Installation of VirtualBox under Windows system, the system cannot find the way to specify the path

In the virtual machine software, VMware, Virtual PC, and so on are not supported by the current version of Windows 8 installation. Helpless, only a choice of--vitualbox.

But a lot of friends after the download of Vitualbox, the installation in Windows 7 encountered a problem (Windows Vista, Windows XP system is also the same), he will pop up a dialog box "installation failed! Error: The system cannot find the path specified. "(Some earlier vitualbox will be shown as" Installation failed! Error:3 ")

The reason for this problem is that the user name that is logged into the Windows system is a Chinese name, or a character that contains Chinese characters in the specified installation path.
Although VirtualBox supports Simplified Chinese, there is no special handling of multibyte characters, which causes the installation to fail.


Now that you know the cause of the problem, the solution is given, and there are two ways to do it:


The most : Create a new user with the English name, log in with the user, and install the VirtualBox in a non-Chinese path.


No.2: First find the path to the VirtualBox installation package (for example, my is: C:\Users\SHIWEIMING\Desktop\ VirtualBox.exe), then open a command prompt (start-All Programs-Accessories-run, enter CMD), and then at the command prompt, enter: C:\Users\SHIWEIMING\Desktop\VirtualBox.exe-extract
The file will then be automatically extracted to the following location: C:\user\ user name \appdata\local\temp\virtualbox, which will be seen in this directory Common.cab, Virtualbox-4.0.6-71416-multiarch_amd64.msi, Virtualbox-4.0.6-71416-multiarch_ X86.msi three files, running Virtualbox-4.0.6-71416-multiarch_x86.msi under a 32-bit system, running under a 64-bit system Virtualbox-4.0.6-71416-multiarch_ Amd64.msi

Installation of VirtualBox under Windows system, the system cannot find the way to specify the path