chuckr, thanks.
I finally managed to have it installed, thanks again psc for your test.
Just for the record, for future memory and as an example on how
NOT to design an application, expecially if it is as "vital" as the "Official" Microsoft Installer, here is what I did/had to do.
The installer aborted saying "An error was found", NOTHING else anywhere, not in the log, not in Event log, not running msiexec /i <file> /options, NOTHING (well yes, there was something in Event log like "Virtualbox Installer failed", very useful
)
So I tried to
reinstall the msiexec/MSISERVER package:
InstMsiW.exe
It
refused to install, as Service was already present, nor it allowed to repair the install
.
So I
uninstalled the MSISERVER Service, quite obviously Microsoft Knowledge Base was
almost, but not quite, completely unlike helpful .
I had to search on the web and "risk" some Registry editing.
Finallly, after a couple of tests/reboots, I was able to reinstall the above MSI installer, situation EXACTLY as before
.
So I found
version 3 of the installer (the above is 2), which the
clever Microsoft guys
deftly named so that it is easy to
understand which version it is .
WindowsInstaller-KB884016-v2-x86.exe
Install, reboot, situation EXACTLY as before.
So I found
version 3.1 of the installer, which the
clever Microsoft guys
ALSO deftly named so that it is easy to understand which version it is
.
WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe
Install, reboot,
finally an error message comes out,
1305 Error reading from file <FILE PATH AND NAME> verify the file exists and that you can access it.
Of course I can read, write, and more or less do ANYTHING I want on that folder, being Administrator, by the way I had just installed the installer itself from that same directory.
After a few more tries, I tried last possible resource
, copy the stupid
VirtualBox-2007-01-16-14-08-05-win-rel.msi
in a folder on a FAT volume, and
TA-DAA! Install completed succesfully, and I am now up and running.
jaclaz