VirtualBox is installed under Win7, the system can not find the specified path?

Many friends want to try out the leaked version of Windows 8, but don't want to toss their existing systems, so using a virtual machine software is a good choice.

In all virtual machine software, VMware, Microsoft Windows Virtual PC, etc. do not support the current Windows 8 M1, M2, M3 version installation, the only choice is Oracle VM VitualBox.

But many friends have encountered problems after installing Oracle VitualBox under Win7 (the same is true for Vista, XP, etc.), and a dialog pops up: "Installation failed! Error: The system can't find it." Go to the specified path. ”, as shown below ——

or earlier versions will prompt:

The reason for this problem is mainly because The user name you log in to Windows (Win7, Vista, XP, etc.) is the Chinese name, or the path you specify to install contains Chinese characters.

Yes, although VirtualBox itself supports Simplified Chinese, there is no special treatment for this multi-byte Chinese character and Japanese characters, resulting in installation failure.

When you know the reason, the solution will be introduced accordingly. Two methods:

Method 1:

Change the English user name to log in to the system (if you don't have one, you can rebuild a new user) , installed in a path that does not contain characters such as Chinese;

Method 2:

If you do not want to change the current user name, you still want to use Chinese name or Japanese Korean name, then you can do this &mdash ;—

1, find the folder where you stored the VirtualBox installation file, manually extract it, assuming you downloaded the

VirtualBox installer is F:\\Downloads\\VirtualBox-4.0.6- 71416-Win.exe, enter “cmd ” in the search box of the start menu, run, open the command prompt line, and then enter:

F:\\Downloads\\VirtualBox-4.0.6-71416-Win .exe -extract

2, the file will be automatically extracted to the following location:

C:\\user\\username\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\VirtualBox (note, XP will extract it in me The document — under the current user's temporary file directory). In this way, you will see three files in this folder: common.cab, VirtualBox-4.0.6-71416-MultiArch_amd64.msi (64-bit system running this installation), VirtualBox-4.0.6-71416-MultiArch_x86. Msi (run this for installation on a 32-bit system).

This will be done, Win7, Vista, XP and other systems to install VirtualBox can refer to this.