-----Message d'origine----- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Olive Envoyé : mercredi 30 janvier 2008 14:27 À : [email protected] Objet : Re: [vbox-users] Booting a real disk in VitualBox 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 Hello, Thats the idea I was about to suggest. I never knew what this feature has been implemented for but it may be time to try it. Youll find it in [Control Panel->System->Hardware->Hardware profiles] and youre able to tell Windows to ask you what profile to use on startup. It could do the trick to start Windows but some applications would probably fail when trying to access audio or video; unless everything is configured to use the Default soundcard, the Default VGA..... maybe. And if Windows itself allows users to have different hardware profiles, would it also by chance solve the activation problem ??
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