Thanks - I had all the APIC etc stuff the same, ended up being that the wizard put the hard disk under a SATA controller which seems reasonable but needed to be IDE (as for my user) and all is good now. Now I'm discovering snapshot issues, and need to carefully get my head around merging them...
Thanks for the reply. Roger On 10/12/10 12:57, Henry Jenkins wrote: > Are you sure you are using the same settings? There are a couple of > things that windows require like ACPI support > > There should be some virtual machine settings file as well as the disk > image file. Off the top of my head they are in ~/.VirtualBox/ > > Henry > > On 10/12/10 12:48, Roger Searle wrote: > >> Compliments of the season to you all, >> >> I'm successfully running a Windows 7 machine in VirtualBox on a 64bit >> Lucid box. All is good running as my own user. >> >> When I create a new Lucid user, added to the vboxusers group, log on as >> that user and set up a new VM using the existing VDI hard drive, a few >> seconds in to the boot of the win7 machine (the very pretty little orbs >> flying around for about 3 seconds) it will bluescreen and quickly reboot >> without being able to see the error. Next boot Windows will tell you >> there was a problem and offer to fix which it can't manage to do. >> However logging back on as my own user the VM will boot without issue. >> >> I've checked the permissions of the VDI file and given all users rwx, >> not made any difference. >> >> I haven't located any relevant answers yet in my googling and wonder if >> anyone has some experience of this or similar they might like to share? >> >> Cheers, >> Roger >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-users mailing list >> Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz >> http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
