On 3/25/2012 2:56 AM, John Francis Lee wrote: > On 03/24/2012 09:34 PM, David wrote: >> However you said "installation disc image". If that means that you are >> using an OEM disk (one that came with this computer) those, normally, do >> not work well in a VM. They are made for one computer and running >> *inside* a VM is no longer 'that computer'. > > I meant the bittorent iso image I downloaded and used to install the vm > initially. I haven't kept up with windows, but it looked like ms was > trying to get away from iso's completely... I have no idea where the > bittorent iso came from... but it works. The only problem is in > downloading all the grillions of patches that have been applied since > the image was made. That works fine, but is hands-on and takes forever.
I see. Windows XP was released in late 2001 so yes I am sure that would be a lot of updates. :-) >> Speaking of 'reinstalling' you now have a working VM correct? If you >> clone it (takes drive space) you would have a replacement if / when your >> VM goes bad again. > > I did that... made a linked clone and apparently I can run both > simultaneously. Great stuff. > > Thanks again for all your help. > Sure. NBD. -- David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
