I have VS2005. Unfortunately, up to this point I haven't been able to apply the SP for it because of the application I develop for require the stuff I build to work with pre-SP libraries. So I had this thought that maybe I could apply the SP and back off the includes and libraries so that I get the IDE fixes and enhancements but still be able to do my builds. So, before I go ahead with this idea, I wanted to try it out in a sandbox. Therein lies my problem, I get the message:

Next I tried setting the configuration entries for trace to "d" instead of ".", ran WinDbg, last two entries (since the first is repeated a bunch of times):

Any ideas to get around this? If not, I'll have to resort to testing in a VMWare session, but that takes quite a bit to setup and I'd rather not go that route.
Thanks.

The lsarpc should stay like this, and probably has nothing to do with your problem. What happens is that Sandboxie did not recognize that Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 wants to use Windows Installer. I will look into this later when I have time.

For now your best workaround is to run a sandboxed installation for some other software, that should cause Windows Installer (msiexec.exe) to start in the sandbox. You don't actually have to go through with that installation, just leave it open so Windows Installer doesn't close. Then you should be able to install VS 2005 SP 1.

The SP comes as a bundled exe, its extracts some parts and then runs those. I know I've seen the msiexec.exe running during some part of this, but didn't actually check if it still was at the point the dialog came up. I'll have to do more tests at some point, but a little busy at the moment. I'll let you know what I find.

Well, that worked better, but maybe half way thru or so, i got a SBIE2305 Out of Memory error and the setup fails. What memory is it running out of?

I'm not sure as to the exact nature of the error message you are getting. However, VS2005 SP1 modifies some very large files. Sandboxie needs to copy all the files to be modified into the sandbox. The default Sandboxie settings for CopyLimitKb are probably to low to work in this case. See:

http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?CopyLimitKb

As a first step, I would try adjusting this setting through the GUI to a much higher number.

Configuration -> Sandbox Settings -> Set File Copy Options.

Or, perhaps, I have it set too high: 3276800

Yes, that's pretty high. The number only needs to be as big as the biggest individual file to be copied into the sandbox, not the total of all the files. Try removing one trailing zero. I assume you are still having no luck?

Yep, no luck. Doesn't seem related to that number.

That could indicate a bug. I'll try this with Visual Studio Express Service Pack 1, if we're lucky, I'll get SBIE2305 in that case too.