[clue] fix for Win7 VirtualBox issue

John Fiala jcfiala at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 09:54:13 MDT 2011


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Mike Bean <mike.bean at rocketmail.com> wrote:
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> I couldn't get the driver to load properly.   Was getting pop-up's in linux - something about being unable to attach the device.  I'm a little too paranoid to just do stuff from you tube, so I took several precautions first.   What I've been reading suggests that it's mostly only a problem with 64bit, are you running 32?   (I honestly didn't think there were 32 bit varities of windows7),  but I'm deliberately trying to learn as little about Windows as I can get away with.

No, I'm running full 64 bit Windows.  Haven't had a lick of trouble with it.

Now, it's possible that it's it's the 4.x branch of virtualbox that's
causing people trouble - I'd read somewhere about bugs with that code,
so I"m still running 3.x.
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