Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac

2008-05-12 Thread Glen McAllister
> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 07:45:43 -0400 > From: "Joe B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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

Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac

2008-05-12 Thread JD
I confirm the graphics driver behavior you describe. I also confirm the slow I/O of shared folders. JD Pablo Sanchez wrote: On Monday 12 May 2008 at 8:32 am, Brian J. Murrell penned about "Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac" As I said in

Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac

2008-05-12 Thread Pablo Sanchez
On Monday 12 May 2008 at 8:58 am, Brian J. Murrell penned about "Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac" > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 08:38 -0400, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > > > It seems the 1.6.0 release is not on par with the quality

Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac

2008-05-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 08:38 -0400, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > It seems the 1.6.0 release is not on par with the quality of previous > releases. Seems I got burned despite my mantra of never trusting a version with a version number starting or ending with zero. :-/ I even thought of that mantra

Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac

2008-05-12 Thread Pablo Sanchez
On Monday 12 May 2008 at 8:32 am, Brian J. Murrell penned about "Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac" > As I said in my opening, this XP install worked a whole lot better > with 1.5.6. It seems the 1.6.0 release is not on par with the quality of p

Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac

2008-05-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 07:45 -0400, Joe B wrote: > 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,

Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac

2008-05-12 Thread Joe B
#x27;t know, but that may help you.. - Original Message - From: "JD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "VirtualBox end user list" 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 wit

Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac

2008-05-11 Thread JD
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 sol

[vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac

2008-05-10 Thread Glen McAllister
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 appar