Gunter Ohrner wrote: > Gunter Ohrner wrote: >> Then I bootet it using the VBos OSE. grub starts up just fine within the >> emulation and begins loading Windows, however, the VM just freezes / >> crashes shortly afterwards after switching its video mode (window size) >> once or twice. > > Ok, using VirtualBox to boot a native Windows installation does not seem to > work too well... > > I installed a fresh copy from within VBox, it bootet up once in qemu, > detected hardware and crash when shutting down. Afterwards I could not boot > it any more, neither in VBox nor in qemu. > > I reinstalled again, using VBox, and tried to boot the installed Windows > natively, again I just get a blue screen early in the boot process. > Unfortunately, it's gone so quickly I cannot read it, and Windows reboots. > > I had not yet installed any of VBox's guest additions so far. > > To summarize, VirtualBox unfortunately does not seem to be usuable for > booting an installed Windows installation, so I'll just hope qemu's USB and > general periphery device support will make quick progress in the future. > > If anyone still has an idea what I could try to make Windows and VBox > cooperate, please let me know.
I think Windows XP (but not vista) still support hardware profiles (but I do not remember where to activate it; should not be too difficult to find). That said it is a known problem with Windows. Myself I have configured the thing the other way: I can boot my Linux partition virtually in XP or natively; Linux supports much better than Windows this kind of configuration. If you have the necessary disk space; I suggest you to use a tool such as ntfsclone to make a backup of your Windows installation before playing with it. It will save you a lot of time comparing to reinstalling it each time. Olive _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
