Tuesday, January 15, 2013

VirtualBox install hanging on Windows 7

Delete/disable "Virtual Ethernet Card" from Device Manager (may need to set view to "Show hidden devices" to see it).  Then reinstall.
(see: Installing VirtualBox 4.0.8 on Windows 7 hangs )

Update:  The above didn't work for me, and neither did killing Skype and iCloud.  And I didn't have Dropbox installed.  Ended up doing (usual cautionary warnings here about possibly messing up your computer; these are just notes for me to remember what I ended up doing; not really sure if it's a good idea to do an install while in Diagnostic Startup mode):

  • Go into System Configuration, select Diagnostic Startup and reboot.  
  • And then go into Computer Management, Services, and set the Windows Installer service from "disabled" to "manual" (got that from the having problems earlier about "another installation already in progress", see this article).
  • Then ran the install of VirtualBox 4.2.6.  That finally worked.