thanks but this makes me never to buy a Godox product again. They can't even have an installer on Mac for these flashes.

The conteents of microsoft link have changed and downloading of VM is no longer supported. Is there an alternative. Thanks

Hi Ken, thank you for this tutorial. I used it 2 years ago and have returned back to it again as I can't get Virtual Box to work on my new M1 Mac running Ventura, getting this error "The installer has detected an unsupported architecture. VirtualBox only runs on the amd64 architecture". I know that since this post Godox has released Mac OS firmware updates, but that doesn't work either.

it's insane that you have to do this to get this software running. It's been 4 years since you posted this clever work around and the company still hasns't figured it out. Crazy.

Worked great on the X1T-C thanks

Years later here we are and I still can't upgrade my Godox V1 firmware. No usb cable will work :(

I did this yesterday. All went well until I tried connecting the Godox via usb…. The USB device name was not the name of the flash, I forgot what it was, but it was something generic. At first it would not mount on the virtual box, but finally it did.

Hi, this is what i get when i lunch the virtual box installation : (Unsupported hardware architecture detected! The installer has detected an unsupported architecture. VirtualBox only runs on the amd64 architecture.) I have the M1 pro macbook. Thanks for the video

All this for a godox firmware update?? Ridiculous.

2 hours in and sacked it off, problems after every step and I thought I had the patience of a saint as well!

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Very very cool my man. Thanks for sharing

Thank you very much, your tutorial is amazing!

Ken thank you so much for this video. This has helped me so much to update my godox ad200 on a mac....

It wont allow me to add the USB port, can anyone help? Says Invalid settings detected, when I click them .... System Acceleration Page & Display Screen Page errors

i got everything going until it was time to run the IE11-Win7.... now i getting an error "KERNEL DRIvER NOT INSTALLED(re=1908)... what do i do?

Jesus! ….or just find a friend with a Windows computer. GODOX!

I've tried to connect my go dox TT885N multiple times -- can't connect within the VB. I've tried multiple cables, USB ports to avail. I have a newer version of VB 6.0. I can load and run the exe, then load the updated fw, but it won't connect. Batteries are out, cable is, still no connection. Any other suggestions that will help?

Thanks for making this, but, I think I'm going to just buy a new X-Pro trigger and hope that it has current firmware, this is insanity.

Thank you so much. Godex should have the Mac upgrade rather punishing the Mac user.

it won't let me add optical disk drive. not an option

I've connected all my gear to the laptop but i don't see any of GODOX in usb window. The software says connections failed. What to do?

Thanks man. Sorted.

Great video. Thankyou very much. Helped me resolve an issue with compatibility between the Nikon Z6ii and the Godox V1 and 860ii as I only have a Mac and not PC. Very clear and informative.

I'm struggling for 3 hours now in order to finish this stupid update and still I can't.. Godox need to seriously do something about this situation.. For me it's reason enough not to buy anything from this company ever again..

I know this was a year ago but I am still having problems connecting my TT685c. I read your recommendation on removing the batteries. When the USB is connected, should the switch be in the off or on position? Will the power light up or will it look like it is still turned off? Thanks again and really appreciate this video.

Thank you SO much for this! I was losing my sanity trying to figure out how to upgrade firmware on my V860ii. This video was so incredibly helpful

Wow, I might just borrow my kid's computer or the work laptop maybe. I have a really old iMac(mid 2010), with Mac OS X High Sierra, will this all work with that?

I cannot get windows to identify the usb even though having followed all the steps.

Everything goes smoothly until I enter the Windows screen and I have to enter a password?! Anyone had these issues?! I need seirous help with this crap.

Holy…that was a marathon but I finally crossed the finish line. MS Developer now only offers Windows 10 and thus, several steps were slightly different in the last half. For one, it requires a password, which it turns out is "Passw0rd!". Tried three different USB cables all new, and finally (no rhyme or reason) got one to work. With a lot of persistence, this works (though ridiculous we had to endure such a feat). Thank you Ken!

developer.microsoft.com no longer brings one to the options you described in this video. So, I'm stuck not being able to create a virtual Pc.

im using a newer mac and c on not seem to get the usb to connect.

Thanks for this. However, when I click on insert guest addition, I do not get the prompt window as shown in your video. I cannot drag and drop the files and I keep needing to activate my mouse between both systems. When I drag the file into Windows it doesn't recognize the action. I imported the IE11 - Win81 version.

When I unzip the installers I'm getting .fri or .dfu files, not .exe files. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong... everything else is really clear (thank you Ken) but I'm stuck at this point.

I finally got the Virtual Box software running but I am unable to drag the firmware updates onto the Virtual Box desktop for some reason. Can anyone enlighten me where I might be going wrong, I'm so close to having completed all of the steps.....

Thank you so much for the tutorial! It saved the day!

Thank you! It worked! But holy moly. Don't ask me to do this again. hahaha

what if the file is dfg? meant for ios apple? I dont see the usb option for godox?

16 November 2019 -- This has been about as excruciating as the head and chest cold I'm just emmerging from. Virtual Box is now at version 6.0. All goes well until the Install Guest Additions step: an additions file cannot be found. I don't think it matters; perhaps it's in the main distro. However & ultimately, the problem I was having was in identifying the USB device from the list presented by the widget, bottom right. For G2 at this date, it has no Godox character string; it's an ST-something device. I had to reinstall the app -- memories of my Windows daze -- in order to find out its name. And oh! the joy of simply powering off Windows rather than waiting for the 7 updates to download and install! Thanks for this but, as someone earlier said, it's a totally arbitrarily complicated and convoluted procedure and Godox is going to have to fix it if its to be taken seriously as a player. Sooner or later someone is going to come along and eat their lunch by providing a bit of customer care.

So glad in 2019/10 all this complicated procedure is not required.

This is a fantastically clear tutorial - Thanks Ken!! Updated my Ad200's, TT350, V1 & 2 XPros in no time at all once VB was setup on my 2019 McBook Pro...

Thanks for this great easy to follow tutorial. I would have gone utterly insane without it!

Wow, Ken, you are a SAVIOUR! This worked, and my TT685C's will now work amazingly on my EOS-R. Thank YOU! At 12:54 when you are turning on the USB controller, you may not see "ATMEL DUF Godox", you may see "STM..." or similar, select that (I got that when using the G2 installer). People be sure to clean up all the massive files left behind on your mac after this. I use CleanMyMac to uninstall VirtualBox and all the files it leaves behind. I then go to About This Mac (Apple Logo top left of screen), then Storage, and Manage... Under Documents you will see "IE11 - Win7-disk001.vdi". Select it and delete it as that's 15GB of wasted files.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to you for doing this video and poor thinking by Godox requiring you to do this for us to use their product.

Wow! Great video, but somebody needs to tell Godox that an awful lot of photographers use Macs. Thanks for sharing this.

Godox is INSANE. Ken Falk is a genius.

My godox x1t isn't showing up in USB devices, even though I've already updated by xpro and V860II flash. Can anyone suggest why it's not showing up? Thanks

Virtualbox won't currently install on mac. Maybe a mojave problem?