Have you install the VirtualBox Guest Additions in the guest? On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:37 PM, kiwiiano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day, > I installed Win XP (MacOSX Leopard Host) (what a mission!!) > specifically to access a rather obscure Win application "DVRPlay" > required to access the hard drive of the Swann DVR Business, a black > box that monitors 4 different security cameras. The software comes on > a mini-CD that can't be accessed with the MacBook suckymoto DVD drive > but I copied it to a Flashdrive with another desktop PC. > > DVRPlay installed with no apparent problems, but when I connected to > the DVR (via USB) and launched DVRPlay it spat the dummy claiming > "Application could not locate DirectX. Please install latest version > of DirectX. Error: 0xA8005" > > I duly downloaded and installed DirectX (another mission!!) and > according to dxdiag I have DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) installed, > which I believe to be the latest version for Win XP, but I'm still > getting the "Can't locate DirectX", even after restarting both WinXP > and VBox. > > I'm stuck....any suggestions? > > --- > Keep in touch....Ian Orchard <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users >
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