Oracle VM VirtualBox running under Windows 11

roytom2

VirtualBox issue - I've got Windows 8.1 working perfectly but I cannot get CoreDRAW X4 to install under it as Windows 11 is interfering in the setup.
During install I get *Program Compatibility Assistant* warning. This app can't be run on this device.
How can I turn this off so I can install CDX4?
TIA

debitcardmayhem

Are saying that you are running W8.1 under virtualbox, if so W11 will not innterfere with the install, how are you trying to run the installer?

roytom2

debitcardmayhem said:

Are saying that you are running W8.1 under virtualbox, if so W11 will not innterfere with the install, how are you trying to run the installer?

Yes I am running Win8.1 under VirtualBox and attempting to install CDX4 under Win8.1 not Win11. But the Compatibility box seems to originate from Win11 as this persists after Win8.1 is shutdown and VB itself is closed.
Although the install is started under Win8.1 it seems its the Win11 Compatibility checker that's getting involved.

debitcardmayhem

Are you trying to run it from a dvd?

roytom2

debitcardmayhem said:

Are you trying to run it from a dvd?

ta but exactly the same problem and same error message..
App can't run on this device.

[Deleted User]

I don't want the steal @debitcardmayhem's thunder here as they have pretty much located the problem, but to be specific it sounds like the DVD drive isn't mounted/mapped to the virtual machine and instead is launching on the host.

Paradigm

Have you tried installing it in compatibilty mode?

Right click the installer/exe file >properties>compatibilty (made need "show more options" to find this)>tick run in compatibility mode>select an older version of windows (such as 7)>apply

You can disable it through services.msc but it's been so long since I used windows 8 I can't remember if it's the same as 10/11... I'll have a look.

debitcardmayhem

Create a folder on your windows 11 Host , copy the whole of the CD/DVD into that folder, then in virtualbox share that folder with your Win8 machine

Select settings , then

Click on the + Add shared folder

Browse to the Path/Folder etc and give it a mount point on your W8 instance and select auto-mount

Then run the setup from that folder in W8

Neil_Jones

roytom2 said:

debitcardmayhem said:

Are saying that you are running W8.1 under virtualbox, if so W11 will not innterfere with the install, how are you trying to run the installer?

Yes I am running Win8.1 under VirtualBox and attempting to install CDX4 under Win8.1 not Win11. But the Compatibility box seems to originate from Win11 as this persists after Win8.1 is shutdown and VB itself is closed.
Although the install is started under Win8.1 it seems its the Win11 Compatibility checker that's getting involved.

I don't see how "the install is started under Win8.1 it seems its the Win11 Compatibility checker that's getting involved" is even possible.  What you do in the virtual machine (with the guest operating system, in your case Win8.1) is of no concern to the host operating system (in this case Windows 11), unless the VM client itself was doing something highly irregular (and  even then the most likely outcome is the client would just crash or you'd have a blue screen generated by Windows 11) - they are effectively just massive files on your hard drive.

I think what you might have done is change the compatibility options in Windows 11 for VIrtualbox when you talk about persisting.  That's not what you want because those settings will not apply to any guest operating systems, it would only apply to the VM client itself.  The mentions of compatibility mode need to be made to the setup files of CorelDraw while those are in Windows 8.1 and the changes made in Windows 8.1 - not from Windows 11.

roytom2

Many thanks for all the help. I’ve now got it to install which is excellent. I followed the above steps in copying the install files to a folder using Windows 11 and then sharing this folder inside the VirtualBox settings for Win8.1. Thanks for this to debitcardmayhem 

SteveJW

I sometimes find a program will not install from the shared folder and have to move the installation files to the C:/ drive of the virtual machine