Opened 15 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#4742 closed defect (fixed)
HOME environment setting honoured in Windows 7 and shouldn't
| Reported by: | Joseba García Etxebarria | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | host support | Version: | VirtualBox 3.0.4 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Windows |
Description (last modified by )
In a windows 7 x86_64 (but probably this bug is common to all windows versions) where the "HOME" environment variable is set (for example after installing msys) Virtualbox honours it by trying to store all the new virtual disks and configurations there. This may lead to confusion.
I understand VirtualBox should just ignore the variable and use the usual "c:\Users\..." directory for storing data.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 13 years ago
comment:2 by , 10 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → closed |
Fixed in VBox 4.3.22.
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I can confirm...
IMO this behavior really should be documented in the Virtual
Box User Manual if it's not going to get changed.I encountered this issue because some 3rd party code written to manage VBoxes expected that on Windows the
VirtualBox\ VMsdirectory and etc is located in <HOMEDRIVE><HOMEPATH> (as described in the User Manual).However, I have a HOME environment variable defined (because I use Cygwin) and so the
VirtualBox\ VMsdirectory and etc in my case is actually located in <HOME>