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[SOLVED] TomTom Home in an XP VM


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So I have a Windows XP virtual machine I've kept around for a while now to do misc. Windows tasks such as testing web pages I make, testing scripts, and playing Age of Empires. I want to install TomTom Home so I can update my GPS because I haven't done so in about a year now. The OS sees the TomTom when I forward that USB device to the guest OS, lets me browse the contents and run the executable to download and install TomTom Home. My problem is the installer never actually launches once it's downloaded. I even manually downloaded the latest version from the website and get the same thing. Watching the task manager the process only runs for a split second then dies. I'm guessing it's running into an error of some kind, but even running it from the command line provides no output. I even went and snagged .NET 4 and Visual C++ 2010 because I have seen software that requires those, but still no luck.

Has anybody gotten this to work before, am I the only one having the issue? Here's all my software versions.

Host OS: Debian Linux 6.0.1 x64

Guest OS: Windows XP SP3 x86

VM Software: Oracle Virtualbox 4.0.8

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Fixed it, had to install an older version (2.7) then let it update itself to the latest version (2.8). Apparently I'm not the only one it happened to, the standalone installer for the latest version for XP seems to be touch and go depending on your setup. Luckily cnet.com still had version 2.7 hosted, and it's updating my GPS at the moment so all is well.

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