like to know if it was necessary to redirect the >> destination directory to C:\Program Files (x86) while running the installer >> under XP (64-bit) in order to avoid any kind of issues. By the way, isn't >> windows in itself supposed to select the appropriate directory? >> >> Thank you very much in advance for posting your answers. >> >> Kind regards >> Stephan >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net email is sponsored by >> >> Make an app they can't live without >> Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> VBox-users-community mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community >> >> > You need to run the 64bits mode exe file : vboxwindowamd64.exe (or something > like that). > > Regards > > Angelo > <angelo_girardi.vcf>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program > Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users > worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and > speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d_______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
