This could be helpful, not sure why, but I put up 1.6, my winxp worked, some time later, I would get that same immediate crash. I made no change to the winxp environment -- nothing between runs. I tried a few things, then went back to 1.5x, which isn't suppose to be possible? And it came up fine. I haven't bothered to go back to 1.6 because I had some things break and nothing that I use worked better.
I did not trigger the crash problem and I could not "fix" it, as such, but what I did worked. Maybe that will help whoever did changes in 1.6 to cause this -- don't know, but that may help you.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "JD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "VirtualBox end user list" <vbox-users@virtualbox.org> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac >I have been struggling with booting an existing > winXP Pro disk as well. I have gone through the > same motions as have been suggested by this > group and by the online docs. I can only get > as far as windows booting and displaying that > screen-wide barcode at the bottom, then the > barcode turns into a solid strip and VBOx pops > a banner about the guest having crashed or stuck > (dont recall which). Would be great if those > who have succeeded in booting a pre-existing > windows disk to write all the steps to do and > provide a link to where it will be permanently > accessible. > > Cheers, > > JD > > Glen McAllister wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm currently in a situation where it would be *very* useful to have >> this working, but it is not, despite trying all that has so far been >> mentioned & pointed to in the group. To date in the virtual machine I >> have: >> >> 1 Unset ACPI & enabled IO-APIC >> 2 Set the HD controller to PIIX4 (which apparently is an adequate >> substitute for running the MergeIDE utility). It actually seems to >> make no difference actually and even progresses slightly further in >> the boot process with the controller set to PIIX3. The install CD >> boots ok with either controller. >> 3 Disabled agp440 & intelppm services on boot-time. >> >> This is a different system (Win2003 ServerEE trial) to the one I >> originally was trying to import (Win2k Pro). The only difference is >> that this time, I have not run MergeIDE, but this didn't seem to help >> on the Win2k Pro system anyway. (Well, if it did, something else was >> wrong). >> >> Can anyone provide any more help or information on this process >> please? It makes VBox a non-contender/non-starter for me otherwise. >> >> Thanks, >> >> GAM >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-users mailing list >> vbox-users@virtualbox.org >> http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > vbox-users@virtualbox.org > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
