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I'm trying to install Windows in a VM. It goes through some setup,then says Setup is Starting windows. I've run it from command line and there is no debug our anything. Any help would be appreciated.
Sorry, as the title states, Sun xVM VirtualBox. I'm using an XP SP2. I'm using the GUI to install it. I use default XP settings, then I upped the RAM, still nothing. I'm using a 12GB dynamically sized virtual disk.
Odd. Here's a few more questions to try to unravel things:
Is that a slipstream sp2 install cd disk, or is a retail or oem that came out after sp2? I have had no problems with winxp sp2 installing under the virtualbox (2.1.4) binary. I haven't tried the OSE or compiling it myself.
Have you tested the install disk on physical hardware?
Have you installed another OS in Virtualbox to test its installation?
Last edited by mostlyharmless; 03-27-2009 at 06:55 PM.
Reason: clarification
I had it installed and working before. Then it started hanging on boot as well. I figured the install must have become corrupted. I have booted the disk on my laptop just to see if it worked. Its not slipstreamed I don't think. Its just the standard install disk. But I've defiantly used the disk before. I wonder if it was a kernel update or something... I'm tempted to reinstall my OS... but I would really hope it wouldn't come to that.
If you wish to start from scratch with VirtualBox delete the directory .VirtualBox from your home directory. This will delete all your virtual disks unless you choose to put them elsewhere.
Well, that definitely makes it a Virtual Box problem. Is that the binary install or the OSE/self compiled version? Perhaps you updated something else in Arch to break VB?
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