Re: [VBox-users] How to diagnosse a BSOD? (was Re: How to move an XP guest from a 32-bit virtualbox 4.1 host to a 64-bit 4.3 host?)

[Giles C. <gi...@co...>]

On 18/07/2014 14:42, Cliff wrote:
> Pardon me for jumping in here, but I question why you say that the Guest Additions must be installed in Safe Mode with XP. I am running XP in VBox on OSx and never have needed to use Safe Mode. They install just fine in normal mode.
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> Cliff
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Well, specifically it is the following advice, taken from: 
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch14.html

"For *basic Direct3D support in Windows guests* to work, the Guest 
Additions must be installed in Windows "safe mode". Press F8 when the 
Windows guest is booting and select "Safe mode", then install the Guest 
Additions. Otherwise Windows' file protection mechanism will interfere 
with the replacement DLLs installed by VirtualBox and keep restoring the 
original Windows system DLLs. "

If you are not using 3D support, then I suppose it doesn't apply, but to 
be safe, use safe mode, unless you want to get into a discussion whether 
they have Direct3D support enabled or not, and whether they had it 
enabled before they migrated or not.

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