FATAL: No bootable Medium found! System halted.

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MikeBernsheim
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FATAL: No bootable Medium found! System halted.

Post by MikeBernsheim »

Hey everyone,

i had virtualized a windows 10 64 bit by using vmware vcenter standalone ...

Now i want start the vmdk file but i get the message which i have postet in subject

What can i do?

PS: I hat convert the machine 3 times, ever the same issue

Thanks everyone for help :-)
scottgus1
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Re: FATAL: No bootable Medium found! System halted.

Post by scottgus1 »

The 'FATAL" error means Virtualbox cannot find any OS to boot into.
MikeBernsheim wrote:i had virtualized a windows 10 64 bit by using vmware vcenter standalone ...
Please confirm that Windows was actually running in VMware.
MikeBernsheim wrote: I hat convert the machine 3 times
How did you do this?

Virtualbox supports OVF format import/export. But you have to export the whole VM including the boot record on the disk and everything else.
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