"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have an XP partition on my hard drive which I've successfully managed
> to boot with vbox 1.5.6 on Ubuntu Gutsy.

You generally can't clone an existing Windows installation, take it to
a different hardware and expect it to work reliably.

As a virtual machine most probably will expose to the OS a hardware
which is different from the original one (your physical hardware), the
same applies for what you're trying to do.

You could try if you can correct the situation by replacing the
drivers since Windows seems to work at least somehow.  But that would
mean wiping out your existing drivers, rendering your original
unusable.

Even if you'd succeed somehow, be prepared to go through the Windows
licensing process (Windows will detect it is running on a different
hardware than the one it was licensed for) which could, depending on
the kind of your license, invalidate the original one.


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