XP VM fails to start

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descott12
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Re: XP VM fails to start

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mpack wrote:
descott12 wrote:Not sure if agp440.sys is part of the problem but I cannot remove it from my XP install. It keeps coming back even when I delete from the dllcache folder.
What did you try other than "even when I delete"? If you delete the device in Device Manager (look in "Other Devices" I guess) then I wouldn't expect it to come back, given that a VirtualBox VM doesn't have the associated hardware (the Advanced Graphics Processor).

It's a long time since I P2V'd an XP install from old hardware, but I'm pretty sure that was all I had to do, for agp440.sys and intelppm.sys.

My bad, I read somewhere on this forum that you could simply delete the file in system32\drivers and ddlcache and that is what I did. But sure enough it was still listed in the Device Manager...Duh. But even though the two drivers are still active, I don't seem to be having any trouble with them in the VM. I wonder if I should remove them in my VM now even though it seems to be working well.
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