I am very new to Virtual Box, I have not even installed my first image yet. I have several old computers with old software and no disks. I want to run them as virtual machines. The old computers have windows NT 4.0.
Can Virtual Box load other non-.vdi images? Olive you had mentioned ntfsclone, can it load the ntfsclone image directly? Sorry for the newbie questions-Patrick Olive wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
