On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:18:08 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >Hi Kees, > >Thanks for your advice. > > > >>> The installer is on USB drive which can boot PC > >> Make sure you don't have USB active in your VM definition, >> so VirtualBox can't grab it. > >Could you please explain in more detail. Thanks > >My settings on VM as follow:- > >Settings -> System >Motherboard:- >Boot Order >[check] Floppy >[check] CD/DVD-ROM >[check] Hard Disk >Extended Features: [check] IO APIC > >Acceleration >Hardware Virtualization: [check] Enable VT-x/AMD-V > [check] Enable Nested Paging > > >USB >[check] Enable USB Controller >[check] Enable USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller
My suggestion was to uncheck these. > >> I assume the "installer" is a liveCD .iso image. > >I ran Unethbootin to install the ISO image on the USB. VirtualBox cannot boot from USB. A VirtualBox VM can boot the guest operating system from - a virtual disk (a .vdi file on the host), - a CD/DVD image file (a .iso file on the host), - a raw partition (using a VDI with the rawdisk option, - or from a non-USB CD/DVD drive in the host. A .iso or .vdi file on the host can be a file in a filesystem on a USB drive which is mounted on the host. In other words, that USB drive cannot attached to the guest. Read the manual for details. >> Register it in virtual media manager and assign it to the >> VM. > >Could you please explain in more detail. Tks > > >B.R. >Stephen L -- ( Kees Nuyt ) c[_] _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
