"Casey Allen Shobe" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>... > On 29 Aug, 2012, at 10:48 PM, John wrote: > > So, what did I do wrong to cause this unwanted behavior, and how can > > I prevent it from recurring. I want the Win XP to start like any of > > the other VMs regardless of the CD drive status. Thanks. > > VirtualBox's default boot order for any VM is floppy, cd, and then > disk. Personally, I set all my VM's to boot disk, then cd, and press > F12 if I need to boot a CD which is exceptionally rare.
Hi, Casey. My only issue with that boot order you mentioned is that the presence of data corruption or virus on the disk could interfere with it and possibly prevent it from booting; so I avoid this possibility by allowing a CD before a disk since I might want to use a CD utility for recovery of data, etc. You may very well be right that F12 would avoid the disk entirely, but I figured that this functionality would be a function of the BIOS only, which in the case of a VM does not seem applicable. But I could surely be way wrong about that point. > It also sounds like you have the VM's CD-ROM set up as a passthrough > to your real CD drive. You'll find things faster if you just use an > ISO image on your hard drive instead, and that would also prevent any > random CD you put in the host machine from showing up in or otherwise > affecting your VM. This sounds like good advice, and I would like to start doing it like that. I am not sure how I would have inadvertently set up the CD-ROM drive in a pass-through mode, and it is not clear to me from looking at the help file section: "5.9. CD/DVD support". If I understand you right, after starting the guest, you would right-click the CD icon in the lower right of the VB Manager window and select the top option for "Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file" and this would let you read the ISO file with a virtual drive in the VM. Is that right? Thanks. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
