Installing and playing RA2 in VirtualBox under Windows XP

[SkullKid2000]

I'm trying to get RA2 to work in VirtualBox under Windows XP (no updates or Service Packs at all). The problem is I can't get any PC game at all to run in VirtualBox. 3ds Max works fine, but no game at all.

[Sage]

Well, don't use virtual box?

Why are you using it? You on a mac?

[SkullKid2000]

No, I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit/x64 as the host machine. The guest machine is Windows XP Professional.

[Sage]

Why don't you just use the Windows 7? It works for me.

[SkullKid2000]

I have Windows 7 Home Premium as my host operating system, and Windows XP Professional as my guest operating system. I'm also having problems with my usb ports, VirtualBox won't recognize them. I get this error while trying to open up my Virtual Machine:

[Sage]

I'm asking why you even bother with Windows XP? What's the point of the Virtual box? Cause RA2 works fine on Windows 7....

[SkullKid2000]

the official way of exporting a component to RA2 works only with 3ds Max 4.2-3ds Max 5.1. That's why I use VirtualBox.

[Sage]

Oh, gotcha, Those don't work in W7?

[SkullKid2000]

Well Serge says they won't. No luck in playing games on my guest system, neither to get my usb devices recognized.

[JoeBlo]

Oh, gotcha, Those don't work in W7?

3DSM5 needs XPSP1 (woo acronyms)

try MSVPC (lol im just doing this on purpose now)

Microsoft Virtual PC

[Serge]

VirtualBox is faster, but its 3d acceleration support is really messy sometimes. Just run RA2 in Windows 7 and 3dsmax in VirtualBox. Use VirtualBox shared folders to transfer data between them.