problems installing Mint 8 virtually inside of Windows 7 with virtual box
 

OS = Windows 7 home

Virtualization = Virtualbox 3

Virtual machine attempting mint 8, I can boot to the disk get to the part where I try to install mint 8 and starts but when get to the partition size, I have error because is sees no hard drive, did I skip a step or something??

Could you please provide details of the virtual hardware that you set up for your virtual machine.

I am new to virtualization but have successfully installed it in the past, Um hardware I will have to get back on when I get to the PC tomorrow, but I know its a built PC with MSI motherboard. I mean it reads the Mint DVD and all that fine just sees no hard drive in the Linux partition manager.

I know its a SATA hard drive

My understanding of the situation is as follows (please correct me if this is incorrect):

(1) You have Windows 7 running on the actual computer.

(2) The actual computer's hardware is a built PC with an MSI motherboard and an SATA hard drive.

(3) You are running virtual box under Windows 7 and are trying to install mint 8 linux under virtual box.

If virtualbox is anything like vmware, it will set up virtual or emulated "hardware" that mint 8 will then see. The virtual "hardware" need not have anything in common with the actual PC hardware. For example, you could be running vmware on your built PC with its MSI motherboard and SATA hard drive. However, vmware would have mint 8 linux see an Intel 440BX motherboard, which is emulated and isn't actual hardware, with whatever size hard drive you choose, that "hard drive" actually being a hard drive image file on your real SATA hard drive. What I originally asked for was the virtual hardware that virtual box sets up for mint 8 linux. Could you please provide details of that virtual hardware that you set up for your mint 8 linux?

Yes you seem to understand my problem, but I thought I setup my settings correctly for my hardware, but it seems it did not have many choices , but I will triple check when I get a chance!

Thanks I went back and checked my settings and once I clicked on the box in storage for "differencing" the hard drive it then worked!