| 1 | While the VirtualBox guest additions does not officially support NT 3.x some
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| 2 | of the core drivers and tools happens to work. However, the installer binary
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| 3 | (VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe) does not run on anything older than NT 4,
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| 4 | making it hard to extract (VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe /extract /D=C:\dir)
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| 5 | the necessary files. So, the 32-bit drivers and components that might work
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| 6 | on NT 3.x are provided here for convenience.
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| 7 |
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| 8 | The VBoxAddInstallNt3x.exe program is a simple command line installation
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| 9 | utility for NT 3.x guest additions. It automats the steps detailed below.
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| 12 | NT 3.51:
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| 13 | -------
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| 14 |
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| 15 | Add VBoxGuest using registry editor (regedt32.exe):
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| 16 | - Copy the VBoxGuest.sys file to %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers.
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| 17 | - Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Service/
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| 18 | - Create VBoxGuest key with the following values:
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| 19 | DisplayName (REG_SZ) = "VBoxGuest Support Driver"
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| 20 | ErrorControl (REG_DWORD) = 0x1
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| 21 | Group (REG_SZ) = "System"
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| 22 | ImagePath (REG_EXPAND_SZ) = System32\drivers\VBoxGuest.sys
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| 23 | Start (REG_DWORD) = 0
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| 24 | Type (REG_DWORD) = 0x1
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| 25 | - Reboot.
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| 26 | - Open the "Devices" in the "Control Panel", locate the VBoxGuest driver
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| 27 | and check that it started fine.
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| 28 |
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| 29 | If FAT file system s/VBoxGuest.sys/VBoxGst.sys/ above.
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| 30 |
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| 31 |
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| 32 | Install VBoxService by copying it to %SystemRoot%\system32 and run
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| 33 | "VBoxService --register". Go to "Services" in the "Control Panel" and modify
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| 34 | the "VirtualBox Guest Additions Service" to startup "Automatic". If VBoxGuest
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| 35 | is already started you can start the service (also possible using
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| 36 | "net start VBoxService").
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| 37 |
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| 38 | Install VBoxMouseNT.sys by copying it %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers and using
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| 39 | the registry editor (regedt32.exe) to set (create it if necessary) value
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| 40 | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Service/i8042prt/ImagePath
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| 41 | (REG_EXPAND_SZ) to "System32\drivers\VBoxGuestNT.sys". (The i8042prt driver
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| 42 | is the NT PS/2 mouse + keyboard driver and VBoxGuestNT.sys replaces it.)
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| 43 |
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| 45 | NT 3.50
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| 46 | -------
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| 47 |
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| 48 | Same as for 3.51.
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| 51 | NT 3.1
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| 52 | ------
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| 54 | Does not currently work.
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