[Bug]: Fail after downloading VBoxGuestAdditions

[Morganlej]

Version

7.1.12

Host OS Type

Linux

Host OS name + version

Mageia 9

Host Architecture

x86

Guest OS Type

Windows

Guest Architecture

x86

Guest OS name + version

Windows 7 64 bit

Component

Guest Additions/Installer

What happened?

NOTE: VB version is 7.1.14, but it is not listed in the dropdown selector for creating this bug!
Packaged by Mageia, now in QA. VB GUI Help->about say: 7.1.14_Mageia r170994

I first reported this in QA testing downstream: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34408#c16

Expected
The guest window menu ""Upgrade Guest Additions" should download and upgrade Guest Additions.

Actual result
It downloads the file correctly, but thinks it failed and stops.

In ~/.config/VirtualBox/ i see all VBoxGuestAdditions_7...iso it have downloaded. The difference now is that this new file ends in ".tmp": "VBoxGuestAdditions_7.1.14.iso.tmp". I guess thet ".tmp" suffix is supposed to be removed after it had downloaded it sucessfully.

The file is fully correct: i checked according to https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.1.14/MD5SUMS

Also, Firefox downloads it without problems, as do
wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.1.14/VBoxGuestAdditions_7.1.14.iso

So the problem is that VirtualBox think it failed. Additionally it gives a wrong message - saying URL was not found on server - despite that the same dialogue (right top in guest window) the seconds before showed an alive progress bar indicating the progress of downloading the "non existing" file...

Further notes

1. After VB have been updated, after launching the guest there usually comes a popup asking to update Guest Additions. This time it did not ask. Another bug?
2. In the guest machine window menu, the two selections "Insert Guest Additions CD image..." and "Upgrade Guest Additions" initially did exactly the same, both working exactly as described above.
3. I tried to mount the iso file using the guest window menu "Devices > Optical Drives > Choose/Create a Disk Image..." but the bug there is that keyboard do not work...
4. Then, using VB control panel to get to the same dialogue, I mounted VBoxGuestAdditions_7.1.14.iso in the optical drive of the machine, and after that in guest choosing "Insert Guest Additions CD image..." resulted in no response at all, while "Upgrade Guest Additions" made it immediately begin to install it, getting quickly to 81% according to the message in top right of guest, but stops there... no more messages. - But rebooting the guest, it report it use the new version.

To sum up, here are several quirks in both UI and operation....

How can we reproduce this?

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[galitsyn-oracle]

Thank you for reporting. Fix will be available with the next release. Issue #327 has the same origin as this one.

[Morganlej]

Thanks. Our package in Mageia will be updated before shipping out.

[Morganlej]

Problem 4 in my description is still valid - progress bar quickly reach 81 % and then bar vanishes with no message of success or fail. Would have been nice some feedback like reaching 100%, or some message...

There is also something odd about the menu item "Insert Guest Additions CD image..." - on one of my system there was no reaction at all, while it worked on another where i had downloaded the guest additions .iso while running another guest and it used that without asking. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34408#c47