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by ian_ball
30. Jan 2010, 12:46
Forum: VirtualBox on Linux Hosts
Topic: Virtual machine inaccessible [solved]
Replies: 7
Views: 2516

Re: Virtual machine inaccessible

Thank you, that worked! It just booted up now, and everything looks ok. I will, as you suggested, create a flattened copy of the disk image asap, only after I have taken a tar of the entire .VirtualBox directory ;) Last night before I saw your post, I stared a grep across the entire partition of eac...
by ian_ball
29. Jan 2010, 21:52
Forum: VirtualBox on Linux Hosts
Topic: Virtual machine inaccessible [solved]
Replies: 7
Views: 2516

Re: Virtual machine inaccessible

Thanks for the suggestion. The VM didn't run out of space, there is still 212Gb free on that partition. It is a raid-1 partition on two 750Gb disks. There are no errors recorded in smart, and no reallocated sectors on the disks. Unfortunately choosing the cdd7dcc4-071b-491f-8fdc-d90a3c49454f disk di...
by ian_ball
26. Jan 2010, 14:04
Forum: VirtualBox on Linux Hosts
Topic: Virtual machine inaccessible [solved]
Replies: 7
Views: 2516

Virtual machine inaccessible [solved]

Hi all, I've seen several posts with this topic however following the suggestions I have found there have not worked for me. I am using Ubuntu 9.10 on AMD64 with VirtualBox 3.1.2 and have two Windows XP VM's. One today became inaccessible after saving its state and rebooting the host system. I found...
by ian_ball
8. Jul 2008, 03:31
Forum: VirtualBox on Linux Hosts
Topic: importing a system from a directory?
Replies: 4
Views: 1364

Hi, After days of fighting, and wondering why nothing worked, I finally got my windows 98 installation on an old 3.2Gb hard drive to the point where it started booting. Before it gets to the desktop, it simply exits, the virtual machine goes into a power off state, the window with the virtual machin...
by ian_ball
3. Jul 2008, 02:44
Forum: VirtualBox on Linux Hosts
Topic: importing a system from a directory?
Replies: 4
Views: 1364

importing a system from a directory?

Hi, I was certain this question would have been answered in a manual or asked before, but so far I haven't found anything. I have an old tar file of a windows 98 installation that I now need to boot. This extracts fine into a directory, but I see no way to get VirtualBox to make use of this director...