WinXP slow and crashed VB 7.0.4 Monterey 12.6.2

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Horuss
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WinXP slow and crashed VB 7.0.4 Monterey 12.6.2

Post by Horuss »

Windows XP under Monterey 12.6.2 and VB 7.0.4 is extremely slow and simply won't boot with blue scree error 7B.

Tried VBoxSVGA and VBoxVGA
Tried Windows XP 32 bits and Other Windows x86
Tried Hyper-V and Legacy

All the same issue.

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mpack
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Re: WinXP slow and crashed VB 7.0.4 Monterey 12.6.2

Post by mpack »

Guest OS type "Windows NT"? If it's XP (32bit) then use the "XP (32bit)" template.

BSOD 0x7B is normal for XP if you didn't install it yourself on the current hardware. It means that the boot drive it remembers having no longer exists, and you did not run the MergeIDE patch before the migration to a new platform. See https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows.
Horuss
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Re: WinXP slow and crashed VB 7.0.4 Monterey 12.6.2

Post by Horuss »

I used Other Windows x86 because I saw there was an issue with Linux Hosts and WinXP in the changelog and I assumed it could be the same.

What about the slowness?
The provided link has no info.
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Re: WinXP slow and crashed VB 7.0.4 Monterey 12.6.2

Post by scottgus1 »

Won't boot, as in "Won't go", is slower than slow. Fixing the stop error will get the VM booting.

Additionally, 7.0 has to use the Apple hypervisor engine instead of the Virtualbox hypervisor engine, because Apple forced not using kexts anymore. Therefore, the VMs under 7.0 will be slow. Look at the VM's Status bar: there's a green turtle in it, same as when a Windows Host is forcing Hyper-V. The choice of animal is appropriate for Apple-hypervisor-engine operation.
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Re: WinXP slow and crashed VB 7.0.4 Monterey 12.6.2

Post by Horuss »

Found the mergeIDE patch and worked very well. Thanks!
XP Vm is now working but very slow.

And yes, there's a green turtle.
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Re: WinXP slow and crashed VB 7.0.4 Monterey 12.6.2

Post by scottgus1 »

Great! Glad you're up and running.

Nothing can be done about the turtle on Apple hosts at this time.
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