Installation of AutoCAD in Windows 8 & 8.1: Failure and solution


If you download and install AutoCAD, e.g. v2012 or v2014 on Windows8, windows 8.1, it is highly possible that you are not so lucky: the installation starts, and then suddenly terminates, showing that AutoCAD is NOT installed!

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VirutalBox: VERR_PDM_MEDIA_LOCKED cannot mount guest additions iso


After installing VirtualBox in windows, and if you use Menu > Devices > Install Guest Additions, most probably you might encounter the below errors:

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“Unable to mount the CD/DVD image
Could not mount the media/drive VBoxGuestAdditions.iso (VERR_PDM_MEDIA_LOCKED)”

A simple solution is to open a terminal in Ubuntu, and then type below command:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso