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
