Comments on: Running Windows 7 beta on Sun xVM VirtualBox

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:43:11 +0000

And right after I post a comment, I find the solution.

Use the Intel network card instead of a PCnet network card in the VM settings, Windows 7 sees it right away as it comes with a driver for it.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:35:22 +0000

I tried the 64bit installer, searching the 64bit folder, etc., It doesn’t see any valid drivers on the disk and the guest tools doesn’t install any drivers.

All the other drivers and tools install fine though.

By: David Arno

David Arno — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:35:50 +0000

@Alex,

That does sound the likely cause. There is a 64 bit version of VBoxWindowsAdditions on the Guest Additions CD image though. Have you tried running that to see if that installs the 64 bit driver?

I’ve only tried the 32 bit install, so I’m not much use on 64 bits problems.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:28:37 +0000

No matter what I do, I can’t get the network driver to be installed, I’m assuming it’s because I’m using the 64bit version of Win 7

By: oriste

oriste — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:02:54 +0000

Thank you for the instructions. That worked very well with VirtualBox 2.1 on a 24″ iMac, running Mac OS X 10.5.6.

By: David Arno

David Arno — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:55:29 +0000

@Edmond,

When you select “Install Guest Additions…” from the Devices menu in the VirtualBox window, this mounts the guest additions CD. For me, this results in Windows 7 bringing up a prompt with the options: install the additions and browse the disk.

If you do not see this prompt, select “Install Guest Additions…” from the menu, then open explorer and navigate to D:\. The files you need to modify are contained there.

By: Edmond

Edmond — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:41:14 +0000

Can u please explain 2 better, i dont see any option either then choose where to boot from, when it starts

By: Hans Arentsen

Hans Arentsen — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:33:34 +0000

Just testing windows 7 in virtualbox 2.1.0
I used the vista preset and the networkadapter defaults to an intel gbit adapter and just worked!
I installed VB additions with vista compatibility and installed correctly. I think it works, because technically they are the same. Windows 7 is more polished.

Greetings Hans /-//-\