I have a perfectly working windows XP guest on a Linux Mint 20.04 system.
I created a an identical structure for a Mint 20,2 system.
I copied the whole VirtualBox_VMs directory from one machine to the other.
A Windows 10 guest runs perfectly but an XP guest following its execution opens up with a continual series of messages claiming that a spool program cannot access a no-existent data set.
I know which program was responsible but while this avalanche of messages booms out I cannot gain access to the guts of windows files. Is there a way of making them visible for a little surgery?
[OT[ XP guest over Linux Mint 20.2 under VBox 6.1.12
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Re: [OT[ XP guest over Linux Mint 20.2 under VBox 6.1.12
This is probably achieved by booting XP into Safe Mode, web-search for how.pinnerite wrote:Is there a way of making them visible for a little surgery?
I don't recognize that error message paraphrase, it does not sound like a Virtualbox error message. The program is likely trying to access what it was accessing before. Be sure to duplicate everything on the new host that was on the old one. Also, be aware that the new VM is an exact copy of the old VM, down to database access client identifiers, network names, maybe MAC addresses, etc., so the error might be from a duplication of service clients that isn't supposed to happen in the real world.