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I'm still not entirely sure what the problem is. At home this problem sometimes arises. At work everything is fine, but I have to manually attach the iPhone to the VM (through the menu > usb devices > iphone) and that will generate an error from ubuntu. It does work though. It all works, but not 100...

ok, this just in: if I plug in the iPhone PRIOR to starting XP all together, it works...
Better yet: I rebooted with the iPhone plugged in. After the reboot, I finally had an icon on my desktop, so finally it has been properly mounted on the host OS.

So I bought an iPhone. Finally. And to make my life a bit easier, I decide to install a virtual XP for iTunes, So I have full control / access to the phone. And then the fighting started... System 1: Ubuntu 8.04 VirtualBox 3.0.6 and 3.1.2 XP SP3 with iTunes 9 System 2: Ubuntu 9.04 VirtualBox 3.1.2 X...

edit 1: Spoke too soon. Going back to the last known working config does get XP up and running, but I have to do this at EVERY boot right now. I'm trying again :) edit 2: at first I got it working without disabling IO-APIC, but that only made it work once. Redid your entire instructions (as I should...

yes it's enabled

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everything is 32 bit

Background info: I'm runing Ubuntu 9.04 as the host OS. I was running VBox 2.2 with guest additions installed. Upgraded to 3.06 after a complete removal of version 2.2. Now my Windows XP guest boots, gets to after the splash screen, then flashes a BSOD and immediately reboots. Keeps doing this forev...