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jangoed
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Re: Windows is not available

Post by jangoed »

socratis wrote:Right-click on the VM, "Show in Finder". Post that .vbox file...
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socratis
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Re: Windows is not available

Post by socratis »

That is NOT a valid zip file. That looks like a bookmark in the Trash, please try again...
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jangoed
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Re: Windows is not available

Post by jangoed »

socratis wrote:Follow that advice first:
socratis wrote:Right-click on the VM, "Show in Finder". Post that .vbox file...
I-doesn't work i think
can you give me an e-mail adres?
mine is: [ModEdit: E-mail removed for spam prevention]
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socratis
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Re: Windows is not available

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Please don't post your e-mail in public, you're going to "regret" it when the search engines are done indexing...

Sure it works. It has worked for hundreds and hundreds of people:
  1. Right-click on the VM in VirtualBox Manager, select "Show in Finder".
  2. That will open a Finder window, with a <something>.vbox file selected. BTW, that's a text file, you could use your favorite text editor (TextWrangler, BBEdit) to open it. If you don't have one, take a look at an article, "10 Best Text Editors For Mac".
  3. Right-click on that <something>.vbox file and select "Compress <something>.vbox".
  4. Attach that "<something>.vbox.zip" in your reply.
Do NOT send me Personal Messages (PMs) for troubleshooting, they are simply deleted.
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jangoed
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Re: Windows is not available

Post by jangoed »

i hope this is the right one
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Re: Windows is not available

Post by socratis »

Shutdown your VMs and quit VirtualBox.
Open your VBOX file with a proper text editor, not TextEdit.
Replace its contents with the contents below.

MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application
** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect.
** Use VBoxManage or the VirtualBox Manager GUI to make changes.
-->
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.virtualbox.org/" version="1.15-macosx">
  <Machine uuid="{e906c61f-adf9-4dd4-88cd-d9c7a1858518}" name="Windows 10 JG" OSType="Windows10_64" snapshotFolder="Snapshots" lastStateChange="2018-06-13T07:55:33Z">
    <MediaRegistry>
      <HardDisks>
        <HardDisk uuid="{bd258b30-0294-476b-8d0c-d4ec1b6c0bf4}" location="Windows 10 JG.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>
      </HardDisks>
      <DVDImages>
        <Image uuid="{b04b455e-b3d3-49de-980d-3fe75b4e9777}" location="/Users/JanGoedhart/Desktop/Windows-10-Professional-NL-64.iso"/>
      </DVDImages>
    </MediaRegistry>
    <ExtraData>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/Fullscreen" value="true"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastCloseAction" value="PowerOff"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastNormalWindowPosition" value="656,45,1024,789"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastScaleWindowPosition" value="752,263,640,480"/>
    </ExtraData>
    <Hardware>
      <CPU count="3">
        <PAE enabled="false"/>
        <LongMode enabled="true"/>
        <HardwareVirtExLargePages enabled="true"/>
      </CPU>
      <Memory RAMSize="2048"/>
      <HID Pointing="USBTablet"/>
      <Paravirt provider="Default"/>
      <Display VRAMSize="128"/>
      <VideoCapture fps="25" options="ac_enabled=false"/>
      <RemoteDisplay enabled="false"/>
      <BIOS>
        <IOAPIC enabled="true"/>
      </BIOS>
      <USB>
        <Controllers>
          <Controller name="OHCI" type="OHCI"/>
        </Controllers>
        <DeviceFilters>
          <DeviceFilter name="Nieuw filter 1" active="false"/>
        </DeviceFilters>
      </USB>
      <Network>
        <Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="08002709D259" cable="true" type="82540EM">
          <NAT/>
        </Adapter>
      </Network>
      <AudioAdapter controller="HDA" driver="CoreAudio" enabled="true" enabledIn="false"/>
      <SharedFolders>
        <SharedFolder name="Gedeelde_map" hostPath="/Users/JanGoedhart/Desktop/Gedeelde map" writable="true" autoMount="true"/>
        <SharedFolder name="VM-shared" hostPath="/Users/JanGoedhart/VM-shared" writable="true" autoMount="true"/>
      </SharedFolders>
      <Clipboard mode="Bidirectional"/>
      <DragAndDrop mode="Bidirectional"/>
      <GuestProperties>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID" value="en_US" timestamp="1527853395382837000" flags="RDONLYGUEST"/>
      </GuestProperties>
    </Hardware>
    <StorageControllers>
      <StorageController name="SATA" type="AHCI" PortCount="1" useHostIOCache="false" Bootable="true" IDE0MasterEmulationPort="0" IDE0SlaveEmulationPort="1" IDE1MasterEmulationPort="2" IDE1SlaveEmulationPort="3">
        <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" hotpluggable="false" port="0" device="0">
          <Image uuid="{bd258b30-0294-476b-8d0c-d4ec1b6c0bf4}"/>
        </AttachedDevice>
      </StorageController>
      <StorageController name="IDE" type="PIIX4" PortCount="2" useHostIOCache="true" Bootable="true">
        <AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" hotpluggable="false" port="0" device="0">
          <Image uuid="{b04b455e-b3d3-49de-980d-3fe75b4e9777}"/>
        </AttachedDevice>
      </StorageController>
    </StorageControllers>
  </Machine>
</VirtualBox>
Do NOT send me Personal Messages (PMs) for troubleshooting, they are simply deleted.
Do NOT reply with the "QUOTE" button, please use the "POST REPLY", at the bottom of the form.
If you obfuscate any information requested, I will obfuscate my response. These are virtual UUIDs, not real ones.
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